This summer, the beautiful Jilu border became devastated under the ravages of the iron hooves of the Yue army. Even the wind blowing from Bohai Bay in the evening did not have the comfort, idleness and comfort that soaked in the coolness of the past, and was wrapped in an indescribable salty, astringent, bitter smell of gunpowder smoke and blood.

After the devils fully occupied the Jilu border, according to the order of Shouyi in the temple, on the one hand, they grasped the common people to build roads and repair the Yellow River fortifications; On the other hand, they forced all counties, districts, and villages to set up maintenance committees, not only lured and coerced young people to join the North China Public Security Army and Security Corps, but also set up village protection teams in various villages, frantically arrested local cadres and anti-Japanese subordinates of the Eighth Route Army, and set off a bloody storm along the Hebei and Shandong borders.

He Hongyin was born in 1900 in Yanshan County, and his father Wenge was a teacher. Before the 77 Incident, the family of Yu Hongyin had 200 acres of land, several carts and a horse-drawn car, and the whole family lived together, which was a well-off scholarly family.

After the 40th Army of the Kuomintang, the commissioner of Cangzhou, and the magistrate of Yanshan County ran away, he was determined to fight to the end with the Oriental devils like the Boxers did against the Eight-Nation Alliance! A team of more than 200 people was raised. This team was later organized into the 31st team, and Tong Hongyin became the company commander. When the instructor went east to the Jilu border, Tong Hongyin became the commander of the second company of the fifth battalion of the second regiment of the reading force on the Jilu border.

After the start of the Jilu Border Cold Gun and Cold Artillery Movement, Tong Hongyin took the Second Company to go north with the Second Regiment of the Jilu Border Reading Force and persisted in the struggle in the Yanshan and Leling areas. At present, the Second Reading Regiment, as a result of the thorough reorganization of the Sixth Brigade and the main force when it marched eastward to the Hebei and Shandong borders, has undergone changes in its personnel structure, weaponry, and training level, and it is like the posture of the main force of the Eighth Route Army. Even Qi Hongyin has been trained by the cadre training class of the Sixth Brigade, and he has long lost the jerky spirit he had when he first pulled the team, and he actually looked like other company-level cadres of the Sixth Brigade, with a shell gun on his back and a telescope hanging on his back, looking heroic.

At this time, Tong Hongyin took the second company to hide on the side of the road between Hanji and Qiantong in the south of Yanshan County, preparing to fight the patrol of the little devils.

Yu Hongyin has already reconnoitred clearly, the little devils stationed in Yanshan County and Leling County have built several large strongholds along the highway, and patrols regularly between the strongholds and strongholds every day, and now it is almost evening, and the little devil patrol should be coming over soon.

After becoming the Eighth Route Army, Tong Hongyin never returned home. Now that the troops have finally arrived in Yanshan, Tong Hongyin is thinking about taking leave to go home after a few battles. This little devil kills people and sets fires every day in Jilubian, and I don't know what happened to my family.

Thinking of going home, the corners of Yu Hongyin's mouth showed a smile, and he felt that after beating the little devil, he would better go home as a crop, planting in spring and harvesting in autumn, his wife and children were hot on the kang, and the family was affectionate. When you are free, you can also put on a horse-drawn car and go to Yanshan City to drink a pot, which is called moisturizing!

With homesick thoughts, Tong Hongyin's heart was immediately hot, and he kept looking in the direction of Han Ji, hoping that the devil patrol would come soon and finish work early.

It didn't take long for the news from the observation post that the little devil was coming, but it was not a patrol from Hanji, but a food grabbing team from the direction of Qiantong in the south. There are more than 50 devils in total, 100 puppet soldiers, and more than 50 carts. It seems that he has just returned from grabbing grain and sent grain to the Hanji base.

As soon as he heard it, he was in trouble. Let's fight, the devil patrol in the direction of Hanji will be dispatched soon, in case it is attacked by the devil from the north and south, it will be troublesome. If you don't fight, once these grains are transported into Hanji, it will be difficult to get them back.

Yu Hongyin was still a little tender in military command, and couldn't help but ask Shen Yuanxing, the instructor beside him: "Instructor, do you want to fight?" ”

Shen Yuanxing is an old Red Army, he was originally a soldier of the Red Eighteenth Regiment, and thousands of mountains and rivers came over on the Long March, and when he was in Xi'an, he entered the teaching team of the Red Seventh Army and became the backbone of thousands of tempers. When the Sixth Brigade and the 31st Detachment were compiled, Shen Yuanxing was transferred to the 2nd Regiment of Reading Power on the Jilu Border and served as the instructor of the 2nd Company of the 5th Reading Battalion.

Compared with Yu Hongyin, who has not participated in the Eighth Route Army for a long time, Shen Yuanxing is a standard veteran. Hearing Yu Hongyin ask if he would fight, Shen Yuanxing shouted in a low voice: "What's the wordy? Beat! Lao Tzu is an old Red Army, and he rolled over with the division commander's blood. This little devil is a ball! ”

After speaking, without waiting for Yu Hongyin to answer, Shen Yuanxing himself began to issue a battle order, adjusted the original combat plan, turned the whole company, concentrated fire support platoon and all the light and heavy machine guns and grenadiers of the three platoons, first hit the devil food grabbing team, and after the battle, the three platoons cleaned up the battlefield, and the fire support platoon and the first platoon and the second platoon continued to hide and fight the devil patrol.

After giving the order, Shen Yuanxing took Tong Hongyin to the position of the fire support platoon, and ordered the four grenadier canisters of the fire support platoon, three heavy machine guns, and the light and heavy machine guns of each platoon fire support squad to concentrate on attacking the little devils of the grain grabbing team.

It may be that in the recent past, the little devil has been fighting too smoothly in Jilu, and his arrogance has come up again. When the devil's grain snatching team walked along the road between birch, zelkova, and poplars, Shen Yuanxing and Tong Hongyin both laughed. Because there are only five spearhead soldiers walking in front of the devil tiredly, and behind the spearhead are about 50 little devils, walking in front of the large convoy, although the team is very neat, but the guns are all carried on their shoulders, and almost every devil soldier's gun is hung with chickens, ducks and small burdens from the guns of the common people. The puppet soldiers lined up in two rows, walked on both sides of the road, escorted the carts forward, and from time to time used the butts of their guns to hit the villagers who drove the cars.

Shen Yuanxing glanced at Yu Hongyin, whispered, "Lao Tzu has made a fortune", and ordered to prepare for battle. At that time, the light and heavy machine guns of the Eighth Route Army had removed the green grass curtain of camouflage, and the rifles of the soldiers were also loaded, and the muzzles of the black holes were aimed at the devils and the puppet army.

Shen Yuanxing followed Liu Yimin all the way, naturally he knew the important surname of concentrated firepower, except for heavy machine guns and mortars, all the light machine guns in each platoon were pointed at the devil team, and the devil soldiers should be completely eliminated at the first time, and then the puppet army would be cleaned up.

Seeing that the puppet army had entered the ambush circle, Shen Yuanxing raised his shell gun, and at the same time as the word "hit" came out, he knocked down the devil soldiers who were beating the head.

The ninety-two style, crooked pendulum, and Czech style all sang happily, and the crisp sound was like the firecrackers set off when the farmers in Jilu had a happy event. The grenadier "tom" sounded like a cannon mixed with firecrackers, constantly creating surprises.

The arrogant little devil had just burned and looted the common people, who would have thought that there would suddenly be a death trap on this normally very safe road, and under the blow of the machine gun fire and grenadiers of the Eighth Route Army, one by one they fluttered and lay straight on the ground. In particular, those devils who were hit by heavy machine guns were almost all beaten in two by the waist, and their flesh and blood were blurred.

The devils of a squad entered the ambush circle of a company of the instructor of the Eighth Route Army, and naturally they could not die again, for no other reason, because of the successes of the instructors of the Eighth Route Army, the large captures were large, the weapons were refined, and the firepower was not only unparalleled in the middle [***] team, but also much stronger than the firepower of the infantry units of the army. Although the 2nd Regiment of the Jilu Border Reading Force is a newly established regiment compiled by the 31st Detachment, the Formation and Training Headquarters, and the regiments of the 6th Brigade, it has already been equipped according to the main force because it has been thoroughly integrated with the main force. In addition, after the elimination of the 10th Division, in consideration of the grim situation faced by the troops remaining in the Jilu Border, when Liu Yimin crossed the river and returned to the Qinghe River, he specially asked Fu Zhuting to give priority to replenishing and replenishing more of the weapons and ammunition captured from the Logistics Headquarters.

Seeing that the little devil was scrapped under the first round of blows, Shen Yuanxing immediately ordered the heavy fire to turn and began to take care of those puppet soldiers.

When the shots rang out, the convoy behind them was chaotic. Some of the villagers threw off the cart and ran away, while others shouted at the cattle and drove the cart off the road. Those puppet soldiers were miserable and became live targets for the riflemen of the Eighth Route Army. By the time they reacted and hurriedly lay down, the road was already full of corpses and blood.

These puppet armies are all North China security forces, and their fighting will is a little worse than that of the puppet Manchuria, and the gap in combat effectiveness is also relatively large. If the army has the upper hand, these guys will naturally scream and pounce up, and even fight to the death. But at this time, the little devils were eliminated, and these puppet soldiers also suffered heavy casualties, so the will to fight naturally was not good. Although the puppet army officers waved their pistols and shouted indiscriminately, directing the puppet army to counterattack, those soldiers who were alive were lying on the ground, and some got under the carts where the cattle were killed, and they did not move.

After the light and heavy machine guns of the Eighth Route Army turned to the puppet army, these guys immediately became dizzy, the smarter soldiers and ruffians crawled to the ground and pretended to be dead dogs, and those stupid and timid wanted to get up and run away, but they were all caught up by bullets and beat their hearts.

Shen Yuanxing saw this situation and knew that there was no need to waste any more bullets, so he ordered the heavy fire to stop shooting and let the rifle hit accurately, and at the same time ordered the third platoon to rush up to capture the prisoner, he took a rifle from the hand of a soldier next to him, set the ruler, aimed a little, and shot the pseudo-officer who was hiding behind a big car and probed his brain to observe the situation.

Qi Hongyin was a company commander, but when he saw that the instructor commanded the battle with a clear vision, he admired it in his heart, and felt that he still needed to study hard with the instructor from the old Red Army. However, he has his own strengths, that is, he is good at propaganda and agitation to pull the team, and many future generations talk to him and follow him to play a small book. After joining the Eighth Route Army, although the time was short, the political work of the Eighth Route Army opened his eyes, at this time, there was the elimination of the devil first, and Yu Hongyin was so shrewd, knowing that this time was the best time to make a forced landing on the puppet army, he reminded the instructor to pay attention to shouting to capture prisoners.

The little devil patrol may arrive soon, and the time is pressing, Shen Yuanxing said to Yu Hongyin: "The devil patrol is almost here, there is no time." You take the second platoon to press up, surrender the guns of the puppet army, and support us when you are over. I took a platoon and a fire support platoon and immediately turned around and packed up the devil patrol. ”

When Qi Hongyin heard this, he shouted, "Second row, follow me." He jumped out of cover and rushed forward with the soldiers of the second platoon and the bright bayonets.

The gunfire attracted a patrol of devils from Hanji, and an armored car took the lead, followed by six three-wheeled motorcycles, and rushed over in a hurry.

When they were approaching the battlefield, the machine guns on the little devil's armored vehicles and motorcycles had already fired, and the bullets mottled and flew the tree trunks, leaves, and branches on the side of the road.

Seeing that the little devil patrol only had this idea, Shen Yuanxing was disappointed, ordered the engineer team to prepare explosive packs, and ordered the fire support platoon to knock out the six motorcycles of the little devils.

It may be that the little devils in the armored car observed the situation on the battlefield, and the machine guns on the armored car were happier and faster.

Seeing that the little devil patrol was about to arrive at the battlefield, thunder broke out on the ground, there was a loud bang, and dust was stirred up on the road, and the devil armored car was surrounded at once.

Before the little devil on the motorcycle behind could react, the Type 92 heavy machine gun of the Eighth Route Army roared, and the bullet passed through the fog of dust, turning the little devil's motorcycle and the little devil on the car into a sieve or fireball.

The battle was clean and well-fought.

After the battle, when he saw that so many weapons had been captured, he discussed with Shen Yuanxing, wanting to pull the troops to his hometown, where the mass base was good and some descendants could be mobilized to join the Eighth Route Army and expand the troops.

After thinking about it, Shen Yuanxing made a report to the battalion commander and instructor, and sent the second platoon to go to Xiaozhuang with Yu Hongyin, expand the army, restore the base area, and he took the first platoon, the third platoon and the fire support platoon to operate near Hanji Town, aiming at the devil's highway communication line, firing cold guns and ambushes during the day, mobilizing the masses in various villages at night, restoring the militia and grassroots political power, organizing the development of production, digging tunnels, building land mines, and waging a desperate struggle with the little devils.

After the little devils of Hanji knew the situation and reported to the commander of the devils stationed in Yanshan, the little devils immediately mobilized their troops and set out from Yanshan and Leling overnight, advancing from north to south, and by the time they arrived at the battlefield, the Eighth Route Army had already disappeared without a trace.

Seeing the tragic situation in front of him, the commander of the reinforced devil brigade was stunned and immediately reported to the wing headquarters, saying that it was not an ordinary guerrilla unit that attacked the grain convoy and patrol, but the regular army of the Eighth Route Army with extremely strong firepower. It was judged that it was a small elite force left by Liu Yimin's instructor on the Jilu side.

The judgment of the captain of the devil brigade is naturally correct, but it is not only the devils of Hanji who have been hit, but also the devils in many strongholds on the border of Jilu have fallen into panic. Because, the small units of the Eighth Route Army attacked everywhere, and the devil's patrol and grain collection team became the preferred targets, followed by the sentries standing guard, who would always be killed by sudden bullets. As for those Han anniversaries, it was even worse, and if they slept under the bed in the middle of the night, they would be picked up by the Eighth Route Army and carried out for execution.

Not to be outdone, the little devils not only kept sweeping, but also organized Han Jian to set up a propaganda class to go to the occupied areas to propagate the goodwill between Manchu and China and the "common prosperity of Greater East Asia". Even the walls of the district offices were painted with white plaster by devils with the basic theory of "Greater East Asia Co-prosperity": "Unite to expel the forces of European imperialism from Asia and make Asia the Asia of Asians, and say that the liberation of the Asian people is the liberation of the Asian people." ”

At a time when the various units of the instructors were actively carrying out the cold gun and cold artillery movement, the wheels of history continued to run forward.

On the evening of July 31, the Korean army began to open artillery fire on Zhanggufeng, and in the early morning, the two brigades of the Yuejun army captured Zhanggufeng and Shacao Peak respectively.

As for whether the Zhang Gufeng incident in history will happen, Liu Yimin actually has no bottom in his heart. Because history has changed now, not only did Seishiro Itagaki, who advocated taking risks to the north in history, commit suicide by disembowelment, but also the Eighth Route Army alone made Xiao Yuben disgraced, and whether the army would take an adventure in Zhanggufeng, although Liu Yimin swore an oath when he spoke, in fact, he couldn't say for sure.

In his heart, Liu Yimin eagerly hoped that the Zhang Gufeng incident would happen on time, not only to fight, but also to fight hard. There are two reasons for this, one is that the Zhanggufeng area itself is Chinese territory, which was ceded to Tsarist Russia when the Manchus and Tsarist Russia signed the Treaty of Aihui. It is the Aihui Treaty, and the Chinese version of the document is that Zhang Gufeng belongs to China, and the version of Tsarist Russia belongs to Russia. Why this is the case has become a historical mystery, and it is difficult to explain. However, Dali is nothing more than the deliberate forcible occupation of Tsarist Russia or the bribery and betrayal of Manchu officials. Liu Yimin knew that if he occupied Zhang Gufeng in the name of Manchukuo, he would win the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression in the future, and this would be Chinese territory. If the USSR wins, it will always be Soviet territory. The second reason is that Liu Yimin hopes that the Soviet Union can teach Xiao Yueben a hard lesson, and it is best to completely cripple the Kwantung Army and the Korean Army, and hopes that the battle of Zhang Gufeng can evolve into a big war, so that Xiao Yueben will be finished as soon as possible. In short, in any case, it is in China's interests that the Soviet Union and Ben will fight hard.

It's a pity that this is not the time when the US military will fight Iraq in the future, and TV will broadcast it live in time. Zhang Gufeng was so remote, and both Xiao Yueben and the Soviet Union tried to conceal their own attempts, so Liu Yimin could only judge whether the Zhang Gufeng incident had occurred from the mobilization of the army.

After finally surviving until 4 August, Liu Yimin received reliable information that the 23rd Division stationed in Luxi and the 24th Division of the Yue Army stationed in Hebei and Shandong had urgently assembled troops, and their movements were unknown. At this time, Liu Yimin completely understood that Xiao Yue was afraid that he would suffer a loss in Zhang Gufeng, and in order to defend against the Soviet Union, he might urgently transfer the 23rd Division and the 24th Division to strengthen the Kwantung Army.

Although it was known that the 23rd and 24th Divisions of the Chinese Army would not necessarily be transferred to the northeast, because the Zhang Gufeng incident would soon be over, it was estimated that the conflict between the two armies and the Soviet Union would have ended temporarily by the time the two troops arrived in the northeast. However, Liu Yimin was not reconciled, he was thinking about how to make the Yue army and the Soviet army fight harder and longer.

Liu Yimin thought about it and felt that it was not easy to do. Because at this time, Xiao Yueben was a tentative attack on the Soviet army, and the Soviet army's counterattack was also limited. Neither country is ready for a big war, and it is not enough to rely on others to provoke it. Even if you provoke them to fight, it is difficult to do it now, because you are in Shandong, but you can't let the devil know about this situation. If you want to make a statement or something through the central or headquarters, you can't do it. Now, due to his arrival, he has made many deviant statements, and I still don't know what the comrades who came back from the USSR think of themselves!

After thinking about it, Liu Yimin thought of Wang Ming. remembered that Wang Ming once asked him to write about the examination, and it seemed that he had to let this theorist do his best. However, even if you send a telegram to Wang Ming, you have to think carefully, the sequelae of this matter are too great, but don't try to be happy for a while, and in the future, you will end up with an indescribable relationship, then the gains outweigh the losses.

After thinking about it, Liu Yimin thought that when he killed King Tsugahiko of Dongjuer Palace, he seized many top-secret documents, including the personnel changes of the Korean Army and the Kwantung Army reported by the base camp of the Japanese army, as well as the transfer of troops of the North Korean army. If Minister Kang of the Ministry of Social Affairs had known about this situation, would the Soviet Union have known about it? Will the scale of the war be slightly larger?

Whether it works or not, try it first.

Liu Yimin found Qian Zhuangfei and Hu Di and asked them to hand over the confidential documents of the Yue Army seized from the King of Dongjuer Palace to several comrades of the Social Department who accompanied Chen Cunyi's Second Cavalry Regiment, and asked them to help examine them to see if there was any useful information.

Qian Zhuangfei didn't understand, and said that the two cadres from the Ministry of Social Affairs were both students, so could they know what was valuable and what was not? It's better for the division commander to see it himself.

Liu Yimin patted Qian Zhuangfei on the shoulder and said, "Old Qian, you have a specialization in the art industry." I have a few pounds and a few taels, and I still have a number in my heart. When it comes to war, I can still think and think, and I'm a standard layman when it comes to things like intelligence. Maybe what I don't think has any effect, you can see one, two, three. The comrades of the Social Department stand on the high plane of the overall situation, and many things are different from what we have considered. Let's let them see, these things should have been sent to the central government, but now they can't be sent, so I have to let them see them first. If it's useful, they'll report it straight up. ”

Qian Zhuangfei stared at Liu Yimin with both eyes, trying to see through what he was thinking. But after watching it for a long time, Liu Yimin still looked calm and smiling. Qian Zhuangfei had no choice but to shake his head and go to the comrades of the Social Department with Hu Di and the others.

After Qian Zhuangfei and Hu Di left, Liu Yimin smiled in his heart, chewed twice in his mouth, "A gentleman can be bullied", and then went to do something else.

As Liu Yimin thought, the two comrades of the Social Department were indeed masters, and after leading the comrades who knew the Chinese language to see the documents, telegrams, and maps seized from the King of Dongjuer Palace, they closed the door alone and studied them carefully all night, and then suggested to Qian Zhuangfei and Hu Di that these documents were very dense and should be handed over to them for safekeeping. At the same time, he asked that the instructor's radio be used to send some of the main contents back to Xi'an, and asked Minister Kang and Minister Li to study them further.

Seeing that the two comrades of the Social Department said so solemnly, Qian Zhuangfei provided them with a radio station without saying a word, and asked them to start their work without delaying their business. Then, Qian Zhuangfei went to Liu Yimin and Luo Ronghuan to report, and as a result, Liu and Luo gave exactly the same instructions, to equip the comrades of the Social Department with radio stations, provide other equipment necessary for work, arrange their lives, and do not disturb or ask them about their work.

(To be continued)