In the evening of midsummer, the weather is hot and sultry, and the wind blowing from the canal and Dongping Lake does not carry a trace of coolness. Vertices M. updates the fastest

In a cornfield not far from the highway leading from Guanxian County to Liaocheng, the county seat of Dongpingfu, Peng Qun, commander of the 2nd Battalion of the 1st Regiment of the Eastward Advance Detachment of the Eighth Route Army, wore a camouflage hat made of sorghum leaves, corn leaves, and wicker on his head, gently pushed away the corn leaves in front of him with his left hand, and held a telescope with his right hand to look towards the road.

Behind Peng Qun, in the airtight cornfield, there was a regiment and two battalions that quietly moved here. The soldiers, all wearing the same camouflage hats as Peng Qun, crawled quietly in the cornfield without making a sound.

During the Yuxian Nianzigou Blockade War, Peng Qun was the platoon commander of the third platoon of the second company of the independent battalion, and he fought very brilliantly.

At that time, the three company commanders of the independent battalion, Qiu Wei, Cao Ming'an, and Wang Meng, respectively served as the commanders of the first, second, and third regiments of the eastward advance detachment, and the instructors, deputy company commanders, and deputy instructors of the three companies also became regimental-level cadres, some stayed in the first regiment, and some were transferred to other units. Some of the platoon commanders and deputy platoon commanders of the three companies of the independent battalion stayed in the first regiment and were promoted to battalion commanders and instructors, some were transferred to the third regiment, the Yanshan Independent Regiment, and the Wudi Independent Regiment to serve as battalion commanders and instructors, and a few were sent to the military and political cadres school in the Jilu border area to study.

Peng Qun distinguished himself in Nianzigou and a series of battles that followed, and was promoted to commander of the second battalion of a regiment. The instructor of the second battalion is his old partner, Ma Enzhu, the old Red Army from Jiangxi, and the deputy platoon commander of the third platoon of the original second company.

At this time, Ma Enzhu, the instructor of the second battalion, was crawling beside Peng Qun, holding a telescope in his hand, and he was also observing on the canal-side road!

Since the armored battalion was put into actual combat and 100 Japanese vehicles were captured in Texas, the first battalion of the first regiment was directly commanded by Xiao Siming in several battles, and carried out rapid mobile combat missions together with the armored battalion, cavalry battalion, heavy machine gun battalion, and infantry artillery battalion of the artillery regiment.

When encountering a major combat operation, the eastward advance detachment was accustomed to reinforcing artillery and heavy machine guns to three regiments and forming three battle groups to strengthen the firepower and strength of each regiment.

This time it was a fight against the fifth division of the Japanese army, it must have been a big battle, and the first battalion returned to the regimental system, but the detachment did not have a regiment to strengthen the artillery and heavy machine guns, because it was necessary to concentrate on the use of artillery fire, destroy the Japanese positions at the first time, and cover the rapid assault of the infantry and armored battalions and the heavy machine gun battalions and anti-aircraft machine gun battalions transported by vehicles!

Not only did the second battalion move here, but at this moment, the three battalions of the first regiment all moved to the distance of receiving the enemy, waiting to attack!

The canal bridge on the highway from Guanxian to Liaocheng is the most important garrison target of the Japanese Fifth Division, and it is also the only passage for the main force of the Fifth Division to rush to the hinterland of southern Hebei. Most of the troops of the Japanese Fifth Division remaining on the east bank of the canal, except for a small number of troops deployed along the canal, were concentrated in this area.

In Peng Qun's binoculars, the facial features of the Japanese sentries were clear. The position is also clear at a glance.

Although the defense line of the canal was a short-term task, and the Fifth Division was an offensive force, the little devil was repeatedly hit, and he had already become a frightened rabbit, and he was very cautious, and the fortifications were very good, and along the canal, three trenches were dug, and there were communication trenches between the trenches and the trenches. It seems that the little devils have a deep feeling for the combat effectiveness of the eastward advance detachment of the Eighth Route Army, their combat object, and do not have the slightest intention of underestimating the enemy.

At this time, the devil soldiers on the Japanese defense line who appeared in Peng Qun's telescope were all backs. Because their guns were pointed at the west bank of the canal. Including grenadiers, infantry guns, mortars, and the muzzles of the guns are all aimed at the west bank of the canal!

In the fields along the highway, there were several parking lots fenced with barbed wire by the Japanese army, and the transport vehicles of the Japanese baggage wing were parked. The cars and rubber cars are covered with grass-green canvases, and some vehicles are empty.

Needless to say, those cars full of rubber ** cars were all pulling supplementary ammunition, rations, and fuel from the Fifth Division of the Japanese Army. Those empty cars, the supplies on the cars must have been consumed by the Japanese army.

Peng Qun couldn't figure it out, listening to the commander say that the Fifth Division was one of the three major motorized divisions of the Japanese army, but why did the 75 field artillery and mountain artillery of the Fifth Wing of their field artillery still use pack horses to tow it? Including their Fifth Wing of the Heavy Soldiers, there are also so many rubber ** cars, isn't this purely dragging the main force back? The little devil really slammed the door of his grandmother, and he turned a mechanized division into a semi-mechanized division with a mixture of motor vehicles and pack horses!

Peng Qun didn't want to think about it, fortunately, the Fifth Division of the Japanese Army was actually a monster mixed with motorized and mules and horses, if it was really all motorized, the marching speed would be faster, maybe before the eastward advance detachment of the Eighth Route Army crossed the canal, the Fifth Division of the Japanese Army had already rushed to the canal to set up defenses, just to intercept the Eighth Route Army.

Accompanying the 2nd Battalion, there was an observation group of an artillery regiment, with a small radio station of the Japanese army, which could only be contacted within 10 kilometers, and was also carefully observing the Japanese defense line with a telescope, silently calculating the shelling parameters!

After looking at it for a while, Peng Qun turned his head and looked at Ma Enzhu for a while, and then turned to the correspondent and ordered: "Report to the regimental headquarters, the second battalion has arrived at the designated place and can attack the Japanese army at any time!" ”

After the correspondent left, Peng Qun whispered to the soldiers of the artillery observation group: "Look carefully, don't let the shells fall on the little devil's baggage vehicle." It's ours! ”

A moment later, the observation group of the artillery regiment began to report on the parameters of the shelling on a small radio station.

At 7 p.m., the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd regiments all moved to the designated position to engage the enemy.

Xiao Siming, who received the report, immediately connected the phone with Zhao Xiuchuan, the commander of the artillery regiment: "Zhao Xiuchuan?" Give you 10 minutes to prepare, and after 10 minutes, all the artillery will be fired, and I will bombard the Japanese position and destroy it in one fell swoop! ”

Zhao Xiuchuan, who was on the phone, saluted "snapped" and shouted loudly into the microphone: "Please rest assured, commander, the artillery regiment will resolutely complete the task!" ”

Xiao Siming then called Hu Qingyun, chief of staff who went to command the operations of the armored battalion, the vehicle-mounted heavy machine gun battalion, and the anti-aircraft machine gun battalion, and ordered them to immediately dispatch and advance towards the canal.

The tanks, armored vehicles, and automobiles of the armored battalion were moving heavily, and it was impossible to engage the enemy in concealment, and the standby position was relatively far away from the canal.

The Fifth Division is the division with the widest operating area of the Japanese army on the battlefield of aggression against China, and it is full of crimes! From the capture of Lingqiu in Shanxi Province to the Lingqiu Massacre in Gaocheng Town, Hebei Province after the Battle of Taiyuan, including the Nanjing Massacre, the crimes committed by this army are beyond words!

The infantry reserve of the 5th Division, that is, the supplementary team, was composed of three brigades. During the Battle of Taiyuan and the great victory of Taierzhuang, due to the heavy casualties of the Fifth Division, the three brigades of the divisional replenishment team had already been added to the field wings. However, in order to ensure the strong combat effectiveness of the Fifth Division, the Japanese army immediately replenished the lack of troops. During the Battle of Luokou, due to the devastating blow to the 21st Wing, Lieutenant General Toshiyoshi Ando, the commander of the division, ordered all the divisional supplements to be added to the 21st Wing. Later, due to the high level of medical care of the Japanese army, it was finally possible to save some of the soldiers who were poisoned and ensure the full strength of the 21st Wing.

After the Battle of Luokou, the Fifth Division was transported to Qingdao by car and ship to Tanggu Port in Tianjin, and the lost tanks, armored vehicles, automobiles, weapons and ammunition were replenished again, and it became a complete field division again.

The three infantry battalions of the Fifth Division's supplementary team, two brigades of the Fifth Engineer Wing, and two brigades of the Fifth Wing of the Baggage Regiment were responsible for guarding the canal defense line. In addition, there is the division and regimental communication team and the division headquarters of 330 people.

At 7:10 a.m., like thunder, the calm east bank of the canal suddenly sounded a rumbling cannon sound, and under the glow of the sunset, groups of shells swept across the sky, roaring, and rushed towards the Japanese position.

This time, Zhao Xiuchuan was determined to raise his eyebrows and use all the guns of the artillery regiment. The anti-aircraft guns, field guns, and mountain guns of the anti-aircraft artillery battalions, including the infantry guns of the original infantry artillery battalions, were all fired. It's just that each gun has only one gunner and one loader, and there are no second gunners and no third gunners.

After a test firing, the shelling parameters were re-corrected according to the data reported by the forward observers, and then a five-way salvo began!

Suddenly, a dense explosion sounded on the Japanese position, and the smoke and dust caused by the explosion of the shells rose into the air one by one!

Just after the artillery regiment opened fire, the armored battalion, tanks, armored vehicles, cars, and motors that had just arrived from the concealed assembly area, roared in a formation and rushed to the canal. It didn't take long for the offensive formation to begin, with tanks and armored vehicles lined up horizontally, leading the cars and rolling towards the Japanese position.

As soon as the cannon sounded, the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd regiments, which had already moved to the position of the enemy, fired signal flares almost simultaneously and ordered the troops to start attacking!

Peng Qun, commander of the second battalion of the 1st regiment, waved his hand and led the whole battalion out of the cornfield, with the 4th company in the center, the 5th company, and the 6th company on the left and the right, and the machine gun company followed up and rushed to the Japanese position.

After the rectification training in Yuxian and Leling, the regiment developed from the independent battalion has become very standardized. When each company moves rapidly, it maintains the tactical formation of infantry squad platoons, forming a small triangular attack formation with squads as units. The small triangles formed a large triangle, which soon merged with the tanks, armored vehicles, and automobiles of the armored battalion, and swept towards the Japanese positions like a frenzy.

The ancient canal is boiling all of a sudden! (To be continued.) )