Zihedian is located on the east bank of the Zihe River and is a village with a long history.
In ancient times, boats were inconvenient and the water in the Zihe River was very large. Travelers trudged all the way. Those coming from the west would rest by the Zihe River and wash away the dust; those going east would linger by the Zihe River and let out a few loud sighs. After all, they were coming from the south.
More and more people went north, and later villages were formed in the Zhou Dynasty.
During the Spring and Autumn Period, the cemetery of the monarchs of the State of Qi was located in the south of Zihedian Village. During the funeral, Duke Huan of Qi paid homage and held a funeral here, and the village was renamed the "Emperor's Funeral Store". After the Qi State was destroyed by Qin, the old people in the village believed that "the Emperor's Funeral" was the place where the emperor's funeral was held.
The name Zihedian was unlucky, so the name was simply changed to Qinglong Street, and then Zihe Street. However, after many changes, people felt that everything was just a cloud, and the name Zihedian was more in line with the characteristics of building a village near the river, so they called the village again.
It became a Zihe store.
After the construction of Jiaoji Road, a train station was set up in Zihe Branch to facilitate passenger and freight transportation. The Jiqing Highway also turned a corner here and closely connected with the railway. The two traffic arteries are like lovers leaning on each other.
Generally, it meanders and dances.
Lei Ming and Zhu Rui led the 4th Teaching Brigade to teach the 10th Regiment, the 11th Teaching Regiment, the New 4th Regiment, the Shandong Independent Regiment, the Artillery Regiment, and the Heavy Machine Gun Battalion all the way north, passing through Zijin Mountain, Niushugang, and Tutou south of Zihedian.
At the Erwang Tomb between the mountains, the scout reported that the Japanese army column was passing through Zihedian Station.
Lei Ming raised his telescope and took a look, and saw that the Japanese military column was very majestic. There were armored patrol cars guarding the front and rear. The first military column was a ticket car, long, with more than a dozen carriages. The second military column and
The third truck was a truck for transporting coal, but most of the carriage boards were put down, turning it into a flatbed truck, with tanks and artillery pulled on top. The wagons without carriage boards must be carrying ammunition or soldiers.
Lei Ming said bitterly: "I'm half an hour late, otherwise I'll end up with the army and the convoy in one pot!"
Zhu Rui now knows Lei Ming very well. He knows that he was transferred from the Red 3rd Army and the Red 5th Division to the Red 18th Regiment. He also knows that he first served as the recruit battalion commander after arriving at the Red 18th Regiment. He directly asked Liu Yimin during the Xiaoshui battle.
It was only when he became the commander of the main battalion that he attracted Liu Yimin's attention. From then on, he went from battalion commander to regiment commander, division political commissar, division commander, and then to the commander of the fourth brigade of the Eighth Route Army's reorganized teaching staff of the Red Army. It can be said that the Eighth Route Army's teachings can be seen in Lei Ming.
The growth process of a mentor.
Seeing Lei Ming's regretful look as if he had lost his treasure, Zhu Rui was not polite and said directly: "Okay, don't be greedy. Our mission is to be the Japs' car unit. There are people to deal with the Japs on this military column. Let's teach the three
The main force of the brigade is waiting for them in front! Leave quickly, don't let the Japanese convoy slip away again."
Lei Ming sighed again: "Not to mention, Li Qing's command level is getting higher and higher, and he has timed the actions of each of the little devil's troops just right. I'm afraid this guy has already planned to deploy like this when we can't reach him.
. It seems that he has spent a long time with the division commander and learned a lot. No wonder the division commander always assigns him and Liu Jianli to take command of one aspect every time there is a big combat operation."
Zhu Rui glanced at Lei Ming, whose expression was unclear: "Why, are you envious? Are you jealous?"
Lei Ming shook his head: "I'm not jealous. I, Lao Lei, can eat a few steamed buns and drink a few bowls of soup. I have a good idea. In terms of qualifications, I don't want to say that I can't compare with an old leader like you. Even Gao Yuan and the others are better than me."
I have seniority. When they were the commander of the main regiment in the Soviet area, I was still the company commander and battalion commander. However, if the division commander can let me, Lao Lei, command several brigades to fight in a battle, that would be fun!"
Zhu Rui smiled and said: "There will be a chance. The bigger the battle, the stronger the troops will be. After this battle, we will have a stable base and have the conditions for large-scale military expansion. It depends on the magnanimity of the division commander.
, that is to fight the Japanese army. How can we do it without strong troops? We are the main brigade. As long as we expand the army, we will definitely be able to take the lead. Maybe, as soon as the Jiaoji Road battle is over, the order to expand the army will be issued soon.
issued".
Lei Ming looked at Zhu Rui who looked calm, shouted "drive", whipped the horse on the butt, and ran towards the Zihe store.
There was a small team of the Jiaoji Road Guards and a platoon of puppet troops stationed at Zihedian Station. The sudden appearance of the large troops of the Fourth Teaching Brigade caught the Japanese and puppet troops by surprise. The Japanese and traitors here are quite tough, and they are on the gun tower.
After opening fire to resist, Lei Ming was in a hurry to set up an ambush position. He had no time to chat with them and directly ordered to use anti-aircraft guns and rocket launchers to deal with them. After several rounds of anti-aircraft shells and rockets, the turret collapsed, directly burying the Japanese traitors in the ruins.
Time waits for no one, Lei Ming immediately ordered each regiment to deploy and arrange into pocket positions. Among them, the 10th Regiment was in the south of the road, the 11th Regiment was in the north of the road, and the position of the New 4th Regiment was connected to the 10th Regiment, and was responsible for occupying the Zihe Bridge.
In order to cut off the Japanese's retreat route, the Shandong Independent Regiment's defense line connected with the 11th Regiment, tasked with intercepting the Japanese's eastward advance channel. The regiment strengthened two anti-aircraft guns and two rocket launcher groups to destroy the Japanese armored vehicles.
The heavy machine gun company of each regiment's fire support battalion directs the entire regiment's machine guns to be deployed on the front line, and one battalion is selected as a reserve team.
The artillery regiment concentrated the artillery of each regiment's fire support battalion, laid out positions step by step, and calculated the bombardment of various elements.
The engineer companies of each regiment laid mines and explosive packets on both sides of the Jiqing Highway, preparing to give the little Japanese a taste of what it was like to fly from a homemade aircraft when they jumped out of the car and resisted.
A platoon of the brigade reconnaissance company accompanying the main force went out to conduct reconnaissance, established observation points, and connected telephone lines to report the enemy's situation at any time.
In just half an hour, Lei Ming received a report from the reconnaissance platoon. The Japanese convoy came up. In front was a vanguard unit composed of four armored vehicles and six cars. Behind them were fifty cars, with about 20 people on each car.
The Japanese have machine guns on the roof of the car.
Lei Ming immediately ordered to prepare for battle.
The Japanese convoy came up. The distance between the Japanese vanguard convoy and the convoy behind was only about 500 meters. There were small sun flags on the fronts of the cars. They were covered with dust and looked like dirty diapers.
As disgusting as it is.
Lei Ming climbed on the roof of a house in Zihedian Village, holding up his binoculars to observe the convoy of Japs. Seeing that the convoy had all entered the ambush circle, Lei Ming put down his binoculars, raised his pistol and was about to order an attack.
I heard the military song sung by the little devil.
Lei Ming was stunned, cursed, "Go to hell, fill the canyon and sea with corpses, go to hell," and raised his hand to shoot him.
The sound of gunfire was an order. The field artillery of the artillery regiment and the infantry artillery and mortars of the fire support battalions of the regiments they commanded all opened fire. The shells were flying and hitting the Japanese convoy on the Jiqing Highway.
The most unlucky thing was the Japs armored vehicles acting as vanguards. They were roaring and running happily. The Eighth Route Army in the south of the road took off the camouflage of the anti-aircraft guns. The muzzle pointed at the body of the armored vehicle. Boom, boom, two rounds fired flatly.
The anti-aircraft shells shot directly into the first two armored vehicles one after another, causing the two armored vehicles to stagger and then fall apart.
What was more terrifying was yet to come. Two rockets fired by two rocket launcher groups exploded after getting into the third and fourth armored vehicles, turning the two armored vehicles into two fireballs that burned on the road.
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The sudden change caused the car following the armored vehicle to have no time to react, and directly hit the wreckage of the armored vehicle. One, two, three, four, five, six, six cars rear-ended each other and collided. The Japanese in the car staggered around. Be smart and grab the car to avoid it.
He fell out of the car; before he had time to react, he was still singing military songs and was thrown out of the car, kissing the earth.
At this time, the artillery shells of the Eighth Route Army fell. Some fell directly into the compartment of the Japanese car, blowing up a load of minced meat; some fell in the middle of the road, blowing up big holes in the road. After the car sank,
The fire was extinguished immediately; some fell on the side of the car and kicked up dust all over the sky, shrouding the little devil in the dust and unable to open his eyes.
The Japs had too few vehicles and the Eighth Route Army had too many artillery. With just one salvo, the Japs' convoy was basically paralyzed. By the time Zhu Yuan was rested and the second salvo fired, there was no one left on the highway.
The car is moving.
Li Sheng, commander of the artillery regiment of the 4th Teaching Brigade, was originally the mortar company commander of the 38th Regiment of the Red 13th Division of the 7th Red Army. During the Battle of Tianshui, he once commanded the 38th Regiment, the 39th Regiment, and the Only Regiment.
The regiment's mortar company fought. Lei Ming was the political commissar of the One Division at the time. He was entrusted by Li Qing, the commander of the 13th Red Division, and Feng Dafei, the commander of the One Division, to go to Tianshui City to unified command the city defense operations. He admired Li Sheng's performance. Later, he and
Li Qing discussed and transferred Li Sheng to the One Division. When the Fourth Brigade established an artillery regiment, Li Sheng, who was already the commander of the fire support battalion, served as the artillery regiment commander.
Li Sheng originally planned to fire a five-volley salvo, but when the Japanese came up, Li Sheng changed his mind. The reason was that there were too few Japanese soldiers and he did not need to waste so many shells. He wanted to fire only three salvoes. In the end, he fired two salvos.
After the attack, just as he was about to order three salvos, Lei Ming, commander of the Fourth Brigade, received a call, ordering him to stop the shelling.
Li Sheng reported: "Brigadier Commander, the artillery shells are all loaded with fuses, and they can't stop until they are loaded!"
When Lei Ming heard this, he became angry and opened his mouth: "Li Sheng, you are a prodigal son. You have damaged all the Japanese cars. I can't catch anything even if I run so far. Will you compensate me for the loss? Remove the fuse and stop the bombardment."
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Li Sheng had no choice but to stop the bombardment and ordered the artillery regiment to withdraw immediately and prepare for transfer. As for the infantry artillery and mortar companies of the fire support battalions of each regiment, although the bombardment was stopped, they could move easily. Li Sheng ordered them to monitor the Japanese.
Support the battle at any time.
In fact, Li Sheng's worries were unnecessary. The Japs only had one infantry brigade with thousands of men. They were exposed to the firepower of four infantry regiments and one artillery regiment of the Eighth Route Army. It was like ten men fighting one man. There was no chance of survival.
What!
No, before the artillery fire stopped, the heavy machine gun battalion of the fourth teaching brigade and the heavy machine gun companies of the fire support battalions of each regiment opened fire. So many heavy machine guns lined up, spraying bullets at the little devil's car like a wind blowing.
go out.
Immediately afterwards, the Eighth Route Army's grenade launchers, light machine guns, submachine guns, Bayi automatic rifles, and 38-year-old guns all opened fire. The difference was that the firepower of the heavy machine guns was a surface attack, while the light machine guns, submachine guns, and Bayi automatic rifles all fired bursts.
, Sanba Daigai is even more precise in shooting.
When the Eighth Route Army launched its attack, Captain Ebi Mingei, captain of the 132nd Regiment of the 25th Brigade, was leaning on the back of a truck cab's chair with his eyes closed to meditate.
Originally, if the noise of the car had not been too loud, Colonel Ebi Mingrong should have been able to hear the brief sound of gunfire at Zihedian Station after leaving Linzi. Unfortunately, the noise of the car was too loud, and it was on the Jiqing Highway controlled by the Japanese army.
On the way, the soldiers of the 25th Regiment were all in their thirties. In this war era, people of this age were indifferent to the sound of gunfire and killings. They didn't even notice the Zihe store.
Abnormal, singing military songs, and dove into the ambush of the Eighth Route Army.
As soon as the cannon sounded, Colonel Ebina Ei immediately woke up. He opened his eyes and saw, oh my god, his convoy was under attack. Captain Ebina Ei was a person who participated in the Russo-Japanese War. He reacted very quickly.
The sound of exploding artillery shells told him that there were many enemy artillery. If he didn't get out of the car, he would be turned into a piece of junk like the car. He immediately ordered the car to stop, opened the door and jumped out. Before the bullet hit him, he threw himself on
He fell to the ground and shouted loudly: "Artillery attack, all personnel get out of the car and fight back!"
In fact, without his order, all the little Japs who could jump out of the car began to jump out of the car. However, most of them were unlucky and were hit by the machine gun bullets of the Eighth Route Army at the moment they jumped out of the car. They became lonely ghosts.
Captain Ebi Mingrong shouted for a long time, but could not hear the sound of guns and artillery from his own troops' counterattack. He only heard the Eighth Route Army's artillery fire stopped, but the light and heavy machine guns fired more vigorously. Bullets flew overhead and hit the car.
It hit the soldiers, and it also hit the heart of the old Japanese enemy Eiichi Ebina.
Captain Ebi Mingei stopped shouting for counterattack. He had already realized that he had fallen into the ambush of the main force of the Eighth Route Army. If he could survive such a powerful firepower, it must be the appearance of Amaterasu. However, Ebi Mingei
The First Sergeant knows that the nonsense about Amaterasu is all caused by the scholars who are flattering the Emperor. If there really is Amaterasu, he would have appeared long ago. Where would there be the 21st Brigade and Chahar?
The dispatched corps, the 21st Division, the 8th Division, and the 10th Division are all in pieces! Don't say that you don't believe in Amaterasu, even His Majesty the Emperor may not believe it. If he really believed it, he wouldn't send it.
So many troops came to China to commit crimes!
Captain Ebi Mingei knew that his army would be destroyed in an instant. At this time, he was completely desperate. He knew that the suspicions of the idiots at the 12th Army Headquarters and the stupid pigs at the 108th Division Headquarters were correct.
, Liu Yimin's instructor returned to Shandong and attacked the 108th Division. The capture of Lieutenant General Wei Gaogui Zang was the beginning of their fishing. With the bait of Wei Gaogui Zang, no matter the 108th Division, the first
The 33rd Division, no matter what, will become a fish that eats the bait, and in the end it can only become a piece of sashimi on the Eighth Route Army's table. It seems that the ending of His Excellency Nakano Naosan Brigade Commander is also very bad, maybe
At this time, he had already gone to the Yasukuni Shrine to report on his own.
Captain Ebori Mingei decided to no longer fantasize about Amaterasu, and he no longer considered the life or death of Commander Nakano Nao's third brigade. He wanted to find a way out for himself.
To say that Captain Ebi Minei's tactical movements were well practiced, he quickly climbed under the car and wanted to turn to the other side of the car, to the north of the road, to see if it was possible to escape from the battlefield, climb down the road, and sneak into the south.
Go inside the mountains.
Captain Ebi Minei actually climbed to the other side of the car, to the south of the highway. However, when he looked up, the muscles on his face immediately stiffened. Because he found that the south of the road was the same as the north of the road, with rows of rows.
The Eighth Route Army's gun was pointed at him. He hesitated for a moment, but before he could lower his head, a bullet flew over and penetrated into his head.
After the battle in Zihedian, Lei Ming was still full of ideas. He mobilized such a large force, traveled so many miles, and wasted so much ammunition. In the end, only one infantry brigade of the Japanese was wiped out, and not even a complete armored vehicle or car was destroyed.
How could he be content with not capturing it!
Therefore, Lei Ming ordered the Central Shandong Independent Regiment to stay and quickly clean the battlefield, and take on the task of blocking the possible return of the Japanese troops heading towards Yidu County. He and Zhu Rui led the 10th Regiment, the 11th Regiment, the New 4th Regiment and
The artillery regiment and heavy machine gun battalion quickly moved westward to reinforce the 12th Regiment in the battle.
The conjecture of Colonel Ebi Mingei was correct. At this time, the military column of Naozo Nakano, commander of the 25th Brigade, had already been attacked by the Eighth Route Army.
After Li Qing issued the combat order, he, together with political commissar Chen Dazhong and director of the Political Department Chang Huayu, led the Eighth Regiment, Ninth Regiment, New Third Regiment, Brigade Artillery Regiment, and Heavy Machine Gun Battalion to Jiaoji, 10 kilometers west of Yidu Station.
They were hiding on both sides of the road, preparing to eliminate the main force of the 25th Brigade led by Naozo Nakano.
What Li Qing didn't expect was that Major General Nakano Naosan was so cunning. He not only left an infantry brigade in Zhoucun, but also did not bring the Jiaoji Road garrison stationed between Zhangqiu and Linzi, and only brought one infantry brigade.
, a tank squadron and the 108th Division Field Artillery Regiment were attached to the field artillery brigade under his command, with a total of only three military columns and two armored patrol vehicles serving as escorts.
If he had known this, Li Qing would not have deployed his troops like this. Instead, he would have asked the Third Jiao Brigade to split up and eliminate the 25th Brigade to reinforce the troops at Shilibao Airport. The battle could have lasted longer and attracted the Japs from Zhoucun out of the city.
For reinforcements, let the Fourth Teaching Brigade divide its troops and take the opportunity to capture Zhoucun, Zhangdian and Zhangqiu. The current deployment is a bit of a waste of troops, and it is in compliance with the old saying of killing a chicken with a bull's knife.
Song Wenhu became famous since the Battle of Tianshui when he defended the Tianshui City Gate and became a famous battle hero. He was selected to study in the former teaching team of the Seventh Red Army. After graduation, he returned to the Red 13th Division and was composed of a company and a platoon of the fourth battalion of the Red Thirty-eighth Regiment.
After going north to fight against Japan, due to the expansion of the army, rapid promotion of cadres and rapid exchanges, especially the establishment of the Qinghe Garrison Brigade and the establishment of the Qinghe County Brigade, a large number of military and political cadres were drawn from the Third Education Brigade to enrich
Song Wenhu was naturally promoted to lead the Qinghe garrison brigade and the county brigade. Now, he is the company commander of the third brigade and the eighth regiment, one battalion and one company.
At this time, Song Wenhu led a company to ambush in the south of Jiaoji Road, only 100 meters away from the roadbed. This is flat land. Even if the Japanese army column overturned, it could only be overturned, and it would not roll over and roll over. Song Wenhu was not worried.
The Japanese troops would roll onto their own positions and crush the soldiers.
The Third Teaching Brigade is the main force. It has participated in all the instructor battles since it went north to resist Japan. It has captured a lot of goods and its equipment is accordingly very neat. The fire support of Song Wenhu's company excludes grenades and a rocket launcher group, and the heavy machine gun also comes from the Mark
Xim changed to Type 92. The soldiers in the infantry platoon except for the smaller number of August 1 automatic rifles, which are not as good as those of the Seventh Regiment, other weapons are exactly the same. They all have submachine guns. The light machine guns are replaced by crooked handles and rifles.
They were all brand-new 38 caps. The soldiers also carried a pistol on their backs as a close-combat self-defense weapon. Even the grenades were small melon grenades made by the Japanese.
Song Wenhu and others were very particular about the positions they built. The trenches were all covered with sorghum straw. Not only did they cover the trenches, but the soil used to dig the trenches was also covered tightly. When there was no fighting, outsiders looked like the ground was covered with sorghum straw.
Like woven straw curtains, one would never have thought that the main force of the elite Eighth Route Army was hidden under these rows of slightly raised straw curtains.
Engineers have already deployed electric explosives under the roadbed, and will blow them up immediately if the Japanese army dares to come.
Time passed minute by minute while waiting. Finally, through the gap between the sorghum stalks, Song Wenhu saw the Japanese armored patrol car approaching from a distance. That guy was a pure steel monster, and the bullets could not even make a small hole in it.
It couldn't be drilled out. However, Song Wenhu knew that it was not terrible. The Eighth Route Army had at least four ways to deal with it. One was to bury an electrically detonated illumination package to blow it over. The other was to use an anti-aircraft gun to hit it flat, or use a high-level dual-purpose cannon.
The third is to hit it with a rocket launcher, and it will fall down with one rocket. The fourth is to move the switch to make it derail. Knowing that the Eighth Route Army is absolutely sure to kill the Japanese armored patrol car, Song Wenhu watched
The Japanese armored patrol car was not nervous, but rather a little happy, knowing that the battle was about to start.
Sure enough, the phone next to Song Wenhu rang. He grabbed the receiver and heard the order from battalion commander Niu Liangzi to prepare for battle.
This Niu Liangzi is a legendary hero, and Song Wenhu knows him very well. Because when the army was reorganized in the West Yan, Niu Liangzi, an old Red Army soldier, took the lead in complaining in the new barracks. After being injured in the battle, Niu Liangzi lay on a stretcher and followed the army on the long march.
When he was in Maotai Ancient Town, Chen Tong wanted to use Maotai wine to wash his wounds to reduce inflammation. He felt sorry that Moutai wine was too expensive and refused to wash his wounds. It was Liu Yimin who personally educated him before he agreed to use Maotai wine to wash his wounds.
Seeing the Japanese armored patrol car passing by, followed closely by the military column transporting Japanese soldiers, Song Wenhu immediately ordered the soldiers to remove their disguises, set up heavy machine guns, grenade launchers, and rocket launchers in preparation for battle.
The sorghum stalks on the first company position were pushed away from the machine guns, and the grenade launchers and rocket launchers were set up, waiting for the order to fire.