In the early morning, the sun was exceptionally soft, and the wind gently blew through the villages and fields, soaking the air in a particularly fresh air. If there were no xiǎo devils, this day would have been a day for the girls to communicate with each other, a day for the peasants to apply féi and hoe grass in the fields, and a day for the children to sit in the classroom and recite "Biyù is made into a tree high, and ten thousand green silk ribbons hang down." I don't know who cut out the thin leaves, and the February chūn wind is like scissors". It's a pity that the Xiǎo devil is coming to the Jilu side, and this day is destined to become a day of blood and fire!

Yu Hongyin held the binoculars, looked at the devil cavalry who were shooting the horse south, and muttered to himself: "This time should be the time for my daughter-in-law to cook soup for my father's mother, I don't know if she knows today if she will put more green onions." My dad is old, and what he eats is not fragrant, so he has to put some chopped green onions, otherwise, my dad will definitely drink half a bowl and not drink it. Alas, the children don't know if they are crazy to run out, if they run out, it will be over. If you don't run out, you can still follow his mother down the tunnel, and maybe you can pick up a life. ”

Shen Yuanxing listened to what Yu Hongyin said pitifully, sighed, and said: "Old man, you are much better than me, and you still have your father, mother, wife and children to worry about. At the age of fourteen, I joined the Red Army with a pole and dart, and my father and mother had already died in the Soviet area. It's time to fight with the devil, and there is no one to think about. Cào fuck, this damn world! ”

The most important thing is that he is a scholar among the croppers and a farmer among the scholars, and he has a high prestige among the villagers. As soon as I heard the instructor who usually didn't smile scolding his mother, he knew that today's situation was extremely dangerous, and he was afraid that he would have to stay here with more than 100 catties. But he was born xìng open-minded, fighting devils, how can there be no sacrifice, death is death, it's not a big deal, so he smiled and said: "Instructor, after this battle, I promise to find you a very handsome daughter-in-law." You don't know, we have a private school gentleman there, and the three girls in his family are good-looking, good-looking, and everyone knows about them. As long as we can survive, I asked my father to come forward to protect the media, and I can say it. Who in this area doesn't know that my instructor is an old Red Army? ”

Shen Yuanxing, who said it, also grinned: "Okay, after this battle, I'll go and see the girl you said, maybe the brigade commander will go to protect my old man!" Get ready to fight, the devils are up! ”

After the devil cavalry crossed Jixiantun, they continued to search south.

The devil fought an iron-clad encirclement and a surprise attack, and what he wanted was the speed of the attack, and before the Eighth Route Army could react, an encirclement should be formed, and then the encirclement would be constantly shrunk, and the main force of the Eighth Route Army on the Jilu border would be surrounded and annihilated. Therefore, the villages and towns where the devils passed, only the xiǎo troops were left to clear them, and the main force drove straight in.

What the devil didn't expect was that since Liu Yimin's Xiangjiang River rebuilt the Red Eighteenth Regiment, the troops had formed a tradition of camping and guarding, and they had never been successfully attacked by any enemy since the formation of the army. As soon as the Xiǎo devil went south from the Ziya River, he alerted the lurking post of the new 18th Regiment and gave the troops a warning time.

Originally, the new 18th Regiment could not fight this battle, they should have taken companies and platoons as units, entered the tunnels, and after the main force of the devils had passed, they would fight tunnel warfare and mine warfare with the devils, and carry out guerrilla warfare behind enemy lines. However, the Japanese army was suddenly attacked by a large corps, and the new 18th Regiment had to make every effort to stop the devils and buy time for the villagers in the base area to transfer. The new 18th regiment has no choice!

The devil cavalry came up, the steel helmet glistened in the sun, the saber glistened in the sun, and even the saddle sheath on the war horse glistened in the sun.

Shen Yuanxing is an old Red Army, and he is old in war. No matter how many devils there are, he is not afraid. The division commander repeatedly stressed that even if any unit of our army is encircled by devils, it must not panic, calmly respond to the enemy, and dare to fight to the death with devils. Is it a war, it's just that the main force of the instructor fights, and they all plan first, and take the initiative to attack the devils, and it rarely happens that they are surrounded by a surprise attack by the devils. Although the northern front blocking troops were almost dumplings by devils during the last Taixi Campaign, it was also the instructor who took the initiative to block the attack in northwest Lu in order to launch the Taixi Campaign, and there was no problem of being raided by devils. Today is a standard raid by xiǎo devils, and Shen Yuanxing thinks that it is a blessing to catch up with this kind of thing. What is Workhorse? The main force is Mount Tai collapsed in front and remained unchanged, that is, in the face of the siege of the devil army and did not move. Shen Yuanxing believes that his second battalion is a well-deserved main force, and today is the best opportunity to test the combat effectiveness of the second battalion.

Especially since going north to resist Japan, I have fought so many battles with xiǎo devils, and I know the law of devils fighting, and basically the search team is in front. What he wants to fight is the search team of the devils, and after killing the search team of the devils, he will withdraw the troops into the village and rely on the village to block the devils. There are villages to rely on, and there are tunnels to rely on, as long as you hold on until dark, it is the world of the Eighth Route Army, and you can fight and withdraw if you want.

The location of the 2nd Battalion is equivalent to the front of the new 18th Regiment's triangular position. On the left and right flanks behind the second battalion were the positions of the first and third battalions. The regimental headquarters led the troops directly under the battalion behind the first battalion.

The image of the xiǎo devil cavalry became clearer and clearer, until he could see the facial features of the xiǎo devil clearly, Shen Yuanxing was yelling "hit", and the barge gun in his hand was aimed at the happiest devil cavalry running at the front. The xiǎo devil who screamed in his mouth and was full of excitement was immediately knocked off his horse.

With the gunfire of Shen Yuanxing, the second battalion fired, with the drainage and irrigation canal outside Sizhuang Village as the main position, east to Luo Zhuangzi, west to Donghuaizhuang, the light and heavy machine guns and rifles of the Eighth Route Army were all aimed at the devil cavalry in a straggler formation south. The sound of da-da-da, bang-bang, like the joyful singing of the birds in the first chūn, awakened the Jilubian who was intoxicated in the first chūn.

Suddenly attacked, the devil cavalry was like dumplings, fluttering and falling straight down, but they couldn't stop their forward impact, habitually carrying the hooves of the devil cavalry, still rushing towards the position of the Eighth Route Army like moths to the fire.

When the cavalry units were fighting, they were most afraid of being hit by fire from the infantry positions when they charged. In that case, the speed advantage of the cavalry would translate into a disadvantage of hastening their demise. Thus, since the birth of the Maxim heavy machine gun, infantry fire has become a nightmare for cavalry units. This is also the reason why every time Liu Yimin used cavalry troops, in addition to the enemy, it was used when the Japanese army was defeated by artillery fire.

The devil cavalry, who had been beaten by the infantry of the Eighth Route Army like a drunk man, finally woke up from their dreams and turned around and retreated. The bullets of the Eighth Route Army chased them from behind, and it was not until the devil ran out of the shè that the Eighth Route Army stopped shè attacking.

Although Yu Hongyin is a battalion commander, his strength is that he is good at mobilizing the masses, and when it comes to operational command, he is far from Shen Yuanxing, who was born as a red ghost. Therefore, during the battle, the second battalion was commanded by Shen Yuanxing. Seeing the retreat of the devil cavalry, Yu Hongyin wanted to order the troops to pick up the spoils of war. Shen Yuanxing stopped him and ordered all companies to immediately withdraw to the village, plant anti-tank mines, and bomb yào bags, and prepare to deal with the attack of the devil infantry.

As soon as the 2nd Battalion withdrew from the drainage and irrigation canal position outside the village, the tank guns of the Xiǎo devils came over, and the machine guns on armored vehicles, motorcycles, and automobiles poured bullets on the Eighth Route Army's position, which was equivalent to covering the position that the Eighth Route Army had just blocked with firepower. It didn't take long for the devil artillery to seem to have established a position, and after a single shot, shells fell one after another.

When I looked at it, the xiǎo devil was really generous, and the cannonballs were so expensive, how could they smash them down as if they didn't cost money, and blew up the drainage and irrigation canals.

Smacking his lips, he said, "Instructor, looking at the posture of the xiǎo devils, eighty percent will raze the few villages we are guarding to the ground. ”

Shen Yuanxing looked at the density of the devil's artillery fire, and said lightly: "Xiǎo devil is those few moves, the artillery bombards for a while, the plane blows up, and then the infantry charges." Nothing to be afraid of. Ordered each company to put the xiǎo devil into the village to fight, and immediately make incendiary bottles to prepare to deal with the devil tank. Pay attention to saving bullets, today is a good day to practice shè shooting, and strive to eliminate a devil with one bullet. ”

The devil's artillery began to extend the shelling, the shells fell at the entrance of Sizhuang Village and Zhuangzi, explosions were heard one after another, and some thatched houses began to catch fire.

The villagers had moved into the tunnels, but the pigs, cows, and donkeys could not get down the tunnels, and they were frightened by the explosion of the shells, and began to cry out in annoyance.

As soon as they saw that a thatched house was on fire, the militiamen who commanded the villagers to go down the tunnel rushed out and braved artillery fire to put out the fire.

Just when the devil's artillery fire was extended, the devil's infantry, under the cover of tanks and armored vehicles, launched an attack on the position of the Eighth Route Army. As a result, the Xiǎo devil was greatly disappointed, and the position of the Eighth Route Army, which had just been gunshot-shattering, was empty. Dirt Eight Road slipped away!

Some unlucky xiǎo devils didn't know how powerful they were and jumped into the drainage and irrigation canals, wanting to rush over and attack the village directly. This jumped in only to find that there was a trap in the drainage and irrigation canal, and the thunder arranged by the Eighth Route Army exploded one after another, and it was immediately a crying father and mother.

Annoyed and angry, the Japanese army immediately aimed their attacks at Luozhuang, Sizhuang, and Donghuaizhuang, and began to launch a tentative attack.

As a result of the attack on the Japanese cavalry search team just now, the Xiǎo devil had already decided that he had encountered the main force of the Eighth Route Army, and his actions became extremely cautious. In addition, the 1st and 2nd Divisions are the old permanent divisions of the Japanese army, and the training of soldiers, weapons and equipment are all first-class, and the combat effectiveness is needless to say that they are also first-class.

The devils came too suddenly, and it was too late to lay mines on a large scale outside the village, so they could only lay anti-tank mines and bomb bags at the entrance of the village, which were all used to deal with devil tanks and armored vehicles, and could not be used to deal with devil infantry.

The Xiǎo devil infantry came up and began to set up light and heavy machine guns and grenadiers at a distance of 300 meters from the entrance of the village, and attacked the entrance of the village. The four devil tanks roared and pounced in a formation towards the entrance of Sizhuang Village. The xiǎo devil behind the tank, bent over, ran with the speed of the tank's movement.

When he was about to reach the entrance of the village, the turret on the devil tank turned, and his butt was slammed, and a bang was a cannon, which blew up the Mén building at the entrance of the village. At this moment, an anti-tank mine exploded, and the first devil tank was stunned and lay on its stomach.

The devil tank in the back immediately turned around and fired at the earthen fence at the entrance of the village. Several shells were fired, and several gaps appeared in the wall. The devil tank roared towards the breach, intending to run over the gap and rush into the village.

Shen Yuanxing has already ordered the xiǎo devils to be put into the village to fight, the purpose is to get mixed up with the xiǎo devils and not suffer from the devil's shells. Therefore, the Eighth Route Army in the village did not fight back, and watched as the Xiǎo Devil Tank collapsed the wall and guided the Devil Infantry into the village.

In the North China Plain at this time, only the county seat occasionally had western-style buildings built of reinforced concrete, and the villages and towns were all brick houses or mud-walled tile houses, and even thatched houses in most places. Xiangsi Village, the village is not xiǎo, but the houses are basically earthen walls, only a few large families have pure brick houses, after the Xiǎo devil tank enters the village, it is simply a rampage, if the Eighth Route Army does not take out the devil tank, with the remaining three tanks, it is easy to raze the entire village to the ground.

Just as the devil tank rushed into the village and marched along the main road in the middle of the village, the Eighth Route Army made a move, several Molotov cocktails were thrown out of a courtyard, and the first tank fell onto it, and soon it exploded and caught fire, wrapping the devil tank in flames.

When the two tanks in the back saw that the first tank was on fire, they hurriedly reversed, trying to avoid the blow. But it's easy to get in, but it's hard to get out. Molotov cocktails were thrown out one after another, enveloping the second and third tanks in flames.

The Japanese infantry who followed behind the tank was very experienced in combat, and immediately threw grenades into the courtyards on both sides, trying to kill the Eighth Route Army in the courtyard and rescue the tank.

In order to cover the soldiers in the battle, the villagers in the base area have long opened up the yard with the yard according to the requirements of the Eighth Route Army, and put a bundle of sorghum stalks to block it in peacetime, and they can enter the yard of the neighbor's house by removing the sorghum stalks during the battle. There was also a ladder next to the house to make it easier for the warriors to get to the house. The courtyard walls facing the main road in the village were cut with shè holes, which were blocked with bricks or stones, and the soldiers needed to shè the outside as long as the bricks and stones were removed.

Now that the devil tank is on fire, the rest of the devil infantry will be easy to deal with. However, there is a key to putting devils into the village to fight, that is, you must let the devils into the village, and you can't beat them out at the entrance of the village, in that case, you will soon attract bombing by devils' planes or artillery shelling, and the village will be destroyed easily. It is necessary to let the xiǎo devils rush to the victory in sight, and they will start a battle for the village with our army, infantry against infantry, rifle against rifle, standing on the same running line.

Although the xiǎo devil tank caught fire, it rushed into the village after all. The devil infantry swarmed in, first set up an attack position at the head of the village, and then began to smash the courtyard mén, blow up the courtyard wall, and fight with the Eighth Route Army courtyard by courtyard.

At this time, it is equivalent to the first goal of Shen Yuanxing and Tong Hongyin has been achieved. After they asked the Fourth and Sixth Companies stationed in Luo Zhuangzi and Donghuai Zhuang to report the situation, they reported to Yang Zhong that they had successfully brought the devil yòu into the village, and they were determined to rely on the village and the tunnels to hold on and buy time for the main force.

After the second battalion was launched, the first battalion and the third battalion were also launched one after another. There is no way, the devil's strength is too huge, the second battalion is only blocking the devil's all the way, the first division and the second division add up to more than 50,000 people, the devil's attack surface is very wide, only with the strength of the new 18th regiment, even if a long snake formation is placed, it will not be able to completely stop the devil.

Different from the fighting style of the 2nd Battalion, Yang Zhong led the Fire Support Battalion to support the 1st and 3rd Battalions, hoping to temporarily block the Xiǎo devils north of the defense line and leave a way for the troops to retreat. Therefore, he strictly ordered the first battalion and the third battalion to hold their positions to the death, and without an order, they were not allowed to let the devils continue to go south. The second battalion was ordered to rely on the village, drag the devils, and hold on to at least two xiǎo before entering the tunnel to transfer.

Fighting courtyard battles and street battles was the specialty of the Eighth Route Army, and it was also one of the training subjects of the Japanese army. The fight between the two sides immediately entered a white heat.

After the fire support company of the 2nd Battalion withdrew into the village, it set up its position in the largest compound in the village. All the heavy machine guns were put up in the room, and a few mortars and grenadiers were also set up, just waiting for the devils to come and serve the food.

As soon as he saw the devil tank guiding the infantry into the village, the devil also established a fire support position at the head of the village, and the heavy machine guns and grenadiers covered the infantry to enter the village to fight, Shen Yuanxing called the fire support company commander, and pointed to the fire support position of the devil infantry at the entrance of the village, and shouted loudly: "Knock it out for Lao Tzu!" ”

Soon, several mortar shells flew over the temple and smashed into the fire position of the Xiǎo Devil, and the gas of the shell explosion overturned the Devil's grenadier and heavy machine gun.

As soon as the devil's heavy firepower was dumbfounded, the heavy machine gun of the Eighth Route Army on the roof roared, and the bullets flew like a wind to the xiǎo devils on the main road in the village, splashing blood everywhere. The xiǎo devil had to lie on the ground, looking for shelter and dodging the bullets.

It's a pity that the good times didn't last long, after the four devil tanks were blown up, the devils transferred twelve tanks at once, and after the four were killed by the bombed yào bag and anti-tank mines at the entrance of the village, they pushed away the bombed tanks that were in the way, and drove towards the village with a bang. The machine guns on the tanks croaked loudly, and the tank guns fired at the house where the machine gunners of the Eighth Route Army were located. The devil tank rose up, and Suo xìng used the tank to hit the courtyard walls and houses of the common people's houses, this trick really worked, and directly destroyed the Eighth Route Army's plan to use the courtyard to fight with the devils.

The wreak havoc of the devil tanks did not last long, and the second battalion was equipped with three rocket groups, each attached to three companies. Shen Yuanxing didn't let them enter the devil tank in the village at first. The reason is very simple, the troops are equivalent to falling into the encirclement of the large army of xiǎo devils, and it is impossible to break through from the ground, so they can only rely on the tunnel movement. There are so many devils, and they are the first and second divisions of Jīng Rui, and there are many tanks and armored vehicles, while the bazooka xiǎo group only has eight rockets per group, and they are gone after the fight. Shen Yuanxing is also counting on relying on them to open a breakthrough and transfer channel for the troops at a critical time!

Now I don't have to. If you delay a little longer, the Xiǎo Devil Tank will blow up or collapse the houses in the village. Shen Yuanxing decisively ordered the bazooka group that accompanied the Wulian operation to attack and defeat the devil tank.

With the firing of the bazooka group, something unexpected happened to Shen Yuanxing and Tong Hongyin, and the Xiǎo Devil Tank actually reversed, covering the retreat of the Devil Infantry, ignoring the bullets pursued by the Eighth Route Army behind him.

Although there are many things that need to be learned from Shen Yuanxing in military command, he is old and has a smart mind, and when he saw the devil's actions, he immediately realized that the devil was going to be poisoned, and shouted anxiously: "Instructor, the devil is going to shell the village." Hurry up and order the fighters to go down the tunnel, it's too late. ”

Shen Yuanxing saw the devil retreating, and he also thought of this verse. You must know that this is a large army of devils, there are many artillery, and maybe there are planes coming to bomb it. He did not dare to hesitate, and immediately ordered all companies to immediately enter the tunnel to avoid the shelling of the devils.

The devil was fighting a surprise battle, and was found and blocked by the Eighth Route Army, and the Gangbu Naosaburo, who had become a eunuch, was furious, and directly ordered the aviation to dispatch to assist the artillery in destroying the villages held by the Eighth Route Army, and clearing all obstacles for the main force to move south quickly.

The last time the North China Front Aviation Group bombed the positions of the Eighth Route Army on the outskirts of Dexian County, Làng spent so many bombs, but there was no inch, and it had already become a laughing stock among the Japanese army. Originally, the Japanese army needed to restock aviation bombs, but the base camp ordered that the North China Front's aviation bombs were temporarily transferred from the Kwantung Army, and the problem was solved at once. After receiving the order of the Wei army to sweep across the Jilu border and provide air cover, Kinoshita Toshitoshi swore to Sugisha Yuan that the aviation had the absolute ability to destroy all positions of the Eighth Route Army. At the beginning, because it was a surprise attack, the Japanese fighters did not move, and after receiving a report from Naosaburo Okabe, Kinoshita Toshitoshi ordered the bombers to take off and assist the infantry in capturing the position of the Eighth Route Army.

By the time the Japanese planes arrived, the Japanese artillery had already covered Sizhuang, Luozhuangzi, and Donghuaizhuang intensively, and after the Japanese planes bombed, the three villages were all in ruins, and the original paradise-like villages could no longer be seen.

Seeing that no more gunshots could be heard on the ground, the Japanese army left a part of the troops to search the tunnel entrance on the ruins, preparing to destroy the tunnel and bī out the Eighth Route Army and the common people in the tunnel. The main force rolled south, like a mad cháo, and rolled towards the positions held by the first and third battalions of the new 18th regiment.

Yang Zhong saw the changes in Sizhuang, Luo Zhuangzi, and Donghuai Village from the binoculars, and his hands trembled with anger. If this fight continues, how many villages will be in ruins on the Jilu border? Xiǎo devils are really fucking beasts, and this kind of crazy behavior can only be done by this kind of fascist army.

Anger to anger, scolding to scolding, the battle has to continue to fight. The Xiǎo devils had already attacked, and the positions of the first and third battalions were full of guns and cannons, and the battle was extremely fierce at the beginning.

Due to the resistance of the 2nd Battalion, the 1st and 3rd Battalions were left with a short but extremely valuable time. At this time, the first and third battalions were able to build positions and lay mines. When the xiǎo devils attacked the positions of the first and third battalions, they suffered a lot.