After leaving Zhang Zili to lead a regiment of the Tai'an detachment to capture Dawenkou, Zeng Zhongsheng and Cai Zhong led their troops all the way north, and set up a bag-shaped ambush position in the Beidawu area between Dawenkou and Beijipo, waiting for the arrival of devil reinforcements.

Dawenkou is only twenty or thirty miles away from Beijipo, and the traffic is also very convenient. After the Battle of Jinpu Road and the Battle of Dawenkou, most of the people in this area participated in the activities of sabotaging the railway and carrying materials, knowing that there was a large army hidden in the Culai Mountain behind them, which could easily wipe out thousands of devils, and they were not afraid of devils in their hearts. Therefore, the Tai'an detachment developed east of Jinpu Road, and the cavalry brigade and local armed forces in the Taixi area developed west of Jinpu Road, and the anti-Japanese and national salvation movements on both sides of the Tai'an section of Jinpu Road were booming.

As soon as the main force came up, the reconnaissance company quickly got in touch with the guerrillas, and the reconnaissance post was placed north of Beijipo.

Finally saw the shadow of the devil's reinforcements, and the scouts kept passing the news back, and Le's artillery brigade commander Li Changzhi rubbed his hands, hurriedly commanded the artillery to raise the muzzle of the gun, and waited for the devil to come and serve the food.

No one would have imagined that after this reinforced devil entered Beijipo Town, he would return the same way after a short rest. Seeing that the air was fond of a fight, Zeng Zhongsheng and Cai Zhong had to send a telegram to Liu Yimin, reporting that the ambush plan had failed, and the army returned to Tai'an by the same route, and it was likely that they would not be able to catch up if they pursued. Liu Yimin telegraphed back to inform him that the 1st Brigade and the Cavalry Brigade had attacked and occupied Tai'an, and were waiting for a strong battle in the south of Tai'an. Liu Yimin demanded that Zeng Zhongsheng and Cai Zhong immediately mobilize troops and fellow villagers to dig the railroad with great fanfare, attract the devils in Beijipo to come to their aid, and annihilate them. After the battle, all the railways from Dawenkou to Tai'an should be stripped and all the steel rails should be transported back to the mountains to make raw materials for military factories. Special attention should be paid to focusing on the Dawen River railway bridge, and the railway bridge must be destroyed cleanly, so that the devils will not be able to use the Jinpu railway to transport baggage and soldiers for a period of time. After completing the task, the Liutai'an detachment relied on the development base area in the Lailai Mountains and defended the Yimeng central base area. The divisional troops immediately went north and concentrated at the designated location for the Luzhong Campaign.

After reading the telegram, Zeng Zhongsheng and Cai Zhong knew that the First Brigade was ready, and this group of devils was dead, so they were relieved. He immediately ordered the engineer regiment that was accompanying the troops to take the lead in advancing in the direction of Beijipo, and at a distance of four or five miles from Beijipo, they set up torches to break the road on a large scale and attract devils to attack. The artillery brigade, the artillery brigade, the infantry regiment, the air defense brigade, and the baggage regiment were ordered to set up positions on both sides of the road broken by the engineer regiment to destroy the enemy attacking from Beijipo. Ordered Zhang Haitao to lead the second and third regiments of the Tai'an Tai'an detachment to the north to conceal and detour, and take advantage of the situation to capture the north after the devils attacked. After that, the whole army turned to the road of great destruction.

Major General Mizuno Nobu was also a very capable general, and when he left Beijipo, considering that Beijipo was close to Dawenkou and could easily be attacked, he strengthened the strength of the Beijipo garrison to the strength of a large brigade. In his mind, with the strength of this brigade, there was no problem at all in holding Beijipo. You must know that when the Segu Detachment of the 10th Division began to attack Taierzhuang, that is, a large group of infantry, with a part of cavalry, artillery and two tanks, attacked Taierzhuang for several days with these forces. Although in the end, all the Seya detachments were pressed up, and basically the entire army was destroyed, it was because the Chinese concentrated hundreds of thousands of troops to deal with a brigade of the 10th Division, which also proved from another aspect the strength of the imperial army and the low combat strength of the middle [***] team. As for what happened in Dawenkou this afternoon, Mizuno Nobu firmly believed that it was the blind command of the commander of the Second Army, Lieutenant General Dongjuergong Tsukihiko Wang, who buried the strength of a brigade of the imperial army, and if they had not cleared and retaliated against Beiteng Village, they would not have been ambushed by the Eighth Road of Zhongtu, and they would not have dared to attack Dawenkou, which was fortified with the strength of the Eighth Road, with the strength of a large brigade, and borrowed a hundred courage from the Eighth Road, and they would not dare to attack the strong Dawenkou.

Of course, at this time, although Major General Mizuno Nobu took it for granted that the responsibility was placed on Lieutenant General Tsukihiko King of Higashijuer, it was impossible for him to forget the fact that the main force of the 13th Brigade was annihilated and Dawenkou was captured last time. However, he did always think that the first two things were secretly made in Lunan's [***] main force to the north, in his opinion, there is no formed [***] team around this Tai'an, and some are just some guerrillas of Chinese who are unwilling to be slaves of the country, and this kind of guerrilla is more appropriate to say that it is bandits, as long as the imperial army destroys the main force of Chiang Kai-shek's regular army, these bandit guerrillas will rush to ask the imperial army to recruit An. China's history has long borne this out.

Riding on a war horse and swaying Major General Mizuno Shin, while walking and thinking about his thoughts, he thought about the problem of the second fall of Dawenkou, and felt that no matter what, he was afraid that he was really unlucky this time, in case the Tuba Road also learned to destroy the railway, so that the Jinpu Road was interrupted for a period of time, it was likely to affect the battle of Xuzhou, and no matter how he explained it, I am afraid that it would be difficult to escape the fate of a scapegoat. It seems that after returning to Tai'an, I have to hurry up and write a report on the battle of Dawenkou first, and then defend myself first.

Major General Nobu Mizuno, who was in a complicated mood, was awakened by the chief of staff, for no other reason, and there was a dense gunfire in the direction of Beijipo.

Major General Mizuno, who woke up, looked up, and could already see the scattered lights of the stars in the dark Tai'an City in front of him from a distance, indicating that he was about to go home. At this time, what does the dense gunfire from Beijipo mean? Could it be that the damn Tubalu ate the leopard's guts and dared to attack Beijipo?

Major General Mizuno Nobu ordered the troops to stop advancing, asked the radio to be turned on immediately, and contacted the defenders of Beijipo to inquire about the situation.

At this moment, Major General Mizuno Nobu felt a flash of lightning pass in front of him, and he was so excited that he couldn't open his eyes. Quickly rubbed his eyes with his hands, and looked up, Mom, when did the lights of his marching ranks turn on the left and right, and the roar of tanks, armored vehicles, and cars shook the earth.

Major General Mizuno Nobu was a little unconvinced by his eyes, and was about to see what kind of luxury equipment these tanks and cars were used in the army, when he heard the sound of artillery firing. Major General Mizuno Nobu couldn't think about it anymore, shouted "enemy attack", and leaned over the war horse, trying to take advantage of the situation to roll off the war horse.

As soon as he rolled off his horse, a swarm of shells exploded in the ranks of the troops, followed by a continuous stream of machine-gun sounds. Major General Nobu Mizuno only glanced at it and closed his eyes. Because he really didn't dare to look at it again, and if he looked again, he was afraid that his heart would immediately jump out of his heart cavity and fall to the ground and be shattered.

I can't close my eyes, not only the sound of artillery and gunfire echoing in my ears, but also the howls of my own soldiers when they are hit by machine gun bullets, and my mind is still fixed on such a set of images: two or three hundred tanks, armored vehicles, and cars are lined up in a line, with their headlights on, pressing towards their own troops, and the machine guns on the roof of the cars are spraying bullets, like hundreds of poisonous snakes spitting dark red snake letters, constantly biting the young lives of the Yamato warriors. Between the cars, light and heavy machine guns and mortars, infantry guns, and grenadiers of the infantry were wreaking havoc, beating their soldiers as if they were acrobatics, dancing in the ring of fire.

Major General Mizuno Nobu knew that tonight was the end of his reading power mixed into the 10th Brigade, and it was also his own sacrifice. Whether it's Amarasu, who is in charge of the sun, or Moonnight Amizun, who is in charge of the moon, no one can save him.

Holding back the fear in his heart, Mizuno Shin slowly opened his eyes, he wanted to observe the battlefield again so that he could determine his command ideas. When I opened my eyes, I found that those tanks, armored vehicles, and cars had already arrived in front of me, the headlights illuminated the main road, and the road was full of the corpses of my own soldiers, and the rows were neatly fallen, looking as if they were lying on the spot.

It was only at this time that Major General Mizuno Shin sounded the question of the lost tanks, armored vehicles and automobiles of the North China Front after the fall of Tianjin, and also understood that the unit in front of him was the legendary instructor of the Eighth Route Army, and it was an honor for his reading ability to mix into the 10th Brigade and once again follow in the footsteps of the 21st Brigade.

When I think about it, I feel that I and Lieutenant General Dongjuer Palace Tsukihiko Wang are so stupid that I didn't think about the instructor for a long time, and it is estimated that Major General Tsuchiya Bingma, who is mixed with the sixth division, is also the same as himself, and it was not until the last moment of death that he realized that he died at the hands of someone.

Slowly, Major General Mizuno Nobu was no longer afraid, and the bushido spirit in his body slowly recovered. He knew that he had to die, and he had to die a heroic death, otherwise, his sons and daughters would not have to be mixed up in the future. So, Major General Mizuno Nobu stood up, closed his eyes, pulled out his command knife, and shouted at the convoy: "Kill it!" ”

Naturally, the soldiers of the army who were lying on the mainland would not get up again and kill them, so Major General Mizuno Shin shouted again, "Kill them!" But there was still no response. Mizuno Shin was helpless, and shouted more than a dozen "kill to give", seeing that not only did the imperial soldiers not respond, but also the oncoming tanks, armored vehicles, and cars did not respond, and the soldiers in the car seemed to be too lazy to shoot, and they were all watching him play treasure.

Mizuno Shin knew it was time, and he would be captured a little later. So, Mizuno Shin turned the tip of the knife, held the knife in both hands, and stabbed himself in the abdomen.

This unit is also strange, it seems that it is not very interested in capturing a major general, so many people actually watched Mizuno Shin stab the knife in the abdomen, and no one even scolded him.

Major General Mizuno Shin had a voice in his heart shouting at this time, shoot quickly, shoot quickly, the gun will fall. It's a pity that the gunshot just didn't go off, and Major General Mizuno Nobu had no choice but to stab the knife into the abdomen with force, and then twisted it again, and then fell to the ground.

Major General Mizuno Nobu went with a heart full of unwillingness and resentment, but the elated soldiers of the Eighth Route Army poured up from all sides and began to clean up the battlefield. Gao Yuan asked the chief of staff Zhou Yi to send a report to Liu Yimin: "The battle is over, completely annihilate the enemy, and kill a major general." ”

Hu Laohu proposed to go to Beijipo for reinforcements, Gao Yuan shook his head and told him that there was no need, not to mention that it was just a small station, and that the army was limited, even if the army was strong, what if the army was strong? Chief of Staff Zeng has two artillery regiments, a flying thunder artillery regiment, and a heavy machine gun regiment in his hands, and it is easy to kill those devils with such firepower, so it is important to quickly clean up the battlefield, carry materials, and destroy the railway.

Considering the large target of the tanks, armored vehicles, and automobiles of the Second Regiment, Gao Yuan ordered Zhou Yi to lead the First and Second Regiments to immediately go to the Taylor Highway and advance towards the assembly site of the Luzhong Campaign. Other troops immediately sabotaged the railroad and moved supplies.

At this time, the battle in the direction of Beijipo had just entered a fierce battle.

After accepting the task of breaking the road and luring the enemy, Li Chaoran, the commander of the engineering regiment, and Li Zengyu, the political commissar, discussed it and decided that Li Zengyu would lead two battalions of 1,000 people to carry out the task on the road with torches, and Ren Chaoran would take the remaining three battalions to ambush on the side of the road.

This Li Zengyu is a native of Ji County, Hebei Province, and when he was studying in Beiping, he was influenced by the ideological atmosphere during the Great Revolution and went south to apply for the engineering department of the Huangpu Military Academy. At the Whampoa Military Academy, he got acquainted with Comrade Zhou Enlai, who was then the director of the Political Department of the Whampoa Military Academy, joined [***], participated in the Eastern Expedition, and was later seriously injured in the Guangzhou Uprising, and has been engaged in underground work since he recovered. After arriving in the Soviet zone, he worked as a staff officer at the headquarters of the Red Army. During the Long March, he was assigned to work in the 18th Red Regiment in the channel, and has been serving in the engineer company, engineer battalion, and engineer regiment, and has made contributions to the construction of the instructor and engineer. The man was not tall, fair-skinned, and wore a pair of nearsighted glasses.

As a result of the capture of Chengdu, Xi'an, Taiyuan, and Tianjin, the equipment of the engineering regiment has been markedly improved. For example, the work of the railroad is different from that of other troops. Other troops and ordinary people did not have special tools to pick up the rails, so they generally used wooden sticks to pry up the rails, and then smashed the bolts that connected and fixed them, so that the rails could be removed section by section. The engineer regiment is different, they first unscrew the bolts, and then lift the rails, using fewer people and high efficiency.

Li Zengyu led two engineer battalions to break the road on the railway with great fanfare, and naturally fell into the eyes of the sentries of the Beijipo devil defenders. Think about it, not only are the torches bright, but also the voices of the people are boiling, and the devil can't turn a blind eye even if he wants to.

After receiving the sentry's report, the captain of the devil brigade immediately got up and went to the watchtower, looked to the south, and angrily scolded the eight Geya Road, this dirt eight road is simply crazy to the limit, and he dared to blatantly pick up the railway, he simply didn't know the power of the imperial army!

After calming down a little, the captain of the devil brigade remembered his mission and what happened in Dawenkou, and he couldn't do it rashly, so he had to send a report to Major General Mizuno Nobu, the commander of the 10th Brigade of the Reading Power Mixed Brigade, to report the situation and ask for instructions on how to deal with it.

The telegram was sent, but Major General Mizuno Nobu did not reply for a long time, and the captain of the devil group remembered that His Excellency the brigade commander was marching, and the radio was not turned on. I can't get in touch here, and the Tuba Road is in full swing over there, looking at the posture of the torch, it is still moving in the direction of Beijipo Station. When the night was quiet, the voice traveled far away, and the voice of Tu Balu spoke intermittently and went straight to the ears of the devil captain. The captain of the devil team gradually became agitated, because he knew that if the Tuba Road was allowed to go down like this, the Jinpu line would have to be suspended, even if a sweep was launched after dawn, the rails might not all be recovered. If you take 10,000 steps back, you will try your best to chase the rails back, so won't the railway have to be interrupted for a while?

Remembering that one of his main tasks was to protect the safety of Jinpu Road, the captain of the Devil Brigade felt that he had to eliminate these broken dirt roads. However, considering the lesson of Dawenkou, the captain of the devil brigade decided to send the second squadron to eliminate the broken Tubalu, and he stayed on the watchtower to observe the battle situation.

The leader of the second squadron is called Tashiro Wanjuro, who is the cousin of Lieutenant General Tashiro Wanichiro, the former commander of the North China Sumitun Army. It turned out to be a ronin wandering in Beiping and Tianjin, who was brave and ruthless, and did many bad things. Later, he returned to China to join the army and was incorporated into the 10th Brigade of the Reading Force.

Tashiro Wanjuro was very insidious, and quietly slipped out of Beijipo Town with his squadron, and made a circle to the railway, preparing to give the road-breaking Tubalu a surprise attack and defeat the Eighth Route Army in one fell swoop.

How did Tashiro Wanjuro know that this was a trap in itself, and the trap was dug very deep and deep, it was originally intended to be mixed into the main force of the 10th Brigade and all of it, but now there is only one squadron here, and he can only play monkey.

When Tashiro felt that he was about to reach the range and was about to order the troops to assault, a bullet was fired into his chest and sent his soul directly back to the East. Needless to say, Tashiro Wanjuro was too arrogant, and the Eighth Route Army's secret sentry couldn't look at it, so he directly shot him coldly.

The captain of the first squad immediately took over the command, commanded the troops to set up machine guns and grenadiers, and crackled and went away.

As soon as the gunshots rang out, the dirt road that was breaking the road immediately stopped breaking the road, used the railway as a cover, lay down on the tracks, and began to shoot at the devils.

In the dark night, the position of the machine gun and grenadier canister was obvious, there were many soldiers of the Eighth Route Army, Li Zengyu only let three light machine guns open fire, concentrated rifles to shoot a row of guns, and specially dealt with the devil's machine gun and grenadier canister, and forcefully suppressed the devil's attack.

The devil soldiers found themselves falling into the ambush circle of the Eighth Route Army, fortunately, although there were many people on the Eighth Route Road, the firepower was not good, there were no cannons and heavy machine guns, and the sight was not good at night. In this case, the devil squad leader, who is acting as the squadron leader, keeps sending signals for help to the captain.

This scene had already fallen into the eyes of the captain of the devil brigade who was watching the battle in Beijipo, and he felt that Tubalu was purely the work of the guerrillas, as long as he led the main force of the brigade up, brought the infantry artillery, and fired a few cannons, Tubalu should flee in embarrassment.

So, the captain of the devil brigade left a team of devils to stick to the fortifications of Beijipo, and he led the main force of the brigade to kill the road-breaking team of the Eighth Route Army, and stepped into the ghost gate.

(To be continued)