The blocking battle that took place at the pass of the mountain mouth was short in time and had great results!

The second company and three platoons of the independent battalion were against a squadron of the Japanese army, and the strength and weakness were obvious, and the third platoon should definitely not be the opponent of the Japanese infantry squadron.

The three platoons won in an invincible position, hiding in the cave on the cliff face on the inner side of the pass, and in the small hole behind the big stone on the outside of the pass. Because it is impossible for them to hit our soldiers who are hiding in caves, behind large rocks.

Unless the Japanese army can directly hit the shells into the hidden caves of our army, or use aerial bombs to blow through and collapse the mountain beams!

That's impossible!

In history, a certain unit of our army has created such a combat example, a platoon, only one machine gun, is guarded in a cave on the cliff face at the intersection of two highways, blocking the Japanese army, as a result, a wing of little devils was stubbornly blocked for 8 hours, and our army withdrew from the battle with zero casualties after completing the blocking mission!

The terrain of this pass guarded by three platoons is not as good as the position of our army in history, mainly because the position guarded by that platoon is a triangle, with steep cliffs on both sides, and the little devils cannot climb it. The pass of this mountain road guarded by three rows is also triangular, but although the slope facing the direction of Nianzigou is steep, it can definitely be climbed. If there is no friendly and neighboring troops to cooperate with the garrison, the little devil can climb the mountain beam, bypass the pass, or touch the head of the third platoon to drop bombs, in that case, the third platoon will not be able to hold the pass, and the whole platoon may be killed!

Fortunately, this possibility did not exist at all, and the main force of the second company and the heavy machine gun platoon, artillery team, and engineer team reinforced to the second company were guarded on the mountain beam, and the battalion reconnaissance platoon was hidden on the mountain beam. Xiao Siming, the commander of the independent battalion, and Zheng Xiuchuan, the deputy battalion commander, are both on the mountain beam position, how can the little devil climb up from the hillside!

In fact, just when the third platoon started, the main force of the second company guarding the mountain beam also started, and they aimed at the squadron of the little devils who climbed along the hillside to the mountain beam. The result can be imagined, this devil infantry squadron also left a full slope of corpses! Dozens of devils who were lucky enough to be alive rolled from the hillside to the main road on the mountainside, and fled back to Nianzigou Village from the main road.

The captain of the devil brigade hid in a courtyard where the roof was blown up by a bomb, and his hands trembled and his face was unstable, and he couldn't imagine that his brave and combative soldiers who were originally crisscrossing Hebei and Shandong encountered this hateful Eighth Route Army blocking force, and they could only be beaten to death, and they didn't even have the strength to fight back!

The telegram from the Devil Brigade Commander to Wing Commander Ishida Kanazo Daisa, requesting urgent tactical guidance, said: "The 1st Brigade of the 119th Wing of the 118th Infantry Brigade of the 109th Division of the Army, the small ravine called Nianzigou marked on the map has suffered heavy losses, and the main force of the brigade no longer exists, leaving only the artillery squad, machine gun squadron, transport team, and about 100 soldiers who have seriously lost their confidence in battle, and the 1st Brigade has no strength to undertake the task of continuing the attack. ”

If it was replaced by a permanent division of the Japanese army, or a public security division and regiment that was later specially organized for public security warfare, the loss of troops would be so large, and the captain would inevitably have to apologize!

It's a pity that the 109th Division is not a permanent division of the Japanese army, but a special division, a Japanese army captain in his forties, who has a wife and children at home, and the family is looking forward to his continuous opportunity to go to gold and silver treasures from China, and no one expects him to die in China. Therefore, the captain of the devil brigade, who does not have the fanatical passion of the young officers and soldiers of the permanent division, does not even have the idea of apology in his head. On the contrary, what he is looking forward to now is that His Excellency the Wing Commander will cancel the vanguard attack mission of the 1st Infantry Brigade and let him return to Pingding County or Shouyang County to wait for replenishment!

In fact, the captain of the devil brigade still has a few hundred people in his hands, 174 people in the machine gun squadron, 110 people in the transport team, and 54 people in the artillery team, and these three units basically have no losses. In addition to the remnants of the 100th and the officers and soldiers of the brigade headquarters who returned from the rout, there are more than 400 and 500 people, he should summon up the remaining courage and command the remnants to launch a desperate blow to the mountain beam guarded by the Eighth Route Army, and be loyal to His Majesty the Emperor, instead of hiding in the village of Nianzigou and asking for urgent tactical guidance.

If the Japanese officers and men were like this 119th Wing No. 1 Captain, how could the Great East Asian Holy War of the Great Japanese Empire be fought!

Without the need for the Devil Brigade Captain to ask His Excellency the Wing Commander for economic and tactical guidance, the Japanese artillery fire had already hit the position of the Eighth Route Army.

This time, the little devil used all his strength to eat, and the mountain artillery and infantry artillery shells kept falling, blowing up the Eighth Route Army's blocking position to dust, and grass clippings flew everywhere!

When the Japanese shelled it, the three platoons defending the pass were all hidden in the caves on the cliff face and in the small holes behind the big rocks, and the devils' artillery fire could not even hurt a single hair of their hair!

The troops who held the mountain beam, when the little devil retreated, also withdrew to the small cave dug by the engineer team and the second company behind the mountain beam, and the little devil's artillery fire also had no way to take them.

The devil's artillery fire finally stopped, but the devils who had already reached the opposite mountain beam, did not immediately rush down the hillside to reinforce them, as the captain of the Devil's First Infantry Brigade hiding in Nianzigou Village thought, but used heavy machine guns to sweep towards the Eighth Route Army's blocking position across the Nianzigou, as if their machine gun fire could destroy the Eighth Route Army.

finally waited for the Japanese artillery fire to stop, and the deputy battalion commander Zheng Xiuchuan immediately said: "The devil's artillery fire has stopped, inform the troops to hurry up, be careful of the devil sneaking up!" ”

Xiao Siming grabbed him: "What's the hurry?" If the whistle of the observation post does not sound, it means that the little devil has not come up. Let the fighters hurry up and eat dry food and squint for a while! The little devil has a lot of tricks, go up at this time, the little devil is likely to be covered by artillery fire again, so you have nowhere to cry! ”

Zheng Xiuchuan didn't believe it, and after taking two correspondents to convey Xiao Siming's order, he was not at ease, touched the position, raised the binoculars and saw that the devils in the Nianzi ditch did not move at all, and the devils on the opposite mountain beam did not move at all.

Zheng Xiuchuan did not give up, looked carefully for a while, and saw eight or nine devils coming out of the ditch, bending down, walking down the ditch, it seemed that a warning position was established.

After estimating the distance, Zheng Xiuchuan said to the two correspondents on a whim: "See? This little devil left the village, just in time for us to be targeted. I'll teach you how to use marksmanship. Attention, aim at the little devil who hit the head, listen to my command, you two shoot at the same time, see who can hit! ”

The two communicators were both new soldiers who had joined the army in Yuxian County, and when they heard this, they climbed on their positions and began to aim. When Zheng Xiuchuan said "type", the two people pulled the trigger almost at the same time, and the bullets flew out with two crisp sounds, "horn hook" and "horn hook". It's a pity that the distance was too far and it didn't hit!

Zheng Xiuchuan, who was holding a telescope to observe, immediately said: "You two, one hit too high, and the bullet went over the head of the little devil; One hit too low, and the bullet went into the dirt in front of the devil. Come on, don't be discouraged, fight again! ”

Without waiting for the two communicators to shoot again, they heard the sound of "sun", and the devil infantry cannon on the opposite mountain beam opened fire, and the shell fell in front of Zheng Xiuchuan's face, and the dust stirred up turned the three people into natives.

Zheng Xiuchuan hurriedly said "withdraw", and led the two correspondents to run back along the traffic trench.

As soon as they ran behind the mountain beam, the rumbling explosion was already sounding, and the Japanese army once again covered the position on the mountain beam with artillery fire!

When he saw Xiao Siming, Zheng Xiuchuan said the situation just now in a few words, and at the end, he opened his mouth and scolded: "The little devil of the dog * day is really a ghost and a cunning man!" ”

Xiao Siming said that during the battle on the Pingsui Line, Yan Xishan drew up a plan for the battle of Datong, preparing to set up a pocket formation relying on the favorable terrain to gather and annihilate the Japanese troops attacking Datong. At that time, the 61st Army of the Jin Sui Army Li Fuying was deployed on the front line of Tianzhen and Yanggao, as the main fulcrum of the campaign, and undertook the heavy task of blocking and consuming the Japanese army. The 61st Army did hold its ground at the beginning and fought very tenaciously, but it was later broken through by the Japanese army and collapsed at once. The strength of five regiments of one army all broke and fled backwards. It made Commander Yan very faceless in the whole country, so he had to arrest Li Fuying and shoot him.

When speaking of this, Xiao Siming asked Zheng Xiuchuan: "Do you know how the 61st Army, which was originally stubbornly resisted, collapsed?" ”

Zheng Xiuchuan doesn't know, if Chief Yan doesn't say this, how can we know?

Xiao Siming said that although Commander Yan didn't say anything about this, Li Fuying said it, and it was already published in the newspaper. The reason is simple, the Japanese army is too cunning! When the little devils attacked the main position on the periphery of Tianzhen, they used this trick, and the infantry put on a posture of wanting to attack, luring our troops into the position, and then the Japanese shells came over, and the bombs also fell. Our army did not eliminate a single devil, and a lot of it was consumed by the Japanese artillery shells and bombs. So, don't underestimate the little devils, those guys are very cruel and cunning!

As the two of them were talking, they heard the roar of an airplane overhead, followed by the loud sound of an aerial bomb landing and exploding.

Xiao Siming immediately said, hurry up the anti-air liaison board, signal communication squad to the position, and use the flag language to direct the Japanese plane to bomb the opposite mountain beam!

As he spoke, Xiao Siming jumped out of the hidden small cave in one step, and went up the mountain beam with his rifle.

Zheng Xiuchuan then took the signal communication class to Shanliang.

After the Japanese planes bombed and strafed the mountain beam held by the Eighth Route Army from south to north, and when they turned back for the second bombing and strafing, a triangular anti-air liaison board had already been erected on the mountain beam, and Xiao Siming and Zheng Xiuchuan, who were wearing Japanese military uniforms, led the soldiers of the signal communication squad, waving signal flags and sun flags in their hands, indicating that they were the first infantry brigade of the 119th Wing of the 118th Brigade of the 109th Division of the Japanese Army, and asked the aviation to bomb the opposite mountain!

At this time, the Japanese planes could not communicate with the ground troops when they turned to the radio station next door, and they relied on the contact board to identify friend and foe.

At this time, the Japanese pilots were confused and did not know what to do.

As a result, the Japanese planes did not continue to bomb, nor did they bomb the Japanese troops on the opposite mountain beam, but flapped their wings and flew away, and the pilot reported to the commander of the Taiyuan Airport Tower through the airborne radio: The 109th Infantry Wing of the 118th Brigade of the 119th Division of the Army is infighting!