When Luo Zhaorong heard this, he suddenly felt that something was wrong, and a basin of cold water splashed down on his head and face, and it was cold from his head to his heels. Luo Xiaoquan was also very shocked when he heard this, and whispered: "No, it's only been a long time, such a strong fortification has been breached." The twin temples are broken, and we are ...... Luozhuang"

Both of them understand that these strongholds are all deducted from one mold, similar to each other, the twin temples are broken, will Luozhuang be a long time away?

The secret agent came to report again: "Report to Commander Luo, the Eighth Road is digging a big ditch, look at that frame, it is about to be dug to Luozhuang." ”

When Luo Zhaorong heard this, he was a little puzzled: "Digging a ditch, what are they digging a ditch for?" "Hurriedly ran to the turret with Luo Xiaoquan to see what the Eighth Route Army was doing?

The turret is condescending, and the surrounding area is unobstructed for several miles. The Eighth Route Army, which has tens of thousands of people, and migrant workers are busy digging deep trenches, and they are working in full swing and with double enthusiasm, just like a big competition in digging trenches. From Shuangmiao, from Niuying, from Qiuzhuang, from Jiazhuang, to Maozhuang, Huayuan, Luozhuang have dug over.

"What are you going to do?" Luo Zhaorong couldn't help but muttered to himself.

Luo Xiaoquan is not a chief of staff, he is resourceful, he thought for a while and said: "I understand, the Eighth Road can't take advantage of the siege, they are going to dig a deep ditch and trap us!" There are still a few hundred meters between our Luozhuang and the garden, and it seems that they will also separate us from the garden and Luozhuang. Once they block successfully, then we ......"

Luo Xiaoquan has a good brain, and he is quickly calculating the future situation: "Our logistics supply, our mutual communication, and the wounded and sick, this ...... This...... It's okay for a month, but if we are really sleepy for two months, we will be numb. Commander Luo, I think the Eighth Route is going to implement siege tactics and trap us to death! ”

Luo Zhaorong thought about it, and also felt that something was wrong: "If they fight hard, we are not afraid, if it is really a long-term siege, we will not be able to stand it." These eight ways are really cunning and cunning. ”

"I heard that that kid from Han Xing is back again." Luo Xiaoquan said, "The last time I attacked Luo Zhuang, I was almost not killed by his mortar. I heard that this time, he brought howitzers, which are much more powerful than mortars! ”

Speaking of Han Xing, Luo Zhaorong was angry: "Let's talk about Xu Guanwu in Caitun, when I heard that Han Xing was called, I was scared away and ran to Jinan." What are you talking about this stupid boy, what are you doing in Jinan! Is it good to have Chiping in Jinan? In Chiping, our brothers can still be companions, and they are each other's horns. If you run to Jinan, you can't count on anything. ”

Luo Xiaoquan asked strangely: "I don't know what Han Xing told him, he was so scared." If you have a gun, you are the king of grass, and after so long in the rivers and lakes, he doesn't even understand this truth! This Han Xing is really hateful. ”

Luo Zhaorong said to Luo Xiaoquan again: "I have told you several times, if you can't treat someone like Han Xing, you will cluck, so as to save my eyes." ”

Luo Xiaoquan hurriedly reminded: "It's not that we don't want to assassinate, but the chief regiment, you also have to think about it." This Han Xing, I heard that he is still a military commander, and it is difficult for the military commander to explain it! I heard that this kid Han Xing is quite popular on Dai Li's side and the chairman's side, and we can't afford to mess with it! ”

The two of them denounced Han Xing for a while, hating, fearing and impatience towards Han Xing.

Luo Xiaoquan said to Luo Zhaorong again: "Chief Commander, pull those farther away." But what now? If we don't want to take good countermeasures to break the siege of the Eighth Road, we won't be able to stand it for a long time! ”

Luo Zhaorong said to Luo Xiaoquan: "In your opinion? ”

Luo Xiaoquan thought for a while and said, "In my opinion, there is really no good way at present. We have repaired the deep ditch fortified city, he is stunned and does not come to attack, what can we do? Besides, the twin temples were also broken by the Eight Roads, and I lost confidence in whether our Luozhuang could hold it, to be honest.

I don't know which country's military strategists have said that no matter how strong a city is, there will be times when it will be breached. Now the Eighth Route has adopted a siege battle, which is even more terrifying. Rather than ruining the city, it is better to ......"

Luo Xiaoquan didn't dare to say it. Luo Zhaorong asked again: "What's not as good as it?" ”

"Thirty-six strategies, go ahead," Luo Xiaoquan said, "Anyway, now that we are the national army, we are afraid of eight birds!" It's better to temporarily withdraw from Wuping, avoid its edge, and once the time is ripe, it's not too late to kill back. ”

Luo Zhaorong thought about it, although Luo Xiaoquan's strategy was passive, but in the current situation, there was no other way to go, so he had no choice but to nod and discuss with Luo Xiaoquan how to withdraw from Wuping County.

On the evening of January 5, 1946, Luo Zhaorong, who was stationed in Wuping, Luozhuang, Zhaozhuang, Duzhuang, Maozhuang, Huayuan, Liangdaokou, and Yuhuangmiao, suddenly abandoned his existing stronghold, and a total of more than 2,000 people fled in the direction of Xuguantun in Gaotang County, northeast.

Our second column and local troops immediately launched a general offensive and occupied these places. In this way, the whole county of Wuping County has planted red flags and announced liberation.

On the 5th, after the 4th Brigade occupied Luozhuang and Huayuan, on the 6th, it received an order from the 2nd Column to pursue Luo Zhaorong's division together with the 6th Brigade.

At 2 o'clock on the 6th, the main force of the Fourth Brigade set out from Luozhuang and arrived at Nanzhen south of Gaotang and near Xuguantun in Yinji Town at 8 o'clock. Brigade Commander Kong Qingde decided to first besiege and blockade the main force of Pang Changshen of the 8th Brigade of Shandong Security in Xuguantun, and concentrate on eliminating the peripheral enemies of Nanzhen and Wulipu.

On December 26, 1937, under the leadership of Fan Zhuxian, the Luxi anti-Japanese forces fought a battle in Nanzhen and defeated the Japanese, making the Japanese enter the Liaocheng area nearly a year late. Now that I have come back from the old place, how can I not have a lot of emotion.

In particular, during the Battle of Nanzhen that year, two famous leaders, one was Fan Zhuxian, the commissioner and security commander of the 6th District Administration of Shandong Province, and the other was Xu Yushan, the head of the "Lianzhuang Society" of 28 villages, and later a famous cadre of the Eighth Route Army, who had already ridden to the west.

Now that Japan has surrendered, a company of the puppet Pang Changshen Division is entrenched here and continues to make enemies of the people. They had deep ditches and high walls, relying on strong fortifications, in a vain attempt to block the attack of the powerful Eighth Route Army.

Because the Fourth Brigade was only concerned with pursuing Luo Zhaorong's troops, it really did not expect that there was also an enemy stationed in Nanzhen. The troops were in a hurry, carrying neither ladders nor planks, and could not cross the deep trenches at all. The 11 regiment rushed across the ditch, had no equipment, and was knocked down by the enemy with dozens of people.

The troops had no choice but to stop the offensive and go to nearby villages to find door panels, ladders, and planks. Because Pang Changshen's department has been operating here for many years, even finding equipment has encountered difficulties, some of the people have fled, some have closed the door, and no matter how they knock on the door, they will not open it.

Kong Qingde said to Han Xing: "I didn't expect that this person's little Nanzhen would be so stubborn. ”

Han Xing said to Brigade Commander Kong: "The attack can't be rushed, let's hurry up and prepare." Zhang Xiaosan of the guard battalion is a native of Nanzhen, and he also fought the battle of Nanzhen here. Just hand over this task of preparing ladders and planks to Zhang Xiaosan, and tell him to think of a way. ”

After giving the order, Zhang Xiaosan, through relatives and acquaintances, immediately found a lot of ladders, door panels, and wooden planks, and prepared to attack Nanzhen.

At 3 p.m., the 11 regiment again organized an attack, first destroying the enemy's artillery tower with mortars. As soon as the turret exploded, it caused a great shock to the enemy's psyche, and the mortars continued to bombard the enemy's tall walls, and the enemy cried wolf and fell to death.

The 11 regiment immediately attacked. The attack went much smoother because of the good preparations, the ladder went down into the ditch, the soldiers got down the ladder, and then at the end of the blockade ditch put up the ladder again, and rushed up. The wall had long been suppressed by our machine guns, and under the cover of machine guns, the fighters erected ladders and rushed into the wall, and in less than 10 minutes they conquered the southern town.

Nanzhen is Ke, and the 4th Brigade concentrates its main force to prepare for the attack on the Xuguantun stronghold.

Where is Xu Guantun, just 9 kilometers northeast of the current Gaotang County, there is the main force of Pang Changshen of the 8th Brigade, and Luo Zhaorong took refuge in him.

In order to annihilate Luo Zhaorong's troops, the Sixth Brigade also quickly rushed from Wuping County and entered the area east of Nanzhen at 18 o'clock on the 6th. On the 7th, it was learned from the captives that Luo Zhaorong's troops saw that it was not safe to stay in Xuguantun, and had continued to flee from Xuguantun to the area east of Wei Qi, and the defending enemy of Xuguantun, Pang Changshen, also fled eastward.

Because the enemy strongholds in the southern and southeastern areas of Gaotang were densely concentrated, the situation was unfamiliar, the troops were tired, and transportation was difficult, the Second Column decided to concentrate its forces on sweeping away the strongholds in the southern Gaotang area first, and then develop eastward.

The 6th Brigade was ordered to move from the northeast of Nanzhen to the areas of Guozhuang, Dingqiao, and Luanguantun in the northeast of Xuguantun to prevent the enemy from escaping. The 4th Brigade and other units besieged the besieged positions. The divisional troops of the Second Army in southern Hebei advanced to Donghutou, Nijiazhuang, and Chenzhuang to cooperate with the Fourth Brigade in combat.

In the afternoon of the same day, the Fourth Brigade conquered Tongguantun, Tang Lou, Xingguo Temple, Three Churches and other strongholds. Just when the large forces of the Eighth Route Army had cleared the enemy strongholds such as Wulipu on the periphery of Xuguantun and were actively preparing for the attack on Xuguantun, on the night of the 13th, the armistice order of the Kuomintang and the Communist Party came into effect, and the two sides stopped attacking.

After the armistice came into effect, the battle of Liaobo entered the second stage, that is, a long-term siege of the enemy. On 18 January, the 2nd Column led the 5th and 6th Brigade Columns back to their original garrison in Handan, and ordered Kong Qingde and Liu Minghui of the 4th Brigade to lead the 4th Brigade and command the troops of the relevant military subdivisions in southern Hebei, Hebei, Shandong, and Henan to persist in the struggle against the enemy in the Liaobo area -- to consolidate the newly liberated areas, to organize the siege of the enemy in Liaocheng and Gaotang and Xuguantun, and to strike at the enemy who had repeatedly committed Wuping.

After the armistice, it was said that it was peaceful, but in fact, there were wars every day between the liberated areas and the enemy-occupied areas, and friction was flailing from time to time. The Kuomintang did not keep its promises, stepped up the deployment of troops to the liberated areas, and often waited for an opportunity to capture our base areas.

On the night of January 18, that is, the night when the 5th and 6th Brigades of the 2nd Column withdrew to Handan, Xie Yihai, deputy brigade commander of Luo Zhaorong's department, led 5 regiments and more than 2,000 people to return to the area of Xuguantun in an attempt to reoccupy Wuping, and occupied Zhifangtou and Tangzhuang on the 19th, and Lutou and Dinggang on the 20th.