Seeing that Qiao Youhua was leaving, Guo Meng immediately stopped him: "Wait a minute, you haven't answered my other question just now." ”

"What's the problem?" Qiao Youhua turned around and pretended to be stupid and asked.

"What were the terms of your previous deal with the Germans?" Guo Mengdao.

"Well, keep it secret for the time being, and I'll tell you when I come back from this battle, after I leave, you have to step up the training of recruits, there may not be much time left for us, and this batch of recruits will probably go to the battlefield soon." After Qiao Youhua finished speaking, he didn't look back and strode away.

Xingtang County, also called Yongchang County, was also called Zhangwu County in ancient times, located in the southwest of Hebei Province, at the intersection of the hills of the eastern foothills of Taihang Mountain and the Hebei Plain.

Its geographical location is similar to Lingshou County, the two places are separated by a river, called Cihe, about 50 miles apart, because Xingtang and its east of more than 30 miles of Xinle County are the same as the central part of Hebei, the southern barrier of Baoding.

At the same time, it is also a stronghold along the Pinghan Railway and the Baoding to Shimen section, so the Japanese army in North China deployed Japanese puppet troops in Xingtang and Yongle counties.

Among them, there is a puppet army cavalry battalion stationed in Xingtang, this cavalry battalion is adapted from the Xiangma bandits originally stationed in the Zhangjiakou area, and the combat effectiveness can be imagined, so Jiang Haidong will fight their attention.

Because Xinle is close to the railway line, there are more than 1,000 puppet army infantry, including two squadrons of devils and two battalions of six or seven hundred puppet soldiers.

Qiao Youhua rode a war horse from Pingshan, and after about half a day, he galloped all the way, and finally arrived at Lingshou County at about two o'clock in the afternoon.

As soon as he arrived outside the city, he was discovered by a battalion of sentinels, and after the sentry saluted, he let Qiao Youhua enter the city.

Jiang Haidong, Liu Yidao and others were already outside the camp compound, waiting for him for a long time, and when they saw Qiao Youhua coming on horseback, everyone showed a long-lost joy.

"Commander, you are here, the brothers are impatient!" Liu Yidao saluted.

The monkey ran over to lead the horse for Qiao Youhua, Qiao Youhua turned over and dismounted, patted him on the shoulder, said hello, and said to Liu Yidao with a smile: "Look at you, it's not a Japanese girl, it's impatient!" ”

"Regiment commander, don't you know, I took scouts to Xingtang and Xinle two days ago to conduct reconnaissance, and by the way, I planned to recruit some new soldiers, and found that the people there were too miserable by this traitor cavalry battalion raised by a son of a bitch.

These beasts can do evil more than little devils, burning, killing and looting, **** women, that's all evil! So, if you hadn't ordered you to wait for you to come, I would have taken the battalion commander and the battalion commander to pacify their gang of brutes right now. Liu Yidao said indignantly.

Qiao Youhua put away his smile when he heard this: "If you do too much injustice, you will kill yourself, it's not that you don't report it, but the time has not come, and now is the time to make these dogs pay for their blood debts." ”

After saying this, Qiao Youhua asked Jiang Haidong: "Are the troops ready?" ”

"It's been prepared for a long time, just waiting for you to come." Jiang Haidong said with a smile.

"Leave the right amount of troops to stay behind, just in case." Qiao Youhua said.

"Don't worry, I've arranged everything." Jiang Haidong said.

"That's okay, let's go immediately, the situation of the enemy army in Tang County, talk while walking on the road." Qiao Youhua turned around and said.

Jiang Haidong, Liu Yidao and others suddenly agreed, and with the main force of the first battalion that had already been assembled, more than 700 people left the county seat in a mighty way.

Leave the monkey with the rest of the warriors to stay in the county seat.

On the way to Xingtang, Jiang Haidong and Qiao Youhua walked side by side and said to Qiao Youhua:

"The puppet army of Xingtang is known as a battalion, but in fact there are more than 500 war horses, almost one person and two horses, so they often go out of the county to plunder everywhere, do a lot of evil, because they come and go like the wind, the people often have no time to deal with and escape.

It can be said that it suffered deeply, and another point is that in addition to the notice of the underground party of our Eighth Route Army, there was an intention to develop guerrillas in Xingtang, but it was because of the survival of this extremely mobile puppet army cavalry that it finally failed. ”

"So, the combat effectiveness of this two-devil cavalry is very good?" Qiao Youhua asked curiously.

Jiang Haidong shook his head and said: "Not really, according to the information I have now, the predecessor of this two devil cavalry was the rampant Xiangma bandits in the original Zhangjiakou area, and later after the devils occupied the Chahar area, they took refuge in the Japanese and became traitors."

As the Japanese army moved south, the devil's troops were insufficient, so he was transferred to Xingtang County to be stationed to assist the Japanese puppet army in Xinle to guard the railway communication line.

For the guerrillas and ordinary people who are still in the initial stage, this group of puppet cavalry wearing devil skins and changing into Japanese-style weapons is naturally powerful, but when he encounters us, he has to lie on his stomach even if he is a tiger, and he has to coil for us even if he is a dragon! ”

Liu Yidao next to him laughed and said: "Haha, the battalion commander is domineering, our dragon tooth detachment specializes in fighting little devils and dog traitors!" This should also be called one thing to one thing! ”

Qiao Youhua reined in his war horse, came to the side of the road with Jiang Haidong and others, and looked at the soldiers marching on foot, Qiao Youhua lit a cigarette and gave Liu Yidao a look.

Liu Yidao understood, and urged at the top of his voice: "Brothers, speed up your pace, hurry up!" Fast! ”

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Shimen County, Headquarters of the 21st Division.

"General, we should apply to the North China Front Headquarters for a batch of armed boats and river-crossing equipment, and it is best to be able to ration us some patrol boats and small gunboats, so that the waters near the canal and the Hutuo River can be completely blocked.

In the future, if the Chinese army wants to take the waterway, smuggle it, or use the water area to sneak attack the imperial army, it will be impossible! "Chief of Staff Yuyuki Chiba said to Sakai Chihei.

"The commander of the division, what the chief of staff said is reasonable, with the boats, we can also better blockade the Chinese army, it is definitely a hundred miles without any harm!" Senior Adjutant Tadao Nakajima.

Lieutenant General Chihei Sakai, who was sitting behind his desk, put down a copy of the document in his hand, looked up at the two of them, nodded and said, "What you said makes sense, just do it, send a telegram to Commander Sugiyama Moto in my name, requesting the deployment of ships and the equipment needed for river crossing operations!" ”

"Hay." Yuyuki Chiba and Tadao Nakajima bowed their heads one after another.

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Xingtang County, the battalion headquarters of the puppet army cavalry battalion located in the central area of the county.

A vicious-looking puppet army officer was drinking, and next to him sat two disheveled women, whose white and tender skin on their chests were mostly exposed.

This officer is none other than Niu Daring, the commander of this traitor cavalry battalion, this guy is drinking wine, and from time to time he puts his hand into the chest of the two women next to him and touches a few handfuls, so unhappy.

She snatched both of these women, so she could only accept them and sobbed silently.

"Damn, crying and dripping fart! Ruin Lao Tzu's interest, dare to cry again, reward you two hooves to those brothers outside, and let them take your turn! The cow boldly kicked one of the women to the ground, and said with a hideous expression.