According to the original battle plan, the Eighth Route Army attacked Dexian only to attract reinforcements from devils, so as to take advantage of the situation to capture Cangxian and capture the strategic materials of the Japanese army. This goal has been achieved, and the next thing is how to eliminate the Japanese puppet army in Dexian County, ambush the Japanese puppet army that went south from Cangxian, Nanpi, and Dongguang and from Qihe, Yucheng, and Pingyuan to the north to reinforce Dexian.

Just when the Luxi Garrison Brigade and the New Sixth Brigade captured Cangxian, Liu Jianli and Zhang Hongtao commanded the Second and Sixth Brigades to set up positions between Dexian and Wuqiao and between Dexian and the plains, respectively, and prepared to send reinforcements.

The main force attacking the county seat of Dexian had quietly come down and been replaced by the county brigade and district xiǎo team of several counties in Luxi. Liu Jianjian ordered them to feint and attack Dexian, the momentum should be big, but there was no need to attack hard, the purpose was to force the enemy to ask for help and attract devil reinforcements to come quickly.

waited until dawn, and the Xiǎo devil reinforcements did not appear, Liu Jianli and Zhang Hongtao felt incredible, other devils can be said to be far away, and they can't catch up overnight. This Wuqiao and the plain are not far from Dexian, and there is no reason for the xiǎo devil not to reinforce it, what is the problem? Liu Jianjian, who couldn't figure it out, had no choice but to order the reconnaissance company to expand the scope of investigation, and he must find out what tricks the xiǎo devils were playing.

The situation was quickly clarified, and the Japanese troops who set out from Jinan, Qihe, and Yucheng to reinforce Dexian and from Cangxian and Nanpi south to reinforce Dexian also completed their assembly in Pingyuan and Dongguang respectively to build a defensive line.

The Japanese army was stubbornly defending itself and avoiding the fate of being annihilated.

The ambush battle prepared by Jīng was in vain, and Liu Jianli and Zhang Hongtao were angry, and they just wanted to immediately attack the city of Dexian and completely eliminate the Japanese puppet army in Dexian. But they were all senior commanders who had been in battle for a long time, and they knew that they could not launch siege operations during the day, as that would expose their troops to the guns of Japanese aircraft. Liu Jianli had to order the troops to hide and rest on the battlefield to prepare for another battle at night.

There was also a bad situation, that is, the Eighth Route Army Aviation Brigade was not able to go to the Dexian airfield to carry bombs, let alone bomb the Japanese airfield. The reason is that during this period of time, the Japanese reconnaissance planes have been carrying out strict search and reconnaissance in the Yimeng Mountains and the Juxian area, and the Japanese planes appear in the sky over Juxian every day at dawn and do not return to their nests until dark. As long as the 1st Air Brigade of the Eighth Route Army is dispatched, it will inevitably be hoisted by Japanese reconnaissance planes when it returns to the airport. Feng Dafei is considering whether a new hidden airfield should be built in Luxi or the Jilu border and reclamation areas.

After these situations were fed back to Zeng Zhongsheng and Cai Zhong, Zeng and Cai had to think about it.

In the headquarters of the 41st Division of the Japanese Army in Cangxian County, there was laughter and laughter.

Due to the successful attack on the county seat of Cangxian County and the capture of Japanese supplies, everyone was very excited. Especially Fu Zhuting, who has long adhered to the Jilu border, dug tunnels and drilled tunnels every day in the most difficult time, and now he has finally come out. No, he is telling the story of Liu Guan and Zhang Taoyuan's righteousness.

I heard Fu Zhuting say: Liu Bei sells straw shoes, Guan Gong sells tofu, and Zhang Fei sells pigs. The three of them want to be brothers, but they don't know their birthdays, how to rank, which one is the boss? When I was wondering in the peach orchard, I saw an ant crawling on the ground. Liu Bei proposed: "Which one kills the ants, which one will be the big brother." Zhang Fei laughed when he heard this, he thought: "This big brother must be my own", and immediately said, "Okay!" Guan Gong agreed. Zhang Fei was in a hurry, and shouted "Hey! "A punch hit the ant, and the soil was hit by him with a big dòng, Zhang Fei had long thought that the ant had returned to the west, who knew that the ant Xiǎo, hit his fist, and it didn't hurt at all. As soon as Zhang Fei's fist was picked up, the ants immediately ran away. Zhang Fei's eyes turned straight and his beard was blowing, inexplicably. Guan Gong said to Zhang Fei: "You don't have the ability to kill you, look at me." Guan Gong slapped the ants and wanted the ants to suffocate under the palm. He thinks that Zhang Fei's máo disease is hard to soft, ants xiǎo have gaps to drill, he uses the palm is soft to soft, and ants have nowhere to escape, so he doesn't pick up the palm for a long time, thinking "Big brother must belong to me". Just as he was waiting for a while, he saw that the ant slowly crawled out from between his middle fingers, and it was not dead. When it was Liu Bei's turn, Liu Bei was not in a hurry, first dipped his index finger in his tongue and saliva, then glued the ant to his index finger, and gently pinched it with two fingers of his thumb, and the ant was already crushed. The people watching from the side were also amazed, and commented: Liu Bei should be the boss, Guan Gong should be the second, and Zhang Fei should be the third. Zhang Fei was not convinced, he thought that he had so much strength, Liu Bei had no strength, how could he be the boss? So he said: "The ants are too xiǎo, they can't compare with the superior, so they have to change to another game." Liu Bei raised his head and suddenly saw a tall and big tree in front of him, dozens of meters away from them. Liu Bei said: "I thought of a way to compete, what do you think?" Zhang Fei asked anxiously: "What way?" Say it. Liu Bei pointed to the big tree and said, "Look at the big tree, the three of us compare, which one will run to hug the tree first, and which one will be the eldest brother?" When Zhang Fei heard this, he was very happy. He concluded that he was the fastest and immediately replied, "Good! Good! Good! "Guan Gong can also fight and run, and of course he responded. He also found the surrounding folks to be referees. Everyone prepares, and a command: "Run!" Zhang Fei took the lead, ran to the tree, and when he looked back, the others were still some way away from him, and he laughed, thinking that he had won. He thought he would not only be able to run to the root of the tree, but also climb up the tree and hold it for everyone to see. Guan Gong was a little slower than Zhang Fei and climbed into the tree to hug him. Liu Bei ran to the root of the tree in a hurry, hugged the root, and then evaluated. Liu Bei asked: "Is the tree big at the root, or slightly bigger", and everyone replied "The root is big". Liu Bei said, "Our three brothers are bigger than hugging a tree, hugging the big one, and hugging the xiǎo when xiǎo, right?" Zhang Fei stayed for a long time and was not convinced, but then he thought that Liu Bei's strategy was really better than his own, so he agreed convincingly: "Yes, yes." Guan Gong was in the middle, there was nothing to say, and the three brothers were arranged like this.

After Fu Zhuting finished speaking, Xu Shiyou smacked for a long time and said: "Old Fu, what you said sounds like this story to me is that none of Liu Guanzhang and the three of them are authentic!" ”

Fu Zhuting hurriedly smiled and said, "No, no, this is what I heard from an old man when I passed by Linqing last time." Liu Guanzhang, that is an absolute figure of the Three Kingdoms. Liu Bei has a lot of eyes, and Guan Gong and Zhang Fei also have a lot of eyes. I say this purely because I think it's funny, and I'm amusing you a few times. ”

A few people wanted to continue to be lively, and the staff officer sent information on the Japanese army's assembly in Dongguang and the plain.

Although the primary goal of this attack on Cangxian was to seize the heavy supplies of the Japanese army in Cangxian, four brigades and so many local armed forces in Jilubian and Luxi were dispatched, and only one infantry brigade, one baggage wing, and several thousand puppet troops of the Japanese army were eliminated.

The reason why Zeng Zhongsheng was later named a military expert of the Chinese People's Liberation Army in later history was because of his guerrilla tactics theory and his contributions in the Eyu-Anhui Soviet region. During the Battle of Taixi, he commanded the northern front blockade battle, the Luxi Garrison Brigade and the New Sixth Brigade were almost dumplings made by the Xiǎo devils, and the Xiǎo Devil Cavalry Group successfully smuggled from Wujiadu to copy the back road of the Yellow River River Defense Force, the chairman criticized him and Cai Zhong by name, although Liu Yimin and Luo Ronghuan took the responsibility and sent a review telegram to the chairman and the headquarters in the name of Liu and Luo, but Zeng Zhongsheng blamed himself in his heart and was bent on venting his anger on the 41st Division of the Xiǎo Devils. Now that the xiǎo devil has become a shrunken turtle, Zeng Zhongsheng's brows are twisted together after reading the telegram.

Originally, according to Liu Yimin's order, Zeng Zhongsheng and Cai Zhong were to lead the main force to quickly go south, and cooperate with the 2nd and 6th Brigades to eliminate the Japanese reinforcements from Cangxian to the south. In addition, a feint to the north was used to create a situation in which our army attacked Pingjin and urged the enemy to shrink. However, when the order was received, it was already past four o'clock in the morning, and the troops were busy carrying the captured bombs, and they had to rush to transport the bombs out of the county town before dawn to avoid heavy losses caused by the bombing of Japanese planes. After Zeng Zhongsheng and Cai Zhong discussed, it was decided that each unit would evacuate and hide outside the city after carrying the bombs, let the soldiers sleep for a while, and then go south by different routes. Besides, the Second Brigade and the Sixth Brigade have already set up an ambush circle, and if the Xiǎo Devil rushes into it, with the firepower and tactical level of the two main brigades, the Xiǎo Devil will definitely be bleeding. Zeng and Cai were not afraid that the xiǎo devil would be able to escape from the ambush circle.

Now that the enemy situation has changed so much, Zeng Zhongsheng couldn't make up his mind for a while whether he wanted to go south or not.

Cai Zhong saw that Zeng Zhongsheng was a little impatient, so he advised him not to worry, the Xiǎo Devil Heavy Army Group will not be able to catch up with Dexian for a while, and there will always be opportunities.

Zeng Zhongsheng said with emotion: "Lao Cai, I found out that the xiǎo devil was beaten by us. Last time, Naosaburo of the post department gave us a two-wing roundabout outflank, and then a cavalry smuggled into Wujiadu. This time, Shanshanyuan came to break his wrist again, and he actually gave up reinforcing Dexian. Even the airport of the xiǎo devil knew that the camouflage was hidden, and from time to time he wanted to lure our plane to jump into the trap. This shows that the xiǎo devil has a certain study of our army's tactics, and Shanshan Yuan, the old devil, is a character. ”

Cai Zhong smiled at once: "Chief of Staff, what you said is too cute." Of course, Shanshanyuan is a character, do you think, this all-out war of aggression against China happened when he was the prime minister, and the slogan of destroying China in three months was also put forward by him. The division commander said that the reason why Shanshanyuan was driven to North China to serve as commander of the North China Front was a fig leaf that Emperor Hirohito had found for himself after the bankruptcy of the Quick Victory Theory, and that it would not be long before Shanshanyuan would return to the Central Committee of the Japanese Army and take responsibility for decision-making. If this old devil hadn't done two hits, how could he have done such a big thing as a full-scale invasion of China? ”

When Zeng Zhongsheng heard this, he couldn't help but say: "The division commander is just a judgment, and it doesn't mean that Shanshanyuan will definitely be able to return to the center of the Japanese army." If we fight well, it is possible for this old devil to apologize for his sins. ”

Cai Zhong pouted and said, "Shanshan Yuan won't have a caesarean section!" If he had been disemboweled, he would not have advocated the expansion of the war of aggression. This old devil, and Emperor Hirohito, both want to benefit from the invasion of China. If only he would have apologized, the sun would have come out of the west. Terauchi Shouichi fought so many defeats, didn't he return to Japan as a military counselor unharmed? This Japan, to put it bluntly, is the leader of this group of warlords. They wouldn't be stupid enough to have their disembowelments! ”

Xu Shiyou was a well-known fierce general, and seeing that the Xiǎo devil relied on the two county towns of Dongguang and Pingyuan to build a defensive line, and even the Japanese puppet army in the county seat of Dexian County had a chance to breathe, he suggested that he attack Dexian County, eat the Japanese puppet army in Dexian County first, and then concentrate his forces to solve the main force of the 41st Division in Dongguang.

Zeng Zhongsheng actually thought the same way, Liu Jianli and Zhang Hongtao also thought the same, and planned to storm Dexian County at night.

After listening to Xu Shiyou's suggestion, Cai Zhong was silent, pondered for a while, and said: "Chief of Staff, Lao Xu, Lao Fu, I pondered that the division commander's combat intention was to mobilize the Japanese army, exhaust the Japanese army, and let the Japanese army follow our command and fight fires everywhere. The reason why he ordered us to move south quickly in the early morning and cooperate with the 2nd and 6th Brigades to eliminate the 41st Division of the Japanese Army and move south to reinforce the troops was because the Japanese army was in motion at that time and it was to send reinforcements. But now the situation has changed, and the xiǎo devils have given up on reinforcing Dexian and are holding out in Dongguang County. In this way, our army will have to pay a heavy price whether it is attacking Dexian or Dongguang. I am afraid this is not the original intention of the division commander to plan this battle. ”

When Zeng Zhongsheng heard this, his eyebrows immediately raised: "Director Cai, do you mean that we should find another fighter?" ”

The scab on Cai Zhong's brows trembled: "The facts are here, there are still thousands of Japanese puppet troops in Dexian County, and there are two infantry brigades, although our artillery fire is fierce, it can only be used to break through the city wall." After entering the street fighting, the casualties are large. If the 2nd and 6th Brigades attacked Dexian, they would have to suffer 2 to 3,000 casualties. Those are the backbone of our army, especially the Second Brigade, which is a seed army, and we are still counting on those Red Army soldiers who have come all the way to expand the troops. This kind of battle will never be fought by the division commander. You see that he has fought so many battles, when will he fight with xiǎo devils? The Japanese army in Dongguang is even larger, an infantry wing, plus artillery, cavalry, engineers, and railway garrisons, the total strength may reach about 8,000 people, and if you count the puppet army, it will be more than 10,000. This scale of troops, and the city is sticking to it, think about it, can we bite it? There is another meaning, I pondered that the division commander fought in the south and pulled in the north, in order to better confuse the Japanese army, so that they could not judge where the main force of our army was. If we succeed in storming Dexian, the xiǎo devils will inevitably think that they have captured the main force of our army. With the degree of hatred of our army, it is very likely that the main force of the Kwantung Army will be transferred to the south and completely swept away the Jilubian and Luxi, so that our base area may be over. Therefore, I suggest that a report be sent to the division commander and political commissar, and after our army has finished transporting supplies from Cangxian, the main force will quickly retreat, turn to other directions to fight or find another fighter, so that the devils will think that we are only teaching the main force of the instructor, and that we are relying on local armed forces to confuse the Japanese army and take advantage of the situation to seize Cangxian. ”

Cai Zhong's remark made several people fall into deep thought.

The devils are dispatched in large numbers.

Beginning at 8 o'clock in the morning, there were devil reconnaissance planes flying over Cangxian County one after another, circling around the county seat, and then continuing to fly southward. At 9 o'clock in the morning, as the guns of the air defense sentry rang out, more than 100 Japanese planes rushed over from the direction of Pingjin.

The Japanese army had too many supplies, enough supplies for the three Kwantung Army divisions and the entire Shandong combat unit of the North China Front, and enough supplies to meet the burden of 100,000 to 200,000 soldiers. From 4 o'clock in the morning, although the Eighth Route Army concentrated its efforts on transporting, it could not be moved in a hurry, no matter what, and could only carry the ammunition first, and other food and other materials had to wait for the evening to organize large-scale transportation. The Japanese army was unwilling to let the ammunition that they had painstakingly transported fall into the hands of the Eighth Route Army, and would rather blow it up than let it be carried away by the Eighth Route Army, and would inevitably concentrate on bombing.

In accordance with Liu Yimin's order, Zeng Zhongsheng had already ordered the Luxi Garrison Brigade and the New Sixth Brigade to organize the masses to smoke a large amount of smoke, and also tightly organized the masses to make kites and Kong Ming lanterns, and to lay aerial mine arrays. The Third Air Defense Regiment of the Air Defense Brigade that followed Zeng and Cai also set up three air defense positions in the north, west, and east of Cangxian County with battalions as units to cover the county seat of Cangxian County. Zeng Zhongsheng even ordered his troops to cover the city wall of Cangxian County with Japanese military flags, hoping to avoid the indiscriminate bombing of the Japanese army's large-scale aircraft group.

Due to the fact that the instructor had been in fierce battles with the Japanese army for a long time, the cadres and troops had accumulated rich combat experience. Like the Third Air Defense Regiment, the regiment commander Qiu Chuangcheng is a veteran party member who joined the party in 1927 and joined the Red Army in 28 years. After being transferred to the Red Seventh Army Corps, he successively served as deputy political commissar of the artillery regiment and deputy political commissar of the artillery division, and after the establishment of the air defense brigade, he served as the deputy brigade commander of the air defense brigade and the commander of the third air defense regiment. In several ground-to-air operations, Qiu Chuangcheng commanded the Third Air Defense Regiment to inflict heavy losses on Japanese aircraft groups and made outstanding achievements. Political Commissar Wang Xinru was originally the political commissar of the New First Regiment, and it was Han Qianjin who specially asked Liu Yimin to come in order to strengthen the strength of the Third Air Defense Regiment.

When the gunfire of the air defense post came, Qiu Chuangcheng's heart was excited, and when he said that the sound was coming, he immediately ordered the three air defense battalions to enter the position.

Qiu Chuangcheng knew in his heart that his Third Air Defense Regiment was now better equipped and more effective than in the past. The reason was the 30 mén 98 type 20mm high shè machine guns captured in Cangxian, and the division commander ordered all to equip the third air defense regiment. This gun was developed by the Japanese Army based on the Swiss Erlikong 20mm high gun, with a magazine capacity of 20 rounds, a maximum speed of 300 rounds per minute, a range of 5,500 meters to the air, and a height of 3,500 meters to the air. This is an anti-aircraft gun that can be fired continuously, and when used in conjunction with the original 75mm high shè gun, supplemented by a high shè machine gun, it can form a dense network of high and low altitude firepower, which is enough to tear the Japanese machine to shreds.

Qiu Chuangcheng's side was in full array, and the Japanese aircraft group was not ambiguous. After receiving the order to bomb the positions of the Eighth Route Army in Cangxian and Dexian counties, Kinoshita Toshita, commander of the North China Front Air Group, made up his operational determination that he would rather raze the ancient city of Cangxian to the ground than allow the Eighth Route Army to smoothly obtain supplies from the imperial army. If all of these bullets fell into the hands of the Eighth Route Army, how many imperial soldiers would have to die! Therefore, in addition to the fighters escorting the Japanese plane, the bomber captains were ordered to drop all the bombs, machine gun bullets and machine shells, and to destroy the positions of the Eighth Route Army, destroy the material warehouses, and eliminate the transport convoys of the Eighth Route Army that were found to carry materials.

The high-shell artillery positions of the three battalions of the 3rd Air Defense Regiment were all camouflaged. The camouflage method is also very simple, that is, the fishing net is covered with grass roots, or the cloth is directly painted with fuel and covered with earthy sè and covered on the position. Looking at it from afar, the Xiǎo devil reconnaissance plane was no different from Yan Sè in the land of Cangzhou.

After all, the Japanese air force had suffered heavy losses in the battles of Binxian and Weicheng, and as soon as they saw the smoke over the county seat of Cangxian, Major General Nakamoto Shengxiao, the commander of the First Flying Regiment of the Japanese Army who led the command and who escaped on a single plane during the Battle of Weicheng, ordered the formation to bypass the county seat of Cangxian and go in the direction of Dexian.

Nakamoto Shengxiao's memory of the last battle of Bincheng is too deep. Before departure, the fighter squadron stationed in Qingdao and the carrier-based planes of the Combined Fleet were asked to concentrate their forces in the airspace of Shandong, focusing on the mountainous areas of central and southern Shandong, to ensure that the fighters of the Eighth Route Army could not participate in the battle and sneak attack the Japanese aircraft group. After receiving a report from a reconnaissance plane that the county seat of Cangxian County was wrapped in smoke, the visibility was very low, and it was not suitable for bombing operations, Zhongyuan Shengxiao was vigilant in his heart, but he should not flee in a hurry like he did in the last battle of Weicheng. Therefore, he decisively ordered the formation to bypass the county seat of Cangxian County, go straight to Dexian, and bombard the positions of the Eighth Route Army.

Seeing that the Japanese aircraft group was bypassing Cangxian and heading south, Qiu Chuangcheng immediately sent a telegram informing the Second and Sixth Brigades to prepare for air defense.

The Second Brigade of the Teaching Brigade is one of the three main forces of the Teaching Instructors, and it has been practicing air defense tactics since the Long March, and it does not plan to attack the county seat of Dexian County during the day, and the troops have already been evacuated and recuperated. However, who is Liu Jianjian? That was the chief of staff of the Red Eighteenth Regiment and the Central Guard Division, and he didn't know how much he learned from Liu Yimin about the enemy's ability to confuse the enemy, and disguised the position as if it were real. When the devil's reconnaissance plane arrived, it found that the Eighth Route Army's position consisted of dense trenches, foxholes, and artillery positions, and the artillery and soldiers on the positions were clearly visible. Hurry up and report to Nakamoto Shengtaka and ask His Excellency the Major General to lead the group to quickly arrive to carry out the bombing.

After Zhongyuan Shengxiao rushed to the outskirts of Dexian in a murderous manner, he easily discovered the position of the Eighth Route Army without the guidance of a reconnaissance plane, and immediately ordered the formation to attack.

More than 100 Japanese planes were divided into several battle formations, whizzing and diving down, dropping bombs and sweeping shè, and dusting the positions of the Eighth Route Army.

One wave of attacks was followed by another. After three successive waves of attacks, the Japanese pilots took out their cameras to take pictures in preparation for returning to evaluate the results.

Nakamoto Shengxiao, who was in command in the air, was still proud at the beginning, watching the Japanese planes wreak havoc on the position of the Eighth Route Army, and silently cursing the Eighth Route Army in his heart to have today. But then he couldn't be happy, because of such a strong bombardment, there was neither strong anti-aircraft fire nor troop transfer on the positions of the Eighth Route Army, could it be that the Eighth Route Army was killed?

Zhongyuan Shengxiao suffered a lot at the hands of the Eighth Route Army, and he had already learned how powerful the air defense force of the Eighth Route Army instructor was. He couldn't stop muttering in his heart: This is not the style of the Eighth Route Army, is it fooled again