At this time, the busiest person in the Red 18th Regiment should be Li Qing, director of the Political Department.

In accordance with the regiment commander's order, Li Qing led the 11th and 12th companies of the 4th Battalion, the recruit battalion, the artillery company, the baggage team, the engineer company, and the cavalry company to hide in the woods on the ridge on the side of the road, and the task was to wait for the enemy to arrive and concentrate bombs on the road.

The terrain is very good, the mountain beam is about 20 meters away from the road in a straight line, and the cliff wall is steep and not easy to climb.

Li Qing called Chen Dayong, commander of the third battalion, Li Deguang, deputy battalion commander, Hu Xuerong, instructor, Lei Ming, commander of the recruit battalion, Chang Huayu, instructor, Li Chang, commander of the artillery company, Wu Zheng, commander of the baggage team, He Mingming, commander of the engineer company, and Hu Laohu, commander of the cavalry company, together to assign combat tasks.

According to Li Qing's original intention, the veterans of the three battalions, the artillery company, the baggage team, the artillery company, the engineer company, and the cavalry company should be arranged in the first line, and the recruits of the new barracks and several newly established units should be arranged in the second line. As soon as he put his idea along, he was consistently opposed by the leaders of the new barracks and several new units. There is only one reason for them, the recruits have learned to throw bombs, and the battlefield is the best training ground.

The recruit battalion commander Lei Ming was the most excessive, saying that the recruit battalion had no weapons, and if it was placed on the second line, by the time they arrived at the battlefield, the good guys would have let others run away long ago. The boot camp is not going anywhere, it is on the front line.

Think about it, too, recruits can only become veterans after being baptized by war.

The result of Li Qing's discussion with several cadres was that all the troops were pressed, guarded in sections, and left no vacancies, and all the cadres went down to work and tried to vote in advance to ensure that the vote was accurate.

After the task was clear, all battalions and companies quickly arrived in place and conducted a trial pitching drill with platoons as units. Li Qing was still not at ease, and he checked one by one whether the concealment and camouflage were in place, until he felt that the enemy's search troops would not find out if they did not observe it closely.

I finally set it up, wiped my sweat, and looked at my watch, and an hour had passed. Looking at the ambush positions of the 1st and 2nd Battalions on the opposite side, quietly, without revealing a trace, Li Qing couldn't help muttering: "Recruit eggs, trouble!" ”

The position of the sniper platoon was set up on flat ground 50 meters from the road. In accordance with Liu Yimin's request to do a good job of camouflage and concealment in the passage, Wang Tongsheng instructed the soldiers to dig pits scattered on the flat ground, and then transport the new soil away, and the soldiers climbed in the pits, covered with branches and grain grass. It looks like a lazy farmer's field that has not been transported back in time, not to mention that ordinary people can't see anything, even the enemy army would never think that there is a deadly muzzle under this inconspicuous small pile of firewood and grass.

Liu Jiren, commander of the enemy's 48th Brigade, was very strange in his heart, because yesterday he still maintained combat contact with the red bandits, and the red bandits disappeared one night. Early in the morning, the division commander ordered his whole brigade to search for Xiaoshui, and after searching for so long, not to mention the main force of the red bandits, not even a single civilian was seen along the way. The hills on the road were searched, the ditches and ditches were searched, the spearheads kept reporting that they had not found the enemy, and the brethren of the avant-garde troops had climbed the mountain and drilled the ravines to exhaustion, but there were no red bandits. Could it be that the main force of the red bandits has gone to the county seat of the passage to rest? If the red bandits go to the county seat, why don't they leave behind to cover the stranded enemy troops. Could it be that it is flowing in the direction of Guizhou? Yes, it must have been the red bandits who fled to Guizhou, and only by escaping to Guizhou would they run so thoroughly, not even leaving a small group of covering troops. If the red bandits flow in the direction of Guizhou, won't the Xiangxi defense line built by the chairman of the committee with so much manpower and material resources lose its effect? Those double-spearmen of Wang Jialie in Guizhou don't know if they can stop the red bandits. It is necessary to speed up the pursuit, the red bandits Xiangjiang have become tired soldiers after the war, and they can't run fast or far.

Thinking of this, Liu Jiren no longer hesitated, and immediately ordered the troops to stop the search, and the whole team ran along the highway towards Xiaoshui.

The chief of staff of the enemy cautiously advised that the troops should not march too fast, widen the distance between the marches, and beware of ambushes by red bandits.

Liu Jiren opened his mouth and said: "Ambush a fart, my chief of staff, you are too careful, the current red bandits are not in the Soviet area, and it is difficult to say whether there are bullets in their soldiers' guns." Have you forgotten that when we fought their main army, the First Army, at the foot of the mountain, they dropped all the guns they dropped? Now is the time for us to chase their farts and pee, who doesn't beat the water dogs? Don't worry, even if there is an ambush, I am not afraid, they are not our opponents. Let's go, it's too late, the red bandits will run to Guizhou, and the guys from the 62nd Division will rush to the recovering passage in front of us. Drive! ”

The soldiers of the 18th Red Regiment have been hiding in the position for 2 hours, and the weather in early winter is already a little cold, and many soldiers' hands and feet are frozen and numb. Occasionally, a new soldier wants to move his legs and feet, and the sound he makes immediately attracts stern glances from cadres and veteran soldiers.

Liu Yimin himself was a little skeptical that history had changed, and the Hunan 16th Division had changed its course, or had not come out at all.

Luo Yan finally called, and the scouts who went out to investigate reported that about 4,000 people from an enemy brigade were searching and advancing in the direction of the ambush, and Liu Yimin immediately ordered the flag language squad to send flags to inform the battalions of the enemy situation.

Fifteen minutes later, Luo Yan called for the second time, and the observation post found the enemy, the enemy squad was 500 meters in front of the team, and behind was a 3-way column, and strangely enough, the enemy gave up the search and was running forward.

Five minutes later, Luo Yan called for the third time to confirm that the enemy was running and advancing towards the ambush point in a three-way column, and Liu Yimin immediately ordered to send a flag to prepare for battle.

Soon after Luo Yan made the fourth call to report that the enemy's spearhead soldiers had passed through the observation post, Liu Yimin saw the enemy's spear squad, 9 people, all with guns on their shoulders, not looking at anything but running forward. Liu Yimin muttered a sentence in his mouth in the 21st century, "Stupid!" ”

Soon, the enemy's squad ran to the west of Xiaoshui Village through the ambush circle, and the large army also entered the ambush circle, the soldiers all carried rifles on their shoulders, heavy machine guns were carried by four people, and mortars were disassembled and carried on the shoulders of the soldiers.

Seeing that the enemy's forward was about to reach the entrance of Xiaoshui Village, and the rear tail had already entered the ambush circle, Liu Yimin felt that it was time, aimed his gun at an officer on a horse, and pulled the trigger at the exit of the word "type", and the gunfire on the Red Army position immediately sounded like a thunderbolt.

The sharpshooters of the sniper platoon immediately killed the enemy officers they were aiming at, and when the Hunan soldiers heard the gunshots, they saw that blood was coming from the officers' heads, and before they could react, the fire net composed of six heavy machine guns and 21 light machine guns of the 18th Red Regiment swung towards the middle of the marching ranks of the 16th Hunan Division like a sickle. Almost at the same time, more than 1,000 grenades fell like hail on the side of the road, some exploded in volleys, some exploded on the Hunan soldiers, and some fell to the ground and rolled white smoke, leaving no dead ends, causing the Hunan soldiers to cry and howl wolves.

The Hunan soldiers, who were more fierce at the front of the team, looked at Xiaoshui Village in front of them, thinking that as long as they rushed into the village, they would have support and shelter, so they picked up their guns and rushed forward, trying to stand out, and the salvo of three light machine guns and rifles at the entrance of the village turned them around and ran backwards. He hadn't gone far before an officer who reacted slammed twice and knocked the two soldiers who were leading the run to the ground. The officer shouted wildly: "Follow Lao Tzu, rush over, and shoot if you retreat." As soon as the officer finished shouting, a bullet entered his skull, and the Hunan soldiers saw the blood mist bursting out of the officer's head, and ran backwards, still greeted by machine guns, rifle bullets, and grenades falling from their heads.

The soldiers running at the back of the marching procession were slightly stunned and realized that they had been ambushed, and quickly turned around, hoping to occupy the hill they had just passed. Who knew that before they could turn around, a dense stream of bullets came from behind. With such a narrow highway and such a dense formation, the soldiers of the Hunan Army fell forward one after another like a car rear-end on a highway in the ice and snow of the later generations.

A few Hunan soldiers moved very quickly, and when they threw themselves on the ground, they set up machine guns and fired at the Red Army positions on the opposite side. As soon as the co-shooter grasped the machine gun, a bloody hole appeared in his forehead. The squad leader next to him scolded "Fuck your mother", pulled the machine gun and tried to shoot at the corpses of the two shooters, but before he could fire, his head tilted, and the machine gun slipped to the side. The remaining two Hunan soldiers were so frightened that they got up and ran, two bullets flew, and the two Hunan soldiers fell to the ground softly.

The machine-gun fire of the XVIII Regiment began to extend to both ends of the line. The scythe made of bullets was swung over and over again, and wherever the enemy was gathered, it was swung wherever it came. The grenades that fell from the ridges of the mountains were also thrown wherever there were many people. In a few moments, most of the casualties of the entire 48th Brigade were killed, and a few who jumped off the road were also shot down by rifle bullets, and the more agile soldiers began to lie on the ground and pretend to be dead.

Seeing that the 48th Brigade had collapsed, Liu Yimin grabbed his submachine gun, shouted at his comrades, and jumped out of his position and rushed to the highway. The fighters of the 1st and 2nd battalions immediately followed the regiment commander and launched a charge.

Although the distance was short, although they were fast, by the time they rushed to the road, there was no resistance. There were corpses of Hunan soldiers everywhere, guns and ammunition everywhere, and the captives automatically squatted on the ground on the side of the road with their hands raised and waited for containment.

The troops immediately began to clean up the battlefield and count the results. In this battle, a total of one brigade and two regiments of the enemy army were destroyed, 2,620 enemy personnel were killed, 500 wounded, 400 prisoners were captured, and one radio station, 60 mortars, 12 artillery shells, and 660 shells were captured. There were 12 heavy machine guns, 72 light machine guns, 142 submachine guns, 144 pistols, more than 2,100 rifles, more than 20,000 grenades, and some guns were damaged, and the bullets were too late to count. The regiment was not killed, 21 were slightly wounded. Most of them were caught on their feet or wounded by thorns during the charge.

The soldiers of the Red Army were all jubilant as if they were celebrating a festival, collecting weapons and ammunition, screening and escorting prisoners, and were very busy. The happiest thing was the new soldiers, each of whom took their weapons, put bullets and grenades in their pockets, and did not forget to ask each other how many grenades they threw and killed several enemies.

Li Chang, the commander of the artillery company, shouted excitedly, commanded the soldiers of the artillery company to carry the artillery and carry the shells, and did not forget to run to Liu Yimin to ask whether to immediately build an artillery position for the next wave of ambushes.

Liu Yimin said with a smile, you can build a position, but you are not allowed to fire artillery without an order, the terrain here is narrow, it is enough to use machine guns and grenades, there is no need to waste shells, and there will be an artillery battalion equipment for a while, which is Forbes Mountain Artillery. Hearing this, Li Chang was busy arranging mortar positions.

Only the cavalry company commander Hu Laohu was unhappy, and the Hunan army of a brigade only had 30 war horses, most of which were killed, and they didn't even have a horse pistol and a saber.

Liu Yimin told him with a smile that the Hunan Army had a cavalry regiment, which was He Jian's starting unit. Stimulated, Hu Laohu asked where he was, and Liu Yimin said that he would always encounter it. Hu Laohu scolded and left.

Seeing that the position was almost cleaned, Liu Yimin ordered the troops to immediately transfer their positions, strengthen all the heavy machine guns to the heavy machine gun positions, and the whole regiment would make all the cadres and soldiers of the heavy machine guns go to the heavy machine gun positions, and the light machine guns should be equipped according to the standard of one per squad, and those that were not enough would be replenished after the next battle. The whole regiment returned to combat readiness for the arrival of the enemy 47 Brigade.