"If you have entered Beijing and have been to Wei, it is better to go to Qiantong to catch the temple fair!"

This sentence is a common saying often said by the common people in the Yanshan area, which means that if you have entered Beijing City and Tianjin Wei, it is better to go to Qiantong Town to see the temple fair. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

The old county town is Qiantong Town in the Qin and Han dynasties.

It is said that Qin Shi Huang dreamed of immortality and sent the priest Xu Fu to overseas to search for immortal mountains and immortal medicines, and this is the starting point. In that year, Xu Fu recruited 3,000 boys and girls in this area, gathered Qin Shi Huang from all over the country to recruit skilled craftsmen, built a city in Qiantong Town, trained and raised materials, and the name of the city was Qiantong City. In the end, Xu Fu led the fleet to take a boat from the east gate of Qiantong Town, and sailed straight into the Bohai Sea through Wudi Ditch.

Xu Fu left with the boy and girl, and his relatives were eager to see through it, and he couldn't look forward to his flesh and blood anymore. So, from the beginning of the Han Dynasty, Qiantong Town rose up to commemorate the 60 years of the sacrifice of boys and girls, every Jiazi year of the lunar calendar on the 28th day of the third month, that is, the day of Xu Fu crossing the sea, hold a temple fair, first to the temple of the thousand children in the Kaihua Temple to worship, and then carry out the "Xinzi" performance.

"Xin" means respect, and "Zi" refers to the boys and girls who crossed the sea with Xu Fu.

The "Xinzi" performance in Qiantong Town is a small aerial stage built with iron rods and wooden boards at the top of a flagpole that is 14 or 5 meters high, and there are boys and girls performing various artistic shapes on the stage. Its contents include "Tianhe matching", "Lu Dongbin opera peony", "merit to learn the road", "Xu Fu Dongdu" and so on. The lower end of the flagpole is fixed to a frame made of iron and wood, on which are placed many stone grinding discs and stones, and the stand is carried by 36 stout men and marches to the beat of drums.

It's a pity that it is now the era of the Anti-Japanese War, and the little devil killed Qiantong Town, the birthplace of Xu Fu Dongdu, which is now the old county town, and established a stronghold here, forgetting Xu Fu Dongdu's kindness to Japan to bring the most advanced civilization of that era!

The advance brigade solved the battle of Liu Yanchen's troops by force, and won cleanly, and even Liu Yanchen himself failed to sneak away, and the Japanese puppet army in the old county town naturally couldn't know.

The old county town is also the place where Ma Zhenhua and his team established the North China People's Anti-Japanese Salvation Association, and the mass foundation is good, and the Eighth Route Army can touch it casually.

However, Xiao Siming fought and took the word "skillful". The Japanese puppet stronghold in the old county town was weak, and there was only one detachment of 13 devil soldiers and a platoon of puppet troops, which was not enough for the advance brigade to stuff its teeth. Xiao Siming is naturally going to use the tactics of encirclement and reinforcement again.

No, a company of the fifth battalion of the advance brigade that ended the battle to eliminate Liu Yanchen's troops entered the old county town in the middle of the night, and the Japanese puppet army in the stronghold of the old county town was opened. Fought until dawn, and there was no way to take the stronghold of the Japanese puppet army!

When the day dawned, the leader of the devil detachment, who had made countless calls for help to the devil squadron leader in Yanshan County, saw clearly the enemy's strength and equipment at a glance, and immediately hid in the turret and shouted "Moxi, Moxi" with the telephone, and reported to the devil squadron leader in Yanshan City that it was the Chinese guerrillas who attacked the old county town, wearing the clothes of the local people, with white towels wrapped around their heads, using weapons lost when the Chinese army retreated, and listening to the sound of gunfire, they were all rifles and light machine guns made by the Shenyang Arsenal of the Northeast Army. There are also some Hanyang-made and Jin-made rifles. The point is that the guerrillas in China are numerous, almost 200 people, and they blocked the stronghold with machine guns and could not rush out! At present, the Chinese guerrillas are transporting dry firewood and dried reed bales to the vicinity of the stronghold, apparently intending to attack with fire. I beg Your Excellency the Squadron Leader for urgent tactical guidance!

Yanshan City was an important stronghold of the Japanese puppet army deep into the hinterland of the Hebei and Shandong borders.

Since the last time Yanshan Castle was captured by the 31st Detachment, the Japanese army has strengthened the garrison in Salt Mountain Castle. It's just that at this time, the Japanese army was bent on attacking southward, and there were no extra troops to strengthen the rear garrison, and the Japanese army stationed in Yanshan County only had an infantry squadron and a battalion of Liu Peichen, deputy commander of the puppet North China Autonomous Coalition Army.

The strength of the army was limited, and the Japanese puppet army stationed in Yanshan only set up a stronghold in the old county town, and the rest were all cowered in the county seat.

At the time of the victory in Taierzhuang, the troops of the 10th Division of the Japanese army stationed in the northern section of Jinpu Road were transferred, and the infantry squadron of the 10th Division stationed in Yanshan County was naturally transferred. The troops who came to take over the defense were the troops of the independent mixed Fifth Brigade Regiment transferred by the Japanese army from Tianjin, which was also a squadron.

The puppet army stationed in Yanshan County has not changed, it is still a battalion, about 500 people.

Under normal circumstances, a squadron of Japanese troops, plus a battalion of puppet troops, garrisoned a county town, and the strength was more than enough.

In fact, after the Japanese army captured the county town of Yanshan for the second time, it was never attacked again. Including the Japanese puppet army stationed in the old county town, they were all safe and sound.

At this time, it was the time when the Japanese army launched its first sweep on the Jizhong Plain. Major General Qin Yashang, commander of the Fifth Brigade of the Independent Mixed Brigade, dispatched 3,000 troops and killed Qingxian, Hejian, Xianxian, Wuqiang and other places west of Jinpu Road, killing people and setting fires, causing tragedy, and trying to wipe out our army in Jizhong, which was active in this area.

At this time, our army in central Hebei was still divided into two parts, one was the Hebei guerrilla army founded by Meng Qingshan with the support of the Hebei Provincial Party Committee and the Hebei Provincial Special Committee, and the other was the people's self-defense army developed by Lu Zhengcao's department.

Since Xiao Siming led the cavalry company to blow up the Ziya River Railway Bridge, Major General Qin Yashang had the task of tracking down the murderer. After all, this guy is a major general and brigade commander of the Japanese army, and he has a high desire for war, and his brain is also very bright. Moreover, the Eighth Route Army in the central Hebei region is now developing rapidly, seriously threatening the safety of the Pinghan Railway and the Jinpu Railway. As a result, Major General Qin Yashang couldn't wait to organize his troops and launched the first siege of Jizhong.

The Fifth Brigade of the Independent Mixed Brigade was a new unit that the Japanese army had just formed in February this year, and it was a time of arrogance. In this killing, all of them became murderers, robbers, arsonists, poisoners, and rapists, committing numerous crimes.

Because he knew that the main force of the brigade was fighting in Jizhong, Lieutenant Katayama, the commander of the Japanese squadron stationed in Yanshan City, was also cautious, and sent puppet soldiers and traitors to the surrounding areas of the county town every day to collect intelligence, and he himself held the county seat with the main force, for fear that the guerrillas would take advantage of the opportunity of the main force of the brigade to besiege Jizhong and come to attack Yanshan City.

Of course, Lieutenant Katayama was also very eager for the blindless guerrillas to attack Shioyama Castle. In that case, it's for him to send war merits!

Lieutenant Katayama was very confident that with one of his squadrons and a battalion of puppet troops, he could completely destroy any guerrillas who tried to attack Shioyama Castle.

Although the time for taking over Yanshan City was very short, Lieutenant Katayama already had a preliminary understanding of the various types of armed forces in Yanshan County, and knew that they were all militia forces, and they were not his opponents at all. Among them, Liu Yanchen's department, which was the most powerful, was very docile and responsible after withdrawing from Yanshan City, and never fired a single shot at the Japanese army, which was basically a friendly army. The other small forces, even if they attacked Yanshan City and the stronghold of the old county town, were unable to catch it.

In the information obtained by Lieutenant Katayama, let alone Yanshan County, there is no Chinese regular army in the entire Jilu border area at the moment!

Whatever you want!

Last night, Lieutenant Katayama received a report from the stronghold in the old county town that it had been violently attacked by the guerrillas and requested urgent tactical guidance. Lieutenant Katayama was unmoved, he did not believe that there was a guerrilla force in Shioyama that would dare to attack the stronghold of the old county town. Besides, if you reinforce at night, you can easily be ambushed. As a lieutenant officer who graduated from the Army Non-Commissioned Officer School, Lieutenant Katayama could not have made that kind of low-level mistake!

Now that it was dawn and the Japanese army in the old county town stronghold Cao Changba had also reported the enemy situation clearly, Lieutenant Katayama suddenly came to his senses, and felt that the opportunity to make meritorious contributions to His Majesty the Emperor had come, and the guerrillas of only about 200 people dared to attack the old county town stronghold, which was simply an affront to the majesty of the Japanese Army! If not now, when?

It was broad daylight, and it was difficult for the guerrillas to ambush on the road, and Lieutenant Katayama's only concern was that he had run away without a trace, and his mind was full of thoughts that the guerrillas who were attacking the old county town could not slip away, and they had to be dispatched immediately!

Lieutenant Katayama immediately ordered a squad and a company of puppet troops to guard Yanshan City, and he took two squads and two companies of puppet troops out of the south gate of Yanshan City and rushed towards the old county town!

Yanshan County is only 20 kilometers away from the old county town, that is, 40 miles away. Lieutenant Katayama calculated clearly that the rapid march could be reached in ten hours, and the attack could be launched at noon, and the defenders of the old county town stronghold should be combined with the outside to annihilate the guerrillas in one fell swoop!

It's a pity that the independent mixed 5th Brigade is not a permanent division like the 5th and 10th Divisions, nor is it an ad hoc division like the 108th and 109th Divisions.

When he left the south gate of the county seat, Lieutenant Katayama was still muttering silently, begging Anews to bless him, don't let this guerrilla force run away, you must wait for him!

Amaterasu really worked, the guerrillas really didn't run, on the contrary, they set up an ambush on the side of the road only five miles away from Shioyama Castle, waiting for Lieutenant Katayama!

Xiao Siming and Huang Hua had already led their troops here last night, but Lieutenant Katayama was too cunning and didn't reinforce the old county town last night.

Xiao Siming, who was already a little anxious after waiting, finally received a report from Wang Quanyou, the commander of the reconnaissance company: The Japanese puppet army in Yanshan City has been dispatched!

This ambush battle was not fancy, and the little devils of the two squads and the puppet army of the two companies crashed into the ambush circle of the main force of the advance brigade, and the outcome can be imagined. With the crisp sound of the "horn hook", Lieutenant Katayama, who was riding on the oceanic horse, fell headlong. At what time, light and heavy machine guns and rifles opened fire in an all-round way, and the Japanese puppet army was annihilated in the rain of bullets.

It didn't take long for the Japanese puppet army to retreat in embarrassment on the main road, but the number was much less, and there was no big horse ridden by Lieutenant Katayama and the puppet battalion commander!

When they arrived at the south gate of Yanshan City, the sentries of the Japanese puppet army guarding the city were still thinking about interrogation, and they saw that about 1,000 meters behind the defeated soldiers, a troop wearing gray cloth uniforms chased after them, so they didn't care about the detailed interrogation, and directly let the defeated soldiers enter the city.

To the surprise of the Japanese puppet army sentries defending the city, as soon as these defeated soldiers entered the city, they turned their faces and barreled at them with bayonets!

The Japanese puppet army sentry defending the city finally understood before he died, and the divine soldiers of the Eighth Route Army descended from the sky and arrived in Yanshan City! (To be continued.) )