Chapter Eighty-Eight: The Great Retreat (Finale)

After crossing the pontoon bridge, the team marched all the way to Wuyang, seeing that it was close to the destination, He Jianye still did not relax his vigilance, and sent scouts to investigate the situation, but all the way on the official road, through countless villages, did not find the infestment of the little devils, after walking out of 5 kilometers, He Jianye ordered the guard company to put the equipment on horseback, and use the stretcher to carry the seriously wounded forward, and the reconnaissance company also changed back to the Mauser rifle, and put the 38 big cover and crooked handle on horseback......

"Regiment Commander, this is the brother of the 21st Division, who has come to investigate the situation." Yang Xiaoshi came over with a brother from the national army,

"Sir, please show your military ID and state the number, now the infiltration of Japanese devils is very strong, please understand!" The brothers of the national army who came saluted and said,

"I am He Jianye of the 16th Regiment of the 3rd Division, and this is my military ID." He Jianye handed over his military ID,

"Sir, you can pass, from here to Zhabei, there are more than 20 kilometers, there is a bridge through the vortex river." The national army handed over the military ID card and saluted and left......

"Keep going, go home." He Jianye laughed,

The brethren marched in cheerful voices, and when the escape was over, the brethren's strength seemed to improve again, and the march of the procession became faster......

At 4 p.m. on May 25, He Jianye arrived at Zhangjiazhuangzi in Zhabei Town, instructed the brothers to buy some miscellaneous grains from the villagers, killed a horse, and took out the remaining more than 100 devil rations.

"Brothers, there are still the last 10 kilometers from the Vortex River Bridge, do you still have the strength to travel at night, do you want to return to the Third Division immediately?"

"Regiment leader, you can cross the bridge and enter the vortex sun in three hours, you give the order!" The brethren shouted,

"Okay, let's go. Let's go......" He Jianye roared,

At nearly eight o'clock in the evening, He Jianye led the team to the Whirlpool River Stone Bridge in Zhabei with torches, and the soldiers of the 21st Division, who were responsible for guarding the bridge, still let He Jianye rest in Zhabei Town and cross the river into the city early tomorrow morning......

"Brother, look at our team, the brothers are tired, and they finally broke out of Xuzhou, can you be accommodating and let us cross the bridge and enter the city to find a large army?" He Jianye said in a low voice, and handed a few pieces of ocean to the company commander on duty as he spoke.

"I'm sorry, our brigade commander has an order that no stone bridge will be allowed to pass at night." The company commander on duty doesn't eat this set,

"Can you call your brigade commander then? Let's just say that I am He Jianye, the head of the 16th Regiment, and ask for a call. He Jianye said,

"Wait, I'll call the brigade headquarters and ask." The captain of the company on duty entered the bunker in the formula, and came out after a while,

"Commander He, the brigade commander said to let you stay in Zhabei, and I'll talk about it tomorrow if you have something." The company commander on duty came back and said,

Helpless, He Jianye asked the brothers to find wood, lit a few big fires in the square in Zhabei, and arranged for the brothers to rest, and the angry He Jianye directly ordered Yang Xiaoshi to take a few brothers to knock on the doors of several shops, buy a few cauldrons and rice, flour and other materials, and began to kill horses and cook meat and cook rice in the square, it is impossible to make the brothers hungry!

On the morning of May 26, the team finally passed the stone bridge of the Vortex River, and at the gate of Voryang City, He Jianye came with the guards to fight the city defense headquarters......

"Commander He, the military seat will let you in." At the entrance of the Voryang City Defense Headquarters, the guards who passed the news came out to inform,

He Jianye, who had been standing at the door for almost an hour, cursed vigorously in his heart, and entered the city defense headquarters with a calm face.

"Captain He! Come here, please. A guard politely led He Jianye,

He Jianye carefully supervised a large number of city defense headquarters, which was built next to the county government in Wuyang, and was renovated and rebuilt using the original Yamen left over from the Manchu Dynasty......

"Head He, please take a seat, please wait." He Jianye, who had a lot of environment all the way, was led by the guards to a room, there was a table and a few chairs in the room, He Jianye sat down on the chair by the door, drinking the tea poured by the guards......

He Jianye, who was sitting on a chair drinking tea, heard the sound of footsteps in the aisle, and immediately put down the teacup, and the person who came entered the room.

"He Jianye, the commander of the 16th Regiment of the 3rd Division, has seen the commander."

"Excuse me, I'm from the Political Department of the Ninety-second Army. Come and do a routine questioning of you, you sit down. The man sat down on a chair behind the table, pointed to the chair opposite, and said,

A second lieutenant officer with a folder next to him began to open the folder to prepare the record......

"Tell me about your mission and why you've been behind enemy lines for so long." The major general said with a serious face,

"I was ordered by the commander of the 3rd Division, Li Yutang, to lead the 16th Regiment to break the rear, after the troops completed the task of breaking off, our regiment began to retreat from the lonely mountain east of Xuzhou, and when passing through the Great Black Mountain, the brothers who went out to reconnoiter reported that the two squadrons of the Japanese army raided the field hospital of the division headquarters and took away the prisoners, and I immediately decided to lead the guard company and the reconnaissance company brothers to pursue this Japanese army and rescue the captured personnel; and ordered the second battalion commander Leng Qi to lead the large troops to evacuate first following the predetermined route...... "He Jianye began to tell the story of this road.......

The major general on the opposite side has been listening, and the second lieutenant officer has been recording.......

About half an hour later, after the general situation was finished, the major general asked,

"You said that you relied on two companies of less than 400 men to raid the defense of one and a half squadrons of the Japanese army and rescue the hostages. Don't you think it's ridiculous? ”

"Sir, there are rescued hostages Dr. Tian and a few nurses who can testify, I don't need to make it up." He Jianye said,

"Whether you have made up your own peak verification, I'm just asking you preliminarily. The 3rd Division had returned to Hankow from Wuyang two days earlier. You can rest for half a day in Xuyang, replenish rations, and then you need to march to Xuchang, where you will wait for the return of the train back to Hankow. As for the logistics of contacting you and waiting for you, I will solve it for you. Do it yourself! After the major general finished speaking, he stood up and walked away......

He Jianye, who had not reacted in the room, was stunned for a while, and suddenly understood,

"This is to let me already surrender to the enemy, and Wuyang is the front line, so it will naturally take me to Hankou. Forget it, I don't want to, just wait until I go back to the third division, the division commander can't doubt me! He Jianye thought about it and shook his head and went out of the city, led the team into the city, washed well in the city, and after eating some miscellaneous grain cakes provided by the Voryang City Defense Headquarters, Dr. Tian and the nurses were taking care of the wounded, and the brothers were chatting in twos and threes.......

"Yang Xiaoshi, change into civilian clothes and go out, sell all our Japanese 38-style rifles and crooked handles, and buy a few more pack horses and rice, flour and other materials used on the road...... He Jianye arranged for Yang Xiaoshi to go out and dump it.......

At two o'clock in the afternoon, he was led out of the city by the officers of the 21st Division, and in addition to a few extra grains and cakes per person, there were more than a dozen carts drawn by packs, and he was driven out of the city by the 21st Division without catching anything......