When the offensive began, Sun Yumin really felt the huge pressure.

Ryosuke Isoya, who was originally attacking Taierzhuang with all his might, was also shocked into a cold sweat after realizing that an elite army suddenly appeared behind him.

While allowing the defenders of Tengxian to consolidate the city defense, they mobilized twenty or thirty planes of the Japanese North China Flying Team to launch retaliatory bombing and dive fire on the siege troops on the periphery of Tengxian.

Then a squadron of six tanks and a brigade of infantry, under the cover of heavy artillery, launched a surprise attack on the positions of the 118th Regiment Xiong Dehua's division from the flank.

Fortunately, Sun Yumin was on guard, so that the Japanese army's dream of eating the 118th Regiment that attacked Tengxian head-on was quickly shattered.

The six Type 97 tanks of the Japanese army did not show off their might on the position of the 118th Regiment for a while, and they were counterattacked by Sun Jie's naval artillery regiment. Together with nearly half of the soldiers of the Japanese army, they were buried in this grave that had been arranged for them in advance.

Xiong Dehua came from the 138th Brigade Ma Weilong to follow Sun Yumin, and he has never been very convinced by this young division.

In the two dozen Jining, his 118th regiment did not contribute much, and he did not see with his own eyes those achievements that were rumored to be myths, and he always thought that they were boasted and praised as legends.

Previously, when he suddenly received Sun Yumin's order on the position, asking him to give up the trenches that he had worked so hard to arrange, he was still scolding his mother, saying that this young division commander was blindly commanding, but he could see that the camouflaged position was bombed and strafed by devil planes like plowing, and then suffered a round of heavy artillery bombardment, and after experiencing the shock of the ground shaking, Xiong Dehua began to slowly feel that this division commander was really a little capable, and after the shelling, he was worried that the devil would take advantage of the situation to seize it, and was about to order the whole regiment to return to the position. But Liu Wenzhi, the chief of staff of the division, came to stop him personally, saying that the division commander asked him to watch the show in place, and then there was a scene that Xiong Dehua would never forget, the devil 97 tank that was rampaging on the land of China, and the devil soldiers who followed its ass were blown to pieces by Sun Jiehai's artillery regiment.

On 24 March, when the fierce battle at Taierzhuang began, Lao Jiang immediately went to Xuzhou to inspect and supervise, and when he returned, he left behind Bai Chongxi, deputy chief of staff, Lin Wei, deputy director of the Military and Political Department and director of the first office to be served, Liu Fei, director of the First Department of the Military Command Department, and Wang Hongzhao, senior staff officer, to form a staff group in Xuzhou to assist Li Zongren in commanding the operation. On March 27, when the Japanese army increased its troops in Lunan and the battle became fierce, Chiang Kai-shek personally went to the front line Chehuishan Station and went to Taierzhuang South Station to watch the battle.

Li Zongren visited the front line of Taierzhuang many times, showing the attitude of the Fifth War Zone to all the front-line soldiers and the determination of the Nationalist Government to resist the war.

When everyone's eyes were fixed on Taierzhuang, not many people would notice that the commander of the Second Army of the Japanese North China Front, General Nishio Shouzo, was ordered by the supreme commander of the North China Front, General Terauchi Shouyi, to invest a large number of troops in southwest Lu, and the front of the troops was directly aimed at the defense range of the 20th Division.

On the third day after Sun Yumin stabbed Isoya Liansuke in the ass, the secret post sent by Lai Wenli's department of the 115th Regiment stationed in Zou Cheng came with the news that he did not want to hear, that many Japanese troops had set out from Jinan, and the vanguard had arrived in Tai'an, and Yao Ying was besieging the 10th Division of Taierzhuang.

When Sun Yumin received the news, Li Zongren in the Fifth Theater Command also got the news, and Lao Jiang in Wuhan also received the information.

In the face of this sudden emergency, all the bigwigs of the national army were shocked.

In particular, Li Zongren deduced in the sand table, if the entire 20th Division was defeated, the hundreds of thousands of national army troops in the pockets around Xuzhou would face the threat of several divisions of the devils nakedly, and the Isogu Division, which had already been surrounded, and the Banhuan Division, which was blocked by Zhang Zizhong and Pang Bingxun around Linyi, would escape alive, then the deployment and sacrifice of the Fifth War Zone in the past two months would be in vain, and the national army troops near Xuzhou might all suffer a catastrophe.

After Lao Jiang, who was supervising the battle in Xuzhou, solicited Li Zongren's opinion, he sent a special person to the outskirts of Tengxian County to inform Sun Yumin: Before the end of the Taierzhuang Battle, the 20th Division must ensure the safety of the back of the national army.

This order is not like an order, and the notice is not like the verbal notification of the notice, Sun Yumin was full of doubts, but it was Lin Wei who was waiting in the same room as Chen Bui, who was the same confidant of Lao Jiang as Chen Bui, and he couldn't help but believe that this was what that person meant.

After receiving such a notice, Sun Yumin had no choice but to lead the 59th Brigade and the divisional artillery regiment, which had been fighting outside Tengxian for three days, to return to Jining.

He didn't know that the reason why Lao Jiang suddenly asked the 20th Division to plug the gun hole was a temporary decision after receiving a secret report. According to his original idea, the 81st Division of Zhanshutang was to go to defend Zou Cheng and Qufu, reduce the pressure on the 20th Division, and let the new 46th Division in Kaifeng and the 55th Army in Xuchang be ready to support at any time, so that even if one or even two divisions were killed from the direction of Jinan, these troops would be able to resist before the end of the Battle of Taierzhuang.

But just as he was about to give the order, Lin Wei, the director of the first room, suddenly came over to report.

There were only Lao Jiang and Lin Wei in the room, and seeing that this usually quite gentle and elegant director was looking very serious at the moment, Lao Jiang was very puzzled and asked, "What can make you look like this?" ”

"Chairman." Unlike Chen Bui, who is called president, Lin Wei has always called Lao Jiang the chairman. "There's something I think I have to tell you."

"What has to be said in the face of a great war?" Lao Jiang asked.

"About the twentieth division Sun Yumin."

"He? What's wrong with him? ”

As soon as it was said that it was Sun Yumin's business, Lao Jiang immediately cheered up. For this kind of general with heavy troops, he has always believed in the principle of attaching equal importance to grace and power, and increasing money and sticks, except for his own nephew Yu Jishi, even if it is a Huangpu elite such as Chen Cheng, he always has a hand and will not trust 100%.

Not to mention Sun Yumin's confidants, although these recent big victories have made Lao Jiang's face shine, but when Lin Wei said that it was about him, Lao Jiang's suspicious character was exposed again.

"According to the evidence in my hands and the evidence in the hands of Director Dai, it can fully show that he has an inexplicable relationship with Yan'an."

"When?"

"Just after he took up the post of commander of the 20th Division."

"Go on."

"Soon after Sun Yumin assumed the post of commander of the 20th Division, Director Dai's people cracked a case of stealing our military secrets in Wuhan. The one who was arrested was the person over there, and through this person, Director Dai dug out a string of people over there. It was the cracking of this case that gave us a very surprising news. ”

"Go on."

"Among the people who were captured, there was a liaison officer over there, and a major piece of information was prying out of his mouth: Yan'an sent a seven-person team from Wuhan to Heze, with the purpose of escorting and covering a high-ranking female spy from there to Sun Yumin's side."

"At that time, it happened to be the time when Sun Yumin recovered Jining and other places, and in your mind, his prestige in the hearts of the Chinese people was high. This matter is too serious, and we have no direct evidence in our hands, just a one-sided statement of a GCD traitor, after discussing with Director Dai, I decided to suppress this matter and report it to you when the secret investigation is clear. ”

"So now that the investigation is clear?"

"It's very clear."

"Since that time to get the information, Director Dai has quietly arranged several groups of people to enter the 20th Division, and Heze City has also arranged a lot of secret posts, after unremitting tracking and investigation, finally gained something in the first two days, with a team of seven people to Heze, a woman over there was secretly arrested by us."

"At the beginning, this woman's mouth was very hard and very capable, and the interrogating brothers had no way to deal with them for a while, but then let Shen Zui in one place go out in person, and let her confess at once."

After Lin Wei said these words, he took out a piece of paper from the folder in his hand, handed it to Lao Jiang, and said, "This is her confession." ”

Lao Jiang opened the confession and looked at it.

"This woman's name is Haiyan, she is from over there, and she has a good sisterly relationship with the leader of the seven-person group." Lin Wei introduced on the side when Lao Jiang read the confession.

Hearing these words, Lao Jiang simply put down the confession in his hand and said, "You speak, I'll listen." ”

"Okay, Chairman." Lin Wei began to say: "This girl named Haiyan retreated from Nanjing with Sun Yumin, and she said that from the beginning, Sun Yumin knew their identity. At that time, although the Kuomintang and the Communist Party cooperated to resist Japan, he should not have been so close to these communists as the head of the regiment. What's even more outrageous is that Sun Yumin turned out to be a female communist named Chen Yun who was in hot fight, and this person named Chen Yun was the leader of the seven-member team sent to Heze, and the purpose of their coming was to plot against Sun Yumin. ”

"!" Lao Jiang's Zhejiang Township scolded again, "Is there any evidence of Sun Yumin's defection to the Communist Party?" ”

"Not really. But what is very strange is that the youngest daughter of Yan and his brother still married him knowing that the female communist party was pregnant with Sun Yumin's child. There is another point that I don't understand, the female communist party left suddenly on the eve of Sun Yumin's marriage, and almost let the people we deploy work hard in vain, but fortunately, after He Ze suddenly discovered the appearance of this person named Haiyan, after Director Dai got the report, he was afraid that he would have a long night, so he secretly arrested her as soon as possible, and then he had these evidences. ”

"You said that the female communist party who came to plot against Sun Yumin is pregnant?"

"Yes, Chairman."

"There is a knife on the head of the color word, but it's a pity that I am a tiger general."

"Chairman, not only Sun Yumin, Director Dai and I also suspect that Director Chen's youngest daughter is also a Communist Party." Lin Wei said.

"It's impossible, Yan Ji's family education is very strict, and no one among his many children has ever had anything to do with it." Although Lao Jiang has doubts, he still trusts this henchman who has followed him for many years.

"Chairman of the Committee, according to the confession of the captured female Communist Party, before Sun Yumin's marriage, Chen Yun sent a telegram to his superiors asking for the identity of a certain person."

"What does that mean?"

"It's very simple, the reason why Chen Yun asked to screen someone's identity must have been to find someone or something she didn't know before, and then she hurriedly put down the work of rebellion, it must be because she received a new order, someone took over the rebellion work, and her mission has been completed."

"This is just your analysis, I want evidence, a Sun Yu is small, if it involves Yan Ji, then the matter will be unimaginable, so if there is no evidence, the investigation of his daughter will end here, I don't want to hurt my relationship with Yan He for many years because of these groundless speculations." Lao Jiang sat down, looking very tired, and said slowly.

"Yes, Chairman." Lin Wei knew Lao Jiang's temperament, hesitated for a moment, and then asked, "What about the twentieth master Sun Yumin?" ”

After asking this sentence, Lin Wei was nervous in his heart, worried that Lao Jiang would let go of this guy who was regarded as a roadblock and a thorn in the side by the Huangpu officers who sat down a lot.

The room was silent for a while, and it could be seen that Lao Jiang had done some ideological struggle.

"Inform Delin and ask him to give a death order to the 20th Division, and the whole division will defend southwest Lu."

"Chairman of the Committee, Sun Yumin has never been very obedient to the orders of the Fifth War Zone, and it may not be of much use to let Chief Li give this order." Lin Wei said.

"Yes, how can you let someone from the Gui family order my Central Army troops to send them to death, I should do this kind of thing." Lao Jiang smiled bitterly, and he said to Lin Wei: "You go to Sun Yumin in person, and convey my meaning to him, the 20th Division will fight to a soldier and a pawn, and you will also resist me." ”

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Sun Yumin is not stupid, he can see that this verbal notice is tired, but he doesn't know why Lao Jiang suddenly came to this scene.

In the process of retreating with the troops, the newly formed 3rd Regiment sent someone to report that a large number of chasing devils and puppet troops had been found in the rear.

After receiving this news, Sun Yumin snorted coldly, and vaguely guessed something in his heart. I thought: Since someone wants me to look good and wants to attack the 20th Division, if I don't fight back, wouldn't I be sorry for the hard work of others.

Liu Wenzhi reminded him on the side and said, "Do you want to report to Director Chen?" ”

"No, I don't want to get him involved." Sun Yumin was resolute.

"And what are you going to do?"

"Let's take one step at a time." Sun Yumin's brows furrowed.

"So what's next for us?" Liu Wenzhi continued to ask.

"Deal with the pursuers behind our butts first. Since everyone else has helped to ventilate the news, and the devil puppet army has also followed, if we don't sing a play, how can people easily let us go? ”

"Master, just talk about it, how do we fight?"

"It's simple, let's get an ambush. Let Xiong Dehua and Sun Dongli cooperate, and by the way, let Sun Jiehai support his cousin with a few shells. ”

Sun Jiehai, the commander of the artillery regiment, is the cousin of Sun Dongli, the commander of the newly formed Third Regiment, and he defected from the 138th Brigade with him.

"So where do you think it's better to fight?"

"You study this yourself, I only look at the results. In addition, after defeating the pursuers, the units quickly retreated to the area from Zou Cheng to Juye, in order to support the 58th Brigade at any time. Caught in this crisis, Sun Yumin did not panic, he wanted to rely on himself to solve the seemingly unsolvable problem this time.