Chapter 876: The Battle of Lunan (9)

Wansong Mountain is famous, in fact, it is a soil mountain with an altitude of only 200 meters, and the original name is also the unique name of Lunan "Guzi Mountain". It's just that in order to welcome Qianlong during his southern tour, he planted 10,000 pine trees on the mountain while building the palace, and named it Wansong Mountain.

Thanks to the pines and cypresses on Wansong Mountain, which cover the bloody positions of the soldiers, the branches and leaves of the pines and cypresses can be mixed with weeds and cow dung to make smoke and cover the targets of the Japanese aircraft. It should be said that the 51st Army and the 57th Army were able to hold their positions under the onslaught of Japanese aircraft, artillery, and tank poison gas, all thanks to this Wansong Mountain.

Yu Xuezhong was amazed that when the Eighth Route Army attacked the county seat of Feixian County so quickly, the Second Field Artillery Regiment and Mountain Artillery Regiment of the Eighth Route Army, which belonged to Xuezhong's department, received Liu Yimin's order to open artillery to bombard the Japanese rearguard position, and drove the little devils to run away.

Although the 10th Division was rebuilt, it was well trained, from officers to soldiers. Even if he returned to the county seat of Feixian County, the little devil did not forget to leave the troops behind the palace to block and cover the retreat of the main force. The opening of the two artillery regiments of the Eighth Route Army opened the prelude to the encirclement and annihilation of the main force of the 10th Division.

Wang Jingxuan, chief of staff of the Sulu Theater Commander's Department, was a pure professional soldier, and when he saw that the Eighth Route Army had captured the county seat of Feixian so quickly, he knew that the main force of the Eighth Route Army had been launched and the fate of the main force of the 10th Division was irrevocable, so he immediately suggested to Yu Xuezhong: "Commander-in-Chief Yu, order a counterattack on all fronts, we won't even be able to drink soup when it's too late!" ”

When the devil comes to the end, who doesn't want to go up and step on it? Miao Zhengliu, the commander of the 57th Army, forgot that he didn't want to fight this battle in the first place, and also forgot about the casualties of the troops, so he said: "Commander-in-Chief Yu, order a counterattack, my 57th Army will be the vanguard, and I will always pursue the city of Philadelphia and annihilate the little devils!" ”

Mu Zhongheng, commander of the 51st Army, was Yu Xuezhong's confidant and favorite general, and he fully supported Yu Xuezhong to cooperate with the Eighth Route Army before the war. At this moment, Mu Zhongheng saw that the Eighth Route Army was so powerful, and the main force of the 10th Division, which was still like a mad dog during the day, was destined to not survive tonight, and he also jumped to the test. Still, he reminded: "The time has come to fight back on all fronts." However, the troops had to be ordered to control the speed of the attack, and the firepower of the Eighth Route Army was too strong and it was easy to be injured by mistake. Moreover, the speed was fast, and when it got mixed with the Japanese army, the Eighth Route Army threw a mouse trap and did not dare to open fire. In that case, the little devils can calmly deploy and defend on the spot. Maybe they'll be able to escape some. ”

Zhou Fu's thoughts were different from these people, he never imagined that the artillery fire of the Eighth Route Army would be so powerful, if this is calculated, how many troops should Liu Yimin's instructor have? Will letting Wu Huawen and Zhang Liyuan attack and occupy Linyi cause big trouble?

However, despite his apprehension, Zhou Fu also believed that he should immediately counterattack on all fronts, and suggested: "Commander-in-Chief Yu, it's time to report to the chairman of the committee." Our army fought bloodily for two days and two nights, and with the cooperation of the instructor led by General Liu Yimin of the Eighth Route Army, on the night of October 9, 28 years of the Republic of China, in the northern area of Feixian County between the Jun River and the Wenliang River, the main force of the 10th Division of the Japanese Army was completely annihilated and the lost territory of Feixian County was recovered. ”

At this time, the Japanese army just fell into the trap, and it was still far from being destroyed! However, no one refuted Zhou Fu's words, the Northeast Army needed combat results too much. As a result, Yu Xuezhong forgot Liu Yimin's words that he should not report victory, so as not to affect our army's further combat operations through Lunan, and while ordering a counterattack on all fronts, he did not explicitly stop Zhou Fu's idea of reporting victory.

Yu Xuezhong didn't stop it clearly, and others wouldn't stop it. This is a war, the little devil is a plane again, and it is poison gas, so many brothers have died, and it is hard to survive until the counterattack, what's the big deal about being the first to report the victory? Wasn't this victory the result of the blood and sacrifice of the brothers?

So, just as the Second Field Artillery Regiment and the Mountain Artillery Regiment of the Eighth Route Army opened artillery to shell the Japanese rearguard troops, and the units of the 51st Army and the 57th Army received the order to attack on the whole line, a telegram flew out of Wansong Mountain and reached Chongqing in the rear.

Chiang Kai-shek knew from the moment Yu Xuezhong reported that he was fighting with the Eighth Route Army, and that the Japanese army was going to be unlucky. He was staring at the Lunan battle report! At this moment, after receiving the telegram from Yu Xuezhong's department, Chiang Kai-shek was overjoyed, holding the telegram in his hand and reading it three times in a row. Updates are super fast

He Yingqin, who came to report the victory, said that the Yu Department only had a cage report, and there was no detailed number of enemies destroyed and captured, and that he should send a report to the communication and liaison group of the instructor of the Eighth Route Army to verify the battle results.

Who was Chiang Kai-shek? Seeing the true intention of Zhou Fu's telegram clearly, he knew that this was to report victory in front of the Eighth Route Army, and the detailed results of the battle could not be reported for the time being. Therefore, he directly told He Yingqin that there was no need to detail the results of the battle, and immediately announced to the world the news of our army's victory in Lunan.

As soon as Chiang Kai-shek said it, he immediately understood the joints, and when he released the news to the outside world, even the cooperation of the Eighth Route Army was omitted, and it was directly said that the troops of the Sulu Theater under the command of Commander-in-Chief Xuezhong eliminated the main force of the 10th Division of the Japanese Army and recovered Fei County.

At this moment, the entire mountain city was boiling, the rear area was boiling, and foreign reporters stationed in Chongqing also quickly spread the news abroad.

**The Central Committee and the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army are paying close attention to the war in Lunan and waiting for the good news of the instructor! When Ye Zilong, the confidential secretary, reported the news of the Lunan victory he received, he was furious and angrily accused Chiang Kai-shek of not being successful enough and more than failing!

I know that I have not yet received a telegram from Liu and Luo, indicating that the battle is not over yet. Moreover, Liu Yimin set up a serial set, so that Chiang Kai-shek's good news, the Japanese army must be alert, how to fight the next battle?

Ye Zilong asked if he should send a report to Liu and Luo, they were on the battlefield, and they didn't know that Yu Xuezhong had sold our army's strategic intentions!

hateful voice said: "You can't let anything be involved, this is not a good guy at all, and the stage will be demolished at a critical time." Immediately send a telegram to Liu and Luo, telling them to hurry up and end the battle as soon as possible, and adjust the battle plan in view of the situation where the battle intention is violent, so as to avoid unfavorable situations. ”

The attitude is okay, Zhu De and Peng Dehuai in the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army are annoyed and scolded, the instructor has already reported the battle plan, and the elimination of the main force of the 10th Division of the Japanese Army is only part of the plan, and our army in the central Lu area has concentrated the four main brigades of the 3rd Brigade, the 4th Brigade, the 7th Brigade, and the 8th Brigade and a Jiaodong Garrison Brigade, and is also preparing to reinforce the Japanese army in Jinan! Chiang Kai-shek's public release of the war report, will the little devil send reinforcements to Jinan? If the devils knew that the main force of our army had eliminated the main force of the 10th Division in Lunan and that the operational intentions of Yuan Guoping and Xu Guangda, who had launched a counterattack in the Jinan area, they would have been in a difficult situation. You must know that there are three garrison brigades, and there is not even an artillery regiment, except for the Qinghe Garrison Brigade, the Jinan Garrison Brigade and the Luzhong Garrison Brigade are all newly organized units, and their combat effectiveness is far from being comparable with the main force. If the Japanese army were to target them, they would be in a very difficult situation.

Mr. Peng scolded Yu Xuezhong for not being a thing, Chiang Kai-shek not being a thing, and he didn't have a good person in the whole world, and he was in a hurry to grab the battle merits, and he didn't even care about such a big thing as the combat intention of our army.

After scolding, Mr. Peng still didn't understand his hatred, and said to Mr. Zhu: "Let Zuo Quan send a report to Liu Yimin, Yu Xuezhong has done the first year of junior high school, and we can do fifteen." Shen Honglie is a chase, and Yu Xuezhong is also a chase, and the nominal Sulu Theater Commander's Department is given to Lao Tzu, Yu Xuezhong loves to go wherever he goes, and the Eighth Route Army does not need his cooperation. ”

Mr. Zhu was 53 years old at this time, and his long-term revolutionary career tempered him into a commander of an army as big as the sea and as strong as steel. After scolding for a while, his anger subsided, so he said softly: "Zuo Quan, send a report to Liu Yimin and tell him about this." Don't overdo it, though. We are angry, Liu Yimin is even more angry, let's not add fuel to the fire. It was not right for Yu Xuezhong to report the victory in advance, but the 51st Army and the 57th Army fought fiercely for two days and two nights, and the price paid must have been quite heavy. I estimate that it is not necessarily Yu Xuezhong's own idea to report the victory, but must be the help of his generals. It can be seen from this small incident that the Northeast Army is about to withdraw from the stage of history. Because Yu Xuezhong is the current leader of the Northeast Army, but he doesn't know people, and he doesn't know the xiōng Huai of our legendary hero Liu Yimin. In fact, if they don't report the victory in advance, I'm afraid that Liu Yimin's telegram will also list the Sulu theater in front. Forget it, let Liu Yimin make a decision on the spot according to the battlefield situation, and how to fight should be decided by Liu and Luo! ”

Liu Yimin was commanding the battle on the battlefield, where could he have thought that the main force of the Japanese army had not yet been annihilated at this time, and Yu Xuezhong's department couldn't wait to send a good report?

At this time, the main force of the 10th Division of the Japanese Army was leading with tanks and armored vehicles, and the infantry followed in battle formation, quickly rushing towards the county seat of Feixian County.

It's close, it's close, and the lights on Japanese cars and armored vehicles are so conspicuous at night that it's hard to see clearly.

Liu Yimin looked at the cannon raised high in the night, and then looked at the main force of the Japanese army that was pouring towards the county seat of Feixian County in the dark night, and ordered loudly: "Li Chang, open the cannon!" ”

In front of Liu Yimin, Luo Ronghuan, and Cai Zhong, Li Chang was embarrassed to say something wordy, "Division Commander, Division Commander, I love you", and when he heard the order, he jumped up and shouted into the telephone receiver: "Fire!" Fire! Fire! ”

It is still somewhat appropriate to use Zhang Zongchang's crooked poem "The cannon opened up to bombard his mother" to describe the scene of the artillery group of the Eighth Route Army bombarding at this time. At least that's momentum!

With Li Chang's order to open artillery, the artillery group of the Eighth Route Army set up on the Feiteng Highway opened fire. The first to fire artillery was the Flying Thunder Artillery Regiment under the command of Ding Zhuodong, deputy political commissar of the artillery brigade, who lined up the barrels made of gasoline drums and fixed them on the north side of the Feiten Highway. Receiving the order, the fighters quickly lit the cannon twists and fired at the little devil. Immediately afterwards, the heavy artillery battalion, the 1st Field Artillery Regiment, the 1st Brigade Artillery Regiment, the Cavalry Brigade Artillery Regiment, and the Medium Mortar Regiment of the Eighth Route Army all opened fire, and the artillery roared.

The most dazzling thing in the running group was the newly formed rocket artillery battalion of the Eighth Route Army, the whole battalion had only three 12-barrel rocket launchers, all of which opened fire, and the rockets dragged their long light wings towards the steel phalanx composed of tanks, armored vehicles, and automobiles in the Japanese ranks.

This kind of firepower completely exceeded the cognitive level of the Japanese officers and soldiers, and they were completely stunned at once. Major General Okamoto, the commander of the 8th Brigade of the 10th Division of the Japanese Army, who was in charge of the command of the former enemy, saw that his eyes were dripping blood, and hurriedly ordered the retreating 10th Field Artillery Wing to establish a position on the spot, fire at the artillery position of the Eighth Route Army, and cover the troops to rush over.

Okamoto is dreaming, the artillery fire of the Eighth Route Army is so fierce, and it hits hard along the main road of the Japanese retreat, how can the 10th Artillery Wing escape the doom? At this time, the 10th Wing of the Field Artillery was already in a mess, and the pack horses were dead and wounded, and those who were lucky enough not to be killed or injured were already frightened, dragging artillery trucks and ammunition trucks around in the field, and the Japanese pilots could not control it at all.

The Eighth Route Army's artillery group was powerful, and Yu Xuezhong and others on Wansong Mountain were also stunned, they felt that the night sky on the battlefield was dyed red, and the momentum was so spectacular. However, this is the battlefield, and such powerful artillery fire will swallow everything. Yu Xuezhong hurriedly ordered the 51st Army and the 57th Army, which launched a counterattack under the cover of the 2nd Field Artillery Regiment and the Mountain Artillery Regiment, to stop the pursuit and use firepower to open the distance from the Japanese army to prevent accidental injury by the artillery fire of the Eighth Route Army.

The shelling continues. The artillery group commanded by Li Chang was in the south, and the 2nd Field Artillery Regiment and the Mountain Artillery Regiment were in the north. The new 1st Brigade, the Engineer Brigade, and the Baggage Brigade led by Cheng Cuilin, who made a detour to the northwest of the battlefield and controlled the Linzi Highway, could comprehensively monitor the battlefield, and the accompanying artillery observers kept reporting the shelling data and guiding the artillery groups to continue shelling.

Okamoto, the commander of the Eighth Brigade, fully understood at this time why the original 10th Division was annihilated by the Eighth Route Army in Binxian in one fell swoop. It seems that the original 10th Division is not so much a jade shatter in the hands of the Eighth Route Army, but a jade fragment in the powerful artillery fire of the Eighth Route Army.

Okamoto understood at this time that it was too late, and the powerful artillery fire of the Eighth Route Army had already scattered the main force of the 10th Division led by him.

Okamoto and Shibuya Yoshinari, commander of the 20th Infantry Brigade, hid next to the wreckage of a destroyed tank and discussed, feeling that the artillery fire of the Eighth Route Army was too fierce, and His Excellency the division commander was still waiting for rescue in the county seat, so he had to make an all-out assault to break through the artillery fire of the Eighth Route Army and capture the Feiteng Highway, so as to recapture the county seat of Feixian and cover the breakthrough of His Excellency the division commander.

In fact, both Okamoto and Shibuya knew that they were caught in the encirclement of the Eighth Route Army, and the best option was to take advantage of the cover of the night, break through by different routes, and rush out of part of the way. But they couldn't do that, because the division commander, Lieutenant General Fan Zhaoshou, was still in Philadelphia County, and the Japanese army did not abandon the rules of breaking through the siege of their commanders.

In this way, knowing that there was a fire pit trap in front of them, the Japanese army still gathered the remnants of the army and launched a frantic infantry attack on the Feiteng Highway and the county seat of Feixian County.

The Japanese army, without the cover of the aircraft, is not even bullshit in front of the artillery group of the Eighth Route Army!

The artillery fire continues, and the stumps of the little devils are flying in the artillery fire!

Under the strict orders of Okamoto and Shibuya, the Japanese troops, in squadrons, brigades, and wings, howled, armed with machine guns, rifles, and grenades, braving artillery fire and pounced on the Philadelphia County and Feiten Highway. It's just that the more fierce the attack, the faster and more you die. In particular, the Japanese soldiers who were targeted by the rocket artillery of the Eighth Route Army died in large numbers, and their bodies were still burned in black and dry charred, and they couldn't recognize which was Okamoto's soldier and which was Shibuya's soldier.

Luo Ronghuan looked at the tragic situation of the Japanese army and reminded Liu Yimin: "Division commander, it's time to save shells!" ”

A signature evil smile hung on the corner of Liu Yimin's mouth, and he said lightly, "Watching the little devils dancing in the artillery fire is really a very beautiful enjoyment!" ”

After speaking, Liu Yimin ordered the shelling to be stopped, and ordered the armored group to dispatch, blow the trumpet of the charge, and search for the remnants of the enemy on the whole line.

As soon as the trumpet sounded, it was announced that the final destruction of the main force of the 10th Division was imminent.

The armored group of the Eighth Route Army was dispatched, with tanks and armored vehicles taking the lead, and cars following closely behind, with their headlights turned on, illuminating the battlefield brightly, and the artillery and machine guns on the tanks and armored vehicles and automobiles roared like waving sickles, wantonly harvesting the lives of Japanese soldiers.

The 1st Brigade, which was responsible for meeting the enemy head-on, followed closely behind the armored group, and the fighters followed behind the tanks, armored vehicles, and cars in squads and platoons to pick up the swimming fish that had escaped under the fire of the armored group.

Both Okamoto and Shibuya crawled out of the battlefield, and by this time they had completely understood that the destruction of the entire army was imminent, and they quickly ordered the burning of the military flag. The radio station didn't need to be blown up, it had been blown into parts by the artillery fire of the Eighth Route Army and scattered all over the place.

After burning the military flag, Okamoto and Shibuya bowed a few times facing the east, and then ordered to disperse and break through, and no longer cared about His Excellency the division commander in Philadelphia County.

It's too late, it's too late, it's too late to order a scattered breakout at this time. The Eighth Route Army's armored group and the 1st Brigade of the Army pressed up from the front from the south, the 1st Brigade, the Engineer Brigade, and the Baggage Brigade commanded by Cheng Cuilin pressed from the northwest to the southeast from the flank, and the New 4th Brigade and the New 8th Brigade swooped up from the southeast to the northwest, forming an impermeable encirclement. Don't talk about the little devil, it's just a mouse, and if you want to escape, you have to ask the Eighth Route Army if you agree.

In the end of the battle, for fear of accidental injury, the heavy firepower of the armored group of the Eighth Route Army had stopped shooting, and only crushed the devils with wheels, so that the infantry who surrounded them could use their rifles to solve the remnants of the enemy.

No one could have imagined that in the end, 456 people crawled on the ground and pretended to be dead and became prisoners of the Eighth Route Army. There were also a few devils who were frightened into mental illness, threw away their weapons, took off their military uniforms, and even threw away their crotch cloths, and began to luǒ run. As he ran, he shouted, "Amaterasu, Amaterasu!" ”