Bright Sword's Bloody War of Resistance

Chapter 235

In Yaojiamiao, Jing Dagang's blocking position was set up here.

Handan City is more than [-] miles away from Ci County, and more than [-] miles away from Fengle Station.

Jing Dagang predicted that if the Japanese army sent reinforcements, they would go south along the railway line, after all, such a distance would be the shortest.

The Yao Family Temple is [-] miles south of Handan City, not far from the Ping-Han Line in the horizontal direction.

After Jing Dagang received the blocking order, he first dispatched a small force to investigate, and then boldly set up the blocking position at Yao Family Temple.

So a regiment of more than 1600 people was divided into thirteen companies to act separately, passing through the guerrilla zone in the dark, and infiltrating the outlying strongholds of the Japanese army. The thirteen companies successfully joined forces in Yaojiamiao.

At this time, the Yao family temple was full of gunshots and shells.

Jing Dagang and political commissar Li Ziwen braved artillery fire to observe the battle ahead in a forest.

"Little devil is really arrogant, shells are bombarding our position like they don't need money!" Li Ziwen said with a frown.

"Hey, it's a good thing we arrived at Yao Family Temple one day earlier and built a tight fortification. The little devil at least brought an artillery squadron with six large-caliber artillery. This is bullying our mortars!" Jing Dagang said with lingering fear. Said.

"It's not that you have the guts to set up the blocking position in the Yao Family Temple. It's fine to block the Japanese reinforcements, but you have to guard against the Japanese and puppet troops in the nearby strongholds!" Li Ziwen complained.

"There is no other way. You have also seen that the Japanese army sent reinforcements along the railway line. If we are far away from the railway line, how can we stop the Japanese army's reinforcements? It is 110 miles from Yaojiamiao to Fengle Station. Even if the Japanese army breaks through our If there is a blocking attack, the main force will have time to react!" Jing Dagang explained.

"However, let's not say that the artillery of the little devil is not weak, but the infantry is afraid to fight, it seems to be a handyman!" Jing Dagang wondered.

"Hey, you've got yourself into a dead end. The 108th Division has a lot of troops, but it also occupies a large area. This time, our Eighth Route Army's various units are attacking everywhere. It is estimated that the brother troops in southern Hebei will also make big moves. The Japanese army can piece together this. It's not easy to order reinforcements!" Li Ziwen said with a smile.

"That's right!" Jing Dagang took a telescope to observe for a while, and saw that the first battalion in front repelled another charge of the Japanese infantry, and then shouted: "Notify the first battalion to withdraw from the position, and the second battalion is ready to fight!"

"Yes!" The two correspondents took orders and turned to inform the first and second battalions.

Li Ziwen's guess is really correct, this group of Japanese reinforcements was really pieced together by Yuan Mixiong.

The original strength of the Xingtai included the division headquarters of the 108th Division, the regiment headquarters of the 117th Infantry Regiment and an infantry brigade, an engineering regiment that was not fully established, the commander of the 108th Field Artillery Regiment, and the 108th Cavalry Battalion. Goto Koshiro
Before the reinforcement of Fengle Station, 117 members of the 54th Infantry Regiment, 181 infantry squadrons, 174 machine gun squadrons, and 55 artillery squadrons were dispatched from the left-behind infantry brigade.

A cavalry squadron of 144 and a field artillery brigade of 634 were separately deployed, carrying 12 field artillery.

A total of 1242 troops were dispatched above, with Hideyoshi Sugiura, the captain of the 117th Wing, as the commander, and was ordered by Motoya Kuma to go to southern Hebei to support.

Thousands of mighty Japanese troops set off from the east gate of Xingtai and went deep into the hinterland of southern Hebei along the road from Xingtai to Wei County. Before the troops besieged, the Japanese reinforcements lost contact.

Chen Zaidao, who has been promoted to the top of the Southern Hebei Military Region, had already expected that the Japanese army at Xingtai would reinforce him and ordered the local troops to besiege the Japanese stronghold.

He personally led the main forces of two newly formed brigades to ambush the Japanese army coming from Xingtai. The anti-aircraft guns finally had the strength to compete with the Japanese army.

After the news of the attack on Fengle Station came, Shimomoto Mixiong thought again and again, and finally decided to send troops to support.

However, having learned the lesson of sending reinforcements to southern Hebei, Xiayuan Mixiong divided the reinforcements into two parts.

One group consisted of two engineering squadrons and one field artillery squadron in the engineering wing (three engineering squadrons), with some added weapons and equipment, less than [-] people, and went south along the west side of the Ping-Han Railway for reinforcements.

The other group was reinforced by the last cavalry squadron and cavalry machine gun squadron along the east side of the Ping-Han Railway.

The Japanese army position that is exchanging fire with Jing Dagang.

Nei Weiwu, the captain of the engineering wing in charge of this command, was frowning at the situation in front of him.

When the reinforcement order was originally received, Xiayuan Mixiong promised at the time that if he could reinforce Fengle Station in time, Ouchi Weiwu could be transferred to the combat unit as a captain with this combat exploit.

Ouchi Weiwu was overjoyed. Although the captain of an engineering regiment was also the rank of lieutenant assistant, he was not comparable to the military chief of an infantry brigade in terms of strength and status.

Da Neiwei led his troops southward for reinforcements with arrogance, but was met with stubborn resistance from Jing Dagang's regiment, which can be described as a bump.

Although suppressed by artillery fire, the soldiers of the two engineering squadrons were afraid to fight. Every time they charged, they were easily repelled by the Eighth Route Army.

Even if Ouchi Weiwu personally supervised the battle, it didn't work.

"Captain, it's been three hours now. Fengle Station was besieged by the Eighth Route Army for at least two hours. Forgive me, I'm afraid we won't be able to break through the Eighth Route Army's blockade with our strength. Even if we break through the blockade, we might meet The main force of the Eighth Route Army, in my opinion, is not as good as that." His adjutant said in a low voice.

After hearing this, Ouchi Weiwu took it for granted. The captain of the infantry brigade obviously couldn't do it, and the strength of his engineering unit could not be wasted in vain in the end!
It's better to be able to bring back the reinforcements in their entirety than to wipe out that reckless man Sugiura Hideyoshi.

"Go secretly and tell the two squadron leaders not to attack too hard, and don't drive the Eighth Route Army away!"

"Hi, the captain is wise!" the adjutant complimented.

Then quietly contact the two squadron leaders who are fighting ahead.

"Mr. Tsukada, thank you for your advice, we are very grateful!" The two squadron leaders were already apprehensive, and quickly thanked the adjutant Mr. Tsukada.

"Yo Xi!" Tsukada Nan stretched out his fingers and rubbed them with a smile on his face.

The two immediately understood: "Understood, understood!"

On the other side, more than [-] cavalrymen of the Japanese army roared along the east side of the Ping-Han Railway.

"Damn it, it was a false alarm. I thought these little devil cavalry were coming after us!" The speaker was Brigadier Gui of the New Ninth Brigade of the Southern Hebei Military Region.

The New Ninth Brigade was ordered to destroy the railway from Xingtai to Handan. When the little devil cavalry came, many militiamen and young men were destroying the railway.

"Looking at the little devil's appearance, is there something big going on in the south?" Political Commissar Yang of the New Ninth Brigade wondered.

"Handan was beaten by our Eighth Route Army team? It shouldn't be, if there is any movement, can we not know?" Brigadier Gui is also a little confused.

"It's broken. Zhou Weihan's independent detachment is active on the south side of the Ping-Han line. The little devil cavalry is going to attack them!"

Brigadier Gui immediately shouted: "Telegraph operator, telegraph operator!"

(End of this chapter)