Beiping.
North China Front Army Headquarters.
In the afternoon.
The guard at the entrance of the headquarters watched the new communications staff officer walk to the entrance of the headquarters. He peeked inside and saw the deputy chief of staff, Sue Seizo, inside, and immediately turned around and left.
About twenty minutes later, Yumo Seizan had just left, and the communications staff officer came out of nowhere and walked into the headquarters.
Immediately, the door guards were ordered to leave.
The communications staff officer came to Okamura Neiji and reported: "Reporting to the commander, the 5th fake heavy artillery regiment and the 5th fake infantry regiment, escorted by the flag wind, have set off from Zhangjiakou and are expected to arrive at 6 p.m. Datong!"
Okamura Neji raised his head and narrowed his eyes: "Yoshi!"
If Mo Jingsan, the deputy chief of staff, was a spy, he must have revealed the news to the Eighth Route Army.
The Eighth Route Army in northwest Shanxi will definitely not be able to get out, but the Eighth Route Army in the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region will definitely take action. Maybe the Eighth Route Army will already be ambushing halfway.
After all, the 5th Heavy Artillery Regiment poses too great a threat to the North Eighth Route of Shanxi. It can be said that it is related to the life and death of the people on the North Eighth Route of Shanxi and the North of Shanxi.
Once the 5th Heavy Artillery Regiment reaches the front line, it will be an absolutely devastating blow to the fortifications of Shanxi North Eighth Route.
If the military train was ambushed by the Eighth Route Army, the worst possible loss would be one 94 armored train and two empty trains.
In this way, not only the 5th Heavy Artillery Regiment and the 3rd Infantry Regiment were preserved, but the insider in the headquarters was also uncovered.
As for the railway damaged by the Eighth Route Army during the battle, it will soon be repaired by engineers. The 5th Heavy Artillery Regiment and the 5th Infantry Regiment are in Zhangjiakou. A delay of one or two days will not affect the outcome of the sweep in northwestern Shanxi.
The communications staff officer saw that Okamura Neji was deep in thought, but he quickly came back to his senses and asked:
"Commander, Zhangjiakou's commander of the 5th Heavy Artillery Regiment, Takahashi Mitsuru Daizuo, and Captain of the 3rd Infantry Regiment, Yamashita Seiichi, asked when they can go to the front line to fight against the Eighth Route Army?"
"These guys from the First Division..."
Neji Okamura sounded helpless: "Let Takahashi Daizuo and Yamashita Daizuo stay calm and wait for orders from the First Army Headquarters."
The old Japanese had served as the division commander of the Second Division, and the current commander of the First Division, Yokoyama Isamu, was still his good friend.
Nowadays, the commanders of all front armies and armies of the Japanese army have basically served as division commanders in Class A divisions or standing divisions.
Therefore, Okamura Neiji knew very well that these soldiers in the First Division were a group of militants.
Such a unit has advantages and disadvantages. The advantage is that they are brave and good at fighting. The disadvantage is that sometimes these guys like to disobey orders and commit crimes.
"Hi!" The communications staff officer heard this and turned to leave.
Watching the communications staff figure disappear from the door, Okamura Neji showed a sneer on his lips.
This time, even Neiji Okamura didn't know the departure time of the 5th Heavy Artillery Regiment and the 3rd Infantry Regiment. He would have to make an impromptu decision after a day or two depending on the situation. The Eighth Route Army wouldn't know it in advance, right?
If all this was known to the Eighth Route Army in advance, I, Okamura Neiji, would have a caesarean section to apologize.
…
A dense forest 30 kilometers away from Datong.
The two battalions of the Sixth and Seventh Divisions of the New Regiment, led by Li Changsheng, successfully merged with the three regiments of the Independent 2nd Brigade of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region of the Eighth Route Army.
The 2nd Independent Brigade was formed in April 1939 by the 716th Regiment of the 358th Brigade of the 120th Division of the Eighth Route Army and the 5th Independent Brigade of the Central Hebei Military Region.
Under the jurisdiction of the 4th, 5th and 716th regiments, they launched the anti-Japanese struggle in the Jizhong Military Region.
However, due to the Japanese's large-scale raids on the Jizhong Military Region some time ago, Boss Chen gave the intelligence in advance, and the 2nd Independent Brigade retreated to the Guangling area of Beitahang in advance to fight guerrillas.
This time, neither the brigade commander nor the political commissar of the 2nd Independent Brigade came, but Li Yunlong was given remote command via telegraph.
Although Li Yunlong was treated at the brigade level, the commander of the Independent 2nd Brigade was not very good at listening to Li Yunlong's command, so Li Yunlong remotely commanded three regiments of the Independent 2nd Brigade and two battalions of the New First Regiment.
Li Yunlong and Boss Chen have already discussed that when the three regiments of the 2nd Independence Brigade finish this battle under Li Yunlong's command, they will receive 5,000 steel helmets, 300 Japanese machine guns and a large number of 38-type rifles.
As wages for the 2nd Independent Brigade, no matter which unit cooperates with the new regiment, they can make a fortune.
And Li Yunlong handed over the battlefield command to the Sixth Battalion Commander Wang Fafa as the commander, and Zhao Youliang as the deputy commander.
In the dense woods.
Wang Fafa and Zhao Youliang, as well as the 4th, 5th and 716th regiment commanders gathered together.
The communications company commander of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region also stood aside.
This place is only 10 kilometers away from the Pingsui Railway. Several regiment leaders have already visited the Pingsui Railway to reconnoiter the terrain and determined the ambush location.
Although the 2nd Independent Brigade has three regiments, the combined strength of these three regiments is only more than 4,000 men. Adding the two battalions of the new regiment, the total strength is nearly 9,000 men.
Wang Fafa convened Zhao Youliang and the three heads of the 2nd Independent Brigade for a combat meeting.
Battalion Commander Wang was a little excited and felt a bit of pressure on him. In his military career, he had never commanded so many troops. At best, he could only command a strengthened regiment, which was the sixth battalion of his new regiment division.
It's different now, commanding nearly 9,000 people in combat, which is already the strength of a division.
However, Battalion Commander Wang also felt a lot of pressure, fearing that his command would not be good enough, causing the Japanese heavy artillery unit to escape.
The ambush location chosen by Battalion Commander Wang was the Gaoyang-Datong section of Pingsui Road. This section of the railway is about 50 kilometers long and has many mountains along the way.
The mountains on both sides of the railway are standard loess terrain, with mountains consisting of exposed rocks and brown wasteland rising one after another, with only a few scattered bushes.
"This is Miaoergou."
Battalion Commander Wang used his bayonet to draw a curved mark on the ground, and then placed stones on both sides of the mark to indicate that these were the hills on both sides of the railway.
Without any unnecessary nonsense, Battalion Commander Wang pointed to the traces and stones on the ground and began to analyze and describe the battle deployment:
"According to intelligence, the Japanese's 5th Heavy Artillery Regiment was escorted by the Japanese 3rd Infantry Regiment and a heavy armored train."
"The heavy armored train is at the front, the train of the Japanese 5th Heavy Artillery Regiment is in the middle, and the heavy armored train of the 3rd Infantry Regiment is at the rear."
"Our combat mission this time is to blow up all the cannons on the train in the middle!"
Glancing at the crowd, everyone's eyes were stern. Battalion Commander Wang's tone suddenly became serious: "I divided the four hills on the left and right sides of Miaoergou into highlands 1, 2, 3, and 4. Our new regiment Two battalions were responsible for Highlands 3 and 4, holding back the 3rd Japanese Infantry Regiment. The 4th and 5th Regiments were responsible for Highlands 1 and 2. Two battalions of the 716th Regiment were responsible for blocking the Japs in the direction of Datong, and the other battalion was responsible for Stop the Japanese from the direction of Gaoyang."
"We don't have a reserve team for this battle!"
"Blow up the Japanese cannon and evacuate immediately!"
"Do you all understand your respective tasks?"
"Understood!" Everyone nodded.
This time, two battalions of the New Regiment came out to ambush the Japanese logistics supply line and brought enough explosives. The 2nd Independent Brigade also brought some explosives.
But if you want to blow up two Japanese army trains and a heavy armored train at once, the explosives are simply not enough.
Because this time the Japanese artillery was a 150mm howitzer and a 240mm heavy cannon, and the explosives were too little, so they couldn't be damaged at all.
Putting too little explosives is not enough, but now there is simply not enough time to temporarily prepare explosives elsewhere.
Therefore, there are not many explosives to blow up the Japanese Type 94 armored trains and trains, because the explosives need to be left to blow up the Japanese cannons.
The combat effectiveness of the Japanese 3rd Infantry Regiment must be extremely powerful, and it must be dealt with by the two battalions of the New 1st Regiment with powerful firepower.
The Japanese artillery equipment is average. As long as the Japanese armored train is blown up in advance and then the 3rd Japanese infantry regiment is held back, there is a chance to blow up the cannons of the Japanese 5th heavy artillery regiment.
Battalion Commander Wang looked at his watch: "We have half an hour now. We will set off for the pre-ambush location in half an hour!"
Each regiment and camp began to eat and prepare.
This combat plan invented by Wang was a telegram sent to the regiment headquarters, and a combat meeting was held only with the consent of Li Yunlong and Zhao Gang.
Li Yunlong and Zhao Gang's instructions were: "Destroy all the Japanese heavy artillery at all costs!"
When we were near northwestern Shanxi, in order to prevent being detected by Japanese telecommunications vehicles, neither the Seventh District nor the Sixth District dared to turn on the radio.
But this is northern Shanxi, so there is no need to worry about this problem. You can contact the new regiment headquarters at any time.
Before leaving, an Eighth Route Army cavalry unit of more than 400 people found them.
Under the guidance of the communications troops, the commander of the cavalry unit met with Wang Fafa and Zhao Youliang.
"I am Ma Renxing. Following the orders of the headquarters and the commander of the Central Hebei Military Region, I am leading my troops to return to the army!"
As soon as he came up, Ma Renxing saluted Wang Fafa and Zhao Youliang and said.
Wang Fafa and Zhao Youliang responded to the military salute in confusion. What was going on?
Although I received a telegram that a group of Eighth Route Army cavalry from the Central Hebei Military Region was coming for reinforcements, I did not expect this to be the case.
Seeing this, Ma Renxing said: "The designation of our cavalry unit was originally the Jizhong Cavalry Regiment, but now it is the 2nd Battalion of the New Regiment Cavalry."
"The 2nd Cavalry Battalion of the New Regiment?" Zhao Youliang, commander of the Seventh Battalion of the Division, said, "Our New Regiment only has one cavalry battalion. When did you become the 2nd Cavalry Battalion of the New Regiment?"
At that moment, Ma Renxing told the story that the Jizhong Cavalry Regiment suffered heavy losses during the raids, was reorganized by the headquarters into the 2nd Battalion of the New Regiment Cavalry, and was then sent by the headquarters to Pingsui Road to cooperate in the operation.
Ma Renxing didn't have much hesitation about whether to be the commander of the 2nd Battalion of the New Regiment Cavalry. For him, as long as he could fight the Japanese, he was willing to be a big soldier.
What's more, the new regiment directly under the Eighth Route Headquarters is the first regiment of the Eighth Route Army and even the entire Chinese army.
The performance of the New Regiment has reached the point where some people would not believe it. Li Yunlong is famous in North China and even across the country.
Ma Renxing is naturally very willing to be a battalion commander under such a heroic unit and such a regimental leader.
Immediately afterwards, Ma Renxing introduced to everyone the former political commissar of the Jizhong Cavalry Regiment, now the instructor of the 2nd Battalion of the New First Regiment Cavalry, and the correspondent Ma Chengfeng.
Battalion Commander Wang immediately ordered the telegraph soldiers to report the matter to the headquarters of the New Regiment, and then organized the 2nd Cavalry Battalion of the New Regiment into the reserve team.
Immediately afterwards, the Eighth Route Army troops of more than 9,000 people moved toward Pingsui Road in a mighty manner.
