749. The Great Strategic Shift

With the last little devil on the scene killed, a thrilling battle to the death finally came to an end five minutes later.

Whether it was the cavalry battalion of the Fangshan Independent Regiment or the women's battalion of the Zhangfang Independent Regiment, no one cried bitterly this time. After the hard fighting, the remains of the martyrs were finally slowly cleared.

The women's battalion of the Zhangfang Independent Regiment sacrificed more than 40 people at the moment of breaking the enemy's encirclement!

In addition, more than 70 people sacrificed when they were entangled with the enemy in the back, and a total of 117 people in the women's battalion sacrificed their young lives!

The losses of the cavalry battalion of the Zhangfang Independent Regiment were even more severe, and a total of 206 people died heroically!

They will not leave their names, and future descendants will not know what happened in this hot land, and no one will remember them, except for ignorant nonsense about "inciting national hatred".

But they did not hesitate to dedicate all their flower-like good years to their dear motherland, and completed their magnificent lives ahead of schedule!

Che Dafu was in a heavy mood, walked up to Hua Ruyue and whispered, "You are the flower battalion leader, right?" There are even more brutal battles waiting for us, and there is no time to transport the bodies of the martyrs now. What I mean is to divide into two joint burial tombs, so that our martyrs can be buried in the grave and protect this hot land for generations to come, right? ”

Hua Ruyue rubbed her eyes, and then nodded: "I know that you are the battalion commander of the car and a good brother of Ling Kaishan." I am saddened that my brothers and sisters have died, but that is their long-cherished wish! It's good to be able to settle down now, so do as you say! ”

An hour later, two new graves with no graves and only two small trees appeared on the flat ground.

This is the tradition of the Rehe Front, in order to let the little devils in the future not find the graves of the martyrs, so that they will not let the miscellaneous disturb the martyrs' souls.

After Che Dafu took everyone to bow three times, he shouted: "Shoot, give the martyrs a strong performance!" ”

After all the qi ē was over, Hua Ruyue walked up to Che Dafu and said, "Battalion Commander Che, do you know where Ling Kaishan is?" ”

"Camp Commander Hua, listen carefully? As long as the gunfire in the city is the most violent, Ling Kaishan and they will definitely be there! Now the city is entangled with the enemy and the enemy, and the cannon has lost its effect. ”

Che Dafu looked at the southwest direction and said, "I'm going to reinforce the direction of the railway station, do you want to enter the city?" The women's barracks is very damaged this time, and it is dangerous in it now. ”

"Is it dangerous? I don't think so. I'm going to save Ling Kaishan because he's my man! Hua Ruyue took her war horse and said, "Let's break up here, and we'll see you after victory!" ”

It is said that after Cao Renhou's third infantry battalion took the east gate, he began to rampage through the county town and did not find many enemies.

It turned out that after the division commander Gu Shoufu entered the city, he ordered the troops to search the whole city, and found that all the people inside had run away, and it was completely a dead city. Therefore, the troops placed in the county town originally only had two brigades, and this was a temporary measure for the safety of His Excellency General Shouichi Terauchi.

After the shelling began, the little devils of the two brigades, patrolling in different areas, hid from the shelling in different corners. But the little devil didn't expect that the single shelling of the Chinese army would last more than an hour, and most of them were 105mm high-explosive grenades, so there were not many survivors.

Now a few little devils who came out of different places had just run out into the street to find out what was going on, and they were all sent to hell by the charging party of the third battalion of infantry.

In this way, Cao Renhou's third infantry battalion swept all the way north, and soon joined more than 1,000 people in Ling Kaishan's headquarters lurking in the city. Now there are more than 2,000 combat troops, and the county seat of Qingyuan is actually finished.

It was not until this time that the commander of the third battalion understood that this was actually a large factory area, and the remaining handwriting on the door plate that had been blown up turned out to be "Baoding Electric Light Company".

Now this place is in ruins, the three battalion commanders and they rushed inside, and found that there were more than 300 little devils concentrated here, using the ruins and broken walls and Ling Kaishan's headquarters to start street battles.

Seeing Ling Kaishan, they seemed to have some scruples, and they didn't dare to let go of their hands and feet to slash and kill, so the third battalion commander was a little strange.

However, Ling Kaishan was the deputy regiment commander and the supreme commander in the city, so the commander of the third battalion stepped forward and said: "Deputy Commander Ling, all of our three battalions are under your command, please give an order!" ”

Ling Kaishan said with a wry smile: "You have also seen that we are all light weapons, and now the little devils are hiding in the corners, and it is difficult to fix it in the middle of the night." At present, it is necessary to disengage from these little devils, and then call in artillery fire to bombard. But it's really not easy to get rid of the entanglement of these little devils. ”

"Because these little devils just want to take back the two captives from me, they have been chasing us to the death, and more than a hundred brothers have been killed in battle. Otherwise, we would have gone out of the north gate long ago, and then called the artillery to fire incendiary bombs. ”

The third battalion commander patted his chest and said, "Deputy Commander Ling, since this is the case, you should quickly take people out of the city." I brought in a mortar platoon, and captured two infantry guns, which was the most advantageous for such terrain, so I let our three battalions come to the rear of the palace. When I got out of touch, I just called the artillery myself. ”

At this moment, a sound of horses' hooves sounded, and the women's battalion finally arrived. Seeing that her man was still alive, Hua Ruyue's heart finally let go, and her mind became smart.

Seeing the soldiers shooting at the base of the wall and the little devils inside, Hua Ruyue turned around and shouted: "You don't need to put the cannon, what are you doing here?" Acacia, drag the infantry artillery over. We concentrated all the artillery fire and blew this place into rubble, and my aunt and grandmother didn't believe that the little devil's dog head was harder than a brick! ”

With the direct fire of the four infantry guns, plus the 12 mortars of the mortar platoon, the Baoding Electric Light Company was completely blown up after 20 minutes.

The more than 300 little devils inside were basically crushed to pieces, and there were no corpses. The battle in the city also stopped at this moment, and Ling Kaishan led the three groups of men and horses to leave from the north gate quickly.

The withdrawal of troops from the city marked the end of the battle.

Because of the little devil barracks in the north, thousands of people were completely annihilated, and the largest living force and the last mobile force of the 6th Division was exhausted. There are only thousands of remnants left, and they are now scattered in a few scattered fortifications on the outskirts of the county.

However, because all the leaders at the top were killed at the beginning, all the troops lacked unified command. Now it's all little devils fighting on their own instincts, and the end of the 6th Division has actually come.

Before the battle began, Cao Renhou thought that the most difficult battle for the South Gate was actually the easiest. Because after a mountain artillery battalion and an air defense battalion arrived at the designated position, they did not give the little devils the slightest chance at all.

The main position of the little devils centered on Huangzhuang and Liugezhuang was mainly to prevent the southern government army from attacking north from Shijiazhuang, so it was built very strongly.

Moreover, two brigades of troops were placed in the south of the city, and a squadron was placed on the Yuejiazhuang position, Xiaozhuang position, and Sitaizi position, and the other people made every effort to defend the core position of Huangzhuang and the main position of Liu Gezhuang.

After Ding Dakui, commander of the artillery regiment of the Rao'an Independent Division, led the mountain artillery battalion and the air defense battalion over, the 24 75mm mountain guns of the mountain artillery battalion smashed all 2,400 shells into the position of the little devils.

It is unrealistic for the air defense battalion to fight planes in the middle of the night, because the planes of the little devils cannot come at night, so they switch to fighting devil infantry.

By the time Cao Renhou ordered the Second Infantry Battalion to rush here, all the Ming Bunkers had already been blown up. The little devils who escaped by luck were all smashed to pieces by anti-aircraft anti-aircraft machine guns.

Then the artillery fire was extended to deliver the final devastating blow to the railway station to the west, the shells were depleted, and the barrels of the cannons were also destroyed.

Three minutes after all the troops participating in the attack had retreated, countless shells again came to the county seat and the barracks in the northeast corner. This was the real devastating shelling, because all that fell were incendiary bombs.

This is where Bai Shujie has repeatedly emphasized, waging a big war in the heart of the enemy, and there is simply no time to search for the remnants of the enemy. As for what was seized, it couldn't be taken away at all, so it was better to simply burn it on fire.

Not only did they have to burn the things of the little devils, but after the cannons had exhausted all the shells, they were all blown up on the spot, and all the people retreated lightly.

Bai Shujie has been in North China for more than two years, and the most important thing is to achieve two goals:

First of all, the little devils can't get the Dagu Shipyard, let alone the guns and ammunition that the little devils can't get the finished products inside. This has been done by Wei Chong's Rao'an Independent Division.

The second most important goal is to carry out the scorched earth war of resistance, and use Baoding to carry out the strategy of "inviting the king into the urn", take the head of the general in the million army, and destroy the heinous 6th Animal Division.

In order to achieve this goal, Bai Shujie can be said to have spared no expense and set up a red independent division for Zhao Meiyan. And personally designed the route of the westward expedition, and also continuously sent out electricity, for fear that others would not know.

Bai Shujie's real purpose is to make everyone think that all his actions here are to get in touch with Yan'an and tell the world that the main force has left.

After this series of intrigues and tricks to confuse the world, Bai Shujie finally waited for Gu Shoufu's 6th Division to land. Only then did he show all his elite troops, and in a place that a little devil couldn't have imagined, he launched a fatal blow, and then slipped away!

At 1:30 a.m. on September 26, 1937, Wei Chong gave an order, and all the artillery participating in the battle was destroyed on the spot. Then the whole army immediately went north, and before dawn it was necessary to rush to the Mujiazhai base area and the Fangshan base area.

Because Wei Chong's Rao'an Independent Division still has a unit, this is more than 2,500 new corps temporarily formed after adding 1,700 people to the 29th Army Cadet Corps. With all the war horses and supplies of the independent division, they followed closely behind the attacking troops and entered Mujiazhai close to the north of the city.

The reason for such a big move is that Bai Shujie specially issued a top-secret order to Wei Chong:

"The battle of Baoding began, that is, the beginning of the strategic transfer of the three armies in Hebei. The future continental battlefield is not our main goal. I hope that you can make full use of the chaos caused by the Battle of Baoding to the enemy, lead the whole army to the north, and attack all the way to the territory of Chicheng. ”

"Regarding the Rao'an underground base, Zhangfang Foyeling base, and Fangshan base, there are already people who have come to receive them. Your new equipment is all in Chicheng County, so you only need to replenish ammunition to ensure that you can use it for the road, and all the reserves of weapons, ammunition, food, medicine, etc. will be left behind. ”

After all, what happens next, let's see how it will be broken down next time.