Hong Chaoyuan only learned about the news of a huge change in the city when he arrived in Linqing City.
The distance from Xiabao Temple to Linqing County is not very far. In addition, the Fifth Brigade of Education did not have heavy artillery and the march was very fast. When we arrived at the edge of Linqing City, the Xiabao Temple District team and the Linqing County Brigade's squad were contacted by the squad. Soon, a series of information about the accidents in the city gathered in front of Hong Chaoyuan, the commander of the Fifth Brigade of the Education Fifth Brigade, Hu Xuerong, and Chief of Staff Zhang Yicheng.
When he heard that Wang Laixian's first civilian army dared to besiege Linqing County's anti-Japanese democratic government, Zhang Yicheng, the chief of staff of the 5th Brigade of Education, who had always been elegant, chewed his teeth and roared loudly, "Grandma, The turtle turtle is bullied! I can't read and touch the signboard. I dare to use a knife and a gun on the teacher's base. This is the first time I have seen it since the Xiangjiang River breaks through. Brigade Commander, please give me an order, I'll take a regiment Let's go first, disarm all these guys. Whoever dares to resist will kill him!"
Political Commissar Hu Xuerong thought about it for a moment and said, "This matter is of great importance and we must resolutely fight back! The Japanese invaders are about to attack Linqing, and General Fan Zhuxian has just died. Wang Laixian's move undoubtedly set an example for many people who want to be traitors. Our army must firmly defeat Wang Laixian, so that those who want to be traitors will be afraid and dare not surrender to the enemy publicly."
When Hong Chaoyuan was in the Soviet area, he was a regiment-level cadre. After years of tests, he has become the first-class general under Liu Yimin. How could he not know how to deal with these scattered soldiers? He immediately ordered: "The Chief of Staff led a regiment to detour east. The political commissar led the second regiment into the city from the north gate, the third regiment entered the city from the south gate, the brigade troops and the new fourth regiment, the supplementary regiment entered the city from the west gate, and surrounded the first civilian army of Wang Laixian and the 16th detachment of Ji Zhan'ao. All of them are disarmed. Those who dare to resist will be eliminated!"
After giving the order, Hong Chaoyuan pointed the whip towards Linqing: "Attack Linqing and eliminate all traitors and reactionary forces!" After saying that, he led the New Fourth Regiment, the Supplementary Regiment and the Brigade Forces toward the West Gate of Linqing. .
After Zhang Linzhi went to the First Civil Army Headquarters of Wang Laixian, Xu Yunbei and Li Kuiyuan, who were actually responsible for the specific work of the Northwest Shandong Special Committee, and Shi Lieguang quickly organized the county brigade and the tenth detachment controlled the key points of the county town and prepared for response. After the officers came back to report the situation, several people became even more vigilant. Xu Yunbei went directly to the 10th detachment and commanded the troops with the detachment leader Zhang Weihan to prepare for counterattack against Wang Laixian's troops and provocation. Li Kuiyuan and Shi Lieguang gathered the county brigade, The four city gates and county governments were guarding the four gates and the county government. When Wang Laixian's troops came in full force, our army was ready to fight and opened fire directly.
Wang Laixian's troops relied on strong troops, but in fact they were still fighting and bandit style. They just rushed forward and had no rules at all. Several of the regiment leaders were also educated by the Northwest Shandong Special Committee, and they broke up with Wang Laixian with the Communist Party and the Eighth Route Army. Being a traitor has a lot of opinions. In this way, the battle to siege our army is almost a joke.
After the main force of the Fifth Brigade entered the city, several main groups quickly launched firepower, which immediately knocked the morale of the First Route Army to a huge sensation.
Although Wang Laixian's first civilian army was a bandit, most of them were recruits recruited by Wang Laixian after he took the banner of anti-Japanese war. These soldiers were all local young people, and the purpose of joining the army was to fight against Japan. After receiving the order from Wang Laixian to attack the Eighth Route Army Many people can't figure it out and don't want to fight, let alone have no formal military training and extremely poor combat quality. When the main force of the 5th brigade wearing steel helmets came over, except for those devoted bandits, the First Civilian Army was the most outstanding Most of the soldiers automatically put down their weapons and waited for the Eighth Route Army to deal with it. In this way, the troops of the First Route Civilian Army soon collapsed.
The Fifth Brigade of the Education Brigade was not polite, and directly began to capture prisoners. The tenth detachment that was holding on to the 10th detachment, the county brigade was even more overjoyed when he saw the main force coming, and rushed out of the position to guide the main force to encircle and suppress the first army's basic bandits that were fighting stubbornly.
Wang Laixian never dreamed that he had just ordered the besiege of the county brigade, and the tenth detachment hit the main force of the Eighth Route Army that had just arrived. In less than a round, the troops collapsed. Therefore, when the communications soldiers reported that the main force of the Eighth Route Army entered the city and defeated the first one.
When Wang Laixian was in the civilian army, he didn't believe it. He grabbed the communication soldiers and shouted: "You are fucking lying about military information, I'll kill you!"
Before the communication soldiers could defend themselves, Liu Guanqian ran back in a panic and shouted: "Commander Wang, the main force of the Eighth Route Army has been back, and the troops have collapsed. Run away quickly!"
Only then did Wang Laixian realize that the main force of the Eighth Route Army was really back. He relaxed his hands and sat on the ground with his butt.
When Zhang Linzhi saw Wang Laixian performing this, he felt funny and said, "Commander Wang, our main force has arrived in Linqing. I think you should surrender!"
Wang Laixian had become a gambler who lost the gambling, his face turned blue and sweating profusely. After hearing what Zhang Linzhi said, he realized that he had completely fallen this time. Fortunately, those who are willing to be traitors are relatively thick-skinned, Wang Laixian
He immediately bowed to Zhang Linzhi and said that he was confused for a while. He asked Director Zhang to be large and not to worry. He quickly contacted the head of the Eighth Route Army, stop attacking the First Route Army, avoid accidental injuries, and weaken the anti-Japanese forces.
Zhang Linzhi was considering how to answer, but when he heard footsteps coming, a group of Eighth Route Army cadres and soldiers walked into Wang Laixian's headquarters. He was the first to be a medium-sized talent, black and thin, with a strong face, his eyes flashed with a flash, and he could see it.
I know that he is a powerful general who has been through the battle formation for a long time. Behind him are two white-faced scholars: one with a round face and a thin and smiling face; the other is thin and tall, gentle and elegant. Xu Yunbei, Zhang Weihan, Li Kuiyuan, and Shi Lieguang
Following them. Zhang Linzhi knew that the leader of the main force of our army to reinforce Linqing was here.
Of course, the brigade commander of the Fifth Brigade of Education, Hong Chaoyuan, political commissar Hu Xuerong, and chief of staff Zhang Yicheng. When they saw Zhang Linzhi, Shi Lieguang cheered and directly pulled Zhang Linzhi to his side.
Hong Chaoyuan's voice was cold: "Who is Commander Wang Laixian?"
Zhang Linzhi was about to introduce Hong Chaoyuan, but Wang Laixian said tremblingly: "I am just like, how dare you ask the leader of your army?"
Hong Chaoyuan's voice became even colder: "You don't deserve to know my name! You are so brave. You dare to rebel and become a traitor in Linqing County controlled by our army. You dare to attack our remaining troops and detain senior cadres of our party.
I think you are tired of living! Get caught!"
As soon as he finished speaking, several soldiers rushed up and knocked Wang Laixian and Liu Guanqian to the ground, tied them up in a few seconds.
After the soldiers bet Wang Laixian and Liu Guanqian, several people introduced each other. Zhang Linzhi didn't know the situation outside and was anxious to ask how the 16th Detachment and Ji Zhan'ao were. Unexpectedly, Hong Chaoyuan's voice was still so cold, and he directly answered ten.
The Sixth Detachment has been disarmed, and Ji Zhan'ao and Wang Laixian have been arrested.
Zhang Linzhi felt that the policy should be relatively lenient when dealing with Ji Zhan'ao and the Sixteenth Detachment, so he said whether he should release Ji Zhan'ao and assist our army in rectifying the Sixteenth Detachment, and let the Sixteenth Detachment help our army defend the city.
Hong Chaoyuan directly told him that it was impossible. There were rules for the mentors to deal with these bandit-born guys. They must find out the crimes they committed in the past and give the people an explanation. They must not kill and rob, commit numerous crimes, and transform themselves into an anti-Japanese soldier.
, you can turn against the enemy or escape at any time and anywhere. What our army wants is loyal, elite and powerful troops. Such inequality troops must be transformed to be included in the training of recruits. Our army does not need such troops with extremely low combat power.
To help defend the city, let them assist, and to send troops to monitor them and affect the troops' operations.
When Zhang Linzhi saw Hong Chaoyuan say this, he knew that Wang Laixian and Ji Zhan'ao would not be able to fall under his tutor's command. He didn't say much, and directly introduced Hong Chaoyuan the information about the two-way attacks of the Japanese army.
After listening to the information, Hong Chaoyuan said: "The 21st Division from Dexian doesn't need to be considered. They have been completely wiped out by our army. Our mission is to deal with the independent mixed 4th Brigade and attract them.
They can't be allowed to run away. We will win time for our main force to arrive and wipe them out. Given that the Japanese army is attacking during the day and enemy planes can assist in the war, our army must use the tunnels in Linqing City and nearby villages to set up mines and fight, and build tunnels
The war made the Japanese army not only beaten everywhere, but also failed to exert their air superiority. Therefore, we asked Secretary Zhang and Secretary Xu to lead the 10th detachment and our brigade guard company, and the logistics battalion immediately acted and escorted the First Civil Army and the 16th detachment's captives.
Nangong in southern Hebei moved to Nangong to transform and adapt these prisoners. Secretary Li and County Magistrate Shi led the county brigade and the district brigade immediately arranged for the people in Linqing County and surrounding areas to transfer overnight, and the transfer location was west of the canal. Our army wanted to
We will fight against the Independent Mixed Fourth Brigade here. Tomorrow, Linqing City will be the battlefield and the masses cannot suffer losses."
When they heard that the main force of the 21st Division of the Japanese Army was completely wiped out by our army, Zhang Linzhi and others were so shocked that they could not stop talking. However, time was tight and there was no chance to ask about the situation in detail. Several people immediately acted separately according to Hong Chaoyuan's deployment.
Before leaving, Zhang Linzhi held Hong Chaoyuan's hand and said, "Brig Commander Hong, although our army has strong combat effectiveness, the Japanese army is indeed difficult to deal with. If it really doesn't work, give up Linqing. Avoid being surrounded by the Japanese army and causing great losses to the troops.
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Hong Chaoyuan laughed: "Secretary Zhang is worried too much! A brigade Japanese criminals came to our instructor and they didn't have time to escape. There was no need for us to give up Linqing! Don't worry, let's go, after we arrived at Nangong, our army
The Training Command will quickly transform and reorganize these troops. You can go there and wait for our army to return to triumph!"
After Zhang Linzhi and Xu Yunbei led the county brigade and the tenth detachment escorted the prisoners away, Hong Chaoyuan, Hu Xuerong and Zhang Yicheng seized the time to inspect the tunnels and fortifications in Linqing City. Finally, the three of them reached a consensus and buried landmines and explosives packs at the city gate.
After severely damaging the enemy, the Japanese were put into the city, relying on the tunnels and courtyards in the county town to engage in street fighting with the enemy, and stirring them up, making the Japanese plane unable to play a role.
Zhang Yicheng was the chief of staff of the former instructor. He was very good at formulating combat plans and quickly came up with combat plans.
From a long distance, Zhang Yicheng divided the troops into three pieces according to the structure of Linqing City Brick City and Tucheng, and taught the 13th Regiment to defend Tucheng, the 14th Regiment, the New Fifth Regiment to defend brick city, the 15th Regiment, the supplementary regiment and the brigade troops.
Guarding Longshan.
After reading the combat plan, Hong Chaoyuan proposed that Longshan is just an artificial earth mountain made of clearing the silt piled up in the canal. It is not dangerous to defend, and it is easy to expose the troops to the enemy's planes and artillery fire, causing unnecessary losses. Longshan should be abandoned directly.
All of them are hidden in the city, with Fenghuangling, Aotouji, Mosque, Daning Temple, Jingning Temple, Tianning Temple, Manning Temple, etc. as the core positions, opening up all courtyards and using tunnels as connection channels to consume enemies in the city.
When Hu Xuerong and Zhang Yicheng heard this, they knew that what the brigade commander mentioned was reasonable. After three people discussed, they immediately adjusted the deployment. Zhang Yicheng commanded the 13th Regiment and the New Fifth Regiment to defend Tucheng. Hong Chaoyuan and Hu Xuerong commanded the 14th Regiment and the 15th Regiment.
The supplementary regiment and the brigade troops guarded the brick city. The entire brigade acted immediately, quickly built positions, buried mines and explosive packs, and paid special attention to preventing the Japanese from jumping over the wall and sending poison gas.
After the combat order was issued, the regiments acted quickly and began to work in the soil. The communication links connected to the telephone lines from the brigade department to the positions of each regiment. The engineering battalion was responsible for burying landmines and explosive packs. The regiments were familiar with the tunnels and opened up the courtyards.
The connection between the two buildings builds a castle and a barricade. The city of Linqing is full of a lively atmosphere.
After Hong Chaoyuan arranged the combat deployment, he sent a telegram to Liu Yimin, reporting in detail about the terrain of Linqing City and his own deployment. In particular, Hong Chaoyuan made a detailed report on the disposal of Wang Laixian's First Route Civil Army and Ji Zhan'ao 16th Detachment.
, and request instructions.
After receiving the telegram, Liu Yimin, who was on the way to the marching, sent a message to agree to Hong Chaoyuan's deployment, pointing out that if necessary, he could abandon Tucheng and attract all the enemies to the brick city for street fighting. Tomorrow, the Fifth Brigade of the Education will be tested by blood and fire.
, I believe that the hero's 5th Brigade will definitely defeat the crazy attack of the Independent Mixed Fourth Brigade, and create conditions for the main force to arrive in Linqing tomorrow night and wipe out the Japanese.
As for the disposal of Wang Laixian's First Route Civil Army and Ji Zhan'ao's 16th Detachment, Liu Yimin clearly stated that the disposal was correct and clearly ordered that all the various armed forces be educated in the fifth brigade method be implemented in the future, first dismissal and then train, eliminate the backbone reactionary elements, and disperse the organization.
Entering all units of our army, we must transform all the various armed forces into real Eighth Route Army through complaints and three investigations, resolutely avoid the mistake of blindly incorporating the team to expand the scale of the team, and ensure the purity, cohesion and combat effectiveness of our army.
At the end of the telegram, Liu Yimin once again emphasized that it is necessary to be prepared to be careful of the Japanese to release poison gas. Every soldier must prepare wet towels, and cadres must check each person to ensure implementation.