Chapter 159 Crossing Pinghan Road at Night
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The current 115th Division's eastward advance brigade is truly from all corners of the world. Among the cadres and soldiers, there are veteran Red Army, the nationalist army rescued in Yuxian, those recruited in Yuxian and Shouyang, and the defeated troops, captured bandits, and conscripted Red Gun Society congregations that were reorganized in the Xingxi area this time. Especially when speaking, most of the cadres have Jiangxi accents, Fujian accents, Hunan accents, and Sichuan accents, while the soldiers have Qin, Jin, Sichuan, Henan, Hunan, Hubei, Hebei, Heiji, and Liao, and all provinces have accents. This mouth speaks, in a southern and northern tone, amusing the dead!
During the Republic of China, transportation was still backward, and there was little movement of people. Many people have never been out of their district or county in their lives. Even these soldiers, who traveled from south to north and saw a lot of knowledge, still couldn't understand the dialects of some places.
No, as soon as the grievance meeting was held, the hearts of the soldiers were opened, and they cried and scolded while talking, and the characteristics of dialects in various places were reflected. The soldiers from the Northeast scolded the commander who was not resisting the lives of the people and was Malabar, the soldiers from Hunan scolded the chief and the district chief who arrested their strong men as Wang Ba Gai Di, and the soldiers from Henan said **** Bang'er, and the soldiers from Shaanxi opened their mouths and closed their mouths were all "Russian", which sounded ridiculous, but it was really difficult to communicate.
The forcibly reorganized army is very complicated to train. Because these people are not like those innocent soldiers recruited in Yuxian County, when the Eighth Road is to fight devils, they are all routs of various troops, poor discipline, some of them veterans don't know how many bad things they have done!
Then again, these defeated soldiers naturally have no combat effectiveness when they disperse, but after all, they are veterans who have experienced a hundred battles, as long as they really change their minds and fight devils wholeheartedly, their combat effectiveness is much stronger than that of new recruits!
Ten recruits can't stand up to two veterans!
This is the fundamental reason why Xiao Siming would rather march east a few days later to train these routed troops.
The cadres of the fourth, fifth, and sixth battalions are all very good, and they are all deployed from the cadres brought by Wang Lushui and Huang Hua. The squad leaders are all graduates of Qingyang Step School, and they are all low-profile. However, cadres are in the minority after all, and if we do not completely change the thinking of these soldiers who have been reorganized from the defeated army, it will not work and will be very dangerous to rely solely on the management and guidance of cadres.
This is a war era of life and death, and the danger does not only come from the enemy in front of you, but also from the death of a black gun in the back!
These cadres are all the elites of our army who have gone through the Long March, and they can't afford to lose!
If the grievance campaign can really achieve miraculous results, these defeated soldiers will be reborn, and the combat effectiveness of the fourth, fifth, and sixth battalions can be imagined!
This matter is in a hurry, it's all water milling!
Fortunately, the Grievance Appeal Movement is a magic weapon for ideological and political work that has been proven by practice in history.
It was not until 21 March that the training of the fourth, fifth, and sixth battalions came to an end. Xiao Siming immediately ordered to go east!
When the enemy was met in the mountain behind the Tibetan Mountain Temple, it was only a wounded squad, but now it is about to cross the Pinghan Road, and the eastward advance brigade has become a large regiment with infantry, artillery, cavalry, engineering, and baggage, with a total strength of 3,000 people!
In this case, Xiao Siming and Wang Lushui naturally saw it in their eyes and were happy in their hearts, and they were full of spirit!
Wang Quanyou's reconnaissance company had already been scattered, and part of it had already crossed Pinghan Road.
Due to the increase in the strength of nearly 800 troops in three new battalions and the capture of a number of mules and horses of rout soldiers and bandits, the pressure on baggage transportation has been reduced. Xiao Siming's jade lion horse and Wang Lushui's jujube red horse no longer need to be used as pack horses, and the two of them stepped on the night, rode on horseback, and led the troops to leave Longquan Temple and go to Pinghan Road.
At this time, although the Japanese army also paid attention to the garrison of the railway line, compared with the later situation of digging blockade ditches and dense pillboxes, the garrison was too lax.
Before the Japanese invaded China, they certainly did not expect that the Red Army led by the Communist Party, whose strength was negligible in their eyes, would create anti-Japanese base areas behind enemy lines in their occupied areas after it was reorganized into the Eighth Route Army, and it also developed vigorously and gradually grew in strength, stumbling on the legs of their frantic attack and plunging them into the quagmire of the war of aggression against China!
Although the Japanese army has launched an eight-way siege of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei border area, the first siege of the northwestern base area of Shanxi, and a six-way attack on the southeastern base area of Shanxi, and plans to launch a nine-way siege of the southeastern base area of Shanxi Province soon, they have not really regarded the Eighth Route Army as a strategic opponent, and their eyes are still fixed on the main force of the Nationalist Army, and their plot is to encircle and annihilate the main force of the Nationalist Army and attack important cities of strategic significance.
In fact, at this time, the Eighth Route Army was indeed very weak, although since the north to resist Japan, the ambush battles fought were more beautiful than one another, and the troops were also rapidly expanded, but the total strength was still limited, the equipment was also poor, not to mention the logistics supply, there was no strength to confront the Japanese army head-on, and it was indeed not possible to rise to the point of being the opponent of the Japanese army at the strategic level for the time being.
Xiao Siming's department is an exception, it has won many battles, captured a lot, the troops are well equipped with weapons and equipment, ammunition is sufficient, there is no shortage of money, and the conditions are much better. The other main forces of the Eighth Route Army were a little better, but those newly formed troops were much more difficult, many soldiers had a variety of guns, and a regiment did not necessarily have a heavy machine gun, let alone any artillery!
However, as time passed, the Eighth Route Army gradually developed and expanded, and the Japanese army could no longer ignore the strategic rival status of the Eighth Route Army.
In fact, it is not to blame that the Japanese army did not pay enough attention to the Eighth Route Army. The Japanese are so meticulous in their work, and in the vast North China, where there is a small river and a small road, which are clearly marked on the combat map of the Japanese army, how could they ignore the Eighth Route Army? Didn't you see that as soon as the Battle of Taiyuan ended, the little devil carried out an eight-way siege on the Jin-Cha-Ji border area that had just been announced?
The reason why the Japanese army did not attach importance to the base area behind the enemy line of the Eighth Route Army at this time was that in the eyes of the Japanese army, North China had already become their occupation area, that is, their rear. The Chinese army has been expelled from North China, leaving only the Central Army and the Jin Sui Army in Shanxi retreating to the mountains, all of which are in a remote corner and pose no threat to the Japanese army. In their perceptions, they did not believe that the Eighth Route Army would be able to establish a base in the areas they occupied. As long as they achieve their overall strategic goal and turn back to sweep up the heavy troops, the base areas of the Eighth Route Army will naturally disappear.
The little devil didn't understand that the base areas behind enemy lines of the Eighth Route Army were to be built on the hearts of the people in the occupied areas. That's something that no force can break!
At this time, the Pinghan Railway can only reach Anyang and Xinxiang, and the passenger and freight transportation are not as busy as in the past. In addition, the Japanese army has controlled the important strategic points north of the Yellow River, and the pacification operation is nearing the end, and the military transportation task is not heavy, and the Pinghan Road at night is particularly quiet.
Since the formation of the leadership team of the Eastward Advance Brigade, the burden on Xiao Siming's shoulders has been lightened a lot. Like tonight's passing operation, when it was left in the independent battalion, Xiao Siming had to rush to the forefront, from reconnaissance to firepower allocation and troop deployment, he had to do it himself, and he couldn't think about it at all. Now with Wang Lushui, Huang Hua, Hu Qingyun, and Huo Cheng, it will be very different. The entire battle plan was formulated by Hu Qingyun and the staff office, and the former enemy command was in charge of the deputy captain Huang Hua, Xiao Siming and Wang Lushui were the last to leave Longquan Temple, and before leaving, they also went to the village to say goodbye to the villagers and the monks in Longquan Temple!
At 12 o'clock in the night, Xiao Siming and Wang Lushui rushed to the vicinity of Dengzhuang in the southwest of Xingtai County, and met Huang Hua and Hu Qingyun, who had already arrived here.
Huang Hua said that according to the reconnaissance, there is no change in the enemy situation on the Pinghan Road, and it is possible to pass according to the battle plan!
Xiao Siming looked up at the beautiful night and sighed: "The night in the North China Plain is so beautiful!" ”
Wang Lushui, Huang Hua, Hu Qingyun, and Huo Cheng didn't know that Xiao Siming was a soul traverser, and they didn't know what kind of nerves he was talking about, what were he talking about!
When I arrived here, it was not far from the Shijiazhuang Army Command Academy that Xiao Siming had studied before his soul crossed. If you stay in front of the soul crossing, just get on the bus casually, and it won't take long to rush to Shijiazhuang to return to your alma mater and visit again. It's a pity that a bolt of lightning changed Xiao Siming's fate! Standing under this vast and deep night sky, Xiao Siming sighed in his heart, and then let out a sigh.
Wang Lushui and they were all in the North China Plain for the first time, but unfortunately this was a railway line occupied by the Japanese army, and they were not in the mood to enjoy the magnificent night view of the plain at all.
Seeing that no one was paying attention to him, Xiao Siming smiled self-deprecatingly, and then ordered: "Execute according to the battle plan!" Captain Huang controlled the first and fourth battalions and acted as the vanguard of the whole army, and Chief of Staff Hu controlled the second and fifth battalions to defend to the south and monitor the Japanese strongholds; I led the 3rd and 6th battalions to the north for defense, and the political commissar led the artillery battalion, heavy machine gun battalion, baggage battalion, engineer battalion, recruit battalion, and units directly under the brigade to pass by, and the cavalry company was behind. The order of passage of each unit is artillery battalion, baggage battalion, recruit battalion, heavy machine gun battalion, engineer battalion, and department directly under the brigade. After the troops passed, I led the cavalry company to the rear of the palace, and the whole army advanced in the direction of Nangong! Let's get started! ”
This plan has long been determined in the battle plan, Xiao Siming just repeated it and gave an order!
After the order was issued, several leaders turned over and went their separate ways.
The reason why it was necessary to pass through the Pinghan Road in a fighting posture was because the eastward advance brigade had many men and horses and a lot of baggage, and no matter how concealed it was, it might not be able to hide it from the eyes of the Japanese army.
When they arrived at the side of Pinghan Road, Xiao Siming found that Wang Quanyou's reconnaissance intelligence was not a mistake, and the Japanese strongholds at this time were far apart, and there were five or six miles between the two strongholds. With such a big gap, it is no wonder that Sun Jixian and Chen Zaidao were able to calmly cross the Pinghan Road to the South Hebei Plain.
The little devils can't help it, their troops are all in the Shanxi battlefield and the Shandong battlefield, and the railway garrison is extremely weak, and it is impossible to shorten the distance between the strongholds.
The second battalion with the fifth battalion, the third battalion with the sixth battalion, one south and one north to establish a position, Huang Hua led the first battalion, the fourth battalion lay in hiding by the railway, and waited until a coal train rumbled, then saw Huang Hua wave his hand, Qiu Wei and Yuan Gang took the first battalion to touch the railway, quietly crossed the Pinghan Road.
The fourth battalion followed, passing by.
When crossing the Pinghan Road, the 1st and 4th Battalions began to set up artillery and machine guns, ready to fight at any time and cover the passage of the troops behind.
As soon as Wang Lushui saw that the 1st and 4th Battalions had passed smoothly, he immediately ordered the artillery battalion to move.
Sports cars and ammunition trucks, under the traction of pack horses, began to pass through Pinghan Road.
They were followed by rubber-tyred carts and pack horses of the baggage battalion.
The night is really the world of the Eighth Route Army!
It is really a miracle that such a huge team passed by, and the devil strongholds at the north and south ends were not discovered!
Xiao Siming originally planned to fight on Pinghan Road, but seeing that the transportation on Pinghan Road was not too busy and there was no oil and water, he gave up his idea when formulating the battle plan and adopted the method of concealing the road.
After the entire brigade was over, the second and fifth battalions, the third battalion and the sixth battalion also withdrew from the position and crossed the road, Xiao Siming got on his own jade lion horse and shouted "Great Plains, I'm coming", the horse whip pointed to the east, and led the cavalry company to roar, like a whirlwind, crossed the Pinghan Road! (To be continued.) )