Zeng Zhongsheng stood in front of the window of a private house near the Chaiwen River in Beiteng Village, holding a telescope to observe the battlefield, and saw that most of the devils had already gone down the river, leaving only a few infantry guns and dozens of devils responsible for protecting the artillery on the bank, and laughed in his heart, this little devil is also known as the best trained army in Asia, it seems that it is also in vain, and he doesn't even know what the situation is on the other side of the river, so he dares to let the troops wade across the river, and he simply doesn't know what it feels like to die!

After laughing, Zeng Zhongsheng grabbed the phone and ordered the troops to eliminate all the devils and capture the puppet army as much as possible. After giving the order, Zeng Zhongsheng was not at ease, and said to Cai Zhong: "Director Cai, you hurry up to the north to take a look, there is a part of the puppet army there, don't let the troops kill them all, it's still useful to keep them." It's too late to go, and the battle is coming to an end! ”

In fact, Cai Zhong has a deeper understanding of the combat effectiveness of the instructor's troops than Zeng Zhongsheng. Starting from the sharp knife company when Xinwei broke through, Cai Zhong and this army have been integrated. It can be said that he, like Liu Yimin, is as familiar with the army as he is with his own body. Zeng Zhongsheng said this, Cai Zhong knew that if he went a little later, those puppet soldiers would really die. There is no other reason, there is a concentration of instructor divisions and heavy firepower units here, that is, the artillery brigade does not fire, and the heavy machine gun regiment with a strength close to one brigade will tear the devil puppet army to pieces. Therefore, as soon as Zeng Zhongsheng said it, Cai Zhong took the guards and turned around and left the command headquarters and ran towards the north of the village.

Cai Zhong went a little late, and most of the puppet soldiers were killed like those devils, except for a few colored ones who knelt on the ground and raised their hands to surrender. No one is to blame for this, there are too few devils and puppet soldiers coming, and a brigade of devils plus two companies of puppet troops, that is, thousands of people, whether they wade across the river or stay on the shore to serve as guard and fire cover, they are all targets. Because the opponents they face are more powerful than they can imagine.

The devils who were crossing the river in the south of the village were suddenly covered by the fierce machine-gun fire that suddenly erupted in front of them, and they fell into the river like dumplings, and the blood stained the Chaiwen River red. The captain of the devil brigade who was commanding on the shore had red eyes, and he waved his command knife and kept ordering the cannon to fire. It's a pity that a few of his infantry guns had just been set up, and there was only time to test fire one shell, and the artillery position was covered by a rain of bullets fired from behind.

The right arm of the captain of the devil brigade was broken by a bullet, and he still stood stubbornly and shouted "shelling". After shouting for a long time, there was no movement, and then he came to his senses, and when he looked around, he saw that the battle had ended, and the middle [***] team and villagers in the village poured out and began to use tools such as hooks and sickles to salvage the corpses and weapons of the puppet army in the river. When I looked around again, I saw a group of soldiers with the word "Eight Roads" printed on their armbands holding rifles and bright bayonets on their guns, staring at them coldly.

The captain of the devil brigade finally understood that he had met the legendary Eighth Route Army, and maybe he was still the instructor of the legendary Liu Yimin, the most powerful Chinese Eighth Route Army. In this way, everything is clear, some time ago, the main force of the 13th Brigade was annihilated, the defenders of Dawenkou were shattered and the planes were missing, it should have been done by this Eighth Route Army. What Tang Enbo's 20th Army Corps, the Special Brigade, and the Chinese Military Police are all miraculous, it turns out that they were all done by the Eighth Route Army! It's ridiculous that those conceited and clever commanders don't know who their opponents are until now!

The captain of the devil brigade who had figured it out laughed miserably, knelt down facing the east, picked up the command knife with difficulty with his left hand, aimed it at his heart, and then closed his eyes tightly and muttered to himself in his mouth. I don't know what he said, but finally he leaned downward, letting the sword penetrate his heart, and the whole person fell crookedly by the already quiet Chaiwen River.

There were only about twenty captured puppet soldiers, among whom were two wounded officers.

Zhang Zili, director of the political department of the Tai'an detachment in charge of interrogating the puppet army, was a veteran Red Army cadre who had participated in a series of battles since the Xiaoshui ambush of the 18th Red Regiment, and had a deep understanding of Liu Yimin's method of using the enemy's prisoners. Therefore, he pulled up the puppet army soldiers and interrogated them separately, and the two puppet army officers were the first to be interrogated. Unexpectedly, these two puppet army officers were both transferred from the Manchurian Defense Army, and after the enslavement education of Yue Ben, they were deeply poisoned, and they shamelessly defended the Yue army, saying that the Kuomintang political axe [***] was incompetent, and it was the root cause of social turmoil and the poverty of the people. It is also said that the Eighth Route Army fought against the Yue Army, which led to the Yue Army's retaliation against civilians. The key to resolving the North China issue lies in the fact that the Kuomintang has a clear understanding of the situation in North China, earnestly negotiates with the Chinese army, restores the public order situation in North China, and allows the people to live and work in peace and contentment. If the Eighth Route Army wants to negotiate with the Imperial Army, the two of them can match. Their elders had all been involved in negotiations with him and had experience in this area.

Zhang Zili smiled angrily, and did not talk to these two brainwashed men, and directly waved his hand to pull him out and shoot him.

After shooting the puppet army officer, the remaining puppet army soldiers could not withstand interrogation, and soon gave a clear account of what they knew, saying that they were the North China Public Security Army, assisting the imperial army in garrisoning key points of transportation, and now there is only one 160-man Devil Railway Garrison Squadron and a company of about 90 North China Public Security Army in Dawenkou, and a 50-member military police, the military police is stationed in the town, and the railway garrison and a company of the public security army are stationed in Baotou Village at the railway station and the railway bridgehead. As for the airfield, due to the destruction of the command system of the airfield last time, the army has not deployed planes for the time being, nor has it garrisoned, and it is in an idle state.

The situation reported by the puppet army is consistent with the situation grasped by our army, indicating that the enemy situation in Dawenkou has not changed. On the spot, he told the more than 20 surviving puppet soldiers that as long as our army was brought into Dawenkou Town, each person would be rewarded with 5 yuan. After the task is completed, those who want to join our army are welcomed, and those who want to go home will be given another 5 oceans of travel expenses per person, and they will come and go freely.

Some of these puppet soldiers are ruffians, and some are desperate poor people who want to make ends meet, but in either case, they all like white silver dollars. As soon as they heard that the Eighth Route Army not only did not kill them, but also offered such tempting conditions, they all came out, and they all agreed.

After Zeng Zhongsheng and Cai Zhong listened to Zhang Zili's report, they knew that Zhang Zili wanted to use the puppet army to attack Dawenkou. In particular, Cai Zhong remembered the legendary story of Chief of Staff Liu Bocheng using the prisoners of the Guizhou army to open the Zunyi City Gate on the Long March and Liu Yimin leading the army to disguise the Sichuan army to attack Yibin, Leshan, and Chengdu for thousands of miles, so he couldn't help but glance at Zhang Zili more, and felt extremely relieved, feeling that Liu Yimin's greatest contribution was not how many enemies he eliminated and how many materials he captured, but brought out a group of cadres with advanced tactical thinking and who could take charge of their own affairs. With these cadres, it is not a problem to pull up a large contingent.

Zeng Zhongsheng and Cai Zhong immediately made a decision, and Zhang Zili led a regiment of the Tai'an detachment to capture Dawenkou Town, and the main force quickly moved north and set up a battlefield in the area north of Dawenkou to deal with the reinforcements of the Yue army.

Zhang Zili and Zhang Haitao discussed, transferred a group, and handed it over to Zhang Zili to lead. Considering that the city wall of Dawenkou Town is strong and easy to defend and difficult to attack, Zhang Haitao ordered the artillery battalion of the detachment to act with Zhang Zili, just in case.

Zhang Zili then decided to use the four companies of the 1st and 2nd Battalions to disguise the Yue Army and the puppet army, and the rest of the troops took advantage of the night to cover and distance themselves, and then quietly followed.

So, when the night shrouded the earth, the puppet army that went to sweep Beiteng Village triumphed. The puppet army was still walking in front, followed by the devil brigade, carrying the sun flag, escorting the people tied into a string, flashlight, and arrived at Dawenkou Town.

The sound of gunfire in Beiteng Village had already alarmed the defenders of Dawenkou Town, and the gendarmerie, the railway garrison, and the puppet army of the remaining company had all strengthened their vigilance. The devils and puppet army sentries at the gate of the town are all double posts. However, due to the limited number of remaining troops, and the defense of the railway station, railway bridge, and barracks, the devil puppet army on the city wall is a bit sparse.

Seeing the triumph of the puppet army brigade, the defenders breathed a sigh of relief from top to bottom. In particular, the puppet army in front of them and the puppet army Lao Cai and Lao Wang who were standing guard greeted each other indiscriminately, and all the only vigilant surnames of the puppet army ran to Java, and they were all busy competing for the chickens and ducks on the guns of the puppet army.

By the time all the puppet army had entered the town, and a few of the more well-rounded devils or puppet soldiers had found out that the situation was wrong, the cold bayonet had already stabbed them in the heart.

Gunfire inevitably rang out at the gendarmerie station. There is no way, the gendarmes are more vigilant than ordinary soldiers, and they can easily see through the identity of the pretenders, the reason is very simple, no one in the captured puppet army knows the password of the military sentry at the door of the gendarmerie. However, when the army entered the city, the gendarmerie of only 50 people, and there were no heavy weapons, how could it stop the attack of the Eighth Route Army? Fortunately, Zhang Zili knew that the devil gendarmes were difficult to deal with, so he put them last, and the troops had already inserted themselves near the station and the railway bridge, occupying the favorable terrain.

The gendarmes saw Amaterasu amid the roar of grenadiers and infantry artillery, but the railway garrison and the puppet army's troops guarding the station and railway bridge began to resist desperately, and asked for help from the Tai'an army, saying that they had encountered an attack by the Eighth Route Army disguised as the Imperial Army and the North China Security Army.

As soon as Zhang Zili saw that the sneak attack had turned into a strong attack, he immediately rushed to the station. When I got to the back, I saw that the devils had repaired the pillboxes to the bottom of the platform, and several pillboxes constituted crossfire, with no dead ends, and the soldiers couldn't raise their heads from the machine guns, and the troops couldn't rush up at all. Bunkers were also built on the platform with sandbags, and the attack channel of the troops was blocked from a high position, and the two demolition teams rushed up and were discovered by the devils and sacrificed under the crossfire of several pillboxes of the devils.

Zhang Zili couldn't help but be furious, and called the artillery battalion commander Yang Shuren, asking him to get the flat-firing gun and the Gaoping dual-purpose gun, and immediately kill the devil's bunker and use the infantry cannon to kill the devil's firepower point on the platform.

After issuing the order, Zhang Zili hurriedly reported the situation to Zeng Zhongsheng and Cai Zhong, and asked Chief of Staff Zeng and Director Cai to pay attention to the movement of the army in the direction of Tai'an.

Historically, the Eighth Route Army did not have flat-firing artillery, and when I saw that the artillery tower of the devil puppet army had no good way to organize blasting, it was only later that the local method of changing mortars into flat-firing guns was invented. The current Eighth Route Army is different, especially the instructors, who have artillery brigades, although the caliber of the cannons is small, but there are many of them. In addition, the main forces are equipped with bazookas, and they have learned to shoot anti-aircraft guns and anti-aircraft machine guns horizontally, and there is no problem at all in dealing with the pillboxes and turrets of the devils. However, the Tai'an detachment was formed for a short time and there were few bazookas, so Zhang Haitao generally did not allow it to be used, and only allowed tanks and armored vehicles to be used to deal with devils. Fortunately, the devil's flat-fire gun, Gaoping dual-purpose gun, and infantry gun were captured at Jieshou Station last time, and the artillery company became an artillery battalion.

The last time Yang Shuren performed well in the battle of the head of the realm, he later fought several small battles on the Jinpu Road with the troops, which can be regarded as training the soldiers newly transferred to the artillery battalion. After receiving the order, he immediately pushed up all the flat-fire guns, high-level dual-purpose guns, and infantry guns, and after preparing to stop, he aimed at the devil's pillbox and firepower point and opened fire.

When the devil saw that he had blocked the attack of the Eighth Route Army, he became rampant. An interpreter shouted wildly at the shooting hole: "Tubalu, Lao Tzu knows that you are bandits, and you live by eating big households." Surrender quickly, the imperial army will ensure that you will eat rice and white noodles, as well as cigarettes and drink. As long as you surrender, Taijun said, the golden ticket is big, the official position is big, and I will get you some foreign students as wives. If you don't know each other, as soon as the imperial army arrives, you will die without a place to be buried! ”

Before he could finish speaking, a shell flew straight into the shooting hole and exploded in the bunker, and there was no more ghost crying wolf howl inside.

Seeing that the Eighth Route Army actually had a flat-fire gun to deal with the pillboxes, the devils panicked, and the machine guns fired more fiercely, but this was to no avail, with the roaring cannons, not only the pillboxes under the platform were collapsed one by one, but the fire points on the platform were also completely dumb. In the end, the little devil with poor donkey skills, under the leadership of the squadron leader, raised his bayonet and howled and rushed towards the Eighth Route Army, trying to carry out a hand-to-hand fight, repel the attack of the Eighth Route Army, and destroy the artillery of the Eighth Route Army. It's a pity that the devils don't know, what they met was a teacher in the Eighth Route Army, and what the division commander has been teaching is that the problems that can be solved with artillery shells do not use bullets, the problems that can be solved with bullets do not use grenades, and the problems that can be solved with grenades do not need bayonets.

Looking at the 50 or so devils who screamed and pounced, Zhang Zili sneered a few times, didn't look at it, turned around and ordered the poplar people to immediately transfer their positions and go to reinforce the battle to capture the pseudo-stronghold in Toucun, the west head of the railway bridge.

After the poplar people gave the order to transfer their positions, they felt that the platform where the guns were still roaring just now was quiet, and when he turned his head to look, he saw that the devils who had just rushed up with bayonets fell to the ground in unison, and there was a pool of dirty blood under him without exception. Yang Shuren couldn't help but curse the "stupid" he had learned secretly, turned around and went to the direction of the railway bridge with the artillery battalion.

This Baotou village is on the side of the Dawen River railway bridge, the last time the instructor attacked and occupied Dawenkou, the devil's fortifications including the turret, the bunker were destroyed, and even the railway bridge was demolished. However, this time, the devil learned well, and picked up all the houses around the stronghold, forming an open shooting range. There are also large wolf dogs in the stronghold, ready to deal with sneak attackers.

When the poplar people arrived with the artillery battalion, our army was firing at the puppet army, and grenadiers and heavy machine guns were constantly firing.

The artillery battalion now had sufficient experience, and it didn't take long for the artillery positions to be built as soon as the poplar people gave the order. It is still the old way, the flat-firing artillery and the high-level dual-purpose artillery to deal with the pillboxes and turrets of the puppet army, and the infantry artillery to deal with the devils in the trenches. After a few shots, the devil's bunker was destroyed.

Before the battle began, part of the puppet army in this stronghold had been taken away to serve as the guard of the city gate and the city wall, and it had been eliminated when Zhang Zili led the troops to enter the town under the guise of the puppet army. The remaining devils are more than 30 people, and the puppet army is more than 30 people, relying on strong fortifications to resist stubbornly.

As soon as they saw that the bunker was destroyed, the puppet army on the turret was first afraid, and several puppet soldiers began to lean together, and after leaning together, they muttered. However, these puppet soldiers have no experience, and they patronized a few of their own people to discuss, forgetting the devils around them.

The captain of the devil squad on the turret already knew that Liu Heiqi and Zhang Buyun's rebellion caused the 2000 imperial army led by Major General Tsuchiya Bingma to shatter, of course, what he knew was that Liu Yimin deliberately forged false information, how could he know the truth. That's enough, though. At the beginning of the battle, the leader of the devil squad specially arranged 6 devils, in groups of two, one layer per group, guarding a crooked machine gun to monitor the puppet army's operations. The actions of these puppet armies all fell into the eyes of the devils. Although the devil soldiers didn't know the specific content of their discussion, they knew that they had absolutely bad intentions, so they directly pulled the trigger of the machine gun and beat several puppet soldiers into blood gourds.

Now the puppet army quit, and there was an infighting in the turret immediately, and the devil and the puppet army immediately faced each other. It's a pity that the devils have been on guard for a long time, and these puppet soldiers rushed into battle out of righteous indignation, and most of them were killed by the devils without even having a chance to shoot.

When the devils quelled the rebellion of the puppet army, they found that the flat-fire artillery shells of Tubalu had penetrated the turret, that is, with three loud bangs, the turret collapsed and all the devils involved were buried.

After receiving the news that the stronghold of Baotou Village had been captured, Zhang Zi immediately sent a report to Zeng Zhongsheng and Cai Zhong, reporting the news that our army had captured Dawenkou and that the puppet army had been annihilated.

After receiving the report, Zeng Zhongsheng and Cai Zhong ordered Zhang Zili to leave two companies to organize the masses to confiscate and carry the fake assets and seize the railway. The main force concentrated to the south, preparing to ambush the devil reinforcements from the direction of Ciyao Town and Yanzhou.

After receiving the order, Zhang Zili ordered the commander of the first regiment of the Tai'an detachment to lead the main force to move to the southern end of the town of Dawenkou, prepare to build fortifications, and quickly send a reconnaissance platoon to the south to reconnoitre, pay attention to intercepting the telephone lines of the Japanese army, and report the enemy situation immediately if it is discovered. He personally led two companies and began to mobilize the masses in the town, sabotage the railway, and confiscate counterfeit assets.

(To be continued)