At 10 o'clock in the morning, the 8th Division of the Yue Army began to advance in an offensive posture towards the county seat of Weixian.

Lieutenant General Maeda served as the principal of Lu University and was very proficient in tactics. His deployment was that Major General Mishin Suzuki, commander of the 4th Brigade, commanded the 4th Brigade and a squadron of the 8th Field Artillery Wing, the 8th Engineer Wing, and the Chariot Squadron to carry out a frontal attack, attacking and advancing along the Longhai Road and Highway from west to east; Major General Lin Maoqing, commander of the 16th Infantry Brigade, led the 32nd Infantry Wing, which was attached to the Command Cavalry Wing, a brigade of the 8th Field Artillery Wing, a squadron of the 8th Engineer Wing, and four tanks to form the right flank. Wing Commander of the 17th Infantry Wing, Fumiji Sato, commanded two brigades, a cavalry squadron, and four chariots as the left flank, and after crossing the Gushan and Daxu rivers, he detoured to the west of Weicheng and cooperated with the right flank to encircle Weicheng. Lieutenant General Maeda Toshiwei led the division headquarters, the troops directly under the division and regiment, and the baggage wing to establish a headquarters in Changle.

Major General Suzuki Mijin has wanted to seek revenge from the Eighth Route Army since the Battle of Yanmen Pass, and one of his brigades was wiped out alive in the train by the Eighth Route Army last night. Therefore, after receiving the order, the troops were quickly organized and marched in the direction of Weicheng.

After the battle of Cangxian, the cavalry battalion of the Fourth Brigade of the Sect became famous, and the battalion commander Wang Shuyou and instructor Shi Qianli were praised in person by the instructor Liu Yimin and the political commissar Luo Ronghuan in Nangong, and they were full of spirit. When Nie Rongzhen, political commissar of the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army, and Deng Xiaoping, political commissar of the 129th Division, went to Nangong to pay their respects to the cavalry battalion of the Fourth Brigade and praised the ideological and political work and training of the troops.

The reason why Liu Yimin personally ordered the generals and let the cavalry battalion of the Fourth Brigade take charge of the task of luring the enemy head-on and delaying the enemy was because he took a fancy to their performance in the battle of Cangxian. No, after accepting the task, Wang Shuyou and Shi Qianli brought the troops to the edge of the county seat early, and hid the troops in the dry irrigation canal at the edge of a large dense sorghum field, covered with sorghum leaves, and the war horses were hidden in the sorghum field, quietly waiting for the devil to dispatch.

As for the problem of sorghum spoiled by war horses in the villagers, Shi Qianli also thought of a way to deal with it. He wrote a note and pressed it under a stone, indicating that the cavalry battalion of the Fourth Brigade of the Eighth Route Army had damaged the crops of the villagers due to the need to ambush the devils, and asked the villagers to go to the local area after the war to resist the Ming Cooking Political Axe and receive compensation.

According to Wang Shuyou's idea, this Changle is too close to Weicheng and even closer to the Daxu River, and his cavalry battalion is full of calculations and only has three chances of ambush at most, and this must be before the devil's plane is dispatched. As soon as the devil plane appears, it is necessary to hide the team, at least the war horses. Therefore, as soon as he discussed with Shi Qianli, he brought the team to the edge of the county, wanting to take advantage of the devil's dispatch to directly give it a mess. At the very least, the vanguard of the devils should be directly knocked down, so that they know that the Eighth Route Army is not easy to mess with.

To the surprise of Wang Shuyou and Shi Qianli, the Eighth Division of the Yue Army was, after all, a veteran division, with a high tactical quality of officers and men and rich combat experience. This time, the devils were different from the usual vanguard concentrated marches, but sent a large number of search troops, three or five teams, under the leadership of Han Jian, along the railway, highway and the field trails on both sides, searching and advancing.

Wang Shuyou was dumbfounded when he saw it, if you don't fight, the devils will search for it. Let's fight, the fruits of the battle are too small. Even if you want to let go of the devil's search force, you can't do it, you are a cavalry unit, and the soldiers are so hidden, and the war horse can't hide it anyway.

Seeing that the devil was so cunning, Wang Shuyou thought, this devil killed one by one, and killed his search team, maybe they would concentrate together next, and the next ambush would be easy to fight.

Wang Shuyou and Shi Qianli discussed, and the troops quickly dispersed, taking the company as a unit to knock on the devil's search team.

When the crisp gunshots rang out, Major General Mijin Suzuki was preparing to go. Hearing the report that the search team had been attacked, Major General Mijin Suzuki's nostrils were hot, and he directly went to Lieutenant General Maeda Toshiwei to report and asked the air force to immediately dispatch to provide adequate air cover for the Eighth Division. Otherwise, with the ferocity and cunning of Liu Yimin's troops, I am afraid that they will not be able to reach Weicheng, and the troops will suffer heavy losses.

Without the slightest hesitation, Lieutenant General Maeda Toshinoi directly sent a telegram to Lieutenant General Kazuhiko of Higashijur Palace, requesting tactical guidance from the air force.

Lieutenant General Maeda Toshiwei did not know that at this time the Battle of Lanfeng had reached a critical period, after the [***] divisions fought hard in various companies, only 6 or 7,000 remnants of the 14th Division of Tufeiyuan were left, and they were surrounded by the main force of [***] and struggled on the front line of Quxingji and Sanyizhai, and the North China Aviation Corps of the army was transporting supplies to the Tufeiyuan Division and bombing the Lanfeng [***] position. Naturally, Lieutenant General Tsukihiko of the Dongjuer Palace knew about his request, but he could only send him a flying squadron of 12 planes, and it was a team of four planes, which took turns to come to reconnoiter and patrol.

Before the plane arrived, Major General Mijin Suzuki had already seen the bodies of dozens of search soldiers lying on the road and in the fields. In a fit of rage, Major General Mijin Suzuki took up a killer move, sending two combat vehicles, two armored vehicles and an infantry squadron as the vanguard, and he led the main force to follow up, with an interval of 1,000 meters, and the battle formation was spread, and reinforcements could be sent at any time. Major General Mijin Suzuki believed that with such a powerful force, any enemy would be crushed. What's more, the troops on the left and right flanks have also been dispatched and can cover themselves!

Major General Suzuki's decision made Wang Shuyou and Shi Qianli, who were already a little disappointed, happy. By this time, they had retreated to the road north of Shilipu, which was an important point of attack that they had chosen, and had already planted explosive packs on the road in advance, and many mines had been planted on both sides of the road. Wang Shuyou and Shi Qianli are determined to give the devil a big surprise here.

As the name suggests, Shilipu is only ten miles away from Changle County. This village is located at the foot of a lonely mountain and has hundreds of families. Because it is a small mountainous area on the plain, there is very little flat land in the village, accounting for about 20% of the total area, so the life of the common people is very difficult.

It was not only Wang Shuyou who chose Shili Pau as the ambush point, but on the night of the 27th, the cavalry battalion of the 1st Brigade also drove here, accompanied by a sniper team. Their task is to strike at the flanks of the devils and make them concentrate in the center. However, they were hidden in the village and in the mountains and forests south of the village, and Wang Shuyou did not know about them.

The scouts reported that the devils had come up, with two tanks and two armored vehicles, accompanied by one or two hundred devils. However, there is a large army of devils in the next two miles, and I am afraid that there are tens of thousands of people.

Since Liu Yimin joined the Red Army, what he brought to this unit was invincible determination and confidence. In particular, after going up to the battlefield of resistance against Japan, the instructors fought successively, and the cadres and soldiers looked at Xiao Yue as if they were the captain of a transport brigade, and they had a huge psychological advantage. Therefore, no matter which army it is, it is actively seeking to fight, and there is never the possibility of being afraid of devils. This Wang Shuyou and Shi Qianli are all generals who have come down from Jinggang Mountain, and they have been tempered by Liu Yimin, they are happy when they see the devil, where do they care about the number of devils.

Wang Shuyou has experience in ambush warfare in Cangxian County, and he had expected that the devils would use tanks, and when he was ambushing at the edge of the county, he wanted to clean up the devils' tanks, but unfortunately he only fought dozens of devils' search soldiers, which was not enjoyable at all. Seeing that the vanguard of the devil had tanks and armored vehicles, his eyes lit up with joy. However, the devil only had one squadron, and he didn't want to waste the electric explosives and mines that he had worked so hard to bury, so he directly ordered the troops to move forward, bypassed the mines, and lay down in the wheat fields and sorghum fields, with guns, muzzles, and bazookas, aiming at the vanguard of the devils in a black hole.

Shi Qianli climbed to Wang Shuyou's side and said in a low voice: "Battalion commander, the devil's army is too close to the vanguard, and reinforcements will come up at any time, so we must fight and withdraw quickly." ”

Wang Shuyou nodded, his eyes fixed on the team of devils who were getting closer and closer.

I saw the plaster flag on the devil's chariot, and soon, even the faces of the devil's infantry could be seen clearly. Wang Shuyou shouted, and the shell gun in his hand shot at the little devil with the flag on the rifle.

Two rockets burrowed into the stomachs of the two tanks almost at the same time, turning the devil tanks into two fireballs. Then, the mortars and grenadier heavy machine guns of the fire support company and the light and heavy machine guns of each company all opened fire, and the bullets slammed into the marching ranks of the Devil's Pioneer Squadron, paralyzing the Devil in one fell swoop.

The two devil armored vehicles suddenly changed, and it was too late to reverse, and two rockets flew in, which directly smashed the armored car into a pile of scrap metal.

The devils who are lucky enough to be alive have become the favorites of rifle shooters, and these lucky guys are often hit by several bullets at the same time, and the blood spurting out of their bodies forms a triangular and pentagonal pattern, which looks like a painting, which is a bit beautiful.

As soon as Wang Shuyou saw that he had succeeded, he immediately ordered the troops to retreat quickly. The fighters bent on their waists, took weapons and ammunition and got into the sorghum fields and retreated.

When Major General Suzuki Mijin came up, the large army of the Yue Army, which was completely enraged, had already pursued forward, and as a result, it fell into a mine array again, and the sound of mine explosions one after another was not as spectacular as the explosion of the 200-meter-long explosive package chain explosion line on the road.

Looking at the dust kicked up by the cavalry in the distance, Major General Mijin Suzuki decisively ordered the troops to stop advancing, collect the remains of the fallen soldiers, and wait for the planes to come to help.

The signal corps sent by Major General Mijini Suzuki to report to Lieutenant General Toshiwei Maeda made it very clear that this place was full of traps and conspiracies, and if the people of China came twice, the Fourth Brigade would not have to go to Weixian again, and would directly drive back to Jinan to make up the calculations.

On this side, Major General Suzuki's troops were temporarily stopped. In the east, the right flank detour troops led by Major General Lin Maoqing are in trouble again, and gunshots rang out in the woods and sorghum fields at the foot of the lonely mountain on the slopes of the lonely mountain, and the strange thing is that the figure of the Zhina army cannot be seen at all, and it can be seen from the telescope that the shooter should be about 500 meters away from the imperial army, and the gun was killed at such a distance, Major General Lin Maoqing was so frightened that his heart trembled, and the opponent he encountered was simply a devil.

Fortunately, this force seems to be small in number, and the shooting is sparse, and each round of shooting means that more than 40 imperial soldiers have fallen. However, these sharpshooters were very fast, and they completed two rounds before most of the soldiers could lie down.

Major General Lin Maoqing was so angry that he ordered to immediately set up artillery and heavy machine guns, and the tanks to carry out artillery bombardment, covering the cavalry wing to rush forward and eliminate these hateful Chinese sharpshooters. Now it was lively, and the soldiers who were ordered to set up machine guns, infantry guns, and mortars were the first to be unlucky, and they were killed one after another.

Major General Lin Maoqing saw that it was not a joke, so he had to order the field artillery brigade at the end of the team to set up a position on the spot and bombard these hateful Chinese sharpshooters.

When the artillery finally fired, the gunfire on the hillside and in the sorghum fields stopped, and there was silence all around, as if there had never been an attack.

Major General Lin Maoqing's task was to make a detour to the east and surround the Eighth Route Army attacking Weixian, and he saw very clearly the attempt of the small Eighth Route Army to sneak attack, which was nothing more than to hinder his advance! Therefore, after the shelling, Major General Lin Maoqing saw that there were no more shots on the hillside and in the sorghum fields, and thought that the sneak attackers were either killed by the shells or had sneaked away. Considering the important surname of the mission, Major General Lin Maoqing decided not to entangle with the sneak attackers, quickly crossed the lonely mountain, and carried out his own roundabout mission.

Major General Lin Maoqing's troops did not take the road, but the country road. However, this plain area is passable everywhere, and it is nothing more than a waste of the common people's crops. In Major General Lin Maoqing's mind, the Chinese people are illiterate, poor and dirty, and it is better to starve to death, so he doesn't care how much farmland is wasted.

When they arrived at Shilipu Village, the army was in trouble again, and it was a mine and an explosive package, and the little devils who blew up cried wolf. In particular, a kind of mine in the dirt road, I don't know what it was made, can actually blow up a tank. Major General Lin Maoqing was equipped with a total of four tanks, but two of them were damaged. Major General Lin Maoqing was completely furious by this point, and immediately ordered the artillery to bombard Shilipu Village and waved his troops to attack it.

How did Major General Lin Maoqing know that hidden in Shilipu Village was the cavalry battalion of the 1st Brigade, the most elite of Liu Yimin's instructor, and its weapons were more powerful than the cavalry battalion of the 4th Brigade, the machine guns were all one-color Bayi machine guns, and the soldiers were basically Bayi automatic rifles, submachine guns, and cavalry guns, and each of them had at least two weapons. If Major General Lin Maoqing knew, it is estimated that he would call for planes and let the planes and field artillery raze Shilipu Village to the ground.

After a short shelling, Major General Lin Maoqing saw that Shilipu Village was quiet, so he ordered his troops to occupy Shilipu. The devil cavalry naturally took the lead in attacking, and a cavalry squadron rushed forward with a sword held high and shouted. When they arrived in the village, the devil cavalry found that they were greeted by a dense rain of bullets.

The road in the village is not wide, and it is not easy for the devil cavalry to turn around, and they have become targets alive. Seeing the tragic situation of the cavalry, the devil infantry who caught up hurriedly entered the battle, trying to cover the cavalry who had entered the village and ran out. It's a pity that they moved slowly, and the cavalry who were usually superior to others had already fallen on the loess road in the village, and the blood of people, horses, and loess mixed together, condensing into pieces of black whirring and red fluttering clods.

At this time, there was an unhurried gunfire behind the devil team, and Major General Lin Maoqing's heart kept twitching, he knew that the sharpshooters of the Eighth Route Army just now began to exert their might again, and that crisp gunshot would take away the life of a well-trained veteran of his.

Major General Lin Maoqing did not dare to attack rashly anymore, he ordered the troops to quickly retreat, disengage from contact with the Eighth Route Army, and when the artillery fire was ready, under the cover of aircraft, concentrate on capturing Gushan and Shilipu Village.

In this way, both the troops of the 8th Division for the frontal offensive and the detour troops on the right flank stopped advancing. Of course, Major General Mijin Suzuki and Major General Hayashi Maoqing were not alone, because the same thing happened on the left flank, and the 17th Wing had already begun to move closer to the 4th Brigade.

After Major General Maeda Toshiyu received the report, he was no longer in the mood to stay in Changle, and rushed up with the division headquarters, the baggage wing, and the signal team.

After meeting with Major General Suzuki Mijin and Major General Hayashi Maoqing, Lieutenant General Maeda's heart soared, and he scolded the two of them directly. After scolding, he cursed the aviation unit that had been delayed for a long time, and then decided to draw four squadrons from the baggage wing, immediately replenish the fourth brigade and the sixteenth brigade, and ordered all units to form on the spot, and after the aviation arrived, concentrate all their efforts to capture Gushan and Shilipu, and after occupying the target, still use the fourth brigade and regiment in the center, and cooperate with the left and right flanks, and no longer engage in roundabout attacks.

The military planes finally arrived, and according to the instructions from the ground, they began to bomb Gushan and Shilipu villages. The 8th Field Artillery Wing also opened up its position and launched artillery bombardment on the five low hills of Gushan and Shilipu Village.

After tossing for a long time, seeing that it was already noon, Maeda Toshiwei couldn't wait, and pointed at Gushan and Shilipu with his sword, and waved the army to attack it.

What made Lieutenant General Maeda Toshiwei vomit blood angrily was that this lonely mountain and Shilipu Village were empty, and the Eighth Route Army had already withdrawn.

Lieutenant General Maemura Liwei, who was inexplicably sad and indignant, scolded Liu Yimin and the Eighth Route Army as a pig and a dog, and after scolding him, he was still angry when he thought about it, so he simply scolded the air force and the Qingdao reinforcements, saying that they did not cooperate effectively, resulting in heavy casualties in the Eighth Division. After scolding, he was still angry, and Lieutenant General Maemura Toshiwei did not care about any military discipline, and scolded the commander of the Second Army, Lieutenant General Higashijuernomiya Tsukihiko, and the commander of the North China Front, General Terauchi Shouichi, saying that they had let the Eighth Division go out without understanding the enemy's situation, and that one general was incapable of exhausting the three armies.

Until Major General Suzuki Mijin asked for instructions that it was not too early, whether to let the soldiers eat, and then attack and advance to Weicheng.

Lieutenant General Maemura Toshiwei looked at his watch and it was already three o'clock in the afternoon, so he ordered the troops to rest for twenty minutes and eat.

At the end of the break, Lieutenant General Maemura Toshiwei, who was furious, led the Eighth Division to pounce viciously towards Weicheng.

(To be continued)