The elimination of Li Lao's main gang and bandits was really a small battle worth mentioning for the first battalion of the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army, which was equipped with Gaoping dual-purpose guns, infantry guns, Type 92 heavy machine guns, grenadiers, and light machine guns. As soon as the pen, fun, www.biquge.info and pavilion cannons swung there, and before they could fire the cannons, Li Lao's own bandits began to flee.

Although Li Laoben was a bandit leader, cunning and ferocious, he didn't know what the art of war was, and after escaping from Xihuang Village, he thought he was safe, but he didn't expect to crash into the ambush circle of the Eighth Route Army.

This crashed into the ambush circle of the Eighth Route Army, and it was clear which people were habitual bandits, which people were routs contained by Li Laoben, and which people were bandits who had been in the gang for a short time.

Those habitual bandits are good at hiding and escaping, and as soon as the guns of the Eighth Route Army rang out, these guys began to fall to the ground, and then began to flee for their lives like frightened sparrows; Those routed soldiers all had a little military common sense, and when they saw that they were encircled by the Eighth Route Army, they directly lay on the ground and pretended to be dead dogs; Only those new recruits have neither military knowledge nor the life-saving skills of habitual bandits, and they are running around like flies.

As a result, it can be imagined that those habitual bandits who tried to flee for their lives, such as Li Laoben and his apprentices, Gan'er and those leaders, became the focus of the Eighth Route Army's firepower, and the rest of the routs and newly recruited bandits became prisoners.

Li Laoben has been a bandit in Xingxi for many years, blocking roads and robbing, kidnapping tickets for extortion, and accumulating a lot of money. After cleaning up the battlefield, the total amount of gold bars, silver dollars, and banknotes seized from the baggage carried by Li Laoben and his 20 apprentices and godsons was as high as 200,000 yuan, which was equivalent to the military expenses issued by the Nationalist Government to the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army for several months!

It was a bonus!

Wu Jinduo's department, Liu Jiu's department, Liu Zengyi's department, and Yue Peng's department were all defeated troops, not to mention gold and silver treasures, and even eating was a problem, so they began to collect grain and distribute money, disturb the people, and harm the people. In any case, these defeated soldiers are still armies, no matter how bad the discipline is, they will look like bandits, but after all, they are not bandits, and there will not be much money to loot and extort, and it is good to maintain the survival of the team.

Li Laoben's bandits are different, they have been entrenched in the Xingxi area for many years, blocking roads and robbing, kidnapping tickets, beating big households, doing everything, and naturally looting more money.

This incident made Xiao Siming gain knowledge, that is, fighting bandits can also raise military expenses!

At the same time that Xiao Siming led a battalion to reorganize Yue Peng's troops and eliminate Li Lao's local bandits, several platoons led by Zheng Xiuchuan entered Luluo Town, where the Red Gun Society General Regiment was located, and almost without firing a shot, several leaders of the Red Gun Society General Regiment were arrested and brought back to Pulshui Town.

Another side result of defeating the Red Gun Society Regiment was that it frightened Zhang Xijiu's people's army, which was recruiting troops in Luluo Town, and he didn't know where to retreat!

Huang Hua led the second battalion battle group to solve the Wu Jinduo Division, adopting the method of mediating contradictions and conflicts, using force as the backing, forcing more than 2,000 Red Gun Congregations to disperse and forcing the Wu Jinduo Department to accept the reorganization.

After Wu Jinduo's troops retreated to the mountainous area of Xingxi, they were not familiar with the geography and had no base of their own, so they could not eat and dress. Originally, he wanted to retreat to Shanxi and find his own large army, but due to robbery and discipline along the way, he was intercepted by the Red Gun Society.

Although Wu Jinduo's troops were rout, they were armies after all, with machine guns and rifles in their hands, but in the face of peasant groups armed with broadswords and spears like the Red Lance Society, they did not dare to use force to break through and take the road, so they could only confront the Red Lance.

The Eighth Route Army's armed intervention in mediation is tantamount to giving both sides a step.

At this time, the defeated soldiers in the Taihang Mountains, as long as they were not bent on becoming bandits or defecting to the enemy as traitors, were willing to accept the reorganization of the regular army.

Yue Peng was an exception, he was ambitious and thief-minded, so he refused to be incorporated into the first column of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Guerrilla Force of the Eighteenth Group Army, which led to the final reorganization by Xiao Siming by force.

In the end, the result of negotiations between the two sides was that the Sichuan army routed the weapons and ammunition to the Pulshui guerrillas, and the Pulshui guerrillas paid them the travel expenses and dismissed themselves.

The 115th Division's eastward advance brigade is now the real main force of the Eighth Route Army, and the cadre allocation far exceeds the standard of the general main force regiment.

To put it bluntly, the reason why Xiao Siming wanted to stay in the Xingxi Mountains for a few days to sweep away the defeated soldiers and bandits was that the strategic position of this area was too important, and the main force was needed to help the local armed forces and local political power lay a solid foundation, and the other main reason was that Xiao Siming took a fancy to these defeated soldiers. Because they are all veterans, as long as the political and ideological work follows, and after the education and transformation, they have a clear goal of struggle, these veterans will be reborn, and their combat effectiveness will increase exponentially, which is much higher than that of new recruits.

Wu Jinduo's troops are not the rout of the Northeast Army, they are a centralized miscellaneous army, that is, a miscellaneous army in the Central Army. The Eighth Route Army wanted to incorporate them, and they were naturally willing to accept the adaptation.

According to Xiao Siming's instructions, after serious negotiations between Huang Hua and Wu Jinduo, he solicited Wu Jinduo's opinion, gave him a sum of money, and let him and several of his backbone officers go back to the rear, and the troops were reorganized on the spot into the first company of the fifth battalion of the eastward advance brigade of the 115th Division.

Hu Qingyun led the three battalions to reorganize Liu Jiu and Liu Zengyi's departments, and the basic process of Huang Hua's reorganization of Wu Jinduo's department was the same. Seeing that the Eighth Route Army was willing to give them a severance pay, Liu Yu and Liu Zengyi took the money and left, and the troops were reorganized into six battalions and one company of the 115th Division's eastward advance brigade.

The endings of Wu Jinduo, Liu Leek, and Liu Zengyi are much better than in history!

With the severance pay given by the Eighth Route Army, these people crossed the Yellow River, went to Luoyang City, took off their military uniforms and traded. Because they had dealt with Xiao Siming's department of the Eighth Route Army, the army was reorganized by Xiao Siming's department, and they had old connections, these people actually did business with the Eighth Route Army, helped purchase some urgently needed materials, such as radio accessories, medical equipment accessories, medicines, etc., and secretly sent them to the Eighth Route Army, and became red businessmen who contributed to the fight against Japan.

The last battle that swept through Xingxi was to eliminate the bandit commander Shen Guodong!

Shen Guodong's department was also a rout of the Northeast Army, but he went farther than other routs, and completely became a bandit, becoming one of the two major bandits in Xingxi Mountain and Li Laoben's bandits!

Shen Guodong, like Yue Peng, is also an ambitious and thief. When he first arrived in Xingxi, there was only a company of defeated soldiers, because he wanted to be a bandit, he occupied the area of Longquan Temple, wantonly expanded his strength, and even had more than 300 men and horses, self-appointed commander, in addition to collecting grain and distributing money, harassing the locality, blocking the road and robbing, kidnapping tickets, plundering past merchants, all evil, forming a threat to the Yingtou base area where the Xingtai anti-Japanese democratic government is located.

Xiao Siming, Huang Hua, and Hu Qingyun met in Longquan Temple and jointly attacked Shen Guodong's department, which can be regarded as looking up to him!

Shen Guodong's troops themselves were defeated soldiers, and they were unwilling to fight devils before they dispersed to the area of Longquan Temple in the hilly area of Xingxi. The elite troops of the Eighth Route Army pounced, where did this group of routs still have fighting spirit, from the commander Shen Guodong to the sentry, they fled with guns! Unfortunately, he couldn't escape the bullets of the Eighth Route Army, Shen Guodong was killed by our army, and the rest were assigned to the fifth and sixth battalions of the eastward advance brigade.

The fourth battalion was trained in Huangsi Village, and the fifth and sixth battalions were trained in Longquan Temple.

In just a few days, the 115th Division's eastward advance brigade swept through the Xingxi Mountains, cleared out a large number of routs and bandits, and turned the Xingxi Mountains into a base for the Eighth Route Army to dominate the world.

After several leaders of the Red Gun Society, An Qingshan, Lu Jiwu, Cao Guizhi and others were arrested in Pulshui Town, because of the backing of the powerful 115th Division's eastward advance brigade, the Xingtai County Anti-Japanese Salvation Provisional Government immediately held a public trial meeting to verify the crime and execute the execution on the spot!

At this time, the eight sub-regiments of the Red Gun Society in the mountainous areas west of Xingtai all died down. The apricot and yellow flags in the villages were quietly put away, and the villages that the local cadres of the Eighth Route Army could not enter were now able to enter, and the anti-Japanese salvation movement in the Xingxi area was vigorously launched.

After the elimination of Shen Guodong's department, Yang Xiu Feng, the leader of the **** department in western Hebei, Zhang Xianyue, the head of the advance detachment of the 129th Division, and Hu Zhen, the county magistrate of the Xingtai County Committee * * Secretary * Ji Gao * Yan Anti-Japanese Democratic Government, all rushed to Longquan Temple to express their condolences to the eastward advance brigade.

Wang Lushui and Huo Cheng, who stayed in Paste Water Town to rest, also led the brigade headquarters, the recruit battalion, the baggage battalion, and the cavalry company to Longquan Temple.

At this time, the main force of the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army set up an ambush in the Shentouling area on March 16, and annihilated 1,300 people of the 108th Division of the Japanese Army and captured 6,000 mules and horses by attacking Licheng, mobilizing the Japanese army to send reinforcements and ambushing them. Immediately afterwards, the 343rd Brigade, the main force of the 115th Division, set up an ambush in the Wucheng and Jinggou areas of Xi County, and ambushed twice in two days, annihilating more than 1,000 people of the 20th Division of the Japanese Army, and smashing the Japanese army's attempt to invade the Yellow River in the west.

The succession of good news made Yang Xiu Feng and others full of joy, and when they spoke to the troops, they raised their arms and shouted slogans from time to time to boost morale!

After visiting the troops, Yang Xiu Feng discussed with Xiao Siming and Wang Lushui whether they could postpone their eastward advance, camp in the Xingxi area for a month, even half a month, and consolidate the base area before advancing eastward.

Xiao Siming and Wang Lushui replied that it was not possible, and the order of the division headquarters was to let them quickly advance eastward, go to the east of Jinpu Road to create a base behind the enemy, and make a forward station for the main force of the 115th Division to advance eastward. The troops can't stop here for long, they must move east as soon as possible!

Xiao Siming told Yang Xiufeng, Zhang Xianyue, and others that as long as the situation on the battlefield in Shanxi eases a little, the 129th Division will definitely send the main force to Taihang and advance into the southern Hebei Plain. At present, the situation in the western Xingxi region is very good, and it is necessary to vigorously expand the local armed forces, strengthen the building of political power, and prevent the Japanese army in Xingtai from attacking the Taihang base area along the Xingxi Highway, Xingliao Highway, and Xingyu Highway.

With this said, Zhang Xianyue asked if he could support some weapons and ammunition?

Wu Jinduo, Liu Jiu and Liu Zengyi's troops were co-ordinated, Yue Peng's troops were reorganized by force, and the bandits Li Laoben and Shen Guodong were eliminated, and a lot of weapons and ammunition were seized. However, the weapons of the defeated soldiers are relatively neat, like Li Lao's headquarters, the weapons are very mixed, it is simply a gun exhibition hall, with all kinds of guns. Good guns include Hanyang-made, Jin-made rifles, Shenyang-made rifles, Shuilianzhu, 38 big covers, Soviet-made rifles, etc., as well as some home-made singles rifles and short guns. The strangest thing is that Li Laoben didn't know where to get two Soviet-made turntable machine guns, but unfortunately there were not many bullets.

Xiao Siming didn't instigate at all, and directly asked the troops of the advance detachment brought by Zhang Xianyue and the independent battalion brought by Hu Zhen to pick and choose at will, whatever you like, you're welcome!

As a result, in addition to the weapons equipped by the fourth, fifth, and sixth battalions, all the surplus weapons and ammunition captured by Shen Guodong's department and Li Lao's headquarters were taken away, and even those home-made rifles and single-shot short guns were taken away.

Hu Zhen said that as long as you can kill the little devil, it is a good weapon! (To be continued.) )