The Japanese army launched a large-scale attack on Lujiazhai, and Zhuang Saitofeng and others resisted stubbornly, but in the end they were outnumbered and were forced to retreat into the village to start street fighting.After the Japanese entered the village, they burned, killed, looted, and all the elderly, weak, women and children were spared. The tragic situation was unbearable.The white-haired old woman used her body to protect her young grandson, the young sister hid her sister behind her, and a hero even died with the enemy with explosives.

Faced with the atrocities of the Japanese invaders, the villagers of Lujiazhai shared the same hatred of the enemy, and the whole people were soldiers.They use familiar terrain to elusively traverse the narrow alleyways.Some people throw stones from the roof, some people stabbed spears from the dark, and some people set up traps to lure the enemy into the depths.The villagers cooperated tacitly and used various methods to attack the Japanese army and annihilate the invading enemies one by one.After a fierce battle, the Japanese army finally retreated.However, the price of victory was extremely heavy. The village was full of broken walls and corpses everywhere. Lu Shicai looked at the devastated village, and sadness came from it, and tears flowed everywhere.

Soon, a group of people galloped over, and the villagers of Lujiazhai felt nervous, thinking that the Japanese army would be gone and returned.When the team approached, the head officer loudly stated his identity, and the person who called out was Xiang Qian, the commander of the Independent Battalion of the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army.After Zhuang Saitofeng carefully identified it, he immediately led the villagers to welcome him warmly.Afterwards, they counted the results of the battle, and the villagers of Lujiazhai annihilated more than 100 Japanese troops in the defense battle. This record was not easy for regular troops.

Zhang Zhiping returned to his residence with scars on his body and confessed to Lu Ying the military situation of the Japanese attack on Lujiazhai.He explained that in order to avoid confronting his father-in-law, he had to use a bitter plan to get out.Lu Ying looked at the wound on his body, feeling both distressed and helpless. When he learned that Lujiazhai had successfully repelled the Japanese army, he was even more worried about his father's safety.Seeing this, Zhang Zhiping comforted Lu Ying without having to worry too much. Based on his judgment on the situation of the battle, his father-in-law should be safe.

During the 115th Division's stationed in Lujiazhai, all officers and soldiers strictly abide by the three major disciplines and eight points of attention, and won the trust of the villagers with practical actions.Every day before dawn, the soldiers would get up to help the fellow villagers carry water and chop firewood. When women were washing clothes and cooking, they could always see the Eighth Route Army soldiers taking the initiative to help. Even if they borrowed a needle and an oil lamp from the fellow villagers' home, they would definitely pay at the price, which was not bad at all.The military leaders repeatedly emphasized the importance of mass discipline and explicitly ordered violators to be severely punished by military law.

Health officer Zhao You became a rescuer of seriously injured people and took some medicinal materials from Dr. Du’s clinic without permission.When Dr. Du returned from his way out, he found that several precious medicinal herbs in the medicine cabinet disappeared. The villagers told him that it was done by the Eighth Route Army health officers.Doctor Du immediately found Lu Shicai and asked for an explanation.

Lu Shicai originally wanted to mediate the matter privately, but Lu Shiqing insisted on doing things in public, believing that this was a critical moment to test the military discipline of the Eighth Route Army.The two brought Dr. Du to the independent battalion station and made an investigation request to the battalion commander Xiang Qian.Xiang Qian immediately ordered the entire battalion to conduct a thorough investigation. Soon, the health officer Zhao Youcheng took the initiative to admit the drug acquisition and insisted that he left behind an IOU at that time.However, Doctor Du said that he had never seen any IOU, and both parties had their own opinions.

Faced with the crisis of trust, Zhao Youcheng made a generous speech, expressing his willingness to show his ambitions with his death and defend the reputation of the Eighth Route Army with his life.Xiang Qian endured his grief and sentenced Zhao Youcheng to theft in accordance with military discipline, and sentenced him to death in public and immediately executed him.Just before the execution, Zhuang Saifeng rushed to the scene, holding the IOU found in the crack of the medicine shop counter in his hand, confirming Zhao Youcheng's innocence.