The headquarters of the Ninth Brigade was suddenly raided, Suzuki Shigeyasu was forced to evacuate, and the entire Ninth Brigade fell into a leaderless situation. This was immediately reflected on the battlefield. The first person to feel this was the fierce attack on the right wing of the Ninth Brigade.
independent group.
Li Yunlong, who was squatting under a large locust tree and commanding the troops to attack, put down his binoculars and said to Zhao Gang who was standing aside: "Old Zhao, have you noticed that the resistance of the little Japanese seems to be a little chaotic?"
Zhao Gang was naturally good at political work, but he was far behind in military affairs. He looked at it and shook his head: "I can't see, what's the mess?"
"Look carefully at the position on the right."
Li Yunlong pointed to the position on the right and said: "We have launched two attacks, and each time their resistance was fierce. In order to deal with our tanks, they even sent out several waves of death squads, which made me feel a little dizzy, but
Just now when I sent the third battalion to attack from the right, the opponent's resistance was very weak, and the third battalion was almost attacked.
My analysis is that the opponent either has insufficient troops or there is a problem with their internal command, otherwise they would not have made such an obvious mistake."
Zhao Gang thought for a while: "Could it be that the Japanese want to lure us into launching a general offensive?"
Li Yunlong smiled scornfully: "The enemy's strength is just one brigade of a thousand men, but here we have a regiment of more than 3,000 people, plus a tank company, and even an artillery battalion for support.
I, Old Li, have never fought such a rich battle in my life. If the brigade commander hadn't asked me to settle the score just now for fear of heavy casualties caused by the strong attack, this position would have been captured long ago. It's not like the Japanese didn't know this situation. How could they do it?
Dare you tempt us to launch a general attack?"
"Well..." Zhao Gang nodded, "Then what do you want to do?"
"What should we do?" Li Yunlong licked his dry lips, with a hint of a smile on his face: "No matter what happened to the Japs, I have determined this position! Pass my order, everyone is ready, and we will launch in ten minutes
In a general attack, I want to completely wipe out this Japanese brigade."
Soon, a burst of passionate bugles resounded throughout the position. Thousands of Eighth Route Army soldiers, accompanied by more than a dozen tanks, rushed toward the Japanese position like a tide, and a fierce battle began...
At the same time, the armored battalion and the first and second battalions that were launching a frontal attack on the Japanese army also found that the resistance of the Japanese army had become much weaker. Facing the infantry and tank attacks of the Liantai militia, the second line of defense quickly broke through several places.
Position, the second line of defense quickly collapsed like a dam that burst its banks.
Yangping Town Liantai Militia Provisional Headquarters
The staff officer hurriedly came to tell us: "Regiment... We have captured the second line of defense of the Japs. The remnants of the Japanese army are retreating towards the 37th Division. Battalion Commander Xiao Zhankui and Battalion Commander Li Changan asked for instructions whether to continue the pursuit."
Although Gao Hongming did not know at this time that his troops had accidentally touched the headquarters of the Ninth Brigade, forcing Suzuki Shigeyasu to evacuate hastily, so that the Ninth Brigade was leaderless for a while, causing chaos among the troops, but
Out of the sensitivity of a soldier, he said without hesitation: "Nonsense, why don't we do something like beat up a drowned dog?
Pass my order, the troops will move forward, and we must try our best to annihilate the Japs' active strength. Tell Xiao Zhankui that only dead Japs are good Japs, and let him let go and fight me! But remember, be careful.
People of the 17th Division, if they encounter a large-scale Japanese counterattack, do not fight forcefully and retreat quickly."
"clear!"
The battle lasted until evening and then gradually stopped, and the attacking troops withdrew one after another in accordance with the original order.
Li Yunlong led the independent regiment to withdraw from Gaojiazhuang, the Armored Battalion and the Second Battalion, while the Third Battalion withdrew to Yangping Town.
After a big battle, all the soldiers who participated in the battle were very tired. Many soldiers fell into their tents and fell asleep, but those company commanders and battalion commanders were not so relaxed. They were nervously counting today's results and losses.
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At the company's station, Lei Hu, who had just done statistics last night, dragged his tired body to his tent and shouted out of habit: "Big man, take good care of the machine gun quickly, don't wait until you use it."
"Big guy!"
The familiar voice from the past did not ring out, and Lei Huhu was just about to get angry when he suddenly remembered that the heavy machine gunner had been killed in today's battle, and he couldn't help but look sad for a moment.
He sat down on the ground with a daze in his heart. Although he felt a little bit of pain in his butt when he sat down, he didn't care about it at this time.
I casually took out a cigarette from my pocket and put it in my mouth to light it, but I couldn't find a lighter. At this moment, I only heard a metallic crunching sound, and a bunch of blue flames appeared in front of my eyes.
flash.
Lei Huu lit the cigarette and was about to move it away, but the visitor thrust the lighter into his hand.
When he looked up, he saw Lu Xianping standing next to him, holding a white lighter in his hand, "Company Commander... I found this on the big man's body. I know you have the best relationship on weekdays. Stay here."
Just think about it."
Touching the silver-white lighter that was still warm, the big man's honest smile seemed to appear in front of Lei Huo's eyes again.
After a moment of silence, Laihuo stuffed the lighter into his pocket, took out a cigarette and threw it to Lu Xianping. The two sat on the ground and started puffing away.
When he was about to finish smoking a cigarette, Lei Huhu broke the silence and said in a deep voice: "Actually, the person who died just now should be me. The big man died for me, but now I am the one who survived. What do you think of this world?"
Isn’t it extremely unfair?”
Lu Xianping said nothing. He knew that his company commander needed someone to talk to at this moment.
Lei Huo flicked his finger, and the butt of the cigarette disappeared instantly. He blew out a long stream of smoke, and then said lightly: "I have been eating this bowl of rice for more than ten years. I used to fight against the Northwest Army with Commander Yan.
I also fought against the Central Army, and now I am following Commander Gao to fight against the Japanese.
After so many years, almost all the brothers who shared this bowl of rice with me have died, but except for the few times I cried at the beginning, I never shed tears for my dead brothers again. Do you know why?
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He didn't wait for Lu Xianping to speak and said to himself: "Because I participated in the Central Plains War less than three months after I became a soldier. I remember that my squad leader was killed by the Northwest Army. I cried when I looked at the squad leader's body.
Later, the old company commander taught me a lesson, saying that we only lived a few more years than our dead brothers. Anyway, it won’t be long before I go down to accompany them. Why are you crying so sadly?
It's not easy for us soldiers to live. If we can live longer, we should be happier. Are you tired of being sad about this and that all day long?"
Speaking of this, Lei Hu smiled bitterly and said: "Since then, I rarely cry. I just watched the familiar brothers around me leave one by one, and I still couldn't help but feel uncomfortable. Do you think I am too pretentious?"
Lu Xianping didn't know how to comfort him, so he could only say: "Company Commander, this time is different. We are fighting Japanese devils this time. The regiment leader said that once the Japanese are defeated, life will be much better, and we will never have to fight again."
There was a war.
I've heard that Tuanzuo's family has thousands of acres of fertile land. When the time comes, we will all farm for Tuanzuo. Tuanzuo's generosity will definitely not treat us badly. I heard that Tuanzuo's family has tenants who rent money.
We only collected 30%.”
After hearing Lu Xianping's words, Lei Huhu couldn't help but laugh, "Little Shandong, you boy is really destined to farm."