Chapter 361: Confirm Identity Fierce battle in the middle of the night

Late at night. The county seat of Lin'an County. Fang's compound. The living room on the first floor of the Mochizuki Building in the backyard.

In the past few days, Fang Daxian has received exciting news from all sides: the police station is surrounded and protested by people who are wounded and bleeding every day, and strongly demand that the murderers be arrested and punished; Medicines and supplies in the county hospital were stolen by an unidentified group of people during the night; The Japanese puppet army guarding the north gate of the county town was knocked unconscious by the bandits of Black Tiger Village, and all weapons and ammunition were confiscated; In many towns and villages, landlords, bullies, traitors, spies, hooligans, and Japanese intelligence agents who collaborated with the enemy and deceived the people were almost secretly executed overnight. So many things have happened in the past few days when Nakagawa Rongyi is not in Lin'an County, it should not be a coincidence, Fang Daxian can know without thinking about it, these things must have been planned and organized by his son Fang Jiren, and he also impersonated the Black Tiger Village that did not exist at all. After analyzing and judging through the dialogue just now, Fang Daxian came to a definite conclusion, he firmly believed in his heart that his son Fang Jiren was a member of the Communist Party, and should still be the leader of a relatively high position, and was commanding the Fang family armed guards pulled out of the Hulu Valley of Yufeng Mountain, and may have united with the Eighth Route Army Supplementary Regiment stationed in Shuihe Village to lead the underground party members and the general public in the western Hebei region to carry out an important and large-scale battle. Fang Daxian secretly admired that only the Communist Party and the Eighth Route Army could mobilize and organize the vast number of anti-Japanese people to do such an earth-shattering event. Unfortunately, because of his special secret identity, he can't disclose it to anyone, let alone participate in it, so he can only help secretly. Although the true identity of the son has been confirmed, this relationship must not be pierced now. Otherwise, it's not good for anyone. Well? Who is the granddaughter Qing'er? The more I think about it, the more I feel like a member of the Communist Party, is she and her son from the same organization? What role can she play in these actions? Although all the shops and businesses of the Fang family in and around the county were searched by the detective team and the Japanese puppet army for several days, the loss of money and property was huge, and the clerk was injured and bleeding, which made Fang Daxian extremely angry and indignant, and even more regretful and distressed, but when he learned about Fang Jiren's revenge plan, his mood calmed down. Revenge, we must take revenge, not only for the Fang family themselves, but also for the vast number of poor people who are struggling in dire straits. Fang Daxian thought silently: There are young people like Xiaoliuzi and Qing'er charging in front, and I am their strong backing, even if they are bankrupt, I will give my full support until they kill all the Japanese devils.

Fang Jiren took out his pocket watch and looked at it, coughing lightly.

"Little Liuzi, it's not early, I won't talk nonsense with you, I'll go upstairs and go to sleep. I would like to remind both of you to be careful, to be thorough, to be clean, and to leave no trouble. With that, Fonda stood up and walked towards the stairs.

"Dad, we all remember your words." Francis stood up and said.

"Grandpa, you can sleep at ease, Sixth Brother and I know how to do it."

Two hundred meters in the dark outside the north gate of Lin'an Town, Han Dagang, who was lying in the ditch, poked out half of his head and carefully observed the north gate with wide eyes. A dozen sharpshooters were in ambush on either side of him, and behind him was a company of fighters lurking in the cornfield.

The town of Lin'an, which was enclosed by a trench more than one zhang wide and more than one meter deep, and barbed wire on both sides of the trench, was silent at this time, the gate was closed, a light was lit on the lintel, and the suspension bridge on the trench was hoisted high. Outside the town gate, two Japanese soldiers and two Imperial Allied soldiers stood guard with guns. The searchlights on the gatehouse swept from time to time to the dirt roads and cornfields to the north. There was a crooked machine gun on the gatehouse, and there was a bunker next to the gatehouse.

Han Dagang whispered to the sharpshooters to find their own targets, and once they fired, they had to knock out the searchlights, machine gunners, and the four guards at the gatehouse. After the start of the battle, the machine gun was immediately knocked out. Han Dagang also ordered the mountain artillery and thunder canisters to be loaded with ammunition, and directly aimed at the gatehouse and bunker to prepare for the cannon. Finally, the demolition team and the assault group were ordered to prepare for the attack, and the soldiers in the cornfield bowed their heads and walked down the east-west horizontal ditch with gentle steps, scattered and lying on the edge of the ditch, pulling the bolt and loading the bullets.

"Comrades, get ready to fight." Han Dagang whispered the order.

The night was dark. On the main roads and on the middle of the crop fields in the western Hebei border area, young and strong men carrying burdens and sacks are running quickly, and they set off from their respective villages and ran to the nearest land temple from their homes.

On the side of the road between the various towns and villages in the west of Lin'an County, there is a land temple for the nearby villagers to worship the gods and worship the gods, pray for rain and avoid waterlogging, beg for the land to grow grains, the wind and rain are smooth, the grains are abundant, and there is enough food and clothing, and it can also let the laborers who are in a long distance to rest and live temporarily, and take shelter from the rain and heat in summer and the cold and wind in winter. Some of these land temples have existed for 180 years, and most of the land temples have been built one after another in the past thirty or forty years at the expense of the Fang family. On the surface, it is just a land temple of more than ten square meters, in fact, it is a basement of more than 20 square meters below, and the entrance of the cave is hidden and cleverly located at the foot of the wall behind the shrine, and there is a tunnel in the basement, which connects the exit of a dry water deep well more than 20 meters away from the land temple. In the west of the county seat of Lin'an County, there are more than a dozen land temples distributed between various villages, which were built by the Fang family in order to prevent the rout soldiers who fled to the mountains after the defeat of the perennial war, the murderers wanted by the government and the bandits from all walks of life in the mountains came to the county town to rob money and grain. Every year, the grain harvested in summer and autumn is scattered and secretly stored in damp-proof and moisture-proof basements under various land temples. Homes, grain depots and several grain stores in the county town only store half a month's worth of grain. Every month, the Fang family has to send men to inspect various land temples as passers-by to ensure the safety of the food in the basement and prevent mildew.

At this time, there were soldiers of a squad of special columns hidden around each land temple, ready to meet the villagers who came to deliver food late at night.

In the dark two hundred meters outside the north gate of Lin'an Town, Han Dagang squatted in the ditch and took out his pocket watch, and a soldier next to him struck a match. With the extremely faint light, Han Dagang could clearly see that the long and short hands of the pocket watch overlapped and pointed to twelve o'clock.

Han Dagang bent over and slowly raised his head, carefully observed the north gate of Lin An Town, and then pulled out twenty shell guns, turned on the nose of the machine, and ordered in a low voice:

"Fire."

As soon as the words fell, more than a dozen sharpshooters around Han Dagang who had been aiming for a long time opened fire together, and the searchlight on the gatehouse was immediately extinguished, and the guards at the door were killed instantly. The mountain artillery and flying thunder barrels more than 50 meters behind also roared, and the north gate suddenly turned into a sea of fire, filled with gunsmoke. Gatehouses and bunkers were destroyed, and drawbridges were shaken down on trenches.

"Stop shooting! Stop shelling! Demolition group, on! Han Dagang ordered.

Six warriors raised their backpacks in front of them, and bent down to run towards the drawbridge with their right arms between them. Suddenly, the collapsed gatehouse and the remnants of the enemy in the bunker fired a dense barrage of machine-gun bullets. The two fighters who were running at the front were wounded in the legs and fell, and the other four fighters immediately fell to their stomachs and crawled forward.

"Fire! Knock out the enemy's firepower points! Han Dagang shouted loudly.

Thundered. After a few shots, the enemy's machine guns were completely dumb.

The four fighters of the demolition team stood up, raised their feet, raised their legs, ran wildly, rushed across the drawbridge, occupied the north gate, and took off their rifles to search the enemy.

"Assault group, on. Comrades, follow me! Han Dagang shouted.

The warriors swarmed to the north gate and rushed across the drawbridge.

Han Dagang strode into the door, observed it carefully, and then ordered loudly:

"Comrades, immediately extinguish the fire, collect the enemy's weapons and ammunition, and after entering the town, each of them will find favorable terrain and disperse to build bunkers to hide, one platoon at the door, the second platoon on the left, and the third platoon on the right, prepare for street fighting, the enemy will soon launch a counteroffensive."

The soldiers got busy according to Han Dagang's order, built bunkers and waited for the battle with guns.

The commander of the Japanese army in Lin'an Town, Kawaya Shaosa, was awakened by the earth-shattering sound of gunfire, and he put on his military uniform and left the dormitory and walked into the war room. The second lieutenant officer on duty reported to him that the main force of the Eighth Route Army had broken through the north gate and was attacking the town.

Hegu Shaozo immediately ordered two squadrons to launch a counterattack on the north gate.