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At the same time as the east gate was lost, the army at the south gate also stepped up its offensive. More than 30 soldiers climbed the city wall and jumped into the city.

Lin Jintang, the guerrilla battalion commander guarding the south gate, saw that the devil had entered the city, put the rifle in his hand at one end, and shouted: "Brothers, get on the bayonet and fight the devil!" "The fighters with a company pounced.

The devil who had just jumped off the city wall saw the Chinese defenders rushing over with bayonets, and immediately howled and pounced, and the two sides fought at the south gate.

As soon as Lin Jintang stabbed down a devil and pulled out his bayonet, he saw a devil smiling and just pulling out a bayonet from a soldier. Seeing that this devil was short and fat, full of strength, and fierce stabbing, Lin Jintang rushed over and went straight to the devil's chest. The devil was not ambiguous, he was skilled in assassination, and when he saw Lin Jintang's fierce approach, the gun went up, knocked Lin Jintang's rifle open, and the tip of the gun pressed downward, stabbing Lin Jintang's lower abdomen.

Lin Jintang roared wildly, twisted his body, let go of the devil's gun, and the rifle slammed down, knocking down the rifle in the devil's hand, and stabbed the devil in the lower abdomen. This time the devil could no longer stop it, and howled, and grabbed the bayonet with both hands, trying to prevent the bayonet from penetrating.

Lin Jintang kicked his legs on the ground, exerted his arms with force, and with a "hey" sound, he sent the bayonet into the devil's abdomen, and with a twist of his backhand, he was about to pull out the bayonet. Unexpectedly, the devil grabbed the bayonet before he died. As soon as Lin Jintang twitched, he didn't even twitch, so he gave up the rifle and put on the shell gun. At this moment, Lin Jintang felt a chill in his heart, and when he heard two pops, two devil bayonets stabbed him in the back.

Lin Jintang scolded, "I'll your grandma", opened his mouth, spurted out a mouthful of blood, and fell to the ground.

At this time, a large army of devils poured into the city, and the guerrilla battalion suffered heavy casualties, and only sporadically resisted.

Fan Zhuxian's left arm had been wounded by shrapnel, and his blood was flowing, and he retreated with several guards while shooting. When they arrived at Guangyue Tower, a hovering plane found them, a row of machine guns shot down, and Fan Zhuxian's legs were blown off, and the guards wanted to send them to the Catholic Church Hospital, Fan Zhuxian picked up a pistol and forced several guards to break through immediately, otherwise they would be killed. Several guards and trumpeters had to disperse and break through.

The devils surrounded him, and rows of bright bayonets were aimed at Fan Zhuxian. Fan Zhuxian curled up in a corner, his long beard scattered all over his body, stained with blood.

Looking at the devil soldiers who surrounded him, Fan Zhuxian gathered all his strength and said, "Poor baby boys, you will go to hell!" With that, he pointed to his temple and pulled the trigger of the pistol.

By the time Major General Hecun Dong entered the city, Fan Zhuxian had already sacrificed for a long time. Kawamura Dong inspected Fan Zhuxian's body and asked the accompanying reporters to take pictures. Then he triumphantly ordered to send a report to Lieutenant General Nishio Shouzo: "The staff has captured Liaocheng and killed Fan Zhuxian, the commander of the Sixth Guerrilla Zone in China. The headquarters will quickly sweep the area around Liaocheng, wipe out all resistance forces, and make contributions to His Majesty the Emperor's Great East Asian Holy War. ”

Liaocheng, the center of the base area in northwest Shandong founded by the national hero Fan Zhuxian, fell behind enemy lines.

After receiving the good news of the capture of Liaocheng by the Fourth Brigade of the Reading Power Mixed Brigade, the commander of the Second Army, Lieutenant General Nishio Shouzo, was overjoyed, and on the one hand, he reported the victory to the commander of the North China Front Army, General Terauchi Shouyi, and on the other hand, he telegraphed all the armies and strictly ordered them to speed up the sweep, completely eliminate all the resistance forces in China, and lay the foundation for seizing Xuzhou and opening up the Jinpu line. Then, Lieutenant General Nishio Shouzo strictly ordered the 21st Division to sweep along the west bank of the canal, and the 4th Division was mixed with the 4th Division to move north along the east bank of the canal and join the division at Linqing to completely eliminate all resistance forces in northwestern Shandong.

The fall of Liaocheng also stimulated the armies of all walks of life in Shandong. The commander of the 10th Division, Lieutenant General Ryosuke Isotani, had always remembered the lessons of the Cangxian Battle at the beginning, and acted relatively cautiously. Seeing that a newly formed unit of the Fourth Brigade Regiment dared to make a surprise attack and capture Liaocheng, the center of the resistance forces in northwestern China, he smiled and said to the brigade commanders and joint commanders under his command: "The newly established Reading Power mixed with the Fourth Brigade can capture Liaocheng, which means that the instructor of the China Sect is not in Shandong." Warriors of the Emperor, what are we waiting for? ”

The 10th Division then divided into two routes, starting from Yanzhou, Jining, and Qufu, and went to Zaozhuang and Linyi respectively.

Terauchi Shouichi, commander of the North China Front, felt happy events today, and at noon received the good news that the Fourth Brigade of the Reading Force Mixed Brigade had captured Liaocheng, and in the afternoon he received the good news that the First Army had recovered Xinkou.

It turned out that after the Eighth Route Army withdrew from the front line of Xinkou, the army did not have a large-scale blockade, and naturally moved much faster, and soon arrived at Xinkou. The capture of Xinkou and the resumption of railway and highway traffic from Xinkou to Taiyuan were completed ahead of schedule. Seeing that his plan had succeeded, the commander of the Second Army, Kazuki Kiyoshi, reported the victory to General Terauchi Shouichi and ordered the 25th Division to garrison the front line of Xinkou, immediately build fortifications, build strongholds, and step up the formation of local political power and security forces to strictly prevent the attack of the Eighth Route Army. At the same time, the 1st, 6th, 8th, and 20th Divisions were ordered to quickly return to Taiyuan by train and car to jointly attack the Jinzhong area.

It is said that the army has strong mobility ability, and as soon as this line of communication is restored, Xiangyue Qingsi feels like a tiger with wings and commands as he wishes. Proud, Kazuki Kiyoshi reported to General Terauchi Shouichi and asked for an additional two to five mixed brigades to be sent to serve as communication lines and local garrisons, and to free up the main division for sweeping operations. In this way, within a month, Shanxi's public order situation will inevitably improve.

On this day, the soldiers and civilians of Jizhong were tested in blood and fire.

Early in the morning, all units of the army began to approach the hinterland of the Jizhong base area. The main force of the 24th Division, which was attacking westward from the Jinpu Road, ordered the Gaobu to reorganize on the spot after absorbing the Gaoshun City Division, and sent troops to guide the Imperial Army to attack the headquarters of the Suning Hebei Guerrilla Army. The main force of the 23rd Division, which was advancing eastward from the Pinghan Road, also began to attack Suning. The sky is the devil's plane, the road and the field are full of the devil's tanks, armored vehicles, cars and horse teams, and the jute devil soldiers are like wasps, buzzing and wreaking havoc on the land of Jizhong.

There were gunshots everywhere, people fleeing everywhere, and the land of Jizhong was in pain.

Meng Qingshan and the 1st Division had already left Suning, resting on the front line of Daguanting in the northern part of Raoping County between Anping and Suning, waiting for other troops to catch up.

At ten o'clock in the morning, while the troops were still resting, the scouts suddenly reported that the 2nd Division had been bitten by devils and was now engaged in a fierce battle with the enemy in Nanzhuang, southeast of the Zhulong River.

Meng Qingshan was already very familiar with the terrain of these counties during this time, and knew that Nanzhuang had no danger to defend, so he could only fight according to the village. Now there are devils' planes in the sky and devils' tanks, cars, and cavalry on the ground, and if the troops leave the village, they will be killing themselves. He immediately sent a telegram to Duan Shizeng, the commander of the Second Division, asking him to organize his troops to rely on the village to hold on. Be sure to hold out until dark, when the 1st Division goes to meet them for a breakthrough.

Duan Shizeng reported that the enemy's planes and artillery were so powerful that it was difficult to hold out until dark.

Meng Qingshan knew that what Duan Shizeng said was the truth, the newly formed troops lacked combat experience, if the Red First Regiment and the Red Fourth Regiment were here, there would be no problem in holding out until dark tomorrow, it was just a difference in the size of the casualties. It is a pity that his troops are not the 1st and 4th Red Regiments, and their combat effectiveness will not improve in the short term, and if they do not go to the rescue, the 2nd Division may be quickly defeated.

However, the situation is now very clear, and going to reinforcements in broad daylight is tantamount to death. Not to mention the size of the casualties of the troops, it is not necessarily possible to rescue the second division. Helpless, Meng Qingshan had no choice but to strictly order Duan Shi to increase the positions of each village on the front line of Qiangnan Village, open up the courtyard, distribute troops village by village, and defend courtyard by courtyard, and be sure to hold out until dark, waiting for the first division to join forces and repel the attack of the devils.

After sending the telegram, Meng Qingshan ordered the 1st Division to send a small force to attack the enemy so that he could not attack the 2nd Division with all his strength. The main force of the 1st Division was ordered to hurry up and recuperate, and a regiment was drawn out to quickly build fortifications, break through the courtyard walls of the courtyards of the villages, and prepare for battle. The main force set off at half past five in the afternoon and went to reinforce the second division, implemented the tactics of internal and external attack, repelled the devils, and covered the transfer of the second division to the front line of Daguanting.

Duan Shizeng was born a poor farmer and was a veteran party member who joined the party in 1930. After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, the Lixian County Brigade was established, which was later reorganized into the Second Division of the Hebei Guerrilla Army. Historically, Duan Shizeng was shot by the main person in charge of the Jizhong Military Region because he was falsely accused in the 1938 concentrated suppression movement.

Today's sun is a bit evil, bright and shining.

Duan Shizeng climbed on the roof of a high-gate compound in Nanzhuang Village to observe the enemy's situation, and when he saw that the devils had surrounded Nancun, he cursed in his mouth that the sky was sunny and how good it was to snow, and the planes of the devils kept coming to, and the bombing caused heavy losses to the troops.

Before they could finish their cursing, six enemy planes roared in again, dropping bombs and strafing over Nancun. Smoke billowed from the village, and children cried and adults screamed.

Although Duan Shizeng has no culture and his level of operational command is also very average, he can pull up such a large team, and his brain is naturally refreshing. He hurriedly got down from the roof and ordered a part of the troops to help the villagers put out the fire, while the other troops held their positions, and a new wave of the devil's offensive was about to begin.

Sure enough, the devils began to attack after the plane bombing. The devil's artillery blew up the positions outside the village into dust, and then the infantry began to attack.

The cadres of the Second Division all graduated from the military cadre training course run by the Special Committee for the Protection of Dependencies, and they were all accelerated education, and when they met the elite of the army, whether it was cadres or soldiers, the shortcomings of insufficient training were exposed. Either some soldiers raised their heads too high and were hit, or they shot without aiming, so angry that Duan Shizeng scolded his mother. Fortunately, the Second Division was developed with underground party members as the backbone, and the cohesion of the contingent was strong. If it had been replaced by those road armies who had been added to the commission, they would have collapsed a long time ago.

Fortunately, at this time, the devils besieging Nanzhuang did not have many troops, and the second division had a strength of 4,000 people, all of which were concentrated in several villages around Nanzhuang at this time. Therefore, the devil only symbolized the attack, pinning down the second division and not daring to boldly break through and wait for reinforcements.

At this time, if an old Red Army battalion commander of the main force of the Eighth Route Army was commanded here, he would immediately be able to see the clue and would decisively tear through the encirclement. In that way, although the losses are large, the total annihilation of the army can be avoided.

It's a pity that Duan Shizeng doesn't have such a vision at this time.

After Meng Qingshan gave the order, he was going to go to sleep, but he couldn't fall asleep after tossing and turning, and when he got up and thought, this second division was not the main force of the Red Army, and Duan Shizeng said that it was completely possible to hold out until it was dark. Busy sent a telegram to Duan Shizeng, asking him to report in detail on the devil's attack.

Duan Shizeng reported that they had withdrawn to the Nanzhuang area last night, and that the troops had entered to rest at dawn, and that they planned to rush to Anping this evening to join the resistance. As a result, as soon as the troops settled, a team of devils under the leadership of Han Jian rushed to Nanzhuang by car and motorcycle and began to attack. At the beginning, Duan Shizeng saw that there were only four or five hundred devils, and there were not many of them, so he wanted to concentrate his forces to eat them. Unexpectedly, the attack was frustrated, so he had to retreat into the village and hold on, and then the devil's plane arrived, and another devil army of about 500 people then rushed to Nanzhuang and began to form a siege. So far, four small-scale attacks of the devils have been repulsed.

As soon as Meng Qingshan heard this, he immediately understood that this was a lack of troops from the devils, and he was engaged in a containment attack and waiting for reinforcements. When the devil's reinforcements arrive, I'm afraid the second division won't be able to hold it.

Meng Qingshan did not dare to delay, and immediately ordered the First Division to leave one regiment to hold in the Daguan Pavilion, and he personally led two regiments to march forward to reinforce the Second Division. Duan Shizeng was ordered to gather his troops, choose an attack point, press the whole division, and be sure to break through the enemy's encirclement and move to Daguanting. The 1st Division has already gone to meet it. It's too late.

After Duan Shizeng received the telegram, although he muttered in his heart how could this Commander Meng be like this, it changed for a while, just now he ordered to hold on until dark, and now he ordered the whole division to break through. Can this be the case in this war?

However, muttering and muttering, at this time, Meng Qingshan was the only military cadre of our party from the main Red Army in the central Hebei region, and his prestige was very high. His orders were carried out by Duan Shizeng to the letter. As a result, the 2nd Division gathered its troops and soon launched a breakout battle.

The devils found that the second division had broken through, and the machine guns on the position were blowing like a wind, and grenadiers and artillery began to be fired, intending to intercept them.

One by one, the warriors were hit by the devil and fell to the ground.

Seeing that he couldn't rush over, Duan Shizeng grabbed a machine gun and shouted loudly: "Commander Meng said that the first division is rushing here to meet us." Rushing out is victory. If you can't get out, everyone has to die here. The cadres of the squad, platoon, company, battalion and regiment took the lead in Lao Tzu and opened a bloody road. Come on! After speaking, he picked up his machine gun, took the lead, and rushed to the front.

The number of devils on the defense is small, and the troops on the blocking line are thin. There were many people in the second division, and the devils naturally couldn't stop this all-out charge, so the second division finally tore open a hole and rushed out.

After breaking out of the encirclement, Duan Shizeng didn't have time to count the number of people and organize the troops, so he led everyone along the trench all the way to the Daguan Pavilion.

The devil behind him saw that the fish had broken through the net and went off the net. There are constantly stragglers and wounded; Pull the grenade and die with the devil, and try your best to block the devil's pursuit. It wasn't until they arrived at Beibutou that they encountered several small units sent by the First Division to attack the devils and take the initiative to block the devils, and the second division took a breath. Duan Shizeng personally led a regiment to cover behind the palace and used the trench to block the devils, while the large army continued to retreat along the trench to the Daguan Pavilion.

When Meng Qingshan led the two regiments of the First Division to Da Butou, Duan Shizeng led the troops behind the palace to fight fiercely with the pursuing devils. Enemy planes are still dropping bombs back and forth. Finally waiting for the plane to fly away, Meng Qingshan commanded two regiments to return to the two wings of the devil along the road trench, opened fire fiercely, and beat the devil on his back for a while, thinking that he had entered the encirclement, and hurriedly retreated to Nanzhuang.

After cleaning the battlefield and picking up the weapons and ammunition left by the devil, Meng Qingshan and Duan Shizeng finally met.

Looking at Duan Shizeng, who was covered in injuries, Meng Qingshan was speechless for a long time. After a while, the order was given to bury the remains of the martyrs on the spot, and the wounded were taken to the Daguan Pavilion for transfer.

Earl Shouichi Terauchi is now full of ambition, and he feels calm and powerful when he walks, and when he sees people, he touches his mustache and smiles and says, "Yo system".

After receiving the good news from the First Army and the Second Army, Terauchi Shouichi immediately reported the victory to the base camp, and explained the strategic position of Xinkou and the political significance of the capture of Liaocheng to the fullest. At the end of the telegram, General Terauchi Shouichi asked the base camp to continue to expand its troops to ensure the needs of the war against China, and at the same time demanded that the supply of materials and baggage to the North China Front be increased to ensure the needs of the war.

After sending the telegram, Terauchi Shouichi was very ambitious, and felt that the whole of North China would be prostrate at his feet, so he ordered the guards to drive to Wang Kemin's house, and took Wang Kemin's concubine to the headquarters, and together with the courtesans brought back from Tianjin last time, he served him to play a game of one dragon and two winds.

At 6 o'clock in the evening, the North China Front Army held a reception in Beiping to entertain friendly people and journalists from all walks of life in Beiping who supported Sino-Chinese goodwill.

At the meeting, Lieutenant General Naosaburo Gangbu, chief of staff of the North China Front, triumphantly announced the news that the imperial army had occupied Liaocheng and Xinkou and had killed Fan Zhuxian, the largest bandit leader in northwestern Shandong.

When these friendly people, who had lost their conscience and forgotten their ancestors' support for the goodwill of the people, listened to the news announced by Naosaburo Gangbe, they not only did not grieve, but applauded.

Lieutenant General Naosaburo Okabe saw that the reporters were busy recording and taking pictures, and those friendly people were all excited, waved their hands, told them to calm down, and invited General Terauchi Shouichi, Earl of the Honto Empire and commander of the North China Front, to speak.

General Shouichi Terauchi, who had just climbed up from the bodies of the two women, looked extremely excited. Amid the applause of those Han clowns and devil officers, General Terauchi Shouichi stood up and said: "Ladies and gentlemen, in two days it will be Chinese New Year's Eve, and the Chinese people will usher in their own traditional festival, the Spring Festival. At this moment of celebration by the whole people, in order to achieve goodwill between China and China, to realize the building of a Manchurian-Chinese community, to free the Chinese people from the rule of the backward, ignorant, and reactionary Chiang Kai-shek Nationalist Axe, and to embark on the road of development and prosperity as soon as possible, the North China Front Army mobilized hundreds of thousands of troops and launched a massive public order and rectification operation. In the vast area stretching from Shandong in the east to Shanxi in the west, the warriors of the imperial army were invincible, and the Eighth Route Army, the Kuomintang political axe army, local bullies and bandits, and anti-Japanese forces all collapsed. Here, I would like to warn those who try to resist the imperial army that resistance is useless, and only by cooperating with the imperial army to build the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere is the right choice for people of insight. Otherwise, Fan Zhuxian's fate will be their fate! ”

Speaking of this, General Terauchi Shouichi shot a sharp light in his eyes and swept fiercely towards the people present. To his surprise, this group of Han annihilators not only did not fall silent, but applauded warmly.

A trace of disdain welled up in the heart of General Shouichi in the temple, poor people, you are only worthy of being a slave.

Disdain to disdain, General Terauchi Shouichi's face was full of smiles again, and his tone became cordial: "You are all the backbone of goodwill between China and China, and you have made outstanding contributions to the stability of public order and economic development in North China and the establishment of the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere. The Commander will report your merits to His Majesty the Emperor, and I would like to ask His Majesty the Emperor to reward you with all of you. ”

At this time, the drinking party almost reached **, and the group of ugly people applauded and applauded, and they were full of ugliness.

After the ugly people were settled, Terauchi Shouichi said again: "Now the imperial army is invincible, occupying a vast land, and continuing to govern with talents. I hope that you can take practical actions to support the goodwill of the Central People's Republic of China, and to serve in the maintenance committees and political axes at all levels, and welcome all of you to study at the North China Public Security Army Military Academy, to develop in the army, and to make contributions to the great cause of the goodwill between the Central People's Republic of China, the construction of North China, and the development of North China! ”

The images of official seals, banknotes, real estate, real estate, and beauties have begun to flutter in front of many Han Jian's eyes, just like taking drugs, fluttering and smoky, and they can't help but scream wildly, eager to take office now.

General Terauchi Shouichi picked up a glass of sake and said, "On the eve of the New Year, on behalf of the North China Front, I wish you and your wives and ladies a happy New Year and a lot of money!" Cheers! With that, he took a glass and drank it down, ending his speech.

At this time, the New York Times correspondent in North China stood up and shouted to Terauchi Shouichi in broken and stiff Chinese: "Your Excellency, Commander, I would like to ask, last time the instructor of the Eighth Route Army occupied Tianjin, shot and killed a large number of Han and heinous spies, and also took away some of the overseas Chinese who had identities. The families of these expatriates beg me to ask you on their behalf, when will their loved ones be back to be reunited with their families? ”

Although this reporter's Chinese is not fluent, everyone can understand the meaning clearly. The drinking party immediately changed from ** to a leak, and all the Han and Devil officers immediately stomped on it.

Terauchi Shouichi has already cut this reporter and the person who invited this reporter with a thousand knives in his heart, but this guy Terauchi Shouichi was born in a famous family and has already become a fine. He smiled and said, "Please tell those family members of the expatriates that Liu Yimin and his Eighth Route Army instructor have been frightened and dare not show their faces under the heavy encirclement and suppression of the imperial army." But he couldn't run, and in this public security and rectification operation, the Eighth Route Army did not dare to hold on to the dangerous terrain of Xinkou, Shanxi, indicating that they were afraid of the imperial army. The imperial army will find out Liu Yimin and his bandit team and completely eliminate them. Avenge the deaths of the expatriates and the friends of the Imperial Army. Their families will see them soon! ”

This reporter has to ask again, and General Terauchi Shouichi turned around and went to clink glasses with Wang Kemin and his ilk. What was left for the reporter was the vicious eyes of the devil gendarme.

(To be continued)