Chapter 872: The Battle of Lunan (5)

The beginning of October is the most beautiful time of year in North China.

Lunan mountainous area, thousands of mountains, flowing springs and waterfalls.

It's a pity that this is not the time for painters to write and poets to rhyme, nor is it the time for tourists to play in the mountains and rivers and enjoy the autumn mood, the autumn colors of the mountains are mottled by artillery fire, and even the originally clear and cool river is full of blood and tears.

Liu Yimin's voice in the deployment of the battle was also full of agitation and determination: "The purpose of our army's Lunan operation this time is to encircle and annihilate the main force of the 10th Division. Now that the battlefield situation has been completed, the main force of the 10th Division of the Japanese Army poured out to reinforce Philadelphia, putting on a posture of destroying the troops in the Sulu theater in World War I. As everyone knows, after the praying mantis catches the cicada and the yellow finch, our army has already made a detour back to southwest Philadelphia, just waiting for a full-scale attack on the enemy tonight. Judging from the current enemy situation, after the Japanese reinforcements arrived at the county seat of Feixian this morning, they would inevitably pursue and encircle the Xuezhong Division. According to the battle plan, Yu Xuezhong's troops would adopt the method of blocking and attacking to attract the main force of the Japanese army to the south of the Jun River and the north of the Wenliang River. The terrain in this area is flat, the land is fertile, and there are Wansong Mountain, Ershen Mountain, and Xiaohua Mountain on the south bank of the Jun River in the north as defensive fulcrums, which are just suitable for our army to annihilate the enemy. To this end, I order: 1. Zhao Jie led the Eighth Brigade to capture Wenshan after dark, cut off the communication between Fei County and Yi County, and press Philadelphia from south to north; Zhu Rui led the New Fourth Brigade to the east of the county seat of Fei County, cut off the Fei Lin Highway after dark, and captured Zhongluo Mountain in the north of Philadelphia. The 1st Brigade and the Artillery Brigade marched eastward along the Fertten Highway, attacked Philadelphia from the west, and cooperated with the New Fourth Brigade and the New 8th Brigade to encircle Philadelphia on three sides. At this time, the main force of the Japanese army will inevitably advance eastward, pursue and encircle and annihilate Yu Xuezhong's department, and the enemy troops defending Philadelphia will not be too much. Our three main brigades and one artillery brigade attacked on three sides and broke through the city in one fell swoop with powerful artillery fire. Take Philadelphia in the shortest possible time. 2. Cheng Cuilin led the New 1st Brigade, the Engineer Brigade, and the Baggage Brigade to attack the northwest of the Feiteng Highway, occupied the Zilin Highway, and covertly engaged the enemy from the west, blocking the passage for the Japanese army to flee westward. 3. As soon as the artillery of our army's attack on Philadelphia sounded, the operational intent of the entire campaign was exposed. The main force of the Japanese army will inevitably turn back and pounce on Philadelphia in order to seize the passage back to Yixian, Zaozhuang, and Tengxian. Therefore, the 1st Brigade, the New 4th Brigade, the 8th Brigade, and the Artillery Brigade must be swift and resolute in their siege actions. After completing the mission, the New Fourth Brigade and the New Eighth Brigade left Zhongluo Mountain and attacked the Japanese army from southeast to northeast. The 1st Brigade and the Artillery Brigade met the enemy head-on, attacked the Japanese army head-on with their superiority in artillery fire and armor, and strived to disperse the main force in one fell swoop. At this time, Yu Xuezhong's troops pressed south from the first line of the Jun River, and our army surrounded them from the east, west, and south, and the little devils couldn't run away if they wanted to, unless they committed suicide."

After Liu Yimin finished making the deployment, Luo Ronghuan emphasized battlefield discipline and talked about the issues that should be paid attention to in cooperation with Yu Xuezhong's troops. The general principle is to cooperate closely, kill the enemy side by side, and do not compete for merit or seize the enemy, and whoever captures it belongs to whom. We cannot rely on the strength of our army to look down on friendly troops, let alone condone the contradictions and frictions between cadres and soldiers and Yu Xuezhong's troops. Finally, Luo Ronghuan said: "This time the 10th Division of the Japanese Army is encircled and annihilated, and our army will win." The reason is that the Japanese army has limited strength, and the 10th Division is full of more than 25,000 people. Plus four supplementary brigades, close to 30,000 people. However, the 10th Division was responsible for the defense of southern Lunan, and garrison troops must be left in all county towns, railway lines, and important market town strongholds, and troops must also be used as logistics and baggage transportation. At most, the Japanese army can drive the Feixian battlefield to about 20,000 people, and after deducting the Japanese army's combat losses with Yu Xuezhong's department in the past two days, there may only be more than 18,000 people left. With this amount of troops, no matter how strong the Japanese army's combat effectiveness is, it cannot be our opponent. ”

Cai Zhong reminded: "Political commissar, the Japanese army still has a puppet army to cooperate."

Luo Ronghuan said with a smile: "The main force of the Lunan puppet army was originally a brigade of the Manchurian Defense Army, with 5,000 people, and it had disappeared during the Taixi Campaign. Now the puppet army in Lunan is all reassembled by the Japanese army, the number is small, and the combat effectiveness cannot be compared with the puppet Manchurian Defense Army and the puppet North China Security Army. The Japanese army did not bring them, and Yu Xuezhong's telegram did not mention the puppet army, it is estimated that the Japanese army disliked the low combat effectiveness of the puppet army and did not bring them. ”

After the deployment of Commanders Liu and Luo, the cadres further studied the specific issues such as the movement route of the troops, the timing of the attack, and the coordination of artillery fire, and then returned to the troops to make further arrangements and deployments.

The Eighth Route Army was carrying out pre-war deployment and mobilization, and the fierce battle between Yu Xuezhong and the Japanese army on the battlefield in Feixian County was in full swing.

Because he was bent on creating a miracle in Lunan, Lieutenant General Iizhao Mamo, commander of the 10th Division of the Japanese Army, left the chief of staff, Atsuro Umemura, to sit at the headquarters of the Yixian Division and Regiment to command the defense of Lunan, and he led the main force to the county seat of Feixian County, and personally commanded the battle to encircle and annihilate the troops in the Sulu Theater of Yuxuezhong.

This rice edict, when he was the chief of staff of the Shanghai Dispatch Army, cooperated with Matsui Ishine and King Hatohiko of Asakanomiya, the two big devils who invaded China, to do all the demonic deeds of slaughtering the city and burning the town, and he was a typical Chinese invasion maniac and did not take the lives of the Chinese seriously at all. It was precisely because of the notoriety that the Japanese army base camp believed that it had ruined Japan's reputation in the international community, and Iishomori and his two commanders, Matsui Ishine and Hatohiko Asakanomiya, were withdrawn to Japan and sat on the cold bench.

After arriving at Fei County early in the morning of October 9, Fan Zhaoshou inspected the county seat of Fei County.

At this time, in the county seat of Fei County, the North Gate Tower and the West Gate Tower were all collapsed by the two artillery regiments of the Eighth Route Army, and the earthen city wall was basically destroyed. After reading it, Fan Zhaoshou understood that if it weren't for the quick arrival of the fighters, this Fei County town might have fallen into the hands of the Chinese army.

Fan Zhaoshou inspected the wounded barracks of the Japanese garrison, and used his command knife to chop three Chinese girls who had been arrested to take care of the wounded Japanese soldiers. The reason given by Ihimeru Mamoru is that the warriors of Great Japan are willing to sacrifice their lives for His Majesty the Emperor, and they all shout long live His Majesty the Emperor before they die. It must be that these three girls did not take good care of the wounded of the imperial army, and made the wounded howl in pain, and their conscience was greatly broken

Out of the wounded barracks, the edict could not see a single figure on the streets of Fei County, and said that the imperial army was fighting to defend the people of Fei County, and the people of Fei County should work for the army. Now there is not a single ordinary person who cooks tea and delivers food for the imperial army on the streets, which shows that there are hidden communists in the city of Feixian County, and these communists must be dug out and the hidden dangers must be eliminated.

Fan Zhaoshou immediately ordered the Japanese army to check the household registration in the county seat of Fei County, and arrest all those who did not have a good citizen certificate.

This is tantamount to letting the Japanese army sack the county seat of Feixian

For a time, the city of Philadelphia was full of chickens and dogs, and Japanese soldiers were running around the streets with the 38 big covers, whether it was the rich living in tiled houses or the poor living in grass houses, and whether it was shops or houses, Japanese soldiers would break into the doors and loot them all under the sign of checking the household registration. In the end, the Japanese army captured 30 Chinese who did not have good citizen certificates, pulled them to the north gate of Fei County, stabbed them to death with bayonets, and threw them into the dry moat outside the north gate to feed wild dogs.

In fact, none of these 30 people were underground workers of the Eighth Route Army, they were all poor people who couldn't afford to pay for photography, and they died inexplicably under the butcher's knife of Fan Zhaoshou.

After doing all this, Ichichishomori sent a telegram to the commander of the 12th Army, Lieutenant General Iida Sadagu, requesting that the fighters in Shandong be concentrated to cover the 10th Division's operation, and that he should eliminate the Kuomintang Sulu Theater Commander Yu Xuezhong's department in one fell swoop and report the good news to His Majesty the Emperor

Iida Zhengu was overwhelmed by the situation in Shandong, and he was naturally overjoyed when he received the telegram from Iida Zhaoshou, and not only sent back the telegram saying that he had sent air troops to provide uninterrupted air cover, but also said that Yu Xuezhong's troops were Zhang Xueliang's Northeast Army, and that they were fleeing troops that would leave Manchuria without firing a single shot. This kind of unit is by no means an opponent of the elite 10th Division, and it must be annihilated in a battle to consolidate the law and order in Lunan.

With the strong support of the air force, the killer demon king Fan Zhaoshou murderously commanded the Japanese army to start a counterattack against the Xuezhong Division.

This time, the Japanese army dispatched more fighters than on 7 and 8 October, and the 2nd Field Artillery Regiment and Mountain Artillery Regiment of the Eighth Route Army, as well as the artillery battalions of each division of Yu Xuezhong's Division, could only move their positions after a single attack, and could not provide continuous and effective artillery support for the troops.

The battle was fought fiercely

At 11 o'clock in the morning, Colonel Wan Yi, commander of the 667th Regiment of the 334th Brigade of the 112th Division of the 57th Army of the National ** Army, withdrew with his troops to Xiaohua Mountain in the northeast of Feixian County. According to the battle plan, when we withdraw here, we must not withdraw any more, and we must stick to the spot, resolutely block the devils, and cover the main force to deploy defenses on the south bank of the Jun River.

At the Sulu Theater Operations Conference, Wan Yi took the initiative to ask Ying to be the vanguard of the whole army. He had this request, and the army commander Miao Zhengliu naturally wanted to meet him. As a result, on the night of the 7th, Wan Yi's 667th Regiment took the lead in breaking through the Japanese defense line on the west bank of the Yi River. It's a pity that the Japanese army was very tenacious, resisted steadily, and won time. When Wan Yi led the brothers to rush to the city of Philadelphia, when the artillery of the Eighth Route Army collapsed the city wall, it was dawn, and the Japanese planes arrived. Only one step away, the troops did not attack Philadelphia.

Last night, Wan Yi's 112th Division of the 57th Army fought with the enemy reinforced by Yixian, fought a night of blockade, and withdrew its position at dawn to the west of Philadelphia County. In this counterattack of the Japanese army, planes, artillery, tanks, and poison gas were put into battle together, and the troops retreated while fighting and retreating to Xiaohuashan.

Wan Yi knew in his heart that this was an operational plan formulated by the Eighth Route Army, focusing on night operations and avoiding Japanese bombing. If he had defended in broad daylight as in the past, his 667th Regiment would have been reimbursed long ago without strong fortifications.

This Xiaohua Mountain is actually an inconspicuous hill, not high in elevation, located on the eastern side of Wansong Mountain. Wan Yi looked at this hill and sighed, feeling that it was impossible to block the Japanese tanks and armored vehicles with such terrain. It seems that it will be another bloody battle.

The fellow who led the way for the 667 regiment sighed when he saw Wan Yi, and told him that this Wansong Mountain was a treasure land of feng shui, and the little devil would definitely not be able to attack it.

Wan Yi was irritable and said impatiently: "It's obviously an inconspicuous earth mountain, how can it be a treasure land of feng shui?" ”

The villager said that if you look at it from a high place, Wansong Mountain looks like a dragon's head, the winding and undulating mountains in the north are the dragon's body, and the Ershen Mountain in the south is the dragon's mouth, and this small flower mountain is just like a jewel in the dragon's mouth.

Wan Yi thought to himself, what feng shui treasure? This is a Jedi in military science. Once the position could not be held, it would be impossible to ensure the smooth withdrawal of the army with a single bridge over the river. It seems that Commander-in-Chief Yu has made up his mind to fight the Japanese invaders here.

The villager was afraid that Wan Yi would not believe that this was a treasure of feng shui, so he said that there was the palace of Qianlong Lao'er on Wansong Mountain, which was built along the mountain trend, rectangular, long from north to south, narrow from east to west, surrounded by walls, divided into east and west courtyards, each with four entrances. Its East Courtyard is built from south to north in turn, there are court room, big palace gate, second palace gate, front hall, dormitory, this dormitory is the place where Qianlong Lao'er sleeps. There is a mountain view building behind the dormitory, and then to the north is the Wanghe Pavilion. There is a duty room and a royal study room on the riverside of the east courtyard, and there is a small door to communicate with the east courtyard. The west courtyard is built from south to north, with the military machine room, the palace gate, the front hall, the front dormitory, and the back bedroom, which is where the queen and her concubines sleep. There is a chariot road in the courtyard of the west courtyard, there is a duty room on the outside side of the palace gate, there is a flower pavilion at the north of the courtyard near the river, there is a fish pond built in the flower pavilion, and a piece of exquisite flower stone is erected in the pool. Emperor Qianlong went to the south of the Yangtze River six times and lived here three times, two of which were with the Empress Dowager.

Speaking of this, the fellow paused, glanced at Wan Yi's face, and then said that Qianlong's empress dowager was a good old lady, and when she lived in the palace, she also found a few old ladies from Guzi Village to ask her about the local folk customs. When those old ladies went, they brought souvenirs, and the queen mother had a reward after tasting them. However, Qianlong Lao'er is not very good, he looks like an emperor, but he is actually a pervert, and he is not satisfied with the queen and concubines, and he often pays private visits. Once he was watching the scenery on the Wanghe Pavilion and saw a girl surnamed Jiang by the river, so he asked the guards to get the girl out of the palace and slept with Qianlong Lao 2 for one night. Sleep is sleep, and it counts if you marry someone. But this Qianlong old man can't get away, such a handsome girl, after sleeping, she threw it away like a rag. It's just that those officials who are harmful to the old Qianlong 2 are also bad guys, in order to tie up with the emperor in the Jianxing Palace, the temples on Wansong Mountain were demolished, and several temples were moved to the ravine under Wansong Mountain, and now there is incense

Wan Yi didn't want to listen to the nagging of his fellow countrymen, so he asked him to help the brothers dig trenches.

In the fierce battle so far, Wan Yi's 667th Regiment has suffered many casualties and insufficient ammunition. Wan Yi told the brothers to hurry up and build positions, set up telephone lines, and send people to contact the division headquarters to collect ammunition.

After the phone was connected, Wan Yi spoke to Huo Shouyi, the commander of the 112th Division, reported the losses of the troops, and asked the division commander to replenish ammunition.

Huo Shouyi promised to send people to send ammunition immediately, and ordered Wan Yi to make the fortifications as strong as possible, the Japanese planes were too powerful, this was Tushan, and the hastily constructed positions could not withstand the Japanese aerial bomb bombing. At the same time, Huo Shouyi told Wan Yi that if he really couldn't hold it, he must report it in advance, and after approval, he could retreat to Wansong Mountain and block it step by step.

Wan Yi assured Huo Shouyi that he would stick to his position and not retreat.

When Wan Yi and the others hurriedly dug the trenches, the little devil chased the ass of the rearguard and beat them over.

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Chapter 872: The Battle of Lunan (5)