On the afternoon of December 29, 1937, several Mustang enemy planes, whistling with a terrible noise, circled over Ganyu County in the coastal area.

The beautiful and rich Ganyu County, both inside and outside the country, immediately panicked and nervously dodged the bombing of the little devil's plane.

As if they had entered a no-man's land, the aggressors frantically bombed Qingkou, Chengtou, Huandunbu, and other places in Ganyu County in our coastal area. Yan Jikuan, the magistrate of Ganyu County of the Kuomintang, urgently ordered the county government cooks and their families to rush to make flatbread overnight, hid all the gold and silver dollars in the county government's gold stockpile, loaded eight wagons, and fled overnight. The next day, the county government officials, the heads of the districts, and the cadres of the salt affairs organs fled for their lives, and the whole county fell into chaos.

Was the bombing by the planes of the Japanese invaders accidental? No! It's inevitable. Yoshiko Kawashima's carefully planned rebellion work became a tool to shoot herself in the foot, which could not help but make her angry and frenzied to retaliate, thus calling in the bombing of the plane.

In addition to taking revenge on Ganyu County and abroad, she also had a purpose of knocking on the mountain and shaking the tiger: to make Yan Jikuan and others frightened, make the people here submit, and surrender to Little Japan as soon as possible. Under the leadership of the Communist Party of China, the Chinese people will never compromise with the aggressor, and they will only have the determination and practical actions to fire at the enemy with the same hatred, and will never be tied back and become slaves of the country.

Another is that the sincere anti-war actions of most of the senior Chinese Kuomintang generals also gave Fangzi a ruthless response.

As early as half a year ago, after Yoshiko Kawashima caught Wu Ming and his wife, the "military commanders" of the Kuomintang in Shanghai, it was like a hungry dog pounced on a big bone, gnawing on it with taste, and playing with it with its paws. Due to the secret defection of Wu Ming and his wife, she had great confidence in the Japanese army's attack on Lianyungang City and other northern Jiangsu regions.

According to the clues provided by the pair of people from Ganyu's hometown, this female spy at the big rank did find out some of the activities of the hoe team and the Kuomintang Ganyu County Government, and achieved a matchmaking role that could not be underestimated by persuading Yan Jikuan and others to surrender, almost to the point of being a matter of course. A county magistrate like Yan Jikuan, not only did she know everything clearly, but she also put a red dot on the list of these "real power" factions, which she knew was the main target of the possibility.

This thing reported the plan to knock on the gate of northern Jiangsu to the headquarters, and the superiors rewarded it. She was so happy that she didn't sleep well for two nights. But this joy disappeared with the end of Wu Ming and his wife, and it flashed like lightning, which simply gave Fangzi a slap in the face, and made her almost lose her breath.

The information and ideas provided to her by Wu Ming and his wife are also outdated. What methods to use to deal with Song Liu's hoe team, she deeply realized that it was like the ending of "mud cows into the sea". The light of hope flashed in front of her for a moment, but now it was an endless darkness. The land of Ganyu in the coastal area is full of vengeful tigers, and they may come to her at any time and anywhere, engulfing this big spy.

In particular, what gave Kawashima Yoshiko a headache was the escape of Yan Jikuan and others and the entry of the Kuomintang Northeast Army, especially the "surrender to the enemy" of the Yamaguchi sisters and brothers, which made her feel in danger.

In order to cope with these situations, Yoshiko Kawashima sent a telegram to the headquarters, in which she expanded the information provided to her by Wu Ming and his wife more than ten times, saying how rich the area was, how important the terrain was, and how the transportation was developed, and requesting that Ganyu and its surroundings be seized at lightning speed.

This female villain felt that by capturing Ganyu and other areas, the hoe team and the Kuomintang army would lose their place of survival, and they could cut off the coastal areas through sea, rail, and road transportation routes.

Soon, Yoshiko Kawashima was called to the headquarters. The commander of the aggressor personally examined his report and deeply felt the serious threat of the hoe squad and the Chinese Kuomintang troops to the Japanese attack on the northern and southern parts of Jiangsu. This large area of fertile land is one of the closest places to Japan, the hometown of Japan's ancestor Xu Fuku, and if it were to be occupied first, it would have played a role in the total occupation of China.

So, the devil commander pondered for a while, and then said to Fangzi: "You go back first, and get the information about that place in detail, and I'm going to transfer a large force to seize it immediately." ”

On the fourth day after Yoshiko Kawashima returned to Haizhou Mansion, the ships on which the little devils and the puppet army were riding continued to drive from the north. The Japanese puppet army disembarked and went ashore in the north of Ganyu. The coastline was full of villains, from the beach to the villages and towns, and every village was full of Japanese puppet troops. Since it was a land battle, the horses were unloaded from the ship. The ships of the Dalian and Qingdao generations rushed here, posing a great threat to several counties in the Haizhou Prefecture.

The information of the enemy's large-scale attack was sent to Song Jiliu and Liu Mansheng. The two of them went to Haizhou together to find Wan Yi, the commander of the Northeast Army, and worked together to study how to deal with this sudden tense situation. The enemy's intention to knock on the northern gate of Jiangsu Province is already obvious.

The teams stationed with Wan Yi's regiment inside and outside Ganyu County in the coastal area are the ones that Kawashima Yoshiko has learned, but this team is one-third or even four-fifth of what Yoshiko reported.

The Wanyi Regiment alone has an artillery company, a cavalry company, and seven infantry companies with a total of more than 1,000 guns, and it is not too strong in terms of equipment and combat effectiveness. In addition, only the twenty people left behind by the hoe team who can fight well can only fight a small blocking battle.

At the end of April 1938, after the little devils occupied Linyi, they were fighting a bloody battle with our Chinese army in the Xuzhou area. The 667th Regiment of the 333rd Brigade of the 112th Division of the 57th Army of the Northeast Army, in order to respond to the Battle of Taierzhuang and make every effort to block the attack of the Japanese invading army on the eastern front, entered the northern part of Ganyu from Xinpu, first occupied the important towns of southern Ganyu and northern Ganyu in Rizhao - Beikou and Jufeng, and was ordered to stay to rest and prepare for war.

The next morning, the red morning glow showed the beautiful Yellow Sea, and also reflected the outline of the monument on the seaside. On the seawall, Liu Mansheng, the secret leader of the Communist Party of China in the regiment, was practicing. I saw him holding the green dragon sword in his hand, and the dragon flew and the phoenix danced, and after a while, it attracted a large group of men, women and children who watched the excitement.

Liu Mansheng flew up and down with his sword, whirring in the wind, and cheers were constantly heard from the crowd. At this time, an old lady in her sixties was squeezed out of the crowd, also carrying a silver sword in her hand. He strode forward, held his sword in both hands, and said, "Little boss, I'll also learn a few times." ”

Liu Mansheng hurriedly put away the sword, respectfully saluted the old man and said: "Old man, this is a fool's errand, don't laugh at it, please give me a lot of advice." ”

The old lady saw that he was very modest, so she said very expertly: "I have also practiced leg pressing since I was a child, and now I am in my sixties, and I don't dare to play with you lightly." ”

Next, the old lady introduced herself and said that she lived in Beikuo Town, her name was Sister Li, she had three sons who participated in the Eighth Route Army, and an apprentice named Li Group, who also studied a few times. As he spoke, he called out from the crowd to meet Liu Mansheng.

Li Damei picked up the sword and said to Liu Mansheng: "A few days ago, the head of the 667th Regiment Wan Yi asked me to find someone to make a good sword, and I was going to give it to a martial arts 'master' in the regiment, so I found out the ancestral sword in the family, but I don't know what kind of character that 'master' is, and I'm really afraid that I will give this 'baby' to the wrong person!" ”

At this time, it happened that Zhang Wenhai, the secret leader of the Communist Party of China, came over and told Sister Li: "This Mr. Liu is the 'master' of martial arts."

Sister Li laughed and said: "My old Li's eyesight is okay, I estimate that this 'master' is likely to be you, this really makes me guess!" Saying that, he gave his beloved ancestral sword to Liu Mansheng, but Liu Mansheng did not pick it up immediately, but sincerely asked Mrs. Li to practice a set of swordsmanship.