In the winter of 1943, the situation in the anti-Japanese base areas behind enemy lines gradually developed in a favorable direction for us.
Under the blows of our army, the Japanese puppet army lost many strongholds in the marginal areas and had to further reduce its strength to ensure its occupied areas.
However, there are also a very small number of hardcore traitors who are determined to fight for the Lives of the Japanese invaders.
Therefore, the elimination of these traitors has become the top priority of our armed engineering team and the enemy engineering department.
▲ The Eighth Route Army used ladders to attack enemy strongholds
At that time, the pseudo-squadron leader of Liangzhao Town, Renqiu County, our base area in Jizhong was such a stubborn traitor.
He made enemies of us everywhere, actively participated in attacks and sweeps of the base areas, and in peacetime extorted the property of the common people in the name of grain collection in the four townships, even indiscriminately killed innocents, and even secretly informed the devils of the "relations" of our army in the puppet army and sabotaged it.
In this way, he won the trust and reward of the devil.
For such a hopeless traitor, the Renqiu County Enemy Work Department was determined to destroy him, deter other traitors, and at the same time pull out the eyes and ears of the devils.
The stronghold of Liangzhao Town is located at the east end of the town, surrounded by wide and deep protective ditches, and the entry and exit strongholds are through suspension bridges, and the strongholds are heavily guarded and difficult to approach.
The squadron leader of this puppet army was also very cunning, and the former Renqiu County Brigade had organized ambushes against him many times, but each time he was mistakenly wrong and yang and was escaped by him, and over time, he had a certain understanding of the laws of our army's activities, and he no longer easily took the bait, and every time he would retaliate against the masses near the ambushed site.
So in the end, the enemy industry department decided to do it in the town.
▲ The Eighth Route Army held a mobilization meeting
This squadron leader had to steal the goods of the common people at the market every time he rushed to the market, which was a good time to make a move, and then the enemy work department gave the task to Comrade Yan Xiufeng, a reconnaissance officer with both wisdom and courage.
This comrade often went in and out of the enemy-occupied areas for reconnaissance and hoeing missions, and each time he was able to successfully complete the task and then retreated completely, and his superiors trusted him very much.
This time, after appointing him to the task of hoeing, he was also assigned 2 comrades as assistants.
So on the day when Liangzhao Town rushed to the market, Yan Xiufeng and 3 other comrades disguised themselves as ordinary people before dawn and set off, wearing torn felt hats and torn cotton jackets, and mixed into the crowd of people who rushed to the market and entered the town.
After entering the town, the comrades who were in contact with them told them that today the situation was special, and the pseudo-squadron commander did not take only a few guards to the market to eat and take nothing as usual, but led a group of puppet troops out of the artillery tower and was arresting people in all directions, asking them to pay attention.
▲ The town that was recaptured by our army
Then Comrade Yan Xiufeng and the three of them came to the most lively place in the market, stared at the direction of the stronghold, and prepared for battle.
At this time, the pseudo squadron leader had come to the street with a large group of puppet troops, and in order to avoid injuring the masses by mistake, Comrade Yan Xiufeng planned to wait for the pseudo squadron leader to approach him before firing.
But unexpectedly, the pseudo-squadron leader suddenly took the initiative to find him trouble, and suddenly surrounded Comrade Yan Xiufeng with a group of people, and at the same time held his pistol to his chest and shouted:
"Raise your hand!"
Comrade Yan Xiufeng hastened to defend:
"Boss, I'm in a hurry."
And pretend to be extremely frightened.
The pseudo-squadron leader yelled, "I see you like a spy of the Eighth Route!" Catch it! ”
The puppet soldiers then rushed up and twisted Comrade Yan Xiufeng, because the matter was too sudden, the other 2 assistants were stunned! I don't know how to be good.
Fight, afraid of accidentally injuring Yan Xiufeng and the masses, do you not fight to see Yan Xiufeng so arrested?
So one of them rushed out of the town to find the comrades who answered him, while the other one secretly followed the puppet army and Yan Xiufeng.
▲ The artillery tower of the Japanese puppet army
When the 2 puppet troops escorted Comrade Yan Xiufeng to the artillery tower, he deliberately shook his head and pretended to be timid, because the puppet army did not search his body when they arrested him, Comrade Yan Xiufeng had already eaten the enemy but arrested people at random in the market, in order to extort property, and did not know his true identity at all.
The puppet troops went to a place where there were few people, and when they saw that Yan Xiufeng was unlikely to let go of him when there were too many people to escape, Yan Xiufeng saw that the enemy let go of his hand, deliberately pretended to stumble, he fell forward and fell to the ground, and then pulled out his pistol, the puppet army was unguarded, and told him to stand up, Comrade Yan Xiufeng looked at the pseudo squadron leader, shot him in the head, killed him on the spot, and then took advantage of the other enemies' panic, jumped up, quickly penetrated into the nearby crowd, and brilliantly completed the task of hoeing.
Author/Zhou Hongxin