Amid the screams and wails, Xu Desheng was dragged out by several guards.

After the conference room was quiet, Shi Ziyu sighed and turned his head to look at Shi Boying.

"How many days will our rations last?"

"Three days, at most three days you will have to run out of food."

Shi Boying gritted his teeth and finally gave an accurate number.

"Master, are you contacting the Eighth Road to see if you can borrow some food from them for emergencies."

Seeing that Shi Ziyu's face was not good, Shi Boying hesitated again and again, but still said what was in his heart.

Obviously, Shi Boying's words hit the key point of Shi Ziyu.

After a moment, it seems to be inside!! After a painful struggle, Shi Ziyu paced around the room for a short time before finally shaking his head.

"They have repeatedly told us to withdraw to the mountains, how can they send people to bring food at this time."

"Then in my opinion, we can simply withdraw to the mountains, at least we can get food from the Eighth Road."

However, before Shi Boying finished speaking, he regretted it himself.

Sure enough, as soon as the words fell, Shi Ziyu's face suddenly fell.

"Bo Ying, what are we eating and drinking when we retreat to the mountains? Could it be that we can be fed by the leftovers of the Eighth Road? The soldiers are already exhausted, and if they are allowed to sleep in the ravine, we will not have to be beaten by the Japanese when the time comes, and we will break up ourselves! ”

Speaking of this, Shi Ziyu's tone softened.

"Bo Ying, I know that you are careful and afraid that we will be besieged by the Japanese. I've also been leading the army for more than ten years, how can I not understand?

The reason why I chose this place is because I took a fancy to the terrain that can be attacked, retreated, and defended.

If we take 10,000 steps back, even if the Japanese really come to attack us, it will not be too late to enter the mountains at that time. ”

Hearing this, he nodded, and Shi Boying did not say anything against it. After following the other party for so long, he knows very well what Shi Ziyu is like, and once he decides something, it will be ironclad.

However, although he gave up persuading Shi Ziyu to enter the mountain, the troops had to eat.

Thinking of this, Shi Boying looked up at the other party and asked:

"Master, what about our food? You can't just sit back and wait here. ”

Hearing Shi Boying's inquiry, Shi Ziyu walked to the wall with his hands behind his back, looked at the map on the wall with horizontal eyebrows and fell into deep thought.

After a while, Shi Ziyu suddenly said without looking back.

"You ask people to go to the surrounding villages to collect grain and grass again, and carry it through this period of time first."

Hearing this, Shi Boying was shocked and blurted out:

"Around? But Master, we only recently collected food from the surrounding villages...... Moreover, this generation has been levied twice by us and the Japanese since the summer grain came down, which is ......, this is not appropriate, after all, the common people still have to eat. ”

Hearing that Shi Ziyu still wanted to get food nearby, Shi Boying hurriedly persuaded him.

What is the living standard of the people in the nearby villages, Shi Boying knows very well. At this time, it is about to be a time when the green and yellow crops are not harvested, and if the surplus food of the people is levied, it will really starve to death.

"Enough is enough......! Bo Ying, you have talked too much nonsense today, don't forget that you are a soldier! ”

Raising his hand and interrupting the other party's words, Shi Ziyu's tone became more and more cold.

"The War of Resistance survives, but it is the people of this place who suffer. The soldiers followed me to kill the enemy and serve the country, and I, Shi Ziyu, must let them eat well before going into battle! ”

With a long sigh, Shi Ziyu slowly turned around and looked at Aijiang.

"How can I not know that the people are in distress? I'm also from Shanxi, and I don't want to watch my fellow villagers go hungry.

…… I will ask the World War II zone to send money to this generation, and then we will compensate the villagers several times, understand? ”

Nodding silently, Shi Boying gave a military salute and left the conference room.

……

Two o'clock in the morning, Renjiazhuang.

In the intermittent barking of dogs, the three of Dazhu, Heiwa and Liuzi moved silently along the root of a courtyard wall.

After arriving at the periphery of the Renjiazhuang stronghold, for the sake of safety, Zhao Shixun asked Da Zhuzi to sneak into the village with two people, trying to find out if there were any new reinforcements arriving at the stronghold during the day.

According to Zhao Shixun's estimates, the Japanese will definitely repair the destroyed stronghold and bury the corpses after dawn.

Of course, it is impossible for them to do these hard work, and they will definitely push it to the puppet army, and the puppet army will take advantage of the situation to push it to the people in the nearby villages.

The only big village near Renjiazhuang's stronghold is Renjiazhuang, which is three miles away. Therefore, if they went to repair the stronghold during the day, then they would definitely know whether the Japanese had come to increase their troops.

Although Zhao Shixun proposed to attack the stronghold, if the Japanese came to help on a large scale, Zhao Shixun did not want to go to the egg to touch the stone.

……

After successfully entering the village, the three of them hid in a small alley and rested for a while. The overnight march made everyone in the Seventh Company almost grit their teeth and insist.

After resting for five or six minutes, Dazhu patted the two of them on the shoulder.

"Liuzi, you search from the left, I'll go to the middle of the village, Heiwa, you search from the right, let's go to the other end of the village in twenty minutes.

Remember, only look for the landlord's old fortune's deep house compound. After determining the location, let's go back and do it together, understand?! ”

"Hmm^......"

……

500 meters south of the stronghold of Renjiazhuang.

Taking advantage of the last darkness before dawn, a group of warriors dressed in camouflage uniforms of branches and leaves, under the guidance of Qi Baoshan, began to seize all the time to assemble mountain artillery.

Since torches could not be lit, everyone had to put together them in the dim moonlight.

And more than two hundred meters in front of them, dozens of warriors in leaf camouflage suits were carefully digging the temporary bunkers.

In front of the position, Zhao Shixun put down the glasses in his hand and pondered for a moment.

As a result of the failed attack of the 70th Division yesterday, the Japanese significantly strengthened the vigilance of the stronghold.

Looking at it from afar, not only were torches lit upstairs and around the stronghold, but even the number of troops on duty increased several times!

In order to prevent leakage in advance, after discussing with Zhou Yu, Zhao Shixun not only sent people to the surrounding villages to inquire about the enemy, but also asked each soldier to make a simple camouflage cloak.

More than half an hour later, Qi Baoshan panted and moved to Zhao Shixun's side.

Under the moonlight, the sweat on Qi Baoshan's face reflected the light of the stars, and he didn't care to wipe it, Qi Baoshan whispered excitedly:

"Company Commander Zhao, the mountain cannon is assembled, I think it can move to the front."

"Very well, wait a minute, and act immediately when our people come back from reconnaissance."

Nodding, Zhao Shixun looked at his pocket watch in the faint moonlight.

Although he knew that time was short, he did not let Qi Baoshan move forward immediately with the artillery. Zhao Shixun was waiting for the pillar to bring back the exact news, and until then, although everything was ready, he would not let the troops move forward one more step.

Zhao Shixun knew very well in his heart that if the Japanese army's increased strength reached a small team, unless he could conjure up a few more shells, he would never be able to gnaw this hard bone with this shell alone.

If this is the case, Zhao Shixun can only say sorry to Qi Baoshan.

After a long wait of more than ten minutes, the pillar finally brought people back.

In the dark, holding on to the panting pillar, Zhao Shixun repeatedly confirmed:

"Are you sure that the Japanese army has only increased its strength by more than fifty Japanese puppet soldiers?"

took the kettle handed over by Zhou Yu and poured it with a bang, and the pillar stared at Zhao Shixun with bull's eyes and smiled.

"Company commander, don't worry, the leader of the village maintenance association was directly pressed into the quilt by me. As soon as I was scared, this old guy sent his wife to steal a few men, and I didn't say anything.

Yesterday at noon, the devils sent more than 100 young men to their village to repair the bombed gate and barbed wire fence for the stronghold in half a day.

Before dark, more than a dozen devils with two platoons of puppet soldiers had just arrived in two trucks, and they were all in the stronghold. ”

Seeing that the pillar nodded with satisfaction, Zhao Shixun made a decision in his heart.

As Zhao Shixun expected, the Japanese really sent an increase in personnel as soon as possible. The only thing that made Zhao Shixun happy was that the main force of the Japanese had obviously not yet arrived, and the people who came should be part of the occupation army drawn from Jiangxian County.

"Pass the order, move the artillery forward, and prepare for battle!"

……

Squeak, squeak, in the dark, more than a dozen soldiers took turns pushing the Jin mountain cannon to move forward slowly, in order to make the gun car as little sound as possible, Zhao Shixun also let go, and snatched the only little grease left in the whole company from the old immortal and applied it to the artillery bearing.

"The turtle son's, I knew it was better to eat it. Create evil, melon babies save me some use. ”

Watching the grease that he had kept for a long time being slowly poured onto the gun bearings, the old immortal felt that his heart was dripping blood.

"Brother, didn't the company commander say it. When you get a stronghold, if you don't have anything, don't feel distressed. ”

Seeing that the old immortal was distressed for a while, the old man who was following the side with the marching pot on his back wiped the sweat on his head and whispered comfort.

"Alas...... said lightly, and I don't know if this mourning star is bragging. If you can't beat it, then you should be a monk every day. ”

……

At a quarter past four o'clock in the morning, after nearly half an hour of stop-and-go, the Seventh Company finally moved the mountain artillery to a position less than 300 meters south of the Renjiazhuang stronghold.

This is the closest ridge to the stronghold, and there is no cover beyond that.

Before the artillery moved to the firing position, the pillar had already dug up improvised artillery bunkers with the rest of the fighters and covered them with a lot of weeds.

It is said that it is an artillery position, but in fact, under the guidance of Qi Baoshan, the ground is dug up half a meter deep at the edge of the ridge, and then the soil is compacted at the position where the artillery is placed on the ground to help the hoe, and finally dense weeds are placed around it as a camouflage.

Since the land to the south of the colony is fallow after several cultivations, there are no other crops to hide from weeds during this season.

As the time approached dawn, the scenery around the position became clearer and clearer. With the naked eye, the dense craters around the position can already be seen.

As the temperature began to rise, the smell of blood and gunsmoke in the air became more and more intense.

"Company Commander Zhao, the artillery shooting Zhu Yuan has been adjusted, and the artillery can be fired at any time."

……

To be continued.

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