On April 29, Wei Peng led a special operations squadron to Yujialou to meet Han Yunhua, and Han Yunhua was also very happy to see the arrival of Wei Peng and others. Now he only has sixty-three people on hand, including himself, and it's okay to engage in sneak attacks and sabotage, but it's a little powerless to think of making some big moves. Now after the arrival of Wei Peng and the others, Han Yunhua has 225 special combat personnel under his command, which is equivalent to a reinforced squadron of the army, if calculated in terms of combat effectiveness, Han Yunhua's current strength is much stronger than that of Yanggu County garrison commander An Pei Shaozuo, although An Pei Shaozuo has a complete infantry brigade and a military police squad and two plainclothes teams (company level) in his hands.

Han Yunhua did not order the troops to start work in the past few days, but released most of the soldiers of the special combat team to familiarize them with the terrain, after all, they will have to mix in this area in the future, and it is not the style of the Eighth Route Army to be unfamiliar with the terrain. By the way, Han Yunhua also gave an order to the special combat troops, ordering them to visit some places where the terrain is dangerous, easy to defend and difficult to attack, and to see if they can be used as base areas.

However, the return of the soldiers is not optimistic, although Yanggu County has mountains and rivers and the terrain is quite complicated, but it is definitely not close to the danger. Although the mountain is called a mountain, it is actually a small dirt bag, not even a hill. There is only one place that barely meets Han Yunhua's requirements, and that is the famous Jingyanggang.

Jingyanggang is located in the territory of Zhangqiu Town, 16 kilometers east of Yanggu County. Legend has it that Wu Song fought the tiger described in "Water Margin", with a total area of 33.3 hectares. The sand dunes on Jingyanggang are undulating, the grass is thick, and the trees are shaded, which is a wilderness scene. There are still some remnants of historical relics on the gang, such as the three bowls but the gang hotel, the villagers' notice office, the county government notice office, the mountain temple, the Wusong tiger place, the stone stele, the tiger roaring pavilion, the Wusong temple, the island in the middle of the lake, the Diaoyutai, the stele forest, the tiger pond, the monkey mountain, the deer park, the arrow field and so on.

What makes Han Yunhua happiest is that there is a mountain temple on Jingyang Gang, which has a history of more than 200 years. Han Yunhua's identity at this time is the big boss of this gang of bandits, since he wants to occupy the mountain as the king, there must be a cottage, otherwise it will be a joke when he says it, and it will be difficult to confuse himself. Now that there is a ready-made mountain temple, it can be transformed into a big cottage on Jingyanggang as long as it is picked up.

On May 1, 1939, Han Yunhua led the troops to Jingyanggang. Different from the prosperity and bustle of Jingyanggang in later generations, Jingyanggang at this time was a barren hill, and almost no one was willing to come here except for the homeless thieves and farmers who went up the mountain to cut firewood. And those few mountain temples are not as majestic and beautiful as those repaired by later generations, only to see three built on the earthen platform of more than 30 meters long, 256 meters wide, and 45 meters high, sitting in the north and facing south, the dilapidated ancient temple of blue bricks and gray tiles stands like a wise man who has been silent for a thousand years. There is a statue of Wu Song fighting a tiger in the temple, but the statue of the god at this time is also dilapidated, and the most annoying thing is that Wu Song's left arm is gone, and his right leg is broken. Moreover, the entire mountain temple has no doors or windows, and even the top of the main hall is naked, and when the wind blows, a large pile of wind and sand mixed with mud falls, and the scene is extremely miserable. After cleaning the dilapidated mountain temple, Han Yunhua's department officially erected the banner of Jingyanggang Cottage. Because Yanggu County is located in Liaocheng, the economy is relatively developed, and there are certain mineral resources. In addition, since the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, Yanggu and Shen County have been at the forefront of the anti-Japanese battlefield, so the army still attaches great importance to Yanggu County. You must know that even in some large counties in North China, the garrison of the Yue army generally does not exceed 500 people, but in Yanggu County, the Yue army is stationed with more than 1,300 people, which shows that the Yue army attaches great importance to Yanggu County.

Now that he has settled down, then it is time to open next, otherwise the reputation of Jingyanggang Cottage is not obvious, then there are still people who are willing to defect to him Guo Jianglong. This time, Han Yunhua set his goal on Zhang Qiuzhen's maintenance association president, Zhang Qiuzhen's maintenance association president's surname is Zhang Mingdafu, and his worth is indeed worthy of this name, although it cannot be said that he is rich and rivals the country, but his family wealth is completely worthy.

This Zhang Dafu did not originally live in Zhangqiu Town, but his ancestors were famous and large families in Zhangqiu Town, and the Zhang family moved to the provincial capital Jinan after his fortune thirty years ago. After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, the provincial capital of Jinan was quickly affected. In order to take refuge, the old man of the Zhang family cashed in all the businesses of the Zhang family in the provincial capital and moved his family back to Zhang Qiu Town, Yanggu County, Liaocheng, his hometown.

But the good times did not last long, in just half a year, the whole territory of Shandong fell, except for the remote mountain villages and wild towns, there was no longer a piece of pure land in Shandong. Last year, the soldiers of the Yue army entered Liaocheng and then occupied Yanggu County. In view of the huge influence of the Zhang family in the entire Luxi, Yue Jun hoped that the old man of the Zhang family could serve as the chairman of the Luxi Maintenance Association. But it was postponed by the old man of the Zhang family on the grounds that he was about to die of old age. Later, the army forced Mr. Zhang to serve as the puppet county magistrate of Yanggu County, but Mr. Zhang also refused.

However, it is said that the heart of the army thief is not dead, and he would rather die than give in when he sees Old Man Zhang. And the vast majority of the Zhang family's property was transferred to the rear by the far-sighted old man Zhang, who was in charge of Zhang Dagui, the second eldest of the Zhang family. Therefore, the army used a poisonous trick to induce Zhang Dafu, the boss of the Zhang family, to become the president of the maintenance association of Zhang Qiuzhen, the ancestral birthplace of Old Man Zhang. and forced Zhang Dafu to do a lot of hurtful things, but because of the presence of Mr. Zhang, Zhang Dafu, whose conscience has not been completely extinguished, did not do those things that anger and resentment. But just three months ago, Old Man Zhang was extremely ashamed and angry because his eldest son had done Han Annihilation, and finally died in anger.

After the death of Old Man Zhang, Zhang Dafu not only did not restrain himself because he was angry with his father, but became even worse. He destroyed the homes of more than 10 households in Zhangqiu Town, and even made a great effort to encircle and suppress China's national defense forces this time, handing over the families of dozens of soldiers of the Eighth Route Army and the Kuomintang troops in Zhangqiu Town to the Yue Army.

In order to win people's hearts, after publicly massacring the families of these [***] people, the army appointed Zhang Dafu as the deputy county magistrate of Yanggu County and the mayor of Zhang Qiu Town, as well as the captain of the puppet Yanggu County Special Service Team. This time, the special combat team members of Han Yunhua's department detected that Zhang Dafu would escort a batch of confiscated money and grain to Yanggu County on 3 May. The amount of this batch of money and grain is not too large, and the puppet army escorting money and grain is not large, only less than a hundred people. Therefore, Han Yunhua was ready to fight Zhang Dafu and Yanggu County's army by surprise.

The specific information Han Yunhua has already obtained, and Zhang Dafu will not accompany him on the task of escorting money and grain this time. Alert, he rarely goes out now, staying in the heavily guarded mansion every day, and unless summoned by An Pei Shaozuo, the commander of the garrison of the army in Yanggu County, he usually does not go out. And the Zhang family's mansion is the nest of the spy team led by Zhang Dafu, unlike other puppet army troops, Zhang Dafu knows how to survive in troubled times, what is the greatest capital to survive. Therefore, Zhang Dafu's special task force was much larger than the 110 people given to him by An Pei Shaozuo, and he knew very well that in order to save his life with the crimes he had committed, he had to seize a strong enough force. Therefore, this Zhang Dafu spared no effort to expand the strength of his puppet army, and now Zhang Dafu's special team has grown to nearly 500 people. At the same time, the strength of the special task force is also very good, each of them has two German-made shell guns, that is, the "box gun" and "clean face box" in the mouth of the Eighth Route Army, and is also equipped with more than ten light machine guns. In addition, the Zhang family's mansion is only less than 300 meters away from the stronghold of the puppet army in Zhang Qiuzhen, once the incident happens, Zhang Qiuzhen's puppet army will be able to arrive within two minutes at the shortest, so Zhang Dafu has built his lair into an iron wall.

This time, Han Yunhua was going to give Zhang Dafu a siege point to send reinforcements, and he was going to besiege Zhang Dafu's transport team first, forcing them to ask Zhang Dafu for help. When the time comes, we will concentrate our forces to defeat the reinforcements sent by Zhang Dafu, and then go back and pack up the transport team that served as bait.

For this battle, Han Yunhua didn't think there would be any accidents at all, and Zhang Dafu couldn't escape from his palm this time. In addition to Han Yunhua's confidence in the combat effectiveness of his troops, Han Yunhua also believes that the equipment of his troops, which is very confusing, can definitely bluff the puppet army.

Zhangqiu Town is less than 20 kilometers away from Yanggu County, and the terrain in this area is relatively flat, except for Jingyanggang, which is three kilometers away, there are no mountains and dense forests. But even in the eyes of the locals, Jingyanggang, which is terrifying, is nothing more than a joke compared to the high mountains and dense forests in the Saibei region. Therefore, there have always been few large-scale bandits in Yanggu County, and after the brutal sweep of the puppet army not long ago, there is no complete national defense force in Yanggu County except for the Chinese routs who hide and hide from time to time. Therefore, Zhang Dafu would never have thought that someone would pay attention to his batch of "tribute".

At the same time, in order to protect himself, Zhang Dafu only sent less than 100 spies to escort this batch of money and grain. Anyway, in Zhang Dafu's opinion, although this batch of money and grain is Zhang Qiuzhen's tax for two months, its value is only 5,000 oceans, and if it is lost, it will be lost, so it is not a big deal. With his wealthy family wealth, 5,000 oceans is just a drop in the bucket. Although Mr. Zhang has transferred more than half of the wealth of the Zhang family to the rear, the Zhang family is still a big family in the Sulu region after all, and all that was transferred was some cash, gold and silver bars. The vast majority of the Zhang family's fixed property and some antiques were still left in Shandong and in the Zhang family's mansion, and all these things were owned by Zhang Dafu after the death of Mr. Zhang.

Although these things only account for a part of the Zhang family's wealth, they are enough to make Zhang Dafu run rampant in small Yanggu County. In addition, after Zhang Dafu served as the president of Zhang Qiuzhen's maintenance association, Zhang Dafu began to find ways to make money. Although the Wang butcher in the town did not make a living, his wealth was also well-known in Zhang Qiu Town, so Zhang Dafu tried to give the Wang butcher's family a charge of collusion, so that he could slaughter the Wang family. Although the Liu family in the town is not a rich and noble family, but there is a priceless Xuande furnace at home, at this time somehow Zhang Dafu knew, forced the Liu family to hand over the Xuande furnace, otherwise he would send the youngest daughter of the Liu family to the county seat to comfort the imperial army. The arms can't twist the thighs, and the Liu family is also a wealthy family in Zhang Qiuzhen, but it is still a little worse than the "high-powered" Zhang Dafu, and in the end he reluctantly handed over the Xuande furnace. Otherwise, it is really possible for that brute to give the little daughter of the Liu family, who is only fourteen years old but has already been slim, to be ruined by himself, anyway, he has done it a lot. After unscrupulous snatching, Zhang Dafu's wealth at this time has reached an astonishing level, so although five thousand oceans is astronomical in the eyes of others, it is just a small plate in the Tang Dynasty or a big bottle in the Ming Dynasty in his eyes.

At eight o'clock in the morning of May 3, the sturdy iron-clad wooden gate of the Zhang family's mansion in Zhang Qiu Town suddenly opened with a "creak", and I saw Zhang Qing, the chief housekeeper of the Zhang Mansion dressed like a dog, walking out with two shell guns on his shoulder, and after loudly scolding away several townspeople in the town who turned to look at each other not far away, he commanded the big and small Han Jian spies under Zhang Dafu to drive out the carriage full of grain and the ocean, and rushed towards Yanggu County under the escort of more than 100 Han Jian spies.

As soon as Zhang Qing and the others came out of Zhang Qiuzhen, Han Yunhua received the news that due to the limited manpower, Han Yunhua also participated in this operation, after all, the scoop handles were personally led by the bandits when they robbed. After strict deployment, Han Yunhua ambushed more than 60 special combat personnel in Shizhuang Village, while Wei Peng led the remaining troops to ambush Shilijing Village, which was only seven or eight miles away from Shizhuang Village.

According to the plan, when the convoy escorted by Zhang Qing and others passed through Shilijing Village, Wei Peng and the others did not open fire and let the convoy pass. When Zhang Qing and the others arrived at Shizhuang Village, Han Yunhua led the more than 60 special combat personnel to take Zhang Qing and the others by surprise, forcing Zhang Qing to ask Zhang Dafu for help. When Zhang Dafu's reinforcements passed through Shilijing Village, Wei Peng commanded his troops to wipe out Zhang Dafu's reinforcements on the spot. Then after the two troops met, they knocked out Zhang Dafu's lair in Zhang Qiu Town and the stronghold of the army in the town, and beat out the banner of "crossing the river dragon", of course, the huge wealth of Zhang Dafu's family is also what Han Yunhua is now coveting.

This is not the first time that Zhang Qing has escorted money and food to the imperial army for the master, and unlike others, Zhang Qing is happy to do this kind of thing. The vast majority of people think that the Taijun in the city is moody, and he slashes people with that command knife at every turn. But Zhang Qing found that as long as you are deferential enough and your posture is low enough, then Taijun is still very kind. Every time he sent money and grain to the county, as long as he said a few good words, Taijun Ampei would reward him with a few oceans. Since last year, Grand Prince Ampei has rewarded him with a total of more than 50 oceans, which is equivalent to half a year of work in Zhangfu. In addition, Zhang Qing escorted money and food for Zhang Dafu every time with words like "The road is not very safe, how can the lord and the noble body Jinzun take such a big risk, and the little one is willing to go to the soup for the lord...... and so on, there are almost no exceptions, every time Zhang Qing shows his loyalty, Master Zhang will give a certain reward. In this way, every time he sent money and grain, Zhang Qing had to be rewarded twice, so every time he sent money and grain to the county, Zhang Qing rushed to go.

Thinking that there would be a large amount of reward money coming into the account today, Zhang Qing's heart was excited. Although the master's reward in the morning was only five yuan, two yuan less than the last time, Zhang Qing didn't care. Anyway, it is already very good to be able to give him five oceans with the surname of Master Zhang, and it is not bad for the vast majority of the brothers to do things for Master Zhang, and there are a few people like him who can earn money from Master Zhang in Zhang Qiu Town, thinking of this, Zhang Qing is proud again.

In addition, every time it is rewarded by the prince of Ampere, Master Zhang's reward is just a side job, and the main income has to be earned in the county. Thinking of this, Zhang Qing's heart was hot, and he couldn't wait to rush to Yanggu County now. Looking at the slow-moving convoy, Zhang Qing couldn't help but scolded loudly: "Fuck, didn't I give you food in the morning?" Why are they all listless, it's not that they don't want to mix. Let me tell you, if you mistake the master's affairs and spoil the interest of the great prince, you will all lose your heads. Hurry up for Lao Tzu, I haven't walked for more than an hour and haven't reached Shilijing Village, which is not much faster than a turtle. Xiao Dezi, how far is it from Shilijing Village? ”

A ten-year-old boy spun out of the convoy and replied with a stammer: "Report... Report to the chief housekeeper: We are about to pass through Shilijing Village, and after Shilijing Village, we will walk seven miles to Shizhuang Village. After Shizhuang Village, walk four miles to Zhaozhuang, walk five miles after Zhaozhuang to Lufang Village, and walk eight miles after Lufang Village to the county seat. Although Xiao Dezi is only eighteen years old, he is very familiar with the terrain of Yanggu County, so every time he escorts money and grain, Zhang Qing will bring Xiao Dezi with him.

"Well, I know, the dog heard everything. Now you haven't even walked a little and a half distance, so hurry up for Lao Tzu. If you can't get to the county seat at noon, you mounds don't want to eat today. Zhang Qing continued to urge.

Soon Zhang Qing's convoy passed Shilijing Village, but Zhang Qing and the others never found that there was an ambush of one hundred and sixty or seventy sturdy men not far from the main road they had walked. It's really not enough for him to fight these predators on the other side, or I don't know if it's the ignorant who is fearless or the sneaky who doesn't want money to die is making a fool of himself, Zhang Qing has been acting arrogantly from beginning to end, and he has been yelling all the way, and Cui is driving those spies in plainclothes to hurry quickly.

(To be continued)