[Anti-Japanese Iron Blood King] Chapter 517: The hoe team is mighty (ask for subscriptions, ask for monthly passes, ask for everything!) ）

Things in the world are often unsatisfactory, and Shiro Segawa's thoughts are plump, but the reality is skinny. The public order situation in Liaocheng did not immediately stabilize because of the arrival of a large number of reinforcements, but on the contrary, it tended to become more and more intense.

First of all, Liu San, a big traitor in Liaocheng Dongchang Mansion, was assassinated at home by mysterious armed forces, and all the family members who had public offices in the puppet government were killed, and all the more than 150 bodyguards in the house were killed. The valuable things in the house were also looted, and the murderer left nothing in the county except for a bloody skull flag.

The furious Major General Shiro Segawa ordered an immediate and thorough investigation of the matter, and the Japanese spies at the Liaocheng Station of the Special High-tech Branch also received orders to fully cooperate with Major General Shiro Segawa's actions. But the murderer seemed to have come and gone without a trace, and the entire independent mixed 10th Brigade searched with great fanfare for three days but found nothing.

Just when Sekawa Shiro thought that there would be no result, and was about to deal with this big case that shocked Liaocheng as a vendetta, news came from Guanxian that all the officials of the puppet government, including the pseudo-county magistrate of Guanxian County, and all the Japanese businessmen who invested in Guanxian County were all assassinated overnight, and even the captain of the Guanxian garrison squadron was assassinated in the barracks.

On the morning of the next day, all the traitors in more than a dozen townships under the jurisdiction of Guanxian County were also cleaned up in a very short period of time, and the murderer's murder methods and deeds were the same as those in Liu San's case.

At the same time, there were many similar cases in various parts of Liaocheng, and even several similar cases occurred in the urban area of Liaocheng. Suddenly, the whole Shandong shook, the people were happy, and all the traitors, big and small, changed color when they heard the flag.

The prestige of the Skull Banner immediately spread in Shandong, and the mysterious armed force was also called the hoe gang because they acted specifically against the traitors and puppet army lackeys, and it is said that they came to Luxi from Tianjin.

The appearance of the hoe squad quickly disrupted the deployment of Major General Segawa Shiro, and a large number of troops were pinned down on this elusive ghost, so that the action against the bandits in various counties and districts was immediately greatly reduced, and neither the strength nor speed of the attack was far from the expected plan.

What's more, since a few units that went to deal with the "hoe gang" have been inexplicably wiped out, although there are not many troops eliminated, and the total strength is less than the strength of an infantry squadron, this is a disaster for the morale of the entire unit

The high-profile appearance of the anti-Japanese hoe team made the situation in Liaocheng more and more chaotic. For a time, the Liaocheng Garrison Command could be said to be full of rumors, and as long as the troops that could be sent out, large and small, were dispatched, and the defensive forces of all urban defense areas were greatly strengthened.

But even so, from time to time, pro-Japanese businessmen and big traitors were attacked, some of whom were quietly exterminated, and some were simply openly sniped.

When the news came, the anti-Japanese situation in the Luxi area improved markedly in a short period of time. Many gangsters who are not guilty of deep sins have fled from the battle sequence of the puppet army, after all, being traitors is just to get a bite of food. Now there is such a group of mysterious people who come and go, and there is no guarantee that one day they will not even be able to see the sun the next day. Who dares to mix on such a day, so every day there is a phenomenon of puppet soldiers fleeing.

Of course, these are naturally what Ma Zheng is willing to see. However, Ma Zheng is not having a good time now, mainly because the Japanese army is paying more and more attention to Lu Xi, and their pressure is naturally increasing. There has been no news from Liang Shangren's side at the mouth of the Tahe River, which makes Ma Zheng, who is sitting in Jingyanggang, quite worried.

After all, the Japanese army is not a rookie, let alone a fool. During this time, Ma Zheng's troops moved so frequently, and the attack on the Japanese puppet army became more and more intense, if the Japanese did not notice it, it would be too undeserved.

In fact, the Japanese army seemed to have known that a group of the Eighth Route Army had arrived in Shandong, or thought that the Eighth Route Army that had been active in Shandong had been revived, so the headquarters of the 12th Army was debating whether to carry out the second step of the battle plan for law and order.

Although he did not know under what circumstances he would meet with the elite of the Japanese Twelfth Army, Ma Zheng knew that he had to be prepared to meet them with a high-spirited attitude. After all, what should come will still come, and escape is not the way.

At this time, Ma Zheng was brewing a big plan, he wanted to take the entire Liaocheng as his battlefield, and he wanted to mobilize the Japanese puppet army in the entire Shandong to fight, and finally achieve a great victory in destroying one or two brigades of the enemy.

But all this still needs the cooperation of Liang Shangren, although Liang Shangren now has to deal with nothing more than an infantry squadron equipped with cavalry and chariots, but Ma Zheng knows that the significance of this battle is very significant. This ambush can be said to be a key battle for the Eighth Route Army in Shandong to turn passive into active, and it is also the prelude to the Eighth Route Army in Shandong to open the curtain of Shandong.

Ma Zheng held a pencil in his hand, crouched on the table and drew on the map, calculating the outcome of the battle. But no matter how you calculate it, there is a burst of irritability in my heart, and this irritability has appeared for no reason since Liang Shangren's department left. Just as Ma Zheng's thoughts were flying, a guard member walked in and reported: "Division commander, a brigade and a regiment are in an emergency, please take a look." ”

Ma Zheng took the telegram in the hands of the guards and read it quickly, the message was not long, and he read it in less than a minute.

Then Ma Zheng breathed a long sigh of relief and said to Lei Zhenhua beside him: "Liang Shangren, they did a good job, it's time to make a decision with the little devils in Liaocheng." ”

Lei Zhenhua picked up the telegram that Ma Zheng put on the table and read it carefully, only to see that only a short sentence was written on it: "Our unit has gathered and annihilated the enemy, and has gained a lot of casualties, and the troops have entered the expected area in accordance with the instructions of the leader and are on standby." ”

The strategic decision to lay out Shandong was made by Lei Zhenhua and others together with Ma Zheng, so Lei Zhenhua and others also knew very well how important it was to ambush the Japanese army to take over the small troops in Yanggu County this time, otherwise Ma Zheng would not have let Liang Shangren, the commander of the first brigade, personally lead the ambush of an infantry squadron.

Lei Zhenhua couldn't help but say loudly: "Great, Lao Liang did a good job this time." Not to mention killing the little devil and strengthening the squadron, his own casualties are not large, and the commander is really looking for the right person to fight Lao Liang. It is almost impossible for others to do such a brilliant thing, and I really don't know how they destroyed those two little devils' chariots. ”

"Hehehe, don't you tell me that I really don't know how a regiment destroyed those two tanks. I know very well the weapons and equipment of their regiment, and they are no better than the second regiment that stayed in Jingyanggang. Ma Zheng also said curiously.

In fact, it's no wonder that Ma Zheng is so curious, after all, there are only a few ways to deal with chariots in this era. If a large number of infantry were to protect it, the power of the chariot would be unbelievable.

In that case, it would not be easy to destroy it even with anti-aircraft artillery. Not to mention the ordinary infantry regiment of the Eighth Route Army like the First Regiment, if you really want to fight, even if the first regiment really annihilates the small force of the Japanese army, it will pay a lot of price.

Liang Shangren's method is actually nothing, very dirty. He ordered his troops to dig two huge pits in the avenue, which were filled with mines and explosions, and it would be no good to fall into them.

In order not to make the enemy suspicious, especially when a unit like the Japanese army, which has a lot of combat experience, always sends a small unit to open the way in front, and this small unit of the Japanese army is also equipped with a cavalry squad, and it would be a fool's nay for the Japanese army not to use such an advantage. Therefore, Liang Shangren was very careful when arranging the trap, otherwise the enemy's chariot would have been discovered by the Japanese cavalry before it was seen, and if that was the case, it would be really a shame to throw it to his grandmother's house.

Liang Shangren took advantage of the heavy characteristics of the Japanese chariot and arranged a large amount of solid wood on the trap, even if the infantry or even the cavalry walked over, nothing would happen, but if the chariot ran over, it would be a lot of fun.

In order to destroy both tanks of the Japanese army in one fell swoop, Liang Shangren also took great pains. He made the first trap so strong that even if the chariot really ran over it, it would not happen without accident, at most, it would crush a few support columns, but it would definitely not collapse immediately, but it would definitely not be able to withstand the crushing of the second chariot.

Therefore, when the Japanese chariot arrived at Song Village under the escort of the infantry cavalry of the brigade, although the cavalry walking in the front was very vigilant, they did not find anything abnormal.

There was no accident when the first chariot ran over the trap, but when the first chariot had just passed less than five seconds, the moment the second chariot pressed the trap, only a "boom" was heard, and a huge dirt pit suddenly appeared on the originally flat avenue, and the large chariot fell into the trap with a "tom" of its own weight, and then the moment the chariot touched the trigger mine, a large amount of explosives buried in the trap were also detonated.

The huge explosion threw the wreckage of the chariot into the air, killing and injuring a large number of little devils when it fell. Just when the Japanese army was ignorant and demented, only another violent explosion was heard, and the second tank was scrapped.

At this time, the commander of the Japanese army reacted and shouted loudly: "Baga, the enemy is attacking, there is an ambush." ”

The soldiers of a regiment that had already been ambushed on the side quickly attacked, and the long and short guns and several mortars of different calibers opened fire at the same time, and for a time the guns outside Song Village shook the sky.

The results of the battle were self-evident, although the combat effectiveness of the Japanese army was generally much stronger than that of the Eighth Route Army, one side came prepared, and the other side responded to the battle in a hurry. One side is outnumbered, and the other side is outnumbered. The battle lasted only a dozen minutes, and the Japanese army was completely defeated.

As for the cavalry squad of the Japanese army, it was even more aggrieved, and at the beginning of the battle it was solved by the infantry platoon specially left to them by Liang Shangren, composed of the best marksmen of the whole regiment, and by 10 o'clock in the morning, this infantry squadron of the Japanese army was completely annihilated, and none of them escaped the net.

Soon after this small Japanese army was annihilated, the garrison headquarters of the Japanese army in Liaocheng received the news. Segawa Shiro was taken aback after reading the telegram sent by the guards, an infantry squadron was wiped out without even two hours of support, could it be that Rusi's enemy was not only one Huyan family, could it be that there were other people?

How many people did the unknown enemy really dispatch? A regiment or a division? Thinking of this, Shiro Segawa shuddered, and naturally did not dare to slack off, and immediately sent a report to Lieutenant General Odaka Kamezo in Jinan, and reported the matter in detail. (To be continued.) )