Because they wanted to avoid the pursuit and interception of the Japanese army, Lin Rui, Zhou Weihan, Zhang Xinghan and others led death squads to constantly move and hide in the area of Lion Forest, Qingpu and Baoshan.

At that time, the Japanese army had already captured Qingpu Town, and was pursuing the national army westward along the road of Qingpu Town, and began to divide troops to Baoshan County, Lion Forest, Chuanshakou and other places to launch a detour, in an attempt to completely annihilate the national army in the above areas.

Therefore, the troop structure and actions of the Japanese army on the battlefield at that time were relatively chaotic, and the only devil who could take care of them was the 3rd Brigade of the 12th Infantry Wing of the Japanese Army, which had only about 500 people.

In addition, they were wearing the uniforms of the Japanese army at the time, and it was difficult for the Japanese army to distinguish between the enemy and the enemy in the chaos, and it was precisely because of this that Lin Rui and his death squad were able to survive in the cracks.

When moving to the area of the junction between the southeast of Yuepu Town and Baoshan County, Zhou Weihan, who was in charge of leading people behind the palace, trotted all the way to find Lin Rui with a pistol and reported to him: "Camp, the devils of the 12th Infantry Wing have caught up again. ”

Lin Feng next to him heard this: "These little devils are really like dog skin plasters, they can't be shaken off!" ”

Lin Rui said disapprenorovingly: "There are only a few hundred Japanese soldiers, if it weren't for the complicated enemy situation here, we would have killed them before we could get out of danger!" ”

Lin Rui's voice fell, and there was a sudden rush of footsteps in front of him, and everyone looked up, and a figure ran over in a hurry.

When they arrived, everyone saw clearly that the person who came was none other than Zhang Xinghan, the commander of the 7th Company who was sent by Lin Rui to reconnoiter the situation.

Zhang Xinghan looked at Zhou Weihan and the others beside Lin Rui, and saluted Lin Rui and said, "Yingzao, I have figured it out, the Yuepu Town in front has been lost." ”

"No wonder." Lin Rui suddenly said: "There are devils everywhere!" ”

Zhou Weihan said a little anxiously: "Yingza, then what should we do?" Back to the Lion Grove? ”

Lin Rui analyzed in a deep voice: "I'm afraid that the Lion Forest will not be able to go back, after the loss of Yuepu Town, the Japanese army will definitely divide its troops to detour to the Lion Forest and Baoshan County and other places, if I guess correctly, when I learned that Yuepu Town was lost, the regiment may have been ordered to withdraw from the Lion Forest position." ”

"What? They didn't wait for us to withdraw? Zhou Weihan was a little anxious.

Lin Rui calmly continued to analyze: "You can't blame Tuanzuo for this, the defense lines in Yuepu, Lion Forest, and Baoshan are integrated with each other, once one place is broken, it will be difficult to defend other places."

Especially now that the important place of Yuepu has been lost, there is no need for the Lion Forest Fort and Baoshan County to continue to hold on.

If it were me, I would have ordered a retreat, and it was impossible for us to have more than 200 death squads that would have affected the whole army. ”

Zhou Weihan and the others nodded slowly when they heard this, and Zhang Xinghan opened his mouth and asked: "Yingzao, since the Lion Forest can't go back, and Yuepu has been lost, what should we do?" ”

Lin Rui looked up and muttered: "Now that Lion Forest, Yuepu and other places have all fallen into the hands of the Japanese army, the main force of the devils will definitely break through to the deep defense line of our army along these two important places."

Therefore, we can't go back to the big field defense line for the time being, and if we forcibly withdraw at this time, we will be wiped out! ”

Zhou Weihan was a little anxious, and when he heard this, he gritted his teeth and said: "If you are dead both horizontally and vertically, then let's turn back and follow the 12th Infantry Wing behind us, and we will die with them!" ”

Lin Rui glanced at him and said calmly: "When sacrifice is necessary, we must stand up without hesitation." It's called mission! But when sacrifice is not necessary, we must protect ourselves as much as possible, only in this way can we have a useful body to continue to kill the enemy! It's sanity!

Now we have completed the task of attacking the Japanese artillery positions, although because of the change in the overall situation of the war, it has not been able to achieve the desired effect. But there is no need to sacrifice, so we must do everything we can to survive, only in this way can we kill as many devils as possible! ”

"What the camp said makes sense, but where should we move to the enemy on all sides?" Zhang Xinghan nodded in agreement and asked.

Lin Rui looked in the direction of Baoshan County in the southwest, and said in a firm tone: "Let's go to Baoshan County." ”

"Baoshan County?" Zhou Weihan was a little surprised when he heard this, looked at Lin Rui puzzled, and asked, "Yingzao, didn't you say that Baoshan County may also have been lost?" So what's the point of us going to Baoshan? ”

Lin Rui said: "If the main force of the national army wants to evacuate smoothly, it will definitely leave a part of the troops in Baoshan County to block the Japanese army, so this place should not be lost." ”

In fact, Lin Rui was very sure that Baoshan County would not be lost, because calculating the historical time, the 18th Army, the 3rd Battalion of the 583rd Regiment of the 292nd Brigade of the 98th Division, Yao Ziqing's department, should have been stationed in Baoshan County, and began to block the Japanese army behind the palace and cover the retreat of the whole division.

In history, Yao Ziqing led 500 athletes to hold on to Baoshan County for seven days and seven nights, and now the battle to defend Baoshan has just begun, and Baoshan County will certainly not be lost.

Now Lin Rui and this death squad have become a lone army, going to Baoshan County is their only choice, and only by entering Baoshan County and joining forces with Yao Ziqing's troops can they be able to fight their way out of the encirclement.

If he could, Lin Rui even wanted to rescue Battalion Commander Yao Ziqing, so that this anti-Japanese hero could live and continue to kill the enemy for the country.

Seeing Lin Rui's determined face, Zhou Weihan and Zhang Xinghan stood up and saluted, and suddenly received the order.

So, Lin Rui personally led the team to open the way in front, Zhang Xinghan led dozens of people to the rear of the palace, Zhou Weihan and Lin Feng led the troops in the center, and nearly 300 daredevils bypassed Yuepu Town and rushed straight to Baoshan County in the southwest.

In the original history, after the capture of the Shizilin Fort, the 23rd Division of Anda was transferred to Baoshan County by the headquarters of the 11th Division because of heavy casualties, and took over another wing, the 22nd Infantry Wing, which also belonged to the 10th Brigade of the 11th Division, and continued to besiege the Baoshan defenders, who had become a lone army at that time.

Now the Lion Forest Fort has just been captured, and the Japanese army has not had time to reorganize its forces and rotate them.

Therefore, the attack on Baoshan County is still the 22nd Infantry Wing of the Japanese Army, and the captain of this wing is named Yongjin Zuobi, and the 12th Infantry Wing Wing Commander Anda Twenty-three Zuo is the same as Lu University, the difference is that he is one period lower than Anda Twenty-three, and he is regarded as the younger brother of Anda Twenty-three.

Unlike Anda Twenty-Three's ferocious offensive style, Nagatsu Zobi's command style is more steady and considerate.

After discovering that the main forces of the Chinese army around Baoshan had withdrawn one after another, he did not rush to capture Baoshan County, which had actually become an isolated city, but only besieged and blocked the defenders of Baoshan with only one infantry brigade, and commanded the rest of the main force of the wing to cross Baoshan County and pursue the main force of the Nationalist Army with other friendly and neighboring troops.

It was not that Yongjin Zuo was negligent, but that with the comparison of the combat effectiveness of China and Japan at that time and the battlefield environment, it was more than enough to besiege Yao Ziqing's headquarters with only four or five hundred people with a single brigade.

After all, a brigade of the Japanese army can even defeat a division of the national army. At that time, the area around Baoshan County was occupied by the Japanese army, and there were Japanese troops everywhere, even if this brigade could not eat the defenders in the city, they wanted to break through but it was difficult to climb to the sky, even if they were sleepy, they could trap this lone army to death.