Zhao Chongde led the soldiers to run back to the garrison happily carrying food, and at this time, the regiment commander Chen Xilian, who was at the station, was already thinking about whether to eat field dry food, only to hear Zhao Chongde shouting, "Regiment commander, regiment commander, I have found food." ”

Chen Xilian hurriedly stepped forward to take a look, but didn't he, he only saw a team of everyone carrying two bags of grain, Zhao Chongde put the bags down and said, "Leader, you see, they are all potatoes and sweet potatoes." ”

Chen Xilian nodded and said, "Okay, send it to the soldiers immediately." At this time, a guard hurriedly ran and said, "Report to the regiment commander, there is a fellow who is looking for the battalion commander Zhao Chongde." ”

Chen Xilian looked at Zhao Chongde and said, "What's the matter?" Didn't you give money for this food? ”

Zhao Chongde said anxiously, "No, head of the regiment, there is no one in the village, I kept the money, and I left all my money." ”

Chen Xilian pointed his finger at Zhao Chongde and said, "You, you, you must not have left enough, now that people are coming to collect debts, the logistics department, take out all the money left by the regiment headquarters, how can we not let our fellow villagers suffer." ”

Zhao Chongde depressedly followed Chen Xilian to the gate of the camp, and saw a young farmer and an old man in a long shirt with eyes waiting outside.

Chen Xilian said with a smile, "Fellow, hello, I am Chen Xilian, the commander of the Eighth Route Army, did the commander of our third battalion not give enough money to buy food in your village, I have already criticized him fiercely, you say, how much worse?" I'll make it up. ”

Zhao Chongde saluted with a bitter face and said, "I'm sorry." ”

The young peasants were Zhao Guan and Zhao Erye, and hurriedly said, "This is Battalion Commander Zhao Chongde, misunderstanding, misunderstanding, it's not that it's less, it's that it's more, just us have so much food, where is it worth so much ocean." What's more, you are going to the front line to fight devils, we just don't eat ourselves, and we can't let our heroes who fight devils go hungry. Folks, come out and bring your things over. ”

I only saw the farmers hiding behind them pushing wheelbarrows one by one, and there were bags of grain on the carts, so Zhao Erye said, "Little Lao'er has no power to subdue the tiger, so he can only use these grains to do his best." ”

Chen Xilian hurriedly said, "I can't do it, I can't help it, we have discipline." You can't take the folks' things. ”

Zhao hurriedly said, "Let's, let's, it's been many years, it's the first time we've seen an army that will pay for buying things, besides, we're making up for the money you left behind, as long as you kill more devils, we'll be happy." ”

Chen Xilian nodded and said, "Okay, Minister Wang." You wait to open a note from the logistics department, we will write clearly how much food we have taken from other people, and then return it to others when the Anti-Japanese War is won. ”

What else does Second Master Zhao want to say. Chen Xilian said, "That's it, or Senior Liu would have to confine me." ”

A fellow carrying grain said, "You have to beat the devil hard, the devil is bad, the airport was repaired last time." Pulled a lot of strong men, and a lot of people died, if I hadn't found a chance to sneak out. Maybe it's going to be left there. ”

Chen Xilian said excitedly when he heard this: "Airport? Do you know where the airport is? Can you take us there? ”

Hearing that he was going to the airport again, this fellow hesitated a little, and Zhao Erye next to him said, "Zhao Laojiu, you can't be confused, the Eighth Route Army is going to fight devils with your life, what's wrong with you leading the way?" ”

The fellow nodded embarrassedly and said, "Okay, I'll take you there." ”

Zhao Guan hurriedly said, "I'll go too." I'll go too. He looked back at Second Master Zhao and said with a smile, "Second Master, isn't this a response." ”

Second Master Zhao sighed: "You go, don't make trouble for other people's Eighth Route Army." ”

Late at night, the Japanese army field airfield at Yangmingbao.

I saw dozens of planes neatly laid out on the airfield, groups of Japanese soldiers patrolling, and a few searchlights shining everywhere on the surrounding fields.

Zhao Laojiu said softly, "Boss, do you see, they are all devils' iron birds, what kind of aviation is in the building next to them, I heard that the gold is expensive, and that building, which is full of oil."

Chen Xilian nodded in surprise and said, "Let's withdraw first, and we'll be ready to clean them up tomorrow." ”

Chen Xilian's regiment is a German armament regiment, according to the internal regulations of the Eighth Route Army, the units behind the enemy line try to use German armament, Chen Xilian returned to the regiment headquarters and immediately sent a telegram to Xu Xiangqian, asking to attack Yangmingbao Airport, Xu Xiangqian received it and applauded happily, after all, both the 115th Division and the 120th Division have already had a good record, and the 129th Division will be compared if it has no results.

After Chen Xilian received the order to attack, he found several battalion commanders and issued an order, with the first battalion blocking the possible enemy coming to help, the second battalion preparing to respond, and the third battalion taking the lead attack. Mortar and heavy machine-gun companies were on standby by the river outside the airport, ready to respond at any moment.

Chen Xilian smiled and said to Zhao Chongde: "Do you have confidence in your battalion? ”

Zhao Chongde said excitedly, "Of course, don't worry, head of the regiment, as long as you touch the airport, you will ensure that the turtle son's plane will be knocked to pieces!" ”

Chen Xilian said again, "The plane is covered with aluminum skin, and it is useless to hit the bullets, what are you going to do?" ”

Zhao Chongde patted the grenade in his arms and said, "He is a big wild boar, and I will also use the grenade to kill him." ”

When the soldiers were making final preparations for the battle, Zhao Guan found Zhao Chongde and said that he also wanted to participate in the battle, Zhao Chongde smiled and said, "This war, it's not fun, maybe you won't see the sun tomorrow when you can't see it, especially the Japanese devils, good equipment, good training, have you really thought about it?" ”

Zhao Guan looked at the shiny steel gun of the soldier next to him, felt his blood boiling, and said excitedly, "I'm going, I must go." ”

Zhao Chongde thought for a while and said, "Then you will act with the heavy machine gun company and help carry the ammunition first." Seeing what Zhao Guan wanted to say, Zhao Chongde said, "If you want to join the army, you must obey orders, so Zhao Guan didn't say anything anymore."

Late at night, Zhao Chongde led the troops from both sides to slowly approach the Japanese airfield, and the soldiers quickly cut the barbed wire out of the hole, and climbed in unconsciously, searchlights were blowing around, but the soldiers were wearing camouflage uniforms and painted faces, and ordinary people couldn't see it even when they stood in front of them, let alone standing on a high platform.

At this time, there was a loud gunfire on the other side, and it turned out that the fighters on the other side had approached the plane and could no longer conceal it, so they suddenly burst into action, only hearing the sound of gunfire like popping beans and the explosion of grenades, as well as the cries of panicked Japanese soldiers.

Zhao Chongde hurriedly shouted: "Quickly throw a grenade into the belly of the plane!" After saying that, he took the lead and threw a grenade at the plane. I only saw that the three rows of planes were constantly blown up by grenades, and countless parts flew everywhere, at this time the enemy pilot on duty in the cabin was awakened, and saw that there were gunshots and fighting everywhere, and hurriedly started the plane to prepare for takeoff. The Japanese air force also fought back with their fists, only to see the plane go haphazardly for a while, and crashed headlong into another plane. With a bang, both planes were caught in a ball of fire.

The cabin of some planes is closed, and the fighters will not open it, so they can only open cans there with bayonets, and at this time they are often hit by the Japanese soldiers, and the fighters look at the chest that has been hit, and grit their teeth. Pull the grenade and press it down hard, shouting, "Long live the Red Party!" After an explosion, the criminal Japanese plane and the soldiers of the Eighth Route Army turned into flames.

At this time, the Japanese guards had gradually recovered and began to counterattack, but they heard a "da-da-da" machine gun sound. Several Japanese soldiers fell in response. It turned out that a few soldiers sneaked up to the guard tower, swept with Czech machine guns, and suppressed the Japanese troops who wanted to counterattack at once.

After more than half an hour of fighting, the Japanese planes had been blown up and flew indiscriminately. Mutilated. Several planes filled with gasoline ignited a raging fire, and the flames dozens of feet high lit up the night red. Zhao Chongde saw that it was almost there, and shouted: "Retreat!" ”

The officer of the artillery position, holding a telescope, looked at the fighters and began to retreat, and said: "Aim at the devil's oil depot and open fire." ”

All of them. Several mortar shells smashed into the high oil depot, this airfield is an emergency field airfield, there are no reinforced concrete buildings at all, Zhao Chongde fought and retreated, and suddenly heard an explosion that seemed to burst his eardrum. I saw a huge ball of fire suddenly rise, and Zhao Chongde shouted, "My good man, it's really amazing, comrades, follow me." ”

When the Japanese reinforcements arrived, they saw only the wreckage of the plane and a huge burning black hole, which turned out to be an oil depot, and the captain of the airport garrison had already committed suicide by kneeling and disemboweling in the east.

In this battle, a total of 24 Japanese fighters were destroyed, more than 100 Japanese soldiers were annihilated, and our army suffered less than 20 casualties.

When Seishiro Itagaki received the news, he couldn't help but feel a pain in his teeth, these 24 planes are all fighters and reconnaissance planes, and the bombers can't be parked at that airport at all, these planes are parked there for the purpose of nearby rescue and reconnaissance, and the bombers in the Japanese planes over Xinkou are all from the airfields in Baoding and Shijiazhuang, and there are no fighters at this time, so let the bombers bomb alone, and really when the Chinese army has no air force? Itagaki Seishiro hurriedly sent a telegram to Terauchi Shouichi to seek assistance from the air force, but was told that it would take two weeks to be transferred to the fighter, which made Itagaki Seishiro roll his eyes angrily and helpless.

Yan'an and Nanjing were full of praise after receiving the war report, and Jiang Intermediary even approved an unprecedented bonus of 20,000 yuan to the Eighth Route Army. This was also the only time that Chiang gave cash rewards to the troops of the Eighth Route Army.

In order to rescue the Japanese army trapped in South Huaihua, Itagaki Seishiro constantly ordered the troops to attack the position of the Ninth Army, and the PAK37 gun in Hao Mengling's hand was quickly exhausted, and he could only fight to the death with flesh and blood and Japanese tanks. The sun had just risen that day, and Hao Mengling sighed, "The devil's iron bird is coming to again, so the brothers are all hidden." ”

But the left can't wait, the right can't wait, looking at the empty sky, Hao Mengling asked suspiciously, "What's wrong with the devil?" Don't fight today? ”

At this time, a staff officer ran over excitedly and said, "Military seat, military seat, the Eighth Route Army has bombed the devil's airfield, and the devil has no plane." ”

Hao Mengling took the telegram and looked at it and said with a smile: "Okay, wow, tell the brothers, don't worry about the sky today, give me a good greeting to the devil's infantry, and complain about the devil's plane every day, now there is no plane, you can't be a bad seed." ”

Hao Mengling was happy, the devil in Nanhuaihua wanted to cry, the original defense half relied on artillery fire and infantry, and half relied on airplanes, every time the 17th Army attacked, the Japanese planes bombed back and forth, and the Japanese army could slow down, where would the 17th Army let go of such a good opportunity, the whole army desperately stepped forward to charge, Wei Lihuang also saw the opportunity, ordered the artillery to cooperate with the bombing, and because there were no Japanese planes, let the air force also join the battle, and the Japanese army in Nanhuaihua enjoyed the three-dimensional enjoyment for the first time. This is also thanks to Yan Xishan's accumulation for so many years, the consumption of tens of thousands of shells per day can also be sustained, the Japanese army on the hilltop position in Nanhuaihua has been beaten less and less, after another round of bombardment, the captain of the garrison got up and shook his head, shook off the soil on his body, got up and shouted, "Get up, the army is coming up again, all ready to fight!" ”

It took a long time for a soldier to get up tremblingly, and the captain held a command knife and shouted in disbelief, "Is there anyone else?" Yaga, don't pretend to be dead, you are the emperor's samurai, stand up for me. ”

The soldier shook the people around him, looked around again, and said, "Captain, it seems that there are only two of us left." ”

The captain was stunned, his hand trembled a little and said, "Then we have to fight to the end, I will operate the heavy machine gun, and you will use the grenadier." Be sure to repel the next attack of the China! ”

After saying that, the captain began to load the ammunition alone, and made preparations, only to see that the Chinese army under the black pressure quickly avoided it, and hurriedly shouted, "The Chinese army is coming up." Attack preparation. But he didn't hear any response, and hurriedly looked back, only to see that the soldier had already turned his back and fled.

The captain's eyes widened and he scolded, "Coward! "Pick up a branch of 38 big cover next to you, load it and aim.

"Horn" only saw the soldier slam violently. Then he slowly fell to his knees, and finally fell down.

The captain sighed and looked at the black pressure of the Chinese army. Picking up the katana beside him, he shouted to the east, "Long live His Majesty the Emperor!" So he committed suicide by cutting his abdomen.

Gao Guizi climbed up the hill and sighed, "It's not easy for Zhen Nima, this little devil's position is really difficult." ”

The staff officer next to him took the binoculars and said, "Although the commanding heights have been taken, the village position is still in the hands of the devils." It's well fortified, and it's hard to fight. ”

Gao Guizi shook his head and said, "No, our 17th Army can't gnaw bones like this anymore, let Wei Lihuang be replaced." ”

At this time, Wei Lihuang and Fu Zuoyi looked at the battle situation but had other ideas, Wei Lihuang felt that the combat effectiveness of the Japanese army was not as terrifying as imagined in the battle in the past few days, and the intelligence of his colleagues in Hebei continued to show that the Japanese reinforcements were constantly going to Shanxi, and the longer the time dragged on, the more unfavorable it was to the Chinese army. After calculating for half a day, the two found that there were still six infantry divisions and two cavalry brigades that could maneuver, and decided to use the Hao Mengling Army of the Ninth Army and the Chen Changjie Army of the 61st Army to carry out a decisive counterattack to annihilate the Banyuan Division and recapture the important place of Nanhuaihua.

At this time, it was Itagaki Seishiro, but he also thought the same as Wei Lihuang, who had just received reinforcements from the Ninth Brigade, and decided to take advantage of the night. The counteroffensive was captured half of the positions in Nanhuaihua.

That night, both troops were making their own preparations, almost at the same time, the soldiers on both sides began to crawl towards each other, halfway up, both sides felt that something was wrong, why there were more people around them, and I don't know who found out first, two Chinese and Japanese "They are enemies." "The whole battlefield was triggered, and the two troops went straight into hand-to-hand combat, with bayonets, helmets, sapper shovels, grenades and even stones, fists, and teeth, and the fighters on both sides fought together with all the weapons they could use.

The commanders on both sides felt inexplicable, but the battle situation was urgent, and they could only make mistakes and make mistakes, and constantly increase their troops, because the night was dark, not even the moon, both sides could not see which side of the people around them was, and did not dare to ask, only to see both sides trembling and touching each other's clothes, and found that it was the Chinese troops who felt rough, and found that it was the Japanese army that felt strong, and found that it was the enemy army who went down with a bayonet, and found that it was the friendly troops who pulled together to take care of each other, and then continued to touch the next person.

The whole battlefield was strange and bloody, no one spoke, even if they were stabbed, they gritted their teeth and did not make a sound, because as long as they made a sound, they would be besieged by the surrounding enemy troops, such hand-to-hand combat lasted for a night, and when the sky was dark, everyone could already see each other, and the sound of fighting began to sound. On the battlefield, there was already a river of blood and corpses all over the field.

But at this time, the two armies were mixed together, and no one dared to take a step back, because the bayonet was courageous in hand-to-hand combat, and whoever took a step back would be chased to death by the enemy. It took another hour of fighting to completely separate.

The two armies did not rest for two hours, and the artillery on both sides opened fire one after another, with a total of more than 400 field guns of more than 75 mm on both sides, plus thousands of mortars, and the armies on both sides continued to charge under artillery fire.

Hao Mengling has been commanding on the front line, and after a while, a signal soldier came to report, "Junzuo, the last battalion commander of the 322nd Regiment was also killed, and now the remaining Liu Company Commander asks what to do?" ”

Hao Mengling put down the binoculars and said, "Order the 322nd Regiment to be reduced to a battalion, and Company Commander Liu will be promoted to battalion commander and continue to hold the position." ”

As soon as the man left, a communications soldier came to report again, "Report to the military seat, the commander of the Sixth Independent Brigade, Zheng Tingzhen, was hit in the right eye by a stray bullet and died on the spot." ”

Hao Mengling's face did not change and said, "Order Li Jicheng, the commander of the 614th Regiment of the brigade, to act as the brigade commander and continue to fight." ”

An hour later, the signal corps came to report that Brigade Commander Li Jicheng had been killed in the charge. ”

Hao Mengling continued: "Order the high-level regiment commander to act and continue to command. ”

Liu Jiaqi, the commander of the 54th Division next to him, couldn't stand it anymore and said, "Junzao, if you don't retreat, you will fight out if you continue to fight like this." ”

Hao Mengling said angrily, "This War of Resistance is a national war, victory will lead to the survival of the country, defeat will lead to the death of the country, how can we spare our lives." ”

At this time, a communications soldier covered in blood came in with the support of two soldiers and said, "Military seat, the communication of the Fifth Brigade has been cut off, and the brigade headquarters has been hit by Japanese artillery bombardment, so it is impossible to contact at all." ”

Hao Mengling turned around and said excitedly, "What's the matter?" In two hours, it will be time for the counteroffensive on the whole front, and now it is impossible to contact, and if it is a big deal, who can be responsible? (To be continued......)