Chapter 226: Yanmen Pass (2)

Just as all the commanders and fighters of the 115th Division were looking forward to it, the armored vehicles and automobiles of the vanguard of the Yue Army were whimpering and surging along the winding mountain road, galloping all the way.

The task of guarding the entrance of the Yanmen Ancient Road is Huang Kaixiang and Yang Chengwu's regiment, which is the famous Red Fourth Regiment. Historically, like the Red First Regiment, on the Long March Road, it opened roads in the mountains and built bridges in the water, and it opened the way for the Central Red Army to advance in the rain of bullets. It's a pity that after the historical hero Huang Kaixiang arrived in Yan'an, he was hospitalized due to a sudden wind chill and died of a pistol. Now that history has changed, Huang Kaixiang's fate has naturally changed.

At this moment, Yang Chengwu and Huang Kaixiang climbed on the mountain beam about 1,000 meters away from the highway, holding binoculars, carefully observing the convoy of the Yue army running from afar.

At the head were three armored vehicles and six cars of the Yue Army, which seemed to be the top squadron of the Yue Army. Behind the squadron of top soldiers was a long line of armored vehicles and automobiles. Probably, this was the vanguard, which, in order not to affect the speed of the march, was not equipped with tanks.

Huang Kaixiang put down his binoculars, grabbed the phone and reported to the division headquarters: "I found the Yue Army, about 5 miles away from me, and the first is the top soldier of the Yue Army, about the strength of a reinforced company, three armored vehicles, and six cars. The main force of the enemy's vanguard was about 1,500 meters away from the top soldiers, all of them were armored vehicles and automobiles, and no tanks were seen from a long distance. ”

After receiving the report, [***]'s gloomy and watery face had a faint flush, and he directly ordered Huang Kaixiang to continue to monitor and observe.

Nie Rongzhen on the side knew that [***] was a little excited, but this was normal, a hunter would probably be a little excited when he saw that his prey was about to jump into the trap.

When the enemy's top soldiers arrived at the entrance of the canyon on the ancient dangerous road of Yanmen, they stopped, first used the machine guns on the armored vehicles to shoot wildly at the slopes on both sides of the canyon for a while, stopped for a while, and then strafed for a while.

For the old Red Army and the old Eighth Road, which had long been hidden and ambushed behind the slopes on both sides of the entrance, the fire reconnaissance of the devils was simply too pediatric. Because they are not newly formed troops, nor are they militias, but the most elite Eighth Route Army, not to mention that their regiment commanders and political commissars have all studied at the Red Army University where Liu Yimin is the president?

Huang Kaixiang saw that the convoy of the top soldiers of the Yue Army began to drive along the road towards the valley, and his eyes became more and more attentive, staring closely at the main force of the vanguard of the Yue Army behind him.

At this time, two military reconnaissance planes swept over the highway and flew all the way south. Huang Kaixiang knew that this was the military air force providing aerial reconnaissance and cover for the infantry, and that once the battle began, the military planes would inevitably come to bomb it.

After a short time, the convoy of the vanguard of the army came to the mouth of the valley, and without the slightest hesitation, one after another, one after another, went directly to the valley.

Huang Kaixiang reported to [***] again: "The main force of the enemy's vanguard began to enter the net. ”

After the report, Huang Kaixiang was about to order the troops to prepare for battle, when he heard a song ringing in the convoy of the army: "Looking at the morning glow, there are endless mountains and rivers, our elite army is majestic, and all the allies are Kangning, full of glorious Kwantung Army." There is now a wilderness under the Xing'an Mountains, and the souls of the martyrs who defend the country are here, and now the compatriots have entrusted them with a heavy responsibility, and justice is entrusted to Xintiandi, and the Kwantung Army is established in the avant-garde. ”

The song floats on the ancient road in the Yanbei Mountains in the harsh winter, but it also has a bit of majesty and generosity to die.

When Huang Kaixiang and Yang Chengwu were studying at the Red Army University, they knew about this song of the Kwantung Army, and in addition to the fact that the General Political Department promoted the Red Army textbooks compiled by Liu Yimin throughout the army, most of the old Red Army soldiers also learned the Chinese language. Although I can't say that I am proficient, I can still understand a few sentences. Hearing the army singing the military song of the Kwantung Army, Huang Kaixiang scolded softly, "Dog!" ”

At this time, [***], Nie Rongzhen, and Zhou Kun had already seen the army's top soldier convoy through the telescope in the bunker of the command post. [***] remained silent, and began to carefully observe the soldiers' clothes on the cars of the top soldiers.

Yang Chengwu held up the binoculars and carefully counted them one after another from near and far, a total of 15 armored vehicles and 210 cars. Infantry guns, grenadiers, and heavy machine guns were all placed with the vehicle. On each car, a light machine gun was mounted. Each vehicle carries 15 infantry men, which should be a standard elite wing of the army.

After counting, Yang Chengwu glanced at Huang Kaixiang and said softly: "Old man, it's finally our turn to eat meat." ”

Huang Kaixiang grinned, his face was full of smiles, and with a wave of his big hand, he ordered the troops to enter the position and prepare to seal the mouth.

In order to solve this problem, the 115th Division adopted the old method of fighting at Pingxingguan and planted many large guillotines from ordinary people's homes along the highway near the exit, specifically destroying the tires of the enemy's armored vehicles and automobiles, causing the cars to break down and allowing the follow-up convoys to be relatively concentrated. This method has been tested in actual combat in the battle of Pingxingguan and is indeed feasible.

The place at the exit of this Yanmen ancient dangerous road is a mountain beam, and you can see the Yanmen Pass when you turn over the mountain beam. Yang Dezhi and Li Lin, who received the notification of the army's entry into the network, led the whole regiment to wait here for a long time. The commander of the engineer battalion under the command of Yang Dezhi, with a detonator in his hand that was ready to blow up the enemy's top armored vehicles, crouched beside Yang Dezhi and waited for orders at any time.

It's coming, it's coming! It was said that the convoy of top soldiers of the army was in front, and the main force was behind, heading towards Yang Dezhi's position.

Since the exit was a mountain beam, the speed of the enemy convoy naturally slowed down, the distance between the front and rear began to shorten, and the formation gradually became denser.

Seeing that the enemy was getting closer and closer, slowly approaching the position of the big guillotine, Yang Dezhi was not in a hurry, chewing a grass root in his mouth, and counting one, two, three, and four in his heart. By the time he counted to twenty, an armored vehicle that had already crossed the guillotine array finally turned to the side of the road and stopped at the location of the explosives bag. Then, the other two armored vehicles and six automobiles of the Devil's Spearhead Soldier stopped one after another, and the devils in the cars were shaken forward and backwards, and they were in a mess.

The devil drivers jumped out of the car and began to curse while checking the tires. Soon, the devil lieutenant who led the team got out of the armored car, first crackled and slapped a few devil drivers, and then bent down to check for the broken tires.

[***], who received Yang Dezhi's report, had already observed the situation of the enemy's top troops from the telescope, and saw that the enemy's convoy was becoming more and more concentrated, and [***] knew that the net was about to be closed. The only thing he is looking forward to now is the reports of Huang Kaixiang and Yang Chengwu to see if all the devils are on the net.

It didn't take long, and [***] finally waited for the report he was looking forward to. Huang Kaixiang's deep voice was full of joy: "Report to the division commander, the enemy's vanguard troops have all entered the encirclement. Our regiment began to block the enemy's retreat! ”

Without hesitation, he dropped the telescope, snatched the signal gun in Zhou Kun's hand, and touched the sky twice, and the two green signal flares quickly rose into the air, drawing two green shadows in the sky.

Seeing the attack signal, Yang Dezhi spit out the grassroots in his mouth, grabbed the shell gun, and shouted: "Fight!" The engineer battalion commander next to him pressed the detonator fiercely.

With a few loud bangs, the three armored vehicles of the enemy's top soldiers rolled down the hill, and the devil soldiers who were changing tires next to the car all returned to the East to see his grandmother.

At the same time as the sappers detonated the explosive pack, the field artillery battalion, infantry guns, and mortars of the 115th Division all let out an angry roar. One shell after another is like a deadly Yama, holding a rope in his hand, pushing the devil soldiers around, until their souls are detained.

The troops who had already been laid in ambush on both sides of the hillside pushed away the dead branches and grass covered by their bodies, set up light and heavy machine guns, and sprayed angry bullets into the road with black holes.

This Kwantung Army was indeed well-trained, and when it heard the sound of explosives packets exploding, the main force of the devils in the convoy behind was only slightly stunned for a while, and immediately began to act. As the cars braked, the ghost soldiers jumped out of the cars, looked for cover, and began to shoot. The light machine guns mounted on the cars also began to turn their muzzles and suppress the fire on the slopes on both sides. Unfortunately, the more the fish that fell into the net, the tighter the net became, and their fate was already sealed from the moment they entered the net.

With the arrival and extension of the artillery strikes of the 115th Division, explosions were everywhere on the road, and cars were constantly burning and catching fire.

The devil who jumped out of the car tried to seize the hillside and establish a position, but there were mines everywhere, the explosion was accompanied by a scream, undulating non-stop, and half of the devil's arms and legs flew in the air, looking very good.

It's a pity that the 115th Division doesn't have the same powerful artillery group and heavy machine gun group firepower as the instructor, and it is impossible to completely destroy the devils with a wave of blows. The surviving armored vehicles of the devils began to return fire, trying to cover the infantry to occupy positions.

Seeing that the time was ripe, he immediately ordered a full-front attack. Nearly 30,000 soldiers of the main force of the 115th Division jumped out of their hidden positions and rushed down the mountain, shouting and killing like waves, surging, and drowning in the stubborn devils.

Looking at the Chinese [***] people in gray military uniforms who swarmed all over the mountains, Hayakawa Zhidasa, the commander of the 30th Wing of the 4th Brigade of the 8th Division of the vanguard of the army, felt cool in his heart, and he knew that he had fallen into the trap carefully arranged by the [***] team. Looking at the posture, ambushing himself is definitely the main force of the main force of the [***] team, the elite of the elite, and Zhang Xueliang's Northeast Army, which did not fire a single shot, is not the same.

Hayakawa Zhidasa was puzzled, the commander of this [***] team was either a genius or a madman, how could he dare to carry out a knife in front of the army of the three divisions, and the tiger's mouth pulled out teeth, wasn't he afraid that when the main force of the imperial army arrived, there would be no way to heaven?

Thinking about it, Hayakawa did not dare to delay a little, and immediately sent a report to the brigade commander, Major General Suzuki Mitsu, and the division commander, Lieutenant General Nishiyichi, saying that they had encountered an all-out attack by the main force of Shina and urgently requested tactical guidance. Then, Hayakawa Shidasa immediately ordered the armored vehicles to take the lead and quickly break through to the coming road, striving to converge with the main force, and ordered the 7th Infantry Brigade to organize resistance on the spot to cover the main force to break through.

It should be said that Hayakawa stopped Dasa's disposition correctly, but unfortunately, the opponent he met was the Marshal of the Republic [***], how can the wisdom and ability of a Dazuo be compared with Marshal Baizhan. What's more, the 115th Division commanded by [***], in addition to the fact that the weapons are not as good as the Kwantung Army, the tactical literacy and fighting will are only stronger than the Kwantung Army.

Just when Hayakawa Zhidasa was in danger and commanded the troops to break through, the units of the 115th Division had already rushed up. The soldiers, who used the bazooka for the first time, quickly smashed the armored vehicles and cars of the Japanese army into a ball of scrap metal. The remnants of the Yue Army, which had lost the cover of armored vehicles, were soon divided and submerged by the Eighth Route Army. This time, the 115th Division has learned from the division commander to the soldiers, and there is no longer the phenomenon of letting the wounded soldiers of the Yue army be killed by cold shots during the great victory at Pingxingguan. The soldiers with sufficient ammunition greeted the stubborn resistance of the Japanese army with bullets and grenades. In particular, the fighters armed with Bayi automatic rifles and submachine guns no longer gave up shooting to fight the enemy in order to save bullets, so that the resistance of the Japanese army became weaker and weaker, and soon the gunfire on the battlefield stopped.

The battle ended so quickly, much more than [***] expected, he asked for 40 minutes, and ended the battle in half an hour. Overjoyed, [***] while strictly ordering the troops to quickly clean up the battlefield and evacuate quickly, he immediately ordered Zhou Kun to send a report to the chairman, urging the arsenal to immediately equip the 115th Division with a field artillery and mountain artillery regiment, with three rocket launchers per company and two automatic rifles per squad. All kinds of mines should be replenished in large quantities, and the more the better.

Zhou Kun looked at [***] and reminded: "Division commander, shouldn't you report the waist equipment first?" ”

[***] waved his hand: "It's your business to report victory, and it's also your business to equip it, I don't care." I only understood today why Liu Yimin dared to attack the idea of the Fifth Division. If I had his firepower, I would! ”

Nie Rongzhen, who was on the side, was also deeply touched, and interjected: "If we have another artillery regiment, today's terrain can defeat the devil without the soldiers charging." I thought about it, Liu Yimin fought in the battle of Xiaoshui and the battle of Qingxi Town, and the terrain he chose was very good, so that the enemy had no possibility of escaping at all, and then concentrated his firepower to beat him. By the time the soldiers rushed forward, it was basically time to clean up the battlefield. ”

[***] nodded, and said: "It's not exactly like that, like the battle in Hanyang Town and the bloody battle against Baoji, it's all fought to the death." Weapons are one thing, command and tactical skills are more important. Next, we have to increase our training efforts, and we must keep up with the instructor and learn from the instructor. Otherwise, we are left behind. ”

Nie Rongzhen and Zhou Kun stopped talking, and were busy urging the troops to clean up the battlefield, count the results, and hurry up the transfer.

By the time the four military planes arrived at the battlefield, the Yanmen Ancient Dangerous Road had returned to calm, and nothing could be found on the highway except for the wreckage of armored vehicles, cars, and the corpses of Imperial soldiers. Unwillingly, the pilots of the Yue Army flapped their wings and kept circling and searching near Yanmen Pass, trying to catch up with the Eighth Route Army and avenge the 30th Wing of Yusha. Unfortunately, the units of the Eighth Route Army were already hidden in the mountains, and the military planes did not find the Eighth Route Army, but instead let a plane crash into the mountain and ignite a fiery red fireworks.

(To be continued)