Commander Nie of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region seized the arrogant commander of Abe Guixiu and was anxious to find out the urgency of the main force of the Eighth Route Army to fight to the death, and ordered his troops to adopt the tactics of blocking and retreating step by step to lure the enemy into continuing to advance eastward.

Lieutenant General Abe Norihide, a young Zhuang faction in the army, did not take the Eighth Route Army seriously at all, and sure enough, he hit the plan and ordered the troops to continue to advance eastward.

When night fell, in the war room of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region, Commander Nie and several leaders around him studied the telegram sent from the front, according to the comparison of the enemy's strength, although the weapons were inferior to the Japanese army, they could far surpass the enemy in terms of strength, with the help of favorable combat terrain, and they were ambushing the enemy at leisure, he decisively ordered: The Yang Department of the First Division of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region should use the absolute superiority of the main force to serve on the line from Loess Ridge to Zhaituo, and completely annihilate the Japanese army's Abe Guixiu Division.

In the early hours of the morning, Lieutenant General Norihide Abe, relying on the ravine as cover, ordered the troops to continue to advance from the Loess Ridge.

At 3 o'clock in the afternoon, when the main force of the devil's vanguard entered the front of the ambush position of the Eighth Route Army, Commander Yang ordered the 1st Regiment, the 25th Regiment, the 3rd Regiment, and the 2nd Regiment to quickly encircle from the west, north, and south directions, surround the enemy's main force, and then fight fiercely.

With the strong support of the local armed forces and the local people, the units of the First Army Division launched the most fierce fire attack against the enemy brought by Abe Norihide.

Abe Norihide found that he had fallen into the ambush circle of the Eighth Route Army, and he shouted hoarsely: "The Eighth Route Army is fighting fiercely with me, and the weapons and equipment are low, and I order all troops to launch a counterattack, and we must destroy this Eighth Route Army." ”

After repeated charges, the Japanese army finally pressed the large Japanese army into the east-west canyon and river beach near the Loess Ridge, and under the heavy firepower, the compressed Japanese army gradually shrank its position, retreated while blocking the attack, and retreated into a deep ditch about 1 kilometer long and nearly 100 meters wide.

Lieutenant General Abe Norihide looked up at the ditch gangs on both sides, and found that on the high ground on both sides of the ditch, groups of soldiers of the Eighth Route Army were lined up, one by one with guns and adjusting their positions, and suddenly there was a loud gunfire.

More than 100 light and heavy machine guns of the Eighth Route Army erupted fierce tongues of fire from the position of the Eighth Route Army in the ditch, and condescendingly strafed the main force of the Japanese army accumulated in the ditch.

The artillery unit operated the mortars, and shells fell from the heads of the Japanese soldiers with a whistling fire, and the stones, sediment and shrapnel kicked up by the explosion swept across the place where the devils were clustered, and the shells, machine gun bullets, and earthen guns and earth cannons poured down on the devils in the ditch with the greatest firepower, and the devils who were killed fled in all directions, wailing the entire Hetao.

Undeterred, relying on the strength of his troops and excellent weapons, Lieutenant General Abe Norihide drew his command knife and shouted an order: "Increase the firepower to counterattack, and order the troops to launch an attack on the position of the Eighth Route Army in Zhaituo." ”

Commander Yang ordered the troops holding on to Zhaituo to exert their maximum firepower to repel the attack of the devils, and to destroy the main force of the Japanese army in this loop.

After the Japanese army was attacked head-on, the cunning Lieutenant General Norihide Abe immediately ordered the rear of the troops to change into the front team, quickly break through the Loess Ridge position of the Eighth Route Army, and break through to Laiyuan.

The troops of the Eighth Route Army around the Loess Ridge, under the unified command of Commander Yang, closely cooperated, concentrated their firepower to prevent the Japanese army from breaking through the Loess Ridge position, and after a fierce battle, the Eighth Route Army suffered heavy casualties, but the main force of the devil suffered even more heavy casualties.

Lieutenant General Norihide Abe, who was forced into an independent farmhouse in the valley to the north and commanded the Japanese army to break through the encirclement carefully set up by the Eighth Route Army, already felt that it was impossible to break through the encirclement of the Eighth Route Army with firepower with the troops he brought alone.

Lieutenant General Abe had to send a telegram asking for reinforcements from Lieutenant General Kuwamu Chongming, the commander of the 110th Division of the Japanese Army, who was deployed in the eastern part of the Loess Ridge.

Lieutenant General Abe Norihide didn't get a reply from General Kurumi for a long time, and he scolded angrily: "Bastard, this mediocre man who 'can't carve rotten wood', if you don't save you when you die, bastard, I must accuse you to the military department." ”

There was no response from reinforcements, and Lieutenant General Abe Norihide, who commanded in the independent courtyard, ordered the troops to organize a strong offensive formation, seize the Lone Stone Mountain and the first line of Shangzhuangzi mountain beams, and cover the main force to break through.

The enemy and us once again launched the fiercest battle, and the flames of war gradually spread outward, and the Japanese army had a tendency to break through the encirclement and retreat to Laiyuan.

In the fierce battle, the Hetao Beishan Independent Courtyard kept coming in and out of some devil officers, and the commander of the first regiment who was commanding took a closer look with a telescope and looked at it for a long time, estimating that the independent courtyard where the devil commander went in and out, as well as a group of devils gathered around it, should be the command organ of the Japanese army.

He ordered the artillery company of the military subdivision to bombard the small independent compound in Beishan, Hetao, with maximum artillery firepower.

The commander of the artillery company ordered the artillery fighters to quickly adjust the artillery position, target the independent courtyard in the north mountain of Hetao, and open fire——。 Dozens of shells rushed out of the barrel, dragging orange flames, and flew towards the independent courtyard in Beishan.

'Boom, boom, boom, boom, ......', one shell after another concentrated bombardment, the target was unanimously beckoned to the independent courtyard, and the continuous explosion of the shells set off the smoke and flames that rose into the air, completely enveloping the small courtyard.

When the smoke cleared, the small independent courtyard had been wiped out, and Lieutenant General Norihide Abe, who was commanding inside, was hit by several pieces of shrapnel that flew up from the explosion of an artillery shell, and fell to the ground and died instantly.

One day of fierce fighting, under the powerful firepower of the Eighth Route Army, the remnants of Lieutenant General Abe Norihide under the cover of night, desperately launched a rush to kill in order to stay alive, and broke through more than a dozen times in a row, but they were all beaten back.

General Okamura Ninji of the Japanese North China Front received an urgent call for help from the Independent Mixed Brigade and ordered Major General Kawachi of the Shijiazhuang Air Force to immediately send planes to provide air support, and ordered Lieutenant General Hino Taro and Lieutenant General Kuwaki Takaaki, commanders of the 180th Division, to send reinforcements as quickly as possible.

At 8:15 a.m. the next day, five enemy planes roared in, and with the support of artillery fire from the Japanese reinforcements and ground troops, they attacked the troops of our Eighth Route Army with air-ground fire.

Commander Nie of the Jin-Cha-Ji Military Region ordered Yang to pursue and break through the enemy and annihilate the devil when he fled.

Commander Yang of the First Army Division was resolutely attacked by the Eighth Route Army in different ambush positions set up by various units of the Japanese army in Abe Guixiu who participated in the encirclement and suppression.

On the orders of the commander of the North China Front, more than 1,200 devil troops of the Japanese army, which had been rapidly reinforced, frantically pounced on the position of the Eighth Route Army, in an attempt to form a flanking attack on the Jin-Cha-Ji Military Region and the main division (129) of the Eighth Route Army and accelerate the speed of advance.

In order to avoid the enemy's elite, the front-line commander of the Eighth Route Army ordered the participating troops to quickly clean up the battlefield, withdraw from the battle, and immediately move in concealment.

When the Japanese reinforcements arrived, the Eighth Route Army had already withdrawn from the battle, came madly, and rushed back. In this front-line blocking and ambush battle on the Loess Ridge, nearly 1,000 Japanese troops were annihilated, a large number of weapons, ammunition and military supplies were seized, and the invincible Japanese army's 'flower of famous generals' Lieutenant General Abe Norihide was killed.

This is another heavy blow to the Japanese army after the victory of Pingxingguan, killing a Japanese lieutenant general commander, in the anti-Japanese war is the first, the Eighth Route Army base and the Yan'an headquarters of the military and civilian, learned of this happy event, the crowd boiled to celebrate, the Japanese army headquarters and the country was a mournful, strictly ordered a thorough investigation of the beginning and end of the battle, the hapless Sangmu Chongming made a scapegoat, early dismissal and repatriation.

The commander of the North China Front of the Japanese Army lamented under the accusation: "It's a pity, it's a pity, it's a pity, Lieutenant General Abe Norihide, the 'flower of famous generals', withered on Taihang Mountain." ”

Lei Jian said this, he took a deep breath, he said so much today that his throat was a little hoarse, and he didn't want to say another word at this time.

Wang Xiaoliang suddenly paused when he saw Lei Jian talking, and shouted anxiously: "Captain Lei, it's over?" Let's talk about another example of a battle that everyone will enjoy, the troops will soon participate in the 'Battle of 100 Regiments' that you said, and today while you have time, you can talk more about the battle examples, and the cadres at and above the level will listen to them a lot, and this will play a very good role as a reference in actual operations. ”

"Yes, Captain Lei will talk about a few more."

Lei Jian shook his head with a wry smile, pointed to his throat and said: "There are too many words, my voice is hoarse, my throat is itchy and a little painful, let's stop here today, there is Ma Political Commissar below, I will participate in the spirit of the Eastern Vertical Military Conference this time, and convey it to you, I hope that all commanders will listen carefully and remember carefully, but don't be under the command of Commander Yang, can't keep up with the action, and lose face for our 'unique group', everyone cheer up and listen carefully." ”

Ma Mingshan stood up, looked at the crowded courtyard with many people, and said: "Comrades, the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army has issued an operational order, ordering all corps and military region troops to assemble their troops on time in the shortest possible time and in accordance with the orders of the headquarters. ”

(End of chapter)