The enemy lay down in the fortifications one after another, blindly returning fire, and just lay down and put a few shots, the other line of the Eighth Route Army's battlefield outflanked from behind, and a platoon of guns beat the enemy up, like a flock of frightened rabbits.

A part of the enemy tried to organize resistance, just fired a few shots, but was stopped head-on by the soldiers who were lying in ambush there, and a sudden burst of fire hit the enemy with his head covered, and the front turned around and ran, and the rear rushed up, squeezing each other and forming a mess. The Eighth Route Army attacked back and forth, causing the enemy to hide everywhere.

Xiao Chenzhuang was shocked, the guns turned into a sound, the fire flashed the light of time, and the comrades shouted: "Rush! Oh! "The second platoon of leaders hung flowers on their heads, bandaged them and went up again. The soldier who carried the stretcher put down the stretcher and ran up to set up a ladder, and the cook, Lao Wang, also went up. In a short period of time, the ladder was erected and one by one climbed into the city, and the first to climb the city wall was Comrade Li, a model of battle, and the second was Comrade Wang, who was also one of the models of battle.

The machine guns of the eight covering ladder groups screamed. Six mortars, fired at once, shells bloomed on several turrets.

The captain of the puppet army fired guns again and again, threatening his subordinates to resist, resisted for a while, and led the puppet army to open a road, retreated into a large pillbox, and organized a fortification. In addition, several puppet armies that were cut off also rushed to this big pillbox to assemble.

The puppet army rushed into the big pillbox, relying on this, with heavy firepower, blocking the narrow streets and blocking the attack of the Eighth Route Army. The Eighth Route Army was inferior in equipment to the enemy, but it was courageous. The frightened captain of the puppet army discovered this advantage of the Eighth Route Army, strengthened his courage, and commanded the puppet army to escape from the ditch.

Our Eighth Route Army was particularly tightly laid out on all sides, and it was even more difficult for the enemy to escape for his life. Not long after the traitors escaped, all the fish that caught the net were wiped out. There were more than 220 prisoners of the puppet army, two machine guns, more than 500 long and short guns, and tens of thousands of bullets.

At this time, Chen Shiyu's watch walked forward unhurriedly, and he could see clearly through the phosphorescent light on the watch: the hour hand was pointing to twelve, only five minutes short.

In another four minutes, the attack on Wang Haizi started on all fronts.

Time marched inexorably, and it seemed that the general "connections" in the enemy's strongholds could no longer be counted on; Even if he signals his actions now, it will be too late. The people in the entire command post were in a hurry, and the commander Luo Huasheng was so anxious that he stomped his feet.

Chen Shiyu, Luo Huasheng, Tang Liang, Gu Mu, He Jian, and Wang Liusheng were discussing how to capture the village and annihilate the enemy. Fang Xiao, deputy chief of the reconnaissance section, galloped forward and reported: "I found that the cavalry of devils is coming here, it is estimated that they are here to reinforce this puppet army, and they are trying to count the enemy's strength. ”

Chen Shiyu was stunned for a moment, and then asked Luo Huasheng: "Commander Luo, are we ready to send reinforcements?" ”

Luo Huasheng said with a smile: "It's ready!" ”

Chen Shiyu said: "Then we will have a fake retreat, and then attack again." ”

There was a gunshot in the distance, and Liang Mazi was relieved to realize that there were troops coming to help. Seeing that the Eighth Route Army had relaxed its attack and had withdrawn from the battle, the thieves were even more courageous. He wanted to seize this opportunity, counterattack as a defense, contain the Eighth Route Army, cooperate with reinforcements to eliminate this army, so as to ask for credit in front of the master, so he cheered up and commanded the puppet army to counterattack.

—Seeing that the devil's reinforcements were approaching, the puppet army repeatedly launched counterattacks, biting the Eighth Route Army and holding on to it, and the situation was very tight.

The troops withdrew to a small village.

The village was caught up in a storm that shook the world, and the men and women of the village mobilized to fight for the defense of their hometown with their own troops.

At this time, the villagers' assembly stood majestically in the middle of the street, with a grenade pinned to his belt, and his head held high, like a general. I saw him raise the horn, his face was flushed, his cheeks were bulging like two steamed buns, and the green tendons on his neck were protruding, making the horns whine.

One of the close companions of the assembly, a young man named Dog, carried a gong and banged all over the village. There were people standing under the big locust tree at the crossroads, and Ding Mengsun, secretary of the county party committee, was busy assigning tasks to everyone. The fighters were deployed to take control of several main streets and alley entrances. The crowd dragged their carts, dung baskets, doors, tables, and chairs to help the soldiers build fortifications.

Seeing that everyone was busy, the assembly thrust the horns into the waist and ran over to help. He looked at the fortifications built with furniture, worried that he would not be able to resist the artillery fire, and his face glowed red, and he shouted: "Big mud bricks! ”

The words of the General Assembly reminded the crowd. The people immediately ran to the garden to carry the raw mud bricks that were ready to be built into the wall and used to strengthen the fortifications. He was also busy adding soil to the carts and manure baskets to increase the resistance of the fortifications to pressure.

Chen Shiyu, Tang Liang, and Gu Mu went around to inspect the deployment and encourage the army and civilians to fight hard against the enemy and defend the village. Chen Shiyu pedaled hard, but the fortifications did not move at all. He smiled with satisfaction and said: "It is not easy to build such a fortification in a short time, and with our broad masses, it can be called a strong barrier!" ”

People looked at Chen Shiyu with deep respect, and these words added courage and strength to everyone.

"But there are also those under the bed." The dog pouted and said indignantly.

"Who?" The assembly was furious. He felt that this was really a plaster on the face of his own villagers.

"Big landlord." The dog pouted and said, "Just now I called someone with a gong, and the door of his house was tightly closed. If it weren't for the big yellow dog barking, I would have thought that his family would have died for miles. ”

"It's good that such scum doesn't come, and even if he comes, it's a bad thing that has not achieved enough and has more than enough failures." The Assembly said indignantly.

The street defended by the Old Fourth Regiment was the enemy's main attack. A puppet squadron swooped up, and the soldiers calmly hid behind the fortifications, waiting for the enemy to approach, and in a burst, shooting, plus a string of grenades, hit the puppet soldiers screaming and not daring to rush again.

A devil kicked the puppet army with his leather boots and forced him to charge. Gu Mu saw it clearly, aimed a shot, and hit the devil in the head. The devil didn't scream, he fell on his back, and a steel helmet fell out of the way, clinking and rolling on the ground. The puppet soldiers screamed, trampled on the corpse of the devil and retreated.

The leader of the devil squad saw clearly from behind, and was very annoyed, and ordered the grenadiers and light and heavy machine guns to fire at the same time, covering the puppet army to turn around and rush up. Heavy artillery fire poured down on the fortifications, igniting a raging flame.

The masses and soldiers were busy extinguishing the fire with sand, but the fire was so fierce that it could not be extinguished for a while, and the flames rose higher and higher, and the wood and rattan burned to the ground, and the smoke billowed and the sand and gravel splashed everywhere, choking people out of breath. The devils and the puppet army took advantage of this opportunity and pounced on them.

The fortifications were burning and could not be saved, when suddenly there was a noise behind them, and everyone looked back and cheered at the same time. The county women's director led a group of girls and daughters-in-law, dragging strips of soaked quilts, panting and running over.

Strips of soaked quilts were placed on the fortifications one after another, sizzling, wisps of white smoke came out, and the flames were extinguished.

The assembly pounced on the fortifications, lit the fire of the earthen cannons, and a dead iron rain fell on the enemy, and the unsuspecting puppet army was thrown down in large pieces, and the rest howled and retreated.

Several attacks were frustrated, and the leader of the devil squad was furious. He ordered a halt to the attack, summoned the leaders of the puppet army, and reprimanded them severely. He scolded the puppet army for being cowardly and afraid of death, insulting the prestige of the imperial army, and shot a puppet army squad leader who was ineffective in commanding the attack, and ordered - before dark, the village must be captured, and all the anti-Japanese salvation will be annihilated. He pointed to the corpse of the puppet army squad leader lying in a pool of blood, and roared: "Those who take a step back, all hiss!" ”(..)

( Biography of Chinese and Foreign Heroes )