Under the joint efforts of Liu Zhiyuan's main divisional regiment, the Han Xing guard battalion, and the county armed forces, they finally captured Dawuzhuang, scared Zhu Lou away, and forced back the stubborn troops of Dama, Jiangzhuang, and Han Jiagao, leaving only a stronghold in Xiguan of Thirty Miles.

Since then, the Thirty Mile Fort stronghold, in addition to constantly attacking and looting some villages in our Chinan base area, has not dared to plant a stronghold in our Chinan base area for nearly a year.

The Chinan base area is facing a good period of great development again, and all the people in the base area have mobilized all the people to demolish the earthen enclosures of Dawuzhuang, Zhulou, Xiaoma, Jiangzhuang, and Hanjiagao. The turrets were demolished, the village walls were demolished, the blockade ditches were filled, and the traffic trenches were built.

In addition, rectifying and developing party organizations and mass organizations, establishing militia joint defense units, and developing the economy have become urgent tasks at the moment. Comrade Wu Yawu, Comrade Chen Ping of the Industrial Bureau, Comrade Lei Qing of the Agricultural Bureau, and a large number of local comrades worked these tasks.

As for Han Xing, he is still mainly engaged in military work, leading the guard battalion around, pasting "patches" here, and "filling gaps" there, except for the southern expedition, that is, fighting devils in the base area.

Han Xing is a person from the past, he can never forget that in Chiping County, there is also a village called Zhanglou Village, and in Zhanglou Village, a series of great anti-Japanese war stories occurred, which shocked China and foreign countries at that time.

Zhangjialou Village is located in the north of Guangping Township, Chiping County, 1 km west of Chiping, Guangping and Liaocheng highways, and 10 km away from Chiping County, with 301 households and 1,080 people at that time.

Zhangjialou is surrounded by the enemy's stronghold, is the Japanese puppet army burned and looted the key village, the village has been repeatedly robbed by the Japanese army, the stubborn army, so Zhangjialou village to the Japanese puppet stubborn also particularly hateful.

In September 1944, with the help of the leadership of the anti-Japanese democratic government of Chiping County, Zhangjialou established an anti-Japanese militia joint defense brigade of more than 300 people in order to protect itself. On the day the joint defense team was established, Zhang Chenggang, the head of the joint defense team, announced two regulations to all the villagers:

First, from now on, all the villagers will resist all the apportionments of the enemy, and will not pay a grain of grain to the Japanese, will not pay a single cent of taxes, and will not pay any tolerance. The second is to raise weapons, buy steel guns, build sieges, and arm to resist the enemy.

Within three months, a tall and thick earthen wall was built around the village, 7 meters high and 7 meters wide. There are four walled gates in the east, south, west and north. There are deer barricades planted outside the wall, and the outer circle is a blockade ditch.

The militia also raised 115 guns of various kinds, 6 "Great General" earthen cannons, 12 "Little General" earthen cannons and many broadswords and spears.

The joint defense militia actively stood guard and kept the fortifications of the village secret, and the village also set many regulations: 1. No one was allowed to approach within a mile outside the village, and the villagers had to ask for leave when they went out. 2. When outsiders enter the village, the militia must inform the head of the household to come and leave within a limited time.

From then on, Zhanglou Village refused to hand over all the apportionments of the enemy, resisted the enemy with armed resistance, and influenced and drove the anti-Japanese activities of more than a dozen surrounding villages, becoming a strong anti-Japanese fortress village in the hinterland occupied by the enemy.

While supporting and helping Zhangjialou to arm itself against the enemy, the Chiping local democratic government quickly mobilized more than a dozen villages around Zhangjialou, including Yinliu, Xiezhuang, Zhouzhuang, Yinmazhuang, Jiazhuang, Jiazhuang, Zhanglaozhuang, Wuqizhuang, Shuangmiaowei, Jiangzhuang, Liangzhuang, and Hange, to establish a militia joint defense organization.

To the south, it was connected with the anti-Japanese guerrilla border areas of Yuhaizi and Hu Mingyu, and to the southeast and the guerrilla villages of Zhang Eryou, Lijia Hutong, and Mucomliu in the third district, forming an anti-Japanese guerrilla area of more than 100 square kilometers in length and width, and leading directly to the anti-Japanese base area in Chinan to the south.

Therefore, the armed struggle of the militia in the area of Zhangjialou directly threatened the territory of the Guangping stronghold in the second district and Lu Zhaoyue in the puppet third district militarily, so the puppet army regarded Zhangjialou as a thorn in the eye and a thorn in the flesh.

The Japanese puppet army was extremely hostile to Zhangjialou's anti-Japanese actions, and repeatedly planned and planned in an attempt to disintegrate the anti-Japanese armed forces of Zhangjialou. Li Qishan, the puppet county magistrate of Chiping County, once gathered more than 2,000 people from the Chiping puppet army and the public security army in the lunar month of 1944, wanting to attack Zhanglou Village.

Han Xing is a person who has come over, and he deeply admires the militia joint defense of Zhangjialou and always cares about the war in Zhangjialou. He knew that Li Qishan's troops were going to attack Zhanglou Village on the 23rd of the lunar month, so he arrived at this fortress village on the 22nd with the guard battalion.

It's really a mile away, there are sentinels of Zhangjialou. The sentry shouted loudly, "Who, stop!" ”

The advance guard platoon of the first company replied loudly: "We are the team of Han Xing, the guard battalion. ”

Since Han Xing also often came to Zhangjialou for activities, the militia guarding also recognized the soldiers of the guard battalion. This sentry saw that they were all old acquaintances, and quickly led Han Xing's team towards the village.

I haven't seen it for many days, Zhangjialou is not what it used to be, and a wide blockade ditch has been built. This blockade ditch is 7~8 meters wide and about 2 meters deep. There is a rope bridge built outside the south gate, if you don't cross the bridge, let alone people, even if the tank drives in, you can't get out.

The sentry of Zhangjialou shouted loudly: "The people of the guard battalion are here, quickly lower the drawbridge." ”

There was an answer, and a militiaman came over, quickly opened the safety on the noose, and slowly lowered the drawbridge. The suspension bridge, which is nearly 10 meters long and 2 meters wide, is also a big shelf, and it took a long time to put it down in the squeaky sound.

Li Dazhong stretched out his tongue and said, "Good guy, the little devil has learned a set." Only the devils in the stronghold have such a drawbridge. ”

Wu Xiaoming snorted and said, "What's this, it's called learning war in war." ”

The drawbridge was paved, and the wooden sticks thick to the arm one by one had to be crossed carefully. Otherwise, I'm really afraid that I will fall and break my leg and arm.

One by one, the fighters very carefully walked across the drawbridge.

After crossing the suspension bridge, it is the deer. These deer are composed of felling nearby jujube trees, in order to fight devils, the common people are really open-minded, if they can't run away from devils, their homes can't be saved, since they can't keep their homes, what's the use of keeping these jujube trees!

The militia moved a large fence before the soldiers of the guard battalion walked through the air. Further on, it is the walled gate.

Han Xing saw that because the wall was too thick, 7 meters, so this walled gate was not small, 2 meters by 2 meters, it was directly made of some small trees as the skeleton, and some large thick boards were nailed to it. If the gun hits, there is not even a door, only a small cannon can be blasted open.

The militia opened the chains, and with the help of several fighters, the heavy fence gate was opened. It was not until the procession was finished that the gate was closed again and the chain was locked.

As for this wall, it is even more magical, and some of the outer layers are covered with a layer of bricks. Some of them don't even have bricks, and the real connection is made of sand and clay.

The north is so strange, sand, clay and hydrated lime, called triad, sand and clay depending on the sand content of the sand, and the slaked lime must account for about 30% of the percentage. However, in the poor Zhanglou Village, it is still difficult to eat, and where to touch so much slaked lime, it can only be done by tamping it with sand and clay.

When tamping, we also have to pay attention to knowledge, that is, the two soil must be processed, that is, the rural people say that the mud is familiar. Cooked mud is mixed with noodles, and the two soil is mixed with a certain amount of water, mixed and beaten repeatedly, and it becomes cooked mud. If there is cooked mud, then put on the board and beat it repeatedly, it will become a board wall, which can also play the same role as the triple soil.

This kind of board wall, after the rain in summer, the poisonous sun in the sun, the dryness in spring and autumn, and the cold in winter, at most is only a layer of watery traces, and it does not collapse for a long time.

After entering the village, Zhang Chenggang, the captain of the joint defense team, greeted him. Zhang Chenggang was of medium height, in his thirties, with a brown face, and was a very sturdy farmer.

The two had met, they both knew each other, and they shook hands warmly first. The first thing Han Xing needs to know is: "It's only been a few months, and the wall has been raised." How are these walls made, aren't they all board walls? ”

Zhang Chenggang smiled: "It's all board walls? How can we have such great ability! That is, the outer walls on both sides and the reinforcement in the middle are board walls, and the rest is empty, and the soil is filled in and then tamped. ”

Han Xing nodded and said, "Smart, smart, really smart, just this wall is really enough for these recalcitrant troops to attack for a while." However, such a grand project is the same as building the Great Wall for a village, the amount of work is too large, I don't know how you did it? ”

Zhang Chenggang said proudly: "The whole village is mobilized, men, women and children are going into battle. As soon as I heard that it was a devil, the villagers were all energetic, it was really day and night, and they took a breath when they were tired, drank saliva when they were thirsty, and ate a bite of bread when they were hungry. The loess was moved to the wall. Now, the blockade ditch, the deer barricade, and the fence have all been repaired, and it depends on whether the little devils and the recalcitrant army have the courage or not. ”

Han Xing frowned and said to Zhang Chenggang: "I brought you bad news today, tomorrow, that is, on the 23rd of the lunar month, Li Qishan's team will come to attack Zhangjialou!" ”

Zhang Chenggang frowned when he heard this, and then said to Han Xing a little excitedly: "The current Zhangjialou is not the Zhangjialou of the past, there are fortifications and a joint defense team. We just wanted to give it a try and see if they could take our stockade. ”

Han Xing was not so optimistic, and said to him heavily: "Militarily, there is no fortress that cannot be attacked. No matter how well Zhangjialou is repaired, how many enemy attacks can you withstand? ”

Zhang Chengxian said: "I think there are 1,000 people, and there is no problem!" ”

"What if there are more than 2,000 enemies, can you bear it!? To tell the truth," Han Xing said to Zhang Chenggang, "if the enemy really attacks with 1,000 men, our regular army will have to put a battalion to hold on." If the enemy attacks with more than 2,000 men, we will have to put a regiment to defend. With the joint defense team of a village, to resist the attack of more than 2,000 enemy people, even I dare not say such a big thing! ”

Zhang Chengxian heard some words and felt that the situation was serious. He asked Han Xing, "What do you say?" ”