Chapter 13: Changing Guards (23)

As soon as Shen Xilin's men moved, they immediately fell into Zhang Shenghu's eyes. Zhang Shenghu sent a small force to follow, reported the enemy's movements every hour, and followed the Japanese puppet army to Chaonanying, north of the Bayang River.

After receiving Zhang Shenghu's information, Li Benyi breathed a sigh of relief and had a plan in his mind, asking Li Picheng to quietly follow up in the south of the Bayang River, not to attract the attention of Jiangbei, and to prepare to hit Shen Xilin on the south bank of the Bayang River, and hit him coldly. At this time, a telegram from Mo Di upgraded Li Benyi from excitement to ecstasy, it turned out that at the ferry scheduled by Shen Xilin, Mo Di had already ambushed the next surprise soldier in advance. Mo Di proposed in the telegram that Li Benyi should plan and send one to kill Sanhe and attack the rest of Shen Xilin's stay in Sanhe. Shengqiao's invincible division and Sanhe's operations are linked, and when Li Ben's department launches an attack in Sanhe, Shengqiao's invincible division will also launch a general attack at the same time, taking the Shengqiao Japanese puppet army in the shortest possible time, and then all of them will go north to reinforce Huang Yingyi's department, and together with Li Picheng's department, strive to annihilate the Japanese puppet army in one fell swoop.

Li Ben smiled, this Mo Tianzong has a lot of ambitions. Last time, we took a brigade in Anqing, and this time, we will take a brigade in Hefei.

The two main regiments of Shen Xilin's Ninth Brigade, one taken away and the other stayed, and those who stayed in Sanhe were the ones who were blown up like a mess by Li Baicheng yesterday, and were organized as the 18th Regiment of the Ninth Brigade of the Fifth Division of the First Army of the Founding Army of the Peace Army. This regiment was full of wounded soldiers and had no morale. They stayed in Sanhe, thinking that it was an idle errand, but they did not expect that they would become the target of the first attack.

Li Benyi sent the main attack was Wei Jiebo's 414 Regiment, which was also a unit that was bombed in Sanyo and was injured, unlike the opponent, Li Baicheng was equipped with a mortar battalion for Wei Jiebo, which greatly increased the attack capability of Wei Jiebo's regiment.

When the mortar battalion reached the Fengluo River, the opposing Jianguo Army was completely unaware, and several sentries were giggling at the end of the wooden bridge of the Fengluo River, checking the belongings of the villagers, and greedy for one or two fruits in the villagers' burdens.

The sound of mortar artillery suddenly sounded, and under the cover of artillery fire, the 414th regiment under the leadership of Wei Jiebo rushed across the wooden bridge. All this was completely unprepared by the other side, and the panicked Jianguo Army, seeing the opportunity, ran away, and the rest were running around in desperation, just begging the artillery on the other side to stop as soon as possible, and even unanimously knelt on the ground together, raising their hands and surrendering. After Wei Jiebo took over the enemy camp, he realized that it was only one of the reasons that he had no time to organize effective resistance after a surprise attack, and the most important reason was that the shelling at Sanhe yesterday had already frightened the courage of this group, and as long as they heard the sound of cannons, those who did not pee their pants were considered heroes. Except for one battalion that escaped, the rest of the Nineteenth Brigade and Eighteenth Regiment of the Fifth Division of the Founding Army, dead or alive, remained in Sanhe.

won Sanhe North Road so smoothly, and the sudden result made Li Benyi overjoyed, originally just wanted to take a small advantage, but he didn't expect to directly copy Shen Xilin's back road. The news from Shengqiao made Li Ben even more happy, successfully took Shengqiao, almost annihilated the enemy, and the army also quickly reinforced the northern road. With 3,000 Mo Enemy troops, the strength has increased greatly, and the previous plan of focusing on defense must be changed, and Shen Xiru will be completely annihilated. Immediately ordered Li Baicheng's troops and Li Picheng's troops to march eastward along Longshushui and join Huang Yingyi's troops at Xinhekou. Zhao Xueliang's troops quickly crossed the Longshushui and Fengluo rivers, joined up with Wei Jiebo's troops, marched eastward along the north bank of Longshushui, and together with friendly forces on the south bank, attacked Shen Xilin.

With the ticket in hand, Li Benyi laughed out loud.

The Japanese battalion in Shengqiao, because of the inhumane sniping of the three rows of Zhao Sheng'an's assault Lianshui Lianzhu rifle in the west, made the west end of the camp out of a no-man's land, and it seemed that there was no one shot shooting, but in fact, the guns and guns bit the flesh, and the bullets hit the enemy, and the panic caused to the Japanese battalion was more like the end of the world, and the Japanese puppet army and Japanese businessmen did not dare to stay in the west, and they were all driven to the east of the camp.

The east is the area where the enemy is attacking. Just as the first round of shelling by Li Baicheng's mortar battalion on the Fengluo River began, the only 75 mountain gun in Shengqiao also roared. With the roar of 75 mountain guns, forty-five hand cannons at the east end of the camp were fired at the same time. Suddenly, the Japanese camp in Shengqiao was in disarray. Because of the dense number of people, every shell that falls, it will take away a few or even a dozen lives, and the captain of the Yantian Brigade knew that there was no way to defend it, so he ordered to withdraw to the north.

Yao Yutian led Zhong Dingnai's battalion and Liang Tang's battalion to roll in from the south.

The north was not a way out, and after the Japanese puppet army squeezed out of the camp, they were confronted by Liu Wukui's heavy firepower company and Zhang Chongshan's crutch platoon. Twenty-one crutches and six Makqin water machine guns fired at the same time, forming a bullet net. Wang Zhanlin saw that the situation was not good, jumped off the trench and escaped, and the captain of the Yantian Brigade walked slowly, and was hit by Mark's bullet, and was beaten in two by his waist. As soon as the puppet army bent its knees, they knelt on the spot, while the Japanese army was trapped and fighting, and none of them survived.

The battle of Shengqiao ended in half an hour, which was even more crisp than the north bank of the Fengluo River.

Clean up the battlefield, throw the bodies in the trenches and bury them on the spot. Yao Yutian was in charge of this work, in the face of piles of corpses, Yao Yutian was a little disgusted, after fighting all these years, the proportion of deaths was high, and the death conditions were so bad, second only to the Mengcheng War that year. Zhong Dingnai had long been accustomed to it, pointed to the trench and said to Yao Yutian with a smile, this time luck, the devil and the second devil would have dug their own graves a long time ago, otherwise, the workload would be even greater.

Except for the 38 big cover and Tomosaka bullets, no other trophies were found, and this group of Japanese puppet troops was not ordinary poor. Jin Tongxuan asked the third battalion of the 138th Division Field Supplement Regiment to collect all the tents that could still be used normally in the Japanese battalion, and the 176th Division Field Supplement Regiment did not want these things, and the 138th Division Field Supplement Regiment was lacking. Camping in the wild, having tents and no tents is completely different, not every time there is a cheap Lujiangdong green camp.

After packing up, quickly head north.

The remnants of Liao's artillery, which had no weapons, returned to the Lujiangdong Green Battalion with the mountain artillery platoon reinforced by Li Baicheng. Shi Zhong took the lead and acted as a striker. Mo Di and Jin Tongxuan's department were in the middle, and Yao Yutian's department was reduced to the queen of the palace because of cleaning the battlefield.

"What is the situation at the new estuary?" Walking on the field, the invincible body was relaxed, and the battle of Shengqiao was much easier than he imagined, and he was worried about the northern front in his heart.

"According to Huang Yingyi's report, this time Shen Xilin's department has a professional engineer battalion, coupled with the local geographical location, there is a sandbar in the middle, and the pontoon bridge was erected very quickly, and it only took more than two hours to complete the erection of the pontoon bridge." Jin Tongxuan replied: "It's just that after the pontoon bridge was erected, the other party did not attack immediately, it is estimated that the news of Fengluo Hebei has arrived, and Shen Xilin is hesitating, whether to retreat to rescue or decisively go south." ”

"Do you expect to retreat or decisively go south?" Mo Di asked.

"Pullback." Jin Tongxuan said.

"Reason." Mo Di asked.

"We are moving north, and if he dares to go south, it will be a dead end." Jin Tongxuan replied.

"Hehehehe." Mo Di smiled: "He may not know that we have already waved north, but even retreating is a dead end." ”

Jin Tongxuan nodded. Shen Xiru retreated, as long as Li Benyi could drag it until he arrived, it was not impossible to completely annihilate Shen Xilin's troops.

The news of the attack on Sanhe, Shen Xilin reported to Hefei as soon as possible, Shen Xiru was so frightened that he jumped three feet, lifted his feet and walked out, while tying a belt, he shouted: "Gather people and horses, reinforce Sanhe." "Shen Xilin is the treasure in the hands of the whole family, and he can't afford to lose. Looking at the entire Fifth Division of the Founding Army, Shen Xilin took the Ninth Brigade with him, and also took away most of the troops directly under the division headquarters, leaving only one Tenth Brigade that had suffered losses in Sanhe before, and now, the Tenth Brigade has not been replenished, and its combat strength can only reach two-thirds of that in peacetime. There is no choice but to go out regardless of the nest.

Miyata Nakasa, the captain of the 2nd Infantry Brigade of the 133rd Tagawa Wing of the Japanese Army, who supervised the battle in Shen Xilin's department, was relatively calm, and the other party's Shen Xilin, who was in a big mess, said: "Shen Jun, don't be bored, if you make a mistake for a while, you haven't reached the moment of life and death." ”

Shen Xilin somewhat regained his composure and looked at Miyata Nakazo with hopeful eyes. He knew that if he wanted to fight his opponents, the first thing to solve was the nature of Miyata's brigade, and they had to be transformed from a warlord to a combat unit. He knew the combat capability of the Japanese army, and a brigade of 1,100 men was by no means comparable to his regiment of 1,800 men. However, he could not take the initiative to ask the Japanese army to change the nature of use, so he could only wait for the Japanese army to take the initiative. Miyata said that his goal had been achieved.

"Miyata Taijun, it's not that I'm upset, I'm really worried. It's not a big problem if we run out, and it's a crime that deserves death if we even involve Taijun. Shen Xilin said very sincerely.

"Hehehehehe!" Miyata was very moved, and reached out to pat Shen Xilin's shoulder. Miyata is very short, Shen Xilin is a little tall, Miyata is struggling, Shen Xilin hurriedly shrank his body to facilitate Miyata's actions.

"Your loyalty is unquestionable, but the Imperial Army's combat capabilities are not idle." Miyata Nakasa said: "In this way, our department is responsible for blocking the river, you lead the army to strictly defend the north of the river, and we will take the defense as the attack, waiting for reinforcements from Hefei." Hefei to get here, day and night, ten hours necessary. We only need to hold on for ten hours before we launch a counteroffensive. This time, we will entangle the 138th Division that is fighting with us and strive to annihilate it in one fell swoop. ”

Shen Xilin nodded, in his opinion, as long as the Japanese army participated in the defense, ten hours, there would be no problem.

However, Shen Xilin miscalculated again, and less than half an hour after Shen Xiru's army left Hefei, the 172nd and 173rd Divisions of the National Revolutionary Army began to attack Feixi. In their opinion, the Seventh Army will not participate in the battle this time, because the two sides are evenly matched, and the Seventh Army cannot draw the strength to reinforce the 48th Army. In their opinion, it is not the style of the Chinese army to live people at the bottom of the well and undress to live friends. However, they ignored one factor, Cheng Shufen, the commander of the 172nd Division, was newly promoted to the deputy commander of the 48th Army and must submit a letter of surrender. If there is a second factor, it is that the Fifth Theater allocated the 173rd Division directly under it to the 48th Army, and it was only transferred to Huoqiu, where it was stationed, in May, and became a local dark horse unit. After Li Benyi started the battle at Sanhe, he was ordered by Yang Zanmo, chief of staff of the 48th Army, and Ling Yunshang, the commander of the 517th Regiment of the 173rd Division, was ordered to go to Zipeng Mountain in Feixi to lurk, and Zhong Ji, the new commander of the 172nd Division and an old friend of Mo Enemy, also sent Liao Hanguo's 514th Regiment to go with him, waiting for Hefei reinforcements to come out, and then they went to Feixi together. These dazzling troop movements were not even expected by the invincible Li Benyi. When Mo Di knew that there were still some reinforcements in the north, he incredulously said to Jin Tongxuan, there is a way for praying mantis to catch cicadas, yellow finches behind, not after yellow sparrows, and eagles.

Shen Xiru hurriedly turned around and rescued Feixi.

Shen Xilin is destined to tragedy!