[69 Book Bar-www.] Chapter 70 Hundred Regiments Battle
But things often do not depend on people's will. Plans are often wishful thinking. On July 22, the Eighth Route Army Commander-in-Chief Zhu De, Deputy Commander-in-Chief Peng Dehuai, and Deputy Chief of Staff Zuo Quan issued the "Campaign Preparatory Order", stipulating that no less than 22
The troops of this regiment massively attacked the Zhengtai Railway.
At the same time, it is required to deploy appropriate forces to carry out extensive attacks on the Tongpu, Pinghan, Jinpu, Bac Ninh, Deshi Railways and some major highway lines in North China to cooperate with the attack on the Zhengtai Railway. This will be a demonstration for the anti-Japanese military and civilians across the country.
The military power of the Eighth Route Army inspired the confidence of the people across the country to resist Japan and let them know that not only the resistance of the national army, but also the gcd army fighting together with them, China would not perish.
The Zhengtai Railway was an important transportation line for the Japanese invaders to plunder coal, steel, precious metals, grain and other materials in Shanxi. 80% of the materials had to be transported from here.
The Eighth Route Army decided to deal a heavy blow to the Japanese invaders, smash the Japanese army's cage policy, and promote the Eighth Route Army's anti-Japanese image.
When Shui Rou saw that there was a battle to be fought, she was extremely happy. She immediately went back to organize the forces and resolutely implement the decision of the Eighth Headquarters.
After the Zhengtai Road was completed in September of the 33rd year of Guangxu (October 1907), the total length of the line was 243 kilometers, with 35 stations, 23 tunnels, and a total length of 3345 meters. The longest tunnel was 640 meters. There were 1200 large and small bridges along the entire line.
Many places.
The Zhengtai Railway starts from Shijiazhuang Station and goes westward through Daguo Village, Huolu County, Touquan, Baiwangzhuang, Wulipu, Weishui, Nanhetou, Nanhengkou, Nanzhang Village, Jingxing, Beiyu, Nanyu, Niangziguan
Shu, Yangquan, Saiyu, Potou, Shishiyi, Qinquan, Shouyang, Guocun, Shanghu, Lujiazhuang, Duanting, Dongzhaocun, Beiheliu, Yuci, Mingli, Beiying, a total of 33
station, and finally enters Taiyuan Station. The entire journey is monorail. There are meeting points at each station.
When the Zhengtai Railway was built, due to the Hutuo River, the technology at that time was limited, and it was only built as far as Shijiazhuang.
But it was designed to go to Zhengding County, so it was called the Zhengtai Railway. It is a key section of the railway connecting Pinghan (Beiping to Hankou) and Tongpu (Datong to Fenglingdu).
Therefore, the Japanese occupation forces in North China attached great importance to the safety of this section of the railway. Heavy troops were deployed along the entire railway line to maintain public security. The 9th Brigade of the Independent Mixed Brigade was stationed in Taiyuan, and the 4th Independent Mixed Brigade was stationed in Yangquan in the middle.
Brigade, and the 8th Independent Mixed Brigade was stationed in Shijiazhuang.
There were three brigade-level Japanese troops. According to the establishment of the Japanese troops at that time, each brigade had nearly 7,000 people. More than 21,000 Japanese troops were deployed on the railway that was only more than 230 kilometers long. It was really heavily guarded.
More than 1,200 bridges and tunnels along the way are heavily guarded, and reinforced concrete fortifications have also been built. In some more important areas, turrets have also been built, and dozens to hundreds of troops have been deployed. They are still there.
Peripheral strongholds were built 5-15 kilometers along the railway. In the words of the Japanese army, it was an iron barrel-like protection measure.
Based on the protective measures taken by the Japanese army, the Eighth Route Army headquarters dispatched powerful troops in a targeted manner to break through the Japanese army's protection.
The mission of Shuirou's Jiang Regiment is to clear the Japanese bunkers in Jingjing and escort the attacking troops. In other words, they must clear out the Japanese stronghold artillery towers and intercept the Japanese troops coming from Shijiazhuang to support them to ensure the breaking of the attack.
The success of the battle.
Jiang Regiment's mission is to clear out the Japanese garrison at Jingjing Coal Mine and strengthen the strength of the brigade. This is a tough spot.
Jingjing Coal Mine is located 15 kilometers northwest of Jingjing County. If you want to destroy the coal mine, you must first clear out the Japanese troops guarding Zhengtai Road, and also alert reinforcements from the direction of Shijiazhuang. The combat task is not unimportant.
At this time, the two gun towers on the east side of the county played a key protective role. One was the Shang'an Town Gun Tower, and the other was the Yanfeng Gun Tower. Each of these two gun towers had a Japanese squad stationed there, plus a puppet squadron for defense.
.And at these two locations, there is a squadron of Japanese troops and a brigade of puppet troops in each place.
The Shuirou troops were best at overcoming this type of Japanese defense, and their combat capabilities were extremely powerful. So they were sent to Jingjing County.
Through detailed intelligence and the operational plan arranged by the staff, the troops of Jiang Regiment each occupied a position with two battalions. In addition to their own snipers, each battalion was also assigned 25 sniper battalion snipers.
Hands strengthen fire suppression.
The rest of the troops will focus on clearing out the enemy defenders in the county and the enemies in the mining area. Street fighting is required there.
On August 20, Jiang Regiment launched an all-out attack on a reinforced Japanese squadron in the Jingjing County area.
The 1st Battalion was responsible for the Japanese stronghold in Shang'an Town. The combat strength of the Jiang Regiment was beyond words. It was directly bombarded with artillery. The Japanese bunker was directly bombarded by artillery fire and turned into rubble and collapsed.
On the ground, the scurrying enemies kept falling to the ground under the care of snipers.
The first battalion commander watched for a long time and felt a little strange. It seemed that the number of Japanese soldiers in the bunker was different from the intelligence. There was too much missing. Where were the remaining people hiding?
"Isn't this too fast?----Something is not right.-----"
"Batalion Commander, charge, the enemies have been wiped out. The bunkers have been blown down."
"Slow down and look again! Why does the number of people seem to be wrong? There are too many shortages."
The battalion commander was observing carefully, but did not charge. The soldiers below were so anxious that they kept urging them.
A battalion commander has always been doubtful about the courtyard of a large house behind the bunker.
The courtyard of this mansion is high and deep, and there are watchtowers at the four corners of the courtyard wall. What I wonder is why there was such a loud fight, but there was no movement inside the courtyard wall? The town is not big, and there is nothing else to see.
Where do people live? There must be ghosts here.
"Platoon leader, you lead a platoon of soldiers and approach this house covertly. Find out what's going on."
"It's the battalion commander. Follow me from the first platoon."
A platoon leader led the soldiers and took a detour to covertly approach the base of the high-walled courtyard. Listening carefully, there seemed to be vague Japanese voices inside. This should be the headquarters of the Japanese army.
"Throw grenades inside!" a platoon commander ordered decisively. The grenades flew inside like black laoqi (dialect: crow), and suddenly there were screams and wailings. A battalion commander decisively ordered
Got the order to attack. Attack towards the courtyard of the mansion.