Liu Heiqi's team is basically habitual bandits. Not to mention those backbone bandits, even the more than 1,000 people who were re-replenished in Linyi, they were all small bandits and scattered bandits scattered in the Yimeng Mountains, and the most unfortunate were some people who were eager to be bandits. Because bandits are different from [***], [***] replenish the soldiers by arresting Ding, and most of the bandits join the gang voluntarily.

When Liu Heiqi died, the bandits who were rushing forward didn't know that the bandits surrounding him were also killed almost at the same time, so they basically died silently. The bandits did not know that their helm had been slain, and they rushed forward with their usual shouts. It wasn't until the bullets behind them swept by them like the wind and took those brothers to Hades one by one that the bandits who were lucky enough to survive realized that someone was behind them, and they looked back.

The 13th Regiment is the first-class main force of the Fifth Brigade, and the gap between the equipment of the 1st Regiment, the 4th Regiment, and the 7th Regiment, that is, the number of bazookas is less than the number of automatic rifles and machine guns in the 1st August, but it is also a machine gun group, a platoon with a firepower squad, a company with a firepower platoon, a battalion with a fire company, and a regimental fire support battalion, and the overall firepower has far surpassed that of the army. The reason why Hong Chaoyuan arranged for the 13th Regiment to take the New Fifth Regiment and the First Brigade of the Lunan People's Anti-Volunteer Brigade to deal with Liu Heiqi was to consider that the soldiers of the First Brigade of the Lunan People's Anti-Volunteer Brigade were all Lunan people, and some of them must have seen Liu Heiqi to prevent this guy from slipping away. The second is to use the sharpest tip of his knife to teach the 13th Regiment to wipe out Liu Hei's Seven Bandits in one fell swoop.

The 13th Regiment, the New Fifth Regiment, and the First Brigade of the Lunan People's Anti-Volunteer Brigade were behind the backs of Liu Heiqi's bandits, and naturally all the weapons were fired, and six or seven thousand people fought more than 2,000 people, and the firepower was so fierce that those bandits naturally rolled straight to the ground with a grunt. Therefore, when the bandits who rushed farther away and were lucky enough to survive looked back after being alerted, the picture that appeared in front of them was something they could never have imagined in their lives: the fields south of Maojiayan were covered with corpses wearing the uniforms of the Imperial Cooperative Army, and the troops who did not know who they were wearing gray military uniforms and steel helmets fanned up in the direction of Maojiayan, and the bright bayonets shone frighteningly in the sunlight.

The courage of the bandits can only be exerted in the mountains, and it can be said that the mountains are the parents of the bandits. The bandits who left the mountains are rootless trees, not to mention that they have now sold their backs to the main force of the Eighth Route Army? Therefore, when those remnants of the bandits who were lucky enough to be alive turned their heads and saw this scene, they were frightened, they had always killed the common people and spoiled the common people, and when the god of death came to them, they were far worse than those ordinary people, and they immediately peed their pants!

The cadres of the 13th Regiment and the New Fifth Regiment all knew Liu Yimin's attitude towards Liu Heiqi's gang, and naturally they would not tolerate them. The soldiers of the First Brigade of the Lunan People's Anti-Volunteer Corps, how many of them have a deep blood feud with Liu Heiqi's gang, this enemy is very red when he sees each other, and when he sees the opportunity to avenge his relatives and fellow villagers, where will he want any prisoners! So the soldiers of the First Brigade of the Lunan People's Anti-Japanese Volunteer Corps, armed with old-fashioned rifles, rushed to the forefront, and bullets, grenades, and bayonets all beckoned to the remnants of the bandits. Zhang Yicheng had to order Zhang Guangzhong to call his soldiers to stop, because they lacked training, so the rush would inevitably cause too many casualties, and their task was to clean up the battlefield and serve as a battlefield guard, so that the main force could clean up the remnants of the bandits.

Zhang Guangzhong took a look at the stormtrooping formation of the 13th Regiment, and then saw that his soldiers were charging straight like crop men, and knew that what Zhang Yicheng said was reasonable. However, it is unlikely that they want to withdraw the fighters at this time, because they want to fight Liu Heiqi bandits too much.

By the time Zhang Guangzhong's order was conveyed to the soldiers of the First Brigade of the Lunan People's Anti-Japanese Volunteer Corps, Liu Hei's Seven Bandits had been completely wiped out. Zhang Yicheng directly ordered the 13th Regiment to bypass Maojiayan from the east side according to the battle plan and flank the devils, and ordered the new 5th Regiment to enter Maojiayan, take over the position of Mo Zhengmin's troops, meet the devils head-on, and intercept the remnants of Zhang Buyun, who had retreated.

In the whole battle of Xiazhuang, I felt the most excited about the soldiers of Mo Zhengmin's department, first by the devil puppet army, the troops were defeated, and they were ambushed by the puppet army on the way to retreat, seeing that the team had completely collapsed, and the whole army was about to be wiped out, who knew that a miracle happened, and in a blink of an eye, the puppet soldiers who pursued themselves were put down in rows. In the end, the puppet army in the south was all wiped out, and the puppet army in the west was beaten and scurried, and even the devils were blown up by the shells. As a result, the soldiers who were forced to run all over the ground by the devil puppet army just now stopped running and began to climb down and fire at the devil puppet army, and those living captains, squadron leaders, and squad leaders also began to stand up and command.

When the cannon sounded, Mo Zhengmin, Wang Dongnian, and Wang Naizheng were all on the position of a large team in Maojiayan, commanding a large team to desperately resist the attack of the Yue army.

The army is the strength of nearly three brigades, and Major General Tsuchiya saw that the main force of Mo Zhengmin's army had been defeated, where would he have any scruples, so he immediately ordered the devils to launch a full-scale attack on the first brigade of Mobu who was holding Maojiayan.

Although the 6th Brigade is a garrison brigade, its combat effectiveness is not only incomparable with the Devil's Permanent Division, but also with the 3rd, 4th, and 13th Mixed Brigades. But compared with [***], the combat effectiveness is still superior. Compared with Mo Zhengmin's troops, needless to say, it is not a level at all.

Seeing that the devil screamed and pounced, a large group of soldiers, under the command of the captains, relied on the position at the edge of the village to shoot non-stop. It's a pity that these broken guns are not angry, and most of the bullets don't know where they flew, but the little devil's rifles are accurate one by one, and the machine guns are even more windy, so that the soldiers can't raise their heads. Soon the devil's infantry artillery and grenadiers came at him, and shrapnel flew above the soldiers' heads, in front of them, and behind them, constantly taking the lives of the fighters.

Although Mo Zhengmin smoked a lot, although he didn't fully understand what the art of conducting was, he knew that once the devil rushed into the village, everything would be over. Therefore, as soon as he saw that the position at the east end of the village was broken, the devil was about to rush in, so he rushed directly with his own guards and blocked the gap.

At this time, a squadron leader ran over to Mo Zhengmin and said, "Commander, if you continue to fight like this, the brothers will die, so run away." If you don't run, you'll have to surrender! ”

Mo Zhengmin glanced at his sworn brother, and then at the corpses of the guards that were overlapping at the gap, and a tear soaked from the corner of his eye. He understood that a large group had suffered heavy casualties, and the other brigades had already collapsed, and when the devils came up again, he could no longer stop them.

As soon as Wang Naizheng heard that the squadron leader was going to escape and surrender, he immediately pointed his gun at him, glared and shouted: "Whoever dares to surrender and become a Han annihilation, I will kill him as a turtle grandson!" ”

The squadron leader rolled his eyes: "What do you know about a hairy boy?" Who wants to surrender? Isn't there no way to do it now? If you don't surrender, you have to die! Leave the green mountains without worrying about no firewood, if they are all dead, there will be no balls, and they will resist a bird! ”

Mo Zhengmin didn't want to surrender either, but after all, he was an old soldier and took strength very seriously, if he didn't surrender, there would really be nothing. So, he coughed and said, "Don't make any noise, you can run out again if you surrender, what's the big deal?" ”

Mo Zhengmin was about to continue, but Wang Dongnian said: "Commander Mo, we are all Chinese, and it is glorious to die in battle, and we must not surrender, and Han Annihilation will not end well." ”

A few people wanted to talk about it again, and the devil came up again. At this time, the west and south of Maojiayan almost at the same time sounded dense gunfire, several people were surprised, they heard the thunder of the earth shaking the mountains, Mo Zhengmin is an old soldier, knowing that it was the sound of the artillery group firing, thinking that it was the devil's heavy artillery unit arrived, while covering his ears and lying down, he shouted one after another: "Quickly hit the white flag, we surrender!" ”

After finishing speaking, he didn't hear the sound of shells exploding around him for a long time, but the brothers were cheering, Mo Zhengmin got up, looked up, and saw that a group of shells had fallen in the devil's attack formation, blowing up the little devil's blood, and even the devil's artillery position and heavy machine gun position were blown up in a mess.

Mo Zhengmin's brain reacted quickly, and he immediately realized that reinforcements had arrived, and he stopped talking about surrendering, and shouted: "Brothers, our reinforcements have arrived." Aim at the little devil and hit Lao Tzu hard! ”

Wang Dongnian shouted: "Comrades, hit hard, the main force of our Eighth Route Army has come up, don't let the little devils run away." ”

A large group of surviving fighters all had their spirits, and they were no longer afraid of the problem of total annihilation, and began to shoot at the devils wholeheartedly.

It didn't take long for Zhang Buyun's troops to bypass Maojiayan and flee to the north and south. Soon, Mo Zhengmin and others saw the Eighth Route Army troops that were pursuing the route, and were about to consider whether to take advantage of the situation to counterattack, when the Eighth Route Army in the south of the village entered Maojiayan.

Zhong Mingbiao was a cadre sent by the central government to the Red Eighteenth Regiment at the time of the passage, and now he is the head of the New Fifth Regiment. After receiving Zhang Yicheng's order to enter Maojiayan, intercept Zhang Buyun's rout, and counterattack the devils, he and political commissar Huang Ligong directly led the New Fifth Regiment into Maojiayan to replace Mo Zhengmin's position.

Seeing Mo Zhengmin, Zhong Mingbiao raised his hand and saluted, and after Mo Zhengmin returned the salute, Zhong Mingbiao said: "Commander Mo, I am Zhong Mingbiao, the commander of the New Fifth Regiment of the Fifth Brigade of the Eighth Route Army, and I was ordered to take over your position and encircle the devils and the puppet army. Please take your unit down and recuperate, and then talk to you when we have eliminated the devils. After speaking, without waiting for Mo Zhengmin to reply, Zhong Mingbiao asked political commissar Huang Yougong to organize Mo Zhengmin's department to contain the troops, and he led the troops to the position in great strides.

Major General Tsuchiya Soldiers and Horses were dazed by a series of changes, until the remnants of Zhang Buyun rushed to the position of the Yue Army, followed by the artillery regiment of the Fifth Brigade of Jiao and began to shell the Yue Army, and Major General Tsuchiya Soldiers and Horses understood that this battle was a defeat and could not be defeated again, so he hurriedly ordered the Yue Army to shoot at the puppet army, forcing them to turn around and fight with the suddenly appeared Zhong [***] team.

The machine guns of the Yue army finally stopped the fleeing puppet army, but the artillery fire of the Eighth Route Army and the bullets that were in hot pursuit made the puppet army begin to flee north, and those who felt that they could not escape pretended to be dead on the spot. Only those habitual bandits would lie down and shoot at the pursuit team of the Eighth Route Army.

At this time, the 13th Regiment had already made a detour back to the eastern flank of the Yue Army and began to attack the Yue Army with mortars, infantry guns, grenadiers, and light and heavy machine guns. The New Fifth Regiment also took over the position of Mo Zhengmin's Ministry and opened up in front of the army. The 14th Regiment, the 15th Regiment, the Supplementary Regiment, and the Lunan Reading Regiment attacked the devils from the west. The artillery of the artillery regiment specially shelled the concentration of the devil puppet army, and the little devil cried and called his mother.

Major General Tsuchiya Bingma couldn't leave after hesitating for a while, and he didn't care that he hadn't figured out what the number of the [***] team here was, so he ordered the wounded to stay behind to block the attack, and he got into the car with the remnants and hurriedly retreated in the direction of Juxian.

Major General Tsuchiya didn't know what kind of troops he encountered, so he gave the stupid order to retreat. If he knew that it was the troops of Liu Yimin, the instructor of the Eighth Route Army, it was estimated that he would not have retreated, and would have stayed to resist desperately, and he would have caused some trouble for the Eighth Route Army when he died.

The retreat of the army was tantamount to issuing a general attack order, the trumpets of the Eighth Route Army all sounded, Hong Chaoyuan even sent all the reserves, and also ordered the artillery regiment to block the artillery bombardment and block the retreat of the devils.

This time, the devil's car suffered heavy losses, the shells were too dense, and the road was blown up with potholes, and the car could not run at all. There are constantly devils who are hit by bullets flying from all sides and torn apart by shells. Some unlucky devils even took a shell directly in the car, and got a broken arm and a stump leg flying together, stained with blood and dirty meat.

At this time, the soldiers and horses of Tsuchiya had already felt that the end was coming, and it was impossible for them to return to the county seat of Juxian, because a large force of the [***] team also appeared in the north, which not only blocked the puppet army fleeing north, but also followed the puppet army to press up.

Seeing that it had been surrounded, the spirit of bushido in the Tsuchiya soldiers and horses was completely stimulated, and he ordered the remnants to build fortifications on the spot, and then sent a report to the Second Army that they encountered the siege of the main force of the Shina Political Axe Army, and asked for urgent tactical guidance, and sent a report to the devils stationed in Linyi, Feixian, Yishui, and Mengyin, asking them to urgently reinforce. It's a pity that the devil stopped on the way to escape, there is no village in front of him, there is no store in the back, and there is no ravine here as a natural position, the little devil stopped this time, and he didn't have time to build a position, so he became a live target for the shooting accuracy of the light and heavy machine gunners and rifle shooters of the Eighth Route Army.

Hong Chao, who caught up, saw that the devil didn't run away, and was ready to stick to it, so he couldn't help but sneer. After laughing, he ordered to concentrate all the heavy firepower of the whole brigade, and beat the center of the army team, and be sure to beat the little devil and surrender on his own initiative.

Mountain artillery, field artillery, infantry artillery, mortars, grenadiers, heavy machine guns, all the ones who should have come came, and the artillery fire completely enveloped the remnants of the devils and puppet army.

Seeing that the [***] team was purely ravaging the imperial army with artillery fire, and the guns and machine guns were extremely accurate, Major General Tsuchiya knew that this time he had encountered the elite of the [***] team. Thinking about it, the elite Seya detachment is all broken in Taierzhuang, and there is nothing left to mix their reading power into the sixth brigade jade shattered.

Major General Tsuchiya Bingma, who had calmed down, ordered the military flags and documents to be burned, and regardless of the command of the battle, he ordered the radio to send a telegram to the Second Army, asking him to forward it to his wife and son. In the telegram, Tsuchiya said, "Dear Laiko, dear Masao, I have already given my life when you receive the telegram. What I want to tell you is that I am sorry for His Majesty the Emperor, but I am sorry for the dead soldiers and you. I only now understand how happy it is to live honestly with my wife and son in this book, but unfortunately I will never have that kind of opportunity in this life. ”

Tsuchiya soldiers and horses had to say it again, and a cannonball flew and completely blew him back to the East.

The remaining devils were all annihilated under the attack of the Fifth Brigade and the Ludongnan Detachment. Hong Chaoyuan ordered the troops to quickly clean up the battlefield and find the bodies of Liu Heiqi, Zhang Buyun, and the commander of the Sixth Brigade, who had become the commander of the Sixth Brigade, and ordered the division commander to mount the two antiaircraft guns and two antiaircraft machine guns that he had brought when he went to Cangxian to inspect and prepare to deal with the planes of the Yue Army.

The results of the battle came out quickly, including the body of Zhang Buyun, who was killed in a Ma Ben military uniform, was found. Hong Chaoyuan immediately sent a report to Liu Yimin, saying that in the battle of Xiazhuang Town, a total of 2,100 people were eliminated, more than 5,000 people from the puppet army Zhang Buyun were eliminated, and more than 2,000 people from the three divisions of the puppet army Liu Hei were eliminated. He killed habitual bandits Liu Heiqi, Zhang Buyun, and Major General Tsuchiya, commander of the Sixth Brigade of the Mixed Brigade of the Yue Army, and captured 10 usable cars, 12 infantry guns, and 8,300 guns. Mo Zhengmin's troops suffered heavy casualties, and 5,000 people became 2,200.

After sending the telegram, Hong Chaoyuan had a small meeting with Hu Xuerong, Wang Nanhu, and Guo Zihua. Guo Zihua conveyed Liu Yimin's instructions, proposing that, in accordance with Order No. 1, the First Corps of the Lunan People's Anti-Japanese Volunteer Brigade be organized into the Fourth Regiment of the Lunan Southeast Detachment, with Zhang Guangzhong as the regiment leader, He Yiping as the political commissar, and Wang Jian as the new director of the Political Department. It is suggested that Mo Zhengmin be appointed as the head of the Lunan Reading Second Regiment, Wang Dongnian as the director of the Political Department, Wang Naizheng as the deputy director of the Political Department, and the political commissar will be considered and selected by the head of the Fifth Brigade. All the existing officers of the Mo Ministry were sent to Longting for study, and the study was completed and the work was uniformly assigned. In the next step, the Fifth Brigade and the Southeast Lu Detachment were unified under the command of Brigade Commander Hong Chaoyuan, and they took advantage of the victory to quickly eliminate the devils in Zhucheng County, Yuezhao County, Linyi County, Fei County, Mengyin County, and Yishui County, and initially formed a unified base area in southeast Shandong. After that, the Fifth Brigade was transferred to rest and recuperate, and the southeastern Shandong detachment mobilized the masses, organized political power, established local armed forces, and prepared to mobilize human, financial, and material resources to do a good job in supporting the front.

After Guo Zihua finished speaking, Hong Chaoyuan and Hu Xuerong discussed it, and immediately decided to send Qi Fengnian, commander of the first battalion of the 13th Regiment, to be the head of the Second Lunan Reading Regiment, Fang Zheng, director of the Political Department of the 13th Regiment, to serve as the political commissar of the Second Lunan Reading Regiment, Wang Dongnian to serve as the deputy director of the Political Department of the regiment, and Mo Zhengmin to serve as the deputy chief of staff of the Fifth Brigade.

(To be continued)