Lei Jian said embarrassedly: "Give Commander Yang a cavalry guard squad, this is a little bit of Lei Jian's heart, and it is also a must-have for Commander Yang at present."

As for Commander Xie not to accept it, then I don't have anything with Lei Jian, the captured weapons, ammunition and military supplies have been shortcuted, and now I should be about to the station of the Independent Regiment, it seems that I can only send the six light machine guns of my reconnaissance company, plus a few boxes of bullets, to Commander Xie, and in the future, I will seize the opportunity and be bold again, I don't know what ....... ”

"Outside, outside, isn't it? They are all their own brothers, I don't like to be so polite, how can I accept six light machine guns from your troops? If this is for the brother troops to know, how do you call me Lao Xie to be? ”

Lei Jianli gave a military salute to Commander Yang and Commander Xie, and said earnestly: "My Lei Jian has always spoken in a down-to-earth manner, and he will not speak in words, and now that my only regiment has reached the most critical moment, I want to lead the troops to return immediately, I don't know what other instructions Commander Yang has." ”

The troops were quickly assembled, and Lei Jian led the cavalry reconnaissance company and the surviving guards platoon soldiers, bid farewell to Commander Yang and the officers and men of the 25th Regiment, and rushed to the northeast with a whip, galloping all the way, and returning to the position of the only regiment after more than an hour.

The cadres and soldiers of the only regiment were shocked when they saw Lei Jian leading the cavalry soldiers back to the position at a lightning speed.

Political Commissar Ma Mingshan, Deputy Regiment Commander Wang Xiaoliang, and the cadres of each battalion hula surrounded them, and one by one they saw a reinforced cavalry battalion when they left, and less than a company when they came back, they stared at the thunder sword who jumped off the war horse with surprised eyes.

Wang Xiaoliang ran to Lei Jian's side with a heavy heart, and asked with tears in his eyes: "Commander Lei, Deputy Commander Li and so many cavalry battalion soldiers, they are all ....... ”

"What? Hasn't the cavalry battalion returned yet? Lei Jian glanced around, took Ma Mingshan's hand and asked.

Political Commissar Ma asked in surprise: "Commander Lei, what's going on?" Didn't the cavalry battalion join you in the battle? We are all worried about the safety of the left column and the front-line command organs that were surrounded by the enemy this time, how are they doing now, Commander Yang? ”

"Political Commissar Ma, the head of the left column is surrounded by the enemy, although the head of the organ is safe, it can cause half of the cadres and soldiers of the organ to be heroic, and when the encircled enemy is destroyed, I lead the cavalry battalion and escort the head of the column to the 25th regiment station.

Remembering the current difficulties of the 1st Regiment, in order to replenish the weapons, ammunition, food, horse feed, and military supplies of the 1st Regiment in a timely manner, I led the cavalry battalion, reconnaissance company, and guard platoon to venture deep into the enemy-occupied area and rush to attack the Japanese army.

After a night of fierce fighting, the enemy stronghold was conquered before dawn, and in order to bring the captured good things back to the only regiment safely, they engaged in a confusing battle with the enemy, using fifteen carriages as bait to cover the cavalry battalion, and returning the captured military supplies by shortcut, could they ...... on the road. ”

Just when Lei Jian gave a brief explanation of this operation, someone suddenly shouted: "Come and see it, the soldiers of the cavalry battalion are back with the war horses carrying things, obediently, each war horse is carrying heavy loads, I don't know how many good things I brought back." ”

As soon as Lei Jian heard that the cavalry battalion was back, he pushed away the crowd around him, and was the first to take the lead and rush over, hugging Li Gang who was walking in front.

Li Gang saw that Lei Jian was so excited, and he asked uneasily and incomprehensibly: "Commander Lei, since the cavalry battalion broke up with you on the Laishi Highway and took a shortcut to march quickly, it was too late to come back, right?" I don't know how it's going to be there. ”

Lei Jian stabilized his emotions and said to Zhou Peng, who ran over: "Chief of Staff Zhou, find more soldiers, unload the military supplies on horseback for classification, and after registering and making a register, I will personally approve and distribute them to each company." ”

The troops were stationed 1,500 meters away from Laiyuan City, and Lei Jian asked, "How is the battle situation in the siege of Laiyuan City?" ”

Wang Xiaoliang took the initiative to report: "Report to Commander Lei, according to the deployment of your departure, each of the four city gates sent a company to besiege from time to time, the commander of the Japanese army in the city, as if he understood our intention to besiege the city, at first he faced it positively, and then ignored it, until today, the devil suddenly increased his firepower at the north city gate to counterattack, as if he was going to rush out of the city." ”

Hearing this, Lei Jian nodded and said: "It should be that Commander Deng of the three military divisions besieged Lingqiu City, the fight was very fierce, and the devils in the city were beaten urgently, and asked for reinforcements from the Laiyuan Japanese army, and the Laiyuan defenders wanted to break the city for reinforcements, and they were afraid that they would be taken advantage of by the Eighth Route Army to break through the county seat, and they were blocked back several times. ”

Lei Jian's analysis was good, Commander Deng of the three military subdivisions received the second operational order from the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region Headquarters on the Lailing Campaign on 2 October, in which Lei Jian's only regiment was in Laiyuan City, containing and harassing the enemy puppet army in the city, and blockading the enemy who had sent troops from Laiyuan to increase the source of Lingqiu, Hunyuan, and Guangling.

Commander Deng of the three service sub-divisions pointed out at the military meeting: "The Lailing Campaign is another new battle in which the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region has extended its results to the enemy after the Battle of 100 Regiments was launched on Zhengtai Road, and the main task of our three service sub-divisions is to conquer Lingqiu, Hunyuan, and Guangling, three important county towns and strongholds of the Japanese army in this area.

In this campaign, the only regiment of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region contained the enemy in Laiyuan, which provided a guarantee for us to carry out this campaign. ”

Commander Deng stood up and ordered: "Order the 1st Regiment, 2nd Regiment, 6th Regiment, 9th Regiment, Guerrilla Detachment, Teaching Battalion, and Special Service Battalion to attack west of Lingqiu, Hunyuan, and Guangling at 3 o'clock this afternoon. ”

The commander of the Japanese army ordered more than 250 Japanese troops from the two strongholds of Guzihe and Nanpotou to quickly assemble at Lingqiu, and before dawn on the 8th, they attacked and held the position of our regiment in Tai'anling.

The enemy in the two strongholds launched an attack on the position of the first regiment in Tai'anling in the north and south, and the soldiers carried forward the spirit of not being afraid of sacrifice and launched fierce battles with the enemy in many attacks and counter-offensives.

Under the enemy's powerful firepower, a regiment of soldiers stationed in the Tai'an Ridge position fought hard until 4 o'clock in the afternoon, took the initiative to abandon the position, and killed the Japanese army in a combined attack circle.

The regiment and battalion that received the order to conquer the Japanese stronghold at Nanpotou launched an attack on the enemy stronghold at Nanpotou with lightning speed near midnight on the 8th.

Nanpotou stronghold is a large Japanese stronghold, stationed a squadron of devils, a company of puppet army, that morning, was transferred by the commander of the Lingqiu Japanese army to approach two squads of devils to reinforce Lingqiu City, at this time there are only more than 80 devils left in the stronghold, a platoon of puppet troops.

The enemy puppet army stuck in the bunker, with the help of strong bunker fortifications, did not pay attention to the attacking regiment and battalion of the Eighth Route Army, and the devil squadron leader ordered a squad of Japanese troops to carry out fire strikes, and the other devils actually rested in the bunker.

The commander of a regiment and a battalion ordered the troops to divide into a frontal main attack and feint on both flanks, and sent a demolition team to rush to the pillbox and detonate it.

Under the enemy's powerful firepower, the commander of a battalion and a company bravely led the assault team to break through the barbed wire fence on the outer line of the devil, leap over the outer trench, and quickly approached the devil's main artillery tower.

The commander of the first company did not expect that the little devils in the stronghold at the southern slope head were hiding bunkers in the east and west corners of the main artillery tower, and it was difficult to move an inch blocked by dense bullets at this time.

As soon as the commander of the 1st battalion saw that the frontal attack was blocked, he immediately ordered the 2nd and 3rd companies that had feinted on both flanks to change to a strong attack, and the 1st company tried to destroy the bunkers in the east and west corners to clear the way for the capture of the stronghold on the southern slope.

The first company commander ordered the third squad leader and the fifth squad leader beside him: "Squad Leader Liu and Squad Leader Cai, you two will each lead ten soldiers to destroy the bunkers in the east and west corners separately, this is a death order, and it will be executed immediately." ”

Squad Leader Liu of the third squad and squad leader Cai of the fifth squad each led ten soldiers, braving the enemy's artillery fire, holding the explosives bag without hesitation, and pounced on the enemy's bunker.

The soldiers of the demolition team sent out for the first time, under the enemy's powerful firepower counterattack, fell in a pool of blood, the second group went up again, the second group fell, the third squad leader Liu bounced up violently, rushed to the side of the soldiers who died in the pool of blood, picked up the explosive bag and suddenly rushed out five or six steps, lying on the ground and crawling forward.

At this time, squad leader Liu was seriously wounded, and the wound was bleeding non-stop, he couldn't care about these anymore, and his mind was to blow up the enemy's dark fort and clear the passage for the troops to conquer the main artillery tower.

There are still less than seven steps from the bunker, and seven steps are usually only instantaneous, but under the enemy's dense fire, if you want to break through these seven steps, you will pay the price of your life.

Squad Leader Liu raised his head slightly, looked at the bunker in front of him, and really wanted to suddenly stand up and rush forward, but this was looking for death, and he had to move to the bunker alive before he could hope to blow up this man-eating bunker.

Just when squad leader Liu was about to take action again, he clamped the left arm of the explosive bag, and was hit by a bullet again, and suddenly felt that the clamped explosive bag was about to slide to the ground, he gritted his teeth and clamped the explosive bag again with his injured arm, and crawled towards the bunker.

(End of chapter)