Traveling through 1937, starting from the Battle of Songhu

This battle made Brigade Commander Chen very comfortable, and the gains made him very satisfied.

After returning to Wangjiayu, Brigade Commander Chen specially prepared some pork head and peanuts to thank Gu Changfeng for his support.

Naturally, several regiment commanders and staff officer Zhou Han were also present.

After they sat down, Brigade Commander Chen spoke first, "We all have to thank Comrade Gu for his support in taking Yushe and the Yuliao Highway. If it weren't for his heavy artillery, we would have had to pay a lot of sacrifices to take these two places."

The battle ended in two hours after Yushe was captured. It must be said that this was the fastest battle ended with the least casualties since he joined the army.

Gu Changfeng laughed when he heard this and said, "Before I came out, Commander Yang said he would support you. Unfortunately, it was too hasty this time, and I can only get ten guns from my channel."

There is no hope of forming an artillery regiment for the two brigades at the moment. He has exchanged more than 10,000 points for heavy artillery and artillery shells.

Brigade Commander Chen waved his hand and said, "Well, these are enough. We have a good harvest this time. In the future, we will be much more comfortable dealing with the Japanese with heavy artillery."

He was indeed very satisfied. You know, he only had a mountain cannon and a flat-fire cannon, but now he could form an artillery regiment.

Gu Changfeng didn't want to say too much on this topic. After a little thought, he started talking about the current Hundred Regiments Campaign.

By now all the troops of the Eighth Route Army have been put into action. The Eighth Route Army in the Tongpu Railway section has reached 115 regiments, and the Zhengtai Railway is almost the same. If we add in other areas and the Laiyuan th Division and the Independent Brigade, the total force has now exceeded .

The Eighth Route Army's display of strength frightened the First Army Commander Yoshio Shinozuka. It would be strange if he wasn't panicking when so many troops suddenly appeared without a sound.

"Our main goal in the first phase is to destroy the enemy's transportation lines, and the second phase plan is to eliminate the strongholds occupied by the Japanese and puppet forces."

Brigade Commander Chen said with a smile,

In fact, compared with another time and space, the development of the Eighth Route Army in this time and space is obviously much better, mainly because of the promotion of the 107 rocket launcher and the conscienceless cannon, so the goals of the first and second phases of the Hundred Regiments Campaign actually have a very short span.

"The Japanese First Army has received a lot of reinforcements, including five newly-formed divisions. Therefore, after destroying their transportation lines, we should focus on destroying their effective forces."

Gu Changfeng was well aware of the results of the Hundred Regiments Campaign, which would eventually enter the third phase and launch a counter-mopping-up operation against the Japanese.

If he remembered correctly, after the Hundred Regiments Campaign, the Japanese and puppet forces suffered more than 50,000 casualties.

Naturally, with his existence in this time and space, the Japanese casualties must be more than recorded in previous lives.

Upon hearing this, Brigade Commander Chen nodded and said, "That's what headquarters means. We plan to finish in October, which will last about six months."

Gu Changfeng was quite clear about this, it was just that the time was advanced.

For the next period of time, everyone ate and talked, and the party ended in a happy atmosphere for both guests and hosts.

In the afternoon, Gu Changfeng said goodbye to Brigade Commander Chen and left. He had to meet up with the Third Regiment.

A new battle has begun and his mission here has been completed. He doesn't want to stay here any longer.

Three days later, in Yangquan Town, Gu Changfeng and his team arrived as scheduled.

Now everywhere is in chaos, and Gu Changfeng travels at night and rests during the day, so he basically didn't encounter any major battles along the way, and some were just small-scale attacks on the Japanese.

In fact, when marching around the Japanese, the 3rd and 4th Regiments were very cautious, and basically divided their troops into groups to take mountain roads.

"Old Wu, why are you targeting Niangzi Pass? This place should be under the jurisdiction of the Fifth Regiment of the Eighth Route Army's Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Border Region."

Seeing Gu Changfeng asking this, Wu Mazi explained with a smile: "Brigade Commander, after we captured Yangquan, the Eighth Route Army in Yangquan contacted me..."

With Wu Mazi's explanation, Gu Changfeng finally understood.

The matter was very simple. The Japanese did not have many troops in Yangquan, only one battalion and some puppet troops.

It was almost easy for Wu Mazi to deal with this small force. As a result, after the war, the Eighth Route Army's intelligence personnel in Yangquan took the initiative to find Wu Mazi.

After the two sides talked, they found that they were all on the same side, so they asked Wu Mazi to help take over Niangzi Pass.

Wu Mazi didn't care at all, so he agreed readily.

"In that case, let's take Niangzi Pass first."

Gu Changfeng originally wanted the three regiments to attack the Japanese separately, so he didn't care whether it was his wife's business or not.

Today, Niangzi Pass is actually not as important as it was two years ago. It is just one of the many strongholds of the Japanese on Zhengtai Road.

Of course, in order to capture and destroy the Japanese railway line, we must first take down the Niangzi Pass support stronghold, and to capture Niangzi Pass, we must first capture the Niangzi Pass village at the foot of the mountain.

The Japanese actually didn't have many people deployed at Niangzi Pass, only one reinforced squadron and one battalion of puppet troops, and the total force was even less than that of Yangquan Town.

If they really wanted to fight, the Third Regiment would be enough to take it down. However, in order to support the brother troops, Wu Mazi communicated with the commander of the Fifth Regiment and let him take charge of the main attack, while the task of destroying the railway was given to the Fifth Regiment.

The commander of the 5th Regiment readily agreed to this, obviously knowing the combat effectiveness of the independent brigade.

The next day, after Wu Mazi deployed the battle plan, the soldiers of the Third Regiment set off.

According to the information reported by the scouts, there was only a small group of Japanese soldiers and a company of puppet troops in Niangziguan Village. This amount of troops was not enough to fill the gaps in the Third Regiment's strength.

A few hours later, Niangziguan Village.

The puppet army sentries at the entrance of the village walked back and forth bored. Next to them, in a fortification made of sandbags, two heavy machine guns were facing the intersection.

The puppet army's main and deputy shooters were on full alert and very serious.

There are wars going on everywhere now, so these puppet soldiers dare not be negligent. After all, their lives are their own.

The atmosphere on the puppet army side was tense, but on the third battalion side of the third regiment it was quite relaxed.

Two kilometers away from the Japanese, Wen Jiayi observed for a while and said disdainfully: "It's just a platoon of puppet troops. Let the second company go up later."

"Lao Niu, tell your sniper to take aim. I'm interested in those two machine guns."

"Yes, I will ensure that the mission is completed!" Second Company Commander Niu Dadan patted his chest and promised.

The puppet army really didn't take this seriously, and Wen Jiayi was even unwilling to deploy artillery.

A few minutes later, the soldiers of the second company formed a combat formation and attacked quickly. Soon, the sound of gunfire like frying beans rang out in front of the puppet army.

Bang bang bang!

Before the puppet army machine gunner could fire a few bullets, he was killed by the sniper of the second company.

Niu Dadan struck while the iron was hot and directly issued the order to charge...

Da da da!

After destroying the puppet army's machine gun position at the village entrance, the second company took the opportunity to rush into the village. Seeing that the situation was not good, the puppet soldiers in the village ran away directly. Only a small group of Japanese soldiers were still resisting stubbornly.

After more than ten minutes of fighting, more than 50 Japanese devils were wiped out, and more than 40 puppet soldiers who failed to escape were captured. Niangziguan Village was captured by the Third Regiment.