Zhang Mingyu led his army to Taihe Town (present-day Taihe County, Anhui Province) in the afternoon, and after a brief rest, the Reading Force Division continued to advance, and the next target was Shenqiu Town.

Wuhan Xingyuan.

Dai Li carefully put a telegram from the Fuyang area in front of Principal Jiang, and said respectfully: "Commission, according to the telegram, the reader suddenly drove out of Fuyang County last night and headed north. ”

President Jiang was annoyed enough during this time, first the defeat of the Battle of Xuzhou, followed by the loss of Xuzhou, and after a short rest, the army of Xuzhou went all the way to Hefei and other places, Huainan, Lu'an, Zhoukou, and fell one after another. Bing Feng pointed directly at Fuyang, Xinyang and other places. At this time, Zhang Mingyu "ran away" with his troops and disappeared. How did he not get angry.

After reading the telegram, Principal Jiang scolded angrily several times: "Niang Xipi, what does this Zhang Mingyu want to do, the back is full of soldiers, he is going to die?" ”

Principal Jiang didn't think that Zhang Mingyu led his troops to the enemy, but he still cared about Zhang Mingyu, a person who had brought countless surprises to him.

"Send a report to the reader and order Zhang Mingyu to return to Fuyang immediately!" Principal Jiang tried to transfer Zhang Mingyu back.

"Yes, since last night, the radio station of the Reading Force has been turned off." Dai Li said with his head bowed.

"Niang Xipi, what does this Zhang Mingyu want to do when he falls to the ground? Does he really want to rebel? Commissar Chiang was furious.

In Zhoukou County, the 10th Infantry Brigade and the 12th Wing of the 11th Division of the Chinese Army captured Zhoukou yesterday under the leadership of Wing Commander Anda 23 Zuo. The 11th Division was originally subordinate to the Shanghai Dispatch Army, and after the Battle of Xuzhou, the 11th Division was ordered to attack Henan. The 12th Infantry Wing was responsible for attacking forward from the Henan-Anhui border area. As soon as Zhoukou was captured, Anda 23 Zuo led two infantry brigades to attack and advance in the direction of Xinyang, leaving one brigade to garrison Zhoukou City.

Zhang Mingyu's reading teacher arrived at the outskirts of Shenqiu Town in the Zhoukou County area at around 8 p.m. that night. Due to the arrival of the devils, the people in the town ran out, and the original town's security team surrendered to the devils to do the Han annihilation, and there was a small team of devils and more than 200 puppet troops in this town.

Zhang Mingyu took Tie Niu and Li Gang to Shenqiu Town to do a close reconnaissance, because the terrain around the Huai River is flat, and the general small county town also has a city wall, although this Shenqiu Town is not a county seat, but it guards the border of Henan, and a small city wall more than three meters high has been built, and a moat has not been dug outside the city. There are no devils outside the city, only a few puppet soldiers standing on the city wall.

After Zhang Mingyu went back, he said to Zhang Biao and the others: "It seems that there are some puppet soldiers in this town, and the number of devils should not exceed the strength of a small team." ”

"Shizao, how do you know that there is only one squad of devils in the town? You didn't go in again. Zhang Biao asked suspiciously.

"The reason is very simple, after the capture of Xuzhou, the army urgently needed to recuperate, and they only sent two divisions to attack the border between Anhui and Henan. Among them, the 11th Division attacked Henan, with 10,000 or 20,000 people in one division and one province, because there were reinforcements from the Yue Army behind, so they would not leave too many troops to stay, not to mention that this was just a small town. ”

In fact, Zhang Mingyu's analysis is very correct, in such a large combat area, the 11th Division is already overstretched, if it were not for the special geographical location of Shenqiu Town, I believe that Liu, the captain of the Third Infantry Brigade who stayed in Zhoukou, would not have sent the strength of this squad last time.

"His grandmother's, such a little devil, he can be attacked directly." Zhang Biao roared.

Zhang Mingyu opened the map and pointed to Zhoukou and said: "It is relatively easy to take this town, but you see, the day before yesterday, the army has captured Zhoukou, if we attack Shenqiu Town, then the devils in Zhoukou will definitely be reinforced, even if we can capture Shenqiu Town before the devil's reinforcements arrive, then our whereabouts will be leaked, the devils in Zhoukou are vigilant, and our plan to borrow from Zhoukou to Shanxi will be in vain!" ”

"What do you mean?" Zhang Biao asked.

"Feint to attack Shenqiu, fight the enemy for reinforcements!" Zhang Mingyu said eight words, and then continued: "The task of attacking Shenqiu was undertaken by Lai San's Second Regiment, and the other battalions and the first regiment of the Second Regiment set up an ambush on the highway to ambush the devil's reinforcements. ”

"Yes!" Everyone stood up in unison.

In the end, Lai San sent three battalions with relatively poor combat effectiveness to attack Shenqiu, although the three battalions had poor combat effectiveness, it was not a problem to deal with dozens of devils and two hundred puppet troops in the city. Besides, it is only a siege and not an attack.

At about ten o'clock that night, the devil had actually fallen asleep early, and the puppet army standing guard on the city wall also fell asleep on the city wall, Zhang Mingyu took the two battalions of the first regiment and the second regiment to bypass Shenqiu Town, and set up ambushes on both sides of the road where the devils came from Zhoukou.

And Lai San also personally led the three battalions to encircle Shenqiu Town.

At twelve o'clock in the evening, Lai San led three battalions to attack Shenqiu Town from four directions, and suddenly the gunfire was loud, and the devils and puppet soldiers in the city were awakened one after another, and hurriedly got out of the quilt and rushed to the city wall with guns. The leader of the devil squad, Ferry Jiro, hurriedly put on his clothes, brought a command knife, and ran out.

A figure in front of him collided with him, and Ferry Erlang was knocked down, and he pulled out his command knife in anger: "Yaga Yalu!" "Cut down the man before him.

The man hurriedly got up from the ground, and hurriedly knelt down and said, "Taijun, don't, it's me!" ”

Seeing that it was the security captain of the puppet army, Ferry Erlang inserted the command knife into the scabbard and asked, "Where is the drop, shoot?" ”

The security captain of the puppet army said as if he remembered something: "Taijun! There are gunshots everywhere, there must be [***] regular troops outside, and they still have artillery! Hurry up and ask for help from the Great Taijun! If it's too late [***] to attack, it's all over! ”

Ferry Erlang kicked the captain of the puppet army security team: "Baga, you take you to win people, block it for me!" I'm going to ask the captain for reinforcements right now. After speaking, he ran towards the telephone room, and he quickly shook the phone: "Hey, Your Excellency Captain, our unit has been attacked by the regular army of the Zhina people, listen to the gunfire at least one regiment of troops, please hurry up for reinforcements, please hurry up for reinforcements!" ”

Liu on the other end of the phone said last time: "Ferry-kun, you must hold on, the reinforcements will arrive in half an hour." ”

"Hai" ferry Jiro hung up the phone and ran towards the city wall.

Liu also urgently gathered his subordinates last time, and for a while, the whistle sounded in Zhoukou County, and a large number of devils with steel helmets swarmed out of the barracks and drove to the field to assemble.

Liu ordered loudly in bird language last time: "The third squadron stays behind, and the second and first squadrons set out with me to reinforce Shenqiu Town." Let's go! ”

The last time Liu sat in a side tricycle, he waved: "Open the way!" The devils of the two squadrons followed out of the city one after another. Run in the direction of Shenqiu Town.

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