On the evening of the 24th, Commander Lin of the 115th Division issued combat instructions.

The 343 Brigade was ordered to leave at 24 pm on the 24th and set up an ambush in Baiyatai area. The 344 Brigade then headed to Pingxingguan. The troops completed all combat preparations before dawn on the second day.

On the evening of the 24th, a rare rainstorm suddenly broke out, the temperature dropped sharply, and the autumn cold hit the people.

Nie Rongzhen smiled bitterly and said, "God is just kidding us, right?"

Upon hearing this, Commander Lin shook his head and smiled: "In other words, we all feel that it is difficult to move, and the Japanese will never think that we will ambush in the rain. This is not that God is joking with us, it is completely God's helping me!"

At midnight, the troops entered the pre-determined location in the rain. The soldiers had neither raincoats nor hats. In the wind and rain, the team walked along the mountain paths and muddy ravines.

Following the heavy rain, the sudden mountain torrent came!

"Hurry, everyone should hurry up, we must hurry." The leader of the 685th regiment shouted in the wind and rain.

The political commissar of the 685th Regiment followed and said: "Captain, the road ahead has been destroyed by mountain torrents, and it is impossible to get through at all."

"If you can't get through, you have to get through. Even if you crawl for me, you have to crawl over!"

The commander of the 685th Regiment almost shouted, "Don't say that the road ahead was washed away by mountain torrents, it was a sea of ​​swords and fires that delayed the division commander's major affairs. He dared to shoot me three times, don't talk nonsense, hurry up and go there!"

The officers and soldiers of the Eighth Route Army had to hang guns and bullets around their necks, hold hands, or pull the ponytail, walk through the waist-length mud, or even walk through the torrents deep in the chest, and quickly move towards the predetermined ambush position.

The 343 Brigade also encountered a similar situation.

Chen Guang, commander of the 343rd Brigade, ordered: "Don't throw away all the supplies immediately and don't want them all, delaying the division commander's affairs. We have no good results to eat. Let the soldiers speed up the pace. We must arrive before the scheduled time!"

In the early morning of September 25, after a night of wind and rain, the 115th Division arrived at the ambush position at the scheduled time, southeast of Guangou, and quickly built fortifications and implemented camouflage.

At this moment, the autumn rain had stopped, but the sky was still gloomy and terrifying.

The White Tiger Guerrillas who were ambushing in Laoye Temple to the north of Guangou had already built hidden fortifications, and everyone was lying on the ground without moving.

Zhou Weiguo looked at all the soldiers of the 115th Division building fortifications quickly, and his expression was very shocked. He whispered to Ouyang: "The degree of construction fortifications and disguise of the 115th Division is definitely first-class. Compared with the national and military forces, it is much stronger."

"Of course!"

Ouyang responded: "The predecessor of the 115th Division is the Red 1st Army. During the Long March, it fought bloody battles in the Xiangjiang River, crossed the Chishui River four times, broke through the Jinsha River, forced the Dadu River, seized the Luding Bridge, and conquered the natural danger Lazikou, are all masterpieces of this army."

He paused and said, "If I had no such ability, wouldn't I have been suppressed by the national army long ago?"

In just twenty minutes, the soldiers of the 115th Division had already built the ambush positions and hid them very well.

After a night of storms, the soldiers were covered with yellow mud soup, blending with the surrounding scenery. Even if they walked closer, it was difficult to see their hidden figures.

If Ouyang and others had not been watching them all the time, it would be extremely difficult to see the hidden positions of the soldiers of the 115th Division.

On the surface, it looks from Pingxingguan to Donghn Town.

There is no one in this 5-kilometer-long valley, and everything seems very calm.

On an unobtrusive mountain on the east side of the flat-shaped Kantar.

Commander Lin of the 115th Division half kneeled on the grass, marking the position of the position on the paper, and Nie Rongzhen used a telescope to observe the ambushed positions and channel paths.

When they saw the troops' hidden gaps and were completely integrated with the mountains and plants, they couldn't help but smile at each other with satisfaction.

A staff officer standing by took the opportunity to lift the camera, leaving behind classic historical photos of the organizers and commanders of the Pingxingguan battle.

"I miss you so much!"

This precious historical photo, Ouyang, who traveled through money, was once fortunate to see it at the Pingxingguan Victory Memorial Hall. Now he is here in person, and he feels even more emotional.

In fact, in real history, the 115th Division did not arrange for people to ambush in the Laoye Temple.

As long as people who know a little about military affairs know that setting up ambush on both sides, hitting two directions, forming a firepower cross-border network is obviously much more useful than one-way ambushing.

However, in history, Commander Lin was abnormal and chose the one-sided ambush tactic, which is extremely unscientific. Some people may not understand it. In fact, it is caused by many factors.

It is not just because the north is a steep mountain wall, which is not conducive to hiding, but because if you want to ambush the Japanese army in Laoye Temple, you must climb the steep cliff wall in the north from the shortcut at the bottom of the Guangou. In this way, you will inevitably leave footprints on the bottom of the ditches and muddy land, causing the Japanese army to be alert and not conducive to hidden operations.

This is why Ouyang chose to set up an ambush one day in advance!

Occupying the commanding heights of Laoye Temple, the Japanese army in the ditches will be completely exposed to the firepower of the White Tiger Guerrillas.

In a word, whoever occupied the Laoye Temple would take great advantage in this battle!

Time is about to pass, and the people lying ambushed on both sides of the position are motionless.

September 25, 7:00 a.m.

In the southwest direction of the position, the sound of motors of cars came from the direction of the horse racing pool. A Japanese car team was about to enter the frontier of the position of the 685th Regiment.

The ambush is only 2 miles away from Guangou.

This Japanese army,

On the first car, dozens of Japanese soldiers who were in the Japanese "plaster flag" car were wearing steel helmets, shaking, singing songs, wearing yellow tweed coats, and holding all the bayonet rifles in their arms.

"That's stupid!"

Zhou Weiguo chuckled to Ouyang: "The Japanese army, which has always been rigorous in combat, will violate the battlefield marching and logistics transportation routines!"

Jiang Daya also followed and said: "The Japanese army neither sent vanguards to explore the way, nor had any searching forces on both sides. It seemed to be having a pleasant tourist feast."

In fact, this phenomenon was a habitual problem caused by the regular army of the National Party at that time, because the 5th Division had been engaged in the war in the pass for more than two months, it could be said that it was galloping across the board, invincible and never had any opponents.

Therefore, the Japanese army at that time looked down on China and the army. They called this kind of combat "coach" and fighting the Kuomintang army, called "duck driving".

However, the arrogant and arrogant Japanese army never expected that the opponent they encountered this time was different from the past, but the officers and soldiers of the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army, which they later called the "crawling and cunning" Eighth Route Army.

Ouyang conveyed an order to the soldiers around him, "Everyone, without my order, must not be exposed or fired!"

On the position south of Guangou, most of the Eighth Route Army officers and soldiers of the 115th Division saw the Japanese army for the first time, and their eyes widened. Apart from the differences in military uniforms and weapons, they did not seem to have anything special about the Japanese army.

An Eighth Route Army soldier whispered: "The Japanese are just like this!"

"The Japanese devils didn't have three heads and six arms, they were still shaking and singing."

"Damn, I'll take you back to your hometown later!"

The soldiers of the 115th Division were full of disdain for the Japanese who entered the ambush circle.

The Eighth Route Army officers and soldiers on the position pulled the bolts and pushed the bullets onto the load. They aimed at the Japanese in the ditch and waited for the commander to give the commander a command. But when they saw the Japanese cars driving one after another from their ambush positions, they could not hear the commander's attack order!

The commander of the 115th Division is waiting!

Because he received another fatal news, another Japanese army was advancing from the opposite direction of the enemy in front of him. If he could not join forces, it would add a lot of uncertainty to the ambush!

A: The Japanese army that was originally going to ambush was a car corps under the 21st Brigade of Itagaki Division. It has 101 large and small cars. From the east to the east, from west to east, in the ravine, the Japanese convoy was like a long snake, crawling in the muddy mountain stream after the rain, and driving into the ambush area, there were more than 100 cars, stretching for several miles. The number of Japanese troops was about 40 people, coming from west to east, transporting troops to the front line;

Another: there is a Japanese mule and horse transport team, a Japanese baggage unit, about 50 people, from Lingqiu and Cai Jiayu toward the ambush area, from east to west. This is a large baggage unit of the Japanese, that is, the baggage unit.

The mule, horse and cart I carried stretched for 4 or 5 miles of mountain road, came from east to west, and also entered the ambush circle.

This means that two Japanese troops entered the pocket array set up in advance by the 115th Division from both east and west directions.

The enemy who was about to ambush changed from one team to two teams of enemies, and the difficulty suddenly increased!
Chapter completed!