The most cattle cottage in the Anti-Japanese War

Chapter 266 This is just the beginning

Stationed in Lanxi County is a brigade headquarters and a squadron of the 114th Corps of Japanese Engineers, with a strength of more than 170 people. They are responsible for guarding a batch of materials raised from Lanxi County, as well as more than 23 prisoners from the newly organized 200rd Regiment. prisoner of war.

In the current battle situation, these people are not important, not even Lanxi County.However, why did the Japanese army mobilize a large group of troops for reinforcements?
The Japanese army has a very good tradition. According to a famous line in the TV series "Soldier Assault", that is "Never abandon, never give up."

As long as any unit of the Japanese army is attacked, they will do everything possible to go to the rescue.This is really a very good tradition, and it is an important guarantee for the strong combat effectiveness of the Japanese army.

Any army is attacked by the enemy, surrounded by the enemy, if they know that reinforcements will definitely arrive.This army will resist desperately and strive for the arrival of reinforcements.In this case, they can display an extremely tenacious fighting spirit and burst out a powerful fighting force.

Conversely, if the besieged know that there is no reinforcement, their will to fight will be greatly weakened, and in many cases, they will choose to surrender to the enemy.

Gao Jiu was well aware of this characteristic of the Japanese army, so he led the troops to attack Lanxi County.

Lanxi County has only three gates. Zhang Quan's No. [-] Squadron attacked the east gate, Guo Hengming's No. [-] Squadron attacked the West Gate, Gao Jiu led the No. [-] Squadron of Li Chengwu and Liang Shihu, and Wang Zhankui's cavalry battalion to attack the south gate.

Gao Jiu and others fought very lively, but they did not cause much damage to the Japanese army. They just forced the Japanese army to ask for help from their superiors.

On this point, Gao Jiu's judgment was correct, but the reaction of the brigade leader Obovov was beyond his expectation.

Unlike Linchuan Town, the Japanese army in Lanxi County not only had a radio station, but after capturing the county, their communications soldiers also repaired the telephone line, which was able to directly connect to the 128th Brigade Headquarters of the Japanese Army. Soon after, the brigade head Obov received a call for help from the Japanese army in Lanxi County.

After listening to the 115th Regiment's report on the loss of Linchuan Town, Obauf also learned that Lanxi County was under attack. He analyzed and judged that it was the same group of enemies.And he judged that it should be Gao Jiu's Peach Blossom Mountain guerrillas.

Although Oboff didn't know how big Gao Jiu's Taohuashan guerrillas were?However, he knew that Gao Jiu and others had the strength to eat up a brigade of the Japanese army.

Therefore, while he sent Chiba Kotaro to lead a brigade to reinforce Lanxi County, he also sent Captain Nomura of the 150th Infantry Regiment to lead two infantry squadrons and an artillery squadron from the 120th Field Artillery Regiment to head towards Lanxi. Reinforcements came from the county seat.

Oboff believes that although Wang Jindong's 187th Division has a large force, they are surrounded by the Japanese army and do not have the courage to take the initiative to attack. Sooner or later, they will be the meat on his chopping block.

However, the whereabouts of the Taohuashan guerrillas led by Gao Jiu are erratic, and one mistake will bring great harm to Huang Jun.Therefore, he decided to concentrate the forces of the two brigades and first eliminate Gao Jiu's Taohuashan guerrillas.

Obaugh's ideas were good, and the tactics he adopted were also very appropriate. Unfortunately, he knew too little about the Taohuashan guerrillas.Not only did he not know how many people there were in the Peach Blossom Mountain guerrillas, but he also didn't know how advanced their equipment was.Not to mention anything else, just talking about radio stations, Taohuashan Guerrilla now has more than a dozen.

When Gao Jiu deployed to attack Lanxi County, he had dispatched two six-man combat teams in advance to monitor the Japanese 150th Wing in the east of the county and the Japanese 115th Wing in the north of the county respectively. The main force of the 128th Brigade.

When the Nomura Battalion of the 150th Wing and Chiba Kotaro of the 115th Wing were dispatched, the combat team responsible for monitoring them reported to Gao Jiu.

Gao Jiu thought that too many enemies came all at once, and it was difficult to carry out the plan of encircling the spot for reinforcements, so he decided to change the battle plan.

Gao Jiu left Guo Hengming's No. [-] Squadron to continue besieging the county seat, and quickly withdrew after hearing the explosion on the road, looking for opportunities to attack the Japanese reinforcements.

Gao Jiu led Zhang Quan's No. [-] Squadron, Wang Zhankui's Cavalry Battalion, and Li Chengwu's No. [-] Squadron, and made a detour to Zhiyuan County.

Gao Jiu and the others left Lanxi County, and the fast horses drove along the road. When they had traveled about seven or eight miles, a fork appeared in front of them. From here, two roads diverged, leading to the east and west of Lanxi County. city ​​gate.

This is where Gao Jiu and the others planned to ambush the enemy.

Seeing Gao Jiu and the others coming, Du Shengxi and the others, who were in charge of planting the explosives here, greeted them.

Gao Jiu said: "Old Du, there are too many devils here, the original ambush plan is temporarily cancelled."

Du Shengxi said depressingly: "Master Jiu, the explosives are almost buried, what should we do?"

Gao Jiu said with a smile: "Go ahead and bury it. Although the ambush will not be fought, it is still necessary to teach the devils a lesson. After the explosives are laid, leave a combat team behind. When the devils come and detonate the explosives, they will quickly leave the battle. "

Du Shengxi called the leader of a combat team over, explained to him, and then led the other team members to leave with Gao Jiu and the others.

Gao Jiu and the others continued along the road for about ten miles, then left the road and took a detour from the fields to Zhiyuan County.

In order to urgently rescue Lanxi County, the Japanese army mobilized all the motor vehicles and carriages that could be mobilized, and maneuvered at high speed in the direction of Lanxi County.

At 3:40 in the morning, the vanguard of the 115th Regiment of the Japanese Army encountered a violent explosion. The road section of more than 200 meters was instantly shrouded in flames and thick smoke. More than 300 devils were in the violent explosion. Lost life.

Chiba Kotaro once heard Hamada Yoshihito say that his former team leader Yazaki Setzo once enjoyed this kind of treatment. He was not unaware, but on this long road, who knows if the enemy will plant explosives?Where will the explosives be buried?It is almost impossible to guard against.

Chiba Kotaro suppressed his grief and anger, scolding Gao Jiu for being despicable and shameless, while going to check the casualties of the troops.

Although it was night, many cars were bombed and ignited raging fires, and the mutilated bodies of the bombed yellow army officers and soldiers were everywhere on the road and around, which made him sick to see.

The combat team of the fire team ambushing nearby, after detonating the explosives, was reluctant to leave, and wanted to appreciate their masterpiece.Seeing the distressed scene of the Japanese army on the road, the team members were all overjoyed.

At this moment, with the help of the firelight, they discovered that a group of devils had surrounded there, and it seemed that there should be high officials of the devils inside.

The team members refused to let go of such a good opportunity. They didn't dare to get too close. In order to get out of the battle quickly, they didn't use machine guns. They directly set up mortars and fired a three-shot rapid fire. Then mount and run.

Due to the hasty firing, two of the three shells missed the target, and one shell exploded in the crowd of devils. This shell was only two meters away from Chiba Kotaro. Fortunately, he was still standing next to him. He watched the two devils, but the air waves generated by the violent explosion still made him faint.

After he woke up, he realized that one of his legs was broken, and his head was cut more than an inch long by the shrapnel. The pain was so painful that he just wanted to call his mother.

The devils frantically shot into the darkness, hoping to eliminate those hateful attackers hiding in the darkness!
However, the night was dim and there was no movement at all.

Chiba Kotaro was seriously injured, and the Japanese army dispatched a military vehicle to send him back to Zhiyuan County to the field hospital of the brigade headquarters.

Afterwards, Captain Nomura of the 150th Regiment of the Japanese Army who came over discussed with Captain Kondo of the 115th Regiment of the Japanese Army and decided to continue to Lanxi County to rescue the besieged Japanese troops in the county.

Seeing that it was not far from Lanxi County, they simply gave up their motor vehicles and left a small number of troops to guard them. The main force of the two brigades ran towards the county.

Hearing the violent explosion sound from the road in the distance, Guo Hengming and others knew that the devil reinforcements had arrived, and they immediately evacuated the county according to the original plan.Guo Hengming divided the entire Second Squadron into five combat groups, allowing them to fight freely, killing and injuring the Japanese army as much as possible while ensuring their own safety.

Guo Hengming personally led a combat team to guard the fields near the east gate of the county seat to observe the movement of the Japanese army.

About half an hour later, with the help of the faint moonlight, Guo Hengming saw that the devil's brigade had arrived at the east gate of the county seat and was slowly driving towards the city.

Guo Hengming personally operated the mortar, and fired four rapid shots at the ghosts at the gate of the city. After the shooting, he asked a team member to mount the mortar on his horseback. He held a sniper rifle and other team members, He fired a few more shots at the devils, saw the devils start to fight back, and then got on his horse and left.

The devils who entered the east gate were members of the Kondo Battalion of the 115th Wing. They had just killed more than 300 people in the explosion, and they were attacked by enemy mortar bombs and snipers one after another, killing and wounding more than a dozen people. Make them dumbfounded.

The devils were all mad and wanted to take revenge on the attackers, but where were those hateful attackers in the vast night?

The Nomura Brigade of the 150th Wing of the Japanese Army was also attacked by members of the Second Special Warfare Squadron.

The Nomura Brigade went to the west gate from the fork. On the road for more than ten miles, they encountered several groups of enemy attacks. Each group of enemies had mortars, machine guns, and sniper rifles. After they finished fighting, they ran and tracked them down. The Japanese soldiers found horseshoe marks in the soft fields, and they had nothing to do with these raiders who came and went like the wind.

After the Nomura Brigade entered the county seat, they counted the casualties, only to find that in just a short while, more than [-] Japanese officers and soldiers had been killed or injured.

However, the Japanese soldiers guarding the city were very happy. In any case, their danger was lifted.So they reported the situation to the brigade chief Oboff.

At this time, Oboff was in a state of desperation.

Starting at 4:20 in the morning, a large group of attackers came from unknown sources, at least 20 mortars, and entered the Japanese camp from different directions, causing a large number of casualties to the Japanese army.

Obauf organized troops to fight back, but he didn't know where the enemy was. Those nasty guys moved their positions after a few shots, and the Japanese officers and soldiers had nothing to do with them.

These hateful attackers tossed and tossed for more than an hour. Seeing the sky turn pale, the enemy disappeared.

After breakfast, the bright sun shines on the earth, which makes people feel very comfortable. This is the best time of the day.

However, the mood of the brigade commander Oboff was really bad.

The 128th Brigade removed the left-behind troops who stayed in Jinan. This time, a total of 7876 people came. It was exactly one day from the beginning of the battle to the present. The loss of troops made Obauf very distressed.

Before yesterday evening, after several fierce battles, the Huang army attacked Lanxi County, causing 53 casualties.Attacked Qinglong Town, causing 97 casualties.Attacked Zhiyuan County, with 423 casualties.A series of battles at the Daqinghe Bridge and Hehan Ferry crossing resulted in 222 casualties.

These battles were mainly fought against a force as large as the 187th Division of the National Army, with a total of 795 casualties.

However, Gao Jiu and others attacked last night, causing 124 casualties in Linchuan Town.In Lanxi County, 443 people were killed or injured.Here in Zhiyuan County, the casualties were even more serious, reaching 572 people.

A total of 1179 brave soldiers of the Yellow Army were lost overnight in the hands of the small Taohuashan guerrillas.

In just one day, the 128th Brigade had lost nearly 3000 soldiers.If you add the Yamaguchi brigade that was wiped out by the Taohuashan guerrillas, the loss of the entire brigade is close to [-] people.This kind of loss is more than what they lost in attacking Nanjing.

The head of the brigade, Obaofu, suddenly felt a little powerless. He decided to abandon Lanxi County, shrink his troops, monitor the Taohuashan guerrillas with a small number of troops, and concentrate his forces to attack Zhiyuan County.

However, the losses of the Japanese army had only just begun.

Gao Jiu and the others left Zhiyuan County and did not stop. They returned to the road from Lanxi County to Zhiyuan County and planted explosives on the road again.

According to the order of the head of the brigade, Obov, the Japanese army abandoned Lanxi County and embarked on the road to Zhiyuan County.

Wuhan.

The Fifth Theater Command is closely watching the development of the battle situation in Southwest Shandong. They believe that the newly formed 178th Division is more ominous than good, and they have already made the worst plans.They sent a telegram to the 41st Army, ordering them to rescue the newly formed 187th Division with all their strength. If Wang Jindong's troops were wiped out by the Japanese army, in order to avoid losses to the 69th Division, they were allowed to abandon Jining, retreat to Nanyang, and completely abandon the Daqinghe area.

According to the order of the theater command, the 41st Army formulated a breakout plan for the new 187th Division.

Chief of Staff Liu received a telegram from the 41st Army and said to Wang Jindong: "A telegram came from the military seat. He said that he had sent the 69th Division to Han Ferry Ferry to organize a forced crossing. He hoped that we would abandon Zhiyuan County and cooperate with the 69th Division to capture Han Ferry, cross the river and go to Nanyang."

Wang Jindong frowned, and said, "How is this possible? Our 187th Division is all recruits. If we leave the position, the devils will collapse if they charge."

Chief of Staff Liu said: "You are right, this plan will not work."

At this time, Wang Jindong's father-in-law called and said that the 69th Division was about to withdraw from Jining and head to Nanyang, which was tantamount to abandoning the newly created 187th Division.The 69th Division came to Han Ferry Ferry, and it was he who relied on his relationship to achieve this goal. I hope Wang Jindong can seize this opportunity, otherwise, the 69th Division will withdraw soon.

Feeling speechless, Wang Jindong handed the telegram to Chief of Staff Liu.

After reading it, Chief of Staff Liu said angrily: "Isn't this selling out our new 187th Division?"

It is very common for various units of the national army to preserve their strength, and Wang Jindong can do nothing about it.Facing such a situation, he said, "Send a telegram to Master Jiu and ask for his opinion."

(End of this chapter)