Chapter 51: The Restoration of Datong
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Datong City is located in the center of the Datong Basin in northern Shanxi Province and on the northeastern edge of the Loess Plateau. It is a famous "coal capital" in China.
The city wall is all based on the regular and systematic stone strips, stone squares are rammed with "Sanhe soil", covered with blue bricks, the bricks are divided into large, medium and small three, the medium bricks are 40 centimeters long, 20 centimeters wide, 10 centimeters thick, and weigh 18 kilograms, which is 7 times that of modern bricks.
The city wall is 14 meters high, and the buttress wall is built with a length of 5 meters, a height of 0.8 meters, a thickness of 0.5 meters of brick stacks, the distance between the stacks is 0.5 meters, and the battlements are the mouth of the rock and the shooting port, a total of 580 meters to the buttresses.
There are four city gates, the east is called Heyang, the south is called Yongtai, the west is called Qingyuan, and the north is called Wuding.
There is a moat on the outside of the city, which is about 5 meters deep and 10 meters wide, and is commonly known as the moat. Ripples around the ancient city. There are drawbridges at each gate. There are small towns (Guancheng) in the east, south and north of the city.
On September 13, 1937, the army invaded and occupied Datong. On October 15, it was said that the pseudo-'Jinbei Autonomous Political Axe" was established. It is subordinate to the pseudo "political axe of the Mongolian autonomous state".
According to the information provided by several special combatants lurking in Datong City, there is currently less than one squadron of the army in Datong City, and there are also several hundred puppet soldiers.
The Han Dynasty annihilated Xia Gong and served as the "Chairman of the Autonomous Political Axe of Northern Shanxi". Xia Gong was a native of the Qing Dynasty and was over 70 years old.
It is said that he was promoted to the top adviser in front of him, overseeing all political affairs, and was the emperor of the puppet Jin Northern Autonomous Axe. The program of the Autonomous Government is "Thanking the Imperial Army, Eradicating Red Bandits, Promoting Morality, and Building a Paradise." Although it is only 16 characters, its traitorous surname is very obvious.
The Yue army in Datong did not know that the Suzuki Brigade had been completely wiped out, and the Yue army stationed in Datong and the Han Dynasty Annihilation Xia Gong and others were still in Datong and did not escape.
Under the leadership of the battalion commander Sun Chuanzhi, several hundred people of the cavalry battalion arrived at the east gate of Datong City at noon after several hours of galloping.
At this time, Datong was still as usual, the four city gates were wide open, and there was about a platoon of puppet soldiers at each city gate checking the people entering and leaving.
Originally, a large number of troops should have been stationed at the head of the city, but because all the Suzuki brigades went to attack Zhang Yunfei's 136th Division, there was not a single devil in the city at this time, only dozens of puppet troops at the city gate.
Seeing such a good opportunity, the battalion commander Sun Chuanzhi hurriedly instigated his war horse and galloped towards the city gate.
Hundreds of horses galloped together, kicking up large clouds of dust, and the sound of rumbling horses' hooves was heard far away.
The dozens of puppet soldiers stationed at the city gate saw a large number of cavalry of the Eighth Route Army suddenly appear in front of them, and hurriedly prepared to close the city gate.
The people near the city gate saw that the battle was about to start, and immediately scattered and ran away.
A distance of several hundred meters, in the blink of an eye, more than a dozen cavalry soldiers running in the front, seeing that the puppet army was closing the city gate, did not hesitate to start shooting, and the powerful firepower of more than a dozen AK-47 rifles suddenly beat more than 30 puppet soldiers into a sieve.
It didn't take long for the cavalry battalion to enter Datong City, and not long after entering the city, several special combat personnel in the city got in touch with the cavalry battalion.
The first and second companies of the cavalry went straight to the headquarters of the little devils stationed in Datong, and the third company went to the mansion of Xia Gong of the Han Dynasty, preparing to capture the Han Dynasty alive.
When the soldiers of the first and second companies of the cavalry attacked the Datong headquarters of the devils, they encountered the stubborn resistance of the little devils, but the cavalrymen had a great advantage in terms of numbers and weapons, and finally paid three people who were seriously injured and more than a dozen people who were slightly injured, and all the little devils in the headquarters were annihilated.
As for himself, Maejima Sheng, was shot to death by the soldiers.
As for the third company of cavalry, it basically did not encounter any resistance, seeing more than 200 heavily armed soldiers of the Eighth Route Army, more than 100 puppet soldiers of the Han Dynasty Mansion directly raised their hands and surrendered, and the third company occupied Xia Gong's mansion without blood, and captured him alive.
After occupying these two places, Datong was basically under the control of the Eighth Route Army, and the hundreds of puppet troops in the rest of the places heard the wind in advance before the Eighth Route Army came over, and immediately dispersed.
The next morning, Zhang Yunfei's troops finally arrived at Datong City.
Looking at the majestic and ancient city wall of Datong, Zhang Yunfei was very emotional, and finally recovered a big city, and since then, the north gate of Shanxi has been controlled by himself.
The little devils in Shanxi can only enter and exit Shanxi through the Zhengtai Railway, or through the Taihang Mountain.
When the troops appeared at the city gate, the common people spontaneously welcomed the arrival of the Eighth Route Army, and some ordinary people also gave the soldiers steamed buns, steamed buns, tea, etc., to reward the soldiers of the Eighth Route Army.
Zhang Yunfei, who was riding on a tall horse, saw the enthusiastic people, but he did not expect that the mass foundation here would be so good, and the development of military-civilian relations would definitely be smooth sailing in the future.
Zhang Yunfei walked slowly all the way, waved all the way and greeted the people, and came to the headquarters of the former little devil in about half an hour.
After the headquarters of the little devils in Datong was occupied yesterday, the soldiers have simply cleaned up, all the signs of the little devils have not been removed, and the sign at the door has also been replaced with "Headquarters of the 136th Division of the 18th Group Army of the Chinese National Revolutionary Army."
The headquarters may have been a big mansion of a big landlord in the past, with six entrances and six exits, hundreds of houses, covering an area of dozens of acres, and the houses were all carved beams and paintings, which was very magnificent.
Zhang Yunfei looked at this headquarters with satisfaction, this is much stronger than his previous command in Xin'an County, and it is much bigger, and it will be the headquarters of his own troops for a long time.
Entering the inside of the headquarters, it was full of busy soldiers, the headquarters was too big, and many places were not in a hurry to tidy up.
Just as Zhang Yunfei was about to take a look inside, there was a noisy sound at the door of the headquarters, followed by a crackling firecracker.
Zhang Yunfei walked to the door of the headquarters and saw that it was hundreds of ordinary people, led by several old men, carrying a big fat pig full of ribbons to reward and thank Zhang Yunfei's Eighth Route Army.
As soon as Zhang Yunfei arrived at the door, an old man in the lead, walking on crutches, walked up to Zhang Yunfei with a slight trembling and said, "You are Master Zhang!" ”
Zhang Yunfei nodded lightly.
The old man said to Zhang Yunfei excitedly: "Master Zhang, on behalf of nearly one million fathers and villagers in Datong, thank you for helping us eliminate all evil little devils, you don't know what kind of life our people live under the rule of little devils." Xiao said that Ben burned and looted, and the two old sons died tragically under the bayonets of the little ghosts. ”
After speaking, the old man burst into tears, and was ready to bow and thank Zhang Yunfei.
Zhang Yunfei, who was quick-eyed, hurriedly helped the old gentleman and said: "We are late, let the people suffer, I, Zhang Yunfei, swear, from now on, the people of Datong will never be hurt by the little devil again." ”
A burst of thunderous applause rang out, and the people gathered around couldn't help but clapped their hands in unison when they heard Zhang Yunfei's loud promise.
Zhang Yunfei, whose glasses were a little wet, turned around and entered the headquarters, facing such sincere and simple people, Zhang Yunfei was afraid that he would not be able to control it.
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