Li Zhiyuan gathered the 26th Brigade in one place, strode past the front of the team, and then stood in the middle, straightened his body, and saluted: "Brothers of the Independent 26th Brigade!" You already know what is going on. Pen %fun %Pavilion www.biquge.info I, Li Zhiyuan, took the initiative to ask for the battle, not to be a hero, nor to cover anyone. It's just because this is the sin that Li Zhiyuan did, and I have to fill it with my own life! I, Li, do things by myself, and I never dare to drag the thousands of brothers of the 26th Brigade to the battlefield with me, if anyone is unwilling to go, just stand up and take a step. I, Li Zhiyuan, swear to heaven that I will never blame at all! ”

The "............" crowd was silent, and suddenly collectively stepped forward: "We are willing to advance and retreat together with the brigade commander!" ”

"Okay," Li Zhiyuan had tears in his eyes, saluted again, and nodded vigorously: "All of them, turn right and go!" ”

The soldiers of the 26th Brigade set off under the leadership of their respective commanders, and several generals such as Li Zhiyuan, Zhu Chunfang, and Ma Furong followed on the side of the troops. ”

Several people in front of him stood and turned their heads at the same time, "Captain Dai, do you have any advice?" ”

"I don't dare to advise, but there are two things I want to talk to Brigade Commander Li."

Li Zhiyuan had a cold face and an impatient expression. The 29th Army, like him, has a rather disgusting feeling for Dai Xiaodian There are not a few generals who lead the troops. In the eyes of these people, Dai Xiaodian is just lucky, and he was lucky not to die in the battle of Lugou Bridge, so that he could jump up several levels and sit in the high position of the regiment commander - how can such a kid be compared with us who have been killed several times in the sea of swords and fires, and whose bodies are full of scars? It is also because of this that except for Zhang Zhenhua, who is also in the 37th Division, everyone else in the 29th Army ignores him.

Li Zhiyuan is a typical representative! He only officially met this young man yesterday, and he didn't want to be scolded by Dai Xiaodian in front of the army commander, chief of staff, and several division commanders, including him! Naturally, he wouldn't have a good face to show him: "Captain Dai, what do you want to say?" ”

Dai Xiaodian could probably guess what the other party was thinking, and said, "Brigade Commander Li, this time you will lead the troops to block the attack, how do you want to fight?" ”

"Do I need to report to you how I want to fight?" Li Zhiyuan was out of place, and said in a daze: "Do you really think you are the chief of the General Staff?" Don't think that if the commander spoils you, you don't know that the sky is high and the earth is thick! When I, Li Zhiyuan, carried a gun and ate food, you still peed and mud! ”

Dai Xiaodian was stunned for a moment, nodded with a wry smile: "Yes, it's me who is too talkative." That, don't bother you. ”

Li Zhiyuan watched him walk away, and regretted a little in his heart: Why bother? This time, he led the troops to block the attack, and he didn't plan to come back alive at all, and he was dying, so he didn't even have such a thought? But I was embarrassed to chase after him, so I called Zhu Chunfang and whispered a few words to him.

Zhu Chunfang smiled and caught up with Dai Xiaodian, who turned his head and glanced at him, Li Zhiyuan was embarrassed to contact him, waved his hand, and led the troops to go down first. After waiting for a while, Zhu Chunfang caught up, "Brigade commander, I'm back." ”

"What did he say?"

Zhu Chunfang had no prejudice against Dai Xiaodian, and said with a smile: "Brigade commander, don't say it, Dai Xiaodian, this little guy, is really brainy." ”

"Less nonsense, what about you, I ask?"

"He told me, let's block the devil this time, and try not to fight a positional battle with the other party as much as possible. Relying on the surrounding environment of Xicheng District, and delaying time with them, he said that the 77th Wing of the devil is not full at all, and the total number is only more than 1,000, and if you count the losses in the Langfang battle, you may not even reach this number. Oh, and in the end, he also said that he would ask the commander to give an order to let the 113th Brigade get closer to us as soon as possible, and strive to give the little devil a bite behind his back! When the time comes, not to mention the safe evacuation of the troops of the two brigades, they can also form a formation to eliminate a small devil's army! ”

Li Zhiyuan was really surprised and delighted! Dai Xiaodian, this little cub, was thoughtful, and he forgot about the brothers of the 113 Brigade? They received an order from the army commander yesterday and began to move from Tongbai Town to Tianjin, although there was no mechanization of the devils, but it was better to have more time. If we can really join in at the right time, I don't need to die, and the brothers of the 26th Brigade don't have to sacrifice their lives for the country, which is really good news!

His eyes rolled and another question came to mind: "What is the other thing?" ”

"What?"

"He just told me that he has two things to tell me, and what is the other one?"

"I don't know, he didn't mention it to me. I don't know. ”

Li Zhiyuan ignored it anymore, and was ready to wait for him to come back and ask him again, leading the troops to cross the Jianhe River and go straight to Xicheng Village, which is located in the upper reaches of the Jianhe River, and there is another one called Paihe, which is a tributary of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal that flows through the village, Xicheng Village is a famous place with abundant water and grass in the western suburbs of Tianjin, all the cultivated land is the best 'paddy field', the crops are planted very luxuriantly, and corn and sorghum are not in sight.

When the 26th Brigade arrived, there was no shadow of the devil's reinforcements, Li Zhiyuan first arranged a reconnaissance post, and then ordered the troops to urgently arrange the defense line, "Brigade commander, what Regiment Commander Dai said just now......

"Why do you believe in Dai Xiaodian so much? Now you are the commander of the 26th Brigade, not Dai Xiaodian's subordinates! ”

Ma Furong didn't dare to say more, commanding the soldiers to start busy, the land in Xicheng Village was very humid, and it was quite fast to excavate, but the problem then appeared, and a few shovels went down, and the water came out. "Brigade commander, what do you see?"

"What are you afraid of when you have water? It's not cold now. Keep digging, keep digging! Li Zhiyuan muttered and scolded, and said: "Use the radio to contact Brigade Commander Liu of the 113th Brigade and tell them our location and situation. If yes, get them closer as soon as possible. ”

"Yes."

As several people were talking, a rumbling cannon suddenly sounded in the distance behind them, and Zhu Chunfang cheered, "Brigade commander, did you hear me, there was a fight in the back!" ”

Li Zhiyuan looked at his watch, it was half past five in the afternoon, less than two hours before it got dark, and he secretly prayed in his heart: a little later, the devil will come a little later!

It was probably because his sincerity was not enough, and after ten minutes, the reconnaissance post ran back covered in sweat: "Brigade commander, there are devils' troops in front of us, and they are driving towards us!" ”

Li Zhiyuan nodded, "Tell the brothers, wait until the devil is close before fighting." In a word, if the devil retreats, we ignore him; Conversely, if you want to pass in front of the position, you can't do it anyway! In short, drag them out until dark. ”

"Regiment leader, what about a wing of devils, can we do it?"

"Behind your ears? You didn't understand what I said? ”

Zhu Chunfang gently bumped into Ma Furong, drilled into the crop field with his comrades, and arranged a combat mission.

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The 77th Wing of the Japanese Army was led by Wing Commander Yukichi Kotomori, and his troops received an urgent telegram from Kiyoji Kazuki, and hurriedly set off from Langfang and rushed back to Jinmen.

As Dai Xiaodian expected, Li Dengxing did not have time to carry heavy weapons at all, and sitting in the cab of the Mitsubishi military vehicle, Li Dengxing used his brains and calculated: his 77th Wing was attached to the 39th Infantry Brigade, and the brigade was commanded by Major General Yoshito Takagi, which in turn belonged to the 20th Division of Lieutenant General Kawagishi Bunzaburo (from North Korea, not a member); In addition to his 77th Wing, there was also the 78th Wing led by Kobayashi Hengichi, whose whereabouts are still unknown, but were defeated by the Chinese army on the front line of Tuanhe and Huangcun.

The garrison army under the command of the division and the Xiangyue Qingji was the vanguard of the beginning of this all-out war of aggression against China. But let Lidengxing feel regretful that he missed all the above battles for one reason or another?

This time I received a call from the division commander, and Liden was overjoyed: the 29th Army is the largest armed force in the Pingjin area, and the Imperial State has fought a few battles with them, except for some very small operations, the Imperial Army has achieved a comprehensive victory, but the senior personnel of the 29th Army have not seen it - if he can destroy the main force of the 29th Army in a structured manner, it is simply the highest honor for the Imperial State/soldiers!

With this in mind, Liden acted quickly and led the 77th Wing, which had less than 1,000 people, to embark on the road to rescue. More than 30 military vehicles lined up, with machine gunners on the roofs and two crooked handles, watching vigilantly on both sides of the road. When there was still a kilometer to go, the position that the Chinese army had just laid was discovered, and the machine gunner slapped a few times on the roof of the car, and the military vehicle stopped.

Ma Furong looked at his watch, it was 5:50, the sky was still bright, and it was still far from dark! He scolded sneeringly, and the guard beside him didn't hear it clearly, and asked suspiciously: "Commander, what did you say?" ”

"I didn't say anything, oh, let the herald tell Lao Mao, stop playing stupid and old-fashioned, pay attention to casualties."

"Yes."

As soon as Lidengxing heard the report of the troops in front, he rushed up with two brigade leaders and staff officers, and looked at the opponent's position with a telescope. The initial arrangement of the Chinese army's position has been completed, and if the Chinese side wants to pass through, there is no other way but to storm it.

Liden Xingyi felt very helpless, of course it is not impossible to attack, with the combat effectiveness of the imperial army, it is not a problem at all to eliminate the enemy who is blocking the way in front, but after paying heavy casualties, can it be supported by the main force of the 29th Army immediately? "Connecting Your Excellency Lieutenant General, I request that the Air Force Squadron of the Eastern Bureau be dispatched to support the operation. It was called for intensive bombardment of the positions of the Chinese army. ”

"Your Excellency Dazuo, wait for the Air Force to bomb, are we in time?"

"What do you mean?"

"It's going to be dark for two hours. If we can't get through here before dark, we'll have to drag out the battle until dawn tomorrow. When the time comes, I'm only afraid of Terashima-kun's side,...... It's going to be an unexpected one. ”

Why doesn't Liden Xingyi understand such a truth? Chinese are not afraid of time consumption, but not themselves. After a whole night, who knows what kind of changes will happen to the battlefield situation? He smiled bitterly a few times and said: "Even so, I will never allow my soldiers to risk their lives to attack the positions of the Chinese army, this kind of stupid behavior of casualty in vain cannot be done." ”

"Yes!"

Ma Furong on the opposite side led the soldiers to hide in the trenches, in their minds, the devils will definitely attack as soon as possible, who knows that it is not the case at all, the Japanese convoy stopped far away, and the troops began to assemble, but there was no movement, "Regiment commander, what's wrong?" Why don't the devils move? ”

He looked sideways, it was his first battalion commander Mao Binbin, "Old Mao, look at it, what's going on?" Why didn't the devil move? ”

Mao Binbin lay beside his own head officer, looked at the enemy position for a while, and suddenly remembered something: "Is the devil going to bomb?" ”

"Bombardment with what? The devil didn't carry heavy weapons such as artillery at all, and the mortar was almost the same as a bullet brain, did it work? ”

"No, I think, maybe an airplane!"

Ma Furong was stunned, and he also reacted; "Tell the brethren to do a good job of concealment, and the devil's plane will arrive soon—have you forgotten? The devil has an airport in Tianjin East Bureau! ”

As soon as he finished saying this, the rumbling of an aircraft engine was heard in the sky, "Hide!" Beware of concealment! ”

It was only 30 kilometers from Dongjuzi Airport to here, and for the pilots, there was a regret that they could not enjoy themselves - the Type 97 fighter had not yet climbed to an altitude of 5,000 meters above the limit, and the enemy's position was already under his feet. The weight of this aircraft itself is very light, only 1,071 kilograms, so it has very good hovering performance, and it is used against the Chinese army, which has no air defense capability at all.

Nine Type 97 7.7mm machine guns carried on both wings began to dive and strafe, and the astonishing explosion resounded throughout the earth, and the bullet marks like a yellow dragon instantly plowed in front of the Chinese position, blowing up the sky full of dust and fog and gunsmoke. Type 97 did not cause great casualties to the Chinese army, but the shock in the heart was very great, and the swooping and flying over and over again beat the Chinese army so that they couldn't lift their heads, and the grievances in my heart needless to say!

After the Type 97, the Japanese Ki-10 biplane bomber, carrying 12 25-kilogram bombs in its belly, flew over the Chinese position, and the skilled bombardier used the scope to put the position into the crosshair, and steadily pressed the switch, and the hail-like bombs fell from the sky with a sharp whistling sound, and the earth seemed to tremble with a loud rumbling sound. The devil soldiers are indeed quite skilled in their own professional operations, and the bomb landing points are very accurate, blowing up the position of the first battalion into a sea of fire!

The Japanese infantry on the ground attacked at the same time as the bombardment, they marched quite fast, more than a kilometer away from each other, and the first 700 meters were almost at the speed of a rapid march, and seeing that they were within range of the machine rifles, the speed slowed down, dispersed into a fan formation, and under the leadership of their respective commanders, began to attack.

The Chinese army's combat thinking is quite backward, and it has no concept of three-dimensional combat in later generations, and the bombs of the devils are dizzy, but fortunately, a very small number of soldiers discovered the enemy's attack formation and shouted in fright: "Battalion commander? Battalion commander, it's broken, the devil is up! What are we going to do? ”

Mao Binbin's heart tightened violently, and he looked over, 2 and 300 devils were speeding up their pace and rushing towards their own position, "Fight, prepare to fight!" He shouted wildly, crawling through the trenches with his waist bent, picking up the hunched and ball-shaped warriors and pushing them towards the trenches, "Hurry up, get ready for battle!" ”

"Fly...... The devil has a plane......"

"Fart, are you blind? Didn't you see the devil's planes gone? He scolded all the way, and the soldiers did not dare to disobey the order, and each of them was ready for battle in front of the trench with machine rifles.

Mao Binbin held a rifle, aimed at a soldier at the front of the enemy army, and steadily released a shot, the devil soldiers fell in response, and the rest of the Japanese soldiers shouted in unison, the speed did not decrease but increased, and they rushed over at a faster speed, and at the same time, the 92 heavy on the rear position of the devil also began to exert its might: "Tututu, Tutu!" ”

The 92 heavy battlefield is extremely powerful, although it has the notoriety of the worst firearms products in the Anti-Japanese War, but it is used for battlefield fire suppression, the effect is still very good, especially in the case of more than 20 units firing at the same time, it formed a steel barrage in front of the Chinese position, 7.7 mm bullets with strong potential energy, and even penetrated the bunker on the trench of the Chinese army, and killed and injured many Chinese soldiers before they met each other.

The first line of defense of the regiment did not make any resistance at all, and it was torn apart by the Japanese in an instant, and the fire support provided by the heavy machine guns stopped, and the Chinese army behind the position had the opportunity to probe and form a preliminary defensive line firepower, and at this time, the vanguard of the devils was less than 100 meters away from them: "Shoot, shoot!" ”

As soon as the soldiers picked up their guns and entered their combat positions, someone in the Japanese attack queue suddenly squatted down, picked up a long iron guy, leaned it to his feet, picked up a grenade-shaped thing and put it in, and then pulled the belt: "Tong!" "A cannonball flew over - the Chinese army later learned that this thing was called a grenadier canister, Taisho 10-style - I had not even heard of this name before the war! The grenadier canister has the characteristics of easy to carry, can be operated by individual soldiers, and the Japanese army has been trained for a long time, it is very easy to use, and it is really suitable for use as supplementary firepower in the process of troop attack!

It was too late to say that it was too fast, but in a few breaths, the second line of defense was also broken through by the Japanese army; The devil's movements were frighteningly fast, and the troops in charge of the assault continued to attack the third line of front, leaving the enemy behind them to the friendly forces that followed the attack.

Mao Binbin listened to the miserable howls of his comrades-in-arms, his heart was like a knife, and he desperately knocked out the machine gunners, lay behind the Makqin heavy machine gun, and pulled the trigger: "All the same, all the same!" Fight, brothers, fight devils! ”

The Chinese soldiers saw that the commander was desperate, and they also came to the blood, and at the same time got up from the trenches, and each used machine rifles to organize a counterattack, and the devils initially suffered casualties, but more people still held their rifles and attacked non-stop, and the distance between the two sides gradually shortened, and I don't know who yelled: "Brothers, get on the bayonet and fight with the little devil!" ”

"Get on the bayonet and fight with the little devil!" The shouts instantly became one, and the Chinese soldiers hung up their bayonets, jumped out of the trenches, and rushed towards the oncoming enemy!

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By 6:25 p.m., all 432 people under the 1st Battalion of the 1st Regiment of the 26th Independent Brigade of the 38th Division were killed in battle, including Mao Binbin, deputy regimental commander and commander of the 1st Battalion.