Chapter 553: Combat deployment and the return of the 2nd Cavalry Battalion!
Peking.
North China Front Army Headquarters.
In the afternoon.
The guard at the entrance of the headquarters watched the new communications staff officer walk to the entrance of the headquarters. He peeked inside and saw the deputy chief of staff, Sue Seizo, inside, and immediately turned around and left.
About twenty minutes later, Yumo Seizan had just left, and the communications staff officer came out of nowhere and walked into the headquarters.
Immediately, the guards at the door were ordered to leave.
The communications staff officer came to Okamura Neiji and reported: "Reporting to the commander, the fake heavy artillery regiment and the fake infantry regiment, escorted by the flag wind, have set off from Zhangjiakou and are expected to arrive in Datong at 6 p.m.!
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Okamura Neji raised his head and narrowed his eyes: "Yoshi!"
If the Deputy Chief of Staff had Mo Jingsan as a spy, he must have revealed the news to the Eighth Route Army.
The Eighth Route Army in northwest Shanxi will definitely not be able to get out, but the Eighth Route Army in the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region will definitely take action. Maybe the Eighth Route Army will already be ambushing halfway.
After all, the Heavy Artillery Regiment poses a great threat to the Northwestern Eighth Route of Shanxi. It can be said that it is related to the life and death of the people on the Northwestern Eighth Route of Shanxi and the Northwestern Shanxi.
Once the heavy artillery regiment reaches the front line, it will be an absolutely devastating blow to the fortifications of Shanxi North Eighth Route.
If the military train is ambushed by the Eighth Route Army, it will most likely lose one 94 armored train and two empty trains.
In this way, not only the Heavy Artillery Regiment and the 3rd Infantry Regiment were saved, but the insider in the headquarters could also be uncovered.
As for the railway damaged by the Eighth Route Army during the battle, it will soon be repaired by engineers. The heavy artillery regiment and the infantry regiment are in Zhangjiakou. A delay of one or two days will not affect the outcome of the sweep in northwestern Shanxi.
The communications staff officer saw that Okamura Neji was deep in thought, but he quickly came back to his senses and asked:
"Commander, Zhangjiakou's Heavy Artillery Regiment Captain Takahashi Manzo Daizuo and the Infantry 3rd Regiment Captain Yamashita Seiichi asked when they can go to the front line to fight against the Eighth Route Army?"
"These guys from the First Division..."
Neji Okamura sounded helpless: "Let Takahashi Daizuo and Yamashita Daizuo stay calm and wait for orders from the First Army Headquarters."
The old Japanese served as the division commander of the Second Division, and the current commander of the First Division, Yokoyama Isamu, is still his good friend.
Nowadays, the commanders of all front armies and armies of the Japanese army have basically served as division commanders in Class A divisions or standing divisions.
So Okamura Neiji knew very well that these soldiers in the First Division were a group of militants.
Such a unit has advantages and disadvantages. The advantage is that they are brave and good at fighting. The disadvantage is that sometimes these guys like to disobey orders and commit the following crimes.
"Hi!" The communications staff officer heard this and turned around to leave.
Seeing the figure of the communications staff disappear at the door, Okamura Neji showed a sneer on his lips.
This time, even Neiji Okamura didn't know the departure time of the 3rd Heavy Artillery Regiment and the 3rd Infantry Regiment. He would have to make an impromptu decision after a day or two depending on the situation. The Eighth Route Army wouldn't know it in advance, right?
If all this was known to the Eighth Route Army in advance, I, Okamura Neiji, would have a caesarean section to apologize.
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A dense forest 30 kilometers away from Datong.
The two battalions of the Sixth and Seventh Divisions of the New Regiment, led by Li Changsheng, successfully merged with the three regiments of the Independent Brigade of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region of the Eighth Route Army.
The Independent Brigade was formed in April 1939 by the 716th Regiment of the 38th Brigade of the 10th Division of the Eighth Route Army and the Independent Brigade of the Central Hebei Military Region.
Under the jurisdiction of the 4th, 716th and 716th regiments, they launched the anti-Japanese struggle in the Jizhong Military Region.
However, due to the Japanese's large-scale raids on the Jizhong Military Region some time ago, Boss Chen gave the intelligence in advance, and the independent brigade retreated to the Guangling area of Beitahang in advance to fight guerrillas.
This time, neither the brigade commander nor the political commissar of the independent brigade came, but Li Yunlong was given remote command via telegraph.
Although Li Yunlong was treated at the brigade level, it was not good for the brigade commander of the lone brigade to listen to Li Yunlong's command, so Li Yunlong remotely commanded the three regiments of the lone brigade and the two battalions of the New First Regiment.
Li Yunlong and Boss Chen have already discussed that when the three regiments of the independent brigade finish this battle under Li Yunlong's command, they will receive 000 steel helmets, 300 Japanese machine guns and a large number of 38-type rifles.
As wages for the lone brigade, no matter which unit joins the new regiment in fighting, they can make a fortune.
Li Yunlong then handed over the battlefield command to Sixth Battalion Commander Wang Fafa as the commander and Zhao Youliang as the deputy commander.
In the dense woods.
Wang Fafa and Zhao Youliang, as well as the 4th, 716th and 716th regiment commanders gathered together.
The communications company commander of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region also stood aside.
This place is only 10 kilometers away from the Pingsui Railway. Several regiment leaders have already visited the Pingsui Railway to reconnoiter the terrain and determined the ambush location.
Although the independent brigade has three regiments, the combined strength of these three regiments is only more than 4,000 men. Adding the two battalions of the new regiment, the total strength is nearly 9,000 men.
Wang Fafa summoned Zhao Youliang and the three leaders of the independent brigade for a combat meeting.
Battalion Commander Wang was a little excited and felt a bit of pressure on him. In his military career, he had never commanded so many troops. At best, he could command a strengthened regiment, which was the sixth battalion of his new regiment division.
It's different now. He commands nearly 9,000 men in combat, which is already the strength of a division.
However, Battalion Commander Wang also felt a lot of pressure, fearing that his command might not be good enough, causing the Japanese heavy artillery regiment to escape.
The ambush location chosen by Battalion Commander Wang was the section from Gaoyang to Datong on Pingsui Road. The length of this section of railway is about 0 kilometers, and the route is very mountainous.
The mountains on both sides of the railway are standard loess terrain, with mountains consisting of exposed rocks and brown wasteland rising one after another, with only a few scattered bushes.
"This is Miaoergou."
Battalion Commander Wang used his bayonet to draw a curved mark on the ground, and then placed stones on both sides of the mark to indicate that these were the hills on both sides of the railway.
Without any unnecessary nonsense, Battalion Commander Wang pointed to the traces and stones on the ground and began to analyze and describe the battle deployment:
"According to intelligence, the Japanese heavy artillery regiment was escorted by the Japanese infantry 3rd regiment and a heavy armored train."
"The heavy armored train is at the front, the train of the Japanese Heavy Artillery Regiment is in the middle, and the heavy armored train of the 3rd Infantry Regiment is at the rear."
"Our combat mission this time is to blow up all the cannons on the train in the middle!"
Glancing at everyone, they all looked sharply. Battalion Commander Wang's tone suddenly became serious: "I divided the four hills on the left and right sides of Miaoergou into highlands 1, 3, and 4. Our new regiment has two
The 1st battalion is responsible for No. 3 and No. 4 Highlands, holding back the 3rd Japanese Infantry Regiment. The 4th Regiment is responsible for No. 1 and No. 4 Highlands. Two battalions of the 716th Regiment are responsible for blocking the Japs in the direction of Datong, and the other battalion is responsible for blocking the direction of Gaoyang.
The devil."
"We don't have a reserve team for this battle!"
"Blow up the Japanese cannon and evacuate immediately!"
"Do you all understand your respective tasks?"
"Understood!" Everyone nodded.
This time, two battalions of the New Regiment came out to ambush the Japanese supply lines and brought enough explosives. The independent brigade also brought some explosives.
But if you want to blow up a Japanese army column and a heavy armored train at once, the explosives are simply not enough.
Because the enemy's artillery this time was a 10mm howitzer and a 40mm heavy cannon, and the explosives were too little, so they couldn't be damaged at all.
Putting too little explosives is not enough, but now there is simply not enough time to temporarily prepare explosives elsewhere.
Therefore, there are not many explosives to blow up the Japanese Type 94 armored trains and trains, because the explosives need to be left to blow up the Japanese cannons.
The combat effectiveness of the Japanese 3rd Infantry Regiment must be extremely powerful, and it must be dealt with by the two battalions of the New 1st Regiment with powerful firepower.
The Japanese artillery equipment is average. As long as the Japanese armored train is blown up in advance and then the 3rd Japanese infantry regiment is held back, there is a chance to blow up the cannons of the Japanese heavy artillery regiment.
Battalion Commander Wang looked at his watch: "We have half an hour now. We will set off for the pre-ambush location in half an hour!"
Each regiment and camp began to eat and prepare.
This combat plan invented by Wang was a telegram sent to the regiment headquarters, and a combat meeting was held only after Li Yunlong and Zhao Gang agreed.
Li Yunlong and Zhao Gang's instructions were: "Destroy all the Japanese heavy artillery at all costs!"
When we were near northwestern Shanxi, in order to prevent being detected by Japanese telecommunications vehicles, neither the Seventh District nor the Sixth District dared to turn on the radio.
But this is northern Shanxi, so there is no need to worry about this problem. You can contact the New Regiment Headquarters at any time.
Before leaving, an Eighth Route Army cavalry unit of more than 400 people found them.
Under the guidance of the communications troops, the commander of the cavalry unit met with Wang Fafa and Zhao Youliang.
"I am Ma Renxing. Following the orders of the headquarters and the commander of the Central Hebei Military Region, I am leading my troops to return to the army!"
As soon as he came up, Ma Renxing saluted Wang Fafa and Zhao Youliang and said.
Wang Fafa and Zhao Youliang responded to the military salute in confusion. What was going on?
Although I received a telegram that a group of Eighth Route Army cavalry from the Central Hebei Military Region was coming for reinforcements, I did not expect this to be the case.
Seeing this, Ma Renxing said: "The designation of our cavalry unit was originally the Jizhong Cavalry Regiment, and now it is the New First Regiment Cavalry Battalion."
"The cavalry battalion of the new regiment?" Zhao Youliang, commander of the seventh battalion of the division, said, "Our new regiment only has one cavalry battalion. When did you become the cavalry battalion of the new regiment?"
At that moment, Ma Renxing told the story of how the Jizhong Cavalry Regiment suffered heavy losses during the raids, was reorganized by the headquarters into the new cavalry battalion, and was then sent by the headquarters to Pingsui Road to cooperate in the operation.
Ma Renxing didn't have much hesitation about whether to be the commander of the new regiment's cavalry battalion. For him, as long as he could fight the Japanese, he would be willing to be a top soldier.
What's more, the new regiment directly under the Eighth Route Headquarters is the first regiment of the Eighth Route Army and even the entire Chinese Army.
The performance of the New Regiment has reached the point where some people would not believe it. Li Yunlong is famous in North China and even across the country.
Ma Renxing is naturally very willing to serve as a battalion commander under such a heroic unit and such a regimental leader.
Immediately afterwards, Ma Renxing introduced to everyone the former political commissar of the Jizhong Cavalry Regiment, now the instructor of the New 1st Regiment Cavalry Battalion, and the correspondent Ma Chengfeng.
Battalion Commander Wang immediately ordered the telegraph soldiers to report the matter to the headquarters of the New Regiment, and then organized the cavalry battalion of the New Regiment into the reserve team.
Immediately afterwards, the Eighth Route Army troops, numbering more than 9,000, marched toward Pingsui Road in a mighty manner.