To the surprise of Lieutenant General Maeda, it was naturally the grouping of the cavalry brigade that charged.

The distance of two kilometers, that is, the distance of two kilometers, when the cavalry rushed, arrived in an instant.

The troops remaining on the west bank of the Li River were the Eighth Baggage Wing of the Yue Army. At its fullest, the baggage wing had a total of 3,461 soldiers, 2,612 horses, and 150 automobiles. Each squadron of baggage had 562 men and 376 horses.

When the baggage wing fights with the army, it is impossible to be fully staffed. Because they have military stations in the Northeast, Taiyuan, and Jinan, they are responsible for receiving and transporting the baggage and materials of the Eighth Division. In addition, before the battle began, Lieutenant General Maeda Toshiwei transferred four squadrons from the Baggage Wing into the Fourth Brigade and the Sixteenth Brigade to strengthen the combat troops, so the current Eighth Baggage Wing is only about 1,000 people. However, it doesn't matter if the number of troops is small, they have captured many civilians in Changle, and it is the business of the common people to drive cars, lead horses, and carry ammunition, and the devil soldiers only need to monitor with rifles. If any of the common people don't do it well, the devil soldiers will either kick them with their feet or hit them with the butts of their guns, or they will directly stab them to death with bayonets.

When the Eighth Division was ordered to reinforce Weixian, the first troops to be transported by train and car were the combat troops. The Eighth Baggage Wing was originally ordered to garrison Changle and establish a supply base in Changle, but due to the continuous sneak attacks of the Eighth Route Army, which led to excessive losses in the combat troops, Lieutenant General Maeda Toshiwei was determined to transfer troops from the Eighth Baggage Wing, and was worried that it might not be safe for the Eighth Baggage Wing to stay in Changle after the weakening of the troops, so he took them to the front line of the Lihe River.

At this moment, there is a fierce battle ahead, and the baggage wing is naturally extremely busy, busy transporting ammunition, and it looks chaotic.

The most important thing for this army is to attack, and what it pursues is that attack is the best defense. Therefore, although they were on the battlefield, the baggage wing did not build a position, and in their minds, the elite 4th Brigade and 16th Brigade were attacking in front, and where would the enemy dare to attack them.

It was at this time that the cavalry galloped onto the Jiqing Highway and poked into the ranks of the Eighth Baggage Wing like an awl.

At first sight, it was the devil's baggage army, with so many pack horses, cars, and supplies. Song Xing, the commander of the first cavalry regiment, immediately stuffed the shell gun into the holster, drew his saber and shouted, "Kill!" He rushed forward first.

The cavalry charged, the dust covered the sky, and the majesty was imposing. The soldiers of the Eighth Baggage Wing had also discovered it, but unfortunately, when they saw that it was the Eighth Route Army, they were already in front of them a sea of white flowers illuminated by the sun.

The earth trembled, and the tide of the sea of swords rushed rapidly, spreading towards the Eighth Baggage Wing.

Song Xing led a group of horsemen, rushed to the front of the team, and with the speed of the war horse, as soon as he leaned over, the war knife was gently pulled, and the throat of a little devil was cut. As soon as he sat up straight, a devil pounced with a bayonet, Song Xing laughed, and with a wave of his right hand, he split the devil's rifle into two pieces. Urging the war horse, the knife fell in his hand, and directly split the little devil in half.

After chopping, Song Xing took a closer look at the battlefield, the whole regiment came up, the soldiers held their swords high, shouted and pounced on the devils, the road was full of devils' heads rolling, and blood stained the sand and gravel roads. The people who were captured by the devils were so frightened that they fled in all directions, and only the devil soldiers were resisting and struggling in vain.

This cavalry assault battle was fought quickly and powerfully, and although the Eighth Wing of the devil put up stubborn resistance without defense and position, every soldier fought to the death without retreating, but when the infantry met the cavalry, it was on the road and flat land without any cover for the terrain, and the outcome can be imagined.

The battle ended quickly, and Song Xing asked the political commissar Kang Wei to lead the regimental baggage company and the supplementary battalion to stay behind to collect the devil's pack horses, transfer supplies, and lead three cavalry battalions to cross the river and continue the attack.

Just as he was about to set off, he saw that the devil artillery began to bombard our army's position on the Daxu River. At this time, Song Xing found the target, and as soon as the sword was drawn, he led the first, second, and third battalions to rush towards the direction of the devil's artillery position.

At the same time as the first cavalry regiment started to work, the second cavalry regiment and the third cavalry regiment also ate fatty meat, and wiped out the health team, communication team, and field hospital of the eighth division.

The field hospital is located in a small village by the Li River, connected to the Eighth Baggage Wing of the Devils, with more than 300 doctors, nurses, logistics, and guards. When the 2nd Cavalry Regiment came in, most of the devil's guard squadron didn't even have a chance to fire, and they were chopped alive by their swords.

Originally, the matter ended here, and the devil's doctors, nurses, logistics staff, and wounded soldiers were captured. As a result, when Li Donghai, political commissar of the Second Cavalry Regiment, walked into the field hospital to publicize the policy, the director of the devil, who was examining the wounded, pretended to be respectful and came to Li Donghai, and while he was not paying attention, he actually hugged him with his left hand, and pulled out a scalpel from the pocket of his white coat with his right hand, and stabbed Li Donghai directly into the heart. Li Donghai's two guards didn't have time to pull away the devil's dean, and watched the chief's sacrifice, and in anger, the shell gun in his hand opened fire, killing the devil's dean on the spot. At this moment, the lightly wounded of the devil, the doctors and nurses all rushed up and surrounded Li Donghai's two guards and beat them to death.

Chen Cunyi, the commander of the Second Cavalry Regiment who rushed to hear the news, didn't say a word, but only popped out a word from between his teeth: "Kill!" Carrying a sword, he rushed into the field hospital.

Now it's okay, the devil's field hospital has become a Shura field, and male doctors, female nurses, lightly wounded, and seriously wounded have all become ghosts under the knife of the Second Cavalry Regiment.

After the killing, Chen Cunyi shouted the paperwork, and said with red eyes: "After this battle, you write an inspection and request for punishment report for me to the brigade commander and political commissar, the commander of the second cavalry regiment is afraid that he will not be able to do it, and he will not even lose his life." ”

After speaking, he picked up Li Donghai, who was already out of breath, and said, "Lao Li, I'll take you to kill devils", and strode out, put Li Donghai on the war horse, and turned over on the horse himself, and rushed towards the river with the team.

As soon as the cavalry brigade made a surprise attack, Lieutenant General Qianmura Liwei, who was watching the battle on the roof of the railway station in Zhuliu Town, felt that something was wrong. First the plane was shot down, and then there was a large-scale cavalry assault, what kind of large troops was the Eighth Route Army besieging Weicheng? Could it be that Liu Yimin's main tutor is here?

The 8th Division was originally subordinate to the Kwantung Army and was stationed in the northeast. Therefore, Lieutenant General Maeda Toshinoi did not have a systematic study of his instructors like General Shouichi Terauchi. In his mind, there are only more than 10,000 people in a division, and no matter how strong Liu Yimin's combat effectiveness is, he is only a division after all, whether it is a sneak attack or an ambush, how can he take the elite Eighth Division?

As soon as he saw the scale of the cavalry brigade's attack, Maeda knew that he had made a complete mistake. He is an old soldier and knows that cavalry and infantry are different, they are all piled up with money, and the eating and drinking of war horses alone is not a simple problem. Liu Yimin has such a large cavalry force, which shows that his strength is terrifying, and it is definitely not a problem of a division, nor a problem of an army, I am afraid that it is the size of a group army.

However, Lieutenant General Maeda Toshiwei still has a trace of luck in his heart, feeling that his Eighth Division and the 21st Division that were eaten by Liu Yimin's instructor are not the same concept, but absolute elite troops, as long as the Fourth Brigade and the 16th Brigade can break through the blocking position of the Eighth Route Army on the Daxu River in one fell swoop, they can go straight to Weicheng and defend it with Jiancheng; You can retreat back to the division to gather and annihilate the cavalry group of the Eighth Route Army, and then fight a bloody road to the east and retreat to Changle to hold on. Taking 10,000 steps back, even if the strength of Instructor Liu Yimin is equivalent to the size of a group army of the Zhina Political Axe Army, what is it? Could it be that the Eighth Division would still be afraid of a group army? Therefore, after discovering that the cavalry group of the Eighth Route Army was raiding the rearguard, Lieutenant General Maeda Toshiwei immediately ordered the guard troops of the division headquarters to deploy at the railway station, ordered the rear guard units of the Fourth Brigade and the 16th Brigade to immediately seize Zhuliu Town, deploy defenses along the east bank of the Li River, and block the cavalry of the Eighth Route Army. Then, while ordering the Fourth Brigade and the 16th Brigade to quickly break through the defense line of the Daxu River of the Eighth Route Army, Lieutenant General Maeda Toshiwei called for help to the headquarters of the Second Army in Jinan, saying that he had encountered a large-scale cavalry raid and requested that a large-scale aviation force be dispatched to bombard the positions of the Eighth Route Army and assist the Eighth Division in combat.

No sooner had the telegram been sent than a deafening explosion was heard. Lieutenant General Maemura Toshiwei hurriedly went to the roof again, raised his binoculars and looked, Amaterasu, the Eighth Route Army actually used five wing-sized artillery groups to start shelling its own troops from different directions, and the shells streaked across the sky and smashed down, as dense as hailstones. The poor 4th Brigade and the 16th Brigade were swaying under such heavy artillery fire, and they saw that they were about to collapse.

Lieutenant General Maemura Liwei has completely woken up at this time, knowing that his Eighth Division has fallen into the trap of Liu Yimin's instructor. Looking at the scale of the artillery group, I am afraid that all the artillery of the Eighth Route Army is here, waiting for themselves! From this point of view, all the tactical actions of the Eighth Route Army's attack on the Tongpu Line, the Zhengtai Line, the Pinghan Line, and the Jinpu Line were for one purpose, that is, to destroy their own Eighth Division. The idiot of Sasaki Zhiichi who was mixed into the 3rd Brigade was the bait given by the Eighth Route Army, specializing in fishing for the big fish of the 8th Division, which is a permanent division! The ridiculous three fools, General Toshiuchi Shouichi, Lieutenant General Higashijurō Tsukihiko Wang, and Lieutenant General Naosaburo Okabe, talked nonsense with their eyes open, and in order to save a stupid Sasaki Toichi, they actually sent the Eighth Division to hell. I curse them!

Lieutenant General Maemura Toshiwei no longer cared about the issue of revenge for the Eighth Route Army, and no longer paid attention to the more and more earnest pleas for help from Lieutenant General Sasaki to the First Lieutenant General in Weixian County, and resolutely ordered the field artillery wing to bombard the artillery positions of the Eighth Route Army and cover the withdrawal of troops. Major General Suzuki Mijin, Major General Hayashi Maoqing, and Sato Fumiji Daisa were ordered to immediately stop the attack, and the whole army turned around, quickly retreated to the line of the Lihe River, defeated the cavalry troops of the Eighth Route Army, and returned to Changle County to hold on.

Lieutenant General Maemura Toshiwei's reaction should be said to be very fast, and the command is also remarkable, but at this time, the battlefield is already strong and weak.

After the concentrated artillery bombardment of the army, the positions of the Eighth Route Army had been bombed beyond recognition, and in addition to the well-concealed and solidly built heavy firepower positions, the trenches of the front-line positions were all blown into a mess, and the ears and noses of the soldiers who had taken refuge in the artillery holes were bleeding, and some were even buried in the soil.

As soon as the sound of the devil's artillery stopped, the troops of the anti-artillery in the rear quickly reinforced the front line, and basically just arrived, and before they had time to rescue the wounded, the devil's full-line attack began. On one side is the first-class main force of the Eighth Route Army, and on the other side is the permanent division of the Yue Army, both sides are elite, and the fight became white-hot as soon as they got started.

Zeng Zhongsheng saw the main force of the devils and decisively ordered the detonation of explosive packets buried on roads, railways and country roads.

The dust wave from the explosion of explosives lifted many devils into the sky, leaving stumps and pieces on the ground. It's a pity that the devils have launched a battle formation, and the explosion effect is limited, so it can't stop the devils from attacking at all. The effect of the mine array is also limited, because the devils are highly vigilant, and basically follow the passage that the tentative surname walked through when he attacked.

When they arrived at the Daxu River, the tanks and armored vehicles of the devils did not rush to cross the river, but lined up to attack the firepower point of the Eighth Route Army and cover the infantry to cross the river and attack.

Due to the long distance, the bazooka could not be used, and the flak tank could only be used against the flak tank with a flat-mounted anti-aircraft gun. In this way, the devil's tanks and armored vehicles were knocked out in succession, which immediately attracted concentrated fire from the devil's flat-firing guns and tank artillery, and two anti-aircraft guns were destroyed in a position.

The powerful firepower stimulated the bushido spirit of the devil infantry, and these guys all seemed to have eaten viagra, facing the impenetrable rain of bullets of the Eighth Route Army on the opposite side, singing the military song of "Rush to the mountains, let our corpses fill the trenches, rush to the sea, and let our floating corpses float all over the ocean", fearless of death, running and jumping one after another, shooting and throwing bombs, and launching a crazy attack on the Eighth Route Army.

Sun Manxi, the head of the new First Regiment, was originally the political commissar of the Second Regiment and a cadre of the former Old Red Eighteenth Regiment, and followed Liu Yimin all the way from Xiangjiang to Shandong. From the instructor of the Second Company of the 18th Regiment to the political commissar of the Second Regiment and the head of the new First Regiment, Sun Manxi has done all the work of attacking fortified and assaulting along the way. Seeing that the little devil was so crazy, and even some soldiers did not hesitate to pick up the explosive bag and pounce on the position of the Eighth Route Army, trying to die together, Sun Manxi couldn't help but applaud loudly, saying that fighting with such a devil is called a war, and rushed to the position with the guard platoon, and pounced on a gap that had just been broken open by the devil.

The little devil worked desperately to reopen a gap, where would he give up, and the follow-up troops immediately rushed to the gap. Sun Manxi was in a hurry, and ordered the guards to give an order, asking the political commissar to bring the reserves up, resolutely repel the attack of the devils, and threw himself next to the machine gun, set up the machine gun and set it on fire.

Just finished shooting a magazine, and was about to change the magazine, at a glance, he saw a grenade fall to his feet, squeaking and emitting green smoke, Sun Manxi hooked his foot, kicked the grenade out of the trench, and was about to go to the ammunition hand lying on the side to touch the magazine, a devil pounced on him and held him.

Sun Manxi yelled, "I'll your grandma!" With his foot on the ground, he overturned the devil, pulled out the dagger on his leg, and stabbed the devil in the heart.

Sun Manxi pulled out the dagger and gritted his teeth: "Your grandmother, if you want to catch Lao Tzu, don't ask who Lao Tzu is?" Before he finished speaking, he felt the wind beside him, and hurriedly flashed to the side. Unfortunately, it was too late, and the little devil's bayonet was inserted into his left rib.

The huge pain made Sun Manxi wake up, his body turned sharply to the right with his right heel as the axis, and he used his body to take the devil's rifle out of his hand.

Looking at the stunned little devil in front of him, Sun Manxi grinned, shook his hand and threw the dagger at the devil's face, and the little devil fell on his back. Sun Manxi pulled out his rifle and leaned against the trench while covering his wounds.

At this time, he heard the anxious shouts of the political commissar and the roar of our army's artillery shook.

Major General Mijin Suzuki, commander of the Fourth Brigade, chuckled in his heart when he saw that four Imperial Army fighters were shot down by the Eighth Route Army. However, this guy is a fierce general, eager for revenge, and has a huge number of troops in his hands, so he didn't care, and still ordered a strong attack.

With this strong attack on all fronts, Mijin Suzuki realized that he had underestimated the Eighth Route Army. Not to mention anything else, the construction of the firepower points alone is higher than the scope of knowledge that I have learned in the Army University, and each firepower point is triangular, with a positive triangle and an inverted triangle, supplemented by trench connections, not to mention that the troops cannot rush up, and even if they rush up, it is difficult to escape from the firepower. However, Major General Mijin Suzuki was not afraid, he had flat-fire guns, rapid-fire guns, and tank guns, all of which could deal with the hidden fire points of the Eighth Route Army. Coupled with the elite and tenacious soldiers, Major General Misho Suzuki was confident in breaking through the defense line of the Eighth Route Army.

Sure enough, when the corpses of the imperial warriors cut off the flow of the Daxu River, the position of the Eighth Route Army was finally broken through a little. Major General Suzuki was overjoyed and swung his troops towards the gap, and when he saw that it was almost done, the most unexpected thing happened to Major General Suzuki: a swarm of shells smashed into the attack formation of the 4th Brigade, which was in a frenzy.

At this moment, Major General Suzuki's heart began to fall into the ice cellar, layer by layer, until it fell to the lowest level of the ice cellar.

Therefore, when Lieutenant General Maemura Toshiwei ordered the troops to retreat, Major General Mijin Suzuki did not hesitate and immediately gave the order to retreat.

If this order had been an hour earlier, perhaps the Eighth Division would have escaped annihilation. It's only down now, and it's obviously a little late.

Artillery Brigade Commander Li Chang has been addicted to commanding the artillery group since the elimination of the 21st Brigade, the main force of the Fifth Division. Don't look at him always putting on a big grin and indifferent appearance in front of Liu Yimin, in fact, he is extremely meticulous, not to mention the artillery observers who were taught by him, not to mention the major events such as the setting up of the artillery group and the contact between the commanders, that is, where each cannon is hidden, what camouflage it is, how to push it into the position and enter the battle as quickly as possible, etc., Li Chang knows everything in his heart.

After Liu Yimin's artillery bombardment order was issued, Li Chang immediately realized that the situation on the front line of the Daxu River was critical, forcing the division commander to use the artillery group in advance. The Eighth Division of this dog really has two hits, and it really deserves to be a permanent division, so it's good, just let Lao Tzu's artillery group talk to you, and save so much time.

Li Chang did not dare to slack off, and immediately ordered all artillery to be quickly pushed into the gun position and prepare for battle.

In just ten minutes, all the cannons were pushed out of the woods, sorghum fields, and villages, and the green cannon jackets used for camouflage were removed, and the muzzles of the cannons were raised high.

As the artillery regiments successively reported the completion of the artillery bombardment preparations, Li Chang grabbed the phone and shouted loudly: "Bury the Eighth Division and fire the cannon for Lao Tzu!" Fire! Fire! ”

After a round of artillery bombardment, Li Chang saw through the telescope that the Yue army was about to retreat on all fronts, and immediately ordered the field artillery regiment and the mountain artillery regiment to concentrate artillery fire on the position of the field artillery wing of the Yue army, completely dumbing him down; He ordered the 1st Brigade Artillery Regiment, the 3rd Brigade Artillery Regiment, and the 4th Brigade Artillery Regiment to extend artillery bombardment and attack the devil's infantry units, and to shell wherever the devils gathered, so as to completely defeat, cripple, and frighten the devils, completely disrupt the devil's structure, and turn the elite 8th Division into stragglers and routs, and defeat them on all fronts.

The first to be unlucky was the 8th Field Artillery Wing.

After concentrating on the bombardment of the positions of the Eighth Route Army, Major General Mijin Suzuki ordered the field artillery wing to carry out an extended artillery bombardment of the positions of the Eighth Route Army in front of the Fourth Brigade and Regiment. Now that His Excellency the division commander is personally in command, the question of who the field artillery wing serves will be resolved. Unexpectedly, as soon as the muzzle of the gun was turned around and the ranging measurement had just been completed, and before there was time for the test firing, Lieutenant General Maemura Toshiwei ordered the field artillery wing to shell the artillery group of the Eighth Route Army and cover the withdrawal of the troops. At this time, the battlefield was already rumbling with artillery, and the artillery of the Yue Army also realized that there was a powerful artillery of the Eighth Route Army here, and the troops that were attacking were encountering difficulties. Therefore, no one from the commander of the Eighth Field Artillery Wing to the soldiers complained that the division commander had changed his orders overnight, but hurriedly turned the muzzle of the gun, observed the artillery firing of the Eighth Route Army's artillery group, determined the target position, and prepared to attack one artillery group first, and then attack one by one to suppress the artillery fire of the Eighth Route Army.

At this time, the shells of the Eighth Route Army flew over. This Eighth Field Artillery Wing is an old unit with rich combat experience, and as soon as you look at the shells that exploded on the ground, you know that they are field artillery and mountain artillery shells produced by the Great Empire, which are exactly the same as the guys in your hands.

No longer bothering about shelling the artillery group of the Eighth Route Army, the wing commander hurriedly ordered the transfer of positions. It was too late, and the 1st Field Artillery Regiment and the Mountain Artillery Regiment of the Artillery Brigade, which had completed the test firing, began to concentrate on shelling the positions of the 8th Wing of the Field Artillery.

The 8th Wing of the Field Artillery chose to flee. It can't be called an escape, it can only be called a shift in position. Anyway, the devil soldiers hurriedly put on their pack horses, pulled the field artillery and left the position, and began to run.

The devil artillery didn't know that at this time, the life-seeking Yama had already arrived at his side, and the war knife had been raised high, and it was about to fall on them.

(To be continued)