One side had a well-prepared ambush, while the other side was on guard but stepped into the Eighth Route Army's ambush circle.
From the beginning of the battle, the Japanese army was at a disadvantage. It was just that the ambushing soldiers did not dare to open fire unscrupulously due to Ding Wei's order. However, the Japanese and puppet troops also suffered heavy losses due to the flanking attack from both sides.
Ding Wei, who was lying on the top of the hill, saw a small number of enemy troops getting under the truck, and immediately shouted: "Blowler, blow the charge horn, suppress it with heavy machine gun fire!"
The ticking bugle sounded, and more than 600 soldiers from the first battalion and the guard company accompanying the battle rushed down one after another.
Near the convoy, the Japanese and puppet soldiers huddled under the car and refused to come out no matter how loud the soldiers screamed.
"Captain, the little devil is too scared to survive!" The first battalion commander scratched his head when he saw this situation.
The soldiers just surrounded the convoy. After a moment of observation, the soldiers discovered that there were less than twenty Japanese and puppet troops lying under the four trucks in the middle.
But the soldiers did not dare to get too close, as they were also worried that the little Japs lying under the car would detonate the artillery shells on the car.
"Get a clerk to come over and tell the little devil that our Eighth Route Army treats prisoners preferentially, and the little devil is also a human being!" Ding Wei put the short gun on his waist and said immediately.
"yes!"
Many of the clerks in the regiments of the Tainan Military Region graduated from cadre schools. When they were in school, Japanese dialogue on recruiting and surrendering on the battlefield was a compulsory course.
Soon, the clerk from the first battalion arrived with a loudspeaker in his hand: "Captain!"
"let's start!"
"yes!"
Immediately, the clerk stood less than ten meters away from the truck: "Japanese troops under the car, listen, you are surrounded by the main force of the 279th Regiment of the First Division of the Tainan Military Region of the Eighth Route Army. Our regiment leader said that as long as you put down your weapons and surrender voluntarily,
Our Eighth Route Army treats prisoners preferentially!"
As soon as he finished speaking, the puppet troops under the car suddenly became agitated: "Commander of the Eighth Route Army, if the Japanese can surrender, can we, the Imperial Association Army, do it? You should treat them equally!"
The clerk immediately realized that there was something wrong with what he just said, and immediately said: "The Imperial Association Army also has the same treatment. As long as you are willing to do anything, our Eighth Route Army welcomes you with both hands!"
As soon as these words came out, more than a dozen weapons were thrown out, and then more than a dozen puppet soldiers came out one after another.
"Go, take them away!" A battalion commander called to several soldiers to take away the puppet soldiers.
The surrender of the puppet army greatly touched the hesitant Japanese army, and the officials immediately stepped up their propaganda offensive.
As time entered 41 years, all regiments in the Tainan Military Region responded upward, and the strength and willpower of the Japanese army declined.
In every battle in the past, the Japanese army resisted to the end, and few Japanese soldiers were captured. However, in 1941, Japanese soldiers were captured in every battle, and even more surrendered. This was incredible to the Eighth Route Army soldiers.
Later, in a meeting at the Eighth Route Army headquarters, the boss mentioned that this situation had occurred in several military districts around the headquarters, and also conducted a targeted analysis.
The final conclusion was that the Japanese army was on the decline, and this situation was particularly obvious for several Japanese armies near the Taihang base area.
Compared with the beginning of the Anti-Japanese War, the strength of the Eighth Route Army has increased significantly in terms of weapons, equipment and personnel. In particular, the Tainan Military Region has repeatedly performed extraordinary feats and eliminated many elite veterans of the Japanese army.
As the proportion of veterans in the Japanese army declines, the new recruits cannot match the veterans in terms of combat literacy or willpower.
Take this ambush of the 279th Regiment as an example. The Japanese Independent Tenth Brigade was worried about causing an overreaction from the Eighth Route Army and did not dare to send too many troops to protect it.
There was only an infantry squad and more than a hundred puppet troops accompanying him. Faced with the sudden attack, the veterans who resisted resolutely were gradually eliminated, while the remaining recruits hid under the trucks, leaving a way to survive.
As the clerk shouted, the ten little devils under the car put down their weapons and surrendered. Ding Wei on the side couldn't help but breathed a sigh of relief when he saw this. He was really afraid that if the little devil detonated the truck with a grenade, just thinking about it
Feeling distressed.
The battalion commander pulled out his bayonet, stepped onto the truck in a few steps, opened the ammunition box on the truck with his bayonet, and the bright shells appeared in front of him.
"Captain, it's artillery shells, this truck is full of artillery shells!" A battalion commander grabbed Che Bang and shouted at Ding Weiwei.
"Quick, notify the car squad and drive all the trucks away!" Ding Wei shouted excitedly: "Damn, let's have a car company in a division from now on. This is not much more comfortable than marching on two legs!"
At the same time, in the junction area between the eastern part of Lin County and the suburbs of Anyang, Shuiye Town here was originally an area controlled by the Japanese army in Anyang. As the strength of the Japanese army in Anyang weakened, Shuiye Town was occupied by the supplementary regiment.
After that, in order to reduce the burden on the people of Lin County, the main force of the supplementary regiment moved forward to Shuiye Town.
On the outskirts of Shuiye Town, the battle had just ended. Zhang Hao, the leader of the supplementary regiment, looked a little unhappy because at the last moment, the remaining Japanese troops blew up a truck.
Not only the truckload of artillery shells was used up, but six soldiers from the surrounding squad also lost their lives.
Fortunately, the distance between the trucks was seven or eight meters, so the remnants of the explosion did not affect the ammunition on the other trucks.
"Report to the command center immediately!"
"Captain, how do you report?"
"How to report?" Zhang Hao's eyes widened: "Report according to the situation on site!"
The situation at the 280th Regiment was generally similar. Although the three units took action at different times, the Japanese army in charge of transportation did not pass on the news, which resulted in other Japanese transport convoys not knowing the news of the ambush.
Inside Pingshun City.
Xing Zhiguo took over the final telegram from the supplementary regiment reporting the battle situation: "Zhang Hao's side is finished. The number of artillery and light and heavy airfields has been confirmed. There is no problem. It's just that a truck of artillery shells was blown up, and six soldiers were taken with it.
sacrifice!"
"Oh, it's great to be able to do this!" After hearing the news, Zhou Weihan first sighed, and then immediately said: "Inform Zhang Hao immediately. The convoy does not need to rush to Pingshun. Find a place far away from the battlefield to hide the supplies.
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"yes!"
Zhou Weihan's move was also because he was worried that Japanese planes would come over. In short, he got the food in his mouth, which was enough for a while.
In this battle, the Tainan Military Region Regiment and the Supplementary Regiment ambushed the Japanese transport convoy from three directions and captured 24 mountain guns, 24 Type 92 infantry guns, 36 heavy machine guns, and 60 Type 96 light machine guns.
Whether other items such as 38-mm ammunition, ammunition, and artillery shells comply with the content of the negotiations have not yet been calculated.
However, these forty-eight artillery pieces alone were enough to give the Tainan Military Region's troops a qualitative leap in combat effectiveness.
Zhou Weihan has already made plans to send all 24 Type 92 infantry guns to the regiment level to enrich the firepower configuration at the regiment level, and then adapt the artillery battalions of Tainan Military Region and Hebei, Shandong and Yu Military Region to the actual situation.