Soldiers, you are fast!

After Zhou Kaidong and Chen Qicai decided to besiege the Tuqiao stronghold and mobilize the Japanese troops in Dezhou City to help, they commanded the troops to move quickly and rushed to Tuqiao Town, preparing to take advantage of the cover of night to launch an attack on the Tuqiao stronghold of the Japanese puppet army. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Tuqiao is a commercial market town.

The highway from Dexian County to Lingxian, Linyi and Jiyang passes through the middle of Tuqiao Town, and the Maji River flows quietly on the side of Tuqiao.

There are roads, rivers, and it is located on the great plain, so the market trade in Tuqiao Town is naturally very prosperous.

Before the Lugou Bridge Incident, every Tuesday or July to catch the market, the surrounding people would say, "Go to the Tuqiao to catch the big set." Even businessmen from Wuqiao, Dongguang and the central Hebei region in the west of the road will come to Tuqiao to catch the market, and some even settle down here.

It's a pity that the little devils came, killed people and set fires, and raped ***** even the prosperous market town, which had to fall silent.

Tuqiao Town, occupied by the Japanese puppet army, is even more eerie at night.

The number of Japanese puppet troops in the Tuqiao stronghold was not large, that is, a Japanese squad, and the other was a garrison cobbled together by the Japanese army in the Tuqiao area to collect ruffians and vagrants.

Don't look at this point of strength, but in the border area of Dexian and Lingxian, where there is no main force of the regular army of the National * Army and the main force of the Eighth Route Army, it is already a lot. You must know that the little devil at this time is well-trained and has strong combat effectiveness. If they were allowed to take a position and fight in the fortifications, it would be impossible for those wandering forces to conquer the Tuqiao stronghold. On the contrary, the Japanese puppet army in the Tuqiao stronghold can not only patrol the highway to ensure the safety of transportation, but also attack everywhere and commit evil!

It's just that tonight's situation is special, because the four little devils slaughtered Zhang Fucai's family, the villagers were angry and killed the four little devils, causing the Japanese soldiers in the Tuqiao stronghold to drive two cars to retaliate and slaughter the village, and there were only a few little devils left in the Tuqiao stronghold, and the rest was the garrison that the Japanese army put together in Tuqiao.

The number of puppet garrisons was also small, at most 60 or 70 people, and there were Japanese instructors training and commanding.

The first battalion and one company of the Wudi Independent Regiment rushed to Tuqiao Town first.

The Japanese puppet army in the Tuqiao stronghold never dreamed that the ashes of the Eighth Route Army suddenly appeared in Tuqiao Town, and they were still waiting for the Japanese army who went to slaughter the village to come back!

The Japanese army concentrated its forces to launch the Battle of Xuzhou, and did not care about returning to the division to consolidate the occupied area, and the defense of Lingxian County was mainly undertaken by the puppet army. After the last time the puppet army Mu Jincheng's attack on Leling was repulsed, he retreated to Lingxian, and the main task was to defend to the north and block the Eighth Route Army in Leling from going south to Lingxian. It's just that Mu Jincheng's department was originally a miscellaneous army hastily pulled up in the border area of Hebei and Shandong, and after surrendering to the Japanese army as a traitor, the combat effectiveness has not been greatly improved, and Mu Jincheng, who holds the title of brigade commander, is not a brigade commander who really understands military affairs, and the defense to the north has become empty talk.

Mu Jincheng did not understand military affairs, and the people he faced with Xiao Siming, commander of the eastward advance detachment of the Eighth Route Army, Wang Lushui, political commissar, Huang Hua, deputy commander, Hu Qingyun, chief of staff, and Huo Cheng, director of the Political Department, were all powerful generals who had gone through the Long March, and they were all well-rounded in civil and military affairs.

No, the Japanese puppet army in Lingxian County was staring at the Deping Independent Regiment of the Eighth Route Army that had just been reorganized, and they did not guard against the concentration of the Wudi Independent Regiment of the Eighth Route Army from Wudi and Yangxin County, and touched up along the lower reaches of the Maji River, and directly killed at the junction of Lingxian and Dexian, and immediately drilled behind the ass of the Japanese puppet army stationed in Lingxian County, and started fighting on the road leading to Lingxian and Linyi in Dexian County.

The first company commander Han Baohu and instructor Sun Yuanzhi were both old Red Army soldiers from Hubei, Henan and Anhui, and after studying at the Qingyang branch of the Anti-Japanese University, they were already standard grassroots backbone cadres.

After Han Baohu and Sun Zhiyuan, who have rich combat experience, led a company to touch Tuqiao Town, they saw Tuqiao Town at night, silent and dark, only the searchlights on the turret in the Japanese stronghold at the west end of the town turned around and shone randomly, a bit like the eyes of the wolf at night that I saw in the depths of Dabie Mountain when I was a child, blue and faint, and infiltrating!

At the east end of the town is the stronghold of the pseudo-garrison, and there are no searchlights on the turret, and a few torches are inserted, fluttering in the night wind, like ghost fires.

Occasionally, a few mournful wild dog barks can be heard outside the town.

Han Baohu, Sun Zhiyuan, and the platoon commanders and deputy platoon commanders of the first company naturally came to Tuqiao for the first time, and when they looked at it, they only felt that this place was gloomy, and it was not at all like the bustling big bazaar that the soldiers said.

The soldiers of a company are all natives of Wudi, many people have come to the earth bridge to catch up with the big set, the road is very familiar, the impression of the bustling and lively earth bridge big set yearning for very, full of hope that after the earth bridge is laid, you can taste the long-awaited fried peanuts, baked cakes, I didn't expect the earth bridge in front of me to be lifeless, and the poignant howl of the wild dog that sounded from time to time reminded them that the little devil turned the earth bridge into a hell on earth, threw the corpse outside the town, and raised the wild dogs one by one fat and strong, full of blood red eyes!

Little devil on dog * day!

Han Baohu and Sun Zhiyuan saw it clearly, because the road passed through the middle of the town, and the bridge over the Maji River at the west end of the town was particularly important. Therefore, the Japanese stronghold was located at the west end of the town. At the east end of the town, the highway leads directly to Lingxian and Linyi, which is an endless plain, and the stronghold of the pseudo-garrison is located on the side of the road in the east of the town.

Since the Japanese troops who went to the village to take revenge have not yet returned, the courtyard gates of the puppet garrison stronghold are all open, and you can see the lights inside from the outside, and listen attentively, and there are faint bursts of fist guessing, scolding, and laughter in the courtyard.

The two puppet army sentries at the door were still standing honestly on the sentry posts, carrying their guns diagonally, walking back and forth on the sentry posts.

It seems that the Japanese puppet army in the Tsuchihashi stronghold is defenseless at all!

Han Baohu and Sun Zhiyuan glanced at each other, and with a wave of their hands, the deputy platoon commander of the platoon behind him took two soldiers and touched towards the puppet garrison stronghold. By the time the two puppet army sentries realized that something was wrong, several soldiers of the Eighth Route Army had already pounced, and the two puppet army sentries didn't even have time to take off their guns, so they were pressed to the ground and fell to a pool of blood without saying a word.

A company rushed directly into the pseudo-garrison stronghold.

Suddenly, the sound of shouts of killing, gunshots, and grenade explosions rang out in the courtyard of the puppet garrison stronghold at the east end of Tuqiao.

This is the early days of the Anti-Japanese War in May 1938, Qi Kuiyuan has just established the puppet North China Army Military Academy in Tongxian, the puppet North China Security Army has not yet been established, and there is no real puppet army regular troops in North China. However, there was no shortage of traitors in China, and wherever the Japanese army went, they could rely on the traitors to quickly organize and maintain the puppet regime and cobble together pseudo-local troops such as the puppet garrison. The puppet army in the Tuqiao stronghold is of this nature, just like the puppet garrison encountered by Xiao Siming leading an independent battalion to capture Zongai Town, Shouyang County, Shanxi!

The Wudi Independent Regiment of the Eighth Route Army was formed on the basis of the reorganization of the Zhang Ziliang People's Regiment, and strengthened the veteran Red Army cadres and combat backbones of the eastward advance detachment, but its combat effectiveness could not be improved too quickly for a while and a half, and it needed to be tempered repeatedly in battle. The puppet garrison unit that attacked the Tuqiao stronghold was again overcrowded and under-manned, and it was fought when the puppet garrison was not on guard, so this battle was easy to fight, and it was the most suitable for training the new troops.

Led by a company and platoon of cadres, the soldiers of the first company fought very fiercely, and after rushing into the stronghold of the puppet garrison, they rushed wherever there was a light, and they also stuffed grenades and grenades into the pillbox holes of the stronghold, and blew up the puppet soldiers who were drinking and playing with money crying for their fathers and mothers.

The first company slaughtered all sides in the puppet garrison stronghold, and then the second and third companies of the first battalion followed directly to the Japanese stronghold at the west end of the town, and the ping-pong was opened.

By the time Zhou Kaidong and Chen Qicai arrived at the puppet garrison stronghold, the first company was cleaning up the battlefield and moving weapons, ammunition and food supplies!

Seeing that the pseudo-garrison was successfully solved, Zhou Kaidong and Chen Qicai rushed to the Japanese stronghold at the west end of the town, ready to order the siege of the Japanese stronghold without attacking, but I didn't expect that the Japanese stronghold was singing an empty city plan, there were only 5 little devils in the full stronghold, and a Cao Chang with a machine gun team was guarding the town, and it was solved by the first battalion, two companies, three companies, three downs, five divisions, and two!

Zhou Kaidong was angry, and he scolded the commander and instructor of the first battalion, saying that the plan of the regiment headquarters was to use the siege of the Tuqiao stronghold to mobilize the Japanese troops in Dexian County, and as a result, the first battalion completely disrupted the plan.

The commander of the first battalion was not convinced, glared, and stiffened his neck, saying that he was not to blame, and that there were too few little devils to blame, and he couldn't withstand the grenade explosion!

There was no way, Zhou Kaidong and Chen Qicai had no choice but to return to the puppet garrison stronghold, find a frightened puppet garrison team leader, and let Han Baohu use a shell gun against the head of the goods, forcing him to call the Japanese puppet army in Dexian County for help.

What Zhou Kaidong and Chen Qicai didn't expect was that the Japanese puppet army in Dexian County did not believe that the Tuqiao stronghold was attacked by the Eighth Route Army. The squad leader shouted hoarsely, and the Japanese puppet army on the other end of the phone turned a deaf ear, and scolded the squad leader on the phone for having a big bad conscience, don't lie, Tuba Road is in Leling and Ningjin, when did you come to Dexian?

The squad leader cried in the microphone for a long time, and the little devil in Dexian County got impatient and hung up the phone.

Zhou Kaidong and Chen Qicai looked at each other, so they had to ask the team leader to answer the phone to the Japanese puppet army in Lingxian County.

Garrisoned in Lingxian County is the puppet army Mu Jincheng's department.

This time, as soon as the phone was called, the puppet army on duty in Mu Jincheng's department did not dare to slack off, and hurriedly ran to report, and came back to the squad leader to say that Brigade Commander Mu said, stick to it and wait for help!

It seems that Mu Jincheng was afraid of being ambushed by reinforcements at night, so he didn't dare to come to reinforcements!

Unable to attract reinforcements from the Japanese puppet army in Dexian County, and even the Japanese puppet army in Ling County could not attract reinforcements, isn't this battle fought in vain?

Zhou Kaidong believed that the devils would definitely come to reinforce him, and after discussing with Chen Qicai, he ordered the troops to hide on the spot, set up two ambush positions in the east and west, and be ready to ambush the enemy at any time.

What surprised Zhou Kaidong again was that at three o'clock in the night, the forward observation post lurking on the west bank of the Maji River reported that it found a total of twelve cars coming from the direction of Dexian!

Zhou Kaidong realized that the little devil was too cunning, and what he said on the phone was that he believed that the Eighth Route Army had captured the earth bridge, but secretly reinforcements came. It seems that the little devil still wants to give the Eighth Route Army a surprise attack! (To be continued.) )