After sending the telegram, Hong Chaoyuan led the main force to advance quickly and rushed to the vicinity of Xiazhuang Town, at the junction of Yishui and Juxian.

Trekking through mountains and rivers all the way, and fearing to alarm the enemy, the troops did not even dare to fight with torches and flashlights, but relied on starlight and moonlight to advance. When I arrived at the Yangjiapo line at the junction of Yishui and Juxian, it was already 2 o'clock at night. Hong Chaoyuan ordered the troops to rest in concealment, sent a report to the 14th and 15th regiments of the southeast Lu detachment and the 14th and 15th regiments, asking about the specific location, and ordered Zhang Yicheng to find a reconnaissance company to understand the enemy's situation, and plunged headlong into the map to check the terrain near Xiazhuang Town.

Looking at the map, Hong Chaoyuan understood that if the army really wanted to besiege Mo Zhengmin's troops on the front line of Xiazhuang Town, Mo Zhengmin would only have to break through to the west, because the east of Xiazhuang Town was the Shu River, and if the army had a motorboat, it could quickly block the river, and the river was very deep at this time, and it was difficult to cross it if it was not prepared at ordinary times. Even if there is a pontoon bridge, I am afraid that it will be quietly controlled by the military.

Of course, if Hong Chaoyuan was in command, he would definitely send powerful troops to guard the pontoon bridge. As soon as he thought of it, Hong Chaoyuan laughed secretly in his heart, if he was in command, would he put such a large force in such a dangerous place? Apparently not.

After a short time, the 14th and 15th regiments arrived, and Wang Nanhu also telegraphed back to report that the troops had arrived near the county seat of Juxian at night, and according to the report of the reconnaissance personnel, the troops defending the city had quietly moved south after dinner, and the southeastern detachment of Lu was preparing to attack the county seat of Juxian immediately.

Zhang Yicheng led the reconnaissance company commander back, and as soon as he entered the door, Zhang Yicheng whispered to Hong Chaoyuan: "Brigade commander, you have caught a big fish!" ”

When Hong Chaoyuan heard this, he hurriedly asked the reconnaissance company commander what the situation was.

The commander of the reconnaissance company reported that the whole company had been scattered, and the information obtained so far was that the puppet army was quietly rushing in the direction of Xiazhuang Town. The devil seemed to be three brigades, with artillery, cars, and no tanks, and they were coming along the road, ambushing in the north of Xiazhuang Town. To the south was the puppet army Liu Hei Seventh Division, more than 2,000 people, who arrived at 2 o'clock at night, and most of them rode war horses. The puppet army in front of us looked like four or five thousand people, who came from the direction of the county seat of Juxian, had just arrived, and were arranging their positions.

As soon as Hong Chaoyuan heard this, he took Hu Xuerong, Zhang Yicheng and several regiment commanders to follow the reconnaissance company commander to observe closely.

After walking for about five or six miles, I saw that there were many troops hidden in the east of Xu Tuan, and these puppet troops did not light torches, but also built a position in the moonlight, and it seemed that they were going to ambush Mo Zhengmin's department here.

Hong Chaoyuan stopped looking at it and retreated with the cadres.

After returning to the brigade headquarters, Hong Chaoyuan thought about the map for a while, and felt that although Zhang Buyun's department in front of him was the largest number of enemies in the three routes, its combat effectiveness was poor. Although the number of Liu Hei Qibu in the south is small, but the combat effectiveness is strong, it is a group of scumbags and habitual bandits, not to mention the fierce fight, but also very cunning, and it is possible to escape at any time. The devil said that as soon as the morning started, he understood everything, and his artillery regiment had enough ammunition, just so that they could drink a pot.

After considering stopping, Hong Chaoyuan immediately sent a report to Liu Yimin, reporting the enemy situation in Xiazhuang Town and his own operational plan.

After Liu Yimin was woken up in his sleep, he read the telegram, tacitly calculated the strength and firepower of the Fifth Brigade and the Southeastern Lu Detachment, and immediately replied to the call, ordering Hong Chaoyuan to take unified command of the Sixth Brigade and the Southeastern Lu Detachment, seize the fighters, be brave and decisive, and wipe out the enemy in Xiazhuang Town cleanly and thoroughly. At the end of the telegram, Liu Yimin wrote: "Zhang Buyun can live or die, Liu Heiqi and the chief must be killed." I wish the heroic and capable of attacking and defending the Fifth Brigade to create more brilliance. ”

After sending the telegram, Liu Yimin returned to the bed with great interest, and reached out to hug Tang Xingying. Tang Xingying asked with sleepy eyes, "What's the matter, so urgent?" ”

Liu Yimin kissed his wife on the face and said, "Hong Chaoyuan, they are going to win a big battle!" With that, he touched his hand.

Tang Xingying pushed him away: "Don't, be careful of hurting the child!" ”

Liu Yimin retracted his hand stupidly and muttered, "How long will this have to last!" ”

Tang Xingying chuckled and scratched Liu Yimin's nose: "Look at your useless appearance!" ”

made Liu Yimin more and more uncomfortable, so he simply got up and walked to the yard to practice.

After receiving the callback, Hong Chaoyuan immediately issued an operational order: "1. Report on the enemy's situation. According to reconnaissance, the main command of the Sixth Division of the Sixth Division of the Sixth Division of the Puppet Shandong Autonomous Army and the advance commander of the Puppet Emperor's Allied Army, Liu Guitang, have moved to the vicinity of Xiazhuang Town and are preparing to encircle our Mo Zhengmin Division. 2. Mo Zhengmin's ministry is a newly formed civilian anti-Japanese armed force, with backward weapons, lack of training, and extremely low combat effectiveness. It is expected that after the puppet army launches an attack, Mobu will break up and break through in the direction of Yishui to the west of Xiazhuang Town. 3. The units participating in the battle of our army include the Fifth Brigade of Education, all of the Southeastern Lunan Detachment, and the First Corps of the Lunan People's Anti-Japanese Volunteer Corps. With the approval of the division commander, Hong Chaoyuan, commander of the Fifth Brigade, commanded all the units participating in the battle, and the combat goal was to completely annihilate the puppet army besieging Xiazhuang Town. Fourth, it was judged that there was only a small number of troops stationed in the county seat of Juxian County, and the southeastern detachment of Lu left two battalions to monitor the small army in the county seat of Juxian County, and immediately captured the county seat of Juxian County after the town of Xiazhuang was launched. The main force of the detachment immediately marched south at a rapid pace, and built a blocking position on the line of Maojiatun and Cheganggou between the Shu River and the Magou River, and resolutely blocked the retreating army of Xiazhuang Town. 5. Zhang Yicheng, chief of staff of the Fifth Brigade, led the 13th Regiment, the New Fifth Regiment, and the First Brigade of the Lunan People's Anti-Japanese Volunteer Brigade to form the Zhang Group, and took advantage of the night to detour south to the line of Zhongmapo, Dawotuan, Zhaojia, and Houxinzhuang between the Taiwei Highway and the Shuhe River, blocking the enemy's retreat to the south, and after eliminating the Seventh Division of Liu Hei, the commander of the advance of the puppet emperor's allied army, he attacked from the south to the north. The group must kill Liu Heiqi. 6. The brigade artillery regiment immediately set up a position, concentrated mountain artillery and field artillery, and the first target of the attack was the Yue Army, followed by the pseudo-Zhang Buyun Division and Liu Hei's Seventh Division. The firepower should be fierce and accurate, and destroy the will to resist of the army and the puppet army in one fell swoop. 7. The 14th Teaching Regiment, the 15th Teaching Regiment, the Supplementary Regiment, the Lunan Reading Force 1st Regiment, and the Fire Support Battalion, led by the political commissar, formed the Hu Group, which was arranged on the front line of the large and small Xu Tuan, concealed and on standby, and the target of the attack was the pseudo-Zhang Buyun Division. After defeating Zhang Buyun's troops, he attacked from west to east, and together with Zhang's group, he formed a pincer offensive to destroy the main force of the Yue army. 8. The cavalry battalion, engineer battalion, and guard battalion directly under the brigade shall be the general reserve. ”

After the order was given, the fighters, who had been running all night, began to move again, quickly arrived at their respective combat positions, and waited with their nets spread.

This is the way things are in the world, the so-called praying mantis catches cicadas and yellow finches behind, Major General Tsuchiya soldiers and horses are bent on suddenly encircling Xiazhuang Town and eliminating Mo Zhengmin's department, but unexpectedly attracted the instructor of the Eighth Route Army to teach the Fifth Brigade and the southeast Lu detachment, not only the muzzles of dozens of cannons of an artillery regiment have been raised high, but the muzzles of the soldiers of the Eighth Route Army are also aimed at the back of the head of the puppet army, quietly following up. It wasn't until Zhang Buyun's department fired the first shot to block Mo Zhengmin's department and soon launched a pursuit on the whole line, that Hong Chaoyuan, who had long been unable to bear it, finally ordered to fire.

When Liu Heiqi felt that something had changed, Zhang Buyun was so shocked that his eyes were about to fall out.

Last night, Zhang Buyun led the troops to quietly rush to the west of Maojiayan, and took advantage of the night to hide, and did not have time to search and investigate in detail at that time. But then again, what if you arrive during the day? Zhang Buyun is only a little bandit who knows a few words, and he can get to the point where he is today, relying on his heart and money to open the way, he knows what the exact meaning of the word search in the military is? To put it bluntly, they are freaks who will only exist in the Republic of China era, and there is no way for them to live in any peaceful world.

The battle began to go very smoothly, and Mo Zhengmin's department really retreated to the front line of Maojiayan as judged by the imperial army, and just hit the muzzle of Zhang Buyun's department. It is said that except for a few old bandits, most of the soldiers in this Buyun Department are newly recruited. At that time, there were many people who couldn't eat, not to mention that there was also a signboard to resist the slogan, as long as the recruitment flag was erected, there was no worry about no people eating food. The combat effectiveness of Zhang Buyun's troops and the combat effectiveness of Mo Zhengmin's troops were originally half a catty to eight taels, which was comparable, and the only advantage of Zhang Buyun's troops was that the weapons were a little better. Under normal circumstances, when these two forces meet each other, it is difficult to say who wins and who loses. But now it's different, Zhang Buyun is the one who digs the trap, and Mo Zhengmin is the one who jumps the trap, and the strength is judged. Therefore, as soon as the two sides came into contact, the defeated soldiers of Mo Zhengmin's department were stunned, leaving behind the wounded soldiers and remains, turning around and running back.

Zhang Buyun's command art is not good, but this guy is used to eating black and black, and he knows the three flavors, and when he saw Mo Zhengmin's department turn around and run away again, he giggled, and immediately ordered the troops to attack on all fronts to pursue the defeated soldiers who had lost their combat effectiveness.

These puppet soldiers are all a group of dogs with a conscience to eat, where do they care about the national righteousness, and no one cares who they kill, whether they should be killed or not. The only words that kept jolting in their minds were: "Reward!" ”

As soon as he heard Zhang Buyun's order to pursue the whole line, more than 5,000 puppet troops jumped out of the trenches and rushed to the anti-Japanese fighters of Mo Zhengmin's department. If one of them had a little conscience, hesitated, or looked back, he would have found that behind them, the skirmish line of the Eighth Route Army was rushing behind them, like a rising tide towards the sea.

Although the equipment of the various departments of the Fifth Brigade is not as good as that of the three old main brigades, it is not comparable to the bandit forces such as Zhang Buyun and Liu Heiqi. Hong Chaoyuan had already given the order to open fire, and the light and heavy machine guns of each unit were immediately set up and opened on the backs of Zhang Buyun's puppet soldiers.

Zhang Buyun is so big, he can be regarded as a person rolling around in the flames of war, he has never encountered such a strange thing, nor has he seen such a powerful squadron. Therefore, the moment he heard the gunshot, Zhang Buyun turned his head to take a look, and this sight scared him so much that he softened to the ground. I don't know when a unit wearing a steel helmet, leather shoes, and a gray military uniform appeared behind his own troops, and there seemed to be a lot of light and heavy machine guns, mortars, grenadiers, and infantry guns in this unit.

Zhang Buyun knew that his troops were afraid that they would fall into the wolf's mouth.

Zhang Buyun, who originally wanted to order the troops to turn around and block on the spot, heard a strange sound at this time, needless to say, it was the sound of a swarm of shells flying across the sky and exploding in the distance. Crawling on the ground and raising the binoculars to look into the distance, he saw that the shells had fallen on the imperial army attack troops north of Xiazhuang Town, blowing up clouds of smoke and dust.

Seeing this, Zhang Buyun did not hesitate, he knew that these shells would fall on his head immediately, and immediately ordered the troops to stop the pursuit and quickly retreat to the north, with one purpose, to quickly retreat to the old nest in Zhucheng County.

Sure enough, without waiting for his troops to turn, the artillery regiment of the Fifth Brigade of Jiao, which had completed the five rapid firing of the army, turned, and the mountain artillery shells and field artillery shells smashed down on Zhang Buyun's head, drowning the wailing and scolding of the puppet soldiers directly in the dust.

Zhang Buyun was completely desperate, quickly took off his imperial army general's uniform, pulled over the horse that led him to the horse, forced him to take off his clothes, put it on himself three times and five by two, and whispered "go" to the special battalion commander next to him, and then mixed into the chaotic army and fled to the north.

When Liu Heiqi heard the gun fired in Zhang Buyun's back, he was stunned for a moment, and immediately knew that something was wrong. Because at this time, there was no [***] main force in southeast Lu, and the intensity of this gunfire was much higher than that of the Tang Army, which was the most powerful political axe. At this moment, Liu Heiqi had a few thoughts in his mind: one was that this was the most powerful force of the political axe and rushed to rescue Mo Zhengmin's department, one was that it fell into the encirclement of the main force of the political axe, and the other was that it was very likely that the troops who arrived were limited in strength and wanted to concentrate their firepower to tear the hole and respond to Mo Zhengmin's breakthrough, and the other was that this political axe force did not know that there was an elite of the imperial army here, thinking that Zhang Buyun's troops were fighting with Mo Zhengmin's department to insert a lever.

As soon as a few thoughts were finished, he heard the explosion of a group of shells, and Liu Heiqi woke up suddenly, this is definitely the main force of the political axe to set up a bureau here, using Mo Zhengmin's ministry as a bait to lure the Lao Tzu to be fooled, and want to keep all the Lao Tzu here. The limelight is not right, hurry up!

Just as he was about to look back, he felt a scorching current of heat rushing into his brain, rushing out his soul for a long distance, and then he felt that his whole body fluttered up and down and shot into many small arrows, pulling his soul back, and then pressed his body to the ground, all the way down, it seemed to fall to the deepest part of the eighteenth layer of hell, where countless unjust souls stretched out their long nails to scratch their faces, and all around, "Liu Heiqi is here to pay for his life." The cry of the cry.

Seeing Liu Heiqi spurting blood all over his body and falling off his horse, Qi Fengnian, the commander of the first battalion of the 13th Regiment, put down the spear in his hand and said, "Lao Tzu's marksmanship is okay!" Then he ordered the whole battalion to attack.

(To be continued)