Just as the special operations brigade was rushing towards the head of the boundary, Zhang Beihua, Ge Yangzhai, and Yuan Jingcang, the leaders of the People's Anti-Enemy Self-Defense Regiment of the Shanxi District, led the team to find the headquarters of the eastward advance force hidden in Daolang Town.

At this time, the Taixi Self-Defense Regiment had grown to more than 200 people, and had attacked the Yue army many times, and had already made a name for itself in the Taixi area.

Cai Zhong and Zeng Zhongsheng were both veteran Red Army and senior commanders, and they knew the difficulties in the early stage of pulling the team. After meeting with Zhang Beihua and others, they listened to a report on the situation of the armed uprising in Taixi, and replenished the self-defense regiment with guns, ammunition, rations, clothing, and medicine. For the first time, the cadres and soldiers of the Self-Defense Regiment put on the uniforms of the Eighth Route Army and were equipped with weapons and ammunition, and everyone was smiling.

Knowing that the army would not leave after entering Shandong this time, Zhang Beihua was so excited that he even took Cai Zhong and Zeng Zhongsheng's hands and did not let go, and even said that the people of Shandong were saved.

Li Wenfu, deputy director of the Political Department of the Self-Defense Corps, who came with Zhang Beihua, Ge Yangzhai, and Yuan Jingcang, was a veteran party member and a backbone cadre who had begun organizing guerrilla groups before Zhang Beihua arrived in Taixi. As soon as he heard that the large army was going to break through Jinpu Road at Jieshou Station and go to the Yimeng Mountains, he immediately couldn't sit still.

After shouting the report, Li Wenfu directly told Cai Zhong and Zeng Zhongsheng in a thick Shandong accent that it was wrong to choose to pass at the head of the world.

When Cai Zhong and Zeng Zhongsheng heard this, they were taken aback and hurriedly asked why.

Li Wenfu said unhurriedly: "The chiefs may not be familiar with the terrain of the mountainous area in central and southern Shandong, and the head of the boundary is close to Mount Tai, and you can enter the mountain by crossing the railway. This Mount Tai is high and dangerous, and the troops are not afraid of the pursuit of the army after entering the mountain, but I see that our army has a lot of artillery and many heavy vehicles, and these things can't go up Mount Tai at all. Since the large army is going to the Yimeng Mountains, it is better to immediately change the breakthrough point and choose to cross the railway south of Tai'an, so that they can go north along the Muwen River, enter the Culai Mountains, and join the Shandong Provincial Party Committee, or continue to the north and reach the Laiwu area. Another road can also be considered, that is, from this to the north, to Zhangxia crossing, you can bypass the difficult section of the main vein of Mount Tai, and march to Luzhong. There is a disadvantage of this road, that is, it is too close to Jinan, and there are many pseudo-organizations, so it is easy to expose the whereabouts of the troops. ”

Cai Zhonghe and Zeng Zhongsheng were shocked when they heard this, and immediately climbed to the map to examine it carefully, and asked Zhang Beihua and Li Wenfu to report in detail on the geography and natural resources of the mountainous areas in central and southern Shandong. Zeng Zhongsheng blamed himself for this report, and even said that he had become Li De, who was commanding the map.

Time is pressing, and there is no time to review too much, but fortunately, the baggage team of the logistics headquarters is still some distance away from Daolang, and it is not too difficult to change the route. Cai Zhong and Zeng Zhongsheng immediately asked the Self-Defense Regiment to lead the way for the large army, and the breakthrough location was changed between Beijipo and Dawenkou. Luo Yan was ordered to immediately set off with the reconnaissance battalion with the Self-Defense Regiment to reconnoiter the enemy situation between Beijipo and Dawenkou, and ordered Li Lingfeng to immediately suspend his operation at Jieshou, and the special operations brigade quickly turned around and occupied Beijipo. The whole army was ordered to secretly move southward and assemble between Beijipo and Dawenkou. Ordered Zhang Haitao's eastward detachment, which had moved to the north of the head of the boundary, to launch an attack on Jinpu Road at 2 o'clock in the night, attracting the attention of the Yue army and planning the movement of the large army.

After giving the order, Cai Zhong and Zeng Zhongsheng sent a report to Liu and Luo, explaining the reason for changing the breakthrough point, and asked them to rush directly to the new location.

At this time, Li Lingfeng was already standing on the platform of Jieshou Station.

More than 300 devils, except for sentries and patrols, most of them have gone to bed. More than 400 soldiers from the 2nd and 3rd Special Warfare Squadrons cleaned up this group of sleeping devils, which were like chopping melons and vegetables.

Yukio Tanabe, the leader of the devil squad, had a bad stomach that night and kept running to the toilet. This time, after squatting in the toilet for a while, Yukio Tanabe himself was dizzy from the smoke. Lifting his pants, Yukio Tanabe scolded in his heart that the damn military doctor didn't know where to go, and he couldn't find him if he wanted to ask for medicine.

Scolding in his heart, Yukio Tanabe staggered out of the toilet, and when he looked up, he felt that there seemed to be a figure in the yard. Rubbing your eyes, Mom, I've met a ghost! As soon as he opened his mouth to shout, there was a bang in his head, Amaterasu, where is this ghost, it is clear that the person is coming to sneak attack.

Yukio Tanabe deserved to be a graduate of the Army Non-commissioned Officer School, and he decided to slip away immediately, because looking at the vigorous figures of those Zhina, he knew that the sneak attackers were well-trained troops, and his comrades-in-arms were afraid that it would be impossible for them to escape.

Yukio Tanabe didn't feel a stomachache at this time, turned around and drilled into the toilet in three steps and two steps, wanted to hide in the toilet, escaped from the yard over the wall, and escaped back to Tai'an under the cover of night.

Yukio Tanabe didn't know that there were several pairs of bright eyes staring at him in the night. Joke, this is a sneak attack by a special operations brigade, and the division of labor of each fighter is very clear, if Yukio Tanabe can escape, then it will not be a sneak attack by a special operations brigade that has been trained and tested for a long time, it will be a guerrilla sneak attack. No, a small crossbow arrow flew through Yukio Tanabe's back and pinned him to the earthen wall of the toilet.

In a short time, the ghosts in Jieshou Village and the railway station will all return to the East. Zhao Zhiyu muttered to Zhao Yonggang: "There are too few devils, and the killing is not enjoyable, and the two of us are not distinguished." Just report to the captain, let's go to Tai'an City to make trouble with it, and see if your second squadron has a high tactical level or my third squadron has strong combat effectiveness. ”

Zhao Yonggang looked up, the moon and stars are scarce, why don't you kill devils on such a beautiful night? Besides, it is easy to contain the devils by making trouble in Tai'an City, so that they cannot fully reinforce the Jieshou Station and cover the passage of our army. So, after Zhao Yong just gave Li Lingfeng a signal, he began to think about how to get Li Lingfeng to approve his entry into Tai'an.

At this time, Li Lingfeng received a telegram from Cai Zhong and Zeng Zhongsheng, knowing that the large army was not passing by at the head of the realm, and he was busy just now. In this case, it is better to use the Jieshou Station to mobilize the devils in Tai'an City to cover the actions of our army south of Tai'an. However, when to let the devils of Tai'an know that the Jieshou Station has been lost, it will be necessary to seriously consider it.

Li Lingfeng calculated the time, looked at the driving record of the devil army car at the Jieshou station, and judged that between 1 and 2 o'clock at night, there must be a devil army car passing by the Jieshou. In this case, it is better to contact Zhang Haitao, and let Zhao Zhiyu lead a squadron of the third squadron to cooperate with the eastward detachment to sabotage the railway at the head of the boundary, block the attack, make the movement bigger, and completely attract the attention of the devils to the north of Tai'an, and let the large army pass by in the south of Tai'an.

Note that Li Ling immediately reported to Cai Zhong and Zeng Zhongsheng, and it was quickly approved. After Li Lingfeng confessed that Zhao Zhiyu caused the rollover accident, he acted with the Dongjin detachment, bypassed Mount Tai, rushed to Laiwu to join the brigade, and led Zhao Yonggang's second squadron and the other two squads of the third squadron to quickly evacuate Jieshou Station and rush to Beijipo.

After Zhang Haitao and Zhang Zili led the eastward detachment into the Ludong area, they first carried out the battle of attacking the Jinpu Road and delaying the enemy's main force to go north to reinforce the Jizhong battlefield in accordance with Liu Yimin's order, and then entered Culai Mountain to join the four detachments led by Li Yu and Hong Tao, briefed the leaders of the four detachments on the development of Shaanxi, Shanxi, central Hebei, southern Hebei, and western Luxi, informed the situation that the main force of the instructor would enter Shandong in a big way, and explained the tasks of the eastward detachment. Then, four detachments were supplemented and military trained.

As soon as the task was completed, an order was received to meet the passage of a large army. At this time, the eastward detachment was jubilant from top to bottom, and it was finally able to join the main force.

At this time, the army was in a period of offensive, and although the garrison force along the railway line was not weak, it was only guarding key points and strengthening patrols, and no measures such as pulling barbed wire had been taken. If the size of the unit is small, the crossing is nothing. However, if a force of the magnitude of the Instructor wanted to cross the railway, it would have to consider forcing a breakthrough by means of combat. Because although there is a special combat team, no one can guarantee that the army will not find out for such a long time. Therefore, after Zhang Haitao and Zhang Zili led the eastward detachment to the vicinity of Jieshou Station on the east side of Jinpu Road, they immediately entered a combat state.

After contacting the special combat team, Zhang Haitao and Zhang Zili immediately rushed to Jieshou Station, and when they saw Zhao Zhiyu, Zhang Haitao went up and punched him: "You guy, you want to kill my old Zhang."

Zhao Zhiyu smiled, didn't answer, took a branch, pulled Zhang Haitao to squat on the ground, muttered while drawing, and after a while, he told him how to plant explosives to make overturned, how to eliminate the devils who guarded the car, how to carry the loot, and how to block the reinforcements of the enemy in the north and south.

Zhao Zhiyu is a special operations wizard, and he is now very proficient in special operations. However, he is not a general who commands troops to fight, so after Zhang Haitao listened to his plan, he immediately pointed out the defects and made up for it. When the two of them stood up and looked at each other and smiled, the complete battle plan came out.

At 9 p.m., a call came from Tai'an Station to ask if there was anything unusual. At 10 o'clock in the evening, an ironclad patrol car came from Tai'an, and when it arrived at the first station of the Jie, it stopped, and a devil officer got out of the car, looked at the straight sentry standing on the platform, and then looked at the patrol not far away, and jumped into the car to work on the road.

Until 12 o'clock at night, the devils in Tai'an basically called every hour, and they were all dealt with by the fighters of the special combat team.

At 12:45 p.m., a military vehicle drove from north to south towards Jieshou Station, starting with the ironclad patrol car that was driving from Tai'an to Zhangxia. Seeing that he was about to reach the first station of the world, the driver of the devil army train sounded the whistle, and the terrible sound made the track jump excitedly.

Of course, the rails were not screamed by the whistle, but were blown up by the explosives bags detonated by the sappers of the Eastward Detachment. A series of explosions lifted the ironclad patrol car to the side of the roadbed, and the military column was blown into several pieces, all of which rolled to the west side of the roadbed.

This military vehicle was a brigade of the 114th Division that had just been transferred to the North China Front Army, and it was the vanguard of the 114th Division's move to Yanzhou. There were about 800 devils in the front carriages, and anti-aircraft guns, anti-aircraft machine guns, heavy machine guns, anti-aircraft guns, anti-aircraft guns, and infantry guns were fixed on the two flatbed cars in the back, which were the combat parts of the military columns, and the four stuffy tankers in the back were pulling weapons, ammunition, and supplies.

As soon as Zhang Haitao saw the posture on the devil army, he knew that this trip was a big deal, and with a wave of his hand, the soldiers of the eastward detachment pounced on the tumbling train.

After the train overturned, the devil soldiers on the train were killed and wounded. Not to mention the ghost soldiers sitting in the carriage, the dead, wounded, and fainted, no one can escape anyway, let alone shoot and resist. It is the devil who is sitting on two flatbed cars and is responsible for providing fire support, and after being thrown off the train, he is either crushed to death by the overturning train, or his arms and legs are broken or his head is broken. The weapons of these devils are all heavy weapons on the car, not to mention the dead, the living devils are all injured and barehanded, and they can only open their frightened eyes and watch the rushing Eighth Route Army stab bayonets into their chests one by one.

After dealing with the devils who fell out of the car, the soldiers of the eastward detachment began to deal with the devils in the carriage, the solution was very simple, that is, to break the windows of the car with the butt of the gun and throw grenades into it, until the carriage was blown into a bloody blur and the ghosts could not hear the howl of the ghosts crying wolves.

Zhao Zhiyu stood aside and laughed happily, but Zhang Haitao ordered the troops to end the battle quickly and clean up the battlefield quickly, the devil may soon come to reinforce him, and the devil's weapons and ammunition must be transported away no matter what.

Cui Yunlong, the commander of the engineer company of the eastward detachment, jumped onto the last stuffy tanker, picked the lock in three clicks and two clicks, opened the car door and saw that there were boxes of ammunition inside, jumped out of the car and shouted: "Get rich!" Get rich! Come and move! "Immediately a couple of fighters jumped into the car and began to transfer boxes of ammunition out of the car.

The soldiers of the artillery company of the eastward detachment dismantled the undamaged anti-aircraft guns, anti-aircraft machine guns, anti-aircraft guns, infantry guns, and heavy machine guns on the flatbed trucks, and quickly lifted them to the artillery positions that had been built, and the muzzles of the guns were all pointed in the direction of Tai'an.

In addition to the weapons and equipment of an infantry brigade, two anti-aircraft guns, two anti-aircraft machine guns, and two flat-fire guns were also captured, and even the machine guns and cannons on the ironclad patrol cars were dismantled.

Seeing that there were too many weapons and ammunition seized, Zhang Haitao ordered the baggage company to use pack horses to immediately transfer them to see that the pack horses were not enough, and Zhang Haitao simply ordered all the cavalry companies to dismount, including the war horses of himself and political commissar Zhang Zili, all of which were used to transport the captured weapons and ammunition. Zhang Haitao simply left only two battalions, an artillery company, a heavy machine gun company, and an engineer platoon to prepare to block the attack, and asked political commissar Zhang Zili to lead the other troops to carry all the ammunition and materials and return along the same road.

The sound of the explosion at Jieshou Station had already alarmed the devil garrison along the line, and Major General Morita Masaho, commander of the 13th Brigade of the Reading Power Mixed Brigade stationed in Taian, was awakened from his sleep and immediately ordered the railway garrison to immediately rush to the accident site to check the situation.

After thinking about it and feeling a little uneasy, Major General Morita Masahomi sent the 56th Reading Infantry Brigade to the head of the border by car to reinforce the railway garrison.

Tai'an City is very close to the head of the realm, and it didn't take long for the ironclad train of the devil railway garrison to arrive. This ironclad train is different from the ironclad patrol car, there are five sections, the first is the armored nose, the second is the gun carriage, each has a flat-fire gun at the end of the head, and on the top of the center is a heavy machine gun that can be raised and lowered; The third section is the command car, which is also the train headquarters; The fourth section is a personnel carrier, which carries a squadron of infantry; The fifth section is an anti-aircraft vehicle, armed with a high-level dual-purpose gun.

The first to fire were the newly captured anti-aircraft guns, anti-aircraft guns, anti-aircraft machine guns, and the flat-mounted anti-aircraft guns, anti-aircraft machine guns, and flat-mounted anti-aircraft machine guns did not live up to the expectations of the soldiers, and the shells directly crashed into the front of the ironclad train, completely paralyzing the train, and then the bullets of the anti-aircraft machine guns tore through the thin iron armor of the personnel carrier, killing and wounding the devils inside.

Without waiting for the anti-aircraft guns and anti-aircraft machine guns to continue to exert their power, the bazookas of the eastward advance detachment and the special operations squad led by Zhao Zhiyu joined the chorus, and the rockets turned the artillery carriage, air defense car, and command vehicle of the devil's ironclad train into a piece of rotten iron, and the devils on it were naturally dead.

The surviving devil infantry on the troop carrier finally opened the door and jumped down one after another like dumplings. In the minds of these devil soldiers, as long as they jump out of the car, they can run for their lives, and if they are not good, they can also shoot at the sneak attackers, one life for another. It's a pity that the truth is often very cruel, the light and heavy machine gun shooters of the Eighth Route Army who were ambushed on the side didn't even give the riflemen a chance to shoot, and directly beat the devil soldiers who jumped out of the car into a sieve.

Seeing that there was no longer a sound of resistance on the ironclad personnel carrier, Zhang Haitao immediately jumped to his feet and shouted to stop shooting, shouting and scolding a group of losers, don't you know that anti-aircraft artillery shells, anti-aircraft machine gun bullets and rockets are more expensive than gold? That's one shot and one shot less.

And to scold, I saw that the fighters had already flocked to the armored train. Zhang Haitao stopped scolding now, and hurriedly ran to check what this rare thing was beaten into.

Ran to the front to take a look, grandma's, the armored shells of the flat-fire guns, the rockets of the bazooka, the anti-aircraft guns and the anti-aircraft machine guns used horizontally are indeed good things.

Zhang Haitao looked disgusted, and was about to order the troops to quickly empty the ammunition on the car, when he saw Zhao Zhiyu take out a piece of chalk from his clothes pocket and write on a relatively intact carriage: "On the order of Chairman Chiang, the Chinese military police blew up a military vehicle, an ironclad train, and an ironclad patrol car, and wiped out more than 1,000 devils on the car. The Chinese military police vowed to kill all the people and return my rivers and mountains! ”

Zhang Haitao heard that Chiang Kai-shek had an elite guard by his side, and the name seemed to be called the Chinese Military Police. Seeing Zhao Zhiyu write like this, he knew that it was to confuse the enemy. However, Zhang Haitao was still a little reluctant to give his military exploits to others in such an unknown way, so he asked Zhao Zhiyu narrowly: "Captain Zhao, you said that our special operations brigade and Chairman Jiang's Chinese military police met together, which one was stronger?" ”

Zhao Zhiyu laughed twice first, and saw that Zhang Haitao's face was full of urgency, knowing that this guy was a little unhappy that he would credit his great merits on the head of the Chinese military police, after thinking about it, he said seriously: "Those people are also heroes of resistance, I admire them very much." However, compared with our special combat team, it should be said that we are not just a little stronger than them, but a lot better! After speaking, he hummed the tune of the book in the Chinese language.

When Zhang Haitao saw that Zhao Zhiyu hummed a small tune, he stopped ridiculing him, and instead urged the troops to enter the position immediately, because the lights of the convoy of the Yue army coming from Tai'an could already be seen from a distance.

When he heard the faint sound of explosions and gunfire coming from the direction of the head of the line, Li Lingfeng led the special combat crews, with the cooperation of the reconnaissance battalion and the Taixi Self-Defense Regiment, to take control of the railway line between Beijipo and Dawenkou, which was about 10 miles long. The 4th Brigade was taught to build a blocking position in Beijipo, and the 5th Brigade was taught to build a blocking position in the direction of Dawenkou to cover the passage of the baggage troops of the divisional unit and the logistics headquarters through the railway.

The cavalry battalion of the 5th Brigade and the 13th Regiment of the Jiao, under the guidance of the Taixi Self-Defense Regiment, advanced along the Taylor Highway to open the way for the large army.

After crossing the railway, the 2nd Field Artillery Regiment and the Mountain Artillery Regiment quickly set up artillery positions under the unified command of Li Chang and prepared to provide fire support for the blocking battle.

Li Chang also specially asked for an antiaircraft artillery battery from the 1st Air Defense Regiment, which was deployed near the railway, and was ready to be used to deal with the devil's trains, armored vehicles, and tanks.

Wu Zheng led the baggage team up, all the cattle were chewed on the horses, and the hooves of the horses were wrapped in cloth. However, in the dark night, when the sound traveled far away, when there were so many vehicles, so many people, and the squeaking of wheels and the footsteps of people and horses, the sound was still very loud. From time to time, there was a voice in the team that said "pass back, pick up, keep up".

Tang Xingying and Lin Yueqin both took their sons to follow the logistics headquarters to act.

Tang Xingying tied her son to her back, crossed the railroad on horseback, and looked back, Chen Yaoguang put her arms around Chen Meisheng and rode on the horse, and let the guards lead the horse across the railway. Looking at it again, Lin Yueqin, Ren Ying, Zhao Xiaoman, and Jingjing all crossed the railway smoothly under the escort of the guard soldiers. Tang Xingying relieved her heart, and rushed towards the baggage team with the guard squad beating horses, she knew that the team was transporting the necessary materials to establish a base in Shandong, and it was her husband's baby bump, which had to be taken care of.

According to Liu Yimin's order, Zhao Xiaoman and Jingjing led those who were preparing to go to the base area to engage in cultural and educational news work, and followed Tang Xingying's action. Most of these people are scholars, some of them are still relatively old, and the long-distance march is extremely hard, in order to prevent them from dragging the back of the army, Cai Zhong and Zeng Zhongsheng specially dispatched a group of war horses to reduce their marching pressure.

That's it, when he arrived at the railway, Cai Zhong was still not at ease, so he specially asked the engineer regiment to send troops, almost one person pulled one person, and forced them through the railway.

The logistics baggage team and the wounded team of the field hospital passed for a full hour, and sweat broke out on the foreheads of Zeng Zhongsheng and Cai Zhong, who were anxious. Seeing that Tang Xingying and Lin Yueqin had finally crossed the railway, Cai Zhong and Zeng Zhongsheng both breathed a sigh of relief and ordered the troops directly under the division to cross the railway and advance along the Taylor Highway towards Culai Town.

At this time, the guard post reported that the devils from Tai'an had come up.

(To be continued)