Chapter 773: Capture Lingbi

Since the battles of Youji and Yinji, the First Brigade and the New First Brigade have been in full swing in northeast Anhui, sweeping through the northeast of Anhui like the autumn wind sweeping away the leaves.

Historically, after the Japanese army occupied northeastern Anhui, due to the lack of troops, there were very few troops stationed in various counties and towns. Like Wuhe County, the Japanese army was stationed in only one squad, 13 people, and later increased, at the most to 44 people in 1944. At that time, as soon as the Japanese artillery sounded, the county magistrate and the standing army immediately fled, and the Japanese army relied on traitors like Lei Jiesan and Liu Futing to maintain local rule. In addition, the contradictions between the local forces with Gui backgrounds represented by Sheng Zijin and Xu Zhiyuan made their own people fight their own people every day, which made the Japanese army gloat and watch. When the New Fourth Army of the Eighth Route Army went to northeast Anhui to carry out activities, Sheng Zijin cooperated with the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army to resist Japan, and Xu Zhiyuan and others attacked the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army again.

Now and unlike in history, because the instructors of the Eighth Route Army went south twice, the little devils also had to increase their troops in the northeast of Anhui and strengthen the local garrison. Each county basically has a garrison the size of a brigade. In important counties, there are also Japanese field troops stationed. Moreover, the Japanese army also learned well, and worked hard to win over and induce surrender, divided and disintegrated all kinds of civilian anti-Japanese forces, and cultivated traitor forces. In this way, the Eighth Route Army swept through the northeast of Anhui, and the blades were everywhere, not only to kill the heads of the little devils, but also to eliminate those traitors.

There is another point, that is, the instructor of the Eighth Route Army is too prosperous and prestigious, and Xu Zhiyuan and others do not dare to cause trouble against the main force of the Eighth Route Army. It is Sheng Zijin's department, because there are southbound troops of the Eighth Route Army in northeast Anhui, and there is no matter in history that in order to support Sheng Zijin's anti-Japanese war, the two local armed forces of our party were incorporated into Shengzijin's department, and his strength itself is not as strong as in history, and there are only 1,000 local armed forces in the Communist Party.

After the first group left Yin Ji, they went straight to Yang Tuan's stronghold. As a result, there was only about one squad of puppet soldiers and a few devils left in Yang Tuan's stronghold, and when they saw the fierce attack of the Eighth Route Army, they left and fled to Lingbi County. Killed by the Eighth Route Army, captured prisoners.

When the first regiment rushed to Lingbi County, the Japanese puppet army defending the city was already in full array. It turned out that as soon as Yamada Muraki's farewell telegram was fired, the little devil in Lingbi City immediately knew that he was in the Eighth Route Army, and the captain of the Lingbi garrison, Kazuo Wada, immediately ordered to prepare for battle.

In fact, Kazuo Wada can retreat, because the garrison strength of Lingbi City is limited, only his garrison headquarters and the pseudo-Lingbi County garrison, his main forces are scattered in the strongholds of Lingbi's market towns, and the troops of the three strongholds of Hugou, Dalu, and Yang Tuan have become the guns of the Eighth Route Army, and they can not be counted. The field troops Yamada Brigade has been destroyed, what else can his Lingbi garrison do?

However, Kazuo Wada was a Japanese soldier and still had the spirit of bushido, and he was unwilling to abandon the city and flee in the name, and was determined to defend the city. Therefore, Kazuo Wada urgently ordered the devils from the strongholds around the county seat to concentrate on the county seat, and at the same time requested urgent reinforcements from the independent mixed 7th Brigade.

Of course, Kazuo Wada still had a trace of luck in his heart, that is, the Eighth Route Army would not come to attack Lingbi City. After all, it was a siege war, and many people would die in a fight, and the Eighth Route Army, which was good at sneak attacks and ambushes, would probably not come to fight a tough battle.

If Kazuo Wada knew that it was the first brigade and the first regiment that attacked Jinan City, he didn't know if there was still the spirit of bushido that dared to defend the city.

There is another layer of Hetian who didn't expect it, that is, it was only a regiment of the Eighth Route Army that killed Lingbi City, and now two brigades of the Eighth Route Army are acting at the same time, not only his Lingbi City needs reinforcements, but other places are the same. The devils in Suxian County guarded the railway line motionless, for fear that the Eighth Route Army would cut off the railway line again. The devils of Sixian and Wuhe are far apart, and they also have to think about how to deal with the sudden attack of the Eighth Route Army, and they have no time to take care of themselves.

But in any case, thanks to Yamada Muraki's farewell message, Kazuo Wada finally withdrew a squadron of troops before the Eighth Route Army arrived. Now, Hotan wants to rely on this squadron of Japanese troops and the pseudo-Lingbi County garrison of four or five hundred people to hold the county seat.

At this time, due to the promotion of Shunroku Hahata to the post of land minister, the post of commander of the Central China Dispatch Army was temporarily vacant, and the chief of staff Kawabe Shozo was temporarily in charge, and the main force of the operation was the 11th Army under the command of Okamura Ninji. In this way, the matters concerning the operational scope of the Central China Dispatch Army are basically directly decided by the base camp. Under normal circumstances, there would be nothing, because places such as northern Jiangsu, central Jiangsu, and northeastern Anhui had already become the rear of the Japanese army, as long as the local garrison troops were guarded by divisions and the 11th Army was responsible for offensive combat missions, and the main forces were already far away from these areas anyway. However, the situation is different now, the southbound troops of the Eighth Route Army are going to become the princess of the iron fan and burrow into the stomach of the Japanese army, how can the little devil stand it!

Kazuo Wada never dreamed that the Eighth Route Army would come so quickly. As soon as he gathered his troops on the front foot, he didn't even have time to call the air force, and the Eighth Route Army taught a ball of rolling iron to cover up.

This Lingbi City, originally the Chu and Han Dynasty fought for the battle of Xiang Yu's military base, from the Song Dynasty to the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, only the Tucheng, and suffered many times of war damage. It was not until the Zhengde period of the Ming Dynasty that the brick and stone city wall was built. The most worthy thing in modern history is that on November 26, 1946, the Lingbi County People's Government was surrounded by the Feng Ministry of Public Security, and all members died heroically.

The Eighth Route Army had already arrived outside the city, and the city was in chaos. Needless to say, the Japanese puppet army all went to the city wall. The common people also knew that there was going to be a war, and they were looking forward to the Eighth Route Army entering the city in order to eliminate these harmful devils and traitors. Merchants closed their doors in a panic for fear of losing their property. However, the families of those traitors were in a hurry to clean up and prepare to flee with the little devils in case the Eighth Route Army broke the city.

Zhang Zibo, the governor of the pseudo-Lingbi County Government, had already panicked at this time, and led the staff of the county government and his wife and children to the city gate, wanting to escape from the city. As a result, he was blocked by the Japanese army at the gate of the city and escorted to Kazuo Wada's headquarters.

What Kazuo Wada was most afraid of at this time was that the morale of the army would be shaken, because the Japanese army was too small and had to rely on the puppet army to defend the city. If Zhang Zibo was allowed to escape from the city with the people of the county government, the puppet soldiers would be in an uproar if they knew about it, and maybe as soon as the guns of the Eighth Route Army rang out, those puppet soldiers would mutiniate or flee. In either case, Kazuo Wada and his Japanese army with more than one squadron would be completely finished.

Kazuo Wada told Zhang Zibo with a smile that he had to believe in the combat effectiveness of the Imperial Japanese Army, and such a strong city wall would not be able to be broken by the Eighth Road no matter what. He will immediately call in the aviation to come to help in the battle, and the reinforcements from Sixian, Suxian, and Wuhe will arrive at night at the latest, and they will definitely be able to gather and annihilate Tubalu under the city. Mr. Governor, please sit in silence at the headquarters and wait for the news of the victory of the Imperial Army.

After saying this, Kazuo Wada turned around and ordered the staff of the puppet county government to issue weapons, go up to the city wall to defend the city, dare to retreat, and kill him.

If things come to this, maybe Zhang Zibo can live a little longer. The problem is money. You said that this Uncle Zhang, run for your life, and brought three suitcases with you, which were filled with looted money, carried by the three guards who were closest to him.

Kazuo Wada ordered the staff of the county government to go to the city wall to garrison, and in the face of the bright bayonets of the Japanese army, Zhang Zibo's three guards had to put down their suitcases and obediently follow the Japanese army to the city wall. Zhang Zibo repeatedly begged Kazuo Wada to keep these three guards, but Kazuo Wada didn't talk to him at all and was busy calling to deploy the garrison. Zhang Zibo saw that it was not a play, so he and his aunt did it together, wanting to sneak away with the suitcase. This time, Kazuo Wada saw the doorway, stopped calling, walked over and snatched the suitcase, picked the lock and took a look, a suitcase contained gold bars and silver dollars, house deeds, and land deeds, a suitcase contained tobacco and soil, and a suitcase was full of banknotes, not only yen, military bills, but also the legal tender of the national government and the renminbi issued by the Eighth Route Army.

Kazuo Hetian changed his face, and immediately scolded Zhang Zibo for embezzling the property of the pseudo-Lingbi County Government, the government of Fornication and Tubalu, and his conscience was greatly broken, and he died and died.

After speaking, Kazuo Wada raised the command knife, and with two, he broke Zhang Zibo and his aunt into two pieces, and then tore off a sleeve from Zhang Zibo's body, wiped the blood stains on the knife, threw the dirty cloth on Zhang Zibo's body, and said yo Xi, and asked the guards to put away the three suitcases.

Looking at Lingbi City in front of him, Wang Dahu was suddenly proud in his heart. You know, this is the first time he has single-handedly commanded a battle to capture a county seat, and it was a strong attack.

The sturdy brick and stone city walls, the black holes in the city walls, these could not frighten Wang Dahu. He had a field artillery battalion under his command, more than a dozen tanks, and a regiment with infantry artillery, flying thunder artillery, and bazookas.

The only thing that made Wang Dahu regret was that the troops had to attack during the day, if only they could sneak attack at night, quietly touch into the city, one by one, how happy it would be to kill. It's a pity that the fighter plane should not be missed, and after a long time, I don't know what moths the Japanese army will give birth to!

The soldiers were very fast, Wang Dahu quickly made a deployment, concentrated all the artillery fire, and bombarded the north gate of Lingbi City, with the cooperation of the first battalion of tanks, the third battalion and the supplementary battalion made a feint attack at the west gate and the east gate, and the second battalion set up an ambush outside the south gate, waiting for the Japanese puppet army to escape from the south gate.

Wang Xinyun proposed that the first battalion might suffer too many casualties in the strong attack, and whether it was considered to be attacked by the supplementary battalion, and the first battalion set up an ambush at the south gate.

Wang Dahu glared at him and roared: "The division commander told me a long time ago that the main force is fought out, not habitually. Fight with casualties from any battalion. The first battalion is the elite of the elite of the whole army, and if they are allowed to go up, the casualties may be a little smaller. ”

Wang Xinyun agreed.

The preparation time for the siege operation was not long, because the Japanese garrison Yamada Brigade had been destroyed, and the Japanese puppet army outside Lingbi City was ordered to assemble in the city, which was equivalent to letting the Eighth Route Army attack the root of the city wall.

At three o'clock in the afternoon, the scorching sun shone the earth like a furnace, and the Japanese puppet army on the city wall watched the cannons of the Eighth Route Army raise their muzzles, and the tanks also formed a battle formation.

Wang Dahu's eyes lit up, staring at the north gate of Lingbi City, and shouted out the order to open the cannon.

At the time of the Lugou Bridge Incident, the Japanese army relied on their artillery and tanks to knock on the gates of the squadrons defending. Today, the feng shui is turning, and the soldiers of the Eighth Route Army are manipulating the sophisticated cannons and tanks produced by the Great Japanese Empire, and they are firing at Lingbi City, where the little devils are stationed.

First, one test shot was fired at each gun, and after adjusting the parameters, five salvos began.

At this moment, the sky shook, and more than a dozen field artillery and more than a dozen tank guns cooperated with the infantry guns and flying thunder cannons of the first regiment to start a fierce artillery bombardment of the north gate of Lingbi City and the city walls around the north gate.

Suddenly, the north gate tower first collapsed and the house collapsed, and the Japanese puppet soldiers who were waiting for the Eighth Route Army to launch a charge on the city tower showed their marksmanship, and they didn't even have time to let go of their farts, so they were drowned in the ruins. Immediately after that, gaps began to appear in the walls.

After receiving the report that the north gate was blown up, Kazuo Wada was taken aback, hurriedly got on a three-wheeled motorcycle and rushed to the north gate. How can the equipment be exactly the same as the elite Fifth Division, the Second Division, and the Sixth Division? Amaksu, the infantry of the Eighth Route Army has not yet attacked, and the troops guarding the north gate have suffered casualties to this extent, how can this battle be fought?

It wasn't until the tanks of the Eighth Route Army roared towards the moat and began to approach and accurately bombard, that Kazuo Wada realized what a stupid mistake he had made, the Eighth Route Army must be the main force of the Eighth Route Army to capture Jinan and Suxian, how can this Lingbi City be defended!

Kazuo Wada calmed down at this time, knelt down and kowtowed in the direction of the Japanese archipelago like pounding garlic, muttering to himself, not knowing what to say. Then he stood up and ordered the defenders of the east, west, and south gates to quickly reinforce the north gate, and he wanted to fight to the death with the Eighth Route Army.

The Japanese Lingbi garrison did not have heavy artillery, and the grenadiers were all attached to the squadrons, and the heavy firepower that Kazuo Wada could use was the grenadier canisters and heavy machine guns of this squadron that returned to the county seat. This kind of weapon must be deployed on the city wall, and as soon as the Eighth Route Army shelled, they were the preferred target, and they were bombed at the beginning, and they couldn't be counted on.

What Kazuo Wada regretted the most was that he didn't have time to blow up the bridge over the moat, allowing the Eighth Route Army to easily cross the moat.

This time, Kazuo Wada once again opened his eyes, the level of coordination of the Eighth Route Army's infantry and artillery was so high, the artillery was extending the shelling, the tanks covered the infantry, and the infantry protected the tanks to kill the north gate. The most terrifying thing is that the offensive formation of the infantry of the Eighth Route Army is very loose, and it does not give the Japanese puppet army a chance to develop its firepower and kill in a large area.

By the time the tanks and infantry of the Eighth Route Army crossed the moat, Kazuo Wada already knew his fate. However, he did not give up, brandished his sword, and commanded the Japanese puppet army to fill the gap in the city wall, trying to block the north gate and repel the first attack of the Eighth Route Army.

Although he knew that Lingbi City would be destroyed and he would die, Kazuo Wada wanted to let himself die with a bit of samurai spirit. It's just that this wish is difficult for him to fulfill.

After the Eighth Route Army crossed the moat, the infantry became an observer of artillery fire, constantly reporting the parameters of the artillery bombardment and guiding the artillery fire to strike accurately. In this way, the Japanese puppet army that was concentrated at the north gate by Kazuo Wada was miserable, and could only be cannon fodder. The Japanese army said that the little devils who escaped death under artillery fire kept shooting and throwing bombs on the dilapidated city wall, and their performance was remarkable. The reason why they became puppet soldiers was not to fight to the death with the Eighth Route Army, but to eat and spend money in the war years, and to bully the common people along the way. Seeing that the Eighth Route Army was about to attack, and their lives were not guaranteed, where could these puppet troops still be able to calm down, some people began to look for opportunities to slip away. At the beginning, the puppet army who crawled on the ground and pretended to be a dead dog and those who wanted to be deserters were still cautious, because they were afraid of being discovered by the Japanese army, and the little devils would never be soft on them. However, the artillery fire of the Eighth Route Army did not stop, and seeing that the tanks were rumbling and about to drive into the north gate, these puppet troops could no longer care about the bayonets and machine guns of the little devils, and began to flee in twos and threes.

As soon as Kazuo Wada found out that the puppet army had escaped, he was so angry that his eyes talked, and he kept scolding Baga, and ordered the machine gun to shoot these deserters. However, the number of little devils is small, and the number of puppet soldiers is large, they can't take care of it at all, as long as the puppet army escapes from the city wall and crosses the running road on the inside of the city wall, it will be safe. In this way, the surviving puppet army became a model for other puppet armies, and the defense line of the Japanese puppet army, which was already destroyed by the artillery fire of the Eighth Route Army, became more and more unformed.

The Eighth Route Army has entered the north gate.

After Li Shanzhu, commander of the 1st Battalion, entered the north gate, he immediately commanded the troops to attack the remnants of the enemy on the walls on both flanks in squad and platoon.

The tactical training of the 1st Battalion is a model for all combat units of the whole instructor, not to mention the equipment. With this attack, the remnants of the Japanese puppet army could not support it. They are all holding 38 big covers or Hanyang-made, where are the opponents of the 1st Battalion of Jiaoyi, which is armed with Bayi automatic rifles, Bayi machine guns, and bazookas?

The battle itself is to kill chickens with knives. The strong Jiao 1 Regiment faced a multi-garrison squadron of the Japanese army, plus hundreds of pseudo garrisons, it was simply a man who had practiced martial arts to fight a disabled person, not to mention that the 1 regiment had also strengthened field artillery and tanks?

In the end, Kazuo Wada could no longer support it, and no longer said anything about the spirit of bushido and the dignity of death, and fled to the south gate with the remnants of the defeated general. Because the east gate and west gate were withdrawn due to the withdrawal of troops, the third battalion of the Eighth Route Army and the supplementary battalion of the first regiment of the Eighth Route Army also broke through the door and attacked Lingbi City. Kazuo Wada had no way to escape, so he could only flee to the south gate. Of course, he did not forget to put Zhang Zibo's belongings in the pocket of his motorcycle.

If Kazuo Wada is allowed to escape from the city like this, then the first camp will not be a camp. As a result, Kazuo Wada was killed at the South City Gate, and the bullet hit him in the back of the head, and Bai Huahua's brain made the motorcycle more disgusting and disgusting.

Later, the commander and instructor of the second battalion were reluctant to Wang Dahu, saying that they had let them run away in a wrong way, and they didn't see a single devil hair. The next battle must be made by letting them attack, otherwise they will not be able to give an account to the warriors.

The sound of gunfire stopped, and the air in Lingbi City was still filled with the smell of gunpowder smoke and blood, and the desperate puppet army also stopped fleeing after the Eighth Route Army entered the city, raised their guns and surrendered, waiting to be dealt with.

Wang Dahu sent a telegram to Gao Yuan and Cheng Cuilin about the capture of Lingbi, and then sent a telegram to the company remaining in Youji, asking them to immediately convey to Dai Shangyi and immediately lead the county party committee and county brigade to Lingbi County, accept the captured puppet army, and expand the county brigade.

Gao Yuan and Cheng Cuilin called back and instructed Wang Dahu and Wang Xinyun to leave a supplementary battalion to guard Lingbi, help the Lingbi County Party Committee to form a county and district army, and prepare to advance in the direction of Wuhe after resting and recuperating, and assist the Third Regiment to capture Wuhe.

By the time Wang Dahu and Wang Xinyun walked into Lingbi County, the streets of the county town were already lively, and every household poured into the streets to welcome the Eighth Route Army into the city.

Wang Dahu was worried about the Japanese army's retaliation for the bombing, so he ordered the soldiers to persuade the villagers to disperse and congratulate them on the streets at night.

At the garrison headquarters of Kazuo Hetian, Wang Dahu saw the bodies of Zhang Zibo and his wife, and then looked at the property seized from the pocket of Kazuo Hetian's motorcycle, Wang Dahu said disdainfully: "This dog traitor really verifies the old saying, people die for money, and birds die for food." This guy became a traitor in order to make money, and finally died in the hands of devils, which can be regarded as unpleasant retribution! ”

Wang Xinyun was busy organizing the troops to write slogans and paste slogans, and when he heard this, he replied: "As long as he is a traitor, no matter whether he is an official, a big or small official, no matter how good he says, he is all for money and power in his bones." Without these three words, there would be no Wang Jingwei's defection to the enemy. You see what he said nicely, what he said peacefully saved the country, and what he said, in fact, it was all a lie, it was nothing more than thinking about the emperor's addiction. If there is no such thought, why would Wang Jingwei be a traitor. It's not just traitors, but also those in our team who are not strong-willed, and the reason why they left the team and escaped is not because the discipline of the Eighth Route Army is too strict and the life is hard? ”

As soon as Wang Dahu heard it, he knew that Wang Xinyun's words were meaningful. Far away is the departure of Zhou Kun, chief of staff of the 115th Division. This incident happened last year, and the General Headquarters issued a special circular for this purpose, saying that Zhou Kun had left with 30,000 yuan in military expenses, and that all units should strengthen education and put an end to such a phenomenon. Recently, Yang Kezhi, the head of the Seventh Regiment of the Fourth Detachment of the New Fourth Army, and Cao Yufu, the deputy head of the New Fourth Army, defected, and the root cause was the word money.

The corners of Wang Dahu's mouth twitched: "A bunch of rat-eyed guys!" ”

Wang Xinyun also smiled: "It is indeed a bunch of short-sighted guys. When we are victorious in the future, when we judge Wang Jingwei and the like, I guess he will regret all his intestines! ”

Wang Dahu added: "There are also those who are not determined to break away from the revolutionary ranks, and they will also regret their bowels." ”

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