Two more days passed, and in the blink of an eye it was the 29th.
During this period, more than 7,000 people from Li Yunlong's 16th Brigade arrived in trucks at the shores of Weishan Lake on the evening of the 28th, and then successfully arrived in Shandong with the support of brother troops from the Lunan Military Region.
Zhu Guoming, deputy director of the political department of the column, led four local armed forces to defend Dayangji. He carried important instructions from Zhou Weihan.
Among the units of the 28th Group Army, the ones with the best equipment and the highest personnel quality are undoubtedly the directly affiliated guard regiment and artillery regiment. In particular, the artillery regiment has a total of 54 American mountain cannons. The howitzers are not equipped due to their inconvenience in movement.
Although the Hebei-Luyu Column is now rich and powerful, Zhou Weihan cannot forget the poor days before. Compared with the established artillery group, he is more greedy for those technical talents with professional background.
Zhu Guoming felt a little bitter. He and Luo Benzhong were responsible for the early transformation of the Nationalist officers and soldiers. However, due to the large number of Nationalist officers and soldiers, the political department of the column was short of manpower. He himself was equivalent to a bare commander.
Fortunately, Zhou Weihan ordered the deployment of 13, 15, and 16 political cadres at all levels to cooperate, otherwise the work would really not be carried out.
"Comrades, before I came, the Communist Party member personally told me that he wanted the cannons of the national army, as well as the officers and artillery. Therefore, the artillery regiment is the focus of the next work. I am personally responsible for it. The 20th and 22nd divisions were
The screening and transformation of captured officers and soldiers should also be carried out simultaneously!"
"The ** members put forward three points of attention. First, unlike the previous screening and transformation of the Japanese and puppet troops, we must pay more attention to the work attitude of the national officers and soldiers, teach patiently, listen to and pay attention to the wishes of grassroots soldiers, and all personnel should lead by example and demonstrate the good atmosphere of our Eighth Route Army.
Style!”
"Secondly, we should use the fight against Japan and national salvation as a breakthrough to inspire the determination of all officers and soldiers of the country to share the same hatred of the enemy, strive to abandon the previous conflicts and grievances, and work hard to carry out the work of the anti-Japanese national united front!"
"Third, we should carefully screen out the heinous extremists in the national army to prevent them from mixing into the ranks of our army. Those who are less serious will be reformed through labor, and those who are more serious will be put on public trial!"
Zhou Weihan is both a member of the Communist Party and a political commissar, and he is currently performing the duties of a political commissar. Although this is not what he is good at, at least he has learned some basics after partnering with Zhao Gang and Tan Lin.
He only needs to control the situation at a macro level, and Luo Benzhong and Zhu Guoming will carry out the specific work separately. At the same time, he will request the military region and local government to send additional personnel for support.
On the other side, Xin Tiebing, the chief of staff of the 16th Brigade, led more than 2,000 troops of the 16th Brigade to garrison Laowangji. Ding Wei led two regiments of the 15th Brigade to garrison the Niuwang Lake stronghold. Jing Dagang led the 13th Brigade to garrison the Xiaoyangji stronghold. They captured the enemy before the 16th Brigade.
Basically, the two brigades will radiate the control area to ten kilometers south of the Longhai Line.
As a result, along the Longhai Railway, the Hebei-Shandong-Henan Column deployed nearly 18,000 troops, forming a confrontation with the national army in Xiayi and Yongcheng areas.
In the headquarters, Zhou Weihan encountered a rare happy thing. Ding Wei reached a deal with the Japanese army in Shangqiu before changing defenses. Each Japanese soldier was exchanged for 500 kilograms of white flour or rice, and each puppet soldier was exchanged for 200 kilograms of white flour or rice. Among them, the officers
The price is calculated separately.
Although not much food was captured after the war, Ding Wei made a big deal out of more than 4,000 Japanese and puppet soldiers who were captured, including 724 Japanese soldiers, 3,555 puppet soldiers, and two Japanese majors and captains.
Three, five lieutenants, 11 second lieutenants, the deputy commander of the puppet army Wang Xinmin, two brigade commanders, three regiment commanders, and several other officers.
Zhou Weihan was also scared, so he rechecked the list according to the report: "Yes, Ding Wei is really a good hand in business. He obtained 1.2 million kilograms of grain in a few days and made him the commander of the combat force.
He is really unworthy, he should be made the logistics minister!"
"Then what should be done with this batch of grain?" Zhao Bingzhang asked.
"Well, it's too troublesome to transport food back and forth, and you have to bear the losses. Although the army and the local government are two systems, they are one family in the end. Yucheng has just been recovered by our army, and the local work is complicated, but...
It happens to be a lean time for spring plowing. Comrade Tan Lin’s business is not easy!”
"In this way, 600,000 kilograms of grain will be left in Yucheng to serve as emergency food to stabilize grain prices at critical moments. The other 600,000 kilograms will be transported to Dayangji nearby to supply the daily needs of the frontline troops!" Zhou Weihan said.
While the two were talking, the telegraph operator from the headquarters suddenly came to report. Zhao Bingzhang received the telegram upon seeing this. After reading it, he said: "Commander, good news. The telegram forwarded by the military region mentioned that the offensive of the National Army in Northern Jiangsu has been disrupted.
, Commander-in-Chief Han Deqin was captured alive by the Fourth Division of our New Fourth Army!"
Zhou Weihan was overjoyed when he heard this: "Good things happen one after another. Once the problem in northern Jiangsu is solved, Chiang Kai-shek will probably become an ant on the hot pot. The advantage he had planned for so long will be gone!"
At this time, Li Yunlong had led the 16th Brigade to the Tengxi Binhu area, and under the guidance of a regiment from the Lunan Military Region, was about to launch an offensive against Liu Guitang's troops entrenched here.
At the same time, the remaining troops of the Lunan Military Region took the initiative to withdraw from the base area and jointly launched an attack with the main force of the Central Shandong Military Region on Shen Xianwu's troops entrenched in Tianbaoshan, Fei County.
The commanders and fighters of the 16th Brigade, the Third Regiment of the First Teaching Brigade of the Lunan Military Region and several local armed forces total tens of thousands of people. They have an advantage in terms of both military strength and weapons and equipment.
Since Li Yunlong had just arrived and was not familiar with the local conditions, he sent scouts to conduct on-the-spot investigation of the Tengxi Binhu area. Unexpectedly, our reconnaissance troops encountered the enemy accidentally.
After a fierce battle between the two sides, more than a dozen comrades responsible for covering were wounded and captured by the enemy. At that time, Liu Guitang did not know the origin of this group of Eighth Route Army soldiers, so he immediately ordered his men to behead our soldiers as a deterrent.
Li Yunlong was furious when he heard this. At the mobilization meeting of the whole brigade, he threatened to chop off Liu Guitang's head to pay homage to the fallen comrades.
"Capture Liu Guitang alive!"
"Capture Liu Guitang alive!"
On the frontal battlefield, the soldiers launched attacks on the enemy positions under the cover of artillery fire. The powerful offensive forced Liu Guitang's troops to continuously tighten their defense lines.
Liu Guitang was nicknamed Liu Heiqi. Before the Japanese came, he was a ruthless bandit who roamed the seven provinces of North China, burning, killing, looting, and committing all kinds of evil. He first defected to the Northeastern Army and then to the Lu Army of Han Fuju.
He rebelled again and again and suppressed them endlessly. He was once on Chiang Kai-shek's blacklist. After the July 7th Incident, he defected to the Japanese army and became the advancing commander-in-chief of the Imperial Army.
It's just that a boss like Liu Guitang, who has breasts and is his mother, is destined to be unable to keep his peace. When the Japanese revealed their intention to get rid of him, they decisively chose to "anti-Japanese anyway" and led his troops to join the National Army's Lusu Theater. Their troops were reorganized into the new
Established 36th Division.
During this period, they slaughtered the armed forces of the Eighth Route Army, destroyed our grassroots political power, persecuted the anti-Japanese people, and had deep grievances with our army that have reached an irreconcilable point.
Of course Liu Guitang knew that the Eighth Route Army would not let him go, so when the 28th Army advanced into Shandong, he immediately came out to wave the flag and shout to show his loyalty.
In order to ensure their own safety, three regiments of the newly formed 36th Division were stationed in the villages in the Binhu area, and their followers were stationed on the small island in the reed marsh for a long time.
"Master, the 142nd Division has called back and is unable to provide reinforcements, asking our department to continue to hold on!"
Liu Guitang was furious when he heard this and kicked down the stool in front of him: "Stick to him, grandma. I know that this group of Central Army troops is unreliable. The only one who can be relied on is myself!"
Standing nearby were some officers and soldiers wearing the uniforms of the National Army. The National Army was actually a long-standing bandit. At this time, they were already panicking and were at a loss. Only then did they realize that the few Eighth Route Army soldiers who had been beheaded came from Hebei, Shandong and Yu.
the main force.
Under the deliberate inducement of the Eighth Route Army, the 142nd Division entered the Baodugu mountainous area in southern Shandong, but its connection with the stubborn locals in Liu and Shen in the east and west became weak.
When the Eighth Route Army launched an offensive against two local stubborn locals at the same time, the 142nd Division was unable to look at each other from east to west. On the one hand, it was worried that it would be ambushed by the Eighth Route Army's encirclement point for reinforcements, and at the same time, it was worried that the territory it had just occupied would change hands again.
Although Liu Guitang and Shen Xianwu repeatedly requested reinforcements, Liu Chunlin still chose to stand still. This was related to his pursuit of self-protection and was also inseparable from the telegram sent by Hou Jingru, commander of the 92nd Army.
In order to show his sincerity to the Eighth Route Army, Hou Jingru decided to provide a dozen assists to the Eighth Route Army, so he sent a report to the 142nd Division a few days ago, instructing it to focus on preserving its strength and never destroy the elite of the party and state.
As the leading force approaching Shandong, the 142nd Division also had speculations about what happened to the army headquarters. After all, the two sides had lost contact for several days. Coupled with Hou Jingru's telegram endorsement, Liu Chunlin chose a more conservative strategy.
But in this way, the stubborn locals who had thought they had gained support and were domineering in front of the Eighth Route Army suddenly became angry. After asking for help to no avail, they scolded the eighteen generations of ancestors of the national army generals.
Liu Guitang's many years of life-saving experience has always been to grease the soles of his feet when things go wrong, so he immediately ordered his men to pack up their gold and silver and prepare to run away.
But this time he offended someone he shouldn't have offended. Before the battle started, Wang Jiwen, the leader of the third regiment of the 1st Teaching Brigade, personally led a commando team in a small boat to wait for an opportunity to land on the island to carry out the beheading plan.
Just when Liu Guitang was about to lead his men to flee, the commando team came towards him. The two sides fought as a group, and the mortars equipped by the commando team immediately defeated the enemy.
Most of the members of the commando team were soldiers from the guard company of the 16th Brigade. Since Li Yunlong had previously issued a death order, the soldiers had a decisive and ruthless fighting style. Wang Jiwen, who witnessed the entire battle, could not help but secretly smack his tongue.
"The one wearing the black coat is Liu Heiqi!" A local comrade pointed at Liu Guitang with a ferocious face and said.
Immediately, a few bursts of fire swept down the men around Liu Guitang, and the gold and silver were softly swept across the floor. The soldiers just pretended not to notice, and with a click, they stepped forward and removed Liu Guitang's chin, and then held down his limbs.
"Take a closer look. Is it him?"
"He is the blood debtor of one hundred and seventeen people in our village. Even if he turns to ashes, I can still recognize him!"
Liu Guitang didn't seem to want to sit back and die, and kept struggling. Upon seeing this, the guard company commander decisively pulled out his bayonet and stabbed Liu Guitang in the thigh, and he immediately calmed down.
"It was easier for him to have someone bandage him and then die like that!"
The battle against the newly formed 36th Division ended quickly. Liu Guitang was greatly emboldened by the Central Army's entry into Shandong, so he openly deployed his main force on the lakeside, cutting off his own retreat in disguise, thus losing the possibility of continuing to fight on the move.
Although he had the courage to fight a last-ditch battle, he did not have the strength to fight a last-ditch battle. After being surrounded by the Eighth Route Army, the outcome was already clear.
At the 16th Brigade Headquarters, after the war, Liu Guitang and other bandit leaders were escorted over.
Li Yunlong looked at Liu Guitang in front of him and couldn't help but feel angry. Since Zhou Weihan had always been good at using the reconnaissance company, and the reconnaissance company had repeatedly made military exploits, so others followed suit and each brigade and regiment level had their own reconnaissance companies.
The 16th Brigade Reconnaissance Company was carefully crafted by Li Yunlong and became Li Yunlong's favorite. Unexpectedly, it suffered a lot of damage in the hands of Liu Guitang. At this time, he wanted to eat him alive.
Li Yunlong put his hand on the armed belt and seemed to want to take out his gun. Wang Jiwen on the side quickly stopped him: "Li Yunlong can't do it. Liu Heiqi is the bandit leader. He has been causing chaos in Lunan for a long time. The local people have suffered greatly. The superiors
He is ordered to be put on public trial!"
"Captain Wang, what you said is right, but now our 16th Brigade is the victim of his Liu Heiqi. As the saying goes, there is revenge and there is a grudge to complain. It is reasonable to hold a public trial in front of our 16th Brigade!"
"If I don't kill him with my own hands, I will feel uneasy and I will feel sorry for the sacrificed soldiers. Someone, pull the bandit leader Liu Heiqi and others out!" Li Yunlong shouted, and then strode out of the house.
Wang Jiwen still wanted to stop him, but he was stopped by soldiers from the guard company on the side. He could only be locked in the room and stamped his feet anxiously.
Outside the courtyard where the brigade headquarters is located, there are three to five hundred soldiers surrounding it. Among them are personnel directly under the 16th Brigade Headquarters, soldiers who teach the Third Regiment of the 1st Brigade, and comrades from the local armed forces. The latter two are mostly Liu Guitang's victims.
Family members, fellow villagers or comrades-in-arms were persecuted.
"I don't have much education, but I'm lucky to be sharp-tongued. There is an old saying in China: murder must be paid with life, and debt must be paid with money!"
"This Liu Heiqi has a blood debt on his hands. If I don't kill him, it will be difficult to eliminate the hatred in my heart, and it will also be difficult to quell the public's grievances. Today I just want to see how hard his neck is!"
"Who will execute it?" Li Yunlong shouted loudly, and his voice could be heard two miles away.
"I'll do it!" A tall and round warrior jumped out from the crowd, holding a thick-backed knife in his hand, and raised his hand to the crowd: "Comrades, let me chop off the head of this scourge today!"
While they were talking, two soldiers pulled Liu Guitang out from the kneeling bandit leader. His hands were tied behind his back and his legs were struggling desperately on the ground. Unfortunately, his jaw was removed.
The thick-backed knife was swung in the sun with a dazzling light, and then the bandit leader Liu Guitang's head fell to the ground, and blood spattered three feet away.
There were bursts of cheers from the crowd. Although the other bandit leaders committed all kinds of evil and killed people like crazy, they were so frightened that they pissed themselves when they saw what they saw.
Li Yunlong did not deny face to the local brother troops, and immediately said: "The bandit leader has been brought to justice, and the rest will be left to the brother troops to deal with!"