The brigade commander took the telegram, glanced at it, laughed, handed the telegram to the chief of staff, and said, "Read it for yourself."
The chief of staff took the telegram and read it excitedly: "Brigadier Commander, Chief of Staff, our troops made a surprise attack on the 5th Brigade of Huang Xiejun at noon today, and captured 6,316 people below the Commander and Chief of Staff of the 5th Brigade, and captured All its weapons and equipment were removed. There were no casualties among the participating troops of our Mawushan guerrillas.
Leaders, please rest assured that our department will resolutely block the reinforcements of the Japanese 108th Division and ensure that not a single Japanese soldier can reach the battlefield to encircle and annihilate the Japanese independent fourth brigade.
Mawushan Guerrilla Brigade Captain Xu Dalong, Deputy Captain Sun Desheng
Today. "
After reading the telegram, the chief of staff said excitedly: "Dalong and the others have done a great job. The fifth brigade of the puppet army is gone, and the only Japanese reinforcements left are the remnants of the 108th Division. Now I fully believe in Xu Dalong and the others." We can stop the Japanese reinforcements."
The brigade commander said: "When Xu Dalong fought, he did not passively complete the mission, but actively and proactively attacked the Japanese reinforcements, first weakening the strength of the enemy's reinforcements. Such tactics are indeed remarkable. Now annihilate the Japanese troops independently. The conditions for the Fourth Brigade are ripe, our headquarters will move forward immediately and launch an attack on the Japanese army at 5 o'clock tomorrow morning."
The brigade headquarters quickly reported the news that Xu Dalong and others had annihilated the fifth brigade of the puppet army to all participating units, which greatly boosted the morale of the officers and soldiers.
Li Yunlong said: "Xu Dalong and the others are really good. Da Biao, tell all the brothers in the regiment this news. Tell them that Xu Dalong and the others have shown their faces first, and our independent regiment will also fight a good battle. We cannot let other participating troops see the jokes of our independent regiment."
Zhang Dabiao said: "Commander, just look at it, our independent group is not a vegetarian, we can't call it a wild wolf group for nothing. This time the little devils are made of iron, and our independent group will also bite a piece of meat from their bodies." Come."
After saying that, Zhang Dabiao walked out quickly, rolling up his sleeves as he walked, wishing he could go and fight the Japanese right away.
"One Sword Dominates"
During the march, Zhao Gang inspected the entire army's march on horseback, calling on the officers and soldiers from time to time to learn from the Mawushan guerrillas and resolutely display the prestige of an independent regiment.
The officers and soldiers of the Independent Regiment were already holding back their energy and wanted to perform well. The victory of Xu Dalong and others in the battle made them even more excited. The officers and soldiers had the wind at their feet and rushed forward with all their strength.
Ding Wei's New First Regiment, Kong Jie's New Second Regiment, and other participating units were also inspired by the results achieved by Xu Dalong and others, and the morale of the troops was very strong.
Yucheng.
The duty staff officer in the combat duty room of the Japanese 108th Division Headquarters discovered that Huang Xiejun's fifth brigade could not be contacted, so he notified the communications department to check the phone line.
The communications squadron of the division headquarters sent a squad of communications soldiers to inspect the lines along the way in the direction of Taihe County.
The staff officer on duty waited for several hours and saw that the call was still not connected, so he asked the communications department. The result was that the communications soldier of the dispatched class had not returned yet, and he did not understand what happened.
Those signal soldiers rode motorcycles when they went out. Logically speaking, such a long time would be enough for them to go back and forth between Yucheng and Taihe County.
The staff officer on duty had an ominous premonition, so he reported it to his superiors.
The chief of staff, who was the commander on duty that day, ordered the dispatch of a service squadron directly under the division headquarters to go to the fifth brigade of Huang Xiejun to find out the situation.
The service squadron directly under the Japanese army took two motorcycles and three trucks and searched along the road.
While passing through a hillside, the Japanese squadron leader saw several motorcycles parked in front of him. A group of Japanese soldiers were resting under a telephone pole on the roadside. They could also see wires wrapped with wires placed on the roadside. It was obvious that these were the signal soldiers who came out to repair the lines.
The squadron leader ordered the vehicle to stop, then walked out of the cab and stepped forward to check the situation.
The signal soldiers were sitting on the ground to rest. When they saw the Japanese military vehicle stopped, they stood up one after another.
The squadron leader of the Japanese army was horrified to find that these signal soldiers took out many light machine guns from the grass beside them and from the sidecars of motorcycles like magic, almost every one of them had one.
The Japanese squadron leader's child shrank violently. He realized the danger and just shouted: "They are the enemy."
The machine guns in the hands of the signal soldiers opened fire.
The Japanese squadron leader and several Japanese soldiers following him were knocked to the ground immediately.
The Japanese officers and soldiers who stayed on the truck were also fired upon by machine guns.
At the same time, many people wearing Japanese military uniforms suddenly appeared on the hillsides on both sides of the highway. Many of them also held light machine guns in their hands and fired fiercely at the Japanese troops on the highway.
The Japanese soldiers were caught off guard. Before they could put bullets in the barrels of their guns, their bodies were riddled with holes.
In less than a minute, an entire squadron of Japanese officers and soldiers were wiped out.
Of course, these attackers were members of the Mawushan guerrillas. After they cut off the Japanese phone lines, they knew that the Japanese army would definitely send communications troops to check the lines and perform repairs.
So they first killed the Japanese signal soldiers, and then set up an ambush to carry out this attack.
The guerrillas had won consecutive battles throughout the day, and the morale of the officers and soldiers was high.
Sun Desheng asked: "Captain, what should we do next?"
Xu Dalong smiled and said: "There is no news about a squadron of Japs after they come out. The Japs in the city will definitely not be able to sit still. They will send people again, so we will conduct another ambush.
However, the ambush location cannot be chosen here. Assemble the team and let's catch the Japanese unawares. "
Xu Dalong's guess was correct. When the Japanese squadron came out, the combat staff in the duty room looked at their watches. Based on the time, they should have arrived at Huang Xiejun's fifth brigade 20 minutes ago.
According to common sense, they should contact the headquarters immediately when they get there. Now according to the scheduled time, nearly an hour has passed.
The Japanese army's on-duty staff judged that the Japanese soldiers in this squadron were probably in trouble just like the Japanese signal soldiers in the previous squad. It can be inferred from this that something may have happened to Huang Xiejun's fifth brigade.
He hurriedly reported to the chief of staff,
The chief of staff also realized the seriousness of the problem and reported it to Fujiwara Konichi.
Fujiwara Konichi believes that the service squadron directly under the division headquarters is a strengthened squadron, with personnel selected from various units and with very strong combat effectiveness. If something happens to the Japanese troops in this squadron, they will be able to silently annihilate the attackers in the squadron directly under them, and they will definitely be more powerful.
He judged that the enemy must have a lot of troops, so he ordered a regiment captain to lead a strengthened infantry brigade to search and advance in the direction of Taihe County.
Before the Japanese army set off, the chief of staff also specifically told them to be more vigilant and pay special attention to complex terrain to prevent encountering enemy ambush.
After the Japanese army left the city, the chief of staff felt very uneasy and worried that something would happen to this Japanese army again.
He was sitting in his office feeling a little restless, so he took out a book from the bookshelf, hoping to relieve his inner irritability by reading.
However, after he opened the book, he could not read a word, and the eyelid of his right eye twitched.
The chief of staff remembered a Chinese proverb, which seemed to mean that one eyelid twitches for fortune and which eyelid twitches for disaster. He couldn't remember the specific description. Anyway, his right eyelid twitched violently, which made him even more irritable and uneasy.
I was really afraid of what would come. Shortly after the Japanese troops left the city, fierce gunshots and explosions rang out outside the city gate.
The chief of staff jumped up from his chair and asked nervously: "What happened? Go out and have a look."
Shortly after the Japanese commander led a reinforced group of Japanese troops out of the city, when passing by a crop field, many armed men suddenly emerged from the crop field that was only two feet high and launched an attack on them.
The Japanese commander and the Japanese officers and soldiers had received orders in advance, especially the chief of staff who specifically told them to be on high alert before they set off.
However, they never dreamed that the attackers would be ambushing just two kilometers away from the Yucheng gate, and they were still caught off guard.
The Japanese officers and soldiers were all in the car and had no time to form a fighting formation. The attackers were numerous, with hundreds of machine guns and many mortars.
Under the sudden blow, the Japanese army had no time to fight back. In just five minutes, the battle was over. More than 1,400 Japanese officers and soldiers, including the Japanese commander, were all killed.
The attackers showed no signs of fighting. They swept the battlefield hastily and immediately evacuated.
The Japanese troops in Yucheng gathered a large group of troops and rushed out of the city gate. The attackers had already mounted their war horses and soon disappeared without a trace.
Fujiwara received the report, and based on the enemy's equipment and the tactics they adopted, he had already judged that this attack was the masterpiece of Mawushan guerrilla Xu Dalong.
Now, he has determined that something has happened to Huang Xiejun's fifth brigade.
Fujiwara Kinichi was very angry. He wanted to command his troops to go out of the city for revenge, but Xu Dalong's guerrillas were all cavalry. Although he was able to requisition a large number of cars from the city to go out to pursue them, the cars could only travel along the highway, and the guerrillas The cavalry can gallop freely in the fields. The infantry relies on two legs and cannot catch up with the guerrilla cavalry.
Not only that, Fujiwara Konichi now lost another reinforced infantry brigade. He only has 5,000 troops plus support personnel. Faced with the powerful mobility and fierce firepower of the Mawushan guerrillas, he is not absolutely sure that he can take advantage even in a face-to-face battle.
Fujiwara Konichi is a very sophisticated person with a calm personality and can keep a cool head even when he is angry. After careful analysis, he believed that under the current circumstances, the best strategy was to tolerate it temporarily to avoid being attacked by the guerrillas again.
So he ordered the city gates to be closed tightly, and no one was allowed to leave the city to fight without permission.
Xu Dalong and others saw the Japanese troops huddled in the city and were too lazy to pay attention to them. Now the task of the guerrillas is to contain the Japanese troops here and prevent them from reinforcing the Japanese independent mixed fourth brigade.
Since they are willing to be grandchildren in the city, let them be.
