Located on the east bank of the Zihe River, Zihedian is a village with a long history.

In ancient times, the boat was inconvenient, and the water of the Zihe River was very large, and the travelers traveled all the way, and those who came from the west rested by the Zihe River to wash away the dust; Those who went east lingered by the Zihe River, letting out a few sighs. In general, more and more people came and went from the south to the north, and later the village was formed in the Zhou Dynasty.

During the Spring and Autumn Period, the cemetery of the monarch of Qi was selected in the south of Zihedian Village, and the funeral ceremony was carried out here on the way to the funeral of the Duke of Qi Huan, and the village was renamed "Imperial Funeral Shop". After the Qi State was destroyed by Qin, the widow of the village thought that the name "Imperial Funeral Shop" was inauspicious, and the surname Suo was renamed Qinglong Street, also known as Zihe Street. But after changing it, people felt that everything was a floating cloud, or the name Zihedian was more in line with the characteristics of the riverside village, so they called the village Zihedian.

After the Jiaoji Road was repaired, a railway station was set up in Zihedian to facilitate passenger and freight transportation. The Jiqing Highway also turned a corner here, clinging to the railway. The two communication arteries, like lovers clinging to each other, wind and rise, dancing and dancing.

Lei Ming and Zhu Rui led the 10th Regiment, the 11th Regiment, the New Fourth Regiment, the Luzhong Reading Regiment, the Artillery Regiment and the Heavy Machine Gun Battalion all the way north, passing through the Erwang Tomb between the Purple Mountain, Niushougang, and Sutou Mountain south of Zihedian.

Lei Ming raised the binoculars and took a look, and saw that the devil army column was very majestic, with an armored patrol car guarding the front and rear, and the first military train was a ticket car, which was long and had more than a dozen carriages. The second and third were coal trucks, but most of the slabs were lowered and turned into flatbed trucks, all pulled by tanks and artillery. Wagons without compartments must have been loaded with ammunition or soldiers.

Lei Ming said hatefully: "Half an hour late, otherwise, Lao Tzu will even have a pot of military columns and convoys!" ”

Zhu Rui now knows Lei Ming very well, knowing that he was transferred from the Red Fifth Division of the Red Third Army to the Red Eighteenth Regiment, and also knowing that he served as the commander of the recruit battalion after he arrived at the Red Eighteenth Regiment. It can be said that from Lei Ming, you can see the growth process of the Eighth Route Army instructor.

Seeing Lei Ming's look of regret like losing a baby, Zhu Rui was not polite, and said directly: "Okay, don't be greedy, our task is the devil's car unit, and the devils on this army are cleaned up, and the main force of the third brigade is waiting for them in front!" Hurry up, don't let the devil convoy slip away again. ”

Lei Ming sighed again: "Not to mention, Li Qing's command level is getting higher and higher, and the action time of each unit of the little devil is just right." I'm afraid this guy was deployed like this long ago before we couldn't catch up. It seems that he has been with the division commander for a long time and has learned a lot, so it is no wonder that whenever he encounters a major combat operation, the division commander always asks him and Liu Jianjian to serve as two command tasks in one aspect. ”

Zhu Rui glanced at Lei Ming, who couldn't tell what his expression was: "What, envy?" Jealous? ”

Lei Ming shook his head: "I'm not jealous, my old Lei eats a few buns and drinks a few bowls of soup in his heart." In terms of qualifications, I don't want to say that I can't compare with an old leader like you, even a few of them are older than me. When they were the main regiment commander in the Soviet area, I was still a company commander and battalion commander. However, if the division commander can also let me Lao Lei command a few brigades to fight, then it will be enjoyable! ”

Zhu Rui smiled and said, "There will be a chance." The battle is getting bigger and bigger, and the troops are getting stronger and stronger. After this battle, we will have a stable base area and the conditions for a large-scale expansion of the army. Looking at the division commander's mind and bearing, that is to fight with the army, how can it be done without a strong army? We are the main brigade, and as long as we expand our army, we will inevitably be able to take turns. Perhaps, as soon as the Battle of Jiaoji Road is over, the order for the expansion of the army will be issued soon."

Lei Ming looked at Zhu Rui, who had a calm face, shouted "drive", whipped the horse's buttocks, and ran towards Zihedian.

There was a squad and a platoon of puppet troops stationed at Zihedian Station on the Devil's Jiaoji Road Garrison, and the large troops of the Fourth Brigade suddenly appeared, which caught the little devils and the puppet army off guard. The devils and Han Jians here are quite tough, they shoot on the turret to resist, Lei Ming is in a hurry to arrange an ambush position, and he has no time to talk to them, so he directly orders to use anti-aircraft guns and bazookas against them. A few anti-aircraft shells and rockets were fired, and the turret collapsed with a bang, directly burying the devil man in the rubble.

Time waited for no one, and Lei Ming immediately ordered the regiments to spread out and arrange them into pocket positions. Among them, the 10th Regiment is in the south of the road, the 11th Regiment is in the north of the road, the position of the New Fourth Regiment is connected to the position of the 10th Regiment, and undertakes the task of occupying the Zihe Bridge and cutting off the retreat of the devils, and the defense line of the Luzhong Reading Regiment is connected to the 11th Regiment and undertakes the task of intercepting the eastward advance channel of the devils. The regiment strengthened two anti-aircraft guns and two rocket launcher groups for the destruction of the armored vehicles of the imps.

The heavy machine gun companies of the fire support battalions of each regiment command the machine guns of the whole regiment to be deployed on the front line, and one battalion is set aside to serve as a reserve, and the artillery regiment concentrates the artillery of the fire support battalions of each regiment, sets up positions in stages, and calculates the artillery bombardment.

The engineer companies of each regiment laid mines and explosives packs on both sides of the Jiqing Highway, preparing to give them a taste of the dirt plane when the little devils jumped out of the car and resisted.

A platoon of the brigade reconnaissance company that followed the main force went out to reconnoitre, set up observation points, pulled up telephone lines, and reported the enemy situation at any time.

That is, in just half an hour, Lei Ming received a report from the reconnaissance platoon that the devil convoy came up, with four armored vehicles and six cars in front of the top troops, and 50 cars in the back, about 20 devils in each car, and machine guns on the roof.

Lei Ming immediately gave the order to prepare for battle.

The devil's convoy came up, and the distance between the devil's convoy in front and the convoy behind was about 500 meters, and there were small sun flags on the front of the car, which were covered with dust, and it looked like dirty diapers, as disgusting as it was.

Lei Ming climbed on the roof of a house in Zihedian Village, holding a telescope to observe the convoy of the little devil, seeing that the convoy had all entered the ambush circle, Lei Ming put down the binoculars, raised the pistol and was about to give the order to attack, and the military song sung by the little devil came to his ears.

Lei Ming was stunned for a moment, scolded "Fuck you fill the canyon sea with corpses, go to death", and raised his hand to shoot.

The sound of gunfire was an order, and the field artillery of the artillery regiment and the infantry guns and mortars of the fire support battalions of the regiments under their command all opened fire. Shells flew and smashed towards the devil convoy on the Jiqing Highway.

The most unfortunate thing was the devil armored car that acted as a spearhead, they roared and ran away, and the Eighth Route Army in the south of the road took off the camouflage of the anti-aircraft gun, and the muzzle of the gun was pointed at the body of the armored car.

Even more terrifying was yet to come, two rockets fired by two rocket launcher groups exploded after penetrating the third and fourth armored vehicles, turning the two armored vehicles into two fireballs and burning on the road.

The sudden change made the car following the armored car have no time to react and directly crashed into the wreckage of the armored car. One, two, three, four, five, six, six cars collided with each other, and the devils in the car staggered, so they grabbed the car gang smartly to avoid falling out of the car; Before he had time to react, he was still singing military songs in his mouth, and he was thrown out of the car and kissed the earth.

At this time, the artillery shells of the Eighth Route Army fell, and some fell directly into the compartment of the devil's car, blowing up a cart of minced meat; Some fell into the middle of the road, blowing up one big crater after another, and the car fell into it and put out the fire when it landed; Others landed on the side of the car, rolling up the dust, shrouding the little devil in dust, and he couldn't open his eyes.

There were too few devils' vehicles, and there were too many guns of the Eighth Route Army, and with just one salvo, the little devils' convoy was basically paralyzed. After the second salvo was fired after the rest of the Zhuyuan, there were no cars on the highway that could run.

Li Sheng, commander of the artillery regiment of the 4th Brigade, was originally the commander of the mortar company of the 38th Regiment of the 13th Red Division of the Red Seventh Army Corps, and once commanded the mortar companies of the 38th Regiment, the 39th Regiment, and the Only Regiment in the Battle of Tianshui. Lei Ming was the political commissar of the only division at that time, and was entrusted by Li Qing, the commander of the Red 13th Division, and Feng Dafei, the commander of the only division, to enter Tianshui City to unify the command of the defense of the city, and he admired Li Sheng's performance. Later, he discussed with Li Qing and transferred Li Sheng to the only division. When the Fourth Brigade established the artillery regiment, Li Sheng, who was already the commander of the fire support battalion, served as the commander of the artillery regiment.

Li Sheng originally planned to shoot five salvos, but after the devils came up, Li Sheng changed his mind, because there were too few little devils, so he didn't have to waste so many shells, so he just wanted to shoot three salvos. As a result, after the two salvos were fired, and just as he was about to order three salvos, the commander of the 4th Brigade of Jiao, Lei Ming, called and ordered him to stop the shelling.

Li Sheng reported: "Brigade commander, the shells are all loaded with fuses, just wait for them to be loaded, and they can't stop!" ”

Lei Ming became angry when he heard it, and he opened his mouth and said: "Li Sheng, you are a loser, the devil's car has been damaged by you, Lao Tzu ran so far, he can't get a fart, you will compensate me for my losses?" Remove the fuse and stop the shelling! ”

Li Sheng had no choice but to order the shelling to stop and order the artillery regiment to immediately withdraw from its position and prepare to transfer. As for the infantry artillery and mortar batteries of the fire support battalions of each regiment, although the shelling stopped, they were easy to move, and Li Sheng ordered them to monitor the devils and support the battle at any time.

In fact, Li Sheng's worries are superfluous, the little devil only has one infantry brigade, a thousand people, exposed to the fire of one artillery regiment of four infantry regiments of the Eighth Route Army, that is ten people fighting one person, where is there still a chance to live!

No, before the artillery fire stopped, the heavy machine gun companies of the heavy machine gun battalion of the 4th Brigade and the fire support battalions of each regiment opened fire, and so many heavy machine guns lined up and splashed bullets out like a wind blowing on the little devil's car.

Immediately afterwards, the grenadiers, light machine guns, submachine guns, Bayi automatic rifles, and 38 covers of the Eighth Route Army all opened fire. The difference is that the heavy machine gun fire is a surface strike, the light machine gun, submachine gun, and Bayi automatic rifle are all spot shots, and the 38 big cover is accurate shooting.

When the Eighth Route Army attacked, the commander of the 132nd Wing of the 25th Brigade, Ei Na Ichisa, was leaning on the back of the cab of a truck and closing his eyes.

Originally, if it weren't for the excessive noise of the cars, Ebi, Meimei Ichisa, should have been able to hear the brief gunfire at Zihedian Station after leaving Linzi. It's a pity that the car is too noisy, and it is driving on the Jiqing Highway controlled by the army, and the soldiers of the 25th Wing are already in their thirties, in this kind of war years, people of this age are very indifferent to the sound of guns and killings, they didn't even notice the abnormality of Zihedian, sang military songs, and got into the ambush circle of the Eighth Route Army.

As soon as the cannon sounded, Ebi, Mingei and Ichizo immediately woke up, and when he opened his eyes, he saw that his convoy had been shelled. Ebi, who had participated in the Russo-Russian War, reacted very quickly, and when he heard the sound of shells exploding, he knew that the enemy had a lot of artillery, and if he didn't get out of the car, it would become a waste like a car. He immediately ordered to stop, pushed the car door and jumped down, threw himself on the ground before the bullet hit him, and shouted: "Shelling, all personnel get out of the car and fight back!" ”

In fact, without his order, the little devils who could jump out of the car began to jump out of the car, but most of them were unlucky, and at the moment of jumping out of the car, they were hit by the machine gun bullets of the Eighth Route Army and became lonely ghosts.

Hai Lao Mingrong Yi Zuo shouted for a long time, but he couldn't hear the guns of his own troops counterattacking, only heard that the shelling of the Eighth Route Army had stopped, but the light and heavy machine guns were more happy, and the bullets whizzed overhead, hitting the car, hitting the soldiers, and also hitting the heart of the old devil Hai Lao Mingeiichi.

Ebi Mingei Ichisa no longer shouted to fight back, he had already realized that he had fallen into the ambush circle of the main force of the Eighth Route Army, with such powerful firepower, if he could survive, it must be Amaterasu's manifestation. However, Ebi Meiei Osa knows that what bullshit Amaterasu God is, it is all the literati of the Emperor's family who fainted. If there really was Amaterasu, he would have appeared a long time ago, where would there be the 21st Brigade, the Chahar Dispatch Corps, the 21st Division, the 8th Division, and the 10th Division! Don't say that he doesn't believe that there is Amaterasu, even His Majesty the Emperor may not believe it, if he really believes, he will not send so many troops to China to commit murder!

Ebi Naei Ichiza knew that his troops would be destroyed in an instant. At this time, he was completely desperate in his heart, knowing that the suspicions of those fools in the headquarters of the 12th Army and the stupid pigs in the headquarters of the 108th Division were correct, Liu Yimin's instructor returned to Shandong, and attacked the 108th Division. The capture of Lieutenant General Takaka Kamizo was the beginning of their fishing, and with the bait of Takaka Kamizo, whether it was the 10th Eighth Division or the 33rd Division, they would all become fish that devoured the bait, and in the end they could only become a sashimi on the table of the Eighth Route Army. It seems that the end of His Excellency, the commander of Nakano's third brigade, is also very bad, and perhaps he has already gone to the Yasukuni Shrine to report on himself at this time.

Ebi Naei Ichisaku decided not to fantasize about Amurasu anymore, and he no longer thought about the life or death of the commander of Nakano Naozo's brigade, he wanted to find a way for himself to survive.

To say that Ebi's tactical movements were standard enough, he quickly climbed under the car, trying to turn to the other side of the car, to the north of the road, to see if it was possible to escape from the battlefield, climb down the road, and blend into the mountains to the south.

Ebi Naei Iosaku really climbed to the other side of the car, south of the road. However, when he looked up, the muscles in his face stiffened. Because he found that Lu Nan was the same as Lu Bei, there were rows of guns of the Eighth Route Army aimed at him. He hesitated, and before he could lower his head, a bullet flew and burrowed into his brain.

After the battle of Zihedian, the thunder was still unfinished, mobilizing such a large number of troops, running so many roads, wasting so much ammunition, but in the end, only one infantry brigade of the devil was eliminated, and not even a complete armored car and car were captured, how could he be willing!

Therefore, Lei Ming ordered the Luzhong Reading Regiment to stay behind to quickly clean up the battlefield, and take on the task of blocking the possible return of the Devil Army Column heading to Yidu County, and he and Zhu Rui led the 10th Regiment, the 11th Regiment, the New Fourth Regiment, the Artillery Regiment, and the Heavy Machine Gun Battalion to quickly move west to reinforce the 12th Regiment to fight.

Ebi's conjecture is correct. At this time, the army column of the commander of the 25th Brigade, Naozo Nakano, had already been attacked by the Eighth Route Army.

After Li Qing gave the battle order, he and political commissar Chen Dazhong and director of the Political Department Chang Huayu led the Eighth Regiment, the Ninth Regiment, the New Third Regiment, the Brigade Artillery Regiment, and the Heavy Machine Gun Battalion to conceal on both sides of Jiaoji Road, 10 kilometers west of Yidu Station, in preparation to eliminate the main force of the 25th Brigade led by Naozo Nakano.

To Li Qing's surprise, Major General Nakano Naozo was so cunning, he not only left an infantry brigade in Zhoucun, but also did not bring the Jiaoji Road garrison troops stationed between Zhangqiu and Linzi, and only brought an infantry brigade, a tank squadron, and the field artillery wing of the 108th Division to accompany the field artillery brigade under his command, with a total of only three military columns and two armored patrol vehicles for escort duties.

Knowing this, Li Qing would not have deployed his troops like this, but let the 3rd Brigade of Jiao destroy the 25th Brigade and regiment to reinforce the troops of the 20-mile fort airfield, so that the battle could be fought for a longer time, attracting the devils of Zhoucun to go out of the city for reinforcements, and let the 4th Brigade of Jiao divide his troops and take the opportunity to capture Zhoucun, Zhangdian and Zhangqiu. Now that this deployment is a bit of a waste of troops, it is in response to the old saying that you use a knife to kill chickens.

Song Wenhu has become famous since the Battle of Tianshui and has become a famous battle hero. He was selected to study in the teaching team of the former Red Seventh Army, and returned to the Red 13th Division after graduation, and was qualified as the deputy company commander of the first company and one platoon of the fourth battalion of the Red 38th Regiment. In particular, the establishment of the Qinghe Garrison Brigade and the formation of the Qinghe county brigade have drawn a large number of military and political cadres from the Third Brigade to enrich the leading forces of the Qinghe garrison brigade and the county brigades. Song Wenhu was naturally promoted. Now, he is the commander of the first battalion and one company of the Eighth Regiment of the Third Brigade.

At this time, Song Wenhu led a company to ambush in the south of Jiaoji Road, only 100 meters away from the roadbed. This is flat land, even if the devil army column is overturned, it can only be overturned, and it will not roll over and roll, Song Wenhu is not worried that the devil army column will roll over to his position and crush the soldiers.

The 3rd Brigade is the main force, and since it went north to resist the Japanese Resistance, it has participated in all the major wars of the instructors, and it has captured a lot of goods, and the equipment is correspondingly very neat. Song Wenhu's company, fire support excluded grenadiers and a bazooka group, heavy machine guns were also changed from Maxim to Type 92, the soldiers of the infantry platoon except for the Bayi automatic rifle number is smaller, not as good as the Seventh Regiment, the other weapons are exactly the same, all have submachine guns, light machine guns have been replaced with crooked handles, and the rifles are all brand new 38 covers. The fighters also carried a pistol on their backs as a weapon of melee self-defense. Even the grenades are small melon grenades made by devils.

Song Wenhu and the others were very particular about the positions they built, and the trenches were covered with sorghum straw, not only covering the trenches, but also covering the soil for digging the trenches. When it didn't start, outsiders looked like a straw curtain covered with sorghum straw on the ground, and they would not have thought that the main force of the elite Eighth Route Army was hidden under this row and a little bulging straw curtain.

The sappers had already planted electric explosives under the roadbed, and as soon as the little devils' army dared to come, they would immediately blow it up.

Time passed minute by minute in waiting. Finally, through the gap in the sorghum straw, Song Wenhu saw the devil armored patrol car coming from afar. That guy is a pure steel monster, and he can't even get a small hole when a bullet hits it. However, Song Wenhu knew that it was not terrible, and the Eighth Route Army had at least four ways to deal with it, one was to bury an electric detonation shining package to blow it up. The second is to hit it horizontally with antiaircraft guns, or with high-level dual-purpose guns or flat-fire guns, and one hit is accurate. The third is to beat it with a bazooka, and let it lie down as soon as the rocket is fired. The fourth is to move the turnout and let it derail. Because he knew that the Eighth Route Army was absolutely sure of killing the devil armored patrol car, Song Wenhu was not nervous when he looked at the devil armored patrol car, but was a little happy, knowing that the battle was about to start.

Sure enough, the phone next to Song Wenhu rang, grabbed the microphone, and the battalion commander Niu Liangzi's order to prepare for battle came to his ears.

This Niu Liangzi is a legendary hero, and Song Wenhu knows him very well. Because when the army was reorganized in the west, the grievance meeting of the new barracks was led by Niu Liangzi, the old Red Army. After being wounded in battle, Niu Liangzi lay on a stretcher with the army's Long March, and when he arrived in Moutai Ancient Town, Chen Tong wanted to use Moutai wine to wash his wounds and reduce inflammation.

Seeing the devil's armored patrol car driving past in front of him, followed by the military column transporting the devil's soldiers, Song Wenhu immediately ordered the soldiers to remove their camouflage, set up heavy machine guns, grenadiers, and bazookas, and prepare for battle.

The sorghum straw on the positions of the company was pushed away, and machine guns, grenadiers and bazookas were set up, waiting for the order to open fire.

(To be continued)