In the early morning of the next day, as the news of the enemy's ironclad cars spread, slogans such as "Down with Japanese imperialism" and "Long live the Eighth Route Army" appeared on the stations and streets of Xinpu, Niushan, and Xin'anzhen.

This incident shook Lianyungang, Xuzhou, and the entire Longhai trunk line.

In this way, the news spread thousands of miles across the Jinpu Main Line, shaking the hearts of the devils stationed at various stations.

At this time, people in Lianyungang and other areas, at the dinner table in the restaurant, in the conversation between friends and family, everyone was talking one after another: "The Eighth Route Army led by ** is coming, and I heard that tens of thousands of troops are lying in ambush on the slopes on both sides of the railway, and they are going to attack Lianyungang,"

"I heard that there is a group of martial arts workers in the Eighth Route Army, they all carry two box guns, their bodies are lighter than swallows, and no matter how fast the ship or train runs, they can fly up,"

"This group of people will also fly the eaves and walk the wall, I heard that the devils in the Chengde Foreign Bank, the Northeast Military Camp and the Qingdao Steamship were all killed by them......

"As soon as the devil meets this group of people, it should be unlucky...... They hijacked a ship in Qingdao and blew up a train, and posted slogans on the streets of Lianyungang and other places, they will stealth the law......"

The incident of hijacking a ship and bombing an ironclad car has been circulated in the secret conversation of the common people of Lianyungang, and the incident has been praised by many people, often adding branches and leaves, and later it has become a myth.

Because, in this area of several million people, the enemy has large barracks and heavy troops; Unknowingly, there have been major incidents of hijacking ships and bombing trains one after another, which is indeed sensational enough.

The devil commander of the barracks knocked on the head of the captain of the Xinpu gendarmerie and was scolding, asking him to solve the case within a time limit; While his lips trembled, he instructed to send an urgent telegram to the troops who swept the mountains to withdraw two brigades back,

That night, the people in their sleep heard the whining of cars on the street, and more than a thousand devils were withdrawn from the mountains and rushed back to the Lianyungang area overnight.

At dawn the next day, more than 2,000 devils cooperated with the puppet army to divide into two roads, on both sides of the railway, along the hillside to the west.

The sound of artillery and machine guns rang out all day long, and the villages on both sides of the railway, after Lao Zhou's mobilization in advance, the common people hid their food and clothing, and when the devils came, they all ran to the mountains.

As a result, the devils only burned haystacks and houses in uninhabited villages, fired cannons and machine guns at the Chinese peasants fleeing in the mountains, and the small mountain villages on both sides of the railway smoked in the dense sound of cannons.

However, the devil swept back and forth for more than half a month, and did not find the shadow of the Eighth Route Army.

Soon, when the sweeping enemy was about to withdraw to rest, Song Jiliu, Meng Chong, and Xu Yunduo gathered their team near Shanjialin Station that night, launched a large-scale raid, and demolished a section of the railway.

The annoyed enemy went out again to sweep away, but the warriors were familiar with each other, and they and the enemy went round and round in the field, and the enemy always pounced on the air,

In this way, they restrained the enemy's forces and cooperated with the anti-sweeping struggle in the Yimeng Mountains.

The Japanese invaders repeatedly swept for more than half a month, and suffered setbacks again and again, so they had to retreat to Xinpu in despair, and the puppet troops who remained in various strongholds were in panic all day long, and we took advantage of the victory to distribute leaflets to these strongholds, do the work of fighting, and told them to "be in Cao Ying's heart in Han", and to "stay behind", etc., and the puppet troops in various strongholds no longer dared to act majestic.

As a result, these two sentences circulated in the puppet army: "Who fed his conscience to the dog and ran into Song Jiliu when he went out," "Who learned the bad guys, and met Xu Yunyu at night,"

The Japanese devils failed to sweep up, and they played new tricks, and in Xinpu and other places, they even issued a reward claiming that whoever could catch Du Weixian, Li Mingde, Meng Chong, and Li Guangming, the leaders of our enemy's Ministry of Industry and the Wuxia team, would be rewarded with 1,000 yuan, but this was just a fool's dream, leaving a laughing stock in vain, and the victory of the Wugong team in blowing up the bridge and destroying the car has long been praised by the people in the Lianyungang area.

At the commendation meeting of the Binhai Military Region, Commander Luo Ronghuan said excitedly: "Under the personal participation and command of Comrade Gu Mu, director of the United Front Work Department of our Shandong Military Region, political commissar of our Second Division, and Comrade Fang Xiao, deputy chief of the reconnaissance section of the Binhai Military Region, with the cooperation of the two armed engineering brigades and reinforced companies in Ganyu and Donghai, and with the help of our underground workers, we have defeated our 'roadblocks,' and they are real heroes."

"The following is Director Xiao Hua's oral announcement of the list of awards, and then the written materials will be used to file and issue the certificate after the announcement,"

"Report, please wait a minute," Gu Mu stood up and said seriously, "Since I, Fang Xiao and the underground workers are all directly involved in these battles, for the sake of the secrecy of our future work, considering that Song Jiliu and their martial arts team and enemy workers are already very popular, don't record the two of us and Lao Song and all the underground workers in writing about the last few boat operations and this time to bomb the train, don't say it verbally now, as long as the chief and comrades keep it in mind,"

Li Yu said disagreefully: "You, Comrade Lao Gu, the head of the United Front Work Department, just take the secrecy work of the secret front too seriously, and thus bury the contributions of you and Fang Xiaozhi and a large number of enemy engineering teams, martial engineering teams and reconnaissance personnel, no, we have to do a good job of secret files, record your merits, and let future generations know your deeds,"

Seeing that the deputy political commissar did not agree to commend and record these people with special merits, Xiao Hua had no choice but to compromise and say: "Comrade Lao Gu and their comrades-in-arms have always been particularly fond of treating the honors they have received in a low-key manner, and where the most critical and dangerous places are, they have personally gone out to do practical things and never make any publicity.

"Well said," said Chief of Staff Chen Shiyu.

"Let's keep these people who have made special contributions firmly in our hearts, and when the whole country is liberated, we will sit down and slowly recall and sort it out,"

Luo Ronghuan also said: "Lao Gu and Fang Xiao and other relevant comrades never strive for fame and profit, but work in a down-to-earth and hard-working manner, they are really unsung heroes," Xiao Hua said.

"No, no, no, if Commander Luo says so, it will be difficult for me Gu Mu to work here anymore, we are just doing our own work, our achievements are not the common credit of everyone, and the achievements we have made are really insignificant compared to all the martyrs such as Fu Zhuting and Peng Xiong who sacrificed for the cause of the liberation of the party and the people, and it is still too far from the party's requirements......"

"Yes, Lao Gu is right, we don't need to praise the No. 1 Squadron of the Fifth Martial Arts Brigade in Binhai, if we want to commend them, then commend and commend Meng Chong and them, because we are just cooperating with their battles, so their contributions are greater than ours," Song Jiliu stood up and said,

Meng Chong was anxious when he heard this, and he also stood up and said, "We are no exception to the ...... of commendation."

"Okay, don't push it off, I won't commend it first, and then we will commend and celebrate together when we win," Chen Shiyu stood up and pressed his hands and said,

"Okay," in unison, (.mkxs.)

( Biography of Chinese and Foreign Heroes )