Chapter 256: A Drum Down (5)

The artillery is in full swing, not to mention the infantry who broke through the city!

This was the first battle after the expansion of the eastward advance detachment, and the cadres and soldiers of the three main regiments were all screaming, bent on showing the prestige of their main regiment. In this city www.biquge.info all the troops were launched, and tanks and artillery participated in the battle, and the offensive was particularly fierce!

During the Pingxingguan ambush, Qiu Wei was the platoon commander of the third battalion of the 685th Regiment of the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army. After the Tibetan Mountain Temple received the enemy, Wang Lushui and Xiao Siming temporarily mixed the wounded squad with a platoon of the guerrillas led by Chen Yisheng, and Qiu Wei was the leader of the first rifle squad. How long has it been, Qiu Wei has changed from a company-level cadre during the Red Army period and a platoon commander during the reorganization of the Eighth Route Army to the commander of a regiment of the 115th Division's eastward advance detachment!

At this time, it was the time of the large-scale expansion of the Eighth Route Army, and the troops were developing like a snowball, and there was a shortage of cadres everywhere, so the promotion was naturally very fast. However, like Qiu Wei, the platoon commander at the time of the reorganization of the Eighth Route Army, was promoted to the commander of the main regiment within less than a year of going north to resist Japan, that is indeed an anomaly, and it can be called a rocket promotion.

Not only Qiu Wei, but also the cadres of the entire eastward advance detachment were promoted quickly. The reason is very simple, this unit is developed on the basis of the wounded squad of the 343 Brigade of the 115th Division and the 685th Regiment, and it is a new unit in our army.

The problem is that the cadres of the eastward advance detachment all came up step by step by virtue of their military exploits, which makes people have to be convinced, and there is nothing to say!

Not only Qiu Wei, but also Cao Ming'an, the commander of the second regiment, Wang Meng, the commander of the third regiment, and all of them were platoon commanders when the Eighth Route Army was reorganized, and they all followed Xiao Siming and Wang Lushui all the way to fight.

It stands to reason that these three people have very little qualifications, and they are a bit tender as the head of the main regiment. However, starting from the independent battalion, these three people were all company commanders, who were stubborn and stubborn, and fought from the Tibetan Mountain Temple to the Taiyuan Airport and all the way to the Jilu border.

During the war years, it was absolutely necessary to look at the cadres with war performance. Winning battles is more important than anything else! Therefore, when Xiao Siming proposed that the commander of the first battalion, Qiu Wei, be the commander of the first battalion, Cao Ming'an, the commander of the second battalion, should be the commander of the second regiment, and Wang Meng, the commander of the third battalion, should be the commander of the third regiment, not only Wang Lushui and Huang Hua supported it, but even the division headquarters, the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army, and the headquarters of Yan'an did not raise any objections, and no one thought that the three of them were underqualified.

This is mainly because the results of the advance brigade and the independent battalion, the predecessors of the eastward advance detachment, are too brilliant!

Of course, Qiu Wei, Cao Ming'an, Wang Meng, including those cadres who came out of the Tibetan Mountain Temple, and even the cadres who were transferred to the independent battalion before and after, all knew in their hearts that all of this was because of Xiao Siming's rise. Without Xiao Siming, it is difficult to say whether the cadres and soldiers who are recuperating in the hidden cave behind the Tibetan Mountain Shrine can escape the search of the Japanese army, maybe they will die on the same day, where can they still be regiment-level cadres, battalion-level, and company-level cadres!

After walking the iron will tempered by the 25,000-mile Long March, and then meeting the unpredictable and unpredictable Xiao Siming, the cadres of the eastward advance detachment can't grow faster!

Before attacking Texas, Qiu Wei shouted at the meeting of the cadres of the whole regiment, shouting loudly that Dezhou City was a ball of whetstones! Whether the knives in the hands of Commander Xiao and Political Commissar Wang are sharp enough, whether they are worthy of being the first-class main force of our army on the Hebei-Shandong border, and whether they can be comparable to the three tigers of the Central Red Army depends on whether the various units are interspersed quickly, whether the division of the Japanese army is powerful, whether the attack points are fierce, accurate, and ruthless, and whether the elimination of the Japanese puppet army is clean and neat!

Qiu Wei shouted: "The whole regiment is on its own, all of them are engaged in battle, there are enough bullets, enough grenades, light and heavy machine guns, 92 infantry guns, and grenadiers are all in battle, and when they encounter the resistance of the Japanese army, they use shells, grenades, and bullets to talk to them, fully develop their firepower, and destroy the will of the Japanese puppet army to resist at the first time, let them cry for their fathers and mothers, pee their pants, scramble to seize the road and flee, and destroy them in the rout!" ”

It's nothing, the point is that Qiu Wei's last words are too annoying! He went so far as to say at a cadre meeting that the first regiment was the main attack and protagonist in the attack on Texas, and the second and third regiments played a coordinating and assisting role. Railway stations, railway station freight yards, canal wharves, warehouses, important points of the Japanese garrison headquarters in Texas and Japanese barracks must be captured by a regiment!

I don't know how to let Cao Ming'an, the head of the second regiment, and Wang Meng, the head of the third regiment, know this.

Cao Mingan went so far as to say at the cadre meeting that the first regiment is indeed strong in combat, but the second regiment is not weak either! To fight the second regiment of Texas, we have to compete with the first regiment to see who fights better, attacks more fiercely, and achieves greater results! Dezhou City is the touchstone for the second regiment to test the effect of Leling's training, if it is not good, Lao Tzu will ask to be removed from the position of regiment commander and reappointed as deputy regiment commander!

Wang Meng's temper was hot, which made Qiu Wei's words irritate, and said at the cadre meeting, the first regiment, the second regiment, and the third regiment, which is the first regiment of the Eighth Route Army on the Hebei-Lu border, no one counts, it has to be tested in the battle! Although the number of the third regiment is behind, the record must rank first in the whole detachment! The Japanese puppet army in Texas is a stinky and hard toilet stone, and the hammer of the three regiments will be smashed to smash it at once!

The three regiment commanders are all more energetic, and the battalions and companies below are naturally competing to see who is the first to attack Dezhou City, the fastest to penetrate, the most Japanese puppet army, and the most captured!

A regiment entered the city from the east gate of Texas City, and as soon as it entered the city, it began. The three tanks and one armored vehicle under the command of the first regiment of the armored battalion were all assigned to the first battalion, and the three infantry companies and fire support companies of the first battalion were guided along the main road in Texas City and directly to the railway station. The 2nd Battalion, the 3rd Battalion, and the troops directly under the regiment, with companies and platoons as units, under the leadership of scouts and guides, quickly interspersed in the city of Dezhou to divide the barracks of the Japanese puppet army and occupy various key points.

The first group moves fast, and the second group moves not slowly!

The second regiment entered the city from the north gate along the railway road, which was the closest to the railway station.

The two tanks and one armored vehicle under the command of the 1st Battalion of the 2nd Regiment also rushed to the railway station.

The Texas Railway Station is the number one target for the capture of Texas, and it is necessary to control the station and freight yard as quickly as possible to prevent the Japanese puppet military dogs from jumping over the wall to detonate ammunition and ignite gasoline and diesel barrels.

In the station, Wang Quanyou was commanding the second platoon of the reconnaissance company, the second platoon, and the third platoon to fight fiercely!

After the Japanese occupied Dezhou, at the beginning, the 10th Division sent troops to be responsible for the garrison of Dezhou Station. Later, the North China Front Army established the Ministry of Railways, and the railway garrison was basically handed over to the Japanese Railway Force. It's just that the Japanese railway troops are insufficient, and they still need the cooperation of field troops.

A small squad of the Japanese railway garrison was stationed at the Texas station in peacetime.

After the Japanese army planned to launch the Battle of Xuzhou, because of the importance of the Dezhou Railway Station, the Japanese army strengthened the garrison of the Dezhou Railway Station and increased an anti-aircraft artillery squadron and an anti-aircraft machine gun squadron to prevent the Chinese Air Force from coming to bomb the air.

These units are specially stationed at the Texas Station, and do not belong to the newly transferred Fourth and Fifth Brigades of the Railway Independent Brigade of the Japanese Army Texas Garrison Command.

Wang Quanyou: After they started at the Dezhou Railway Station, the Japanese army was alarmed, whether it was the garrison team stationed at the station, or the reinforced anti-aircraft artillery squadron and anti-aircraft machine gun squadron, they all threw themselves into the battle for the platform, desperately trying to rush into the platform, eliminate the Eighth Route Army that attacked and occupied the platform, regain control of the platform, and ensure the safety of materials.

Fortunately, the Japanese troops were also afraid of detonating ammunition and igniting gasoline and diesel barrels, and the artillery on duty at the anti-aircraft gun positions and the machine gunners on duty at the anti-aircraft machine gun positions did not dare to suppress the Eighth Route Army on the platform with firepower. Otherwise, the two reconnaissance platoons led by Wang Quanyou would have been unable to withstand it a long time ago.

However, the Japanese army was afraid that the detonation of ammunition and ignition of gasoline barrels and diesel barrels were temporary, and once they realized that the general trend had gone, they would definitely open artillery to detonate the ammunition on the platform and in the freight yard, and burn the jade of the Eighth Route Army that captured the platform!

It's all about time!

According to the battle plan, the first target of the 1st Regiment, 1st Battalion, 1st Company, and 1st Battalion and 1st Company of the 2nd Regiment, which rushed to the railway station, was not the little devil who was trying to attack the platform, but the Japanese air defense position, and seized the antiaircraft guns and antiaircraft machine guns that threatened the safety of the platform.

The first regiment and one battalion were outflanked from south to north, and the second regiment and one battalion attacked from north to south, and the headlights of five tanks and two armored vehicles, like two sharp swords, pierced the anti-aircraft artillery and anti-aircraft machine gun positions of the Japanese army.

At this time, the Japanese army did not know that anti-aircraft guns could also fight tanks, and there was no such training subject in the infantry drill code!

Seeing the bright headlights coming over, the officers and men on duty of the Japanese troops on duty at the anti-aircraft artillery positions and anti-aircraft machine gun positions were all dumbfounded, and they never imagined that the Eighth Route Army would drive tanks and armored vehicles to carry out the attack!

The little devil was already stunned at this time, and he would no longer regard the tanks and armored vehicles of the Eighth Route Army as the combat vehicles and armored vehicles of the Japanese reinforcements.

The devil anti-aircraft artillerymen were in a hurry, those with guns picked up their guns and began to shoot, and those without guns even rushed with grenades in an attempt to blow up the tank!

The six high-level dual-purpose machine guns on the Japanese anti-aircraft machine gun position all opened fire, and the bullets were fired like a wind at the attacking tanks, opening up the blockade!

Although the little devil does not know how to use anti-aircraft guns to hit tanks now, after a long time, it is difficult to guarantee that no little devil will jump off the wall in a hurry and try to hit tanks with high-level dual-purpose guns. Moreover, the Japanese army's Gaoping dual-purpose machine gun has a long range and great power, so it may not be able to deal with tanks, but it may not be too much of a problem to deal with thinly armored vehicles.

The Eighth Route Army didn't give the little devil this opportunity, and the tankmen who had just completed the maiden station in Yuanqiao replied to the Japanese army that it was the tank guns on the tank!

I saw that the tank's buttocks shook, and a shell was discharged, and with a boom, the shell fell in front of the Japanese anti-aircraft machine gun position.

This was a test shot, and after the observer reported the modified coordinate data, the tank gun was accurate.

Five tanks and five tank guns, plus the infantry guns of a regiment and a battalion of fire support companies, roared in unison, and immediately shrouded the Japanese anti-aircraft artillery positions and anti-aircraft machine gun positions in smoke. (To be continued.) )