As the sun set, the Japs in the Nantai artillery tower were still resisting.
Chen Zikun, the commander-in-chief of the Jiangbei guerrilla army, swept away the Japs garrison in the coal and iron mines near the county town, and then led his troops into the county town.
After learning about the situation, he frowned and took action.
When Chen Zikun was the military envoy of Jiangbei Province, he once remembered that there was a fire extinguishing pump left over from the Qing Dynasty in the Yamen.
It was made of moso bamboo tubes.
Two people at one end could press the pole up and down, and they could shoot the water out to a height of more than ten meters.
However, it had been a long time, and no longer I know whether it is still there or not.
We sent people to search, and sure enough, it was still there.
This alone was not enough.
We had to have gasoline to match it.
The Yamada Squadron was equipped with cars and motorcycles.
There were still two barrels of gasoline in the fleet warehouse.
They poured it into a bamboo tube and sprayed it into the firing port of the gun tower.
The smell of gasoline was immediately felt.
Diffuse everywhere.
"If you don't surrender, you will become roasted pigs."
A soldier shouted in Japanese.
There was a burst of curses from the turret.
"Get ready to light the fire."
Chen Zikun said.
The soldier lit two torches and prepared to throw them, but Ye Xuefeng stopped them: "Wait a moment."
He hurriedly came to Chen Zikun and said: "You can't set fire to it.
There are a lot of guns and ammunition stored in the turret.
If you burn them all in one fire, who will be responsible for this?"
Chen Zikun stared at him for a while, and Ye Xuefeng looked at him without fear.
"Okay, don't set the fire just yet.
I'll give you twenty minutes to convince them to surrender."
Chen Zikun said firmly.
Ye Xuefeng gritted his teeth and ordered the soldiers to continue shouting.
There was a young soldier in the Eighth Route Army who had worked as a boy in a Japanese company and could speak a few Japanese.
He took a foreign iron horn and shouted according to the instructions of Political Commissar Ye: "Japanese soldiers, Don't be stubborn.
Think about your family and your hometown.
We are all working people.
Don't kill each other.
Our common enemy is the emperor and the plutocrats. " A shot was fired, leaving a hole in the tin speaker.
The little soldier threw the speaker angrily and cursed: "Political commissar, the little devil can't get in, so burn it."
Ye Xuefeng didn't want to set fire to these beasts, but the reserves in the gun tower made him extremely jealous.
There were three crooked guns alone.
You must know that the Eighth Route Army often sacrificed more than a dozen soldiers in order to seize a machine gun.
It is a pity that so many arms are in front of us now, but they have to be burned down.
Suddenly a horse galloped over.
The rider tightened the reins.
The horse's front hooves leaped into the air and neighed several times before falling to the ground.
Zhao Ziming got up from the ground, held up a bloody head and shouted: "Yamada has been decapitated."
The morale of the army was greatly boosted and there was great joy.
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Chen Zikun ordered the two captured puppet soldiers to send Yamada's head to the gun tower.
After a while, several gunshots were heard from the gun tower, and then a white flag floated in the sky, indicating that the Japanese surrendered.
The people left behind to guard the artillery tower were originally some old, weak, sick and disabled people with weak willpower.
Captain Yamada was killed in the battle.
If they persisted, they would not be able to wait for reinforcements.
Once their psychology collapsed, they would not be able to hold on.
Except for a few high-ranking soldiers, Except for Captain Cao who raised his gun and committed suicide, the other soldiers chose to live.
The county town was finally recovered, but Chen Zikun immediately ordered all the loot to be loaded into trucks and transported away, and the troops were transferred, leaving only a small number to maintain order.
Now he has changed his war thinking.
He is no longer obsessed with the gains and losses of one city and one place, but with killing and wounding.
The enemy has physical strength, so it is important to strengthen yourself.
A security regiment of the Imperial Association Army and a Japanese squadron were stationed in the county.
All military supplies were wiped out by the Eighth Route Army.
From helmets to leather boots, military blankets to tents, lanterns, saddlery, raincoats, lunch boxes, and maps were all gone. , the Tubalu were all grinning from ear to ear, running around and busy.
This was what Chen Zikun had promised them, and everyone could only stare.
After the county town was captured, Chen Zikun sent an orderly soldier to notify Gai Longquan and Wu Changqing, who were responsible for blocking the attack, and asked them to guard for two hours and wait for the loot to be transported before retreating.
On the road leading to Nantai, a force ambushed on the hillsides on both sides and built fortifications in pine forests and cemeteries, preparing for a tough battle.
The ground in winter is as frozen as iron, and when a shovel is shoveled, only a shallow mark will be left.
The soldiers' jaws are cracked in order to dig trenches.
Time waits for no one.
Sweat more now, and you will lose less when fighting later. bleed.
On the east side of the road was the Eighth Route Army.
In order to boost morale, Wu Changqing asked the comrades of the propaganda team to sing Allegro.
As expected, the soldiers speeded up the progress.
The Kuomintang troops on the west side heard this and were not to be outdone.
Someone sang at the top of their lungs in a Lahun tune.
It's a pleasure to fight for it on both sides.
Wu Changqing sat on a stone, took out a cut piece of paper, licked it, rolled some tobacco and started smoking.
He was the number one smoker in the detachment.
He had to smoke one wherever he went.
He was puffing away the smoke. , guard Wu Ying came over: "Dad, look at those cowards in the Kuomintang, they will definitely lose their chain when they fight later."
"Don't look through the cracks in the door.
The Kuomintang still has some capable characters.
Gai Longquan and Chen Shou are both bandits, and their fighting power should not be underestimated."
Wu Changqing educated his son while smoking a cigarette.
"There's some noise."
Wuying suddenly jumped up and ran to the road.
He lay down and listened.
Everyone stopped and stared at him.
"It's a horse, coming from the south."
Wu Ying shouted.
It turned out that they were not enemies, so everyone continued working.
Wu Ying heard it right.
It was Chen Zikun's signal corps who came, telling them that Nantai had been captured and were carrying the loot.
He ordered Wu Changqing and Gai Longquan to hold off the enemy for two hours.
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Gai Longquan accepted the order, and Wu Changqing also accepted the order.
Returning to the position, his son muttered again: "Why should you give us orders?
We are not Chen Zikun's subordinates.
It makes no sense for the Kuomintang to give orders to the Eighth Route Army."
"That's right, why are you giving us orders?"
The soldiers were all angry.
Wu Changqing said: "Political Commissar Ye and the others are still behind.
When we stop the Japanese, we are not helping the Kuomintang to fight, but helping our comrades."
After saying this, the soldiers became mentally balanced.
There was a faint roar from the sky, and two small black dots emerged from the clouds.
They were the Japanese planes.
"Hidden" Wu Changqing shouted loudly.
The soldiers all dropped their tools and lay down on the ground.
They had experienced the power of airplanes.
They were like soldiers and generals from heaven.
Bombs were thrown from overhead and they couldn't even hide.
Fortunately, what came was just an unarmed reconnaissance plane.
It wandered around for a while and then continued flying south.
The soldiers got up and continued to dig fortifications, but the speed was much faster than before.
No one was singing or saying Allegro, everyone was engaged in nervous work.
During the work, there was only the sound of digging frozen soil.
The sky is getting dark.
Major General Tian Luchaoyi has a close relationship with Jiangbei.
Initially, due to the repeated defeats of the Sixth Division, he was transferred to form the Tianlu Detachment to attack Beitai.
Later, he was transferred for a time, but eventually returned here to serve as the commander of the garrison brigade in Jiangbei.
Rich in products, coal, iron resources and food crops are strategic materials that the imperial army urgently needs, so heavy troops are stationed here.
The China front was getting longer and longer, and the imperial army was stretched thin and could only take care of large cities and transportation lines.
In the Jiangnan area, there was only one detachment of soldiers stationed in the county town, but in Nantai there was an entire squadron.
This was because of the anti-Japanese elements in Jiangbei.
They are wreaking havoc, and few soldiers can't suppress their arrogant arrogance.
The telephone line to Nantai was cut off at noon today.
Major General Tian Lu felt uneasy.
In the afternoon, Nantai County Magistrate Xia Jingqi fled to Beitai in a hurry, saying that the Eighth Route Army had captured the county and the Yamada Squadron was missing.
Major General Tian Lu had studied Sun Tzu's Art of War for many years. , knowing that the Chinese are very particular about war and deceit, maybe the attack on the county town was just a bluff, but people started to escape one after another, saying that all the Japanese supervisors and guards in several mines near Nantai had been wiped out, and the guerrillas were serious this time.
Tian Luchaoyi then became serious and ordered the deployment of reinforcements and aircraft reconnaissance.
It was getting late at this time, and the staff urged the general to attack again tomorrow.
The Eighth Route Army was good at night fighting and had to be on guard.
However, the major general looked at the full moon in the sky and still ordered to set off. .
The Beitai garrison dispatched a brigade, all traveling quickly on trucks and motorcycles.
Halfway through, they received a radio signal from a reconnaissance plane, reporting that there was an ambush by the Chinese Army on the road.
Tian Lu sneered, and detached a squadron of infantry to outflank it. past.
The battle started quickly.
It was a regular blocking battle.
The guerrillas occupied favorable terrain and fought calmly and powerfully.
The Japanese army had sufficient ammunition and a tenacious style.
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They seemed to be evenly matched.
However, as the battle continued, the guerrillas' disadvantages became apparent.
The supply of ammunition could not be reached, and the sound of gunfire gradually became sparse, but the powerful drumbeats began to sound.
These were war drums used by the ancient Chinese army.
It was really ridiculous that they used this method to boost morale.
Suddenly the gunfire became fierce, and the guerrillas fired wildly with machine guns.
Major General Tian Lu knew that this was an outflanking squadron attacking from behind, so he ordered his headquarters to launch a bayonet charge.
After a sudden attack, he captured the positions on both sides of the road, but found that the positions There were only piles of red confetti, and the so-called machine gun sounds were firecrackers.
There were two sheep hanging on the tree, their front hooves beating the drums desperately.
"Baga, you are cunning and cunning."
A squadron leader was furious and drew his saber and slashed at him, splitting the war drum into two pieces.
Then there was a loud bang, and he was bloody and bloody.
There was actually a grenade hidden in the war drum.
The Japanese army continued to move forward.
After a few miles, the car suddenly stopped.
It turned out that the road was full of flags with the word "landmine" written on them.
The engineers stepped forward to detect mines and dug up a slightly raised mound of soil.
There was actually a large pool of dung underneath.
It turned out to be just a bluff.
Everyone breathed a sigh of relief and ran over it at full speed.
The flag broke under the wheels.
Suddenly there was a loud noise and the wheels of the car were blown away.
It turned out that there was really a landmine.
The guerrillas' tricks were endless, false and true, true and false.
Major General Tian Lu was a well-educated Confucian general.
They were so angry that they made him angry.
Without saying a word, he ordered that they must arrive in Nantai before dawn.
At dawn, the reinforcements from the Tianlu Brigade finally arrived in Nantai County, leaving them with only an empty city.
A rough calculation of the losses showed that at least 300 rifles, 50,000 rounds of ammunition, several light and heavy machine gun grenades were lost, and more importantly, tons of yellow explosives were lost in the mines.
This is an extremely powerful weapon.
In the hands of the team, it was a disaster.
After the telephone line was repaired, an urgent call was received from Beitai, saying that guerrillas were operating outside Beitai City.
Major General Tian Lu thought for a while and said resolutely: "The Chinese army is accustomed to using tactics of suspicion, so just ignore it and dispatch all troops.
Go to the countryside to sweep up
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