Chapter 874 The Battle of Lunan

October 9th, the day of the first month of the year of Jimao, that is, the twenty-seventh day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar, is cold

Before Jingjing's sacrifice, in accordance with Liu Yimin's instructions, he opened a column in the popular daily newspaper to publicize and promote the two-cropping farming method a year, and compiled the relationship between the 24 solar terms and agricultural production into an agricultural proverb. When it came to the cold lu, Jingjing wrote: "In the cold season, the weather is getting cold, and the farmer is idle every day." Wheat sowing is still booming, and late rice harvesting is rushing for time. Sweet potatoes are afraid of frost damage, and soybean harvesting is cold. Yellow smoke peanuts should also be harvested, and cotton is picked in sunny weather. The purple red hawthorn is picked, and the bright red pomegranate is sour and sweet. After the fruit is unloaded, the tree is managed, and the ground is turned over by fertilizing and killing insects. It is a good time to collect tree seeds, and the local seed source is the focus. Livestock and poultry feeding is technical, and pregnant mothers are carefully managed. The wintering fingerlings must be fattened, and the adult fish should be harvested. Now that the Yiren have passed away, the villagers in the Shandong base area are busy producing according to the guidance of agricultural proverbs.

On the old yellow calendar, it is advisable to marry, collect, form alliances, sacrifices, and pray for blessings on this day, and avoid opening the market, breaking ground, digging wells, and combining longevity wood.

The commander of the 10th Division of the Japanese Army, Fan Zhaoshou, could not understand the old yellow calendar in China, but he knew that at this time, the Yimen G Mountains were the time when the cotton white, soybean yellow, and red sorghum were filled with warehouses, and if he eliminated the army in the Sulu Theater, he could control Lunan and transport back the cotton, soybeans, corn, and sorghum in the Lunan Mountains, so that the emperor and the people could see his achievements in Fan Zhaoshou!

At dinner, the happy Rice Zhao Shou opened a bottle of champagne, turned on the gramophone, listened to the songs sung by the artist, and drank pure French champagne.

Unbeknownst to him, this meal was destined to be his last supper in the world.

When the twilight was heavy, the Eighth Route Army took advantage of the cover of night and began a covert campaign to engage the enemy.

The first to start the action was the New Fourth Brigade led by Zhu Rui, followed by the New Eighth Brigade commanded by Zhao Jie. Then, there was the new 1st Brigade and the Engineer Brigade, the Baggage Brigade, and the Air Defense Brigade led by Cheng Cuilin, and then the 1st Teaching Brigade and the Artillery Brigade. Since the armored regiment of the 1st Brigade is a fully mechanized army, in addition to tanks and armored vehicles, the trucks are carrying heavy machine gun regiments, which move fast, and they must also turn on the lights to drive, so they have to wait for the New Fourth Brigade and the New Eighth Brigade to arrive at Wenshan and Zhongluo Mountain before they can act, so they are placed at the end of the sortie.

When a large army fights, it is necessary to place a battlefield guard army just in case. The 10th Division of the Japanese Army was the same, not only leaving defenders in Philadelphia, but also garrisons in Wenshan and Zhongluoshan, and also specially sending the 10th Cavalry Wing to take on the task of guarding the battlefield, sentry around Philadelphia and covering the battlefield. During the day, as long as the Eighth Route Army had the slightest news, it would be discovered by the Japanese army, and it would be violent and wary.

Fan Zhao Shou can also be regarded as a famous general in the Japanese army, and he has a set of troops, although he waved the main force to pursue and encircle and annihilate Yu Xuezhong's department, but he did not forget the garrison of Fei County. His headquarters and baggage are in Philadelphia County! No, the military strength of each squadron stationed in Wenshan and Zhongluoshan was garrisoned by Fan Zhao, and the combat army of one brigade headquarters and two squadrons was stationed in the city of Feixian County, as well as the military strength of the two brigades of the accompanying baggage wing.

In the mind of Fan Zhaoshou, such a military force is sufficient, and the Japanese troops in the city can support the defenders of Wenshan and Zhongluoshan at any time. In case something happens, the main force pursuing Yu Xuezhong's department can return to help at any time, Wansong Mountain is only five kilometers away from the county seat of Fei County, and it is very fast.

This is the disadvantage of Fan Zhaoshou who has never fought with the Eighth Route Army, he does not understand what kind of infantry team the instructor of the Eighth Route Army is, does not understand the combat style of the instructor, and does not understand the military strength and firepower of the instructor. The two squadrons he left on Wenshan and Zhongluo Mountain were not even enough to stuff the teeth of the Eighth Route Army, let alone how long they could hold out.

Just when Fan Zhaoshou was intoxicated with champagne and music, the devils in Philadelphia County, no, it is not the devils in Philadelphia County, including the devils who are besieging the Xuezhong Department on the first line of Wansong Mountain, and on the Feiteng Highway, a long sliding lamp and pillar of light are shooting towards the county seat of Feixian. There are so many headlights that it's like the Milky Way flowing backwards in the sky, forming a flowing river of light on the Feten Highway.

Without waiting for the devils to react, the Wenshan Mountain in the south of Feixian County and the Zhongluo Mountain in the north sounded the sound of gunfire almost at the same time.

Zhongluo Mountain and Wenshan Mountain are the barriers of Fei County, although the mountain is not high, but it is the main battlefield for Fei County since ancient times.

According to the battle plan, in order not to alarm the devils in Fei County, Zhu Rui led the New Fourth Brigade not to directly intersperse with Zhong Luo Mountain from the boiling highway west of Fei County, but under the cover of night, made a semicircle from the south of Fei County and the east bank of the Wenliang River to the foot of Zhong Luo Mountain.

The Eighth Route Army arrived here unconsciously, and the devil was dead.

The soldiers of the reconnaissance company of the New Fourth Brigade took the lead, holding daggers in one hand and short guns in the other, and headed towards the mountain. Behind them were the new 10th Regiment adapted from the New Fourth Regiment of the Fourth Brigade of the Original Sect and the New 12th Regiment adapted from the original Luzhong Self-Reliance Regiment.

After the end of the Taixi Campaign, the New Fourth Brigade and the New Eighth Brigade stayed in Lunan and did not return to Luzhong and Jiaodong. The task of the army is to fight, no matter where you go to the city, you can see the terrain clearly, and you have to draw a map to remember.

When the scout Mo lost the devil's sentry, the devil found that the Eighth Route Army Mo had come up. But at this time, it was too late, and the regular army of the two regiments arrived, and the devils of a squadron could not withstand no matter how good their marksmanship was. The gunfire of Ji Lie only rang out for a while before it subsided. The New 12th Regiment left a battalion on Zhongluo Mountain, and the main force rushed to the north gate of Feixian County with the New 10th Regiment. The troops who remained on Zhongluo Mountain lit the explosive battle they carried, crackling and spreading, in order to make the main force of the Japanese army mistakenly believe that the defenders were still fighting, so that they could quickly return to the county seat of Feixian. And Zhu Rui, who had already taken the new 11th Regiment reorganized from the Fourth Brigade of the Yuanjiao Brigade, went around to the east gate of Feixian County, hiding in the night, and the brigade fire support battalion set up infantry guns and heavy machine guns, staring at the city gate with wide eyes, waiting for the artillery group to shell the east gate and the city wall.

The mission of the New Eighth Brigade led by Zhao Jie was to capture Wenshan and usurp the southern gate of Feixian County. They were close and arrived early. In order to coordinate the operation, it was not until the New Fourth Brigade sent a signal to arrive at Zhongluo Mountain that it began to initiate an attack on the enemy in Wenshan. One brigade against one squadron, again under the cover of night, the battle naturally went unusually smoothly.

After solving the enemy in Wenshan, according to the battle plan, the remaining army also ignited a battle, and in the stunned eyes of the devils in Feixian County, Zhao Jie's Eighth Brigade roared down from Wenshan and went straight to the south gate of Feixian County.

Li Chang led the artillery brigade to the west of the county seat of Feixian County after following the 1st Brigade of Jiao, and then established an artillery position along the south side of the Feiteng Highway. The 1st Field Artillery Regiment, the Medium Mortar Regiment, the 1st Artillery Regiment of the Jiao1st Brigade, the Cavalry Brigade Artillery Regiment and the Flying Thunder Artillery Regiment specially left by Liu Yimin, including the heavy artillery battalions and rocket artillery made of the Japanese heavy artillery captured by the Eighth Route Army from the Battle of Anjiazhuang, all raised their muzzles under the cover of night.

The artillery of the Eighth Route Army has gone through great battles, and it is no longer what it was when Liu Yiminshui formed an artillery company in the Battle of Minshui. Under Liu Yimin's meticulous cultivation, the artillery headquarters has become the base camp for the training of artillery personnel, the training of new recruits, the maintenance of artillery, and the training of the army. If the Japanese artillery commanders were to take a look at the artillery positions of the Eighth Route Army, they would find that the Eighth Route Army's artillery grouping, tactical coordination, command and reconnaissance, and artillery bombardment accuracy were even higher than theirs. Because what Liu Yimin taught to his instructor was infantry contract tactics, the devil didn't understand this at this time!

Li Chang knew in his heart that if he was asked to concentrate the artillery of the whole division and use it in a unified manner, it would not be one Japanese division, but two or three Japanese divisions and regiments, as long as they entered the preset battlefield, that is, they would get into the pocket formation of the Eighth Route Army, and they would still blow it up to the ground.

The artillery bombardment of the county seat of Fei County was mainly to blow up the city walls and clear the way for the rapid attack of the infantry. Therefore, the 1st Field Artillery Regiment, the 1st Brigade Artillery Regiment, the Cavalry Brigade Artillery Regiment, the Heavy Mortar Regiment and the Heavy Artillery Battalion were tasked with carrying out the artillery bombardment of the Fei County City Wall. The flying thunder artillery and rocket artillery battalions did not join, and Li Chang was afraid that the flying thunder artillery would not be very accurate, and the rocket artillery would be too powerful, and the old people in Fei County would be injured by mistake.

The gunshots on Wenshan and Zhongluo Mountain woke up the commander of the 10th Division, who was still listening to music with champagne.

This guy was no longer in the mood to drink and listen to music, so he just shouted "Where to shoot", jumped out of the house, asked the guards to bring ladders, went up to the roof in a few clicks, looked around, and not only figured out that the Eighth Route Army was attacking Wenshan and Zhongluo Mountain, but also saw the flowing pillars of light on the Feiten Highway.

After guarding the edict, it was clear that the Liu Yimin tutor in the rumor had come to seize the county seat of Fei County. Liu Yimin is going to close the door and fight the dogs and annihilate the main force of the 10th Division.

The situation has become extremely grim, looking at the number of headlights on the Nafeiteng Highway, you know that if you don't deal with it right, you and the main force of the division may be outflanked by the Eighth Route Army. He immediately got out of the house and ordered the Japanese troops stationed in Fei County and the garrison and police of Fei County to go up the city wall to resolutely repel the attack of Tuba Road and buy time for the main force to return to reinforcements; ordered the main force on the front line of Wansong Mountain to quickly return to the county seat of Tengxian County, resolutely repel the Eighth Route Army besieging the county seat, tear a gap, and advance towards the target of Yixian County; Order the defenders on Wenshan and Zhongluo Mountain to hold on to the death, drag the Eighth Route Army attacking the army, and buy time for the main force to return to reinforcements.

Rice Zhao Shou This is trying to slip away!

This idea was not unfounded, and he judged from the long headlights on the boiling highway that the Eighth Route Army had at least two hundred cars. It's just that he didn't know that those cars were all heavy machine guns, infantry guns, mortars, and grenadiers, and the task was to cover the main force of the Japanese army with firepower, but he thought that it was the personnel carrier of the Eighth Route Army, and it was the Eighth Route Army that quickly projected military power to Fei County. According to the custom of the Japanese army, one person was usually seated in a car. Even if the number of vehicles doubles again, it will only be 6,000 people. The Eighth Route Army that attacked Wenshan and Zhongluoshan must have been the vanguard of the Eighth Route Army to arrive on the battlefield first, clearing the way for the usurpation of the county seat of Feixian. With those two mountains, it is not easy for a large army to deploy, at best it is a regimental scale. With such a quick calculation, Fan Zhaoshou came to the conclusion that the Eighth Route Army attacking the county seat of Feixian County would not exceed 10,000 people. Of course, this may be the first army of the Eighth Route Army, and the main force is likely to be taking advantage of the night to move towards the county seat of Fei County! It was necessary to tear the hole and withdraw to Yixian before the arrival of the Eighth Route Army.

If Fan Zhaoshou followed the original plan and ordered the Japanese troops in Fei County to send reinforcements to Zhongluoshan and Wenshan, then he could save a little artillery shells for the Eighth Route Army. As long as the devils go out of the city and run away in the wilderness, the New Fourth Brigade and the New Eighth Brigade coming down from Zhongluo Mountain and Wenshan Mountain will drown the devils who have gone out of the city to reinforce them. Fan Zhaoshou saw from the convoy rushing on the Feiteng Highway that the Eighth Route Army was going straight to the county seat, so he ordered the defenders in the city not to reinforce Zhongluoshan and Wenshan, but to go to the city wall to prepare to repel the attack of the siege army of the Eighth Route Army. If Fan Zhaoshou could see the artillery position of the Eighth Route Army as tight as the woods in the night, I am afraid that he would not have given such an order to send the troops defending the city to purgatory, and he would stay in the city to fight street battles for a longer time.

When the 1st Brigade, the New 4th Brigade, and the New 8th Brigade all moved to attack positions and the armored regiment caught up, the Eighth Route Army's instructor artillery commander and artillery brigade commander folded his hands and muttered a few words, "Division commander, division commander, I love," and then issued an order to bombard the city wall of Feixian County. Suddenly, each artillery position of the Eighth Route Army began a test firing. Immediately afterwards, the artillery emplacements, under the instructions of the artillery observer, corrected the shelling parameters and began a salvo.

The city walls to the west and north of Feixian County have been blown up by the Second Field Artillery Regiment and the Mountain Artillery Regiment that cooperated with the Xuezhong Division. Therefore, the artillery of the Eighth Route Army only fired two salvos at the west and north city walls, and then turned to shelling the south and east gates.

As soon as the shelling began, the armored forces commanded by Zhao Dahe, the commander of the armored regiment, began to attack the west gate of Fei County, and the armored vehicles of the first and second regiments of the Jiao Regiment moved with the armored regiment, booming, one after another drove across the Wenliang River Bridge, and began to carry out fire attacks on the west gate of Fei County, covering the three main regiments of the First Brigade of the Jiao to attack the city.

Zhang Guangming, commander of the first battalion and one company of the first regiment, and Chen Hu, the instructor, led the first company, and took the lead, rushed across the moat bridge, and entered the west gate. Behind them is the first brigade of our army.

The city wall of the county seat of Fei County is an earthen wall, which cannot withstand the bombardment of such a powerful artillery fire. By the time Li Chang received the order to stop the shelling, the city walls around the East Gate and the South Gate were already full of ruins and broken walls, and they could not stop the Eighth Route Army's attack.

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