The first to act was the 2nd Infantry Regiment stationed in Luquan, and after receiving Qiao Youhua's order, the regiment commander Ma Biao and the deputy regiment commander Zhou Dasheng immediately discussed and decided.

Zhou Dasheng led two battalions and troops directly under the regimental headquarters to stay in Erdaogouzi, Magou and Luquan County, plus the Feiyunling base area.

Although with the expansion of the anti-Japanese base area of the Longya Column, most of the people on Feiyunling Mountain have gone down the mountain and returned to their respective hometowns, but most of the original people of Zhengcun are still on the mountain.

Their homes have already been destroyed, and they have lived in the mountains for so long that they are used to it, and they don't want to go down.

In addition, Feiyunling is still one of the main material hoarding bases of the Longya Anti-Japanese Column in the Luquan area, and it can also be used as a production base for military factories in the future.

Therefore, Qiao Youhua asked the second battalion to leave the necessary garrison on the mountain.

At present, the strength of one battalion of each infantry regiment is about 500 people, and it has three main infantry companies, a guard platoon directly under the battalion headquarters, a communications platoon, and several other units directly under its jurisdiction.

Ma Biao set out from Luquan with a battalion of officers and soldiers, bypassed Magou Town, and went straight to the direction of Jingcheng County.

Shang'an Town is located between Jingcheng and Shimen, originally just a small village with a population of less than 100 people, and later the Zhengtai railway line passed here, which led to the prosperity and development of the town, making the population of the town surge to thousands of people in a very short period of time, and became a famous town within a radius of dozens of miles.

This era is not the era of population surge in later generations, and a town of thousands of people is definitely a big town.

Therefore, this Shang'an town has naturally become an important transit station along the Shimen-Jingcheng railway, and it is naturally impossible for the devil to ignore such an important place.

As early as more than a year ago, the devils and the puppet army built strongholds around the town and sent troops to garrison them, which also served as a base for the patrol team along the Japanese puppet army to rest and replenish along the railway.

Ma Biao's first battalion commander was a native of Magou Town, who had joined the Dragon's Tooth Task Force earlier, Ma Shoutian, the recruit who had been bullied by Scarface.

Now that Tong Guò has been baptized and tempered in many battles, he has become an excellent commander and fighter, and he is from the same surname as Ma Biao, so he is especially important in the 2nd Infantry Regiment.

The faster the expansion of the troops, the faster the officers will be promoted, and Ma Shoutian went from a recruit to the battalion commander of the main regiment in less than half a year, which can be called a rebellion.

But this is not uncommon, and there are many such examples in our great Workers' and Peasants' Red Army.

This is also an extraordinary phenomenon of improvement in extraordinary times.

However, although Ma Shoutian is young, he is a very good guy in his bones, with a flexible mind, dare to fight, and belong to both wisdom and bravery, which is the main reason why Ma Biao values him.

Accompanying Ma Biao and Ma Shoutian on their expedition this time was a military backbone sent by the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army, who was about 234 years old, with a not very thick beard, a native of Jiangxi, and also from the old Red Army, named Ma Yiming, who was appointed by Ma Biao as the deputy commander of the first battalion.

After several hours of marching, the three of them quietly came to the northwest of Shang'an Town, where they hid in a field.

took out the map and looked at Ma Biao and said to Ma Yiming: "Deputy Battalion Commander Ma, the front is Shang'an Town, you take someone to the front to reconnoiter the situation." ”

Ma Yiming replied with a bang, and led the order with a few soldiers.

About half an hour later, Ma Yiming and the others went and returned, came to Ma Biao's side and said: "Regiment leader, there are Japanese puppet troops stationed in this town, with a strength of at least about 200 people, and the puppet army is the majority, and the devils should be in a squad or so, basically stationed in several turrets and pillboxes outside the town.

There are blockade ditches and barbed wire fences outside the turrets and pillboxes, and the surrounding vision is wide, and there are no obstacles to hide, which can be described as easy to defend and difficult to attack. ”

Ma Biao nodded when he heard this, pointed to the map in his hand and said to Ma Shoutian and Ma Yiming: "In this case, a strong attack is not good for us, unless the artillery company directly under the regiment headquarters is transferred, but it is not very cost-effective, after all, our purpose this time is to attack the enemy and mobilize the enemy, not to really attack the fortification."

With the artillery company, the mobility is much worse. Do you have any good ideas? ”

Ma Shoutian thought for a while and said: "Regiment commander, I have a way, I will let Deputy Battalion Commander Ma and a small group of people pretend to be small guerrillas to sabotage the railway south of Shang'an Town, lure the Japanese puppet army to attack, and then lead people to ambush them!" Commander, you will take the opportunity to capture their pillboxes and turrets. Kill two birds with one stone! ”

Ma Yiming praised: "The battalion commander's method is good, I think it is feasible." ”

Ma Biao nodded approvingly and glanced at Ma Shoutian, "Yes, just do as you say, our troops will be divided into three ways, and we will act separately immediately." ”

Zhao Goudan is a native of Shang'an Town, his father died early, alone, he used to be a ruffian hooligan who didn't do his job all day long in the town, and then after the devil came, he naturally joined the Imperial Army, with a flexible mind and good eloquence.

also mixed with the position of a platoon commander, which can be regarded as getting ahead.

Guarding in the turret every day, as long as he pleases the Japanese princes, he can drink a little wine, go to the kiln in the town to play with the kiln sister, gamble on two in the gambling house, and live a good life.

Today, Zhao Goudan went to the turret where the Japanese army was stationed to pat himself as usual, and when he was walking towards his turret, there was a sudden explosion in the direction of the south of the town.

Zhao Goudan was shocked when he heard this, and hurriedly turned around and ran back to the devil's turret not far behind him, and the devils in the turret were also alarmed, shouting and scolding.

"Zhao Sang, you take someone to see what's going on!" When a devil squad leader saw him, he shouted in an unquestioning tone.

Although Zhao Goudan was reluctant in his heart, he was afraid of the devil's obscenity, so he had to nod and obey: "Haiyi, Taijun!" ”

Then he turned around and gritted his teeth and ran out of the turret, ran back to his turret, took a dozen puppet army subordinates, and ran in the direction of the explosion.

In a barren grass on the south side of the town, Ma Shoutian was leading people to ambush here, and a soldier said: "Battalion commander, it seems that there are only some two devils, what should we do to fight or not?" ”

Ma Shoutian gritted his teeth and said: "The little devil is cautious enough, go, withdraw, don't fight, there is no need to expose our whereabouts for a few second devils, scare the little devil, and then try to lure it out, but it is not so easy." ”

Soon, Ma Shoutian and Ma Yiming withdrew to their original hiding place with people, and Ma Biao, who was about to take the opportunity to capture the devil's fortifications, asked, "What's wrong?" ”

After Ma Shoutian explained the situation, Ma Biao couldn't help frowning and said: "It seems that we have to change our plan slightly, Deputy Battalion Commander Ma, you immediately take a squad of soldiers to attack those two devils who came out, don't kill them all, put a few back and let them report the news." ”

"Yes!" Ma Yiming immediately took a squad of soldiers to lead the order.