Chapter 192: Attacking Taiyuan (6)

After Liu Yimin led his division to Nanshe, Luo Yan was already waiting for him there, and gave him a brief introduction to the terrain between Nanshe and Dongguan. The terrain here is not ideal, it is all flat, there are no big mountains or anything, and there are no big ravines and moats. Liu Yimin not only missed the terrain of Xiaoshui and Qingxi Town again, it was really a natural battlefield for ambushes!

Although I was not satisfied with the terrain, I had no choice but to fight here, but fortunately, although the enemy was well equipped, after all, there were too few troops, a brigade is about 7,700 people in two wings, and an artillery wing is about 2,500 people, which adds up to 10,000 people. Besides, the 2,500 artillerymen did not have the opportunity to set up artillery, and they did not have enough infantry weapons, which was about the same as a flock of sheep. The only thing to worry about is the tanks of the 21 brigade regiment, they should have three tank squadrons, about 45 tanks. As long as these tanks are killed, the remaining cars, armored vehicles, and infantry on the vehicles will probably soon be shattered into pieces under the saturation blow of hundreds of guns of the whole division.

The key problem now is that the 21 brigade is known as a mechanized unit, and the march is bound to be very long, and we have to think of a way to concentrate it in one pile in order to facilitate the fire strike. It's easy to use a car alone, just use a triangular nail or bury a machete, but not a tank. It seems that the only way to do this is to destroy roads and dig holes. As long as the road surface is damaged, the convoy will naturally be crowded together as soon as the speed slows down.

Liu Yimin ordered Ren Chaoran, the commander of the engineering corps, and Li Zengyu, the political commissar, to dig a large pit on the road near the end of Nanshe, so that the car could still sway by, but the speed must slow down. If there is not enough manpower, other divisions can participate, and one division should dig several pits and move quickly.

After the engineer regiment began to organize the movement of the troops, Liu Yimin ordered Li Chang to mark this section of the area as the first round of key attack areas of the mountain artillery regiment and the field artillery regiment.

Because the effective range of the bazooka was too close, Liu Yimin asked the divisions to dig bunkers 100 meters away from the road, add wooden sticks on them, and put corn stalks on them to set up bazooka launch positions.

The communications battalion set up the telephone, the observation post of the reconnaissance battalion was also set up, everything was ready, only the 21 brigade was left to come and send him to death.

Just when Liu Yimin's side was about to stop, Major General Toshishi Miura led the 21st Brigade and the Field Artillery Wing, with a long series of headlights, along the highway from Taiyuan to Yuncheng, galloping over with a swagger.

Actually, it's not entirely to blame Major General Toshiji Miura for rushing to death so quickly, the problem is that Xiao Di is urged over and over again by Fan Dazuo, as if the position is very dangerous. The infantry captains of the two 20th Divisions and the 109th Division were also sending telegrams asking for tactical guidance, saying that the ammunition was being consumed too quickly, and begging His Excellency the Commander of the Miura Brigade to give tactical guidance.

Since it was a mechanized unit, it was impossible to send an infantry search unit, so I originally wanted to send a few armored vehicles to search in front, but thinking that this was to rescue the cavalry wing, Major General Toshiji Miura asked a cavalry squadron of the divisional engineer wing to come over and let them go first and explore the way for the brigade. As for whether they would be attacked, Major General Toshiji Miura did not want to do so at all. It's night, and the lights of this huge convoy can be seen from far, far away, and those troops can't run yet, where can anyone be so bold and automatically send them to the door!

At that time, due to the road conditions, and the fact that the speed of the car itself was not high, and there were tank and field artillery wings accompanying it, the convoy was not moving fast. However, when viewed from a distance at night, it looks like a flowing galaxy, which is very spectacular. The pride in Major General Toshiji Miura's heart rose at once, he is the commander of this steel dragon, and he wants to ride this dragon to conquer the beautiful China! The excited Major General Toshiji Miura couldn't help but chant a few haikus: "The phoenix is about to be born, and the years are long." Silver is like the sand of the court in the middle of the night moon". After chanting, I felt that the text was not right, laughed silently, and closed my eyes to recuperate.

At nine o'clock, Luo Yan reported that the forward observation post found that the cavalry search unit of the Yue Army, a total of 156 cavalry, was rushing in the direction of Qixian.

At 9:30, Luo Yan reported that the forward observation post found the lights of the military convoy.

At 9:50 a.m., Luo Yan reported that the convoy of the army passed through the forward observation post, with a total of 30 tanks, 30 armored vehicles, 376 troop carriers, 36 artillery pieces, and some ammunition vehicles.

At 10:15, Luo Yan reported again that the cavalry search unit of the army was rushing along the road to Nanshe.

Liu Yimin crawled in the bunker of the command post to see that the cavalry of the army were galloping forward under the moonlight with torches. Liu Yimin ordered Li Lingfeng to take down the search team quietly.

At half past ten, the military convoy appeared in front of the instructor.

The convoy is not too far away, the key is that there are too many vehicles and the queue is too long. The vehicle at the head has already reached the vicinity of the command post, and the rear is still far away.

Finally waiting for the convoy to slow down and the vehicles to slowly concentrate, Liu Yimin picked up the phone and ordered the troops to prepare for battle.

Major General Toshiji Miura was recuperating in the car when he suddenly felt that the convoy had slowed down, so he stepped out of the car and asked what was going on.

Seeing that the brigade commander got out of the car to inquire about the situation, the commander of the 21st Wing, Hideosa Isoiihara, and the commander of the 43rd Wing, Oba Shihei Osa, also got out of the car and led the captains of their respective wings to Major General Toshiji Miura.

The situation quickly became clear, the road ahead was damaged, and a string of large potholes were dug in the road surface. However, the people of China were too stupid, the pit was not dug deep enough, and the tank pressed it a few times, and then it could continue to pass.

After all, Miura Toshishi is a veteran general in the army, and arrogance is arrogant, but he has so much experience that he immediately realized that there was a problem, this is still far from Pingyao County, why should the people of China destroy the road here? But when I look at the terrain here, I feel that I have a lot of heart, and at a glance on both sides of the road, it is empty, where is there an enemy position?

However, Miura Toshishi always felt that something was wrong, so he wanted to leave this place immediately, and then turned around to see that the convoy behind him was becoming more and more concentrated, so Miura Toshishi ordered the staff officer to pass the order, asking the two tank squadrons to quickly move and press out a way to let the convoy pass quickly.

As soon as he gave the order, he saw two red signal flares rising from the sky, and Miura Toshishi trembled in his heart: "It's over, the target of the people of the branch is my 21st Brigade, what rescue of the Fifth Cavalry Wing, I'm afraid it's a perfect scam." ”

Major General Toshiji Miura deserves to have graduated from the Army University, and this time he guessed correctly. Unfortunately, it was too late to guess correctly, and he didn't have time to continue thinking and giving orders. Because the crosshairs of the sniper team leader Wang Tongsheng had firmly covered his head, a group of snipers such as Liu Bin, Wang Shangwu, Yi Chengfeng, Wang Xiao, and Li Aojie were all in different bunkers, aiming at Toshishi Miura and the officers around him and firing.

The sniper brigade chose its own positions, but this time they all built their positions 500 meters away from the damaged road. The calculation is that when the convoy is difficult to pass, those officers of the army will inevitably get out of the car to check, and this is the time for the snipers to harvest. Sure enough, as soon as the flare was raised, it was the sniper who fired first, and the bullet swirled through the heads of Major General Toshiji Miura, Hideosa Awaiihara, and Osa Shihei Osa.

While the snipers were firing, the artillery brigade, which was hiding on the east side of the Tongpu railway, spoke.

Li Chang is now wider, and when he set out from Hancheng, his field artillery regiment had only 23 field guns, the mountain artillery regiment had 44 mountain guns, the mortar regiment had 96 75 mortars, and the 60 mortars had all been allocated to the divisions to strengthen the infantry firepower. Along the way, all the field artillery and mountain artillery abandoned by the Central Army and the Jin Sui Army were given to the artillery regiment, and now, Li Chang's field artillery regiment has 42 field artillery pieces, and the mountain artillery has reached 60 pieces, and two mountain artillery regiments can be formed.

This artillery division has not fought again since its establishment, and it has become an artillery brigade and still has not fought a war. There was no place for such a powerful artillery, and Li Chang was already so anxious that he screamed. Fortunately, this devil met and gave him a chance. Otherwise, Li Changfei would not be able to die in a hurry.

Before the signal flare was fired, Li Chang had already ordered the artillery group to prepare to open fire, and the artillery positions had already been prepared. As soon as the flares were announced, Li Chang ordered the cannon to be fired. The first target is the devil tanks and armored vehicles in the damaged section of the road.

Watching the first wave of 42 field artillery shells, 60 mountain artillery shells, and 96 75 medium mortar shells flying out of the muzzle, arcing in the night sky, and rushing towards the convoy of the army, Li Chang said straight in his mouth: "Little devil, don't blame grandpa for being ruthless, your parents shouldn't have given birth to you, and if they gave birth to you, they shouldn't have ignored you and let you come to China to do evil." Grandpa has come to collect you for the sky! ”

The mouth of Li Chang, the commander of the artillery brigade here, was muttering, but the command flags in the hands of the commanders of the various artillery groups over there were constantly waving, and with the data reported by the observation posts, they kept revising the parameters and changing the direction of the shelling, and they simply blew up the convoy on the highway in the ambush circle from beginning to end. In addition to the artillery of the brigades and the rocket launchers that specialized in fighting tanks and armored vehicles, when the shelling finally stopped, there was not a single good car that could be driven in such a large convoy, except for the towing vehicles and ammunition vehicles of the field artillery wing behind.

Don't say that the devil was beaten stupidly, and the cadres and soldiers who taught the instructor were also stunned by the might of the saturation blow of the artillery group, my God, under such artillery fire, if there are still people who can survive, it will be a miracle.

In particular, those tanks, knocked out by field artillery and mountain artillery, are not good in themselves, and the infantry want to experience the taste of hitting tanks with bazookas, which will blow up and set fire to those tanks that have escaped from the artillery fire, and the most unfortunate thing is that those tanks that encountered anti-tank mines were blown down at once, and what was waiting for them was the replenishment of infantry rocket launchers, and the entire road was full of burning vehicles and stump fragments.

As the cannon roared, some of the soldiers on the vehicle that had not yet been cared for by the cannon jumped down, and some people began to shoot from the vehicle, but unfortunately, the corn stalks piled up in the fields on both sides of the road were lifted, and a slip of light and heavy machine guns blew bullets at the car carrying the infantry. When the artillery group turned to these vehicles, a round of saturation strikes down, not a single car could be spared, and naturally not many soldiers would be left alive.

Rushing forward? Obviously no, the tanks were blown up, and the Imperial troops sitting in the armored vehicles were also killed along with the ammunition by the ferocious bazookas. Retreat? This road is even more impassable, and it is also bazookas, mortars, light and heavy machine guns waiting!

One of the staff officers was lucky, he was next to Major General Toshiji Miura, and when the flare was raised, he was receiving orders from His Excellency the Brigade Commander, and his waist was bent at 90 degrees. So, when he remembered the gunshot, he crawled on the ground, and when he opened his eyes, Amaterasu, the brigade commander, the chief of staff, the two wing commanders, and several team commanders all went to see you, and Bai Huahua's brains spewed out!

If this guy crawls on the ground honestly, he might end up as a prisoner. It's a pity that this guy is so dizzy that he thought that they were all dead, and Lao Tzu could take over the command, as long as he rushed forward with the troops and opened a bloody road, the 21 brigade might be his turn to be in charge in the future. So, the guy got up from the ground, drew his adjutant knife, shouted and yelled, and ordered the surviving soldiers to shoot at the Chinese army. The result can be imagined, the soldiers who taught the instructor knew that the division commander's order was to use bullets to talk to the enemy, and would rather give up a hundred bullets than a soldier, therefore, after the shelling, the soldiers did not charge, but fed him with bullets wherever the enemy resisted.

Fortunately, the 2,500 artillerymen, because Liu Yimin took a fancy to these cannons, and Li Chang also took a fancy to them, so they were not hit by artillery, but were chased and beaten by infantry weapons. In the end, the unarmed artillery of the Japanese army even wanted to fire back, and the misfortune began. Although they did not die as badly as the soldiers of the 21st Brigade, the dense concentration of machine guns, automatic rifles, submachine guns, and rifle bullets still took their lives back and sent them to be reunited with Amaterasu.

The preparation for this battle was very laborious, but after opening it, there was no technical content at all. The brutal and fierce 21st Brigade lost its brigade commander, chief of staff, wing commander, and group commander at the first time, and then lost the tanks and armored vehicles on which they relied to succeed. The vast majority of the soldiers were killed by shells in their cars, and they did not even have a chance to fire. Therefore, at the end of the battle, when Liu Yimin, the instructor and division commander, came to the battlefield to inspect, he couldn't help but say: "This battle is too boring, and if you want to see it, you can't even fight with bayonets, and it's boring." ”

Luo Ronghuan said with a smile: "Don't be modest, such a big result is not enough, I dare to guarantee that you will be two medals soon, one is our Red Star Medal, and the other is Chiang Kai-shek's Blue Sky White Medal." Just be secretly happy! ”

Liu Yimin smiled: "I don't dare to ask for the Red Star Medal, there are already two." I don't want the medal in the blue sky, if Chiang Kai-shek gives it to him, he will hand it over to [***] for safekeeping! ”

After speaking, Liu Yimin shouted: "Chief of Staff, send a telegram to the Central Committee, the Eighth Route Army Headquarters, the Shaanxi Anti-Japanese Special Region Political Axe, and the Nanjing National Political Axe Military Committee, and our division has completely annihilated the 21st Brigade of the Fifth Division of the enemy, and killed the brigade commander, Major General Toshiji Miura." ”

(To be continued)