Chief of Staff Zhou led the 16th Regiment and the 38th Regiment to finally occupy the Yangergou Heights after a fierce bloody battle, and ordered the 1st Battalion of the 16th Regiment to step up the construction of field fortifications, and the 2nd and 3rd Battalions to hide nearby as reserves.

The 38th Regiment was ordered to occupy the Red Cliff position as the right flank of the Yangergou Heights and block the reinforcements of the enemy.

The enemy was broken through the position by the left column of the Eighth Route Army, and after fleeing to Fenglindu to assemble, under the supervision of the commander, he reorganized his troops and launched an attack on the Yangergou Heights, in an attempt to recapture the high ground, and besieged and killed the head organs of the Shanxi-Hebei-Henan Military Region and the Northern Bureau hidden in Juanyugou.

The Japanese army, which had suffered a heavy defeat, did not dare to launch a fierce attack on the Yangergou Heights, but adopted the tactics of following the trend and advancing steadily to the Yangergou Heights.

At this time, he received an order to garrison the enemy in Mafang and Jingshang, quickly rushed out of the stronghold, gathered more than 1,200 Japanese troops, and under the cover of aircraft and artillery, the ground troops went all out to kill the Red Cliff position of the 38th Regiment.

The 38th Regiment occupied the Red Cliff position, and immediately stepped up the construction of fortifications to adjust the deployment of troops, focusing its firepower on the front to prevent the devils from attacking.

At ten o'clock, more than a thousand devils were like a group of crazy wolves, launching a strong attack on the Red Cliff position of the 38th Regiment.

The soldiers of the Eighth Route Army pretended to be safe and secure hidden in the head of the Juanyugou Valley, and when they saw the little devils attacking, they braved the enemy's bullets one by one, bravely killed the enemy without fear of sacrifice, and used strong fortifications to repel the Japanese army's repeated attacks from the front and both flanks, and repelled the enemy's repeated attacks again and again with inferior equipment and the heroic spirit of coexisting with the position.

After 15 hours of fierce fighting, 346 enemy men were eliminated and three machine guns, 120 rifles, and 2,000 rounds of ammunition were captured.

The fierce battle finally ended, the little devils retreated in defeat, thwarted the Japanese army, attempted to encircle and suppress the attack of the head organs of the Shanxi-Hebei-Henan Military Region and the North China Bureau, and covered the safe transfer of the head organs and the wounded and sick, and the left column finally completed the cover task.

The left column, which had been transferred to the area of Dadongzu and Nancy to assemble and standby, was filled with a smile of victory on the faces of each soldier in order to complete this covering mission, and the greetings to each other were very kind, and the whole unit was filled with laughter.

The left column had been thirteen days and nights, and had not been able to sleep well and eat a full meal, and at this time it relaxed, and the soldiers sat in the designated position, holding their guns, and leaning on the front and back of the villager's house, and soon fell asleep.

Chief of Staff Zhou walked on the streets of the village and saw the tired cadres and soldiers, although the sleeping position was a little indecent at this time, but this was the war years, and it was a very precious time for the soldiers to have such a short opportunity to squint for a while.

Not only did he say with tears in his eyes: "My good soldier and good brother, you have worked hard, when we defeat the little devil, we can lie on the kang and sleep on it for three days and three nights, and I will never wake you up." ”

"Report to Chief of Staff Zhou, the chiefs are here." The left column reported excitedly to the staff officer.

When he ran outside the door, he learned that it was Secretary Yang of the Northern Bureau, Director Luo of the General Political Department of the 18th Group Army and others were coming, he rushed into the house and saluted and reported: "Report to Secretary Yang, Director Luo, ...... of the Left Column."

Director Luo patted Chief of Staff Zhou on the shoulder and said, "Chief of Staff Zhou, today you fought very resolutely, very tenacious, fought well, and the troops were very combative, okay, hahaha." ”

Secretary Yang tightly held Chief of Staff Zhou's hands and praised him affirmatively: "Your task has been completed beautifully, ensuring the safety of the Northern Bureau and the head of the Shanxi-Hebei-Henan Military Region. ”

Several leaders said encouragingly: "In the battle of Yangergou Heights, in the battle with the powerful enemy, you carried forward the heroic spirit of not being afraid of sacrifice, adopted mobile and flexible tactics, and defeated many crazy attacks of the Japanese army. ”

During the period when the troops were assembled and put on standby, on 3 September, the new 10th Brigade, 385th Brigade, and 386th Brigade of the Eighth Route Army were divided into the vicinity of Yangquan, Mafang, and Yushe Shuangfeng Towns to repel the enemy who counterattacked and annihilated the Japanese troops in small units.

At this time, he received an order from the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region Headquarters, ordering the only regiment that held the position on Tiehushan Mountain to withdraw from Tiehushan and assemble in the Laiyuan area to stand by.

Lei Jian led the only regiment, and at three o'clock in the morning, he secretly withdrew from the Iron Camel Mountain, stepped on the muddy dirt road, and quickly moved to the Laiyuan area.

At the end of August, North China experienced several rainy days, and the sultry weather began to turn cooler, and the deputy commander-in-chief of the Eighth Route Army, who was located in the rear, received the good news from various theaters and corps, and he grinned and said: "Chief of Staff, our army and people are in full swing on Zhengtai Road, and the results of this general attack are remarkable, and it is gratifying to congratulate." ”

"Yes, I didn't expect the general sabotage battle launched to turn into a battle of 100 regiments, so far, Zhengtai Road and six other main railway lines in North China have been attacked at the same time, causing the enemy's communication lines to be paralyzed, this sabotage campaign can come to an end, I don't know how the deputy commander-in-chief will play chess with the enemy?"

"Let's go, there are a few comrades in the war room who report on the battle situation, you might as well listen to it."

The former deputy commander-in-chief and chief of the general staff of the Eighth Route Army sat at the conference table and listened carefully to the reports of the comrades, sometimes picking up a pen and writing down a few strokes, and sometimes interjecting to ask a few questions.

While listening to the report, the deputy commander-in-chief frowned and thought, what he was thinking about was that the battle of the 100 regiments had achieved a phased victory, and he should take advantage of this powerful offensive to continue to expand the results.

After the meeting, after careful consideration, the deputy commander-in-chief issued the "Campaign Deployment for Carrying Out Operations on Both Sides of the Zhengtai Line" to all corps, military regions, and anti-Japanese combat units for the first time since the Battle of the Hundred Regiments began.

In this order, the deputy commander-in-chief made timely adjustments to the commanders of all theaters and corps to adjust their current tasks, that is, to expand the results of the battle and attack the enemy's strongholds and artillery towers on the outer line.

The deputy commander-in-chief analyzed: At present, the Eighth Route Army and 100 regiments are attacking in general, and under the condition that Zhengtai Road can no longer continue to persist in fighting the local battle on Zhengtai Road, our army's next operational task should take advantage of the victory to launch a strike on the enemy's strongholds on both sides of Zhengtai Road, recover the strongholds and artillery towers that the Japanese army has infiltrated into our anti-Japanese base areas, persist in guerrilla warfare with Zhengtai Road as the main line, reduce and destroy the enemy-occupied areas, expand the results of the battle, and connect some of the divided anti-Japanese base areas.

At the same time, according to the needs of the campaign and the theater, it is necessary to rest and recuperate with one unit, take turns to attack, and strike hard at the enemy.

The Battle of the Hundred Regiments was launched suddenly, in the early stage of the campaign, the strength of the Eighth Route Army grew rapidly, and the line of communication of the Japanese army was broken through, the line was long and wide, and in just a few hours, the general attack on Zhengtai Road was fully rolled out, causing the railway to be paralyzed, and the Japanese army's mobile transportation capacity was completely destroyed overnight.

General Okamura Ninji of the Japanese North China Front, as well as the commanders of the divisions and brigades of the subordinate theaters, as the battle of the 100 regiments of the Eighth Route Army continued to deepen, and these Japanese generals began to sober up from the first blow.

As Commander Okamura Ninji said: "The Eighth Route Army gathered absolutely superior forces, with the momentum of 100 regiments, and suddenly attacked the Zhengtai Road as the center, with the time, place, and strength of the troops, and the coordination was strong. ”

He sternly glanced at the generals present, and then said: "Individual generals of our imperial army were confused by the small attack of the Eighth Route Army, so that the Eighth Route Army took a hundred regiments to attack, and still did not think so, delaying the best time to counterattack and encircle and suppress, which is an intolerable slack in war.

I ordered the commanders of all theaters and the subordinate units to launch the most fierce encirclement and suppression attack on the Eighth Route Army that attacked Zhengtai Road, protect the technical personnel, requisition more people from China, and restore the Zhengtai Road as the center as soon as possible, and all the main trunk lines were opened to traffic. ”

The 110th Division, which received the order, ordered an armored convoy and an infantry brigade to frantically rush to Zhengtai Road to reinforce the Japanese troops fighting against the Eighth Route Army, forcing that 'the Eighth Route Army could not continue to fight on Zhengtai Road'.

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