Chapter 857 Xin'an Ancient Town (I)

"Maling Mountain, Maling Mountain, pedal Luoma Lake, north pillow Muling Pass."

Hong Chaoyuan, commander of the Fifth Brigade of the Eighth Route Army and commander of the Lunan Military Region, stood in a bush at the Maling Pass, holding a telescope and looking at the ancient town of Xin'an at the foot of Maling Mountain. Beside him stood Hu Xuerong, political commissar of the Fifth Brigade and commander of the New Fifth Brigade, and Zhang Yicheng, chief of staff, and behind them were the regiment commanders and political commissars of the Fifth Brigade and the New Fifth Brigade.

At this time, it is evening, and the sunset renders Maling Mountain brilliant and beautiful.

This Maling Mountain starts from Caozhuang in Linshu County in the north, ends at the Luoma Lake in the south, stretches for hundreds of miles, as if Yimeng Mountain jumps out from the East China Sea, and inadvertently swings the horse's tail in southern and northern Jiangsu, and draws out the mountains that are like galloping horses.

If you stand on the Longhai line and look north, North Maling Mountain is composed of low mountains and hills. When I entered the mountain, I realized that the mountain was full of ups and downs, ravines and ravines, lush flowers and trees, flowing springs and waterfalls, and a good scenery. Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty went to the south of the Yangtze River six times, all of them from Honghuabu in the south of Tancheng in Lunan to take the Maling Mountain Post Road to Xin'an Ancient Town and enter Jiangsu. It is said that the reason why Emperor Qianlong passed through Maling Mountain six times is that he likes the scenery here, as well as the culture of southern Lu and northern Jiangsu.

The fame of Maling Mountain first comes from the Maling Ancient Road, during the Warring States Period, there was a battle of Maling of Qi Wei that went down in history, Sun Bin and Pang Juan, the tall feet of the Guiguzi fought wits and courage in Maling Mountain, and the Maling Ancient Road became a witness of Sun Bin's art of war. However, at this time, Hong Chaoyuan didn't know that the ancient battlefield of the Battle of Maling was under their feet, and if they knew, they might revise the battle plan and repeat the Battle of Maling.

Hong Chaoyuan held the binoculars and looked at it for a while, then turned around and said, "Comrade Yan Xuan, tell you about the situation in Xin'an Town. ”

Yan Xuan is a native of Yi County, and now he is a cadre assigned to Xin'an Town by Tancheng County to be sent to Xin'an Town, and his task is to mobilize the masses to fight against Japan. Seeing Commander Hong ask, Yan Xuan reported: "The history of Xin'an Town is not long, and during the Kangxi Dynasty of the Qing Dynasty, there was only one family surnamed Liu here who cultivated wasteland. Later, there was a martial arts master named Ma Chongkai, who became the guard of Emperor Kangxi, it is said that he was on duty for another night, Kangxi practiced martial arts at night, and when he was proud, he went on the roof, Ma Chongkai thought that the assassin was coming, and quickly stepped forward to intercept it, and caught the assassin. After catching it, I found out that it was Banzai Ye, and I was very scared. However, Kangxi was not angry, and the next day when he went to the court, he said that Ma Chongkai was promoted to three poles in a row, and he was allowed to return to his hometown to build a guard mansion and give him 500 hectares of land. So Ma Chongkai returned to the area of Xin'an Town, and together with the family surnamed Liu, he built a manor, known as Liu Mazhuang, which is the predecessor of Xin'an Town. Before Qianlong, due to years of operation, Liu Mazhuang's reputation became more and more famous, and the descendants of the Liu family and the Ma family began to worry about whether Liu was in front or Ma was in front, and they were arguing until the Xianfeng period. Later, their lawsuit went all the way to the county government and the government office. In order to settle the conflict between Liu and Ma, they immediately ordered a stonemason to make a five-foot-long and three-foot-wide red-striped stone on Maling Mountain overnight, with the three characters of Xin'an Town written on the front and engraved on the back 'auspicious from the sky, hereby given, never disputed, and the world is peaceful'. After this stone was discovered intentionally or unintentionally, the descendants of Liu and Ma were no longer arguing, and Liu Mazhuang was renamed Xin'an Town. In the Daoguang Xianfeng period, Xin'an Town is located between Haizhou and Xuzhou, and is the traffic artery from Lunan to northern Jiangsu, Xin'an Town has developed into a prosperous commercial town, from the old north gate to the south gate, the four-mile-long street is lined with shops, merchants gather, merchants from Shandong Qingzhou, Jining, Liaocheng, divided into Qingzhou, Jining two gangs to do business here. The old generation said that there are green buildings, theaters, casinos, pawnshops, taverns, mule and horse shops on the street, and it is a pity that when the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was noisy, there was a hero named Liu Yeju in Xin'an Town, who became the general of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and fought fiercely with Monk Greenqin here, turning Xin'an Town into a ruin. The current Xin'an Town was rebuilt in the second year of Tongzhi's accession to the throne. This time the construction is more formal, north from the north of the Xuandi Temple, south to the front of the Sanguan Temple, east along the embankment, west to the back of Zang's house, the establishment of the east and west, north and south four gates, the north gate is engraved with the three words of Xin'an Town, and the side book is built in the three years of Tongzhi in the Qing Dynasty. After the reconstruction, Xin'an Town has a Suqian Camp Guerrilla Yamen subordinate to the Huaiyang Town Standard, commonly known as the Great Yamen; There is also a thousand general yamen, commonly known as the small yamen. It was not until 1916, after Xinhai**, that the guerrilla yamen in Xin'an Town was abolished. ”

Yan Xuan is worthy of being a cadre from an intellectual background in Lunan Province, and he is very familiar with the geography of this area, and he talks eloquently, and the cadres listen very carefully.

Shen Nantang, the head of the 13th Sect, was yearning for the story of Kangxi and Ma Chongkai, and interjected: "Emperor Kangxi regards the people's hearts as the Great Wall, and his big mind is admirable. Unexpectedly, his unscrupulous descendant Pu Yi turned out to be a bad breed, or an impotence patient, who couldn't even serve his mother-in-law, and dared to go to the Japanese to be the emperor. If Kangxi had knowledge, he would be ashamed."

That's the benefit of a tutor's focus on learning. Thinking of Shen Nantang, when he joined the Red Army, he didn't know a few big characters, but now he can say that Emperor Kangxi regards the people's hearts as the Great Wall, which impressed the cadres present. However, he later said that Pu Yi was an impotence patient and couldn't even serve his mother-in-law, which made the cadres laugh knowingly. But everyone knew that this was said by the division commander in a public conversation, and what the division commander said must not be wrong, so no one raised the bar with him and asked him how he knew.

Hong Chaoyuan stopped Shen Nantang and said to Yan Xuan, "Tell me about the current situation." ”

Yan Xuan saluted, said "yes", and continued: "Since our army annihilated the main force of the 10th and 6th Divisions on Longhai Road last time, in view of the status of Xin'an Town as a transportation hub between the two provinces of Sulu, the Japanese army has strengthened its defense. Especially after our army broke through the battle of Longhai Road in the previous period, the Japanese army learned well and dug blockade ditches in the north and south of the railway, which were two zhang deep and three zhang wide. The Japanese built a stronghold and artillery tower every one or two miles on the blockade ditch as a support point, blocked it with machine guns during the day, and sent patrols to patrol at night to prevent people from sneaking through. At night, the searchlights of the devil's stronghold shine at regular intervals. That's not all, the Japanese army put the puppet army on the front line to stand guard on duty, the Japanese army concentrated its forces in the back and stood by, and once the alarm was raised in one place, the Japanese army immediately besieged it. ”

Hong Chaoyuan now fully understands what the cage policy is, if he lets the little devil toss like this, he will have to trap the base areas to death in the future

Hong Chaoyuan asked in a deep voice: "Is it just that there is a blockade ditch in Xin'an Town, or is there a blockade ditch along the entire Longhai Road?" ”

Yan Xuan returned and said that for the time being, there were only blockade ditches on the periphery of some big towns on the railway lines such as Xin'an Town and Hongzhuang Town, but it seemed that the devil wanted to dig all the eastern section of Longhai Road into the blockade ditch. The little devils have tasks for all districts and villages, and they can't succeed in arresting and killing people.

Hong Chaoyuan's brows furrowed.

Yan Xuan then reported that the devils had a wing headquarters and two brigades of the Ninth Division stationed in Xin'an Town, as well as a squadron of garrisons, equipped with tanks and artillery. However, from the outside, it seems that the devil is very tightly defended, and when you enter the town, the little devil's defense is not so strict. Last time, Yan Xuan took Ma Jingfu to the toilet outside the courtyard of the devil garrison, and threw leaflets of the Eighth Route Army inside through the courtyard wall, which frightened the little devils to quickly block the whole town, check the household registration, and make chickens and dogs jump. Another time, Yan Xuan and Ma Qiaofu touched the Japanese bunker at the No. 3 bridgehead of the railway northeast of Tangzhuang, Hedong, Xin'an Town, and found that it was empty. Later, I found out that there was no one in this bunker during the day, and only little devils were stationed to defend it at night.

Hong Chaoyuan nodded: "Good job, Comrade Yan Xuan"

Yan Xuan then reported that it was the puppet army Tian Liusuo's department, which belonged to the puppet Manchurian Advance Army, the strength of a regiment. The regimental headquarters and a battalion were stationed in Xin'an Town, and a battalion set up strongholds in several villages at the intersection of Tancheng and Xin'an Town at the foot of Maling Mountain to confront our New Sixth Brigade. Another battalion was deployed in the south of Xin'an Town to confront our army in northern Jiangsu. These puppet armies are all Manchurian Defense Forces, well-trained and very strong in combat.

Hong Chaoyuan knew about the strength of the Japanese puppet army in Xin'an Town and the situation of digging a blockade ditch, and the reconnaissance company of the New Sixth Brigade defending Maling Mountain had already found out the situation clearly. However, it turned out that Hong Chaoyuan didn't care very much, his Sixth Brigade was so strong in combat that the blockade ditch was not in his eyes. But now it seems that this poisonous trick of the little devil is quite vicious, if it is not for a large army to fight, the general local armed forces want to cross the devil's blockade line at will, and this blockade ditch alone will block the footsteps of the advance. You must know that at this time, the troops of the little devils in Shandong are sufficient, and once the battle starts, the devils in the rear of the blockade line will pounce on them, relying on the positions on the blockade ditch to calmly block the attack, and the casualties of the passing troops will be great.

Hong Chaoyuan said to Hu Xuerong: "Political commissar, after the end of this battle, we must organize forces to fill in the blockade ditch of the devils, and completely destroy the Longhai Road. ”

Hu Xuerong sighed: "The little devil has been beaten more and more by us, and he is more and more afraid of death. The devils are only digging blockade ditches on Longhai Road now, and it is likely that the Japanese army has also begun to dig blockade ditches on Jinpu Road, Jiaoji Road, and Pinghan Road. If the devil is given half a year, I am afraid that the land of North China will be divided into a small piece by the blockade ditch dug by the little devil relying on the railway line and highway line. It seems that the division commander still has the vision and can see through it, and launched the Lunan Battle early and does not give the devil a chance. ”

A smile appeared on Hong Chaoyuan's face: "Little devil, if you want to fight for the division commander, you are purely looking for death"

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