Meals are all here, everyone eats the same, tonight is the reception of Baoding Station leaders and comrades from the three divisions, eat a rare noodles, although it is also half fine noodles and half cornmeal, but how to say that it is also noodles, this is not seen in the mountains for many years!

After eating, Secretary Zhang decided to hold a meeting overnight, leaving the leaders of each sub-district behind, and the rest of the entourage evacuated to several hidden places.

It was only in the second half of the night that we came up with a clue, and decided to first go to Baoding Station to collect as much information as possible, and each sub-district came up with its own plan, and then met to discuss.

The big guy slept on a kang, and this Yang Stick and Yang Section Chief lay head to head on the edge of the kang against the burning cigarette bag pot, and Section Chief Yang carefully told Yang Bangzi about some things about the anti-sweep in the second half of 41 years, and then I knew why the feud between Lu Dao Division and Zhao Yukun was so big! It turns out that this old hatred has not been settled, and the new hatred has been added!

In the words of Section Chief Yang, in the summer and autumn of 1941, the first division of Langya Mountain suffered heavy losses, and in the counter-sweep, Xiao Daijin, a cadre of the Long March of the first division, was arrested and died, Shafu died of malaria without treatment, and Zhao Ping, the magistrate of Xushui County, to which the first division belonged, was arrested and died.

This was the case not only for the troops of the Eighth Route Army, but even more so for the local residents of Langya Mountain. They were brutally slaughtered by devils and traitors, especially Zhao Yukun, a great traitor who was familiar with the situation of the First Division, which led the team, causing many local cadres and ordinary people of the First Division to be murdered. For a full thirty-five days, Commander Yang took the team of the sub-district organ and some of the villagers to evade Zhao Yukun's pursuit with great effort.

On August 24, 1941, Yang Chengwu led the leading organs of the 1st Division and three companies of the covering troops. More than 500 people in total. Depart from Zhouzhuang overnight. There were also the three top military leaders of the first division, Yang Chengwu, Huang Shoufa, and Luo Yuanfa. and the thirty or forty cadres of the administrative organs, which are basically the personnel of the Operations Section, the Reconnaissance Section, the Confidential Section, and the radio stations under them; There are also Wang Guoquan, Li Gengtao, Bai Wenzhi and others, the top leaders of the sub-district prefectural committee and the administrative office. According to the usual practice, whenever there is a sweep of devils, the top leader of the party and government organs of a sub-district will inevitably act together with the top leader of the army.

Sensing that they were going to act at night, the local people who were afraid that the Eighth Route Army would be slaughtered by the Japanese army after leaving, about one or two hundred people, also followed Yang Chengwu's team.

There are two issues that I would like to address separately here. One is the problem of the common people following the Eighth Route Army when it was transferred during the sweep; The other is that a considerable number of ordinary people defected to the Japanese army and acted as spies of the Japanese army to reconnoiter the actions of the Eighth Route Army.

The leading organs of the Eighth Route Army were transferred together with the common people. At that time, it was a common practice throughout Jinchaji. In mid-to-late August 1941, Wu Qizeng, a cadre of the Red Army who was the director of the advance army radio station, was arrested and betrayed during the sweep of the devils. Therefore, wherever there is a large number of ordinary people gathered, there will be the existence of Xiao Ke's advance army organs and even headquarters. As a result, in the west village of Shaling in Yesanpo, where Xiao Ke was located, because he found that there were people gathering to escape the sweep of the devils, he was immediately bombed by Japanese planes.

Between 1939 and 1944, it was a tense period when the Jin-Cha-Ji Eighth Route Army fought against the devils. It was also the climax of the traitor's spy activities. In the vicinity of the headquarters of the administrative organs of the first sub-district, small groups of special forces often mingle in. Assassination of single members of the Eighth Route Army. Note that these Japanese pseudo-spies are also poor people, and they can't see the reason for their appearance among the masses.

And the Eighth Route Army is not polite, once caught, it must be killed. As far as I know, all of them are buried alive in one division, so that you can't even see the corpse. The Pingxi Advance Army hanged himself and then hung his body high above the head of his village as a warning to others who dared to oppose the Eighth Route Army.

The activities of such enemy spies reached a peak in 1943, and they successfully lured many cadres and soldiers of the 1st Division to join the enemy, so that Yang Chengwu hated this group of spies who specifically targeted the 1st Division, and he had to get rid of them as soon as possible. This is the reason why people were specially sent to blow up the Baoding Dawangdian special team.

Once, the chief of staff of a regiment who was in office at that time, Chen Guang, went to Linquan from the troops under the Laojuntang regiment, and was shot with a black gun on the way. At that time, a regiment of troops stationed in Linquan was urgently dispatched to arrest the enemy, but it was not caught. It is said that after the investigation, the hoe and rape department told Chenguang that it seemed that it was not the enemy agents who had mixed in to shoot black guns, but that the militia serving as sentinels were too nervous and the guns went off. Chenguang said angrily: The gun went off? Is it that accurate? Bullets flying past my ears?

On August 23, from the east and north sides of Langya Mountain in the 1st Division, the mobile troops of the 21st Division of the Devil (stationed in Baoding) began to "encircle with an iron wall". From Xushui, detour to Yi County, Bauhinia Pass. On the 24th, in the south, the troops of the 110th Division completed the encirclement from Baoding, Wangdu, Wanxian, and Liujiatai. Xushui's enemies occupied Jinpo, to Yuangang, bunk bunks. The supreme commander of the devil is Major General Mitakeshi Tsuda, commander of the 133rd Infantry Brigade. Langya Mountain is surrounded on three sides, and only the west side leads to Laiyuan.

On the day of the 24th, the Eighth Route Army, which was still operating normally during the day, secretly all the leaders who were going to set off together had quietly gathered in Zhouzhuang and prepared for action. At night, it was dark, northeast of Zhouzhuang, Songshan, Jie'an area of gunfire continued, only later to know that this was the four county brigades of Yi, Man, Ding, and Xu in the south of Langya Mountain, covering the people were fighting and retreating to Langya Mountain. Each of these four county brigades has two or three hundred people, totaling more than a thousand people.

Zhouzhuang, when the night was dark, Yang Chengwu ordered the troops to make a sudden move and break through to the west in the encirclement formed by the devil soldiers. Initially, they walked with the 20th Regiment and a detachment (Laiyuan Detachment) under the leadership of the 1st Division, and when the 20th Regiment and the 1st Detachment continued westward, the first target was Jinpo, northeast of Zhouzhuang, west of Dalonghua, and east of Shibagang. Out of Zhouzhuang, first to the east, then to the south, the most to the northeast. Wu Yan, commander of the guard company, and Xu Xin, the instructor (formerly the instructor of the fourth company of the first regiment), went first.

Operational staff officer Zhou sent a telegram to himself. On the first night, we bypassed Yuangang and entered the coal bucket shop area. On the 25th, I rested in the coal bucket shop. At this time, under the leadership of Zhao Yukun, the Zhilu Dao devil had already occupied the north and south Loushan, which was once the headquarters and political department of the first division, and ran empty. Immediately after that, the devils set up three "iron walls" in Loushan, Ganhe, and Shuiquan in the north and south, intending to intercept the command organ of the first division.

Yang Chengwu and the others didn't know the plans of the devils, they just went out day and night all the way, covering their tracks. They first used the radio station on the way to contact the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region, and soon discovered that every time they turned on the radio, the devil's plane appeared in the sky and circled, so they decisively turned off the radio station.

When they thought that their whereabouts were secretive and they could get rid of the pursuit of the devils, they found that the devils following behind their butts seemed to recognize them, no matter how they drilled the ravines and walked the mountain paths that no one knew about, they couldn't get rid of the devil soldiers who followed not far behind them.

In Bat Ridge, when the mountain was Laiyuan, Zhou Ziwei, a staff officer of the Operations Section who was born as a student, was more flexible than other staff officers, so he made one thing that he was most proud of in his life: he immediately told Yang Chengwu his suspicions: The devils followed all the way, and they couldn't get rid of it, and they were afraid that there were devils' spies mixed in the team.

Yang Chengwu thought about it and decided to solve this problem in the right place. After walking through the Yuangang and coal bucket shop in Yi County, a high mountain stands in front of him, and Yang Chengwu estimates that this is the edge of Yi County. Go over the mountain and go forward, it should be in Laiyuan County.

In the Operations Section of the First Division that year, there was a staff officer Yan Zuosan who joined the army from Laiyuan, and as soon as he heard the surname "Yan", he knew that Lu Dao was from Shanxi. He is very familiar with the geographical location of Laiyuan, and has the title of "living map". Yang Chengwu called over and asked, it was really good. The big mountain in front of you is called "Bat Ridge", and you can enter Laiyuan by crossing the mountain. The mountains here are steep and the geographical location is remote, and it has never been here for four years since the Anti-Japanese War, because it is far away from the main traffic routes.

Yang Chengwu immediately decided that the troops would overcome their fatigue and continue to advance towards the mountains. In a small ravine near Bat Ridge and Wuhui Ridge, I found a small village "Wannian Bing" with only two households in those years, and not far from the mountain, it was Sanjia Village and Futuyu, where the devil had a stronghold. Three years earlier, in 1938, a division had been fighting here for a year; Sanjia Village, last year, in the second stage of the Battle of the Hundred Regiments in the autumn of 1940, Yang Chengwu commanded the First Regiment and the Second Regiment to capture the stronghold of Sanjia Village guarded by more than 150 devils.

As soon as he entered the ravine at this time, Yang Chengwu ordered that the guard company at the front station block one end of the ravine, the third company of the regiment behind the palace to block the other end of the ravine, and the remaining reconnaissance company will closely control the masses who followed the troops of the first division into the ravine, and carefully check the spies among them.

It is not difficult to find out this spy who is following the common people. He disguised himself as a fleeing beggar, and he couldn't tell anything from his appearance. It was also a local, with the same accent, ragged clothes, and his hands were covered with calluses from work, but the begging rice he brought with him exposed him. The beggar has "mixed rice" in his pocket, that is, mixed rice. You are in the people's house, millet, corn, sorghum, and black beans are given at will, mixed together. But this spy is different, all millet, exposing him.

After finding out this spy, the interrogation revealed that it was a spy sent by Zhao Yukun, who left road signs for the devils who were tracking behind him along the way, so the devils kept biting the organs of the first division.

After executing the spies, the troops hid in a deep ravine, and only then did they get rid of the devils who were chasing after their butts. (To be continued......)