Soon, a white flag was displayed inside the Chifeng stronghold.

Seeing the white flag flying inside the stronghold, the artillery of the national army stopped shelling.

A fairly strong stronghold, so that the national army can easily take it.

When Li Zihan walked into the Chifeng stronghold surrounded by more than a dozen guards, the 3rd Battalion was already cleaning up the battlefield.

In the open space in front of the stronghold, more than 300 puppet soldiers squatted on the ground with their heads in their hands, Li Zihan glanced at the more than 300 puppet soldiers, a trace of disgust flashed in his eyes, and ordered Zhao Dahai to say: "Dahai, you go and interrogate, all those who have done evil will be executed on the spot, and those who have not done evil will be locked up first, and then we will talk about it after the battle."

"Yes" Zhao Dahai agreed, and walked over murderously.

Ma Wangye's ears were sharp, and when he heard Li Zihan say that all those who had done evil would be executed, he immediately sat down on the ground.

Whether it was when he was a bandit in the past, or after he took refuge in Little Japan and became a traitor and puppet army, Ma Wangye did all bad things, and I am afraid that it will be difficult to escape from this pass.

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"County Magistrate Liu, why are you here?" Xu Shijiu came out of the temporary headquarters and greeted Liu Chang with a smile.

"Oh, isn't this going to war with Little Japan, I don't worry about my subordinates, I'm afraid that they will be negligent and delay the big thing, so I personally escorted the grain over." Liu Chang was a little panicked in his heart, but he quickly calmed down and asked Xu Shijiu, "That commander, the troops involved in the attack are already in place."

"Well, it's all in place." Xu Nineteen smiled incomprehensibly.

Liu Chang's heart suddenly, he faintly felt unpleasant, Xu Shijiu's smile seemed to have a deep meaning, could it be that this guy had discovered some flaws and was suspicious of himself? However, Liu Chang couldn't do it, he received Haneda's instructions yesterday to find out Xu Shijiu's true intentions, and report to Haneda immediately after finding out.

Therefore, Liu Chang could only bite the bullet and continue to test Xu Nineteen, and said: "But Commander Xu, I seem to have seen the 3rd Regiment and the cavalry battalion going to Tongling just now?" Is it that the battle in the direction of Tongling is not going well? Isn't Li Zihan usually very good? Let him fight a small Tongling county and can't even take it? ”

In this spring offensive, the Southern Anhui Anti-Japanese National Salvation Army mobilized a total of three main regiments, plus artillery battalions and cavalry battalions, and only Li Shuanggun's regiment and guard battalion remained in Longkou County to guard against Shangguan Yunxiang's No. 1 Group Army and Tang-style Zundi Group Army from taking advantage of the situation to sneak attack the nest of the Anti-Japanese National Salvation Army in southern Anhui.

At the pre-war preparation meeting, that is, at the last military meeting attended by Liu Chang and Hu Renjie, the battle Jihua decided that Li Zihan's L regiment would feint to attack Tongling County to disperse the Japanese troops, and then concentrate the second brigade of Niu Sigen, the cavalry battalion and the artillery battalion to storm Chizhou, and Shu Tongwen's southern Anhui detachment would also fully cooperate with the operation.

In order to command the battle nearby, Xu Shijiu deliberately moved his headquarters from Longkou to Yanyi.

However, on the way to Yanyi with the militia team to transport grain, he unexpectedly saw Wang Fusheng's 3rd Regiment and Peng Wu's cavalry battalion rushing towards Tongling from the small road

"Oh, did you run into the 3rd Regiment and the cavalry battalion on the way?" Xu Shijiu's face changed slightly.

Liu Chang smiled and quipped: "Commander Xu, could it be some secret operation?" ”

"No, there's no covert operation." Xu Shijiu shook his head, and then diverted the topic and said, "County Magistrate Liu has worked hard, I'm afraid I haven't eaten lunch and dinner yet, right?" I'll let the cooking class cook for you and the brothers from the county brigade. ”

Watching Xu Shijiu turn around and walk away, Liu Chang's face instantly became gloomy.

Although Xu Shijiu's words were unknown, Liu Chang had basically judged that the attack on Chizhou City was really just a smokescreen, and Tongling County was the real target of this spring offensive.

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Gao Shenxing withdrew his gaze from the window, looked back at Xu Shijiu, and said, "Old Xu, are you sure you want to take this fishing?" Just to find out Liu Chang, a lurking spy, but the whole battle jihua as bait, isn't it too risky? If you want to follow my temper, you can't afford to do this at all, just arrest this guy, and torture to extract a confession, won't it be over? Lao Xu, I bet that this grandson will definitely not survive a few rounds, and maybe he will confess everything with a whip. ”

"Lao Gao, things are not as simple as you think." Shu Tongwen shook his head and said, "No matter what, Liu Chang is the secretary of the Longkou County Party Committee of the Communist Party of China, if he is arrested without conclusive evidence, or even tortured to extract a confession, it will completely violate the purpose of our party and will cause a big mess." ”

As Liu Chang's classmate of Kang University, Shu Tongwen knows very well that Liu Chang is very valued by a certain powerful figure in Yan'an, and it is precisely because of the existence of this powerful figure that last time Shu Tongwen proposed to Hu Zhijing, secretary of the Southern Anhui Provincial Party Committee, to take measures against Liu Chang, but Hu Zhijing politely refused, and Hu Zhijing obviously also cared about the figure behind Liu Chang.

"Bird feather ash, what kind of mess can happen?" Gao Shenxing is a little unbelieving.

Although Gao Shenxing secretly joined the Communist Party, after all, he has not been a member of the Communist Party for a long time, and he still lacks sufficient understanding of the history of the Communist Party and the complex and tortuous history of struggle in the process of growth, and although Shu Tongwen has not been in the party for a long time, his understanding of the history of the Communist Party is much deeper than Shu Tongwen.

"Okay, Lao Gao, you don't talk nonsense, it's all a predetermined thing." Xu Shijiu was a little impatient

Gao Shenxing breathed a sigh of relief and said angrily: "But seriously, Lao Xu, I don't think this fishing will be successful." ”

Xu Shijiu's eyes glared at him very sharply, Gao Shenxing hurriedly raised his hand, called Li Mu in again, and commanded in a low voice: "Xiao Mu, you send someone to follow Liu Chang, what suspicious characters he has been in contact with along the way, what suspicious places he has been to, write them all down, and don't let Liu Chang find out." ”

"Yes." Li Mu nodded and took the order.

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Haneda was restlessly pacing back and forth in his office.

The offensive of the Southern Anhui Anti-Japanese Salvation Army on Chizhou has been launched, and the strongholds in Qingyang County and the various strongholds on the periphery of Chizhou have all been attacked by the Southern Anhui Anti-Japanese National Salvation Army, judging from the number of troops, the troops participating in the first wave of the offensive are only the southern Anhui detachment for the time being, but according to intelligence feedback, the 3rd Regiment, the 4th Regiment, the cavalry battalion and the artillery battalion number of the 19th detachment have appeared in Qingyang, all of which seems to mean that the news sent back by the Silent Eagle is correct.

However, at the same time, Tongling County was also attacked by the Southern Anhui Anti-Japanese Salvation Army, the most important Chifeng stronghold has even been lost, and a battalion of the puppet army stationed in the Chifeng stronghold was completely annihilated.

All indications indicate that Xu Shijiu's true intention is likely to be Tongling

However, Haneda never made up his mind, what if this was Xu Shijiu's plan to divert the tiger from the mountain?

In case, when he left Chizhou with the main force of the gendarmerie and the 56th Brigade of the Independent Infantry to reinforce Tongling, Xu Shijiu suddenly brought the main force of the Southern Anhui Anti-Japanese National Salvation Army to fight Chizhou, then the situation would be dangerous, and Haneda would never think that his troops would be able to return to Chizhou in time after stabilizing the situation in Tongling.

Therefore, Haneda was slow to make up his mind.

At least, he didn't dare to act rashly until he had Silent Eagle's exact information.

Just after two o'clock in the afternoon, Adjutant Inoue hurried into Haneda's office and reported: "Your Excellency, Takeshita's squadron is in an emergency, the county town of Tongling was attacked by the anti-Japanese salvation army in southern Anhui ten minutes ago, and it has been observed that the troops involved in the siege are at least one regiment, and at least one squadron of artillery. ”

"Nani? And artillery? Haneda's face changed dramatically when he heard this.

The role of artillery in the offensive operation is irreplaceable, basically, where the artillery appears, it means that there is the main direction of attack of the anti-Japanese salvation army in southern Anhui, and now the artillery of the anti-Japanese salvation army in southern Anhui has been found outside Tongling County, does it not mean that Tongling County is the real target of the anti-Japanese salvation army in southern Anhui?

However, Haneda was still a little hesitant, because he knew that the Anti-Japanese Salvation Army in southern Anhui had an artillery battalion, which was equivalent to an artillery brigade of the Japanese army, but at present, there was only one artillery squadron outside Tongling County, that is, there were three other artillery squadrons that did not appear.

Now, Haneda's only hope is that Silent Eagle will get new news back.

You can really come whatever you want, Haneda just thought about the Silent Eagle in his heart, and Yan Sanquan, who was in charge of communicating with the Silent Eagle, hurriedly ran into Haneda's office, gasping and reported: "Taisang, the Silent Eagle has just sent back the news that the main force of the Second Brigade of the Anti-Japanese Salvation Army and the cavalry battalion in southern Anhui have gone to Tongling. ”

Haneda suddenly let out a sigh of relief, and the situation finally became clear

At that moment, Haneda ordered loudly: "Order, the military police brigade and the 56th independent infantry brigade are assembled immediately."