At midnight, Gao Jiu led his troops to surround the county town.

Gao Jiu deployed 60 Taohuashan guerrillas on the east and west sides of the county town. Gao Jiu led 200 members to attack the South Gate. Wang Zhankui, Zheng Sanpao and Jiang Xinshan and his son led the others to ambush near the North Gate.

Soon after, the battle began, and violent gunfire sounds came from the east, west and south sides of the county town.

When the Jiang family and his son saw their guerrillas, they were arranged to be more than two miles away from the county town. There was no way to fight the county town here and they didn't understand what they were going to do here.

Wang Zhankui did not explain to them, and sent ten team members to fire guns at the north gate of the county town about 100 meters, sparsely towards the county town.

On both sides of the county town, although there were only 60 team members on each side, they carried a lot of machine guns and mortars, and the firepower was very fierce, and it made people feel that there were also a large number of people in the dark. They launched a feint attack on the county town, restraining some of the Japanese and puppet troops.

At the south gate of the county town, the guerrillas hid behind the temporary excavation bunker and opened fire violently in the direction of the city wall.

Gao Jiu took Tian Chuan, Ning Wen, Ning Wu, Jia Liu and Li Xiaoshan to hide behind a canal that was only more than fifty meters away from the city wall before the battle started.

Then, Gao Jiu began his magical operation.

Gao Jiu kept throwing grenades to the place where there were people on the city wall. The Japanese and puppet troops on the city wall could not see his existence at all, and they were blown up to the point of blood. It took not long, and the Japanese and puppet troops on the city wall, which was nearly 100 meters long, were all blown up on the nearly 100-meter-long section of the city wall.

Gao Jiu, Tian Chuan and others, quickly ran to the bottom of the city wall, threw out his flying claws, and climbed up. After getting on the city wall, several sniper rifles in their hands blocked the city walls on both sides, and the Japanese and puppet troops could not rely on them at all.

Soon, more than a hundred guerrillas climbed up the city wall and attacked towards the city gate.

The special forces members near the city gate saw that the guerrillas had captured the city wall. They took the rocket launcher and fired several bombs at the city gate, exploded the city gate, and rushed into the city gate.

The guerrillas attacked the city so quickly, and the Japanese and puppet troops in the city were suddenly panicked.

When the battle just started, based on the fierce firepower outside, the Japanese squadron leader knew that he had encountered the main force of the Anti-Japanese Army. Based on his experience, it was judged that the enemy outside would not be less than two regiments. If we only judged from the firepower, the two regiments of the Eighth Route Army's main force did not have such powerful firepower. He didn't know where such a powerful enemy came from, and he had already felt a strong sense of fear in his heart.

He didn't expect that the enemy would break through the South Gate so quickly. He knew that the county town could not be defended, so he prepared to lead the troops to evacuate.

Judging from the gunshots, there are enemies on all sides, but the gunshots near the North Gate seem messy and sparse. Moreover, he believed that there were a large number of Japanese and puppet troops in the north of Cangzhou City. The enemy was worried that they would be attacked on both sides and did not dare to deploy a large number of troops in the north. Therefore, he judged that the north was a place where the enemy's defense was weak, so he ordered the north gate to open and break out in the direction of Cangzhou.

Gao Jiu adopted the tactics that surround three and one missing one. This tactic is a general method to launch an attack from three sides, and on the other side deliberately reveals the gap to let the enemy leave.

The reason why Gao Jiu arranged for a small number of people to fire guns near the North Gate was that he believed that the three circumferences should not be too deliberate. There was no sound near the North Gate, which would easily arouse the suspicion of the enemy. The quieter the enemy would dare to go there.

The facts proved that Gao Jiu's judgment was correct. The Japanese army, who were panicked, opened the north gate and fled towards Cangzhou City.

It was cloudy today, and the visibility was extremely low at night. Although Jiang Xinshan and his son could feel the Japanese and puppet troops fleeing in this direction, they could not see clearly the situation on the road and could not accurately attack the enemy.

Wang Zhankui and his special forces team members were all ambushed on the roadside and prepared for an ambush. Jiang Xinshan and his guerrillas were all a little puzzled, thinking that these people could see things clearly at night, and they admired them so much that they didn't know how they made them. They planned to learn from them after the battle to improve their night vision ability.

The Japanese and puppet troops fled desperately along the highway in panic, and many people smelled a strong smell of gasoline. But everyone had no longer cared about these things at this time and just ran away and ran away desperately.

Suddenly, a mortar shell flew over. After the shell exploded, a fire lit up on the road and on both sides of the road, and the figures of the Japanese and puppet troops were fully exposed.

It turned out that in order to see the enemy's situation clearly at night, the special forces team members sprinkled gasoline on the road and on both sides in advance. The gasoline penetrated into the soil and was difficult to evaporate cleanly for a while. After encountering an open flame, it immediately started to burn.

The special forces members did not carry so much gasoline, and only a shallow layer was poured on the ground, and the fire was not that big and could not burn people. However, the large area of ​​fire could completely expose the situation of the Japanese and puppet troops.

The guerrillas on both sides of the ambushed road opened fire violently at the enemy.

There were more than 60 guerrillas from Jiang Xinshan and his son. The total number of machine guns that Jiang Xiaomei and Gao Jiu gave them twice was more than 30. They both squirted light machine guns and fired wildly at the Japanese and puppet troops. The feeling was so satisfying.

Although there were only more than 300 guerrillas lying here, their firepower was too fierce. About 1,000 Japanese and puppet troops who escaped from the city were basically wiped out in less than two minutes. Thanks to darkness, the Japanese and puppet troops fled in all directions, and about 100 people escaped from the battlefield by chance.

Wang Zhankui and others were too lazy to chase the fleeing Japanese and puppet troops, and they entered the county town directly from the opened north gate.

A small number of Japanese and puppet troops who had no time to escape were left in the county town. The puppet troops threw their guns and found a place to hide. The remaining small number of Japanese troops were quickly wiped out. The guerrillas quickly controlled the entire county town.

According to the habits of the Taohua Mountain guerrillas, they would soon evacuate the county town after plundering them. However, this time Gao Jiu decided to stick to the county town to provide cover for the underground party anti-Japanese troops participating in the riots.

Next, they are about to usher in a bad battle, which is impossible. Some things must be done.

After occupying the county town of Cangxian, Gao Jiu sent a telegram to Jiang Xiaomei, asking her to notify the anti-Japanese troops in the northeastern Hebei region through the underground party organization to move closer to the county town of Cangxian, and the Taohuashan guerrillas covered them to retreat toward the direction of Hebei-zhong. At the same time, he asked the Hebei-zhong Military Region to send the main force to respond.

The Hebei Central Military Region decided to send the main force of the Fourth Military Sub-district to Cangxian. The commander Cui Zhenshan, the commander of the First Regiment Wang Shuanzi and others were commanders.

Last time they followed Gao Jiu to attack the Second Japanese Heavy Artillery Brigade, and the troops made a fortune. Unfortunately, they could not have taken over the weapons, ammunition and supplies, and handed over almost half of them.

I heard that Gao Jiu came to Hebei and asked the Hebei Central Military Region to send troops to cooperate in combat. Many military regions of the Hebei Central Military Region wanted to cooperate in combat with Gao Jiu. As a result, Cui Zhenshan said that he was familiar with Gao Jiu, which was more conducive to mutual cooperation, and finally won the task.

More than 3,500 main forces of the Fourth Military Sub-district of the Hebei Central Military Region led by Cui Zhenshan, Wang Shuanzi and others traveled day and night to Cangxian area.

The anti-Japanese armed uprising launched by the underground party in northeastern Hebei besieged six county towns guarded by the Japanese and puppet troops. None of them were defeated, but they suffered considerable losses.

While they were worried about the way out of the riot troops, they received an order from the superior party organization that the troops of the Taohuashan guerrillas of Gaojiu were responsible for cover, and the troops of the Hebei Central Military Region were responsible for responding, asking them to lead the troops participating in the riots to move closer to Cangxian and then retreat southwest.

The underground party immediately sent a large number of correspondents to inform all the troops participating in the riot to move closer to Cangxian.

The troops participating in the riot were numerous and distributed in different regions, and their movements were quite slow. Gao Jiu and others had to stick to the county town of Cangxian and wait for their arrival.

Not long after, Jiang Jing and others rushed to Cangxian County. After seeing Gao Jiu, Jiang Jing said ashamedly: "Mr. Gao, the facts have proved that your reminder is correct, I..."

Speaking of this, he remembered the heavy losses suffered by the anti-Japanese people who participated in the riots, and shed tears in his eyes.

Gao Jiu did not blame him. After all, Jiang Jing was a young man and had no experience in military work, but his enthusiasm for anti-Japanese war was beyond doubt, and there was no need to blame him.

Gao Jiu comforted him and said, "Anti-Japanese war itself is a difficult cause. It is normal to pay the price or even sacrifice bloodshed. There is no need to blame yourself. As long as you can learn from your lessons and make continuous progress, it is enough.

I am not familiar with your troops participating in the riots, and I hope you can stay here for the time being and help me arrange their retreat.”

Jiang Jing was a loyal underground party member and a staunch anti-Japanese warrior. Seeing Gao Jiu trusting him so much, he firmly demanded to stay until the last unit participating in the riot was safely evacuated.

The armed riots launched by the underground party in northeastern Hebei did make the Japanese and puppet troops in a hurry at the beginning. With the continuous retreat of anti-Japanese armed forces in various places, the Japanese and puppet troops began to launch a crazy counterattack.

The 132nd Japanese Garrison Division drew two infantry regiments, one division of the Peace Army, and a large number of local gendarmeries, local troops of the Peace Army, security teams and other armed forces. The total force reached more than 19,000 people, and they frantically chased and killed the anti-Japanese armed forces involved in the riots.

The reason why Gao Jiu and others asked the anti-Japanese armed forces participating in the riots to gather in Cangxian was that these troops could not go to the central Hebei region in dispersion. Otherwise, they would be attacked on the road and would easily collapse and be massacred by the Japanese and puppet troops.

Let these people gather in the Cangxian area, reorganize them, and arrange evacuation in an organized manner, so that they can maintain relative organizational discipline and superior forces, and the threats from local troops of the Japanese and puppet troops will be reduced a lot.

However, in this way, Cang County became the main target of the Japanese and puppet troops' attack. Gao Jiu decided to stick to the county town and attract the main force of the Japanese and puppet troops to achieve the purpose of covering the underground party's armed retreat of the anti-Japanese armed forces.

The reason why Gao Jiu did this was not just for the underground party. These people who participated in the riots, even those from the government, even those from the civilian anti-Japanese armed forces, would do this. After all, these people are China's anti-Japanese armed forces and cannot let them lose in vain to the hands of the Japanese and puppet troops.

Although fighting position wars is not the strength of the Taohuashan guerrillas, such a battle can easily cause a large number of casualties, a real man will do something and must do something, and Gao Jiu still decided to fight this battle.

In order to achieve the goal of dragging the enemy, Gao Jiu made the following arrangements: First, he asked Wang Zhankui to lead 200 cavalry into 10 combat teams to harass the Japanese and puppet troops, and to delay their attack speed as much as possible.

Secondly, Zheng Sanpao and others were sent to the surrounding areas to purchase grain with the help of the underground party organization to extend the time they could hold on.

Third, the underground party mobilized some anti-Japanese military and civilians who participated in the riots to assist the Taohuashan guerrillas in repairing fortifications and strengthening city defense.

That morning, a sheriff from Cang County took Ningwu to a family in the county town and found a man in his thirties from the hole in the wall. The man was named Huang Wei, a tomb robber who had been caught by this sheriff before.

Not long after, Huang Wei was brought to Gao Jiu.

Huang Wei was scared and trembling. When he saw Gao Jiu, he knelt on the ground. He begged: "Sir! I used to be tomb robbers, but later I really turned to the right. Now I am doing some small business honestly. If you don't believe me, you can send someone to your neighbors to investigate."

Gao Jiu smiled and said, "Don't be afraid. It's not about asking you to trouble you today, but about something that needs your help.

Get up.”

Huang Wei felt relieved when he heard this, stood up and nodded and said, "Sir, what are your instructions?"

Gao Jiu said: "You have done tomb robbery and you must have experience in digging tunnels. I believe you are very clear about the geological conditions in Cangxian. I would like to ask you to take our people to dig an authentic tunnel out of the city. After doing this, you will be rewarded with many rewards. Well, you will be rewarded with 100 oceans."

Since Huang Wei was arrested last time, he has been quite honest recently and his life has become very difficult. 100 oceans are extremely tempting for him.

He immediately said, "I really don't know what else to say, but this digging is not a brag. In the same case, I can be three times faster than others."

Gao Jiu asked Jia Liu to bring the map of Cang County and asked, "I want to dig an authentic tunnel from the city to outside the city. This authentic tunnel is at least three miles away. Which direction do you think you can dig it from?"

Digging tunnels is not an easy task. First, we must understand the geological conditions, avoid shallow groundwater, and avoid hard rocks, and the soil should not be too soft. Another difficulty is to solve the problem of tunnel ventilation. Tickets should not be too long. Every other section, there must be ventilation places, otherwise people will easily lack oxygen. These situations are difficult to complete without professional guidance.

Huang Wei knew the terrain and geological conditions of this area well, and he suggested excavation from the southwest of the city.

Gao Jiu asked Jiang Jing to help, and asked him to take Huang Wei to select dozens of strong men with a reward of 50 o'clock for each person, and secretly dig out tunnels from a house near the southeastern wall of the city.

The county town of Cangxian is not as good as Taohua Mountain, and it is impossible fortifications that can withstand shelling. Gao Jiu and others cannot stick here for a long time. He must think of a way to retreat in advance.

The anti-Japanese soldiers and civilians who participated in the riots continued to gather in Cangxian County. Jiang Jing played a great role. He temporarily organized these anti-Japanese people according to the army organization, appointed commanders at all levels, and sent troops from county brigades to escort. In this way, batches of anti-Japanese soldiers and civilians began to retreat in an orderly manner.

Gao Jiu arranged for Jiang Xinshan and his son to lead their guerrillas to evacuate together, but they firmly disagreed and must follow Gao Jiu to defend the county town.

Gao Jiu couldn't resist them, so he had to agree to their request and arranged for Tian Chuan to be responsible for protecting the safety of the Jiang family father and son.

The underground party could not watch Gao Jiu and others fight alone. They also pulled out 500 combat backbones to accept Gao Jiu's command and held the county town together.

At 3 pm that day, the Japanese vanguard appeared in the north of the city, and Gao Jiu decided to give the Japanese army a warning first.
Chapter completed!