The battle ended quickly, and under the joint attack of Tong Jiayong and Huang Shizhong, the devil cavalry was quickly wiped out.

Huang Shizhong saluted Tong Jiayong with some excitement, and said loudly: "Thank you for the life-saving grace of the brothers of the Eighth Route Army, dare to ask which part of the Eighth Route Army is the benefactor?" ”

Tong Jiayong also hurriedly dismounted, reorganized the army's appearance, and saluted back: "We are the cavalry regiment of the 77th Brigade of the Inner Mongolia Military Region of the Eighth Route Army, and I am the regiment commander Tong Jiayong." You are that part, how do you wear the military uniform of the puppet army. ”

Huang Shizhong said with some shame: "It turned out to be Chief Tong, and I didn't hide it from the chief, we are the puppet army under the devil, but the devil doesn't treat us as human beings, and today I witnessed the devil killing our father and fellow villagers, and the people of several villages were slaughtered by the devil." So the brothers had the idea of killing devils to avenge the dead fathers and villagers, but I didn't expect this group of devils to be so strong in combat, if it weren't for the rescue of the brothers of the Eighth Route Army, our cavalry battalion would be reimbursed here. ”

Tong Jiayong solemnly gave Huang Shizhong and all the living rebel puppet soldiers a military salute, and said loudly: "Brothers, knowing mistakes can improve a lot. With today's battle, half of the crimes you committed in the past can be cleared, and as long as you bravely kill the enemy in the future, you will still be a Chinese and our excellent Chinese sons and daughters. ”

Huang Shizhong had tears in his eyes and said excitedly: "Thank you, sir." ”

"What are your plans for the future?" Tong Jiayong asked.

Huang Shizhong said: "Before we were ready to slaughter this group of devils, we discussed going to Captain Han of the Reading Force 77 Brigade, and it was fate to meet you, it seems that even God asked us to defect to your Reading Force 77 Brigade, but I don't know if Chief Han will accept us." ”

Tong Jiayong said with a smile: "Then you can rest assured, our commander has always asked about his background, regardless of class, as long as he is dedicated to fighting devils, he will accept them, one-third of the troops of our 77th Brigade are puppet troops anyway, and one-third are bandits and rogues who are willing to fight devils, but it is such a force, and the devils and ghosts cry wolf." ”

Then Tong Jiayong continued to ask: "How many cavalry squads like Xiang are there, and where are they located?" ”

Huang Shizhong said: "There are nine in total, each of which is a devil cavalry squadron and a cavalry battalion of the puppet army, with a strength of about four hundred and fifty people. I don't know exactly what it is, because there is no specific combat mission today, just let the devils go to our countryside to grab some property and women, and by the way, give a warning to the nearby villagers not to have any contact with the Eighth Route Army. However, an hour ago, in Liujiabao, three kilometers away, I saw the cavalry squad led by the commander of the Devil Cavalry Wing, Inoki Jintaisa, and the commander of the cavalry division of the puppet army, but the number of this cavalry squad was very large, about 800 people. ”

Tong Jiayong said: "Very good, then we will eat this cavalry squad." He turned around and said to the political commissar Dong Mengguo: "Old Dong, you don't want to participate in this battle, you take Comrade Huang Shizhong and the women who have just been rescued and those things that have been captured back to the headquarters, and I will take the rest of the people to find the devil cavalry." ”

After Dong Mengguo returned to the temporary headquarters with Huang Shizhong and more than thirty young women and girls, he immediately reported the situation to Han Yunhua. Han Yunhua was overjoyed, and immediately asked Dong Mengguo to bring Huang Shizhong over.

Huang Shizhong is tall and burly, if he is not wearing the yellow dog skin of the puppet army, he looks very much like a standard soldier. At the same time that Han Yunhua looked at Huang Shizhong, Huang Shizhong was also looking at the legendary commander of the Eighth Route Army who beat the devil to the ground, and what surprised Huang Shizhong was that the supreme commander of the Eighth Route Army in the Suiyuan area of Chahar was surprisingly young, and he didn't look like a soldier at all, but like a student doll.

Han Yunhua saw that Huang Shizhong seemed to be a little nervous, smiled and said, "Your name is Huang Shizhong, it turned out to be the cavalry battalion commander under Li Shouxin?"

"Report to the commander, I used to be the commander of the second battalion of the first regiment of the ninth cavalry division under Li Shouxin." Huang Shizhong said with a little stammer.

Han Yunhua said disapprenousively: "Don't be nervous, since you have the heart to repent, and it is a battlefield uprising, then I will no longer care about what you did before, as long as you are dedicated to killing devils in the future, you are my Han Yunhua's brother." You came out with Gu Shoufu's Sixth Division this time, so what heavy weapons are the devils equipped with this time?"

Huang Shizhong thought for a while and said: "There are no tanks and tanks, but there are 125 vehicles, of which forty-five are used for logistics vehicles, pulling bullets and shells and a large number of grenades. And each of the forty-five cars had a cannon towed behind its compartment. ”

"Do you know a lot? Even the specific number of cars and cannons is known, which is incredible! Han Yunhua stared at Huang Shizhong and said slowly.

Huang Shizhong hurriedly said: "Report sir, I and my brothers loaded these things into the car, because I was slapped a few times by the devil." ”

Seeing that Huang Shizhong didn't look like he was lying, Han Yunhua continued to ask: "There is nothing special in that devil's car?" ”

"There are no special things, but the devils have two cars that they have loaded by their own people, and one of the devils accidentally knocked over the box, and was beaten by the devil who led the team." Huang Shizhong said.

Han Yunhua said: "What is in that box, is there any logo on the box?" ”

"I don't know what's in the box. But I saw that the box had a big skull painted on it. Huang Shizhong thought for a while and said.

Han Yunhua asked urgently, "You can see clearly, the skull painted on that box is indeed a skull?" ”

Huang Shizhong thought for a moment and said affirmatively: "I'm sure it's a skull." ”

Han Yunhua said: "The information you provided is very important, since you have joined our Eighth Route Army, then we will not treat you badly, now I appoint you as the commander of the Reading Cavalry Battalion of the Inner Mongolia Military Region, but those brothers of yours will be assigned to other units, do you think it's okay?" ”

Huang Shizhong thought for a while and said, "Yes, there are only more than 180 people left in my cavalry battalion now, and I hope the commander can leave me a few old subordinates." ”

"Yes, when your reading cavalry battalion is reorganized, I will arrange for you thirty people you brought, okay, you can go down." Han Yunhua said.

Huang Shizhong said gratefully: "Thank you, sir." ”

After Huang Shizhong went out, Han Yunhua immediately called Guo Weidong, deputy director of the logistics department in charge of logistics, and asked, "Old Guo, how many gas masks do we have now?" ”

Guo Weidong is an old revolutionary, he is over 50 years old this year, and he is the oldest cadre in the Inner Mongolia Military Region. Guo Weidong participated in the Northern Expedition, the Nanchang Uprising, and five anti-encirclement campaigns. Before the Long March, he was already the deputy division commander of the Red Army, but unfortunately he froze his leg during the Long March through the snow-capped mountains, leaving a serious disability and could no longer go to the battlefield, so [***] asked him to form a local government in northern Shaanxi. Later, together with Yang Ruihua, he was sent to Han Yunhua to help Han Yunhua manage local government affairs, and now serves as the deputy director of the logistics department of the Inner Mongolia Military Region.

Guo Weidong said without hesitation: "We now have a total of 1,867 "Ninth Five-Year" gas masks and 423 sets of chemical protective clothing. ”

Han Yunhua said worriedly: "The devil has about two truckloads of poison gas bombs, but our gas masks can't even be equipped with a regiment, and we will definitely suffer when the war starts." ”

Guo Weidong thought for a while and said: "The poisonous gas of devils is generally based on suffocation and gas, and the poisonous surname is not too strong, as long as we prepare more cold water and wet towels at that time." Besides, we're not stupid. After the devils fired the gas bombs, the troops without gas masks covered their noses and mouths with wet towels and retreated out of the gas range, and there were soldiers with gas masks on the positions. I don't believe that the devil's infantry is equipped with gas masks. ”

Han Yunhua was right to think about it, and immediately said, "Old Guo, you now distribute all the gas masks evenly to the two regiments stationed in the first line of defense, and tell them what to do." ”

Soon after Guo Weidong left, the three cavalry regiments came back one after another, the first to come back was the Eighth Cavalry Regiment, Hu Jiatai, a stunned young man, eliminated a total of three devil cavalry teams, killed more than 440 puppet cavalry, and captured more than 800 puppet soldiers. The 9th Cavalry Regiment and the 4th Cavalry Regiment both had similar results, both cavalry regiments eliminated two devil cavalry teams, and each regiment captured more than 400 puppet soldiers. Coupled with the cavalry unit of Huang Shizhong's battlefield uprising, the 6th Cavalry Wing of the 6th Division of the Devil and the 9th Cavalry Division of the puppet army were basically wiped out, and only more than 800 people led by the commander of the 6th Cavalry Wing, Inoki Jindazuo, returned alive.

Gu Shoufu didn't expect that his momentary greed would let the Eighth Route Army take advantage of the loophole, from the departure of the cavalry unit at nine o'clock in the morning to the three o'clock in the afternoon, the commander of the sixth cavalry wing, Inoki, was nearly too big to return in embarrassment, in just six hours, a cavalry wing of the elite of the empire and a cavalry division of the imperial alliance army disappeared in this way, and the most unacceptable thing is that they don't even know who the enemy is and how many people there are.

Annoyed and angry, Tani Toshio ignored the dissuasion of Major General Tokutaro Sakai, the commander of the 11th Brigade, and immediately led his troops to Jining.

Less than ten miles out of the county seat, the divisional search team reported that there were a large number of Chinese troops at a mountain pass more than ten miles ahead, and that they had also built infantry positions, which seemed to be fighting to the death with the Empire.

Upon receiving the news, Tani Toshio was overjoyed and immediately ordered the commander of the 11th Brigade Infantry Wing Okamoto Hoyuki Osa, to lead his soldiers, and the 1st Brigade of the 6th Field Artillery Wing as the vanguard of the large force, to quickly attack the Shina troops in front of him, and be sure to defeat the enemy in front of him before the large force arrived.