Chapter 699 South Fight North (5)

Ding Baoren, a puppet army who likes mō nv people and nòng two xiǎo money children in Cangzhou City, naturally did not expect that among the people who went in and out of Cangzhou City to string relatives, not only the residents of the city and the villagers of the four towns and villages, but also the guerrillas of the Eighth Route Army were mixed in and entered Cangzhou City.

When the Eighth Route Army moved south from Tianjin, the cavalry battalion of the Fourth Brigade fought a battle in Cangzhou, when the city of Cangzhou had been completely fortified and cleared. But the common people always have to live, and life has to go on, and after the situation gradually stabilizes, the city people who run the old days slowly return to Cangzhou City, where there is a liaison station established by the underground party.

Liu Zhenhuan, captain of the Eighth Route Army's Hebei-Lubian Hui Anti-Japanese Brigade, was a native of Zhaohe Village, Dabei, southeast of Cangxian County. As early as 1935, Liu Zhenhuan joined through the introduction of Di Yidong and Li Anmin, and in 1936, he raised a Red Army guerrilla force of more than 30 people. After the Lugou Bridge Incident, Liu Zhenhuan, Di Yidong and others pulled up the Cangxian People's Anti-Japanese Guerrilla Corps. After the Sixth Brigade of the Eighth Route Army entered the Hebei and Shandong borders in the east, the Cangxian County Brigade was established on the basis of the Cangxian People's Anti-Japanese Guerrilla Corps.

The Japanese invasion of China was an all-round military, political, economic, and cultural aggression. On February 7, 1938, Kita Seiichi, head of the secret service of the North China Front of the Japanese Army, presided over the inaugural meeting of the pseudo "China Muslim Federation" in Huairen Hall, Zhongnanhai, Beiping. Liu Jinping, a major general of the puppet Manchurian Army and a Hui Jiān, delivered an opening speech in his capacity as a consultant, clearly expounding at the beginning that the purpose of the puppet "General Islamic Federation of China" was to "advocate the close cooperation of China, Japan, and Manchuria, resolutely support the new policy, carry forward Asian culture, safeguard the inherent religion, liaise with the compatriots of the religion internally, and try to relieve the sufferings of the compatriots of the religion." He also put forward the candidates for chairman and committee members approved by the Japanese secret services. The congress elected Wang Ruilan as the chairman of the puppet "General Islamic Federation of China."

The office of the puppet "General Islamic Federation of China" is located at the former site of Northeastern University on Mén Street in Guang'an, Beiping, and all the office funds are provided by the Japanese army, so everything has to be decided by the Japanese consultant Xiǎo Chi Dingxiong. The general person in charge is Liu Jinping, and the person in charge of daily affairs is Tang Yichen, the minister of general affairs, and there are clerical sections, accounting departments (the head of which is a Japanese Changchuan), education sections, relief sections, publications sections, investigation departments, and propaganda departments.

After the establishment of the pseudo-"China General Islamic Federation", it set up branches in Hebei, Tianjin, Shanxi, Shandong, and other places, and founded the monthly magazine "Islam". The Shandong branch was wiped out by the Eighth Route Army with the death of the Han Jiān Ma Liang, and the branches in other places also carried out activities. In May last year, the association organized a "Chinese Muslim Friendship Delegation to Japan" headed by Liu Jinbiao to visit Japan, where it visited the newly built mosque and the "Greater East Asia Muslim Circle Exhibition." In December, he organized a "pilgrimage group" composed of five people, including Tang Yichen, Liu Zhongquan, Ma Liangpu and two imams, to go to Mecca, the holiest site in Islam, by boat.

The most odious thing is that the puppet "China Muslim Federation", with the support of the Japanese army, actively formed the Hui Jiān armed forces and advocated "using the Hui to control the Hui"; in addition to the Hui Jiān Liu Peichen as the deputy commander of the puppet North China Autonomous Allied Army, the "Muslim Youth League" was also established to cultivate military personnel and form the Hui Jiān armed forces.

In response to this situation, the Eighth Route Army fought-for-tat and set up a Muslim Association in the Jilu border to mobilize and organize the Hui people to unite against Japan. It was at this time that Liu Zhenhuan was appointed by the organization to form the Hui anti-Japanese guerrilla brigade in the Hebei-Shandong border, and together with the Ma Benzhai anti-Japanese guerrilla detachment in central Hebei, they became two wonderful anti-Japanese armies of the Hui people on the North China Plain.

At this moment, Liu Zhenhuan, Wang Lianfang, instructor of the Hui Anti-Japanese Brigade, He Shixing, deputy captain, and Li Zihua, deputy instructor, led dozens of soldiers who had infiltrated the city to the house of a Hui imam in Cangxian County. Here they wanted to take out the weapons that were hidden when the Eighth Route Army withdrew from Cangxian, and prepare to cooperate with the main force to seize the eastern part of Cangxian County and welcome the large army into the city.

This imam is very old, and when the Fourth Brigade was stationed in Cangxian County, Wang Nanhu, the political commissar of the Fourth Brigade, met with him, and Jiāo talked about the Eighth Route Army, and was willing to support the Eighth Route Army in the War of Resistance. Therefore, the Fourth Brigade buried some of its weapons in the courtyard of his house, preparing for the use of the personnel who had infiltrated the city when Cangxian County was recaptured in the future. I used it this time.

When Liu Zhenhuan set out, Cai Zhong, director of the political department of the instructor, talked to him and the instructor Wang Lianfang, and encouraged them to take advantage of the opportunity of the Japanese army to win over the Hui people and investigate the looser, lead the troops into the city, and launch an attack on the Japanese army's eastern city when it started outside the city, and cooperate with the main force to seize the eastern city.

When Cai Zhong spoke, his eyes were full of perseverance, and he could see that Liu Zhenhuan and Wang Lianfang were full of courage, and repeatedly assured Cai Zhong that he would complete the task and play the prestige of the Hui Anti-Japanese Brigade on the Jilu Border.

The capture of Cangxian and the cutting off of the northern supply lines of the Japanese army were decided by Liu Yimin before he launched the Taixi Campaign. After Zeng Zhongsheng and Cai Zhong led the New Sixth Brigade and the Luxi Garrison Brigade to retreat from the Yellow River defense position, they rushed to the Hebei-Shandong border area, where they made preparations for battle while taking recuperation in concealment, and waited for Liu Yimin's order at all times.

Liu Zhenhuan They did not belong to the main force, and they did not know that the main force had a plan to seize Cangxian. Now listening to Director Cai's statement that he would attack Cangxian County, and that he would select the Hebei-Shandong Border Hui Anti-Japanese Guerrilla Brigade to blend into Cangxian County and take over the main force to break through the city, Liu Zhenhuan's mood can be imagined. There are so many troops, and they are singled out, probably because they are all from Cangxian County, their hometown, and it is not easy to make flaws, but more importantly, trust, is the expectation of the Hui people's anti-Japanese armed forces.

When the team set off, Cai Zhong personally went to see them off, carefully checked the soldiers' attire, and confirmed that they were all ordinary Hui people, and then let them go.

The imam led Liu Zhenhuan and the soldiers in the courtyard to pick up the weapons and ammunition buried by the Fourth Brigade of Jiao, and when they opened the wooden box, they all saw that they were all temporary new Type 38 rifles, as well as three tǐng crooked handle machine guns and Japanese-style xiǎo melon grenades.

At this time, the Hui anti-Japanese guerrilla brigade in the Jilu border was re-equipped, and all 52 cadres and fighters took on temporary new weapons.

Liu Zhenhuan asked the soldiers to hurry up and wipe the butter off the guns, calibrate the ruler, and seize the time to rest.

The three sons of the imam became Liu Zhenhuan's scouts, monitoring the movements of the Japanese puppet army and coming back from time to time to deliver news.

At about eight o'clock in the evening, the imam's eldest son ran back to report that martial law had suddenly fallen at Cangzhou Station, and that all the Japanese soldiers had taken up their positions, and that machine guns and xiǎo steel cannons had been set up, as if they were facing a great enemy.

As soon as Liu Zhenhuan heard it, he knew that it must have been launched in the direction of Dexian to our army, and the Japanese army in Cangxian County, who received the report, began to strengthen their vigilance. I'm afraid that after a long time of cloth, the Japanese army in Cangxian County will take the train south to reinforce it.

Liu Zhenhuan's judgment was right, it was indeed Dexian that launched our army.

After Liu Jianli saw Sun Liangcheng away, he rode to the front line of Wucheng to join the main force. When they met Zhang Hongtao, Zeng Zhongsheng and Cai Zhong also arrived to launch the battle to capture Cangxian.

According to the battle plan, the 2nd and 6th Brigades first completely destroyed the Japanese puppet army strongholds around Dexian, and then approached the county seat of Dexian to capture the Japanese airfield in Dexian, and then stormed the county seat of Dexian, forcing the Japanese troops in Cangxian, Nanpi, Dongguang, and Wuqiao to go south to reinforce and implement the tactics of encircling and reinforcing them, and annihilating one of them. After completing the task, the Sixth Brigade returned to the Jilu border and joined up with the new Sixth Brigade to stabilize the base area along the Jilu border. After the Battle of Cangxian, Xu Shiyou's Luxi Garrison Brigade returned to Luxi and joined up with the Second Jiao Brigade.

Zeng Zhongsheng and Cai Zhong's telegram made it very clear that in order to ensure the smooth operation of Cangxian, the Second and Sixth Brigades of Jiao must strike hard and completely mobilize the Japanese troops in Cangxian. In order to contain the reinforcements of the Japanese army in all aspects, Zeng Zhongsheng, in accordance with Liu Yimin's order, informed our army in southern Hebei and central Hebei to cooperate in the operation, and it was necessary to contain the Japanese troops on Cangshi Road and Deshi Road, so that they could not smoothly return to aid Dexian and Cangxian.

After reading the order, Liu Jianli and Zhang Hongtao discussed and decided to move the troops overnight, and all the two brigades would be moved to the boundary between Wucheng and Dexian during the day tomorrow, and then form two attack groups, one in the south and one in the north, with the second brigade in the north and the sixth brigade in the south, forming a pincer offensive against Dexian. Among them, the 2nd Brigade set up an ambush position between Dexian and Wuqiao, and the 6th Brigade set up an ambush position at the Yellow River, adopting an ambush posture against the Japanese reinforcements on the north and south lines. On February 20, the second day of the first lunar month, it started at 7 p.m. on time.

Liu Jianli knew that the meaning of the division commander was very clear, the purpose of fighting Dexian was to seize the Japanese army materials stored in Cangxian County, and he forced Xiǎo Devil to stop pursuing the cavalry brigade, and Chōu transferred the Jīng Rui Division to return to aid Dexian and Cangxian. Once the Japanese heavy army group returned to Cangxian, the division commander would inevitably order Hong Chaoyuan to attack Lianyungang, and even order Li Qing and them to occupy Qingdao again. If the devils reoccupied Qingdao, then the southbound troops under the command of the plateau would fight in the Jianghuai region, and the devils would have to go south again for reinforcements. The fundamental purpose of the division commander is to turn the Xiǎo Devil Heavy Army Group into a firefighting team, traveling back and forth on the railway line and highway line. When the Xiǎo Devil Heavy Army Group was dragged down, tired, and unable to chase, the battle line was stabilized.

To Liu Jianjian's surprise, his Second Brigade had not yet started, but the Xiǎo devil had done it first.

The Japanese puppet army stationed in Dexian County was the sixth group of the 41st Division of the Japanese army. In addition, there are also Han Jiān armed forces such as the puppet army Zhang Dexin Regiment and the puppet De County Garrison, puppet police, and secret agencies.

Everyone has it in this era. Some people throw their heads and kill blood in order to kill devils, but some people are willing to be Han Jiān lackeys and are proud of betraying their compatriots. At the beginning, General Fan Zhuxian persisted in the War of Resistance in Northwest Shandong and developed 35 detachments and a three-way civilian army, with a total strength of nearly 60,000 troops. Among them, the seventh, tenth, eleventh, twelfth, thirteenth, nineteenth, twenty-sixth, twenty-eighth, thirty-first, and thirty-fifth detachments under the direct control or influence of our party are included. Among these detachments, except for the 10th detachment, which had relatively strong combat effectiveness, some detachments had only 1 or 200 people, and most of them were later incorporated into the 2nd Luxi Garrison Brigade, and some detachments were reorganized into county brigades. Some of the troops of Fan Zhuxian's department, such as the first road and the sixteenth detachment of the People's Army, were disarmed by our army and incorporated into various units after recruit training; Part of the troops was wiped out or dispersed in the Japanese sweep; Some troops were reluctant to be incorporated into the Eighth Route Army, so they went south to the area of Fanxian and defected; There were also some bandit troops reorganized by Fan Zhuxian who were afraid of being reorganized by the Eighth Route Army, so they simply surrendered to the Japanese army and became Han Jiān.

Since the Japanese army occupied Dexian County, a relatively complete Japanese puppet regime was established in Dexian County. Each district has a district office with a self-defense regiment. These Han armed forces, in cooperation with the Japanese army and the regular troops of the puppet North China Security Army, attacked our local armed forces, and did bad things.

Zhang Dexintuan was also an anti-Japanese armed force appointed by Fan Zhuxian, but later surrendered to the Japanese army and became a Han jiān. At first, it was stationed in Qihe County, and after the Eighth Route Army captured Jinan, this guy withdrew to Dexian County with the Japanese army. After the Battle of Taixi, the Eighth Route Army withdrew from the northwest of Shandong, and Zhang Dexin was supposed to return to Qihe, but the Japanese army did not let him go back, but sent another puppet army to Qihe and left him in Dexian.

On the morning of the first day of the Lunar New Year, Zhang Dexin went to suggest to the commander of the Japanese army that he should seize the opportunity of the Chūn Festival to sweep the base area of the Eighth Route Army and fight the Eighth Route Army unprepared.

The commander of the Japanese wing has already received the order of the North China Front, drawn up an operational plan, and is waiting to be implemented. At Zhang Dexin's suggestion, the Japanese army wing commander borrowed the slope to get off the donkey and asked Zhang Dexin's department to be the vanguard.

Zhang Dexin didn't expect that nòng would let him be cannon fodder. However, he is willing to be cannon fodder. The reason is that the current Han Jiān is not good, the Eighth Route Army has won so many battles, and the common people are no longer as afraid as when the Japanese army captured Dexian, and dare to follow the Eighth Route Army to fight devils. It is already very difficult to imagine people who casually kill people and set fires, rob money and guns, and rob people like they did in the past. The Japanese army did not pay the puppet army, and the puppet army's food, drink, and Lazar all relied on Wang Kemin's puppet government to allocate money, which was naturally not enough, and had to rely on snatching it from the people. Zhang Dexin understands this truth.

The commander of the Japanese wing immediately transferred an infantry brigade, an artillery squadron, and a machine gun squadron, and Chōu transferred the 12th Regiment of the 6th Group of the North China Public Security Army, Zhang Dexin's Regiment, and the Dexian Garrison, and cobbled together 4,000 men, and marched south along the canal to the boundary between Wucheng and Dexian Jiāo.

In Zhang Dexin's mind, Liu Yimin led the main force of the Eighth Route Army south to northern Anhui, and there were no regular troops of the Eighth Route Army in the western Luxi area. Even if there were, they wouldn't be able to defend the ground as big as Russy. This time, if you sweep dàng, if you do it well, maybe you can capture Wucheng. As long as Wucheng is occupied, Han Jiān officials can be appointed, Dingrav can be captured, and the army can be expanded.

What Zhang Dexin didn't expect was that he kicked the stone slab, and he had to kick his toe off!

The battle began at 10 a.m.

The ancient name of the four NV temple is Anle Town, which is an important wharf on the Wei Canal. Historically, the government of successive dynasties has set up a number of management institutions such as transportation, salt and iron, taxation, and commerce, so there is a saying that "Enxian Yamén is in the temple". At that time, there were many merchants here, there were many shops, and there were famous places such as Foguang Temple, **Baoguang Holy Tower, Niangniang Temple, Shanxi Guild Hall, etc., which were very prosperous. If it weren't for the invasion of the xiǎo devils, when the canal thawed, the town would naturally be a prosperous scene again.

Zhang Dexin's goal is the Four NV Temple. His purpose was not to see the beautiful scenery of the confluence of the nine rivers, nor to come to Foguang Temple to make incense, let alone to listen to the legends and stories of the Four N Temple, but to take a fancy to the wealth of the Four N Temple. Of course, Zhang Dexin also knows that in this kind of war era, after the soldiers and bandits, the stones are burned, where will there be any word for wealth. But he believed that the emaciated camel was bigger than the horse, and even if the temple declined, it would be more oily and watery than other places.

The four NV temple is more than 30 miles away from the county seat of Dexian County, and the road surface is basically dry for several days after the heavy snowfall. Zhang Dexin was eager for money, scolded and scolded all the way, and kept urging the puppet soldiers to hurry up and hurry up and hurry up to the Four NV Temple for dinner. Hurry up and hurry, and arrived at the four NV temple at ten o'clock in the morning.

Zhang Dexin didn't expect that as soon as he arrived at the entrance of the town of Sinv Temple, he heard only a gunshot, and one of his soldiers went to see the king of Hades. Then he heard a loud bell ringing in the town, and Zhang Dexin slipped off the horse, secretly saying in his heart that he was found by Tu Balu.

Blocking Zhang Dexin was the District Xiǎo team, whose mission was to monitor the movements of the Japanese troops in Dexian County and cover the villagers for the Chūn Festival.

As soon as the district xiǎo team opened fire, the alarm bell rang, and the townspeople began to go down the tunnels under the organization of the militia.

Zhang Dexin listened to it for a while, the gunfire was not dense, and it was all made by Hanyang, knowing that this was not a regular unit of the Eighth Route Army, it must be a local armed force of the Eighth Route Army, so he became bold, and turned around and shouted a puppet army battalion commander and ordered a strong attack.

The puppet army launched a strong attack and soon stormed the town. However, both the district xiǎo team and the militia went down the tunnels and opened up the tunnel warfare. The scene is very similar to the scene in the movie "Tunnel War".

The puppet army was beaten everywhere in the town, and when they saw that it was not a play, they retreated. Zhang Dexin thought about it for a long time, but he still honestly sent people to inform the Japanese army, asking them to quickly reinforce them.

The puppet army asking for help went to a Xiǎo and only came back to report that the imperial army had asked Zhang Dexin to quickly capture the Sinv Temple, and Chōu transferred troops to reinforce the imperial army. Because of the Imperial Army and the 12th Regiment of Liu Xinghe of the North China Public Security Army, they were also attacked by Tuba Road mines, and even the Dexian garrison that sneaked up on the west bank of the canal was also attacked by Tuba Road, and there were gunshots in every village, and no one could be found.

When Zhang Dexin heard this, he was very annoyed, and the puppet army who pulled the news was a whip.

Zhang Dexin, who had no choice, had no choice but to fight hard. This dozen was fought from ten o'clock in the morning until dark, and the four NV temples of Xiǎoxiǎo turned out to be a bone that could not be gnawed.

The Second Brigade and the Sixth Brigade led by Liu Jianli and Zhang Hongtao were actually hidden in this area, but they did not reinforce them, but stood still and waited for dark to concentrate on eliminating this Japanese puppet army.

Looking at the day, it is not too early, Zhang Dexin feels that he should launch a general attack, otherwise he will have to withdraw his troops, and he can't let the soldiers always be beaten passively like this!