In order to achieve the strategic intention of defeating the first column of the Eighth Route Army by surprise and in one fell swoop, the sweep did not open up a situation and fight hard with the Eighth Route Army, but first sorted out a large amount of intelligence collected by the headquarters of the 12th Army on the Eighth Route Army in the Luxi area, and then sent a large number of intelligence groups to the Luxi area to conduct on-the-spot investigations, and finally formulated a detailed combat plan.

According to top-secret information obtained by the intelligence department, although there are more than 50,000 people on the Zhinatu Eighth Road in the Luxi area, it is even more. However, there were not many real regular troops, only three infantry brigades, stationed in Yanggu, Linqing, and Liangshan. The rest were local guerrilla units, scattered throughout the Rusi region.

Shunroku Hata and others agreed that as long as the three infantry brigades of Luxi were eliminated, Luxi's Dirt Eight Road would be completely wiped out, and no matter how bad it was, they would go underground and operate blatantly, and it would be impossible for them to come out and act as blatantly as before, so their strategic intentions would be achieved.

However, it is not easy to eliminate the three infantry brigades of the Eighth Route Army Luxi in one fell swoop, the biggest problem is that the Eighth Route Army is fundamentally different from the Japanese army, and his garrison is too scattered. After investigation, the Luxi Eighth Route Army controlled almost 70 percent of the rural areas, and almost the larger villages had Tuba Road garrisons, and these garrisons could usually only be stationed in one battalion or even a company.

Take Lu Xi's First Brigade of the First Column of the Eighth Route Army as an example, the brigade headquarters of this brigade is stationed near Linqing Douhutun, but the brigade headquarters is stationed in less than two battalions, and the other troops are scattered elsewhere, and it is almost impossible to eliminate such a scattered force in a short time. The most important thing is that there are too many eyeliners in the Tsuchihachi Road, and as soon as the Imperial Japanese Army makes a slight move, the people of China will get the news.

On April 5, 1940, the Japanese mixed brigade and regiment launched a comprehensive attack on the first brigade of the first column of the Eighth Route Army scattered in Gaotang, Xiajin and Linqing with the assistance of the second division and the fourth division of the Shandong puppet army.

Fortunately, although most of the troops of the 1st Brigade were caught in the encirclement of the Japanese army. But this encirclement of the Japanese army was still very large. For the time being, they still have room to struggle, and the news from the periphery said that the Japanese army did not have many troops in this sweep, only a mixed brigade and two puppet army divisions. The total strength was less than 16,000 men. The regular troops of the first column and one brigade have more than 5,000 people. In addition, more than 10,000 local troops are available for mobilization. In addition, the 2nd Brigade and a large number of other local troops were not far from the station of the 1st Brigade, and once the 1st Brigade was besieged by the Japanese army, then they would definitely send troops to the rescue. It should be possible to break through safely under the combination of the inside and the outside.

However, for the people in Gaotang and Linqing, the suffering has just begun. Because the Japanese army came very suddenly, the vast majority of the people did not have time to transfer, so the tragedy inevitably happened.

Nemoto ordered his troops to be divided into three lines, one infantry brigade plus a cavalry brigade and a small number of light chariots, with a puppet infantry brigade, while he himself commanded a mixed brigade of infantry squadrons, a cavalry brigade, and 15 light chariots in the center.

Hearing that the troops in front had routed the peripheral troops of the 1st Column, 1st Brigade, 1st Regiment and 2nd Regiment of the Eastern Zhina Mountain, except for a small number of troops who fled, the vast majority of the troops were surrounded within a radius of less than 100 miles between Gaotang, Xiajin, and Linqing. After being happy, Nemohiro immediately called several captains of the front line and ordered the attacking troops to shrink the encirclement as soon as possible, and within two days to drive all the Chinese troops in the encirclement together, and then gather and annihilate them, serve the loyalty of His Majesty the Emperor, and avenge the tens of thousands of imperial officers and soldiers! Genbo said meaningfully on the phone: "The troops who attack the Tubalu Defense Zone will be rewarded heavily, and they will be given a three-day holiday!" ”

On the morning of April 6, the Japanese troops of the 37th Wing of the Japanese Army attacked Douhutun, which was originally the location of the 1st Brigade of the 1st Column and 1st Brigade of the Eighth Route Army in Shandong, and on the morning of 5 April, an infantry brigade of the Japanese army suddenly approached Douhutun through multiple cordons and launched an attack on the 1st Brigade stationed in Tunli.

Due to the suddenness of the incident, two infantry battalions and a guard battalion of the 1st Brigade Headquarters and a large number of directly subordinate organs were trapped in Douhutun, and more than 1,200 local people were also trapped in Douhutun.

After a day and a night of hard fighting, and after paying more than 500 casualties, the headquarters of the 1st Brigade and the directly subordinate organs that were surrounded finally broke through the encirclement of the Japanese army and broke through to the north. However, the common people in the tunli were not so lucky, although a small part rushed out with the troops, but the vast majority of the people were trapped in the tunli by the Japanese army.

At about 5 o'clock in the morning of the 6th, with more than 200 wounded soldiers of the Eighth Route Army behind the Volunteer Palace, all the wounded were killed, the Japanese army finally occupied Douhutun, and then a large number of Japanese troops stabbed in. The vanguard of the Japanese army quickly caught up with a large number of Chinese refugees who had fled northward, and the red-eyed Japanese soldiers, as if they were facing a great enemy, immediately fired wildly at the unarmed Chinese refugees with machine guns and rifles, and hundreds of innocent Chinese civilians threw themselves into a pool of blood. The fascist soldiers smirked and cheered that they had once again stained the victory of the Imperial Japanese Army with the blood of the Chinese people.

Soon there were no living Chinese in sight on the streets of Douhutun, and the ground was full of ordinary people lying in pools of blood, some of them were already dead, and some were still moaning in pain, but the barbaric Japanese army would not give them any chance of survival, whether they were dead or undead, all of them were mended by Japanese soldiers. For a time, Nuo Da Douhutun suddenly became a purgatory on earth.

According to the usual practice, every time a place was captured, the Japanese army immediately divided into several small detachments to carry out a "sweep" of the occupied area to wipe out the remnants of the enemy, this time of course, was no exception, the Japanese army that occupied Douhutun launched a sweep of Douhutun in a squad unit, and as the sweep progressed, the bloody massacre spread to the entire Douhutun like a plague.

The Wang family is a famous landowner in Douhutun, and the palace is of course the largest and most luxurious mansion in Douhutun, where Wang Laoyuan and 5 grandsons and 4 granddaughters live, plus a total of 38 people in the courtyard and maids. As the Japanese captured Douhutun, the Grim Reaper also pounced on them with its claws.

At 8 o'clock in the morning of the 6th, the sound of "tom, tom, tom" scared the family into hiding in Tibet. This is the Japanese army's sweeping force, known for its fierce and murderous massacre of Chinese people, and this is naturally an excellent time for them to show their skills. As soon as the door opened, the captain of the Japanese squad raised his hand and snapped a shot, and a young man in the courtyard fell to the ground, he convulsed and struggled hard, trying to sit up and tell the people in the house to run away quickly, but he couldn't shout anymore, twitched a few times, and finally closed his eyes in pain. The other frightened nurse ignored his companion who was twitching on the ground, and hurriedly turned around and ran to the backyard, but before he could run ten steps, he was beaten into a sieve by the Japanese army.

The Japanese squad leader then flew up and kicked the corpse of the palace guard in front of him, shouting: "The Chinese soldiers are dead!" ”

The task of the Japanese army is to sweep away the remnants of the Eighth Route, but there is no strict distinction between soldiers and civilians, and even if there is, who will supervise and inspect it? The Japanese army was the victor, and as long as they were happy, they could naturally slaughter anyone in the defeated country as a slave at will, even if it was an old man who was over the age of sixteen or a baby waiting to be fed.

Soon more than a dozen Japanese soldiers rushed to the backyard, and the few guards who dared to stop the Japanese soldiers with large knives and spears soon turned into corpses. Then, the Japanese soldiers aimed the bayonets in their hands at Lao Li, who was in charge of watering the flowers in the palace, and shouted with a cruel smile: "Is there a flower girl?" The old man shuddered, and shook his head frequently out of instinct. The screaming Japanese soldiers stabbed several bayonets together, and several blood holes suddenly appeared in the old man's body, and he immediately fell down screaming. The Japanese soldiers then rushed into the room in the backyard like hungry wolves.

In the room, a mother in her 40s is sitting on the edge of the bed in her arms with a one-year-old baby in her arms. She could not hide, or rather did not want to hide, and in order to protect her daughters, she was willing to bear all the suffering that was to come on her own. The Japanese soldier pounced on him like a hungry wolf, shouting in ecstasy: "The flower girl is big!" ”

The one-year-old girl was frightened and cried, and for the first time her pure eyes showed horror and fear, and hid tightly in her mother's arms, which were the only safe place for her. A Japanese soldier walked up, snatched the baby from its mother's arms, and threw it to the ground. The mother was so distressed that she frantically pounced on the baby, but her hands and feet were grabbed by the Japanese soldiers, and she could not move. A few of the orcs turned around and stabbed the crying baby, then picked up the baby and slammed it into the hall. The mother cried out in tears, but her voice grew quieter and quieter, and gradually turned into a groan of pain, for a Japanese beast soldier had overwhelmed her......

At the same time, the same tragedy was staged in the whole Douhutun, Li Ergou's family in Tundongtou died tragically, and his two-year-old son was thrown directly into the well by cruel Japanese soldiers; Zhao Sandou in the west of Tunzi also messed up the devil soldiers, Zhao Sandou was killed, his wife was also killed after the abuse, and only a pair of children hiding in the cellar survived

This shameless massacre lasted a whole day, and a day later, when the Japanese soldiers withdrew from Douhutun, there was no one alive in the whole tun, and when they left, the Japanese soldiers deliberately set a fire in the village in order to cover up their crimes.

But although the fire is fierce, how can it burn Zhao Zhao Tianli, after the fire, some children and survivors who were hidden by their families crawled out from under the rubble one after another (to be continued......