Chapter 539 The Battle of Qingzhou (6)

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
To be continued...