Anqiu County is a famous county in Luzhong.

The name of Anqiu comes from the eighth year of Gaozu of the Han Dynasty (199 BC) when the general Zhang said that he was the Marquis of Anqiu, who ate 3,000 households, and ruled in the north of Mushan and the south bank of the Wenhe River. In the second year of Emperor Jing of the Han Dynasty, that is, in 148 BC, the Han Dynasty set up Anqiu County, which belonged to Beihai County, and was governed on the high ground in the south of the county seat. Later, due to the reason of the change of dynasty, the name of Anqiu County, the place of governance, and the division of Anqiu County have changed many times, until the fourth year of Song Kaibao, that is, in 971 A.D., the county seat of Anqiu County was moved to the current county seat, and the name of the county and the place of governance have not changed since then.

This Anqiu, east and Gaomi, Changyi to the Wei River as the boundary, west of Linqu County, south across the canal river and Yishui County, Zhucheng County adjacent, north of Fangzi, Changle County, Jiaoji railway across the north of the county, Taiwei Highway from south to north through the border, the strategic position is extremely important. In ancient times, due to the water transportation of the Wei River and the Wen River and a number of post roads, many military strategists performed a mighty and majestic drama here. In history, Emperor Xia was in the twenty-seventh year, felling and searching, fighting in Weishui, overturning its boat and destroying it, which was the first water war recorded in the history of our country. Later, the Battle of Zhao Qi and the Battle of Hanchu and Weishui all took place in Anqiu, and even Cao Ying and Liu Yu had fought here. One of the most classic is the Hanchu Weishui Battle commanded by Han Xin. At that time, Han Xin commanded the Han army to build a dam to intercept Weishui, and the Chu army did not know what to do, so they crossed the Wei River to attack, but the Han army released water and flooded the Chu army. This battle was brave and strategic, skillfully taking advantage of the water potential, and fully demonstrated Han Xin's extraordinary military talent.

Anqiu is famous, but also related to many celebrity legends, it is said that the real birthplace of the story of Meng Jiangnu crying the Great Wall is on the Great Wall of Qi under Anqiu Dache Mountain, Confucius's son-in-law and protégé, Gongye Chang who understands bird language is on the top of the city to build a academy to teach and teach apprentices. The famous generals of Song Kangjin and the Anqiu people had a stereotype, and filled the gunpowder in a large bamboo barrel to make a musket that sprayed flames during the battle, which was used in the siege and defense of the city, and set a precedent for the manufacture of tube-shaped shooting firearms in the world. He wrote the book "Offensive and Defensive Strategies", which put forward the theories and methods of "heavy cities and heavy moats", "attacking in defense", and the use of new muskets and other theories and methods of defensive operations in cities, which had a great impact on military theory and practice at that time.

At this time, Anqiu was famous because in October 1937, when the Fifth Division of the Chinese Army captured Shandong, Liu Zhendong, a senior senator of the Fifth War Zone, led a guerrilla detachment of more than 400 people that he hastily pulled up to fight with the little devils in Anqiu County. At that time, the magistrate of Anqiu County had fled, and the people in the city had run out, Liu Zhendong led his guerrilla detachment to enter Anqiu County before the reinforcements arrived, and soon exchanged fire with the army. The result of the battle can be imagined, Liu Zhendong also died in Anqiu County. However, it was started when Han Fuqu's entire army retreated, and Liu Zhendong and his brothers naturally became heroes by word of mouth among the common people.

After the Battle of Luzhong, Anqiu was recovered by the Eighth Route Army. It is a pity that the heavy army group of the Yue Army immediately attacked Luzhong and Jiaodong, and the main force of the Eighth Route Army instructor implemented the morning glory tactic to go south to northern Jiangsu, and the Ludong troops commanded by Zeng Zhongsheng retreated to Jiaodong, and Anqiu naturally fell again. Later, although the main force of the instructors of the Eighth Route Army returned to Shandong, in order to realize the strategic concealment intention, the Eighth Route Army extensively carried out a cold gun and cold artillery campaign, and the strongholds of the Yue army that went deep into the central base area of Yimeng were gradually cleared, but this Anqiu county was still occupied by the Yue army because it was relatively close to the Jiaoji Railway and the Jiqing Highway.

No one thought that the first shot of the Battle of Jiaoji Road was fired in a restaurant in Anqiu County.

In the past few years, Xiao Yueben burned, killed and looted, and ordinary people followed the requirements of the cadres of the Eighth Route Army to "run away" before the arrival of the devils. What is left for the devil is an empty county town.

Little devils naturally like to burn, kill and loot, but without the Chinese people, where do they go to burn, kill and loot? The little devils stationed in Anqiu County wanted to abandon the city for a short time, but their superiors were unwilling, because Anqiu was a strategic place, which could not only block the mountainous areas of central and southern Shandong, but also block the Jiaoji Railway and Jiqing Highway, and also ordered them to coax the people back to the county seat and build a paradise of the zodiac. As a result, those errands of the Han and puppet armies came, and they went to the countryside every day to post notices to publicize the idea of building a paradise for the army and coax the people to return to the city. However, the Han annihilation and puppet army in the countryside did not dare to go far, nor did they dare to be left alone, for fear of being ambushed by the militia and guerrillas, so they had no choice but to find their relatives and acquaintances and pull them to the county town to serve as a façade. After a little time, some of the old residents who were originally in the county felt that the situation was stable, and the weather was getting colder and colder, so people had to live, right? One after another, some people returned to the county seat and began their life as obedient people under the bayonets of the little devils.

At noon, Anqiu County looked a little lifeless.

Since there are not many residents and few business people enter the city, the Dequan restaurant that has resumed business in the county town is deserted, and the boss sits at the counter, pulling the abacus with a pair of people, and uses the sound of abacus beads to pass the loneliness.

This restaurant was very famous in the past, because they could make a whole sheep feast, that is, Yimeng Ming Eat Linqu Whole Feast. This all-sheep banquet was developed on the basis of the all-sheep banquet in the Qing Dynasty. The most famous is the whole sheep banquet of Deshun Building in Linqu County, the name shocks Qilu, there was a saying that "Qingzhou tour, no more than Deshun Building". The master of Dequan Restaurant was originally the master of Deshun Building, and his home was Anqiu, and then he was invited by the owner of Dequan Restaurant to take charge of the kitchen, and after a few years, the reputation of the restaurant spread out, and the business was very hot.

The whole sheep feast is actually to take a whole sheep, after slaughtering, the different parts of the sheep's body and internal organs, with different cooking methods, to make more than 80 kinds of dishes with different colors, shapes, tastes and fragrances, and give them auspicious names. Although it is a whole sheep, each dish is some very elegant names such as Longmen Horn, Cai Ganoderma lucidum, Shuangfeng Cui, etc., without a sheep word. In terms of production technology, we pay attention to fine knife work and exquisite seasoning. Frying, slipping, waterfall, burning, stewing, stewing, simmering, stir-frying, using all the techniques of Shandong cuisine, the dishes are mellow but not greasy, with soft materials, light, moderate taste, crisp, tender and fresh. The "whole sheep soup" made of various parts of the sheep body is sour and spicy, clear and not fat, with the eyes, ears, tongue, heart, etc. made of the bright open night, welcome fan, welcome vanilla, five blessings exquisite, eight immortals across the sea and other dishes, crisp and tender, delicious and open, each has its own characteristics, and the dish is also very particular, first cool and then hot, first sheep's head and then sheep's trotters, in the middle of the vegetarian dishes.

It's a pity that it is now the Anti-Japanese War period, most of the people have fled, and the business of the restaurant has naturally plummeted, even if there are occasional people who come to the door, either devils or puppet soldiers. Where will these guys pay for their meals, seeing that the restaurant is about to close.

At this time, business came to the door. The first to arrive were a few furriers, who sat down around a table. The boss was so happy that his voice trembled when he greeted the guests, and he was busy serving tea and pouring water, and calling the master to serve the food.

Then a group of countrymen selling straw came in, and they also sat down around a table, and the boss sighed in his heart that he was afraid that the king of the stove would be gracious today, so that the stove that had been deserted for a long time was also busy.

The fur merchant who came in earlier was actually a reconnaissance detachment of the Eighth Route Army, led by Qiao Mingzhi, the commander of the reconnaissance platoon of the first regiment of the Jiaodong Garrison Brigade.

After the little devils reoccupied Anqiu, they put the rush for food and materials in the first place. The reason is very simple, Jinan and Qingdao are short of grain, and the newly opened factories are even more short of cotton, flue-cured tobacco and other raw materials. It's not a joke for the little devils to just rob, so they want to ask the merchants to help them buy goods. You must know that before the Lugou Bridge Incident, during the period when Han Fuqu was in charge of Shandong, Shandong's economy developed to a certain extent. Of course, the folk characters of Wufu Minfeng in this era all refer to those landlords who have land and land, solid farmers, merchants, and small business owners, and long-term and short-term workers are naturally not included.

The little devil was in urgent need of supplies, and the merchants who trafficked grain, cotton, and coal to Jinan and Qingdao for a long time were treated more favorably, and the investigators of the Eighth Route Army found out the temper of the little devil, disguised themselves as leather merchants, and entered Anqiu County very smoothly.

When Qiao Mingzhi attacked and occupied Weixian County in the Luzhong Campaign, he led the way for Wang Laohu's No. 1 Special Operations Squadron and saw the courage of the special forces of the Eighth Route Army. At this time, Qiao Mingzhi opened his eyes, and he was no longer complacent about his stunt of shooting for himself that could cut the head of the wire, and pestered Wang Laohu to learn from his teacher. It turned out that the special combat team of the Eighth Route Army regarded combat as an art, and they paid attention to cooperation and gave full play to everyone's skills in cooperation. Any person, no matter how high his martial arts are, no matter how accurate his marksmanship is, when he encounters such a team to cooperate in combat, it is a dead word. Later, Qiao Mingzhi wanted to join the special combat team, and Wang Laohu also agreed, but the fighters recruited by the special combat team must be approved by Liu Yimin. As a result, Liu Yimin thought that the Jiaodong Garrison Brigade was a newly formed unit, lacking combat backbones, and Qiao Mingzhi was a legendary hero, so he asked him to return to the first regiment of the Jiaodong Garrison Brigade to continue to serve as a reconnaissance platoon commander.

Some time ago, Zeng Zhongsheng led the Seventh Brigade, the Qinghe Garrison Brigade, and the Jiaodong Garrison Brigade to lead the Devil Heavy Army Group to Jiaodong to create fighters for the main force to go south to capture Lianyungang. Although the heavy army group was soon led to northern Jiangsu by the main force of the instructor, the troops remaining in Jiaodong fought very hard and suffered heavy casualties. Finally survived the cold gun and cold artillery movement, Zeng Zhongsheng led the main force of Jiaodong to jump out of the devil's encirclement and return to the Jiaolai and Qinghe areas to gradually restore the base area.

It was at this time that Qiao Mingzhi was ordered to command the division's reconnaissance battalion, and his task was to reconnoiter the actions of the army.

Although Qiao Mingzhi did not know that the main force of the instructor was about to launch the Jiaoji Road Campaign, and he did not know that the main force of the instructor had already driven in the direction of Jiaoji Road, he knew that the main force of the Eighth Route Army had returned to southeast Lu, and the information detected every time was directly reported to Luo Yan, deputy director of the instructor's staff office, chief of the reconnaissance section and commander of the reconnaissance battalion.

Today, Qiao Mingzhi received an urgent telegram from Luo Yan and went to Anqiu City to check the deployment of the army on the spot.

Since it is a leather dealer in disguise, you can't lose it. Qiao Mingzhi asked for mutton liver, lamb lung, mutton face meat, and a plate of Weixian green radish shreds, and asked the boss to give each guy a bowl of mutton soup and a cut of cakes, and told the mutton soup to put more green onions and mutton blood, so he led the investigators to pay attention to the movement on the street outside the window while eating.

The craftsmanship of the master chef of this restaurant is really good, the food tastes very good, and Qiao Mingzhi is sweating profusely. After eating and turning his head, Qiao Mingzhi found that the fellow who sold straw at another table had also served a few cold dishes and asked for mutton soup.

Qiao Mingzhi sighed in his heart, when did the fellow who sold straw become so rich? This is to disguise the ruthless money, the villager who sells straw can sell a load of straw for a few dollars, that is all out of coolies, usually carry a sorghum nest in his arms, when he is hungry at the door of the hotel to eat, and then ask the restaurant owner for a bowl of water to drink, even if the stomach is full. These guys are weird!

With this thought, Qiao Mingzhi took a look at the doorway, and it turned out that this group of people had a bulging waist in their waists, and they obviously had a guy. Moreover, these people, like themselves, are all eating and looking out the window at the street, obviously with a plan.

Originally, Qiao Mingzhi still doubted whether they were the scouts of the Eighth Route Army of other troops, and they were doing all the work with themselves, but after a little thought, he knew that it was impossible. What kind of person is Luo Yan, that is the famous reconnaissance bravery of the Eighth Route Army instructor, who came down from Jinggang Mountain, and is old in battle, he will definitely not make this kind of low-level mistake of making two reconnaissance detachments collide. Could it be that the bandits who slipped through the net want to come to Anqiu City to do a sale?

As soon as he thought of this, Qiao Mingzhi was worried that this gang of bandits would ruin his own affairs, so he glanced at a few scouts, got up and walked over directly, and opened his mouth to a short and stout guy and said, "Hey, brothers, are you going to rest!" ”

It didn't matter if he shouted, a guy disguised as an old man slammed the stool and brought everyone to the ground, and when he opened his mouth, he shouted, "Taijun, they are Tubalu!" ”

The guys were in a mess, some took out the Wang Ba box from their arms, and two ran to the straw pile, trying to pull out the 38 big lid inside.

Qiao Mingzhi saw that it was a little devil, his figure flashed to the side, and he made an eighteen-fold action on the ground, and easily pulled out the twenty-shot barge gun hidden in his arms, and shot it when he raised the gun. A few scouts of the Eighth Route Army who had been prepared behind him were faster, and they had already opened fire before Qiao Mingzhi could shoot, and they knocked a few little devils to the ground on the spot.

opened fire, and his identity was exposed, Qiao Mingzhi couldn't stay in Anqiu City any longer, and led a few scouts out of the hotel, wanting to rush out of the city before the little devils in the county town could react.

Qiao Mingzhi didn't know that the few little devils they shot had a lot of backgrounds, and one of them was a staff officer of the 12th Army, who also graduated from this army university, and made a special trip to Anqiu to collect intelligence. At this moment, the army stationed in Anqiu went completely crazy.

(To be continued)