-- Ji County, Shanxi

This is Yan Xishan's base camp, after the Battle of Wuhan, the Jin Sui Army stopped the guerrilla warfare behind the enemy and began to shrink in an all-round way, for fear that the Japanese who ended the battle would free up their hands to attack themselves, especially seeing that even the Eighth Route Army had begun to stop recently, Yan Xishan was even more convinced that the difficult period in Shanxi had come.

At this time, in Anping Village, Ji County, Yan Xishan looked at the person in front of him with a smile and said, "Mr. Jin, do you need some sincerity if you want me Yan to cooperate with you?" How long has this Wang Jingwei been cooperating with you, and now he has been shot, he doesn't know whether he is alive or dead, he has no sincerity, who dares to take such a big risk, isn't it? ”

Yoshiko Kawashima nodded and said, "That's natural, Mr. Yan is in charge of Jindi, he is very famous in Shanxi, and our imperial army is also very admired, we are willing to arm 20 regiments for Mr. Yan, we will allocate 100,000 rifles, as well as supporting training personnel and ammunition, and as long as Mr. and Mr. Wang are the same, they understand the righteousness and power generation to leave Chongqing, we are even willing to withdraw from Shanxi and return all Shanxi to Mr. Yan." ”

Yan Xishan's fingers moved slightly, as the king of Shanxi, what he hoped most was to regain control of Shanxi, and it was impossible to say that he was not moved. But as an old fox, it would be even more impossible for him to believe in the Japanese so simply.

Yan Xishan asked, "What about the specific plan?" ”

Yoshiko Kawashima gestured with her hand and said, "Let's allocate 20,000 rifles first, and your army will be moved from Ji County to Xi County." We allocated another 30,000 rifles. After receiving it, your army moved from Xi County to Xiaoyi. In the end, we allocated another 30,000 guns, your army moved to Taiyuan, telegraphed against Chiang, your army handed over the ferry port of Xiaochuanwo in Jixian County to our army to station, and the last 20,000 rifles were paid by our army at one time as needed, and at the same time, our two sides could carry out material exchanges and strategic cooperation at any time, such as driving out the Eighth Route Army, which is now too big to lose. ”

Yan Xishan nodded again and again, and smiled, "Okay, good." Good plan, well thought out, good, good. ”

Kawashima Yoshiko also said excitedly when she heard this, "We have fully considered the difficulties of your army in this plan, and I hope Mr. Yan will consider it." ”

Yan Xishan rolled his eyes and said, "Okay, we agree to this plan in principle, but you have to allocate our guns first, and in addition to rifles, we also need 3,000 machine guns and 300 cannons." In addition, you can't raise soldiers if you have guns and no money, so you can allocate some money to us first, Mr. Jin, you don't know that oil and rice are expensive, and my family is not good!! ”

As he spoke, Yan Xishan's tears fell, and he began to calculate the expenses and expenses for Kawashima Yoshiko one by one, and Kawashima Yoshiko's eyes slowly turned into a spiral. Hurriedly shook his head to sober himself up, and said in a cold sweat, "Mr. Yan Yan is worthy of being a prince of a land, in order to show our sincerity, we have brought two thousand rifles and one million fiat currency. One million coins. However, Mr. Yan, these things must be signed before they can be done. ”

Yan Xishan immediately clapped his hands and said, "Sign it, sign it immediately!" For peace and Shanxi. Let's sign!! ”

Yan Xishan smiled and looked at the back of Yoshiko Kawashima leaving in the night, looked back at the rifles and ammunition in the place and said, "Damn, this little devil is really sincere." All three or eight big covers. Not bad. ”

Yang Aiyuan next to him asked, "Chief Yan, do we really want to cooperate with the Japanese?" ”

Yan Xishan said with a smile, "This signing doesn't mean that this business must be done, now there are Japanese in Shanxi, there are the Eighth Route Army, there are our Jin Sui Army, and some people who are Jiang intermediaries, it's a mess, anyway, we have a good advantage to take it, but this power generation thing can't be done, Lao Jiang is amazing, Wang Jingwei dodged twice, and finally didn't dodge." ”

Saying that, Yan Xishan stuck out his tongue, and at this time, a staff officer came over and said, "Hello sir, Xu Xiangqian, the representative of the Eighth Route Army, asks to see you." ”

Yan Xishan only felt a sweat on his back, and asked in disbelief, "Why is this Xu Xiangqian here?" Could it be that he knows about our contact with the Japanese? The intelligence capabilities of the Red Party are too strong, right? ”

Yang Aiyuan said with relief, "Probably not, let's see each other first." ”

Yan Xishan waved his hand and said, "See!! ”

Yan Xishan came to the living room, saw Xu Xiangqian and laughed, "Master Xu hasn't seen you for a long time, I've worked the front line, why did you come here at this point, did you eat?" Wait a minute, let's have two glasses, I have authentic Fenjiu here, which is definitely in line with the taste of our Shanxi people. ”

Xu Qianqian saluted and said, "Hello Chief Yan, Xu Qianqian, the 129th Division of the 18th Group Army, came to report. After speaking, he smiled and waved his hand, "Chief Yan, I won't drink the wine, I'll be in a hurry to return to the army later, I'm here to report the news this time." ”

Yan Xishan's eyes rolled and asked, "What news?" ”

Xu Qianqian looked at his pocket watch and said, "It's nine o'clock in the evening, and in another three hours, that is, at twelve o'clock in the middle of the night, our army will carry out a large-scale sabotage counterattack war, the scope of the battle is the whole territory of Shanxi except for the place where your army is stationed, and the troops will be used to mobilize all the main forces of the 18th Group Army. ”

Yan Xishan's eyes widened and asked, "When?" Three hours later? The sabotage battle of the whole Shanxi? Division Commander Xu, are you Eighth Route Army crazy? Now there is no big war in the south, and the devils can support Shanxi at any time, do you want to be a target? ”

Xu Xiangqian smiled and said, "Naturally not, mainly Wang Jingwei treason to the enemy, which made the people in Chongqing panic, and many troops and officials defected to Nanjing, and the theory of destroying the country and peacefully surrendering to the enemy is very popular, our army believes that there must be a big victory to inspire, stabilize the war situation, and let all the people in the dark see that glimmer of light, so we decided to do this, and I hope that your army can cooperate with one or two"

Yan Xishan turned his back and thought about it, turned around and said with a smile, "Cooperate, of course cooperate, let me tell you, this Shanxi is my Yan someone's home, I don't want him to stay in the hands of the Japanese for a minute, in this way, as long as you start fighting, we promise to attack at the same time, watch and help each other, and never turn our backs." ”

Hearing Yan Xishan say this, although Xu Xiangqian knew that it was a little unreliable, he couldn't say anything more, nodded and saluted and left.

Yan Xishan touched his head and wondered, "What does this Eighth Route Army want to do?" Raid war? What kind of tactics is that? ”

Yang Aiyuan asked, "Chief Yan, are we going to cooperate with the Japanese or with the Eighth Route Army?" ”

Yan Xishan glared and said, "Which one is good to cooperate with, let our troops gather urgently, prepare immediately, and the ammunition will be distributed, Xu Xiangqian will not lie." He said that three hours, it must be three hours, this Eighth Route Army eats meat, we also have to drink soup, let everyone be smart, don't miss the meal. ”

-- Panlong Town, Wuxiang County

Due to the repeated harassment and attacks of the Eighth Route Army and the guerrillas, the Japanese army was forced to build a large number of pillboxes and fortifications in North China, among which Shanxi was the most. The small ones were only seven or eight people and one light machine gun, and the large ones were fifty or sixty people, but if the people who attacked these strongholds did not have artillery, they often could not be defeated at several times the cost.

On the highway of Panlong Town, there is a large turret erected here, seven or eight meters high, and there are forty or fifty people in it.

A troop slowly approached the turret, and these people were lying on the ground, crawling cautiously, and in a recess, two people were talking softly.

"How much longer? Is the demolition team ready? Are your partisans in place? "It was an officer of the Eighth Route Army with eyes who spoke. Next to it was a local militia in civilian clothes.

The militiaman raised his head and looked at the turret that was constantly looking around with a searchlight and said, "Commander Xiang, don't worry, although our local militia is not as good as fighting large troops, the place is definitely the most familiar." ”

That is called Xiang Shouzhi. Although he was only 21 years old, he was a small Red Army that joined Geming at the age of 17, and was assigned to the commander of the 10th Regiment of the Taihang Mountain Military Region at this time.

Xiang Shouzhi then looked at the pocket watch in the moonlight, which was still issued uniformly from above, and the reason why the watch was not issued was to prevent the officers from wearing it every day. Make the soldier feel that there is a difference in appearance from the officer.

There are five minutes left in the clock.

Xiang Shouzhi looked at both sides of the road, his three battalions were divided into three parts at this time, one was here to fight this turret and ambush on the road from Panlong Town to the turret. The other two were in Flood Town, and one was in Xiying Town attacking the stronghold there.

Time passed little by little, and finally, the three hands rarely hugged each other.

"Let's go!" With a wave of his hand, several sharpshooters who had been aiming for a long time shot together.

The two searchlights of "Pap", "Pap" and "Ping Pong" were extinguished for the first time, and the Japanese soldiers operating the searchlights hurriedly shouted, "Baga, there is the Eighth Route Army, there is the Eighth Route Army!" ”

Without giving the Japanese troops in the turret time to react, two mortar shells hit the turret, and the Japanese troops on the roof of the turret were cleared out as soon as possible.

At this time, the Japanese army also reacted, and the crooked sub-machine gun and the Type 92 heavy machine gun continued to shoot at the gray figure under the turret by the moonlight.

Several soldiers of the Eighth Route Army immediately frowned, covered their wounds, and remained motionless.

"Hurry, hurry!!" Under the strafing fire of the Japanese army, eight strong men carried a coffin and rushed frantically towards the turret.

"Cover the demolition team!!" Shouzhi shouted. Czech-style Mauser rifles, 38 large covers, captured crooked handles and grenadiers went crazy and shot at the gun holes of the Japanese artillery towers, suppressing the Japanese troops for a while and did not dare to shoot.

Finally, the coffin was transported to the bottom of the turret, and the people in the turret saw the black patch, and a bad premonition penetrated through the body, and the strong men seemed to hear the wailing inside the turret. Most of the Japanese artillery towers were on two floors, and there would be gun holes every one or two meters on each floor, because the demolition team rushed up, and the covering fire was weakened, and the Japanese army hurriedly fired at the demolition team.

But the demolition team is not stupid, in fact, this coffin is not big, just a child's use, it is filled with about 100 catties of high explosives brought by Jiang Cheng from modern times, the coffin is erected with wooden sticks around it, and then covered with several layers of wet quilts, nailed with nails, the top layer is a quilt coated with green grass juice and soil as a cover, the Japanese soldiers in the turret can only see a large black piece moving, the bullet hits and bangs, I just don't know if the person behind is killed.

The people of the demolition team set up the coffins and rolled them down from behind one by one, and the last person pulled the fuse violently, and in the dark night, the fuse was clearly visible.

Xiang Shouzhi shook his fist violently and smiled, "It's done!" ”

Sure enough, with a loud bang, as many as 100 catties of explosives in a coffin were detonated together, and the huge shock wave and the blown bricks and dirt made Xiang Shouzhi shrink his neck without worry. Looking at it again, a huge black hole appeared on the turret, and the turret became quiet, and I don't know if I was scared stupid or scared to death.

"Commander Xiang, it's amazing, this power, the thunder god of the Heavenly Palace is like this." The militia captain stuck out his tongue and said.

Xiang Shouzhi smiled and shouted, "Blow the trumpet!" ”

"Doodoo~Doo~Doo~Doo-Doo" The loud charge sounded, and the soldiers rushed towards the turret like a gale, faintly, Xiang Shouzhi heard a loud noise in the distance, probably which unit was also bombing the turret.

The troops rushed halfway, and the turret began to shoot again, but the turret that had been opened wide had basically declared its demise, and the soldiers' grenades and grenadiers were thrown into the mouth like stones, and several brave soldiers rushed in with bayonets under the leadership of a veteran with a pistol, and after a while, the plaster flag representing Japan slowly fell, and the blue sky and white sun flag rose high.

"Oh, that's a pity." The militia captain shook his head and said.

Xiang Shouzhi thought that he didn't play well, so he hurriedly asked, "What's wrong?" Captain Li, where is the fight bad? ”

Captain Li hurriedly shook his head and said, "No, it's just when we can raise our red flag, to the regiment commander, let me ask something for my fellow countrymen, after this battle, is Chief Yan in charge of us, or is the Eighth Route Army in charge of us?" ”

Where can Xiang Shouzhi say the answer to this, he can only say, "The battle is not over yet, let's not talk about this first, the artillery tower has been bombed, and the devils in the town and county will definitely come out, so we will wait for them halfway." ”

-- Taiyuan

Tada Jun was sleeping soundly when he suddenly heard a rush of footsteps, followed by a hurried knock on the door, "Your Excellency Commander, Your Excellency Commander, please wake up, something is wrong." ”

Tada Jun opened his eyes in a daze, let go of the body of the female nurse who came from Japan to help him, and asked with a sigh, "What's wrong?" ”

Takeda Yixiong's voice said, Takeda Yixiong said anxiously, "Your Excellency, a large number of Eighth Route Army and guerrillas have appeared in various parts of Shanxi, and up to now, 57 of the 62 counties controlled by our army in Shanxi have been attacked, and more than 400 strongholds have been attacked, and they are still increasing. ”

Tada Jun couldn't sleep anymore, and got up in horror and shouted, "What do you say, hurry up, give me clothes, Yaga, get out." ”

Takeda Yixiong looked at Tada Jun, who was dressed in a mess, and rushed out while putting on his shoes, and shouted while putting on his shoes, "Send a telegram to Beiping immediately to inquire about the situation in other places, and then send a telegram to each stronghold to inquire about the current situation, something is wrong, something is wrong!" (To be continued.) )