Chapter 6: The Ballad of the Great Wall (Mikami)

"No problem, let the little devil taste our awesomeness this time!" "Now, let's use the terrain to give the devil a ruthless blow!" Most of the officers of the special service group, including Zhang Songling, had never seen the map of Niangziguan that had just been sent by the Jin Sui Army in advance, and when they heard Lao Gou say that the strength of the entire division only needed to guard Longquan Temple, such a key point on the battlefield, they immediately burst with self-confidence, rolled up their arms and sleeves, and expressed their position loudly.

But when they really started to lay out the defense line, everyone realized that the truth was far from what they imagined. The so-called Longquan Temple is only the general name of the defense line on the north side of Niangzi Pass. There are more than a dozen hills and villages of all sizes below, with a total length of more than fifty miles! Sensei said that letting the special service regiment defend it meant that the entire 27th Division would be dismantled and scattered, and there would not be a battalion of soldiers and horses at each key location.

"Guard, keep a fart!" Lao Gou sat in the main hall of Longquan Temple, slapped the table and began to scold his mother. The monks in the temple had already escaped, and I don't know which way the Buddha was sitting on the lotus platform with a dusty face, glaring at him. "What about the radio, set up the radio station for Lao Tzu, and ask Feng Anbang, what kind of madness he is making!"

Fortunately, this time it was not a surprise attack, and the regiment headquarters accompanied it with a radio station. After more than an hour of busy work, the communications corps finally set up the radio station. But no matter how they got in touch, they couldn't get in touch with the 27th Division. I sent a telegram directly to the military department, but I didn't get any response. In the end, it was Shi Liangcai who was clever, ran down the mountain with his personal guards, half-robbed and half-bought two horses with the local villagers in the village, and rode to the train station again. I borrowed the phone at the station to get to the headquarters of Chief Yan in the second theater. When they heard that it was the 27th Division's special service group, they were immediately stunned, and after a while, they asked tentatively: "Say your number again?" Why is it the 27th Division, isn't the section of Longquan Temple under the responsibility of the 27th Army? ”

"We are the 27th Division, the 27th Division Special Service Group!" When Shi Liangcai heard this, he was so angry that the scar on his face immediately turned gray-black. Dropped the phone, turned over and ran in the direction of Longquan Temple. As soon as he learned the words of the World War II zone with everyone, Lao Gou was immediately dumbfounded. The difference between the 27th Division and the 27th Army is only one word on the surface, but the difference in strength is several times. Asking a division to accomplish a task that should have been done by an army is not a thought that the 27th division brother died quickly enough?

Fortunately, Commander Yan in the Second War Zone was not so unkind, and in the second half of the night, he bypassed the headquarters of the 27th Division and directly issued another order to the special task force. Let's go down the mountain for the time being, and go back to the area around Xiapanshi Station to wait. The Twenty-seventh Army will arrive soon! In addition, he was very kind to inform the secret service group of the bad news, that is, on October 8, that is, this morning, Shijiazhuang was declared lost, and Zhengtai Road was cut off by the Japanese army. The 27th, 30th and 31st Divisions were attacked by the Japanese army on the way to Shanxi by train, and the specific losses were ominous!

"Sixth, when we left on the sixth, didn't Shijiazhuang just fight?!" Lao Gou didn't care about scolding his mother, so he grabbed the telegram and questioned the communication soldiers. On the Shijiazhuang side, Shang Zhen, chairman of Hebei Province, was stationed with the strength of an army, and he had sworn to the 26th Route Army that he would never let the devils attack behind them. Unexpectedly, the voice of the oath was still floating in the sky, and Shijiazhuang lost it first. (Note 1)

The signal corps also knew that the stakes were very high, and at the risk of being blamed by the superiors, they resent a telegram to the Second Theater Command asking for news from several other units of the 26th Route Army. The reply was almost exactly the same as the previous one, Shijiazhuang was lost, the 27th, 30th, and 31st Divisions were attacked on the way to Shanxi by train, and the losses were unknown, and Sun Lianzhong, deputy commander of the Second Theater of Operations, lost contact.

"Grandma's! What kind of battle is this called?! Lao Gou jumped up and paced back and forth in the Daxiong Treasure Hall, like an angry lion. But scolding and scolding, at this juncture, he is not qualified to lose his mind. After going around in front of the Buddha statue for a dozen times, he forced himself to calm down and ordered in a low voice: "Wake up the brothers and go down the mountain overnight." Let's go to Xiapanshi Station and wait. If we can't contact the old battalion commander at noon tomorrow, we'll call back the same way! ”

"Call back, hit back. Go to his grandmother's lady off, who wants to guard who guards! Several battalion commanders were so angry by the brainless blind command of the Second World War Zone Command that their eyes were on fire, and then Lao Gou's words were shouted in a low voice.

The soldiers and horses of the whole regiment walked around the north side of Niangzi Pass as if they were sleepwalking, and came down with torches. When I returned to the designated standby location in the World War II Zone, it was already dawning. A colonel in charge of logistics in the Jin Suijun army had already stepped forward and expressed his condolences with a smile: "Brothers, hard work, hard work!" The chief specially ordered the contemptible people to boil lamb belly soup for everyone to ward off the cold, plus white flour buns, eat as much as you want, enough to manage! ”

"your grandma's tripe soup!" Lao Gou didn't give the colonel face very much, and accused the other party's nose and scolded, "Are you walking people to play, dozens of miles of mountain roads let us run back and forth overnight?" Which bastard made a battle plan, even the 27th Division and the 27th Army couldn't figure it out! ”

"Then (this), then (this) ......." Colonel Jin Suijun was in a hurry, and spoke in an authentic Shanxi accent, "Chief, forgive me, forgive me." Who (we) don't know what's going on? The orders are all up and down. A change in a while, today and yesterday's never have the same! ”

"Above, blame the boss, you don't have a head yourself!"

"Then (this), then (this), where (we) have never been so many people in (this)?" Colonel Jin Suijun blushed, and he looked like he was admitting punishment and beating him.

When encountering such a master, Lao Gou can't take the other party. After scolding and complaining, he ordered several battalion commanders to take the brothers down to drink tripe soup. Then, he grabbed the colonel of the Jin Suijun who was about to slip away, tried his best to suppress his anger and asked: "Is there any news from the 26th Route Army, it is the news of the first army of the newly formed Second Group Army!" Where is our old prefect Sun Lianzhong? ”

"I don't know!" Captain Jin Suijun responded, seeing Lao Gou's two eyebrows wrinkling together, he quickly added, "Otherwise, you go to the station and ask." They have a railroad phone number, so you might be able to get through! ”

Hearing this, Lao Gou left Colonel Jin Suijun and walked to the station with a step. After snatching the stationmaster's phone inside, he grabbed it and called it indiscriminately, and after tossing and turning for nearly half an hour, finally, with the help of the operator, he found the headquarters of the 27th Division.

"We're almost there. Take a break and walk along the railway to Niangzi Pass! Feng Anbang's voice came from the other end of the phone, and he was weak. What, trains? It's time to lift the train! The railroad was blown up by the devil with a plane, and the train had to wait for someone to repair the rails while driving! No brothers can run fast on two legs! Don't worry, the old battalion commander is fine. It was the 79th Brigade of Huang Qiaosong and the 30th Division responsible for the aftermath that suffered greater losses and suffered a lot of bombs. Thanks to the old battalion commander, he kept an eye in advance, and he didn't fully believe Shang Zhen's bastard. Otherwise, you are ready to collect the corpse for us! (Note 2)

This is perhaps the only exciting news in two days, although it contains mixed content. Dropping the phone, Lao Gou led everyone to find a hidden place near Xiapanshi Station, resting and waiting for the large army. As a result, the large army did not arrive for a long time, and the devil's plane flew over first.

The bullying Chinese army did not have anti-aircraft fire, and those planes were pressed extremely low. The wings almost touched the roof of the station, blowing the straw on the roof in all directions.

The first two fighters were pulled back up, followed by four large and bulky bombers. Like maggots under flies, huge bombs were placed in several piles along the railway line. After the bomb in his stomach was dropped, he had to go around twice with great brawl, and only after checking the results of the battle did Shi Shiran fly away.

Because the resting location was relatively hidden, the devil plane did not find the hiding place of the secret service group. Looking at the railroad that had been changed beyond recognition, Lao Gou gritted his teeth and gurgled, "Just let him blow it up?" What about you, Chief Yan, don't want to think of a way?! ”

"The little devil's plane has come several times a day these days, and we have long been used to being bombed. He finished blowing it up during the day, so let's send someone to repair it at night. Anyway, the little devil is still counting on using this railway himself in the future, and he doesn't dare to destroy it too hard! Xu Ziming, the station manager who hid in advance, shrugged his shoulders and put on a posture of resignation.

Get his reminder, everyone take a closer look. Looking through the thick smoke and flames, I found that the devil's bombs were mainly concentrated in the more than two miles long in and out of the station, not on the entire railway line. The hall of Xiapanshi Station was basically not affected by shrapnel.

"Then they can't be arrogant! Don't you Chief Yan have anti-aircraft guns in your hands? Why don't you turn some over! Lao Gou still felt breathless and continued to ask in a low voice.

"Then I don't know!" Xu Ziming continued to shrug his shoulders helplessly, "I'm just a sesame official in charge of the railway, where can I talk to Chief Yan." If you really want to teach the little devil a lesson......" He hesitated, put his head to Lao Gou's ear, and reminded in a low voice, "I see that the tunnel next to the station is not, and above the tunnel, there is a stone mountain." It's not easy to hide, but if you put a few machine guns in that place, and the devil comes to dive and bomb again, you can give him a few shuttles from the top down! ”

"Machine gun ......?" Lao Gou frowned and looked around at his surroundings. Sure enough, not far from the station, a tunnel was found. The mountain above the tunnel is not very high, and the top of the mountain is rocky. If you choose a suitable position and arrange a few machine guns, you will definitely be able to catch the devil plane off guard.

But this person is just a railway station master, how can he still know how to arrange machine gun emplacements? With a little suspicion, his gaze slowly swept over Xu Ziming. The latter continued to grin bitterly and demanded in a low voice: "Sir, if you want to fight, just arrange for the brothers to fight, and don't report to the boss that I gave you the idea!" I'm a stinky station, and I can't do any good when I go outside the station! “

Note 1: Shang Zhen, a member of the League, a veteran of the Xinhai Revolution. At the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, he was the chairman of Hebei Province of the Kuomintang, retreated without a fight in the face of the Japanese invaders, abandoned Shijiazhuang, and took the Empress Dowager Cixi float all the way to Zhengzhou, causing Zhengtai Road to fall into the hands of the Japanese.

Note 2: Huang Chensong, an anti-Japanese general, became famous in the bloody battle of Taierzhuang. When the People's Liberation Army was besieging Taiyuan, he prepared an uprising, and was reported by his general Tong Dehou and sent to Nanjing to be shot.