According to Xue Yue's instructions, the 77th Division returned to Yiyang and took over the city defense, Dai Cunxiang did not see him, but Sun Yumin met with him.

Naturally, it was a lot of words of gratitude, Sun Yumin just smiled, his mind was not in Yiyang City, but flew to Dai Cunxiang's new 34th Division, he clearly knew that what was waiting in front was not a fun thing.

He was about to let the 81st Division follow up and support the new 34th Division, but he suddenly received an urgent telegram from Xue Yue, asking him to bring the 12th Army back to Changsha.

"What the hell are they doing, Chief Xue? just drove us to Xiangbei, and now they are in a hurry to let us go back to the division, this is using us as monkeys and entertaining us, right? Deng Dongping was annoyed by such a good temperament. An army may be like a person, go wherever it wants, not to mention such a large army, it will be targeted by devils at any time, although it will not be afraid of them, but such a headless fly is shouted and turned around, and no one will be comfortable.

"Not really!" Sun Yumin sighed, when he set off to come to Xiangbei, he had already expected that there would be such a thing, and sooner or later he would be called back, but he didn't expect that it would come so soon, he only fought a battle, and the devil still retreated at the touch of a button, although the battle report reported a great victory, but in essence, there was not much to show off.

"And what do these chiefs mean?" It is rare for Deng Dongping to have such a big complaint.

"It should be that Changsha City is under direct threat!" Sun Yumin sneered and continued: "The elite troops of the Ninth War Zone, which Xue Yue regarded as a model for each theater, let the family fight under Changsha City in less than ten days, and he lost his face, so he naturally wanted us to help him grow his face." ”

"So what do we do? Do you want to go back to the teacher? ”

"Of course, it is necessary to return to the division, but not now, I can't leave Cunxiang alone, everything can be seen after the new 34th Division finishes the battle of Ningxiang."

"But Xue Yue, can he wait for us to finish the battle before returning to the division? I'm afraid he'll keep urging, or even bring the guy out to press you. Deng Dongping naturally had the same idea, but he was also worried about Sun Yumin.

"Isn't Huzi still near Changsha? With him and the 20th Division, the Japanese army wants to easily capture Changsha, but it is not so easy! Sun Yumin snorted coldly again, he didn't tell Deng Dongping that letting the 20th Division stay around Changsha was arranged by him from the beginning, and it was precisely because he knew the outcome of this war that he would make this move.

Not much different from Sun Yumin's estimate, Changsha City was really threatened, and Xue Yue would be busy transferring the Twelfth Army back.

Historically, the Japanese army, which was divided into three routes, first began to attack Liuyang on the 10th on the east route after receiving the attack order from Yokoyama Isamu, and Yamamoto Mitsuo's 3rd Division broke through the Gaokaiqiao position and attacked the city wall from the west and north; Chiluli's 13th Division with the 65th Infantry Wing through Gugang, attacking the city wall from the east, the main force detoured to the south of Liuyang City, the enemy and us have been in a fierce battle, Wang Zejun's 44th Army finally did not like the previous troops, struggling to defend, he kept asking for help from his direct boss Yang Sen, but Yang Sen couldn't send troops to help at all, he had to keep asking for help from the Ninth Theater Commander's Department, but the reinforcements sent by Xue Yue were all like well-fed turtles, and they moved extremely slowly. Liuyang is a natural barrier of Changsha City, Liuyang is lost, Changsha City is really facing the Japanese army's soldiers, for the generals who do not know this truth, but the reinforcements sent to the army, no one will care about the life and death of the 44th Army, no one will care about the situation Changsha City will be in, after four days of hard work, Wang Zejun led the 150th, 161st, 162nd divisions to break through, Liuyang was occupied by the Japanese army, declared lost.

The 116th and 68th Divisions of the Japanese Army on the middle route crossed the river from Mishui respectively, forcibly crossed the Laodao River near Chunhua Mountain, repelled the peripheral alert troops of Ou Zhen's 4th Army guarding Changsha, and entered Zhuzhou and its southeast near Shiting on the 14th. The 58th Division was not slow either, and the vanguard had advanced to the east of Changsha.

Changsha City, which was originally safe and sound, suddenly fell into the situation of being besieged on three sides by the Japanese invaders, and at this time, although the hundreds of thousands of troops in the Ninth War Zone were not injured, Changsha City only had a Fourth Army in it, plus the local troops and the guard troops of the theater commander, in the face of the menacing enemy, there was really no chance of victory at all.

Xue Yue was in a big mess, ordering the Ninth Theater Headquarters to retreat on the one hand, and urgently dispatching troops on the other hand, not only Sun Yumin's 12th Army, but even Wang Yaowu's 24th Group Army was also regarded as a savior by him, and sent several telegrams in a row, asking him to bring troops to help.

But what disappointed him was that Wang Yaowu and Sun Yumin both refused because they had already fought with the Japanese army and couldn't retreat with their whole bodies, which made Xue Yue angry.

He could have imagined that Wang Yaowu would have various ways to refuse this rescue order, but what he didn't expect was that Sun Yumin also refused under the same pretext, as if they had discussed it, but in fact, it was impossible for the two of them to sit together, and Xue Yue would not be stupid enough to think about it.

Just when he was at a loss, a guard suddenly came to report: "Sir, Zhang Xiaohu, commander of the 20th Division of the 12th Army, asks to see him." ”

"Who? Which troops, you repeat? ”

"Sir, commander of the 20th Division of the 12th Army!" The guard repeated it.

"Great! That's great! ”

Xue Yue almost couldn't believe his ears, and shouted twice in a row, "Great", he always thought that Sun Yumin had taken all the troops away, but he didn't expect that there was actually a main division with ten regiments left in Changsha, how could this not make him overjoyed.

"Invite him in!" Wu Yizhi saw that Xue Yue was too excited, and he actually forgot to invite people in, so he asked the guards to invite them.

"Hello Chief Xue! Hello Sir Wu! Zhang Xiaohu stepped into the war room with a high spirit, wearing an American-style military uniform on his body to look particularly tall, and the general star on the collar badge exuded an extraordinarily provincial light.

Xue Yue is not very familiar with Zhang Xiaohu, he has only met a few times, and he has heard some things about him, and he originally thought that he was the same as that Li Tiedan, but he was protected by Sun Yumin, and he was not too talented, but today, it seems that this prejudice can be completely eliminated, this person at least has too many similarities with Sun Yumin in terms of temperament.

"Division Commander Zhang, you came just in time, we are worried about the strength to defend Changsha, with your 20th Division joining, I dare not say that Changsha City can be impregnable, but at least we will not be afraid of the Japanese offensive." Wu Yizhi first stretched out his hand, for Zhang Xiaohu's arrival at this time, he really felt like he was sent to charcoal in the snow.

"Yumin left you and your troops behind, right?" Xue Yue didn't say those hypocritical polite words, but just asked what he thought in his heart.

"Yes, Chief Xue." Zhang Xiaohu did not tend to be attached to the situation just because he was standing in front of him as a general of the national army and the commander of the Ninth Theater, he behaved neither humble nor arrogant, and did not lose the pride and self-confidence that a general of the 12th Army should have.

"In this way, when Yumin led his troops to Xiangbei, he had already concluded that the troops would not hold out for long, and deliberately left your 20th division in case Changsha needed it."

"You can understand it this way, the military seat explained to me before leaving, no matter which unit is defending Changsha in the end, my 20th division will help each other to the end without hesitation." Zhang Xiaohu's words are sonorous, his words are more euphemistic, in other words, he will definitely throw out a sentence: No matter which unit is guarding Changsha, please give me a hand.

"So Yumin, the main force of his 12th Army will not return to Changsha?" Xue Yue was a little disappointed, although Sun Yumin did not follow his orders, but he also knew that he would suffer and suffer from outside, as far as the telegram order to return to the division was concerned, if the troops really happened to be fighting with the devils at this moment, it was indeed not suitable to return to the division, and the Japanese devils would not stop the butcher knife in their hands because you retreated and stopped fighting.

"No, Junzuo will return to Changsha, but he will not return until he has defeated Ningxiang and Xiangxiang first." Zhang Xiaohu replied: "I only received a telegram from the military seat two hours ago, he told me that the Japanese army is now attacking from three directions, no matter what the price we pay, we must block all the way, now the Japanese army in the west has been defeated, and in a few days, he can 'completely defeat them, as long as the devils on the west road are completely blocked, then this fourth battle of Changsha, our hope of victory will be much greater." ”

"I see, I see!" Xue Yue patted his head and said, "It seems that I asked Yumin to go to the rescue of Yiyang, but it was a mistake and a wrong move, and I solved the devils all the way for us." ”

"Commander, it's not like that. Even if you don't send Yumin to Yiyang, but somewhere else, take Liuyang as an example, then the Twelfth Army will block this way of devils in the east. Wu Yizhi explained for Sun Yumin.

"You mean that no matter which side Yumin goes, the gap in the defense line will be blocked, and this is something he has already thought about and decided." Xue Yue understood what Wu Yizhi meant.

"That's it, Chief Xue. From the very beginning, our military seat designated our 20th Division as the unit to assist in the defense of Changsha. Zhang Xiaohu showed a faint smile on his face.

"Alas! I regret that I shouldn't have taken Yumin's admonition as a deaf ear. Xue Yue sighed a little emotionally, he sighed and said: "The war is like this, I, Xue, really can't escape the blame, I hope that the back hand left by Yumin can play a vital role." ”

When Zhang Xiaohu and Xue Yue met in Changsha City, Sun Yumin had just finished meeting the commander of the 77th Division, because he was worried about the battle of the new 34th Division, so his mood was not too good, and when he walked out of the room with a gloomy face, he suddenly smelled a familiar faint fragrance on the tip of his nose.

This is the body fragrance that only women can bring, and there is no woman around them, how can this strange smell appear here? Could it be that the commander of the 77th Division got himself a woman to hide in this house? No way! Sun Yumin quickly denied this answer, because this fragrance was very familiar, either Chen Lai or a little girl. They didn't leave? Coming with the troops? This is impossible, Zhao Lei is extremely old-fashioned, and he is escorted by Ganglengzi, it is impossible for them to let these two women come?

Puzzled, Sun Yumin's eyes suddenly caught a glimpse of a thin guard, although it was just a back, but Sun Yumin was sure that this person was someone he was very familiar with.

"Xiao Lai, you turn around!" Sun Yumin immediately thought that it was Chen Lai, because he knew that she had been trained by the military commander, and simple disguise and disguise were simply pediatric for her.

"Big brother, it's me, not Miss Chen!"

The familiar back has not yet turned, but the first thing that fell into the ear was the naughty voice of the little girl.

When she really turned around and showed the face that she didn't know what she had wiped and became extremely scorched in front of Sun Yumin's eyes, he could still see at a glance that it was his "little ancestor" sister.

"Why are you here? What about Chu Jiu and Chen Lai? Sun Yumin's face suddenly darkened, he was really a little angry, tens of thousands of soldiers could manage themselves obediently, but for this sister, he really didn't have a good way, provoked the military commander, poisoned his own water, betrayed the intelligence of the Twelfth Army, and indirectly killed the high commander, each of which was enough to punish her fiercely, but every time he saw her appearance, remembered what happened to her, and worked tirelessly to bring his daughter for himself, Sun Yumin couldn't help but punish her.

But now, she unscrupulously ignored her words and secretly followed all the way to Xiangbei, how could he not be angry!

"Nan Nan and Miss Chen were personally escorted back to the Biandanshi by Director Zhao!" Even with Sun Yumin's black face, the little girl was not afraid, but said righteously: "Big brother, Miss Chen said that this battle will be very bitter and difficult, you can't have no one around you to take care of and accompany her, she wants to stay, but I won this opportunity." ”

Sun Yumin didn't know what she meant by winning, but he could estimate that she must have used some tricks to win the chance to stay. And indeed it is. These messy things, Chen Lai definitely can't compare to her.

"I'm not to the point where I need someone to take care of me to live, neither you nor Xiaolai can stay here, the battlefield is not a child's house, and guns and bullets are not long-sighted." Sun Yumin directly said that he didn't want to leave his relatives on the battlefield, which can be regarded as his little selfishness. He is also a human being, and he also wants his loved ones to be safe.

"Big brother, I won't leave, unless you kill me, there is no way to drive me away." The little girl's tone was very resolute, and even the light in her eyes was so resolute.

"You're going to distract me by my side!" Sun Yumin felt helpless.

"I'm not with you, I'll be worried!" The little girl responded with similar words.

"You ......"

Sun Yumin was so angry that he couldn't speak.

"Big brother, you really can't drive me away, because I promised Miss Chen Lai, and I also promised myself that I will never leave your side." The little girl spoke again, this time with a hint of sadness and pity in her tone. "I swore before I came, whether I live or die, I must be by your side."

The speaker has no intention, but the listener has a heart! The little girl originally tried her best to show her attitude, but she didn't expect that this sentence pulled out the ominous premonition in Sun Yumin's heart, could this battle really become her Waterloo?