Chapter Ninety-Nine: Forced to Rescue Failed

It turned out that as soon as Brigade Commander Chen and Regiment Commander Ye met and discussed, they expected that with the friendship between the Tiger Battalion and the Cheetah Brigade, the Third Battalion would not sit idly by. The telegram said that he rushed to support, and only after sending a telegram to inquire did he learn that the battalion commander had mobilized the whole battalion and set off in three batches.

The two were in a hurry, and hurriedly rushed to the third battalion from the 772nd regiment with a campfire. What I saw was forty or fifty wounded soldiers brought back by a company commander, and they had not been dealt with for several hours. The battalion headquarters did not have any manpower at all, except for the wounded who were all logisticians.

As soon as Brigade Commander Chen asked Battalion Commander He to lead people to attack the county seat, he still felt that the losses were not great, the casualties were not many, and he would not stop for a moment if he had soldiers in his hands, and he could fight wherever he wanted.

The two didn't dare to delay for a moment and hurried to the county seat, and just happened to meet Battalion Commander He who had suffered a loss and withdrew, and there were many wounded and dead corpses, which made Brigade Commander Chen and Regiment Commander Ye angry at that time, and they had the heart to shoot Battalion Commander He.

Camp Commander He saw that the two old leaders were angry, and he didn't want to explain anything? It's all said in the telegram that I want to say, but I didn't expect it to be like this, this is the second time that I have personally caused such a huge loss to Sanji.

Last time, fortunately, I met Xiaobao's security team, so that I avoided the pursuit of the devil, but the team increased several times, and the combat effectiveness became very strong. But that was also the cost of the lives of hundreds of outstanding soldiers of the Eighth Route Army, in order to atone for their merits and avenge the soldiers, they took the initiative to demote to the battalion commander and stay in the third battalion.

This time it was the way it is now, looking at the rows of corpses of the soldiers in front of him, the soldiers who were injured so many times, without the old leader's hands, were eager to shoot themselves.

But Battalion Commander He thought that there were still nearly 100 Cheetah members in the city who were fighting fiercely with the little devils, so he cheekily begged the brigade commander to let him lead people to rush in and rescue the Cheetah Brigade before dealing with it.

Brigade Commander Chen and Regiment Commander Ye can't see death without help, and Battalion Commander He wants to take people to rescue him. wants to die under the devil's gun to be a hero and martyr, his life has to be decided by the two of them, and he has to be punished and cleaned up so that he can remember it for a long time, so that Company Commander Li saved the Cheetah Brigade.

Now it was almost evening, the soldiers had been running for a day, and after two battles, they were exhausted and tired, and Brigade Commander Chen ordered the troops to return to the battalion headquarters first and then deal with the relevant personnel.

Shui Wa was very apologetic in her heart, and it was inconvenient to say much about the internal affairs of the Eighth Route Army, and she was not in the mood to join them, so she asked Company Commander Li to thank Battalion Commander He and then turned around and went back to his home to make a plan. Just as Company Commander Li persuaded when he was leaving, he couldn't act recklessly, he was all sacrificed, who avenged the Red Soldiers and Xiaoyi.

To put it mildly, there was not even a single person to collect the corpses, no one knew who they were, and they became a group of lonely ghosts. There is no one who goes home to report the news, the spark can start a prairie fire, stay in the green mountains, and are not afraid of no firewood, and revenge has become their reluctant to return to the Lion Rock.

Back at the headquarters of the third battalion, Battalion Commander He wanted to take full responsibility, and Deputy Battalion Commander Zhou also grabbed it one by one. As a result, both of them were locked up first, the soldiers buried their fallen comrades in tears, and Wang Xue led people to treat and bandage the wounds of the wounded.

The entire three battalions were immersed in a sad atmosphere, the two battalion commanders were in confinement, the soldiers suffered heavy casualties, and the double blow made the soldiers depressed and sad.

Brigade Commander Chen also expected that there would be casualties, but he didn't know that it would be so big. I brought two military doctors and some medicines from the brigade headquarters, but they were far from enough, and minor injuries could only be bandaged with herbs, and I hurriedly sent a telegram asking the headquarters hospital to send medicine urgently, and I was busy until the middle of the night, and after dealing with them, the soldiers were so tired that they fell asleep.

Early the next morning, as soon as the sky was white, several Eighth Route Army servants came to the third battalion and set up camp. They were reconnaissance fighters sent by Regiment Commander Ye, and they were arranged to go to Camel Mountain yesterday to reconnoiter the situation.

The reconnaissance squad reported to Regiment Commander Ye that they quietly went to Camel Mountain, and there were devils guarding dangerous places all the way, and there were devil troops on the roads they had to pass. After a long detour, many of them are drilling in the woods and climbing rocks, before they have passed the level of the devil, the closer they are to the camel mountain, the more the devil is tighter, there is really no way to get close to the camel mountain. But after a while the sound of shelling was heard, and the sound of gunfire came, and it was not intense, and the sporadic gunfire came and went, and it did not take long for it to stop, and the silence was restored, as if there was no one in the valley, and nothing happened.

Brigade Commander Chen and Regiment Commander Ye analyzed that there were shelling and gunfire, which proved that the Cheetah Brigade was still blocking. The devils surrounded the mountain, and there were also a large number of island troops around, proving that Camel Mountain had not been captured by the devils.

This is the fourth day, and the Cheetah Brigade is under the siege of dozens of devils, lacking water and food, no logistical support, no ammunition, and no replenishment of troops. The weather is very hot, it is not easy, how strong is the fighting perseverance of the Cheetah Brigade, what kind of team is this? Even the Tiger Battalion can't be compared, and the two of them are very admired in their hearts and are full of curiosity about this team, but it's a pity that ......

It is no wonder that Pingding County made the devils restless in the cooperation of the Cheetah Brigade and the Tiger Battalion, and they were helpless, forcing the devils to put so much manpower and energy on the Cheetah Brigade to eliminate them.

Brigade Commander Chen and Regiment Commander Ye convened a meeting of several companies, platoon commanders, and Wang Xue of the Third Battalion. In detail, the situation of the Cheetah Brigade and the process of the two battalion commanders He and Zhou mobilized their troops to participate in the battle, and personally drafted a telegram and sent it directly to General Peng of the Eighth Route Army Headquarters to receive it, waiting for the instructions of the headquarters.

During these four days, the devils used newspapers to publish a large number of deeds of the Cheetah Brigade besieged in Camel Mountain, and wanted to use the media to vigorously publicize it. It also made the photos of the Eighth Route Army going to rescue yesterday and being defeated by the island army, as well as attacking Pingding County and being ambushed by the island army, causing heavy casualties on the front page.

It soon spread throughout various counties and towns in Shanxi, causing a great sensation. The streets and alleys, restaurants, teahouses, roadside vendors, and ordinary people were all talking, and the news immediately spread to all parts of the country, causing a chain reaction.

Factories and schools in many cities across the country have gone on strike, boycotted classes, and marched and petitioned on the streets. Sympathize with this anti-Japanese civil armed force composed of bandits, support the rescue operation of the Eighth Route Army, and express deep condolences to the soldiers of the Eighth Route Army who sacrificed their lives.

The Eighth Route Army is the one who firmly implements the call of the Chinese National Government, regardless of the north and the south, the old and the young, the whole country to resist the war, unite all the anti-war forces, and support from all sides when one side is in trouble. However, during the days when the Cheetah Brigade was trapped for a few days, only the Eighth Route Army, the team of Communist D, was seen actively carrying out rescue operations.

There were still hundreds of thousands of Kuomintang troops in Shanxi, and the main forces such as the Jin reinforcements did not dispatch a single soldier. It is clear that the Chinese Kuomintang political army said one thing and did another, and in order to preserve its strength, it disregarded the life and death of friendly troops and the armed forces of the sincere anti-Japanese war, and deceived the people of the whole country.

Along the way, workers, students, and citizens shouted slogans to resist the invaders, and went straight to the local garrison barracks of the National People's Republic of China, demanding that they sincerely resist the war and fight the devils.

In the Presidential Palace in Peidu, Chongqing, President Jiang stared at the newspaper sent by Director Mao by his confidant, and received a telephone report from the local political F and military departments, scolding Niang Xipi, what are the two commanders Yan and Wei in the Second War Zone doing?

Don't they understand that the island army and the Eighth Route Army are fighting a political war and a psychological war? They all make a big fuss about this bandit of a few hundred people, are both of them idiots? Such a simple question would not be seen?

The workers and students everywhere are fast enough, but it is difficult to guarantee that it is not the communist D who is behind the push, and these communist Ds cannot fight the devils head-on, and they secretly incite the common people to be the best, and they hate the communist D in their hearts.

When the Second War Zone Governor's Department received a telegram of inquiry from President Chiang himself, Chief Yan was very surprised. It's just spreading too fast, isn't it? The battle of hundreds of people, the whole country does not know how many times a day it happens, and the president may not make a big fuss.

When he didn't find out the situation, it was the commander's department who ordered the subordinates not to act rashly, and the troops below didn't dare to take the initiative to find so many devils to fight, and they wouldn't send troops if they had an order, so he wanted the Eighth Route Army to fight them! Isn't the consumption of the forces of the Communist Party D what the old man wants? In order to cope with public opinion, the Second World War Zone also took action.

The closest to Camel Mountain is the Iron and Steel Brigade of Brigade Commander Liu in the Xiyang area, and there is a regiment of Zeng Wanzhong's Third Army in Qingcheng Town. Therefore, the headquarters of the Second War Zone directly ordered the two troops to find an opportunity to take the initiative to attack and support the anti-Japanese war team in Camel Mountain.

The military commanders of the two teams understood the meaning of the above, and just made a show for the Eighth Route Army and the people of the whole country, and each sent a battalion of troops to Camel Mountain.

One of Brigade Commander Liu's battalions was ambushed by a wing of the Yamazaki Brigade when they arrived at Diya, and they slipped away without firing a few shots, dropping a few corpses, and running faster than a rabbit.

Another battalion also encountered devils at the Sifang Monument, and the battle was not fierce, and the national army retreated as soon as it was broken, and it also withdrew to the regimental headquarters to report to Commander Zeng.

Both teams waited two hours before sending a report to the headquarters of the Second War Zone that they had sent a large number of troops, carrying heavy weapons and so on. Halfway through, we were ambushed by devils, and after several hours of fierce fighting, both the enemy and us suffered heavy losses. Devils suddenly arrived with reinforcements, including mechanized troops, and in the end, due to the disparity in weapons and troops, the troops withdrew after fierce fighting and many casualties.

The commander's department received their telegrams almost at the same time, scolding the two troops, calling back to give comfort and praise, but in their hearts they were thinking about the dog's day, the national army and the Jin reinforcements did not cooperate well in the war on weekdays, and they lied but had a tacit understanding, and they sent their telegrams to Chongqing and the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army word for word.