In the early morning of 26 March, Wang Bingsan, commander and political commissar of the 10th Column of the Northeast People's Anti-Japanese Allied Army, commanded the main force of the column to suddenly appear on the front line of Shanhaiguan as if it had been drilled out of flat ground, and quickly cut off the Beining railway and highway connecting Beiping to Shenyang. Immediately after that, he began to launch a fierce attack on Shanhaiguan.

Beining Road is actually the original Jingfeng Railway, connecting Beiping and Shenyang. Later, because the Nationalist Government renamed Beijing Beiping, Fengtian Province to Liaoning Province, and Fengtiancheng to Shenyang, the Beijing-Fengfeng Railway was renamed the Beining Railway.

Shanhaiguan is not an independent customs city, but a 26-kilometer-long Shanhaiguan Pass that guides the old dragon head and reaches the nine gates in the east. On the short 26-kilometer Great Wall, there are ten passes, including Nanhaikou Pass, Nanshui Pass, Shanhaiguan, Beishui Pass, Hanmen Pass, Jiaoshan Pass, Sandao Pass, Flood Pass, Si'eryu Pass, and Jiumenkou Pass (a stone pass) from south to north, guarding the throat of the connection between Northeast China and North China. The so-called "two capitals lock and key are incomparable, the first pass of the Great Wall".

The core of Shanhaiguan's defense is Shanhaiguan City. This is a square city, there are four city gates, the east is the east gate of the town, the south is the Wangyang gate, the west is the Ying'en gate, the north is the Weiyuan gate, and the city wall in the east is itself a part of the Great Wall.

There are urn cities outside the four city gates, and the outer part of the urn city is Luo City. Luo means to list, that is, the city outside the city. In front of Luocheng is Weiyuan City, which is the outpost acropolis of Shanhaiguan.

The city set of the city, the city outside the city, and the Great Wall can communicate the connection between the passes, Shanhaiguan has the tendency of the heavy city to defend, solid and majestic!

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the world was in turmoil, Li Zicheng led the army to attack Shanhaiguan after capturing Beijing, and fought fiercely with the Guanning iron cavalry led by Wu Sangui in front of Shanhaiguan. The two sides fought fiercely, and the Manchu iron cavalry, which had been defeated by Wu Sangui, joined the battlefield through the Shanhai Pass under the command of Dolgon, the prince of Rui, and defeated Li Zicheng's army in one fell swoop, laying the foundation of the Manchu Qing dynasty for 300 years. It also attracted the 300-year history of humiliation of the Han people who kept their hair without their heads and their heads without their hair.

The Manchu Qing Dynasty's determination of the Central Plains was actually a kind of historical regression in which backwardness defeated the advanced and barbarism defeated civilization.

Since the Japanese army occupied Shanhaiguan, it has become the rear of the Japanese army, although the soldiers and civilians in the Jireliao base area have been constantly attacking and attacking the Japanese army. But never before had an army come to attack such a dangerous and strong pass. In the minds of the Japanese soldiers, Shanhaiguan, like the Lushun Fortress, was impregnable.

Theoretically speaking, a main column attacking Shanhaiguan, where an infantry brigade of the Japanese army was stationed, would not be able to hold it even if the Shanhaiguan wall was strong.

Fan Shiying, commander of the 10th Column Artillery Regiment, and Yuan Puzheng, political commissar, were originally company commanders and instructors of the 3rd Battalion and 2nd Company of the 3rd Artillery Regiment of the Artillery Division of the Red Seventh Army Corps. In that year, when Liu Yimin was stationed in Xi'an, he took his newlywed wife Tang Xingying out of Xi'an City in the evening to inspect the artillery division farm. met Fan Shiying and Yuan Puzheng, who were the commanders and instructors of the second company of the third battalion of the third artillery regiment of the artillery division at the time, and Fan Shiying also said that he would boil mutton soup and beef soup for the corps commander, but unfortunately Liu Yimin was busy with military affairs, and Fan Shiying never had the opportunity to let his extremely respected No. 1 chief taste the mutton soup and beef soup he boiled. It was Fan Shiying himself, who was promoted from company commander to today's commander of the 10th Column Artillery Regiment with the main force fighting in the south and north.

For the newly formed 10th Column Artillery Regiment, the attack on Shanhaiguan was a maiden battle. However, the cadres and fighters of the 10th Column Artillery Regiment are not new recruits. The cadres were all drawn from various artillery regiments, the former Luxi Garrison Brigade, the fire support battalion of the Luxi Second Garrison Brigade, and the fire support companies of each regiment, and the soldiers were all drawn from the infantry to the training headquarters.

Before the battle began. Chen Shiqu, commander of the 10th Column, gave a clear explanation to Fan Shiying and Yuan Puzheng that this battle was related to the success of our army's grand strategy of navigating the northeast, and the Chief, the boss, and the No. 1 commander ordered the 11th Column to quickly occupy the Shanhaiguan line, and arrange a solid defensive line to resolutely block the reinforcements of the Japanese army in North China, and not to take a step back without an order. That is to say, the Central Committee and the Northeast People's Anti-Japanese Allied Forces Headquarters want to close the door and beat the dogs against the Japanese troops outside the Guan, and the Ten Columns play the role of closing the door. Therefore, the battle to attack Shanhaiguan must be swift and neat, and the troops must not suffer heavy losses in front of Shanhaiguan. Affect the subsequent protracted battle. The key to whether the main force of the 11th Column can quickly capture Shanhaiguan depends on whether the artillery fire is properly and effectively used. It is necessary to let the shells grow into the eyes, point where to hit, and knock out the Japanese garrison fire behind the city in one fell swoop, so as to cover the troops to successfully capture the city.

Chen Shiqu explained clearly, Fan Shiying and Yuan Puzheng were less murderous at the pre-war mobilization meeting. It is said that the artillery group will be moved to the city of Shanhaiguan unknowingly, and the little devil will talk to the little devil with the cannonball, so that the little devil will regret that his parents gave birth to them in this world!

Fan Shiying divided the artillery regiment into three artillery groups in battalion units, followed the three main forces to travel, and he personally led a battalion to cover the capture of Shanhaiguan City.

The Japanese troops in Shanhaiguan got up in the morning and went out to exercise and eat as usual. As a result, as soon as I finished eating, I received a report that the Eighth Route Army had cut off the Bac Ninh line. The captain of the Japanese army scolded the work of the Tubalu sneak attack, which was despicable and shameless. After scolding, he mobilized a squad and a company of puppet Manchurian troops to fight back Tubalu, arrested Tubalu for interrogation, figured out Li Yunchang's lair, and mobilized the main force of the brigade to completely eliminate Li Yunchang's troops.

Li Yunchang was the commander of the Eighth Route Army in the Jireliao region, and he was famous in this area, and he was the first thing the captain of the devil team thought of. It's just that the captain of this devil's brigade thinks that Li Yunchang's combat effectiveness is not good, and his squad plus a company of the Manchurian Defense Forces can repel the attack on the railway of Li Yunchang's troops.

This devil captain is really proud and cute, thinking that Li Yunchang is as brave as a tiger, if it is really the main force of Li Yunchang's department that encounters this devil squad and a company of puppet Manchu troops, then it is not that they will not even have some bones left? It's just that our army in the Jireliao base area is fighting guerrilla warfare and rarely fights large-scale annihilation wars.

After all, the captain of the devil brigade graduated from the non-commissioned officer school of the Japanese army, and his basic quality is still very high. After sending a small force to eliminate the Eighth Route Army that had cut off the Beining Road, he immediately ordered the defenders of the Shanhaiguan Line to enter the position to prevent the Eighth Route Army from further attack.

The little devil is fast, and the Eighth Route Army is faster. When the captain of the devil brigade thought that the measures he had arranged were very thorough and went to inspect the customs tower, he found that the Eighth Route Army was coming to Shanhaiguan City.

This devil captain also has a kind, not only is he not afraid, but he happily touches the eight-character beard and shouts yo Xi, thinking that it is finally his turn to make contributions to His Majesty the Emperor, and he is not even exempted from reporting to the commander of the independent garrison stationed on the front line of the Great Wall, and orders all the Japanese puppet troops in Shanhaiguan City to go to the urn city and the city wall to prepare for battle.

What the captain of the devil team saw through the telescope was the vanguard of the Eighth Route Army's attack on the front line of Shanhaiguan, so he had such courage. It won't be long before he regrets that he didn't report to the commander of the Japanese independent garrison in time.

The attack on Shanhaiguan City was the 28th Brigade of the 10th Column of the Eighth Route Army led by Zhang Renchu and Mo Wenhua. A battalion of the vanguard was in front, and Zhang Renchu and Mo Wenhua led the main force of the brigade and the auxiliary artillery fire behind, and rushed towards Shanhaiguan City.

Zhang Renchu fought in southwest Lu for several years and won the prestige of "the tiger of southwest Lu". The captain of the devil brigade didn't know how powerful, and he even thought about relying on one of his infantry brigades and a regiment of puppet Manchurian troops to defend Shanhaiguan City and hit the attacking Eighth Route Army hard, which simply made people laugh off their big teeth.

Just when Zhang Renchu led the 28th Column Brigade to attack Shanhaiguan City, Chen Shiqu and Wang Bingsan waved the 29th Brigade, the 30th Brigade and the troops directly under the column, divided the way, and slaughtered the other nine passes in the Shanhaiguan area, and put on a posture to seize Shanhaiguan in one fell swoop.

After the vanguard of the Eighth Route Army arrived at Shanhaiguan City, it immediately launched a tentative attack on Shanhaiguan City. The soldiers unfolded the formation of the offensive tactics of the infantry squad and quickly approached Shanhaiguan City.

At this time, the captain of the devil brigade made a fatal mistake.

Seeing that the Eighth Route Army only had seven or eight hundred people, the captain of the devil brigade immediately had the idea of completely annihilating the bold Eighth Route Army, ordered the puppet Manchu army to go out of the city to encircle and annihilate the vanguard of the Eighth Route Army, and sent a small team of Japanese troops to supervise the battle.

The puppet Manchu army has been trained by the Japanese army, and its combat effectiveness is indeed good. Moreover, according to the experience of the Japanese army in fighting with the Eighth Route Army in Jireliao, these 700 to 800 people were a regiment of the regular army of the Eighth Route Army in the Jireliao area, and if a regiment of the puppet Manchu Army fought against a regiment of the regular army of the Eighth Route Army in the Jireliao area, and the puppet Manchurian army would have absolute certainty of victory. Often, as soon as the battle is engaged, the Eighth Route Army will retreat after a while, and it will not be bumped into each other.

The puppet Manchu army followed the ass of the Japanese army in the northeast and did a lot of mischief, and later became the main force in the crusade against the volunteers and the anti-Japanese alliance. In the last Japanese-Soviet War, the puppet Manchu army fought with the Japanese army and had a very good record. Since then, some officers in the puppet Manchurian army have forgotten that they are from China, thinking that they are puppet Manchukuo, and they are not the same thing as China. No, after receiving the order of the commander of the devil brigade, the commander of the puppet Manchu army, under the instigation of the instructor of the "Japan", led the troops out of Luocheng and Wengcheng, and outflanked the vanguard of the Eighth Route Army, apparently wanting to swallow the vanguard of the Eighth Route Army in one bite.

The puppet Manchu troops who slipped out of Luocheng and Wengcheng attacked very quickly, because their real commanders were all Japanese themselves, and they were absolutely resolute and effective in carrying out the orders of the Japanese army.

The puppet Manchu army came up from Sanbao, the machine guns to cover the attack rattled and screamed, and the mortars followed behind to establish positions, and opened artillery shelling to cover the attack of the troops.

When Meng Sanhu, the battalion commander of the 10th Column Vanguard of the Eighth Route Army, saw the posture of the puppet Manchu army, he pouted, cursed "stupid", and ordered the troops to stop attacking the city, stick to the spot, and leave the puppet Manchu army under the city to annihilate it.

Meng Sanhu was promoted from a soldier all the way to the battalion commander of the old Red Army, there was water in his eyes, and at a glance, he knew that the puppet Manchu army could be regarded as an elite unit, and the tactical actions were not much better than the soldiers of the Japanese garrison division, so the excited eyes were bright and bright, and he wanted to test the puppet Manchurian army in front of him!