Wang Ye took the 2nd Battalion of the Guard Regiment and spent more than two hours marching to Chenzhuang between Dong County and Anhua County. As Wang Ye expected, Sun Bin's main force in the third division had decisively retreated to the vicinity of Chenzhuang.

And the local troops and militia in the third division have fallen into hard battles.

"Old Wang, you are here." Sun Bin came to Wang Ye in a daze and asked with hope, "How many reinforcements have you brought here?"

Wang Ye said: "Take the 2nd Battalion of Guards."

"What, only one camp?" Sun Bin said anxiously, "This is not enough."

Wang Ye said: "Let's not talk about this for now. Tell me what's going on now?"

Sun Bin then spread the map and used a flashlight to look at the map and said: "There are five Japanese troops launching infiltration into our third-district defense zone. Each unit has a force of about one infantry brigade. Three of them are north of Ping'an County and the other two are south of Ping'an County."

Wang Ye said: "Where is the firepower?"

Sun Bin said: "There are no mountain cannons, field cannons, and even infantry cannons, only mortars, but there are a large number of mortars, at least twenty of them."

Wang Ye said sternly: "It seems that the Japanese are prepared this time, and the artillery firepower has been adjusted."

Sun Bin nodded and said, "Old Wang, what you said is right. This group of Japanese devils are definitely prepared. They specially find gaps between villages to intersperse. Even if they encounter our obstacles, they will not get too entangled with you. If they can do it, they will do it decisively. They will fight us when they really can't get around."

"The intention of these Japanese is not to fight with us." Wang Ye said with a dark face, "Old Sun, you didn't let them go, did you?"

"That's not possible." Sun Bin said, "I'm strictly implementing the strategies you have formulated, and while dividing troops to block all the Japanese, concentrating the main force to encircle and annihilate all the way!"

"But the number of Japanese infiltrated this time is a bit too high."

"Just blocking, I used the troops of my five battalions, otherwise the militia alone would not be able to stop the Japanese!"

"In this way, there are only four battalions left for encirclement and annihilation operations. This amount of troops is not enough to be used to besiege a large group of Japanese troops."

Speaking of this, Sun Bin said: "Old Wang, you know that after the Tiandagang Blocking Battle and the Yunqi Town Blocking Battle, the three regiments in our third division suffered heavy casualties, and the reduction in personnel was very serious. The four battalions had only more than one thousand people, and the militia had only two thousand people, which was only twice the advantage in the military strength."

Wang Ye said in a deep voice: "Don't worry about the troops, the reinforcements from the second division will arrive soon."

When Sun Bin heard this, his eyes lit up and asked again: "The Second Division will also send troops here?"

Wang Ye said: "The Japanese launched such a large-scale roundabout infiltration behind us. How could they be stopped without the main force of the column?

Sun Bin said happily: "Then there is no problem."

While he was talking, Gu Xiaobei hurried over.

"Commander." Gu Xiaobei took a breath and said, "Captain Wen of the Second Detachment arrived with his troops."

As soon as he finished speaking, a hearty laughter came. When Wang Ye and Sun Bin turned their heads to look, they saw Wen Zhaoqi, the commander of the 3rd Regiment of the Second Detachment, already strode towards him.

Wen Zhaoqi, Sun Bin and Wang Ye are also old acquaintances.

"Old Sun, I'm not late?" Wen Zhaoqi said and saw Wang Ye again, and said again, "Old Wang is here too? Then this battle will be much easier to fight tonight."

Wang Ye smiled and said, "You are so confident in me?"

"Of course." Wen Zhaoqi said, "Old Wang, who are you? The God of War in Northwest Shanxi!"

Wang Ye smiled and continued, "We won't talk nonsense. Lao Sun, I will give you the task of blocking. We must make full use of the existing fortifications and delay all five Japanese troops as much as possible."

He paused and said to Wen Zhaoqi again: "Old Wen, please help me with the attack! Tonight, we will crush the five fingers that Okamura Yanji into our defense zone, one by one!"

"Yes!" Sun Bin and Wen Zhaoqi agreed.

...

Taiyuan, combat hall of the 1st Army Command.

On the huge sand table, five divisions and five regiments had a total of 15 infantry brigades, divided into 15 routes, from the northern foot of Jiugong Mountain, the southern foot of Wohu Mountain, and the northwest of Ping'an County, and the southwest, as if 15 sharp arrows were shot at the heart of the northwest base of the Eighth Route Army.

Looking at these 15 eye-catching attack arrows, all the staff in the headquarters were amazed.

On the contrary, Okamura Yanji himself became frowning again, looking a little worried.

Yes, Okamura Yasuji was indeed a little worried at this time. Before the attack was launched, Okamura Yasuji felt that his saturated attack was definitely hitting the pain of the 386th Brigade, which is likely to cause the 386th Brigade to lose sight of one thing, so it is no suspense to destroy Wang Ye's groundhog defense.

But after the attack was really launched, Okamura Yanji suddenly felt a little uneasy again.

The 386th Brigade of the Eighth Route Army is an extremely fierce enemy. If this army goes all out, it can even eat one of the most elite main divisions of the Imperial Army in a very short time!

The 28th Division was eaten by the 386th Brigade.

Therefore, in the face of such a fierce enemy, the penetration of the wing level and scale are not safe, and the penetration of the brigade level and scale are even more needless to say, and it is not enough to ensure safety.

In fact, Okamura Yasumiya's intention was to give half of the attack troops to the 386th Brigade. As long as half of the attack troops could be found, seven to eight infantry brigades could penetrate and seize the groundhog fortifications in the center of the bandit's heart, the tactical intention was perfectly achieved this time.

However, when things came to an end, Okamura Yasuji suddenly felt that

This tactical intention of his may not be so easy to achieve.

Okamura Yasuji suddenly wanted to discuss it with Takuya Mizuhara.

At this moment, Okamura Yasuji turned around and shouted, "Muhun Jun? Where is Mizuhara Jun?"

Standing beside Satoshi Yoshimoto said, "Your Excellency General, Suwon Jun is back to the military police."

"I forgot that Surihara Jun is the captain of the Taiyuan military police." Okamura Yanji nodded, "Yimoto, send someone to call Surihara Jun right away. He will not return to the military police team during this period."

"Hayi." Yoshimoto Satoshi paused.

...

In Chongqing, the official residence of Huangshan Mountain, Yunxiu Tower.

Chu Yunfei has been in Yunxiu Tower these days, temporarily acting as a military adviser to Chang Kaishen because Chang Kaishen is very concerned about this battle in northwest Shanxi and often asks questions.

Chu Yunfei is the most familiar with northwestern Shanxi.

However, Yunxiu Tower was not the commanding organ of the two sides participating in the battle in the northwest Shanxi, so Chu Yunfei didn't have to stay in the combat hall for a long time, and was more in the guard dormitory of Yunxiu Tower.

Chu Yunfei was chatting with the guards, and a staff officer from the third group came in.

"General Chu." The staff officer said respectfully, "Our team leader asks you to go to the war room immediately."

"Is there a new change in the battle situation in northwestern Shanxi?" Chu Yunfei stood up and walked out.

When I quickly arrived at the combat hall, I saw Tang Zong and two staff officers working on the sand table.

Chu Yunfei smiled and said, "Brother Naijian, is there new information from the Military Control Commission Taiyuan Station coming? The work efficiency of the Military Control Commission Taiyuan Station during this period is really admirable."

"Brother Yun Fei, there is no need to say these words." Tang Zong waved his hand and said, "Come and come and see, we can't think of a way to crack the groundhog tactics, but Okamura Nishi, the old devil, came up with it."

"Oh, is that?" Chu Yunfei's expression subsided when he heard this, and he quickly walked to the edge of the sand table.

When I looked closely, I saw that Tang Zong and several staff officers had already set up fifteen arrows on the sand table.

Seeing these fifteen arrows, Chu Yunfei said in a lost voice: "Okamura Yan has invested in a total of fifteen infantry brigades every time? Are the old Japanese crazy?"

"He is not crazy, Brother Yun Fei, we are so narrow." Tang Zong said sternly, "Okamura Yasuji's use of a saturated infiltration attack this time is targeting the weakness of insufficient troops in the 386th Brigade of the Eighth Route Army!"

When Chu Yunfei heard this, he couldn't help but take a breath of air conditioning and said, "This is really."

After pausing, Chu Yunfei said again: "The current 386th Brigade has only about 30,000 troops at most."

"But the Japanese army had nine infantry divisions and one chariot division, with at least 120,000 men!"

Tang Zong said: "So, Okamura Yanji really hit the key point of the 386th Brigade of the Eighth Route Army this time. If nothing unexpected happens, the 386th Brigade will suffer a big loss."

While the two were talking, Chang Kaishen also walked in.

Tang Zong said what he had just said to Chang Kaishen again.

Chang Kaishen was in a good mood after hearing this, and now he is ready.

...

Anhua, underground command post.

"Hey? I'm the column headquarters, please come in!" Chen Mingli was making a phone call.

The brigade commander and Ma Yuan surrounded the map and reflected the latest movements of the Northwest Shanxi Column and the Japanese army on the map.

Judging from the map, the situation of the Northwest Shanxi Column can be said to be very unoptimistic, because the Japanese army had too many troops and the attack areas were very large, which made the troops of the three military sub-districts very passive.

Soon, Chen Mingli hung up the phone and walked back to the map quickly.

"The Brigade Commander, the first division reported that the Japanese army in the direction of Niucun advanced two kilometers! Although the militia in the first division organized a blocking attack, it only blocked for less than half an hour. Because the difference in troops and firepower between the two sides was too great, and the Japanese army interspered along the gap between the village, so our groundhog fortifications could not play a role, but could only defend with temporary excavated trenches and foxgloves."

Hearing this, Ma Yuan picked up the blue pencil and angle and pushed one of the blue arrows forward a little.

When the brigade commander looked closely, he saw that the 15 blue attack arrows representing the Japanese army had completely penetrated into the defense zones of the three military sub-districts of the Northwest Military Region. The fastest one was Niucun's road that had even penetrated five kilometers.

"Damn!" The brigade commander threw the pencil in his hand on the map and said with a dark face, "Call Zhong Sheng immediately and ask him to dispatch troops again, and he will block the Japanese army in Niucun at all costs!"

"No matter what, no Japanese army can penetrate the groundhog defense line!"

He paused and said, "Call Ding Wei again to see if he can transfer one or two battalions to reinforce one division. The defense front of the division is too wide and the troop gap is too large."

"Yes!" Chen Mingli quickly went to make a phone call again.

...

Taiyuan, combat hall of the 1st Army Command.

The staff in the hall were walking back and forth frequently, and the phone ringing of the communication class next door and the beeping radio waves had already been ringing, and the air was filled with a tense atmosphere.

Takuya Mizuhara walked into the war room with a saber, held his feet in his eyes and said, "Your Excellency General."

"Oh, Suwhara Jun, are you here? Come here quickly." Okamura Nishi waved toward Takuya Suwa, and Takuya Suwa immediately walked to Okamura Nishi with a saber.

"Suwon Jun, come and see." Okamura Nishi pointed to the sand table and said, "Although the Imperial Army invested 15 infantry brigades at one time and launched saturated attacks from fifteen different directions at the same time, the attack was still not smooth. Without exception, the 15 infantry brigades were all stubbornly blocked by the local troops of the 386th Brigade."

"This is expected." Takuya Suwahara said, "With Chen Gen and Wang Ye's ability, the first time after the detour infiltration of these 15 infantry brigades was discovered, the two must have realized the intention of the Imperial Army, so they will inevitably send local troops and even militias to fight to the death, so as to win adjustment time for their regular army."

Okamura Yasuji said: "But we can't give them time to adjust."

"Of course not." Takuya Suwa nodded, "If the 386th Brigade is given enough time to adjust, they will concentrate their superior forces on local battlefields and eat up the 15 infantry brigades that penetrate into the bandit area one by one. In this way, the Imperial Army will not only fail to achieve its intention, but will also ruin 15 infantry brigades in vain!"

"Very good." Okamura Yasuji nodded happily, "So what are your opinions on this?"
To be continued...