Gao Jiu said, "You are right, we cannot forget these old brothers. Now our lives are better. We must be worthy of our brothers. I agree to give them more treatment."

Gao Jiu did it as soon as he said that, drafted a telegram, sent his and Wang Zhankui's ideas to Zhang Quan, and solicited his opinions and Guo Hengming, Du Shengxi and others in Taohua Mountain.

Zhang Quan, Guo Hengming and Du Shengxi fully agreed with Gao Jiu and Wang Zhankui's proposal, so the members of the Taohuashan guerrillas once again increased their welfare benefits.

When seeing the newly established salary standard, Gao Jiu smiled and said, "When the first time we implemented the salary system in Taohua Mountain, I was the person with the highest salary. I was able to get 20 oceans a month, which was already an astronomical figure. Now the new members of the Taohua Mountain guerrilla team can get 50 oceans. It seems that our brothers have not been in vain for their efforts over the years, and finally have an explanation for the people in Taohua Mountain."

The old brothers of the Taohua Mountain Guerrillas all know how the Taohua Mountain Guerrillas have worked hard from difficulties to this point today. They all praise the leaders of the great masters for being able to have a prosperous atmosphere today.

After the fall of Tai'an City, the Lunan Military Region and the Administrative Office moved to Zhiyuan County, where the Southwest Shandong Military Sub-district was located. The underground party leader and Gao Hong jointly sent a telegram, hoping that Gao Jiu could come to Zhiyuan County and discuss combat operations together.

Gao Jiu was idle for this period of time and couldn't rest anymore, so he came to Zhiyuan County.

Gao Hong introduced the situation in southeastern Shandong.

After the Japanese army invaded Tai'an City, in order to open up the Jinpu Railway, a large-scale mobilization was launched on the base areas of the Southeast Shandong Military Sub-district. Most of the main forces of the Southern Shandong Military Region came to southwestern Shandong, and only a small number of troops were insisting on fighting guerrilla warfare.

After the Japanese army entered the pass, the Japanese army that originally planned to attack southwestern Shandong retreated to their original garrisons, and some stayed in Tai'an City and along the Jinpu Railway, including the Japanese 121st Division and the 3rd Division, as well as a railway garrison originally transferred from the country. Under the protection of strong troops, the Jinpu Railway has been restored and opened to traffic. A large number of strategic materials and troops continued to pass through the Jinpu Railway to head north or south, which had an adverse impact on the national anti-Japanese war situation.

The Lunan Military Region received instructions from their superiors, asking them to cut off the Jinpu Railway again. Due to the huge Japanese army's strength, the troops of the Lunan Military Region were not sure of fighting alone, so Gao Jiu was invited to participate in the war again.

When fighting the Japanese, Gao Jiu had no choice but to do so. However, this time he did not agree with the combat plan proposed by the Lunan Military Region to attack Tai'an City, but instead prepared to cut off the Jinpu Railway in another way.

The Taohuashan guerrillas did, with the cooperation of the underground party armed forces, annihilated the Kwantung Army troops that entered the pass, but suffered great financial losses.

As the saying goes, "A cannon fires, there will be ten thousand taels of gold." The super bombs, aviation bombs, rockets and other weapons and ammunition are all real gold and silver. With a bang, the white ocean will disappear. Even if the Taohua Mountain guerrillas are rich and powerful, they will be a little unbearable if they continue to fight such a battle.

Therefore, Gao Jiu did not intend to engage in such a large-scale battle, but wanted to use the Jinpu Railway to seize Japanese troops, which would not only make a fortune, but also cut off the Jinpu Railway.

After discussion, it was decided that the Southern Shandong Military Region would draw elite troops and organize 12 100-person teams to enter the southeastern Shandong region to carry out guerrilla operations and harass the Japanese army. These teams did not go deep along the railway line, which was the heavy defense area of ​​the Japanese army. They only attacked small targets of the Japanese and puppet troops in the area of ​​the southeastern Shandong and southwestern Shandong, and did not require significant results. Eliminating small units of the Japanese and puppet troops every day is the main combat goal, accumulating small victory into big victory, and organizing large troops to attack when the time is ripe.

Gao Jiu planned to personally lead a special forces team to go to the railway line to fight against the Japanese army.

This time, in order to coordinate the contact with the underground anti-Japanese armed forces in southern Shandong, the Shandong Military Region sent Yang Jiong, director of Zheng Zhi's department, to follow Gao Jiu and others to act together.

After the plan was formulated, Gao Jiu and Yang Jiong first came to Taohua Mountain and selected 150 people from Taohua Mountain guerrillas. Gao Jiu and Wang Zhankui led the team to leave Taohua Mountain.

This time, they did not go to Tai'an, but went straight south, passed Zaozhuang, and entered the Jiangsu territory, preparing to make a fuss along the Jinpu Railway between Zaozhuang and Xuzhou.

This area is a weak link in the Japanese army's defense. Gao Jiu planned to subvert the Japanese freight trains here, and then organize troops from the Shandong Military Region and local anti-Japanese armed forces, and militias to transport supplies.

At 4:30 am that day, Gao Jiu and others arrived on the railway line. They buried strong explosives under the railway tracks and then hid near the railway.

At 9:42 am, a freight train from Xuzhou was coming.

The guerrillas' blasting hand pressed the push rod of the detonator. With the violent explosion of the fierce explosives, the front of the train was immediately blown up and derailed directly.

The train continued to move forward under the drive of inertia, and the eight cars in front fell over the roadside together with the front of the train, and then the train stopped.

The Taohua Mountain guerrillas launched an attack, and soon after, they wiped out a small team of Japanese troops escorting cars.

Gao Jiu, Wang Zhankui, Yang Jiong and others arrived in front of the train, and the guerrillas had already jumped onto the train and reported their gains.

This train has a total of 22 carriages, full of various supplies. Except for the industrial raw materials with ten carriages, the rest are all daily supplies.

Yang Jiong has mobilized a county brigade and hundreds of basic militias in the southeastern Shandong region of Jiangsu and Shandong. They are driving a lot of big trucks and seize the time to transport supplies.

An hour and a half later, the Japanese military station in Zaozhuang did not see a train coming from Xuzhou, so they called Xuzhou to inquire, but the telephone line along the railway had also been cut off.

They went to the radio to send a telegram, and the time was delayed for more than half an hour. The Japanese army realized that something might have happened. According to the jurisdiction of the railway, this area was the territory of Jiangsu and was not under the jurisdiction of the North China Front Army. So they sent a squadron of railway garrison from Xuzhou to patrol.

Gao Jiu and others launched another attack, but all the Japanese troops in this squadron were wiped out.

After the Japanese army dispatched a large group of troops to the accident site, they were left with empty train cars and the bodies of the railway garrison officers and soldiers.

While sending people to repair the railway, the Japanese army searched along the railway. They naturally could not find the traces of the Taohuashan guerrillas, and the county brigades and basic militias that transported supplies came from southeastern Shandong. The Japanese army could not cross the border to search, so they could only inform the Japanese army in Shandong.

At this time, the Japanese army in southeastern Shandong did not need to search and knew that it was done by the underground party armed forces in southeastern Shandong, because they were attacked by many anti-Japanese armed guerrillas almost every day. They were exhausted and had no energy to take care of the affairs of the Central China Front Army.

Gao Jiu, Wang Zhankui and others saw that this method was very good. After a few days of rest, they saw that the Japanese army had started to open again, so they entered Jiangsu again. At the same location, they used the same means to attack a Japanese freight train again, and then transported the materials back to southeastern Shandong. When they evacuated, they also removed about 1km of railway tracks, and the militia were carried away.

In the past, the Jinpu Railway was cut off, and it all occurred in Shandong, which was under the control of the North China Front Army. Now, the Jinpu Railway has been cut off, but it happened in Jiangsu. It was the turn of the Central China Front Army to feel a headache.

In order to avoid similar things happening again, the Japanese army began to build bunkers along the Zaozhuang-Xuzhou section to prevent the enemy from damaging the railway again.

Chenjiazhuang is located at the junction of Shandong and Jiangsu. The village is on the Shandong side, only more than 500 meters away from the dividing line. An infantry squadron of the Japanese garrison is stationed here.

That morning, the sentry on the artillery tower saw a Japanese army coming from the direction of Jiangsu, with about a small team.

They arrived at the border, looked at the boundary marker, and then continued to walk towards the Chenjiazhuang artillery tower.

The Japanese sentry reported the situation to the squadron leader, and the squadron leader went up the artillery tower and watched the Japanese army driving over.

The Central Frontier Army and the North China Frontier Army belong to different systems. The Japanese army on both sides did not have any contact. Instead, due to the people's crossing boundaries and taxation issues, some small frictions often occur.

When the Japanese squadron leader saw the Japanese army coming from Jiangsu, he couldn't help but frown. He got off the artillery tower and came to the suspension bridge, preparing to ask why the Japanese army from Jiangsu had crossed the line.

The Japanese army drove from Jiangsu to a place fifty or sixty meters away from the artillery tower. The Japanese squadron leader in the artillery tower stared at them tightly, preparing to question them when they were closer.

Suddenly the small team of Japanese troops quickly dispersed and turned into a combat formation. Then they shot at the Japanese squadron leader and others. The Japanese squadron leader and several soldiers around him were killed on the spot.

The Japanese officers and soldiers on the artillery tower also noticed the Japanese army, but they were just watching the fun and did not prepare for the battle.

When they found that the situation suddenly changed, they hurriedly loaded the bullets and prepared to counterattack. However, the Japanese army that launched the attack was very fast. They quickly evacuated after firing. When the Japanese officers and soldiers set up machine guns and started shooting, the people had already run 100 meters away and disappeared behind a raised river bank there.

The Japanese executive in the artillery tower was very angry when he saw that the squadron leader was dead. He immediately gathered two small teams of Japanese troops, put down the suspension bridge, and rushed towards the direction of the river embankment.

When they were about to rush up the river bank, suddenly many people appeared on the river bank and opened fire at the Japanese army rushing towards them, killing more than a dozen officers and soldiers of the railway garrison on the spot.

The Japanese soldiers were hit hard and lay on the ground and shot at each other. However, the other party quickly disappeared.

The executive of the Japanese squadron was worried that he would be ambushed again, so he sent three Japanese vanguards to reconnaissance.

The vanguards were very careful. They hugged and slowly approached the river embankment. They reached more than fifty meters away from the river embankment, and lay on the ground and began to crawl forward. They threw grenades on the river embankment more than twenty meters above the top of the river embankment. After the explosion, they jumped up and rushed up.

This struggle took a lot of time. When the three of them rushed to the top of the river embankment, the Japanese army had already fled into Jiangsu along the river.

The Japanese executive wanted to chase after him with his troops, but he was not familiar with the terrain there and was worried that he would be ambushed again. Moreover, it was not the territory of the North China Front Army, so it was difficult to explain if something happened.

So he took his troops back to the artillery tower and called to report the situation here to the railway garrison.

After listening to the report, the captain of the railway garrison believed that this might be an attack launched by the underground anti-Japanese armed forces disguised as Japanese troops, but they were also confused because the equipment of the Japanese troops attacked them was exactly the same as the equipment of the Japanese standard infantry squad. It is certainly not from the Taohuashan guerrillas, because the Taohuashan guerrillas have 82mm recoilless cannons, mortars, rocket launchers, imitated German under-enemy guns and submachine guns, as well as sniper rifles.

It is not very similar to other underground party anti-Japanese armed forces, because when this Japanese army marched, it was completely in accordance with the Japanese infantry Cao Dian, and the walking movements were no different from those of the Japanese army. It was obviously not pretended to be an underground party armed force.

The railway garrison captain was not sure what was going on, so he reported to his superiors.

Now in Tai'an City, the highest commander of the Japanese army is the commander of the Third Division. After receiving the report, he could not make an accurate judgment. However, the Japanese army was coming from Xuzhou after all, and he believed that the Central China Front Army should be held accountable, so he called the Japanese commander stationed in Xuzhou and questioned them.

Of course, the Japanese army in Xuzhou denied it, but the two sides quarreled on the phone and parted in a bad mood.

In fact, the Japanese army in this team was dressed in Gao Jiu and others. They often disguised themselves as Japanese soldiers, so they carefully trained the Japanese infantry Cao Dian, so even their walking posture was exactly the same as that of the Japanese army.

The reason why Gao Jiu did this was to deepen the conflict between the Central Front Army and the North China Front Army and destroy their cooperation so that he would not suffer a joint attack from the Central Front Army and the North China Front Army in the subsequent combat operations.

Along the railway line, the Japanese army was building bunkers. During the day, the Japanese army had a large number of people, and at night, only a small number of soldiers were left to watch over the construction site.
Chapter completed!