The Dragon Boat Festival was clean and tidy, punishing those who deserved and killing those who deserved to be killed. However, the money collected was not as much as expected. After all, Dongping County is only a small town, how much money can the entire town have?
So in addition to Magistrate Sun's one hundred gold bars, Bei Batian and other traitors donated a total of more than four hundred gold bars, about 100,000 yuan, as well as three boxes of gold and silver jewelry, five carts of grain, cloth, and medicine.
Some of the grain was reserved for the Dragon Boat Festival, and the rest was distributed to the people of Dongping County.
The cloth was of no use for the time being. The independent regiments in the Dragon Boat Festival all wore uniforms of the Central Army, so they were all given to Ma Pingan. Some of the medicines were also given to Ma Pingan, and the rest of the independent regiments were kept for their own use.
The two hundred guns, including bullets, promised to Ma Pingan by Dragon Boat Festival were also cashed, and the two transport trucks of the little devil were also given to Ma Pingan, asking him to leave immediately with Dr. Qian. After all, there will be a war in Dongping County soon.
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The same goes for the people in Dongping County. They divided the food and distributed some gold and silver jewelry to these people during the Dragon Boat Festival, asking them to go to their relatives or continue to go west. They can go as far as they can. After all, this is a battle.
, it’s not a matter of one or two days.
However, when Duanwu walked around and came back, Ma Ping'an hadn't left yet. Duanwu said in surprise: "Why don't you leave? There will be a big battle in Dongping Town later, and I won't be able to protect you then."
Ma Pingan smiled and said: "That's right, there are quite a lot of people in this guerrilla group, and they have just been formed not long ago. They are very poor. Brother Dragon Boat Festival, can you borrow some money from you to buy some daily necessities for the guerrilla group?"
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"It's not Lao Ma. You are so unscrupulous. Why do you want this and that? You have done nothing, but our brothers in the independent group risked their lives?"
At this time, before Duan Wu could say anything, Lao Abacus was the first to speak. Obviously, as the financial leader of the Independent Regiment, if he doesn't speak at this time, who will? The leader is out of favor, and he always
Abacus does not rub sand in its eyes.
Of course, if it were in the past, this old abacus might not have such momentum. But it is different now. He was greatly affected by the Dragon Boat Festival, which formed a huge contrast with his previous self. When something happened,
He also dared to use the Southern Fourteen Styles that often got stuck on his opponent, and when he encountered something unpleasant, he dared to yell twice.
But this was the case at this time. He felt that Ma Ping'an was a little greedy. I have already given you so many things, and you still want them. Isn't there something wrong?
But Ma Ping'an really had no choice. All local troops were newly formed and were very poor. There were many guns shared by more than a dozen people, and there were only a few bullets.
As for daily necessities and food, there are even fewer.
Just after the Dragon Boat Festival distributed part of the food to the people, he wanted to speak.
But then he thought again, these people were also in great difficulty, so he didn't want it.
But the guerrillas always have to eat, right? They also have to have daily necessities, right? There can't be hundreds of people eating with their hands full, right?
Therefore, even if he was a little embarrassed, he could only say this.
Ma Ping'an smiled awkwardly: "Hey, it's a loan. I'll pay it back when I have it."
"You haven't paid back what you borrowed last time!"
Old Abacus said, and Ma Ping'an didn't know what to say at this time, but Duanwu said: "Old Ma is a nice person and has helped us a lot. From now on, we may not be able to trouble others. We need this money."
borrow."
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The old abacus was speechless and thought to himself: Just sit in a group and you have a good mind. How difficult is it to get some money these days? There will be a big war next, and there are many places to spend money!
At this moment, Ma Pingan hurriedly held up his hands and said: "Thank you, thank you Brother Duanwu. If you have any assignments in the future, don't dare to refuse. And even if you can't find me, as long as you mention your name Duanwu, no matter it is the guerrillas, the Eighth Route Army, or the New Fourth Army,
, will do their best to help.”
Duanwu laughed and said: "Hahaha, Lao Bao planned to give Lao Ma 20,000 yuan."
"yes!"
Lao Abacus responded fiercely, and then took Ma Pingan to withdraw the money. Ma Pingan also hugged his fists at the Dragon Boat Festival and really left this time.
After seeing Ma Ping'an off, I looked at my watch during the Dragon Boat Festival. It was almost one o'clock in the morning.
He took out a cigarette, but found that he had no fire.
Lao Abacus and Zhao Weidong were not here either, so he had no choice but to give up.
However, at this moment, a communications soldier came over and saluted the Dragon Boat Festival first, and then reported: "Reporting to the regiment, the scouts who went to Feicheng and Pingyin to conduct reconnaissance reported back the news. The Japanese and puppet troops in Feicheng and Pingyin
They met near Malou Village and marched together, heading straight for Dongping County.
The approximate strength of the troops is that the Japanese army has one infantry brigade and the Imperial Army has at least one regiment. In total, there are almost more than 2,000 people."
Duanwu smiled and said: "Okay, it seems that the little devils have got the news. Dongping County has been occupied by us, and they are planning to take it back! Okay, you go ahead and tell the scouts to let them withdraw too. Feicheng and
There is no need to keep an eye on the Japanese and puppet troops in the Pingyin direction."
"yes!"
The communications soldier took the order and left, while Duanwu unfolded a partial military map of Shandong under the car lights.
Although Dongping County is located at the front end of the Japanese defense line, it is not a major battlefield.
The main target of the Japanese army was Jining, so they stationed the elite Bantian Regiment of the Fifth Division in Ningyang County.
Today, the Bantian Regiment suffered heavy losses, and Dongping County was captured by themselves. Then the little devils will definitely think that the 56th Army was responsible. Because it is the main force of the 56th Army stationed in Jining.
Even the little devils have determined that this is a provocative operation by the Chinese army.
Therefore, after discovering that Dongping County had been captured, the Japs did not withdraw their reinforcements, but combined their forces to continue the attack on Dongping County.
From this, Duanwu concluded that the Japs were probably going to start a war directly, and the battle in Dongping County would also become the trigger for the entire Xuzhou Battle.
Of course, this is not important. What is important is that the Japs will never send just such a small number of people to attack Dongping County.
In the battle at Wuming Village, the Independent Regiment wiped out an infantry brigade of the Bantian Regiment. If you were not a fool, you would think that the offensive troops of the 56th Army were all outside Ningyang County and could attack the Bantian Regiment in Pingyang County at any time.
Launch a surprise attack.
Therefore, at this time, the Bantian Regiment will not reinforce Dongping County, but the only ones who can reinforce Dongping County are the Japanese and puppet troops in the directions of Feicheng and Pingyin.
Moreover, the Dragon Boat Festival needs to re-evaluate the number of Japanese and puppet troops in the directions of Feicheng and Pingyin.
Originally, Duanwu believed that the Japanese and puppet troops in the direction of Feicheng and Pingyin should be the same as those in Dongping County. The number of Japanese troops was small, and the defense force relied entirely on the surrender of the Japanese invaders.
But at this time, Duanwu felt that maybe he was thinking too simply. The reinforcements in these two directions actually included a Japanese infantry brigade and a regiment of the puppet army.
There are more than 2,000 reinforcements in total, so you can imagine how many soldiers the little devils have stationed in these two positions.
And because of this, Duanwu thought of another thing. The Japanese army had a huge appetite. At the beginning of the Battle of Xuzhou, they envisaged encircling the Chinese troops in the Fifth Theater on the front line of Shandong and Northern Jiangsu.
Thinking of this, Duan Wu seemed to understand something. The reason why the Japs had hoarded so many troops in Feicheng and Pingyin was that their purpose should be Cao Fulin's 55th Army. The Japs were going to launch a sudden attack on the 55th Army.
The 55th Army was defeated or even completely annihilated, and thus controlled the northwest gateway of the Fifth Theater!