Bright Sword: Rebirth of Kong Jie

By mid-September.

The Zhengtai Campaign, which was later known as the Hundred Regiments Offensive, was still in full swing, under the unified guidance of the Eighth Route Army's Front Headquarters, with the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army as the main force, sweeping across multiple large bases, including major military regions, and even affecting the entire North China region.

After the independent regiment officially opened up the anti-Japanese revolutionary base behind enemy lines in Shouyang area.

Kong Jie was busy further consolidating the base.

On the one hand, strengthen the base's outer and center defense systems.

On the one hand, they were busy settling 8000 people who had moved from Huangyun Town to join the Eighth Route Army.

The final battle came earlier than Kong Jie expected.

Speaking of which, the Eighth Route Army has already launched the Shota Campaign.

Although it has lasted for less than a month so far.

There were only 100 to combat regiments deployed successively, which was not enough to reach the more than regiments at the peak period.

However, the entire Japanese army in North China was still shocked by this.

The Hundred Regiments Campaign launched by the Eighth Route Army had the fundamental purpose of completely destroying the devil's cage policy.

The Japanese army probably never imagined that under their cage policy blockade, the Eighth Route Army, which they originally thought was only surviving in the cracks of the occupied areas, would be trapped.

It has grown to such a size without any notice.

More than 20 to 30 regiments of troops were mobilized at once to launch a sabotage attack on the Japanese railway lines, mainly the Shotai Line.

For a time, the railways and roads built in large numbers by the Japanese army in the rear areas of North China were attacked and destroyed everywhere by the Eighth Route Army troops.

The Japanese were forced to become traffic police.

Today the highway here was attacked, and tomorrow the railway line there was blown up. The Japanese were very busy.

However, although the overall strength of the Japanese army was far superior to that of the Eighth Route Army, the land they occupied was too vast.

A large number of roads and railways have been built, some are as short as a dozen kilometers and some are as long as hundreds or thousands of kilometers. How is it possible to defend such a large area?

The commander of the Japanese First Army, Yoshio Shinozuka, was troubled by this.

After all, after the Eighth Route Army launched the raid, the section of the Japanese Zhengtai Railway Line that was most severely damaged was the section in Shanxi that he was responsible for.

It can be seen that the Eighth Route Army in Shanxi was the most rampant.

Under the management of the First Army, there are clearly huge problems with public security.

The Japanese commander-in-chief of the North China Front Army, Tada Shun, repeatedly put pressure on Shinozuka Yoshio.

Yoshio Shinozuka was asked to guard the important railway lines in the country.

And even at this critical juncture.

Yoshio Shinozuka, this old Japanese, was the commander of the First Army after all, but he was still so petty that he took advantage of his busy schedule to withdraw troops and carry out a sweep of the independent regiment base in Shouyang area.

Without him.

Revenge for Yamamoto's special forces, hatred for the destruction of the Huangyun Town mechanized combat squadron, and hatred for the capture of Huangyun Town and the loss of a large amount of supplies and fuel.

The Japanese First Army suffered humiliation as a result.

Yoshio Shinozuka blamed all of this on the Independent Regiment.

To this end, Shinozuka Yoshio issued a firm order in the name of the headquarters:

"Destroy the independent regiment's base at all costs and destroy the Eighth Route Army's independent regiment!"

Then, the Nanyuan Battalion, a Japanese battalion drawn from the Yangquan direction, with a full staff of more than 1100 elite soldiers, arrived in Shouyang area shortly afterwards.

The original Japanese city defense commander in Shouyang, Colonel Nanbu, additionally dispatched two squadrons of field troops, in addition to more than 1000 Japanese and puppet security forces from various places.

A total of nearly 3000 Japanese and puppet troops formed a powerful mopping-up force and advanced towards the Eighth Route Army base in the Shouyang mountainous area.

The headquarters of the Eighth Route Army Independent Regiment.

Thanks to the intelligence system that combines the independent group and the public.

The independent regiment received the news almost immediately after the Japanese Nanyuan Battalion arrived in Shouyang City.

Kong Jie immediately deduced that this Japanese army brigade was heading for the independent regiment's base.

So he immediately convened a meeting of all the cadres in the regiment to discuss strategies to deal with the Japanese army in Shouyang.

At the beginning of the meeting, Li Yunlong was the first to speak.

Lao Li's words were still careless, and he didn't take the Japanese battalion seriously at all: "A Japanese battalion is equivalent to our battalion-level organization. At most, there are more than 1000 Japanese soldiers, which may not be enough for us to kill!"

If this had been said in the past, even the boastful Li Yunlong would not have dared to say it so confidently.

Take the battle of Cangyun Ridge in the spring of 40, for example.

The Sakata Regiment of the Japanese Army, known as its elite, a team of less than 4000 people, actually rampaged through the Eighth Route Army base.

Eventually, the Eighth Route Army's 129th Division Command and the division's field hospital were forced to relocate.

The old brigade commander had to give orders to avoid a head-on confrontation with the Sakata Regiment and to cover the transfer of the division headquarters and the field hospital before the various troops evacuated one after another.

Why?

The Japanese army's elite troops were too well-equipped.

However, the overall equipment of the Eighth Route Army was too backward.

It is no exaggeration to say that the number of artillery pieces and the total amount of ammunition in stockpile owned by the Sakata Regiment far exceeded that of the Eighth Route Army's regular combat regiments, and even more than the entire 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army.

How do you say we fight this kind of battle?

In the end, it was Li Yunlong who was the most iron-willed. He withstood the pressure and used the entire regiment's counterattack as cover. He used the regiment's only mortar, with the assistance of the god gunner Wang Chengzhu, and finally destroyed the Sakata regiment headquarters with one shot, breaking out of the siege from the front.

But even if the Sakata Regiment Headquarters was destroyed.

The independent regiment was still no match for the remaining Japanese soldiers in the Sakata Regiment.

After breaking out of the encirclement from the front with great difficulty and danger, the troops suffered heavy casualties. During this period, the battalion commander Zhang Dabiao was trapped in the encirclement of the Japanese. It was Li Yunlong who led the team back and rescued him in time.

There is a huge gap in equipment.

Even though the Eighth Route Army soldiers had great fighting courage.

The heavy price paid and the casualties are heartbreaking.

But things are different now.

In the words of Li Yunlong: "If these damned Japanese devils regard our independent regiment as a regular combat regiment, they are very wrong."

The independent regiment has developed to its present state under the leadership of Kong Jie.

What's going on within the group?

The total strength of the regiment has exceeded 1500 people.

Even so, the regiment commander Kong Jie still required an overall improvement in the quality of the soldiers, so many new recruits who wanted to join the independent regiment remained in the local military units and militia for training and improvement.

Otherwise, the size of the entire regiment would be even larger.

As for the equipment level.

Let's make the simplest comparison.

At the beginning of the year, the New 1st Regiment under Li Yunlong had only one mortar.

It was with the help of this mortar that the Sakata Regiment Headquarters was destroyed.

The independent regiment's current artillery includes more than 20 Type 60 cannons, more than 20 Type 2 mortars, more than Type mortars, plus two Type infantry guns captured after capturing Huangyun Town.

All in all, there are more than 100 artillery pieces.

Moreover, the battle was fought in a base that was completely occupied by the Eighth Route Army, with favorable timing, location and people.

What do you little devils have to offer to be so arrogant?