Just when Li Qing was thinking about adjusting the battle plan, the troops of the 3rd Brigade of the 3rd Brigade entered the city and captured the Yidu Railway Station under the guidance of the 3rd Special Operations Squad. The special operations team disguised itself as a railway patrol and captured two small stations in the east and west directions of the Yidu Railway Station, and began to stand guard in disguise as the railway garrison. At this point, the entire Yidu County was controlled by the Eighth Route Army.

After receiving the report, Li Qing immediately issued combat orders to the 3rd and 4th Brigades:

"According to the Jiaoji Road Battle Plan, the mission of the 3rd, 4th, 7th, Jiaodong Garrison Brigade, and Qinghe Garrison Brigade is to completely annihilate the enemy west of Yidu and east of Jinan, and to induce the Jinan Army, the Tai'an Army, and the Dexian Army to come to the rescue, so as to eliminate the living forces of the Shandong Army to the greatest extent. The campaign was divided into four phases, the first stage was to clear out the enemy on both sides of the Jiaoji Road and force the enemy to concentrate on the key points of the Jiaoji Road, and the task was completed. In the second stage, the 25th Brigade of the 10th and 8th Divisions of the Japanese Army was gathered and annihilated. In the third stage, lure the enemy to come to help, preset the battlefield, and destroy all the enemies who come to help. If necessary, the division's heavy firepower units will support our operations. In the fourth stage, he and Liu established the Luxi Group to attack Jinan and completely eliminate all the pseudo-forces around Jinan.

According to the combat mission, the following operational orders were issued: 1. Notification of the enemy situation: According to the report of the division headquarters, yesterday night, our 1st Brigade captured Anqiu, Fangzi, and Weicheng, eliminated a brigade of the 10th and 5th Wing of the 104th Brigade of the Chinese Army stationed in Anqiu and a battalion of the puppet army, eliminated a squadron reinforced by Fangzi of the Chinese army, eliminated the headquarters of the 105th Company and a squadron of the 105th Company of the Japanese Army stationed in Fangzi, and killed the commander of the wing, Kudo Zhentaka Dasa. After the attack on Weicheng, he captured alive the commander of the 108th Division, Lieutenant General Shimoto Xiongya, killed his chief of staff, Toshiyuki Suzuki, and eliminated the baggage wing, engineer wing, cavalry brigade, field artillery wing headquarters of the 108th Division, a brigade, a tank squadron, and the division's field hospital and sick horse factory. This morning, he captured alive Lieutenant General Odaka Kamizo, commander of the 12th Army who flew from Jinan to Weixian to supervise the battle. The results are brilliant! I taught the Sixth Brigade to capture Gaomi and eliminate an infantry squadron, a railway garrison squadron, a pseudo garrison in Gaomi County, and three puppet joint defense and self-defense regiments. I instructed the Eighth Brigade to attack and occupy Jiaoxian County and eliminate an infantry squadron, a railway garrison squadron, and a pseudo-garrison in Jiaoxian County. I instructed the Fourth Brigade to capture Boshan and eliminate a squadron of the Yue Army stationed in Boshan County and a puppet garrison in Boshan County, and then with the cooperation of Zou Guangzhong and Su Chenghai Railway Workers' Sixth Detachment, they occupied the Zichuan mining area and eliminated the garrison squad of the Yue Army stationed in the Zichuan mining area and a battalion of the puppet Manchurian National Defense Army. We instructed the Third Brigade to capture Linqu County, eliminate a squadron of the Yue Army and the puppet Linqu County Garrison, and attack and occupy Yidu County this morning, eliminate a brigade headquarters of the Jiaoji Road Garrison of the Yue Army and the third brigade (regiment) of the puppet Shandong Garrison, and capture Han Jian and Yin Fang Yongchang of the puppet Qingzhou Dao.

2. Task distribution: The 3rd Brigade is responsible for eliminating the main force of the Yue army that is operating by train, the 4th Brigade is responsible for eliminating the convoy of the Yue army that is operating along the highway and the army train carrying troops from Zhangqiu, and the Ludong Group is responsible for teaching the 7th Brigade as the general reserve for the campaign, and the Qinghe Garrison Brigade and the Jiaodong Garrison Brigade are responsible for eradicating the puppet regime and the Han annihilation forces in the northern area of Jiaoji Road.

3. The 4th Brigade closely monitored the movements of the Linzi Army, and sent a reconnaissance company to reconnoiter in the direction of Zhoucun and Zhangdian, and promptly reported on the march of the Jiaoji Road Army and the Jiqing Road Army. After the enemy's main force passes through Linzi, it will decisively occupy Linzi, cut off the enemy's rear road with one regiment, block the enemy's return to help, concentrate the main force to eliminate the devil's brigade that is going north by car from Zhoucun, and then eliminate the enemy's rearguard troops advancing eastward from Zhangqiu.

Fourth, the 3rd Brigade and the 7th Regiment of the 3rd Brigade of the 3rd Brigade of the 3rd Brigade of the 3rd Regiment of the 3rd Brigade of the 3rd Brigade of the 3rd Regiment of the Command Brigade were deployed at the Yidu Station, and when the first train of the 3rd Brigade and the 7th Regiment of the Special Operations Brigade arrived at the Yidu Station, they blew up the armored patrol car of the 3rd Brigade and the 7th Regiment of the Army, causing the personnel carriers of the 3rd Brigade to overturn and eliminate the devils on the military train. The brigade headquarters 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, to ambush the army column on which the main force of the Yue Army was riding, and completely annihilate the main force of the Yue Army. The brigade cavalry battalion is a company unit and serves as a battlefield vigilance. ”

After issuing the order, Li Qing left the supplementary regiment to guard the county seat of Yidu, and he led the brigade headquarters to the Eighth Regiment to command the battle of ambushing the main army of the Yue army.

Under normal circumstances, the defense of the Jiaoji Road defense line of the Yue army is very tight, and if you want to break through the Jiaoji Road defense line, you must fight hard. Liu Yimin had already taken this into account when formulating the Jiaoji Road battle plan, so he formulated a combat plan to break through at multiple points, force the enemy to shrink, and then surprise the troops to attack Anqiu and Fangzi, and directly smash the headquarters of the 10th and 8th Divisions in Weicheng, further mobilize the devil's reinforcements, disrupt its defensive deployment, and make its defense line self-defeating. It just so happened that the adventurous Otaka Kamezo cooperated so well and threw himself into the net, making the Eighth Route Army's plan more perfectly executed. Therefore, when the Jiaoji Road Battle was summarized after the war, some people proposed that the army was not defeated in the hands of the Eighth Route Army, but in their own hands. Imagine, if after the Eighth Route Army launched an attack, they did not shrink their troops, but held one stronghold after another, then the Eighth Route Army would have to attack the Jiaoji Line continuously. Once a strong attack is carried out, the intention is inevitably exposed. Although the strength and firepower of the Eighth Route Army were far greater than those of the Yue Army, it would still win in the end, but the price paid would be much greater. The little devil is tantamount to giving way to the Eighth Route Army to attack Jiaoji Road, and also withdrawing the troops from the defensive position and sending them to the artillery fire of the Eighth Route Army.

This statement is also true, the Yue army did make a mistake, but this mistake was made by the Eighth Route Army to guide them.

After receiving the order, Yang Yan, the head of the Seventh Regiment, and Ding Jiesheng, the political commissar, calculated the distance and time, and knew that the little devil would arrive soon, and the first one must be an armored patrol car.

This is not how strong the Eighth Route Army's reconnaissance ability is, how accurate the intelligence is, and not how it can be pinched, but that the little devils always do it under normal circumstances. They have armored patrol cars, and it is quite normal to open the way in front of the military columns. This point has been verified in several battles of the Eighth Route Army.

Since the Battle of Luzhong completely destroyed Jiaoji Road, it took a lot of effort for the little devils to repair Jiaoji Road and start normal operation. At this time, from Jinan to Qingdao, the devils along the Jiaoji Road were insufficient, and after seeing that the main force of the instructor was launched on the whole line, Luzhong, Ludong, and Jiaodong were about to be fully recovered, and the cadres no longer wanted to destroy the Jiaoji Road. On the contrary, many people are thinking about how to use Jiaoji Road and Jinpu Road to develop the base economy after taking Jinan and Qingdao!

Originally, the simplest and most effective way to fight devil-prone armored patrol vehicles was to plant electric explosives and directly overturn the armored patrol vehicles. But neither Yang Yan nor Ding Jiesheng wanted to do so, because the detonation of explosives would likely damage the station facilities and tracks. If you pull the turnout, you have to find a place with a steep slope or a big bend to make the devil's armored patrol car derail and overturn. But at the moment, neither of these conditions is met.

Zhou Zewei, the commander of the engineer battalion of the Third Brigade, is a native of southern Henan, and his father runs a blacksmith shop, and he has been working with his father since he was a child. After the Red Army, he was considered a skilled soldier, first beating the horses on the feet, and then began to repair firearms. Later, he went to study at the Red Army School, and after he came out, he continued to work as a sapper. This person is very smart and good at studying, and he was He Mingming's main assistant when Liu Yimin asked He Mingliang to try to produce land mines and flying thunder cannons in Guizhou Town.

After Zhou Zewei accepted the task, he divided the work with the instructor and separated the three companies of the engineer battalion, and the instructor led the first and second companies to move with the brigade headquarters to blow up the military column where the main force of the devils was riding.

Seeing that Yang Yan and Ding Jiesheng were in trouble, Zhou Zewei said: "Commander Yang, Political Commissar Ding, you don't have to be afraid of destroying the railway, as long as the devils are eliminated, it is very easy to repair this track, and the engineer battalion can do a good job." ”

Yang Yan thought about it, after the liberation of Luzhong, he had time to slowly repair the wounds of the war. Besides, Jiaoji Road is so important that the army will inevitably send planes to bomb it, and relying solely on the ground defense high-altitude firepower of the Air Defense Command cannot protect such a long Jiaoji Road, and if it is not good, it will only increase casualties. The Eighth Route Army Air Force has limited planes and limited ammunition, so it's okay to engage in a sneak attack and bombing, but if you want to fight with the little devils in the air, I'm afraid that the fighters will be over after a battle. It seems that his heart is too eager, and the conditions are not ripe for Jiaoji Road to resume normal operation in a short period of time!

Time waits for no one, Yang Yan immediately ordered the engineer battalion to lay electric explosives, and it was laid in sections and at multiple points, and if it was to be blown up, it was ruthless to blow up, not only to blow up the armored patrol car of the little devil, but also to blow up the military column, and completely stun the little devil!

The sappers are the most equipped troops in all arms of the division, there is no way, open roads in the mountains and build bridges in the rivers, are their surnames there!

In addition to using explosives to explode, he also prepared a backhand to hide several bazooka groups on the side of the railway, preparing to use bazookas to clean up the little devils in case the electric explosives fell off the chain at a critical time.

The news of the devil's dispatch came non-stop through the radio of the brigade reconnaissance company. At this time, the most excited person was Zhou Zewei, the commander of the engineer battalion, because this was the moment of the performance of the engineers. The instructor has fought several such battles since Zhengtai Road attacked the Devil Army. It turns out that as long as the devil's armored patrol car and military column are blown up, the next battle will be easy to fight, and it will basically be a massacre. It's a pity that the battles that bombed the devil's army were basically fought by special combat teams, and the engineer battalion of the 3rd Brigade has not participated in such a battle.

Yang Yan saw that Zhou Zewei's hands were shaking a little, and knew that he was excited about the battle, so he patted him lightly on the shoulder and said, "Old Zhou, how can you look like a rookie egg, take out the posture of the old Red Army!" ”

As soon as Zhou Zewei heard Yang Yan's reminder, he was amused in his heart, damn it, how many battles have been fought, and he is still so excited, he is a dead man! immediately spat in the palm of his hand, rubbed his hands, and replied in a low voice: "Commander Yang, isn't this the first time I've blown up a train!" People have the first time, such as the first time [***] hammer, the first time to fight a bayonet, the first time to kill the enemy, etc., are they all nervous! ”

Yang Yan is the head of the Seventh Regiment, which was developed on the basis of the third battalion of the original Red Eighteenth Regiment, and like the First and Fourth Regiments, it is the trump card unit in Liu Yimin's hands. Seeing that Zhou Zewei was obviously nervous and still couldn't fall down, he smiled and whispered into Zhou Zewei's ear: "Old Zhou, there is a very important first time you didn't say it, that is, the first time you fell in love with a girl, you will be very excited." I'm afraid that when you get excited, you will pee your pants in front of other girls, and you will lose the face of the brigade engineer battalion. ”

Zhou Zewei was really not nervous about this joke, and immediately returned the sentence: "It seems that you have experience in falling in love!" Head Yang, I heard that you, like our old Zhou, are still single! ”

Yang Yan shook his head: "I'm different from you." Lao Tzu is a famous man who teaches the Third Brigade, and there are more girls who like us. However, we can't look down on any of them. Believe it or not, when the devil is driven out of Shandong, let's go to Jinan and Qingdao on the streets, and there will be a girl crying and shouting to marry us. At that time, we must choose a girl who is one in a hundred, one in a thousand, and one in a thousand to be our wife, and give birth to three or five stinky boys from him. That's called beauty! ”

Zhou Zewei pouted: "You are beautiful!" Take off your military uniform, your baby is not a country man? It's true, it seems like I'm about to catch up with the teacher, and there are girls everywhere who are chasing and crying and shouting that they want to marry you alive or dead. Wake up, I think you're a single! ”

The two of them had to talk again, but the political commissar Ding Jiesheng reminded him that the devil's armored patrol car was about to arrive, and the two stopped laughing.

Although the stations along the road were reported to be very safe, the vigilance of the devil's armored patrol car was still very high, and after leaving Linzi City, it stopped from time to time and used machine guns to carry out fire reconnaissance on both sides of Jiaoji Road. It wasn't until I crossed the Zihe Bridge that I saw that there was indeed a sun flag floating on the pillbox at the bridgehead, and the sentries standing guard were short and strong, and at first glance they were reserve soldiers in their thirties.

When they were about to arrive at the Yidu train station, the devil's armored patrol car sounded its whistle and whined, preparing to enter the station.

About 1,000 meters behind the armored patrol car, followed by the military column carrying the vanguard of the 25th Brigade of the Devil.

When entering the station, the devil's armored patrol car slowed down, and the stationmaster and the patrolling soldiers on the platform with signal lights were clearly visible, and everything seemed to be normal.

At this time, Yang Yan waved his hand and roared in a low voice: "Detonate!" ”

Zhou Zewei followed up and gave the order to detonate, and as the sapper soldier pressed the detonator in his hand, a loud bang came, and the devil's armored patrol car jumped up and fell heavily on the side of the roadbed.

Immediately after that, there were several rumbling explosions, and the devil troop carrier that followed the armored car also turned over to the side of the track, and the little devil inside didn't know whether he fell unconscious or fell to death, anyway, it was a mess.

Yang Yan raised his gun and slammed it into the sky, roared to kill the devil, and rushed towards the armored patrol car.

After all, this is a station, the terrain is flat, whether it is an armored patrol car, or a military column behind, it is just that it was blown off the track, and it is not like encountering a steep slope or a sharp turn, the vehicle rolls over, and most of the little devils are killed, and now they can only stun and injure the little devils, and the Eighth Route Army must move quickly, and if it is too late, maybe some of the little devils will react and start shooting, which will bring greater casualties.

The soldiers of the Eighth Route Army, just like they usually trained, machine guns, Bayi automatic rifles, submachine guns, and 38 big covers, rushed into the devil pile, and the grenades hail, sent those dizzy little devils directly back to their hometown in the East.

Unlike ironclad trains, armored patrol cars do not have so many carriages, and the windows on the cars are small, and they are basically designed with perforations, through which the fighters can only throw grenades. As a result, the ammunition in the car was detonated, causing a martyrdom, completely scrapping a good armored patrol car from the inside, and causing many soldiers to be scratched by iron sheets and shrapnel.

Of the more than 3,000 soldiers of the 7th Regiment, except for the fire support battalion, which stayed on the position and did not move, the other fighters rushed up, and everyone wanted to throw a grenade and hit a shuttle. Otherwise, didn't it come in vain? It wasn't until the carriages and roadbeds were blown up with blood and flesh that there was no trace of popularity left, that the Eighth Route Army stopped strafing and bombing, and began to clean up the battlefield and count the loot.

Zhou Zewei's sappers made a great contribution this time, so he stood on the platform and kept shouting, instructed the sappers and soldiers to quickly disassemble the weapons on the devil's armored patrol car, and kept ordering the soldiers to go up to the military column behind to have a look, and pay attention to collecting the materials and equipment needed by the sappers for combat.

Seeing that the devil had been eliminated so easily, Yang Yan immediately ordered the regimental baggage company to clean up the battlefield, and he led the battalions and engineer battalions to support the Eighth Regiment, the Ninth Regiment, and the New Third Regiment.

Seeing the little devil's armored car passing in front of him and the military column passing in front of him, Li Qing knew that the 25th Brigade was dead. Until there was a rumbling explosion, Li Qing's heart was completely put in his stomach, and he immediately ordered the Eighth Regiment, the Ninth Regiment, the New Third Regiment, the Brigade Artillery Regiment, and the Heavy Machine Gun Battalion to prepare for battle.

Major General Naozo Nakano, commander of the 25th Brigade of the 10th and 8th Divisions of the Army, thought that he was safe, not to mention that the Jiaoji Railway and the Jinan-Qingdao Highway from Zhangqiu to Weicheng were firmly controlled by the imperial army, and his own deployment alone was impeccable. There are armored patrol cars in front of them, not to mention that Tuba Road has not yet attacked the vicinity of the railway in this area, even if they attack, there is nothing they can do with armored patrol cars. Behind the armored patrol car is a brigade that serves as the vanguard, and behind its main force there is a brigade covering the rear of the palace, plus an infantry brigade driving on the Jiqing Highway, which can be said to be seamless. No matter how powerful Tu Balu is, he can't stop his steel torrent.

(To be continued)