Xu Rui said with a smile: "I am willing to go and stay, listen to the convenience, our independent battalion will not be reluctant." [Full text reading]"

Xiao Yanyue had already made a decision in her heart, but she still said: "Battalion Commander Xu, our guerrillas in southern Jiangsu can accept the incorporation of your independent battalion, but we also have one condition. ”

Xu Rui shook his hand and said, "Captain Xiao, please speak." ”

Xiao Yanyue exchanged glances with Jiang Nan without a trace, and then said: "Our condition is that we will never do anything that harms the people, and Camp Commander Xu can't beat our own people, except for these two points, no matter what Camp Commander Xu asks us to do, we will never have a second word, fight devils, we communists are never ambiguous." ”

"Yes." Xu Rui said very simply, "I can promise you." ”

Xiao Yanyue smiled and said, "Then we are a family now, hee." ”

Xu Rui also smiled slightly, turned his gaze to Deputy Wanying, and said, "Deputy Wanying, what about you?" ”

Deputy Wan Ying said very simply: "We have already discussed, so we will follow Camp Chief Xu." ”

"Good." Xu Rui said, "Then your number is the 1st Company of the Independent Battalion, the deputy of the 10,000 battalion, you are still the battalion deputy, but you have to serve as the commander of the 1st Company first, you won't have an opinion, right?" ”

"No comment." Wan Camp Deputy snapped upright, saluted, "See the camp seat." ”

"Excuse me." Xu Rui returned the salute, but did not ask Jiang Nan, Cui Jiu, and the opinions of the Fuxing Society's Einsatzgruppen again, but directly issued an order, "In this way, the 1st Company is familiar with the nearby terrain, and you are the forerunner to reconnoiter and advance in the direction of Rugao, and the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th companies will dig pits and bury the excess weapons and equipment." ”

"Yes!" Several company commanders stood upright, then turned around and walked away.

Several company commanders went their separate ways, but the veteran Leng Hanfeng came to Xu Rui.

Leng Hanfeng asked Xu Rui, "Where should I go next?" Go straight west to Damei Mountain? ”

"That's not going to work." Xu Rui shook his head categorically, and said, "Dameishan is connected to the Yangtze River in the south, the Jinpu Railway in the east, and Nanjing is also separated by the Yangtze River. ”

"That's right." Leng Hanfeng said, "Then where should I go?" ”

"Let's go north." Xu Rui said, "Then turn to the west, and then go to Dameishan." ”

"To the north?" The veteran frowned and whispered, "Old Xu, don't say I didn't remind you, to the north is Huainan, and Huainan is now the territory of the 59th Army." ”

"How?" Xu Rui said lightly, "You are still afraid that the 59th Army will absorb us." ”

"That's hard to say." Leng Hanfeng said, "The Northwest Army is poor, and it is the most unbearable to see oil and water. ”

"Then he has to have that ability." Xu Rui pursed his lips and said, "Our independent battalion is not even afraid of the Shigeto detachment, but is he afraid of the 59th Army?" If he didn't know each other, Lao Tzu would have adopted him. ”

The veteran shook his head and said, "You just didn't say anything to me." ”

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Hai'an Town, located at the junction of Nantong, Taizhou and Yancheng, is the key point of water and land transportation in the central part of Jiangsu Province, and can be said to be a battleground for soldiers.

After the defeat of the Battle of Songhu, the national army was defeated.

The Iijima Division and the Shigeto Detachment landed in Nantong and advanced west along the Jiangbei Road, and the regular troops of the National * Army and the Jiangsu Provincial Security Regiment stationed in Jiangbei fled.

This retreat was retreated to the central part of the Soviet Union, and Hai'an Town became the front line.

Now stationed in Hai'an is an independent regiment of the 59th Division of the 180th Army.

The 59th Army was originally a part of Song Zheyuan's 29th Army, after the Qiqi Lugou Bridge Incident, Song Zheyuan's 29th Army was expanded into the 1st Group Army, under the jurisdiction of three infantry corps plus a cavalry corps, the 59th Army is one of the three infantry corps, the 29th Army is the old foundation of Feng Yuxiang's Northwest Army, and the military discipline is still very strong.

After the independent regiment of the 180th Division was ordered to rush to Hai'an Town, it did not enter the town to disturb the people, but settled down in a temple outside the town and began to build fortifications along the north bank of the Manyang River.

The military discipline of the independent regiment was very good, but the fortifications built were not satisfactory.

In the final analysis, whether it is the reorganized 1st Group Army, or the previous 29th Army, or even the Northwest Army in Feng Yuxiang's era earlier, they are all old armies at their roots, and whether they are senior generals or grassroots officers in the army, they basically have not received formal military school education, and they still believe in the Beiyang period.

Repairing fortifications is basically a line, a trench, and there is no depth at all.

As for any communication trenches, foxholes, machine-gun bunkers, half-buried machine-gun nests, etc., there are even none.

Again, the vigilance of the 180th Division Independent Regiment is also quite lax, because after the Japanese army landed from Nantong, it advanced all the way to the west, and did not fight to the north.

Early in the morning, an old soldier wearing only a single coat carried a gun and regimental hands, and went up to the guard position to change the guard.

The Northwest Army has been very bitter since Feng Yuxiang's time, so many warlords in the Beiyang period, the direct line, the Anhui line, the Feng department plus Feng Yuxiang's Northwest Army, if you want to say which department is the most capable of fighting, no one can say well, but if you want to say which department has the most bitter days, it is definitely Feng Yuxiang's Northwest Army, and it usually wears as if the group is called.

Now, the Northwest Army has lost the huge territory of North China, and life is even more difficult, it is winter, and the soldiers are still wearing single clothes.

Another veteran soldier, who had been standing on the guard for two hours, took off his torn sheepskin jacket, handed it to the veteran soldier who had just come up, said something, and left.

The old soldier who had just arrived put on his torn sheepskin jacket and curled up to the corner of the position.

The guard position is surrounded by a low wall of sandbag barriers, although it is not high, it can block the wind, but in this way, the surrounding situation can not be seen, but the old army who just came did not care, the devil has been fighting to the west, and has not come to the north at all, so he is actually the same whether he puts the sentry or not, and he has to stay up for an hour.

However, this veteran army never imagined that danger would come inadvertently.

A little devil suddenly came out of the grass less than twenty meters away from the guard position, and after walking a few steps, he had already come to the outside of the position, and the old soldier who was huddled in the corner of the wall to keep warm seemed to hear the footsteps of the devil, and immediately stood up with a gun, however, before he could fully stand up, the devil had already pounced.

When the old army saw that the situation was not good, he opened his mouth and was about to shout, but unfortunately, before the old army could make a sound, the devil had already reached out and covered his mouth with a big fan-like hand, and in the next moment, a bright bayonet slashed through the old soldier's neck with a bang, and the red blood rushed out of the old soldier's neck like a sharp arrow.

The old soldier struggled hard, but after only two struggles, the whole person went limp.

In less than a moment, the old army's round eyes dimmed.

As soon as the devil let go, he put the corpse of the old soldier to the ground, and then got up and beckoned to the grass where he was hiding just now, and the next moment, one after another devils came out of the grass, and then quickly dispersed, silently pounced on a military camp less than twenty meters away from the guard position.

The officers and men of the Nationalist Army in the barracks were still asleep, unaware that the crisis had come.

In the face of the sneak attack carefully planned by the devils, the vigilance of the independent regiment of the 180th Division was not enough, and more than 500 officers and soldiers of a main battalion stationed in the peripheral positions were still asleep, so they let the devils kill them, and the remaining two main battalions plus the special service company of the regimental headquarters also fell into the encirclement of the devils because the peripheral troops failed to give timely warnings.

The Northwest Army is notoriously poorly equipped, otherwise there would not be a broadsword team, and the 180th Division Independent Regiment is even worse equipped because it is a temporarily expanded unit, and in the face of the devil's mortars, heavy machine guns and light machine guns, the remaining two main battalions of the independent regiment plus the special service company of the regimental headquarters have no power to fight back.

In less than half an hour, the independent regiment of the 180th Division was completely annihilated, and not a single soldier escaped!

After controlling the entire position, several devil officers in tweed coats appeared in the alert position before the independent regiment surrounded by a large group of devils.

This devil Major General is none other than Keio Tachibana.

After Tachibana Yoshio was appointed as the detachment leader by Sugi Moto, he immediately found Okahara Toshisi who was recuperating in the naval hospital, and after communicating with Okahara Toshisi, Tachibana Yoshio took a naval warship to Taizhou overnight to meet the troops, and then personally led an independent brigade to attack Hai'an Town.

After a day and night of forced marching, Tachibana Yoshio finally led his troops to Hai'an Town before dawn the next day, and then ordered his troops to rest for a while, and took Hai'an Town in one fell swoop.

The war went very smoothly, so smoothly that it was beyond Tachibana Yoshio's imagination.

However, Tachibana Yoshio did not have a trace of rejoicing, because the task of his trip was not just to take Hai'an Town, but to set a trap and open a big net after taking Hai'an Town, waiting for the provisional 79th Division to throw himself into the net!

Tachibana Yoshio and a few Osa, Nakasa, had just stood still, and a Shaoza hurried over.

"Detachment Leader." Shao Zuo bowed his head and saluted, and reported, "The Chinese army stationed in Hai'an has been completely wiped out. ”

"Yo Si." Tachibana Yoshio nodded happily and said, "Maeda-san, order the 1st Infantry Squadron to change into a Shina military uniform and hold the position of the Shina Army, and the rest of the infantry squadrons, artillery squadrons, heavy machine gun squadrons, and cavalry squadrons will immediately enter the woods on both sides of the position to hide and wait, and they are not allowed to attack without my order." ”

"Hello." Shao Zuo lowered his head again, and said, "But the detachment leader, there are still many people in Hai'an Town who have not left, what should these people do?" ”

Tachibana frowned.

Tachibana Keio does not care about the lives of Chinese, even innocent civilians.

However, if it were possible, Tachibana Yoshio still didn't want to get blood on his hands.

Behind him, a big Zuo immediately came up and said: "Detachment leader, it is very likely that the people who keep these branches will leak the news." ”

Tachibana Yoshio nodded and said, "Order, all the people in Hai'an Town, regardless of men and women, regardless of age or age, all of them will be killed, and no one will be left!" ”