Chapter 662 Northern Front Police Signal

In addition to infantry guns and grenadiers, bazookas are equipped with fire support squads for each platoon, and each infantry squad has a color of Bayi automatic rifles and Bayi machine guns. Purely in terms of firepower, the firepower of the 1st Battalion is much more powerful than that of the special operations brigade and the sniper brigade.

In particular, the fire support company of the 1st Battalion was built in strict accordance with Liu Yimin's idea of expanding the army. two artillery platoons, armed with six infantry guns; a heavy machine-gun platoon armed with six Type 92 heavy machine guns with anti-aircraft firing trips; A bazooka platoon consists of six bazooka groups, an anti-aircraft machine gun platoon, and three Japanese-style anti-aircraft machine guns. Combined with the supporting firepower of each company and platoon, the heavy firepower of the entire 1st Battalion far exceeded the firepower of the Japanese brigade, and even far exceeded the firepower of the Japanese wing of the garrison division.

Li Lingfeng, Wang Tongsheng, Wang Laohu, and Li Shanzhu were bent on leaving the 14th Division and waiting for the main force to arrive to encircle and annihilate it, so after sending a report to Liu Yimin on the results of the Battle of Anjiazhuang and the current enemy situation, they did their best to launch a fierce attack on the little devils outside Anjiazhuang, with the purpose of making the little devils pause and concentrate on revenge on the Eighth Route Army in Anjiazhuang.

The special combat unit and the first battalion fought in a way that was different from that of other units. In addition to the infantry guns, grenadiers, and heavy machine guns that were aimed at the little devils, the light machine guns and the Bayi automatic rifles and sniper rifles in the hands of the soldiers were all point-fired, which was a guns-gun bite meat. In this fight, the entire Anjiazhuang has become a fortress of shells and bullets everywhere, and the shells and bullets are poured at the retreating troops of the little devils around Anjiazhuang.

That's not all, under Li Lingfeng's order, Sui Xiaofeng, who has the highest level of Japanese in the special operations team, turned on the gramophone of the captured little devil and let go of the songs of Japanese pop singer Nan Kunio. After a while, let the doctors and nurses of the captured Japanese army field hospital ask for help against the iron horn, those Japanese female nurses were already afraid, and when they had the opportunity to ask for help, they couldn't think too much, and they held the iron horn and shouted "Your Excellency the division commander, help me", "Sekijing-kun, I'm Laizi, help me, I'm afraid", one by one, like the cry sign when the chicken was caught by an eagle, I heard Sekii Takamasa and the Japanese soldiers feel sad for a while; After a while, Sui Xiaofeng himself took the iron horn and read out the reward method of the Eighth Route Army for rewarding Japanese soldiers for shooting officers and junior officers for shooting superior officers, and then the Eighth Route Army gave preferential treatment to prisoners, welcomed Japanese soldiers to lay down their arms and surrender, and the Eighth Route Army guaranteed personal safety, paid travel expenses, and escorted them back to China.

Sekii Takamasa was furious, feeling that the Eighth Route Army was too deceitful, and a small unit that attacked Anjiazhuang dared to provoke the 14th Division, simply not knowing what the Great Japanese Army was.

Sekii Takamasa was eager to immediately order the troops retreating south to stop advancing, and in one fell swoop, he would be able to control the village safely, so that the rampant Tubalu knew the power of the 14th Division. However, after all, he was the commander of the lieutenant general's division, and he could see at a glance the intentions of this small unit of the Eighth Route Army, and knew that the purpose of their active attack was to entangle himself and gain time for the arrival of the large troops of the Eighth Route Army.

Listening to the cries of the female nurses of the Japanese army in the iron horn of the Eighth Route Army in Anjiazhuang, and looking at the headlights and torches that were getting closer and closer to the north, east, and west, Takamasa Sekii resolutely ordered that the 18th Cavalry Wing led by Kaneto Yasuda would break off the rear cover, and all troops would ignore the entanglement of the small units of the Eighth Route Army along the way, quickly retreat south, and establish positions on the south bank of the Wen River.

Just as Takamasa Sekii was about to leave Anjiazhuang, the chief of staff of the 35th Division arrived in an armored car. As soon as they met, the chief of staff of the 35th Division reported to Takamasa Sekii and requested that the heavy artillery units be ordered to open fire immediately, destroy the artillery group of the Eighth Route Army, and cover the retreat of the 35th Division. He also asked Sekii Takamasa to send a strong force to meet the retreat of the 35th Division.

Sekii Takamasa said angrily: "The heavy artillery unit was attacked by the Eighth Route Army and no longer exists. The 14th Division was also shelled by the artillery group of the Eighth Route Army, and the troops suffered heavy losses. Look at it, is there any chance that the 35th Division will be saved? ”

The chief of staff of the 35th Division ran all the way and really did not understand the situation on the battlefield. Looking at this one, I saw that the north, east, and west were full of the lights and torches of the Eighth Route Army, and it seemed that thousands of troops and horses were rapidly rushing towards the Ningfei Highway. Needless to say, the 35th Division and the 13th Brigade were finished.

The chief of staff of the 35th Division was still verbose, and Takamasa Sekii had already turned around and got into the tank, and drove towards the south with the guard troops rumbling. This guy didn't dare to delay any longer, and he didn't think about rescuing Maeda anymore, so he got into the armored car and slipped away behind Takamasa Sekii's ass.

Li Lingfeng couldn't imagine that Guan Jing Longchang was so ruthless, and he had the determination of a strong man to break his wrist, so he was angry, so he immediately ordered a pursuit, and called the artillery group to catch up quickly. However, the 14th Division is a mechanized unit, and although it suffered heavy losses from the bombing of the Eighth Route Army's artillery group, it is impossible for the Eighth Route Army's artillery group to blow up all the little devil's vehicles. Most of the little devils who are lucky enough to survive can still climb into the car and flee south. However, the special operations brigade, sniper brigade, and the 1st Jiao Battalion led by Li Lingfeng had already been handed over to other units because they needed to hide in Anjiazhuang, and it was impossible to catch up with them by relying on the soldiers' feet. What's more, the Japanese army also left the 18th Cavalry Wing as a blocker. Li Lingfeng had no choice but to concentrate on dealing with the Japanese cavalry wing.

Just when the artillery group of the Eighth Route Army began to concentrate the artillery bombardment, Hong Chaoyuan commanded the southern group of the Taixi Campaign of the Eighth Route Army to launch a surprise attack on Surabaya, Qufu, and Yanzhou.

The main force was fighting fiercely on the front line, and the Japanese puppet army left behind had no idea that the Eighth Route Army would come to end their nest. Moreover, this area is the defense of the 35th Division and the 13th Brigade of the Independent Mixed Brigade, Maeda Osamu and Morita Masahomi led the troops to fight fiercely with the Eighth Route Army for a day, with heavy casualties, and the Japanese troops who stayed in Surabaya, Qufu, and Yanzhou were ordered to reinforce the front line several times, and the remaining troops were getting thinner and thinner, and there was only one squadron in the last county town. How could this amount of strength be an opponent of the three brigades of the Tessy Group? Therefore, there was no suspense in the battle of the Southern Group to capture Surabaya, Qufu and Yanzhou.

After capturing Yanzhou, Hong Chaoyuan immediately reported to Liu Yimin and asked to quickly go north to the line of the Wen River to cut off the Japanese army's retreat.

At this time, in the instructor's division headquarters in Tai'an, Liu Yimin and Luo Ronghuan were no longer concerned about the situation on the main battlefield of the Taixi Campaign, but on the Yellow River defense and blocking battle on the northern front.

After the air raids and bombing of the first air force, the 1st and 2nd Divisions, which were outflanking the two flanks of the northern front, suffered heavy losses, especially the 2nd Division, which lost its artillery wing, basically lost all its combat vehicles, and greatly reduced its combat effectiveness. However, the 1st Division was only the 1st Wing that lost its combat effectiveness, and after replenishing its troops, it could soon be put into battle. Lieutenant General Naosaburo Okabe, commander of the 1st Division and commander of the Japanese Army's Northern Front Group, quickly adjusted his deployment, transferred the 1st Cavalry Wing, made a quick detour to the Luokou Yellow River Iron Bridge, and engaged in a fierce battle with our blocking troops.

At half past six o'clock in the evening, when our artillery group launched an artillery bombardment in the Battle of Taixi, Xu Shiyou, commander of the Luxi Garrison Brigade, and Fu Zhuting, commander of the New Sixth Brigade, finally arrived at Luokou Bridge.

As soon as the two of them met, they looked at each other: the black and strong Xu Shiyou's face was black and white, and the white Fu Zhuting's face was also black and white, and there was a bullet hole in the military cap.

Xu Shiyou looked at the bullet holes in Fu Zhuting's military hat and asked with concern, "Old Fu, are you okay?" ”

Then the quiet Fu Zhuting opened his mouth and scolded: "The little devil of his grandmother chased Lao Tzu with all his life, and almost let Lao Tzu go to see Marx." It is worthy of the first division, the artillery fire of the dog day is fierce, the guns are accurate, and the new sixth brigade has suffered heavy casualties. If it weren't for Feng Dafei and them to come to support, I'm afraid we would have made dumplings for grandma at this time, and this account would have to be recovered from them sooner or later. ”

Xu Shiyou glanced at the troops who were hurriedly crossing the bridge in the night, sighed, and said, "The loss of Lao Tzu's Luxi Garrison Brigade is not small. It's okay to start fighting, we rely on the position, and the little devils can't do anything about us. As soon as the second division was outflanked, the devils in front went crazy and chased after them. Coupled with the plane with the little devil overhead, this battle is really his ** nest. I had known that the First Division and the Second Division would come to outflank this move, so it was better to withdraw directly to the east bank of the Yellow River, rely on the river fortifications to hold on, and there would be no problem in fighting it for three days and three nights."

The military situation was urgent, and the two of them couldn't care more about being wordy, quickly crossed the bridge, and joined Zeng Zhongsheng and Cai Zhong at Nanluokou.

After the main force of the Eighth Route Army retreated, the blocking forces at Beiluokou retreated while fighting and retreating to the east bank through the bridge. The Japanese outflanked the troops and the frontal assault troops came one after another, and soon began to carry out fire reconnaissance on the river defense positions on the east bank.

Tai'an and Feicheng are not far from the Luokou front, and the artillery group of the Eighth Route Army is so loud that the sound of artillery faintly reaches here.

The scab on Cai Zhong's brow trembled, and his face was full of excitement: "The battle of Taixi has begun." Chief of Staff, let's make a bet, I said that before dawn, the 14th Division and the 35th Division can be completely annihilated, and the 13th Brigade can be independently mixed. Bet 5 yuan, do you dare to bet? ”

Fu Zhuting said: "Director Cai, there is no meaning in your bet, twelve artillery regiments, plus the Flying Thunder Artillery Regiment is thirteen artillery regiments, and an armored regiment, hundreds of armored vehicles, hundreds of vehicles, eight main brigades plus a cavalry brigade, an air defense brigade, a heavy machine gun regiment, seven new brigades, two detachments and two garrison brigades, how large is that?" If the battle can no longer be resolved before dawn, the instructor will not be called the instructor and tell me to send a telegram to the division commander, hurry up and finish the battle of Taixi, pull all the artillery to the river defense, and give the Japanese army on the northern front a salvo of 10,000 guns, and ensure that the little devil will return to Dexian in a gloomy manner. ”

Zeng Zhongsheng looked at the dark night sky and the density of artillery fire from the Japanese army on the other side, and said to Cai Zhong, Xu Shiyou, Fu Zhuting, and Zhu Liangcai, commander of the Jinan Garrison Brigade: "The little devil is going to cross the river overnight. It seems that they already know the situation of the 14th Division, the 35th Division, and the 13th Brigade of the Independent Mixed Brigade, and they are going to fight with us. The Luxi Garrison Brigade and the New Sixth Brigade could not retreat, and immediately strengthened the river defense positions. Until the 14th Division is wiped out, we can't let a little devil cross the Yellow River"

Xu Shiyou smiled: "Chief of Staff, don't worry, this is night, not daytime, and there is no little devil's plane laying eggs." Lao Tzu is not afraid of the little devils and the natural danger of the Yellow River, and then blow up the Yellow River Iron Bridge, the little devils want to cross the river overnight, dream of it"

Zeng Zhongsheng looked at Xu Shiyou: "Don't be careless, the Yellow River defense line is so long, our troops are limited, and it is impossible to defend the whole line." The little devil can use the tricks of the two wings to cross the river from the upstream and downstream. Besides, the Japanese mechanized corps of the Eastern Front was advancing rapidly towards Jinan, and their firepower was stronger and their attacks were stronger. In order to avoid excessive casualties among the troops, the division commander has strictly ordered the Jiaodong Garrison Brigade, the Qinghe Garrison Brigade, and the Luzhong Garrison Brigade to abandon the attack and switch to attacking and harassing on both flanks. This is tantamount to letting the devil stride towards Jinan. At a distance of 200 kilometers from Weixian to Jinan, the Little Devil Armored Brigade, the Guards Division, and the Fifth Division can arrive in five hours. Coupled with the fact that our army's mine warfare has slowed down the attack speed of the devils, I estimate that by about 12 o'clock at night, the little devils should be in Jinan, and they can pounce on our backs at any time to carry out a flanking attack. As long as we can prevent the Japanese troops on the northern front from crossing the Yellow River before the main force of our army destroys the 14th Division, we will have completed the task. ”

Zhu Liangcai couldn't help but say, "I can't understand it. The main force of our army is so strong, why do you want to let the little devils stride towards Jinan? This Shandong is our base area, which the martyrs exchanged for their lives, how could the division commander give up Jinan so rashly? It is right that our army on the Eastern Front should be ordered to resolutely block it, and the little devils should not be allowed to occupy Weixian."

Cai Zhong said with a smile: "Okay, you Zhu Liangcai, you have only been the commander of the Jinan Garrison Brigade for a few days, so you can't bear it?" I'm still the mayor of Jinan, how can you guess the deployment of the division commander as a small brigade commander? If the main force of the eastern front of the little devils is not allowed to advance eastward quickly, the main brigade and artillery regiment must be dispatched to block the attack, and the Jiaodong Garrison, Qinghe Garrison Brigade, and Luzhong Garrison Brigade will not be able to stop the devil's armored brigades and mechanized divisions. In this way, it is inevitable to divide the troops to guard, what to use to quickly eliminate the 14th Division? Taking a Jinan city for the 14th Division and the 35th Division, which were independently mixed into the 13th Brigade, made a lot of money and told me that the division commander was a stroke of genius and completely conformed to the principle of our army's mobile and flexible operations."

Zhu Liangcai smiled embarrassedly: "I also know that it is worth exchanging an empty city for two divisions, but as soon as my Jinan garrison brigade was formed, I lost Jinan City." I can't explain to the elders of Jinan, and I can't explain to the soldiers. It's a fire in my heart."

Zeng Zhongsheng was impatient, waved his hand and said: "It's all big men, where is there so much verbosity, hurry up to the positions of the brigades, and tell the soldiers to prepare for artillery and poison." The little devils are about to start attacking, and this time, they must be concentrating artillery artillery on our river defense positions. We have to be careful. ”

Zeng Zhongsheng guessed correctly, after the large army of devils on the west bank arrived, they even learned the method of concentrated artillery fire of the Eighth Route Army, and concentrated the artillery of the 1st, 23rd, 32nd, and 36th divisions, lined up in a line, and bombarded the positions on the east bank.

Under the cover of artillery fire, the little devils began to attack. The focus of the attack was naturally the Luokou Yellow River Iron Bridge, and there were also little devils who tried to spread wheat straw, sorghum stalks, corn stalks and even military quilts on the ice of the Yellow River, and wanted to launch a direct attack through the Yellow River.

The cunning little devil, after completing a round of shelling, immediately began to fire poison gas bombs, intending to catch the Eighth Route Army by surprise.

The little devil's trick is indeed insidious, seeing that the devil's shelling has stopped, all the units of the Eighth Route Army are busy entering the position, at this time the little devil's poison gas bombs have fallen, and the soldiers are indeed caught off guard.

Fortunately, the Eighth Route Army fought more with the little devils, and knew more about the plots and tricks of the little devils, and when the soldiers went to the position, they simply dipped their towels in the biting water, and those with gas masks also wore gas masks.

If there were only these tricks, Naosaburo Gangbe would have been the chief of staff of the North China Front Army for so long in vain. This old devil had already calculated that the Eighth Route Army would use the Luokou Bridge as a defensive fulcrum, and even blew up the bridge. Therefore, he gathered the cavalry of the 2nd Division, the 23rd Division, the 32nd Division, and the 36th Division, organized them into a cavalry group, and followed the Second Division to act covertly. After successfully crossing the river, he took over the second division to cross the river and began to move north along the river to flank the river defense troops of the Eighth Route Army.

Zeng Zhongsheng had already thought of these tricks of the little devil in advance, and he also made arrangements. However, the current enemy situation is that the Japanese army is concentrating artillery fire to attack the Luokou line, and it is obvious that the main force of the Japanese army is also concentrated here, and it is impossible for him to disperse the main force. In addition, the sky was very cloudy that night, and the little devil cavalry group had already arrived on the bank of the Yellow River. This group of dog-day devils made up their minds to sneak attack, and they all dismounted, without flashlights or torches, climbed on the ice of the Yellow River, and quietly touched it.

By the time Zeng Zhongsheng received the report, the Japanese cavalry group had successfully smuggled across the Yellow River. One company of our army defending Wujiadu was all killed.

Zeng Zhongsheng was taken aback, and while reporting to Liu Yimin, he immediately ordered the Luxi Garrison Brigade to go to block the attack, strive to repel the Japanese cavalry, and drive them across the Yellow River.

Liu Yimin, who received the report, his eyebrows were about to twist.

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