Chief of Staff Wang Qingxing hurried into the war room and said to Chi Chengfeng: "Master, good news!"
Chi Chengfeng, who was taking a nap while leaning on a chair, raised his head when he heard the sound and said lazily: "Chief of Staff, what's going on?"
Wang Qing said excitedly: "The New 51st Regiment staged a beautiful ambush by the Zhi River, destroying a squadron of tanks that the Japanese army was attacking out of the city in one fell swoop. Good guy, there were twenty tanks!"
"Hey!" Chi Chengfeng said, "This guy Ma Zhenting can do it."
Wang Qingdao: "The little devil has suffered such a big loss, plus we can't send out planes for aerial reconnaissance, which will make it even more difficult to figure out our reality. No matter how good this old devil is, Shinozuka Yoshio, he can't figure it out."
We will never dare to fight back without authorization, there will basically be no problems with the New 51st Regiment and the New 52nd Regiment."
"Yeah." Chi Chengfeng nodded and asked, "What about the other two directions?"
Wang Qingdao: "The Puppet 7th Division came very quickly and was already engaged with the New 53rd Regiment. However, the Puppet 8th Division moved slowly. Cai Xiongfei, the traitor, didn't know whether he was deliberately trying to trick foreigners or was really cautious. In more than an hour, he actually
After only walking less than ten miles, the New 49th, New 50th and New 54th regiments who were ambushing near Guanglu Mountain were almost losing their composure."
"His grandma's." Chi Chengfeng shouted immediately, "Chi Xiaohu, prepare your horses and go to Guanglu Mountain!"
"Master, you can't go!" Wang Qing said urgently, "You have to stay at the division headquarters and take command!"
"Grandma, I have to kill this traitor Cai Xiongfei alive." Chi Chengfeng said and turned around to leave.
Wang Qing could only smile bitterly in return, and immediately ordered the guard and battalion commander Chi Xiaohu to pay attention to protecting Chi Chengfeng's safety.
Chi Xiaohu is Chi Chengfeng's nephew. After Chi Chengfeng sent his first letter home, the boy traveled thousands of miles to join his uncle. In the 28th year of the Republic of China, Chi Xiaohu was praised for his bravery in combat.
He entered the officer training camp and then the Taihang Branch. After graduation, he became the guard battalion commander of the new 9th Division.
"Master, don't worry." Chi Xiaohu stood at attention and said solemnly, "As long as I'm here, nothing will happen to you!"
After saying that, Chi Xiaohu turned around and left. Watching Chi Xiaohu's figure go away, Wang Qing couldn't help shaking his head and sighing.
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On the road from Yi'an Town to Pingshan County, the Puppet 8th Division was advancing rapidly in eight columns.
The only cavalry battalion was responsible for clearing the way in front, and the search team was responsible for the security of the two wings. Cai Xiongfei was still very vigilant. The search team spread out a full two kilometers away, and after making sure that there was no ambush, the brigade of the Pseudo 8th Division
Only then will the troops and horses continue to move forward. In this way, the marching speed will be greatly slowed down.
Therefore, the Puppet 8th Division only traveled less than ten miles in one hour.
While the army was marching, the chief of staff urged his horse to approach Cai Xiongfei, and said anxiously not far away: "Commander, Yoshio Shinozuka has sent another telegram, asking us to speed up the march!"
"Hurry, hurry, hurry, sir!" Cai Xiongfei was furious.
The chief of staff smiled bitterly and said: "It seems that the 39th Group Army is serious this time. The 5th Division must have been beaten impatiently. Yoshio Shinozuka is now so urgently urging our 8th Division and 7th Division to rush to Hirayama County for reinforcements.
Well, Commander, would you like to ask the troops to speed up their march appropriately?"
"Speed up?" Cai Xiongfei said coldly, "What should I do if I'm ambushed?"
The chief of staff remained silent. Once the troops speed up their march, the search team will have to narrow the search scope. Once the search scope is narrowed, the risk of an ambush will be greatly increased. Since ancient times, march speed and vigilance have been a pair of contradictions. Basically,
It is difficult to do both in the field. Even if there are planes for aerial reconnaissance, the terrain must be open, and it can only be done during the day.
Cai Xiongfei thought for a while, but after all he still did not dare to anger Yoshio Shinozuka, and said helplessly: "Forget it, order the troops to speed up their march immediately!"
"Yes." The chief of staff immediately took the order and left.
The order was quickly conveyed, and the marching speed of the Puppet 8th Division gradually began to speed up.
At the same time, the search range of the search team was also reduced from two kilometers to 500 meters.
When Kankan was passing Guanglu Mountain, continuous explosions suddenly erupted on the road ahead, and dazzling flames shot up into the sky instantly, clearly visible as far as ten miles away.
Cai Xiongfei's mount was frightened and almost knocked him to the ground.
After finally stopping the frightened mount, the chief of staff galloped over from the front and gasped: "Commander, the cavalry battalion stepped on a series of landmines, more than a dozen horses were injured, and two brothers were killed.
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"Landmines?" Cai Xiongfei frowned and said angrily, "Damn it, how can we go this way?"
Before he finished speaking, dazzling streams of light suddenly appeared on the top of Guanglu Mountain in front of him, and soon there was a piercing scream flying through the air. Cai Xiongfei immediately heard that something was wrong, and his expression suddenly changed, and he shouted sternly.
He roared angrily: "The artillery group! It's the ***'s artillery group. Damn it, evacuate, emergency evacuation..."
However, it's too late.
Before Cai Xiongfei's order could be conveyed, dozens of mortar shells and shotgun shells from large-caliber cannons had already fallen on the marching column of the Puppet 8th Division with a piercing scream, and soon there was a violent explosion in the dark wilderness.
There were dazzling explosions, and hundreds of puppet troops were immediately knocked to the ground by the huge explosion.
It's just a 60-caliber mortar shell, and its killing range is only a dozen or so.
But the shotgun fired by the 300mm caliber heartless cannon is really scary. Once it explodes in the air, thousands of small steel arrows hidden in the iron shell will shoot out in all directions, covering a radius of 100 meters.
Of course, those who are hit by small steel arrows will be killed directly. Even if they miss the vital points, they will still scream miserably and completely lose their combat effectiveness.
However, the Puppet 8th Division was, after all, the old foundation of the Jinsui Army. It was suddenly bombarded, but it did not lose its position.
At the same time, intensive gunshots rang out under the night sky, and the roaring and tsunami-like shouts were like rolling undercurrents, sweeping in from all directions. The chief of staff suddenly turned pale, and said to Cai Xiongfei with great misery: "Commander, we are in an ambush."
Yes, we were ambushed by ***..."
"Why are you panicking!?" Cai Xiongfei was furious, and immediately turned around and shouted, "Order the 1st Regiment to take Guanglu Mountain immediately!"
"Yes!" A cavalry correspondent promised in a loud voice, and immediately urged his horse to gallop away.
Cai Xiongfei is worthy of being a veteran general in the Jinsui Army. He knows that it is too late to break out separately at this time, and if he wants to resist on the spot, he must first deal with the Japanese artillery on Guanglu Mountain, otherwise, *
**The artillery is from a high position, and it only takes a few rounds of shelling to beat the entire Pseudo 8th Division into chaos.
After ordering the 1st Regiment to storm Guanglu Mountain, Cai Xiongfei immediately issued a second order: "Order the 2nd Regiment and the 3rd Regiment to immediately seize the commanding heights on both sides of the road and build machine gun fire points on the spot. The artillery camp will be deployed immediately and the communications team will be set up immediately.
Radio, ask Shinozuka Taijun... no, directly request reinforcements from Okamura Taijun in Shimen, quick!"
In less than a moment, the entire Pseudo 8th Division began to work nervously and orderly.
However, Cai Xiongfei still underestimated the intensive firepower of the Japanese artillery. In fact, the Japanese artillery that was ambushed on Guanglu Mountain in advance had two mortar battalions and two unscrupulous artillery battalions, with 36 mortars.
The intensive bombardment of artillery and 30 heartless guns is no joke. The bombardment just now was just two test firings.
Suddenly, a flare slowly rose into the sky, illuminating Guanglu Mountain for miles around like daylight.
With the strong light cast by the illumination bomb, the Japanese artillery quickly completed the correction of shooting various elements, followed by two consecutive rounds of ten rounds of rapid fire. In less than five minutes, thousands of rounds of grenade (graupel) were fired.
The bombs fell on the position of the Puppet 8th Division like a violent storm, and the two Japanese soldiers who had nowhere to hide suddenly fell down one by one!
Cannon will always be the king of land warfare, and its terrifying power cannot be overstated.
Compared with the direct casualties, the loud noises and the rising smoke from the continuous explosion of artillery shells are more shocking!
Even the elite German troops, who are said to be the most tenacious, will inevitably suffer mental breakdown and will collapse under the bombardment of large-caliber howitzers with dense munitions. Although Cai Xiongfei's Puppet 8th Division is the old foundation of the Shanxi-Sui Army, no matter it is
The quality of soldiers and their mental will are far from being comparable to the elite German army.
After two rounds of rapid fire, the organization of the Pseudo 8th Division was basically in chaos!
The puppet troops who lost their effective command were still resisting stubbornly, but their combat effectiveness was greatly weakened. The New 49th Regiment, the New 50th Regiment and the New 54th Regiment rolled over from the north, west and south very quickly.
They broke through the hastily constructed defensive position of the Puppet 8th Division and drove the Puppetry 8th Division to the foot of Guanglu Mountain.
The 1st Regiment of the Puppet 8th Division attacked Guanglu Mountain several times, but was repelled by the Japanese.
The artillery regiments of each main division of the 39th Group Army have infantry guard battalions, as well as an anti-aircraft machine gun company, a battalion of elite *** plus 12 Maxim heavy machine guns (the anti-aircraft machine guns can be turned into flat-fire machine guns with slight adjustments)
), if the 1st Puppet Regiment can capture Guanglu Mountain in a short time, then they will not be puppet troops but German troops.
In an instant, more than 6,000 remaining soldiers of the Pseudo 8th Division were crowded into a small area less than a kilometer in radius.
The Japanese artillery on Guanglu Mountain continued to bombard, ruthlessly throwing rows of shrapnel shells on the heads of these Japanese traitors. In the continuous huge explosions, groups of puppets
The soldiers fell in a pool of blood, and Huang Huang was at a loss. He didn't know which puppet soldier raised his hands first to surrender. In an instant, a large area of the puppet soldiers at the foot of Guanglu Mountain fell to their knees...
"Hand your gun and don't kill, raise your hands!"
"Don't move, anyone who moves will be beaten to death!"
"You, you, and you, put your head in your hands, squat down and don't move!"
"You are looking for death. Do you believe that I will blow your head off with a shot?"
"***, you are a traitor, you have donkey hair stuffed in your ears? Get down here!"
Thousands of Japanese soldiers jumped out of the darkness and rushed into the puppet army with bayonets in their hands. The puppet soldiers who were already kneeling on the ground would be beaten if they made even the slightest movement.
, a few puppet army officers tried to resist, but were knocked to the ground by these soldiers with bayonets!
In less than five minutes, the entire battlefield was completely under control.
The entire puppet 8th Division had more than 7,000 people. Except for more than 1,000 people who were killed, the remaining 6,000 people, including Cai Xiongfei, were all taken prisoner. Under the threat of Japanese bayonets, all the puppet troops laid down their weapons.
, took off all the clothes on their bodies, and were not allowed to leave their shorts on, and then stood in a large naked group under the night sky.
This is actually an international practice. In order to prevent prisoners from hiding weapons, it is necessary to take off their clothes!
Amidst the chaotic footsteps, Chi Chengfeng, surrounded by the guard battalion commander Chi Xiaohu and several regiment leaders, walked murderously into the crowd. Chi Chengfeng's hawk-like eyes continued to patrol among the puppet prisoners.
He asked in a stern voice: "Where is Cai Xiongfei? Where is Cai Xiongfei who is so stupid? Get out of here!"
In the crowd, Cai Xiongfei quickly shrank his naked body back.
"You're not coming out, are you?" Chi Chengfeng nodded and said in a ferocious voice, "Okay, I'll see how long you can hide!"
After that, Chi Chengfeng caught a puppet soldier at random, put a gun to his head and shouted: "Where is your platoon leader?"
The puppet soldier was frightened to death and quickly pointed at a person in the crowd with trembling fingers. Chi Xiaohu immediately pulled out the puppet platoon leader from the crowd. Chi Chengfeng followed suit and asked: "Tell me, your captain
Where?"
The puppet platoon leader was even worse. He was scared to the point of peeing. If Chi Xiaohu hadn't been carrying him, he would have collapsed to the ground. However, he did not dare not answer Chi Chengfeng's questions, and then pointed out
Pointing to a prisoner in the crowd, Chi Xiaohu threw the puppet platoon leader to the ground, then rushed into the crowd and picked out the puppet platoon leader.
"Captain? You are not a young official." Chi Chengfeng said with a cruel smile, "Where is your commander?"
The leader of the puppet army lowered his head, his eyes darting around, and he didn't know what to do for a moment.
"Huh!?" Chi Chengfeng snorted coldly, and the leader of the puppet army was so frightened that his legs softened and he suddenly fell to his knees.
"I said, I said, our commander is...over there." The puppet army commander turned around tremblingly and pointed at Cai Xiongfei who was hiding in the crowd. The puppet army who was standing next to Cai Xiongfei hurriedly feared that it would cause misunderstanding.
He dodged to the side, and Cai Xiongfei was suddenly the only one left on the spot.
Cai Xiongfei saw that it was no longer possible to muddle through, so he simply strode forward and said openly and honestly: "I, Cai Xiongfei, Commander-in-Chief of the 3rd Group Army of the Security Army of the North China Provisional Government of the Republic of China, who are you?"
"Cai Xiongfei!?" Chi Chengfeng said murderously, "Okay, you are the one I am looking for!"
"Xiaohu, big knife!" Chi Chengfeng suddenly turned around, and Chi Xiaohu had already offered the big knife with both hands.
"What do you want to do?" Cai Xiongfei hissed with fear, "Take an unarmed prisoner?"
"Unarmed?" Chi Chengfeng was stunned when he heard the words, turned to a soldier next to him and said, "Sir, give him your bayonet!"
The superior soldier agreed with a bang, and immediately threw the rifle and bayonet in his hand to Cai Xiongfei. Cai Xiongfei stretched out his hand to take the rifle, but his expression changed again and again. At this juncture, he knew that he would not survive no matter what, and he suddenly became evil.
He shouted loudly and stabbed Chi Chengfeng in the abdomen with his gun.
Chi Chengfeng was stunned, dodged the bayonet, and then slashed Cai Xiongfei's neck with his backhand.
There was just a crisp pop sound, and Cai Xiongfei's head flew high into the air, and blood spurted out from the broken neck several feet high!