Gaoli is an ordinary small village in the mountains, and there are piles of bonfires burning on the nearby hills. It was almost the second half of the night, the night fog had subsided, the mountains and valleys had frost, the cold night of early winter was shrunk, and the devils were no longer swimming, leaning on the fire and holding their coats to keep warm. Yan Hu, Xu Yunduo and the others quietly touched the fire and observed the enemy's situation.

Due to the tight defense of the inner ring and the large opening of the outer ring, the defenders were very sparse, and there were only patrol groups of a few people, unlike the inner circle, where there were people in front of each fire. The enemy believed that the inner ring was foolproof, and the middle ring was guarded by a combination of mobile sentinels and patrol groups, and the precautions were also tight. As soon as the situation is discovered, as soon as the whistle sounds, the brigade of people in the village will be dispatched to intercept it. Oh, yes!

More than 20,000 enemies trapped thousands of eight roads like iron cylinders, and in the eyes of the little ghost, it was a hand-to-hand deal.

Our Eighth Route Army soldier Song Jiliu and other scouts did not do it immediately, they observed and captured the secrets of the signal flare according to the instructions of Political Commissar Luo. "Pong!" The swimming whistle flare the flare gun, and a green flare rises into the sky. The magnesium powder burned violently and emitted a dazzling light, illuminating the surroundings. As the magnesium powder burned out, the earth suddenly sank into the dark abyss again.

As soon as the signal went out, green lights rose from the nearby hills, and they seemed to echo each other. After the green flares were fired, everything was calm. If a red flare rises in the distance once in a while, a dense burst of gunfire will follow.

After two or three times like this, Song Jiliu and the reconnaissance staff officer knew it in their hearts. He whispered an order to Song Jiliu and other scouts: "Do it!" ”

Song Jiliu led everyone to take advantage of the darkness at the moment when the signal flare went out and pounced. The Japanese devils were confused and didn't know what was going on, and several sharp daggers had already stabbed them in the chest.

So, Song Jiliu did not scout the scouts to strip off the devil's coat and put it on, put on a Japanese-style combat cap, held a 38 big cover, and dressed up as a devil patrol.

At this time, a green light lit up on the nearby hill, and the reconnaissance staff officer hurriedly picked up the signal gun and fired a green signal flare with a "ping" sound, followed by another one in the direction of Gaoli Village. The mystery has been clarified, and this is a signal from the enemy to report that "there is nothing wrong here".

Under the prompting of Political Commissar Luo Ronghuan, our Eighth Route Army found a key to breaking the enemy. For fear of a misunderstanding later, the reconnaissance staff officer sent Song Jiliu, who was dressed in civilian clothes, to meet the team by the same route. Several more scouts were sent to search both sides of the southern path.

After listening to Song Jiliu's report, Luo Ronghuan was very happy. Immediately ordered: "The team accelerates and forcibly marches through the breach!" He also said to Director Xiao of the Political Department who had caught up: "We must give the scouts a great credit!" ”

"Okay! This Captain Song is the first! ”

"Don't, don't, don't ......," Song Jiliu said uneasily.

The brigade passed through the second line of defense and saw three Japanese soldiers standing at the intersection, constantly shouting Chinese: "Run forward!" "Waving his hand to call the troops south, they all feel inexplicable. Yan Hu saw Political Commissar Luo coming with the troops, and hurriedly ran to the political commissar and whispered, "Political commissar! The secret of the flare is broken! Green and safe! ”

Luo Ronghuan smiled and whispered to him: "Okay! This time, you have done a great job: report to Yan Junliu that there is nothing wrong here! ”

"Pong!" The green flare flew into the sky with a long tracer light. Three "devils" swaggered around this gap with three or eight big covers. Every ten minutes, the scouts fired a flare, which was enough for the flare gun.

At this time, the devil soldiers on both sides of the hill saw the sound of running, and saw a green signal flare rising to report that "everything is safe", and they also felt inexplicable and did not dare to shoot down the mountain. The brigade skillfully broke through the second blockade line, and it was already the second half of the night.

The moon went down in the west, the stars shifted, and the team turned west according to the route chosen by Political Commissar Luo when he deployed, and inserted it into the Lin(Yi) and Meng(Yin) highways. Without Luo Ronghuan's clever calculation, the enemy's rear was empty, the guard was lax, the third blockade line was not tight, and at dawn, more than 3,000 people successfully arrived at the destination Wanggou.

After eating, the comrades were lying on the soft grass bunk, and suddenly they heard a thunderous cannon sound from the northeast, and the movement was like the muffled thunder of a summer night. A mocking smile appeared on everyone's face. They are laughing at Yan Junliu as stupid as a donkey, and what kind of foreign treasure can they pick up by bombarding the stones of Liutian with heavy artillery! When he met our political commissar Luo, he could only ask for his own bad luck, and in the end, Zhulan was in vain.

Overnight, our army did not fire a single shot, did not suffer a single casualty, and safely broke through the "iron wall encirclement" of 50,000 Japanese invaders, which was really a miracle, and even the German journalist Heber, who had broken through with the 115th Division at that time, gave a thumbs up and praised the command of Rutian's breakthrough as miraculous and a "silent battle." Our army, under the leadership of Luo Ronghuan, successfully broke out of the encirclement.

The enemy pounced, and Yan Junliu was very annoyed. This commander-in-chief of the invasion of China went to the front line in person, spent a month of scheming, and with an absolute superiority of 20 to 1 troops, dreamed of eating the command organ of the Eighth Route Army, leveling the Yimeng Mountains, and soon sent a good report of "great results" to Tokyo.

This bad thing never dreamed that our army would so skillfully break through his impermeable "iron cylinder encirclement", so that his bragging cowhide suddenly burst, so how could he not be annoyed and ashamed?

Sun Tzu said: "The husband and soldier are like water, the shape of water, avoiding the high and tending down; The shape of the soldier, avoiding the real and attacking the false. The water is controlled by the land, and the soldiers are defeated by the enemy. Therefore, the army is impermanent, the water is impermanent, and those who can win due to the change of the enemy are called gods. "Luo Ronghuan is vertical and horizontal, and he can use the best military thinking with ease, and win by surprise, which is the secret of his repeated miraculous achievements.

The warriors of the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army went to the southern part of the coastal area and only sent people to keep an eye on all movements of the enemy in all directions.

The sky in the distance was overcast and gloomy. Villages near and far, large and small, were covered in this drizzling mist like the stars of Yuyu.

As Luo Ronghuan expected, the Japanese army's operational plan to "sweep" the coastal area was false information thrown out through the secret services. At this time, the enemy's heavy troops were gathering in the central Lu area, waiting for the Eighth Route Army of the Shandong Military Region to drill into the trap they had set.

When the Japanese army learned that the Shandong Military Region and other organs had arrived in central Lu, they gathered about 50,000 troops from Linyi, Mengyin, Yishui, and other places, and carried out a "sweep" in 12 routes centered on the northern part of the Yimeng region, in an attempt to encircle the Shandong Military Region and other organs and troops.