Although the Japanese army did not expect that the Eighth Route Army would launch before dark, they made careful arrangements and planned their moves before taking advantage. Once they discovered that the Eighth Route Army had launched, not to mention other things, just the planes that quickly rushed to the battlefield were enough.
The Eighth Route Army was able to cope with it. Moreover, the Eighth Route Army was originally worried about being discovered by the Japanese and puppet troops on the Longhai Line, so the campsites of each unit were relatively far away from the attack point. The nearest one was five or six miles away, and the farthest one was the baggage moving with the headquarters.
The logistics team is thirty miles away. If this distance were placed in later generations, it would be reached in a matter of seconds. But in this era on the East China Sea, it would be troublesome. It takes one hour by car and two hours by infantry. Just these two hours.
, it was almost dark, enough for the Japanese army to arrive.
The Japanese and puppet troops stationed in the East China Sea have received orders to loosen externally and tighten internally to confuse the Eighth Route Army's reconnaissance troops. They must all enter the fortifications before dark and hold their positions to prevent the Eighth Route Army from breaking through Longhai Road and ensure that the main force arrives to annihilate the main force of the Eighth Route Army's teaching division in one fell swoop.
The 22nd Independent Mixed Brigade of the Japanese Army stationed in the East China Sea originally had five independent infantry brigades, the 111th to 115th. However, due to the frequent activities of the Eighth Route Army in the East China Sea, the 22nd Independent Mixed Brigade was newly formed.
The infantry brigade was no match. Commander Iida Sadagu of the Twelfth Army adjusted the troop sequence of the independent composite twenty-second brigade, unified the original troops into each division, and transferred additional troops to form the new independent composite brigade.
The 22nd Brigade. The current independent mixed 22nd Brigade consists of the 66th Independent Infantry Brigade of Colonel Susumu Inoue, the 71st Independent Infantry Brigade of Colonel Watanabe Weinori, and the Independent Infantry Brigade of Colonel Gorizo Taga.
The 125th Battalion, the 126th Independent Infantry Battalion under the command of Major Shosaku Fujita, the 127th Independent Infantry Battalion under Lieutenant Colonel Shosaku Fujita, the Mountain Artillery Team under Major Shichichi Yokokawa, and the Engineer Team under Captain Takeo Yokobayashi.
After the adjustment of the army organization, two key brigades, the 66th Independent Infantry Brigade and the 71st Independent Infantry Brigade, were added, which led to the 125th, 126th, and 127th Independent Infantry Brigades, and the combat effectiveness was significantly improved. Major General Mishan Milu, commander of the Xide Brigade, shouted "Yoshi,"
Even the letter home to his wife said that Lieutenant General Iida Sadagu was very clever.
After receiving the order to intercept the Eighth Route Army, Major General Mishan Milu felt that his opportunity to perform had come. As long as his independent 22nd Brigade could block the Eighth Route Army on Longhai Road for two hours, no, one hour, the troops behind him would be able to block it.
The troops will arrive. At that time, the arrogant Liu Yimin will become the defeated general of the Japanese Army. If Amaterasu can allow his troops to kill or capture Liu Yimin, God, that will be a reward of two million yen.
Ah, my whole family will become rich in no time, open mines and factories, and do whatever they want. Even if they marry a few more concubines, my wife probably won't say anything.
Thinking of the proud moment, Major General Yoneyama Yoshika couldn't help but swing his arms and kick his legs in the office, and danced a solo dance "The Entering of King Lanling" from Japanese Gagaku.
Major General Yoneyama Milu also did not think about it. This "Lanling King Enters the Battle Song" is from China. It was spread to Japan in the Tang Dynasty and became a must-play song for major Japanese events and festivals. It would be particularly charming if the Chinese people danced it.
, let an intruder like him jump out, what kind of taste can it have? It just became a "soft dance", which looked a bit lustful, and completely lacked the tragic and heroic scene of Lanling King Gao Su personally leading five hundred elite cavalry into the siege.
Exciting spirit.
After Major General Yoneyama Milu danced a song, he picked up a towel and wiped his sweat before starting to make combat deployments.
The five infantry brigades, which were independently combined into the 22nd Brigade, were all assigned to various strongholds on the Longhai Road and formed a long snake formation. At this time, since it was clear that the Eighth Route Army would break through the defense line from Hongzhuang to Niushan,
The strength of this section of the road must be strengthened. Major General Mishan Milu, who was eager to achieve success, spent a lot of money this time and transferred the 66th Independent Infantry Brigade, 71st Brigade, 125th Brigade, Mountain Artillery Team, and Engineer Team to this area. Of course,
Major General Mishan Milu is an army major general. He knows what concealing strategic intentions is and what disguise means to confuse the enemy. His methods are very clever. He has all his elites put on the uniforms of the Puppet Manchuria Defense Force, and the Puppet Manchuria Defense Force puts on the uniforms of the Japanese army.
In the form of squad-scale defense changes, the troops were moved into place in batches. The troops who were in place were also strictly ordered to maintain normal patrols, while the large troops were sleeping in strongholds and fortifications. In this way, in the eyes of the Eighth Route Army investigators,
There was indeed no major change in the strength of the Japanese army.
Major General Mishan Milu felt that everything was ready, just waiting for the Eighth Route Army to hit the guns. Therefore, he strictly ordered all units not to expose their targets, and only waited for a fierce battle with the Eighth Route Army after dark.
Since the Eighth Route Army broke through the Longhai Road defense line several times, the Japanese army worked hard on fortifications, which were all based on the original requirements of Juichi Terauchi, three lines of defense. The main reason why the Eighth Route Army broke through with large forces and successfully crossed the Longhai Line with small forces was
It was because the Japanese army did not know where the Eighth Route Army's breakthrough point was and where the breakthrough point was. With such a long attack line and insufficient troops, the Eighth Route Army naturally succeeded repeatedly. Now the Japanese army carefully deployed ambush circles and the breakthrough point was clear, allowing them to
The Japanese army can calmly mobilize its troops and strengthen the defense of a certain area. In this way, the originally weak defense line becomes a strong backbone.
Of course, a defense line composed of trenches, bunkers, and gun towers is more than enough to deal with the Chinese army that generally does not have armored assault force. If you want to use such a defense line to deal with the group attack of the Eighth Route Army Armored Regiment, it would be a bit of a joke. The original intention of inventing the tank
In order to deal with the trench defense line of infantry, Major General Yoneyama Yoshika has never seen armored group combat, so naturally he still clings to the infantry defense knowledge from the World War I period learned in textbooks. He does not know that he, and even the entire Japanese Army Non-commissioned Officer School,
All officers who graduated from the Army University have fallen behind in terms of tactical guiding ideology.
When receiving Liu Yimin's order, the Eighth Route Army's special operations brigade, armored regiment, and teaching regiment were already ready for battle. They are the instructor's attack arrow units and the main assault force. If you use me in the first battle, you will win if you use me.
The concept has long taken root in the minds of every soldier. Tonight is another battle to break through the Longhai Road. No matter whether the Japanese defense line is weak or not, they will be able to defeat the little Japanese with the power of an eagle and a rabbit, and show the majesty of the Eighth Route Army.
When Gao Yuan received the telegram from Liu Yimin, he jumped up when he saw it and opened his mouth to curse: "You damn little devil has become a spirit! How dare you play dirty tricks on your Eighth Route Grandpa! If you don't know how to read, you can touch the signboard and look at you Eighth Route."
What does grandpa do? I am the ancestor of ambushes and ambushes. You blinded your dog eyes and dared to bury an ax in front of Luban’s gate and use a machete in front of Guan Gong! I’ll kill you little devils!”
Cheng Cuilin ignored Gao Yuan's yelling and scolding, grabbed the telegram and looked at it. His face changed, and he scolded Gao Yuan: "What time is it, why are you scolding? Hurry up and order action, you must break through Longhai Road before the Japanese encirclement. Otherwise,
It’s too late for you to cry!”
Gao Yuan just yelled angrily. He would have taken action immediately without Cheng Cuilin's reminder. He only heard him say to Cheng Cuilin: "Political commissar, follow the division commander's order. I will lead the special operations brigade to teach the armored regiment to break through Longhai Road.
Go to the Second Religion Regiment and wait until we break through the Longhai Road and expand the breach, then head east to block the attack. Tell Sun Manxi that you must make plans to hold on for at least two hours to ensure that the logistics can pass through the Longhai Road smoothly."
Cheng Cuilin reminded Gao Yuan that after breaking through the Longhai Road, he must use his armor advantage to repeatedly attack the Japanese defense line and completely destroy it. He also used armor to assist a cavalry regiment in fighting the enemy to the east. Coming from the east was a brigade of the Guards Division.
The regiment, the 6th Division, and the 9th Division have many tanks and armored vehicles. Neither the 1st Cavalry Regiment nor the 2nd Cavalry Regiment are opponents. If they fight hard, the losses will be huge.
Gao Yuan immediately ordered all units to organize air shooting, set off smoke, and cover the battlefield. The special operations brigade, teaching regiment, and armored regiment quickly dispatched to launch a fierce attack on Longhai Road.
After issuing the order, Gao Yuan went directly to the armored regiment. He wanted to personally command this, the only armored force of our army, to crush the little devil's Longhai Road defense line with its tracks.
After the Japanese bombers and fighter formations bombed Dongzhuang, the planes seemed to have run out of ammunition and flapped their wings and flew away, leaving only two reconnaissance planes patrolling in the air to monitor ground movements. At that time, looking from the air, the ground
It was peaceful all the time, except for the smoke floating over Dongzhuang. Needless to say, it was their masterpiece. The two investigators were so proud that they flew around in the air. Whenever they saw pedestrians on the road, they would press the nose of the plane and shoot.
Sweep and straf, then let out a wild beastly laugh over the radio.
The two Japanese pilots were doing evil, and they saw movement on the ground. It seemed that the Eighth Route Army was extinguishing thick smoke, and wisps of smoke began to float upward. Look carefully, when did there be so many green rivers on the ground?
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The metaphor of the little Japanese pilot is appropriate. Following Liu Yimin's order, all units of the Eighth Route Army began to take action. Cars, rubber-tired carts, carts, ox carts, and wheelbarrows were all covered with green grass, leaves, and soldiers' heads.
Everyone wears grass rings on their clothes. Looking from the air, what is it if it’s not a green river?
These two Japanese pilots were really serious and responsible. They immediately lowered their altitude and prepared for low-altitude reconnaissance. At this moment, the ground firepower of the Eighth Route Army opened fire, and strings of machine gun bullets and raindrops of rifle bullets flew into the sky.
It became a big net, tightly trapping the two Japanese planes. From the Xuzhou Airport tower, only the two pilots could be heard wailing: "The Eighth Route Army has taken action, and I have been shot!"
The information that the Japanese reconnaissance plane was shot down was quickly reported to Yamashita Tomofumi and Muto Akira by phone. The two old Japanese looked at each other, rushed to the map at the same time, looked at it again, and said almost at the same time: "
Liu Yimin has noticed it and will take action in advance!"
As he spoke, Yamashita Fengfumi said viciously: "Muto-kun, order all fighter planes from Xuzhou Airport, Hefei Airport, Jinan Airport, and Qingdao Airport to launch intensive bombing against the Eighth Route Army and delay their actions. Order an independent mixed group to form the 22nd Brigade.
Quickly enter a fighting state and resolutely block the attack. Order the main forces on the east and west fronts to advance with all their strength and attack Tubal Road together!"
After Muto Akira issued the order, he said to Yamashita Fengfumi: "Your Excellency, Chief of Staff, it's a pity that it's getting dark. The aviation force can only fly once at most, and the results are limited. If Liu Yimin had launched it two hours earlier, the aviation force alone could have severely damaged his troops.
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Yamashita Fengfumi showed his unmistakable style and chuckled: "Muto-kun, isn't there a saying in China? It's called the worst of ten unsatisfactory things in the world. Don't worry, the independent 22nd Brigade's attack is only for Liu Yimin.
The first surprise; the aviation bombing was the second surprise for him; the real big surprise is at the back, when our armored patrol car and train arrive, it will be a big surprise, which can be regarded as the fourth surprise; when the east and west sides are big
When the troops arrive, it’s the fourth surprise. Tell me, with these four surprises, wouldn’t Liu Yimin and his instructors be blown into pieces like meatballs that are crispy on the outside and tender on the inside?”
Muto Akira has always been overly optimistic. He always felt that Yamashita Fengfumi was just a strong general and did not understand strategy. When he heard Yamashita Fengfumi say a fourfold surprise to Liu Yimin, Muto Akira realized that not only was he a talented person, Yamashita
Fengwen was actually a talented person. He had an overall thinking and overall plan for this battle. If nothing else, just what he said about blowing Liu Yimin and the Eighth Route Army into four-dimensional balls was both vivid and appropriate.
Muto Akira looked at Yamashita Hōfumi with more respect in his eyes.
Yamashita Fengfumi and Muto Akira didn't know that while they were sitting in the headquarters gesticulating and pretending to be elegant, the Eighth Route Army had already merged with the independent 22nd Brigade to take the fight.
The first to take action was naturally the Eighth Route Army special operations hero Wang Laohu.
After Wang Laohu dealt with the Tanggou incident, he led the No. 1 Special Operations Squadron to fight a few more battles with the cavalry brigade, and then was ordered to move closer to Longhai Road, preparing to open the way for the southward troops to break through Longhai Road.
Wang Laohu and his comrades had done this a lot, and it was a job they were familiar with. Therefore, after receiving Liu Yimin's order to immediately take control of Niushan Town, Wang Laohu and his soldiers took action immediately and rushed towards Niushan Town.
The intelligence obtained in advance was that there was only one squadron of Japanese soldiers and one company of puppet troops stationed in Niushan Town. With the strength of the first special operations squadron, there should not be any problems whether it was a forceful attack or an outmaneuver.
It was already half past six in the afternoon when Wang Laohu launched his operation. Although it was getting dark late at this time, the sun was setting in the west. The special operations heroes of the Eighth Route Army came out of their hiding places in the afterglow of the setting sun.
The small team formed a unit and formed a skirmish formation to attack Niushan Town.
When approaching the south gate of Niushan Town, Wang Laohu noticed something was wrong through the telescope. The sentry at the entrance of the town was still there, but there were sandbag fortifications behind the sentry, and the black machine gun muzzle was pointed directly at the road. Upon closer inspection, his grandmother
Yes, the Japs did set up an ambush ring, and the gun holes in those gun towers and bunkers all had black muzzles.
Wang Huhu gritted his teeth and ordered the rocket launcher group to advance covertly, destroy the enemy's firepower, and storm Niushan!
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