The officers and soldiers of the Fourth Army Division saw the special operations team members first using precise marksmanship to suppress the enemy's firepower, and then using the Type 92 infantry cannon to directly destroy the enemy's firepower points. Then the special operations team members took turns to cover and continued to attack forward.
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The troops of the Fourth Army Division also imitated the special forces members. Although their marksmanship was not accurate enough, they had a large number of people. When they saw the enemy shooting, they fired at them randomly.
Wang Chengzhu also commanded the artillery, cooperating with the troops of the Fourth Army Division, constantly destroying the enemy's firepower points, and thus continued to advance into the city.
Two and a half hours later, the remaining Japanese troops were completely wiped out.
In this battle, although the troops of the Fourth Army Division suffered some casualties, they also gained combat experience. In addition, they obtained a large amount of weapons and equipment, and the combat effectiveness of the entire military division directly rose to a higher level.
After this battle, Xu Dalong and others were leaving.
Chen Wancai, Qiao Shan and others hoped to learn more from the Mawushan guerrillas, but they had missions and had to leave, so they could only reluctantly say goodbye to Xu Dalong and others.
Monk Wei led the 1st Special Operations Squadron, disguised as the Japanese army, as the vanguard to Madian Town at the foot of Yunmeng Mountain, and met with the liaison officer of the Northwest Shandong Shandong Working Committee. After understanding the local situation, he arrived on the same day
The town of Madian was captured at night.
Soon after, Xu Dalong led the main force and rushed over.
The head of the local underground party also came, and with him was the captain of the local guerrilla group.
Since the northwest region of Shandong is far away from the base area, the influence of the underground party has not yet penetrated here. Although the Northwest Shandong Working Committee was established, it actually only consisted of six people. The guerrilla group they raised in the local area only had
35 people.
Despite this, Xu Dalong still paid due respect to the Northwest Shandong Working Committee and the local guerrillas.
He conveyed the instructions from his superiors to them and established the Northwestern Shandong Army Division. Xu Dalong temporarily served as the commander and Zheng Zhizhi committee member to uniformly manage the overall affairs of the northwestern Shandong area against Zheng's army.
Linqing County is the county closest to Yunmeng Mountain, where a Japanese gendarmerie and a battalion of the puppet security army are stationed.
Xu Dalong and others launched an attack on the county town at night and quickly annihilated all the Japanese and puppet troops in the county town.
After annihilating the Japanese and puppet troops in the county, people from the working committee and the guerrillas served as guides. The Mawushan guerrillas quickly launched an offensive into the vast countryside of the county and destroyed the local grassroots organizations of the Japanese and puppets.
Soon after, the Zheng Office of the Northwest Shandong Province was officially announced in the county town, and the County Zheng Mansion was established, and the Linqing County Brigade was officially established.
Before the Japanese army mobilized troops to attack, the guerrillas continued to create new bases.
Xu Dalong organized troops to cooperate with the Shandong Zhenggong Office, extensively mobilized the masses, established grassroots democratic Zhengquan, and recruited a large number of new soldiers to join the army. The size of the county brigade soon grew to 500 people, and a supplementary regiment of the Northwest Shandong Military Division was established
, began to train new soldiers to prepare for the expansion of the anti-Japanese armed forces.
Since there had never been a large number of underground party anti-Japanese armed forces in this area before, and Xu Dalong and others did not expose all the main forces, the Japanese and puppet troops did not understand the reality here, and soon moved from the nearby Guinong County.
Two infantry squadrons were dispatched, plus two other battalions of puppet troops from the same regiment of the annihilated battalion, to Linqing County to suppress the anti-Japanese armed forces here.
Sun Desheng had already sent a cavalry squad to closely monitor the movements of the Japanese troops. After seeing the Japanese and puppet troops dispatched, he immediately reported to Xu Dalong.
Xu Dalong immediately concentrated the main force and set up an ambush circle. After an hour and a half of fierce fighting, this part of the Japanese and puppet troops was completely wiped out.
After two consecutive major victories, the influence of the underground party's anti-Japanese armed forces rapidly expanded in northwest Shandong, and small groups of Japanese and puppet troops and puppet regime staff fled one after another.
With the cooperation of the guerrilla officers and soldiers, the Northwestern Shandong Administrative Office quickly expanded its power to the vast countryside. Soon after, about two counties began to be established. A second administrative office under the jurisdiction of Northeastern Shandong was also established in Guinong County.
County Zheng Mansion.
In order to quickly expand the armed forces of the Northwestern Shandong Military Division, Xu Dalong expanded the military division's troops. The military division had two supplementary regiments under its jurisdiction. It directly recruited 5,000 new soldiers and made no effort to train them.
The activities of the Northwestern Shandong Army Division attracted great attention from the Japanese and puppet parties. Stationed in Luocheng, the capital of northwestern Shandong, was the Japanese independent mixed 17th Brigade. Since they did not really grasp the true strength of the underground anti-Japanese armed forces, they could not help but underestimate the enemy.
, they dispatched an infantry brigade and a regiment of the security army to launch an attack on the base area of the Northwestern Shandong Army Division.
Xu Dalong and others still adopted ambush tactics. Since the terrain in this area was relatively flat, there was no way to ambush on both sides of the road and they could only adopt long-distance attacks.
After the battle started, Wei Monk led two special operations squadrons onto the road to separate the Japanese army from the puppet troops following them. Sun Desheng commanded four cavalry squadrons to entangle the Japanese army, while Xu Dalong led the remaining troops and new recruits to supplement them.
regiment and launched a fierce attack on the surrounded puppet troops.
The pseudo-security forces in this area had never fought in a major battle and lacked combat experience. They were no match for the Mawushan guerrillas. Under the fierce artillery fire, the pseudo-security forces quickly collapsed and were completely annihilated in a short time.
The training time for the new recruits was very short, and they were very scared at first. However, seeing that the puppet army was defeated so quickly, the morale of the new recruits also increased, and they followed the main force of the guerrillas and launched an attack on the surrounded Japanese army.
attacked.
The captain of the Japanese army did not expect that the enemy's combat effectiveness was so strong. Seeing that the situation was not right, he wanted to lead his troops to break out and seize favorable terrain for defense.
However, they were tightly entangled by four squadrons of Mawushan guerrilla cavalry and could not move even an inch.
Soon after, Xu Dalong led the main force of the Mawushan guerrillas and the recruits of the supplementary regiment to surround the Japanese infantry brigade.
Xu Dalong and others arrived here after a long march with limited ammunition. However, in order not to cause heavy casualties to the troops and improve the morale of the recruits, Xu Dalong still consumed a large amount of ammunition and used fierce artillery fire to attack the Japanese troops' effective forces.
When only a small remnant remained, he commanded the troops to launch a general attack on the Japanese army, and finally completely annihilated the Japanese army.
After this stage of the battle, Xu Dalong and others annihilated two Japanese infantry brigades, two regiments of the puppet security army, and the local Japanese and puppet local armed forces. They annihilated a total of 10,000 enemies and seized a large number of weapons and ammunition.
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In order to expand the armed forces of the military division as soon as possible, Xu Dalong reorganized the troops.
On the basis of still maintaining the cavalry brigade and the special operations brigade, the first and second regiments of the military division were established. Two supplementary regiments were still retained, and the cavalry brigade brought from Mawu Mountain was organized into a cavalry regiment.
The regular army of the Northwestern Shandong Military Division quickly expanded to 9,000 people. At the same time, the two county brigades under its jurisdiction each reached 800 people.
Before the Japanese and puppet troops launched another large-scale attack on the base area, the Northeastern Shandong Army Division seized the time to carry out internal construction, train new recruits, and prepare to deal with a large-scale attack by the Japanese and puppet troops.
The Northwestern Shandong Army Division was rapidly rising, and the Japanese army certainly could not sit idly by. The 17th Independent Mixed Brigade assembled three infantry brigades, and with the cooperation of two regiments of the pseudo-security army, once again attacked the anti-Japanese base area.
The Northwestern Shandong Military Division has just been established. Although there are 9,000 main troops, plus the county brigade and militia, the total number of armed forces has exceeded 10,000. However, due to the rapid expansion of the troops and lack of training and running-in, the combat effectiveness has actually declined.
Yes. If we fight the Japanese army head-on, we are no match for them.
Whether or not this Japanese attack can be repelled is related to the life and death of the soldiers and civilians in the northwest Shandong base area, and they are under pressure for a while.
Xu Dalong paid close attention to the changes in the enemy's situation. Soon after, he discovered that there were major flaws in the battle deployment of the Japanese and puppet troops. The Japanese army still underestimated the combat effectiveness of the troops in the Northwestern Shandong Army Division. The battle plan they formulated was too ambitious. First of all,
What I thought of was not how to defeat the main force of the guerrillas, but how to prepare to annihilate them all in one fell swoop.
Therefore, they did not concentrate their forces together. In order to prevent the anti-Japanese armed forces from scattering and escaping, they divided the three infantry brigades into three groups. Even the two regiments of the pseudo-security army also acted separately. This gave Xu Dalong the opportunity to annihilate the enemies individually.
Favorable conditions were created.
After picking the weak persimmon, Xu Dalong formulated a new battle plan. The Northwestern Shandong Military Division abandoned Guinong County, and concentrated the military division's command organs and administrative offices in Linqing County, and the Second Regiment of the General Division and
Both supplementary regiments were placed inside the county seat to lure the Japanese and puppets to attack Linqing County.
The cavalry unit, special operations brigade, artillery regiment and the main force of the first regiment suddenly appeared in front of a puppet army regiment at night, quickly annihilated the puppet army regiment, and then surrounded the puppet army with lightning speed.
The second regiment of the army was quickly wiped out.
The Japanese army was not fools either. After learning that the two regiments of the pseudo-security army had been annihilated, they also began to move their troops closer together and go all out to attack Linqing County.
Of course, Xu Dalong could not let the enemy get what they wanted. He sent Sun Desheng to command four squadrons of the cavalry brigade to attack the Japanese army.
He led the main force to attack other Japanese troops, but only one infantry brigade of the Japanese army arrived at Linqing County on time.
Xu Dalong concentrated his main force to surround the Japanese infantry brigade. After three and a half hours of fierce fighting, the Japanese infantry brigade was completely annihilated.
The brigade commander finally realized the danger and ordered the remaining two infantry brigades to return the same way.
Sun Desheng immediately commanded all the cavalry troops to pursue the Japanese army, and finally intercepted a Japanese infantry brigade and annihilated them all.
The Japanese army came to besiege the anti-Japanese base area in northwest Shandong. In the end, only the brigade commander led the defeated soldiers of an infantry brigade and fled back to Luo City.
The Northwestern Shandong Army Division achieved this great victory, annihilating two Japanese infantry brigades and two puppet army regiments, seizing a large number of weapons and ammunition, and training the new recruits who participated in the war.
The Japanese and puppet troops were unable to launch another large-scale attack in a short period of time. Taking this opportunity, Xu Dalong commanded the troops to quickly launch an offensive and captured two more counties in succession, expanding the anti-Japanese base area in northwest Shandong to include four counties.
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In order to strengthen the construction of base areas and troops, the Northwestern Shandong Military Region went into rest and preparation to prepare for a large-scale Japanese attack.
The Northwestern Shandong Military Division has carried out a new round of expansion. After the expansion, the military division has directly administered teams, the first, second and third regiments of the military division, the cavalry regiment, the artillery regiment, the special operations brigade and the supplementary first and second regiments, the main force.
The total number of people is more than 15,000.
Four county brigades were established, each with 800 people.
After completing the expansion of the army, Xu Dalong reported this stage of work to the commander of the Taiyue Military Region.
After receiving the telegram from Xu Dalong, the commander said with emotion: "Xu Dalong is Xu Dalong. In such a short period of time, such a big situation has occurred in northwest Shandong."
The chief of staff said with some regret: "It's a pity that Xu Dalong is no longer from our Taiyue Military Region. I don't know why the superiors arranged this?"
The commander smiled and said: "You don't have to worry. I have already reported this matter to the division commander, and the division commander has agreed. Xu Dalong is only on temporary secondment, and will still return to our Taiyue Military Region in the future."
"Really? This is great." The chief of staff said happily.
Zhang Wanhe has also been caring about Xu Dalong. He knows that Xu Dalong does not have many people with him this time, and he is going to open up a new anti-Japanese base area, so there must be many difficulties.
He took the initiative to send a telegram to Xu Dalong, saying that he had raised 50,000 yuan and was going to send someone to deliver it to Xu Dalong.
Xu Dalong sent a telegram back to Zhang Wanhe, expressing his gratitude and saying that he had a way to solve the financial difficulties.
Zhang Wanhe said with emotion: "Brother Dalong is so good, he never reaches out to his superiors."
Li Yunlong, Zhao Gang, Zhang Dabiao and others have also been paying attention to Xu Dalong's situation. What makes them most sad is that Xu Dalong may not be able to return to the Mawushan base in the future.
They repeatedly suggested to the commander that he go find the division commander and be sure to get Xu Dalong back.
On this day, the commander sent a telegram back to Li Yunlong and Zhao Gang, saying that Xu Dalong would return to Taiyue Military Region in the future.
Li Yunlong and others were very happy and immediately told the leaders at all levels of the Mawushan Military Division about the good news.
It can be said that the Mawushan base area was founded by Xu Dalong. The anti-Japanese soldiers and civilians here have deep feelings for him. Everyone felt very sad when they heard that Xu Dalong had been transferred.
After hearing the good news, everyone was very happy, and the happiest person was Chu Yun'er.
After Xu Dalong left, she was no longer in the mood to stay in the Mawushan base, so she returned to the World War II District Chief's Department. However, she has been paying attention to Xu Dalong's movements.