With the capture of the headquarters of the Japanese garrison in Shijiazhuang, the capture of the railway station by the 2nd Regiment, and the capture of Yunpan Mountain by the 4th Regiment, the battle of Shimen was also untied. Next, the troops searched for the remnants of the enemy inside and outside the city, and each one was eliminated.

After receiving reports from various troops, especially Sun Manxi's report, Liu Yimin felt that he was a little hungry, sat down on a chair, and called the guards to bring food.

Liu Yimin shouted, Luo Ronghuan smiled, took off his eyes and wiped them, and said humorously: "The plan is set, and the Shimen night soldiers." Suddenly, I felt that my stomach was empty. ”

Cai Zhong laughed, pointed at Luo Ronghuan and said, "I didn't expect that Political Commissar Luo still had this talent, so he opened his mouth and came." Okay, okay, I'm stupid, so I can only do coolies. You two rest, I'll go draft the good news. ”

Luo Ronghuan said slowly: "Don't you think your stomach is also empty?" ”

With this, Cai Zhong's stomach gurgled.

After the big victory, Liu Yimin's tone also became cheerful: "Don't be in a hurry to get good news, fill your stomach first, and then we will enter Shimen City." The division of labor first, the political commissar is responsible for cleaning up and transporting the concealed seized materials. Director Cai is responsible for public security in the city, although our army does not stick to Shimen, but it must do a good job in propaganda work, so that the people of Shimen can strengthen their belief in the victory of the War of Resistance. Remember to clean the Japanese fake banks and shops in Shimen. Like the chief of police, the chief of the tax bureau, the chairman of the maintenance committee, the president of the chamber of commerce, etc., they have to dig up their floating wealth. I will make them all destitute before they die, and they will go to hell to beg for food. ”

Luo Ronghuan and Cai Zhong both laughed.

The rice was served, a plate of wowotou, a plate of steamed buns, a plate of steamed sweet potatoes, and a bowl of hot and sour boiling water per person. Oddly enough, there is also a boiled egg.

Liu Yimin was not polite, grabbed a steamed bun and swallowed it in two bites, then ate a steamed sweet potato and a wowotou, picked up the big bowl in front of him, and drank it in one go. Then he said, "I'm done." When the two of you have eaten, each of you pulls his own commanding team. Feng Dafei and Chang Qiankun will soon arrive at Daguozhuang Airport, I will study it and see if I can surprise Tatian Jun again. ”

Luo Ronghuan said: "Be cautious this time. We were fighting a siege war, and Tada must have known that Shimen had been lost, and he would not have imagined that we would use the aviation ammunition from the Daguozhuang airfield to attack the Japanese airfield. If my guess is correct, the Japanese airfields have now sounded the alarm, and they are busy transferring planes, ammunition, and fuel. With Tada's heart, it is likely that a large number of fighters will be mobilized to set up an air ambush circle, waiting for us to take the bait! ”

When Liu Yimin heard it, what Luo Ronghuan said was common sense, only again and again, not again and again. The little devils can run rampant and domineering in China again, and absolutely set up a group of fools. Tada, maybe the air ambush circle will be deployed now.

Cai Zhong drank hot and sour boiling water, and said while drinking: "What the political commissar said is reasonable. We're not in a hurry, can the little devil still run away? Bring away the aviation ammunition and gasoline first, and then find an opportunity to teach the devil a lesson later. Good things cannot be done one after another, and if you underestimate the enemy, you may suffer a big loss. ”

Liu Yimin said with a little regret: "It seems that we can only let go of the devil's airport for the time being." ”

Liu Yimin's remark is tantamount to the three of them forming a consensus, and the plan to sneak attack the Japanese airfield in North China can only be stillborn.

Seeing that Liu Yimin was about to leave, Cai Zhong hurriedly said, "You ate this boiled egg." ”

Liu Yimin shook his head: "Let the political commissar eat." How do I feel that the commissar has been a little thin lately, eat an egg to make up for it. Go back and ask Chen and them to do a comprehensive examination of the political commissar to see if there is anything wrong. ”

Luo Ronghuan said while eating: "What can be wrong with my strong elephant cow?" You eat it. ”

Cai Zhong said: "This egg is boiled for you, and the egg seller spends his own allowance. If you don't eat it, won't you live up to the affection of others? ”

When Cai Zhong said this, the taste changed, Luo Ronghuan was not happy, and said to Cai Zhong: "Lao Cai, I want to criticize you several times, you have to pay attention to it, don't joke." Ni Hua gave birth in Chongqing, and Tang Xingying will come back tonight, the relationship is already complicated, and the comrades are talking about it. If you add fuel to the fire and add fuel to the fire, you will only embarrass the commander. ”

Cai Zhong sighed, stopped talking, and drank hot and sour boiling water with his head purred.

Liu Yimin grabbed the boiled egg, peeled it three times and divided it by two, stuffed it into his mouth, took a bite, swallowed it, and said: "Political commissar, don't have such a big heart, isn't it just an egg?" I ate. ”

Luo Ronghuan glanced at Liu Yimin and didn't answer his words.

Liu Yimin ate the remaining half of the egg, clapped his hands, and said with a smile: "Okay, I'm full, it's time to work." Let's go, get in the car, and go to Shimen. ”

After Luo Ronghuan finished eating, he stood up and picked up the rice bowl and handed it to the guards to wash, then turned to Liu Yimin and Cai Zhong and said, "As the commander of the army, you must set an example. How can you be upright if you are not right? The Eighth Route Army has iron discipline, including the three of us, and no one can violate it. There are some things that comrades' understanding does not mean connivance. Understanding is premised and based on compassion. It is not right to connive, to say that it is to spoil lightly, and to say that it is to push the other party to violate discipline. I don't know if I'm right? ”

Liu Yimin spread his hands: "I also ate eggs, what do you say?" Do you still want me to vomit out? ”

Luo Ronghuan raised his hand to hold his glasses: "The dignified commander of the Shandong Military Region of the Shandong Bureau is not afraid of playing a scoundrel and damaging his reputation?" ”

Liu Yimin laughed: "The husband looks up to the heavens and the earth, without fear and shame, crisscrossing the field, happy and enmity, and writing legends!" Fighting devils and killing Japanese criminals are all to defend their own country, their own land, their own women, and their own children, and there is no contradiction between the two. Amorous may not be a husband, only a great hero can be sè. Commissar, you don't have to worry, I have my own measure. ”

After speaking, Liu Yimin took the lead in walking out the door.

Chief Liu Luo has entered the stone gate!

Tonight, Shimen is destined to be a boiling city that never sleeps.

Shimen originally had a power plant, which generated electricity normally. In order to light the roads and facilitate the movement of the troops, in addition to turning on all the street lights, the engineer brigade used all the searchlights found in the Japanese warehouses and captured from the stronghold in Shimen, turning Shimen into a city that never sleeps. Fortunately, the Japanese did not know about this situation, otherwise they might have sent planes to attack at night.

The top priority at the moment is to evacuate and conceal the materials in the Japanese railway stations, freight yards, and warehouses to prevent the Japanese planes from retaliating and bombing. In order to speed up the transportation, Luo Ronghuan, who was in charge of directing the handling work, used all the cars and rubber trucks of the First Brigade and the Baggage Brigade, including the ox carts, donkey carts, and trolleys of the front support team mobilized in the southern Hebei Region, and concentrated all the men and horses of the Engineer Brigade, the Baggage Brigade, and the New First Brigade to rush to transport materials.

The cadres of the Political Department, under the command of Cai Zhong, were busy pasting slogans.

The planes of the First and Second Brigades of the Eighth Route Army Air Force landed at the airport in batches to carry ammunition and gasoline and transfer planes. In order to speed up the speed and rush to load and transport, Liu Yimin gave an order, and several cavalry battalions of the 1st Brigade, the New 1st Brigade, the 2nd Brigade, the 6th Brigade, the 4th Brigade, and the 8th Brigade rushed first, followed by the 1st Brigade and the 2nd Brigade, each with a regiment, and then rushed to take charge of the shipment.

After Tang Xingying received Liu Yimin's telegram, he arranged for his mother and children to contact Chang Qiankun, and learned that Chang Qiankun had received Liu Yimin's telegram and had sent all the existing bombers and transport planes of the Second Air Brigade to Hancheng airstrip last night. After getting approval, Tang Xingying got into the car sent by the current garrison and rushed to Hancheng. Take off from Hancheng airstrip and dare to arrive at Daguozhuang Airport at a little more than two o'clock at night.

When she walked out of the cabin door, Tang Xingying quickly swept around the airport with a pair of beautiful eyes, and saw that the comrades were busy carrying materials, and did not see Liu Yimin's figure, so she stopped looking, and got off the plane and directly joined the ranks of carrying materials.

Wang Laohu hadn't seen Tang Xingying for a long time, and when he saw it, he hurriedly ran up to say hello, and then said that the commander had arrived in Shimen City, should he send a car to send her over now.

Tang Xingying said no, hurry up and rush to transport the supplies, it will be troublesome as soon as the morning dawns.

Wang Laohu may still be missing Li Ping, so he squirmed and reported that he was married, thank you Director Xiao Tang.

Tang Xingying just asked when it was in surprise, and then she didn't listen to Wang Laohu's ramblings. She was originally in charge of logistics, familiar with the material handling process, and knew how to organize troops to save time, so she took over the command of the airport rush transportation at that time, redeployed manpower, and led Feng Dafei, Chang Qiankun, Wang Laohu, and those regiment commanders and battalion commanders to organize soldiers to rush and transport.

One after another, planes loaded with aviation ammunition and aviation gasoline took off and flew in the direction of Xi'an in the night.

This time, in order to shorten the flight distance and also to facilitate the concealment of fighters, Liu Yimin ordered the 1st Air Brigade not to return to Zhujiazhuangzi Airport and to transport all the aviation ammunition and fuel back to the rear of Shaanxi. Because during the heavy sweep of the Japanese army, Zhujia Zhuangzi Airport was almost discovered by the Japanese army, but fortunately, the concealment and camouflage were done well.

It was busy until 6 a.m., and the first and second air brigades flew twice in succession, and the ammunition and fuel stocks at the airport had not yet been delivered. Tang Xingying ordered the remaining ammunition and fuel to be dispersed and concealed, and waited for the plane to come by air again tonight, so that all troops could urgently camouflage the airport, evacuate and conceal, and get into a car on the Japanese airfield driven by Wang Laohu to join Liu Yimin.

During the Anti-Japanese War, Shimen residents closed their doors early and turned off their lights, for fear that evil spirits would come to the door. As soon as the cannon of the Eighth Route Army rang out, the residents even killed the gate with wooden sticks, tables and chairs. When the Eighth Route Army burst into the city and gunfire erupted, the bold residents began to look through the cracks in the doors. Seeing that the squadron was chasing and killing the Japanese invaders, the bold young man couldn't help it, and began to open the door, ran out to lead the way for the Eighth Route Army, pursued the remnants of the Japanese puppet army, and arrested Han Jiān.

When the gunfire stopped, the people of Shimen were convinced that the Eighth Route Army had occupied Shimen, and then someone opened the door. Slowly, more and more people opened the door. Some families boil water and deliver hot water to the soldiers of the Eighth Route Army.

Liu Yimin set up his headquarters at the headquarters of the Japanese garrison in Shijiazhuang. The telephone here is convenient, and a radio can command the overall situation.

As soon as the radio was opened, Liu Yimin received reports from various units. What Liu Yimin didn't expect was that neither the Japanese puppet army in Yuanshi County on the southern line nor the Japanese puppet army in Zhengding County on the northern line, including the Japanese puppet army on Zhengtai Road and the Japanese puppet army in Gaocheng on the Deshi Highway, did not reinforce in the direction of Shimen, but pulled out the camp overnight and played a long-distance race with the Eighth Route Army. The southern line shrank to Xingtai, the northern line shrank to Baoding, the Zhengtai Road shrank in the direction of Yangquan, and the Deshi Road fled to Hengshui.

Zhao Jie, the commander of the new Eighth Brigade, reported on the phone that the Japanese puppet army in Zhengding gave up everything that could be given up, opened the city gate and went all the way north, and the one who ran was fast, it seemed that he only hated his grandmother and gave birth to a tuǐ. Our army crossed the Hutuo River to pursue, but it was already too late.

Zhu Rui, commander of the New Fourth Brigade, reported that the troops were busy arranging ambush circles and sending scouts to monitor the enemy, but without any warning, the Japanese puppet army in front of them turned north and south, and ran away. Our army marched day after day, and it was not as good as the Japanese puppet army when it ran away, so we could only watch the little devils escape.

In these directions, only Hu Laohu's cavalry brigade had a record, and the rest of the troops found that the Japanese puppet army had escaped, and they couldn't catch up, so they took advantage of the situation to recover Zhengding and Yuanshi.

Hu Laohu reported that according to the commander's order, he divided the three cavalry regiments of the cavalry brigade into three, and he himself led the first cavalry regiment and the brigade direct troops to the west of Gaocheng to lay an ambush, and the second cavalry regiment inserted between Gaocheng and Jin County, and the third cavalry regiment went straight to Xinji. As a result, when they arrived at the west of Gaocheng to lay an ambush, the Japanese puppet army in Gaocheng began to flee in the direction of Jin County. As soon as Hu Laohu saw that the situation was not right, he immediately ordered a pursuit, and between Gaocheng and Jin County, he attacked with the second cavalry regiment from east to west, and eliminated the Japanese puppet army that fled from Gaocheng. Then, between Gaocheng and Jin County, the Japanese puppet army in the county seat of Jin County was eliminated. It's just that the results of the battle are not big, the little devils in Gaocheng and the little devils in Jin County combined, there are only two squadrons, and about a battalion of puppet troops. The cavalry brigade rested and stood by in the vicinity of Xinji, Jinxian and Gaocheng.

After reading Hu Laohu's report, Liu Yimin had to admire Tada Jun for being a figure, and he was very decisive in his trade-offs, without the slightest hesitation, and did not drag his feet. Such an opponent may really seize the opportunity to give himself a ruthless blow!

Tada Jun is ruthless, and Liu Yimin is more ruthless than him. Now that the Japanese army did not know what to do next, Liu Yimin strictly ordered all troops to rest in concealment and prepare for retreat.

Before dawn, the Eighth Route Army finally rushed out the Japanese supplies in Shimen City, and Liu Yimin immediately ordered the air defense brigade to prepare for air defense operations, and all other troops withdrew from Shimen City and camped in hiding outside the city. In the entire Shimen City, in addition to the military district headquarters, there is only one unit of the guard regiment to maintain law and order.