After Zhang Haitao withdrew from Jieshou Station with the eastward detachment, the 56th Brigade of the Infantry Reading Force of the Infantry Army had not yet noticed that a group of devils had also dug fortifications on the railway not far south of Jieshou Station, and light and heavy machine guns were shooting at the surroundings from time to time to strengthen their courage.

It was the middle of March, the moon was sparse, and the breath of early spring was gently wafting in the air through the warm and cold wind.

Zhang Haitao grabbed a handful of soil on the battlefield, sniffed it, felt a fresh breath of freshness, turned to Zhao Zhiyu and said, "It's another year of early spring!" I hope that this spring will allow the blood of the devil to moisten the land of China more fertile, and the spring seedlings will grow stronger! ”

The corners of Zhao Zhiyu's mouth squinted, his eyes glanced at him, and he said slowly: "You should change it, it's not the blood of the devil, but the ashes of the devil." The ashes of the devil are a good thing, and spilling them on the ground is a good fertilizer. At this time, if you kill more devils, set them up and burn them, and sprinkle the ashes in the wheat field, by summer, the ears of wheat will be full, and the farmers should laugh from ear to ear. ”

The poplar man on the side listened to the more the two people talked, the more infiltrating they became, so he directly interrupted them: "Is it okay for you two to accumulate some oral virtue?" Besides, I won't eat white bread in the future! ”

Zhang Haitao and Zhao Zhiyu both chuckled in low voices. After laughing, Zhao Zhiyu raised his head, "Huh", and pulled Zhang Haitao to look down the mountain. I saw the light of the devil's flashlight at the Jieshou Station, and after a short time, the car lights lit up on the highway north of the Jieshou, and the devils on the railway south of the Jieshou also flashed flashlights to contact the devils in the north.

Zhang Haitao didn't calculate that the devil's reinforcements came from the north first, according to common sense, Tai'an is about the same distance from the head of the world and Wande is from the head of the world, but Tai'an is the base camp of the devil, and the reinforcements should come from the direction of Tai'an first. Now the reinforcements of the army in the direction of Wande arrived first, which means that after fighting for a long time, the devils of Tai'an have not been mobilized. It seems that the devils have discovered the actions of the large army.

Zhang Haitao then remembered that in order to carry the spoils of war just now, he withdrew the troops too early, and did not encircle and annihilate the infantry of the first wave of reinforcements from the devils, for fear that the devil officers would judge that they were small troops, and the purpose was to attack the east and the west. In this way, the large army may have to fight.

Annoyed, Zhang Haitao took off his steel helmet and fell to the ground, and said to Yang Shuren hatefully: "After the sappers set up the explosive packs for a while, they will concentrate artillery fire to beat the devils and beat them down completely, and we will withdraw!" ”

As soon as Zhao Zhiyu heard this, he asked Zhang Haitao: "We have withdrawn, what if the army goes to attack the large army that is passing by?" Isn't that not that a job to be done? ”

Zhang Haitao smiled: "The big army wants to pass through in concealment, and since the devil finds out, then force the way." I've already figured out this Tai'an devil, it's a mixed brigade of reading power, we killed some of him, and attracted some of them here. If the rest of the devils are smart, they will shrink in Tai'an City and not show their heads. Otherwise, not to mention others, Li Chang's artillery alone will let them know what is called the power of the first-class main force of the Eighth Route Army! ”

As soon as Zhao Zhiyu heard this, he couldn't help but think of the might of the artillery when he sent the corps to encircle and annihilate Chahar, grinned, and sighed: "I missed another good show!" ”

While the two were talking, the poplar people had already ordered the artillery to take position, the muzzles of the guns were raised, and the captured anti-aircraft machine guns and anti-aircraft guns were all lying flat, facing the station. The machine guns of the heavy machine gun company were lined up in two rows on the hillside, and the muzzle of the black hole was also aimed at the Jieshou station.

After the search team of the 58th Infantry Reading Brigade entered the Jieshou Station, they found that the sneak attack of the squadron [***] had withdrawn, and the corpses of the Imperial Army were still the corpses of the Imperial Army inside and outside the station, so they hurriedly reported to the brigade and turned on the searchlights at the station. At this time, the captain of the 56th Infantry Reading Brigade, who had been frightened, was bold, with a gloomy face, and walked into the Jieshou Station again with his own brigade trembling, and joined the 58th Infantry Reading Brigade that arrived later.

After the two captains met, they had just briefly talked about the enemy's situation and were about to divide their troops to check the losses of the military columns, when an explosion sounded at the Jieshou station. The captain of the 56th Brigade was so frightened that a lazy donkey rolled under the platform, and as soon as he rolled into place, he heard the shouting and scolding of the captain of the 58th Brigade: "What are you panicking about? Can a couple of explosives bags from the Shina people scare you like this? Hurry up, remove the bodies of the broken warriors, and check the damage! ”

The captain of the 56th Brigade had a fever on his face, raised his head, and looked at the platform, and saw that it was indeed an explosive bag explosion just now, which took the lives of more than 20 imperial soldiers. But there seems to be no other movement, and it seems that the [***] team has indeed retreated.

The devils on the platform began to get busy again, some set up fire positions, and some patrolled and searched. Some moved corpses, while others began to inspect the damage to military trains and ironclad trains. At this time, Zhang Haitao on the hill waved his hand.

A cannonball swept across the night sky and landed in the open space south of the platform, and the dust brought up by the explosion did not seem to have much ripple in the dark night.

The captain of the 56th Brigade of the Devil closed his eyes in pain, and muttered in his mouth: "Mom, here you go again!" As soon as he wanted to order the troops to hide, the heavy machine gun on the hill opened fire and tilted the bullet towards the Jieshou platform like a splash of water.

All the devils on the platform bombed the camp, lying down, crawling behind the wreckage of the armored car with a rolling belt, rolling under the roadbed, and so on.

The pain of the devil continued, and the artillery of the Eighth Route Army, which had corrected the shelling parameters, began a concentrated shelling, and a group of more than a dozen shells, flying across the night sky, smashed at the vehicles of the 60th Brigade on the platform. Then the shelling continued, until the devils came to their senses and shot themselves to smash searchlights, turn off car lights, and turn the station into a swarthy patch again, and the shelling stopped.

The devils didn't know that after the shelling was completed, the Eighth Route Army had already retreated, and they were still lying under the roadbed or in the craters and did not dare to come out.

At this time, the direction of Beijipo and Dawenkou in the south of Tai'an has been started.

After receiving the report from the devils in Tai'an, Zeng Zhongsheng asked Cai Zhong to transfer the troops directly under the command of the division, and he took his staff officers to the position of the Fourth Brigade.

After observing for a while, Zeng Zhongsheng found that the devil was also the strength of a large team, so he told Lei Ming to fight steadily, retreat while fighting, and lead the devil to the preset ambush. Let's see if we can catch big fish, so that Li Chang's artillery can have a good New Year. Don't fight too hard and scare this devil away.

The 59th Brigade of the Infantry Reading Force came from Taean City. The devil soldiers were all woken up from their sleep, and some of them were still sleepy-eyed and stumbled along with the brigade. A few unlucky ones are really sleepy, and those who are crooked will be beaten with a horsewhip.

At this time, the Eighth Route Army had crossed the railway, and the area around Beijipo was quiet, without even a dog barking, and it seemed very peaceful.

If the instructor wants to quietly evacuate at this time, even if the devil finds that there are troops passing by, he does not dare to pursue it at night. However, the instructor is the first-class main force of our army, and the cadres and soldiers have a strong sense of seeking war, and all they desire is to kill the enemy on the battlefield and make meritorious contributions, and they want to find devils to practice marksmanship anytime and anywhere. Now the devil dares to reinforce Beijipo at night, which is unwanted. Therefore, as soon as he saw the devil coming up, Lei Ming smiled so much that his eyes were as bright as the stars in the sky, and he immediately ordered to teach the 10th regiment to prepare for battle, to grasp the rhythm, to stick the enemy, so that the devil could not attack or escape, and could only ask for help. Really catch a big fish out.

Sang Yida, the head of the 10th Regiment, and Chen Xi, the political commissar of the 10th Regiment, have been directing the troops to guard the north end of the Beijipo Station, waiting for the devils to come to reinforcements. Finally, the fish are about to bite the hook, where will they run away. Therefore, Sang Yida arranged several battalions in echelons and gradually retreated, and also stipulated that the regimental fire support battalion should not open fire without an order, so as not to scare away the devils.

So, the devils who searched and advanced to the north first heard bursts of sparse gunshots, and when they heard the sounds, they seemed to be all three or eight big covers. However, although the gunfire was sparse, the guns bit the flesh, and the 59th Brigade of Reading Force threw down a hundred and ten corpses.

The captain of the devil brigade was furious, and he set up infantry guns, grenadiers, and heavy machine guns to vent where the guns were fired. After the battle, it was found that there seemed to be no reaction on the opposite position. The captain of the devil brigade thought that the sneak attacker had run away, scolded the coward a few times, and ordered the troops to go straight to Beijipo Station.

Less than 200 meters away, there was another sparse burst of gunfire, and the ghost soldiers fell down again. While reporting to Major General Morita Masafu, the captain of the devil brigade ordered his troops to form a battle formation, attack and advance, catch up with the guerrillas who were sneaking up, and completely destroy them.

At this time, Major General Morita Masafumi was almost on the battlefield. He faintly heard the sound of artillery at Jieshou Station just now, and also received a telegram for help from the 56th Brigade and the 58th Brigade. Major General Morita Masahomi was a little confused, he thought that the Zhong [***] team was making a big move in the area of Beijipo, but now it seems that there is nothing, just by those sparse gunshots, he knows that the other party is not a big army. Did you misjudge?

Morita Masatsunori sent a telegram to the 60th Brigade of Yoriki, asking where they had been, and ordering them to move quickly to flank the attacking Shina guerrillas.

After receiving the telegram that the 60th Brigade had begun to attack and advance in the direction of the North Jipo, Morita Masatomi was relieved. He got down from his horse, looked at Beijipo in the night, ordered the Reading Artillery Brigade to build a position on the spot, and ordered the Reading Cavalry Brigade and the 57th Reading Infantry Brigade to open the road with tanks and armored vehicles, and quickly detour from the south of Beiji Slope, and cooperate with the 59th Infantry Reading Brigade to eliminate the sneak attack of the [***] team.

Since there was no large-scale squadron, the army had no scruples, turned on the headlights, and began to make a quick detour.

Seeing that he had finally caught a fish, Zeng Zhongsheng was overjoyed, and strictly ordered Hong Chaoyuan to teach the Fifth Brigade to retreat, get out of the way, and enlarge the devils from the direction of Wenkou to go north quickly. He also ordered Lei Ming to retreat slowly, control the speed, and let the three-way devils meet at the crossing point of the large army, and completely enter the ambush circle.

Morita Masahomi stood on the artillery position, watching his three-way army galloping across the land at night, and the three-way lights getting closer and closer, and couldn't help grinning. Because he remembered that the few female nurses who had just arrived from the country had not yet been educated in courage, and when they caught the hateful sneak attackers, let them test them to see if their little faces would be frightened!

A flurry of gunfire guided the northernmost infantry 59th Brigade to move south, slowly meeting up with the Reading's Cavalry Brigade and the 57th Reading's Brigade in the middle, and the 60th Reading's Brigade from the south to the north. At this time, the gunfire suddenly stopped, and the sneak attack squadron disappeared without a trace like a gust of wind that had just blown, leaving the pursued, reinforced, and outflanked troops gathered together and were at a loss.

Major General Morita Masafu, who was observing from the artillery positions behind, arrived to wonder why the pursuing troops had stopped, could it be that the timid Chinese had escaped again? He immediately ordered the heralds around him to see what was going on.

Morita Masatomi knew immediately what had happened, but it was not reported by the herald, but what his frightened eyes saw: thunder broke out on the ground, and groups of brilliant meteors suddenly flashed in the sky, smashing into the middle of the pursuit group composed of three infantry brigades and one cavalry brigade of the 13th Brigade of the Reading Force.

Morita Masahomi felt that he couldn't accept this fact at all, and shook his head desperately. After shaking it, I looked at it again, and saw that the meteor shower was still going down, and my troops were the same as myself, completely frightened and stupid, and were smashed by the meteors.

At this time, the trumpet of the charge sounded, and torches and flashlights were lit up all over the mountains, revealing the original form of the military photos shrouded in artillery fire, dancing, spinning, and falling down in the cannon fire and gunfire of the Eighth Route Army.

Morita Masaho punched his head a few times, and it really worked, and his brain was sober at once. He sent a final message of guidance to several captains struggling in the encirclement: "Disperse and break through the encirclement and return to Tai'an to concentrate." Then he sent a report to the 56th and 58th Infantry Reading Brigades, which were at Jieshou Station: "100,000 urgent. Quickly return to Tai'an. ”

After sending the telegram, Morita Masafumi ordered the Reading Artillery Brigade to abandon the artillery, run back to Taean, and take the lead himself, with the guards and the chief of staff, and fled to Taean City in disarray.

By the time Liu Yimin and Luo Ronghuan arrived with the guard regiment, the battle had completely ended, and the soldiers were happily cleaning up the battlefield.

As soon as he saw Zeng Zhongsheng, as soon as he learned about the battle, Liu Yimin was entangled by thunder. Because the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 5th Brigades all have their own artillery regiments, it is very unpleasant for the Fourth Brigade to be caught in the middle. This time, the field artillery and mountain artillery of a reading artillery brigade were captured, as well as the brigade artillery of the three infantry brigades of the devil, and the fourth brigade should have its own artillery regiment. Otherwise, the Fourth Brigade will not be able to raise its head in front of the fraternal troops.

Liu Yimin was very happy, and directly agreed to Lei Ming's request, and at the same time took back the mountain artillery regiment under the command of the Fourth Brigade, and also told Lei Ming that before the arsenal was completed and put into operation, it was best to save the shells, and if they could not be replenished after the battle, the artillery regiment would become an infantry regiment. The thunder of joy "snapped" and saluted: "Master Xie, the Fourth Brigade will never embarrass you, where to fight!" After speaking, he leaned into Liu Yimin's ear and whispered: "A few little brothers and sisters are in front, you hurry up and catch up, and you can sleep before dawn." ”

Liu Yimin's face rose suddenly, and his eyes stabbed at Lei Ming like a knife. Frightened, Lei Min hurriedly said I didn't say it, turned around and ran away.

Seeing that the devil had been completely frightened, the artillery didn't even want the artillery, and fled back to Tai'an with his bare hands, Zeng Zhongsheng suggested whether to take the opportunity to surround Tai'an and take Tai'an.

Before Liu Yimin could answer, Luo Ronghuan rejected Zeng Zhongsheng: "Sit your ass firmly first!" ”

Seeing that Zeng Zhongsheng was a little sulky, Liu Yimin told him: "What the political commissar said is right. It's not impossible to take Tai'an, the problem is that it's too late, and when we finish the deployment, it's almost dawn, and the reinforcements and planes of the army can arrive at any time. Now is not the time to think about taking Tai'an, but to organize troops to quickly break the road, transport all the steel rails back to the mountains, and completely paralyze the Jinpu Road for a period of time. In this way, we can not only provide some materials for our military production, but also disrupt the deployment of the Chinese army and support the operation in the southern section of the Jinpu Road. ”

Zeng Zhongsheng immediately ordered the Fourth Brigade and the Fifth Brigade to make every effort to break the road, move quickly, hurry up the time, complete the task before dawn, and move into the mountain.

After such a big battle, the people in the vicinity have long been alarmed. Seeing that the Eighth Route Army had won a great victory, the common people all came up and helped the troops break the road, the rails were carried away, and the sleepers were taken back by the masses as firewood. It didn't take long, and the rails and sleepers on the section between Beijipo and Dawenkou of Jinpu Road were cleaned, and it was impossible to open to traffic in the short term. Those descendants who were quite the Eighth Route Army's devils directly carried the steel rails and followed the Eighth Route Army.

After Major General Morita Masahomi fled back to Taean in one go, seeing that the 56th Brigade and the 58th Brigade had withdrawn, he calmed down a little and ordered the city gate to be closed and guarded to the death. Then he sent a telegram to Lieutenant General Nishio Shouzo, giving a detailed report on the battle that had taken place tonight. At the end of the telegram, Major General Morita Masafumi wept bitterly and reported: "The 13th Brigade of the Reading Force Mixed Brigade has suffered heavy losses in this evening's battle. Among them, the 56th and 58th brigades of Reading Power were reduced by more than half and lost their combat effectiveness. The 57th, 59th, and 60th Readpower Brigades and the Reading Cavalry Brigade were all shattered. The Reading Artillery Brigade lost all its equipment. Only the engineer team and the baggage team remained intact because they stayed in Tai'an. The railway garrison smashed 300 people in the battle at Jieshou Station, and all the ironclad convoys of the Tai'an Railway Garrison were destroyed, and the ironclad trains and ironclad patrol cars were all destroyed. The military column carrying the vanguard of the 114th Division was destroyed, weapons, ammunition, and baggage were seized, and all the 826 imperial warriors of a brigade on the vehicle were shattered. According to the report of the captain of the 56th Brigade of the Reading Force, the name left by the sneak attackers at the station was the Chinese military police. The 13th Brigade has lost its combat effectiveness and has become a logistics unit. Please report to the base camp of the commander, revoke the number of the 13th Brigade or transfer it back to the country for rectification, and send a strong force to reinforce Tai'an. Otherwise, the city of Tai'an could be breached by the Chinese military police at any time. The ministry was determined to commit suicide by disembowelment when reinforcements arrived, in order to thank His Majesty the Emperor for his divine grace. ”

(To be continued)