Chapter 1081 haha, the 29th Division (middle)

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Changlu Village was built in the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty, because it is located on the side of the main road in Dayi Prefecture, Gutai'an Prefecture, named Changlu, it is the traffic throat town in the northwest of Mengyin, and it is only 30 miles away from Mengyin City.

The terrain in this area is high in the north and south, and low in the middle. The south is a bluestone mountainous area, the northern part is a low gravel mountainous area, and the central part is relatively flat.

Every time the Japanese army swept with heavy troops, as long as it occupied Mengyin County, it would inevitably set up a stronghold here to guard the line of communication.

At three o'clock in the afternoon of July 22, an advance search force of the 29th Division of the Japanese Army, consisting of six motorcycles, two tanks, three armored vehicles, five cars and a slap squadron of cavalry, which had set out from Mengyin City, rushed to the Changlu stronghold and made contact with the Japanese puppet army at the Changlu stronghold. After confirming that there was no suspicious situation on the regular road, the Japanese vanguard search unit sent back a normal telegram to the main force, and then began to continue its westward advance.

It seems that the Japanese army wants to rush to Xintai as soon as possible to camp in Xintai, so that they can pass through Xintai and go north to Laiwu early tomorrow morning.

As a result, less than five miles away from Changlu Village, the Japanese vanguard search unit found that the road had been dug up, and the two motorcycles that had started failed to brake and fell into the trench (). Immediately afterwards, two tanks that were driving on the highway pressed on the anti-tank mines, and with two booms, booms, they did not move.

The machine guns on the armored cars, cars, and the remaining four motorcycles opened fire, and the bullets were poured into the fields on both sides of the road, and the devil cavalry on the horses also pressed their horses' heads, and even the men and horses lay down on the spot, took off the 44-type cavalry guns on their backs, and joined the ranks of fire reconnaissance.

After a while, there was silence all around, and there was no gunfire to return fire. The little devils in the car jumped out of the car, the cavalrymen also dismounted, the lying horses were also pulled up, and the little devils began to observe the trenches and check the damage.

The trench must have been dug last night, and the soil on the edge of the trench was freshly turned. Moreover, the trenches are very long and deep, completely blocking the passage of devil vehicles, war horses and personnel.

The officers of the devil's vanguard search unit immediately set up a cordon, and reported to the main force that the road was blocked by the trenches, and ordered several devil cavalry to return to the regular stronghold, so that the Japanese puppet army, which was about to abandon the stronghold and retreat with the large army, immediately brought sapper shovels and pickaxes over to level the trenches and clear the obstacles to the advance of the troops.

Disrupting traffic is a common trick of the dirt road, and the devil officers know it in their hearts, and it is difficult for them to cut the steep slopes on both sides of the trench into gentle slopes to allow vehicles and personnel to pass, but it is just a waste of time.

Japanese planes providing air fire cover for the 29th Division also flew over, in groups of four, circling around the road to reconnoitre.

It didn't take long for the Japanese puppet army in Changlu Village to arrive, bringing tools, and the puppet soldiers jumped into the trench under the gaze of the devil, and began to wave pickaxes and shovels, and they were in a hurry.

At four o'clock, the devil's army came up one after another, and in front of it was the reinforced combat convoy of the 29th Division, a total of about 20 tanks and 30 armored vehicles, followed by a group of 145 cars full of ammunition, baggage and soldiers, and then the main force of the devil's infantry arrived one after another. Behind the main force of the infantry were horse-drawn artillery trucks, ammunition trucks, and rubber trucks for carrying rations, and then behind were the Devil's Guards Infantry Wing.

The Japanese puppet army stationed on the front line of Duozhuang and Mengyin also withdrew with the 29th Division ().

So many Japanese puppet troops, including automobiles, carriages, artillery carriages, cavalry, artillery, infantry, and engineers, lined up in a long line on the road, like a stiff dead snake, blocked by the trenches on the road.

There were so many Japanese puppet troops at once, and the few very stubborn ordinary people in Changlu Village and the surrounding villages who did not listen to the persuasion of the cadres of the Eighth Route Army, thought that Changlu was an old stronghold of the Japanese puppet army, and did not see how bad the Japanese puppet army was, and were unwilling to secretly retreat at night, were alarmed and began to flee from the village and run to the mountains on both sides.

This annoyed the little devil who was waiting on the highway to pass. The little devils actually took these fleeing civilians as targets, and the machine guns and rifles were fired, and they competed to see who could shoot accurately.

Blood, stained Changlu Village.

The 29th Division had a 29th Engineer Wing, which was immediately engaged in the construction of the road. As soon as there were many people, the speed was fast, and in a short time, the little devil's tanks whimpered one after another and pressed over the gentle slope of the trench and drove forward again. The cavalry of the 29th Search Wing of the Devils also passed through the trench and began to search both sides of the road to ensure the safety of the march of the large army.

Unexpectedly, the little devil did not run 1,000 meters, and another road trench blocked the way in front of him, and two tanks were blown up. The devil sappers came in handy again, first taking a mine detector and carefully checking near the trench to confirm that there were no mines, and then began to jump off the trench, swinging a shovel and a pickaxe again, repairing the steep slope of the trench and opening the way for the large army.

A whole six trenches blocked the Japanese 29th Division near Changlu. It wasn't until after seven o'clock that the little devil could be considered to have repaired the six road trenches.

Lieutenant General Toshimichi Uemura, commander of the 29th Division of the Japanese Army, was a native of Kumamoto Prefecture, and he also studied all the way from the Army Noncommissioned Officer School and the Army University, and served as the chief of the General Affairs Section of the General Staff Headquarters, the chief of the Exercise Section, the deputy chief of staff of the Shanghai Dispatch Army, the principal of the Tokyo Army Infant School, and the chief of staff of the Third Army. Seeing that the Eighth Route Army had spent so much money and dug six trenches to block his access, and seeing that it was getting late, he knew that the problem was serious, and the front was likely to be the Longtan Tiger's Den, and the Eighth Route Army would definitely fight his block, and the unfortunate night was about to start again.

Uemura Toshido immediately ordered the troops to stop, and the main force was deployed on the spot, seizing the position, and protecting the baggage logistics troops to camp on the spot ().

Uemura's order can be regarded as sending the 29th Division back to the Yasukuni Shrine. However, this can't be blamed on him, such a huge force, there must be a blocking force of the Eighth Route Army in front of it, and it is not known whether he can rush back before dark, and whether the Eighth Route Army, which has been following him, will also march towards the county seat, and surround his troops in the county seat at night to attack and attack.

At this moment, Uemura Toshido did not realize that he was caught in the encirclement of the main force of the Eighth Route Army, because along the way he encountered many things that cut the road and delayed the speed of the troops, it was not strange. Moreover, the main force of the Eighth Route Army is far away in Jinan, far away from here, even if you put on your wings, you can't catch up here.

Unbeknownst to Uemura, at this time, behind the bushes on the slopes on both sides of Tokiro Village, there were several pairs of vigilant eyes staring at the movements of the Japanese troops, and they were still using the telephone to whisper the shelling parameters.

After Liu Yimin led the main force to withdraw from Cao Fan's area, he had already arrived here. The 1st Thundering 4th Column and the 1st Column of Wang Nanhu and Tang Liang, who were responsible for pursuing and harassing the 29th Division, reported the marching route of the little devils clearly, and Liu Yimin was determined to gather and annihilate the Japanese army in the Changlu area. Because the Japanese army must pass through here after setting off from Mengyin. In the past, the road was not far away, and the little devils were likely to divide their troops, and the main force of the 29th Division went north along the road from Xintai to Laiwu, and the remaining troops of the 12th Division marched west from Xintai along the road leading to Tai'an. Liu Yimin didn't want the 12th Division to stay behind and the receiving troops slip away, and Changlu was the best place to destroy the enemy.

At this time, the armored group, the first brigade and the cavalry column of the Eighth Route Army, three cavalry regiments, were waiting for an order to strangle the road leading to Xintai on the regular road, and were preparing to launch an assault from west to east. The 1st Column and 2nd Brigade and the Baggage Brigade were concealed on the hillside north of Changlu, and the 1st Column and 3rd Brigade and the Air Defense Brigade were concealed on the hillside south of Changlu. To the east, the 10th Brigade of the Fourth Column and the 23rd Brigade of the 12th Column, which were in rapid pursuit, were rushing here through the mountain path to take on the task of cutting off the enemy's rear road.

The big net is complete, just waiting for Liu Yimin's order.

Liu Yimin and Luo Ronghuan set up their headquarters in the enclosure on the north side of Chang Road. At this time, Liu Yimin and Luo Ronghuan both wore hats woven from tree branches on their heads, held binoculars, climbed on the stone wall of the fence, and held binoculars to observe the movements of the Japanese puppet army on the Changlu Highway.

Just 10 minutes before Uemura Toshido ordered the troops to camp on the spot, Liu Yimin felt that it was almost dark, and it was time for the Japanese plane to fly away. It was impossible for the Japanese planes at the Qingdao and Xuzhou airports to mobilize large groups of planes to join the battle before dark, so they turned to the deputy chiefs of the General Staff Office ** Feng and Zhu Zhexiao: "Order all units to enter positions and prepare artillery

As soon as the order was given, the hillsides on both sides of the road came alive, and the dense bushes were bulldozed, revealing the artillery positions that had already been constructed, and the muzzles of the guns were raised high and pointed at the Japanese troops on the road. The infantrymen wore grass rings on their heads, carried disassembled infantry guns, mortars, grenadiers, and ammunition boxes, and carried heavy machine guns down the hillside, so as to get as close as possible to the devils and shorten the distance of the assault charge.

After giving the order, Kamimura Toshido entered the camping in Tsuneji Village. At this time, he received a very bad report, and the cavalry in charge of the search found that the Eighth Route Army seemed to be moving on the slopes on both sides.

Uemura was taken aback, hurried out of the village, and raised his binoculars to observe. This observation frightened the soul of Uemura Toshimichi, the cavalry reported well, it was indeed the Eighth Route Army in motion, and it seemed to be the main force of the Eighth Route Army. The rows of cannons raised high in the telescope were much more than the cannons of the 29th Wing of his field artillery.

Knowing that the attack of the Eighth Route Army was imminent, Uemura Toshido hurriedly ordered all units to occupy their positions and prepare to hold on, and ordered the 29th Field Artillery Wing to quickly establish artillery positions, shell the artillery positions of the Eighth Route Army, and ordered to contact the aviation forces to immediately bomb the artillery positions of the Eighth Route Army on the slopes on both sides of the road!

Uemura Toshimichi did not forget to report to Tada Jun that his 29th Division was surrounded by heavy troops of the Eighth Route Army!

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