Just when Major General Kawamura Dong's brain was frozen and he stared at the night sky in a daze, thunder broke out on the ground, and behind the tanks, armored vehicles, and cars, rows of high-raised gun muzzles spewed flames, and swarms of shells crossed the tanks, armored vehicles, and cars, and smashed into the ranks of the infantry of the Fourth Brigade of the Reading Power Mixed Brigade, setting off a bloody storm and rain on the ground.

Needless to say, this is the masterpiece of artillery brigade commander Li Chang, and only he who returned from studying in the Soviet Union dared to open artillery and bombard the enemy when our army came into contact with the enemy. However, this blow also made Liu Yimin completely aware that the training of the artillery brigade was indeed tight, and this kind of close-range artillery bombardment, under the conditions at that time, not to mention that the ordinary artillery of the [***] team could not do it, even the army did not dare to take such a risk. Only during the Korean War did the U.S. artillery have such a level.

The shelling lasted for a short time, only five rounds per gun, but this was enough, and the salvo of five artillery regiments was equivalent to a meteor shower on the heads of the Yue army, which had already smashed the devil into a stun.

As soon as the shelling stopped, tanks, armored vehicles, cars, and cavalry and infantry following them were killed.

In fact, by the time the infantry went up, the battle was already over. The cannon pears again, the tanks, armored vehicles, and cars of the Second Regiment were run over again, and Hu Laohu's cavalry brigade followed and stepped again, if there were still living people, it would be really strange. You must know that this is the flat and boundless Luxi Plain, and the devil is on the way to break through, and he doesn't even have time to dig a foxhole, and when the hungry wolf becomes a lamb, the end can be imagined.

Major General Kawamura has had his head cut off by shrapnel, and his mutilated body and jacket with a major general's epaulettes wrapped around his body can prove that he was the brigade commander of the 4th Brigade of the Reading Power Mix.

After solving the main force of the devil, the main force of the instructor and the fifth brigade of the instructor realized the division under Linqing City.

When Gao Yuan, the commander of the 1st Brigade, saw Hong Chaoyuan, he went up and punched: "Old man, how is it, are there many casualties?" Do you want me to support you as a cadre? ”

Hong Chaoyuan smiled bitterly and said, "The little devil of the dog, the shot is really accurate!" Fortunately, there are tunnels here, and the fortifications are complete, so our casualties are not too large, and we can afford it. If it had been encountered in the wild, the casualties would probably not be the same as it is now. ”

Li Qing, commander of the 3rd Brigade, said: "It's not much of a problem in the field, isn't the 1st battalion of your 13th Regiment a cavalry brigade that wiped out the devils with one battalion?" Isn't your cavalry battalion an artillery brigade that wiped out the devils with a single battalion? ”

Hong Chaoyuan's face was brightened: "The first battalion is the sharp knife of my brigade, and the weaponry is the first one, and everything is picked by them first." The same is true of the cavalry battalions, where good things are used to their part. Besides, it's night, and the devil is flashlighting, and it's a bright target. It's complicated during the day. ”

While a few people were talking, Liu Jianjian, commander of the Second Brigade, Li Chang, commander of the artillery brigade, and Hu Laohu, commander of the cavalry brigade, came over.

Li Chang shouted from afar: "Lao Hong, I want to kill my brother!" ”

Hong Chaoyuan smiled and said: "Brigadier Li, good my brother, I just talked about age last time, but I am your brother!" You can't just because your cannon is powerful, and your age will also go up. ”

Li Qing said directly: "Lao Li, do you want to be the commander of the artillery division?" Why do we have to put our artillery regiments under your command in a war? ”

Li Chang laughed: "This artillery is different from your infantry, what is particular is to fire 10,000 cannons at once, tearing all the enemy apart." If possible, it is best to let me command more than ten heavy artillery regiments, and our Lao Li will definitely have no problem in commanding. The key is that the division commander has to think of heavy artillery, and the current guns are all 75 caliber, too small, too small! ”

Li Chang shook his head as he spoke, his appearance was so cute that it made several people laugh.

Liu Jianli frowned and said: "Gao Yuan, your second regiment is powerful, and it will solve the problem with a surprise attack at a critical time." However, we do not have gasoline and diesel, and it is difficult to replenish tank shells, and if we fight like this for a few more battles, I am afraid that you will run out of food. When the time comes, tanks and armored vehicles can only be hidden, and the armored troops will be infantry again. The division commander must be reminded of this matter, and do not wait for tanks, armored vehicles, and cars to stop running, because it will be troublesome. ”

When Gao Yuan heard this, he also frowned, and hurriedly asked Hong Chaoyuan where the oil truck mixed into the Fourth Brigade was, and whether it was captured intact.

Hong Chaoyuan said with some regret: "The devils took the initiative to break through, they set the oil truck on fire, and the exploding oil barrels not only set fire to several houses, but also killed more than a dozen soldiers." The little devil of the dog is ruthless! ”

When Gao Yuan heard this, he immediately said to a few people: "Ladies and gentlemen, please try to capture the devil's gasoline and diesel fuel in the future, otherwise, my armored regiment will really have to be an infantry again." ”

Hu Laohu listened to it with amusement and said: "Brigade Commander Gao, if you are an infantryman, you will be an infantryman, anyway, you will come to Shandong to create a large base area, and the mountainous areas are not suitable for your tanks, armored vehicles and cars, and sooner or later they will be thrown." ”

Gao Yuan immediately said that Hu Laohu was old-fashioned, and it was true that the armored troops were adapted to fighting on the plains, but it did not mean that they could not enter the mountains, as long as there were major roads. In any case, we have to ensure that the needs of our armored unit continue to fight, how many casualties can be reduced!

After all, the performance of the Second Regiment in these two battles is obvious to all, and the combat effectiveness is definitely strong.

Liu Jianli hurriedly asked how long the existing fuel and artillery shells would last.

Gao Yuan was a little embarrassed, touched his face, and said: "The gasoline and artillery shells seized in Tianjin will be fine for about a year, but they have to be used sparingly." It's hard to say after a year. ”

When Tianjin was attacked, the ammunition depot in Tanggu was captured by the 1st Brigade of Jiao, and everyone knew that they had made a fortune, but they did not expect that gasoline, diesel fuel, and tank shells alone would be enough for a year. That is to say, the second regiment can be used openly. No one can say for sure what will happen a year from now, but with the ability of the division commander, maybe a new refinery will be built by then.

Liu Jianli glanced at the plateau and said slowly: "It's still good for the common people to say, as soon as people become wider, their faces will change." I didn't expect that the plateau was like this, as soon as there was an armored regiment, I immediately cried poor, and I was worried just now! ”

Gao Yuan hurriedly said: "It has not widened, nor has it changed its face, but it is just prepared, prepared!" ”

While a few people were talking and laughing, the correspondent reported that the division commander and political commissar had come. Only then did a few people stop laughing and rushed to report to the division commander and political commissar.

Liu Yimin listened to Hong Chaoyuan's simple report on the defense of Linqing, and when he heard that the Fifth Brigade of the Sect had carried out rotational battles among regiments and battalions in order to entangle the devils, and deliberately slowed down the pace of the attack, and when the main force of the devils suddenly took the initiative to break through, Liu Yimin raised his eyebrows, and secretly said in his heart that the devils had a very sensitive sense of smell, and they knew the location of their instructor so quickly. Otherwise, according to the spleen and surname of the army, he would not take the initiative to break through. In history, Peng Lao commanded the main force of the 129th Division to fight the battle of Guanjiayuan, and a brigade of the army was surrounded on all sides and fought to the death. This can only show one problem, the old devil of Shouyi in the temple already knows that the main force of the 21st Division has been completely annihilated, and the main force of the Ming Sect Instructor is in the southern Hebei and western regions.

This is not good news, and if it is not good, the army will mobilize heavy troops to deal with it with all its might.

Liu Yimin was a little irritable, he still underestimated the Yue army, the original plan was to block the news of the annihilation of the 21st Division and the Fourth Brigade of Reading Force, lure the enemy to come to the aid by different routes, and take the opportunity to kill another part of it, so as to beat the Yue army bitterly and fearfully, and now it seems that this plan is difficult to achieve. Either the army will not come, shrink its forces and stick to the line of communication, or it will pour out of the nest and use a heavy army group to confront itself. Neither of these two items is to your liking.

It would have been easier if the army had adopted the method of holding on to the lines of communication and besieging the base areas in southern Hebei and Luxi, and had concentrated all its efforts on attacking Shanxi and Xuzhou. He can seize the time to reorganize and train the local armed forces and completely turn the two base areas into impregnable walls. Then at the critical moment, he waved the main force to break through the encirclement, and he was caught off guard by the devil. If hundreds of thousands of devils flock to southern Hebei and Luxi, then it will be sad, it doesn't matter if their main force arrives, they can break through at any time, but the base area will be over. I don't know how many families are going to be ruined.

The more Liu Yimin thought about it, the more irritable he became, so he took out his cigarette and smoked three cigarettes in succession. The cadres on one side didn't know why the division commander was so irritable, and should be happy to win such a big battle, at least they had to give a word of encouragement and encouragement to the soldiers.

Luo Ronghuan and Liu Yimin have been together for a long time, and they know that Liu Yimin has the overall situation in mind, considers the problem very deeply, and plans before acting. Seeing him smoking one after another irritably, he knew that he must have thought of the key issue again, and did not bother him, and asked the cadres to organize the troops to clean up the battlefield and wait for orders. In particular, the Fifth Brigade should get a good grasp of treating the wounded and make good preparations for the burial of martyrs.

At this time, it was already the night of the twenty-ninth year, and due to the invasion of the Yuekou, there was no trace of the atmosphere of the New Year on this beautiful great plain, and the common people were evacuated, only the cold stars half-hidden and half-appeared in the sky, accompanying the suffering Chinese in the twenty-ninth year.

Liu Yimin threw away the cigarette butt, looked up at the cold starry sky, and suddenly thought that Tang Xingying and his son didn't know if they had slept. It's almost the New Year, Tang Xingying doesn't know if she has made a new dress for her son and bought her son something delicious. Thinking about what Tang Xingying said about Li Chang using a rock sugar gourd to coax his son to call him godfather, his son's face and mouth were full of red syrup, and Liu Yimin's eyes were full of smiles.

Thinking about it, he laughed out loud, and then looked at Luo Ronghuan beside him, he was a little shy, under the big war, how could he still be in the mood to think about these children's love things?

Luo Ronghuan smiled when he saw Liu Yimin, thinking that the division must have thought about things. He said: "Division commander, the troops are still waiting for orders!" On such a cold day, you can't keep the soldiers waiting like this, they will freeze. ”

Liu Yimin smiled again and said: "Political commissar, the little devil already knows that we are in southern Hebei, and the next step, the devil is afraid that he will be overwhelmed by large soldiers." I'm afraid that this southern Hebei and Luxi are a situation full of beacons. Our instructor is going to really stand the test of blood and fire this time. ”

Luo Ronghuan knew that Liu Yimin said this, so he must have judged the enemy situation clearly, nodded, looked up at the starry sky, and then said: "The devil is coming, we can't help it, I believe they will divide the troops, it is impossible to always crush the heavy army group." As long as they divide their forces, with the training and firepower of our army, they will have a chance. After a few more battles, the little devil will know that it hurts. The key lies in doing a good job in our own work, mobilizing the whole people in the base areas, clearing the wilderness from fortified walls, and vigorously fighting mine warfare, tunnel warfare, and guerrilla warfare. The main force should be advanced to the appropriate position in advance and concealed and standby. When the time comes, give him a ruthless blow, and if you don't believe in devils, you won't withdraw your troops. ”

Liu Yimin was not surprised at all by Luo Ronghuan's words, without these two moments, how could Luo Ronghuan have that status in history? You know, the flanking battle against the devil sweep is the initiative of this old man!

Liu Yimin continued Luo Ronghuan's words and said: "The political commissar is right, the key is to do our own work well. There are three things that must be done in the immediate task: First, we should take over the breakthrough of the central Hebei troops and carry out retraining for them, so as to regularize the central Hebei troops in a relatively short period of time and assist our army in protecting the rear. The second is to immediately recover Liaocheng, quickly reorganize those troops collected by General Fan Zhuxian, and pull them around Nangong for reorganization and training. The third is to vigorously develop and train the militia, mobilize the whole people to dig tunnels, and establish a people's war network, so that it will be difficult for devils to move an inch in the base areas. ”

After a pause, Liu Yimin said again: "I think these three things can be done separately." First of all, we must preemptively attack and fight back the heavy encirclement and suppression of Yu Kou. After Director Cai and Chief of Staff Zeng took over the breakthrough of the Jizhong troops, they handed over the Jizhong troops to the training headquarters for training, and they concentrated their efforts on attacking the Deshi Road and Cangshi Road to attract the enemy to clear out the heavy army groups in Jizhong. The main force of our army went north in the starry night and went to the vicinity of Dexian County to hide and wait. If the devils learn the news that the 21st Division and the 4th Brigade of Reading Power have been annihilated, they will immediately shrink their forces and retreat to the original defense line, and we will not move until the Spring Festival is over. If the enemy's heavy army group does its best to encircle southern Hebei and Luxi, the first thing our army will attack is to encircle and suppress the enemy's heavy army group in Jizhong. If we cannot completely annihilate them, we must at least send them back to their original defensive line to hold on, restore the original situation in central Hebei, and expand our army's strategic room for maneuver. After that, we will return to the army to deal with the main force of the devils in the northeast of the mountain. Secondly, we left the 5th Brigade to garrison the Luxi base area, and used the artillery of the captured 21st Division and the 4th Brigade to form an artillery regiment for the 5th Brigade, so that they could deal with the enemy of a brigade and regiment. The first task at the moment of the Fifth Brigade is to speed up the building of brigades, district squads, and militias in various counties and counties in western Luxi. The second is to reorganize the local armed forces that General Fan Zhuxian has absorbed, and they must be ruthless and fast, and they must not be allowed to become puppet armies and turn their guns to beat us. In addition, after we recover Liaocheng, we must strictly follow the instructions of the central authorities, hold a solemn funeral for General Fan Zhuxian, and call on the military and people in western Shanxi, southwestern Shanxi, northwestern Hebei, southern Hebei, and central Hebei to unite to defeat the enemy's heavy encirclement and suppression, and to build and consolidate our base areas. ”

Regarding Liu Yimin's idea, Luo Ronghuan added that it should also organize forces to attack the Jinpu Railway on a large scale to block the enemy's transportation of troops through the railway.

Liu Yimin shook his head and said: "The effect of destroying the railway to block the enemy's troop transportation is not great, let's not move the enemy's communication line for the time being, and wait for the devil's next move." If the devils maintain an offensive posture in the direction of Shanxi and Xuzhou, we will not touch the railway lines of the devils for the time being, and strive to have time to reorganize and train the local troops. If the devils really encircle and suppress us with heavy troops as we judged, we will still have to make use of the railway line to make a fuss, and after defeating the enemy's heavy army group in Hebei, we will have to rely on the railway line to solve the problem of transporting troops, either to Pingjin in the north or to Jinan in the south. We have special combat teams, and it is no problem to attack and occupy their train station whenever we want. When the time comes, he will beat him, and I will beat mine. I want to see if Pingjin, Jinan, and Shijiazhuang are important, or Luxi and southern Hebei are important. ”

Luo Ronghuan stared at Liu Yimin for a long time before he said: "Jinan and Shijiazhuang are okay, do you still want to go to Tianjin and capture Beiping?" ”

Liu Yimin smiled, and a pair of black jewel eyes flashed with a soul-stirring light: "As long as the devils don't come to encircle and suppress our base area with heavy troops and guard their defense line, I don't want to take risks, so naturally I won't go." If they do their best to attack southern Hebei and Luxi, then won't Beiping and Tianjin be empty cities again? Why can't I take the warriors there anymore? Maybe I'll have to play a game of Go with Shoichi Terauchi! It's just that after playing Go, it's just the time for the old devil to live in the temple! You think, if I could catch Shouichi and Wang Kemin in the public trial and shoot them, how happy it would be! ”

Luo Ronghuan sighed, took off his glasses, took out a handkerchief and wiped it a few times, put it back on, and then said: "As long as you can catch Shouyi in the temple, the culprit of the invasion of China, and Wang Kemin, the number one Han Annihilation, it is worth throwing my Luo Ronghuan's life to Beiping!" Deploy it according to your ideas, you can fight as much as you want, you can fight devils everywhere, as long as you can destroy the strength of devils, what else is there to say! ”

Liu Yimin nodded, and then issued an order: 1. The Fifth Brigade of Jiao is stationed in the Luxi base area, responsible for recovering Liaocheng, effectively controlling the counties around Linqing and Liaocheng, and quickly reorganizing the local armed forces collected by General Fan Zhuxian and sending them to Nangong for training. In order to strengthen the strength of the Fifth Brigade, a new artillery regiment will be organized, with cadres at and above the level of squad leaders supported by the artillery brigade, and soldiers drawn from various units by the Fifth Brigade, to be supplemented after the first batch of recruits from the training headquarters is completed. After the recovery of Liaocheng, the martyrs who died in the defense of Liaocheng were temporarily buried, and after the main force completed the combat mission, the head of Liu and Luo personally presided over the funeral of General Fan Zhuxian. 2. In order to strengthen the garrison and deterrence force of Nangong, the infantry battalions of the engineer regiment and the artillery brigade were transferred to escort the captured weapons back to the defense of Nangong and placed them under the command of the training headquarters. 3. Yuan Guoping, commander of the Formation and Training Command, was instructed to select from the first batch of training recruits who had made rapid progress in training and had a certain cultural foundation, and to organize them into the air defense brigade, which would conduct training and form the second and third air defense regiments. Cadres of the 2nd and 3rd Air Defense Regiments at all levels were supported by artillery brigades. Fourth, the 1st Brigade, the 2nd Brigade, the 3rd Brigade, the Cavalry Brigade, the Artillery Brigade, and the divisional units went north under the starry night and went to the vicinity of Dexian to hide and stand by. 5. The sniper brigade and three cavalry battalions operating on the Jinpu Road were quickly rebuilt.

After the order was given, the units moved quickly. Liu Yimin and Luo Ronghuan stood at the intersection to bid farewell to the cadres of the engineer regiment, the infantry battalion of the artillery brigade and the artillery brigade who had returned to Nangong.

On the occasion of the war, the engineer regiment was pulled out of the line of fire, and the engineer regiment commander Ren Chaoran and the political commissar Li Zengyu felt a little uneasy, seeing that the division commander and the political commissar were standing on the side of the road to see them off, and the two hurriedly ran forward to salute the report.

Liu Yimin glanced at Ren Chaoran and Li Zengyu, and said in a deep voice: "Pumping you back to Nangong is a trust in the engineering regiment." Starting from the engineer company of the 18th Red Regiment, the engineer regiment was without service, serving as both an engineer, a reserve, and a commando. In my heart, the Engineer Regiment, like our six old backbone battalions and heavy machine gun regiments, is the first and main force of our army. There are three tasks for you to go back: First, take on the security task of Nangong and strictly prevent the enemy from sneaking attacks. Now I teach the main force of the Seventh Brigade to go west to meet the enemy, Nangong has no main force, and the space is empty, so I can't rest assured. Second, as a deterrent force for our army, it will assist the formation and training headquarters in reorganizing and training the disarmed local armed forces that have been disarmed from Luxi. The third is to do a good job in the concealment of Nangong's materials. This work can only be done by the engineer regiment, the baggage regiment and the infantry battalion of the artillery brigade, and no other units and recruits are allowed to participate. Do you understand what I say? ”

When Ren Chaoran and Li Zengyu heard this, they knew that the division commander did not look down on the combat effectiveness of the engineering regiment, but had given the engineering regiment an extremely important and glorious task, and he was also the heart and soul of the division commander, no worse than other troops.

The two glanced at each other, and both stood up and saluted: "Please rest assured that the division commander and political commissar will resolutely complete the task." There is an engineer regiment here, Nangong must not let the division commander and political commissar worry about it! ”

Liu Yimin nodded, thought for a while, and then said: "Ren Chaoran is responsible for conveying my and political commissar's orders to Yuan Guoping, selecting recruits who are loyal and reliable, have good training results, and have certain combat experience from among the recruits, and supplement them into the infantry battalion of the engineer regiment and artillery brigade. The engineer regiment can be expanded into the fourth, fifth, and sixth battalions of the engineer and one fire support battalion, and the infantry battalion of the artillery brigade can be expanded into the first and second infantry battalions of the artillery brigade. These recruits were all recruited from Shanxi and Tianjin, and they have undergone preliminary training in the new regiments of various brigades, and they are all politically reliable, but what they lack is military quality. After the expansion of the troops, you should train hand-in-hand and strive to build up combat effectiveness in a short period of time. As for weapons, they should be equipped with a single color to ensure that their combat effectiveness does not decline. ”

Liu Yimin said this, Ren Chaoran and Li Zengyu's eyes lit up, the salute posture was more standard, and the report was louder: "Report to the division commander: People are in Nangong, no matter who wants to fight Nangong's idea, they have to step over from the body of the engineer regiment!" ”

Liu Yimin nodded with satisfaction: "Go ahead, be careful!"

(To be continued)