The Japanese vanguard was an infantry squadron. The Japanese garrison troops had only two squadrons, about 130 people. They had received a notice that the Anti-Japanese Army, which occupied the county town of Cangxian, was a main force. As they saw that the Japanese were approaching the county town, they began to be careful. They slowed down their marching speed and searched carefully.

They saw the enemy cavalry in front of them from afar, and immediately stopped advancing. While building fortifications on the spot, they sent people back to report to their superiors.

The enemy's cavalry rushed towards them and stopped more than 200 meters away from them. Seeing the enemy dispersing everywhere, the Japanese officers and soldiers quickly prepared to guard against the enemy's attack.

The battle began. As soon as the fire broke out, the Japanese army felt the enemy's strength. The enemies fired at them at a distance of about 250 meters. Their shooting skills were so accurate that they basically had guns and bite flesh at such a long distance.

At such a long distance, the Japanese officers and soldiers had basically no accurate shooting. After the two sides were stalemate for a short while, the Japanese army caused a large number of casualties.

The Japanese squadron leader hurriedly directed the two mortars equipped by the squadron to shoot at the enemy. As soon as they set up the mortars, the enemy's bullets flew over and the mortars died one after another.

The Japanese squadron leader had never seen such a powerful enemy before, and he couldn't help but feel a little panicked. He knew that if he persisted in such a confrontation, he would be exhausted by the enemy. Seeing that the enemy's team was very dispersed, he decided to concentrate his troops to charge in one direction, and with his superior force, he would first eliminate the enemy in one direction.

He pulled out his command knife and shouted, "Assault." He jumped up and charged forward with the soldiers.

Ning Wen had been waiting for the Japanese squadron leader to appear, and that guy had been hiding behind the ridge of the field and was lucky enough to live in the present.

The Japanese howled and rushed forward, which was simply a living target for the special forces members.

This place is different from Taohua Mountain, and the special forces members carry limited ammunition. In order to save bullets, they no longer use machine guns, and use the rifles in their hands to destroy the enemies one by one.

The special forces members' shooting skills were really accurate. The Japanese rushed forward less than 50 meters and were killed half of them. The Japanese squadron leader was shot in the neck by Ning Wen and killed him on the spot.

The Japanese who were lucky enough to live could not withstand such a blow, and they fled desperately in the direction they came.

The special forces team members turned over and chased the Japanese, killing them one by one.

After less than 20 minutes of the battle, most of the Japanese were shot dead. Only a dozen Japanese were hiding in a small depression and continued to shoot at the special forces.

The special forces members had to use mortars to bombard the Japanese.

The battle was over, and the special forces members confiscated all the weapons and ammunition on the Japanese. According to Gao Jiu's request, they now save ammunition every time they fight and seize as much as possible so as to deal with the main force of the enemy.

After destroying this Japanese army, in addition to the special forces members who transported weapons and ammunition back, Gao Jiu led the other team members to continue to fight the enemy.

The subsequent Japanese troops were the main force of a Japanese infantry brigade, and they also operated with a battalion of the puppet army.

Not long ago, the Japanese army received a report from the correspondent soldier sent by the squadron of the vanguard, saying that the anti-Japanese army was found in front of him, and he immediately led his troops to reinforce.

When he saw the enemy's cavalry in front, he knew that the Japanese squadron in front was gone, otherwise the enemy would not have been able to cross the Japanese squadron in front to reach here.

The Japanese squadron leader immediately determined that the enemy in front was very strong. With his experience, a squadron in front of the Japanese army was wiped out by the enemy, so the enemy's troops would have at least 500 troops. He immediately ordered the troops to stop advancing and build fortifications on site. At the same time, he sent people to ask for help from his superiors.

He carefully observed the situation of the enemy and felt very confused. Those enemies had less than 100 people, and he suspected that this was just the enemy's vanguard force, and there should be a large force behind him.

Therefore, he did not order the troops to launch an attack just because he saw a small number of enemy troops. He ordered the time to build fortifications and guard against large groups of enemies' attacks.

After a long time, the Japanese brigade captain did not see the subsequent enemy troops. The dozens of cavalry from the enemy were scattered in groups and got off the horse about 300 meters away.

The Japanese brigade leader judged that these anti-Japanese troops were only responsible for monitoring them in order to wait for the arrival of their main force.

Soon after, the enemies fired at the Japanese army. The Japanese brigade captain ordered a counterattack, and the two sides launched a fierce exchange of fire.

A few minutes later, the Japanese brigade captain discovered something was wrong. In such a short period of time, the Japanese army had lost more than 100 people. It was obvious that they did not achieve the effect of attacking those anti-Japanese troops.

The Japanese brigade captain has been active in this area for so long and has never heard of such a powerful anti-Japanese army in the area. He judged that the enemy must be from outside, so he immediately reported the situation to his superiors.

The division commander of the 132nd Division of the Japanese Army received several reports, reporting that a very powerful anti-Japanese army was found in the area of ​​Cangxian. These anti-Japanese troops were well-equipped, with very powerful marksmanship, and everyone had horses. He also judged that this enemy was definitely not the local anti-Japanese armed forces.

The Taohua Mountain guerrillas led by Wang Zhankui launched attacks on many Japanese troops, causing great casualties to the Japanese army. These Japanese troops also reported this situation to the division headquarters of the 132nd Division.

The commander of the 132nd Division received a notice from his superiors. According to the situation described in the notice, he suspected that the enemy troops that appeared near Cang County might be the Taohuashan guerrillas from Shandong. He immediately asked the Japanese intelligence department to investigate the matter.

Not long after, the Japanese army received news from the captured prisoners of the underground anti-Japanese armed forces that they had ordered them to retreat to Hezhong and cover them, including Gao Jiu's Taohuashan guerrillas.

After the division commander of the 132nd Division received this information, he immediately reported to the North China Expeditionary Force headquarters in Beiping.

Since Gao Jiu and others destroyed the heavy artillery corps of the Second Heavy Artillery Brigade, the North China Expeditionary Army hated Gao Jiu to the core. After hearing this news, they immediately sent a telegram to the division commander of the 132nd Division, ordering them to leave only a small number of troops to chase the anti-Japanese troops participating in the riots and concentrate their main forces to encircle Gao Jiu.

The commander of the 132nd Division confirmed that Gao Jiu was near Cang County, and he was very excited. He believed that this area was a plain area, and Gao Jiu and others could not compete with the powerful Huang army if they had escaped from a special environment like Taohua Mountain. For him, it would be more important to eliminate the world-famous bandits like Gao Jiu, which were more famous than to eliminate the mobs who participated in the riots.

He made up his mind to issue a death order to the Japanese and puppet troops under the 132nd Division, allowing them to encircle in Cang County with all their might, and it is necessary to surround Gao Jiu in the county town of Cang County and completely annihilate him.

Just when the troops of the 132nd Division surrounded Cang County, the North China Expeditionary Army Headquarters sent them a telegram asking them to surround Gao Jiu and confirm that Gao Jiu was in the county town of Cang County. They immediately reported to them. The North China Expeditionary Army decided to send a heavy artillery brigade, the remaining troops, and the First Air Force Air Force stationed in Peiping to participate in this combat operation to encircle and annihilate Gao Jiu.

Gao Jiu naturally considered what the enemy could think of.

After attacking many Japanese and puppet troops, Wang Zhankui and others wiped out a large number of Japanese and puppet troops and covered the retreat of the underground party anti-Japanese troops participating in the riots. Then, according to Gao Jiu's instructions, they advanced towards Peking.

After confronting the Japanese army for a period of time, Gao Jiu and others saw that the Japanese army had too many troops, and the artillery hiding among them kept firing at Gao Jiu and others. Two special forces members were unfortunately hit by artillery shells and died. Gao Jiu ordered a retreat and took the team members back to the county town of Cangxian.

The underground party concluded based on various intelligences. They knew that the current target of the Japanese and puppet troops was Gao Jiu and others, so they sent a telegram to Gao Jiu to evacuate the county town of Cangxian and avoid being surrounded by the Japanese and puppet troops.

Gao Jiu learned from Jiang Jing that there were about 40,000 anti-Japanese soldiers and civilians who had not yet evacuated. He decided to continue to defend the county town of Cangxian to attract the main force of the Japanese and puppet troops, and to gain time for the security breakthrough of the anti-Japanese soldiers and civilians who participated in the anti-Japanese riots.

The underground party was very moved by this and asked Jiang Jing to draw some backbones from the retreating anti-Japanese army to help Gao Jiu and others defend the county town of Cangxian.

Jiang Jing once again dispatched 500 combat backbones to join Gao Jiu's defending troops.

Gao Jiu was very pleased and went to visit these underground anti-Japanese soldiers who stayed behind.

These soldiers could have been able to evacuate with the large army, and they knew that staying in Cangxian County would definitely be a life-and-death death. But they saw the famous Gao Jiu and the guerrillas in Taohua Mountain fighting here for their anti-Japanese troops in the northeastern region of Hebei, and everyone was willing to fight side by side with them and share life and death.

After soliciting Jiang Jing's opinions, Gao Jiu reorganized the remaining underground anti-Japanese army into 11 companies, and was temporarily led by the Taohuashan guerrillas.

Jiang Jing gathered the underground party members of these 11 companies and mobilized them, demanding that they unite other anti-Japanese soldiers, firmly obey the command of the Taohuashan guerrillas, stick to the county town of Cangxian, and buy time for the vast number of anti-Japanese soldiers and civilians to escape from danger.

These underground party members have expressed their obedience to the organization's decisions and play their due role as underground party members in future battles.

In this era, the vast majority of underground party members have firm beliefs and can play a core role in the army. They can play a very important role in uniting the army and enhancing the combat effectiveness of the army.

Gao Jiu ordered the Taohua Mountain guerrillas to seize the time to get familiar with the soldiers of the underground anti-Japanese army, conduct tactical training on them, and send them the seized weapons and ammunition, greatly improving the combat capabilities of these anti-Japanese soldiers.

In this way, in addition to the 200 members of the Taohuashan guerrillas taken away by Wang Zhankui, the Taohuashan guerrillas, the underground party troops, and the guerrillas of the Jiang family father and son who stayed in the county town of Cangxian reached more than 1,600 people, with well-equipped and high morale, and were ready to fight to the death with the Japanese and puppet troops.

Just before the Japanese and puppet troops were about to encircle Cang County, Gao Jiu called Tianchuan, Ning Wen, Ning Wu and others to lead 20 special forces members to move outside the city and attack the enemy with cameras. At the same time, they were given an important task to ensure the safety of the tunnel exit in the future.

After Tianchuan, Ning Wen, Ning Wu and others left the city, they first went to the northwest of the county town, where they attacked a puppet army of the underground anti-Japanese army who were pursuing the retreating underground anti-Japanese army and seized more than 100 guns and ammunition. Tianchuan sent two special forces members to transport the weapons and ammunition back to the county town with the help of the underground anti-Japanese army.

In the future battle to defend the county town, the biggest difficulty is the lack of ammunition. The actions of Tianchuan and others made Gao Jiu very happy. He told Tianchuan and others that after seizing weapons and ammunition, they could temporarily store them in case they could come in handy at critical moments.

That night, Gao Jiu quietly came to the house in the southeast corner of the city.

Huang Wei is indeed a talented person and has rich experience in digging tunnels. In order to speed up the excavation, he adopted the method of double-person front excavation to dig tunnels in this way. Although the project volume seems to be larger than those that can only be passed by one person, the tunnels dug out in this way are not only spacious, but also convenient for construction, and the speed is faster. At the same time, because the tunnels are relatively spacious, the ventilation problem does not require more additional vents to solve it.

Huang Wei and others worked hard to dig the tunnel. The tunnel was progressing very quickly. In just two days, nearly 120 meters were dug.

Gao Jiu was very happy and rewarded all the people who participated in the excavation of the tunnel, each of which was 20 yuan. He also promised that after the mission was completed, in addition to the 50 yuan that he had originally promised to reward them, he would give them another 30 yuan, and each person would give them 100 yuan. As for Huang Wei, Gao Jiu decided to reward him another 100 yuan.

Gao Jiu admired Huang Wei very much. After soliciting his opinions, he decided to take him to Taohua Mountain with him. After Huang Wei contacted Gao Jiu and others, he also had a certain understanding of the Taohua Mountain guerrillas and was willing to join the Taohua Mountain guerrillas.

Under Gao Jiu's arrangement, before the Japanese army surrounded him, he sent a special forces member and two team members under Zheng Sanpao to escort Huang Wei's family to Taohua Mountain to solve his worries.

Gao Jiu personally inspected the tunnel. When he saw that there were enough staff, he put forward a suggestion: that is, to speed up the shift change, and every two people only insisted on working for ten minutes before changing people, so that the people participating in the homework could maintain the maximum physical strength.

After trying, Huang Wei and others found that this speed could be accelerated a little, and they all admire Gao Jiu's method.

After Gao Jiu came this time, Huang Wei and others were excited and worked harder to dig the tunnel.

Afterwards, Gao Jiu personally led his men out of the city, attacked the Japanese and puppet troops near the county town, and seized more than 100 guns and a large number of ammunition.

In the evening of that day, a large number of Japanese and puppet troops finally formed a siege on the county town of Cangxian.

The division commander of the 132nd Division of the Japanese Army made a comprehensive judgment based on reports from various aspects that he believed that Gao Jiu and others were surrounded in the county, so he reported the news to the North China Expeditionary Army.

The senior executives of the North China Expeditionary Force were very happy and ordered the Second Heavy Artillery Brigade to set off for Cang County tomorrow morning. At 9 a.m. tomorrow, the Japanese First Air Force sent bombers to bomb Cang County.
Chapter completed!