Chapter 166: Tangwang River Ambush
It also happened that Meng Qingshan, who had just finished the ambush on Toluo Mountain, took the Guards Brigade all the way to Xiaoxinganling, preparing to fight with the head of the Sixth Regiment, Guo Bingxun, inside and outside to eliminate the Japanese puppet army of Sasaki to the one, and at the forefront was the Chen Deshan troops of the Third Regiment of the Guards Brigade, Meng Qingshan knew that the base of the development of the Sixth Regiment was in the Liangzihe area where the three armies of the Anti-Japanese Alliance were originally active, in order to save time, Meng Qingshan did not cross the mountain but prepared to pass from the Taiping River line, because it was already dark when they arrived, In the end, when Chen Deshan found out, he hurriedly ordered the soldiers to stop, and when he was about to turn around and return, he suddenly found a burst of fire three hundred meters away, so Chen Deshan was curious about who else would be in this mountain? So the reconnaissance company was sent out to reconnoiter the situation, and in less than half an hour, the scouts came back and reported that it was a Japanese camp.
After listening to the report of the scouts, Chen Deshan immediately thought that this must be the enemy's command post, so he told Meng Qingshan about the situation, and when Meng Qingshan came over with the main force, he took a telescope to observe the Japanese camp, Meng Qingshan first let the troops spread out and surrounded the entire Japanese camp, and then let the artillery fire a few cannons at the Japanese camp.
At this time, Meng Qingshan was wondering who the people from this command headquarters were, "Good news, good news, commander, we actually wiped out the headquarters of the Japanese army Sasaki to one, and a large number of materials were found in the camp." Wang Guangyu said.
"What's there to be happy about, just knock out his command or not to destroy him, you said he didn't stay in the command well. Where is this going? Meng Qingshan asked.
"Commander, how do I know?"
At this time, Li Yanping walked over to Meng Qingshan with a Japanese-style message, handed the message to Meng Qingshan, and took the saber that Meng Qingshan put down. He pulled out the scabbard with his hand and said with a smile: "Commander, don't regret it, I think Sasaki has gone to see their Amaterasu Okami by now." ”
"How do you know?"
"You see, this knife is no ordinary knife. He's a Japanese major general's saber, and Japanese sabers are generally always on his side, and since this knife is here, Sasaki Toichi must be here too, and I think he has been blown up. After Li Yanping finished speaking, he stuck the knife into his waist.
"Lao Li, I seized that knife."
"Commander, take a look at this telegram, this is found from the Japanese army's radio, the Japanese army actually found the location of the sixth regiment."
Meng Qingshan looked at the telegram and found that this was the battle plan of the Eighth Wing of the Japanese Army, the Japanese army attacked the Sixth Regiment in three directions, and if it was one step late, it would not be able to catch up. Meng Qingshan immediately asked Xu Hu to take the map, drew the direction of the Japanese army's three-way march on the map, and pointed with his index finger, Tang Wanghe raised his head and asked Li Yanping: "Did the political commissar get the code book of the Japanese army?" ”
"Got it, I immediately took someone to their radio station to kill the Japanese soldiers who were about to destroy the code book."
"If you get it, then it's good, political commissar, I have a good plan, and we will also use Sasaki's order to take the order of Sasaki to Ichi to rescue the Yuyuan County as an excuse to transfer the Japanese troops on the north and east roads back, we will ambush them north of the Tangwang River and south of Yuntou Lizi, as for the west road, it will be handed over to the sixth regiment to solve, what do you think?"
"Commander, you're a good idea, I'm going to decipher the Japanese codebook, and then send them orders."
Seeing Li Yanping hurriedly walking towards the Japanese military radio station, Meng Qingshan stretched his waist and could rest as long as he finished this battle! This Sasaki to Ichi is a famous general of the Japanese army, known as the father of Manchuria. I didn't expect to die here, am I his nemesis?
After arriving at the predetermined battlefield, Meng Qingshan immediately arranged for manpower to build an ambush position. In order to achieve the suddenness of the battle, Meng Qingshan even checked the concealment of each company. Although these recruits experienced an ambush, in order to prevent their carelessness, the target was exposed in advance. Meng Qingshan repeatedly gave orders, regardless of cadres and soldiers. Anyone who acts without an order will be subject to military law. Although I don't want to talk about military law at every turn, but for these recruits who are going to the battlefield for the second time. Meng Qingshan knew that he had to form a deterrent. Otherwise, a small mistake will ruin this well-designed ambush battle, if it goes head-to-head with the Japanese army, Meng Qingshan also believes that they can win, but I don't know how many can survive.
Fortunately, the Japanese army did not let Meng Qingshan wait long, and on the morning of the second day after Meng Qingshan had just built the scheduled ambush position, the Japanese army's vanguard puppet army appeared in front of Meng Qingshan's eyes, which may be too confident in the combat effectiveness of the imperial army, thinking that the main forces in the anti-Japanese alliance have been driven into the mountains by the imperial army and will not be attacked. Maybe it was the urgency of the telegram, in order to speed up the march, these Japanese troops did not open the marching distance, and Meng Qingshan carefully observed and found that there were mostly puppet troops in this crowd, and it was easy to say that there were a few Japanese soldiers who stood in the small number, as long as they defeated the remaining puppet troops of the Japanese army.
However, when this Japanese puppet army began to enter the ambush circle one after another, Meng Qingshan's heart was about to rise to his throat. Before the Japanese army fully enters the ambush circle, once the recruit is a little nervous, a finger lightly hooked or sneezes, his tactical intentions will be fully exposed. The fish that have already arrived may slip away, not to mention, the whole favorable situation will fall into passivity if it is not good, but fortunately, after all, it has experienced a battle, although the soldiers are frozen and want to sneeze but still hold back a sound to prevent the destruction of the plan.
"Tong, Tong, Tong, Tong!"
When the Japanese heard the sound of shells cutting through the air and wanted to find shelter, the shells that fell from the sky had already smashed into their bodies. The entire artillery regiment had 36 mountain artillery pieces, plus a large number of battalions and regimental mortars, and the dense artillery fire blew up the unsuspecting marching brigade of the Japanese puppet army.
In order to defeat or even completely annihilate the encirclement and suppression army of Sasaki to one, Meng Qingshan was not afraid of hard work and brought over all the heavy artillery. In places where the mountains and forests are dense and inconvenient to travel, the artillery was even disassembled and carried by manpower. As soon as they heard that the Anti-Japanese Federation was going to fight the devils, they immediately helped the troops transport the artillery without hesitation, and they relied on horse-drawn carriages and manpower to transport all the cannons, because Meng Qingshan knew that if he did not fight the encirclement and suppression across Sasaki to one, the Anti-United Nations would have no time to breathe, and only the defeat or total annihilation of this encirclement and suppression was that the Japanese army could not besiege the Anti-United Nations in the near future, so that the Anti-United Nations could rest well.
After 15 minutes of shelling, the puppet Manchurian troops who cooperated with the Japanese army in their battle were killed and wounded by the dense shells, but the Japanese troops behind the puppet army suffered heavy casualties, and the Japanese artillery team was bombarded by the Type 39 mortars of the Anti-Japanese Union before they could set up their guns, and the surrounding heavy machine guns and mortar parts were blown up in all directions.
Seeing that the Japanese army actually ignored the dense artillery fire, they launched an attack on the hill ambushed by the Anti-Union, which surprised the recruits in the Anti-Union League, and after a short period of consternation, they immediately opened fire on the Japanese army. At the same time, the ambush troops concentrated all their machine-gun fire and desperately intercepted it.
Although the Japanese army was not afraid of death, it was flesh and blood after all. The Japanese army, which had lost its main fire support, had its teeth and claws pulled out, although it still had the courage and perseverance to fight a war. But flesh and blood can't compete with steel after all.
Although the accurate rifle shooting of the Japanese soldiers also brought a lot of casualties to the defending troops, fortunately, there were many veterans in the troops and the anti-union had an advantage, otherwise the Japanese army could capture the position while the recruits were stunned.
When he saw that the Japanese army was about to gather, Meng Qingshan ordered the mortar led by Han Hao to bombard the place with a large number of people, but the Japanese army could not gather and could not unify the command force, and after nearly half an hour of fighting, the Japanese army that launched a counterattack gradually suffered casualties under the dense fire around it. After raising his binoculars and carefully observing the battlefield situation, Meng Qingshan, who knew that it was time to attack, gave the order for a general attack.
With the sound of charging bugles, the various companies responsible for the charge jumped out of the trenches, under the cover of light and heavy machine guns and mortars, and after the failure of the counterattack, the Japanese troops who had formed a group of hedgehogs and tried to make the last stubborn resistance were all killed, and found that the strength of the two regiments of the puppet army was surrounded by the anti-coalition regiments, and the two sides were deadlocked, and under the leadership of Li Yanping, they launched a propaganda offensive against the puppet army, and the soldiers shouted slogans and sang ballads, propagating to the puppet army the truth of resisting Japan and saving the country, pointing out that the Japanese invaders were the common enemy of the Chinese, calling on the puppet army to revolt, some of the anti-Japanese war veterans sang a ballad "slogan song", which was very agitating.
Compatriots, "Manchurian" soldiers, think about it, why are we? It's all about saving China.
Ask you, are you Chinese? Hurry up and mutiny, shoot the instructor, and fight the enemy with us.
Fight out all the evil Japanese invaders, overthrow "Manchukuo", the revolution was successful, and the reputation will remain for eternity.
Under the propaganda of the Anti-Japanese Federation, the commander of the puppet Jing'an regiment ordered his subordinates to stop shooting, personally went to the anti-Japanese position and asked to participate in the anti-Japanese alliance, Meng Qingshan was overjoyed that this group of puppet troops was much stronger than this group of recruits, as long as they trained a little, it was a regiment of troops, and at the same time, Meng Qingshan also knew that some of the family members in this puppet army were in the place ruled by the Japanese army, so Meng Qingshan let these puppet soldiers voluntarily join the army, and those who were unwilling to join the army were each given two oceans for travel expenses, and warned them that if they followed the Japanese army to fight for the tiger, the Anti-Japanese Union would not offend them, In the end, there were more than 2,000 puppet soldiers who were willing to participate in the Anti-Japanese Federation, and Meng Qingshan sent them all to the baggage battalion to transport supplies to the base area, and when they arrived at the base area, they were all arranged to train at the military station. (To be continued......)