Chapter 859 Xin'an Ancient Town (II)

After accepting the main attack task, Shen Nantang, commander of the 13th Regiment, and Chen Dong, political commissar of the 13th Regiment, returned to the troops to mobilize at all levels, especially the new regiment and supplementary regiment of the 6th Brigade under the command of the 13th Regiment, which were mobilized to each combat squad. That's not all, after dark, Shen Nantang and Chen Dong led the cadres to find out the mountain pass, arrived close to the puppet army stronghold to conduct reconnaissance, and determined the positions of the infantry guns, heavy machine guns, anti-aircraft guns, anti-aircraft machine guns, and flying thunder guns of the fire support battalion of the 3rd Regiment, and made the attack route of the attacking troops clear. Shen Nantang was afraid that the new regiment and infantry regiment would suffer heavy casualties after pulling them up, so he even made a visual inspection of the distance from the mountain pass to the stronghold of the puppet army.

At 11 o'clock in the evening, Shen Nantang ordered the troops to start a secret movement, first teaching the reconnaissance platoon of the 13th Regiment to set off with a battalion and a regimental fire support battalion, and set off out of the mountain pass to establish a fire support position and an attack position. After the commander of the first battalion reported that the fire support battalion had entered the predetermined position, Shen Nantang ordered the new regiment and the supplementary regiment to move to the starting point of the attack in concealment. Shen Nantang personally led the 2nd and 3rd Battalions of the 13th Regiment and the troops directly under the regiment to follow up.

At this time, all the troops of the Sixth Brigade and the New Sixth Brigade were taught on both sides of the North Maling Mountain Pass Road, and the soldiers needless to say, the passwords that came one after another in front were not allowed to make a sound and keep up, and the war horses and pack horses were all wrapped in cotton cloth to cover the horses' hooves, and the horses were chewed on their mouths, and there was no sound from thousands of troops and horses. Out of the mountain pass and heading east, it is the 14th Regiment of the Teaching, the 6th Brigade Cavalry Battalion, and the New 14th Regiment; Those who went out of the pass to the west were the 15th Regiment and the New 15th Regiment.

The command positions of Shen Nantang and Chen Dong were in the positions of the fire support battalions. He had already observed clearly, the puppet army stronghold was about two miles away from the mountain pass, stuck on the main road, and it was built very strongly, facing the Maling Mountain Pass, there were three turrets, and there were pillboxes under the turrets, and the machine guns in the turrets and pillboxes alone could seal the open ground around the stronghold.

Shen Nantang felt strange, how could the puppet army build such a strong stronghold so quickly? You must know that it was not long before the Eighth Route Army ended the Longhai Road breakthrough battle and counterattack battle, and the Japanese puppet army in Xin'an Town had been attacked, so it was impossible for them to build a stronghold so quickly

Ma Jingfu, the young man who followed Yan Xuan to lead the way for the troops, whispered to Shen Nantang that the Japanese puppet army took this stronghold very seriously, and even the bricks and ash for repairing the turret and pillbox were transported by train.

Only then did Shen Nantang remember that the puppet army in front of him was not the North China Public Security Army, but the puppet Manchurian Advance Army formed by the puppet Manchurian Defense Force, and the equipment and baggage supplies came from the puppet Manchukuo, with strong combat effectiveness and good equipment.

This time, Shen Nantang showed all his belongings. Originally, the last time he was discussing a large-scale expansion of the army in Jinan, Liu Yimin proposed that, in addition to the artillery regiments, antiaircraft artillery battalions, antiaircraft machine gun battalions, and heavy machine gun battalions should be established in each brigade to strengthen firepower. Later, this plan was not adopted due to the consideration of ammunition consumption and the shortage of anti-aircraft guns, mountain artillery, and field artillery. However, the 24 main regiments of the eight main brigades have all changed their fire support battalions into reinforced battalions, with two infantry artillery companies, one antiaircraft machine gun company, one heavy machine gun company, and one thunder artillery company. Among them, the anti-aircraft machine guns were far from enough because they were too few captured, so they were modified with heavy machine guns, that is, tripods were added to the heavy machine guns.

At 1 o'clock in the night, Shen Nantang ordered the attack to begin.

The three battalions of the recruit regiment responsible for attacking the puppet army stronghold began to attack, and the soldiers, under the command of the company and platoon cadres, surrounded the puppet army stronghold and crackled and opened.

The traitor Zang Yinian, who was having diarrhea in the toilet of the pseudo-anti-communist team in Xin'an Town, was alarmed when he opened fire on the recruit regiment of the Sixth Brigade, and he didn't even wipe his buttocks, he stood up in a panic with his pants on, and stuck his head out of the wall of the toilet to take a look. But listening to the voice, there are not only 38 big covers, crooked handles, but also Hanyang-made and Czech-style, it seems that the Eighth Route Army in the mountains is coming

Zang Yinian was as fine as a monkey, fastened his pants and ran back to the dormitory, took out a pistol from under the pillow, woke up Zhou Qingxu with his hand, and pulled it out of the house.

Zhou Qingxu is also a hardcore traitor, he was woken up when he was dreaming of the Spring and Autumn Period, and he followed Zang Yinian out in a daze, until he ran near the south gate of Xin'an Town, and drilled a dog hole out of the town.

At this time, Zhou Qingxu came over in a daze, smelled the smell of wafting from Zang Yinian's body, and quickly stopped and asked what happened.

Zang Yinian pointed to the north with his hand: "Listen, the Eighth Route Army is coming." ”

Only then did Zhou Qingxu hear the dense gunfire in the north. After listening to it for a while, the gunfire seemed to stop, and Zhou Qingxu blamed Zang Yinian for making a fuss, this must be the Tubalu guerrillas, two shots to scare and scare the brothers and brothers, it's okay, go back to sleep

After speaking, Zhou Qingxu turned his head and was about to drill the dog hole to return to Xin'an Town, Zang Yinian grabbed him, saying that he would wait a minute, the Eighth Route Army came to fight in the middle of the night, it was definitely not an ordinary attack, it was better to run quickly, and it might not be able to run away if it was late.

This Zang Yinian and Zhou Qingxu are both traitors in Yaowan Town, they smell the same and are embarrassed, the relationship between the two is very good, and they don't forget to shout each other when they run for their lives.

Zhou Qingxu is accustomed to listening to Zang Yinian, and besides, this Xin'an Town is far inferior to Yaowan, and he has no nostalgia, but he feels sorry for the anti-communist team of more than 30 people who finally pulled up, and the guns are all for him and Zang Yinian.

Zang Yinian saw Zhou Qingxu's thoughts, and said directly: "Those brothers and buddies can't be brought, there are many people and big goals." Not to mention that if you run into the Eighth Route Army, even if you meet Taijun, you will be shot on the charge of escaping. Hurry up."

Zhou Qingxu still said wordy: "The two of us ran away, in case the Eighth Route Army just shook a shot, the imperial army will still shoot us if they catch us in the future." ”

Zang Yinian sneered: "When did the Eighth Route Army give the devil a false shot?" Hurry up and run back to Kiln Bay. ”

These two traitors were too cunning and finally escaped from Xin'an Town. However, he escaped the first day of junior high school, but he couldn't escape the fifth day of junior high school. Zang Yinian may not know that what awaits him in the future is still the public trial and shooting, which will bring shame to the eight generations of his family

When Zang Yinian and Zhou Qingxu heard that the gunfire stopped, it was when the enemy workers of the 13th Regiment were shouting to the puppet soldiers.

It was Ma Xudong, director of the Political Department of the 13th Regiment of Jiao, who shouted to him, only to see him holding an iron horn and shouting loudly: "Brothers of the puppet army, listen, we are the Lunan guerrilla detachment of the Eighth Route Army, and now we have surrounded you. The Chinese do not fight the Chinese, lay down their arms, surrender their guns and do not kill, and the Eighth Route Army treats prisoners preferentially"

This is stipulated in the battle plan, the purpose is to let the puppet army know that it is not the main force of the Eighth Route Army, so that they can ask for help from the devils in Xin'an Town and transfer the devils out of the town.

The puppet army in this stronghold is a battalion of Tian Liusuo's regiment, and the battalion commander is called Hu Wenli, an officer of the great traitor Zhang Haipeng in the northeast.

At this time, Hu Wenli had already been alarmed by the gunfire of the Eighth Route Army, and he was observing with a searchlight when he went up to the turret. At this look, Hu Wenli was taken aback, where did so many dirt roads come out, some wearing military hats, and some wearing white turbans on their heads, really surround the stronghold. The weapons are not bad, there are crooked handles and Czech machine guns.

Hu Wenli has been fighting on the battlefield for a long time and has rich experience in actual combat. Knowing that although his stronghold is strong, there are too few people. After a long time, Tubalu didn't know what kind of conspiracy and tricks he would come up with, and maybe he would engage in some excavation operations and use explosives to blow up his own pillboxes and turrets.

Sure enough, under the cover of machine guns, the Eighth Route Army divided into several routes and began to dig trenches towards the stronghold.

Hu Wenli didn't dare to delay time, grabbed the phone and shouted. He reported to Tian Liusho and asked for reinforcements.

As soon as Hu Wenli put down the phone, the gunfire of the Eighth Route Army stopped, and he began to shout in front of the battle.

As soon as Ma Xudong's voice fell, Hu Wenli shouted on the turret: "Tu Balu, listen, Lao Tzu is the commander of Hu Wenli's Hu battalion in the Manchurian Advance Army, there is a kind of you who attack and try to see if you can bite Lao Tzu's ball."

After shouting, Hu Wenli laughed wildly.

Before the whisper fell, a "horn hook" sounded, and a bullet drilled through the shooting hole, knocking over the deputy battalion commander who was huddled around Hu Wenli.

Hu Wenli was stunned for a moment, grabbed a machine gun mount and opened fire on the shooting hole, shouting as he fought: "Hit Lao Tzu and kill all the eight roads of the earth"

The puppet army's turrets, machine guns, and rifles in the bunkers all opened fire, and the bullets traced in the night sky, flying towards the Eighth Route Army, which was digging trenches.

After fighting for about five minutes, the Eighth Route Army did not return fire, Hu Wenli drilled into the shooting hole to see that the Eighth Route Army was still digging trenches, and the soil of one shovel and one shovel was turned over to both sides of the trenches, and the flying dust obscured the strong light of the searchlights a little blurred.

Hu Wenli knew that he had met a formidable opponent, and if the imperial army did not reinforce it, the Eighth Route Army only needed to dig the trenches in front of the stronghold, and the next thing was to bomb the pillboxes and artillery towers.

Hu Wenli didn't care about anything, grabbed the phone and asked for help hoarsely. This time, Hu Wenli's report was more detailed, and he reported to Tian Liusho and the devils that there were more than 3,000 people defending the stronghold on the Tuba Road, some wearing military uniforms, some wearing ordinary people's clothes, and there were Taisho 11th type light machine guns and Czech light machine guns, but there were no artillery, and they relied on earthwork to approach the artillery tower. Once the Dohachi Road approaches the stronghold, it's over.

Shen Nantang crawled on the position of the fire support battalion, anxiously looking at his watch. Finally, the report of the reconnaissance platoon came, and the Japanese puppet army in Xin'an Town was dispatched. Shen Nantang jumped up and shouted "fire"

The Type 92 infantry guns of the two infantry artillery companies of the 13th Regiment opened fire on the turrets and pillboxes of the puppet army stronghold. What the puppet soldiers didn't expect was that the artillery of the Eighth Route Army was so accurate that the shells could get through the shooting holes of the turret. Not to mention that the puppet army could not have imagined, and most of the Japanese army could not have imagined that the Type 92 infantry gun made in the original Japanese Empire was so magical, not only able to shoot in a curved way, but also to fight tanks, armored vehicles, turrets, and pillboxes horizontally

After the shelling began, the impatient 1st Battalion, the 2nd Battalion, and the 3rd Battalion of the 13th Regiment had already been waiting for the operation, they were not new regiments, they were the real elite of a hundred battles, each company was equipped with a bazooka, and the pillboxes of the puppet army were purely coffins in the eyes of the bazooka fighters.

When a battalion of puppet troops encounters such a well-equipped 13th Regiment, it is like a dog. With the collapse of the three artillery towers and the bunkers being named by the bazooka group of the Eighth Route Army, the battle was basically over, and the new soldiers of the new regiment and the supplementary regiment were dumbfounded.

When the three main battalions of the 13th Regiment roared into the puppet army stronghold, the resistance of the puppet soldiers who were lucky enough to be alive seemed so pale and powerless.

Hu Wenli didn't have to fight and shout again, the turret where he was the first to be shot, and instead of one or two, more than a dozen shots, it had already become a ruin. Hu Wenli also ended his sinful life, not only died completely, but was also buried in the rubble.

Shen Nantang handed over the task of cleaning up the battlefield to the new regiment, and led the 13th regiment and the supplementary regiment to rush towards the north gate of Xin'an Town.

Garrisoned in Xin'an Town were two brigades of the 36th Wing of the 18th Brigade of the 9th Division of the Japanese Army, and the wing commander Fuji Sueyoshi Osa. This wing encountered a counter-assault of the armored group of the Eighth Route Army in the operation of the Eighth Route Army to break through the Longhai Road, and the main force was annihilated, leaving only the wing commander Fuji Suekichi Daisaku with a group of remnants of the defeated general to join the main force of the Sixth Division and the Ninth Division. After all, it was the main wing, and Lieutenant General Kiichiro, commander of the 9th Division, immediately transferred three of the four brigades of the divisional supplementary team to the 36th Wing, so that the 36th Wing was fully established. Later, after accepting the task of garrisoning Longhai Road, Higuchi Jiichiro put the 36th Wing in Xin'an Town, with the purpose of giving the 36th Wing more opportunities to fight and hone the troops. Because Xin'an Town is the main road from Lunan to Northern Jiangsu, the Eighth Route Army is likely to make a move in the direction of Xin'an Town.

When Hu Wenli reported for the first time, the commander of the puppet army, Tian Rokusho, got up from the bed and went to Fujii Sueyoshi Daisa in a panic to ask for reinforcements. It was night, the enemy situation was unknown, and Fuji Isueyoshi Daisa, who had suffered a heavy loss from the Eighth Route Army, was extremely cautious, and told Tian Rokusho with a smile that the stronghold was strong, and the Eighth Route of the Earth would definitely be destroyed. When Hu Wenli reported for the second time that it was a group of Tubalu and there was no artillery, Fujii Sueyoshi Daisa was moved, could it be that the Eighth Route Army seized the characteristics of the imperial army not sending reinforcements at night and specifically captured the stronghold of Maling Pass? This stronghold is very important, if it is captured by the Eighth Route Army, they can wantonly attack Xin'an Town.

Fujii Sueyoshi Daisa decided to send reinforcements. He sent a brigade, driving armored vehicles, to reinforce Hu Wenli's department with Tian Liusuo, and he also took another brigade out of Xin'an Town, where he deployed on the blockade ditch position outside the town to observe the battlefield.

Fuji Suekichi Osa is careful enough, the problem is that the Eighth Route Army counted him to death. No sooner had his reinforcements passed through the blockade ditch than the sound of shells exploding from the direction of Hu Wenli's stronghold. Fujii Sueyoshi Daisa was immediately alert, and immediately ordered reinforcements to withdraw, stick to the blockade ditch position, and prepare to meet the attack of the Eighth Route Army.

Just when the reinforcements of the Japanese puppet army withdrew to the south of the blockade ditch, the artillery regiment of the Sixth Brigade of the Eighth Route Army on Maling Mountain opened fire, first with a test shot, and then a group of 48 shells fell on the blockade ditch position of the Japanese puppet army. Fujii Suekichi Daisa scolded Baga, and ordered the troops to dodge the shelling, and at the same time ordered the four mountain guns attached to the wing artillery squadron to enter the position and prepare to intercept the infantry attack of the Eighth Route Army.

Fuji Sueyoshi Daisa has learned the power of the Eighth Route Army, and his reaction is fast enough. But the artillery of the Eighth Route Army seemed to have eyes, and they aimed specifically at the positions of the devils. Where there are many little devils, the cannonballs will fall on the spot. Fuji Suekiyoshi Osa, who has rich experience in actual combat, knew that in the night opposite the blockade ditch, there must be artillery observers of the Eighth Route Army hidden in the night, guiding the artillery shelling.

If it were daylight, Fujii Sueyoshi Osa would definitely send troops across the blockade ditch to search for the artillery observers of the Eighth Route Army and relieve the danger. But now it was night, and the danger was great, and Fujii Sueyoshi Daisa did not dare to do that, so he could only keep ordering the troops to retreat and get out of the area covered by the artillery of the Eighth Route Army.

The artillery regiment of the 6th Brigade did not shell for a long time, Fujii Sueyoshi Daisa looked at the watch, and it was only 30 minutes. But it was in this short 30 minutes that the Japanese puppet army's barrier blockade trench position was blown to pieces, not to mention the casualties of the Japanese puppet army. In just 30 minutes, more than 300 of his soldiers were shattered. As for the casualties of the puppet army, Fuji Sueyoshi Osa was not in the mood to count, just by looking at the sad face of Tarokusho, he knew that it was not much better.

At this time, Fujii Sueyoshi Osacai ordered to report to the brigade headquarters and division headquarters that it was attacked by the Eighth Route Army, the Maling Pass stronghold was lost, and the main force of the wing was covered by the artillery group of the Eighth Route Army, and suffered heavy losses.

After sending a telegram asking for help, Fujii Sueyoshi Daisa took advantage of the time when the artillery of the Eighth Route Army stopped shelling to reorganize his troops and prepare to meet the Eighth Route Army, which was about to attack. He knew that after the shelling, it would inevitably be an attack by the infantry of the Eighth Route Army. This time, he made full preparations, so that the four mountain guns directly under the wing and the eight infantry guns of the two infantry brigades were ready to shell the attacking infantry of the Eighth Route Army, and chose the opportunity to attack the artillery positions of the Eighth Route Army covering the infantry attack, so that the artillery of the Eighth Route Army could not shell their own infantry positions at will.

Shen Nantang led the 13th Regiment and the Supplementary Regiment to advance in the darkness of the night, and at a distance of two kilometers from the Devil's blockade ditch, they began to stop their advance, set up a regimental command post on the spot, and ordered the 1st Battalion to send a platoon to carry out a search attack on the Devil's blockade ditch position.

Shen Nantang knew that the Ninth Division of the Little Devil was strong in combat, even if the shelling just now consumed part of the Devil's troops, but as long as the Little Devil still had the strength of a large brigade, and the troops rushed forward blindly, the casualties would be so large that he would lose face to be the commander of the 13th Regiment again.

Shen Nantang's idea was very simple, to use a small force to search and attack to attract the Japanese puppet army to the position, so that the brigade artillery regiment could ravage the devils again and reduce the casualties that might be caused by a frontal attack.

Dear book friends: I really can't finish this chapter today. That's it, I'll write it tomorrow morning. Thank you