September 4, 1944. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info Hengyang.

While Xiaolu was concentrating on the layout of Korea and planning to attack Japan, the Japanese were still concentrating on studying the campaign to attack Guilin.

The Japanese are strange. Historically, the Japanese occupation in North and Central China was greatly threatened. The Japanese did not consolidate their rule with their main military forces, but they attacked the Southwest, the United States, and the South Seas. This is the stupidity of militarism.

Today, the Japanese are still super shrewd and super perfect, and their strategy is still super stupid and super risky. In the case of major events in North China and Northeast China, and even in the Outer Northeast, he is still very focused on attacking the Southwest. Tai axis.

Later, intelligence came from the Japanese side to explain all this, not the Japanese axis, but they decided that Chongqing could surrender. It's not just that they recognize that Chongqing may surrender, it's that Chongqing is drinking the Japanese to negotiate surrender. As long as Chongqing is threatened in the southwest, Chongqing will surrender.

They lost in the north, hoping to get back in the south of China and stabilize the south of the Yangtze River in China, which is still big enough as a springboard.

It has been more than 20 days since the Battle of Hengyang ended.

In the past 20 days, the Japanese army rested in Hengyang, including transporting the wounded soldiers, replenishing the supplies, cremating the corpses, and then transporting the ashes. It is important to give the soldiers a rest mentally and physically before marching to Guangxi to complete the next campaign.

However, these plans ran into big trouble.

By the way, they wanted to occupy the Hunan region near Hengyang, establish a puppet army, and establish a puppet government, so that they could establish an occupation channel from Shanghai to Hunan. I thought that the task that could be completed with part of Wang Jingwei's troops and a small Japanese army was in trouble.

A hundred miles north of Hengyang, the railway along the Xiangjiang River is shining, and in the middle of the shiny rails, there is a section that is new, without rust and polished. Under this section of the track, the sleepers are also new, made of freshly cut trees. Apparently newly repaired.

Near the railway, there was a shed, where five or six Japanese troops were stationed, apparently guarding the railway. A little farther away is a small village, all in ruins.

A train puffs smoke and heads south. The train was towed in stuffy tank cars, and there were more than a dozen cars.

The locomotive passed the shed, and soon, the rear of the car also reached the shed source. At this moment, there was a loud bang, and the locomotive and coal car were blown over. The coal car, the locomotive and a few carriages went off the tracks.

One train, with the exception of the next five or six cars, derailed. Soon, someone opened the trunk door and jumped out of the train.

In the ditch on the east side of the railway, a group of people rushed out, shouted and fired guns at the people who jumped off the train. These people were all dressed in the blue cloth clothes most common to local farmers, and some were armed with guns, some with large knives, and some even with pikes.

Not far from the railway, the devil soldiers guarding the railway began to fire their guns, and some of the devils stood out from the broken walls of the small village to the west of the railway. The guerrillas listened to it and ran away. The guerrillas were extremely adaptable to the terrain, walking high and low, crossing trees and grass, and being very agile.

It turns out that the devil has an ambush.

The devil jumped over the carriage to pursue, but he really couldn't catch up. These guerrillas, who only attack by sneak when they fight, run immediately when they see a powerful one, and run faster than anyone else.

This has happened for the fourth time.

A devil officer's face turned pale, he pulled out his command knife and shouted: "Charge!" ”

More than three hundred people began to pursue.

This is all rice fields, and you can only pursue them along the ridges. After chasing for a while, it was the hillside, and the militia seemed to be familiar with the local terrain, and followed the mountain path, burrowed into the bamboo forest, and walked to the east, no, it was running.

The more than 300 Japanese troops who were pursuing originally wanted to set up an ambush and defeat this group of guerrillas, but they did not expect that they were unknowingly planted explosives and blew up the train, and these guerrillas ran fast and were familiar with the terrain, so they could not hit them. The trees on the mountain are not very dense, and you can see people, but you can't hit people. After several pursuits, I gave up here and didn't chase this time?

Pursuit!

The Japanese finally began to pursue, up the mountain!

When you go up the mountain and cross the forest, your vision is broadened, there are many terraces on the hillside, there are some dwellings in the ravine, and there are even small dams in the far ravine.

What is this place? Why are the partisans gone?

At the odd moment, four shots rang out. On the ridgeline, in the woods behind him, gunfire was intense. More than 300 Japanese troops were scattered on the hillside, quickly lying down and returning fire.

The Japanese commander's heart was cold, and there were many ambushed troops around, at least three or four times as many as themselves, and they surrounded themselves.

There is no escape.

It turned out that those dozens of people were bait. This bait has been lured for a few days now.

This group of Japanese troops deserved to be elite, the formation was not chaotic, they fought and retreated, and withdrew from the woods, but the other side had strong firepower and sharpshooters, and when they arrived at the farmland, there were only twenty or thirty people left. Come on.

When they ran to the side of the railway, there were only a few veterans left, protecting one officer, and there were only five people in total. Seeing the railway from afar, the officer's heart was even colder, there were thousands of people here, who had already killed all the people on the train, and were carrying the supplies on the car.

Seeing this scene, the Japanese officer understood that he had been fooled. The pistol was aimed at his temple, "bang".

The headquarters of Dong Zhentang and Chen Haisong were on the mountain on the east side of the Xiangjiang River.

At this time, their forces expanded dramatically, accepting not only more than 8,000 wounded soldiers of the Tenth Army, but also more than 5,000 other troops. At the beginning, the other troops had received more than 6,000 routs, some of whom were ruffians, and some of whom insisted on not being guerrillas.

There are also more than 10,000 militiamen in the new recruits.

In addition to sending thousands of logistics personnel to take care of the wounded soldiers, and thousands of people went to Guangxi to receive medicine and supplies, everyone else was put into action, a few people were fighting, and tens of thousands of people were sabotaging the railway, the railway from Hengyang to Shaoguan, and the railway from Hengyang to Guilin.

According to Yan'an's instructions, their mission, in addition to harassing the Japanese army, was to disrupt transportation. In addition, Yan'an also passed on several tricks to sabotage the railway.

Over the course of a few days, the guerrillas had wiped out more than a thousand Japanese. Because the Japanese were elite, there were many veterans, and the guerrillas also lost a lot of people.

A lot of things were seized, all of which were recently brought in by the Japanese. Looking at the troops returning with things on their backs, Chen Haisong said: "Check quickly, are there any Japanese medicines?" What about bandages? ”

One of the guards ran over.

After a while, the guard ran back and said, "There is no medicine, the most is white cloth, clothes, and luggage." There are a lot of bullets, and there are shells, but there is no medicine. ”

Dong Zhentang said: "It seems that the Japanese army did not transport medicines to Hengyang. Otherwise, how many trips have been intercepted, why haven't you seen the medicine? ”

Chen Haisong said: "I don't think it's right. Our operations in this area should have stopped. A few trains have already been grabbed, why do the devils only use small troops against us? It must be gathering strength and destroying us with a large force. ”

Dong Zhentang said: "Since Hengyang broke the city, we ambushed the devil, annihilated thousands of his people, and eliminated more than 1,000 guerrillas, and the devil did not retaliate. This is not right. Okay, immediately send the order, organize the logistics immediately, and evacuate overnight. ”

Chen Haisong said: "To fight guerrillas, just leave." According to the plan, the local troops went to the north to disrupt the communications, sabotage the Japanese to establish a local puppet government, and the large army went south and entered Guangxi. ”

Almost at the same time, Division Commander Lin sent a telegram from Yunnan, asking Dong Zhentang's troops to let the Japanese go to Quanzhou, and then, Hewei Guoqing's troops would join forces and fight in the Quanzhou area. The purpose of the operation was to delay the progress of the Japanese attack on the southwest.

September 5, 1944. Hengyang North.

Sure enough, as Dong Zhentang expected, this time, the devil's army arrived from several county towns, and the 20,000 people divided into five roads and headed east into the mountains.

However, there was nothing but cut bloody clothes found in several houses in the mountains.

In September, although the weather was not as hot as it was during the war last month, the midday sun was still strong.

The plane reconnoitred several times, but still did not find the target. It stands to reason that the guerrillas should be within a radius of 100 miles, so why is there no one?

The reconnaissance plane was a J1N1-C land reconnaissance plane, which was originally a night reconnaissance plane, but the army plane was insufficient, so it had to be dispatched during the day. There were two people on the plane, one pilot, the other reconnaissance, and now, the terrain on the ground was unfamiliar, and there was only a way to look around, trying to find the partisans on the ground.

Along the railway to the south, after looking for a long time, I still couldn't find it, and the fuel was insufficient, so the driver decided to return home. At this time, the scouts found out what it meant for the driver to fly back, go to the turn of the railway to take a look, and when he came back, he went around the railway and found nothing.

Return.

The plane passed not far from Zhuzhou, although it was not the focus here, but there was a harvest, and there were hundreds of people digging the railway.

Hengyang South, at the big bend of the railway.

The reconnaissance plane flew away, and several people stood up on the side of the road, and one of them said: "I said, this reconnaissance plane has discovered you, but you don't believe it." ”

Another said: "It's really convenient to have a plane, and we will fly planes in the future." ”

The one next to him said: "My old unit, the Northeast Coalition Army, has already had a plane." ”

After talking for a while, everyone planted the explosives, and a man from the north shouted, "Quick, the train from the north is coming." ”

In less than a minute, there was a loud bang, and the roaring train was blown up, and the locomotive jumped up and fell again. The back cars rushed forward, and four or five cars rushed off the tracks.

A few minutes later, the doors of the carriages opened, and the Japanese rushed out of the carriages, at which point gunfire was heard on both sides of the railway, and grenades were thrown on the train carriages.

The Japanese army risked grenades and a steady stream of grenades came out of the carriages. Soon, hundreds of Japanese troops gathered here, and the firepower was strong. In addition, there were Japanese soldiers who constantly came out of the carriages.

The gunfire on both sides of the railway suddenly intensified, and a volley of grenades hit and was thrown.

The smoke cleared, the voices on both sides of the railroad disappeared together, and the partisans ran away.