The guards brought pens, and the three of them wrote in their hands. Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info Ma Benzhai saw that the three of them had finished writing, and shouted: "Liang-" The three of them stretched out their hands together.

Ma Benzhai saw that the three of them each had the word "water" written on their hands, and couldn't help laughing and said: "It's really the same as the hero, let's work on the water!" ”

Seizing the fighter, Ma Benzhai immediately commanded the troops to divide and surround Shi Dake's troops. Outside Chaocheng City, there was originally a regiment of Shi Dake stationed, but they were divided into three groups, one battalion stationed in one place, and they also wanted to make a stronghold-style model and garrison it for a long time. But their brains are flooded, so why didn't they think they were trapped in the water?

In addition to water, there was also soil, and Ma Benzhai commanded the troops and the local people to isolate these three places and dig large ditches, which could not only hide the troops, but also create all kinds of problems for the enemy to go out to get water. As the saying goes, you can't go without food for a day in the army, but there is another saying, that is, you can't go without water for half a day in the battle.

The three commanders went out to wander, watching Shi Dake's jokes, seeing that they had no water and could hold out for a few days. Han Xing saw that Shi Dake's soldiers couldn't stay in the wall at all, carrying guns on their backs, and wandering outside one by one. One of the soldiers was so thirsty that he came here to ask for some water.

"Brothers of the Eight Roads, whether your water is sold or not, can you give some water to drink? Brother thirsty? ”

Li Dazhong teased him: "I said brother, we don't sell water, but if you come here, you can drink enough." ”

The soldier said, "It's so stingy, I won't give you any water." ”

Wang Laosan stabbed him and said, "I said brother, you can't say that." It is natural for a soldier to eat food, but if a person wants to drink water, even if he is not a soldier, he must have water to drink! If you want to complain and complain about your officials, you don't have eyes, and you have to camp by the mountains and rivers, even I, a little soldier, know this truth, why don't you know what to do? ”

After a while, more soldiers came with bowls and asked for water. Li Dazhong said: "I'm sorry, brothers, it's okay to ask for water, but it's anyway." As long as it's still there, there's no water to drink. ”

The soldiers were thirsty, and finally one of the soldiers couldn't take it anymore and came over with a gun and a hand raised to surrender. The first thing he did when he came was to catch the bucket and drink water lifelessly, even his cotton clothes were soaked, and he was still drinking water......

It didn't take long for more soldiers to come and surrender......

Shi Dake took a regiment to garrison Chaocheng City, but he didn't have anything to do if he was in a hurry, he originally thought that the two regiments were nested in a small city, it was really not Huqin, it was better for a regiment to be stationed outside the city, which could just form a horn with the city. What I didn't expect was to ignore the water thing, which caused a big disaster.

He wants to go out of the city to save him, and he knows that Balu has been waiting outside the city for a long time, so he is waiting for him to go out! As long as you leave the city, you will definitely be attacked by the Eighth Road, not only will you not be able to save the regiment, but you will also suffer losses, and you will not be able to keep the city.

Shi Dake could only look at the thirst outside the city like a fool, but he didn't have the slightest recourse.

Outside the city, a regiment of Shi Dake, because of lack of water and thirst, did not fight and collapsed. The officials saw that this battle was really impossible to fight, so they had to take some of them to break out of the encirclement and return to Chaocheng, and most of the rest had no other way but to surrender with guns.

After solving the enemy outside the city, Ma Benzhai led the Muslim detachment, with the cooperation of the local military and civilians, to launch the Chaocheng Campaign. Within a few days, our army conquered Chaocheng, and then conquered more than 30 strongholds around Shen County, burned down more than 40 watchtowers and bunkers, and liberated the areas of the Hui and Han compatriots who had been under the oppression of Shi Dake for a long time and could not breathe.

Ma Benzhai led the main force of the three-district area, and after a period of time, he scolded Qi Zixiu, beat Liu Xianzhou, broke the blockade ditch in Guan County, and then attacked Shi Dake, which has basically reversed the passive situation in northwest Lu. The enemy retreated, and Ma Benzhai led the main force into the enemy-occupied area to continue to attack and harass the enemy, and carried out the enemy's retreat and our advance.

After two consecutive years of catastrophes, coupled with the frenzied sweeps of the Japanese invaders and the looting of the puppet and recalcitrant troops, the lives of the people in northwest Shandong were extremely difficult. The masses relied on digging wild vegetables and picking tree bark to satisfy their hunger, and the supply of the army became even more problematic.

Originally, the food of the troops was six taels to eight taels per person, but after Han Xing came, he solved a part of the food, and only one person could eat eleven taels to twelve taels (the old system). Especially in winter, there are no wild vegetables to dig up, and the food is more and more expensive. When it was time to eat, each person could only drink two bowls of gruel per meal, and then a small piece of dry food with vegetables per person.

During the meal, Ma Benzhai said to the soldiers: "Now that the disaster in northwest Shandong is serious, we should think of the interests of the masses in everything and everywhere. We all come from poor families and know what it's like to be hungry. At present, the common people are starving, and we must actively cooperate with the local party organizations to rescue the masses from hunger. ”

Under the leadership of the party committee of the northwest region of Shandong, the Hui detachment dispatched a working group and a propaganda team to conduct social surveys and propaganda to mobilize the Hui and Han masses to reduce rents and interest rates, redeem land, and produce to save themselves. The Hui detachment repeatedly went to Fanxian, Guanxian, and Puyang areas, where the harvest was relatively good, to transport grain to Shen County and Chaocheng to relieve the common people who were struggling on the death line.

The common people have nothing to eat, and the enemy's food has become even more problematic, and grabbing food has become the main purpose of the enemy's military operations. Ma Benzhai led the Hui detachment to ambush the Japanese and puppet troops who came out to grab grain many times, and intercepted the grain looted by the Japanese army. At this time, another tactic was born, called "smoke warfare".

Ma Benzhai invited Zhao Jianmin and Han Xing to his side, and said to them: "Two, I see that you two have only engaged in mass work and building base areas, and you haven't fought for a long time, are your hands itchy?" Today, I invited you to come over, just to ask you to watch the smoke battle, and ask you to give your opinions? ”

Zhao Jianmin said with a smile: "Chairman Mao said that guerrilla warfare and sparrow warfare, Commander Han is good at ambush warfare, and he has never heard of smoke warfare. You created this smoke battle yourself, right!? ”

Ma Benzhai said with a smile: "These good tactics were created by the majority of commanders and fighters, and I will summarize them." But I think this smoke battle is tried and tested. ”

Han Xing naturally knew what his smoke battle meant, so he smiled and didn't answer, just waiting to see the excitement.

Ma Benzhai led the main force to secretly march to the area of Wangfeng Village. This Wangfeng village is in the northwest of Shen County, bordering Guan County, 2 kilometers north of it is Dongsishang Village, 2 kilometers southwest is Wuchengji Village, these three villages are Qi Zixiu's small stronghold. At that time, Qi Zixiu's soldiers who were so hungry were screaming, and they couldn't wait to give him a nest to eat, and even their parents dared to scream.

At that time, there was a small village between the three villages, called Baizhuang Village. At night, Ma Benzhai quietly entered Baizhuang Village and sealed off the village, so that people could only go in and not out.

At dawn in the morning, Ma Benzhai got up early and woke up Zhao Jianmin and Han Xing.

Zhao Jianmin rubbed his sleepy eyes, and said dissatisfiedly: "I said Commander Ma, I still asked people to sleep or not, I finally want to sleep peacefully with you, and I don't let people be clean." Isn't it a wave today, it's not time to get up yet! ”

Ma Benzhai said: "Aren't you watching a play, if you get up late, you won't be able to watch it!" ”

Then, Ma Benzhai "invited" Zhao Jianmin and Han Xing to the roof, condescendingly, so that they could see clearly.

The winter sun was rising lazily, and the weather was already very cold, and the soldiers had already put on cotton clothes and were moving back and forth in the village. Han Xing's gasping breath was also in vain, and his neck was cold for a while, and he couldn't help but shrink his neck. Looking into the distance, the early morning fog seems to block the vision from afar, but with a pergola, you can still see the distance.

2 kilometers to the east, is Wang Feng Village, there are two tall turrets erected in the village, and a Kuomintang flag is planted on the turret. 2.5 kilometers to the northeast is the village of Dongsi, which also has a high artillery tower, which seems to be extremely lonely. 1.5 kilometers to the south-west is the village of Wuchengji, which also has a turret, which is very incongruous with the elegant village below.

At this time, the combat staff officer climbed up the ladder, saluted Ma Benzhai and said, "Report to Commander Ma, the troops have all been prepared." ”

Ma Benzhai nodded and said, "Okay, then let's light the fire!" ”

The combat staff officer agreed: "Yes!" "Go down at once and carry out the order.

After a while, wisps of cooking smoke began to rise in the village, bringing with them a strong smell of firewood and grass. Strings of cooking smoke gathered together, causing the whole village to gather more and more in a poorly ventilated environment, gradually mixing with the light mist, and then slowly dissipating to the heights.

Ma Benzhai said to Zhao Jianmin and Han Xing: "Believe it or not, my cooking smoke is the assembly number, and Qi Zixiu's people heard my order and came to Baizhuang to gather." ”

Zhao Jianmin was not happy, glanced at Ma Benzhai contemptuously and said: "I said Commander Ma, you are also leading the troops of the Huimin detachment and the third district, are you still in charge of Qi Zixiu's people?" I don't believe it, people Qi Zixiu listen to you? ”

Ma Benzhai snorted and said, "You don't believe it, how about we make a bet?" ”

"How do you make this bet?" Zhao Jianmin also came to be heroic.

"If the enemy of one village comes out, one bottle of wine, two packs of braised vegetables, if the enemy of two villages comes out, two bottles of wine, four packs of braised vegetables, if the enemy of three villages comes out, three bottles of wine, six packs of braised vegetables. If the enemy doesn't come out, I will pay three bottles of wine and six packs of braised vegetables. ”

"That's good, but that's it, even if you take out a year's allowance, I'm willing!" Zhao Jianmin patted his chest and said.

"I will be a witness," Han Xing said, "no one can beat Lai, and if anyone does, he will be the one who gave birth." ”