Liu Haozi confidently led his puppet soldiers to swagger over, the lead was one of his reconnaissance companies, about three miles away from the position of Liu Haozi's division, Liu Haozi knew that he was relying on his whiskers to come to power, and he didn't know much about fighting, so in his place, the general military issues were decided by his brother-in-law who had gone to a military school, his brother-in-law was named Xiao Tianming, who had attended a military school for a period of time before, and knew some basic combat knowledge.
But after a long time of sparse warfare, in addition to oppressing the people every day and acting for the tiger, it is actually a task like a straw bag, this time he followed his brother-in-law out, the purpose is to have a good reputation at this time, and there will be a bragging capital to upgrade in the future.
So this Xiao Tianming, in order to show his military talent this time, volunteered to move forward with the reconnaissance company, no, Xiao Tianming with a puppet army reconnaissance company of about 200 people soon unknowingly entered the fat man's ambush circle, the fat man hid in the grass on the side of the road, he saw clearly, saw that Xiao Tianming's team only had about 200 people, so he ordered the brothers who were in ambush to let go of these puppet troops first, and wait for the large forces of the puppet army behind to enter the ambush circle, and we will not be too late to fire."
Xiao Tianming swaggered into the fat man's ambush circle with the soldiers of the puppet army reconnaissance company, he originally thought that the New Fourth Army and local anti-Japanese armed forces in the Jiangbei base area would arrange heavy troops here to intercept them, because he knew that this was the last position to enter the Jiangbei anti-Japanese base area, and this place was only fifteen miles away from the New Fourth Army Independent Brigade Headquarters stationed in Matan, and it would take two hours to reach Matan, thinking about the silence around, the soldiers sent out to search everywhere reported that everything was normal on both sides of the road, I didn't find anything unusual, and the road ahead was clear, so I could continue to move forward.
Xiao Tianming hurriedly sent someone to inform Liu Haozi: "The road ahead is smooth, and there is no sign of the enemy, so you can pass with confidence."
Only then did Liu Haozi completely put his mind at ease, and ordered all the puppet army divisions to follow, march quickly, and rush to Tianchangmatan, fifteen miles away, to capture the headquarters of the Independent Brigade of the New Fourth Army, and capture the commander of the Independent Brigade, Zhou Wu, alive Liu Haozi's tone was not small, and he didn't want to think about what kind of character he was, so he captured Zhou Wu alive after delusion.
The large army of the puppet army quickly passed through the ambush circle preset by the fat man, everything was safe and sound, and a group of brothers who were ambushed on both sides of the road seemed not to see the puppet soldiers who walked past, and continued to lie in the grass and wait for the brigade of the real opponent little devil to appear, and the fat man of the regiment still took the little devil brigade that rushed to attack the base area as a strong enemy to fight, although the fat man had heard that the combat effectiveness of the current devil was not as good as a stubble, But the fat man Hayworth, who has never been ambiguous in the matter of fighting, regarded these devils on the opposite side as those little devils during the Battle of Songhu, and asked the brothers in the regiment to be ready for battle, aim accurately, fight bravely, and not slack off in the slightest.
Yamada Lu, commander of the Devil's Brigade in the back, received news from Liu Haozi, saying that all the seven or eight thousand men of the entire division of the Imperial Allied Army had entered the territory of the Jiangbei base area, and that they were now marching to Tianchangmatan, where the headquarters of the Independent Brigade of the New Fourth Army was located.
At this time, Yamada Lu, a devil officer of the Kwantung Army with rich combat experience, was also paralyzed by the fat man's forbearance, he thought that there was no resistance in the Jiangbei base area at all, otherwise we would have driven to a place only fifteen or sixteen miles away from the headquarters of the Independent Brigade, why haven't we seen any big movement here, there is no mountain or water, and it is indeed a terrain that is not easy to set up an ambush, it seems that the intelligence of those inner lines lurking in the Communist Party base is still quite reliable and correct, The New Fourth Army and the common people in this Jiangbei base area were almost tormented by the plague at this time, and now it was time for our Imperial Japanese Army to attack.
Yamada Lu immediately ordered Liu Haozi in front: "Suspend the march, be on guard on the spot, and wait for our imperial army to come over, and then besiege Matan together, completely knock out the brigade headquarters of the independent brigade, and capture the commander of the independent brigade Zhou Wu alive" After Yamada Lu was transferred from the northeast to Nanjing, he immediately heard about the name of this Zhou Wu, and his colleagues often told him how powerful Zhou Wu, the commander of the independent brigade of the New Fourth Army, was a task, and this Yamada Lu didn't believe the advice of his colleagues very much, I had to meet this brigade commander of the Communist New Fourth Army for a while to see how capable he really was, and he could make a name for himself in the Jiangbei area.
So this Yamada devil's temper has come up, the Japanese are all tendons, once the temper comes up, it is nine cows that can't pull it back, so when this Yamada Luyi heard that the Liu Hemp in front of them had all entered the Jiangbei base area, his heart began to itch: "This great opportunity can't be robbed by the Hemp in front, our Imperial Army has to catch up and capture Matan first, that's the majesty." ” Therefore, the commander of the devil's brigade, Yamada Devil, ignored the request of the chief of staff of the devil next to him to send scouts to the grass on both sides of the road to take a look, and immediately ordered: "All follow up, catch up quickly, and rush to Matan in one hour" In this way, Yamada Lu took thousands of little devils to the fat man's ambush circle on their side, at this time the fat man had already contacted Huang Shuisheng who was ambushed on the shore of Gaoyou Lake in the east, and asked them to wait for the battle to start, press the little devil from the east, and then quickly retreat eastward, deliberately letting the devil retreat, and the fat man and they were desperately driving the little devil towards Gaoyou Lake in the back, driving them all to the edge of Gaoyou Lake, and Huang Shuisheng's spy group would solve the problem, and the fat man could only ensure that those devils on the shore, As for the things in Gaoyou Lake, they were all solved by Huang Shuisheng's sailors.
The scout who went to investigate the situation of the devil in front hurriedly ran to report to the fat man: "Commander, the large army of devils is coming, there are quite a few people, there are five or six thousand people, plus those puppet troops in the front, the enemy has more than 10,000. ” When the fat man heard that the large army of little devils who were waiting left and right had finally appeared, he hurriedly said to his brothers: "Hurry up and prepare for battle, listen to my gunfire as a signal" The first to enter the fat man's field of vision was a team of two or three hundred devils, only to see them carrying a long 38 big cover on their shoulders, carrying the devil's plaster flag on the spear, swaggering towards the ambush circle, followed by a large army of devils, the boss of the black pressure, unable to see the end at a glance, the fat man thought: "This time the little devils are coming, but I only have a few thousand people on hand, otherwise I have to annihilate all these little devils who have entered the ambush circle to make dumplings." ” The fat man endured it and patiently waited for the little devils in front of him to enter the ambush circle step by step, and the advance team of more than 200 devils passed here safely, and the Yamada Lu who was marching behind was even more relieved, and ordered the devil troops behind to speed up the march, quickly go up, capture Matan, and surround and eliminate the independent brigade of the New Fourth Army.
The fat man saw the big group of devil soldiers rushing over behind him, and knew that it was time to start the battle, so he raised the twenty-shot box cannon and fired a shot at a little devil outside, and suddenly the storm-like bullets were shot out of the grass, and a group of more than a dozen mortars also kept firing at this time, Zhang Ercheng was ordered to help the fat man stop the devil this time, so he brought all the brothers of the artillery company here, and the shooting parameters had already been calibrated, and the fat man's twenty-shot box cannon fired.
The shells of his dozen or so mortars had already burst out of their chambers and smashed towards the devil soldiers on the march Suddenly hit by the fire on both sides of the road, the devil soldiers fell into chaos all of a sudden, most of these devil soldiers are just recruits who have just received a few months of military training, usually in Nanjing City to help maintain order, there has been no battle, not to mention those devil veterans once attacked, immediately fell to the ground on the spot, looking for cover and desperately firing back, at the same time, the devil's artillery should also start to bombard the grass on both sides at this time, but this scene did not happen, what the fat man did not expect was, The group of devil soldiers who entered the ambush circle in front of them turned out to be like headless flies, running around, still yelling and shouting in their mouths, and were killed by the machine gun bullets lying in ambush on the side of the road.
When the commander of the devil brigade saw that he was attacked, he hurriedly pulled out his oriental sword and shouted to the devil officers under him: "Quickly rush up to resist the attack, the officers rush to the front, the soldiers are not allowed to retreat, whoever retreats will die."
Yamada Lu seemed to expect his team to retreat, only to hear Yamada Lu's order, a supervising team with machine guns came out behind him, knowing about seventy or eighty people, under the threat of a devil soldier Cao Cao and the black hole of the machine gun behind him, those devil recruits who were fleeing backwards finally held their foot, and under the rearrangement of their respective officers, they organized a formation to launch a counterattack against the fat men on both sides.
The devil's grenadiers and mortars hit the grass on both sides of the road, and the rumbling explosion lifted the dirt in the grass pile, and many brothers who were ambushed inside were blown up by the devil's shells, killing and wounding many brothers, seeing that the little devil woke up from the initial panic, the fat man shouted: "Brothers, get on the bayonet and rush up" A group of more than 2,000 brothers rushed out of the grass on both sides of the road, shouting battle slogans in their mouths, those frightened little devils saw that so many soldiers of the New Fourth Army suddenly poured out of the grass on both sides, and the fear in their hearts occupied their hearts again, and the calves and stomachs of some of the newly enlisted devil recruits began to tremble, and the guys in their hands did not obey the call, although there were devil veterans next to them urging these recruits to shoot and shoot, but obviously most of these devils had never seen this kind of large-scale charge.
They all involuntarily retreated backwards. t1706231537: