The night was dark, and the ambush soldiers of the 391st Regiment could not see the train coming from the northern railway line; Some of the officers and soldiers with pointed ears faintly heard the sound of what appeared to be a train. The battle order has been quickly given, and everyone's nerves are tense with excitement!

The observation post of the special service company was about three miles away from the ambush position of the 391st Regiment, and they had just watched the Japanese military column pass in front of them, and the speed was not very fast.

Finally, the searchlight of the little locomotive appeared in the ambush's field of vision, however, as soon as the locomotive entered the ambush circle, the train slowed down and quickly stopped; Immediately, more than a dozen Japanese soldiers with loaded guns jumped out of the carriage and ran along both sides of the tracks in the direction of Lingshi County. At this moment, there is still a not very dense gunfire from the direction of the county seat.

The officers and men of the 391st Regiment were a little confused by this unexpected scene, how did they know that this was actually the Japanese reinforcements carrying out the order of the commander of the Wencheng Brigade Headquarters: when approaching the suburbs of Wencheng, they sent the top soldiers to get off the car and search on foot to prevent the railroad tracks from being damaged. The Japanese troops who got off the car were exactly a detachment of this infantry squadron.

Qin Zhongxiao, the supreme commander in the ambush circle, saw this scene from the telescope with the help of the moonlight, and quickly understood the intentions of the Japanese, he couldn't help but scold viciously: His mother's little Japan is really cunning!

Now, the problem is thrown to the ambush soldiers of the 391st Regiment - Qin Zhongxiao's original battle plan was to wait for most of the Japanese military trains or truck convoys to enter the ambush circle before firing, but now the Japanese only one locomotive drilled in, and almost all the bodies were stranded outside the ambush circle. The four heavy guns of the artillery company are also preparing to bombard the side of the opponent's vehicle in the ambush circle, and it is difficult to be accurate in the night if you want to adjust the firing range.

If we cannot use heavy artillery firepower to preemptively attack and rely solely on the strength of the five infantry companies of the 391st Regiment to encircle and annihilate the enemy, I am afraid that it will be difficult to achieve a quick victory.

More than a dozen Japanese soldiers ran in the ambush circle of the 391st Regiment in this way, more than ten feet away on both sides of the railroad tracks, and the well-trained Central Army was silent, watching the opponent's sharp soldiers gradually move away; Everyone knew that the scene in front of them was beyond the expectations of the battle plan, and they were all waiting for the commander's response.

The colonel of the Central Army struggled fiercely in his heart for more than ten seconds, and finally chose to forbear: because he had some foresight, he did not order the demolition of the railroad tracks before the battle began, so at this time, the Japanese elite soldiers ran along the railroad tracks towards Lingshi County, and did not find anything abnormal. Qin Zhongxiao believed that the train would restart in the next time, all the way to the railway station in the northeast corner of the county.

And his four heavy guns will never allow the Japanese army to drive out of the ambush circle!

Qin Zhongxiao ordered the walkie-talkie of the regimental headquarters to immediately contact Zhang Hong, the chief of staff who was feinting to attack the county seat, and inform them of the arrival of Japanese reinforcements in the northern suburbs of the county and the dispatch of sharp soldiers to carry out reconnaissance, so that the chief of staff could increase his strength and make the gunfire more violent. If nothing else, this group of walkie-talkies-tipped soldiers will not get too close to the county seat, but will soon report to the commander of the military column.

Everything will still be developed in accordance with the operational plan.

Unexpectedly, the unexpected happened!

The first car mounted on the locomotive of the Japanese military train was a modified open-air wagon, with a tall observation platform with a large searchlight welded at the front of the car, which could accommodate two soldiers standing side by side, and the searchlight could be twisted at a wide angle of nearly 180 degrees. The purpose of this special device has been modified to observe the direction of progress and the movement of the left and right sides when leaving the car at night.

During the process of the military train, this searchlight basically shines directly ahead, and the same is true when the train slowly stops at the beginning. However, perhaps out of vigilance, or out of boredom of waiting in place, the two Japanese soldiers on the observation platform suddenly began to fiddle with their searchlights to scan the left and right sides of the rails.

The ambush circle laid by the 391st Regiment on both sides of the railroad tracks was about a mile long, and except for a few sorghum fields and corn fields cultivated by nearby farmers, it was basically a flat wasteland; It was mid-spring, and the sorghum and corn fields were only sparse straw stacks left over from last winter; It should be said that the officers and men of the Central Army have made the greatest use of these straw stacks, including the occasional undulating small mounds, for concealment, but a considerable number of people can only lie down or squat on unsheltered flat ground.

Of course, in the ambush plan, they were going to hit the Japanese railway train or road car team, and given that the opponent would be coming quickly, the battle should have started before the other side discovered the ambush. Therefore, in terms of ambush terrain, the 391st Regiment of the Central Army did not bother to set up artificial bunkers as much as the Second Battalion of the Xu Brigade of the Eighth Route Army.

This omission has now tasted the bitter fruit - the searchlight on the wagon compartment of the Japanese military train unconsciously shot into the ambush area of the right front, that is, the first battalion of the 391st Regiment, at this moment the head of the military train has entered the ambush circle, the part illuminated by the searchlight, the black pressure is full of heavily armed officers and soldiers, the moment the bright light passes over their heads and bodies, many people are frightened by this accident, and there is a lot of commotion in the ambush team, this commotion, was accurately captured by the two Japanese soldiers fiddling with the searchlights, and when the lights were set and illuminated, one guy exclaimed: Zhi Na soldier! There is an ambush for the Chinese soldiers!

In addition to the searchlights, there was also a Type 92 heavy machine gun on each side of the wagon, and the shooter of the machine gun on the right heard the shouts of his companions and immediately ordered his assistants to move the muzzle of the gun in the direction of the searchlight and prepare to carry out strafing. When it was too late, the officers and men of the 1st Battalion of the 391st Regiment saw that they had been exposed, and they no longer waited for the order to open fire. Immediately, the Japanese 92 Heavy Machinery also condescendingly spewed out tongues of fire.

This long-planned battle actually kicked off in such an unexpected way.

The Japanese train driver alertly turned off the headlights, sounded the whistle, and began to reverse on his own initiative. Captain Mori, the leader in the middle carriage and the deputy captain of the Nara Infantry Brigade, was a little hesitant for a moment after receiving a report that there was an ambush in front of him and an exchange of fire: he was the leader who came to relieve the siege of Lingshi County, how could he immediately retreat because there was an ambush in front of him? What's more, the infantry squadron had already sent a detachment of top soldiers to get out of the car and go to Lingshi County to explore the way, and they couldn't be left behind easily.

The two 92 heavy machines on the first wagon car had already started at this time, and the ambush of the Chinese army came from both sides of the railway line, the number is unknown, and judging from the weapons, it seems that there are only rifles and light machine guns - Captain Maori made up his mind, he ordered the locomotive to slowly retreat, and the infantry squadron leader immediately sent a small team of troops to get off the left and right sides of the carriage to establish a skirmish line to block and observe the further movement of the Chinese army.

The eight carriages carried by this military train have a total of three open-air truck carriages, respectively in the first, fourth, and eighth carriages, the first section is equipped with fixed searchlights and two heavy machine guns, and the fourth and eighth sections are equipped with artillery squads and machine gun squadrons directly under the Nara Brigade, the former has two Type 92 infantry guns, and the latter has four Type 92 heavy machine guns, all of which are specially strengthened to rescue the Lingshi garrison team. In addition, mortar and grenadier detachments of infantry squadrons were also in the wagon compartments.

Captain Maori ordered mortars and grenadiers to open fire in the wagon's bed, striking at the left and right ends of the truck. Until this moment, he still didn't realize that the ambush soldiers who had just appeared would be a large group of men and horses with heavy weapons, and thought that this ambush was the peripheral support of the Zhina army attacking Lingshi County, which was used to temporarily block the northern reinforcements. He himself began to walk towards the front of the car with a few of his men, ready to go to the forefront to find out.

At the same time, the colonel of the Central Army on the ambush side also made up his mind, and ordered his 1st and 2nd Battalions to send one company each to pursue and shoot the Japanese military columns from the front, and the other company of each of the two battalions advanced at full speed and penetrated the middle and rear of the train to carry out an attack - in fact, it was equivalent to rearranging the ambush circle and outflanking the Japanese military columns that had not entered the strike range as planned! The general reserve led by Qin Zhongxiao himself: 1st Battalion and 1st Company sent a platoon to clean up the Japanese spearhead team who got off the bus first.

"The artillery position shifted direction, from a flank attack to a frontal assault!"

After arranging the infantry, the colonel of the Central Army gave another order to the artillery company. He originally thought that he could use four heavy guns to fire at the same time, directly overturning the Japanese train on the railway line or the truck convoy on the road, at least to cause heavy damage, effectively killing and wounding a part of the enemy army, and then send an infantry company to rush forward. But now, we have to put the cart before the horse.

Captain Maori, the deputy captain of the Japanese army on the train, finally saw that something was wrong: on the left and right sides of the carriage, more and more dense bullets poured in, and through the car window, a large number of teams could be vaguely seen running desperately towards the middle and rear of the military train. To surround the military columns, of course! Judging from the numbers, the enemy army also has at least a few hundred people, and this should no longer be a symbolic outer blocking force, but just for the ambush of the military column!

Siege reinforcements?!

Captain Maori's mind jumped out of this tactical term, and a chill suddenly appeared in his backbone: before leaving, at the Wencheng Railway Station, the riverside chief of staff of the brigade only explained that it was necessary to strictly prevent the Chinese army from destroying the railway tracks and ensuring that the military train did not have an accident on the way, and as long as it arrived safely in Lingshi County, it should be possible to drive away the Chinese army attacking the county seat smoothly. But he never thought that the other party was a drunkard who didn't mean to drink!

Yaga!