Chapter 359: Battle of North China (6)

Under the lure of the guard battalion and the reconnaissance battalion, the Xishiyuan Brigade of the Shanxia Division, the artillery wing, the light and heavy infantry wing, and the cavalry wing, totaling more than 9,670 people, walked step by step into the ambush circle carefully arranged by Master Chen.

Dashuiquan Village, a small village that is not shown on the map at all, has less than 50 households in the whole village, and the total number of young and middle-aged men and women in this village is less than 50 due to years of war, and the rest are all old, weak, sick and disabled.

Although Dashuiquan Village is not famous in the slightest, it is very famous when it comes to the farming ditch north of Dashuiquan. Whether it was the First Battle of Saibei or the Second Battle of Saibei, Farminggou was the main battlefield, although now the entire village of Farmingditch has been razed to the ground by artillery fire, and there is no complete building anymore. However, whether it is the newspaper of the Chinese National Political Axe, or the news of the dynasty, or the Xinhua newspaper of the Eighth Route Army, this small village has repeatedly seen newspapers.

This time, Master Chen chose the ambush site in Dashuiquan is also very meaningful, the first two battles of Saibei were also in the Zhangbei area of continuous deflated, and finally the two battles of Saibei ended with the loss of the army and the loss of the city. This time, the 77th Division of Reading Li continued to ambush the Yue army in Zhangbei, which has obvious symbolic significance both militarily and politically, and this will give a strong psychological hint to other units of the Inner Mongolia Military Region, and the third Battle of Saibei (North China Battle) will surely end with the defeat of the Yue army again, and this will play an irreplaceable role in the fighting spirit of all the soldiers and civilians of the entire Inner Mongolia Military Region. At the same time, as far as this area is concerned, the Eighth Route Army has already been ambushed twice, and in the same place, the [***] team has not dared to ambush the army three times.

But Master Chen did just that, he dug a deep hidden trench around a valley that was not wide at the entrance of Dashuiquan Village, and placed more than 2,000 people in the trench, and at the same time placed an infantry regiment at the exit of the valley to take up the task of frontal blocking, and at the same time placed an infantry division in the village in front of Dashuiquan to cut off the rear road of the pursuing soldiers. At the same time, Master Chen also placed an infantry division on the road leading from Zhangjiakou to Dashuiquan to block possible reinforcements from the direction of Zhangjiakou.

Master Chen's strength in his hands now is more than that of Fengwen under the mountain, and on such a large territory as northern and eastern Hebei, Han Yunhua has placed five infantry divisions, a mechanized brigade, an artillery brigade and more than 30,000 cavalry troops. Such a powerful fighting force, not to mention the commander of the lieutenant general division of the army called Yamashita Fengwen, even the commander of the North China Front Army, General Bin Sanyuan, could not be taken lightly.

Although there are still many wounded cavalry in this cavalry army, there is not much combat effectiveness at all, but Major General Xi Shiyuan took a fancy to the strong mobile strength of the cavalry, so he desperately commanded the troops to entangle the middle [***] team, and must not let them leave calmly.

The battle was extremely fierce at the beginning, and the cavalry wing commander of the Yue army knew what was waiting for him if he couldn't capture the vanguard of the [***] team today, and Major General Isai Shiyuan's surname would definitely send him to a military court, and he would not even be given the opportunity to apologize.

In the eyes of the vast majority of military officers, being court-martialed is the greatest shame for a soldier, and apologies can save their reputation, so as a last resort, senior officers of the military will end their lives with the noblest death of the Samuraido.

Driven by such an instinct, the reason of the commander of the cavalry wing of the army is being exhausted little by little, although the cavalry wing is not as large as the infantry wing, and the wing captain of the cavalry wing is not as beautiful as the captain of the infantry wing, at least in terms of military rank, the wing leader of the cavalry wing is generally served by Zhong Sa, and the wing leader of the infantry wing is served by Da Sa. Despite this, the commander of the cavalry wing still felt that the honor he deserved had been trampled on. This kind of trampling on honor came from two aspects, on the one hand, he was trampled on by Major General Xi Shiyuan, and more importantly, he was beaten half to death by the [***] team, especially the unknown number of the [***] team he met an hour ago, and this trampling on the honor of the soldiers made him crazy.

When they received the news that the search team had found the squadron that had escaped not long ago, the cavalry wing commander of the Yue army did not say anything, and directly led his more than 600 remnants to chase after him.

The sound of the horses' hooves rumbling came from afar, and Zhang Tiehu knew that it was the cavalry of the Yue Army who chased after them. But this is exactly what Zhang Tiehu wants, this is less than five kilometers away from the ambush site of Da Shui Quan, which is the gateway where his bait can play its greatest role. Zhang Tiehu did not dare to slack off in the slightest, although he did not take this cavalry wing of the Yue Army in his eyes, after the preliminary statistics when cleaning the battlefield just now, there were at most more than 600 people left in this cavalry wing of the Yue Army, and there was no threat to the guard battalion and the reconnaissance battalion at all.

But it is not their task to annihilate the enemy, their ultimate task is to lure the enemy's main forces into the ambush circle of our army. And luring the enemy is a lure, and now if the little devil hurts and the people don't come, then the hard work of the tens of thousands of soldiers in front of him will not be in vain. Therefore, Zhang Tiehu said to Tang Dashan, who was lying on the map on the side: "Dashan, you take the reconnaissance battalion and the machine gun company to withdraw first, I have played tricks with these little devils, and I will be there immediately." ”

"Well, then you can take it easy, don't clean up these little devils, there was news just now, a large number of little devils' troops are not far from here, so how to fight this battle You can be leisurely, don't let yourself be dumplings, and don't scare those dogs." Tang Dashan Road.

Zhang Tiehu smiled and said: "No problem, you can leave with confidence, I only left two companies this time, and you will take the rest with you." Let's go, we can't drop the chain when it matters. ”

…………………… This time, Zhang Tiehu did not set up an ambush to knock on the stick, but built a simple defense line on the road that the army must pass. And a large bonfire was lit in front of the position, a clear sign, a clear invitation to fight.

The cavalry captain of the army is not a fool, and those who can sit on the captain of the Zhongzuo wing are of a certain level. When the captain of the army saw the burning fire in front of him, he knew that people were on guard. Thinking about the battle an hour ago, it was almost a copy of the current one, and at that time I also knew that there must be a branch of the army in that small village, and I thought that a surprise attack could solve the problem, but I didn't expect that stealing chickens would not make it a loss of rice, and I was losing my wife and losing my troops thanklessly.

Faced with the same situation, the cavalry wing commander of the Yue army hesitated. However, thinking about the huge reserve force behind him, and thinking about the cold expression of Major General Xi Shiyuan, the commander of the cavalry wing of the Yue army once again gave a big order to charge, but this time he did not order the entire cavalry wing to charge together, but only ordered a cavalry squad to charge.

Although it was only a charge of a cavalry squad, the momentum was still unparalleled. The sound of rumbling horses' hooves is like a rapid drum beat, decorating this unknown small slope in the north of the Saibei very moving.

Zhang Tiehu's side is not ambiguous, in the moment the cavalry of the army charged, Zhang Tiehu ordered the troops to prepare for battle, when the cavalry squad just entered the effective firing range, Zhang Tiehu immediately ordered the soldiers to fire, the rapid clatter seemed to be from the roar of hell and death, overturning the horses to the ground and tearing the knights to pieces. The cavalry squad of the army was also quite good, and there were still more than a dozen elite cavalrymen approaching the trenches of the guard camp, and just as the dozen or so horsemen wielding sabers were about to enjoy a flesh-and-blood dinner, more than a dozen soldiers armed with submachine guns suddenly rushed out of the trenches and fired at the remaining dozen or so knights.

Flesh and blood could not withstand the bullets of steel, and soon the dozen or so knights were sent to hell to meet their Aunt Amaterasu.

The battlefield fell silent, and the cavalry captain of the Yue army was stunned by the scene in front of him. He had been personally involved in the battle an hour earlier, and although it was tense, it was not frightening. But the charge just now was different, as a bystander he saw the whole process of this battle very clearly, everything went smoothly, although the firepower of the Zhina troops was fierce, but it did not play a big role in the cavalry scattered charge, only 20 knights lost their combat effectiveness in the one-kilometer charge, and only seven people were really killed, and the rest were all seriously injured.

But it was the appearance of a few Chinese soldiers armed with submachine guns that completely broke the balance of the battlefield, and in the short-distance battle, the submachine guns were indeed more powerful than any kind of guns, with fierce firepower and accurate shooting accuracy, and in less than two minutes, the remaining dozen knights were beaten to death.

This time, the cavalry wing commander of the Yue army hesitated again, and the strength of the [***] team was indeed beyond his expectations. The two sides confronted each other at a distance of less than two kilometers, and more than ten minutes passed like this, the army neither attacked nor retreated, and the squadron in the trench on the opposite side did not pursue, just when the captain of the cavalry wing of the cavalry wing of the army was entangled, a squadron leader of the cavalry wing reminded: "Captain, the situation on the opposite side depends on the wrong situation, and the combat effectiveness of the Chinese army should be far more than this." Although the enemy's fire just now was fierce, it was still far inferior to that of an hour ago. A small squad of imperial troops almost captured the trenches of the Shina people, and the humble position thought that there was something wrong with the Shina troops on the opposite side. ”

A word woke up the dreamer, although the performance of the [***] team just now startled the cavalry wing commander of the Yue army, but the fire density of more than 300 people and more than 1,500 people was far away, and the cavalry wing commander of the Yue army was also blinded by the superficial illusion for a while. Or was frightened by Han Yunhua's endless strange methods, so he was blindsided for a while.

But the words of the squadron leader of this cavalry wing made the wing commander of the cavalry wing immediately know where the uneasiness in his heart came from.

Looking at the eyes of the opposite trench again, the cavalry wing commander of the Yue army was a little annoyed, and ordered: "Baga, the whole army will raid." Kill the enemy and give ............"

The sound of hurried horses' hooves once again pierced the firmament of Saibei, and this time nearly six hundred fart war horses charged, and the formation seemed to level the heavens and the earth. The distance of three kilometers was a short distance at the feet of the sprinting war horses, and soon there was only less than five hundred meters left from the position of the [***] team, but there was no movement at all in the opposite position.

"400 meters ............"

"300 meters ............"

"Two hundred meters ............"

"One Hundred Meters ............"

There was still no movement in the trenches on the opposite side, and it was not until the captain of the cavalry wing of the army rushed into the trenches that he found that the middle [***] team that was blocking them had already fled.

The furious commander of the cavalry wing of the Yue army ordered the signal corps to send a report to Major General Xi Shiyuan behind him, telling Major General Xi Shiyuan that after a heroic battle, the cavalry wing finally defeated the Shina troops in front of him, killing countless enemies, and the remnants of the Shina army had fled northward, and the cavalry wing was chasing and killing the fleeing Shina troops.

At the same time, the commander of the cavalry wing ordered the cavalry troops to continue to pursue northward, this time he completely believed that the [***] team in front of him was already at the end of the crossbow, otherwise the [***] team would not and did not want to give up on the opportunity to completely annihilate the cavalry wing twice. If it weren't for the fact that the [***] squadron had reached the critical juncture of retreating, how could he, the disabled cavalry wing, be spared.

The more he thought about it, the more he felt that it made sense, the thinking of the captain of the cavalry wing of the Yue Army had fallen into a dead end, and like Major General Xi Shiyuan, he was now wishing that the [***] team would stop and fight with him.

Following the direction of the guard battalion's "escape", the cavalry of the Yue army chased straight up, and the guard battalion did not stop until it passed the big water spring, luring the cavalry units of the Yue army to continue to move forward. The cavalry unit of the Yue Army was originally not far from the guard battalion, and although the mines and time bombs planted by the guard battalion were killed and injured along the way, they could hold the tail of the guard battalion far away.

Therefore, when the cavalry units of the Yue Army saw that the guard battalion did not make the slightest stop at Dashui Spring, they ignored this small mountain village, which was already small and did not have the slightest strategic commanding height. However, the cavalry of the Yue army did not find out from beginning to end, and there were nearly 3,000 squadrons of nearly 3,000 in ambush on both sides of the not wide and not high, but very long river valley that they had just passed.

The cavalry of the Yue army finally caught up with the Zhong [***] team more than ten miles behind Dashuiquan Village, and the two sides fought fiercely in a bud valley (corn) field. In order to continue to lure the enemy deeper, Zhang Tiehu did not use all his strength to engage the cavalry of the Yue army, and the Tang Dashan Division, which was not far behind the Yue army, had been lurking around the battlefield before receiving Zhang Tiehu's order.

In the eyes of Major General Xi Shiyuan, it was a big victory for the cavalry wing to catch up with the middle [***] team. Therefore, while he ordered the cavalry wing to entangle the middle [***] team at all costs, and on the other hand, he ordered the troops of his headquarters to speed up the march, and he wanted to make a clean and neat encirclement of the middle [***] team in front.

Ambush position in Da Shui Quan Village.

The unit responsible for the frontal blockade of this ambush was the veteran strong brigade of the 77th Division, and it was also the old foundation of the 77th Division.

"Grandma's, these little devils are really dead, they dare to fight with Lao Tzu without even bringing a little baggage, and his grandmother is an old birthday star who is impatient to eat arsenic." Jiang Feng said to his old partner on the side.

Jiang Feng was transferred from the 115th Division to the Inner Mongolia Military Region some time ago when the cadres were adjusted, and Jiang Feng was only a company commander when he was just transferred. However, during this time, the troops of the Inner Mongolia Military Region developed extremely rapidly, so even Jiang Feng, a small company commander, was promoted.

Of course, Jiang Feng also has this qualification, don't look at Jiang Feng is only in his early thirties, but he is also considered an old qualification in the army. He joined the army in Ruijin, Jiangxi Province in 31 years. Before joining the revolution, he was a gangster leader in Ruijin, and he also had three or five hundred brothers under him. But since [***] established power in Ruijin, the living space of his little gangster has been greatly threatened, and he is very sad. In addition, the chairman at that time was in charge of Ruijin, and for them, they were mainly managed by means of persuasion, education and military supervision. In the end, under the inspiration of the chairman, Jiang Feng led hundreds of his brothers to participate in the revolution.

Although Jiang Feng did not receive a systematic military education, he had his own unique views on the chairman's guerrilla tactics based on his experience in grabbing territory when he was a gangster. In the process of the five anti-encirclement and suppression, he made a lot of meritorious contributions, and was commended by the leaders many times, and by the eve of the fifth anti-encirclement and suppression, Jiang Feng was already a regimental commander of the Red 28th Army.

However, due to the failure of the five anti-encirclement and suppression campaigns, Jiang Feng's regiment suffered heavy losses, and there were less than 400 people left at the time of the strategic transfer, so he, the regiment commander, naturally became the battalion commander. When the Red Army arrived in Gansu after the Long March, Jiang Feng's Red 28th Army Corps was almost completely casual, although Jiang Feng gathered many stragglers on the road, and his battalion miraculously had more than 600 soldiers when it arrived at Wuqi Town. However, after arriving in northern Shaanxi, the whole army was downsized, so Jiang Feng was honored to change from a battalion commander to a company commander.

After being transferred to the Inner Mongolia Military Region, Han Yunhua looked at Jiang Feng as a veteran soldier and officer who had gone through the Long March. Therefore, after Jiang Feng participated in the crash course of the military academy, he was naturally promoted to the commander of the guard battalion directly under the brigade headquarters of the 8th Brigade of Reading Force, and half a year later he was transferred to the 77th Brigade of Reading Force as the deputy regiment commander, and two months ago he was promoted to the commander of the first brigade and one regiment of the 77th Division of Reading Force, which shows that Han Yunhua and the leaders of the military region attach great importance to Jiang Feng.

(To be continued)