Chapter Fifty-Nine: The Night Is Miserable
At the moment when the Taohe Bridge was bombed, the ironclad patrol car from the direction of Shouyang finally arrived at the battlefield. They were greeted by two armor-piercing shells fired from Gaoping dual-purpose guns, which were smashed into wreckage in one fell swoop!
Later, the Japanese highway patrol team that rushed to the battlefield from the direction of Shouyang saw the scene of the Eighth Route Army destroying the patrol car with a price increase. It's a pity that the little devil is a tendon, not only did not slip away, but also pounced violently, the machine guns on motorcycles and armored vehicles hit the mountain, dreaming of using their machine guns to wipe out the Eighth Route Army that captured the stone measuring station!
At this point in the battle, it was useless to wear Japanese uniforms, and no matter how stupid the devil patrol was, they could understand that it was the Eighth Route Army that captured the stone measuring station by camouflaging the Japanese army.
With the Type 92 infantry gun and the Gaoping dual-purpose gun, the little devil's armored car is not worth mentioning, and with a bang, the little devil's armored car will become a wreck, and the little devil in the car can't even run!
As for the two motorcycles of the devils, they were instantly beaten into a sieve by machine gun fire!
The devils on the stone measuring station have long been wiped out, the ghost patrol team and ironclad patrol vehicles from the direction of Shouyang and Pingding have been destroyed, and the Taohe Bridge has also been blown up. In other words, the battle to capture the stone station ended successfully. Next, what Xiao Siming has to do is to quickly transfer the captured loot and keep the fruits of victory!
The guard platoon and the communications platoon all changed into the uniforms of the Eighth Route Army and rode pack horses to the surrounding villages to mobilize villagers to help the Eighth Route Army transport the captured ammunition supplies.
Xiao Siming's order made it clear that all the young men who came to help the Eighth Route Army transport the spoils of war were given a bag of flour captured by the Japanese army each! If you bring a large livestock or a donkey cart, give an extra bag of flour!
This is the early stage of the Anti-Japanese War, the little devil has not yet realized that you should implement the Huairou policy, the common people have long hated the Japanese army's burning, killing and looting, and the enthusiasm for the Anti-Japanese War is very high. In addition, this area is the western foot of Taihang Mountain, which is ripe once a year, and all the crops are millet, corn, soybeans, wheat, etc., and the common people rarely eat a meal of white noodles all year round.
In addition to mobilizing the villagers, the more than 300 pack horses of the independent battalion have also been adjusted, and each pack horse is loaded, and a part of the pack horses are freed up to carry the newly captured ammunition and rush to transport it as quickly as possible!
Fortunately, Xiao Siming's time was accurate, the battle started before dark, and not long after the battle ended, it was also dark, and he was not afraid of the little devil's plane coming to bomb.
Wang Xuejun, the chief of the logistics section and the leader of the baggage team, was a veteran Red Army cadre in logistics, and he had a set of ways to organize the transfer of war trophies, and asked Xiao Siming to assign all the deputy positions of each company, platoon, and squad to him, and lead a front team by himself, and organize the donkey carts, large animals, and young and middle-aged people carrying burdens into groups, and began the mighty large-scale transfer.
There were nine carriages in this military train, except for two guard carriages, the remaining seven carriages were full, except for two carriages loaded with ammunition, the other six carriages were all loaded with rice, white flour, canned food and other provisions.
It is true that there are a lot of things in one trip, but it is far from enough to supply the 109th Division to fight with such a large force of the Japanese army sent from Shijiazhuang. But for a unit of such a size as an independent battalion, it is a real fortune and a fortune, and the emotions of the cadres and fighters can be imagined!
Although there were twenty-two casualties, the casualties were almost negligible compared to such a huge victory!
Wang Lushui looked at the entire train of ammunition supplies, and his eyes became very bright when he spoke: "With so much ammunition, the 685th Regiment and the 686th Regiment can fight a few battles!" In particular, after the delivery of so much rice and white flour, the head of the headquarters and the head of the division will definitely be very happy, and the troops will be able to improve their food for a few days! Especially rice, but it is very precious, how many soldiers have never eaten white rice since they arrived in northern Shaanxi, this time, the soldiers must be allowed to open the meat! ”
The cadres at this time are really selfless! This is the spoils of the independent battalion, although the Eighth Route Army is to be credited with all the captures, but it is also mainly to collect and keep the spoils of war by the unit, and the soldiers of the independent battalion must be credited with all the captures, and it is right to hand over all the loot to the division headquarters and headquarters!
This Wang Lushui, after a while, the spoils have been distributed!
As soon as Wang Lushui's words fell, Deputy Battalion Commander Zheng Xiuchuan quietly pulled Xiao Siming's clothes and reminded in a low voice: "Before handing over the division headquarters and headquarters, you must first prepare enough ammunition for each company and platoon, and let the soldiers eat white rice for a few days first." You can't be busy to the end, the independent battalion didn't get anything, and it was all handed in! In particular, the Gaoping dual-purpose artillery is a good high-level dual-purpose machine gun, and it must not be handed in, so quickly set up an air defense squad in the artillery team and occupy these good weapons first! ”
Xiao Siming smiled, didn't say anything, and pulled Wang Lushui to command the troops to rush the transport.
There are many people and great strength, and after two hours, the stone measuring station is already empty, except for the corpse of the little devil and the box office, and the three military columns, the Eighth Route Army has moved everything that can be moved, including the steel tracks on the railway.
As for the sleepers that were taken down, they were taken home by the people of the nearby villages who heard the news and used them as firewood.
What Xiao Siming thought was that these steel rails would be transported to the mountains and hidden, and when the Eighth Route Army headquarters set up an arsenal, they could be taken out and recast to make guns and cannons!
While the troops were rushing to transport the trophies on the military column, the commander of the communications platoon, Rong Guanhong, was busy leading the soldiers to cut the telephone lines, including the telephone of the Devil's Stone Measuring Station, which was captured by the soldiers of the communications platoon. As a result, the communications platoon was the last unit to withdraw from the station.
Xiao Siming led a huge transport team composed of independent battalions and fellow villagers to hide in the vast night of Taihang Mountain, but the little devil blew up there!
In a fit of rage, the commander of the 118th Brigade of the 109th Division of the Japanese Army, Major General Honchuan Province, was furious and ordered his troops to burn down the villages around Nianzigou, and then commanded the troops to search everywhere in an attempt to find the disappeared Eighth Route Army.
Tossing until dark, the third province of Benchuan received an urgent telegram from the division commander, Lieutenant General Yamaoka Shigehou, informing him that the Eighth Route Army had captured the stone measuring station and ordering him to immediately command the troops to return to Zhengtai Road, check the battle damage, and ensure the safety of Zhengtai Road.
As soon as I heard that the stone station was captured by the Eighth Route Army, the heads of the three provinces of Benchuan were stunned, and it was seen that there were military trains that were parked to transport supplies, and if the Naxi ammunition fell into the hands of the Eighth Route Army, I don't know how many of the emperor's warrior jade will have to be broken in the future!
The three provinces of Benchuan couldn't take care of anything, so they let the brigade of the 136th Wing stay in the county seat of Yuxian County to stay and stick to the county seat, and he led other troops to use flashlights and torches to march along the main road to the Jiujie area, and returned to Zhengtai Road as quickly as possible.
The little devil came quickly and retreated quickly, but it was a pity that the little devil left an infantry brigade in the county seat, and it seems that the county seat of Yuxian County fell into the hands of the devil again.
When the main force led by the third province of Motokawa rushed to the Shishi Railway Station, he gasped and saw that there were corpses of the emperor's warriors everywhere on the platform of the station, on the guard carriages of the military trains, on the rails that had been stripped of the rails, and on the armored patrol cars.
This is still lucky, leaving a whole corpse. The most tragic thing is the corpse in the ironclad patrol car and the motorcycle and armored car on the road, the corpse in the ironclad patrol car was blown up by the grenade and the flesh was blurred, and it was impossible to distinguish who was who; The corpses in motorcycles and armored vehicles have become black charcoals, and it is also impossible to distinguish who is who.
It seems that the motorcycles and armored vehicles of the highway patrol team caught fire in the fuel tank after being hit and burned into wreckage, and the soldiers inside were naturally burned into black charcoals!
As for the ammunition and supplies transported by the military trains, they had already been emptied by the Eighth Route Army, and not even a grain of rice was left for the Japanese army!
Benchuan Province San also personally went to check the Taohe Bridge that was blown up, looking at the lonely bridge piers, Benchuan Province San thought to himself, this Eighth Route Army is not simple, it can destroy ironclad trains and armored vehicles, and it can also blow up such a strong railway bridge, which shows that this Eighth Route Army has artillery and engineers, and it is actually a composite army!
The night is miserable!
The majestic Taihang Mountain, under the reflection of the moonlight and stars, is dreamlike and very mysterious.
Benchuan Province looked at the Taihang Mountain in the night, and then looked at the Taohe Railway Bridge that was blown up, and suddenly felt a sense of powerlessness, and no longer had the strength to order the troops to track and search overnight!
Early the next morning, Taiyuan's pseudo-radio station sent out a piece of news: Zhengtai Road was attacked by the Eighth Route Army, the Shishi Railway Station in the west of Pingding County was destroyed, the Taohe Railway Bridge was bombed, and Zhengtai Road was temporarily closed to traffic.
Then, the Japanese puppet radio began to viciously attack the Eighth Route Army, saying that the Eighth Route Army had used all kinds of combat methods, and even used poison gas bombs in battle to massacre the Japanese Imperial Army.
After two pieces of news, the Japanese pseudo-radio announced that the First Army of the Japanese Army had won a major victory in the Shanxi operation and captured the county seat of Yuxian!
This little devil, when the Eighth Road besieged the Jin-Cha-Ji border area, he had already announced the capture of Yuxian County, and now it has been announced again, and the audience who don't know the truth has listened to it, and really thought that the Japanese army had won another big victory!
Until now, the Japanese army did not know the number of the independent battalion and the name of Xiao Siming. Otherwise, I'm afraid I will have to directly offer a reward for the capture of Xiao Siming!
The Japanese side was concealing their defeats, blowing the conch, and viciously attacking, and the Chinese radio station was silent, and no one paid attention to the series of battles that took place at the Nianzigou in Yuxian County and the Stone Measuring Station in Pingding County. Because Xiao Siming's radio station was not turned on and they did not report the results to the authorities, the superiors did not know that the independent battalion had won such a big battle! Even if the Japanese army has openly admitted that the stone measuring station was captured by the Eighth Route Army, the Taohe Railway Bridge was blown up, and the transportation of Zhengtai Road was interrupted, no one knows which unit did it!