Chapter 343

"Comrade Li Wei, they want to burn the house! You can't let them burn our house." The young village chief of Qiye Village saw the entire village outside the tunnel, and he couldn't help but be anxious and wanted to rush out of the tunnel to organize the masses to put out the fire.

"Don't be impulsive! Be careful of the enemy's fraud!" Li Wei delayed the village chief in time and said, "Don't be impulsive. It doesn't matter if the house is burned. As long as the person is there, the house can be rebuilt. If the person is gone, nothing will be gone."

As soon as Li Wei finished speaking, he heard the harsh roar outside the village and rushed into the village. Boom boom boom! ~ Several explosions that could not be heard kept blowing up in the village. All the houses that had already burned flames collapsed in the explosion balls. Five minutes later, the shells fired from outside the village blew up the village that had already burned to a flat ground.

The Japanese were still unwilling to evacuate for such a reason. They cleverly estimated that the villagers in the tunnel would run out to put out the fire. Before leaving, they plowed around the village with mortar shells.

The village chief of Qiye Village was pale, shaking his face and leaning against the tunnel wall, panting heavily. I don’t know if it was angry or scared. If Li Wei hadn’t held him hard, he would have been eager to put out the fire and waited for the villagers who were eager to put out the fire.

"Don't worry! The 12th District Team will pay the losses in your village at the price!" Li Wei patted the shoulder of the village chief of Qiye Village as if comforting. In order not to implicate the villagers in the battle, the 12th District Team specially set up a war reconstruction fund in the district government, which is specifically responsible for the restoration of production and living security for those people in the base areas who have no food and clothing due to the battle.

Although the 12th District Team promised, the village chief of Qiye Village still felt his chest depressed like a needle: "This damn Japanese, sooner or later, they will pay the price!" The home was destroyed in front of him, and no one would be able to live a good life.

Wang Bao, who was closely following the movements of the enemy army of Ono Nio, near Qiye Village, led nearly a hundred soldiers assembled as possible. When Ono Nio ordered to move closer to Renqiu County, Wang Bao already understood that Fan Guowen's plan to attack Renqiu County had already taken effect. He just didn't know that Fan Guowen not only implemented this order well, but also implemented it a little too much. At the beginning, he only asked the siege to attack the county town, but he didn't think that he had entered the inside line and continued to implement the original plan against the Japanese military camp. The high-density attack really made the Japanese and puppet troops in the military camp miserable.

Wang Bao did not let Ono's 5,000 Japanese and puppet troops retreat so peacefully. Since he entered the base for a large-scale mobilization, it would not be so easy to leave without leaving two taels of meat.

The mines buried along the roads and endless harassing attacks almost blew up the Japanese ono. The continuous casualties of soldiers also dragged down the troops to allocate more uninjured soldiers to carry the wounded soldiers. The combat effectiveness of the troops was invisibly weakened little by little.

Regarding the harassing attacks along the way, Nio Ono determined that it was a small group of troops sent by the main force of the Eighth Route Army, intending to hold them back and cooperate with the battle of Renqiu County. If he was as dizzy as an ordinary officer and let the troops spread out and fight the Eighth Route Army's harassing team on the spot, the 12th District Team would probably lose half of the troops, and even the district captain Wang Bao might have caught in it.

However, Ono Nio's self-righteousness lost the opportunity to severely damage the 12th District Team and was completely mobilized by the 12th District Team's plan. Wang Bao was still behaved and kept having fun.

In Renqiu County, except for the Japanese military camp, almost the entire county was controlled by Fan Guowen's troops. Some Japanese shops, condolences and opium halls outside the Japanese military camps were all taken for granted by Fan Guowen's subordinates. If they abandon the object of fighting, kill people, set fire, and robbery, it almost became a flip-flop for bandits to enter the city. However, the ordinary people in the city were not affected or disturbed at all. The inside and outside of the residential houses were completely like two worlds, with only in the cracks in the doors, and occasionally in the window frames, there were a few eyes carefully looking at the militias constantly coming and going on the streets.

Perhaps seeing the general situation was hopeless, the puppet soldiers who surrendered were honest and did not make Fan Guowen worry much. The puppet army even recommended a few veterans, indicating that they were willing to abandon the secret and join the Eighth Route Army on the Internet. The veterans of the puppet army had long seen that the Japanese were getting worse and worse. In the past few years, they could go to the countryside to sweep the guerrillas and chased the Eighth Route Army and ran around everywhere. Today, they were directly attacked by someone. They might even be very strong in the future. This nightmare artillery fire really cannot make people hang out with the Japanese. The Japanese army has always regarded the puppet army as cannon fodder, and with the poor treatment and being despised by the people, most of the puppet soldiers are floating in the morale, and there are not many determined to be traitors. In normal battles with the Eighth Route Army, as long as there are no Japanese soldiers around them, most of them are just slandering and dealing with the matter, and they will be straightforward when surrendering.

Nearly 300 puppet troops were incorporated, and Fan Guowen received a telegram from Wang Bao that the 5,000 Japanese and puppet troops of Ono Nio's 5,000 Japanese and puppet troops had already set sail to Renqiu County. Fan Guowen immediately ordered the dismantling of the Type 92 infantry artillery on the spot and collecting it back to the original secret place. The remaining mortars took down several strongholds near Renqiu County and moved them to the road.

The people cheering outside the city began to evacuate and the battlefield was cleaned up. Except for the machine guns mounted outside the Japanese military camp and the soldiers of the 12th District team led by Fan Guowen, other militias began to gradually evacuate with seized supplies in batches.

The Japanese and puppet troops who were interrupted from communication with the outside world were scared by the Japanese military camp at this moment, and they had no idea that there were reinforcements. They only saw layers of enemies outside the military camp, and the machine gun fire completely blocked the road to break through. Mortar shells were in from time to time, and explosions and shouts of killing were constantly coming.

When the large truck carrying 5,000 Japanese and puppet troops was still twenty miles away from Renqiu County, Fan Guowen began to order all evacuation. At the end, landmines were buried at several exits of the Japanese military camp, and hundreds of dummies continued to siege the soldiers of the 12th District Team. Several barrels of firecrackers were still exploding slowly in the iron barrel, pretending to be bluffing gunshots.

Fan Guowen's temporary combat platoon had just evacuated, and the troops in front of Ono Nio's rear had arrived. He did not realize that the Eighth Route Army outside had already withdrawn. Some of the Japanese and puppet troops in the city, which were full of plants and trees, were frightened to death when they saw more dense bayonets appearing outside the military camp. They were immediately scared. They thought that the main force of the Eighth Route began to attack and almost had a fire with the Two Oho Ono's troops who came to support. The reinforcements outside the city also thought that the Eighth Route Army inside was resisting. Although they quickly identified the identity of the other party, even if the officers on both sides stopped it in time, more than a dozen soldiers became victims of the period.

The number of troops siege by the Eighth Route Army was rushing for a long time, but did not find any signs of the Eighth Route Army's large-scale assembly. The wonderful expression on the face of the Eighth Route Army was already expected by Wang Bao. Fan Guowen's small team disappeared from the sight of the Japanese and puppet troops without any attention. The extremely angry Ono Nio almost shot the Renqiu County commander who misreported the military information on the spot, but the unlucky commander committed suicide by cesarean section the morning after Ono Nio's troops arrived.

In the base of the 12th District Team, Wang Bao took the bill to capture Renqiu County, and his face was pale and almost beaten up Fan Guowen, a prodigal son. At least, Fan Guowen had saved up all the reserves for half a year and created a large fireworks.

In order to remove Li Wei from the main force of the Japanese and puppet army, the ammunition consumption of the feint attack on Renqiu County almost drained the 12th District Team's family's foundation. When attacking the East City Gate alone, the mortar shells consumed more than 100 rounds in one breath, and the Type 92 infantry artillery shells consumed more than 30. The bullet consumption could almost allow the 12th District Team to launch a medium-sized decisive battle with the Japanese army. The high ammunition cost almost made the 12th District Team go bankrupt on the spot. However, such uncontrollable firepower consumption also exposed the strength of the 12th District Team.

The Japanese and puppet troops' brief storm during May 1943, except for the sacrifices and the consumption of a large amount of materials, did not have much substantial results. Perhaps the Japanese and puppet troops were also tired of this endless tug-of-war sweep of I advance and you retreat, and I retreat and you advance. The terrifying firepower exposed by the 12th District Team when attacking Renqiu County, were worried that the 12th District Team would continue to counter the security zone and focus on the urban stronghold. After returning to Renqiu County, Nio Ono's 5,000 troops did not enter the 12th District Team's base area to continue the previous sweep battle, but dispersed again. The troops returned to the original stronghold and maintained a stalemate with the 12th District Team's base area.
Chapter completed!