In view of the urgency of the enemy situation, after the preliminary formulation of the combat plan, Yang Zhen suspended the training, and immediately led the team with Guo Bingxun to set off separately after the troops rested for half a day. Before leaving, in order to ensure the stability of the troops in wartime, Yang Zhen specially told Guo Bingxun and Wang Guangyu that if necessary, those who are unfavorable to the battle can be cut first and then played.

In the early morning of the next day, when the Japanese troops from Jiamusi arrived at the front line of Wangjiang. In addition to ordering the rapid-fire artillerymen who had not yet completed their training to return to the secret base in Qunce Mountain, Yang Zhen and Guo Bingxun respectively led their troops to set off and rushed to the predetermined battlefield they had chosen.

Before dividing the troops, just in case, Yang Zhen also sent a special report to the commander-in-chief and Li Yanping, asking them to be ready for battle and respond to emergencies at any time.

After arriving at the scheduled battlefield, Yang Zhen immediately arranged for manpower to build an ambush position. In order to achieve the suddenness of the battle, Yang Zhen even checked the concealment of each company. In particular, the artillery position was a camouflage personally selected and arranged by Yang Zhen.

And in order to maximize the firepower, avoid the artillery that has just come out of the oven to shoot indiscriminately. Yang Zhen also personally took Ma Qichang to demarcate the firing boundary of one cannon and one cannon. After receiving the signal of the attack, the artillerymen did nothing. Just shoot the shells according to the predetermined scale.

In addition to the fixed artillery, Ma Qichang also transferred some regimental and battalion mortars, and took advantage of the relatively proficient use of mortars to form two mobile artillery groups. Under his personal command, it was dedicated to blocking the retreat routes of the Japanese army and suppressing the recalcitrant enemy. At the same time, on the artillery positions and the main positions, field telephone lines were also specially erected.

In order to prevent the recruits from being too nervous and exposing the target in advance, Yang Zhen repeatedly issued orders that no matter cadres or soldiers, those who move without orders will be subject to military law. Although he didn't want to talk about military law at every turn, for the recruits who went to the battlefield for the first time, Yang Zhen knew that he had to form a deterrent. Otherwise, a small mistake will ruin this well-designed ambush battle.

Fortunately, the Japanese army on the south road did not let Yang Zhen wait long, and less than half a day after Yang Zhen had just built the scheduled ambush position, the vanguard of the Japanese army had already appeared in front of him. Seeing the Japanese army marching in columns, Yang Zhen breathed a sigh of relief.

This may be too arrogant, too confident in their own combat effectiveness, thinking that they will not encounter an attack by anti-Japanese forces near the railway line. Perhaps it was Sasaki's urgency, and in order to speed up the march, the Japanese army did not open the march.

The Japanese marched in dense columns. Along the sidewalk, which could accommodate two carriages in parallel for the construction of the Jiasui Railway, which was used to mine trees, four marching columns were forming a marching column and were marching at a rapid pace to the north. And the distance between the spearheads is not very far. This gave Yang Zhen an opportunity to take advantage of.

When Yang Zhen led the main force to arrive between Yuntou Lizi and Tangwang River and chose an ambush position, he accidentally found a sidewalk that could pass two carriages side by side, and chose the area where the ambush was now set up at a glance.

Although it is very close to the Jiasui Railway, the mountains on both sides of the road are not high, and the forests on the mountains have been cut down due to the construction of the railway, so they cannot be compared with the primeval forests in the Yuntou Lizi area. But it was the greatest way to make the Japanese army loose and vigilant.

In addition, there was a side road that was fast enough for the Japanese army to pass through. According to the terrain and geographical location here, the Japanese army should be vigilant. And in order to speed up the march, and definitely not to pull the marching army apart. The denser the Japanese army's marching troops, the more conducive it is to setting the artillery scale, and the more their firepower can be fully brought into play.

However, when this Japanese puppet army began to enter the ambush circle one after another, Yang Zhen's heart was about to rise to his throat. Before the Japanese army completely entered the ambush circle, once the recruit was a little nervous and his fingers were lightly hooked, his tactical intentions would be fully exposed. The fish that have already arrived may slip away, not to mention, the whole favorable situation will fall into passivity if it is not done well.

Due to the fact that there were too many recruits in the army to affect the battle, Yang Zhen's battle plan for the troops was very simple. He divided each company into fixed firing zones. As soon as the sound of the artillery stopped, the weapon in hand fired the bullets and the grenades assigned to you at the maximum rate of fire.

And it was Yang Zhen who specially selected several companies with more veterans who launched the charge. At the beginning of the distribution of recruits, in order to ensure the combat effectiveness of the troops, Yang Zhen was under Guo Bingxun's construction, and each battalion retained a fist company composed of veterans composed of prisoners of war and the puppet Manchu army anyway.

Although in order to ensure the victory of the battle, Yang Zhen formulated tactics that were meticulous to the squad platoon. However, the most fundamental decision of this battle depends on whether the ambush force will reveal its tactical intentions before all the Japanese troops enter the ambush circle. So before the Japanese army all entered the encirclement, Yang Zhen's heart was always on the side.

After receiving the report that Liu Changshun, who was responsible for blocking the retreat of the Japanese army, and that all the follow-up Japanese troops had entered the ambush circle, Yang Zhen took a sigh of relief, picked up the field phone, and gave the artillery position an order to open fire.

Due to the fact that the firing boundary and design scale had been demarcated long ago, the shells fired did not even need to correct the trajectory, and they accurately fell into the ranks of the Japanese army. Although these Japanese soldiers are veterans and their reaction speed is top-notch, they are too close.

When they heard the sound of cannonballs cutting through the air and tried to find shelter, the cannonballs that fell from the sky had already smashed into their bodies. The entire artillery regiment had 36 mountain and field guns, plus a large number of battalions and regimental mortars, and the dense artillery fire blew up the unsuspecting Japanese marching brigade.

In order to ensure that the Japanese army could be defeated or even completely annihilated in the shortest possible time, Yang Zhen was not afraid of hard work and brought the entire artillery regiment. In places where the mountains and forests are dense and inconvenient to travel, the artillery was even disassembled and carried by manpower. The limited number of towing horses was converted to carrying cannonballs.

And in order to ensure the continuity of firepower. In addition to leaving some shells in the Liangzi River area to facilitate follow-up combat supplies, Yang Zhen carried almost all the shells to the Liangzi River. Even the infantry carried one or two 75-mm mountain artillery shells or 90-millimeter mortar shells.

In order to ensure that the artillery arrived at the combat area at the same time, Yang Zhen also specially allocated an infantry battalion and a baggage battalion to cooperate with the artillery regiment to transport artillery. Especially in the difficult part of the mountain road, Yang Zhen once personally carried the wheel of an artillery.

With these preparations, the artillery fought, without the slightest scruple about the storage of shells. At this time, they had only one thought in their minds, which was to fire as many shells as possible within the allotted fifteen-minute fire support time.

In addition to the two mortar groups controlled by Ma Qichang, considering that the Japanese army's retreat would be blocked in the future, it was slightly restrained. The rest of the wild mountain artillery groups under Qiu Jintang's personal command were almost desperate. He didn't care about anything, he just buried his head in the predetermined ruler and shot out the shells one by one. After this battle, the artillery regiment directly under it fired more than half of the artillery shells it carried.

Although the rate of fire was generally not fast due to the inexperience of some artillerymen, it was superior in numbers. When the fifteen-minute fire support time had passed, the regiment of the puppet Manchu army that was fighting with the Japanese army was bombed by the dense shells, and less than a fifth of it was left. And the Japanese troops who braved the dense artillery fire to launch a counterattack suffered heavy casualties.

When the Japanese army risked their lives to launch a counterattack, these puppet Manchu soldiers lay on the ground and did not dare to make the slightest movement. When the artillery fire weakened slightly, he didn't care about what the master around him thought, and turned around and fled towards the mountain pass. These puppet Manchus are not stupid, the shells that just fell on their heads were at least fired by an artillery regiment.

They have also dealt with the Anti-United Nations a lot, when did the Anti-United Nations have such a strong firepower? If you are locked up in the mountains and forests, you can't get out, and you are driven everywhere? According to the intensity of the artillery fire that fell on his head this time, it shouldn't be the ** from the north, right? I heard that during the first battle of Zhang Gufeng last year, the artillery fire of the first son was also so intensive. If you don't run at this time, are you waiting here to die?

Thinking that it was the puppet Manchu army that the Soviet army had attacked, as soon as the artillery fire stopped, they turned around and ran in the direction of the mountain pass, trying to get out of the hell on earth in front of them. It's a pity that how can they get their wish? Before they could reach the pass, a dense rain of mortar shells and a sudden burst of machine-gun fire on both sides of the valley drove them back like ducks.

Compared with the puppet Manchu army, which panicked and wanted to run away, although the Japanese army also paid the price of more than half of the casualties in this period of shelling, it was much stronger than the puppet Manchu army. His subsequent brave performance, as well as his extremely high tactical level, was also admired by Yang Zhen: "In the end, it is a veteran division of the Japanese army, and this combat effectiveness is really strong." ”

Although a mortar squadron carrying a company of artillery had not yet had time to be mounted, it was sent to the western sky with the artillerymen. Most of the light and heavy machine guns were also blown up in the shelling. However, the remaining Japanese troops did not wait for the artillery bombardment to end, and braved intensive artillery fire to launch an attack on a hill on the left side of the road, trying to seize a commanding height, so that they could hold on and wait for reinforcements.

In fact, the commander-in-chief of the Japanese puppet army on the southern route, Takashi Murata, who escaped the shelling, also had a certain delusion when the first shell fell on his head. It's just that unlike the puppet Manchu army, after hearing that the shells that fell on his head were the standard equipment of the Kwantung Army at the first time, he thought that he had been accidentally injured by friendly troops.

Because he never thought that an army that could only hide in the deep mountains and old forests all day long to avoid the imperial army's purging could have so many artillery. He had never received similar information that the Anti-Union had so many artillery pieces and seemingly endless shells.

He was well aware of the number of mortars and a small number of mountain artillery for the targets he wanted to clear. However, the number of artillery bombarding oneself in front of him, regardless of mortars, will definitely not be only two in the number of mountain and field artillery according to the intelligence. This could not have been the poorly equipped anti-Manchu anti-Japanese forces. Looking at the Jiamusi area, the only one who can have so many imperial artillery pieces is the Fourth Division.

Despite the fact that the opponent's rate of fire was not fast, Takao Murata could still judge the size of the artillery that was firing at him, at least one artillery wing. And the running group that can fire such a dense number of shells has never been equipped even by a single army of the government army in China.

Although he knew very well about the equipment of the Japanese army on the third route, he still thought that the people who were launching artillery bombardments on him on the opposite side were not the targets he wanted to attack but the fourth division. Because he knew that although the Fourth Division did not participate in this attack, the Fourth Division was stationed in the Jiamusi area.

So when he was bombarded, Murata Takashi immediately thought that the Fourth Division was temporarily transferred by Lieutenant General Sasaki to cooperate with the attack. It wasn't until the shells that fell on his head became more and more dense, and nearly ten minutes had passed, and it had not subsided, that he realized that he had been ambushed.

Moreover, while he was aware of the ambush in himself, he realized for the first time that the anti-Japanese forces ambushing him would definitely not be a small number. Because a small army will not have so much artillery fire.

In the end, it is a regular field division of the Japanese army, and Murata Takashi is also tough, and his tactical level and reaction speed are also calculated. scolded a sentence: "Baga, so many artillery pieces from these anti-Manchu anti-Japanese elements? After that, he did not retreat, but advanced, and commanded his troops to launch a counterattack on the hill closest to him, braving the dense shells from the surrounding area.

Because Murata Takao Osaku knows very well that if he does not quickly seize a commanding height, according to his current situation, he really does not know how many troops his troops can have left under such a dense attack on the bare and no hidden passage.

The radio station was blown up, and it was no longer possible to call for reinforcements or air support. The only thing I can do now is to seize a commanding heights and wait for reinforcements before those anti-Manchu forces react.

When he saw through the telescope that the Japanese army was not afraid of death and did not wait for the artillery fire to stop, and launched a counterattack under dense artillery fire, Yang Zhen, who was secretly taken aback, immediately ordered the infantry to concentrate their fire on the two flanks in the direction of the Japanese counterattack. An attempt to blockade the Japanese with fire, an attempt to break through a certain point of the ambush circle, or an attempt to seize the commanding heights.

Worried that the troops deployed on the hill that the Japanese army wanted to seize would not be able to withstand the Japanese army's desperate impact, after temporarily handing over the command in his hand to Du Kaishan beside him, Yang Zhen gave Ma Qichang an order to immediately command the mobile artillery group to suppress the fire of the Japanese army that launched a counterattack, and personally led a company to reinforce the hill quickly.

Fortunately, when Yang Zhen adjusted the establishment, he assigned two heavy machine guns to each company, and each infantry squad was equipped with squad light machine guns. And the defenders on this hill that the Japanese army attacked were also the veteran companies that Yang Zhen originally used to prepare for the charge. The company commander of this company is also quite effective.

Seeing that the Japanese army launched an attack on the hill where he was located, despite the dense artillery fire, the company commander, who was also surprised, immediately commanded the troops into battle after a short period of consternation. Concentrate all the machine-gun fire and desperately intercept it.

Although the Japanese army was not afraid of death, it was flesh and blood after all. The Japanese army, which had lost its main fire support, had its teeth and claws pulled out, although it still had the courage and perseverance to fight a war. But flesh and blood can't compete with steel after all.

Although the accurate rifle fire of the Japanese soldiers also inflicted many casualties on the defending troops, they were never able to succeed in losing their main fire support under the intense machine-gun fire and the rain of mortar shells that quickly diverted. Pieces were knocked down in front of the defenders' positions.

When Yang Zhen arrived at the defensive position, he was slightly relieved to see that the company commander was not panicked because the Japanese army chose his side for the direction of the main attack, and the command was quite effective. knew that as long as the Japanese army did not break through here, this battle would be won by itself.

Seeing that although the Japanese army did not hesitate to attack this place in turn, there was not much danger here, Yang Zhen transferred two platoons of troops from the company he brought to supplement the blocking force, and after leaving the company's two heavy machine guns, he returned to his command position with the rest of the troops. Yang Zhen knew very well that the more he was near the end of the battle, the more he could not leave the command position.

Just when Yang Zhen returned to the command post, except for the mobile artillery group that was still blocking the Japanese counterattack with dense artillery fire, the rest of the artillery sound had gradually subsided. The Japanese troops who launched a counterattack, under the attack of dense firepower around them, also gradually suffered casualties and embers. After raising his binoculars and carefully observing the battlefield situation, Yang Zhen, who knew that it was time to attack, gave the order for a general attack.

With the sound of charging horns, the various companies responsible for the charge jumped out of the trenches, and under the cover of light and heavy machine guns and mortars, launched an all-out attack on the remnants of the two Japanese brigades, which had already formed into a group and tried to make the last stubborn resistance, after the failure of the counterattack.