Chapter 685: Little Chinese New Year's Eve

This little Chinese New Year's Eve is destined to be lively.

When Zhao Yonggang and the others wore puppet army uniforms, escorted a cart full of New Year's goods, braved the fluttering snow, and rushed to the barracks of the Japanese garrison squadron at the southern end of the town, the little devil sentry was also alert, pulled the bolt of the gun, and shouted and asked, "What kind of work?" ”

Zhao Yonggang only stayed in Su County for two days, learned a few words of the local dialect, deliberately pretended to be cowering, ran to the Japanese sentry, and whispered that this was a merchant in Bengbu to honor the imperial army's New Year's goods, the instructor of the security brigade Taijun asked all of them to be sent to the imperial army barracks, and the security team was not allowed to stay, who dared to detain themselves, all of them died

Zhao Yonggang compared while talking, and what he said was the same as the real thing.

The Japanese sentry's eyes lit up when he heard this, he put away his gun, waved his hand, and let him go.

The special combat team members disguised as puppet soldiers and chariot guys rushed in. Some ran to the devil's squadron headquarters, some ran to the devil's dormitory, and some ran to the devil's lookout post. The team members who walked at the end killed the little devil's sentries and machine gunners on duty along the way.

The little devil is practicing stabbing on the playground

A row of five wooden stakes with guerrilla suspects captured by the Japanese army tied to them. The people were already dead, and the blood on the ground at the root of the stake had already solidified, and the little devil soldiers were still out one after another, stabbing the corpses one after another. At the end of a round of stabbing, the captain on duty of the little devil also stood up to comment and demonstrate, and instructed the soldiers on the location and strength of the knife.

The Devil Squadron Leader led several squad leaders to stand aside and watch the soldiers train.

Ding Maoxiu, the captain of the Suxian anti-Japanese guerrilla column who followed Zhao Yonggang into the Japanese barracks, couldn't hold back anymore when he saw this scene, and shouted "Little devil, ** your mother", and the pistol in his hand opened fire.

Zhao Yonggang's plan is not to use a gun, he also wants to use Fuliji Station to make a fuss, and wants to intercept the devil's train to Xuzhou to surprise the little devil Ding Maoxiu's shot is likely to alarm the little devil at the station, I don't know if the team members who went to the station have arrived

It's too late to say anything now, and as soon as the gunshots go off, the little devil is alert. The leader of the devil squadron turned his head, and saw that the soldiers of the security brigade were rushing into the yard in a large car, and thought that the puppet soldiers had accidentally misfired, and immediately scolded: "Baga, what are you doing?" ”

Zhao Yonggang didn't want to be verbose with the little devil, the guy in his hand spoke, and the devil squadron leader fell to the ground with one shot.

The captain all fired, where would the team hesitate any longer, and the rifle ping-pong in their hands was opened.

The weapons of the soldiers of the pseudo-security brigade are all old sleeves, and the special combat team members have not used this kind of gun for a long time, and it is not very easy to use. However, most of them are from the old Red Army, and this kind of gun was used on the Long March, and they found their feelings after two shots. I only heard the sound of bang-bang gunshots, and the neatly organized little devils who stood fell to the ground one after another. Only a small number of reflexive little devils had time to raise their bayonets, babble and scream, and rushed up at the muzzles of the special combat team.

It's not that the little devils don't know how to shoot, the key is that they are training, the guns in their hands are empty, there are no bullets in them, and they can't shoot if they want to.

This kind of battle is simply not worth mentioning for an elite like the Second Special Warfare Squadron. Therefore, after the battle, Zhao Yonggang was a little unrefreshed, and lazily said to the operator: "Send a report to Brigade Commander Hu and Commander Li, our squadron occupies Fuliji." Send a report to the division commander, please take Xiao Zhenghe to Fuliji to eat roast chicken. ”

After speaking, Zhao Yonggang entered the devil squadron headquarters, picked up the phone, and called Moxi Moxi. After connecting the phone to the Suxian Devil Garrison Team Headquarters, Zhao Yonggang reported incoherently in Japanese on the phone that the security squadron had rebelled and rushed into the barracks of the Imperial Army Garrison, sneaking up on the Imperial Army, and asking for quick support.

After making the call, Zhao Yonggang ordered the sixth team to go to the reinforcement railway station, be sure to catch the devil stationmaster, and ask if there was a train stopping at Fuliji Railway Station this afternoon.

After a while, the phone call of the Su County Devil Garrison came again, and the little devil was verbose on the phone, first asking if the rebel security team had been suppressed, and then asking the squadron leader to listen to the phone.

Zhao Yonggang shouted and shouted on the phone, saying that His Excellency the squadron leader went to the security brigade headquarters to drink at noon, and he has not come back until now, so he should have been killed. Now the security team is attacking the soldiers' quarters, and the two sides are fighting. Speaking of which, as soon as Zhao Yong yelled Baga, he tore off the phone line and ignored the little devils in Su County anymore.

Zhao Yonggang's troop transfer plan did work. As soon as the captain of the Suxian devil garrison heard that the security brigade stationed in Fu Liji had defected and attacked the imperial army, he was annoyed when he boarded, and immediately called the captain of the pseudo security team, and went up to crack and beat him wildly, and then ordered the team to assemble, the security team was in front, and the Japanese army was behind.

The Japanese garrison in Suxian County had long known that the Shandong Eighth Route Army had broken through the Longhai Road and was heading south, and they were also very vigilant. But almost twenty days have passed, and there is no trace of the main force of the Eighth Route Army, so it is a little slack.

This group of devils is different from the devils in Shandong, they have not been attacked by the Eighth Route Army, and they are still very arrogant. In their minds, there were heavy Japanese troops on the front line in Xuzhou, and there were also large Japanese troops stationed in Bengbu, and it was impossible for the Eighth Route Army to come to send them to death. Last time, the Eighth Route Army had gone south to northern Jiangsu, but finally slipped back to Shandong, indicating that they were afraid of the plain terrain of the Jianghuai region and were afraid of a decisive battle with the imperial army here. This time, the Eighth Route Army broke through the Longhai Road and moved south, but no large troops of the Eighth Route Army were found in the Suxian area, and it was still the original Tu Eighth Route guerrilla force composed of peasants who were active. Perhaps, Liu Yimin's Eighth Route Army instructor had another false shot and had already slipped back to Shandong. Therefore, as soon as he heard that the Fuliji Security Brigade, which was only a dozen kilometers away from the county seat of Suxian County, rebelled, the captain of the little devil garrison was furious, and he didn't think about it, so he directly led the team to suppress it.

The snow was fluttering, the earth was already white, and a thin layer of snow had gathered on the road. The Japanese puppet army that left the county seat, braved the wind and snow, and advanced along the highway in the direction of Fuliji. There were puppet soldiers who kept muttering: "With such a big snowfall, what kind of battle is it to fight?" ”

The officers of the security team couldn't figure it out, how could Fu Liji's security brigade defect, they just wanted to be the Eighth Route soldiers, and they wouldn't want them, and they wouldn't want them, because they were bandits, ruffians and hooligans. No regular army will want them unless the little devils spoil their wives

It doesn't matter if they can't figure it out, because they don't have to think about it anymore, the shining sabers and dense firepower of the Eighth Route Army Cavalry Brigade will relieve them of all their worries.

Different from the tactics of using special combat teams to sneak attack and send reinforcements in the battle of Suxian, Liu Jianli and Zhang Hongtao's attack on Longhai Road was very dynamic, and there were many troops invested, so there was a great fighting posture.

Liu Jianli and Zhang Hongtao were both generals brought out by Liu Yimin all the way to the Xiangjiang River, and they had a deep understanding of Liu Yimin's strategic and tactical thinking, and after receiving the order, they knew that the reason why the division commander used the two main brigades to break through the Longhai Road was because he wanted to let the defenders of Longhai Road understand that the Eighth Route Army wanted to destroy them, and let them desperately ask for help in the direction of Xuzhou and Kaifeng, mobilize the main force of the Japanese army, and urge them to divide their forces. Therefore, when the two men received the order to move toward the Longhai line, they sent a reconnaissance unit and, under the leadership of the guerrillas, conducted a detailed and meticulous reconnaissance of the enemy situation along the Longhai line.

On the 23rd day of the lunar month, Liu Yimin issued the order to launch an offensive on the Longhai Road and Jinpu Road, and Liu Jianli and Zhang Hongtao commanded the troops to start action and launched a surprise attack on the enemy defending the Longhai Road.

The assault point they chose was still the same as the old location they had when they crossed Longhai Road the last night, at the junction of Dangshan and Yucheng. This is the junction of the Xuzhou area and the eastern Henan region, and it is also the junction of the Japanese army's eastern Henan troops and the Xuzhou troops' defense line. Military generals know that the junction is often the weakest place in the defense line, and it will rot at the first blow.

After the Japanese 38th Division retreated from southwest Lu, it was stationed in Dangshan County, and its task was to ensure the smooth passage of the Longhai Road and the connection between the troops in eastern Henan and the troops in Xuzhou.

Lieutenant General Yoji Fujii, commander of the 38th Division of the Japanese Army, was born in October 1887 in Hiroshima, Japan, and was 52 years old. This guy's service experience is different from that of ordinary army generals, he graduated from the army non-commissioned officer school at the age of 20 and graduated from the army university at the age of 30, and began to serve as an attached service to the staff headquarters. Lu University graduates, to do the staff headquarters attached to the service, if ordinary people would definitely not want to do it, but he did it well. It took half a year to be promoted to a member of the General Staff Headquarters, which made Lu University's classmates reluctant to mention him, and they were ashamed of his classmates.

Yoji Fujii served as a member of the General Staff Headquarters for 10 years, and in the middle of 5 years he also served as a faculty member of the University of the Mainland. It was not until July 1927 that Yoji Fujii came to work, and was transferred from a member of the General Staff Headquarters and an instructor of Lu University to the 11th Infantry Wing, and a year later he was appointed as the captain of the Tianjin Zhutun Army Infantry Team, which was the first time in his life that he held a regular position. And then what was attached to the headquarters of the 1st Division, 45 years old, and only then did he become a 37th Wing Wing Commander. I had just been the captain of the wing for more than a year, and before I could be beautiful enough, I was kicked to the 16th Division to serve as the headquarters of the 16th Division. Until the age of 47, that is, the commander of the 1st brigade of the 19th brigade. In less than two years, he was kicked to the Guards Division to serve as attached to the headquarters of the Guards Division, and then returned to the same place. But then the luck was good, the Japanese army expanded the war of aggression against China, the death of the front-line generals, the transfer to the reserve to the reserve, the gap in senior generals, the Japanese army base camp finally remembered him, the commander of the first division, and soon reappointed as the commander of the newly formed 38th Division, to the Chinese battlefield.

In a word, Yoji Fujii is a bitter haha in the Japanese army, and he hasn't done a job with oil and water for a few days.

It is precisely because it is bitter haha, Yoji Fujii is different from those Japanese generals who have been in the spring breeze all the way, and he is very pragmatic. Although his 38th Division is also a three-unit garrison division, its training has been tightened and its combat effectiveness has been rapidly enhanced. After retreating to the Longhai line, especially after the Eighth Route Army once again broke through the defense line of the Longhai line in the Xuzhou area of the Japanese army, Yoji Fujii put a lot of thought into strengthening the original defense line and position. This guy, in order to improve the fortifications of the troops, snatched the timber of many families in the villages along the railway line and used it to strengthen the fortifications. At the same time, they also laid mines, arranged deer barricades, and repelled horses in key areas, trying to make their own defense line able to block the Eighth Route Army.

That's not all, think about the Eighth Route Army's instructor who was accustomed to sneak attacks, Fujii Yoji organized the Han Jiān armed forces brought back from southwest Lu and asked them to garrison the periphery of the 38th Division's defense line as cannon fodder.

At this time, the self-defense regiments and security teams of the former counties in southwest Lu that followed the Japanese army to the Longhai Line all had work. This gang of guys helped the Japanese kill the Chinese in southwest Lu, and when they saw the retreat of the 38th Division, they knew that the main force of the Eighth Route Army was coming, and hurriedly ran with the little devils. When they ran to the Longhai line, they learned that Taijun did not pay them military salaries, and they were worried that they would not have two meals a day, so Fujii Yoji asked them to garrison the periphery of the devil's defense line. These guys had a good brain, and immediately realized that the opportunity to make a fortune had come, and they could ransack the surrounding villages. As a result, a group of bandits composed of pseudo self-defense regiments and security teams took action and spoiled the countryside north of the Dangshan and Yucheng railways.

Afraid of anything, Fujii Yoji was afraid that the Eighth Route Army would use his Longhai Road defense line again, and the Eighth Route Army would really do it on Longhai Road.

On the afternoon of the 23rd day of the lunar month, seeing that the weather was about to change, Liu Jianli decisively ordered the troops to start moving. In an instant, the Fourth Sect was like a sharp knife, directly inserting it into Yangji Town, where the little devil Dangshan and Yucheng were at the junction. Behind them were the 16th, 17th, and 18th regiments of the 5th Regiment, the 6th Regiment, and the 6th Brigade. Two artillery regiments, the 2nd Brigade and the 6th Brigade, provided fire cover for the troops. Liu Jianli and Zhang Hongtao clearly wanted to use a powerful offensive to destroy the Japanese defense line in one fell swoop and completely cut off the Longhai Road.

As soon as the Eighth Route Army was dispatched, the puppet security and self-defense regiments on the periphery of the Japanese army's Longhai Road defense line found out. The performance of these guys was much more than Fujii Yoji expected, and under the guise of reporting to the imperial army, they turned around and ran towards the devil's defense line of the Bianxu Highway and the Longhai Railway, thinking of the little devil to seek refuge.

Zhang Minsheng, the head of the Fourth Regiment, and He Ke, the political commissar of the Fourth Regiment, had already received a report from the reconnaissance platoon that they knew that the little devils were laying mines on the defense line, and when they saw the Han puppet army retreating in a hurry, they felt that they could use these guys to take advantage of the mines and lead the way, so they ordered the troops not to rush to destroy the Han Jiān troops on the outer defense line, chased them, and escorted them to retreat to the Bianxu Highway and Longhai Line to open the way for the troops.

These security regiments and self-defense forces retreated in a swarm, and they inevitably stepped on the mines, regardless of where there were mines or where there were no mines, and the sound of explosions resounded one after another.

The little devil saw that his mine was trampled by the Han jiān, and he was annoyed, so he shot at them directly, and the crooked handle, crutch handle, ninety-two style, and thirty-eight big cover all rang out, and the bullets flew straight towards the Han jiān, bringing up a flower of blood, causing bursts of scolding and wailing. At this time, these Han Jiān realized that the little devils didn't treat them as human beings at all, and purely used them as cannon fodder, scolding dogs, bastards, and everything.

The road ahead was impassable, so the Han had no choice but to turn their guns and shoot at the pursuing Eighth Route Army, in an attempt to stop the Eighth Route Army. As a result, the firepower of the Eighth Route Army was more fierce than that of the Japanese army, and the security regiments and self-defense forces could not raise their heads at all. These guys, not to mention the dead, simply lie on the ground and pretend to be dead dogs when they are alive.

As soon as the devil fired, the firing point became violent. The heavy firepower of the fire support battalion of the 4th Regiment and the battalions and companies began to speak, and even the artillery regiments of the 2nd and 6th Brigades, which were responsible for fire support, began shelling, and groups of shells streaked across the sky and flew towards the little devils' positions, blowing the pillboxes, trenches, and foxholes on the little devils' positions to pieces.

Since the 38th Division arrived in North China, it was transferred to the Longhai Line, and later transferred to garrison southwest Lu, and today is also the first time that the main force of the Eighth Route Army has attacked. This unit, under the tutelage of Yoji Fujii, became very tenacious, and in the face of the powerful artillery fire of the Eighth Route Army, it asked for help while holding on to it. In this way, the Fourth Regiment of the Sect could be regarded as having met an opponent, and the battle was quite fierce.

After all, the Fourth Regiment is the first-class main force regiment on a par with the First Regiment, and it is well-trained, well-weaponized, has strong coordination ability between infantry and artillery, and has a tenacious work style. On the whole, the 38th Division of the Japanese Army cannot be compared with the Fourth Regiment of the Hundred Battles Elite Sect. Although they had a position to rely on, no matter how fierce the artillery fire of the Eighth Route Army was, it was impossible to kill all the Japanese troops on the position, but in the face of the novel infantry offensive tactics of the Fourth Regiment, the first line of defense of the little devils was quickly broken through.

Zhang Minsheng's tactic was to concentrate artillery fire and troops to attack a point, open the gap, and then swing the whole regiment into the gap, constantly expanding the gap. Zhang Minsheng learned this tactic from the Red Army's infantry training outline, and Liu Yimin, who compiled this book, learned it from the principles of the Four Fields tactics summarized by later generations, which are classic tactics that have been proven by history and are absolutely effective against the Japanese army.

When Yoji Fujii, commander of the 38th Division of the Japanese Army in Dangshan City, figured out that when the Eighth Route Army launched a fierce attack on Yangji Town, the 2nd and 6th Brigades had already cut off the Longhai Line, defended to the west with one regiment, used one regiment as a reserve, concentrated four infantry regiments and two artillery regiments, and stormed in the direction of Dangshan to expand the results of the battle.

Fujii Yoji knew in his own defense line that if the Eighth Route Army could open the gap in such a short time, it must be Liu Yimin's main force attacking. Therefore, Fujii Yoji personally called Lieutenant General Iida Sadagu, commander of the 12th Army in Xuzhou, to report the situation, request urgent tactical guidance from His Excellency the Commander, and request His Excellency the Commander to order the troops stationed in Shangqiu to quickly launch an attack to the east and flank the Eighth Route Army.

After making the phone call, Fujii Yoji strictly ordered the front-line troops to resolutely resist, and then ordered the main force to be assembled and prepared to launch a counteroffensive in the direction of Yangji Town, resolutely repelling the attack of the Eighth Route Army.

After receiving the report, the 12th Army's Iida Sadagu immediately consulted with Lieutenant General Naosaburo Gangbe, who was also in Xuzhou, and came to a conclusion that surprised them.

If the Eighth Route Army is allowed to cut off the Longhai line, the connection between Xuzhou and the eastern Henan troops will be severed, and the troops in eastern Henan and Zhengzhou may become lone troops. As long as Liu Yimin's troops can withstand the reinforcements of the main force of the Xuzhou Imperial Army, the Japanese army in Henan will completely fall into the encirclement of the squadron, and Chiang Kai-shek is likely to carry out a military adventure, concentrate the troops of the first and fifth theaters, and cooperate with the instructors of the Eighth Route Army to encircle and annihilate the Japanese army in Henan.

Thinking about Liu Yimin's troops getting stronger and stronger, the scale of the battle is getting bigger and bigger, Iida Zhenggu and Gangbu Naosaburo are in a cold sweat on the top of their heads, it turns out that the reason why Liu Yimin's strength is like a yellow crane after breaking through the Longhai Road is here, he took a fancy to the fact that the Japanese army in Henan did not have the main division, so it was easy to bully, and he wanted to fight the Central Plains. This guy's ambition is getting bigger and bigger, and he is not satisfied with most of Shandong, and he even wants to occupy Henan, which is simply too deceitful

Iida Sadagu and Okabe Naosaburo did not understand the combat effectiveness of the 38th Division, and in their impression, the garrison division was a garbage unit, and when they met Liu Yimin's instructor, they were likely to collapse at the first touch, and they could only disgrace the Japanese Army. If the 38th Division in Dangshan is not quickly reinforced, it will take a little longer, and when the Eighth Route Army has gained a firm foothold, Liu Yimin is likely to take the 38th Division first, capture Dangshan, establish a solid defensive line in Dangshan, and block the reinforcements from Xuzhou.

The top priority at the moment is to open up the Longhai Road and smash Liu Yimin's attempt before the squadron reacts, so as not to cause a greater disaster.

Iida Sadagu and Okabe Naosaburo immediately decided that the Second Division and the Fifth Division, which had been replenished under the command of Lieutenant General Okabe Naosaburo, should immediately dispatch to quickly reinforce Dangshan, and the First Division and the 23rd Division would follow up and prepare for a decisive battle with Liu Yimin's forces between Shangqiu and Dangshan. The 6th and 16th Divisions in the area around Xuzhou were urgently mobilized and prepared for reinforcements.

After Iida Sada reported his disposition and judgment of the enemy situation to the North China Front, Sugi Sugimoto and Yamashita Fumimi repeatedly looked at the map and came to a conclusion contrary to the conclusion of Iida Sadagaku and Okabe Naosaburo, who believed that Chiang Kai-shek's appointment of the commander of the Jicha Theater and the commander of the Sulu Theater should be a heavy blow to Liu Yimin, and that Liu Yimin had no reason to cooperate with the First and Fifth Theaters to fight a campaign in eastern Henan that would not be of much benefit to himself. Liu Yimin's assault on the Longhai Road defense line should be regarded as a tactical action, and the purpose seems to be to disrupt the strategic deployment of the imperial army to concentrate its forces to sweep Shandong. However, Longhai Road is indeed too important to be cut off by Liu Yimin's troops. If Liu Yimin's troops were allowed to cut off the Longhai Road, the supply of troops stationed in Henan would become a problem. Once Chiang Kai-shek discovered that the Japanese army in Henan had become a lone army, the consequences might indeed be unimaginable. Therefore, Sugi approved Iida Sadagu's battle plan. It was only further emphasized that it was necessary to fight steadily and steadily, and not to provide Liu Yimin with an opportunity to fight the imperial army reinforcements.

In this way, after a burst of chickens and dogs, the tanks and cars of the vanguard of the Second Division and the Fifth Division, which had completed their rest and replenishment in Xuzhou, started to move and rolled away in the direction of Dàng Mountain. Behind them, the main forces of the 2nd Division and the 5th Division of the Japanese mechanized troops also began to urgently dispatch, and the old devil of Naosaburo Gangbu was about to carry out a quick detour to outflank tactics again.

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