Chapter 161: The Battle of Shangjiang (4)
Originally, Ikeda was planning to organize an attack to wipe out all the anti-United Nations in front of him, but just now the defenders outside found that a large group of unknown anti-United Nations forces surrounded them and shelled them, causing Ikeda's brigade to suffer casualties on the number of a small team.
Looking at the battle in front of him, Ikeda felt that the fat in his mouth was flying, and he reluctantly ordered the messenger to send a telegram to the wing commander asking for reinforcements, saying: "Ikeda's brigade was ambushed by the anti-Japanese forces near Qianjiazhuang, and was finally repelled by the great imperial soldiers, and followed them to Qianjiazhuang, where they found the headquarters of the Chinese Anti-Japanese Alliance, and finally did not compress the commander of the Chinese army into Zhuangzi, but our department was blocked into Qianjiazhuang by the sudden source of the Chinese troops, and forgot the source of the Lian Captain. ”
When he heard the sound of gunfire outside, Qiao Shugui knew that the regiment commander had gradually breathed a sigh of relief, knowing that there were less than a hundred soldiers left in their second battalion now, and if they fought again, they would all be attacked, and the panic of the devils outside must have been successful, and then it would be up to the friendly army. ”
After receiving Ikeda's telegram earlier, Sakata immediately asked the troops to rest and wait for the news, and sure enough, three hours later, the telegram from the Ikeda Brigade came again, and when he saw that the Ikeda Brigade had actually blocked the headquarters of the Anti-Japanese Federation in Qianjiazhuang, he was immediately overjoyed, knowing that when he did not set off before, Major General Sasaki sent telegrams many times to him to be more careful, and at the same time explained that the opponent he faced this time was very cunning, and their samurai were not. After His Excellency the Major General observed several summaries of their battles, it was found that these people had never engaged in face-to-face positional battles with the clearing troops. They are good at ambush warfare. And it is to use all the terrain that can be used to conduct ambush warfare. Let Sakata be more careful.
I thought that I would return in vain this time, but I didn't expect to actually touch the headquarters of the Anti-Japanese Alliance, which is really God's help to me. As long as he caught the thief leader Meng Qingshan, he would be able to move forward and be promoted to major general, and Sakata sent a telegram ordering Ikeda to order them to hold on, and at the same time gather troops and advance quickly in the direction of Qianjiazhuang.
At this time, on the only way for the Japanese army to advance to Qianjiazhuang, Meng Qingshan arrived here with the Guards Regiment and the Headquarters, the guard battalion, and the artillery regiment to start digging fortifications. Laying mines and waiting for the arrival of the Japanese army, when Meng Qingshan received the route of the devil's division of troops, his mind was hazy, and he had already come up with an imperfect plan, he was ready to use himself as a bait to attract the Japanese army, and then let the main force ambush the devil on the way of the Japanese army, when this battle plan was told to Li Yanping and others, everyone collectively objected, because this plan was too dangerous, and if Meng Qingshan was not careful, he might say goodbye to the world.
In the end, Meng Qingshan first asked the guards to take a set of maps, a complete map of Luobei County, which was captured by the Guards Brigade in Luobei County, and the map marked the stationing of each unit, if it was stolen by the Japanese army, they would be happy, and they didn't need to send a large army to attack, just send planes to bomb it.
This little devil's map is really standard. Actually even the small puddle was marked, which made Meng Qingshan very admired and angry, admired the really exquisite drawing of this map, angry that your sister's little devil explored the terrain back then, the Chinese were not prepared to take out all our family foundation, fortunately they don't have much time, if they are given a few more years, even the Daqing oil field may let them find out.
An enemy's march route appears on the map. Meng Qingshan held the pen, and the tip of the pen slowly walked along this curve. Suddenly, a T-shaped route appeared in Meng Qingshan's eyes. The tip of Meng Qingshan's pen stayed in this place, according to the above marking, this place is very suitable for ambushes, and the entire mountain road stretches for several kilometers and shuttles through the mountains.
Luobei County is named after the mountain. There is Tolo Mountain (now known as Mountain) in the territory. When the governance was established, it was named "Luobei" because the governance was located in the north of Toluo Mountain. The altitude of Toluo Mountain is only more than 130 meters, and the area is only 0.4 kilometers, which is not as good as the small Xing'an Mountains next to it, but the terrain of Toluo Mountain is curved and traverse into two cliffs, and the terrain of the east is very stable. However, the terrain leading to Qianjiazhuang is all rocky layers, and there is almost no step to walk. This mountain road stretches for more than 7 or 100 meters. It's a good battlefield for ambushes.
Meng Qingshan quickly perfected this plan, his plan was to let Qiao Shuguiying, a battalion of the Guards Brigade who had not yet returned from the militia training in Qianjiazhuang, ambush the Japanese troops who were going to Qianjiazhuang, and attract them to Qianjiazhuang, so that the Japanese army thought that it was the Anti-Union Command that was blocked. Then he ordered Li Youde's new regiment to block the Japanese troops in Zhuangzi, and only besieged them, so that they wanted to ask for help from the other two routes. Meng Qingshan led the main force to ambush the Japanese army at Toluo Mountain and strive to annihilate them here, whether it can succeed this time depends on whether Qiao Shugui's battalion can attract the Japanese Ikeda Brigade, so that there is no need to confront the Japanese army head-on and transfer the common people, so that the losses of the Anti-Japanese League can be minimized.
If this operation is not successful, Meng Qingshan is also ready to give them an empty city plan in Luobei County, of course, his empty city plan is not in the Three Kingdoms but he came up with it himself, and it is also borrowed from the strategy of the ancestors, first digging several tunnels in Luobei County, and at the same time ambushing heavy troops in the city wall and the county and the anti-Japanese alliance outside the city should be combined to eliminate the Japanese army, of course, this plan is only to prepare for emergencies, but Meng Qingshan has already prepared Huang Yuqing in Luobei County, You must know that no matter which city and fortress you capture, Meng Qingshan will let the troops dig a few tunnels and prepare them, which can be used in the future.
Soon, this supplemented battle plan was in the hands of cadres at and above the battalion level. The troops at all levels who had been ordered began to move one after another, because they were not far from Toro Mountain. Therefore, the soldiers had plenty of time to arrange their positions, distribute ammunition, and prepare for the battle, and Meng Qingshan specially brought out 300 mines and 300 explosives bags from the arsenal.
After the battle order was issued, Meng Qingshan took the lead in arriving at Toluo Mountain with a platoon of guards, because it was already close to night. It's quiet in the mountains. Meng Qingshan held the telescope by the moonlight and observed it carefully. However, as the intelligence department investigated, Toluo Mountain is indeed a natural ambush battlefield. The whole mountain road is winding and twisting, like a long snake. It is conceivable that in the process of marching, you can only see a hundred meters in front and behind, as for the longer distance, you can't see it, it is very suitable for the troops to divide the devils, this time Meng Qingshan is facing the Japanese army, this is the biggest enemy Meng Qingshan faces, so Meng Qingshan is very cautious, he knows that if he is not careful, the troops he has worked so hard to build will be destroyed.
In the evening, Chief of Staff Wang Guangyu handed over a detailed troop deployment for the ambush to Meng Qingshan. Troops, weapons, and heavy weapons are marked in detail one by one. Obviously, the staff office has put a lot of effort into this battle, this is their first time, and they must not mess it up, because mountain artillery is not suitable for ambush warfare. Therefore, the General Staff Office concentrated the mortars of the regiments of the Guards Brigade and arranged them in a centralized manner. And as a weapon that has just been developed, the Type 39 mortar. It is arranged separately for a few hundred meters along the way. A large oil drum was arranged every forty meters, because Meng Qingshan believed that a cannonball would go down. All the devils within 10 meters of the surrounding area will definitely go back to see the emperor.
At the same time, the newly trained sappers planted mines on the mountain roads, including stepping mines, tripping mines, serial mines, and pulling mines, because some time ago the troops destroyed the Japanese army's telephones in Luobei County and Suibin County, and seized a large number of telephone lines, and under the leadership of the experts of the arsenal, the buried explosive bags were successively turned into electric detonation devices by telephone lines on the street and converted into telephones.
It's not that Meng Qingshan doesn't believe in experts, but he is afraid of accidents, you must know that in later movies, there are always accidents when mines are buried in the Eighth Road, either the lead is broken by the Japanese army or the wire is broken, Meng Qingshan doesn't want to use the life of a soldier to cause explosives, in sufficient time. The troops arranged the whole position very perfectly, because the trees on the mountain have not all fallen, so the mountain is still green, under the camouflage of the Anti-Japanese Union, from the mountain road, it is completely impossible to see that there are nearly four regiments of troops hidden here.
At the same time, Wang Minggui's unit, which was operating in Xiajiang, took advantage of the 44th Wing to leave Fujin County to launch an attack on Fujin County, and Guo Bingxun's unit in Xiaoxinganling carried out a counterattack against the Japanese encirclement and suppression, and the 5th Regiment of the 2nd Detachment besieged Yilan County under the leadership of regiment commander Zhang Funing, and Zhao Shangzhi led his troops to attack Tangyuan County, and the entire Shangjiang area was full of war. (To be continued......)