Wang Haitao did not know about the battle outside Yichuan City, and after Wang Haitao led his troops out of Yichuan City last night, he immediately went around behind the Japanese army, and after a night of rapid marching, Wang Haitao led his troops into a village at dawn. This village is so small that it cannot be found on the map, but according to Wang Haitao's judgment, he is already behind the Japanese army.

After a night of rapid marching, I saw that the physical fitness of my guard company was much stronger than that of the Eighth Route Army's teaching regiment. For the same march, their own guard company did not reflect at all, and although the teaching regiment did not fall behind, they could also see their exhaustion. When he arrived in the village, Wang Haitao had just ordered a rest, and most of the soldiers of the teaching regiment sat on the ground, but the first reaction of the guard company was to arrange a guard and arrange a sentry.

The people in the village saw the Eighth Route Army wearing military uniforms, and they were extremely enthusiastic, although they also looked at Wang Haitao and the others wearing Kuomintang military uniforms with strange eyes, but the people of the teaching group explained a little, and the people recognized Wang Haitao and them. The first thing Wang Haitao did after stopping was to contact the reconnaissance company and let the reconnaissance company join him.

Three hours later, two platoons of the reconnaissance company arrived at this small village to join Wang Haitao and them. After looking at the map brought by the reconnaissance company, Wang Haitao had an idea of where he was. After a night of rapid marching, Wang Haitao and the others had bypassed the attacking Japanese army and independently mixed into the 9th Brigade, and their current position was 30 miles behind the left of the 9th Brigade of the Japanese Army.

Knowing his position, Wang Haitao was relieved, and he let the soldiers rest until the afternoon, and after everyone had lunch, the team continued to move forward. At this time, the troops did not march in a hurry, but in concealment. The men of the reconnaissance company were used as sharp knives, opening the way in front, and the large troops behind were separated by several miles. At this time, the familiarity of the teaching brigade with the terrain and its prestige among the people was also manifested.

Along the way, as long as he passed through the village or met the people, there was a teaching group, and the people actively cooperated with the action, either to lead the way for the troops, or to provide information about the Japanese army, so that Wang Haitao really felt as comfortable as a fish in water. Under such a pseudo-situation, as soon as the sky darkened, Wang Haitao's troops had quietly touched a ravine less than five kilometers behind the Japanese Ninth Brigade and concealed it.

The reconnaissance group sent out by the reconnaissance company also came back soon after to report to Wang Haitao that there was an infantry brigade, a cavalry squadron, a regiment of puppet troops in the forward station, and what seemed to be a Japanese headquarters in the middle of the station. Wang Haitao thought for a while and asked the reconnaissance team to find out the details of the Japanese troops in the garrison overnight, and then decide what to do next.

When it was almost dawn, Wang Haitao was woken up by the Tangshan leopard, who told Wang Haitao that the reconnaissance team had returned and had captured a "tongue". Wang Haitao immediately got up and came to the tent that was used as a temporary command post. and sent someone to call Peng Shaohui, the head of the teaching group, and Liu Xing, the political commissar, together. After a while, the men of the reconnaissance company walked in with a man wearing a pseudo-army uniform and a black cloth covering his head.

Wang Haitao and the others sat down separately and motioned to the escort to take off the black cloth from the puppet army's head. The puppet army who had removed the black cloth had adjusted to the light in the tent before he could see the people sitting in front of him. The people sitting on both sides of the Eighth Route Army uniforms couldn't tell what kind of officers they were, but the people sitting in the middle of the country wearing the national army uniforms clearly showed the rank of colonel.

As an officer of the former Jin Sui Army, he knew very well how the colonel of the National Army had to be a regiment-level officer, and the puppet army officer who was a little puzzled said in his heart: "Didn't you come to sweep the Tuba Road this time? Why did the Tuba Road sit with the officers of the National Army?" Before he could figure it out, Wang Haitao had already opened his mouth and asked, "Your name and position?" The puppet army shuddered for a moment and replied: "Back to the commander's words, the little one's name is Ge Er, and he is a company deputy in the Imperial Association Army. ”

Wang Haitao said with a cold face: "As a Chinese, but willing to defect to the Japanese and be a dog leg for the Japanese, Ge Er, are you guilty?" Ge Er's frightened legs were weak, and he knelt on the ground and said: "The commander spared his life, the little one also surrendered to the Japanese in order to survive, and the small one who became the imperial alliance army did not do anything lacking in virtue, the chief Ming Cha!" Wang Haitao's face softened a little, and he said: "If you don't really work for little Japan, now you have a chance to atone for your sins, whether you can seize this opportunity depends on yourself." ”

When Ge Er heard this, he said in a loud voice: "Sir, the little one is willing to atone for his sins, and he is willing to atone for his sins." Wang Haitao then said: "Okay, then you can tell me in detail about the situation of the Japanese army and the deployment of troops." Ge Er breathed a sigh of relief after hearing this, and replied: "Sir, this station is used to protect the brigade headquarters of Little Japan, and there is an infantry brigade of the Japanese army, a cavalry squadron, and a regiment of our Imperial Army. The brigade headquarters was in the big tent in the middle of the station, and I heard that the commander of the Japanese army was there. However, the small one was only a small company lieutenant, and there was no chance to get close to the command at all. ”

Next, Wang Haitao asked in detail about the deployment of the station, as well as the firepower of the Japanese army, etc., this Ge Er answered in detail, as long as he knew that all he knew was that the bamboo tube poured beans, he said it all, and instructed the soldiers of the reconnaissance company to draw a map of the station. Ge Er finished telling everything he knew, and Wang Haitao asked people to take him down and take him up first, and it was already dawn at this time.

After Ge Er was taken down, Wang Haitao spread out the drawings on the table, and then said to Peng Shaoxiang and Liu Xing: "Two, I have a plan I want to discuss with you. I am going to attack the Japanese garrison tonight and destroy the headquarters of the independent mixed brigade. After hearing Wang Haitao's words, Peng and Liu were both taken aback.

Peng Shaohui said: "Commander Wang, my teaching regiment plus your troops is less than 1,000 people, and there are 1500 or 600 people in the devil's station, not counting the puppet army, plus the puppet army is more than 2,000 people, with such a huge disparity in strength, can the night attack be successful?" Wang Haitao replied: "Commander Peng, attacking at night, being prepared to fight or not, there is a great chance of success, plus the regiment of the puppet army at night basically has no combat effectiveness, it can be ruled out, with 1,000 against 1,000 and 5, the possibility of success is very high!"

Peng and Liu thought carefully for a while and approved Wang Haitao's plan for a night attack. The next thing to do is to develop a complete and detailed combat plan. Led by Wang Haitao's opinions, Peng and Liu continued to supplement and improve them, a few hours later, a complete set of combat plans was formulated, which took into account a number of emergency methods, and at the same time had different tactics for different situations.

However, the core content of the entire combat plan was the "decapitation operation", which was to eliminate the Japanese command in one fell swoop and capture or kill alive the commander of the Japanese army's independent mixed brigade, Major General Kenyoshi Nagami Ikegami. In order to complete this task, the teaching group is weak, and it has to rely on Wang Haitao's specially trained subordinates. Wang Haitao handed over this task to the two reconnaissance platoons to complete.

According to the battle plan, the troops suddenly launched an attack on the Japanese army from four directions, and the teaching regiment was responsible for feints on three sides of the defense of the Japanese infantry brigade. Wang Haitao's guard company, plus two companies drawn from the teaching regiment, was responsible for attacking the side defended by the puppet army.

This side should be the weakest place for the Japanese defense, but the Japanese army also knew that these puppet troops were unreliable, so they strengthened the cavalry squadron in this direction. Wang Haitao was confident that he would take out this cavalry squadron of the Japanese army, but the captured prisoners of the puppet army would have to be guarded by the people of the teaching regiment. Once the plan was formulated, the troops began to make targeted preparations.

After the preparations were completed, the officers and men of the unit were recuperating and preparing for the big battle at night. Wang Haitao also sent reliable soldiers to inform Brigade Commander Wang Zhen of the plan to attack the Japanese army at night. Then Wang Haitao concentrated the mortars carried by the guard company in the storage ring, for fear of accidents, when Wang Haitao left Longzhou City, in addition to the weapons and ammunition given to the CCP and weapons and ammunition for his own use, he also brought some more heavy weapons, which was also put in the storage ring by Wang Haitao with the psychology of being prepared.

Now Wang Haitao has found an opportunity to take out these heavy weapons, including eight 120-caliber heavy assault guns with 400 rounds of shells, and two 14.5-caliber double-link Gaoping dual-purpose heavy machine guns with 5,000 rounds of ammunition. Coupled with the twelve 82 mm mortars carried by the guard company, this is already a lot of heavy weapons. Wang Haitao left two Gaoping dual-purpose twin heavy machine guns in the guard company, and handed over all 20 mortars and artillery to the command of regimental commander Peng Shaohui.

Time passed little by little, and after dark, all the officers and men had a full meal of war meals, and at ten o'clock in the evening, all the officers and men set off towards their destinations in the night. After Wang Haitao, Peng and Liu were careful with each other, they also moved to the area defended by the puppet army with the guard company and the two companies drawn from the teaching regiment. In this operation, Wang Haitao also brought that Ge Er with him, the purpose was to let Ge Er return to the puppet army to persuade the puppet army to surrender before the attack.

Whether he can persuade him to surrender successfully Wang Haitao doesn't know, but it is certain that he will disturb the hearts of the army. Wang Haitao let the troops lurk 200 meters away from the puppet army's defense line, and quietly waited for the moment of attack. The time of the attack was set at two o'clock in the night, and this time was also the time when people were the most tired, and the people who fell asleep were also the deepest sleepers.

At half past one o'clock in the night, Wang Haitao called Ge Er over and said to Ge Er: "Ge Er, there is still half an hour for us to launch an attack on the Japanese garrison." For the sake of all the Chinese, we don't want to open fire on your puppet army, now you go and persuade your regiment commander to surrender quickly, if it is time to attack, you are still stubbornly resisting, then don't blame us for being polite. When the gun has no eyes, it will be too late to regret it. ”

Ge Ertou nodded again and again and said: "Sir, our regimental seat was also forced to put on this dog's skin, I will go and persuade our regimental seat to surrender to the chief now." As soon as Ge Er left, Tangshan Leopard said to Wang Haitao: "Junzuo, aren't you afraid that those puppet soldiers will go to Little Japan to inform?" Wang Haitao smiled and said: "It's too late to come up, and even if Little Japan knows the news, it will not be able to prepare in a hurry, but it will be even more chaotic." ”

Tangshan Leopard nodded understandingly, and turned around to get the assault fighters ready. On assault duty were ten combat groups, each of which was armed with a light machine gun, a four-zero rocket launcher. At the same time, more than a dozen heavy machine guns and more than a dozen snipers were also in place on the offensive position, ready to cover the assault group for a surprise attack.

Ten minutes passed, and there was still no movement at the Japanese garrison opposite, and the assault team led by Tangshan Leopard began to approach the Japanese garrison. Another ten minutes passed, and the Tangshan Leopard assault team had sneaked to a place 50 meters in front of the Japanese garrison. Looking at it from here, several sentry posts of the puppet army are standing listlessly. A few of the sentries were dozing off one after another.

Seeing that the time for the attack was about to come, Tangshan Leopard had notified his subordinates to prepare for the attack, and there was a sudden chaos in the Japanese garrison opposite, and then the door of the garrison was opened, Ge Er waved a white flag, and two people walked out of the garrison together. As soon as the Tangshan leopard saw that there was a scene, he beckoned the assault team to jump up, and before the people who went out could react, they forced those people with weapons.

Seeing that the other party was lurking under his own nose, and no one noticed that the face of the puppet army officer walking in front was a little ugly. At this time, Ge Er, who reacted, hurriedly stepped forward and said: "Sir, don't get me wrong, this is our Zhao Tuanzuo, and our Zhao Tuanzuo has decided to take refuge in your ministry and not do anything with the Japanese." ”

As soon as the Tangshan leopard gave the signal behind him, and the time for the attack was up, the explosion of artillery shells suddenly sounded in the Japanese garrison. Dozens of explosions rang out, accompanied by gunsmoke and fire. The garrison was in a mess, and there were soldiers scurrying around, and most of the Japanese soldiers were not even dressed neatly. After the explosion of shells, fierce gunfire was heard from all directions of the station.

After a while, Wang Haitao saw the signal and rushed up with the troops, and the commander of the puppet army saw that there were soldiers on the opposite side surrounded by an officer wearing the uniform of a colonel of the national army. Wang Haitao returned a military salute and said: "Commander Zhao, you and your subordinates are welcome to abandon the darkness and turn to the light, now I don't have time to talk to you, you let your subordinates all lay down their weapons, stand by in the barracks, don't go in and out casually, and I will talk to Commander Zhao in detail after this battle." ”

Zhao Dequan asked with some surprise: "Sir, don't you need us to help you?" Wang Haitao smiled and replied: "I don't need your help to deal with this little Japan, you just wait in the barracks." When Zhao Dequan heard this, he had to say: "That humble man is waiting in the barracks for the good news of the chief." After speaking, he ordered the people behind him: "Go and inform our people, lay down their weapons, and all of them are on standby in the barracks." ”