readx; More than half of the men and horses led by Han Yongzheng suffered casualties and destroyed the devil's machine gun position. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info They didn't have time to bury their comrades and horses, so they hurried to Zengguanzhen Village to join the cavalry regiment. After some fighting, the army garrison was completely annihilated by the cavalry regiment, and the corpses and blood stains under the courtyard walls, on the roofs, and inside and outside the village testified to the fierceness of the battle.

The puppet army squadron that participated in the defense of Zengguan Town was frightened by the fierce attack and defense, and they fled from the battlefield and ran directly back to Wucheng County; The squadron leader couldn't stand this kind of stimulation, so he simply took off his military uniform and went back to his hometown overnight to work as a cloth dealer.

The devil's first blockade line had been torn apart, and Captain Zeng Yufeng urged to quickly sort out the team. The cavalry is highly mobile, and the time to assemble on the battlefield is longer, and the most urgent task at present is to race against time, and then rush outward, taking advantage of the fact that the blockade behind the enemy is not yet tight, and hurry to the outside of the encirclement.

The trumpeter blew the trumpet at the entrance of the village, and some of the scattered horses came back when they heard the trumpet. But although the war horse came, the former comrades-in-arms could never come back, and everyone's mood was full of grief and indignation. One of the horses also brought back a puppet soldier. It was originally the horse of Wang Ligui, the squad leader of the third company, but I don't know how to let this guy ride it, and the war horse ran back when he heard the horn, and the puppet army couldn't control it and was brought over.

Wang Ligui is Liu Chunlei's Nangong fellow, the two were in the same class when the new barracks rode the detachment, he was a good gentleman who didn't like words, but this time he died. The Third Company suffered the greatest losses in the previous charges, and the comrades dragged the hapless puppet soldier down with red eyes and dragged him to the side of the road with a shot. The officers of all levels passing by on the side saw it, and no one said a "no".

The ranks were urgently put in order, and the troops set off immediately.

Our movements were fast, and the movements of the devils were also fast, and the cavalry regiment walked less than five miles to the southwest, and the 8th Mixed Brigade of Reading Force rushed to Zengguanzhen Village and scattered the special service regiment that served as the rearguard.

The Second Cavalry Company was ordered to return to the rescue, and saw that the brigade was advancing from west to east, with tanks and trucks one after another. Chief of Staff Wang Yongyuan shook his head and said, "The comrades-in-arms in the back are finished. ”

The army occupied Zengguan Town and Village and resealed the gap.

More than 500 people walking behind the breakout team were again blocked in the encirclement. Among these people, in addition to the fighters of the administrative security battalion, most of them are logistics personnel, wounded and cadets. Weak or young, they were repeatedly charged and killed by the enemy's heavy forces, and almost all of them died heroically.

A female officer with the rank of major ran around the middle of the bullet rain with 14 children, never losing a single one. In the end, they couldn't run, and the children, under the leadership of their big sister, held hands and sang "Eight Hundred Heroes Guarding the Four Elements", and sacrificed themselves under the guns of the devils. The oldest of these strong boys and girls was less than twenty years old, and the youngest was no more than twelve or thirteen years old.

The five wounded soldiers couldn't run either, and in the face of the approaching devils, the classmates hugged each other, shouted "Long live national freedom", and pulled grenades

The people in the encirclement ran hard under the rain of bullets, and finally, their run stopped at Huozhuang, southeast of Zengguan Town. Here, one hundred and thirty-four warriors who held out to the last were captured.

Here, the devil dug a big pit to bury people alive and asked the leaders of the cavalry regiment where they went. Forty-seven soldiers of the executive battalion jumped into the pit and did not answer a word. The devils tortured them and demanded that they tell their names and identities, and the young men were burned to death by fire, and the young women were scalded to death by boiling water; And what the enemy gets, apart from singing, is scolding.

In Huozhuang, more than 130 officers, soldiers, and cadets were all killed, and most of these martyrs did not leave their names, but they used their young lives to leave a tragic page in the history of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression -- the Huozhuang Massacre.

When the breakout moved westward, it was the men in the encirclement who fought hard to the east to attract the enemy's attention; It is precisely because they would rather die and stick to secrecy that the enemy has no way to judge the whereabouts of the leaders of the headquarters. In a more important sense, the martyrs in the encirclement used their lives to create conditions for the escape of the superior officers and brothers.

At 6 p.m. on November 10, 1938, the cavalry regiment continued to break through to the west.

The second layer of blockade is carried out by the mobile units of the army. There were tanks and cars on the roads, and cavalry and bicycle teams in other places, and the enemy swam back and forth in the outer circle, intercepting and chasing the cavalry regiments that broke through. In order to avoid the tank armored vehicles, the cavalry regiment did not take the avenue, but chose to advance in a roundabout way in a place with more ditches.

In order to engage in the "cage policy", the devils dug a lot of blockade ditches. These things were repeatedly destroyed, and as a result, some ravines of different depths were formed, and tanks and vehicles could not drive, but war horses could get by.

Fighting was evident in the places along the way, and everywhere you could see the bloodstains and the remains of the victims. Most of the martyrs' clothes were untied. At that time, the identity of the dead could not be determined from the uniforms of the cavalry regiments, and the enemy had to check whether they were carrying pens or documents to determine whether the deceased was an officer or a soldier.

Liu Chunlei and Liu Jinkui were temporarily transferred to serve as scouts. After the previous hard fighting, the scout cavalry had been lost, and they were back to their old jobs. When conducting a search in Echizen, in addition to judging the density of the surrounding gunfire, it is also necessary to observe whether there are any corpses of the soldiers around. If not, it means that the enemy has already cleaned the battlefield and gone away; If there is, it means that the follow-up troops of the Chinese army may arrive soon, and we must be vigilant.

On the side of the road, Da Liu saw the remains of two cavalry regiment soldiers, the one in front was lying on the ground, holding a military hat in his left hand, and his right hand was blurred with flesh and blood, apparently died after hand-to-hand combat with the enemy. One in the back had a bayonet in his hand, and a long trail of blood dragged behind him, and until he died, he maintained the posture of wanting to crawl forward to help his comrades.

Liu Chunlei suddenly recognized the martyr behind him, who turned out to be a "deserter" from the cavalry regiment, and Cui Bingzhi, a fellow countryman who once wanted to pull him to do business together! Judging from the uniform, he has joined the new Seventh Brigade.

Cui Bingzhi finally did not stay at home and survived, and finally died heroically on the battlefield of resistance.

Walking to the vicinity of Daxinzhuang, the scout cavalry encountered more than 20 soldiers of the New Seventh Brigade, who were the rearguard of the special service regiment, and were scattered after completing the blocking mission. According to them, this is the second blockade line of the enemy, and there are devil cavalry in front of it, and it is impossible to pass.

Liu Chunlei reported the situation to his superiors. At that time, it was proposed that the troops should hide in place for two or three hours and wait until it was dark to find an opportunity to cross the blockade line, but the regimental chief of staff objected. He said that it was too close to the core of the encirclement and that the enemy could catch up at any time. The key now is to act fast, even during the day.

"The task of breaking through will be handed over to the cavalry battalion, and let our cavalry deal with the devil's cavalry."

Commander Zeng Yufeng went to the front to observe the terrain and chose an open field with ditches on both sides as the battlefield.

He ordered the cavalry regiment to line up in battle formation at the front of the open field, with swords unsheathed and battle flags fluttering, and assumed a posture of preparing to charge and kill. At the same time, the twelve machine guns of the whole regiment and the infantry of the special service regiment were ambushed in the ditches on both sides, waiting for orders.

The cavalry regiment had only light machine guns, and the cavalry did not have a deputy shooter when shooting on horseback, but now, the regimental commander gave each machine gun two assistants. His order was: "The battle is not over, the machine guns must not stop, and all the bullets must be used with the most violent speed." ”

After a while, the devil cavalry came. Boy! It was all tall horses with white foreheads and long ears, and there was a brigade of three or four hundred men and horses.

In peacetime, the cavalry of the army is also responsible for reconnaissance and pursuit tasks, and rarely has the opportunity to fight against the opposing cavalry, but now when I see that the opposite side is a peer, I immediately get excited, and then I see the Eighth Route Cavalry put out a regular attack formation, "Yo Xi, Yo Xi", and suddenly became even more excited. As soon as the officer's "wow-la-wah" called, and the soldier's "wow-la-la" marched on an equal footing with our army, which meant that he wanted to compete with the cavalry regiment in terms of professional level.

The military flag of the cavalry regiment is placed in the middle of the queue, but the army is different, and the leading flag is on the side. Six devil officers stood in front on horseback, wearing white gloves and holding large sabers, comparing drawings up and down, left and right, and led three columns of horizontal teams behind them. That posture is indeed much more formal than ours.

It is no wonder that the cavalry is a noble branch of the army, and the cavalry lieutenant Baron Nishitakeichi also won a gold medal in the equestrian show jumping at the 1932 Olympic Games, and of course he is very particular about his style.

Liu Jinkui's eyes were sharp: "Hey, hey, do you see it?" The devil cavalry charge without a steel helmet! ”

It's true, the cavalry of the army hung their steel helmets on their saddles and wore cloth hats and went into battle, aren't their heads afraid of sabers?

"Not to mention, it's just nice to have little devils lining up." The cavalry regiment cavalry members talked a lot, as if they were engaged in business observation.

There are also those who are not convinced: "Huh! They are also good horses, and I am riding a big ocean horse, which is more majestic than him! ”

The cavalry team of the Yue army changed from a slow march to a fast march, the speed increased, and the impact force gradually increased, but the cavalry regiment had not yet moved, and they all stood honestly. The little devils thought that we didn't understand business, so they picked up the cheap, "kill,"

As soon as he shouted, he began to charge. As soon as they picked up speed, Commander Zeng shouted here: "Hit me with a machine gun, fight!" Beat! Beat! "The machine guns in the ditch and the rifles of the special forces opened fire at once.

The bullets swept over like wind, and all the devil cavalry running in front were knocked down. It was difficult for the war horse to implement effective dodging in the speed of movement, and the horses behind were immediately tripped a lot, and the formation of the army was gone, the speed was gone, and it was all chaotic.

"Ride and shoot, walk slowly!" Now, it's our turn to launch. And at this time, the most anxious are the machine gunners, who will run out of bullets before our troops approach the enemy!

"Sword, charge!" When the cavalry regiment began to charge, those devils with the spirit of martial arts had no choice but to turn their horses and run away. The cavalry regiment broke through the second blockade.

It is said that after the battle, when the enemy held a summary meeting in the main camp, the commander of the 12th Army, Lieutenant General Tsuchihashi Ichi, scolded the captain of the devil's cavalry brigade enough, saying that he was "not as smart as the cavalry regimental cavalry."

That's true.

After dark, the men and horses of the cavalry regiment arrived at the Qingliang River, and the nearby ferry port was called the military camp village. The scout cavalry came back to report that no enemy had been found in the village, much to everyone's relief.

The barracks village is actually a walled village, with a walled wall and a walled gate. At that time, the gate of the village was so-so, and there was no movement in the village. The order from higher authorities was handed down: the troops did not enter the village, and bypassed the river beach under the wall.

Crossing the Qingliang River is equivalent to jumping out of the last blockade of the devils, and the first battalion no longer needs to act as an avant-garde. The weary and tired warriors supported each other and walked towards the river beach

Liu Chunlei and Liu Jinkui stood and chatted outside the wall, and the "Sichuan old man" who had fought hard for a day was still full of interest, and his witty words were endless.

Chatting and chatting, Liu Jinkui suddenly said: "Hey, Da Liu, do you say that there are really no devils in this village?" ”

"I didn't have any of the ones I scouted before."

"No, how can I look at the roof, next to the black thing, like there is a flag?"

Da Liu was startled when he heard this, and hurriedly turned his head to look. It happened that the wind was blowing now, and I saw a relatively tall house in the village, and a piece of cloth on the roof was blown up. Because it's dark, it's hard to see what it is. Maybe a piece of clothing? Perhaps, though, it's a bit like a devil's plaster flag.

Liu Jinkui proposed to take a look. Da Liu looked back and forth and didn't see the company commander, and thought to himself, don't make a mistake and make people laugh, so he didn't say anything more, and walked to the gate with Liu Jinkui.

As soon as they walked to the front, they heard the sound of gunfire in the village, and seven or eight people ran out of the village in a panic, shouting: "Devil! There are devils in the village! ”

There are really devil soldiers in the barracks village.

Originally, there was a chariot squad and an infantry squad of the Yue Army. Later, I didn't know what order I received, and the devils of the two squads and three light tanks hurriedly dispatched, leaving only six soldiers to guard the fuel in the village. It was dark, and our scout avant-garde did not find the enemy; The remaining army saw that there were many cavalry regiments, and they did not dare to come out; Most of the people in the village ran out to take refuge, and some of the remaining people hid in their homes for fear of the devil's revenge - just like that, the two teams were next to each other, and they actually got along.

When the brothers passed through the village, they wanted to find something to eat, and from early morning to night, everyone ran for a day without a grain of rice, and they were indeed a little hungry, so they called the villagers when they entered the village, knocked on the door, and pushed the door. As a result, he took a picture with the devil, and was knocked down a few on the spot.

This gang of devils is also fierce enough. After the start of the fighting, they sent two people to the house, set up machine guns and hit the river beach, while the other soldiers seized three houses and resisted desperately.

The machine guns on the roofs of the houses caused the agency personnel on the river beach to run in all directions, and the houses occupied by the devils in the village were diagonally facing each other, which just formed a cross cover, and they could not rush through for a while. Zhang Qiwang, the commander of the second company, was so anxious that he shouted: "Go to the room, go to the roof!" Blow up the machine gun first with a grenade! ”

Liu Jinkui and Liu Chunlei dragged out a large bed and stood under the eaves, stepping on the bed frame and climbing up the room. As soon as the "old man of Chuan" went up, he planted it, and a bullet passed through his cheek to his ear. He stretched out his hand and scratched Da Liu's chest a few times before swallowing. Liu Jinkui is a man who doesn't keep his mouth shut, and he is a bit heartless in his work, so although he is an old Red Army, he didn't become an officer. In fact, he fought bravely, had a good character, and knew a lot of things.

Liu Jinkui sacrificed, and Liu Chunlei continued to climb up. As soon as he went to the roof, a shot came from the opposite side, and his leg fell as soon as he went limp. The bullet hit the base of his thigh, the lower half of his body was in hot pain, and blood filled his trouser legs, and his comrades hurriedly dragged him to safety.

According to Zhang Qiwang, the company commander said afterwards: "Da Liu's voice changed his tone when he shouted, and he was really frightened by this shot." Lao Li ran over, took big scissors and cut open his pants and looked at it: "Don't worry, young man, the important things are still there." Da Liu breathed a sigh of relief.

At this time, the commander of the fourth company, "Han Mengzi", had quietly walked around to the other side of the house, and he jumped on the roof on horseback and killed the machine gunner. Then, the second company also wiped out the devils in the house in one go. Each company of the cavalry regiment was armed with four light machine guns, which had a certain advantage in firepower. The 2nd and 4th companies mounted their machine guns on the roof of the south of the road, suppressed the enemy with frontal fire, and quickly rushed into the north of the road in platoons. As soon as they approached the compound, the enemy launched a fire counterattack, and many fighters were knocked down. In the moment of emergency, the officers shouted: "Don't retreat!" Rush in and fight in the melee! "They took the lead and ran ahead.

Qi Shichun was seriously wounded in the leg and abdomen when he was hit by the fire of the Hidden Fort while charging. Liu Chunlei saw two fighters carry him down. The commissar was covered in blood, but still tried to prop up his body and said to the soldiers around him: "Brothers, destroy the enemy quickly!" It's a good man, let's charge together! ”

The power of example was endless, and the cavalry regiment rushed to the north of the road and engaged in fierce street fighting.

The second company started out as a platoon attack, then it became a squad, and then it became a disarray.

In fact, the cavalry was not good at street fighting. Officers at all levels took the lead in rushing forward, and the fighters also ran non-stop, lacking general coordination. After a few rounds, some of them rushed to the front, others were blocked behind, and fire was being fired everywhere, and it was impossible to figure out which house was the comrade and which room had the enemy. Sometimes, the enemy, who had just occupied a courtyard, had retreated from elsewhere, ran in in confusion, and began to fight again; There were also a few times when everyone dug holes and pushed the wall, shot and shouted, and it took a long time to realize that the other party was their comrade-in-arms.

Besieged on three sides, chaos against chaos. The Eighth Route Army was unfamiliar with the terrain and environment, and fought on its own; And the enemy, after several oppressions, gradually gathered and resumed command from the chaos of the initial attack, and our army became more and more unattackable.

As the time approached noon, the officers were in a hurry, urging and shouting vigorously, and the soldiers were even more confused.

Da Liu ran to the outside of a compound and heard someone in the courtyard shooting out. He didn't dare to rush through the gate, and went around to the side with a few fighters and knocked down the courtyard wall. The enemies guarding the courtyard ran into the house and hid, and the Eighth Route Army threw grenades.

Dr. Li Danyang is the son of the old medical officer Li, and this time the logistics department went down to the grassroots level to participate in the war, and was assigned to Liu Chunlei's class. I saw that he ran a few steps and threw a grenade, but it was also strange, that thing was dripping and rolling in the threshold for a long time, and when the puppet soldiers all dodged, it shook a small crater on the ground with a "bang", like a cannonball. Da Liu was in a hurry, so he hurriedly threw another one. The enemy was careless this time and did not hide far. With a "bang", someone in the house screamed, and the Eighth Route Army immediately rushed in.

eliminated the enemies in the house, but Li Danyang refused to leave. This room seems to be the devil's infirmary, and the boxes and cabinets inside are all full of bottles and cans. He was afraid that others would spoil the good things, so he had to stay and guard them. Liu Chunlei had no choice but to let him.

Speaking of which, it's not a big deal to see medicine and you can't walk, and what's even more unusual is that there are still people who treat the iron pot as a treasure. The puppet army in Nanlizhuang has several large houses, and there are really a lot of big iron pots inside. The quartermaster Lao Jia moved it when he saw the iron pot, and numbered one, two, and three, for fear that one would be missing.

Chief of Staff Wang Yongyuan had no choice but to send soldiers to help. It turned out that pig iron was needed to make grenades. It is not easy to collect and buy scrap iron, and I often worry about it. In peacetime wars, where would the soldiers think of this, but this time it happened that the quartermaster went to the battlefield, and he was an expert in the goods, and he immediately "made a fortune".

However, there are more "rich" ones. There was a cross-hospital behind the infirmary, and there were a few devils in civilian clothes and short guns in the courtyard who resisted stubbornly, and the Eighth Route Army eliminated them without much effort. When I entered the house, I saw that two devils had committed suicide, and there was a brazier on the ground, and if I looked closely, the room was full of money! It was the first time Liu Chunlei had seen so much money, and his scalp was numb.

During the Anti-Japanese War, various regimes issued banknotes and mixed them. It is said that the counterfeit votes and the legal tender of the Kuomintang are five yuan and ten yuan of large votes; But the money in this house was more than 60,000 yuan according to later statistics! Dare to love, this is the office of the trading company!

Squad leader Liu hurriedly sent someone to report to the leader.

After a while, Song Yushan, the deputy company commander, came, and lost his temper when he entered the door: "Aren't you guys from the ladder group?" Why don't you go up to the roof and hide in the house? As soon as Liu Chunlei explained that there was no ladder, the deputy company commander became angry: "I won't find a way without a ladder!" You're so afraid of death" was followed by a scolding, meaning that the ladder group was dragging the collective back.

Deputy Company Commander Song scolded, but Liu Chunlei didn't dare to fight back.

Song Yushan has always been open-mouthed. He is a native of Mizhi, Shaanxi, a fellow villager with Li Shumao, and was the platoon leader of Liu Chunlei and their platoon when he hit the county seat. At that time, seeing that the 20th Regiment of the New Seventh Brigade could not be attacked, this small platoon commander actually dared to scold the commander of the 20th Regiment in front of him, "If you eat millet, you can't pull out hard when you drink porridge."

The regiment commander was anxious and said, "If you have the ability, you can attack!" ”

As a result, Song Yushan really rushed up with four grenades, and really took down the enemy's position!

(To be continued)