There was only a remnant of the sky in the west, and the curtain of night was about to open.

On a large hillside, hundreds of soldiers were already laying out their military luggage in a relatively dry place and began to rest.

This is Huo Xiaoshan's direct battalion.

Huo Xiaoshan's battalion had camped after a day's march, and they had set off from the Changsha camp north a week earlier.

has always been in the ninth war zone, and the big rivers to cross are still those three, from south to north, Laodao River, Miluo River, Xinqiang River,

Of course, if you cross the Xinqiang River, you will also reach the territory of the Japanese army, and the Yang Sen Department of the Sichuan Army occupies the Dayun Mountain area to the east of the area occupied by the Japanese army, which is the goal of Huo Xiaoshan's trip.

The name of the battalion directly under Huo Xiaoshan has been resounded in the Ninth War Zone, and the Ninth War Zone knows that there is such a battalion that is very favored by General Tiger Boy, and its combat power is also amazing.

Therefore, this time we went back to the old way, and when we crossed the river, all the troops provided ships very cooperatively.

Huo Xiaoshan was sitting on the high point of the hillside at this time, looking at the place in the north where the intersection of heaven and earth was already indistinct because it was about to get dark.

"What are you looking at, boy Huo." Zheng Youjian walked over and asked.

Huo Xiaoshan moved his body and gave the big stone he was sitting on to Zheng Youjian to sit on.

"I'm thinking, if we're still on a hillside like this, we'll be able to see the Xinqiang River." Huo Xiaoshan replied.

"That's, it's almost, it's really tiring to walk." Zheng Youjian agreed, but as soon as he mentioned that he was tired, he suddenly had a new question and said: "I said, Huo boy, didn't you notice that this time this time is different from the last time we went back here." ”

"Well, what are the devils doing now that they haven't attacked so completely?" Zheng Youjian wanted to say what Huo Xiaoshan didn't need to say that he understood in his heart, so he said.

Although it was said that the march was also tiring this time, it was obvious that the road was much easier for them to walk than in the first Battle of Changsha, which was naturally as Huo Xiaoshan said that it had not been destroyed.

"That's right, but I've heard some officers say that this tiger boy loves pride when he wins a battle, and then he may lose the battle, you have to be careful about this, our little body can't help but toss." Zheng Youjian said again.

Don't look at Zheng Youjian's kind of good words like a profiteer when he is in front of people, but he rarely maintains respect for people after people.

Just imagine, how could he, a person who dared to call the chairman of the committee an old man, not dare to omit the last two words of General Tiger Boy and call Tiger Boy directly.

Huo Xiaoshan has long been accustomed to Zheng Youjian's style, according to what he jokingly said, Zheng Youjian has learned too many dialects in various provinces, resulting in the characteristics of people from various provinces.

He called Zheng Youjian's performance the shrewd calculation of the people of Jiangsu and Zhejiang and the stubbornness of the people of Shandong.

"Hmm." Huo Xiaoshan nodded and didn't speak again, he was not as open-mouthed as Zheng Youjian, but he also knew it in his heart.

In fact, in Huo Xiaoshan's opinion, he and Zheng Youjian are very similar in one thing, that is, both of them only believe in themselves and will never blindly obey.

Even if you suffer a loss, you have to know clearly where you are losing, and you may die if you fight the devil, which is willing, but if others want to use yourself as a gun, it will definitely not work.

A person who has no courage and is not as hard-hearted as a stone cannot be a general, and a person with a lot of courage only believes in himself in everything, and even a little stubborn for himself is inevitable.

But sometimes it's really just a matter of grasping the degree when dealing with things, and it's hard to distinguish between stubbornness and self-use and persistence, and sometimes it's difficult to distinguish between things and things, and more often you still have to rely on the hero to see the result after the fact.

If you win the war, you will be called your perseverance and foresight, and if you lose the war, you will be called self-righteous and self-respecting.

Just when Huo Xiaoshan was about to tell this reasoning, he heard the sound of cannons, a faint dull sound of cannons.

But Huo Xiaoshan's face has changed!

"What kind of cannon is it at this time?" Zheng Youjian asked curiously, but after listening for a while, his face changed.

"Xiao Shi Suo called the whole battalion to gather and act urgently!" Huo Xiaoshan had already jumped up and shouted.

The rallying cry sounded, and many of the soldiers of the battalion who had fallen asleep were awakened and jumped up from the ground one after another, skillfully and neatly tied their luggage, and the formation was completed in less than ten minutes.

"Shen Station Xiaoshi took the reconnaissance platoon to break forward, and moved to the northeast!" As soon as Huo Xiaoshan waved his hand, the troops set off.

The reason why Huo Xiaoshan's face changed was naturally because of the cannon sound he heard.

The sound of the cannon, though faint, was rumbling, like a muffled thunder in the sky.

As a veteran, listening to cannons is already an indispensable lesson, as soon as Huo Xiaoshan heard the sound of the cannon, he knew that the cannon could never be less, and it was all large-caliber, otherwise it would be impossible to hear the cannon sound dozens of miles away from the Xinqiang River!

Therefore, the artillery is definitely not the national army, the national army does not have such powerful firepower, and if it is not the national army, it is naturally the Japanese army.

The Japanese army concentrated so many artillery shells on the positions of the Xinqianghe National Army during this time period, is it needless to say for what?

The Japanese army is attacking Changsha again!

Although most of the people in the battalion had already deduced from the sound of artillery that the Japanese army had begun to attack, or that the artillery was ready, it was still on the territory of the national army at this time, and torches could be lit for lighting, which also made the march a lot faster.

Because it was an emergency march, the soldiers of the direct battalion were very conscious of observing discipline, and no one spoke, but the more they listened to the sound of the artillery, the more frightened they became.

Although they were dozens of miles away from the site of the explosion, they took a step forward and were one step closer, and the sound of the artillery did not stop, and the sound of the artillery was getting louder and louder during the night march of more than four hours.

When they arrived at the south bank of the Xinqiang River, although they had avoided the front of the Japanese artillery fire, they could clearly see that countless shells dragging red light flying from the north bank of the Xinqiang River had smashed the national army positions on the south bank of the Xinqiang River into smoke and dust.

Because Huo Xiaoshan listened to the sound of Japanese artillery, he judged that the scale of the Japanese army's attack this time was definitely not small, and he was afraid that the Japanese army would rely on the strength of firepower to storm and cross the river overnight, and his own battalion would collide with the Japanese army head-on, so he ordered to march in the northeast direction.

Because they walked on a diagonal line, they could not have walked dozens of miles, but the sound of artillery kept ringing in their ears, and they had only just walked out of the Japanese artillery attack area.

Perhaps this was not the most intense artillery bombardment Huo Xiaoshan had ever experienced in terms of the intensity of unit artillery fire, but it was definitely the first time he had seen the Japanese army use so many large-caliber artillery.

How many artillery did the Japanese use? This was really a mystery in Huo Xiaoshan's heart at that time.

It was not until decades later that this mystery was revealed due to the passage of time and the exposure of various materials.

That night, the Japanese army deployed 322 artillery pieces and 44 mortars side by side on a frontage only 20 kilometers north of the Xinqiang River, and launched a stormy attack on the Chinese army!