When Tada Jun received the report of the Eighth Route Army's attack on Qingdao, the divisions of the 3rd, 7th, and 8th Brigades had already been deployed between the second and third lines of defense of the Japanese army in Qingdao.

The third line of defense of the Japanese army was from Cangkou to Li Village and to Shazikou by the sea.

According to the operational plan of the Eighth Route Army, after the movement of all units was in place, Li Qing and Chen Dayong commanded the main forces of the 3rd and 7th Brigades to capture Shazikou, Licun, and Cangkou by the eastern, central, and western routes, and directly attacked the urban area of Qingdao; Zhao Shan commanded one regiment each of the Eighth Brigade, the Third Brigade, and the Seventh Brigade and the Artillery Regiment of the Seventh Brigade to attack the strongholds of the second line of defense of the Japanese army.

It was the Seventh Regiment of the Third Brigade that pounced on the mouth of the sand.

The history of the establishment of Shazikou village is very short.

During the Tongzhi period, Dong Dexin of Dongjiabu and Wang Ji of Zhangcun went to Shazikou to open a business house and moved their families to settle down, which led to Shazikou Village, which belonged to Renhua Township, Jimo County. By the time of Guangxu, Shazikou had developed into a large village. A merchant family in the village made a fortune doing maritime business, so they raised funds to build a Tianhou Temple behind Shazikou Village.

Tianhou Temple is composed of three main halls, the main hall is for the queen of heaven, the west hall is for the God of Wealth, and the east hall is for the Dragon King. There is a pair of stone drums on the threshold of Tianhou Temple, there is a flagpole outside the gate and the east and west, the flagpole is about 30 meters high, there is a road in front of the door, and the side of the road is planted with oriental cypress. The temple has two compartments, the road is connected, the east chamber will meet guests, and the west chamber will live. A stage was built on the west side of the temple, and the temple sang on the stage for three days when it was completed. Usually the temple is opened on the first and fifteenth day of each month, the morning bell and dusk drums, the green smoke is swirling, and there is an endless stream of good men and women; Every year at the first month of the first month of the tenth temple fair, the temple worshippers are countless, the gongs and drums are noisy, the firecrackers are ringing in unison, there are many people stepping on stilts and lion dancers, and it is very lively.

There are more people, the temple fair is also started, the market trade is also prosperous, Laoshan specialties are transported from here, the seafood in the Dongjiawan fishing port in the east of the village is transported out, the grain of Haixi is sent from here to the Taoist temple and temple of Laoshan, and the Shazikou is integrated into the second largest set second only to Li Village within a radius of 100 miles. By the time the Germans occupied Qingdao, Shazikou was reduced to a leased land. In the early years of the Republic of China, an 80-meter seawall was built, a customs sub-card was set up, and the status of Shazikou was suddenly improved. After the Japanese army occupied Qingdao, it set up a stronghold here, and built a customs sub-card, a tax office, a police station and other units. When the Eighth Route Army occupied Qingdao for the first time, these units were cleaned up by the Eighth Route Army. After the reoccupation of the Japanese army, these settings were restored.

At 6 o'clock in the evening of November 26, the fishing fire in Dongjiawan Fishing Port was lit, reflecting the sea surface incomparably clear and unfathomable. The searchlights of the Shazikou devil's stronghold streak across the night sky from time to time, coupled with the occasional dog barking and the mournful whistle of the little devils, remind people from time to time that Shazikou is now a period of Japanese occupation.

This is the time for dinner.

Niu Liangzi, the commander of the first battalion of the Seventh Regiment, led the whole battalion to the outside of Shazikouji, and in front of them was the Japanese army's defensive trench.

This defensive trench was dug by the Japanese army after reoccupying Qingdao, starting from the coast of Banqiaofang in the west, passing through Xida Village, Li Village, China and South Korea to Shazikou, with a total length of 16 kilometers, a depth of 5 meters, a width of 4 meters, a card is set up along the main road of the trench, a pillbox is built every l-200 meters, and troops are sent to guard it day and night. This was the third line of defense of the Japanese army.

Shazikou was an important fulcrum of the third line of defense of the Japanese army, in addition to the pillboxes, there were three artillery towers, lined up, facing north for defense.

At this time, it was night, the Japanese pillbox was black and hollow, the searchlight on the turret was very bright, and the suspension bridge was also pulled high.

Niu Liangzi called Song Wenhu, the commander of the first company, and explained in a low voice: "Send a squad to quietly go over, go down to the defensive trench, and see if the little devil is doing anything famous in the trench." ”

As soon as Niu Liangzi waved his hand, the sharp knife squad crawled forward, avoiding the Japanese searchlights, and after reaching the edge of the defensive trench, the soldiers pulled it with a tie, and the two fighters slipped down. After a while, the explosion of a mine sounded. At this moment, the searchlights on the three devil turrets on the side of the defensive trench were all swept over, the turrets and pillboxes were all fired, and the machine guns rattled and swept in the direction of the mine explosion.

Niu Liangzi was so angry that he threw his fist to the ground, turned around and shouted: "Open the cannon, knock out the little devil's bunker and turret for Lao Tzu!" ”

The Seventh Regiment is the main force of the Third Brigade, and its weapons and equipment are originally on par with the First Brigade and the Second Brigade and the Fourth Regiment.

Niu Liangzi gave an order, and the four infantry guns of the fire support battalion of the 7th Regiment under the command of the 1st battalion spoke, and the soldiers hit it accurately, and the shells fell on the devil's turret, and the searchlight of the little devil was extinguished on the spot.

As soon as the cannon of the Eighth Route Army sounded, the little devil immediately knew that he had been attacked, and the terrible whistle sounded, not only the devil on combat duty shot, but the little devil who was eating put down his rice bowl and ran to the fortification, and opened the gun and ping pong.

Niu Liangzi saw that after the four infantry guns were fired, the little devil's turrets and pillboxes were still firing, and he immediately knew that the intelligence of the brigade reconnaissance company was accurate, and the Japanese army in Qingdao was well studied, and they guarded the port with convenient transportation, and the turrets and pillboxes in important strongholds were all reinforced concrete, not the brick and wood structures of the past.

Niu Liangzi immediately ordered the infantry artillery to shoot flat, aiming at the devil's shooting hole, and ordered the anti-aircraft guns to be brought up, and the bazooka group moved forward to resolutely knock out the roadblockers.

At this time, the firepower of the little devils was brought into play, and the bazooka group could not rely on it, so it could only rely on anti-aircraft guns and infantry guns with a long range.

A Gaoping dual-purpose cannon was pushed up by the soldiers, Niu Liangzi was in a hurry, crawled on the ground and shouted: "Feng Yicang, what are you rubbing?" Aim and fire! ”

This Gaoping dual-purpose cannon is from the regimental fire support battalion, because it can shoot flat, one hit and one accurate, basically one shot, the soldiers omitted the gunner's name, and they all called him Feng Yicang.

A good Feng Yicannon, busy but not chaotic, stretched out his finger to visually measure the distance, shouted the data parameters in his mouth, and adjusted the angle. After fiddling, reload and fire. The shell flew out of the muzzle, spun, and drilled into the firing hole on the third floor of the devil's turret in the front, and exploded with a "boom".

Niu Liangzi shouted happily: "Feng Yicang, good job." When you enter Qingdao, Lao Tzu invites you to eat French steak! Hit, keep fighting! ”

Feng Yicang opened his mouth and smiled, adjusted the angle, and with a bang, another shell flew out. It's still the reinforced concrete turret, but it was three floors just now, this time it's the top floor, and after an explosion, the devil machine guns on this floor are dumb.

The four infantry guns attached to the fire support battalion also began to fire horizontally, and even the mortars of the first battalion fire support company also began to fire horizontally. Now, the devils in the Shazikou stronghold are hairy, they can't imagine that such a strong fortification has become a living coffin! Not to mention the little devils in the bunker, as long as a cannonball goes in, it is impossible for a single person to live. The devils in the turret are different, those devils who have not yet been shelled and are lucky to be alive can't hold on, so they run out of the turret and run into the trenches, trying to block the Eighth Route Army with the trenches.

Kill the devil's turret and bunker, and this battle will be easy to fight. Niu Liangzi ordered to concentrate machine guns and artillery fire to suppress the devils, and ordered the supplementary company to carry up the wooden rafters and planks that had been pursued long ago, build a bridge, and let the troops rush into the town.

Blessed are the little devils in Shazikou, they have come to Qingdao, and their minds are the first in the world of the Continental Army, where would they have thought that the Eighth Route Army would give them a vivid and vivid lesson in the allocation and use of firepower in the small Shazikou, and they can only dance in the fire net woven by heavy machine guns, light machine guns, Bayi automatic rifles, submachine guns, and 38 big covers.

Under the cover of strong firepower, the fighters of the supplementary company of the 1st battalion of the 7th Regiment rushed up with long wooden rafters and planks and set up on the defensive ditch.

Niu Liangzi roared: "Blow the trumpet and rush into the sand!" ”

The tick-tock charge horn sounded, and Song Wenhu, the commander of the first company, took the lead in rushing up, stepping on the bridge made of wooden rafters and planks, and rushing through the defensive ditch.

The Eighth Route Army won the first battle of the battle to capture Qingdao, and Shazikou once again fell into the hands of our army.

Not long after Niu Liangzi stormed Shazikou, Pan Mingliang, the commander of the cavalry battalion of the Seventh Brigade of the Red Devil, led the cavalry battalion to Cangkou.

During the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, Xu Ling, the commander of Jimo County, proposed in the "Discussion on Local Affairs" that the land of Jimo was barren and the people were poor, and it was advisable to open Haikou for north-south maritime trade. Cangkou immediately became Haikou, mainly loading and unloading the grain purchased by the Laoshan Taoist Institute from Haixi, and built a warehouse for storing grain on the shore, called "Granary Haikou", simply called "Cangkou". Hence the name "Kuraguchi".

During the Xianfeng period of the Qing Dynasty, the Qing government's East Customs in Yantai began to set up a permanent customs sub-card in Cangkou to collect taxes. Cangkou has since become a regular wharf.

After the German occupation of Qingdao, Qingdao Customs was set up, a sub-card was set up at Cangkou Wharf, a slipway was built, and a two-story building was built, and customs, tax cards, posts and telecommunications were all upstairs for office, which was the famous "small yamen" in the history of Qingdao. Because the terrain of this street near the sea has been sharply reduced, the common people call it "Lower Street". This street south to the small yamen and the wharf slipway, north to the Jiaoji Road Cangkou Railway Station, by boat, by car all pass here, for a time all kinds of business shops are lined up, very lively.

It's not just the lower streets, because of the convenient transportation, Cangkou developed rapidly, and there were 21 streets in 1910. Cangkou, Dongzhen and Shili are the three places that are very famous in the minds of old Qingdao people.

Pan Mingliang is luckier than Niu Liangzi, the status of Cangkou is much more important than Shazikou, and it is impossible for the Japanese army's defense ditch to use a suspension bridge, which is a regular bridge to pass, otherwise it will not be able to meet the needs of freight.

The cavalry battalion of the Seventh Brigade led by Pan Mingliang is also a strong force that has been tested many times in battle. During the night battle of Fangzi in the Luzhong Campaign, Pan Mingliang made a name for himself as a cavalry battalion of the Seventh Brigade in the first battle, and insisted that Liu Yimin approve the establishment of an artillery company and a heavy machine gun company, which became a standard cavalry reinforcement battalion.

At this time, Qingdao was the rear of the Japanese army, and hundreds of thousands of troops were chasing and sweeping the Eighth Route Army on the front line. Therefore, when the cavalry battalion of the 7th Brigade wrapped the horse's hooves with cotton and carefully moved to the vicinity of Cangkou, the devils in the Cangkou defensive trench stronghold did not notice it at all.

At this time, Pan Mingliang was polite to the little devil, leaving the artillery company and the heavy machine gun company to establish a position in concealment, and deal with the little devil's firepower from the front, and he took the lead, leading three cavalry companies, stepping over the bridge on the defensive trench like a whirlwind, and rushing into Cangkou.

Cavalry stormed into the backyard of the Japanese army, what was that scene?

Pan Mingliang rushed through the defensive trench and ran into the devil's patrol head-on. The five devils, carrying guns, stood there in a daze, looking at the roaring cavalry of the Eighth Route Army, and even forgot the action of the gun under the shoulder.

Pan Mingliang didn't look at the little devil, he lay on the horse, and the war knife in his right hand was waved flatly, and with the speed of the war horse, the blade was gently pulled through the throats of the five little devils standing in a straight line. Blood, spurting out of the throat of the little devil, has achieved Pan Mingliang's reputation of "killing five enemies with one knife".

With a sword success, Pan Mingliang straightened up on his horse, pointed forward with his sword, and the three cavalry companies were divided into three teams, and then into nine teams, galloping towards the docks, railway stations, devil barracks, police stations and other targets. The soldiers of these target cavalry battalions have long been familiar with each other, and they know very well where there are devils.

Pan Mingliang himself led three bazooka groups to rush behind the devil's turret and bunker, and he wanted to fire from behind the little devil's ass and beat him all over the ground to find his teeth.

At this time, the devils in the turret and bunker had already woken up, the searchlights were shining everywhere, and the machine guns and rifles were firing fiercely, and the artillery company and heavy machine gun company of the cavalry battalion of the Seventh Brigade were facing each other.

The three bazooka groups are in the city of Dafa this time, they are behind the devils, and the firepower of the little devils is attracted, and no one notices them.

Pan Mingliang explained in a low voice: "Don't panic, aim accurately, solve a pillbox with a rocket, and then concentrate on solving the turret." ”

The reason for this order is that once the fire of the little devil's pillbox is turned, it can threaten the safety of the bazooka group.

The current bazooka fighters of the Eighth Route Army are not the bazooka fighters when the 21st Brigade of the Fifth Division was eliminated in Qi County. At that time, the bazooka was the first time to participate in the war, and whether it would work or not, the bazooka players did not know the bottom of their hearts. After more than two years of actual combat training, the bazooka hands of the Eighth Route Army have become experts, and work such as building pillboxes and artillery towers is accurate one by one.

The power of rockets is much greater than that of infantry artillery shells, and the pillboxes and turrets of Rao is a little devil are all made of reinforced concrete, and they cannot withstand the blows of rockets.

A rocket drilled through the firing hole of a bunker, and with a bang, a fireball rose up in the bunker, and the little devils inside needless to say returned to it.

Another rocket was fired, and another fireball was raised.

Pan Mingliang looked at it and smiled, he was young after all, and he was a little childlike, and he felt that the fireball when the rocket exploded was much better than the firecrackers set off during the Chinese New Year when he was a child.

After solving the devil's turret and pillbox, and the follow-up troops caught up, Pan Mingliang led the three bazooka groups towards Cangkou Road.

Niu Liangzi fought at Shazikou, Pan Mingliang fought at Cangkou, and the main forces of the 3rd and 7th Brigades were deployed in the front of the 16-kilometer defense line from Cangkou to Shazikou.

The entire battle for the attack on the third line of defense of the Japanese army was not thrilling to speak of. Most of the troops of the Japanese garrison and marines in Qingdao were transferred to participate in the sweeping operation, and only one-third of the troops left on the outer defense line of Qingdao remained. In addition, the combat effectiveness of the Qingdao garrison and the marines is not good, and the equipment is not good, so it is okay to burn and loot behind the butts of the elite divisions, let them play with the elite Teaching Third Brigade and Teaching the Seventh Brigade, not opponents!

The only regret is that the 3rd and 7th Brigades did not have the cooperation of the special combat team, and the gunfire alarmed the garrison of the Guiziliuting Airport and launched a battle with the Eighth Route Army. The Japanese fighters parked at the airport and the civilian planes at the Cangkou airport immediately forcibly took off. In desperation, the Eighth Route Army had no choice but to shell the airfield, destroying most of the Japanese planes, but still a small number of Japanese planes escaped and flew to Tianjin Airport.

After the capture of Shazikou, Licun, and Cangkou, the third line of defense of the Japanese army collapsed on all fronts. The main force of the Seventh Brigade rolled towards Qingdao non-stop.

At this time, Qingdao people think that Qingdao urban area is Tuandao, Xizhen, Zhongshan Road. Like Cangkou, it is very far away in the minds of the old Qingdao people.

The sound of guns and cannons in Shazikou, Li Village, and Cangkou alarmed the devils in the urban area of Qingdao. There are also kinds of little devils, while reporting to the headquarters of the 12th Army and the headquarters of the North China Front that the Eighth Route Army is attacking Qingdao, and at the same time urgently mobilizing and preparing to organize street fighting.

At 11 o'clock in the night, the main force of the Eighth Route Army came to the urban area of Qingdao.

By this time, there was no suspense about occupying Qingdao. In order to alleviate the losses in Qingdao, Li Qing strictly ordered the troops not to use heavy artillery, and to fight with devils and destroy the remnants of the enemy with a resolute spirit and skillful tactical skills. Teach the artillery regiment of the 3rd Brigade to occupy positions and prevent Japanese warships from firing at Qingdao.

Li Qing's enemy situation is unclear at this point. At this time, the Japanese fleet stationed in Qingdao had already rushed to the mouth of the Yellow River, and there was no large fleet in Qingdao. Even if the Japanese fleet received an order to rush to Qingdao, it would not be able to come back now.

The Japanese troops who remained in the urban area of Qingdao are now alone. Whether it was the Marine Corps or the Qingdao garrison, including the Jiaoji Road garrison headquarters and the military stations of various Japanese units stationed in Qingdao, they were all engaged in the battle. Even the expatriates in Qingdao were mobilized, and those who could shoot guns lined up to receive guns; Those who can't shoot guns help the army carry sandbags, build bunkers, and transport ammunition and the wounded. The whole Qingdao city was in a commotion.

It would be a little too late to dream of resistance at this time.

With the bugle ringing, the machine guns ringing, the grenadiers firing, and the grenades exploding, the athletes of the Third and Seventh Brigades of the Eighth Route Army attacked along the streets of Qingdao to pursue the remnants of the enemy.

Although they lost property when the Eighth Route Army first captured Qingdao, they also knew that as long as they did not resist, they would not die, and the Eighth Route Army would not kill unarmed expatriates. These people began to lay down their weapons and run away.

At 3 o'clock in the morning, Li Qing and Chen Dayong jointly sent a telegram to Liu Yimin: "Our army has occupied Qingdao!" ”

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