At more than three o'clock in the evening, news from all quarters continued to reach the ears of Zhou Maoduo, the old village chief of Taipingzhuang, who immediately ordered the masses of the whole village to mobilize as soon as possible, and urgently analyzed the enemy situation with the self-defense captains Lang Zongyi and Zhou Qingzhi.

Zhou Maoduo said to the two of them: "The situation is very serious, none of our team is not there, I have called someone to inform the team." But what to do about Taipingzhuang at present, it is too late to organize a retreat, the enemy has reached the north entrance of the village, and the good terrain in the south of the village has been occupied by the enemy again. ”

Lang Zongyi said: "There is no other way, we can only stick to the village and fight the enemy to the end, waiting for our team to arrive." ”

Zhou Qingzhi also said: "There is no other way but to rely on our favorable terrain to fight the enemy." After a long time, as soon as the shots rang out, our troops would soon be coming. ”

Zhou Maoduo nodded and said, "The enemy is coming secretly this time, and we don't know how to fight." The old, weak and disabled, those who can't fight retreat from the east and west along the traffic ditch, and those who can fight stay, they have a trick with the puppet army and the little devils. ”

With an order, the old and weak children can be transferred quickly, and those who can fight are stayed.

The cold wind was still howling, the snowflakes were still flying, the sky was covered with dark clouds, the sky seemed to fall, and the darkness was getting heavier and heavier.

The militia self-defense unit of Taipingzhuang and the men, women, and children of the whole village who can fight did not beat gongs and drums, did not sound trumpets and shout, but quietly, holding all kinds of weapons to kill the enemy, sticking to their posts, and making all preparations for battle.

As expected, the enemy from the northeast opened fire on the village first.

Four Type 92 infantry guns first launched a threat to Taipingzhuang. Don't look at these are small cannons with a height of 0.6 meters, but it can fire 70 mm high-explosive grenades. These shells weigh 3.8 kg and have a radius of 60 meters.

"Boom-boom-" "Boom-boom-" These small cannons blew up Taipingzhuang in a mess, the flames were everywhere, the smoke was dense, the houses collapsed one after another, and many of the militiamen on the roofs fell from the roofs and died heroically. Some people were seriously injured by the explosion, lightly injured, and those who were seriously injured were carried down, and those who were lightly injured were wrapped in wounds and continued to stick to their posts.

The enemy shelled for a while, estimating that Taipingzhuang was almost blown up, and when he heard that there was no movement in the village, it was like an empty village, so the enemy cried wolf and howled, and pounced viciously towards Taipingzhuang.

Seeing that the enemy was about to reach the edge of the village, the village chief Zhou Maoduo shouted loudly: "Fight-"

On the roof, in the guns in the house, steel guns, earthen cannons, earthen guns, grenades, and old poles shot at the enemy together, and in just a while, twenty or thirty enemies were defeated. The enemy was a little dazed at once, and this time he retreated, and after a slight pause, the enemy's Type 92 infantry guns began to fire again.

"Boom--" "Boom-boom-" The enemy's artillery fire this time was more intense than the first. Because they were targeted, they did cause serious damage to the joint defense team members of Taipingzhuang.

The regular army of the Kuomintang was not afraid of the Japanese infantry, but of the Japanese artillery fire. The militia joint defense team is no exception, and indeed, this kind of modern artillery fire cannot be dealt with with by earthen guns and artillery.

Zhou Maoduo saw that there was a danger of annihilation if the battle continued, and urgently ordered the joint defense team members to withdraw to the village to avoid being killed or injured by the enemy's artillery fire.

The devil's small rice squadron was ambushed in the alkali field south of the village, and when they saw that the militia joint defense team had not fallen for them, they knew that it was useless to stay there any longer. The commander of the Xiaodao squadron waved his sword: "Duck give-" The Japanese troops who led a squadron of Japanese soldiers killed Taipingzhuang from south to north.

At this time, the wind was blowing tighter and tighter, the snow was falling heavier and heavier, and the sparks of bullets and grenades in the darkness became brighter and brighter.

The enemy stormed the village, fighting house by house with the militia joint defense members.

Tian Xurong, a militia joint defense fighter, was shot and died, and his father took his son's gun and immediately fired at the enemy.

Militia Tian Chengxiang was stunned to the ground by a stray bullet, and her daughter-in-law Hu Yuemei picked up her husband's weapon, with a vengeful rage, and killed a devil with the first shot, and when the bullet ran out, she grabbed the grenade and threw it at the enemy group, until she finally died heroically.

Militia Zhou Qinglin was wounded in the head and bleeding profusely, but he still insisted on fighting.

Zhou Maoying, a veteran self-defense member, became more and more courageous, and was seriously injured in the right leg and could not get out of the line of fire.

The old hunter Zhou Maoqing raised his shotgun, took out the majesty of fighting beasts back then, and knocked down several devils and puppet soldiers in a row.

The old drummer Zhou Rongjing beat the drums in order to boost morale, and blew the horn again.

After seeing that the gunner was wounded, Mrs. Tian, who was in her seventies, was desperate to light the old lifting rod, and the cannons blossomed in the enemy group......

The situation is becoming more and more critical, and the positions controlled by the militia joint defense units are shrinking smaller and smaller. When the bullets were finished, he grabbed the grenade, and when the grenade was finished, he picked up a large blade and a wooden stick, and started hand-to-hand combat with the enemy. Dung forks, hoes, iron fire sticks, kitchen knives, spears...... All the weapons that can be used have exerted great power on the battlefield.

When the enemy climbed the wall, the girl and daughter-in-law cut the enemy's hands with kitchen knives, and when the devil entered the alley, the villagers jumped out of the yard and smashed them with hoes, slashed with big knives, and stabbed them with spears......

But a good tiger is difficult to fight a group of wolves, these joint defense fighters with little combat experience, and fellows with no military experience, fell one by one in front of these wolf-like enemies.

The people in Taipingzhuang are getting fewer and fewer, and the gunfire is getting thinner and rarer......

Just when the villagers of Taipingzhuang were facing all the sacrifices, fierce gunfire rang out in the south and southeast, and the main forces of our county brigade, Yundong brigade, district squad and military sub-district had arrived. These troops quickly outflanked the enemy's rear and brought about a turning point in the battle situation.

The villagers of Taipingzhuang heard the gunfire of our reinforcements, and their emotions became more excited, and the battle was more courageous, with the sound of gongs, drums, horns, shouts of killing, and the sound of guns and cannons resounded in the sky.

When the devils and puppet soldiers saw that they had surrounded Taipingzhuang, they were surrounded now, and they suddenly became a swarm of bees that were burned by fire, and they didn't care about the street fighting, so they hurriedly threw away their armor and fled in the wilderness.

As soon as the enemy fled to the east end of the village, he was intercepted by the main forces of our division. A fierce artillery fire made the devils and traitors cry wolves and howl bitterly. The enemy suffered heavy casualties, the Type 92 infantry guns were gone, the light and heavy machine guns were dumb, the horses were scurrying and barking, and the guns and ammunition were discarded in a mess.

At this time, the leader of the Xiaodao squadron was in a panic, when suddenly a stray bullet flew and knocked his hat away. Frightened, he instinctively covered his head and shouted: "Eight roads, amazing, great!" ”

Xie Jinluan, the commander of the puppet army, was riding a horse and didn't know where to run, when suddenly a few bullets hit, his horse was knocked down, and he died after a few kicks on his legs. Xie Jinluan had no choice but to mix in a group of puppet soldiers and fled desperately, and almost became a prisoner.

At the same time, the Eighth Route Army also held a microphone and launched a heart-to-heart battle against the puppet army. At this time, Li Xiaohou, who had become the platoon commander of the Yundong Brigade, took the microphone and shouted to the puppet army: "Brothers of the puppet army, lay down your arms!" The life of the little Japanese dog is not long, and the Chinese do not fight the Chinese. It's glorious to resist Japan, but it's shameful to be a traitor! I'm Li Xiaohou from the original Huaniu Chen, I'm here, what are you still staying there for? ”

Sure enough, there were a number of puppet soldiers, holding their weapons in their hands, and they came here.

At this time, it was already seven or eight o'clock in the morning, and the winter sun got up late, and the red sun had already illuminated Taipingzhuang. The entire Taipingzhuang has been destroyed by the war, more than half of the houses have collapsed, and the corpses of the villagers who died are lying on the street, but there are more corpses of devils and traitors.

After several hours of bloody fighting, Taipingzhuang successfully joined forces with the various units of our Eighth Route Army at a great cost, smashed the enemy's sweeping conspiracy, and experienced a severe test.

After the end of this battle, the devil did not come to Taipingzhuang for a long time, and after the baptism of the battle, Taipingzhuang gradually regained its vitality and became the base of the anti-Japanese war in Zhuxian County.

Bai Fengyi, the head of the Yundong Brigade, is not always following the troops because he is older. The task of Regiment Commander Bai was mainly to think about the food and clothing of these more than 300 people, and also to use various connections to purchase guns and ammunition to replenish the troops, collect enemy and false intelligence, transmit information, carry out united front work, and contact all kinds of people to support our army.

At the same time, it is also necessary to do the work of dividing and disintegrating the enemy and puppet army, so that they cannot be hardcore traitors. It is also necessary to mobilize and organize the masses to break roads and dig ditches.

Bai Fengyi usually runs around with two guards, and after a long time, it is inevitable that there will be some rules of activity.

The Battle of Taipingzhuang had just ended, and Bai Fengyi was planning for the New Year of the Yundong Brigade non-stop. He thought, no matter what, he has to let the troops eat a meal of dumplings, if the conditions allow, find a way for everyone to get another half a catty of old white work, no matter what, he has to have a New Year's appearance.

That night, the north wind howled, and a heavy white snow covered the land of Russi, and as long as the snow fell, the winter snow would not melt until the following spring. The winter in the northwest of Lu is really very cold, although wearing a big cotton shoes with a pole head, but if you don't move, the foot is also frozen to pain, the cotton shoes step on the snow four fingers deep, only hear the "creak, creak," the sound of the ground, and not step on much.

When the snow is frozen, you can't step on it.

Bai Fengyi still took two guards to walk from his hometown Baizhuang on the Wangguan Temple to see if Baizhuang could raise some pork, and the three of them were walking in the ditch, pricking up their ears to listen to the surrounding movements as they walked. Since the surroundings are white, I am familiar with the environment at night, and I can see far away.

The villages in the distance, the woods with only dead branches, are also white, and it seems that the whole world is asleep.