When Xu Rui and the veteran came down from the mud mountain, the sky began to darken. 【Reading.com】

Until this time, Shigedo Chiaki still had illusions, still thinking about driving the remnants of the provisional 79th Division out of Nantong City, rushing to the open area and then annihilating them, so there were still no troops deployed in Dongxiao in Nantong City, but Xu Rui did not take it lightly, and still told the guard posts in the eastern suburbs to be vigilant.

By the time Xu Rui and the veteran returned to Nantong City, it was completely dark.

As Xu Rui expected, the troops escorting the arms did return, but only partially.

When Xu Rui and the veteran rushed to the dock, they found that the atmosphere on the dock was very dignified.

When the "camp" saw Xu Rui, Ah Fu fell to his knees and cried, "Yingza"

Xu Rui stepped forward to pick up Ah Fu, but Ah Fu was just crying and couldn't speak, Xu Rui looked behind Ah Fu again, but found that behind Ah Fu in addition to a few ** battalion remnants, there were also many strange figures, all of these figures were wearing single clothes, wearing straw sandals, and the weapons on their backs were either made in Hanyang or old sleeves.

Almost at first sight, Xu Rui knew the origin of this army.

That's right, this unit must be the guerrillas under the leadership of **, the unit he is looking for

However, Xu Rui was not in a hurry to have any contact with the other party, let alone easily show his intention to defect, no matter what, this is a major matter related to the future of more than 200 soldiers in the ** battalion, he must respect the opinions of the brothers as much as possible, he can be arbitrary in other matters, but he can't do this in this matter.

"Ah Fu, what's going on?" Xu Rui turned his gaze back to Ah Fu again, "What about Xiao Qi?"

"It's dead, Seventh Brother, he's dead." Ah Fu finally stopped his grief, choked up and said, "When transporting the last batch of weapons and ammunition, we encountered a group of devils, in order to stop the devils, the seventh brother and the brothers of the whole platoon almost all died, if it wasn't for the ** guerrillas just arrived, I, I, I'm afraid I would have confessed." ”

Xu Rui sighed, patted Ah Fu on the shoulder and said, "Ah Fu, you are very good, you have successfully completed the task, go down and eat something, sleep, and then continue to fight devils tomorrow." ”

Ah Fu answered, and turned around and left with a few remnants of soldiers.

Xu Rui's gaze swept around the dock, and finally fixed on a girl with two guns at her waist.

This girl is not very old, petite, and looks weak, but Xu Rui felt a sharp aura from her that could not be hidden, like a sword that had been opened, sharp and cold, especially the two mirror boxes on her shoulders, which made people look particularly heroic, but also exposed her identity.

This girl is none other than the leader of the Southern Jiangsu guerrillas, Xiao Yanyue.

"In Xia Xu Rui, the commander of the ** battalion of the 79th Division." Xu Rui shook his fist at Xiao Yanyue and said, "But I don't know what the girl is called."

"Xiao Yanyue, Southern Jiangsu guerrillas, captain." Xiao Yanyue returned the salute with a fist.

Xu Rui said again: "This time it's really thanks to you, otherwise, something might have happened." ”

"Camp Commander Xu is polite." Xiao Yanyue said indifferently, "We are also acting on orders, that's all." ”

Xu Rui could feel the coldness between Xiao Yanyue's words, especially the big man behind her, when he looked at Xu Rui and the officers and soldiers of the ** battalion, he didn't hide the hostility in his expression at all, obviously, this is another old Red Army with a deep blood feud with the Kuomintang, and he couldn't turn around mentally for a while.

Xu Rui didn't care about the hostility of the big man at all, and said with a smile: "No matter what, your army has helped us a lot this time, but now is the time of war, I'm afraid we won't be able to give any thanks, so let's do it, we just captured more than 100 sets of cotton coats and more than 100 rifles from the devil, so we have the right to use them as a thank you gift." ”

Yesterday and today, the ** battalion killed more than 400 devils.

Except for some of the corpses of these devils were snatched back, most of them fell into the hands of the ** battalion, for the devils, of course, the officers and soldiers of the ** battalion will not be polite, all stripped naked and filled in the rubble, and the cotton coats peeled off from the devils were partly given to the officers and men of the Northeast Army of the 67th Army, but now there are more than 100 pieces left.

As for equipment, the ** battalion is not lacking now.

"Thank you then." Xiao Yanyue did not refuse Xu Rui's kindness, firstly, the guerrillas did need weapons, especially winter clothes, and secondly, she also felt that it was natural to take these weapons and cotton coats, because they helped the provisional 79th Division to operate a large number of arms, shouldn't the other party take out some of them as a thank you gift

Seeing Xu Rui's gesture so generous, the hostility on the soldier's face also subsided slightly.

In any case, this battalion commander is at least quite interesting, and it is not in vain for them to go through this experience.

Xu Rui said again: "Black skin, take the brothers of the friendly army to go down to eat something first, and then rest and rest, by the way, don't forget to give them the cotton coat and weapons and equipment first." ”

"Yes." Heipi hurriedly took two steps forward and said, "Please"

Jiang Nan suddenly said: "Battalion Commander Xu, why don't I go and help settle the friendly troops"

Xu Rui turned his head, looked at Jiang Nan with a smile, and said, "Then there will be labor." ”

Jiang Nan couldn't help but glance at Xu Rui again, I don't know why, she always felt that Xu Rui's eyes seemed to be able to see through everything, which made her feel inexplicably empty, this guy, has he noticed anything But Jiang Nan quickly left this ridiculous idea behind, her identity is top secret and cannot be revealed.

Jiang Nan left with apprehension, but Xu Rui's mind returned to the war in front of him.

Twenty new Type 92 heavy machine guns and 20 base ammunition have been put in place, so it is time to open the curtain on the good show of annihilating the Shigedo detachment.

Dividing line

The weather was cold, and Chiaki Shigeto wrapped the bed in a military blanket and felt chills for a while, so he asked the orderlies to light a fire in the military tent, filled the kettle with water, and roasted it on the fire.

After drinking some hot water, Chiaki Shigeto finally felt warmer.

After resting for a while, Chiaki Shigeto was about to go to bed, when Oda Nobuyoshi, the commander of the 2nd Wing of the Taiwan Infantry, suddenly hurriedly walked into his tent and said, "Your Excellency Commander, something has happened."

Chiaki Shigeto buttoned back the button she had just unbuttoned and asked, "What's wrong?" ”

Oda Nobuyoshi took a breath and said in a deep voice: "The Shina army is crossing the river overnight"

"Nani crosses the river" Shigeto Chiaki stood up at once, grabbed the saber and hurried out.

He thought that the squadron would move to the east, and he also thought that the squadron would fight to the north or even break through to the west, and even thought that it would defend the south to the end, but he never thought that the squadron would cross the river again and return to the south bank of the Yangtze River.

Because the southern crossing is completely unreasonable, they finally crossed the Yangtze River, how can they cross back to the south bank again, are the Chinese not afraid of being surrounded by the Japanese army on the south bank, after all, the Japanese army has already controlled the entire battlefield, and it is impossible for the Chinese to know that the three infantry wings on the south bank have actually withdrawn.

However, the harsh reality dealt a heavy blow to Chiaki Shigeto.

What Shigeto thought was impossible, it happened

Chiaki Shigeto hurriedly stepped out of the tent and climbed onto the hill near the headquarters.

Standing on the hill and looking condescendingly on the river to the east, I saw that the Nantong wharf under the control of the squadron was indeed bright with torches, and a squadron of squadrons was on board with torches, and the two small boats that had been full of Chinese soldiers had even left the port and were heading towards the dark center of the river.

On the docks, there are more small boats lined up.

In the distance, more Chinese soldiers are swarming.

"Yaga, Yagayalu." Chiaki Shigedo put down the binoculars and gritted his teeth and scolded.

However, scolding will not solve any problems, and the squadron must be prevented from crossing the river.

Oda Nobuyoshi said in a deep voice: "Your Excellency Commander, if you can't prevent the squadron from crossing the river, it will be a big trouble, at this time the 6th Infantry Wing, the 20th Wing and the 101st Wing have already crossed Zhenjiang and are marching towards Nanjing, there are only two gendarmerie near Wuxi and Suzhou, you know the combat effectiveness of these gendarmerie units, all of them are formed by temporarily recruiting soldiers in the township, it is okay to scare and scare the Chinese, but if it is really a war"

Oda Nobuyoshi didn't go on, but the meaning of his words was already clear.

If the gendarmerie in Wuxi and Suzhou cannot be stopped, the remnants of the provisional 79th Division can retreat to the south in great strides, directly retreat to northern Zhejiang, and retreat to the control area of the first place.

Because at this time, the main force of the Central China Army and the 11th Army was advancing at full speed towards Nanjing, almost all the troops had already gathered on the front line of Nanjing and Wuhu, and the areas around western Shanghai and northern Zhejiang had become the rear, and in many places even the gendarmerie had not yet had time to settle in.

Shigeto Chiaki is even very suspicious now, the temporary 79th Division crossing the river is just a pretense, when the attention of the Japanese army and the pursuing troops are attracted to Jiangbei, the provisional 79th Division will turn around and kill back to the south bank of the Yangtze River, it can easily get rid of the pursuers, and retreat all the way to northern Zhejiang, retreating into the control area of the squadron.

The more Chiaki Shigedo thought about it, the more he felt that this was a great possibility.

Yaga, the cunning Chinese, deceived not only him Chiaki Shigeto, but even the headquarters of the Front Army

"Oda-san, they must be stopped" Chiaki Shigeto said through gritted teeth, "Absolutely must not let them cross the river, order the artillery, shoot all the shells, stop them at all costs, stop them, stop them" By the end, Chiaki Shigeto had lost his usual calm, and was purely shouting hysterically.

"Hello." The herald paused and turned to deliver the order