In order to let out a sigh of anger, Gao Jiu personally directed the team members to use those 240mm heavy mortars to bomb the area controlled by the puppet army from east to west.

Wang Jindong saw how Gao Jiu and his Taohuashan Guerrillas grew up back then. At that time, they lacked everything, and he had provided them with a lot of weapons and ammunition.

Look at the face of the whole nouveau riche now.

The ammunition, aviation fuel and other expenses consumed in this battle are enough to fight ten battles even at the level of the Guo Army.

The officers and soldiers of the newly compiled 187th Army looked at the hellish scene on the battlefield and were deeply grateful that they were not those puppet troops.

After this round of bombardment, there was basically no movement on the puppet army's positions.

Seeing that the puppet troops were no longer able to resist, Wang Jindong sought Gao Jiu's advice in order to train his troops, and then directed his troops to launch an attack on the puppet troops.

Zhang Quan, Wang Zhankui and others and the members of the Taohuashan Guerrillas were eager to avenge their brothers. They also rushed up with Wang Jindong's troops, and saw the puppet army going up regardless of their lives.

The battle ended shortly after. This battle wiped out more than 8,600 people from the Second Division of the puppet army, which was considered a great victory. The only regrettable thing is that Cui Mingjiu was lucky and was killed by the bombardment just now. Otherwise, he would have been cut into pieces by the guerrillas in Taohua Mountain.

Looking at the messy battlefield, everyone was cheering for victory, but Gao Jiu stood there and started to think about it.

He asked someone to take a lot of photos of the situation on the entire battlefield, especially Cui Mingjiu's incomplete body, who was blown up.

Not long after, after receiving Gao Jiu's order, the Taohuashan Air Force dispatched bombers and flew towards several other puppet troops participating in the Luoyang Battle.

A Japanese Type 96 bomber flew over the camp of the First Division of the Sixth Army of the puppet army.

Instead of throwing bombs, the bomber threw out a large number of photos and a package from it.

The photos flew like snowflakes in the air and slowly fell down.

The puppet soldiers were all curious and picked up photos on the ground to find out.

The first person to pick up the photo was a squad leader of the puppet army. After seeing the picture on the photo, he screamed and threw the photo out like avoiding the plague.

After many officers and soldiers saw the photos, their actions were similar to those of this squad leader, all of them looked terrified.

The commander of the First Division saw that although the person in this photo had been blown to the point of incomplete body, his face had been specially cleaned and he also took a close-up.

He is very familiar with this person. When the group army holds combat meetings, he often meets Cui Mingjiu, who looks like a bandit. This guy relies on the favor of the Japanese and is arrogant. He never thought that he would end up like this.

At this time, someone had already opened the package that was thrown from the plane. There was a box inside the package and only one letter was left.

The chief of staff picked up the letter and looked at it, and said in horror: "The master's seat is a letter from Gao Jiu of Taohua Mountain."

In the letter, Gao Jiu briefly described the causes and consequences of the complete annihilation of Cui Mingjiu's troops, warning the puppet troops that if they dare to move forward in Luoyang, Cui Mingjiu's fate will be their example.

The commanders of the First Division and other senior officers, in the face of this situation, they felt not angry first. Although these destroyed were all puppet soldiers, they should be sympathetic and angry. Unfortunately, anger has conditions, that is, you have the ability to take revenge for tooth and blood.

The puppet troops did not have this ability, and the Japanese devils were no match for the Taohua Mountain guerrillas. The puppet troops went there for nothing. Therefore, everyone felt fear.

The commander of the First Division did not need to discuss with others, and immediately ordered the troops to retreat 30km to the rear. When retreating, he was very enthusiastic, afraid that Gao Jiu would not get the news of their retreat.

In order to intimidate all the puppet troops, Gao Jiu sent out a clear telegram, which said that the Taohuashan guerrillas were attacked by the Second Division of the puppet army and 11 team members were killed.

In order to avenge them, the entire second division of the puppet army had been wiped out, including the division commander Cui Mingjiu, and the entire division did not leave a single living mouth.

He warned the puppet troops that they dared to be enemies with the Taohua Mountain guerrillas, and the fate of Cui Mingjiu and others was their role model.

Since Gao Jiu went to Taohua Mountain, he has not attacked the puppet army many times, but has fought against them as much as possible, and has made great achievements in this regard.

Wang Zhankui was born as a puppet army, and Liu Shengyu was also a puppet army. He once instigated the 7th Division of the puppet army in Hebei and has now been incorporated into the army of Commander Song of the 69th Army in Nanyang City.

Wei Liming, the commander of the Third Division of the puppet army in Shandong, and Zhao Wannian, the commander of the Fourth Division, were secretly helping Gao Jiu fight against Japan.

He did this in the hope of winning more puppet troops into the anti-Japanese cause, so he used to focus on the Japanese army.

The situation is different now. The puppet army's destruction of the anti-Japanese cause is no less than that of the Japanese army. Especially this time the losses caused by Cui Mingjiu to the Taohua Mountain guerrillas made Gao Jiu completely change his mind.

In the recent stage, he planned to focus on attacking the puppet army, so Gao Jiu completely annihilated Cui Mingjiu's troops at all costs.

This time, the Taohuashan guerrillas and the newly formed 187th Division fully utilized their firepower advantages. There was no more than three hours from the start of the battle to the end of the battle. Nearly 10,000 people in the division left no living gusts. Such a blow made all the puppet troops feel frightened.

Gao Jiu's clear telegram greatly shocked the puppet soldiers. They originally wanted to rely on the large crowds to attack Luoyang City, but now they all refused to move forward, and no one wanted to end up like Cui Mingjiu.

Gao Jiu decided to continue to attack the puppet army, and once they beat them to fear.

Gao Jiu and Wang Jindong led a large group of troops to advance northward.

He sent a letter to the commander of the 38th Division of the Japanese Army in advance, asking them to dodge a way out.

The commander of the 38th Division was very assigned and moved his defense zone 20km westward.

Gao Jiu's Taohuashan guerrillas and the 187th Division's troops crossed the defense zone of the 38th Division of the Japanese army and suddenly surrounded the headquarters of the Sixth Army of the puppet army stationed in Lincheng.

Gu Wei

The commander of the Sixth Army of the puppet army originally thought that his defense zone was close to the 38th Division of the Japanese army, and he was completely restless. Unexpectedly, Gao Jiu, Wang Jindong and others led a large group of troops to quietly cross the Japanese army's defense zone and caught him off guard.

At this time, the Sixth Army's headquarters had only some direct troops, with a total strength of less than 10,000. After finding that he was surrounded, he was immediately in horror and hurriedly sent a telegram to the commander of the Seventh Army of the Japanese Army for help.

The commander of the Seventh Army had already learned from the 39th Division that Cui Mingjiu's troops were annihilated. He knew that even the Japanese army could not withstand the fierce firepower attacks of Gao Jiu and others. He didn't want to work hard for Shouyi of Shinai. He attacked Zhengzhou City and Luoyang City just to act like a show, and the puppet army was just cannon fodder.

He was unwilling to send his own troops to rescue these puppet troops.

While quietly informing the Japanese troops to ignore the request for help from the Sixth Army of the puppet army, he sent a telegram to the Sixth Army in order to force the puppet army to work hard for him, and agreed to the puppet army that they would immediately send reinforcements to make them stand by and wait for the aid.

He hopes that these puppet troops will fight to the death with Gao Jiu's Taohua Mountain guerrillas to the death to consume Gao Jiu's vitality.

Gao Jiu and others rushed to Lincheng, the garrison of the Sixth Army of the puppet army, and first eliminated the puppet army outside.

During the battle, the guerrillas captured a battalion commander of the puppet army. Gao Jiu personally interrogated the battalion commander, put him into the city, and handed over a letter he had written to Ma Zhenye, the commander of the Sixth Army of the puppet army.

Gao Jiu said in the letter: "Commander Ma, you are already very clear about the situation. As long as I am willing, I can take down Lincheng in one hour and annihilate all the troops in your city.

Now you have two choices, one is to revolt on the spot, join the Guo army, and you can give you an army organization and join the 41st Corps of the Guo army; the other is to resist stubbornly and be completely eliminated.

I'll give you an hour to make a decision now. Once the time comes, my troops will immediately start siege."

If someone else said this in the letter, Ma Zhenye would think he was very arrogant, but Gao Jiu was different. Ma Zhenye knew that Gao Jiu was definitely sure.

Apart from these two paths pointed out by Gao Jiu, there is no room for him to choose.

Ma Zhenye immediately called the Chief of Staff and other close friends to discuss.

Everyone had heard of Cui Mingjiu's fate, and they knew that the Japanese army had abandoned them. Otherwise, Gao Jiu and his anti-Japanese armed forces would not have been able to cross the Japanese defense zone.

The Chief of Staff was determined to join Guo Jun. He said, "Commander, this battle must not be fought anymore. Gao Jiu's conditions were pretty good. I suggest we revolt on the battlefield."

Ma Zhenye was a little hesitant and said, "There is no problem with what you said, but now our families are all in the Japanese-occupied area. If we surrender to the Guo army, they will definitely be implicated."

As soon as he said this, the officers nodded frequently, and they all had concerns about this.

The Chief of Staff said, "Or why don't we surrender? Leave the troops to Gao Jiu and others, and you will leave the troops. My family is not in the Japanese-occupied area, so I have no worries, so I took my brothers to join the Fruit Army."

Time was already tight and there was nothing to discuss, so Ma Zhenye agreed to the Chief of Staff’s opinion.

He said, "That's it. Everyone chooses their own choices. Those who are willing to leave the army will follow me if they go back; those who are willing to join the Guo army will follow the Chief of Staff."

Seeing Ma Zhenye making up his mind, the Chief of Staff immediately called the battalion commander who was delivering the letter and asked him to accompany him to go out of the city to meet Gao Jiu.

Gao Jiu and Wang Jindong met with the Chief of Staff of the Sixth Army and heard him explain his purpose.

The reason why Gao Jiu wanted the puppet army to abandon the darkness and turn to the light was to let them set an example for other puppet troops, which not only made the puppet army feel a way out and forced them to surrender to the anti-Japanese armed forces, but also such a situation would deepen the Japanese suspicion of the puppet army, which would be more conducive to dismantling the enemy.

For Gao Jiu, as long as the Sixth Army is willing to surrender, it doesn't matter to him whether the troops are led by Ma Zhenye or Niu Zhenye.

Gao Jiu agreed to the Chief of Staff’s request and asked him to go back and bring the troops out.

Soon after, the puppet troops in the city drove out of the city and lined up outside the city. In order to show that they were really rebelling on the battlefield, they also disarmed all the Japanese military police in the city and escorted them out.

Gao Jiu had a brief conversation with Ma Zhenye and others, and let them go.

Gao Jiu and Wang Jindong held a banquet to entertain senior officers left by the Chief of Staff and other senior officers, discussed their future arrangements, and asked them to try to win other puppet troops under the Sixth Army to surrender to the Guo Army.

The Chief of Staff was still very influential in the Sixth Army. After his efforts, he persuaded one complete division of the puppet army and two regiments of another division to join the 41st Corps.

Gao Jiu's move made the Japanese army very panic.

Teruchi Suichi also felt that Takagi was too much. After he did this, the Japanese and puppet troops became even more distrustful.

In order to prevent other puppet army generals from betraying the Japanese army, all units of the North China Front Army strengthened their monitoring of the puppet army and dispatched Japanese troops of different sizes to supervise them, which further deepened the puppet army's dissatisfaction with the Japanese army.

However, the measures taken by Soichi Deanuchi and others still played a great role, reducing the risk of the puppet army's rebellion to a certain extent.

Gao Jiu was of course not satisfied with such a result. So he formulated another plan to deepen the conflict between Japan and puppet.

The chief of staff of the Sixth Army of the puppet army was Tang Jingchen. After he led his troops to join the 41st Corps, the Guofu gave him a new number of the 121st Army. However, except for the direct troops of the Sixth Army, his subordinates only had one division and two regiments. Moreover, in the process of joining the Guo army, many of these troops also left the troops, and the remaining people totaled only more than 16,000, and they could not bear the airs of a single army.

Therefore, he hopes to instigate another part of the puppet army to enrich his team.

Gao Jiuzheng hoped that he would do this, and the two hit it off, so they had the idea of ​​other puppet troops.

After the commander of the Sixth Army and the senior officers under him were released, they knew that they could not make any contributions from the Japanese, so they all chose to leave the military and prepared to become a rich man with the wealth they had accumulated before.

Unfortunately, the Japanese were very angry that they ruined the Sixth Army. Except for some people, they were very smart and did not go home at all. They directly sent someone to pick up their families quietly and fled to another place, and luckily saved their lives.
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