On March 19, Fan Zhuxian led the herald team, the pistol team and more than 20 cavalrymen to Yanggu first, and the second detachment Li Xiangsan Regiment also followed Fan Zhuxian together. At this time, scouts came to report that more than 100 Japanese soldiers and more than 100 puppet soldiers in Pu County had occupied Fan County.

Fan Zhuxian frowned when he heard this, and immediately called to inform the Shouzhang County Brigade to set off immediately to meet the enemy in Fan County, and ordered Li Xiang's third regiment to set off for Fan County at two o'clock that night, and Fan Zhuxian also led his direct team to arrive later.

At 4 p.m. the next day, all three troops met at Litai Village, 15 miles northeast of Fan County. The scouts came again to report that the enemy had gone out of the city to the east. Fan Zhuxian immediately ordered his troops to block the enemy in battle formation and make contact with the enemy at the Wulizi embankment in the east of the city.

Although the enemy's small island squadron only had more than 180 people, compared with Fan Zhuxian's team, it was also well-armed and well-trained. This infantry squadron of the Japanese army had 9 light machine guns, 9 grenadiers, and the rest were 38-style rifles and bayonets. Their machine guns and grenadiers hit accurately, and those rifles also hit "Ba Gou" and "Ba Gou" with great blows, and from time to time Chinese soldiers fell.

Although the number of puppet soldiers and Japanese soldiers was about the same, they were almost on point, and the team also seemed a little flustered, and from time to time some puppet soldiers were so frightened that they stood up and wanted to escape, and soon, they were knocked down by Fan Zhuxian's soldiers.

Fan Zhuxian's team had more than 1,000 people, and although they were not as accurate as the guns of the Japanese army, their firepower was definitely stronger than theirs. The two sides ended in a draw and lasted for two hours.

Fan Zhuxian saw that it would not work to fight like this, and that he could not give full play to his advantage of being numerous, so he immediately asked Li Xiangsan to send a company to attack the enemy from the right side, and ordered the Shouzhang County Brigade to attack the enemy from the left, and then ordered the cavalry to go around to the enemy's rear and harass the enemy from behind, and the main force and direct subordinate team of Li Xiangsan's regiment attacked directly from the front.

Fighting on all sides like this, the island could not stand it, first of all, it was surrounded, this is a taboo in the army, besides, the sky is about to be dark, if it is dark, it will be the world of the Chinese, and it will be more passively beaten. So, with a wave of Kojima's hand, the Japanese army and the puppet army fled westward, and Fan Zhuxian commanded the team and then pursued. The enemy did not dare to stay in Fan County, and fled to Pu County, and Fan County was recovered.

That night, Commander Fan led his troops into the city of Fan. Zhou Ziming, the magistrate of Fan County, also led the county government personnel into the city with the troops, and summoned the garrison and the public security bureau to restore order and keep the people safe and defend the city.

In this battle, the enemy suffered more than 10 casualties, captured 7 puppet soldiers, and I also suffered 7 casualties, and the battle was basically a draw. Fan Zhuxian gave another order, informing the detachments to assemble in the new place and agreeing on a time.

At dawn on March 26, Fan Zhuxian's team set off, and the troops arrived at the Baiyige District Office, about 10 a.m. The local district office had prepared breakfast, and after the troops had finished eating, they rested a little and then set off and arrived at Dalizhuang in the northeast of Puxian County at 3 p.m.

At this time, according to the pre-agreed assembly place, the 2nd, 5th, 6th, 19th, 21st, 22nd, 23rd, and 26th detachments had arrived, plus the guerrilla battalion, guard battalion, herald team, and pistol team of Fan Zhuxian's direct troops, a total of about 6,000 people, living near Da Li Zhuang. These 6,000 people are also a lot of people, so they are stationed in the area, and they arrange food and accommodation, and there is a lot of chaos.

In the evening of the same day, Fan Zhuxian convened the commanders of the detachments and relevant personnel for a second military meeting. Fan Zhu first explained the importance of besieging Pu County, and then explained the specific combat tasks. The 6th, 19th, and 26th detachments attacked the north gate and were the main direction of attack. The 23 detachment made a feint attack on the south gate in order to attract enemy forces. The 21 detachment attacked the east gate, which was also to attract the enemy's forces. Liu Zhainan sent two companies to the vicinity of Liqiao, the crossing of the Yellow River, to prevent reinforcements from the enemy in Henan. In addition, two companies of Lin Jintang and Puxian armed forces were deployed in Xiao Town, 25 miles northwest of the county, to block the enemy reinforced by Daimyo.

The general rear is set up in Da Li Zhuang, the front temporary headquarters is set up at Wangjia Dikou, 15 miles northeast of Pu County, and the general army station is set up in Yangji, east of the city. He also asked the Pu County Government to organize militia groups near the county seat to stand guard and cooperate with the main force to fight. At the meeting, the time for the attack was also set, the communication signal was unified, the offensive zone of each detachment was divided, and then each detachment returned to the defensive ground to make preparations.

At that time, the county seat of Puxian County was three miles from east to west, north and south, the city had four gates, divided into east and west, north and south gates, the city wall was wide and narrow, and there were two meters wide above, there were battlements, in order to facilitate the soldiers defending the city to use weapons, the wall was made of three soil tamping with a small number of green bricks. What is triad soil, that is, sand, clay and lime are mixed in a certain proportion, and it is extremely strong. In the era of cold weapons, the city wall was a fortress, and in the period of the War of Resistance Against Japan, if there was no heavy artillery, the city wall was indeed a difficult bone that could not be penetrated by rifles and machine guns, and could not be broken by small artillery.

Although the Big Bird Wing defending the city is called a wing, in fact, Big Bird also brought an infantry brigade, which is about 1,215 people, with four infantry squadrons and a heavy machine gun squadron. Each infantry squadron has about 250 people, and each infantry squadron has three squads of about 70 people each. Each infantry squad has a machine gun group, a grenadier group, a machine gun group with two light machine guns, a grenadier group with two grenadiers, and the rest are rifle groups. Each LMG is staffed by four people, with a commander, a shooter, two secondary shooters with ammunition, and two grenadiers per grenadier. Otori also carried 2 infantry artillery squads with 4 70mm infantry guns. Therefore, don't look at the fact that the big bird does not have a lot of troops, but the equipment is stronger than any of Fan Zhuxian's detachments. The firepower of the Imperial Cooperative Army, which assisted the Japanese army, was slightly inferior to that of the Japanese army, but it was still stronger than Fan Zhuxian's troops.

In addition, the Big Bird Wing is defending against the danger with the strong city wall on its back, focusing on the four city gates, and there are sandbag fortifications built in front of the city gates, and it is indeed difficult to break through the city gates with enemy fire from the battlements and the Japanese machine guns, rifles and grenadiers at the city gates.

At 12 o'clock on the night of March 28, the Yuan Shoushan Division of the 23rd Detachment of the South Gate was the first to fire, and machine guns, rifles, and hail-like bullets were fired at the South Gate to attract the enemy's attention. The Japanese also used machine guns and rifles to return fire.

The 21 detachment of the Eastern Front also began to attack, occupied Dongguan and launched an attack on the East City Gate.

Sun Sanmin of the 6th detachment of the northern line, Bu Yongyan of the 19th detachment, and Luan Xingsan of the 26th detachment also began to move, occupying the area of Dingzhuang and Gelou, which were about one mile away from the north gate, and quickly approached the north gate. This big bird was quite shrewd, and had already estimated that the focus of the attack was at the north gate, so the fire of the four infantry guns was concentrated at the north gate, and in the explosion of "boom-boom-boom", clouds of fire and smoke rose from time to time, hindering the movement of the attacking troops. In addition, the Japanese machine guns were also very bad, weaving a network of firepower, preventing the movement of the attacking troops.

Sun Sanmin, Bu Yongyan, and Luan Xingsandu personally commanded the front line, asking the troops to bravely attack, and they all hit the bottom of the north gate several times, but several attacks were blocked by the enemy's powerful firepower, and the battle lasted for more than three hours.

At this time, the sky is almost dawn, and if you continue to fight, you will be exposed under the city walls, and you can only make senseless sacrifices. Fan Zhuxian commanded the detachments to withdraw from the battle. The troops of the Eastern and Northern Fronts withdrew to a distance of five or six miles from the city to avoid the enemy's machine-gun and rifle fire. The troops attacking the south gate and other tasks also returned to their original positions. In this battle, the North Gate was the fiercest, and I suffered more than twenty casualties.

At 7 o'clock that night, a meeting of the commanders and relevant personnel of the detachments was convened in Dalizhuang to report on the combat situation and sum up the combat experience. At the meeting, everyone realized that they had initially seen the firepower and combat situation of the Japanese army, and that Puxian was now an isolated city, and it was better not to attack for the time being and to besiege it for a long time.

The two sides were in a stalemate, and after a week of siege, at dawn on April 2, the enemy suddenly opened the north gate, and five Japanese tanks drove out, and under the cover of the tanks, more than 300 devils and more than 200 puppet troops came out violently and launched an attack on our army in the north.

At that time, many people had never seen tanks before, and when they saw those steel behemoths driving over, they were really frightened and retreated. The enemy's morale was greatly increased, and they screamed and rushed towards Sun Sanmin's position. Thanks to Fan Zhu's foresight, he was afraid that the enemy would have tanks, so he dug anti-tank trenches in advance.

The Japanese tanks drove to the south of Gelou, and suddenly saw a big ditch in front of them, and hesitated, not knowing whether to advance or retreat, but the morale of the Japanese troops behind them was high, and they were barking loudly like dogs, encouraging the tanks to drive over. If the tank wanted to go around again, it would not only take time, but also suffer a lot of bullets from the anti-Japanese troops in vain, and the infantry next to it would not want to, so they had to drive forward.

All five tanks drove into the big ditch at once, but it was difficult to get up, and the steep edge of the ditch was full of strength, and the thick black smoke still could not be driven. Sun Sanmin, Bu Yongyan, and Luan Shengsanyi saw that they didn't fight at this time, let alone when, and shouted: "Cluster grenades, blow up the damn." "Grenades, grenades." "Bomb, bomb—"

Some of them were three grenades tied together and smashed down on the devil's tank. Some of them were single grenades, and more than a dozen of them were thrown over, and with a burst of machine guns and rifles, all five tanks were paralyzed. A few Japanese devils crawled out of the tank, where could they avoid the rain of bullets, and after a while, they were already lying next to the tank, accompanied by their baby bumps to the western sky.

It's really a dog fighting people, and the devil is relying on the power of the tank, so he is so vigorous, and when he saw that the tanks were all destroyed, the momentum of the attack was not so vigorous, the speed slowed down, and the shouting was much smaller. Sun Sanmin, Bu Yongyan, and Luan Xingsan led their troops to rush up from both flanks and launched an attack on the enemy.

Without the cover of heavy weapons, the devils and the puppet army were nothing, and began to retreat into the city.

At this time, Fan Zhuxian was in front of him observing the shape on the battlefield, and saw another group of devils coming out of the north gate, about 300 people, and there was a tendency to reinforce the besieged enemy. Fan Zhuxian then ordered Bu Yongyan's 19th detachment to retreat to the west of the highway, Sun Sanmin's 6th detachment to the east of the highway, and Luan's 3rd detachment to retreat to the northeast. If the enemy attacks us again, we will have Bu Yongyan and Sun Sanmin counterattack the enemy from both flanks, and the three divisions of Luan Province will be inserted into the enemy's rear all the way to block his retreat, and another battalion of the general reserve will be sent to block the enemy's front.

The pocket array is laid out, and it depends on whether the big bird can take the bait. Unexpectedly, the big bird was also very good, and when he saw Fan Zhuxian's formation, he had already guessed eight or nine points, joined forces with the original devils, pulled away the dead bodies, sheltered the wounded soldiers, and then retreated to the city.

Fan Zhu first saw that the pocket battle could not be fought, so let's beat his ass, so he chased his ass and beat him for a while, beating the devil into the city, and then the detachments withdrew to their original defense and stationed.

In this battle, a total of 60 to 70 enemies were killed and wounded, and many rice bags, water bottles, leather shoes, steel helmets, guns and ammunition were captured, and our troops suffered more than 30 casualties, including 2 platoon commanders. This battle was also a great victory, and the entire six districts of Liaocheng quickly spread, and the masses of the four townships carried steamed buns, steamed buns, eggs, and tea to comfort the army, which greatly enhanced the confidence of the military and people in the northwest of Shandong in the war of resistance.

The next day, Commander Fan convened a meeting of the leaders of the detachments in Dalizhuang, summed up the victorious experience of this battle, and especially praised Sun Sanmin, Bu Yongyan, and Luan Xingxing for their mobile and flexible combat methods and heroic and resolute fighting spirit, and pointed out: "The enemy will not be reconciled to the defeat this time, and they will certainly look for an opportunity to retaliate, and all detachments must repair the fortifications, bury the mines, dig the tank trenches, handle and store the weapons and ammunition, and strictly guard against the enemy's sudden attack." ”