Yang Zhen has never hidden his admiration for Dong Ping, a young man who once served as the political commissar of the Second Route Army of the Anti-Japanese Union. Although this so-called young man is still two years older than him in this world, even if he is only one year younger than him in later generations. But Yang Zhen likes the tenacity in his bones.

Dong Ping is a steady and shrewd person, and he has a set of skills in both military and political aspects. Although he was born as a political cadre, he is also very good at military affairs. It's not just about working on your head, but also about your own shortcomings, and you're willing to work hard to learn. No matter how tired the training is, he has never pulled down any of the lessons of the teaching team.

He listened to every lesson with his heart and memorized it with his heart. Every time he performed the sand table deduction in class, he observed it very carefully. He was the first of all the cadres in the entire army to learn how to map and map. Now the kung fu of homework on the first-hand map, even Guo Bingxun, who was born in a professional class, is very appreciative of it.

As for others, such as military topography, various tactical commands, the recognition of flag language and horn sounds, and even radio transmission and reception, as well as the study of those reconnaissance subjects taught by Yang Zhen, no matter which subject, his performance is extremely excellent. In Guo Bingxun's words, given time, he can at least be the chief of staff of a group army group.

He was the first commander in the entire reconnaissance battalion to learn how to calculate the secret position of artillery, and the speed and accuracy of his calculations were not even worse than those of Ma Qichang, who graduated from the artillery department of the Northeast Lecture and Martial Arts Hall. Now full of all-rounders. If it weren't for the fact that the reconnaissance battalion couldn't do without him now, Yang Zhen would have transferred him to his side as an operational staff officer or transferred to other places to stand alone.

Seeing Dong Ping disappear into the night with a company of reconnaissance and combat troops, and the communication squad behind him who was hurrying to follow their footsteps to set up a field telephone line, Yang Zhen knew that with Dong Ping, the certainty of success in this battle was at least about sixty percent.

After Dong Ping left, Yang Zhen did not hesitate at all. Immediately commanded the artillery to immediately follow up and quietly spread out to a high ground 1,500 meters south of the Taiping River. This location is about a kilometer away from the Japanese military cordon in Taipingchuan. Over here. It can not only bring out the best power of various artillery pieces, including mortars, but also achieve maximum suddenness of firepower.

After the arrangement was completed, Yang Zhen gave Ma Qichang an order. As soon as Dong Ping heard the news, he concentrated all the wild mountain artillery and immediately launched a fire coverage on Taipingchuan Village. Yang Zhen prepared a big meal for this small village, but there were only two Japanese squadrons.

Yang Zhen's meaning is very clear, I don't care what kind of cats there are in Taipingchuan, if the three or four hundred shells of my more than 30 wild mountain cannons are smashed down, no matter what you have hidden there, they will be blown to pieces. Even if you have any tricks, you can't play them.

According to Yang Zhen's request, the Yeshan artillery of the artillery regiment directly under the artillery regiment should shoot out all the shells except for ten shells left in each cannon in the shortest possible time. However, in order not to affect the follow-up combat capability, Yang Zhen hesitated for a moment and still did not let the mortars belonging to the regiments and battalions that had obtained the best firing range participate in the shelling.

Their own shells are all stored on the line of the Liangzi River. Only by returning there can the shells be rereplenished. If you run out of mortar shells for the regiment and battalion here, you will lose almost all of your support firepower before the follow-up shells are delivered.

After the first battle on the southern front, not only the artillery carried by the wild mountain artillery consumed more than half. Even mortar shells are also extremely expensive, once Wang Guangyu or Guo Bingxun urgently needs reinforcements, in the case of unfavorable supply, the consumption of artillery shells is too much, then it will be extremely unfavorable for follow-up operations.

So despite some hesitation, Yang Zhen canceled the decision to participate in the mortar. He believed that with more than 30 wild mountain guns of the artillery regiment directly under him, three or four hundred rounds of shells would be enough for the two Japanese squadrons of hedgehogs gathered in the small village of Taipingchuan.

Dong Ping's movements were fast. Two hours after leaving Yang Zhen, he had already used the cover of night to solve several Japanese warning positions. After cutting off all telephone lines from the village to the outside world, it quickly infiltrated an extremely hidden corner on the edge of Taipingchuan Village. Here, every move of the Japanese soldiers in the village fell clearly in his eyes.

Although Taipingchuan Village has an important geographical location, it is less than 15 kilometers away from the county seat of Tangyuan, and it is on the main road from Jiamusi to the west and into the Xiaoxing'an Mountains. But the whole village was not large enough to accommodate two squadrons of Japanese troops.

Therefore, in addition to the headquarters of Sasaki to Ichi, as well as some Japanese doves occupied the magpie's nest and occupied the houses of the people in the village. Many Japanese soldiers could only live in makeshift tents, or even camp around campfires. Although it is about to enter May, the weather at night in Beiman is still a little cold. In order to keep warm, many Japanese soldiers in the village lit bonfires.

After raising the binoculars and observing the movements of the Japanese troops who were gathering in a pile around the bonfire in the village, Dong Ping picked up the communication squad that had been following him and set up a field phone as quickly as possible, and whispered the first batch of shooting Zhuyuan.

After receiving Dong Ping's report of shooting Zhu Yuan, Ma Qichang did not hesitate at all, and after quickly adjusting the artillery firing range of his subordinates, the first batch of shells was fired in the shortest possible time. Then, after correcting the extremely small error according to the number reported by Dong Ping, he fired the cannonball out as fast as possible according to Yang Zhen's order.

In fact, the first batch of shells fired by Ma Qichang accurately fell on the heads of the Japanese troops in the Taiping River. Dong Ping's calculation of the degree of shooting density was learned later, but it was extremely accurate. As for the later corrections, it was only Dong Ping's desire to concentrate more shells around the two houses with obvious radio antennas.

Smashing the brains of the Japanese army at the first time when the battle was launched is Dong Ping's most urgent idea now. Therefore, for the correction of ballistics, it is more concentrated on the head of the Japanese command.

When the first shell landed in Taipingchuan Village, he had just finished a call with Lieutenant General Shigeru Sawada, commander of the 4th Division stationed in Jiamusi, and was about to ask for Yubara Prefecture again, but found that the phone could not get through, and Sasaki Toichimasa angrily ordered the adjutant to immediately send troops to check the line.

Finding that the phone lines are all down, you may realize that something is wrong. Sasaki gave his lieutenant a death order, asking him to find out the cause of the telephone line break in the shortest possible time, and at the same time ordering the Japanese troops in the village to prepare for battle.

But it is a pity that Sasaki was not able to wait for the Kwantung Army headquarters to reply to his request to check whether there were any anomalies in the secret ammunition reserve in the North Manchurian region. Nor was it possible to wait for the adjutant to report to him the reason for the interruption of the telephone line. All he was waiting for was a dense number of shells that smashed on his head.

I don't know if Sasaki has seen the yellow calendar today, and whether he has checked whether he is destined to commit a heavenly evil today, otherwise how can he lose everywhere? First of all, the two brigades of the South Road as their own surprise soldiers were completely annihilated in the Yuntou Lizi area, and then the Japanese troops on the Middle Road and the North Road also did not move smoothly.

In particular, the 24th Wing of the Middle Road, which was the main force, suffered heavy losses under the attack of the opponent's cold guns and artillery and mine arrays. In the end, under the full cover of the air force, they barely advanced to the front line of Jianshanzi. An infantry brigade on the northern road, which was used as a decoy, was also unable to cross the Fasi River under the siege of the opponent.

The troops were annihilated by the troops on three routes, suffered heavy losses along the way, and made poor progress along the way, which can almost be said to be a total setback. In particular, there were two Japanese brigades on the southern front, and there was not even a single one who ran back to report the news. If it hadn't been for the aviation forces to find out, I am afraid that I would have died and I don't know the end of the two brigades on the southern front.

In addition, in order to better plunder the resources of the Xiaoxinganling area, the Kwantung Army and the large-scale destruction of the line from Haoliang River to Chenming of the Jiasui Railway, which was built for the future war against the Soviet Union. This series of losses has almost made Sasaki feel exhausted, and his heart has cast a thick shadow on the prospects of this attack.

He personally spoke on the telephone with Lieutenant General Shigeru Sawada, commander of the 4th Division stationed in Jiamusi, in the hope of getting reinforcements from the 4th Division when necessary. It's not that Sasaki has lost confidence in a pair of troops involved in the attack, but after a series of events, he found that his very difficult opponent's body is no longer Wuxia Amon. It can even be described as strong.

was a little exhausted by the successive blows, and Sasaki was restless, so this is because of such a trivial matter as the phone line can't get through, and it's rare to be angry at the adjutant who has followed him for many years.

However, before the adjutant who had taken the order to walk out of the courtyard that had been requisitioned as a headquarters, he suddenly saw two cannonballs falling from the sky, one after the other, and smashed accurately on the house where Sasaki was located. Before the adjutant, who was stunned by the sudden blow, shouted, almost at the same time as the two shells exploded, the entire Taipingchuan village was already covered by artillery fire.

It's not that Dong Ping knows that Sasaki Zhiyi is in this room, it's just that the house that Sasaki Zhiyi chose as the headquarters is the best house in the entire Taipingchuan River, and it is the location of the original Taipingchuan Police Station. It is also the most obvious target in the entire Taipingchuan Village. Because in the whole village, only here are brick houses.

Dong Ping only used this place as a reference point for artillery fire because the target here was obvious and the radio antenna was set up in this courtyard. It's just that I didn't expect that the first two shells fired by Ma Qichang to rest the trajectory would fall directly on the room where Sasaki was so ghostly.

Even if the house where Sasaki is located is a brick house, it is only made of ordinary bricks and tiles, and it is not a reinforced concrete structure, and it can withstand the bombardment of a 75-mm field shell. And even more so to be hit almost by two shells at the same time?

Under the intensive artillery fire, the adjutant, who could only lie on the ground and did not even dare to raise his head, watched sadly as his commander was blown up into the sky along with the house of the headquarters. As for the ending of Sasaki to Lieutenant General, this adjutant hardly needs to look to know. No one could escape from the house that had been hit by two shells in a row.

Sasaki got on the earthen plane that Yang Zhen gave him for free and went to the western sky to meet their Amaterasu Okami. And the Japanese troops in the village did not end up much better than their supreme commander. Under the sudden onset of artillery fire, it was a mess.

Despite the fact that these Japanese troops were elite troops. But the distance from which Yang Zhen fired the cannon was too close. At a firing range of more than 1,000 meters, the Japanese soldiers had just heard the sound of the shell breaking through the air, and the shell had already smashed on the head.

Neither in a well-trained army, nor in the face of a sudden burst of intense artillery fire, would not be any better. What's more, the brains of the Japanese army in the entire Taipingchuan area have been smashed in the first place.

When the bombed hooded Japanese soldiers tried to escape from the village that had become hell along the two exits to the north and south of the village, they found that the only way for the Japanese soldiers in these two villages to survive was to be mounted with two heavy machine guns.

These two Imperial Army-standard Type 92 heavy machine guns, with the cooperation of several machine guns that are also Army-standard crooked handles, harvested the lives of a village that was trembling under the fire with intensive fire.

The Japanese troops who wanted to stand out and escape from this village, which has now turned into a bloody hell, were knocked down on the way to break out of the siege one by one. The dense number of 77 caliber and 65 caliber bullets, almost without aim, killed all the Japanese soldiers who tried to flee in the gate hole of this group tribe that they had painstakingly built.

As a group tribe planned by the Japanese army in Tangyuan County, Taipingchuan Village, which was regarded by the Japanese army as an anti-Manchurian and anti-Japanese nest in Tangyuan, was not large, but the wall was built very high and strong, and there was a barbed wire fence on it. In the whole village, there are only two in the north and south directions, which are not too large, and can only pass through the exit of one truck.

If it weren't for the fact that the two radio antennas of the Japanese army were too obvious, and Dong Ping, who had no choice but to climb a tree to observe the entire village, I am afraid that the tall wall that could block the sight of a qiē alone would only make Dong Ping give up a qiē fantasy.

When Dong Ping infiltrated Taipingchuan Village, if he hadn't found a hidden dog hole under the leadership of the puppet Manchurian policeman who was eager to save his life and atone for his crimes, he would not have infiltrated this key prevention and control group tribe that the Japanese army had registered in Tangyuan and even the Jiamusi area.

Of course, the reason why this puppet Manchurian policeman is so cooperative, in addition to his own cherishing of life and understanding the truth that people have to bow their heads under the eaves, also has a great relationship with a fast and slow machine that never leaves his back behind him. As long as he moves slightly, the fast and slow machine behind him doesn't mind turning him into a hornet's nest in a short period of time.

The high wall built by the Japanese army around Taipingchuan Village cut off the people's connection with the Anti-Japanese Federation on weekdays. But now it has also cut off the hope of the Japanese troops in the village from surviving. As a cocoon, this sentence is undoubtedly very suitable to describe the Japanese army in the Taiping River now.

Taipingchuan Village is not large, and three or four hundred shells are enough to turn it back and forth for five or six rounds. After directing the last few shells to blow up the walls of the village, a reconnaissance company under the command of Dong Ping, who had already retreated from the village, quickly formed a battle formation and rushed towards the breakthrough along the shells to the village.

Behind them, the regular field company, under the instruction of the flares fired by the two mortars that had already moved, still blocked all the Japanese troops in Taipingchuan Village with dense firepower.

In fact, by the time Dong Ping rushed into Taipingchuan Village, the two Japanese squadrons in the entire two narrow areas had been blown up by the dense shells, and there were almost no less than two squads left unwounded.

All the buildings in the village have been almost flattened by the intensive shelling, and not a single intact house can be found. On the ground, the ruins of the houses were littered with the stumps and severed arms of the Japanese army.

A small number of remnants of the Japanese army, although they have become strong, are still resisting stubbornly. But in the face of the melee weapon of the reconnaissance company's heavily equipped fast and slow aircraft, they had almost no power to fight back. The only remaining crooked light machine gun, which had just been erected, was blown into the air by a large number of grenadiers equipped in the reconnaissance company before it could open fire.

Dong Ping's sweeping battle lasted less than half an hour, and there was not a single Japanese soldier alive in the entire Taipingchuan Village, except for the captured Adjutant Sasaki Toichi. After Yang Zhen led the main force to come over, the gunfire here had completely subsided.

Seeing Yang Zhen coming, Dong Ping, who had already finished cleaning the battlefield, handed him a Japanese general-level officer's saber and saluted immediately: "Commander, the battle of Taipingchuan is over. With the cooperation of artillery fire, our army completely annihilated two Japanese squadrons at the cost of six killed and 21 lightly wounded. Killed Japanese Lieutenant General Sasaki to one. ”

"Except for one officer who captured the Japanese army, the rest of the Japanese troops were all annihilated, and none of them escaped the net. In addition, in a courtyard outside the village, a Japanese ammunition depot was captured, and the exact number has not yet been counted. ”

"In addition, our troops also captured sixty pack horses and twelve carts near the ammunition depot. Two trucks. As for weapons and equipment, due to the heavy artillery fire of our troops, only 60 rifles and one heavy machine gun were captured. ”

"Through the interrogation of the prisoners, we have now ascertained that this is the temporary headquarters of the Japanese army's attack on Yubara, and it is also the headquarters of the enemy chief Sasaki to the first lieutenant general. It's just a pity that Sasaki was killed by the first round of artillery fire from our army and failed to capture it. Ask the commander to punish him. ”

Regarding Dong Ping's final plea, Yang Zhen waved his hand and smiled: "What is the punishment?" You've had a great fight. Our army not only completely annihilated two squadrons of the Japanese army, but also killed a lieutenant general, which is a great achievement. ”

"But it's too close to Jiamusi and Tangyuan County, so we can't stay here for long. You immediately lead your reconnaissance company as the lead of the whole army, and let's go to the ass of the Japanese army in Doujianshanzi. ”

Speaking of this, Yang Zhen suddenly remembered something, and called Dong Pingdao, who was about to lead the team: "When you were cleaning the battlefield, especially when you were searching for the Japanese headquarters, did you find the cipher machine used by the Japanese army?" As a brigade-level headquarters, the Japanese army here uses high-power radios, and there should be cipher machines. ”

After listening to Yang Zhen's inquiry, Dong Ping thought about it carefully, shook his head and said, "Commander, the devil's radio station was hit by our artillery fire at the first time. The gasoline stored in the gasoline generator used by the radio station was ignited by artillery shells, and the devil's radio room was completely destroyed by the fire. There, apart from the wreckage of several Japanese troops, we found nothing. The equipment used has been burned. ”

Hearing that Dong Ping had not been able to capture the Japanese cipher machine, Yang Zhen was slightly disappointed, but he did not show it. For him, now that the general headquarters of the Japanese army has been defeated, the next combat operation is in a favorable situation.

Yang Zhen also understands that everything can't be too perfect. Being able to achieve the current situation is already very satisfactory for Yang Zhen. The failure to capture the cipher machine used by the Japanese army is a little regrettable, but it is not too disappointing.