Chapter 359: Battle of North China (6)
Under the command of the guard battalion and the reconnaissance battalion, the Japanese Army's Yamashita Division, the Xishiyuan Brigade, the artillery wing, the light and heavy arms wing, and the cavalry wing, totaling more than 9,670 people, walked step by step into the ambush circle carefully arranged by Master Chen.
Dashuiquan Village, a small village that is not shown on the map at all, has less than 50 households in the whole village, and the total number of young and middle-aged men and women in this village is less than 50 due to years of war, and the rest are all old, weak, sick and disabled.
Although Dashuiquan Village is not famous in the slightest, it is very famous when it comes to the farming ditch north of Dashuiquan. Whether it was the First Battle of Saibei or the Second Battle of Saibei, Farminggou was the main battlefield, although now the entire village of Farmingditch has been razed to the ground by artillery fire, and there is no complete building anymore. However, whether it is the newspaper of the Chinese Nationalist Government, the Asahi Shimbun in Japan, or the Xinhua Japan of the Eighth Route Army, this small village has repeatedly seen newspapers.
This time, Master Chen chose the ambush site in Dashuiquan is also very meaningful, the first two battles of Saibei were also in the Zhangbei area of continuous deflated, and finally the two battles of Saibei ended with the Japanese army losing troops and losing the city and land. This time, the 77th Independent Division continued to ambush the Japanese army in Zhangbei, which has obvious symbolic significance both militarily and politically, and this will give a strong psychological hint to other units of the Inner Mongolia Military Region, and the Third Battle of Saibei (North China Battle) will surely end with the defeat of the Japanese army again, and this will play an irreplaceable role in the fighting spirit of all the soldiers and civilians of the entire Inner Mongolia Military Region. At the same time, as far as this area is concerned, the Eighth Route Army has already fought two ambushes, and in normal people's thinking, there have been two and no three times, and the Chinese army did not dare and would not ambush the Japanese army three times in the same place.
But Master Chen did just that, he dug a deep hidden trench around a small valley at the mouth of Dashuiquan Village, and placed more than 2,000 people in the trench, and at the same time placed an infantry regiment at the exit of the valley to carry out the frontal blocking mission, and at the same time placed an infantry division in the village in front of Dashuiquan to cut off the back road of the Japanese pursuers. At the same time, Master Chen also placed an infantry division on the road leading from Zhangjiakou to Dashuiquan to block possible reinforcements from the direction of Zhangjiakou.
Master Chen's strength in his hands now is more than that of Fengwen under the mountain, and on such a large territory as northern and eastern Hebei, Han Yunhua has placed five infantry divisions, a mechanized brigade, an artillery brigade and more than 30,000 cavalry troops. Such a powerful fighting force, not to mention the commander of the Japanese lieutenant general division of Yamashita Fengfumi, even the commander of the Japanese North China Front, General Bin Sanyuan, could not be taken lightly.
The first to catch up with the Chinese army was still the Japanese cavalry unit, although the Japanese cavalry still had a lot of wounded and did not have much combat effectiveness at all, but Major General Xi Shiyuan took a fancy to the strong mobile force of the cavalry, so he desperately commanded the troops to entangle the Chinese army, and must not let them leave calmly.
The battle was extremely fierce from the beginning, and the commander of the cavalry wing of the Japanese army knew what would await him if he could not capture the vanguard of the Chinese army today, and the personality of Major General Isai Shiyuan would definitely send him to a court-martial, and he would not even be given the opportunity to apologize.
In the eyes of the vast majority of Japanese officers, being court-martialed is the greatest shame of being a soldier, and apologies can save their reputation, so as a last resort, senior officers of the Japanese army will end their lives with the noblest death of Japanese bushido.
Driven by such an instinct, the reason of the commander of the Japanese cavalry wing is wearing out little by little, although the cavalry wing is not as large as the infantry wing, and the wing captain of the cavalry wing is not as beautiful as the infantry wing leader, at least in terms of military rank, the wing leader of the cavalry wing is generally served by Nakasa, and the wing leader of the infantry wing is served by Dazuo. Despite this, the commander of the Japanese cavalry wing still felt that the honor he deserved had been trampled on. This kind of trampling on honor came from two aspects, on the one hand, he was trampled on by Major General Xi Shiyuan, and more importantly, he was beaten half to death by the Chinese army, especially the Chinese army with an unknown number of people he met an hour ago, and this trampling on the honor of soldiers made him crazy. …,
When the search team received the news that the search team had found the Chinese army that had escaped not long ago, the commander of the Japanese cavalry wing did not say a word, and directly led his more than 600 remnants to chase after him.
The sound of the horses' hooves rumbling from a long distance came over, and Zhang Tiehu knew that it was the Japanese cavalry chasing after them. But this is exactly what Zhang Tiehu wants, this is less than five kilometers away from the ambush site of Da Shui Quan, which is the gateway where his bait can play its greatest role. Zhang Tiehu did not dare to slack off in the slightest, although he did not take this cavalry wing of the Japanese army into account, after the preliminary statistics when cleaning the battlefield just now, this cavalry wing of the Japanese army had at most more than 600 horses left, and it could not pose a threat to the guard battalion and the reconnaissance battalion at all.
But it is not their task to annihilate the enemy, but their ultimate task is to bring the enemy's main force yin* into the ambush circle of our army. And luring the enemy is a lure, and now if the little devil hurts and the people don't come, then the hard work of the tens of thousands of soldiers in front of him will not be in vain. Therefore, Zhang Tiehu said to Tang Dashan, who was lying on the map on the side: "Dashan, you take the reconnaissance battalion and the machine gun company to withdraw first, I have played tricks with these little devils, and I will be there immediately." ”
"Well, then you should be leisurely, don't pack up these little devils, there was news just now, a large number of little devils' troops are not far from here, so how to fight this battle Be leisurely, don't let yourself be dumplings, and don't scare those dog days." Tang Dashan Road.
Zhang Tiehu smiled and said: "No problem, you can leave with confidence, I only left two companies this time, and you will take the rest with you." Let's go, we can't drop the chain when it matters. ”
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This time, Zhang Tiehu did not set up an ambush to knock on the stick, but built a simple defense line on the road that the Japanese army must pass. And a large bonfire was lit in front of the position, a clear sign, a clear invitation to fight.
The cavalry wing commander of the Japanese army is not a fool, and those who can sit on the captain of the Nakasa wing are of a certain level. When the Japanese wing commander, who was originally full of anger, saw the burning fire in front of him, he knew that people were on guard. Thinking about the battle an hour ago, it was almost a copy of the current one, and at that time I also knew that there must be a branch of the army in that small village, and I thought that a surprise attack could solve the problem, but I didn't expect that stealing chickens would not make it a loss of rice, and I was losing my wife and losing my troops thanklessly.
Faced with the same situation, the commander of the cavalry wing of the Japanese army hesitated. However, thinking about the huge reserve force behind him, and thinking about the cold expression of Major General Xi Shiyuan, the commander of the Japanese cavalry wing once again gave a big order to charge, but this time he did not order the entire cavalry wing to charge together, but only ordered one cavalry squad to charge.
Although it was only a charge of a cavalry squad, the momentum was still unparalleled. The sound of rumbling horses' hooves is like a rapid drum beat, decorating this unknown small slope in the north of the Saibei very moving.
Zhang Tiehu's side is not ambiguous, in the Japanese cavalry unit charged, Zhang Tiehu ordered the troops to prepare for battle, when the cavalry squad just entered the effective firing range, Zhang Tiehu immediately ordered the soldiers to fire, the rapid clatter seemed to be from the roar of hell death, overturning the horses to the ground, tearing the knights to pieces. The cavalry squad of the Japanese army is also quite good, more than 40 elite cavalry still have a dozen people when they approached the trench of the guard battalion, just as these dozen or so horse-wielding knights were about to enjoy a flesh-and-blood dinner, more than a dozen soldiers armed with submachine guns suddenly rushed out of the trench and fired at the remaining dozen or so knights. …,
Flesh and blood could not withstand the bullets of steel, and soon the dozen or so knights were sent to hell to meet their Aunt Amaterasu.
The battlefield fell silent, and the commander of the Japanese cavalry wing was stunned by the scene in front of him. He had been personally involved in the battle an hour earlier, and although it was tense, it was not frightening. But the charge just now was different, as a bystander he saw the whole process of this battle very clearly, everything went smoothly, although the firepower of the Zhina troops was fierce, but it did not play a big role in the cavalry scattered charge, only 20 knights lost their combat effectiveness in the one-kilometer charge, and only seven people were really killed, and the rest were all seriously injured.
But it was the appearance of a few Chinese soldiers armed with submachine guns that completely broke the balance of the battlefield, and in the short-distance battle, the submachine guns were indeed more powerful than any kind of guns, with fierce firepower and accurate shooting accuracy, and in less than two minutes, the remaining dozen knights were beaten to death.
This time the commander of the cavalry wing of the Japanese army hesitated again, and the strength of the Chinese army was indeed beyond his expectations. The two sides confronted each other from a distance of less than two kilometers, and more than ten minutes passed like this, the Japanese army neither attacked nor retreated, and the Chinese troops in the trenches on the opposite side did not pursue, just when the commander of the Japanese cavalry wing was entangled, a squadron leader of the cavalry wing reminded: "Wing Commander, the situation on the opposite side is not right, and the combat effectiveness of the Chinese army should be far more than this." Although the enemy's fire just now was fierce, it was still far inferior to that of an hour ago. A small squad of imperial troops almost captured the trenches of the Shina people, and the humble position thought that there was something wrong with the Shina troops on the opposite side. ”
A word woke up the dreamer, although the performance of the Chinese army just now frightened the Japanese cavalry wing commander, but the fire density of more than 300 people and more than 1,500 people was far away, and the cavalry wing commander of the Japanese army was also blinded by the superficial illusion for a while. Or was frightened by Han Yunhua's endless strange methods, so he was blindsided for a while.
But the words of the squadron leader of this cavalry wing made the wing commander of the cavalry wing immediately know where the uneasiness in his heart came from.
Looking at the eyes of the opposite trench again, the cavalry wing commander of the Japanese army was a little annoyed and ordered: "Baga, the whole army will raid." Kill the enemy and give ............"
The sound of hurried horses' hooves once again pierced the firmament of Saibei, and this time nearly six hundred fart war horses charged, and the formation seemed to level the heavens and the earth. The distance of three kilometers was a short distance at the feet of the sprinting war horses, and soon there were less than five hundred meters left from the positions of the Chinese troops, but there was no movement at all in the positions on the opposite side.
"400 meters ............"
"300 meters ............"
"Two hundred meters ............"
"One Hundred Meters ............"
There was still no movement in the trenches on the opposite side, and it was not until the commander of the Japanese cavalry wing rushed into the trenches that he realized that the Chinese troops who were blocking them had already fled.
The enraged commander of the Japanese cavalry wing ordered the signal corps to send a report to Major General Xi Shiyuan behind him, telling Major General Xi Shiyuan that after a heroic battle, the cavalry wing finally defeated the Shina troops in front of him, killing countless enemies, and the remnants of the Shina army had fled north, and the cavalry wing was chasing and killing the fleeing Shina troops.
At the same time, the commander of the Japanese cavalry wing ordered the cavalry unit to continue to pursue northward, this time he completely believed that the Chinese army in front of him was already at the end of the crossbow, otherwise the Chinese army would not and did not want to give up the opportunity to completely annihilate the cavalry wing twice. If it weren't for the fact that the Chinese army had reached a critical juncture where it was necessary to retreat, how could he, the crippled cavalry wing, still have been spared. …,
The more he thought about it, the more he felt that it made sense, the thinking of the Japanese cavalry wing commander had reached a dead end, and like Major General Xi Shiyuan, he now wished that the Chinese army would stop and fight him.
The Japanese cavalry chased straight up in the direction of the guard battalion's "escape", and the guard battalion did not stop until it passed the big water spring, and the Japanese cavalry continued to move forward. The Japanese cavalry unit was originally not far from the guard battalion, and although many of the mines and time bombs planted by the guard battalion were killed and injured along the way, they could hold the tail of the guard battalion far away.
Therefore, when the cavalry units of the Japanese army saw that the guard battalion did not make the slightest stop at Dashuiquan, they ignored this small mountain village, which was not large and did not have the slightest strategic commanding height. But the Japanese cavalry never noticed that there were nearly 3,000 Chinese troops in ambush on both sides of the not wide but not high, but very long river valley they had just passed, and as long as Master Chen was willing, this cavalry wing was like fat meat in his mouth, which could be eaten in his stomach at any time.
The Japanese cavalry finally caught up with the Chinese army more than ten miles behind the village of Dashuiquan, and the two sides engaged in a fierce battle in a bud valley (corn) field. In order to continue to lure the enemy deeper, Zhang Tiehu did not use all his strength to engage the Japanese cavalry, and the Tang Dashan Division, which was not far behind the Japanese army, had been lurking around the battlefield before receiving Zhang Tiehu's order.
In the opinion of Major General Xi Shiyuan, the fact that the cavalry wing was able to catch up with the Chinese army was a big victory. Therefore, while he ordered the cavalry wing to entangle the Chinese army at all costs, he ordered the troops of his headquarters to speed up the march, and he wanted to carry out a clean and neat encirclement of the Chinese army in front.
Ambush position in Da Shui Quan Village.
The unit responsible for the frontal blockade of this ambush was the veteran strong brigade of the 77th Independent Division, and it was also the old foundation of the 77th Independent Division.
"Grandma's, these little devils on dog days are really dead, they dare to fight with Lao Tzu without even bringing a little baggage, and his grandmother is an old birthday star who is impatient to eat arsenic." Jiang Feng said to his old partner on the side.
Jiang Feng was transferred from the 115th Division to the Inner Mongolia Military Region some time ago when the cadres were adjusted, and Jiang Feng was only a company commander when he was just transferred. However, during this time, the troops of the Inner Mongolia Military Region developed extremely rapidly, so even Jiang Feng, a small company commander, was promoted.
Of course, Jiang Feng also has this qualification, don't look at Jiang Feng is only in his early thirties, but he is also considered an old qualification in the army. He joined the army in Ruijin, Jiangxi Province in 31 years. Before participating in **, he was a gangster leader in Ruijin, and he also had three or five hundred brothers under him. But since the CCP established power in Ruijin, the living space of his little gangster has been greatly threatened, and his life is very sad. In addition, the chairman at that time was in charge of Ruijin, and for them, they were mainly managed by means of persuasion, education and military supervision. In the end, under the inspiration of the chairman, Jiang Feng led his hundreds of brothers to participate in the **.
Although Jiang Feng did not receive a systematic military education, he had his own unique views on the chairman's guerrilla tactics based on his experience in grabbing territory when he was a gangster. In the process of the five anti-encirclement and suppression, he made a lot of meritorious contributions, and was commended by the leaders many times, and by the eve of the fifth anti-encirclement and suppression, Jiang Feng was already a regimental commander of the Red 28th Army.
However, due to the failure of the five anti-encirclement and suppression campaigns, Jiang Feng's regiment suffered heavy losses, and there were less than 400 people left at the time of the strategic transfer, so he, the regiment commander, naturally became the battalion commander. When the Red Army arrived in Gansu after the Long March, Jiang Feng's Red 28th Army Corps was almost completely casual, although Jiang Feng gathered many stragglers on the road, and his battalion miraculously had more than 600 soldiers when it arrived at Wuqi Town. However, after arriving in northern Shaanxi, the whole army was downsized, so Jiang Feng was honored to change from a battalion commander to a company commander.
After being transferred to the Inner Mongolia Military Region, Han Yunhua looked at Jiang Feng as a veteran soldier and officer who had gone through the Long March. Therefore, Jiang Feng was naturally promoted to the commander of the guard battalion directly under the headquarters of the Eighth Independent Brigade after participating in the crash course of the military academy, and was transferred to the independent 77th Brigade as the deputy commander half a year later, and was promoted to the commander ......of the first brigade and one regiment of the independent 77th Division two months ago.