Devil's Army

Before the Japanese army launched a large-scale encirclement and suppression of the First Anti-Japanese Army's Tangshan base, Commander Tada Shun's cage policy seriously restricted the development of the Eighth Route Army. Some small anti-Japanese armed forces behind enemy lines were almost completely destroyed under the encirclement and suppression of the Japanese army.

General Peng believed that instead of waiting for the Japanese army to resolve the threat from the First Anti-Japanese Army and then free up their hands to deal with them again, it would be better to let go now and break the Japanese army's cage policy.

On March 1940, 3, General Peng ordered the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region, the 10th Division of the Eighth Route Army, the 129th Division and 120 other regiments to launch a massive raid starting from the Zhengtai Railway in many places in Shanxi and Hebei, which were important transportation lines of the Japanese army, including railways, roads, bridges, and stations.

Later, more and more troops joined the war against Japan, and the Japanese army's Zhengtai Railway, Tongpu Railway, Pinghan Railway, Jinpu Railway and many highways were completely paralyzed.

Subsequently, this raid dealt a heavy blow to the Japanese and puppet troops, killing and wounding more than 2 Japanese soldiers and more than 5000 puppet soldiers, capturing 281 Japanese soldiers and more than 1.8 puppet soldiers, destroying a large number of Japanese strongholds and facilities, and greatly weakening the Japanese military power and defense system in North China.

The Japanese army's transportation lines suffered a great blow, which severely hampered the transportation of Japanese army materials in the Tangshan base and Tieling County base, and strongly supported the anti-encirclement and suppression operations of the First Anti-Japanese Army, the First Front Army and the Second Front Army.

Later, statistics showed that there were 105 regiments of the Eighth Route Army participating in the anti-Japanese raid, with more than 20 soldiers. This was known as the Hundred Regiments Campaign.

(Historically, it broke out on August 1940, 8. Due to the strong intervention of Leng Feng's First Anti-Japanese Army, the Hundred Regiments Campaign broke out more than five months earlier than history.)

After the Hundred Regiments Campaign broke out, Gray Wolf keenly felt that the time for counterattack was approaching, and he actively prepared ammunition and mobilized troops.

The anti-encirclement and suppression battle in Leng Feng's old base in Tieling County is in full swing.

The Second Front Army of the First Anti-Japanese Army in the Tangshan base had been fighting the Japanese invaders for more than a week.

The Second Front Army suffered heavy casualties and was holding on with all their might.

The Central China Front Army led by Tada Shun also suffered heavy casualties. The worst thing was that the Eighth Route Army launched the Hundred Regiments Campaign, which brought the transportation of many of his troops to a standstill.

Leng Feng decided to end the anti-encirclement and suppression campaign in the Tangshan base first, and then the First Anti-Japanese Army would fully deal with the anti-encirclement and suppression campaign of the Japanese Kwantung Army against the old base.

Leng Feng arranged the newly formed temporary brigade to transport a batch of ammunition and supplies to support the anti-encirclement and suppression operations in the Tangshan base.

Leng Feng assigned Jackal to take charge of the Shanhaiguan, Qinhuangdao, and Huludao areas in the east of Yi to guard against the Japanese troops in Rehe.

He was responsible for guarding against the Japanese Kwantung Army in Fengtian, Fushun, Siping and Xinjing areas.

The first to attack the old base was the Japanese Kwantung Army's 2nd Division.

Division commander Kyoji Tominaga divided his troops into three routes and attacked Jinzhou by water, road and rail.

The commander of the Kwantung Army, Michijiro Umezu, planned to occupy Jinzhou first, and then occupy Hulugang, cutting off the soil for the survival of the devil's navy.

The 3rd Regiment of the nd Division of the Kwantung Army marched from Fengtian via Xinmin County, Erdao Township of Heishan County, Beizhen Temple and arrived at Liangjiadian.

At Liangjiadian, they were ambushed by a battalion of the 14th Brigade of the 1st Army.

At the beginning of the battle, the Japanese army's offensive momentum was quite fierce. Even when many tanks were destroyed, they still continued to attack.

After a day of fierce fighting, the battalion of the 14th Brigade retreated into the Liangjiashan defense line.

The next day, the 3rd Regiment of the nd Division of the Japanese Army launched a fierce attack on the Liangjiashan Fortress.

The Japanese army also dispatched a fighter squadron and a bomber squadron to participate in the attack on Liangjia Mountain.

Leng Feng urgently ordered the first army aircraft from Jinzhou Xiaolingshan Airport to take out urgently to compete with the Japanese army for air supremacy over Liangjia Mountain.

After more than an hour of fierce fighting, six Japanese fighters and eight bombers were shot down, and the remaining planes fled in panic.

One Huaxia II fighter of the First Army was shot down by the Japanese, and three Huaxia II fighters were damaged. They successfully controlled the air supremacy of Liangjia Mountain.

The Japanese Third Regiment, in cooperation with the Air Force, launched a major attack on the Liangjiashan Fortress, but was repelled by a battalion stationed in the Liangjiashan Fortress by the 14th Brigade.

After the Japanese Air Force was defeated by the Devil Force Air Force, the Japanese Third Regiment also launched two waves of attacks on the Liangjiashan Fortress, but both ended in failure.

In the following two days, the Japanese Third Regiment launched several fierce attacks on the Liangjiashan Fortress. However, the Liangjiashan Fortress was really strong, and now it had the support of the First Army Air Force. The Japanese Third Regiment left more than 700 Japanese soldiers' bodies in front of the Liangjiashan Fortress. They had to take a detour to attack Jinzhou.

The Japanese army bypassed Guangning County from Heishan County, and then bypassed Liangjia Mountain from Shisanshan County and Xiaolinghe County to attack Jinzhou.

After the 14rd Regiment of the nd Division of the Japanese Army successfully arrived in Xiaolinghe County, it encountered stubborn resistance from part of the th Brigade at the Hongluo Mountain Pass.

The Hongluo Mountain Pass is between Xiaolinghe County and Jinzhou, with steep peaks on both sides and a narrow road in the middle.

The Japanese Third Regiment found it difficult to deploy large-scale forces and maneuver quickly when it reached this point, but the Japanese regiment commander still launched an attack on the Hongluo Mountain Pass.