Lieutenant General Washizu Songpei led the main force of the 21st Division to chase after him, and the effect really came out. The cavalry units in front of them could no longer organize effective resistance, and only cared about galloping on horseback. Because if they stopped, they could be torn to pieces by the machine guns on tanks, armored vehicles, cars, motorcycles that caught up.

At this time, it was already dark, and there were already sporadic lights in the villages along the way, and the huge convoys, horse teams, and people of the 21st Division formed a river of lights composed of car lamps and flashlights, which flowed slowly on the North China Plain, and looked very spectacular.

Lieutenant General Washizu Songhei sat in the car, wearing white gloves in both hands, holding a war knife, staring at the front without blinking, and his heart was full of pride: It is said that this imperial army is invincible in the world, no matter how brave and well-trained the people of China are, can they stop the torrent of steel? It was the people of China who vilely destroyed the road and affected the speed of the vehicles, otherwise these cavalry would have been devoured long ago!

It's a pity that the joy is always interrupted by the guys who are caught in the eyes. Lieutenant General Washizu Songhei was intoxicated, and the chief of staff reminded him that it was getting late, and that the troops should stop the pursuit and camp on the spot. Besides, with the cover of the vast night, it is difficult to find the Chinese cavalry.

Lieutenant General Washizu Songhei felt more and more annoying to the chief of staff, but General Terauchi Shouichi and Lieutenant General Nishio Shouzo had strict orders, and besides, the night was indeed a paradise for sneak attackers, and the soldiers had been running around for a day, so it was time to rest.

Lieutenant General Washizu Songhei stopped the car, pushed the door, stepped out of the car and took a look at the dark night sky, and asked the chief of staff to take out the map and see where the troops had chased.

The chief of staff took out the operational map issued by the military headquarters, checked it, and reported that he had arrived at the military attache village. From the military attache village to the east, across the canal is to Wucheng County, along the east bank of the canal to the south, can directly attack Xiajin, Linqing, and read the mix into the fourth brigade division.

Lieutenant General Washijin Songping took the map and looked at it personally, and it was clearly marked that this military attache village was a densely populated town, just in the middle of the highway from southern Hebei to Shandong. With a large population, there is a lot of food and grass, and it is a good place to camp.

Lieutenant General Washizu Songpei nodded and decided that the troops would stop the pursuit and camp in the area of the military attache village.

Out of the sensitivity of the senior generals, Lieutenant General Washizu Songpei summoned the commander of the 21st Wing to search for the 21st Wing and asked in which direction the pursued Shina cavalry had fled.

The commander of the 21st Wing of the search reported that they could see clearly in the middle of the ranks of tanks, armored vehicles and automobiles, illuminated by the headlights, and that the cavalry unit did not stop after arriving at the military attache village, but continued to flee south around the military attache village.

Looking at the black military attache village in front of him, Lieutenant General Washizu Songping was not sure if there was an ambush in the town, and originally wanted to camp in the wild for safety, but considering the defensive role of the military attache village, Lieutenant General Washizu Songping still decided to go to the town to camp.

Looking at his watch, it was already 7 o'clock in the evening, and Lieutenant General Washizu Songhei was a little anxious, because the infantry and artillery were slow, and the troops were still rushing here. Lieutenant General Washizu Songpei ordered the armored troops, the troops carried by cars, and the cavalry search wing, which arrived first, to set up attack positions on the spot, organize a vigilance, and wait for the main force of the infantry.

After another half an hour, the main force of the infantry arrived, and Lieutenant General Washizu Songhei felt that he could give the order to camp on the spot in the military attache village.

Just in case, Lieutenant General Washizu Songpei ordered the 21st Wing of the Search to enter the military attache village to search and occupy the military attache village; The 51st Wing of the Mountain Artillery established an artillery position outside the north of the military attache village to provide fire support; The 62nd Infantry Wing's troops arrived first at the north gate, the 81st Wing's vanguard was prepared to attack the military attache village at the west gate, the armored troops were deployed in the north and west directions, ready to guide the infantry attack, and the engineer wing was ready to build positions and hold on the spot. If there is an enemy situation in the military attache village, immediately capture the military attache village. In case the attack did not go well, the whole division and regiment switched to positional warfare on the spot and waited for the support of the Tianming Aviation.

Lieutenant General Washizu Songpei thought that he had thought about it very well and made careful arrangements, but he did not know that at this moment, around his 21st Division, there were already seven artillery regiments and one Flying Thunder Artillery Regiment that had raised their high gun muzzles, and the gates of hell had been opened to the 21st Division. He and his 21st Division would become the luckiest division in the history of the army to be attacked by eight artillery regiments.

The 21st Wing of the Search Wing suffered the greatest losses from yesterday to today, because their task was to search and alert, and they always walked in the front and flanks of the large force. The morale of the soldiers had long been crippled by the corpses of their comrades. After receiving the order, the frustrated wing commander had no choice but to order two squadrons to enter the town from the north gate and the west gate respectively, and he followed with the rest of his troops.

Seeing the search team running towards the military attache village with flashlights and horses, Lieutenant General Washizu Songping's heart fluttered, and he wanted to find the main force of the instructor here, but he was also afraid that if the main force of the instructor was really here, his 21st Division would not know how big the loss would be.

This is the idea of the division commander, but not the officers and men of the division. They had been running for a day, had been attacked for a day, and were anxious to find a place to camp, get some sleep, fill their stomachs, and regain their strength. Therefore, they did not pay much attention to the part of the division commander's order to stick to the spot, and they listened very clearly to the order to camp on the spot in the military attache village. So, a very strange picture appeared: a team of devil cavalry rushed to the north gate of the military attache village, a team of devils rode a detour to the west gate of the military attache village, and a team of devils turned on their headlights and even flashlights from different directions to illuminate the two teams of devils, which seemed to be a bit of a farewell.

After Song Xing and Kang Wei led a regiment to cross the military attache village, Liu Yimin and Luo Ronghuan moved the headquarters to the only Western-style three-story building in the military attache village town. This small building belonged to Guo Jincheng of the Han Dynasty, and after this guy was suppressed, the small building became the office of the explosives factory. It's night, I'm not afraid of bombing by enemy planes, and this place has a wide field of vision and high visibility, so you can directly observe the battlefield.

Liu Yimin was originally worried that the army would attack from multiple sources and be scattered, so he wanted to further lure the enemy in the military attache village, so that the enemy could concentrate his forces in order to capture the military attache village and facilitate the artillery attack. Seeing that after the army arrived at the military attache village, they began to make preparations for the capture of the military attache village, and the troops were relatively concentrated, so they directly ordered Li Chang, the artillery brigade commander who was waiting for him with a telephone in his hand, to open fire.

The power of the artillery in the last Taiyuan battle had already shocked the soldiers of the instructor, and as the commander of the artillery brigade, Li Chang was even more proud of the majesty of the artillery. When people meet, they say that as long as the battlefield conditions are suitable, not to mention one brigade or regiment, one or even two divisions and regiments, they are no match for the artillery brigade artillery, and they are just firing a few more shells. Political commissar Wang Shanzhu was unwilling, saying that he was proud, seriously influenced by the ideology of artillery, and without the cooperation of cavalry, infantry, reconnaissance, signal troops, and other arms, could artillery have such great power?

Although Wang Shanzhu's words made sense, Li Chang still heard a trace of unconcealed pride from his words, and joked that his fox tail was quietly exposed, and he didn't know how sweet and beautiful he was in his heart!

After the order to encircle and annihilate the 21st Division was issued, Li Chang knew that the division commander had set up a singing stage for the artillery brigade again, pestering Liu Yimin to command all the artillery in a unified manner, that is to say, he wanted to live the addiction of commanding two artillery brigades at the same time!

After obtaining Liu Yimin's approval, Li Chang took Wang Shanzhu and a group of staff officers to take a look at the terrain around the military attaché's village, made detailed regulations on how to conceal the artillery and how to quickly move to the position, distinguished the artillery bombardment areas of each regiment, stipulated the application of artillery fire under the four conditions of enemy concentration, relatively concentration, relatively dispersed, and dispersed, clearly defined the order of positions and the level of artillery shelling of field artillery, mountain artillery, medium mortars, and small mortars, and formulated three types of artillery bombardment plans, such as first, second, and third. Li Chang was still not at ease, and even ordered all artillery regiments to draw two sketches of the concealed artillery positions and the positional artillery positions, and it was not until he confirmed that all the 10 miles around the military attache village were shrouded in artillery fire, and Li Chang reported to Liu Yimin with satisfaction that the artillery was ready and could fire at any time.

At half past five o'clock in the evening, with Liu Yimin's order, all the artillery pushed off the reed mats on the cannons, launched cannons from various villages, put mules and war horses, and pulled field artillery and mountain artillery into position. Mortars were not so troublesome, they were carried on pack horses and assembled as soon as they arrived at the position.

In order to be on the safe side, Li Chang again used the telephone to inspect the positions of each regiment. After the inspection, Li Changxing reported to Liu Yimin in a hurry: "Everything is ready, just wait for the order to fire, this time, my old Li will give the division commander a super fireworks show, which will definitely satisfy the division commander." ”

Liu Yimin reminded Li Chang that the Chinese army has an artillery wing, and it is necessary to let the Japanese army's artillery shell our artillery positions.

Li Chang replied very simply: "Those dogs have no chance, my artillery observers will find them at the first time, and they are the first to be unlucky." ”

Now, the army may be in a hurry to camp and behave very cooperatively, basically waiting for further orders on the roads and fields around the north and west gates of the military attache village, and it seems that they are preparing to attack the military attache village. A squadron, a squadron, came together to form a heap of people. In addition, the devil's tanks, armored vehicles, and cars all have their headlights on to provide illumination for the search force, and this target is very obvious.

Hearing Liu Yimin's order to open artillery, Li Chang immediately shouted on the phone: "According to the first plan, all artillery, open fire!" Fire! Fire! ”

Needless to say, the devils' headlights and flashlights had already revealed their location and intentions, and the artillery regiments had already adjusted the angle of shelling, and the muzzles of the guns were all pointed at the concentration points of the devils. Immediately after receiving the order to open fire, a series of commands sounded on the artillery position, and soon the shells fired for the first time flew out of the chamber.

After the first test firing, there was another command to adjust the data on the various artillery positions, and five salvos began immediately.

Fan Shiying, commander of the second company of the seventh battalion of the mountain artillery regiment, and Yuan Puzheng, instructor of the mountain artillery regiment, led their companies to participate in the battles of eliminating the main force of the Fifth Division, recovering Taiyuan, eliminating the Chahar Dispatch Corps, and attacking and occupying Tianjin. The troops were tempered, the knowledge of learning and training was tested in actual combat, and the gunners became veterans.

Now, Fan Shiying and Yuan Puzheng are keeping an eye on the gathering place of the devils outside the north gate, directing their cannons to fire a salvo. The cannonballs streaked across the sky, lighting up bright arcs and slamming into the heads of the devils.

After firing five volleys, Fan Shiying asked the observer about the effect of the shelling by telephone, and under the command of the observer, he corrected the shelling data and immediately began to extend the shelling.

Lieutenant General Washizu Songpei was observing the search force entering the military attache village when he heard the sound of an artillery shell.

After the explosion of a test-fired shell at each artillery position, Lieutenant General Washizu immediately realized that he had been wrong, and he was completely wrong. Looking at the number of shells flying from all directions, Lieutenant General Washizu Songping quickly judged that this was the real artillery of Liu Yimin's instructor, and that it was the artillery of Liu Yimin's instructor who had received weapons from the Fifth Division, the Chahar Dispatch Corps, and the Tianjin North China Front Army, and at least five or six artillery wings. It is ridiculous how ignorant and arrogant he is, and he even wants to challenge Liu Yimin's instructor with a three-unit garrison division, and I am afraid that the artillery strength of others is much larger than the strength of his entire division. Otherwise, the main force of the Fifth Division, the flower of the Imperial Army, and the Chahar Dispatch Corps, which was born in the elite of the Kwantung Army, would not have been shattered collectively.

The most ridiculous thing is that he disobeyed military orders, was greedy for merit, and did not even report to Lieutenant General Nishio Shouzo and General Terauchi Shouichi about being attacked by such an elite cavalry small unit and suffering heavy losses, and he was bent on creating miracles and showing his talents, and turned danger into an opportunity. In a common saying that the people of China often say, it is to let the lard blind the heart!

Lieutenant General Washizu Songpei, whose eyes were full of remorse, had just wanted to order his troops to disperse and hide, when he heard a series of thunders in the sky, and when he looked up, he saw that the night sky was reflected by meteors in the sky, which was extraordinarily brilliant and enchanting, as if he was setting off fireworks, which was extremely beautiful.

Washizu Songhei is a professional soldier, and he is a soldier who has served as a military attache and the principal of a military academy abroad, so he naturally knows that it is not a meteor above, let alone fireworks above, it is a spectacular scene when a large artillery group fires a salvo. Immediately, his 21st Division would be torn apart and vanished by these meteor shower-like shells.

At this time, it is useless to regret it, since the instructor can concentrate such a powerful artillery group against himself, then a big net must have been opened in all directions, just waiting for the net to be closed after the shelling! It is undoubtedly a fool's dream to hold on to the spot and wait for the support of the Tianming Air Force. The only way is to concentrate the main force to open a gap and rush out!

Ignoring the danger, Washizu Songping pushed away the guards who had already surrounded him, pulled out his command knife, pointed to the instructor's artillery position, and shouted loudly: "Guided by tanks and armored vehicles, the 62nd Wing is the vanguard, and the 81st Wing is the support, rush out!" ”

It's a pity that at this time, the instructor's artillery group no longer gave Washizu Songping a chance to assemble troops to organize a breakthrough, and the swarms of shells smashed down, down, and down one after another, smashing the dense army formations into dispersal, smashing, and stunning, and completely smashing to death.

The most unfortunate are the cars, tanks, and armored vehicles, which have become obvious targets due to their large driving lights. kept being hit and overturned by shells, and even the devils in the car were unlucky. The remaining tanks, armored vehicles, and cars hurriedly turned off their lights and took refuge in all directions, and they didn't know how many of their own people were crushed.

The devil's artillery is very professional, and according to the order of the division commander, they have already unloaded the artillery and are setting up the artillery, preparing to cover the possible attack of the infantry on the military attache village. When one was attacked by an artillery attack, the captain of the Devil Wing drew his command knife and prepared to return fire. It's a pity that I drew my sword and looked around, and I was shocked in my heart, there were cannons firing in all directions, where should I shoot back?

The time for the commander of the devil's artillery wing to be in trouble was only a short time, because the swarms of shells buzzed like bees that smelled the fragrance of flowers. The captain of the devil wing howled, threw down the command knife and fell to the ground.

Lying down is not omnipotent, a piece of shrapnel slashed into the carotid artery of the commander of the devil artillery wing, making him directly merge with the earth.

Seeing that His Excellency Wing Commander Osaku had gone to report to Amaterasu, most of the artillery was also overturned by the shells of the Chinese artillery, and the devil artillerymen turned from stunned to frightened, and the devil artillerymen who were lucky enough not to be killed knew that the artillery position had become the most dangerous place, and they didn't know who ran away with a scream first, anyway, the living devil artillerymen fled from the artillery position with their heads in their hands, and cleverly rode on the pack horses of the pack guns, and the stupid ones ran directly to the infantry with their legs in a loop.

Seeing that the troops that had suffered heavy casualties and had been broken up, Lieutenant General Washizu Songpei remembered that he should send a report to Lieutenant General Nishio Shouzo and Lieutenant General Terauchi Shouichi for help, at least to report the ambush of the 21st Division. When he turned his head to look for the communications staff officer, he found that the communications staff officer and the telegraph operator had been killed by the explosion, and the parts of the radio station were scattered all over the ground.

Lieutenant General Washizu Songhei knew that his 21st Division had reached a critical moment of life and death, and its only chance was after the shelling ended. When the time comes, the remnants of the troops can be concentrated to desperately break through.

Lieutenant General Washizu Songhei looked at the people around him who had no longer conveyed orders, and regardless of his status as a lieutenant general, he rolled on the ground a few times, then got up and ran quickly, moving around in the crater, and finally arrived at a tank that was tossing back and forth back and forth, left and right, and ordered this tank to take the lead in breaking through and targeting the avenue to Shandong to the east of the military attache village.

Having received a clear order, the tank immediately turned, turned on its headlights, and roared towards the wheat field, trying to make a detour to the east.

Seeing that the tank began to break through, the remaining devil infantry, cavalry, engineers, and artillery seemed to have found their way, got out of the crater, under the car, and followed the tank butt to break through in fear.

(To be continued)