After the elimination of the puppet army Mujincheng Division, due to continuous battles, the main force of the eastward advance detachment rested on the spot in Lingxian for a short time. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

The first war regained the city of Dezhou, captured so many heavy materials, and eliminated the second brigade of the second wing of the mixed brigade of the Japanese North China garrison, the fourth brigade of the Japanese railway independence, and the Mujin City Department of the puppet army.

In a small village in Lingxian County, Xiao Siming drafted the second good news to the division headquarters, the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army, and the headquarters of Yan'an.

This time, Xiao Siming's report was more detailed, and he made a detailed report on his determination and deployment after discovering that the Second Brigade of the Second Wing of the Second Wing of the Japanese Army's North China Garrison Army was transported to Dezhou, including the battle of the Fourth Brigade of the Japanese Army's Railway Independence and the Mujin City Department of the puppet army in the east.

Considering the need to cooperate with the Battle of Lanfeng in eastern Henan, the outstanding achievements of the eastward advance detachment, and the need to publicize the achievements of our army and boost the morale of the people to resist Japan, this time, after the Yan'an Headquarters and the Eighth Route Army Headquarters exchanged telegrams for consultation, the detailed battle report of the Battle of Dezhou was thoroughly announced to the public for the first time.

In the good news sent by the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army to the Military Commission, the Headquarters of the Commander of the First Theater, and the Headquarters of the Commander of the Second Theater, it said: "On the orders of the Military Commission, all units of the Eighteenth Group Army took the initiative to attack the railway and highway communication lines occupied by the Japanese army, so as to contain the Japanese army and make it unable to cooperate with the Battle of Xuzhou and the operation in eastern Henan. The 120th Division of the 18th Group Army attacked the enemy in the northern section of the Tongpu Railway, and the various units of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region attacked the northern section of the Pinghan Road. In addition to holding on to western Shanxi and protecting the river defense, the 115th Division sent one to assist the 129th Division in completing the anti-Ninth Road siege operation in the southeast of Jinxi, and then the troops went out to Taihang to cooperate with the 129th Division to attack the Pinghan Road, and the other part cooperated with the guerrilla attack of the Nationalist Army in the Huxi area to cover the transfer of the main force of the Fifth Theater. In particular, under the leadership of Commander Xiao Siming, Political Commissar Wang Lushui, Deputy Commander Huang Hua, Chief of Staff Hu Qingyun, and Director of the Political Department Huo Cheng, the division's eastward advance detachment marched thousands of miles to the Hebei-Shandong border area east of Jinpu Road to mobilize the people to persist in the War of Resistance. It has successively attacked and occupied Lianzhen Railway Station, blew up the Ziya River Railway Bridge, and recovered 7 county towns including Ningjin, Leling, Qingyun, Wudi, Yanshan, Deping, and Yangxin! The results are brilliant and the results are outstanding! On the night of 25 May, after successfully transferring the 4th Independent Brigade of the Railway Garrison of Dezhou out of the city, the main force used a surprise attack tactics to attack the city of Dezhou, breaking the city in one fell swoop, completely annihilating the Japanese Dezhou Garrison Command, the 16th Division, the 114th Division, the 3rd Mixed Brigade, the 13th Mixed Brigade, the 3rd Independent Mixed Brigade, the 5th Independent Mixed Brigade stationed in Dezhou City, the garrison of the Dezhou Railway Station and the Dezhou Airport, and annihilating the puppet Dexian Self-Police Regiment and the puppet Canal Garrison Brigade. After that, the detachment fought continuously, and at about 5 o'clock in the morning of the 26th, it set up an ambush in the south of Dezhou City, and completely annihilated the Second Brigade of the Second Wing of the Mixed Brigade of the Japanese North China Garrison Army, which was transported from Jinan to Dezhou in an attempt to recapture Dezhou City. This unit was the main culprit unit that launched the Lugou Bridge Incident and planned a full-scale war of aggression against China, and it was the elite of the Japanese army and well-equipped, and it was also reinforced with tank squadrons, armored vehicle squadrons, and infantry artillery squadrons. In this battle, 1,281 people below the captain of the Japanese army were killed, 8 Japanese medium tanks and 8 armored vehicles were destroyed, and the flag, 8 infantry guns and all light and heavy machine guns, rifles and pistols of the brigade were captured! Then, the eastward advance detachment quickly moved eastward without stopping, and set up an ambush 5 kilometers southeast of Dezhou City, and completely annihilated the 4th Independent Brigade of the Japanese Army Railway that was ordered to return to Dexian and assist the 2nd Brigade of the 2nd Wing of the Mixed Brigade of the North China Garrison Army to seize Dezhou! After a quick victory, the eastward advance detachment continued to march eastward, and completely annihilated the puppet army Mujincheng in Lingxian County, winning four battles and four victories! ”

The good news of the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army said that in the battle of the eastward advance detachment to capture Dezhou, after four battles, a total of 3,523 Japanese soldiers were killed, 126 Japanese soldiers were captured, more than 3,700 puppet army attacks were eliminated, and a large number of heavy materials were seized!

In order to expand the influence of the Eighth Route Army, the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army sent a telegram to the office of the Eighth Route Army in Wuhan, which announced it to the news agencies, newspapers, and radio stations of various countries!

In one day, four battles and four victories, 3,523 Japanese soldiers were killed, 126 Japanese soldiers were captured, and more than 3,700 puppet troops were eliminated.

The most important thing is that among the Japanese troops wiped out by the Eighth Route Army, there was the culprit unit of the North China Garrison Army, the second brigade of the second wing of the mixed brigade of the North China garrison army, which planned to launch the Lugou Bridge Incident.

Chairman Jiang immediately summoned Chen Bui from the chamber of attendants, showed Chen Bui the telegram of the Eighteenth Group Army, and then said in his unique Ningbo dialect: "This, well, this Xiao Si of the Eighth Route Army can really fight, and the results are indeed great!" Mr. Bray, you personally write a telegram and let the Central News Agency broadcast it to the outside world! It should be emphasized that the 18th Group Army acted under the unified command of the Military Commission and carried out the orders of the Military Commission! On the other hand, it is necessary to highlight the achievements of the Second Brigade of the Second Wing of the Mixed Brigade of the Japanese Army stationed in North China. I know this unit, that is, the Japanese army originally stationed in Tianjin, all of them were veterans, with strong combat effectiveness, bold and reckless, wantonly creating incidents, and provoking the Lugou Bridge Incident. This army, everyone will be punished! ”

When he said this, Chairman Chiang's eyes shone with a cold light, as if he wanted to mix the Japanese troops stationed in North China into a brigade and eat them alive!

Chen Bui is known for his courage, and it is easy to write such a news announcement to publicize the great victory of our army, and it is simply a wave of it!

As a result, the Central News Agency immediately broadcast to the world the news that Xiao Siming, commander of the eastward advance detachment of the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army, led his troops to capture Dezhou, won four battles and four victories, and completely annihilated the second brigade of the second wing of the mixed brigade of the North China garrison army, which provoked the Lugou Bridge Incident.

Perhaps encouraged by the achievements of the Eighth Route Army, Chen Bui did not hesitate to praise the advance detachment of the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army at the order of the Military Commission, and entered the Hebei and Shandong border areas eastward, carried out guerrilla combat missions behind enemy lines, fought the first battle of Lianzhen, and eliminated the 114th Division of the Japanese Army to reinforce an infantry brigade on the Taierzhuang battlefield; fought the Ziya River again, blew up the Ziya River Railway Bridge, and interrupted the transportation of the Tianjin-Pudong Railway controlled by the Japanese army to this day; In the third war, the Jilu border was destroyed, and the Japanese puppet regime was destroyed, and 7 county towns were recovered; In the fourth battle of Texas, 3,523 Japanese soldiers were killed, 126 Japanese soldiers were captured, and more than 3,700 puppet troops were eliminated.

Before this press release was broadcast, when it was sent to Chairman Jiang for review, Chairman Jiang actually called Cheng Qian and others to review it together. As a result, Yan Xunfu, chief of staff of the resourceful First Theater of Operations, and Zhang Xuxing, deputy chief of staff, had already seen the way from the Eighth Route Army's capture of Dezhou, and at this time they suggested to Chairman Chiang that they should resort to the eastward movement of trouble, vigorously publicize the Battle of Dezhou of the Eighth Route Army, take advantage of the Japanese army's habit of retaliation, exaggerate the strength of the eastward advance detachment of the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army, and force the Japanese army to transfer the elite divisions pursuing along the Longhai Road back to Lubei to compete with the Eighth Route Army for Dezhou!

Although this suggestion is a plan to move the troubles eastward, it coincides with Xiao Siming's combat purpose!

As long as the pressure on the national army fighting on the Longhai Road can be relieved, it will naturally be a clever plan from Chairman Chiang, and it will definitely be adopted.

Chairman Chiang immediately appointed Yan Xunfu to revise Chen Bui's draft.

Thinking that in order to alleviate the crisis of the war situation, Yan Xunfu could even come up with a desperate plan to dig the Yellow River embankment and divert the water of the Yellow River to resist the enemy, and it was naturally not difficult to revise such a draft.

Yan Xunfu actually added a paragraph to the manuscript, saying that the eastward advance detachment was the 343rd Brigade, the main force of the 115th Division of the 18th Group Army, that is, the original Central Red Army. From commanders to soldiers, all of them are veterans with 10 years of combat experience. After the division was reorganized into the 343rd Brigade of the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army, it was ordered to go north to the Shanxi battlefield, and repeatedly performed miraculous feats. Then the Guangyang ambush battle, followed by a surprise army to recover the county seat of Yuxian County, Shanxi, and killed the captain of the 119th Wing of the 109th Division of the Japanese Army in the Nianzigou Blockade Battle, Ishida Jinzang Dazuo, and then non-stop, sneak attack on the Zhengtai Road Stone Measuring Station, blow up the Taohe Bridge, and then destroy the Japanese Taiyuan Airport, capture Shouyang County, and completely annihilate the 20th Wing of the 16th Cavalry of the Japanese Army in Mafang, and severely damaged the Japanese army again in Wucheng and Jinggou.

It seems that although the senior generals of the Nationalist Army have always been prejudiced and wary of the Communist Party and the Eighth Route Army, they have read the battle reports of the Eighth Route Army very carefully, and they have clearly remembered the important battles of the Eighth Route Army!

That's not all, Yan Xunfu said in the revision that now the 343rd Brigade, the main force of the 115th Division of the 18th Group Army, is in Dezhou, and it can capture Jinan in the south and Pingjin in the north, and the strategic situation is extremely favorable!

This news release drafted by Chen Bui and revised by Yan Xunfu makes people understand that it turned out to be the main force of the Eighth Route Army, the 343rd Brigade of the 115th Division, and arrived on the side of Jinpu Road in the name of the eastward advance detachment.

As for Xiao Siming, the commander of the eastward advance detachment that led the army to attack Dezhou, as mentioned in the good news report of the Eighth Route Army headquarters, in the news release revised by Yan Xunfu, he became Xiao Siming, the acting brigade commander of the 343 Brigade and the commander of the eastward advance detachment, and he was a soldier all the way to the regiment commander and division commander in the Zhu Mao Red Army, and he was a Red Army general who could fight well!

Yan Xunfu only thought about mobilizing the elite divisions of the Japanese army to return to Lubei and reduce the pressure on the Longhai Road Army, and he didn't think about what kind of consequences this would cause to Xiao Siming's department!

Sure enough, as soon as this news release was issued, all the reporters gathered in Wuhan flocked to the door, blocking the door of the Wuhan Eighth Route Army Office, and one by one, holding cameras and pens, wanted to interview the person in charge of the Wuhan Office of the Eighth Route Army, and asked them to introduce the anti-Japanese war deeds of the eastward advance detachment of the Eighth Route Army, that is, the 343rd Brigade of the 115th Division.

After the Wuhan Eighth Route Army Office asked Yan'an for instructions, it held a press conference, which really gave a detailed introduction to the bloody battle process of the Eighth Route Army and the Japanese army since it went north to resist Japan. However, due to the conclusive statement of the news release broadcast by the Central News Agency, it was necessary to say that the eastward advance detachment was the 343 Brigade, and out of consideration for the overall situation of the War of Resistance Against Japan, the leaders of the Wuhan Office of the Eighth Route Army could not refute the rumors, pointing out that the news release of the Central News Agency was nonsense and had to acquiesce.

Another result of this incident was that the Eighth Route Army's eastward march into the Hebei and Shandong borders was completely legalized. Those who are wary of the rapid development of the Eighth Route Army can no longer accuse the Eighth Route Army of violating military orders and fighting across regions.

For a time, the streets and alleys of the three towns of Wuhan echoed everywhere with the immature voice of the newsboy: "Outside the nickname!" The Eighth Route Army captures Texas! "Selling newspapers and selling newspapers, the Eighth Route Army completely annihilated the Second Brigade of the Second Wing of the Japanese North China Garrison Army that launched the Lugou Bridge Incident!" (To be continued.) )