Lijiazhuang is a medium-sized village more than ten kilometers southwest of Taiyuan, with more than 200 households and a population of more than 1,000.
The village chief, Li Ergou, was originally a little gangster. After the Japanese occupied Taiyuan, they did not know what means they used, and he turned into a lackey of the Japanese.
With a few broken guns obtained from the Japanese, he became the village chief by force.
Perhaps because the price to pay for currying favor with the little devil was too high, Li Ergou began to exploit the people in the village when he became the village chief, trying every means to make money.
Because there was a Japanese standing behind Li Ergou with a gun in his hand, the people in the village dared not speak out.
The underground party had long wanted to kill him, to scare the monkeys, and to make the traitor agents who had taken refuge with the Japs less arrogant.
But it is too close to Taiyuan, and there are almost no main force activities, and even the local guerrillas are pitiful.
The underground party is definitely no match for a few short guns.
So this Li Ergou is lucky to be alive until now.
The Yizhong Eighth Route Army's attack on Taiyuan was too sudden. Before Li Ergou got the news from his Japanese master, the Eighth Route Army had already captured Taiyuan Airport.
Li Ergou originally planned to take the gold and silver to hide in Taiyuan City, and then return to the village after the Eighth Route Army retreated.
As a result, Taiyuan City has been sealed off by Iwamatsu Yoshio and no one is allowed to enter or exit.
The Japanese master was unreliable, so Li Ergou could only rely on himself.
Fortunately, he made a lot of money as the village chief in the past few years, and he built the Li family compound into a fortress.
Relying on the weapons in their hands and the guards to defend the compound, as long as the Eighth Route Army is not equipped with heavy weapons, it will be difficult to defeat them even if they pass by the Li family compound.
Li Ergou believed that the Japanese would not let the Eighth Route Army besiege Taiyuan and do whatever they wanted outside the city.
When the other Japanese reached Taiyuan, the Eighth Route Army would naturally flee for their lives and retreat.
Maybe they would be driven out of Taiyuan before they even discovered the Li family compound.
With this idea in mind, although Li Ergou hid at home and never left the house, he was not too nervous. He was too superstitious about his master's strength and felt that the Eighth Route Army was definitely no match for the Japanese and would be driven away soon.
At ten o'clock in the evening, when Li Ergou was having fun on the bed with his recently adopted concubine in his arms, a roar suddenly reached his ears.
"Pang pong pong..."
There was a rapid knock on the door at the same time. Li Ergou was so frightened that he quickly got up from the bed.
He opened the door and asked anxiously: "What happened...where did the roar come from!"
"Chariot... there is a chariot coming towards us..." said the guardian with a panic look on his face.
As he grew up, he had only seen a chariot from a distance once after working as a nurse for Li Ergou. He had never seen a chariot as close as he did today.
The whole body was wrapped in steel plates, and it was filled with coldness. It was like a giant steel beast, and anyone who stood in front of it would be torn to pieces.
Li Ergou thought something big had happened, but he laughed when he heard the word "chariot".
The nervous expression on his face disappeared immediately, and he said happily: "Only the Imperial Army has chariot troops... The Eighth Route Army does not have chariots..."
"The main force of the imperial army must have returned to Taiyuan..."
"Quick, follow me out to meet the imperial army..."
"Prepare big fish and meat. I want to work for the army. I can't entertain the imperial army. I want you to look good."
After saying that, he went back to the room and put on some clothes. He took a few small yellow croakers and put them in his pocket, preparing to curry favor with the imperial army commander later.
If you are lucky, the Japanese have just won a battle, and you can just pick out several rifles from under their fingernails.
As soon as Li Ergou and more than 20 guards came out of the yard, they saw several chariots driving towards them.
A flattering smile immediately appeared on his face, and he stood on the roadside waiting for the chariot to arrive.
When the two sides were still twenty or thirty meters apart, the tank-mounted machine gun suddenly aimed at them...
"Dong dong dong..."
Dazzling tongues of flame spurted out from the barrel, and bullets flew toward them like rain.
Li Ergou stood at the front and was the first to be beaten into a sieve.
My eyes were wide open, and I couldn't believe that the Japanese would fire on me...
Li Yunlong led a reinforced company to Lijiazhuang in five minutes, followed by more than a dozen transport vehicles.
When we arrived here, the Li family compound had already been occupied by the cavalry company protecting the chariot.
Seven or eight nurses who were lucky enough to survive knelt on the ground tremblingly, and kept moving food and gold and silver from the soldiers' backyards.
"What a fool..." Li Yunlong couldn't help but curse as he looked at the mountains of food piled up in the yard.
"Taiyuan deserves to be the capital of SX Province... An ordinary traitor who worked for the Japs has plundered so much wealth. If all the traitors around Taiyuan were caught, how many good things would be seized..."
After cursing, he ordered the platoon leader on the side: "I will leave you three cars..."
"Put gold, silver and finance first, then fine grain and some important supplies..."
"All the fine grains and grains that can't be loaded are given to the people in the village."
"Weapons and ammunition are left to the underground party. Use them when you can. If you can't use them, bury them first and use them later."
"We seized a large number of weapons and ammunition at Taiyuan Airport, Jinzhong, and Niangziguan. The troops not only have no shortage of weapons and ammunition, but also have many..."
"Prisoners should be treated according to the old rules... they should be released, they should be interrogated, and they can just return to the station tomorrow night."
"Others follow me..."
"We still have several goals tonight, don't let them get away."
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At the Japanese Army's Shanxi Garrison Headquarters, Yoshio Iwamatsu waited in the war room for a long time but did not hear the sound of a firefight.
The Eighth Route Army failed to capture Taiyuan last night. If they want to force themselves to mobilize troops from northwestern Shanxi to return reinforcements, they must continue to attack until they feel in danger.
In order to cope with tonight's battle, he specially strengthened the firepower configuration of the city defense troops and secretly equipped them with many anti-tank weapons.
Prepare to wait for the Eighth Route Army to attack and kill them with a counterattack, destroying all the armored vehicles and tanks participating in the battle.
It is already ten o'clock in the evening, and the Eighth Route Army has not come to attack, so the layout I have prepared will be in vain.
Just when Yoshio Iwamatsu frowned and considered whether the Eighth Route Army was engaging in a new conspiracy, the radio operator appeared and ran toward him with a worried look on his face.
"Your Excellency Commander..."
"The Eighth Route Army outside the city has changed its fighting style..."
"Intelligence personnel lurking outside the city just reported that the Eighth Route Army soldiers were divided into separate groups. With the cooperation of tanks and artillery, they raided the armed forces attached to the imperial army around Taiyuan."
"Many Chinese who worked for the imperial army have been eliminated and captured by the Eighth Route Army..."
"They are also holding public trials in various villages...publicly executing the Chinese who worked for the imperial army, dividing food and land, and mobilizing people to join the Eighth Route Army and resist the rule of the imperial army..."
"Hmph..." Yoshio Iwamatsu snorted coldly.
"Little tricks..."
"The Eighth Route Army took it too much for granted and wanted to force us to send troops back for reinforcements by threatening the imperial army's dominance around Taiyuan."
"They're doing this to themselves."
"As the seat of the Shanxi Garrison Headquarters, Taiyuan has never had any Eighth Route Army activities. The local Chinese have been submissive under our rule for a long time. No matter how long we give them, they will not be able to overturn our dominance here."
