Chapter 894: Stepping into the Trap for the Second Time
After dawn, the people and merchants in the city who had closed their doors suddenly discovered that the Eighth Route Army had entered the city at some unknown time. Zhou Weihan got the news and rushed over from Yucheng.
After entering the city, there were still few people on the streets, and the commanders and fighters of the 16th Brigade and 10th Regiment were conducting propaganda and appeasement.
"Fellows and merchants in Shangqiu, we are the troops of the Eighth Route Army's Hebei, Luyu and Yu Military Region. We have now liberated Shangqiu. Please stay at home for the time being and do not walk around on the streets!"
The original Japanese headquarters in the city had changed its owner, and the plaster flag of the little devil was replaced by the flag of the Eighth Route Army. The corpses of Araki Sadahiro and many other Japanese soldiers were finally buried by the Eighth Route Army.
"Comrade ***, this is Comrade Feng Yuzhang from the Shangqiu District Committee!" Zhao Bingzhang introduced.
"Zhou **, I have admired you for a long time. Today I finally met you in person. Thank you for your strong support!" Feng Yuzhang held Zhou Weihan's hand and said excitedly.
Seeing this, Zhou Weihan said: "Comrade Yuzhang is out of town, and one family does not speak the same language!"
Shangqiu is right under the nose of the Hebei-Shandong-Henan base area. It originally had no affiliation with the Hebei-Shandong-Henan base area. Later, it came under the vertical leadership of the Hebei-Shandong-Henan branch, and the relationship between the two parties continued to deepen.
Personnel from the Shangqiu Prefectural Committee continue to go to the base area for further studies, and the base area continues to send personnel to strengthen the Shangqiu Prefectural Committee, so they are truly our own people.
"How is the situation in the city?" Zhou Weihan asked.
Zhao Bingzhang replied: "The 10th Regiment of the 16th Brigade is stationed in Shangqiu City and is responsible for the security of the city. Comrade Li Yunlong ordered other troops to rush to repair a temporary passage south of Shangqiu!"
"According to the order issued previously, after our army entered the city, while appeasing the people, with the cooperation of the comrades of the prefectural committee, we inspected the Japanese and puppet assets in the city!"
"The enemy withdrew very quickly, so many things were not taken away. People from the Shangqiu puppet government were not notified in advance, so they were blocked in the city by our army!"
Zhou Weihan nodded to express his understanding. He promised that the Japanese and puppet troops in the city could be withdrawn, but he did not allow people other than the army to leave. Therefore, many traitor leaders who served the Japanese were abandoned.
The Japanese have been operating in Shangqiu for a long time. Not to mention the wealth they did not take away, the machinery and equipment left behind are also a considerable asset. These things must be brought to the northern Anhui base area with the people of Shangqiu.
"Move quickly, the enemy won't leave us too much time!" Zhou Weihan finally said.
Kuroshima Morita led his troops to run west for more than 20 miles, barely running out of Shangqiu, and then ordered the troops to stop advancing. This was not to allow the troops to rest, but to clean up the remaining forces of Araki Sadahiro.
Ichiban.
Sun Liangcheng was frightened when he saw this. He originally thought that this guy was easy to fool, but he didn't expect that Kuroshima Morita was not merciless at all when he killed his own people. Two junior officers and thirteen lieutenants were killed successively.
"Sun Sang, the safety situation has not been resolved. We may be attacked by the Eighth Route Army again along the way, so we must continue to send telegrams requesting reinforcements to the division headquarters!" Kuroshima Morita said.
Sun Liangcheng's face darkened when he heard this. It was a full three hundred miles from Shangqiu to Kaifeng, and the Eighth Route Army was everywhere along the way. Even if there was no obstruction along the way, it would take four or five days to get there with just two legs.
He knew in his heart that Kuroshima Morita must be holding back his bad intentions. He could "break out" from Shangqiu City, which was heavily surrounded by Eighth Route Army troops. Why did he still care about the Eighth Route Army troops along the way?
After the Thirty-fifth Division received the telegram asking for help, the division commander Iida Taijiro was originally prepared to deal with the matter as usual, but was shocked when he heard that tens of thousands of people had successfully broken out from Shangqiu.
"Nani? How is it possible? Shangqiu is so close to the Eighth Route Army base. The main force of the Eighth Route Army must be surrounding Shangqiu. How can it be possible to successfully break through!"
The adjutant on the side explained: "Kurojima Morita, chief of staff of the Independent Fourth Infantry Brigade, mentioned that the brigade commander Araki Sadahiro died in the battle, and before he died, he ordered his troops to break out of the encirclement as soon as possible. Perhaps it was the Eighth Route Army's laxity and the defeat of the soldiers who were bound to win.
reason!"
"Your courage is commendable. Do you think reinforcements should be sent?" Iida Taijiro asked.
"Your Excellency, Division Commander, the Eighth Route Army has captured Yangwu and cut off the connection between Kaifeng and the Third Army and Fifth Army in Xinxiang, Daoqing Railway and other places. Our division is currently in a state of isolation and helplessness!"
"If we can send a force to march against Kuroshima Morita's troops from east to west, we will surely be able to solve the crisis in Lanfeng, Minquan and other places. With the combined efforts of the three parties, we may not be able to inflict heavy losses on the Eighth Route Army!"
The adjutant has been with Taijiro Iida for a long time and can be called a roundworm in his belly. If the leader asks you anything, just follow the leader's wishes.
These words made Taijiro Iida, who had originally planned to stick to Kaifeng, become impatient, so he sent a telegram to Kuroshima Morita.
Kuroshima Morita didn't expect that the telegram asking for help would be responded to so quickly. When he saw the contents of the telegram, he couldn't help but sneered: "Gather troops who broke down along the way to attack the civil rights?"
In the more than 20 miles from Shangqiu, the Japanese army did not lose much force except for a dozen officers who were killed. On the other hand, the puppet troops dispersed a lot.
A group of puppet troops under Sun Liangcheng, one of them named Chen Fusheng, took the lead in killing the Japanese who were placed in the team, and then about twenty people broke away from the team and ran away.
When other puppet soldiers saw it, they neither reported nor stopped it. Even the other Japanese in the team did not dare to speak out at that time.
The telegram was quickly forwarded to Zhou Weihan intact, and Iida Taijiro was beaten to death without even thinking of it. The contact between Kuroshima Morita and the Eighth Route Army became more frequent.
Zhou Weihan did not unilaterally believe the intelligence from Kuroshima Morita. Instead, he asked the Kaifeng underground intelligence station to keep an eye on the movements of the Japanese army. At the very least, he wanted to know the approximate time of the Japanese army's dispatch.
"Two unsatisfied infantry brigades, one mountain artillery brigade, and more than 6,000 soldiers of the Puppet Second Army, want to inflict heavy losses on our army with just this strength. Iida Taijiro is looking down upon us!"
"Inform Ding Wei and Wang Yigong that the troops of the 15th Brigade and the Northern Henan Army Division must be prepared to meet the enemy. This group of Japanese and puppet troops cannot be allowed to slip back to Kaifeng!"
The Japanese army obviously did not have a long memory. In order to lure out the Japanese and puppet troops in Kaifeng, Zhou Weihan was full of tricks. For the first time, the 14th Brigade successfully annihilated a reinforced division of Kaifeng in Yangwu. However, the scars were not healed yet. The Japanese and puppet troops in Kaifeng
The army actually sent another reinforcement force.
Time flies to the next day. In order to allow the two Japanese armies to join forces, the Japanese and puppet troops in Kaifeng gave Kuroshima Morita's troops an extra day of marching time.
After learning that Kuroshima Morita's troops had arrived in Minquan territory, the Japanese and puppet troops in Kaifeng quickly gathered and headed towards Lanfeng in trucks.
However, when this group of Japanese and puppet troops arrived in Lanfeng, they found that they could not contact Kuroshima Morita's headquarters for a long time. What greeted them was the violent storm of the Eighth Route Army.
