Lei Jian led the recruits and soldiers of the newly formed independent regiment of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region to attack Fudong City, destroy the Japanese army's transfer station, and fished a lot of good things, and received a telegram from Commander Nie of the Military Region, and immediately issued an order to all troops to quickly evacuate Fudong City, galloping to the aid of the New Seventh Brigade, and he led the cavalry battalion and reconnaissance platoon to rush out of Fudong County, and rushed to the direction of Wuqiang County.

Li Gang followed up and asked: "Commander Lei, this time the new Seventh Brigade was blocked by the Japanese army to the east of Wuqiang County, and it was impossible to break through the blockade line. ”

"The soldiers are not more than bravery, and the generals are not more than strategizing, as long as they are properly planned, they will tear through the Japanese blockade. Besides, it is much easier for the two troops to attack the encirclement and suppression of the Japanese army at the same time, and jointly break the enemy and continue to advance westward, than for our regiment to fight alone. ”

Lei Jian is not without concerns, but what is the use of worrying more? Only by playing on the spot, looking for the enemy's weakness, launching a strong attack, and striving to break through the enemy's position in the first round of strong attack, and throwing off the encircled enemy, can we drive straight into the designated gathering place.

Just when Lei Jian led the cavalry battalion to march westward, he found that from the Heng (Shui) Wu (Qiang) Highway two miles away, a large cloud of smoke and dust was floating, and its forward speed was amazing.

Lei Jian stopped holding the telescope, looked at it for a few minutes, and felt bad, but he didn't know what happened on the Hengwu Highway, which would cause such a large cloud of smoke and fog, he ordered the reconnaissance platoon commander Qu Jiaming: "Jiaming, you lead a squad of reconnaissance cavalry to quickly run to the Hengwu Highway to investigate how the smoke and dust that exploded are caused, and the speed back and forth must be fast, without delay." ”

He ordered the cavalry battalion soldiers beside him: "As fast as possible, rush to the battlefield on the high ground east of Wuqiang." ”

At this time, there was already a cavalry battalion of more than 200 war horses, led by Lei Jian, all waving the whips in their hands, whipping from time to time, the war horses picked up their hooves and galloped, and the large clouds of smoke and dust that were raised were no less than the dust and fog on the Hengwu Highway.

After more than 20 miles, more than a dozen war horses caught up with him, and Lei Jian saw that it was Qu Jiaming's cavalry reconnaissance squad returning, and he violently stopped his horse and shouted: "Stop advancing." ”

Qu Jiaming rushed over with the reconnaissance squad, the people were sweating, Qu Jiaming gasped and reported: "Report to Regiment Commander Lei, seventy or eighty trucks carrying a large number of devils were found on the Hengwu Highway, and they were rushing to Wuqiang County at full speed. ”

"So many heavily armed Japanese trucks? That should be the strength of a wing, could it be that this unit is a Japanese wing that reinforces the battlefield on the highlands east of Wuqiang? How could it be so fast, wasn't it originally planned to reinforce Fudong City? Why did you change direction again? Is there an error in the historical record? ”

Lei Jian frowned, he didn't dare to imagine that once a large number of Japanese troops in the two wings surrounded and intercepted the New Seventh Brigade and his independent regiment, the two Eighth Route Army units were simply unable to break through the Japanese blockade line, and there would inevitably be a tragic fierce battle.

What he was even more afraid of was that this Japanese reinforcement force, relying on speed to move forward, soon joined up with the wing blocking the New Seventh Brigade, and the combat strength of these two large Japanese forces of nearly one brigade was not something that the New Seventh Brigade and the Independent Regiment could defeat.

Lei Jian decisively gave up rushing to aid the New Seventh Brigade and decided to send reinforcements to cooperate with the New Seventh Brigade to break through the Japanese blockade. But he knew very well in his heart that once the New Seventh Brigade broke out of the enemy's encirclement, his Thunder Sword's independent regiment would be deep in the enemy's group, like a sheep being watched by a pack of wolves, waiting only to be killed.

He knew that his independent regiment might be in danger, Lei Jian had no choice, and ordered Li Gang beside him: order Li Gang to lead a company of cavalry to quickly move to the front of the Japanese truck transport team on the Hengwu Highway, find favorable terrain to set up an ambush, destroy the road, and destroy several trucks in front of the enemy;

Ma Ming, the commander of the cavalry battalion, was ordered to lead the second cavalry company, set up an ambush in the first cavalry company, and set up an ambush along the Hengwu Highway for ten miles forward, and attacked the Japanese truck brigade for the second time.

Ordered Song Tiedan to lead five cavalry and convey orders separately, one was to quickly order Deputy Regiment Commander Wang, who followed behind, and ordered a battalion of seven trucks to speed up and follow up, fifteen kilometers east of Wuqiang on the Hengwu Highway, find favorable terrain to set up an ambush and attack the reinforced Japanese 576th Wing;

One was to order the 2nd Battalion to run forward, take a shortcut and detour to the west of the position of the 581st Wing of the Japanese Army on the high ground east of Wuqiang, and launch an attack from the rear, forcing the 581st Wing to be attacked by the enemy in front and rear, scattering its forces and firepower, and striving to break through the blockade line of the Japanese army on the high ground and cover the breakthrough of the New 7th Brigade.

The last order was to order the 3rd Battalion, as the escort of the departments directly under the regiment, to cover the regimental organs and the mule-horse convoy carrying supplies, to bypass the enemy's high ground positions and continue to march westward, regardless of the consequences of the main forces.

He led the third cavalry company, Qu Jiaming's reconnaissance platoon, and the guard squad around him, as a mobile force, when the enemy's convoy was attacked and stopped, set up an ambush to attack the Japanese Li Gang cavalry company, when withdrawing from the position, the Japanese army moved forward again, set up an ambush again, harassed the moving enemy trucks, forced the devils to stop and pursue, and took the opportunity to strike again to slow down the march of this reinforcement of the Japanese army.

After Lei Jian gave the order, each cavalry company, under the leadership of the commander, divided into four ways to kill the Hengwu Highway.

The commander of the 576th Wing of the Japanese Army, Hetun Dazuo, received the latest order from the brigade to turn around from the Hengfu Highway and rush to the Hengwu Highway, and quickly galloped to the aid of the 581st Wing firmly held on the high ground.

Dozens of trucks drove all the way to the northwest, speeding fast, and the smoke and dust that exploded flew in the air, like a huge dragon slayer, moving forward indomitably.

Li Gang led a company of cavalry, under the cover of the green gauze tent, and stabbed into the Hengwu Highway, approaching the Hengwu Highway, Li Gang closely watched the terrain of the highway.

When he found a hill in his advance, he ordered the cavalry company to quickly find a hidden position, tie up the war horse, rush to the road as fast as possible, dig a deep pit and then do a good job of concealment, wait for the Japanese truck brigade to rush over, and then strike with the most fierce firepower to destroy the Japanese truck front line and strike at the enemy.

After a short time, about an hour or so, seeing the large dust and fog from the southeast, spinning and rushing over, Li Gang ordered several fighters who were master bombers to throw grenades at the devil's convoy once the devil's front car fell into the hidden pit dug on the road, and the main goal was to destroy the enemy truck and put the enemy in a secondary position.

Li Gang also ordered five machine gunners to aim at the little devils who jumped out of the car and counterattacked fiercely once they saw the enemy car falling into the pit and being hit by grenade fire.

He also ordered a sharpshooter, whose main task was to eliminate the light and heavy weapons shooters of the devils, and the Japanese commander, and ordered other fighters to cooperate with grenade bombardiers and machine gun shooters to cover with maximum firepower, and to inflict maximum damage on the unprepared enemy in the first round of strikes, forcing the enemy to move cautiously and slow down the speed of reinforcements.

The truck of the enemy's 576th Wing rushed quickly from the southeast, and the captain of the Hetun Wing sat on the jeep and shouted to the truck in front: "Order the driver of the Imperial Army to speed up, and must rush to the highland battlefield east of Wuqiang within three hours." ”

The devil driver of the car in front was sitting in the passenger seat next to him, and a squad leader repeatedly urged him to increase the throttle and rush forward.

Seeing that they were about to rush to the several big pits laid down by Li Gang and his company on the highway, the soldiers who were hidden in the hilly areas on both sides of the highway had round eyes, watching the devil truck about to enter the ambush position, and shouted in a low and nervous voice: "Go further, go further, haha, come on, you can finally see the good show." ”

The truck that rushed in front of it had no intention of slowing down, and the leader of the devil squad shouted: "Yexi, this speed is a big ......." ”

The truck that rushed forward was planted into a deep pit, and the engine was suffocated after a few violent vibrations in the pit.

Just when the truck got into the pit, the body was cocked high, under the action of great inertia, the whole truck jerked forward, the little devil on the car was buckled past the body, instantly thrown out of the distance, some fell to death, some were injured, and fell heavily to the ground, the parts of the body were broken apart, and the breath was screaming, the ghost cried wolf.

How can a truck that is closely followed by a safe distance of 20 meters? One after another, 'bang, bang, ......', colliding together, the little devils flew out of the carriage, like a thrown ball, falling from the air in an arc onto the road or the hilly ground on both sides.

Just when the devil truck team was panicking, there was a fierce gunfire and grenade explosion from the head of the convoy, one by one the grenades flew out of the woods in the hilly area, landed on the truck or exploded around it, the machine gun spat out tongues of fire, and carried out the most violent strafing on the devils who wanted to get up, and the rifle bullets drilled into the devil's body with a sharp whistling.

(End of chapter)