Regarding Tsuruta Nunan's undying heart, Imamura Shintaro shook his head and didn't pay attention to him. For Shintaro Imamura, who did it at the moment is not the most important thing, at least for now. The important thing is that in this attack, the 36th Division must give an explanation to the base camp and the North China Front.

Tsuruta Numasu's assurances did not alleviate Imamura's concerns about the attack on senior officers and the prosecution of the base camp and the North China Front. Although these senior staff officers did not carry this battle plan with them, the death of so many senior officers together will inevitably have an impact on this operation.

The base camp and the North China Front Army are not strictly held accountable, and it will be blamed. If this matter is not done well, even the division commander and himself will be held accountable. It's not that Tsuruta Numan said that Shintaro Imamura couldn't listen to it at all. But listening to it and giving an explanation to the base camp are completely different things.

Looking at the messy scene in front of him, looking at the corpses of the three major Suesei and a whole row of lieutenant-level officers, Imamura Shintaro couldn't help but have a headache. It is simple to give an explanation to the base camp and the North China Front, but it is not easy for this explanation to satisfy the base camp and the North China Front.

And Li Ziyuan, who is now evacuating in a hurry, naturally didn't know that the train he took this time would have such a big impact. But there is one thing that Li Ziyuan knows that this time he killed two Japanese soldiers, and it would be strange for the Japanese army in Changzhi to look for him everywhere if he was not crazy.

So after evacuating from the attack site, Li Ziyuan did not dare to make any stops. In addition to burying the captured weapons and ammunition that could not be carried, there was no rest at all, and he was relieved to withdraw until he reached the territory of Hubei.

After resting for the night in a hidden village, Li Ziyuan took the squad on a detour through Ludong to prepare to return to the mountainous base area.

When Li Ziyuan led the troops through Liu Cui's village, although he was somewhat hesitant. But under He Huizhang's eyebrows, he still decided to go to Liu Cui. But when Li Ziyuan, who entered over the wall once, knocked on Liu Cui's door, he saw Liu Cui's haggard face in front of him.

Looking at Liu Cui with a haggard face, Li Ziyuan was very distressed and hugged Liu Cui in his arms and gently kissed the face of the woman in his arms: "What's wrong?" Is there something wrong with your body? Or is something wrong? Whatever is the matter, can you tell me about it? ”

Listening to Li Ziyuan's gentle words, Liu Cui, who was snuggled in Li Ziyuan's arms, tears flowed down: "My father-in-law knows about the two of us, although the old man does not object to me remarrying, but he is resolutely against me being with you." I'm really conflicted right now, I don't want to hurt this old man who treats me like my own daughter, but I really want to be with you. ”

Liu Cui's voice fell, and Li Ziyuan hesitated for a moment and said: "The old man is not the kind of person who doesn't open up, I don't know why I oppose you and me." I think I'll go talk to him about things between us, and I'll find a way to convince the old man. If it really doesn't work, you can go with me tonight, and when you return to the army, I will report to my superiors and get married. ”

Li Ziyuan has always been the kind of person who does what he says, and after calming Liu Cui, he turned around and was about to go to the old man. But just as he turned around, he was hugged by Liu Cui behind him. Liu Cui's sad but firm tone came from behind him: "Don't go to him, I don't want to break his heart." Please, don't push me, okay? ”

After that, Liu Cui stood in front of Li Ziyuan, gently unbuttoned the clothes on her body one by one, slowly took off the clothes on her body, stood in front of Li Ziyuan and said: "Tonight, we don't think about anything, I just want you to watch me and love me." ”

Looking at the vivid and delicate snow-white body in front of him, Li Ziyuan, who has not seen his lover for a while. I couldn't control myself anymore, so I picked up the woman. Although Liu Cui seemed a little preoccupied this time, she completely let go of the reserved nature that a woman should have. and Li Ziyuan fought to the death for a whole night, until both of them were exhausted, and they completely calmed down.

When the passion of the night passed, Liu Cui firmly rejected Li Ziyuan, and once proposed the idea of talking to the old man. did not let Li Ziyuan, who left, climb over the wall again, but opened the courtyard door for the first time. After pushing Li Ziyuan out, he slammed the courtyard door behind him.

Looking at the confined courtyard gate, I remembered that although Liu Cui burst into tears when she parted, her resolute gaze when she refused to negotiate with the old man, and her stubborn eyes when she refused to take her away. Li Ziyuan shook his head and sighed, and could only leave helplessly.

Li Ziyuan didn't know that just after he left, the door of the main house, which had been closed, opened. Liu Cui's father-in-law walked out of the door, looked at Liu Cui, who was in tears after seeing off Li Ziyuan, and said with a long sigh: "Really made up your mind?" Kid, you don't have a little choice. ”

"Dad said, no matter what choice you make, Dad will support you. If you go with him, although Dad doesn't approve of you being with him, if you make a decision, Dad will support you. You don't have to be so yourself all the time, you should have your own way. ”

Regarding the old man's words, although Liu Cui burst into tears, she just shook her head firmly and said nothing. When Li Ziyuan, who came to visit Liu Cui again a month later, came back to this village. This courtyard, which once enshrined his feelings, was already empty at this time.

No one knows where the family has moved, and no one knows where the family has gone. When Li Ziyuan met Liu Cui again, this was the first woman in his life who had always haunted him, but it was already eight years later.

When Li Ziyuan led the troops to participate in the battle to liberate Taiyuan, he was stationed in the army outside Taiyuan and saw a seven or eight-year-old child beside him, but he was still alone and never married. My father-in-law has been dead for more than a year, and Liu Cui, who has been living with her and working as a teacher in a primary school on the outskirts of Taiyuan.

Eight years later, the two of them were in the suburbs of Taiyuan, far from Hubei. In that small courtyard, when we met again. In the face of things and people, Li Ziyuan can only sigh that creation makes people. Li Ziyuan didn't expect that the house with the division number was actually Liu Cui's house in advance.

Maybe Li Ziyuan's love path is destined to be tortuous, at that time, after Chang Juan's sacrifice, he had been single and did not remarry, and took Li Ziyuan, who Chang Juan left for his daughter to live alone. But he didn't expect that he and the woman who would eventually accompany him to old age would encounter again after eight years of separation. And he didn't know before that he already had a son.

And at the moment, I don't know that I am separated from Liu Cui, and when I met, I was already Li Ziyuan eight years later. Liu Cui's melancholy and mournful eyes looked at him when she was leaving, and she always appeared in front of him. After leaving Liu Cui's village, Li Ziyuan looked back at the village that haunted him, gritted his teeth and barely held back his determination to go back and forcibly take Liu Cui away.

When Li Ziyuan took the class around him and returned to the eastern mountainous area of Hubei through Ludong. In order to prevent the Japanese army from retaliating for his own operation, Li Ziyuan put all his thoughts about Liu Cui on the training of the troops. It's just that to Li Ziyuan's surprise, the Japanese army retaliation he expected has not been carried out for a long time.

Li Ziyuan, who was a little worried, sent people out of the mountains to reconnoiter many times, and seized the time to communicate with his superiors to obtain information on the movement of the Japanese puppet army. However, whether it was the information from his superiors or the results of his own dispatch of people to the mountains to reconnoitre, Li Ziyuan was unable to find out the enemy situation in Hubei, and there was no big change.

And the intelligence from Liu Yanlai showed that after he attacked the Japanese military column. The Japanese troops in Changzhi City shot and killed the leaders of the puppet Changzhi garrison in several strongholds around the battlefield at that time. and ordered the Japanese squad leaders in the three surrounding strongholds to commit suicide by seppuku to apologize. At the same time, the Japanese army carried out the most severe rectification of the Changzhi garrison.

Regarding the Japanese army's rectification of the internal and puppet army, but the delay in retaliating, Li Ziyuan was somewhat confused. And when he went out to reconnoiter and deliberately took a detour to see Liu Cui, he found that in the courtyard that once made him dream, he could no longer find the beauty of his dreams.

Liu Cui's family disappeared quietly, which made Li Ziyuan very sad for a long time. He didn't try to look for it, because he knew that the situation at hand would not allow him to do so. When facing the courtyard where people went to the empty house, Li Ziyuan knew that this relationship could only be buried deep in his heart from now on.

Except for Liu Cui's hazy teary eyes at the time of parting, which appeared in his dreams from time to time. Li Ziyuan didn't even dare to think about whether he would be able to see again one day, this woman with a pair of gentle big eyes who had always made her dream.

Faced with the fruitless end of his first love, the changes in the situation made Li Ziyuan can only quietly suppress the sadness in his heart. In March, the 36th Division of the Japanese Army first mobilized heavy troops to besiege the 27th Army of Chongqing in Lingchuan, southern Jinnan. In April, when the Japanese army mobilized heavy troops to besiege Zhongtiao Mountain, the Chongqing First War Zone of more than 100,000 troops, Li Ziyuan was really relieved.

He knew that at least for a short time, the Japanese army would not have time to take care of itself for the time being. However, Li Ziyuan did not know that the Battle of Zhongtiao Mountain was originally supposed to be carried out in May according to the plan of the Japanese army. But the battle he fought on the Baijin Railway Line made the Japanese army worry that the battle plan for attacking more than 100,000 troops in the Zhongtiao Mountain First War Zone would be leaked.

When it was too late to drastically change the battle plan, the Japanese army chose to move ahead of schedule. After concentrating the main force of the 36th Division, defeating a corps of the Central Army on the front line of Lingchuan, and cutting off the flank threat of the Battle of Zhongtiao Mountain. The Japanese army concentrated heavy forces and launched an attack on the 100,000-strong army in the 1st Theater of Zhongtiao Mountain in advance.

In fact, Li Ziyuan was on that train, and he did not get any Japanese deployment for this battle. At that time, most of the Japanese officers in the car were the formulators or implementers of the battle plan. However, when these Japanese officers arrived in Jinnan, they only carried out a final survey of the combat area before the battle, so as to make a final revision of the entire battle plan.

If the only thing that can be related is the map of Jinnan that Li Ziyuan got in the carriage, as well as the surrounding areas of Zhongtiao Mountain, mainly in the direction of Lingchuan. The most remaining thing is only a plan to increase the number of forward stations in the combat area of the 36th Division.