Mafang is located in the northwest of Heshun County, connecting Yushe in the west, Shouyang in the north, and Xiyang in the northeast, with an important geographical location. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

A big road, north from Hebei to Xiyang, Shouyang, Jinzhong trunk road, along the Taihang Mountain, mountains and ridges, ravines and ravines, meandering, to Mafang is divided into two, one to the southeast through and along the county seat, one to the southwest towards the Taigu in the Jinzhong region.

When Wang Lushui was sent back to the headquarters of the 115th Division a year ago to return to the team and hand over materials and equipment to the Qinlai detachment, the independent battalion camped in Mafang. Before going to the sneak attack on Taiyuan Airport, the independent battalion also set out from Mafang, and also left the wounded who were wounded in the battle of the Shishi Station here, and it was not until they withdrew from Shouyang City this time that they were brought back.

Xiao Siming and the cadres and soldiers of the former independent battalion are very familiar with the terrain of Mafang!

On the afternoon of 6 March, Secretary Li of the Shounan County Party Committee and County Magistrate Su of the county government withdrew from Jingshang with the staff of the county party committee and the county government and the newly formed guard team.

They are all local workers, followed by groups of people who are "running for the old days", the road is messy, everyone is sweating and tired!

A lesbian couldn't run anymore and sat on the side of the road. Immediately, two gay men came and grabbed the lesbian by the arm and dragged her along.

The lesbian gasped for breath and pleaded, "I can't run anymore, let me rest and run again!" ”

It's not just that this lesbian can't run, I don't know how many people can't run!

Last night, the Japanese army suddenly dispatched from Shouyang City, followed Zhengtai Road to Lujiazhuang Station, and then divided their troops to the east to capture Yangtou Cliff.

The Shounan County Party Committee and the county government received the news and mobilized the masses in the Jingshang and Songta areas overnight to clear the fields and prepare for a counter-sweep. Unexpectedly, early this morning, a large number of Japanese troops poured out from Shouyang City and the surrounding areas, pushing forward to the mountainous areas in the south of Shouyang, and even launched a heavy sweep of the Shounan Mountain Base Area!

Under this position of the Japanese army, it was impossible to block the rampant attack of the Japanese army by relying solely on the troops of the Qinlai detachment of the Eighth Route Army and the local armed forces operating in the vicinity of Jingshang and Songta, and they could only retreat all the way south and move to the depths of the Taihang Mountains.

When the team of the Shounan County Party Committee and the county government set out from Jingshang, the number was small and very capable, but the more people walked, the more people came, and the villagers who ran the old day arrived at this time, and when they met the retreating team of the anti-Japanese democratic government, they all gathered and ran along, making the team bigger and bigger, and when they arrived near Mafang, it seemed that there were 1 or 20,000 people.

There is no way, the devil is coming, the people are panicking, and the common people want to follow the anti-Japanese democratic government to be safer.

With such a huge team, you can't even think of being discovered by the Japanese army!

Fortunately, Jingshang and Songta are the core areas of the Shounan anti-Japanese base area, and there are troops of the Qinlai detachment of the Eighth Route Army. At this time, in order to cover the transfer of the villagers, all units of the Eighth Route Army rose up to resist, adopted the tactics of blocking the attack step by step, retreated after a while, and blocked the attack in the back to cover the transfer of the villagers.

With the troops of the Qin Lai detachment fighting in the back, the villagers who ran the old days brought by the Shounan County Party Committee and the county government were safely evacuated here. Otherwise, you will definitely be encircled by the little devils. With the little devil's eagerness to take revenge and burn the habitual behavior, the loss will definitely be huge!

The county magistrate Su, who was walking at the front of the team, stopped and stood on the side of the road, also spewing rough air in his mouth, snorting, and shouting loudly: "Comrades, fellow villagers, hurry up and run, there is the horse square in front!" After the horse square, go in the direction of Beiwanshan, and it will be safe when you enter the mountain! ”

As he was shouting, there was a fierce gunfire behind him.

County Magistrate Su was in a hurry, he knew that it was the soldiers of the Qin Lai detachment who were blocking the attack and covering the transfer of local organs and villagers!

Secretary Li also stopped, glanced at the two of them with County Magistrate Su, and said anxiously: "What should I do?" There are so many little devils, we will definitely not be able to run along the main road, the little devils will catch up! Our troops can't stop the devils! ”

County Magistrate Su looked at the crowd of people following the county party committee and county government officials on the main road, gritted his teeth, and said, "After the horse workshop, drill the ravine!" I don't believe it, the little devil can search every ravine! Walk! ”

After speaking, County Magistrate Su pulled his legs and left, and Secretary Li followed closely and led the troops to run towards Mafang Town!

Mafang Town is the largest market town in this area, in normal times, there are restaurants in the town, selling groceries, when the market is held, the villagers of the small mountain village hidden in the deep ditch and fork of the Taihang Mountain come to the market, exchange the mountain goods for salt, medicine, cloth.

To the surprise of Secretary Li and County Magistrate Su, Mafang Town was quiet and empty, and it seemed that everyone in the town already knew that the little devil was coming, and they all ran away!

Shounan County's running old day team had just passed through Mafang Town, and a team of the Eighth Route Army had also withdrawn.

This is a real unit, and it is different from the contingent of local cadres and villagers in Shounan County who have just run so far and withdrawn, although the withdrawal was hasty, and there are stretchers in the ranks, but generally speaking, they still maintain their formation.

The troops themselves are running forward, and the cadres are still shouting as they run: "Hurry! Come on! The little devil is about to catch up! ”

The Qinlai detachment is a newly organized unit, which has developed rapidly, and the whole detachment now has 5 or 6,000 people. But after all, it is a new unit, and the combat effectiveness has not yet come up for the time being, so it is impossible to collide with the main force of the little devils, so you can only take advantage of the favorable terrain in the Taihang Mountains and retreat while fighting!

In the face of the large-scale heavy sweep of the Japanese army, the various units of the Qinlai detachment knew that they were invincible, but they were still able to rise up to block the attack and cover the transfer of local power and villagers, which in itself was a heroic feat of the heroic troops!

Only the Eighth Route Army has such courage and determination!

As soon as the team ran through Mafang Town, the road was dusty, and under the sun, the white light refracted by the saber shot straight into the sky, which looked very scary!

The battalion commander of the Qin Lai detachment, who had just run through Mafang Town, looked back and exclaimed, "Not good! The devil cavalry is catching up! Quick, drill into the ravine, and avoid the devil cavalry of the dog's day! ”

When the cavalry pursues the infantry, if it is on the great plain and the infantry has no position to rely on, the scene will be very tragic. Fortunately, this is the hinterland of Taihang Mountain, with deep mountains and ravines, and steep cliffs, as long as you get into the ravine where the road is impassable, the devil cavalry will have no way to take the Eighth Route Army!

The blocking force of Qin Lai's detachment immediately left the road and retreated into the ravine on the side of the road!

The blocking force of Qin Lai's detachment withdrew a little faster, and they did not notice that there was an abnormality in the silent town of Mafang behind them.

Just after the figure of the blocking force of the Qin Lai detachment hid into the ravine, the devil cavalry chasing from the main road arrived at Mafang Town.

It was the 20th Cavalry Wing of the 16th Division of the Japanese Army that invaded China, and the wing commander was Toshimatsu Nakasa Kasai.

Unlike infantry, cavalry is highly mobile and its position changes quickly when fighting on horseback. In order to be able to grasp and command such a highly galloping force on the battlefield in a timely manner, the common practice of all countries is to reduce the levels, reduce the number of troops, reduce the command level at the battalion level, and let the cavalry regiment directly command the company.

The Japanese army is even more ingenious, the cavalry is divided into three different formations, the cavalry wing of the cavalry brigade regiment, which has jurisdiction over 4-6 cavalry squadrons; The cavalry wing in the permanent infantry division is organized into 2-4 cavalry squadrons; The cavalry brigade of the special division and regiment and the newly established three-unit division regiment will be organized into only two cavalry squadrons.

The 16th Division is a permanent division of the Japanese army, and it is also a first-class ace division in the Japanese army, with the 20th Cavalry Wing under the command of the division, with 452 troops, 429 horses, and each squadron is equipped with heavy machine guns.

In the Japanese army, because of the small size of the cavalry, the rank of the officers was relatively high. When the cavalry looked at the infantry, they all had a condescending feeling! Just like this 20th Cavalry Wing, there are only 452 people in total, but it is a wing system, the wing leader is Zhongzuo, and the squadron leaders of the subordinate squadrons are all captains or even Shaozuo, which is equivalent to the rank of captain of an infantry brigade of 1,100 people.

Strictly speaking, cavalry is not suitable for mountain warfare, and the 20th Cavalry Wing of the Japanese Army should not normally appear on the main road to the pursuit of Mafang. Even if it was to capture Heshun City, the 20th Cavalry Wing should quickly advance from Sheep's Head Cliff to Xiyang City along the road, and after reaching Xiyang City, it would attack Heshun from north to south along the Pingliao Highway.

However, the Japanese army's permanent divisions were different from those ad hoc divisions and newly built divisions, and they were very arrogant and were best at roundabout attack tactics. This is especially true of the 16th Division!

After the 16th Division arrived at the battlefield of aggression against China, it was first subordinate to the North China Front Army, and the Jinpu Road attacked and advanced. Later, he was transferred to the Songhu battlefield, participated in the Battle of Songhu, and did the work of outflanking in a roundabout way, and he did it smoothly, rushing all the way into Nanjing City. Burning, killing, adultery, and committing all kinds of evil.

At this time, it is probably more difficult to find out from the 16th Division a person who has not killed Chinese civilians, raped Chinese women, or robbed people's property!

The 16th Division, the main offender who captured Nanjing, the capital of the Republic of China, where would the Eighth Route Army in the Taihang Mountains be taken into account! Their only fear was encountering the Eighth Route Army, which had destroyed Japanese tanks and armored vehicles in Xiaozhuang Village, Zhengtai Road. However, even if they encounter the Eighth Route Army, the devils of the 16th Division will not be afraid, as long as they are allowed to deploy their troops, coupled with the cooperation of aviation fighters, they are fully capable of encircling and annihilating the Eighth Route Army that brought trouble and shame to the Japanese Army!

This is also a fact, although the eastward advance brigade is well equipped and has strong firepower, after all, the strength is limited, and once it is surrounded by the troops of the 16th Division of the Japanese army, the consequences are indeed worrying!

Due to his overconfidence in the strong combat effectiveness of his troops, Major General Kuaba Tatsuki, who received the order of the First Army to open the Pingliao Highway, sent a telegram to the division commander, Lieutenant General Nakajima Imasago Shogo, and on the night of March 5, he used the tactics of night attack to kill south along Zhengtai Road to Lujiazhuang Station, and then divided his troops into two routes, all the way west to Xiluo Town on the border of Shouyang and Yuci, and opened up contact with the Yuci Japanese army; All the way along the highway leading to Xiyang, Hebei Gaoyi, to the east to kill the sheep's head cliff. (To be continued.) )