The Japanese and puppet troops came out of Yufeng County, which is 115 kilometers from Yufeng County to Kangzhuang County.
That morning, after the Japanese and puppet troops left the county, they marched along the highway to Kangzhuang County.
The reconnaissance squad leader of the special operations squadron took two scouts and hid in the crop fields on the side of the road to monitor the Japanese army's situation, and then reported to Xu Dalong on the radio.
After discussing with Monk Wei and Wang Pao, Xu Dalong formulated a battle plan and then started to act separately.
An infantry squad of the Japanese infantry brigade opened the way in front, followed by two squadrons of infantry, then three motorcycles and a car. Behind them was a truck full of Japanese soldiers, and behind them was the Japanese baggage. The troops consisted of several trucks and a large number of pack horses, and at the end was a Japanese infantry squadron serving as rearguard.
The puppet troops were about two hundred meters away from the Japanese marching group and followed behind the Japanese army.
The Japanese army was marching, and suddenly there was an explosion on the highway. This was explosives that had been planted in advance by the special operations squadron. They did not carry much explosives this time, so the scale of the explosion was not very large. The location of the explosion was where the motorcycle and car were, and the target was the Japanese captain.
With the violent explosion, the Japanese army's motorcycles and cars were overturned, and the Japanese army's brigade captain and other commanders of the brigade were killed immediately.
The special operations team members hiding on the side of the road took advantage of the smoke and dust raised by the explosion, grabbed the detonator and ran away.
The sudden explosion caused a chaos in the Japanese army, but the Japanese army was well-trained. Seeing that the brigade captain was dead, the first squadron captain of the brigade immediately took over the command.
He saw several special forces members escaping and immediately sent an infantry team to pursue them.
The Japanese infantry squad chased several special forces members. They chased for about 300 meters. They were about to catch up with the escaped special forces members. Suddenly, many special forces members rushed out from the crop fields. Fired fiercely at the Japanese infantry squad.
The Japanese army was caught off guard and more than 20 people were killed on the spot. The Japanese army was well-trained and had a large force behind them, so the Japanese army did not cause chaos. They dropped to the ground and fought back.
The guerrillas who attacked them quickly evacuated when they saw a large group of Japanese troops chasing them.
The Japanese army immediately launched a pursuit. They watched as the special forces members mounted their horses and evacuated quickly.
The Japanese officers and soldiers walked on two short legs and chased the guerrillas for a while in the crop fields, watching helplessly as the guerrillas escaped.
The Japanese army was very helpless, so they retreated to the road and continued their march. However, this time when they were marching, guard posts were set up on both sides of the road to strengthen their vigilance in case they were attacked again.
The Japanese army walked about 500 meters, and suddenly there was a sharp whistling sound unique to the flight of mortar shells in the sky. Then several mortar shells fell into the marching column of the Japanese army, destroying a Japanese truck. It caused the casualties of more than 40 Japanese soldiers.
The acting captain of the Japanese army was very angry. He raised his binoculars and looked in the direction where the shells were flying. They saw four mortars in front, surrounded by more than 20 underground party anti-Japanese armed men, heading towards Here comes the bombardment.
The acting captain immediately commanded a squadron of infantry to rush over.
When the guerrillas saw the Japanese troops rushing up, they immediately put the mortars on their horses, and then fled with a puff of smoke on their horses, making the Japanese officers and soldiers scream in anger, but there was nothing they could do.
Soon after, the Japanese army continued to advance, and after about 600 to 700 meters, mortar shells flew in the sky again, causing casualties of more than 20 Japanese soldiers.
The acting brigade captain of the Japanese army learned the lesson this time and placed guard posts more than 100 meters away from both sides of the marching brigade, and placed the leading troops 300 meters away from the marching brigade.
This tactic seemed to work. The Japanese army marched about 1 kilometer without being attacked again.
Suddenly, the sound of mortar firing came from both sides of the road. This time the attackers used only a small number of mortars, only two on each side.
The Japanese officers and soldiers were so angry that they immediately assigned part of their troops to attack the guerrillas on both sides.
Wei Monk and Wang Pao saw that the Japanese army was focusing on both sides, so they concentrated the forces of the special operations squadron and Wang Pao's motorcycle squadron, and suddenly launched a fierce attack on the Japanese vanguard. This time, 16 mortars were directly used to blast the Japanese vanguard. Then the guerrillas carried more than 30 light machine guns and launched a fierce attack on the Japanese vanguard.
The vanguard of the Japanese army only had half a squadron of troops. Under such fierce firepower, they quickly suffered all casualties. The acting captain of the Japanese army saw this situation and commanded a large team of troops to come to the rescue.
This time, Monk Wei and others did not retreat. Instead, they set up machine guns and fired fiercely at the Japanese troops with intensive firepower, directly killing another seventy or eighty Japanese and puppet troops.
Only then did the acting captain of the Japanese army discover that the enemy forces in front of him were not the ordinary anti-Japanese anti-Japanese armed forces of the underground party. These enemies were well-equipped, well-trained, and had a high level of tactics. He felt that he was no match for these enemy troops. If the battle continued like this, the entire infantry brigade would be wiped out.
He decisively ordered the troops to retreat and fled towards the county seat.
Monk Wei and others saw the Japanese retreating and immediately pursued them.
Seeing the critical situation, the Japanese army captain immediately ordered the puppet troops of that battalion to organize defense on the spot to cover the retreat of the Japanese army.
The puppet soldiers had been observing the situation on the battlefield. They saw that the Japanese soldiers were no match for them, and they were frightened. However, they did not dare to disobey the Japanese soldiers, so they had to lie down on the ground and shoot at the guerrillas. .
Xu Dalong has also been observing the situation on the battlefield. He knows that there are too many Japs coming this time. This is a plain area with unfavorable terrain. It is difficult to eliminate them all at once.
Seeing that the puppet soldiers stayed in place to block the attack, this was exactly what they wanted. He ordered Monk Wei to send some special forces members to follow the Japanese troops, constantly harassing and driving them to evacuate quickly, and then sent some members to quickly outflank the puppet troops on horseback, surrounding a battalion of puppet troops on the road.
The puppet soldiers originally expected the Japanese soldiers to return to rescue them, but they did not expect that the Japanese soldiers ran so fast that they were almost out of sight with a puff of smoke.
The battalion commander of the puppet army saw the guerrillas surrounding him from all sides and had no intention of fighting. He knew that he could not defeat these ferocious enemy troops. In order to avoid being killed by artillery fire, he decisively ordered the troops to lay down their weapons and surrender to the enemy troops.
In this battle, the guerrillas annihilated more than 400 Japanese troops, seized a large number of weapons and ammunition, and captured a battalion of Huang Xiejun. The news quickly spread throughout several counties around Kangzhuang, and the guerrillas became famous. Many people spontaneously ran to Liujiaji Town and asked to join the guerrillas. The local underground party organization also sent people to contact Xu Dalong and others.
The person in charge of Kangzhuang County of the underground party is named Wang Gengsheng. He is a very capable young man in his twenties. He couldn't help but be very surprised when he learned that the underground party's anti-Japanese armed forces who appeared here turned out to be the famous Mawushan guerrillas.
Especially Xu Dalong, he heard too much. After seeing Xu Dalong, his voice, which was always quick to talk, actually trembled a little when he spoke.
Xu Dalong liked this capable young man. After full exchanges, the two decided to establish the Kangzhuang County Anti-Japanese Democratic Zhengfu with Liujiaji Town as the center. Wang Gengsheng would be the main person in charge to carry out the work of establishing an anti-Japanese base area. .
With the help of the Zheng Mansion in Kangzhuang County, the guerrillas recruited a large number of new soldiers. Since the guerrillas themselves were relatively small and could not absorb so many people at once, they selected some of them. Together with those who had previously joined the guerrillas, a total of 500 new recruits were added. Not only that, but also from the captured puppet troops. 150 well-born and strong puppet soldiers were mobilized to join the guerrillas, bringing the number of guerrillas in Northeast Shanxi to thousands in an instant.
Xu Dalong organized the remaining people who signed up to join the army into the Kangzhuang County Brigade.
Changes in the organizational structure must be reported to superiors, so Xu Dalong sent a telegram to the Taiyue Military Region Headquarters.
Taihang Mountain base area.
The commander received the telegram from Xu Dalong and said happily: "Xu Dalong is Xu Dalong. He has opened up the situation in the Kangzhuang area in such a short time. Such cadres are really rare."
The chief of staff said with emotion: "Although Xu Dalong is young, he has a very broad mind. He has just suffered such a big grievance, but he still has such enthusiasm for work. Such young people are really valuable. I suggest that when establishing a new base area During the process, we must also grant him the right to make emergency decisions as before."
The commander agreed with the chief of staff's suggestion and sent a telegram to Xu Dalong, asking him to mobilize the masses and establish an anti-Japanese base. He had the power to make decisions on the fly and did not have to ask his superiors for instructions on everything.
After the Japanese acting brigade captain led the remaining defeated soldiers and fled back to Yufeng County, they immediately reported their experiences to Hirota Jiro, the commander of the ninth independent mixed brigade.
The brigade commander was very appreciative of the acting brigade captain for preserving the main force of the infantry brigade, and immediately officially appointed him as the brigade captain.
At the same time, he reported what happened here to the First Army Headquarters and asked his superiors to investigate the situation of this newly emerged guerrilla group with powerful combat capabilities.
Tanaka Hirohito has just been promoted to captain and is in a very happy mood.
The brigade commander was very magnanimous to him and did not ask him to continue fighting the guerrillas. Instead, he allowed them to rest and recuperate in the city, saying that he would then replenish the lost strength of his infantry brigade.
Although Captain Tanaka was happy, he still remained vigilant. Since Kangzhuang County had been captured by guerrillas, he was also worried that the guerrillas would attack Yufeng County, so he ordered the troops to stay behind closed doors and strengthen city defense to guard against guerrilla attacks.
Since Zheng Xirong arrived in Liujiaji Town, he has begun the layout of local intelligence work. He selected a group of smart and capable people from among the local people who joined the guerrillas to help the intelligence personnel of the Mawushan guerrillas he brought, and sent them to surrounding areas to establish secret intelligence stations.
Yufeng County is the closest county to Kangzhuang County, and it is also one of the focuses of Zheng Xirong's attention. The movements of the Japanese troops in the city cannot escape his eyes.
Xu Dalong saw that the Japanese and puppet troops had no intention of attacking Liujiaji Town on a large scale for the time being, so he seized this favorable opportunity, divided his troops and mobilized the masses, and quickly expanded the anti-Japanese base area centered on Liujiaji Town to more than 100 villages.
A large number of basic Japanese and puppet organizations were destroyed, and Japanese and puppet personnel fled to various counties where the Japanese army was entrenched.
Faced with the rapid deterioration of the security situation in his area, Hirota Jiro, the commander of the ninth independent mixed brigade of the Japanese army, could not sit still, so he personally led two infantry brigades to Yufeng County and joined forces with Hirohito Tanaka. , attacking and advancing towards Kangzhuang County.
Facing such a large-scale Japanese army, although the Northeastern Shanxi guerrillas currently have more than 1,000 people, only the more than 400 people Xu Dalong brought from the Mawushan base area can actually go to the battlefield.
In order to avoid being eaten by the Japanese army, Xu Dalong decided to temporarily evacuate Liujiaji Town. They first led the guerrillas to cover the underground party's Zheng Mansion in Kangzhuang County and the new recruits of the guerrillas, and retreated to the mountains. Then they returned to Liujiaji Town, preparing to attack the Japanese and puppet troops who invaded the base area.
In order to re-strengthen their control over the vast countryside, the Japanese and puppet troops brought back the traitors who had escaped. These guys are local snakes, have extensive personal connections, are well-informed, and can destroy the base area even more than the Japanese and puppet troops. These are the people the local people fear the most.
The guerrillas led by Xu Dalong stayed in the base area to fight guerrillas. One of the most important tasks was to eradicate these returning traitors and prevent them from persecuting the activists who participated in the anti-Japanese armed forces.
Yiyuan Village is a village of more than 400 people 20 miles away from Liujiaji Town. It turns out that the village's maintenance president is named Zhao Fenglin. This guy turns out to be the bully landlord in the village and a hard-core traitor. He relied on the power of the Japanese and puppet troops to oppress the people. After he was beaten away, the people in the village divided his family's fields and property. He hated it and vowed revenge.
On this day, he returned to the village with a group of puppet troops and gathered the whole village on the threshing floor. He threatened the people who had divided their property, not only asking them to return all their things, but also demanding that they Double your money back.
He forced the people to sign IOUs and beat them severely if they disobeyed.
When Widow Zhang in the village didn't return his belongings, he wanted to use her 16-year-old daughter to pay off the debt.
Widow Zhang became anxious and wanted to argue with him, but he shot her to death with his own hands.
The people in the village couldn't stand it, and they all wanted to fight him.
This guy actually took a machine gun from the puppet army and fired at the villagers, killing more than ten people on the spot, including the elderly and children. One of the babies was less than one year old and died tragically in the into his hands.
The news reached Xu Dalong's ears. He was furious and immediately led the special forces to Yiyuan Village. They captured the guy alive that night, held a village meeting, held a public trial on him, and executed him.
