Tangjia Garden is a village, the population is still quite large, the beginning of the Anti-Japanese War in the village of more than 500 people, most of them surnamed Tang, because this village is a family surnamed Tang after all.

In our rural areas of China, especially the villages in the mountains, the name of the village is concise and clear, and you can know at a glance what the characteristics of this village are, such as the horse post, which used to be a station on the post road, where the post man raised horses and changed horses for the messengers, so it was simply called the horse post.

Another example is the name of the place in the northeast, this shack and that shack, in the past, they were all opened up in the gate, and there was a large area of wasteland on that family, so the name was simply called the name of the Zhuang family, what is the surname, the owner of the household is surnamed Sun, it is called the Sun family shack, and the surname of the owner of the household is Qi, it is called the Qi family shack.

Most of the place names in the northwest of Hebei are related to the topography and landform, such as Gegou Village, you know that there is a deep ditch full of Ge strips in that place, you are like Mengmenggou, you know that the ditch of this village is a deep ditch stream, zigzag, outsiders go in and turn, so it is called a Mengmenggou.

Let's talk about this Tang family garden, in the past, the old generation said, outside the mountain to escape into a family surnamed Tang, on the mountain root of the riverside slope to open up the wasteland to farm and build a shack, it became a family and a village, slowly the population developed, more than half of the children are surnamed Tang, there is such a branch out of the examination to get famous, set up the archway to raise the threshold.

The old man did not stay in the city, but returned to his hometown in the mountains, and imitated the gardens of the big families in the city in the place near the mountains and rivers, and also built a garden halfway up the mountainside.

This village is seven or eight miles away from the side of the river in the town of the horse post, it is difficult to walk over the back mountain, and the people in the village do not go to the back mountain all the year round, and generally go along the beach of the Tang River to walk the horse post.

A few days ago, the devils attacked all the way from Beichengzi and Nanchengzi, and exchanged fire with Balu for a long time at Miaogoumen, and several villages south of Zoumayi were caught in the war. Only this Tang family garden was in the col and escaped a catastrophe.

Most of the people in the village listened to our party cadres, and most of them withdrew to Shangtai and Gaojiatai in the west, where the headquarters of the military sub-district teaching brigade was located. Gao Yufeng, section chief Gao and the teaching brigade were deployed on the western front of the horse post.

The focus of the defense is along the Tang River beach from the fork in the road on the side of the horse post, this section of the road is a mountain cliff in the north, the south is the river beach, a heavy snowfall, the river beach is muddy on the ground, basically no one can walk, the main defensive position is set on the north cliff.

The defense area of the teaching brigade is from Gegou Village in the northwest to Tangjia Garden, occupying the entire mountain beam and cliff, and facing off across the valley with the devils in the mountains to the west of the horse post, and the two sides have been facing each other for some days. It has never been a fight, and the devil seems to have no intention of continuing to move westward, and the teaching brigade does not plan to drive the devil out of the mountains.

That balance was upset early this morning! While repairing fortifications on the north bank of the Tang River, the devils sent at least one squadron of devil soldiers, carrying heavy machine guns and rapid-fire guns. With the assistance of the sappers, I came along the river beach road under the cliff to the Tang Family Garden.

No matter how the Beiping side decides, now Qing Shui Dazuo thinks that even if he wants to go, he can't go, so it's better to simply start defending on the spot, from the terrain point of view, if you want to hold the long and narrow terrain of the horse post, there must be a support point on the periphery, and the Tang Family Garden is just the key point to block the eight roads in the west.

Shimizu planned to put the first line of defense within a radius of about ten miles. To the north, he planned to send troops to forcibly cross the Tang River and take Miaogoumen, Nantai, and Nanbeichengzi Village, which would be equivalent to establishing a large triangle defense zone at the confluence of the two rivers south of the Tang River.

Flanked by this triangular defense area is the Tang Family Garden, which is a key point of transportation between the Zoumayi and the upper valley of the Tang River to the west, and an outpost once the Eighth Route advances eastward from Shangzhai and other places. Capturing the Tang Family Garden will allow you to establish a defensive line between the two mountain beams in the west, which will ensure the safety of the western part of the post.

So early in the morning, when the troops preparing to cross the river were building fortifications on the north bank of the Tang River, a team of engineers began to dig up the earth and start filling the dirt road leading to the Tang family's garden.

This kind of river beach road, it is not bad to walk in good weather. But as long as it is a rainy day or a snowy weather after the snow, the road made of stones, eggs and mud and sand is bubbling when you step on it, and it is not good to make a mud pit that does not reach the calf, and the muddy water is cold and biting, and after pouring into the big-toed shoes worn by the devil, Sensei is uncomfortable!

Therefore, the devil soldiers could only follow behind the engineer troops, waiting for the sappers to use the broken stones and clods of earth hewn down from the mountain into the mud, and then they barely opened a road, and just after going west from the fork in the road, there were a few clanging sounds on the rotten river beach! The mine exploded!

The teaching brigade of the 11th Division is not fighting alone, nor is it fighting with the Eighth Route Army in military uniforms, this kind of devil soldiers who are slow to build roads, the militia has more moves than the Eighth Route Army! He made a pit out of the mud with stones, and filled it with the stones in the shape of plum blossom petals, covered it with a wooden board, and connected the pressure fuse to the plank.

Didn't the devil's sappers transport the earth and stone to cushion the road, the earth and stone fell into the mud, and several devil soldiers took the earth rammer and smashed the porcelain, and this ramming hit the wooden board covered with the mine, which just triggered the mine! There are not many stone mines, and the power is not very great, but the six of them exploded together, and the stones that collapsed were all the stones transported by the devils, and the faces were full of blood pits if they couldn't be blown up, and the body was also splashed with stones and bruises and purples.

There were also some people who were on their backs, and the stones and eggs that were blown up by the explosion of the mines broke their heads, and they broke their arms several times, and the soldiers who followed were so shocked that they shot and threw grenadiers, all of them were placed on the earth cliff where no human figure could be seen, and they fought for a long time, and they didn't see any reaction on the cliff, so they stopped, carried the wounded soldiers down, and had to pave the way forward.

After dumping the earth and stones, several people tied a long rope with a half-pulled stone grinding disc, and threw it to the ground, trying to see if there were any mines, if there was no movement, then the people tamped the road, and the soldiers behind were staring closely at the earth cliff on the north side.

Staring doesn't work! There have always been a few big ones hiding in the snow and shrubs on the cliffs, but they are covered with grass and snow, and it is impossible to see from the river beach to the cliffs.

The devil sapper was holding the earth rammer and shouting to smash the road, and suddenly the fire burst out on the top of the earth cliff, and the smoke suddenly rose! Several earth-shattering loud noises stunned the devils on the river beach! Before the sound of the explosion had subsided, a cloud of hot iron sand and something like that exploded!

The dozen or so sappers and the infantry next to them were all crumbled and jumped around by the iron sand fired from the earth cannons, especially the ones with their backs facing the earth cliffs, which was like being beaten into a hornet's nest all of a sudden, densely packed with small black holes!

The hot and hot iron sand suddenly got into the flesh, although it was not fatal, but the taste was not as good as a shot, the pain and itch could not be suppressed at all, several devils jumped into the river water that had not yet frozen, and the wound was soaked in the cold river water before it was suddenly comfortable.

The most unlucky thing is that half of the face was bombarded by the earth, half of the face was clean, and the other half was simply miserable, all of them were pockmarked pits, and they were bleeding and turning over the flesh and skin, looking at Sensei Duo crazy!

Those who lay down in the river were comfortable for a while, and in the blink of an eye, the pain in those black wounds began to drill into the heart! It hurts and scratches the liver, and several people can't hold down a wounded soldier, so they want to pick the iron sand in the wound one by one.

Before dark, I didn't even see the shadow of the Tang family's garden, and the devils along the way were killed by more than 100 militia and guerrillas with mines and earthen guns, and dozens of soldiers were damaged, and they had to retreat to the horse post.