After getting the news brought by Zhou Zichen, Ye Yun and Yu Zongping's hearts were a little settled.

Taking advantage of the delay in the Japanese attack, Yu Zongping summoned some party members around him.

The final mobilization and encouragement was given to them: "Comrades, although we are now surrounded, Regiment Commander Yang Jingyang is coming with reinforcements from the Tiger Ben Regiment at the fastest speed!"

As long as we hold on, we will definitely be able to wait for reinforcements, defeat these invading Japanese troops, and successfully break through! ”

Sun Yu, the commander of the 1st battalion with a beard on his face, took the lead in expressing his position, pulling his neck and saying loudly: "Political commissar, regiment commander, you can rest assured, we will fight to the death with all our might, and fight to the end with the little devil!"

The head fell off the bowl and had a big scar, but after 18 years, he was a good man again! ”

2 Battalion Commander Li Wei echoed and said: "Lao Sun is right, if you fight with these little devils of dog days, there will be no people in my independent regiment who are greedy for life and afraid of death!" ”

Zhou Peng, the commander of the 3rd battalion, also said categorically: "Kill the enemy and serve the country, just today!" Let's also let the little devils take a look at our New Fourth Army's determination to serve the country!

The little devils want to eat us, so we have to see if they have such teeth! ”

Political Commissar Ye Yun said with relief: "Okay! I am very relieved that comrades have this determination! I believe that we will be able to hold out until the reinforcements of the Tiger Ben Regiment arrive, successfully defeat the invading Japanese army, and successfully break through! ”

The head of the regiment, Yu Zongping, looked around with a deep gaze, and said suddenly: "Since everyone is mentally prepared, let's take their places and prepare for battle!" ”

"Yes!"

Everyone agreed and left immediately.

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Majiagou.

With the smooth advance of the Japanese troops on all directions, the commander of the 13th Division of the Japanese Army, Ogisu Tatsubing, and his staff group have arrived here.

However, at this time, the old devil's face did not have the slightest joy of winning the enemy's headquarters, and his old face was gloomy to the extreme.

Because judging from the combat effectiveness, as well as the enemy's military uniform, and the few red flags captured, he found that the opponent did not seem to be the Tiger Regiment, but the New Fourth Army, which had been entrenched in the Dabie Mountain area.

Ogizhou Libing gritted his back molars and said angrily: "Yaga! Rice buckets, what a bunch of useless rice buckets, what do those intelligence officers of the special high class do to eat? Can even such important information go wrong? ”

After speaking, he pulled out the saber at his waist and slashed forward.

“Duang！”

The dilapidated wooden table was suddenly split in two, and the dust in the cracks collapsed towards the ground together.

All the devil officers around him were so frightened that Chrysanthemum tightened and trembled.

After a while, Chief of Staff Qiu Yongli comforted: "Your Excellency, division commander, intelligence mistakes may not all be bad things for us.

Take this New Fourth Army as an example, although its combat effectiveness is far from being comparable with that of the Tiger Regiment, its existence is still a big trouble and an unstable factor for the imperial army.

It greatly affects the security of the Dabie Mountain area.

It was a surprise that it was able to be exterminated this time. ”

Ogizhou Libing said with a gloomy face: "However, even if we can exterminate this branch of the army, we will inevitably expose our whereabouts, so that the Tiger Ben Regiment of the China Army will be prepared in advance, and it will not be so easy to destroy it without knowing it or unknowingly." ”

Qiu Yongli was silent.

Ogishu Libing pondered for a moment, and while putting his sword back into its sheath, he said, "The matter has come to this, let's destroy this branch of the army first!" ”

As he spoke, Ogisu Libing turned his head to look at the communications staff officer on the side, and ordered: [ ]"Immediately convey the situation here to His Excellency the Commander by telegram, and at the same time ask him to send aviation troops to provide tactical guidance!" ”

"Hayi!"

The communications staff officer next to him slammed his head and turned to leave.

Ogizhou Libing said again: "Go, follow me to Luoxialing, I want to see this branch of the army annihilated!" ”

"Hayi!"

All the devils paused in unison, and then followed behind the soldiers of Ogizhou, and together they left the regimental headquarters of the Independent Regiment of the New Fourth Army and rushed towards Luoxialing.

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Hideyama, Okamura Ninji did not come to the front in person.

Instead, he has been remotely directing this encirclement and suppression battle that he called hunting through the radio station.

At this time, a communications staff officer suddenly came to Okamura Ninji's approach, saluted and reported to him: "Your Excellency, the 13th Division has called, they have annihilated a considerable part of the enemy army, and trapped all the remaining enemy troops on the Luoxia Ridge, 10 kilometers east of Majiagou.

However, they also discovered a startling fact. ”

Okamura raised his eyebrows and asked, "What fact?" ”

The communications staff officer said in a surprising voice: "It seems that what is surrounded by the imperial army is not the Tiger Ben Regiment of the Zhina Army, but the New Fourth Army led by the Communist Party!" ”

"Nani?" Okamura Ninji was taken aback when he heard this, and asked with a look of disbelief, "How is this possible?" Where does the news come from? Is it confirmed? ”

The communications staff officer lowered his head and replied as if walking on thin ice: "Your Excellency, the 13th Division of the Imperial Army has captured many enemy flags in the battle with the enemy, and found that in addition to the blue sky and white sun flags representing the National Revolutionary Army, there are also many red flags.

In addition, these enemies are not wearing khaki countries. military uniforms, but shabby gray cloth uniforms. ”

"Red flag?" Okamura Ningji's face was suddenly extremely difficult to see, because he knew that the only people who would use the red flag in the Chinese army today were the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army led by the Communist Party.

As we all know, although Yang Jing's Tiger Regiment has a close relationship with the New Fourth Army, it is not yet an armed force led by the Communist Party.

In this way, the encirclement and suppression operation he launched this time, using tens of thousands of troops and spending countless various war materials, has failed to a certain extent.

Because the strategic value of a guerrilla force of the New Fourth Army cannot be compared with that of the Tiger Regiment.

It can even be said that even the strategic value of the entire New Fourth Army is far inferior to that of the Tiger Regiment.

Fujiwara Takeshi, the chief of staff next to him, saw that Okamura Ningji's face was not very good-looking, so he said tentatively: "Your Excellency Commander, since the Chinese army of this encirclement and suppression is not our target, is it not to end the encirclement and suppression?" ”

"Don't use it for the time being, since the crooked attack is encircling the New Fourth Army, let's eliminate them." Okamura thought for a moment and said: "In a broad sense, the New Fourth Army and the Eighth Route Army under the leadership of the Communist Party are also part of China's national defense forces.

Eliminating as many of them as possible would be tantamount to weakening China's national defense.

Moreover, the elimination of the New Fourth Army will also play a great role in the security and stability of the Dabie Mountain area. ”

Takeshi Fujiwara nodded and said no more.

Okamura Ningji lowered his head, looked at the combat map in front of him, and whispered to himself: "Since the anti-Japanese forces in Majiagou are not the Tiger Bun Regiment, then where should Yang Jing and this army be?" ”

That's what he's most concerned about right now.

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