——Headquarters of the Eighth Route Army in Luliangshan

Like the Japanese army headquarters in Taiyuan, it was also very busy, with hundreds of telegraph machines constantly translating and issuing instructions, and remotely controlling the troops from all over the country in North China to stage a good show one after another.

"Mr. Zhu, the devil seems to be reluctant to come out, look, the intelligence from all over the country has said that none of the devils in the county have gone out of the city, and it seems that they have received a death order." Zuo Quan sorted out the information and said.

Mr. Zhu squinted his eyes and snorted, "It seems that the little devil is a little scared, did we fight too hard?" ”

Mr. Peng shook his head and said, "Where is this?" I see, if the little devil doesn't come out, we'll go in! It's better to let the troops pick a few county towns with few devils and fight into them!! Anyway, sooner or later, will you have to fight? ”

Mr. Zhu thought for a while and said, "It's not appropriate, our purpose is to lure the enemy, or continue to fight small strongholds, and after the small strongholds are finished, we will fight the townships and towns, and clean up all the devils except for the strongholds above the county seat, which is also convenient for us to fight next!" The county still has to slow down, if the small strongholds are all gone, the devil still doesn't move, and it's not too late to fight! ”

At this time, Zuo Quan suddenly smiled and said, "Two bosses, there is a new situation, after we launched a sabotage war in various places, some originally neutral green forest troops and local troops began to move closer to us, and some regiments have begun to unite with other anti-Japanese teams to fight together, and now we are not fighting alone." ”

Mr. Zhu nodded and smiled, "Of course, there are more people who are traitors now, but there are more people who rise up to resist Japan, and there are many more!" Wow, let the troops do it. If you can, you can also invite these troops to join our Eighth Route Army, okay. After we finished this battle, the number of troops increased instead of decreasing. ”

- Beiping

As the commander of the North China Front, Terauchi Shouichi only felt extremely pressure at this time, and from Shanxi to Shandong, from Suiyuan to Hebei, telegrams were flying everywhere asking for tactical guidance, but now he had no troops available at all.

The aftermath of the Battle of Wuhan became apparent at this time. A large number of veterans, wounded or disabled, have been discharged and returned to China, and most of the strength of each division and regiment is only 70 percent usable, and it is still scattered in all directions. Most of Henan is still in the hands of the National Army, and now in the situation in North China, Terauchi Shouichi is even more afraid to use the troops of the Henan front line to return to help. These damn Eighth Route Army didn't know where to get so much explosives and munitions, and those pillboxes and turrets didn't play a role at all. On the contrary, the Japanese army continued to wear and tear down the troops. Shouichi Terauchi couldn't help but start thinking about whether he was going to ask for help from the Kwantung Army.

But even if the Kwantung Army enters the customs, it will take a month or two, and by that time, the whole of North China will not know if there will be a single track lying on the railway honestly.

Chief of Staff Yamashita Fufumi walked in and said, "Your Excellency, Commander, a secret telegram from the Third Army. ”

Terauchi Shouichi hurriedly took it and looked at it, looked at it and said with a smile in his mouth, "Yo Xi, Yo Xi, General Tada is very courageous." Taking such a big bet to win the opportunity to annihilate the main force of the Eighth Route Army is really powerful. ”

Yamashita Fengwen also nodded and said, "If you succeed in clearing Shanxi." The loss of those strongholds is worth it, but not in other provinces, Shanxi has a special geography, and there are three divisions and regiments, with sufficient troops, so that they can be encircled, and most of the other provinces have only one division, and the troops are too scattered. ”

Terauchi Shouichi snorted, "It is important to clear Shanxi first, these Eighth Route Army in North China are all under the orders of Shanxi, and if the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army is defeated, these guerrillas will be self-defeating!" As for the other places, both the scale of the guerrillas and the intensity of their attacks are far less powerful than those in Shanxi, so I think we can order the troops in various places to counterattack with brigades as units to counter the sabotage of the Eighth Route Army! ”

——Shandong Zaozhuang

Zaozhuang is one of the most important energy towns in eastern China. Before the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, it had the largest Chinese-funded coal mine in the country, Zhongxing Company. After the Japanese army occupied Zaozhuang, a large number of troops were stationed here and began to plunder the place. Trains loaded with coal and other supplies pass by here every day, and the Japanese even have a chariot squad here to protect the railway.

After the Japanese army occupied Zaozhuang, Liu Hong hated the Japanese army who occupied his hometown, and suffered from no one to lead him to fight devils, so he could only take his brothers to do it alone, and in the past few months, he also killed several lonely puppet soldiers and Japanese soldiers, and captured some guns and ammunition. He occupied a small hill and became the king of the mountain.

On this day, Liu Hong was boxing in the yard, and felt a little tired after a while, so he stopped, sat in the corner and flipped up the book, which was the Water Margin comic book he begged his father to buy for him when he was a child, he didn't know how to read, he could only understand by looking at paintings, he lost his mother at the age of 6 and his father at the age of 8, which was also the only gift left to him by his poor father.

At this time, a big man hurriedly walked in, and saw Liu Hong shouting, "Ah, big brother Liu, why are you still sitting here, something is wrong, and there is a commotion outside." ”

Liu Hong patted the book, put it in his arms and said, "You Lu Han, what are you panicking about, what's wrong?" Did the little devil beat us again, or did the little devil bring something again? ”

Lu Han shook his head and said, "Where are these things, have you heard of the Eighth Route Army?" ”

Liu Hong nodded and said, "I've heard that the troops who came from the west recently have a good reputation, and it is said that they have set up some base on the side of Weishan Lake and killed all the devils on Weishan Island." ”

Lu Han smiled and said, "This is all in the past, you don't know, the Eighth Route Army attacked devils everywhere yesterday, and also contacted the anti-Japanese team everywhere, and made an appointment to fight devils together, no, someone came to contact us, and we went to bomb the train together, saying that if you are willing to participate, you will immediately take people to them, you say, should we go or not?" ”

Liu Hong stiffened up with a carp and said, "Go, of course go, this is like the birth gang in the Water Margin, you must go." ”

Liu Hong took more than 30 of his people to the meeting place, and before he arrived, he met the old farmer, who asked, "Where are the things?" ”

Lu Han hurriedly handed the old farmer a piece of paper, but nothing was written on it. Just a few small holes were pierced in the paper, and the old farmer took one out of his bosom and closed it together. When he found that the size and location of the cave were right, he nodded and said, "Two miles to the west." ”

When they came to the location, Liu Hong and the others were surprised to find that there were actually five or six hundred people in the dark, including soldiers in military uniforms, peasants dressed as ordinary people, well-dressed landlords and squires, and even women and teenagers.

An officer dressed in an extremely neat way came over, smiled and stretched out his hand and said, "Hello. You're Liu Hong's people, right? I don't know which one is in charge of Liu? My name is Li Zheng, the commander of the third company of the second battalion of the fourth regiment of the Lunan Military Region of the Eighth Route Army. I will take you to our battalion commander, who will preside over this operation. ”

Liu Hong only saw a few officers of the Eighth Route Army pointing on a map, and Li Zhengli shouted, "Report, Liu Hong's team of the anti-Japanese team brought 37 people to participate in the battle." ”

An officer turned around and hurriedly said, "Welcome." Welcome. Oh, this is Liu in charge, I'm Du Wei, the commander of the second battalion, I'm sending you, come, let's have a meeting together. ”

This is Liu Hong's first time attending a military meeting, and although he doesn't quite understand it, he feels that it is very powerful. Very serious, Liu Hong hit Lu Han, who was giggling next to him. Zhengse looked at Du Wei who was sitting on the ground. In addition to Liu Hong, there are a few people who seem to know that they are not farming.

Du Wei sat on the ground and said, "Heroes are coming, you should know what you want to do, our Eighth Route Army has always advocated that the muzzle of the gun is facing outward, unanimously resist Japan, you are all a team that has fought devils, now our Eighth Route Army has a big operation in the whole North China is unfolding, I believe some well-informed people have also heard that all of our Eighth Route Army are sabotaging and attacking the Japanese army's strongholds, railways, highway transportation, factories and mining areas, our goal here is to cut off the railway in Zaozhuang, there are eight armed forces participating in the war, and my Eighth Route Army has 327 people, There are a total of 146 heroes on the seven routes, and we are divided into three routes, one to destroy the railway, one to the north, to block the enemy, and one to protect our rear road in the south. ”

Someone immediately shouted, "Sir Du, how do we know that you don't want to use us as cannon fodder?" ”

Du Wei said with a smile, "In this battle, the main force is our department, heroes from all walks of life are willing, and we will kill the enemy together, if you don't want to, it's okay to stand behind and be strong, I really don't want to, turn around and leave, as long as we don't take refuge in the Japanese, we are still friends." ”

Liu Hong stood up and drank at the moment, "Wang Erliuzi, you have a lot of ******, I, Liu Hong, have more than 30 people, two machine guns, and more than 20 long and short guns, and I am willing to be a pioneer!" Fighting devils is still picky, why don't you go to sleep on the girl's kang! ”

That Wang Erliuzi is also the master of eating with a gun, where can he hang his face, and drink at the moment "You fly on the grass****** spray feces, who doesn't dare to fight devils, my dozen guns are all snatched from devils!" Besides, is there still one less pit for us in the National Army? Don't forget, you caught such a big devil official, and what did you change. ”

Du Wei saw that the two were about to fight, frowned, and shouted, "If the two heroes are going to fight here again, then please leave." This is a gathering place for fighting devils, not a rushing Liang Shanbo! Moreover, we don't want you to be the vanguard in this battle, our goal is not to kill many devils, but to completely paralyze the transportation of the Japanese army. ”

Liu Hong asked puzzledly: "What is the use of paralyzing the transportation of the Japanese army?" Isn't the devil still there? ”

Du Wei explained, "Your vision is still too short-sighted, as the saying goes, the soldiers and horses are not touched by the grain and grass first, the modern war is fought by weapons and soldiers, and the second is the resource population, this little devil has few villains, we are five to fight him, one of them has more, but their weapons are better than ours, how do you think this weapon came from?" They are all made of coal and steel. Our Eighth Route Army is now fighting a sabotage war, the destruction of the devil's strength is a part, the destruction of the devil's plundering of our resources is a more important part, you think about it, in the past six months, the devil is no longer in our Zaozhuang crazy digging coal transport away? Every truckload of coal can be used to make steel, and it can also generate electricity, and the devils will use this steel to make weapons, and then they will fight us, if the devils have no steel, no coal, what do you say? ”

Wang Erliuzi patted his thigh and said, "Does that devil have no weapons?" Nima's, if they don't have guns or cannons, Lao Tzu can beat the three of them with a big knife. ”

Du Wei smiled, "It's not so ideal, but every time there is less coal to be transported, the devil's weapons will be less, and the devil's materials will be less. ”

Liu Hong seemed to see a new world, but he couldn't understand it in a daze. just said excitedly, "Battalion Commander Du, you can say it, we will all listen to you." ”

Several of the other leaders also nodded and said, "Yes." Yes, we all listen to you, and you can fight as you say. ”

- Night

A train loaded with coal and other supplies roared north from Zaozhuang. Between Zaozhuang and Tengzhou, there is another small station called Guanqiao, Guanqiao is called the bridge, in fact, there are four or five kilometers away from the bridge, there are two turrets and some brick houses in the station, and half a squad of Japanese soldiers and thirty or forty puppet troops are stationed in it.

The train continued to move. In fact, this train is not fast, but the speed of thirty or forty kilometers is about the limit speed of a person's running. Suddenly, dozens of figures appeared from both sides of the train, and each of them got on the train. The leader is Liu Hong.

Liu Hong shouted in a low voice, "I grabbed this task, if you make me embarrassed." Go back and have your good-looking. ”

Lu Han said hehehe: "Brother Hong, don't worry. Look at ours. So saying, he took some of the brothers and climbed over the top of the train. Only a Japanese soldier was seen smoking a cigarette between two trains. Lu Han held his breath, his feet were dragged by the two brothers, half of his body went down, his hands turned suddenly, and the Japanese soldier fell down without even screaming.

Lu Han waved his hand and shouted, "Let's go down, remember, try not to shoot!!" ”

Since it is a wagon. There were not many soldiers on the car, and there were only one or two people in a carriage. There were also some railway workers, and suddenly, a Japanese soldier who came out to blow the wind saw the figure jumping on the roof of the car, and hurriedly shouted, "Yaga, there is an enemy!" As he spoke, he was about to untie the 38 cover in the back and shoot.

Liu Hong quickly pulled out his Mauser pistol, and across the body of the gun was a shot, and a bullet accurately hit the forehead of the Japanese soldier.

"No matter, storm and kill all the Japanese on the train!" Liu Hong drank, in order to seize the car, Du Wei gave all the pistols to Liu Hong, Liu Hong and others now each have a Mauser, and most of them are the children of railway workers, and they are very familiar with the train, and when Liu Hong killed the locomotive, he heard a gunshot, Liu Hong shrank his head for a long time, saw no movement, and secretly looked down, but saw an old man wearing the clothes of a railway worker, smoking dry tobacco, a Japanese soldier lying on the ground, and a young descendant wearing a worker's uniform was putting a Wang Ba box into his arms, looking at Liu Hong and said"We are our own people, my name is Peng Liang, what is your name?"

Liu Hong turned over and said with a smile, "My name is Liu Hong, now it's okay, stop the train at the place where there is a fire in front, and Camp Commander Du is waiting there." ”

Several puppet soldiers at Guanqiao Station yawned and guarded their posts, but they saw a train slowly coming in, it was a wagon, the Japanese soldiers standing on it saw the train stopped, and hurriedly came out to check the situation. A "hit" drowned out his screams.

"Da Da Da, Bang! Syllable! The machine guns and rifles on the train fired at the same time, and the defenders on the platform were knocked to the ground in just one round, and the alarm bell on the turret immediately sounded, and the Japanese guards hurriedly began to counterattack. A grenadier hit the train, and after the explosion and flames of the grenade, the train was not in any serious trouble, and the bullet hit the train only a little bit of sparks, but there were few casualties.

"Launch!" Suddenly there was a loud shout from outside the station, and a cannonball with flames flew in from outside the station, and flew straight to the turret, and after a huge explosion, countless bricks and stones flew up.

"Kill!!" Shocking shouts of killing came from all directions, and another cannonball hit another turret, knocking that turret out of a gap.

Liu Hong only saw Du Wei taking the lead and leading the troops to charge towards the station, and several other officers of the Eighth Route Army he knew were also standing in front, Liu Hong only felt that this Eighth Route Army seemed to be a little different from the other troops he knew

The battle lasted only half an hour, Liu Hong saw Du Wei launch a green signal flare, and heard the sound of rustling from all directions, through the moonlight and firelight, Liu Hong was surprised to find that they were all villagers pushing small carts.

Liu Hong asked, "Battalion Commander Du, what's going on?" ”

Liu Hong smiled and said, "Look at this car, there are all cloth and clothes, and we have to pick up the railway, but also to transport the railroad tracks, which requires manpower, we mobilized more than 1,000 people from 37 nearby villages, these people are led by the village chief and militia squad leader elected by the villagers themselves, to help us." ”

Liu Hong saw that there were still a lot of women and children, and there were several village chiefs who were in charge of commanding women, and suddenly understood the reason why he saw women during the day, and couldn't help but be glad that he didn't ask too much, otherwise it would be embarrassing.

Liu Hong pushed Lu Han, who was stunned, and said, "Why are you all stunned, help with the work!" ”

Lu Han hurriedly nodded and said, "Hey, hey, Brother Hong, why do you say that the common people listen to the words of the Eighth Route Army, and do whatever they say, if this is known by the Japanese, how dangerous it is." ”

A crisp voice came from behind Liu Hong: "The little devils have hit our door, if you are afraid of danger, the little devils will not bully us." The Eighth Route Army reduced our rent and interest and taught us the principles of literacy, and of course we helped the Eighth Route Army. ”

Liu Hong turned to look, but he had just seen the woman commanding the villagers, this woman was about thirty years old, although she could not be said to be beautiful, she was also delicate, her eyes were bright, and she had a temperament that did not admit defeat.

Lu Han stuck out his tongue and said, "Yes, yes, yes, what this eldest sister said is, I don't know, Brother Hong, I'm going to move things." ”

The woman snorted, "My name is Sister-in-law Fang Lin, hey, don't be stunned, you have to fight hard, you have to do something else, you go over there to help transport the rails, this is very heavy, you are so strong, you must be able to do it." Look at what, go quickly! How stupid is it? ”

Liu Hong nodded stupidly, and walked over to help the villagers carry the railroad tracks. Looking at the hot scene around him, and looking at Du Wei, who was also moving railway track materials like himself, Liu Hong suddenly felt that it seemed good to stay in this army. (To be continued.) )

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