Lei Jian learned that the independent regiment had arrived at the designated place, and ordered the first regiment to continue to advance to Fuping City, and launched a general movement against Fuping City at 3:57 a.m. the next day, and ordered Fang Chao to lead the cavalry squad to capture the devil patrol in the city, and fire the first shot of the siege ten minutes in advance, forcing the devil commander Ikeda to mobilize reinforcements from the defending troops and reduce the pressure on the siege troops.

Ordered Wang Xiaoliang to lead the assault company to covertly approach the east gate of the city, wait until Fang Chao's cavalry squad fired the first shot in the city, and ten minutes later, at 3:57 a.m., attack the enemy puppet army guarding the city gate from the east gate of the city, and respond to the large force of the only regiment to forcibly break through the east gate of the city, enter Fuping City, and directly smash the command post of the Ikeda squadron, implement encirclement, and strive to annihilate it completely.

Lei Jian ordered Feng Guang, the commander of the guard platoon, again: "As long as the siege battle starts outside the city, immediately take advantage of the chaos in the city to quickly escort the seriously wounded people disguised as Japanese wounded soldiers to the newly opened pharmacies and clinics of the Japanese overseas Chinese, and control the Japanese overseas Chinese shopkeeper. ”

He looked at Wang Ziming and said: "Comrade Ziming, I don't know if the anti-Japanese government of Fuping County has made arrangements in this siege campaign, and if it can be contacted, whether it will request the organization of a stretcher team, and when the battle starts, the wounded soldiers will be snatched out from the battlefield and immediately transferred to the Japanese overseas Chinese pharmacy clinic for first aid." ”

Wang Ziming didn't expect Lei Jian to ask this question, he said a little overwhelmed: "Commander Lei, since I followed the special task force, I only took over the head with the liaison officer of the anti-Japanese government in the Rongchang Dyeing Factory, and then it was completely interrupted, and it is really difficult to contact now." ”

"What about Liu Shoucheng?"

"Report to Regiment Commander Lei, I am the secret liaison station of the Eighth Route Army Military Region lurking in Fuping City, if it weren't for the purpose of receiving Director Zhang Ping, I wouldn't have started it, and besides, I have separate contact with the head of the military region, and I have no horizontal contact with the local government, so I really can't ...... with it."

Lei Jian understood, and he said to Zhang Ping: "Immediately contact the Jinchaji Enemy Ministry and tell us the contact information of the Fuping County Anti-Japanese Government, this is not only to organize forces to rescue the wounded and sick on the battlefield, but also to hand over the Fuping City to the local anti-Japanese government." ”

Everyone waited for Lei Jian to give the last order, saw Lei Jian leaning against the wall, closed his eyes and took a few deep breaths, and suddenly opened his eyes, a pair of bright and wise big eyes, which looked even more bright.

Zhang Guanghua asked with concern: "Commander Lei, your body is too weak, do you lie on the kang and rest for a while?" Would you like to not give you a little more food? That way you'll keep going. ”

Lei Jian was already very weak, but he was strong in spirit, giving people the feeling of being energetic, he forced a smile and said: "Beautiful things are not to be used, I have rushed to drink two bowls of millet porridge, but we still have a lot of soldiers who are still hungry, and they are clothed in clothes, and they need food the most now." ”

He watched Wang Ziming walk into the inner room and quickly asked, "Comrade Ziming, have you contacted the local government?" ”

"Report to Captain Lei, several calls, but there is no response, I think maybe they didn't turn on the phone, once contacted, immediately convey your meaning to the local government." Zhang Ping replied for Wang Ziming.

After about half an hour, Zhang Ping ran to Lei Jian's side and handed a telegram to Lei Jian, the message was very simple: The anti-Japanese county government had received an order from the military region, ordering the local government to fully support the siege campaign, and asked Lei Regiment Commander to make arrangements.

Lei Jian happily said to Wang Ziming: "Minister Wang, I have a reluctant request, now that the weather has turned colder, especially the troops fighting in the Taihang Mountains of North China, they urgently need to replenish winter cotton, and I also ask the anti-Japanese government of Fuping City to give support." ”

"Commander Lei, I, Wang Ziming, will definitely report your request to the anti-Japanese government and do everything possible to solve the winter cotton problem for the troops."

In a short period of time, everyone here saw that Lei Jian ordered the entire siege campaign to all troops, and thought very carefully, and the deployment was very in place, not only for the siege campaign, but also for the follow-up work of the capture of the county town has been arranged, but also for the winter cotton of the troops, painstaking efforts, such a commander of the troops, is really rare.

In the autumn night, when there is no wind, the sky is high and the clouds are faint, and now the sky is high and the clouds are light, and the vision can reach about five meters, and you can see the blurred facial features of the people walking over on the opposite side. The special task force hidden in the tunnel made all preparations, as the time went forward, it was past midnight, but I don't know whether it was God's favor or help, suddenly the sky was dark, the northwest wind was raging and roaring, the people who were blowing could not stand, the entire Fuping City was shrouded in flying yellow dust, and the night was even darker.

The Japanese patrols patrolled very frequently in the first half of the night, and in the second half of the night the number of patrols was reduced, and when the wind was blowing, the devil patrol was still patrolling the streets and alleys with flying sand and dust at first, and then they didn't know where they were hiding, and they could no longer see the shadow of the devil patrol.

Lei Jian saw that the weather had become very bad, and in order to alleviate the hardships of the only group of soldiers hidden around Fuping City, Lei Jian decisively pushed forward the plan of attacking Fuping City by one hour.

According to Lei Jian's latest deployment, Zhang Ping issued an order to all units to adjust the attack, ordering the assault company and cavalry squad in the city to start their operations at 2:47 a.m., and the units of the only regiment outside the city to launch a siege campaign at 2:57 a.m. 10 minutes late.

At 2:40, Wang Xiaoliang led the assault company to quickly move closer to the east gate of the city under the cover of the night when he couldn't see his fingers, and the soldiers were holding guns and looking around nervously in the operation.

The cavalry squad, under the leadership of instructor Fang Chao, was ready for all actions at this time, and every soldier stood in front of the war horse in full armor, waiting for the order to start the action at any time.

Time passed little by little, and the hearts of the soldiers were already highly nervous, in the county controlled by the enemy, relying on more than 30 war cavalry, running in the streets and alleys of the city, intending to mobilize the Japanese troops defending the city to return to help, and relieve the siege pressure of the only regiment lurking outside the city, this task is not only dangerous but also may have unexpected consequences at any time.

Just when the warrior was trembling nervously, Instructor Fang Chao looked at his watch, there were still seven minutes before the operation, he was just about to order the soldier to get on the horse, and suddenly found more than a dozen black shadows running towards the carriage shop, Fang Chao shouted in a low voice: "The second company and the fourth squad come with me, immediately occupy the gate of the carriage shop, you can't shoot without my order, do you hear it?" ”

Fang Chao handed over the reins of the horse to the soldiers around him, and led the four squads to quickly occupy both sides of the gate of the carriage shop, when more than a dozen black shadows were still more than a dozen steps away from the gate, Ma Chao ordered in a low voice: "I will take the initiative to contact first, once the other party shoots first, I will destroy it with the greatest firepower." ”

The figure running over was still five or six steps away from the carriage shop, and the leader in front of him shouted in a low voice: "Slow down, get close to the base of the wall and touch the gate, if there is an accident, don't fall in love and return quickly." ”

More than a dozen black shadows cautiously approached the door of the carriage shop in the dark, and the man in front suddenly stopped, and said to the people who followed him: "You wait here first, I will go in and feel the situation, and then I can tell you, no one is allowed to move." ”

After speaking, the man leaned his head out to look at the carriage shop compound, listened to it sideways for a while, except for the hula sound of the northwest wind, he didn't hear any suspicious movements, he groped close to the gate, suddenly moved, flashed into the right door side of the compound, just wanted to lean against the wall to observe whether the compound was in danger again, and before he could stand firmly, he was thrown to the ground by Ma Chao, who had long been hidden on the side of the courtyard door.

Several soldiers tied up the person who broke into the courtyard, and Fang Chao shouted in a low voice: "You kid let me be honest, if you dare to make a move, I will kill you with one sword." ”

"Bastards, are you soldiers of the cavalry battalion? Quickly find your instructor Fang Chao, I am Feng Guang, the commander of the guard platoon of the only regiment. ”

"Feng Guang? Are you really Platoon Commander Feng? I am Fang Chao, the instructor of the cavalry battalion, but why didn't you kid stay by Commander Lei's side to protect the safety of the regiment commander and the seriously wounded, how could you run here? I can tell you, if Commander Lei's life is in danger, I can't spare you, and the soldiers of the entire One Regiment will tear you apart. ”

"Instructor Fang, don't talk about it anymore, okay? Let go of me, I, Feng Guang, was ordered by Regiment Commander Lei to lead the soldiers to quickly bring the war horses stored in the guard platoon of the carriage shop to No. 17 Guanping Street to stand by, don't waste time, the siege ....... will start soon. ”

Ma Chao heard Feng Guang shouting, 'The siege ...... is about to start', he bounced up suddenly, looked at his watch, and there were still two minutes before the action time reached 2:47, and he ordered the soldiers around him: "Quickly release the Feng platoon commander, get on the horse and rush out with me as fast as possible." ”

(End of chapter)