At dawn, the sea breeze blew in gusts and went straight into the neck, and the frozen people shivered all over.

Qiao Mingzhi, the commander of the reconnaissance platoon of the 1st Independent Regiment of the Jiaodong Independent Brigade, led the soldiers to lie in the foxhole on the top of Yantai in the southeast of Xiawangbu Village, and his eyes were vigilantly watching the direction of Qingdao in the distance.

Yantai Ding, which means that you can see Yantai when you stand here, used to be the place where villagers set off wolf smoke to alarm when they defended themselves.

At this time, Wangbu Village has Wowolftooth Mountain in the east, "Tiger Mountain in the west", Yantai Ding in the south, and Shangwangbu Village in the north, and the whole village is in the basin. The Jiqing Highway runs right through the edge of the village, making it an ideal place for ambushes.

The regiment has already received an order that the Japanese army will have three elite divisions and one armored brigade to arrive in Qingdao at night, and with the original Fifth Division, there will be four divisions and more than 100,000 devils attacking Jinan through the Jinan-Qingdao Highway. The task of the Jiaodong Independent Brigade is to use the terrain and tunnel fortifications to resist and delay the attack speed of the devils. The task of the Jiaodong Independent Regiment is clearer, and between Qingdao and Jiaoxian, "echelon configuration, fight and withdraw" to constantly block the sluggish devils, and they cannot be bitten by the devils. As for the eastern part of Jiaoxian, "it was blocked by other troops."

After the victory of the Jiaoji Road Campaign, the task of the Jiaodong Independent Brigade was to restore and consolidate the Jiaodong and Jiaolai base areas and "establish local armed forces in various counties." The task of monitoring and besieging the enemy in Qingdao was originally the task of the main force to teach the Eighth Brigade, but now the Eighth Brigade and the new Eighth Brigade were taught to carry out other tasks, and the Jiaodong Independent Brigade received an order to urgently assemble and drove to the outskirts of Qingdao to "take over the defense of the Eighth Brigade."

These two months have "made the Jiaodong Independent Brigade have been reborn." While accomplishing their tasks, the troops "received training from instructors from the Formation and Training Headquarters and military cadres dispatched by the Eighth Brigade, covering the five major infantry techniques, infantry squad tactics, and the tactics of attacking flying planes, tanks, airborne, and anti-chemical." After more than two months of training, these Jiaodong men who are bent on fighting devils suddenly became enlightened: It turns out that the main force is fighting devils like this!

The equipment has also changed, due to the victory in the Battle of Jiaoji Road, coupled with the restoration of the Jiaodong base area, the heavy weapons buried by the Jiaoqi Brigade and the part of the materials that were transferred from Qingdao to the Jiaodong Mountains were taken out "The Jiaodong Independent Brigade is now all-Japanese equipment. After a great victory and the restoration of the base area, the enthusiasm of the children of Jiaodong to join the army was extremely high. In addition to the rapid establishment of county brigades, district squads, and militia teams, the Jiaodong Independent Brigade was also equipped with fire support, engineers, and heavy troops. In particular, the brigade commander asked the division commander for six rocket launchers and three anti-aircraft guns, which were said to have been specially used to deal with devils. The current Jiaodong Independent Brigade "In the words of brigade commander Gao Jinchun, that is, Lao Tzu is also the main brigade!"

At this moment, on the five-mile-long Jiqing Highway in the Xiawangbu Basin, anti-tank mines, anti-infantry mines, and electric explosives are buried, "The fields on both sides of the highway are densely packed with land minefields made of clay cylinders, clay pots, stones, etc." Yu Deshui, the commander of the Jiaodong Independent Regiment, led the fire support battalion and the first battalion to hide in the village of Xiawangbu, ready to fight the little devils and be caught off guard.

The sky gradually became clearer, and the outline of Qingdao city in the distance gradually became clear.

Qiao Mingzhi's hands were a little numb from the cold, so he had to put down the binoculars and rub his hands together for a while.

If he wants to put it aside in the past, Qiao Mingzhi will take out a small dry tobacco pouch and "smoke two pots beautifully, which is both enjoyable and cold-tempering." Now he has become a reconnaissance platoon commander of the regular army from the inside out, and he knows the truth of smoking to expose the target, so he has to rub his hands fiercely.

A soldier suddenly shouted: "Platoon commander, the devil is coming!" ”

Qiao Mingzhi raised the binoculars and took a look, isn't it a little devil? "This little devil is really arrogant, and the top soldiers are all made up of tanks, armored vehicles, cars, motorcycles and cavalry. Counting carefully, five motorcycles, three tanks, four armored vehicles, five cars, on the cars stood infantrymen, motorcycles and cars were mounted with machine guns, and behind the convoy was a squadron of cavalry.

Qiao Mingzhi ordered in a low voice: "Report to the regiment commander, the devil search spearhead has come up" There are a total of five motorcycles, three tanks, four armored vehicles, five cars and a squadron of cavalry. Soon, a large army appeared behind the devil's spearhead. However, "that's not infantry", but a steel monster composed of tanks and armored vehicles.

Qiao Mingzhi was taken aback, his hands trembled, the telescope almost fell, and his voice was low and urgent: "Report to the commander of the first battalion, and report to the regiment commander, a large number of tanks and armored vehicles appeared about two kilometers behind the devil's sharp soldiers, and the number is unknown." Judging by the armored brigade of the Japanese army. ”

When the devil search for the top soldier was about to arrive, a few large clouds of smoke and dust appeared in Qiao Mingzhi's binoculars, and it turned out that the little devil was divided into several roads, and drove west along Jiqing Road, Jiaoji Road and Country Road at the same time.

Qiao Mingzhi didn't dare to hesitate any longer, he wanted to report to the regiment commander in person, the little devils had a huge army, and "we must beware of being dumplings made by devils."

Yu Deshui is a legendary hero among the legendary heroes of Jiaodong.

Yu Deshui is a native of Luogezhuang in Wendeng County, "32 years old this year. In 1933, he joined **, and in 1935, he participated in Jiaodong's "One by One? Fourth, "riot, served as the captain of the special team.

The reason why many people in this generation have embarked on the road of grass life is because they can't survive. The same is true of Yu Deshui. His family originally had 13 people, his grandfather Yu Laosan was a foot-picking peddler, his father Yu Liandeng was a mason, his second uncle was a farmer, and his third uncle was a tomatsu.

If you want to say that this family is picky and doing handicrafts, why should they live a life of half grains and half wild vegetables, but this cannibalistic society does not let people live! His grandfather worked as a foot-picker all his life and finally starved to death in Yantai. By the time he occupied the year, there was no rain for a long time in the spring, and there was rain and waterlogging in the autumn, and almost no grain was harvested in the field, and the rent could not be paid, but the ruthless landlord "Ermu Wolf" sued Yu Deshui's father to resist paying the rent, and the Wendeng County Ya arrested his father Yu Liandeng and imprisoned him. In order to redeem his father, he owed a lot of debts, and the third uncle who "forced Yu Deshui to hang himself" and his grandmother died of hunger. Yu Deshui's eldest brother and younger brother also died early.

At the age of 18, Yu Deshui began to learn martial arts, learned martial arts, and later joined the peasant association and joined the party to start his legendary career in grass. Later, Feng Deying took him as the prototype and wrote the novel "Mountain Ju Huā".

When the Jiaodong Garrison Brigade was formed, in order to speed up the regularization of the Jiaodong Independent Brigade, the military commanders of the regiments, battalions, and companies of the Jiaodong Independent Brigade were basically sent by the Eighth Brigade, and the cadres of the Eighth Brigade were all out of several main brigades such as the First Brigade. Zhang Yuhua, one of the leaders of the Tianfushan Uprising and a graduate of Rongcheng Normal School, served as the political commissar of his regiment.

If you want to talk about fighting guerrilla warfare, Yu Deshui is self-taught, and several years of guerrilla warfare in Kunyu Mountain have trained this Jiaodong man into a native guerrilla expert. I don't know how many times better the conditions are now than in the past" The soldiers are all little devils in their hands, the bullet boxes are full, the dry food bags are also full, and the local armed forces and militia cooperate. If this battle is never fought again," Yu Deshui felt that he really lived back.

After receiving the order from the brigade headquarters, Yu Deshui divided the troops into three parts, and the political commissar led the second battalion to deploy at the place where the ink river held Jiqing Road and Jiaoji Road, and the third battalion guarded Nanquan, and he led the fire support battalion and the first battalion to Shangwangbu and Xiawangbu, preparing to fight devils here.

According to Yu Deshui's original idea, he wanted to pull the whole regiment here, because Xiawangbu was too suitable for ambushes. To go over, Han Fuqu sent to encircle and suppress his own troops, and his own independent regiment laid an ambush on the mountains on both sides of this Xiawangbu, and told it to die as many as possible. As a result, his combat plan was denied by the brigade commander Gao Jinchun after he reported it, on the grounds that the Japanese army was too large, and "if the ambush fails, it will be dumplings made by devils." If the Qingdao garrison or the Devil Garrison Division troops, not only the Jiaodong Independent Regiment wants to ambush here, but the whole brigade can press up. Now it is the devil's mechanized divisions and armored brigades whose combat effectiveness cannot be estimated by anyone, and they must be fought in accordance with the orders of the division commander and the Ludong Command.

Yu Deshui originally thought that the brigade commander was too cautious, but the situation reported by the reconnaissance platoon commander Qiao Mingzhi was exactly the same as the situation reported by the brigade headquarters, "The little devil actually got so many iron turtles." Damn "little devil really looks up to our Eighth Route Army!"

By the time Qiao Mingzhi took the path and rushed back to Yu Deshui's side, the motorcycle of the little devil spearhead search team had already driven into the Xiawangbu Basin.

Yu Deshui no longer plans to ambush the big army of the little devils, he knows that the bun is too big, "it will break the stomach." As long as you can kill the search team of the devil in front of you, you will be considered victorious.

Yu Deshui clearly divided the combat missions, the fire support battalion was responsible for solving the tanks, armored vehicles, cars, and motorcycles of the little devils, and the first battalion was responsible for destroying the devil cavalry.

At this moment, Yu Deshui lay on the position of the fire support battalion and said to the battalion commander of the fire support battalion that it was up to him whether he was dead or alive today, and the two rocket launcher groups, aiming at the tanks and armored vehicles of the konjac, "give Lao Tzu a hard beat, and the cars and motorcycles will be handed over to heavy machine guns, infantry guns, and grenadiers to clean up, and the devils must be beaten down in the first round of strikes, otherwise the troops will not be able to withdraw."

The commander of the fire support battalion was sent by the Eighth Brigade, and he turned out to be the platoon commander of the old Fifth Battalion, and he had fought many tough battles. After listening to Yu Deshui's words, he pursed his mouth and said contemptuously: "Regiment commander, please rest assured, Lao Tzu was born in the main Red Army and fought all the way from Jinggangshan. Just such little devils, we are anti-tank mines, electric explosives, and bazookas, and they are dead! Listen up! It makes sense for Yu Deshui to think about it, these two bazooka groups "I heard the brigade commander say that the division commander was transferred from the first brigade, and they are absolute veterans." It's so close, it's so well hidden, if you can't hit it again, you can be killed."

The Devil Search Spearhead Troop is under the noses of the soldiers and heads down to Wangbu Village.

It may be that the devil's motorcycles, tanks, armored vehicles, and cars did not mean to stop, but only slowed down, and the machine guns on the cars swept wildly towards the mountains and forests on both sides. Yu Deshui knew: "This is the firepower reconnaissance that little devils are used to."

At this moment, with a bang, a devil tank pressed on an anti-tank mine, and its body trembled and fell on its stomach.

Tanks are generally the thickest in front armor, "side armor is secondary", the rear is slightly thinner, and the top and bottom are the thinnest, this design is derived from actual combat, because the front of the tank is the most vulnerable to attack, so the front is the thickest; Then, in the design, the "thickness is proportional to the probability of being attacked" is followed: "the bottom that is least vulnerable to attack is made the thinnest, so as to exchange the least weight for the maximum protection."

Anti-tank mines are meant to target the tank's dead ends, killing them with one blow.

The instructor's anti-tank mines were first successfully developed by the Mianxian Arsenal, and they are divided into two types: anti-track mines and anti-bottom armor mines, that is, as the saying goes, explosive foot mines and belly mines. After the instructor marched eastward, the arsenal could reload ammunition and make explosive packs, grenades, and mines, and this kind of anti-tank mine was naturally the first to be manufactured. It's just that the heavy sweep of the little devils has affected the normal production of the arsenal.

The anti-tank mine pressed by the devil tank is an anti-bottom armor mine with a broken stomach, and it uses a large cone-angle medicine cover hollow medicine "after the mine detonates, it forms a high-speed flipping projectile to penetrate the bottom armor", which not only destroys the tank, but also eliminates the crew in the tank.

Of course, at this time, there was no technology such as infrared sensors, and the anti-tank mines of the Eighth Route Army were detonated by fuses, and they could only be detonated after the devil's tanks and armored vehicles pressed the mines.

This technology is not high-tech, and it could have been manufactured in Germany during the First World War.

As soon as the anti-tank mine sounded, it was equivalent to giving the order to open fire, and with Yu Deshui's "type" word. "The Eighth Route Army opened fire.

The two bazooka groups of the fire support battalion of the 1st Independent Regiment of Jiaodong were hidden behind a section of stone wall at the entrance of the village, and two large holes were dug in the stone wall, and the bazookas stretched out of the holes, right in front of the devil's tanks and armored vehicles.

Boom, boom, two rockets crashed into the side armor of another devil tank, and the two tanks were smashed into fireballs. Yu Deshui applauded in his heart!

This part of the devil's spearhead soldiers, "except for the cavalry, automobiles, and motorcycles on the infantry of the Fifth Division," the tanks and armored vehicles were all newly cobbled together armored brigades of the Japanese army. These guys have just been transported to Qingdao from the Japanese ship, and although they know that the instructors of the Eighth Route Army are very powerful, they still don't believe that they can take the tanks of the Japanese Army. Because they did not know that the Eighth Route Army had bazookas, nor did they know that they could shoot anti-aircraft guns horizontally against tanks, let alone that the Eighth Route Army would create anti-tank mines. They only knew that the only way to deal with tanks was to use tanks to attack or to fight anti-aircraft guns, anti-tank guns and heavy artillery, so they were blinded by the Eighth Route Army as soon as they came up.

Not only can anti-aircraft guns be used to fight tanks horizontally, but even the Japanese Type 92 infantry guns can also be used against light tanks. No, at the same time as the bazooka was wielding, several infantry guns of the Eighth Route Army began to attack the armored vehicles and cars of the Japanese army.

To be honest, the artillerymen did not understand these techniques at all. He was also an eye-opener today, watching the rockets and shells whistling towards the little devil's tanks, armored vehicles, and cars, and turning the iron turtle that was still showing off his might just now into a ball of fire, Yu Deshui secretly decided, "After this war is over, I have to go to the N branch of Kang University to study no matter what." Otherwise, "it seems very difficult to be the commander of the regular army of the Eighth Route Army with just one martial arts."

At the same time as the bazooka fired, the heavy machine guns of the Eighth Route Army fired, and the sound of the 92-style was originally relatively crisp, but at this time, listening to the ears of the Japanese soldiers on motorcycles and cars, it became the strange laughter of Yama. Because rows and rows of bullets hit them, they often cut them off at the waist, and the slow train with blood sprayed red on the ground.

The squadron of devil cavalry is more cunning. They followed the back of the car "for fear of eating dust" for some distance in between. Therefore, by the time the tank pressed against the anti-tank mines, the guys would have woken up.

Under normal circumstances, according to the Japanese infantry code, when infantry, cavalry and tanks accompany them, they have the task of protecting the tanks from attack. These devils are all old devils, and they know the rules of the Japanese army very well. Therefore, the first reaction of the leader of the devil cavalry squadron was to draw his combat knife, and while giving the order to prepare for battle, he led the whole team to divide into two teams and quickly rushed to both sides of the convoy.

When the heavy firepower of the Eighth Route Army opened fire, the devil cavalry suddenly woke up to the fact that the explosion just now was not an accident, but an ambush of the Eighth Route Army. This is a trap, a trap carefully arranged by the instructor of the Eighth Route Army.

The Devil Cavalry belonged to the newly formed Fifth Cavalry Wing of the Fifth Division. The original Fifth Cavalry Wing was devastating in Qi County when the instructor went north to the Shanxi battlefield. However, the newly formed Fifth Cavalry Wing also knew the glorious achievements of the Fifth Division: "The imprint engraved on them by the instructor of the Eighth Route Army is too profound, and the history of the war is still fresh in the memory of every soldier who joined the 50th Regiment."

The leader of the devil cavalry squadron who woke up knew that there was only one word for the end of falling into the trap of the Eighth Route Army Instructor, broken is death! He immediately ordered to halt the advance, "quickly turning and retreating." He also took his horse's head and ran off the road, preparing to retreat backwards.

Yu Chunpu, deputy squad leader of the fourth squad of the first battalion, one battalion, one company, and two platoons of the first independent regiment in Jiaodong, said: "After this period of time, the shooting instructor opened a small stove, and the shooting level rose sharply. The performance of the leader of the devil cavalry squadron all fell into his eyes.

I saw that he was aiming at three points and one line, and at the moment when the leader of the devil cavalry squadron jumped off the road, "Yu Chunpu hooked his thumb, and the bullet spun out of the chamber and hit the chest of the devil cavalry squadron leader. The fellow "fell headlong from his horse, with his feet still hanging from his stirrups" and was dragged a long way by the galloping warhorse.

Although the firepower of the first battalion was very fierce, and the squadron of devil cavalry was also in a chaotic moment of turning, "but the cavalry is cavalry after all, and under the blows of light and heavy machine guns, grenadiers and rifles, the more than twenty cavalry behind the palace still escaped by luck."