With the strong cooperation of the cavalry battalion, the reconnaissance company, and the fourth battalion, the only regiment attacked the enemy with a counter-encirclement, and the devils who killed them quickly assembled in a vain attempt to surround the only regiment on Iron Camel Mountain again with superior forces.

At this time, Lei Jian, who led the assault company, the special agent company, and the guard platoon, approached the Japanese command post, and heard the shouting of killing halfway up the Iron Camel Mountain, he waved his hand and ordered: "Assault company, special agent company, give me an attack and kill into the devil's command post." ”

The soldiers of the assault company and the special service company are all selected by various units, and they are composed of top-notch soldiers with a skill, some of them are good at shooting, some are good at moving and jumping, some are good at martial arts, and some are bomb throwing masters.

A squadron of devils who were in charge of guarding as a reserve suddenly encountered a fire attack by more than 200 soldiers of the Eighth Route Army on the flank, and the devils who killed them were caught off guard and hurriedly lay down to carry out a counterattack.

The fighters of two companies and a guard platoon, with the most fierce machine guns, grenades, and grenades, concentrated their fire to greet the enemy group, and with one explosion and a string of flames, the enemy could not parry, and began to retreat to protect the devil commander in the command post.

When they found more than 200 soldiers of the Eighth Route Army, led by a young commander, bravely rushed to the command post, they were frightened and shouted: "Quickly order the troops to return to help and destroy this Tubalu force that suddenly appeared." ”

In the fierce battle with the enemy, the commander of the assault company, Fang Liqiang, shouted: "All the soldiers, rush into the command post of the devil, kill the Japanese commander, and avenge the heroic soldiers in the Iron Camel Mountain, kill——。 ”

A strong army, a warrior with anger burning in his chest, has given up everything and rushed to the devil's command post without fear of death.

The devil of a squadron, under the command of the squadron leader, launched a frantic fire counterattack against the attacking assault company, special agent company, and guard platoon.

The soldiers who rushed to the front fell, and the soldiers of the later years stepped on the blood of the soldiers, bravely went forward one after another, shouting and attacking the devil's command post, and the two sides launched a fierce strangulation for a while, and the scene was very tragic.

Lei Jian found that in the woods halfway up the mountain, a large number of devils were like wolves, desperately rushing down the mountain to support the Japanese command post, and he shouted to the soldiers who were about to rush to the Japanese command post only 20 meters away: "Immediately withdraw from the battle and rush into the mountains and forests." ”

Fang Liqiang was about to break through the alert of the devil squadron and enter the Japanese command post, when he suddenly heard Lei Jian shouting to retreat, he turned his head and wanted to ask, but at this time, Lei Jian put his index finger in his mouth and let out a sharp whistle.

He heard the whistle that meant a quick retreat regardless of everything, Fang Liqiang did not dare to disobey the urgent order issued by the anti-Japanese battlefield, and reluctantly shouted the order to retreat quickly to the soldiers who continued to attack.

The sky slowly darkened, the Iron Camel Mountain was shrouded in gunsmoke and flames, and from time to time there was a cracking sound of the tree trunk being barbecued, and the only group of Lei Jian finally repelled the encirclement of the devils, drove the attacking enemy to the foot of the mountain, and fled back to Quyang City in a hurry.

After five days and four nights of fierce fighting, the only regiment completed the task of blocking the Iron Camel Mountain with great difficulty, and on the night of 3 September, in accordance with the order of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region Headquarters, all the troops withdrew from the Iron Camel Mountain.

From the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army, at 22 o'clock on August 20, the only regiment launched a general attack on Zhengtai Road, that is, the 'Battle of the Hundred Regiments', to conquer the new mine of Wangshe in the east of Jingcheng, to blow up the Tiger Leaping Gorge Bridge in a surprise attack, and to the Lao Ye Mountain and Tiehuo Mountain blocking battles.

After 10 days and 9 nights, the Zhengtai Road General Raid Battle, which later became known as the 'Battle of the Hundred Regiments', was formed from a peasant army of more than 1,000 people at the beginning to a newly formed and unique regiment of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region.

At present, the only regiment, after continuous fierce fighting, especially in Tiehuo Mountain, where powerful Japanese troops attacked on the ground, and dozens of enemy planes bombed indiscriminately in the air, the assembled troops, from 4,857 soldiers in their heyday, now have less than 4,000 left, and it can be said that they are for the country, for the family, for the comrades-in-arms who died under the enemy's muzzle bayonets, and for the innocent villagers who died under the enemy's butcher's knife.

Under the powerful offensive of the Eighth Route Army, more than 200,000 troops of 105 regiments were invested, and more than 400,000 troops were added to the local soldiers and civilians who broke the road.

The chiefs of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region and the Shanxi-Hebei-Henan Military Region ordered the attacking troops along the Zhengtai Road to have a clear division of labor in accordance with the deployment, and ordered a part of the troops to be responsible for guarding the railways and highways, while the rest of the troops should quickly plunge into the final road-breaking operation with the local self-defense forces, guerrillas, railway workers, anti-Japanese armed forces, and the military and civilians as quickly as possible.

After 10 days and nights, all units of the Eighth Route Army fought with the enemy for time and road sections, carried out a general sabotage attack, razed the main railway lines in North China to the ground, and destroyed the devil's strongholds and artillery towers along the line.

This 'steel blockade line', which was advocated by General Okamura Ninji of the North China Front Army as the lifeblood of the Japanese army, was destroyed and paralyzed by the Eighth Route Army in continuous operations, completely breaking the devil's 'cage policy' of 'using railways as pillars, highways as chains, and strongholds as locks'.

At this time, in the war room of the North China Front of the Japanese Army, Commander Okamura Ninji held a letter of reprimand from the military headquarters in his hand, and said to Chief of Staff Moritake Tanabe, who was standing opposite the conference table with a bitter face: "Tanabe-kun, the Eighth Route Army has gathered more than 100 regiments of the main force, and more than 400,000 villagers in the broken road to carry out a general sabotage battle on Zhengtai Road, and the entire Zhengtai Road and other trunk lines are almost completely paralyzed. ”

"General Okamura, the Eighth Route Army gathered superior forces and raided Zhengtai Road, mobilizing so many troops, destroying the scope of the attack, and causing serious consequences, it was really unexpected, all the corps, divisions, and brigades of our Imperial Japanese Army."

"Tanabe-kun, what's the point of saying such innocuous nonsense at this time? I'm asking you, how to deal with the Eighth Route Army's general attack, yours can be said directly, and don't discuss the rest for the time being, okay? ”

Chief of Staff Tanabe Moritake paused embarrassedly, and asked respectfully: "Okamura-kun, you must be confident, please give an order, and I will deploy it immediately." ”

Okamura Ningji frowned, and suddenly ordered: "Order the 180th Division, the 108th Division, and the 33rd Division to carry out the most ferocious sweep of the Eighth Route Army's base areas along Zhengtai Road, Jinghan Road, and Deshi Road.

Ordered the 36th Division, the 37th Division, and one division stationed on the Baijin and Tongpu South lines to go to Taigu and Yuci, and ordered the 4th Mixed Independent Brigade stationed in Yangquan to quickly return to the areas of Xiyang, Pingding, and Luochuan from the frontal battlefield, and received an order to raid the rear of the Jin, Hebei, and Henan troops of the Eighth Route Army. ”

In the early morning of 31 August, the Japanese troops stationed in Taigu, Yangquan, Shouyang, Pingding, Luochuan, and Yulin, under the cover of the powerful firepower of a large number of fighters and ground artillery in the air, and in accordance with the latest deployment of the North China Command, separately attacked the rear of the Eighth Route Army's Shanxi-Hebei-Henan Military Region.

According to the progress of the Zhengtai Road General Attack and the mobilization and deployment of the Japanese North China Front, the General Headquarters of the Eighth Route Army instructed all the troops participating in the Zhengtai Road Attack Battle: In the case that Zhengtai Road cannot continue to persist in the operation, or has completely completed the Zhengtai Campaign, our course of action should be to take advantage of the victory to carry out the results on both sides of the Zhengtai Road, expand the results, and at the same time repair with a part of the force.

In the Eighth Route Army's attack on Zhengtai Road, the Japanese army suffered heavy losses, the coal resource bases in Jingcheng and Yangquan were destroyed, and the bridges, stations, culverts, railways and facilities along Zhengtai Road were damaged, and it was difficult to repair them, and it cost a lot of money.

At this time, the main force of the Japanese army that was ordered to sweep the rear of the Jin-Cha-Ji, Jin-Hebei-Henan, and Jinsui Military Regions was eager to go into battle shirtless, and with an absolutely overwhelming force and weaponry, they killed the rear of the Eighth Route Army.

On the last day of August, that is, at 9 a.m. on 31 August, the Japanese army gathered more than 700 troops and, under the cover of aircraft and artillery, pounced on Gaoping and launched a fierce positional battle.