It was around three o'clock in the morning on July 7th, the third day the battle started.
"Company commander, there is a group of enemy troops stationed in the village ahead. This is the tongue that was captured just now!" said a soldier from the reconnaissance company.
Dong Jiang took out the short gun from his waist and was about to ask more questions, but the man just dropped the gun.
"Sir, if you have something to say, don't use your gun. I'll say anything!"
Dong Jiang laughed: "Oh, you are quite aware of current affairs. Which section are you from? How many people are there in the village?"
"Sir, I am from the 3rd Battalion, 1st Regiment, 4th Independent Brigade of the 69th Army. There are more than 300 people in the village!"
"The Fourth Independent Brigade? Other troops are running south, why are you going north?" Dong Jiang asked confused.
"The military headquarters hasn't withdrawn yet! Our brigade has to go north to meet the military headquarters!"
"So your brigade headquarters is also near here? How many troops are there?"
"This village is Xiaozhangzhuang. The brigade headquarters is in Dazhangzhuang in the north. The first battalion and the troops directly under the brigade headquarters are accompanying us! I really don't know how many people there are. Many people ran away under the cover of night. There was nothing the brigade could do.
Ordered to stop the march and camp on the spot!" Liu San poured beans from a bamboo tube and told everything he knew.
Liu Sangen actually took the opportunity to escape, but he was unlucky and was caught by soldiers investigating outside the village.
When disaster strikes, we all fly away. This sentence is fully reflected in the 69th Army of Shi Yousan.
After Shi Yousan gave the order to retreat, even though most of the officers at all levels of the 69th Army were Shi Yousan's confidants, all the troops fled one after another. Seeing that the situation was out of control, he ordered the independent Fourth Brigade, which had not participated in the war, to go north to respond.
After Duan Haizhou received the order, he did not hesitate and ignored the persuasion of his officers and insisted on going north to respond.
However, it was unable to stop the people below from harboring evil intentions. Taking advantage of the night march, many people deserted.
After Dong Jiang learned about the situation, he thought he had finally caught a big fish. As the reconnaissance company marched north, they encountered many small groups of enemy troops that had fled, but they were let go and left to be dealt with by the troops behind them.
"Telegraph operator, send a telegram to the commander, saying that our reconnaissance company has discovered the enemy's main force of the Fourth Independent Brigade in the area of Xiaozhangzhuang and Dazhangzhuang, and is preparing to carry out a beheading plan against the enemy. I request the commander's approval and request the main force.
Cooperate!" Dong Jiang said.
As he spoke, Dong Jiang took out the certificate He Wensheng specially prepared for him from his pocket, looked at it carefully, and secretly thought that it should be enough to distinguish the fake from the real one.
The words are divided into two parts.
At this time, Zhou Weihan led Wu Qin's Second Regiment and other troops in Wucun, thirty miles away from the reconnaissance company.
"Commander, Dong Jiang sent a telegram!" Wu Qinhui reported.
"Haha, Dong Jiang is catching a big fish. Call back to the reconnaissance company, approve the beheading plan, and inform Dong Jiang of the location of our unit so that he can launch an attack at the right time!" Zhou Weihan said.
"Order all battalions and companies to assemble quickly, go straight to Xiaozhangzhuang, and eat the enemy's Fourth Independent Brigade!"
"Commander, will you let go of the small groups of enemy troops you encountered along the way?"
"Leave the small unit to the first, third, and fourth regiments behind to clean up. Don't lose the watermelon and pick up the sesame seeds!" Zhou Weihan said.
Originally, in the previous battle, the reconnaissance company acted as eyes in the front. When the second regiment encountered the enemy, it first broke up the organized troops. The three regiments behind formed a large net to search for broken troops along the way.
Of course, even though Zhou Weihan's independent detachment was carefully deployed, it was difficult to detect a few scattered people who really wanted to hide due to night operations and the green gauze tents all over southern Hebei.
However, in addition to the main force in the battle, there are also numerous county brigades and militiamen in the counties in southern Hebei. If they really run into each other, it will not be easy.
Now he is fishing for the big fish of the Fourth Independent Brigade, and Zhou Weihan can't care so much anymore.
"Where is Zhu Dashan's cavalry company currently located?" Zhou Weihan asked.
"The cavalry company went west to pursue a group of enemy troops!"
"Send someone to inform Zhu Dashan and go north immediately to support the reconnaissance company!"
Outside Gu Dazhangzhuang.
When Dong Jiang received the reply, he immediately led his reconnaissance company to bypass the headquarters of the Independent Fourth Brigade on the periphery, and interspersed from its junction to Dazhangzhuang, where the headquarters of the Independent Fourth Brigade was located.
There is an enemy defense line on the outskirts of Dazhangzhuang Village three to four hundred meters away from the village entrance. More than a dozen sentries are posted at the north and south entrances of the village, and there is also a special patrol team patrolling along the village.
Dong Jiang stood on a high ground outside the village and looked at the village from a distance. Several households in the village still had lights on.
"Are there any ordinary people in these villages where you are stationed?" Dong Jiang asked.
"No, they all ran away before we came. Sir, the officers at the brigade headquarters are all riding military horses. Wherever the horses are tied, the brigade headquarters is located!" Liu Sangen said.
"You have a bright mind, kid, come back and follow me!"
"Go and tell the brothers to put on the prepared military uniforms of the 69th Army, and we will give him a trick!" Dong Jiang said with a smile to a soldier from the reconnaissance company.
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Dong Jiang walked out of the darkness with more than 20 soldiers. Before he could get close to the defense line outside the village entrance, he was discovered by the alert enemy troops.
The enemy troops in the sandbag fortifications immediately set up their machine guns and charged at Dong Jiang and others.
"Brothers of the Fourth Independent Brigade, don't get me wrong. I am from the military security company. I was ordered by the military commander to come here specifically to find Brigadier Duan!" Dong Jiang shouted.
"Military headquarters? Isn't the military headquarters in the north now? Why did you come from the south!"
Dong Jiang touched Liu Sangen and asked him to explain.
"Brother, I am from the Third Battalion of the First Regiment, and our Battalion Commander Lin asked me to lead the way for the military security company!" Liu Sangen said loudly.
After hearing Liu Sangen's words, the officer who had just asked the question obviously relaxed, but still let the machine gunner take his place.
"Go and see if the nameplates and IDs on their bodies are from the military's security company!" the officer said in a low voice to the security guard beside him.
The guard heard the order and immediately ran forward to check.
Dong Jiang was also very cooperative and took out the documents he had prepared long ago.
After the guard checked, it was indeed correct: "Hello, sir!"
"The battalion commander is indeed the commander of the military security company."
"Haha, brother, I'm so sorry. I'm Zhang Shifan, deputy battalion commander of the 1st regiment and 1st battalion of the 4th Independent Brigade. Now I'm scared. I'm so sorry!" Zhang Shifan said with an apologetic look.
"Brother Zhang, you're so polite! In Dongjiang, after I went south from the military headquarters, your brigade was the combat unit that maintained the best organization I saw along the way! Brother Zhang is the battalion commander, but he is on the front line. He personally leads his brothers to guard.
It can be seen that the Fourth Independent Brigade is really the elite of our 69th Army!" Dong Jiang came up with a burst of praise.
"The security regiment of your military headquarters is not bad either. They are direct descendants of our 69th Army! You are given priority in any good equipment!" Zhang Shifan said with an envious look.
"How can there be any guard regiment? Brother Zhang, I'm afraid you have forgotten that the main force of the original guard regiment was supplemented by Brigadier Shi's special agent brigade. Now there is only one guard battalion left!"
"Yes, yes, yes, look at my memory!" Zhang Shifan slapped his forehead and said.
"Not to mention how miserable we were on the road, it was all this equipment that caused the trouble. We met a group of Eighth Route Army soldiers on the road. They must have seen us wearing flower traps and thought they were catching some big fish, but they chased us.
If I hadn't let a group of brothers attract the Eighth Route Army, I wouldn't be able to get away now! I don't know what happened to my group of brothers!" Dong Jiang said with a worried look on his face, as if it was serious.
Zhang Shifan looked around at Dong Jiang and others, thinking that he really didn't find anything wrong.
So he said: "Hey, look at me, Brother Dong must have something important to convey to us at the hotel. Quick, I will take you into the village, don't delay the important matter!"
