The most cattle cottage in the Anti-Japanese War

Chapter 791
When Wang Jindong and others arrived, the battle was over.

Wang Jindong said with emotion: "Brother Gao, your Taohuashan guerrillas are getting stronger and stronger."

Gao Jiu smiled and said, "Brother Wang, your new 187th Division is quite different from before."

Gao Jiu was right. The new 187th Division now has more than 5000 people, and its equipment has also been greatly improved.

Compared with the Taohuashan guerrillas, the firepower is still somewhat insufficient, but it is still among the best in the entire national army.They are also equipped with a large number of vehicles and pack horses, which can be called semi-mechanized troops.

With the current strength of the 187th Division, even a brigade of the Japanese army can completely resist them.Of course, none of this would be possible without the support of Gao Jiu.

Wang Jindong smiled and said, "Isn't it all thanks to Brother Gao's help? What are your plans next?"

Gao Jiu said: "The main force of the Japanese independent and mixed Seventh Brigade has been wiped out, and the troops in Zhengzhou City are empty. Let's just take Zhengzhou City down."

Wang Jindong has a strong army now, and he has long wanted to do something vigorously.

He said happily: "Okay, let's go to Zhengzhou."

Soon after, the new 187th Division joined forces with the Taohuashan guerrillas and headed for Zhengzhou City.

Now the Japanese army in Zhengzhou City is only left with the independent and mixed seventh brigade of the Japanese army, the logistics of the engineering brigade and the supply brigade, the Japanese military police headquarters and the gendarmerie, and the rest are armed forces such as puppet troops and puppet police. Even without the Taohuashan guerrillas, Wang Jindong's new 187th Division is sure to eat them.

After discussion, it was decided that Wang Jindong's newly organized 187th Division would attack Zhengzhou City, and the Taohuashan guerrillas led by Gao Jiu would be responsible for blocking the reinforcements of the Japanese army from Luoyang.

Fighting cannot be done by chance, nor can it be based on trust in the enemy's army.In order to prevent the 38th Division of the Japanese Army from suddenly turning their backs, Gao Jiu asked the Independent Brigade of the Southwest Military Division to monitor the actions of the 38th Division of the Japanese Army, and attack them immediately if they made any changes.

The 93rd Division of the Northeast Army and the 228th Division of the Northwest Army stationed in Kaifeng also received Gao Jiu's order to monitor the actions of the 38th Division of the Japanese Army with the Southwest Army Division to ensure the safety of Wang Jindong's flank.

Gao Jiu also made a request to Wang Jindong. If he captured the commander or other leaders of the Japanese Second Air Force, he must keep them alive. He would send these people to Jiang Xiaomei for disposal.

Jiang Xiaomei was full of anger at the fact that the Japanese army had dared to bomb the arsenal she was in charge of.Gao Jiu wanted her to let out a sigh of relief, to relieve his guilt towards her.

Wang Jindong agreed, and he issued an order to the troops, telling them to keep the main officers of the Japanese Second Air Force alive.

Then Gao Jiu led the Taohuashan guerrillas to Luoyang,

Gao Jiu and others marched along the road swaggeringly in Japanese military uniforms.

At this moment, he received a report that a convoy of Japanese troops was coming from the direction of Zhengzhou.

Gao Jiu calculated the time. At this time, Wang Jindong and others should not be able to encircle Zhengzhou City. This convoy should have come out before Wang Jinzhong and others arrived.

Gao Jiu decided to detain these Japanese soldiers, so he handed over to Li Chengwu and asked him to handle the matter.

The team of Gao Jiu and others continued to march, and Li Chengwu led some guerrillas to take on the task of covering behind. When they saw the Japanese convoy approaching, they surrounded them.

The Japanese army really didn't expect the Taohuashan guerrillas to appear here. A few people who resisted were killed on the spot, and the rest became prisoners in a daze.

Gao Jiu, Zhang Quan, Wang Zhankui and others parked their cars on the side of the road, waiting for Li Chengwu and others to bring the captured prisoners over.

Seeing these people, Gao Jiu immediately laughed.

I saw these Japanese soldiers wearing Japanese air force uniforms, including a Japanese major general and several senior officers.No need to ask, these are the brains of the Japanese Second Air Force.

It turned out that the new commander of the Second Air Force of the Japanese Army and others were very arrogant and sent bombers to bomb the arsenal in Southwest Shandong, and suffered heavy losses as a result.

They learned from the news that Gao Jiu had come to Southwest Shandong, even though he was very arrogant as a general of the young and strong faction.But in the face of a heavy loss, he believed that the legendary Gao Jiu was indeed difficult to deal with.

He didn't feel afraid until the Taohuashan guerrillas destroyed his airport and made him a bare-bones commander.Although the main generals of the Second Air Force have been replaced, the original middle-level and grassroots personnel still exist. The commander learned how the commander of the Second Air Force died and how many airports there were before. He was knocked down by Gao Jiu the first time, and he also asked why Gao Jiu would trouble the Second Air Force for the arsenal in Southwest Shandong. It was because there was a woman who was close to him and managed the arsenal there.This guy Gao Jiu came to trouble the Second Air Force because of this woman.

The commander of the Second Air Force also came from a young age. He knew how crazy things a man would do for a woman he really liked.

He had a premonition that Zhengzhou City was not safe, so he withdrew from Zhengzhou City with the headquarters and headed for Luoyang.Unexpectedly, he ran into the hands of the Taohuashan guerrillas, and he could only admit that he was unlucky.

Now Gao Jiu feels a little headache when he sees Jiang Xiaomei.

Jiang Xiaomei dared to love and hate, although she tried hard to restrain herself in front of Gao Jiu, Gao Jiu could still feel the dissatisfaction in her heart.

Gao Jiu really likes Jiang Xiaomei. The relationship between the two is born in life and death, blood and fire, and in battle. It is inseparable.

What Gao Jiu has to do now is to do his best to make Jiang Xiaomei happy. Although he also understands that these can't solve the real problem, there is only so much he can do so far.

Gao Jiu asked Liu Shengyu to lead a detachment of special forces members to escort the main officers of the Japanese Second Air Force to Southwest Shandong and hand them over to Jiang Xiaomei for disposal.

Wang Jindong led the newly organized 187th Division to surround Zhengzhou City, and then launched an attack.

The 40th Division of the Japanese Army stationed in Luoyang dispatched an infantry brigade to come for reinforcements.

Now that the Taohuashan guerrillas have strong firepower, they didn't bother to lay an ambush there, and directly set up artillery near the road to stop them.

The brigade of the Japanese army is marching, and the surprise in charge of monitoring in front?The artillery command post of the battalion commanded the large-caliber artillery 10km away to shoot at the Japanese army.

The Japanese army was hit so hard that they couldn't even see the shadow of the enemy. They directly lost hundreds of troops and their morale suffered a great blow.

Immediately afterwards, there was the roar of planes in the sky, and more than a dozen B-24 Liberator bombers flew over, bombarding the marching brigade of the Japanese army indiscriminately.

This time, nearly 1000 people were lost. The brigade commander of the Japanese army was a little dumbfounded by the bombing. He didn't know what to do, so he had to ask the commander of the 40th Division for instructions.

The head of the 40th Division of the Japanese Army did not know that Gao Jiu had come here, because the Japanese commander in Zhengzhou City did not inform him of the real situation.

He thought it was an attack from the national army, so he ordered the brigade commander to continue to lead the troops to reinforce Zhengzhou.

There is another reason why he did this, because the North China Front Army Command gave him a death order, telling him to rescue Zhengzhou City.

The brigade commander of the Japanese army had no choice but to gather his troops and move on.However, they distanced themselves this time to guard against enemy artillery fire and aircraft bombing.

Under normal circumstances, the enemy would not send planes to bomb, because their personnel were scattered and aerial bombs were expensive, so the Japanese would be reluctant to do so.The Japanese bombers seldom bombed the marching troops, they just bombed the fixed targets in the positions in order to better exert the effectiveness of aerial bombs.

Unexpectedly, the enemy is so rich.Not long after the first round of plane bombing, the second wave of bombers flew over again.

Although the Japanese army opened up the marching distance, after some bombing, it still caused hundreds of casualties.

The enemy's artillery is even more annoying, they keep shelling.Although most of the shells missed, there were still quite a few casualties.

The brigade commander of the Japanese army had rich experience and knew that the reason why the enemy's long-range artillery could shoot accurately was that there must be enemy artillery observation posts around them, so he mobilized some troops to search around.

Sure enough, they saw a group of people in black uniforms appearing at a distance of about 1km. When those people saw the Japanese army approaching, they got on their horses and ran away.

The brigade commander of the Japanese army was a little confused at the beginning, and he didn't know who was wearing a black uniform.

He asked the officers under his command.

The intelligence chief said in horror: "Your Excellency, brigade commander, Gao Jiu's Taohuashan guerrillas are wearing black uniforms. Please allow me to understand in detail."

He called the soldiers who went to search and asked about the details of their uniforms. After confirming that they were the Taohuashan guerrillas, he said worriedly: "Your Excellency, brigade commander, it is now certain that these people are Gao Jiu Taohua Mountain Guerrilla."

The brigade commander of the Japanese army was also a newly appointed young man. Since Luoyang was far away from Taohuashan, the Japanese army there did not have much contact with the Taohuashan guerrillas, so the brigade commander did not have a personal experience of Gao Jiu's strength.

He had heard of Gao Jiu's name, but he was still a little unconvinced due to his arrogant personality. Coupled with the order from the head of the division, he thought for a while and decided to lead the troops to Zhengzhou City.

Soon after, the vanguard reported that there was an enemy attacking ahead, and the two sides had already started an exchange of fire.The uniforms worn by the enemy can be determined to be members of the Taohuashan guerrillas.

The brigade commander of the Japanese army encountered bombing and shelling along the way, and he had nowhere to vent his anger. Hearing that the enemy was in front, he suddenly became excited and came to the front to observe in person.

When he came to the forward position, he saw a Japanese army captain in charge of the vanguard, with a bandage on his head, walked over with the help of two people.

Seeing the head of the brigade, he said dejectedly: "Your Excellency, head of the brigade, our department has launched a charge to the enemy's position. The enemy's firepower is too fierce. My troops have already lost one of them before they approached the enemy." Infantry squadron, even myself was wounded."

The head of the brigade asked: "How many people are there in the enemy?"

The captain of the Japanese army said: "It's not very clear. No more than 1000 people can be seen."

The head of the Japanese brigade asked someone to set up a cannon to look at the mirror and observe carefully for a while.

He saw that the enemy troops in front were so arrogant that they didn't even set up defensive positions, and just stood on the open ground swaggeringly one by one.

However, there are many mortars on their positions, and there are a lot of machine guns. With such a powerful vitality, it is no wonder that the vanguard will suffer.

The field troops of the Japanese army are best at conducting field operations under such conditions. The brigade commander ordered the troops to set up artillery, set up a formation, and prepare to launch an attack.

Suddenly someone shouted in horror: "Your Excellency, Commander of the Brigade, large-caliber artillery appeared on the enemy's position."

The head of the brigade also received a report that the Japanese army had lost a batch of 240mm heavy mortars. He did not expect that those mortars would appear here.

He also knew the power of this type of mortar. When he saw the neatly lined up troops behind him, an ominous premonition welled up in his heart. He hurriedly shouted: "The troops should evacuate quickly."

As soon as his words fell, the heavy mortars on the enemy's position opened fire. You could see the white smoke coming out of the muzzles of the mortars when they were fired. The characteristic sharp whistling sound was transmitted.

"Boom, boom, boom."

In order to knock down the Japanese army at once, Gao Jiu ordered each mortar to fire three extremely rapid shots.

Dozens of 240mm caliber mortar shells landed on the enemy's position and exploded violently, covering the entire area with a radius of several thousand meters in thick smoke.

After the brigade commander of the Japanese army shouted the command to evacuate the troops, he hurriedly got on his horse and prepared to escape. Unfortunately, no matter how fast he ran, it was not as fast as the flying speed of mortar shells.Those cannonballs exploded into a large piece. He was unlucky, and a cannonball exploded near him, tearing him and his horse to pieces.It can be concluded that his own mother is here at this time, and he will not be recognized.

After the smoke cleared, at least half of a Japanese brigade was killed.In the places affected by the explosion, even those who did not die were bleeding from their mouths and noses, and either passed out on the ground, or their ears were deaf, and they could not recover their fighting power in a short time.

Even in this case, the Taohuashan guerrillas still did not launch a charge, they just pushed the troops forward, and then began to set up ordinary mortars.

After all, the number of shells for a giant mortar is limited, and one shot is less.Ordinary mortar shells can be produced in Nanyang Arsenal and Luxinan Arsenal, and can be used in unlimited quantities.

The guerrillas set up mortars hundreds of meters away from the Japanese soldiers who were still alive, and fired shells non-stop.

(End of this chapter)