Just when Li Shucun was thinking about adjusting the battle plan, the troops of the 3rd Brigade entering the city, under the guidance of the 3rd Special Operations Squad, captured the Yidu Railway Station. The special operations team disguised the Japanese railway patrol and captured two small stations in the east and west directions of the Yidu Railway Station, and began to disguise the Japanese railway garrison and began to stand guard on duty. At this point, the entire Yidu County was controlled by the Eighth Route Army.

After receiving the report, Jiang Qiang immediately issued combat orders to the 3rd and 4th Brigades:

"According to the Jiaoji Road Battle Plan, the mission of our 3rd, 4th, 7th, Gaomi Garrison Brigade, and Qinghe Garrison Brigade is to completely annihilate the enemy west of Yidu and east of Jinan, and to induce the Japanese army in Jinan, the Japanese army in Tai'an, and the Japanese army in Dexian to come to the aid of the Japanese army, so as to eliminate the living force of the Japanese army in Shandong to the greatest extent. The campaign was divided into four phases, the first stage was to clear out the enemy on both sides of the Japanese army on the Jiaoji Road and to force the enemy to concentrate on the key points on the Jiaoji Road, and the task was completed. In the second stage, the 25th Brigade of the 108th Division of the Japanese Army was gathered and annihilated. In the third stage, lure the enemy to come to help, preset the battlefield, and destroy all the enemies who come to help. If necessary, the division's heavy firepower units will support our operations. In the fourth stage, he and Liu established the Luxi group to attack Jinan and completely purge all Japanese puppet forces around Jinan.

According to the combat mission, the following operational orders were issued: 1. Notification of the enemy situation: According to the report of the division headquarters, yesterday night, our 1st Brigade captured Anqiu, Fangzi, and Weicheng, eliminated a brigade of the 105th Wing of the 104th Brigade of the Japanese Army stationed in Anqiu and a battalion of the puppet army, eliminated a squadron of the Japanese army reinforced by Fangzi in Anqiu, eliminated the headquarters of the 105th Company of the Japanese Army stationed in Fangzi and a squadron, and killed the wing commander Takashi Kudo. After the attack on Weicheng, he captured alive the commander of the 108th Division, Lieutenant General Shimoto Kumaya, killed his chief of staff, Toshiyuki Suzuki, and eliminated the baggage wing, engineer wing, cavalry brigade, field artillery wing headquarters of the 108th Division of the Japanese army, a brigade, a tank squadron, and the division's field hospital and sick horse factory. This morning, he captured alive Lieutenant General Odaka Kamizo, commander of the 12th Army who flew from Jinan to Weixian to supervise the battle. The results are brilliant! Our 6th Brigade captured Changle and eliminated an infantry squadron, a railway garrison squadron, a puppet garrison squadron of Changle County, and three puppet joint defense self-defense regiments of the Japanese army stationed in Changle. Our 8th Brigade attacked and occupied Gangcheng County, and eliminated an infantry squadron and a railway garrison squadron of the Japanese army stationed in Jiaoxian County, and the Gangcheng County Puppet Garrison. Our 4th Brigade captured Boshan and eliminated a Japanese squadron stationed in Boshan County and a puppet garrison in Boshan County, and then with the cooperation of Zou Guangzhong and Su Chenghai Railway Workers' Sixth Detachment, it occupied the Zichuan mining area and eliminated the Japanese garrison team stationed in the Zichuan mining area and a battalion of the puppet Manchurian Defense Army. We taught the 3rd Brigade to capture Linqu County, eliminate a squadron of the Japanese army and the puppet Linqu County garrison, and attack and occupy Yidu County this morning, eliminate a brigade headquarters of the Japanese army's Jiaoji Road garrison and the third brigade (regiment) of the puppet Shandong garrison, and capture the traitor and puppet Qingzhou Dao Yin Fang Yongchang.

2. Task distribution: The 3rd Brigade is responsible for destroying the main force of the Japanese army operating by train, the 4th Brigade is responsible for destroying the Japanese convoy operating along the highway and the Japanese train carrying troops from Zhangqiu, and the Ludong Group is responsible for the 7th Brigade as the general reserve for the campaign, and the Qinghe Garrison Brigade and the Jiaodong Garrison Brigade are responsible for eradicating the Japanese puppet regime and traitor forces in the northern area of Jiaoji Road.

The 3rd and 4th Divisions closely monitored the movements of the Japanese troops in Linzi, and sent reconnaissance companies to reconnoiter in the direction of Zhoucun and Zhangdian, and promptly reported the march of the Japanese troops on the Jiaoji Road and the Jiqing Road. After the enemy's main force passed through Linzi, it decisively occupied Linzi, cut off the enemy's rear road with one regiment, blocked the enemy's reinforcements, concentrated the main force to destroy the devil's brigade that was going north by car from Zhoucun, and then eliminated the enemy's rearguard troops advancing eastward from Zhangqiu.

The 4th and 7th Divisions of the 7th Regiment commanded the brigade guard battalion, the engineer battalion, and the 3rd squadron of the 3rd Special Operations Formation to be deployed at Yidu Station, and when the first train of the Japanese army from Linzi arrived at Yidu Station, they blew up the Japanese armored patrol car, causing the Japanese personnel carrier to overturn and eliminate the devils on the military train. The brigade headquarters led the Eighth Regiment, the Ninth Regiment, the New Third Regiment, the Brigade Artillery Regiment, and the Heavy Machine Gun Battalion to conceal on both sides of Jiaoji Road, 10 kilometers west of Yidu Station, to ambush the main Japanese army and annihilate the main force of the Japanese army. The cavalry battalion is a company unit and serves as a battlefield guard mission. ”

After giving the order, Jiang Qiang left the supplementary regiment to guard Yidu County, and he led the brigade headquarters to the Eighth Regiment to command the battle of ambushing the main army of the Japanese army.

Under normal circumstances, the Japanese army's Jiaoji Road defense line is very tight, and if you want to break through the Jiaoji Road defense line, you have to fight hard. Liu Yimin had already taken this into account when formulating the Jiaoji Road battle plan, so he formulated a combat plan to break through at multiple points, force the enemy to shrink, and then surprise the troops to attack Anqiu and Fangzi, and directly smash the headquarters of the 10th and 8th Divisions in Weicheng, further mobilize the devil's reinforcements, disrupt its defensive deployment, and make its defense line self-defeating. It just so happened that the adventurous Odaka Kamizo cooperated so much, and threw himself into the net, making Jiang Qiang's plan more perfectly executed. Therefore, when the Jiaoji Road Battle was summarized after the war, some people proposed that the Japanese army was not defeated in the hands of the Jiaodong Army, but in their own hands. Imagine, if after the Jiaodong Army launched an attack, they did not shrink their troops, but held one stronghold after another, then the Jiaodong Army would have to attack the Jiaoji line continuously. Once a strong attack is carried out, the intention is inevitably exposed. Although the strength and firepower of the Jiaodong Army were far greater than that of the Japanese army, it would still win in the end, but the price paid was much greater. The little devil is tantamount to making way for the Jiaodong Army to attack the Jiaoji Road, and also withdrawing the troops from the defensive position and sending them to the artillery fire of the Jiaodong Army, isn't this the Japanese army itself defeating itself?

This statement is also true, the Japanese army did make a mistake, but this mistake was led by Jiang Qiang.

After receiving the order, Yang Yan, the commander of the Seventh Regiment, and Ding Jiesheng, the chief of staff, calculated the distance and time, and knew that the little devil would arrive soon, and it must be an armored patrol car at the head.

This is not how strong the Jiaodong Army's reconnaissance ability is, how accurate the intelligence is, and not how it can be pinched, but that the little devils always do it under normal circumstances. They have armored patrol cars, and it is quite normal to open the way in front of the military columns. This point has been verified in several battles of the Jiaodong Army.

Since the Battle of Luzhong completely destroyed Jiaoji Road, it took a lot of effort for the little devils to repair Jiaoji Road and start normal operation. At this time, from Jinan to Qingdao, the devils along the Jiaoji Road were insufficient, and after seeing that the main force of the instructor was launched on the whole line, Luzhong and Ludong were about to be fully recovered, and the cadres no longer wanted to destroy the Jiaoji Road. On the contrary, many people are thinking about how to use Jiaoji Road and Jinpu Road to develop the base economy after taking Jinan and Qingdao!

Originally, the simplest and most effective way to fight devils armored patrol vehicles was to plant explosives and directly overturn the armored patrol vehicles. But neither Yang Yan nor Ding Jiesheng wanted to do so, because the detonation of explosives would likely damage the station facilities and tracks. If you pull the turnout, you have to find a place with a steep slope or a big bend to make the devil's armored patrol car derail and overturn. But at the moment, neither of these conditions is met.

Zhou Ze, the commander of the engineer battalion of the Third Division, is a native of southern Henan, and his father is a blacksmith shop, and he has followed his father to fight iron to participate in the Jiaodong Army since he was a child. Later, he went to study at the Jiaodong Military Academy, and has been working as an engineer since he came out. This person is very intelligent and good at delving.

After Zhou Ze accepted the task, he divided the work with the chief of staff and separated the three companies of the engineer battalion, the chief of staff led the first company and the second company to move with the brigade headquarters to blow up the military column where the main force of the devils was riding, and he led the first company to move with the seventh regiment to blow up the armored patrol cars and the first column of the devils to open the way.

Seeing that Yang Yan and Ding Jiesheng were in trouble, Zhou Ze said: "Commander Yang, Chief of Staff Ding, you don't have to be afraid of destroying the railway, as long as you eliminate the devils, it is very easy to repair this track, and the engineer battalion can do a good job." ”

Yang Yan thought about it, after the liberation of Luzhong, he had time to slowly repair the wounds of the war. Besides, Jiaoji Road is so important, the Japanese army will inevitably send planes to bomb it, and relying on the ground defense high-altitude firepower of the Air Defense Command alone cannot protect such a long Jiaoji Road, and if it is not good, it will only increase casualties. The Jiaodong Group Army Air Force has limited aircraft, and there is still a lot of ammunition, so it's okay to engage in a sneak attack and bombing. It seems that his heart is too eager, and the conditions are not ripe for Jiaoji Road to resume normal operation in a short period of time!

Time waits for no one, Yang Yan immediately ordered the engineer battalion to lay electric explosives, and it was laid out in many places, and if it was to be blown up, it would be ruthlessly bombed, not only to blow up the armored patrol car of the little devil, but also to blow up the military column, and completely stun the little devil!

The sappers are the most equipped troops in all arms of the division, there is no way, open roads in the mountains and build bridges in the rivers, where is their nature?

In addition to using explosives to blow up, he also prepared a backhand to hide several bazooka groups on the side of the railway, preparing to use bazookas to clean up the little devils in case the explosives fell off the chain at a critical time.

The news of the devil's dispatch came non-stop through the radio of the brigade reconnaissance company. At this time, the most excited person was Zhou Ze, the commander of the engineer battalion, because this was the moment when the engineer performed. The Third Division has fought several such battles since the Zhengtai Road attack on the Devil Army. It turns out that as long as the devil's armored patrol car and military column are blown up, the next battle will be easy to fight, and it will basically be a massacre. It is a pity that the battles that bombed the devil's army were basically fought by special combat teams, and the engineer battalion of the Third Brigade had not yet participated in such a battle.

Yang Yan saw that Zhou Zewei's hand was shaking a little, knowing that he was excited about the battle, he patted him lightly on the shoulder and said, "Old Zhou, how can you look like a rookie egg, take out the posture of the old navy!" ”

As soon as Zhou Ze heard Yang Yan's reminder, he was amused in his heart, damn it, how many battles have you fought, and you are still so excited, you are ashamed of the dead! immediately spat in the palm of his hand, rubbed his hands, and replied in a low voice: "Commander Yang, isn't this the first time I've blown up a train!" People have the first time, such as the first time to use a hammer in the blacksmith shop, the first time to fight a bayonet, the first time to kill an enemy, and so on. ”

Yang Yan is the commander of the Seventh Regiment, this regiment is developed on the basis of the original Jiang Qiang's third guard battalion in Zhaoyuan, and like the first regiment and the fourth regiment, it is Jiang Qiang's trump card unit in Zhaoyuan's hands. Seeing that Zhou Ze was obviously nervous, and he couldn't fall down on his lips, he smiled and whispered into Zhou Ze's ear: "Old Zhou, there is a very important first time you didn't say it, that is, the first time you fell in love with a girl, you will be very excited." I'm afraid that when you get excited, you will pee your pants in front of other girls, and you will lose the face of the brigade engineer battalion. ”

Zhou Ze was really not nervous about this joke, and immediately returned the sentence: "It seems that you have experience in falling in love!" Head Yang, I heard that you, like our old Zhou, are still single! ”

Yang Yan shook his head: "I'm different from you." Lao Tzu is a famous man in the Third Brigade, and there are many girls who like us. However, we can't look down on any of them. Believe it or not, when the devil is driven out of Shandong, let's go to Jinan and Qingdao on the streets, and there will be a girl crying and shouting to marry us. At that time, we must choose a girl who is one in a hundred, one in a thousand, and one in a thousand to be our wife, and give birth to three or five stinky boys from him. That's when the days were beautiful! ”

Zhou Ze pouted: "You're beautiful!" Take off your military uniform, your baby is not a country man? It's true, it seems like I'm about to catch up with the teacher, and there are girls everywhere who are chasing and crying and shouting that they want to marry you alive or dead. Wake up, I think you're a single! ”

The two of them had to talk again, but the chief of staff, Ding Jiesheng, reminded that the devil's armored patrol car was about to arrive, and the two stopped laughing.

Although the stations along the road were reported to be very safe, the vigilance of the devil's armored patrol vehicles was still very high, and after leaving Linzi City, they stopped from time to time and used machine guns to carry out fire reconnaissance on both sides of Jiaoji Road. It wasn't until I crossed the Zihe Bridge that I saw that there was indeed a sun flag floating on the pillbox at the bridgehead, and the sentries standing guard were short and strong, and at first glance they were reserve soldiers in their thirties.

When they were about to arrive at the Yidu train station, the devil's armored patrol car sounded its whistle and whined, preparing to enter the station. About 1,000 meters behind the armored patrol car, followed by the military column carrying the vanguard of the 25th Brigade of the Devil. When entering the station, the devil's armored patrol car slowed down, and the stationmaster and the patrolling soldiers on the platform with signal lights were clearly visible, and everything seemed to be normal. At this time, Yang Yan waved his hand and roared in a low voice: "Detonate!" ”

Zhou Ze followed up and gave the order to detonate, and as the sapper soldier pressed the detonator in his hand, a loud bang came, and the devil's armored patrol car jumped up and fell heavily on the side of the roadbed. Immediately after that, there were several rumbling explosions, and the devil troop carrier that followed the armored car also turned over to the side of the track, and the little devil inside didn't know whether he fell unconscious or fell to death, anyway, it was a mess.

Yang Yan raised his gun and slammed it into the sky, roared to kill the devil, and rushed towards the armored patrol car. After all, this is a station, the terrain is flat, whether it is an armored patrol car, or a military column behind, it is just that it was blown off the track, and it is not like encountering a steep slope or a sharp turn, the vehicle rolls over, and most of the little devils are killed, and now they can only stun and injure the little devils, and the Eighth Route Army must move quickly, and if it is too late, maybe some of the little devils will react and start shooting, which will bring greater casualties.

The soldiers of the Eighth Route Army, just like they usually trained, machine guns, 95 automatic rifles, assault rifles, and 38 big covers, rushed into the devil pile, and sent those dizzy little devils directly back to their hometown in the East like hail.

Unlike ironclad trains, armored patrol cars do not have so many carriages, and the windows on the cars are small, and they are basically designed with perforations, through which the fighters can only throw grenades. As a result, the ammunition in the car was detonated, causing a martyrdom, completely scrapping a good armored patrol car from the inside, and causing many soldiers to be scratched by iron sheets and shrapnel.

More than 3,000 soldiers of the 7th Regiment, except for the fire support battalion, which stayed on the position and did not move, all the other fighters rushed up, and everyone wanted to throw a grenade and hit a shuttle. Otherwise, didn't it come in vain? It wasn't until the carriages and roadbeds were blown up with blood and flesh that there was no trace of popularity left, that the Eighth Route Army stopped strafing and bombing, and began to clean up the battlefield and count the loot.

Zhou Ze's sappers made a great contribution this time, so he stood on the platform and kept shouting, commanding the sapper soldiers to quickly disassemble the weapons on the devil's armored patrol car, and constantly ordering the soldiers to go up to the military column behind to have a look, and pay attention to the materials and equipment needed by the sappers for combat.

Seeing that the devil had been eliminated so easily, Yang Yan immediately ordered the regimental baggage company to clean up the battlefield, and he led the battalions and engineer battalions to support the Eighth Regiment, the Ninth Regiment, and the New Third Regiment in battle.

Seeing the little devil's armored car passing in front of him and the military column passing in front of him, Jiang Qiang knew that the 25th Brigade was dead. Until there was a rumbling explosion, Jiang Qiang's heart was completely put in his stomach, and he immediately ordered the 3rd Division, the 6th Division, the New 3rd Regiment, the Brigade Artillery Regiment, and the Heavy Machine Gun Battalion to prepare for battle.

Major General Naozo Nakano, commander of the 25th Brigade of the 108th Division of the Japanese Army, thought that he was safe, not to mention that the Jiaoji Railway and the Jiqing Highway from Zhangqiu to Weicheng were firmly controlled by the Imperial Army, and his own deployment alone was impeccable. There are armored patrol cars in front of the road, not to mention that the Jiaodong Army has not yet attacked the railway in this area, even if they attack, there is no way to take the armored patrol car. Behind the armored patrol car is a brigade that serves as the vanguard, and behind its main force there is a brigade covering the rear of the palace, plus an infantry brigade driving on the Jiqing Highway, which can be said to be seamless. No matter how powerful the Jiaodong Army is, he can't stop his steel torrent.

Shortly after leaving Zhoucun, Major General Nakano Naozo, commander of the 25th Brigade, sent a telegram to the headquarters of the 12th Army, the headquarters of the 108th Division, the 104th Brigade, and his own avant-garde brigade, reporting his location and expected arrival time in Weixian, asking whether the troops attacking the Twenty-Lipu airfield had caught up with the Chinese troops who had attacked His Excellency Commander Otaka Kamizo, and asked the avant-garde brigade to report if there was any unusual situation along the way.

Major General Kobayashi Asaburo, chief of staff of the 12th Army, told him that the troops of the 10th and 8th Divisions stationed in Weixian had begun to make a detour to the rear of the Jiaodong Army, which had attacked the airfield, and blocked their passage back to the mountains. Major General of the 4th Floor of the 10th Brigade Tomaki has already directed the troops to arrive near the airport and prepare to launch an attack. The 33rd Division is also marching towards Weixian, preparing to cooperate with the 108th Division to eliminate the first part of the Jiaodong Army attacking Jiaoji Road and rescue Commander Odaka Kamizo. However, according to the reports of the Jinan and Shijiazhuang airfields of the air force, after receiving a radio report from the fighters sent to the Shilipu airfield that they had encountered an attack by a flock of birds, the group lost contact with the planes and suspected that the fighters were in distress. Ask him to speed up and be aware of what might happen.

Lieutenant General Xiong Ya of the 1st 08th Division ordered him to speed up his advance, rush to the vicinity of the Twenty Lipu Airport as soon as possible, serve as the reserve of the whole division, prepare for reinforcement operations, and cover the rear of the main force of the division. Major General Tomimi of the 4th floor of the 104th Brigade sent a telegram back and said that he had led a brigade to the outskirts of the airport by car and would immediately launch an attack on the airport, and the follow-up troops of the 104th Brigade would soon arrive. The avant-garde brigade reported that everything was normal, that all stations along the railway line were under the control of the Jiaoji Road garrison, that there were armored patrol cars on the road, and that the train was moving safely in the direction of Yidu.

Major General Nakano Naozo was completely relieved and ordered the train to move at full speed, and at the same time ordered the rearguard brigade from Zhangqiu to speed up and strive to catch up with the main force at the Weixian railway station.

When he was about to arrive in Linzi, Major General Kobayashi Asaburo sent another telegram, informing him that according to the report of the 10th Brigade, the entourage of Commander Odaka Kamizo and many air force units had been found at the Twenty Lipu Airport, and that it was confirmed that Commander Odaka Kamezo had fallen into the hands of Tubaji, and that the formation of fighters taking off from Jinan Airport and Shijiazhuang Airport had been found at the Twenty Lipu Airport. The 25th Brigade was again ordered to speed up and cooperate with the other units of the 108th Division to rescue Commander Otaka Kamizo.

Major General Nakano Naozo was upset when he saw it, and intuitively felt that this battle was a nest, and it must be known that the reason why the Great Japanese Army dominated Asia and was invincible was that the well-trained, heroic and tenacious soldiers were one factor, the standardization of equipment and the institutionalization of mobilization were another factor, and a more important factor was accurate intelligence, planned and moved, and won the victory by surprise attack and roundabout outflanking tactics. Think about it, from the "918" incident to the capture of northeast China to the China incident, from the battle of Taiyuan to the battle of Guangdong and the capture of Wuhan, which time was not based on accurate intelligence? It is precisely because of the efforts of a large number of intelligence officers that the main force of the imperial army can always hit the soft underbelly of the Chinese army before launching an attack, and firmly grasp the initiative on the battlefield. It's good now, even the enemy's number, strength, and specific location are not clear, so they blindly mobilize troops to attack, what if this is a trap laid by Jiang Qiang's Jiaodong Group Army? They are troops who even dare to annihilate the 107th Division and the Fifth Division, and in their eyes, a 108th Division is really not enough!