Before Wan Xianmin had time to put on his pants, his guards ran over in a hurry, and without even knocking on the door, he directly pushed the door and broke in, shouting breathlessly: "Oh no, the Eighth Route Army has entered the city, the Eighth Route Army has entered the city!" ”

When he heard the gunshots, Wan Xianmin already thought that it was the Eighth Route Army that had come in. Because at this time, Zhang Buyun, who was originally entrenched in Zhucheng and Gaomi, had been wiped out by the Eighth Route Army, and Zhang Zongyuan, the puppet Shandong Autonomous Coalition Army rampant in Qingdao and Jiaodong, was also eliminated by the Eighth Route Army, and Li Wenli, the eighth prefecture of the Kuomintang, hid in the mountains southwest of Anqiu and did not dare to show his head, and other Gaomi local forces were basically pocketed by Wan Xianmin's means, and all of them were incorporated into the three self-defense regiments of the joint defense area. With their rabble and a few broken guns, they would never be able to attack Gaomi City. Only the Eighth Route Army, and only the Eighth Route Army, have this unpredictable strength and ability.

At this time, it showed Wan Xianmin's kung fu that he had been raising in the officialdom for a long time, his eyes widened, and he yelled at the guards: "What are you panicking about? Break in without reporting and become a river system? Get out of here, report to the Imperial Army, and ask for reinforcements! ”

The guards are rough people, and they don't know a few big characters, but they don't have the kind of pretentious self-cultivation skills of Wan Xianmin, and shouted loudly with a crying voice: "County magistrate, the imperial army can't rely on the ball, and the Eighth Route Army is the first to fight." At this time, eighty percent of them have been covered by the Eighth Route Army. Run, if you don't run, you'll die! ”

When Wan Xianmin heard this, he was shocked again, his own garrison was stationed in the Chenghuang Temple in the county seat, and the Eighth Route Army did not fight the garrison first but went to fight the little devils first, indicating that they came prepared, and it seems that there is less luck tonight.

In fact, in their hearts, they also call the little devils or Xiao Yueben, and they also feel that although Xiao Yueben has made scientific and technological progress, aircraft, warships, tanks, and artillery, and has a fierce offensive when they start a war, they are Japanese people of the Japanese country, and they are villains, and when it comes to bloodline and culture, they are far worse than the Chinese kingdom. Part of the reason why they became Han annihilators was that they felt that the gap between the national strength of China and China was too great, and the outcome of the war was already doomed. The other part is that I feel that life is a lifetime of grass and trees, and no matter how much life is lived, rather than suffering and bloodshed, and sacrificing to fight with myself without hope, it is better to follow Xiao Yue to make a fortune in the country, eat fragrant and drink spicy, and have a free life. After all, if you have milk, you are a mother!

Wan Xianmin's eyes rolled a few times, and he immediately scolded the guards: "Look at your cowardice, what is there to be afraid of when Tubalu enters the city, the imperial army will drive them out." Go, tell the garrison, give Lao Tzu a hard beating, guard the compound, and reward each person with five oceans! ”

The guards feel that the county magistrate's brains are usually very effective, and he is a master at grabbing money and playing women, but at this time, he doesn't know which tendon turned the wrong ball, and he still wants to drive the Eighth Route Army out, which is just nonsense in a dream! Mind the ball, if he wants to die, he can die, Lao Tzu can't die with him. Thinking of this, the guard, who didn't know a few big characters, seemed to have opened his mind, and he didn't talk to Wan Xianmin anymore, so he turned around and ran out.

Only then did Wan Xianmin quickly put on his jacket, fastened his pants, boarded his shoes, took down the Wang Ba box hanging there from the head of the bed, took out his gun, put on the fire, and went out in a flash.

Widow Zhang on the bed had already woken up from the ** at this time, and sat on the bed wrapped in a quilt. Seeing that Wan Xianmin was about to slip away, Widow Zhang asked tremblingly: "Good man, what should I do if you leave?" ”

Wan Xianmin just walked outside the door, heard Widow Zhang's voice, turned around and looked, the woman's face was frightened, and she was really a little reluctant, but no matter how reluctant she was, she had to be reluctant, and it was important to escape, how could she bring a burden again?

Wan Xianmin sighed, dropped the sentence "Go home and hide", and walked away.

Widow Zhang saw that Wan Xianmin ignored her at a critical time, and couldn't help crying, crying and scolding Wan Xianmin for killing the gods, how could the old lady be miserable, so that these gods were used enough, and they threw them away like a rag, in this world, how can you still live!

After crying a few times, Widow Zhang suddenly thought that if she cried again, she might not be able to run away, so she quickly got out of bed and put on her clothes randomly, opened the door and was about to sneak home. As a result, as soon as I went out, I found that there was a commotion in the yard, some of the people of the garrison climbed the wall and fired guns indiscriminately, and some were running around in the yard, busy carrying ammunition, boxes and other things.

Widow Zhang was thinking about where to slip away, when she heard a "shout" on the ground, and a cannonball fell in the courtyard, and with a "boom", a large crater exploded in the middle of the courtyard. Several soldiers of the garrison who were moving things were lifted into the air by the explosion of air, and their arms and legs were separated.

Widow Zhang was so frightened that her mother shrank back into the house, quickly closed the door, leaned her back against the door, and her heart fluttered.

Then, several shells fell into the courtyard one after another, and gunfire rang out like a torrential rain. Widow Zhang is Zhang Buyun's concubine, naturally more knowledgeable than ordinary women, knowing that the sudden gunfire has the sound of the 92-type heavy machine gun, the sound of the crooked handle, and the sound of the 38 big cover, and I still wonder if the information of the people is inaccurate, is this obviously my own weapon, why is it used to fight the garrison? Could it be that Wan Xianmin has embezzled too much money and embezzlement, saying that he has noticed it and wants to attack him?

Without waiting for Widow Zhang to think about it, it didn't take long for a shout to surrender the gun and not kill outside the courtyard, followed by the shouts of the garrison crying wolf, "Stop fighting, don't fight, Grandpa Balu, we surrender".

Soon, Widow Zhang heard a sound in the courtyard: "Put down your arms, raise your hands, stand in a row against the wall, the Eighth Route Army treats prisoners preferentially!" ”

At this time, Widow Zhang was no longer afraid, and it was not up to her to decide whether she was dead or alive, so she couldn't help but turn around and look into the courtyard through the crack in the door. I saw that the yard was lit with torches, and there were many corpses of the garrisons lying in the middle, and a group of Eighth Route Army soldiers wearing gray clothes and steel helmets had already entered the courtyard and were using bayonets to force those garrisons to collect weapons and ammunition.

Widow Zhang doesn't care about those yellow dogs who usually show off their power in Gaomi four villages and eight townships, she cares about Wan Xianmin, but she can't see what is going on. Just thinking about whether Wan Xianmin had escaped by taking advantage of the chaos, he saw a group of Eighth Route Army walking into the door, and the two soldiers at the back had a person in their hands, black jackets, yellow army trousers, and suede shoes.

The group of Eighth Route Army walked to the middle of the courtyard, threw Wan Xianmin to the ground, and began to search each room. Widow Zhang saw that she couldn't hide, so she had to walk out.

The Eighth Route Army didn't make it difficult for her, and let her sit on the ground, saying that she would wait until the situation was clarified.

The prisoners of the garrison were all gathered and squatted on the ground with their hands raised. The soldiers of the Eighth Route Army stayed behind to guard the prisoners, and the others carried out a search in the City God's Temple, and the boxes were constantly carried out, and the soldiers continued to report the seizure of a number of weapons, ammunition, and food, until the soldiers seized two cylinders of silver dollars and 20,000 yuan of counterfeit coins in the ground of Wan Xianmin's residence, and the Eighth Route Army led by the Eighth Route Army laughed: "Wan Xianmin, Wan Xianmin, I can't imagine that you are sparse in war, and your ability to make money is not small." How long have you been the magistrate of Gaomi County, and you have made so much money, it seems that you are not only the biggest Han in Gaomi, but also the biggest embezzler in Gaomi! ”

Wan Xianmin has long since lost the calmness of disguise, lying on the ground like a dead dog, listening to the commander of the Eighth Route Army say this, Wan Xianmin's words are like sifting chaff: "Report ??? Sue the commander of the Eighth Route Army, this money ???? It's all from the devil and the puppet Shandong Provincial Political Axe Office, and I am willing to donate it all to the Eighth Route Army. ”

The Eighth Route Army seemed to have a good attitude, and said with a smile: "It's late, this is captured by Lao Tzu, and the Eighth Route Army doesn't accept your love for this dog." Hehe, I really can't imagine that there are still people like you in this world who don't open their eyes, such a powerful Eighth Division and the Tenth Division have been wiped out by us, and you still dare to be a Han annihilation, and dare to form any garrison and joint defense self-defense regiment, and dare to let out big words, saying that as long as you are involved in the resistance, you will be killed. You can do it, you have a lot of courage, you dare to go against [***] and the Eighth Route Army! ”

Wan Xianmin wanted to say something more, but the commander of the Eighth Route Army was in no mood to listen to him, so he waved his hand and shouted, "Chop him up for Lao Tzu!" A soldier of the Eighth Route Army came out in response, pulled out a mountain chopping knife from his back, and with a knife down, Wan Xianmin's head was like a leather ball, gurgling and rolling away.

Widow Zhang's mother sighed and fainted, exuding a breath of feces and urine from her body.

After dealing with Wan Xianmin and his garrison, the cadres of the Eighth Route Army led by him shouted: "Comrade Han Yumin, Comrade Jiang Gesheng!" ”

Two cadres of the Eighth Route Army responded to the call.

The Eighth Route Army led by that said: "I am instructed to inform you that the two of you are responsible for the formation of the Gaomi County Party Committee, the Gaomi County Anti-Ming Cooking Political Axe, and the County Brigade, with Comrade Han Yumin as the secretary of the county party committee and political commissar of the county brigade, and Comrade Jiang Gesheng as the county magistrate and captain of the county brigade. Now that the situation in Gaomi has been decided, Wan Xianmin's three joint defense and self-defense regiments have all been disarmed by us, and the whole county of Gaomi is now in a vacuum. I will leave a company for you as a backbone, and then the Shandong Bureau will shoot a cadre team for you. You must get a good grasp of mobilizing the masses, rely on party members, and build up the county party committee, the county political axe, and the district party committee as soon as possible, and pull up the county brigade and the district squadron. ”

Han Yumin, 33 years old this year, is a native of Houhan Gezhuang in Jiaoxian County, went to Laiyang and Qingdao to make a living at the age of 18, participated in the workers' strike in Qingdao, and joined the party in 1934. He was just transferred back to Shandong this year, and this time the Eighth Route Army liberated Gaomi, and the Organization Department of the Shandong Bureau transferred him here.

Jiang Gesheng, also known as Jiang Xiaoqian, is 37 years old this year, is a native of Dadian Village, Qiandiankou Township, Jiaoxian County, due to his poor family background, after graduating from primary school, he went to Jimo County Hexi Tao Xinde Pharmacy for apprenticeship. In 1928, he was admitted to the Jiaoxian Normal Training Institute and joined the party. He was arrested and imprisoned by the Kuomintang twice, and was not released from prison until the outbreak of the Lugou Bridge Incident.

Both of them are veteran party members, and immediately after accepting the task, they stood up and saluted: "Report to the chief, we promise to complete the task." ”

The commander of the Eighth Route Army was Zhang Hongtao, commander of the Sixth Brigade, and according to the divisional battle plan, he led the main force of the Sixth Brigade to sweep away the puppet army in Gaomi. The troops have long been in place and are operating covertly in the high-density territory. After receiving Liu Yimin's instructions, Zhang Hongtao immediately commanded the troops to carry out operations in several ways, destroying the withering and decaying, and smashed the self-defense regiment system carefully constructed by Wan Xianmin overnight. Even the artillery towers and pillboxes in the various strongholds of the Japanese army were bombarded by the soldiers with bazookas and cannons. A squadron of the Yue Army stationed in Gaomi County was covered in the barracks, and Zhang Hongtao was not polite to them, and asked the soldiers to bombard the door of the devil's barracks and the firepower point at the door, and directly killed them, slaughtered more than 100 little devils cleanly, and then came to solve the pseudo-garrison.

That night, the people of Gaomi County were like a festival, listening to the sound of guns and cannons everywhere, like festive firecrackers set off one after another; Seeing those little devils and dogs who killed people and set fires and did all kinds of evil things collapsed under the offensive of the Eighth Route Army, he was naturally extremely happy in his heart. In the excitement, the common people brought out all the wine in the pot, and handed bowls to the soldiers of the Eighth Route Army, who were waiting on the side of the road.

The folk artists of Gaomi were even more elated, using the pseudo-theme of the Eighth Route Army to seize Gaomi County at night, and started overnight to celebrate the liberation of Gaomi by the Eighth Route Army with their own craftsmanship. Among them, the people of Niejiazhuang, who have the saying of "Niejiazhuang, facing the south gate, and pinching clay people in every household", use the ancestral "pot flower" clay sculpture technique to pinch the little devil and a group of Han leaders into clay sculpture works, fill the stomach with gunpowder, keep a good eye, install the ignition lead, paint the color, and let the children play with fireworks and firecrackers.

It's not enough to have the image of a devil and a Han anniversary, as soon as a few old artists discussed, they used mud mounds to pinch out the image of the Eighth Route Army attacking and capturing prisoners, painted it, and put it up for people to see. These old artists really worked hard, and I don't know what mechanism they put in the clay sculptures of the image of the Eighth Route Army, these clay sculptures can make a sound, a drum and a shout, the image is vivid and very interesting.

Those women who can cut paper are more convenient, take out the red paper, sit on the kang, the scissors click softly, and the works reflecting the liberation of Gaomi by the Eighth Route Army come out. The Eighth Route Army on the picture is all majestic and majestic, with the leader of the Han Dynasty under his feet, the little devil with the bayonet in his hand, and the puppet garrison and the joint defense self-defense regiment in his hand.

It is said that there is a young daughter-in-law who cuts the best. Because his lover is a soldier of the Eighth Route Army, he fused his thoughts about his husband and the celebration of liberation into the paper-cut works, the Eighth Route Army bugleman standing facing forward with his chest up, the body is exactly the same as his husband. This work was later collected by the Political Department of the Shandong Military Region of the Eighth Route Army, and entered the Military Museum after the founding of the People's Republic of China.

Overnight, from Boshan to Jiaoxian, all the puppet occupation areas south of Jiaoji Road were recovered by the Eighth Route Army. At this moment, not only was the commander of the 08th Division, Shimoto Kumaya, surprised, but even the commander of the Second Army, Otaka Kamizo, dropped his jaw in surprise.

(To be continued)