Zhou Kaidong did not hesitate at all, and immediately made a report to Hu Qingyun, chief of staff of the detachment commanding the operation on the southern front. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

That night, Hu Qingyun led the main force of the newly reorganized Deping Independent Regiment of the Eighth Route Army to bypass the territory where Yu Zhiliang, the leader of the Lingxian People's League, was stationed, bypassed the west of the county seat, and also arrived at the side of the highway from Dexian to Lingxian and Linyi.

After receiving the report, Hu Qingyun made a silent calculation in his heart, and understood that the Japanese army's reinforcement of Tuqiao was an infantry squadron, carrying at most one infantry cannon, and immediately ordered Zhou Kaidong to concentrate his forces, use the favorable terrain of Tuqiao to ambush and reinforce the Japanese army, and induce the Japanese army in Dexian County to send further reinforcements.

As for whether the puppet army Mu Jincheng in Lingxian County will reinforce Tuqiao and flank the Wudi Independent Regiment, Hu Qingyun said that he will lead the Deping Independent Regiment to ambush the puppet army Mu Jincheng from Lingxian County to relieve the worries of the Wudi Independent Regiment.

With Hu Qingyun leading the Deping Independent Regiment behind him as a backing, Zhou Kaidong did not have the slightest worry, immediately gathered the whole regiment, set up a position at the west end of Tuqiao Town, and arranged light and heavy firepower echelons, ready to give him a big surprise after the little devil crossed the bridge.

The original equipment of the Wudi Independent Regiment was extremely poor, and it was basically confiscated from the Wudi people by Zhang Ziliang's militia, and there were all kinds of rifles, not even a light machine gun. After being reorganized into the Wudi Independent Regiment, Xiao Siming took out all the national-made weapons that the baggage team had kept all the way from Shanxi to Jilubian, and in addition to ensuring the needs of the newly established Second Regiment, the rest of the Wudi Independent Regiment and the Yanshan Independent Regiment were redressed, which can be regarded as an independent regiment with all domestically made weapons.

The surplus state-made weapons, including those eliminated by the Wudi Independent Regiment and the Yanshan Independent Regiment, were all given by Xiao Siming to the newly established anti-Japanese democratic governments of Ningjin, Leling, Qingyun, Wudi, Yanshan, and Yangxin for the development of local armed forces and militias.

The Wudi Independent Regiment now has three Maktim heavy machine guns, two 60 mortars, and one Czech light machine gun in each platoon.

Speaking of which, these two 60 mortars were captured from Liu Motou, a habitual bandit in Ren County, and handed over to the Wudi Independent Regiment to fight devils, so that really played a role.

In today's battle, the Wudi Independent Regiment captured Japanese-style weapons for the first time since its establishment. The fly in the ointment is that the captured light machine gun was a crooked handle of the 11th year of Taisho, not the Type 96 light machine gun used by the first main regiment of the eastward advance detachment, that is, a crutch handle.

That's it, all of them are very rare for cadres and soldiers. The first company commander Han Baohu and instructor Sun Yuanzhi were carrying a crooked handle on their shoulders, for fear that the regiment commander and battalion commander would transfer the machine guns away. Another crooked handle fell into the hands of the first battalion and the second company of the Japanese stronghold that took the lead in attacking the west end of the town, and the company commander personally carried it, as a baby pimple!

Compared with the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd regiments, the weapons of the Wudi Independent Regiment are indeed too bad, but for Zhou Kaidong and Chen Qicai, old Red Army cadres who are accustomed to living a hard life, this equipment is much better than that of the Red Army. So, they have the confidence to fight this battle!

Although Zhou Kaidong also graduated from Kang University, he did not participate in a series of combat operations of the eastward advance detachment, nor did he participate in the training in Yuxian County and Leling, and his original tactical thinking was still stuck in the tactical thinking of the Red Army period, and he did not understand the tactical thinking of the former independent battalion and advance brigade commanded by Xiao Siming. However, when the Wudi Independent Regiment was established, the third company of the advance brigade was repaired in Wudi, and Xiao Siming explained clearly at that time that the third company was responsible for training the Wudi Independent Regiment. In this way, Zhou Kaidong can be regarded as having some understanding of the tactics of the advance brigade. He himself was a veteran of the Red Army, with rich battlefield experience, and he immediately realized the advantages of the tactics and tactics taught to him by Wang Meng, the commander of the third company. In addition, there are cadres drawn from the third company in the Wudi Independent Regiment, and during combat and training, they have already taught the troops the tactical ideas of Xiao Siming during the whole training in Yu County, so although the Wudi Independent Regiment is a new unit and the equipment is relatively backward, in terms of tactical thinking, compared with the previous Zhang Ziliang Militia Regiment, it is absolutely reborn and reborn.

Of course, the Wudi Independent Regiment is a new unit after all, the original foundation is too poor, and the tactical quality of the soldiers is too poor, and it still needs to be tempered repeatedly in the war!

Zhou Kaidong and Chen Qicai mobilized their troops and prepared for an ambush, but the little devil stopped on the other side of the Mache River, and the car turned off early, turned off the lights, and was completely hidden in the night.

It wasn't until half past four in the morning, the darkest hour before dawn, that the little devil began to act. I saw a detachment of 13 little devils, armed with a machine gun and a grenadier canister, bending over, forming a straggler formation, and passing through the Maji River highway bridge.

Needless to say, this is the spearhead detachment of the devil's reinforcements.

As soon as the devil detachment crossed the bridge, the machine gun group and the grenadier group relied on the bridge to establish a position, and five spearhead detachments, armed with rifles and cat waists, searched for Tuqiao Town.

As soon as he saw the posture of the Japanese army, Zhou Kaidong knew that today's battle was not easy to fight, and the little devil was too cautious!

Fortunately, Zhou Kaidong and Chen Qicai have rich experience in actual combat, and they know that no matter what kind of troops they are, it is necessary to send sharp soldiers to search before the attack, and this has been considered when deploying the battle plan just now. The old one, let go of the top soldiers and hit the main force of the Japanese reinforcements!

Just as the devil's spearhead began to move, in the dark night, the little devil on the other side of the river set up a Type 92 infantry gun, and two heavy machine guns also established a position across the river, ready to cover the infantry attack.

The five devil soldiers were frightened and touched the west end of the town, and used flashlights to shine indiscriminately into the town, and finally saw the courtyard of the Japanese stronghold, and also saw the plaster flag still floating on the turret, so they used the flashlight to shine on the other side of the Mache River and notified the follow-up troops to follow up.

The little devil who received the signal began to act, and the car lights were all turned on, illuminating the other side of the river, and the plaster flag still fluttering on the running stairs was extremely dazzling.

Immediately afterwards, two teams of little devils, one after the other, ran across the Maji River Bridge, leaving one team to occupy a position at the bridgehead, and the other team to touch the town.

Zhou Kaidong was looking forward to the reinforcements of the little devils all crossing the bridge, but he didn't expect the Japanese army to be so cunning, and only crossed the river with two squads of about 100 people. But he couldn't afford to wait, because if he let a squad of devils enter the town and launch an attack formation, with a squad behind to support, and there were infantry guns and heavy machine guns on the other side of the river to cover them, it would be impossible for the Wudi Independent Regiment to win, and the casualties would definitely be very large. That, the department conformed to the operational guiding ideology of detachment commander Xiao Siming.

Two squads are two squads, anyway, what you eat in your mouth is the dish!

Zhou Kaidong and Chen Qicai glanced at each other and decisively gave the order to fire!

In an instant, the light and heavy machine guns, mortars, rifles, and pistols on the ambush position of the Wudi Independent Regiment all opened fire, and the bullets chirped and flew towards the little devil.

The first to be unlucky were actually those five devil soldiers!

After sending back the signal to the other side of the Maji River with a flashlight, the devil soldiers entered the courtyard of the Japanese stronghold at Tuqiao with their waists and guns in hand. On such a dark night, the little devil flashlight, the target is too obvious, the soldiers of the Wudi Independent Regiment guarding the yard are not good at marksmanship, and the rows of guns passed, and the five little devils definitely couldn't escape, their eyes were full of surprise, and they fell to the ground and died!

Then the unlucky one was the devil squad that came to the town.

There is a road leading to the town, and more than 50 people from this devil squad are walking on this road. Moreover, the Maji River Highway Bridge is very close to the town, and the little devil has already received the follow-up signal from the sharp soldiers, so he only needs to run fast and enter the town to seize the position. Therefore, the little devil moved quickly, almost running to the entrance of the town at the west end of Tuqiao Town.

The devil runs fast, not as fast as the bullets of the Eighth Route Army. Just after Zhou Kaidong gave the order to open fire, in the darkness before dawn, countless rays of light suddenly appeared that pierced the darkness, which were drawn by the flight of bullets.

One ray of light rushed towards the devil squad that rushed to the entrance of the town, and suddenly blood flowers bloomed. The lucky little devils can still let out a wail before they die, and most of the little devils don't even scream, and they die directly under such a dense rain of bullets.

The devil squad and the machine gun team and grenadiers of the spear squad who stayed at the head of the Maji River Highway Bridge were also unlucky!

After all, there are more than 1,000 people in the Wudi Independent Regiment, so many people are firing at the same time, dealing with just two devil squads, and there are light and heavy machine guns and mortars, the little devils must not have the slightest power to fight back. Even if the combat effectiveness of the Wudi Independent Regiment is low, most of the soldiers will not be able to hit the target, but this is to concentrate the whole regiment to ambush, the firepower is naturally strong, and the blind cat will definitely be able to meet the dead mice, not to mention that the twelve cars of the little devils are lined up on the other side of the river, and the lights illuminate the night sky brightly, and the little devils on the east bank of the Maji River are so clearly?

The shooting did not last long, the riflemen fired only two shots each, and the commanders at all levels gave the order to stop firing. Because the devil team that rushed to the town and the devil team at the bridgehead were all shrouded in the firepower of the Wudi Independent Regiment, they should have all been wiped out. Even if there were alive, they were crushed by the corpses, and the fighters left their positions to pick up with bayonets, which could not be found.

Under the bright headlights, the blood flowing on the highway and on the land at the head of the bridge is so dazzling!

The devil officer on the other side of the river must have witnessed this bloody scene with his own eyes, and the headlights of the devil's car on the other side of the river were all extinguished in an instant!

Immediately afterwards, the Japanese infantry artillery opened fire, and the shell flew into the courtyard of the Japanese stronghold in Tuqiao with a strange cry and exploded.

The three heavy machine guns of the Wudi Independent Regiment were all deployed in the pillboxes of the Japanese stronghold, which could not only block the bridgehead, but also block the river. Just now, these three heavy machine guns were the nightmare of the little devils left at the bridgehead. Therefore, the devil's infantry artillery sent the first test shell directly into the courtyard of the devil's stronghold! (To be continued.) )