In the next five days, the land of central Hebei was full of war, except for a few big pits in Jinpu Road, more than a dozen county towns were captured, a total of more than 1,000 devils were killed, and more than 5,000 puppet soldiers were captured. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

In addition, the large and small bandits, autonomous armed forces, and scattered national army forces on the ground in Hebei were recovered one by one, and after those with blood debts were forcefully suppressed, the others moved and took the initiative to join them.

The military force to suppress bandits in various places is the troops brought by the small road, and the guide is Lu Zhengcao's people. One of the two sides has a strong military and the other is familiar with the local situation, and they have tacitly cooperated with each other, and the results have been enormous. In a short period of time, thousands of bandits were disbanded, 30,000 scattered troops were taken prisoner, more than 1,000 people were suppressed, and all the prisoners were handed over to the local Eighth Route Army troops for integration, and the situation in Hebei changed rapidly.

Now, the devil has just occupied Hebei, the traitor army has just been established, and the two have not been running in for a long time, the devil's eyes are black, and the control of the place is insufficient, and he was suddenly hit in the empty place by the road.

On the fifth day, the volunteers of Xiaolu and the Jizhong Lu Zhengcao People's Self-Defense Army surrounded the east and west and took Hejian. The defenders of Hejian already knew about the battles in other county towns and had already made preparations, and they did not want the People's Self-Defense Army to send dozens of people to sneak into Hejian City early and blow up the Japanese barracks with dozens of bags of explosives.

Xiaolu immediately contacted the Northern Bureau in Beiping, Tianjin, and they sent information that the Japanese troops stationed in Beiping and Tangshan in Tianjin had begun to move, and 50,000 or 60,000 horses were killed and rushed to Jizhong. At this time, the secretary of the Northern Bureau was already Yang Shangkun.

Xiaolu also got in touch with the Yangtze River Bureau, and at present, Wan Yi has returned to his old unit and is still the head of the regiment. Xiao Lu got in touch with his telegram and learned about the battle of Xuzhou, which was almost the same as in history.

Xiaolu stirred up peace behind enemy lines in North China, just to attract the enemy back and relieve pressure on the Xuzhou battlefield, who knew that the Japanese would not be fooled and ignored.

The trail plans to make the noise a little bigger. reported the plan to northern Shaanxi, and northern Shaanxi immediately called back to understand the current situation of the troops, knowing that Xiaolu is now a strong team, and his confidence has greatly increased, and he is ready to fight.

With the consent of northern Shaanxi, Xiaolu contacted the Rehe advance team.

Since the last time I went to Rehe with the Rehe advance team, I have never seen Xu Zhizhen and Zhang Qingyun again, but they have been contacted many times on the telegram. After being contacted this time, Xiaolu informed his plan and asked them to cooperate to attack northern Hebei and eastern Hebei and force the Japanese army to withdraw.

Xu Zhizhen and Zhang Qingyun agreed very happily, and planned to mobilize 5,000 people to move to the front line of Anlulong, cut off the train route, and if there was an opportunity, they could also attack other county seats.

March 7, 1938, Hejian County.

Before the convoy of cars on the side road had entered the city, they saw a group of people standing on the road, apparently greeting them. The people in front were wearing the clothes of the Northeast Army, and the people behind them were disheveled, mostly homespun clothes. The first person has sharp and angular cheeks, and it is Lu Zhengcao.

Xiaolu jumped out of the car, stood up and saluted, and said, "Lu Xiaoming salutes Commander Lu who insists on the War of Resistance." ”

Lu Zhengcao also saluted and said: "Salute General Lu who insisted on the anti-Japanese war in his hometown." ”

After the ceremony, the two shook hands and laughed.

Xiaolu said: "Commander Lu, I admire you very much for breaking away from the Northeast Army and standing on your own. ”

Li Lanchi stepped forward and said, "Won't I also break away from the Northeast Army?" ”

Lu Zhengcao stood up and saluted: "Lu Zhengcao has seen the chief. ”

Li Lanchi saluted and said, "What sir, I'm starting from the head of the regiment now." In fact, as long as I go back to my hometown, I will be a soldier and I must be the vanguard! ”

Xiaolu said: "Commander Lu, you and I have been friends for a long time, and we have cooperated for a few days, and I am very happy to see each other today." Here are two truckloads of captured guns and ammunition, as well as a mountain cannon, I hope these things can help Commander Lu kill more enemies. ”

Lu Zhengcao: "Thank you, thank you." ”

Xiaolu said: "I also captured some prisoners, released some, there are 5,000 people who are willing to resist the war, if you don't dislike it, I will give you half." I have educated these captives. It is possible to resist Japan. ”

Xiao Lu and Lu Zhengcao held a meeting to exchange information and plans on both sides.

Lu Zhengcao occupied three county seats, gained a lot, and expanded his strength in the countryside several times. Xiaolu occupied more than a dozen county towns and hundreds of townships, killed hundreds of traitors and Japanese spies, and now has a large amount of land and goods in his hands. Xiaolu gave all these lands to Lu Zhengcao, and asked him to use the land to develop his power in these dozen counties, while he was ready to go north and fight back to the northeast.

The title deed and house deed were full of suitcases, and Lu Zhengcao was overjoyed and said: "With these, I have a foundation, why not open the situation in these dozen counties." ”

Xiaolu: "In the northeast, we distributed the land of the seized traitors to the peasants, but did not carry out land reform, the peasants got benefits, we won extensive support, and the work was carried out very smoothly. Therefore, this box of house deeds and land deeds is hundreds of thousands of soldiers and hundreds of millions of people. ”

Lu Zhengcao said: "Recently, the enemy has pressed a large number of puppet troops, and the number of devil troops in it is not large, that is, the overseers. You have a lot of people, how do you want to fight? ”

Xiaolu: "The enemy who came this time is the puppet army of the former Jidong Autonomous Government, and some of them are surrendered and reorganized by the national army, so they should be treated differently." The adapted puppet army tried to fight, capture, and even fight for an uprising. Most of the old puppet armies are old armies, and most of them are ruffians, and they should be eliminated. ”

Lv Zhengcao: "The enemy is divided into three routes, the first is from Baoding Shimen, the second is from Tianjin, and the third is from Beiping. ”

Xiaolu said: "It doesn't matter how many ways he comes, I'll only go all the way." We only hit Baoding Shimen. At present, my army has been pressed to the river, and it is about to reach Baoding. After taking Baoding, I cut off his two railways, and the battle of Xuzhou will only have the transportation lines of Qingdao and Shanghai. ”

Lu Zhengcao: "Okay." . ”

Xiaolu said: "I heard that Commander Lu likes to play tennis? ”

Lu Zhengcao's eyes lit up: "What, you like it too?" Come on, play a game. Guard, set up the venue immediately, I want to play a game with General Lu. ”

Two guards ran over, stuck two sticks in the ground, took out the net and tied it, pulled up the tape measure and drew the line, everything was in order. The net was very old, and several holes were patched with hemp rope. Lu Zhengcao took out the racket and the ball, the racket was also broken, and after a few strings, the ball was worn out.

Xiaolu said: "Don't tie the net." Wang Santai, take it down. ”

Wang Santai and another soldier took down a large bag from the car. When Lu Zhengcao saw the big bag, he recognized that it was a complete set of tennis equipment, his eyes lit up, and said, "Good things, where did you buy them?" It's not the set of Cangzhou Japanese store. I've been in love for a long time, but I just didn't have a chance to get it. ”

Xiaolu said: "Exchange, I'll use the new one, exchange your old set, why don't you do it?" ”

Lu Zhengcao: "Is there such a good thing? ”

Xiaolu said: "It's not in vain, there are conditions." First, your ball and racket should have your name written and marked. Second, to fight Baoding, I command. ”

Lv Zhengcao: "Two wins in three games, determine the command." ”

As a result of the game, Lu Zhengcao won and obtained the command of the battle.

This tennis match was rumored to be a good story in later generations.

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In order to attack Baoding, Xiaolu sent four tanks and four mountain guns this time, all of which had just been captured.

I can't help but admit that the quality of the 20,000 people he pulled out is very high, and he can find college students among them. Xiaolu taught them for three days, and a few people would drive a tank. Together with the dozen or so fighters who drove tanks in the city of Nanjing last time, ten tanks, a tank battalion was formed. The battalion commander was Colonel Xie Chengrui. He was an international student, and he was very good at tinkering with these things, and he learned to drive a Japanese chariot in Nanjing.

In addition to tanks, the tank battalion also has sappers, a few cars, and basically has a look.

Baoding is a big city in Hebei, it has become the capital of Hebei Province many times in history, in the Jizhong Plain, it is important to move the whole body, the strategic location is important, and the location is more important after the railway is repaired.

The campaign plan was formulated by Lan Yundong, and after discussion, it was reported to northern Shaanxi and the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army.

The headquarters of the Eighth Route Army called back and asked for more troops to be concentrated, and in addition, the troops of the Eighth Route Army in Shanxi also cooperated.

Northern Shaanxi replied, agreeing to the plan, and at the same time ordered Northeast Hebei, Rehe, Suiyuan, and Songhu to act together, and at the same time asked the First Division of the New Fourth Army to move to northern Jiangsu and strike at the rear of the Japanese army.

This battle was hilarious, completely beyond the original vision of the path.

Since it is fighting, it is simply bigger than that. Xiaolu sent a telegram to Zhou Gong of Northern Shaanxi and the Yangtze River Bureau, asking them to contact Zhang Zizhong, and asking Zhang to write a letter to the officers and soldiers of the 39th Brigade of the 38th Division, who had been reorganized, to try to get them to revolt.

At present, the self-defense forces reorganized from the 39th Brigade are commanded by Duan Pinding, the former chief of staff, and Zhang Luqing, the former deputy chief of staff, and, of course, Japanese advisers at their heads.

Now, the former commander of the 39th Brigade, Ruan Xuanwu, is missing, and he should go to Hong Kong, and if he can be found, the effect will be better.

Zhou Gong immediately went to Lao Jiang and told him what he wanted. Lao Jiang had just promoted Zhang to the commander of the 59th Army, arranged in the first theater of operations, listened to Zhou Gong's ideas, and agreed to Zhou Gong's request, but obviously did not report great expectations.

Zhou Gong immediately contacted Zhang Zizhong. Zhang Zizhong was reorganizing the army, and after listening to Zhou Gong's explanation of what he meant, he readily agreed, and immediately wrote a letter and sent the secret history to Lu Zhengcao's place in Hejian. In addition, Zhang Zizhong also promised to send someone to find Ruan Xuanwu, and once he found it, he would notify him immediately.

March 10, 1938, at 5 a.m. Baoding.

The battle to attack Baoding began.

There is a Japanese brigade in Baoding, a brigade of puppet security troops, and in addition, there is also a brigade of puppet troops under the supervision of a Japanese squad rushing from Shimen to Baoding, which is currently on the way.

Baoding City has a good city wall, if it is hard to fight, it will consume a lot of shells and consume a lot of explosives. Therefore, Lan Yundong's battle plan was to attack the railways and railways outside the ancient city walls, annihilate the enemy on the way to the enemy's aid, and in addition, send personnel into the old city first, and when the enemy went out of the city to seize the railway and the station, the people in the city would attack, and the inside should be combined with the outside to annihilate the enemy.

In addition, they sent men to ambush one unit at the northern end of the railway outside the city and one unit at the southern section of the railway outside the city, not only to blow up the railway, but also to block the enemy.

Tactical points, tactical deception at the beginning of the campaign, is that the enemy thinks that we are a large group of militia bandits, not a regular army.

There was a squad of Japanese soldiers in the train station. In such critical places, at critical moments, the Japanese personally guarded the station. At 5 o'clock, the devils were awakened by the sound of gunshots, and everyone gathered. They found that the train station and the railway warehouse were surrounded by a large number of queues. These people's guns are very messy, many of them are **, many of them are very old guns.

However, these people were numerous and cunning, and they did not appear in the firing range of the guards at all, but ran to the back wall of the warehouse and began to cut the wall with a sledgehammer. What are these people going to do?

The guards tried to rush out, but they couldn't. Among these cunning peasants were sharpshooters, and when they went out, they killed one of them. The sharpshooters were like machine guns, holding down the troops.

The phone call of the guard unit reached the garrison command.

The commander of the command was Hashimoto Daisa. Hashimoto immediately ordered to investigate the situation clearly and call the captain of the detective team, and the detective team immediately replied that he could set off, but not quickly, because the bicycles were lost. Lost it all? It can't be so coincidental, it must be the ghost of these cunning peasants. If you don't have a bike, you have to check it out.

Hashimoto called the gendarmerie again and told them to assemble immediately and stand by. Then he called the Imperial Allies and told them all to assemble and stand by.

Hashimoto then called Ishito and asked for reinforcements.

Reinforcements have to be sent a long time ago, because this period of Jizhong is not peaceful, Beiping's idea, to ensure the safety of this railway, there is something today, Hashimoto asked to send reinforcements. In addition, there were accidents in Hejian and Cangzhou, and Hashimoto felt that he should be cautious.

Shimen agreed, and sent a brigade to come by tanker, and the military vehicle was fast, and it would take four hours to arrive. In addition, there is a group in Dingzhou that can arrive by train in more than an hour.

It took only twenty minutes for the detective team to call, and it was said that it was a group of peasants. Hashimoto was reluctant to listen to their conclusions, and only asked the phenomenon: What clothes were they wearing?

It was wearing peasant clothes, it was not dawn, and it was not clear to see, but it was certainly not a military uniform.

What guns do they use?

I can't hear it, even a shotgun. It's all old guns.

How many people are there? There are a lot of people, and there are a thousand of them. Come on, these peasants have already carved several big holes in the walls of the warehouse. Come on, they've already started moving things out.

Hashimoto understood that this was a large number of people mobilized by Tsuchihachi Road to grab things, and it was nothing more than an attempt to disturb the order of the railway. It was enough to send out two regiments of the Imperial Allied Army.

Hashimoto immediately gave the order to call the 1st and 2nd regiments to attack at once, starting from the two gates, surround the railway station from the north and south directions, and destroy them. In addition, two squadrons of imperial troops were sent to supervise the battle.

The strength of two regiments was sent. At this time, a call came from the station, and the troops guarding the station suffered heavy casualties, and there were sharpshooters on the Dirt Eighth Road, so come and reinforce them.

At this time, the railway dispatch called, saying that a military supply train was about to arrive in Xushui, and if it came from Beiping, should it stay in Xushui and continue to run after the battle was over?

Hashimoto was very confident that two thousand people could not defeat more than a thousand dirt roads, and said to the railway: "No, after ten minutes, the battle can start, and the battle can end in twenty minutes." The vertical car runs as usual. ”

His confidence was well-founded, because he had fought with these dirt roads a few times before, and it was easy to beat them away.

Ten minutes later, Hashimoto called to ask about the battle, but the phone could not be connected.

Outside, the gunfire in the direction of the station suddenly became intense.

Hashimoto didn't feel good, which means that there were more than a thousand people coming to Tsuchihachi. No, send someone again.

Hashimoto called the Imperial Allied Army and sent the remaining one out.

Hashimoto heard the gunfire in the direction of the station and knew that his third regiment had gone up. The battle should be almost over.

After waiting for a long time, the gunfire still did not stop.

At this time, a loud bang came from the north.

Hashimoto's heart was cold, it was over, and the military supply train from the north was blown up.

At this time, the sound of artillery was heard in the direction of the railway station. Cannon? Will there be a cannon on the dirt eight road? This is mountain artillery, not a mortar.

Not good, fooled.

The cannon rang out a dozen times, and suddenly a shout came. It was the sound of a charge.

Hashimoto knew that it was over, and his enemies had come at least five thousand people. Baoding is over.

At this time, the remaining squadron of the first squadron also understood, and without Hashimoto's command, they immediately arranged the position, sand castle bunkers, machine guns, and quickly arranged them.

Hashimoto shouted at the soldiers: reinforcements were twenty minutes away, and they were coming by train. Just hold on for a while.

By this time, it was already dawn, and from the window you could see that the rout had come down. It's all the Imperial Army

Hashimoto waved his hand, and the gendarmes shouted at the rout. Several gendarmes fired at the ground, and the Imperial Army routed in fear, turned around and rushed towards the chasing Eight Roads.

At this time, the dirt road behind has rushed up. These people shouted "shoot and don't kill" in their mouths, and kept coming to the headquarters. The machine-gun position at the gate opened fire, stopping them opposite.

Many of the puppet soldiers who surrendered were killed.

Those dirt eight roads lay down on the spot and fought back, and several commanders shouted: "If you surrender, hide aside!" Hide! ”

Hashimoto called Shimen, and the given state called, but the phone couldn't get through. Hashimoto was annoyed, this must have been sabotaged.

Hashimoto saw through the window the soldiers of the squadron of the headquarters fighting bravely, and his heart was a little calmer. He sat down, pondered every detail of this morning, and finally understood that these dirt roads seemed to be concentrating all their strength on attacking him. The two Imperial Concord regiments and the two gendarmerie squadrons sent out must be finished, and the opposing artillery is the main force to kill them.

From the very beginning of the morning, I was fooled.

However, the reinforcements from Dingzhou will arrive soon, and at that time, with the reinforcements, he can defeat the remnants of Tubalu. Even if you can't win quickly, you can hold out until the reinforcements from Shimen arrive.

Hashimoto was meditating when he suddenly heard two cannon shots, and two guards pulled him up and dragged him to the command room on the first floor. On the stairs, several more cannons were heard. This is obviously the sound of tank artillery, what, reinforcements are coming? Wrong? It couldn't have come so fast. And the reinforcements are no tanks.

The machine guns outside have stopped.

Hashimoto immediately thought of the bombing of the train in Cangzhou, with several tanks on it. Oh no, this is the gang in Cangzhou.

Hashimoto was annoyed when he heard two explosions in the backyard of the headquarters, shaking the lights in the command room violently. Then, four more explosions were heard, one from the left and one from the left and right sides of the headquarters.

Then, shouts came from the direction of the explosion. In just a few moments, the shout reached the building, and it was not far from the command room. The soldiers and staff officers in the command room all went to resist, and only Hashimoto was alone.

Hashimoto pulled out the pistol and pushed the bullet.

With a thud, the door to the command room was kicked open. Several men with three or eight guns rushed in.

Hashimoto pointed the pistol at his temple and pulled the trigger.

At the same time as Hashimoto's suicide, there was a loud bang on the railway in southern Baoding, and a troop carrier was blown up. This is reinforcements from Dingzhou.

As soon as the explosion stopped, shouts rang out around the train: "Shoot or kill!" ”

As soon as the door of a train opened, fire was fired from inside, and at the same time, a group of devils jumped out of it.

The ambushers concentrated dozens of guns and fired at the door of this section of the car, and the devils who rushed out were blocked. At this time, the rumble of the tank was heard, and a bean chariot came over, stopped, and aimed its guns at the carriage that rushed out of the devil.

The devil in the carriage saw it and shouted. A few devils opened the door on the other side and jumped out of the car one after another.

At this time, the tank opened fire.

There was a shell that thundered to the ground, and a carriage was torn apart by a bomb.

The soldiers in ambush on both sides cheered: "Shoot or kill!" ”

The doors of the other carriages opened, and the puppet soldier stepped out of the carriage with his gun in both hands.