"Boom", with a rapid sound of horse hooves, a large group of cavalry rushed over.

Tian Chuan and others had already received a telegram and came to the outside of the village with Jiang Xinshan, Jiang Yong and others to welcome Gao Jiu and others.

Looking at the huge cavalry team, Jiang Xinshan and others were very shocked. The grand scene in front of them was in line with the podium that Gao Jiu should have in their minds.

When they arrived near the entrance of the village, the cavalry slowed down and stopped quickly, and at the same time they lined up in an orderly manner. The well-equipped cavalry all looked solemn, no one whispered, and only the sound of war horses panting after galloping. The neatly arranged cavalry team demonstrated their well-trained and majestic momentum.

Jiang Xinshan and his son, and the guerrillas under him, were all admired.

Then, several knights surrounded a tall and handsome young man and walked slowly towards Takawa and others.

"Justice Jiu." Tian Chuan walked forward and said excitedly.

Gao Jiu turned over and dismounted, nodded and smiled at Tian Chuan, patted him affectionately on his shoulder, and then walked towards Jiang Xinshan and his son.

Jiang Xinshan is the oldest and easy to identify. Gao Jiu came to him, bowed and said, "Hello, Uncle Jiang, Gao Jiu, I have met Uncle Jiang in Taohua Mountain."

Jiang Xinshan looked at Gao Jiu, as if his father-in-law was looking at his son-in-law, and said with satisfaction: "Okay, OK!" He grinned and laughed.

When Gao Jiu saw Jiang Yong standing next to Jiang Xinshan and looking at him eagerly, he understood his identity. So he bowed to him and said, "This is Brother Jiang Yong."

Jiang Yong was looking forward to meeting the legendary Gao Jiu very early. When he saw him today, Gao Jiu was extremely heroic and domineering, which was completely in line with his image. He was two years younger than Gao Jiu. When he saw Gao Jiu bowing to him, he hurriedly returned the salute and said, "I am Jiang Yong, Jiang Xiaomei's brother, Gao Jiu... brother."

When he saw Gao Jiu, he was very excited and a little nervous. He wanted to call Gao Jiu Master Gao Jiu like others, but in front of his father, and he already knew the relationship between Gao Jiu and Jiang Xiaomei, he finally called Gao Jiu Brother.

Seeing Jiang Xinshan and his son looking a little reserved, Gao Jiu smiled and said, "Uncle! Brother Jiang! My sister and I are good friends. We are all comrades in the anti-Japanese war, and we are all family members. This time I was commissioned by my sister and came to visit Uncle Jiang and Brother Jiang."

"Brother Gao Jiu." Jiang Yong screamed so naturally this time. He said enviously: "You Taohua Mountain guerrillas are so majestic!"

Gao Jiu smiled faintly and introduced Wang Zhankui, Zheng Sanpao, Jia Liu, Ning Wen, Ning Wu and others to the Jiang family father and son.

Jiang Xinshan and his son greeted Gao Jiu and others into the village, saying that they would hold a banquet to enter the Taohuashan guerrillas.

More than 600 people came in one go. Not to mention holding a banquet or cooking a meal, the guerrillas in Jiang Xinshan felt very embarrassed. Now they are rich, but there are not so many things in the entire village to entertain these guerrillas. Wang Zhankui knew their difficulties and sent some cavalry to follow the guerrillas in Jiang Xinshan to buy some wine, meat, food and vegetables in the surrounding villages, and then set up alerts around Baili Village to prevent enemy attacks.

Jiang Xintou and Jiang Yong saw that the Taohua Mountain guerrillas were so strong and were so careful in their behavior, so he realized that it was no accident that they could win the battle.

After arriving at Jiang Xinshan and their guerrilla team headquarters, Gao Jiu came to pay homage to his father-in-law and brother-in-law as his prospective son-in-law, so he naturally wanted to give him a meeting gift. He gave Jiang Xinshan and others a batch of weapons and ammunition and 30,000 oceans.

Jiang Xinshan and his son were all happy when they saw Gao Jiu’s actions.

After a few simple chats, Gao Jiu went straight to the point.

He said: "Uncle Jiang, the terrain of Cangzhou is flat, which is conducive to the actions of the Japanese and puppet troops and mechanized troops, and is not conducive to the development of guerrilla operations.

I am entrusted by your daughter. I hope you can leave here and change the environment, go to the base of the Eighth Route Army in southwest Shandong, and be willing to follow us to go to Taohua Mountain."

Before Gao Jiu and others came, Jiang Xinshan and Jiang Yong discussed this matter. They thought about it over and over again and decided to stay in the local area and persist in the war of resistance.

On the one hand, both father and son are used to being free and easy. Whether they go to Jiang Xiaomei or Gaojiu, they still have to be subject to some restrictions. It is better to stay here and fight the Japanese.

This is not the main reason. Most of their guerrillas are locals. Everyone joins the guerrillas to defend their hometown. I am afraid that most people will not want to take them out of their hometown. Jiang Xinshan and his son are living together day and night, sharing life and death with these guerrillas, and they can't bear to leave these guerrillas.

When Jiang Xinshan and his son told their thoughts, Gao Jiu understood their thoughts and difficulties. However, it was really worrying to keep them and their son in the local area. It was a big deal. It was nervous when they thought about it and when they were nervous.

Gao Jiu did not directly persuade them. He planned to stay in the local area for a few days and first establish feelings and trust with Jiang Xinshan, Jiang Yong and others.

After the reception banquet, Gao Jiu returned to his room and asked Jia Liu to send a telegram to Jiang Xiaomei.

Gao Jiu's opinion was that Jiang Xiaomei would contact the Hebei underground party superiors through Shandong's underground party superiors and entrust the guerrillas under Jiang Xinshan to the local underground party organization, so that Jiang Xinshan and his son could leave without worries.

As for the two of them going to southwest Shandong, it would be easy. It would be okay to follow Jiang Xiaomei to join the Eighth Route Army, and it would be fine if they were willing to go to Taohua Mountain. Or they would continue to recruit guerrillas themselves. Gao Jiu could also easily help them to pull up a team larger than their current guerrillas.

Jiang Xiaomei knew her father and brother's character very well. She thought Gao Jiu's opinion was more pertinent, so she reported to the superior party organization.

The superior party organization immediately contacted the underground party organization in Hebei.

Jiang Xinshan and his son brought up guerrillas and resolutely resisted Japan. In fact, they had already entered the vision of the local underground party organization. In order to win them to join the Eighth Route Army, they had sent people to contact Jiang Xinshan and his son before, but Jiang Xinshan and his son did not agree.

Now, with Jiang Xiaomei's relationship, the Cangzhou underground party has almost sent people to Baili Village.

The visitor was Jiang Jing, the Military Minister of the Cangzhou Underground Party Organization. He was a scholarly young man of 26 or 27. According to the instructions of the superior party organization, he first met Gao Jiu.

Jiang Jing said excitedly: "Mr. Gao, you came in time. In the northeastern Hebei region, the underground party has made long-term preparations and will soon launch a large-scale riot. The number of people participating will exceed 100,000. After the riot is successful, it will definitely deal a heavy blow to the Japanese and puppet troops.

Your Taohuashan guerrillas are also the anti-Japanese team, and I hope they can also participate in our great action."

Gao Jiu knew this history. The underground party organized a large-scale riot. The participants were mainly local farmers. They participated in the riot, relying on their hatred for the Japanese invaders and their enthusiasm for fighting against Japan. They had no military experience and lacked organizational training. Most of them only had simple weapons such as big swords and spears. To put it bluntly, such a team was a mob. Shortly after the riot began, under the joint attack of the Japanese and puppet troops, they soon failed, causing a large number of casualties.

Gao Jiu talked about facts and made sense, hoping that they would cancel the action. However, Jiang Jing and others were in excitement and couldn't listen at all. When they saw that they could not persuade Gao Jiu, they went to persuade Jiang Xinshan and his son.

Jiang Xinshan and his son naturally listened to Gao Jiu, and they also declined the invitation from Jiang Jing and others.

Jiang Jing was very disappointed and quickly left. Before leaving, Jiang Jing said dissatisfied: "It is really disappointing to see the Japanese invaders rampaging in the northeastern Hebei region, but you do not participate in this great anti-Japanese riot. Especially Mr. Gao, your Taohuashan guerrillas did not fight hard because they were worried that the riot would fail. They were really worthy of the title of anti-Japanese national hero. They were so backward."

After saying that, he left angrily.

Wang Zhankui, Zheng Sanpao and others were dissatisfied with Jiang Jing. Jia Liu said angrily: "This man surnamed Jiang is really ungrateful. How dare he say that my Ninth Master is behind. When my Ninth Master fought against Japan and attacked the Japanese, he didn't know what he was doing."

Gao Jiu was in a bad mood. He was able to understand the enthusiasm of the local underground party organizations to fight against Japan and could not watch them suffer heavy losses. He decided to attack the Japanese and puppet troops locally and help the local underground party organizations as much as possible.

He sent a telegram to Jiang Xiaomei, explaining in detail that in this generation, it is not suitable to launch a large-scale anti-Japanese armed riot, but to organize the training of the backbone personnel to carry out a long-term anti-Japanese guerrilla war.

Gao Jiu's telegram was very long, the facts were clear, and the words were sincere, showing a responsible attitude of an anti-Japanese warrior to the cause of fighting against Japan.

After receiving the telegram, Jiang Xiaomei immediately reported to the superior party organization.

The superior party organizations in Shandong attach great importance to this. They reported to their superiors and also sent a telegram to the underground party organizations in Hebei to state their opinions.

However, the underground party organizations in the northeastern Hebei region launched a large-scale anti-Japanese armed riot in the vast areas from Tangshan to Cangzhou on the grounds that they knew better about the local situation.

Gao Jiu decided to provide assistance to the local underground party organization. He led the Taohuashan guerrillas and Jiang Xinshan and his son's guerrillas to Cangxian County.

Jiang Xinshan and his son and guerrillas were already very impressed by Tian Chuan and others. Now they were able to go directly to fight with Gao Jiu and attack the enemy's county towns, and they were all very excited.

These days they have been training troops quickly and have mastered weapons and basic infantry tactics more familiarly. They really want to compete with the Japanese. They hired more than a dozen carriages from their fellow villagers' homes and followed Gao Jiu's cavalry team toward the county town of Cang County.

The enemy stationed in Cangxian County was an infantry squadron of the 132nd Division of the Japanese Army (part of which had been annihilated at the Liuzhuang stronghold), as well as a battalion of the Peace Army, a battalion of the police, and a total of more than 700 troops.

They had already received news and knew that something had happened in the Liuzhuang stronghold. The Liuzhuang stronghold had a lot of troops and the artillery tower was solid, so they lost all of them, which showed that the anti-Japanese armed forces attacking them were very strong. Therefore, they reported this situation to their superiors and strengthened the defense of the county town.

Before the troops move, intelligence comes first.

Just before Gao Jiu led his troops to the Cangxian County, Ning Wen and Ning Wu, accompanied by Jiang Yong, went to the Cangxian County to investigate.

They found that many people were pouring into the county town, including a large number of armed personnel.

It turned out that there were armed anti-Japanese riots in many towns, towns and villages in Cang County, and a large number of grassroots puppet regime personnel fled into the county town. Among them, the Japanese and puppet troops in some surrounding small strongholds were all retreated into the county town. This also caused more than 1,500 Japanese and puppet armed personnel in Cang County, which added difficulties to Gao Jiu and others attacking the county town.

Ning Wen reported this situation to Gao Jiu in telegram.

Gao Jiu was not surprised when he heard the news. He believed that the Japanese and puppet personnel from the countryside entered the city and just caught them all, so that they would not have to run a lot of roads to the countryside to beat them.

Jiang Xinshan and his son and his guerrillas, they heard that the Japanese and puppet troops in the county increased to more than 1,500. The Taohua Mountain guerrillas, plus their dozens of troops, had a total strength of no more than 700. The huge gap between the enemy and us was so great that they couldn't help but feel a little worried. However, when they saw the Taohua Mountain guerrillas' members full of confidence, they were not so nervous.

In Changxing County, Lin County, Cang County, a large number of anti-Japanese troops are also besieging the county town.

Jiang Jing and others led a county brigade, several district brigades and other key forces, as well as more than 5,000 young and middle-aged people who participated in the riots, surrounded the county town. The vast number of anti-Japanese people shouted and launched an attack on the county town with swords, guns and sticks. They were crowded and powerful, and the momentum was amazing.

"Dadadadadadada." The Japanese and puppet military on the city wall were firing violently with machine guns, and a large number of anti-Japanese people continued to fall into pools of blood. The attack was quickly disintegrated, and the anti-Japanese people retreated in chaos.

When Jiang Jing saw the attack was frustrated, he was angry and ordered the county brigade captain to organize an attack again.

The anti-Japanese people remained enthusiastic and rushed towards the city wall again with shouts.

However, the reality is cruel. Under the fierce firepower of the Japanese and puppet troops, a large number of anti-Japanese people fell into a pool of blood and had to retreat again.

Jiang Jing became more and more angry and ordered all the people to press forward together.

This attack was defeated faster, and the captain of the county brigade died on the spot, and the main force of the county brigade also lost more than half.

Even worse happened. Seeing that the anti-Japanese army was not strong in combat, the Japanese and puppet troops simply opened the city gate and rushed out.

The morale of the anti-Japanese army had already been severely hit. They could not resist the charge of the Japanese and puppet troops and soon collapsed, threw away their armor and fled in scattered.

Jiang Jing waved his pistol and shouted loudly, hoping to stop the craze of retreat. However, all this was futile, and soon he himself was swept away.

When Jiang Jing got rid of the enemy's tracking and contained the troops, he found that the original mass of more than 5,000 people were now left, and the core personnel were basically lost. He was in tears and was at a loss for a moment.

At this moment, gunfire came from afar, and a large number of Japanese and puppet troops were vaguely seen pressing towards them.

The Anti-Japanese Army is now disintegrating and unable to fight at all, so Jiang Jing has to lead the team to retreat again.

At this moment, he suddenly remembered Gao Jiu.
Chapter completed!