The instructor traveled all the way to Huozhou, and when he arrived in Huozhou, he began to meet the retreating Central Army, Jin Sui Army and other [***] large troops.

In order to avoid leaking secrets, the instructor bypassed the main road, avoided [***] retreating the main force south, divided into several roads to the north, and quietly went north.

After the Lingshi, in addition to the fleeing people on the road, there were routs everywhere, and weapons and equipment were thrown on the road, not to mention the heavy weapons such as field artillery, mountain artillery, and light and heavy machine guns, and even grenades, rifles, and bullets were thrown all over the ground. Some soldiers also exchanged weapons and ammunition with ordinary people for food and silver dollars.

Liu Yimin was very sad in his heart, and he had a tangible experience of the embarrassment when [***] retreated. I really want to catch a few routs and shoot them to enforce military discipline. After thinking about it, forget it, you can't blame these soldiers, they have already fought with the Yue army several times, and they have fulfilled their responsibilities as a Chinese, just when these soldiers are fighting hard with the Yue army on the front line, I don't know how many corrupt officials and businessmen are making a fortune! Besides, it's not that these soldiers are not heroic, but that the problem of [***] is too complicated, and the reason for the defeat of the battle is not something that later generations of researchers who talk about on paper can say! However, seeing these veterans who had been trained and fought with the devil with bayonets broke up like this, Liu Yimin himself couldn't forgive himself. As long as they are reorganized, educated, accompanied by strong leadership, and rigorously trained, these soldiers will soon become elite.

Therefore, Liu Yimin drew a battalion from the 11th, 12th, and 13th divisions, and a company from the artillery brigade, cavalry brigade, engineer regiment, and baggage regiment, and ordered Zhao Shan, political commissar of the 12th Brigade, and Zhao Jie, director of the political office of the 11th Brigade, to form and teach the Eighth Brigade, with Zhao Shan as the brigade commander and Zhao Jie as the political commissar. The units to which the troops have been transferred will be immediately replenished from the supplementary regiments to improve the main force structure.

As a result, by the time Jiexiu arrived, the Eighth Brigade was already fully staffed, and its weapons and ammunition were even more sufficient. Liu Yimin ordered them to conduct training between Jiexiu and Pingyao, carry out a campaign to complain about grievances, organize troops, quickly form combat effectiveness, and together with the Fifth Brigade, serve as a strategic reserve for the whole division.

Along the way, Liu Yimin had to admire the policy adopted by our party during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression in history, and the reason why the army dared to invade China was because it saw that the Chinese [***] valve was divided and divided, and the thinking was not unified. Only by establishing base areas, mobilizing the masses, and fighting the people's war can we ultimately win the war. The greatness of the War of Resistance lies in the fact that it caused the Chinese to undergo a radical transformation from ideology to spirit.

By the time Liu Yimin crossed Jiexiu, the special operations team led by Li Lingfeng, Li Shanzhu, and Wang Laohu had already arrived at the edge of Pingyao County and was hidden.

Pingyao is located in Jiexiu, Qixian, Wenshui, Fenyang, Qinyuan, Wuxiang and other counties and cities bordering. There are four rivers in the county, namely Huiji River, Liugen River, Yingjian River and Fen River, which pass through the Tongpu Railway, and are economically developed counties in Shanxi.

The earliest founding of Pingyao can be traced back to the period of King Xuan of Zhou. At that time, the general Yin Jifu went on a northern expedition and built a city in Pingyao County. The current Pingyao City is the Ming Hongwu three years in the old city circumference "nine miles and eighteen steps" on the basis of the expansion of the formation. After the middle of the Qing Dynasty, due to the Jin merchants and ticket numbers, the small Pingyao City has become the commercial and financial center of the country, there is the saying of "Pingyao City that can not be pulled out, and the Pingyao City that is not filled with dissatisfaction", the large and small streets and alleys in the city are lined up one after another, the prosperity is abnormal, and the fifteen market areas with their own characteristics have been formed, the business is prosperous, the population is dense, the traffic is bustling.

Li Lingfeng is no stranger to Pingyao City, last time he took the special operations team to make a big show in Pingyao City, not only took away the deposits of the Pingyao branch of the Shanxi Bank, but also shot a group of corrupt officials and corrupt officials. So far, when the people of Pingyao mention the Red Army, they still shout "red blue sky". Most of the gold bars and silver dollars taken away at that time are still buried in Pingyao County!

Li Lingfeng has now been trained to become a special warfare expert, and after he went to the edge of Pingyao City to hide, he immediately sent people to reconnoitre, and soon found out the enemy's situation.

It turned out that at the end of the Battle of Taiyuan, many big merchants in Pingyao retreated with Yan Xishan. Originally, there was a Jin Sui army garrison in the county. But on November 12, that is, the day before yesterday, more than 100 devil cavalry drove into Pingyao, and the Jin Sui army immediately retreated. After the little devil entered Pingyao, he sealed all the grain numbers of more than a dozen houses in Pingyao City, and was busy arresting people and loading them into trucks, preparing to transport them to Taiyuan.

According to what the investigators learned from the villagers, in the past two days, a small group of devil cavalry went out of the city every day, once in the morning and once in the afternoon, showing off their might outside the city, showing that they had occupied Pingyao.

After listening to the report, Li Lingfeng, Li Shanzhu, Wang Laohu, and Li Buffalo glanced at each other, and immediately knew that there was no need to spend so much trouble. Looking at the watch again, it was almost time for the devil cavalry squad to go out on patrol in the afternoon, Li Lingfeng made a gesture, and Wang Laohu immediately took the first squadron of special operations to ambush on the patrol route of the devil cavalry squad. Li Shanzhu led a battalion to move in the direction of the south gate of Pingyao.

At half past three o'clock in the afternoon, a small group of devil cavalry, carrying plaster flags and guns, went out of the west gate of Pingyao, and galloped north around Pingyao City through the north gate and the east gate to the south gate.

When I was about to reach the south gate, I saw three girls wearing red scarves and flower cotton jackets in front of me, who were hurrying into the distance with their heads down.

The devil cavalry shouted, turned the horse's head and chased after him.

Seeing that they were about to catch up, the three girls seemed to know the danger, and quickened their pace and ran towards the small village by the roadside.

The devil cavalry went crazy at this time, shouting flower girl, flower girl, and rushed towards the village on horseback.

At the moment when the devil cavalry entered the village, a sneer flashed in Wang Laohu's eyes, and he gave the command to attack, and a rain of arrows drifted by, and more than forty devil cavalry had small crossbow arrows inserted in the vital places, some fell off their horses, some were still on the stirrups, and their bodies were dragging on the ground.

The fighters of the 1st Special Warfare Squadron immediately flashed out of the village, quickly controlled their horses, took off the military uniforms of the devils and changed into them. After a short time, this small group of devil cavalry left the village and galloped towards the south gate.

Needless to say, these three girls were pretended to be soldiers of the No. 1 Special Operations Squadron, and the little devils didn't distinguish between male and female, and they scratched their hair when they saw the red turban from a distance, so they naturally had to die.

There are two devil sentry posts at the south gate of Pingyao City. Seeing the return of the cavalry squad, the devil sentry not only did not interrogate, but on the contrary, wanted to ask how the flower girl tasted. When the cavalry team came to the front, the sentry realized that they had all changed their faces?

Before the devil sentry could make any further movements, the sword of the cavalry led by him slashed diagonally from his neck, and blood sprayed all over the ground at once.

The other Sentinel also ended up being split in half by his sword.

Wang Laohu sighed in his heart, this little devil really fucking looks down on people, there are only two sentries standing guard at such a big city gate, he is really crazy, isn't he afraid that the [***] team will fight back?

After thinking about it, Wang Laohu still left two soldiers to guard the south gate, and received Li Lingfeng and the first battalion and sniper team into the city, and led the cavalry team into five groups and galloped towards the other five city gates.

This Pingyao ancient city has six city gates in Sanhuali, although the commercial and financial industries are prosperous, but the city is not big. It didn't take long for Wang Laohu and them to take full control of the city gates. When the common people saw Wang Laohu and their swords slashing devils, they immediately understood that it was the [***] team that had returned, and soon someone came up to speak, pointed out the devil's barracks, and asked to lead the way.

Wang Laohu left a soldier to stand guard at each city gate, and led the other team members to gallop towards the compound of the original Pingyao Security Regiment. There was the barracks of the Devil Cavalry Squadron.

At this time, it was almost five o'clock, and the weather in Shanxi in November was already cold. At five o'clock, the sky had begun to turn dark.

At the gate of the courtyard of the security regiment, there were five sentry posts, two people standing guard, and three people guarding a machine gun, crawling in the bunker.

When Wang Laohu and the soldiers arrived at the gate of the courtyard, the devil sentry saluted with guns. Wang Laohu was not arrogant this time, jumped off the horse directly, said in a language that he had worked hard, and walked towards the devil's machine gun bunker with a war knife.

The two devil sentries at the door were still surprised when Wang Laohu jumped off the war horse to greet them for their hard work, how did the team leader change his surname today, he used to always greet them with ear scrapers, and today he actually said that he was hard! Oh my God, could it be that Amaterasu has appeared?

Before the two sentries could wake up from their surprise, they saw the squad leader walking towards the machine-gun bunker with his sword. A sentry felt a thrill in his heart, this was not the squad leader, it was someone else's fake. This guy's first instinct was to pull the bolt, and then he opened his mouth to shout.

It's a pity that the devil sentry's eyes are in the crotch of his pants, and the problem was discovered at this time, and it was obviously too late. They are facing the special operations elite of the Eighth Route Army, where can they be allowed to shout, let alone let them pull the trigger.

The two devil sentries were lightly cut through their throats by daggers, fell limply into the arms of the two warriors, and were placed on the ground on the side of the doorway. However, compared to the three devils in the machine gun bunker, the two sentries were lucky, and they at least left a whole corpse. The three devil soldiers were not so lucky, and when they looked back with frightened eyes, Wang Laohu's war knife swung lightly three times, and the three devils immediately became heads and separated. The three heads rolled into the bunker, looking as disgusting and disgusting, as hideous as they were.

As soon as Wang Laohu waved his hand, the soldiers immediately put away their swords, took their brand-new Bayi automatic rifles, mounted their horses and rushed to the courtyard.

On the training ground of the compound of the security regiment, a bloody scene was being staged at this time.

It's already five o'clock, and it's about to eat, but the devil cavalry has not rested, they are still training in swordsmanship.

More than eighty devil cavalrymen, lined up in three teams, were listening to Lieutenant Komizuno's comments. In the open space in front of the procession, dozens of corpses of Chinese prisoners of war lay down. Fifteen Chinese prisoners of war were tied to a row of wooden stakes, most of whom had closed their eyes in despair, and only one or two were still cursing the Chinese language that the devils did not understand.

Lieutenant Komizuno graduated from the Cavalry Section of the Army Non-commissioned Officer School and is now a squad leader. At this time, he was explaining the knife marks on the corpse and commenting on the merits of the knife skills.

When Wang Laohu and the others came in, Lieutenant Komizuno was talking about it.

As soon as he smelled the bloody gas, and then looked at the Chinese prisoners of war tied to the wooden stakes, Wang Laohu still didn't understand anything, and his blood was gushing when he landed, and he didn't care about any special tactics, so he unbuttoned the coat of the devil army and roared: "Give the devil to Lao Tzu all suddenly!" The automatic rifle in his hand opened fire.

At this moment, all the automatic rifles in the hands of the fighters spoke, and many devils were shot in the middle of the body.

Lieutenant Komizuno died the latest because he was standing facing Wang Laohu and them, with three rows of devil cavalry in between. Seeing the cavalry coming in from the door shooting at his own cavalry, Xiao Mizuno was stunned for a moment, and knew that this was a sneak attack by the squadron, and immediately shouted in a Chinese language: "Enemy attack!" ”

To Lieutenant Komizuno's surprise, these thirty or so cavalrymen were all armed with automatic weapons, and their firepower was so strong that their cavalry turned their backs to them, and they were drowned by the rain of bullets without even having a chance to react.

It wasn't until all his own cavalry was killed that Lieutenant Komizuno woke up from his stunned stupor, cursing "Despicable!" Shameless! The soldiers of China are doing the work of sneak attack", brandishing their swords and slapping their horses towards Wang Laohu.

Wang Laohu didn't look at Xiao Mizuno, waved his hand, and the two soldiers immediately pulled the trigger, and several bullets hit Lieutenant Xiao Mizuno's head at the same time, hitting his white brain like milk.

Wang Laohu spat out a sentence: "Stupid"! Ignoring the prisoners of war on the wooden stakes, he ordered the soldiers to rush to the security regiment headquarters, canteens, stables, and barracks to search for the remnants of the enemy.

The sound of gunfire woke up Captain Ichiro Kimura, the leader of the Devil Cavalry Squadron.

Captain Kimura Ichiro's cavalry squadron was attached to the cavalry wing of the 5th Division.

After the Battle of Taiyuan, after a short rest, the cavalry wing was ordered to pursue Qingxu and Qixian. After arriving in Qi County, because he did not encounter the resistance of the squadron, Captain Kimura Ichiro volunteered to lead his squadron to Pingyao to investigate. What he didn't expect was that the Pingyao defenders fled from the wind, so he couldn't catch up, and only captured some stragglers.

After inspecting Pingyao City, Captain Kimura Ichiro was ecstatic. There are a lot of golden tickets, a lot of food, and a lot of all kinds of materials! This time, I am going to establish a special honor for His Majesty the Emperor, and it is very likely that this captain will become a captain.

Captain Kimura Ichiro, who was ecstatic, first sealed all the grain stores in Pingyao, and asked the bosses of those grain stores to hire cars and people by themselves, preparing to transport the grain to Taiyuan. Then he sealed all the jewelry shops, jade shops, antique shops, and gold shops that Pingyao City had no time to escape and transferred, and transported all the jewelry, jade, antiques, and gold into his squadron headquarters, and then captured some flower girls and pulled them back to the squadron headquarters to comfort the warriors of the imperial army.

In the afternoon, Lieutenant Komizuno had to give the soldiers a lesson in swordsmanship, this guy deserves to be the top student of the cavalry section of the Army Non-commissioned Officer School, and he does have a set of swordsmanship, the knife is clean and neat, and after the blade, the blade is not stained with blood. Since he wants to speak, let him speak! Captain Kimura Ichiro himself hid in his office, admiring his plundered gold and silver treasures.

The more I look at it, the more I like it, the more I look at it, the more I love it, think about these things being shipped back to the book, and my family can become rich in no time! Find another famous lady to be his wife, the taste must be beautiful, wonderful!

Captain Kimura Ichiro was already intoxicated with fantasies, and he kept babbling about the wisdom of His Majesty the Emperor, the flower girl of Shina was great, the gold was great, and the decision to attack Shina was greatly good!

The gunfire on the training ground finally pulled Captain Kimura Ichiro back from his fantasy. No, where to shoot? The Chinese army has long since disappeared, why do you still want to shoot, could it be that Lieutenant Komizuno has changed the subject to a commentary shooting?

Listening to it again, it is even more wrong, this gunfire is not the sound of machine guns and rifles of the imperial army, nor is it the sound of old-fashioned rifles and Czech machine guns made by the German team of the Chinese [***] team. What's going on?

Captain Kimura Ichiro quickly opened the door, rushed out of the squadron headquarters with the Wang Ba box in one hand and the war knife in the other, and ran towards the training ground, not wanting to bump into Wang Laohu head-on.

As soon as Wang Laohu saw Kimura Ichiro's military rank, he knew that this guy was the commander of this cavalry squadron. This is because when Liu Yimin was training the special operations brigade and sniper brigade in Xi'an, he specifically talked about the establishment and rank of the army. It is said that the rank of cavalry is higher than that of infantry, and the squad leader is a lieutenant, and the squadron leader is a captain. The military uniform worn by Wang Laohu himself is the military uniform of the cavalry lieutenant squad leader.

When Captain Kimura Ichiro saw that it was his own cavalry, he opened his mouth and asked where to shoot?

Wang Laohu didn't say a word, his figure flashed, and he reached the left side of Captain Kimura Ichiro, and a hand knife slashed at Captain Kimura Ichiro's neck, and the guy fell to the ground softly.

According to Wang Laohu's temper, he was originally going to directly kill Kimura Ichiro. However, there are many differences between Wang Laohu and the past, and the division commander asked him to be a gentleman with a polite temperament, and he also educated the cadres to be learning commanders. Wang Laohu has long known that he can't be a regiment-level cadre just by being brave, so he loves to be more mindful in everything. When he turned his hands into a knife just now, he thought that although the division commander had no good impression of the devil and wanted to kill them all, the division commander was afraid that the soldiers would suffer a loss if they captured the prisoners. If he could really capture a prisoner and understand the enemy's situation, the division commander would probably be very happy in his heart! As long as the teacher is happy, won't our king and tiger also be happy? So, he left a little strength when he palmed, but he just knocked Captain Kimura Ichiro unconscious.

By the time Li Lingfeng led a battalion arrived, the battle was over, and the soldiers were rescuing the prisoners of war.

Li Lingfeng immediately sent a report to Liu Yimin, reporting that Wang Laohu led the No. 1 Special Operations Squadron to successfully attack and occupy Pingyao, captured the leader of the devil cavalry squadron and an interpreter, and killed all the other devils. There were no casualties in the 1st Special Operations Squadron.

After receiving the telegram, Liu Yimin was overjoyed, this first step has been completed, and the start is good. Not being happy, Liu Yimin immediately ordered the whole division to speed up and rush to camp in the vicinity of Pingyao County, and ordered Li Lingfeng and Wang Laohu to be responsible for interrogating the leader and interpreter of the devil's squadron, and that special means and technical measures could be taken to find out the deployment of the devil's troops in the Taiyuan area.

After sending the telegram, Liu Yimin ordered the guard regiment to protect the division headquarters to march quickly and rush directly to Pingyao County.

(To be continued)