Twilight finally came, but the flames of war were not extinguished, and Youxian was still shrouded in the rumbling of gunfire, even more fierce than in the evening, perhaps the Japanese wanted to take advantage of the last rays of light to tear a gap.

In the city, at the foot of a mountain, there are three low houses, the sudden diesel generator sounded in the small yard, but did not see a little light, a ** lieutenant colonel staff officer ran down from the mountain, walked quickly into the yard, opened a thick quilt, revealed a bright light, the lieutenant colonel staff officer flashed in, and then there was a deep voice: "Report to the division commander, the radio station set up in the mountain still can't receive the signal, and can't contact the military headquarters!" "

This is the temporary headquarters of the 3rd Division of the Nanshan Independent Army.

There was not a single light to be seen outside, but the room was brightly lit, and the staff officers and generals shuttled through it. Su Peng, who was wearing a major general's uniform, had a solemn expression, holding a pen in his right hand and a cigarette in his left hand, sitting in the middle of the hall, with a small dining table in front of him, a small military map spread out on the table, and red arrows were drawn all around the map.

After listening to the staff officer's report, Su Peng put the cigarette in his mouth, waved his hand at the staff officer, and lowered his head to draw on the map.

Chief of Staff Xiao Wanlin hurriedly walked out of the telecommunications room next door, his expression gloomy, and his voice was condensed: "Division・・・・・・ division, the guard company has arrived on the Western Front, and the phone of the Third Brigade has finally been connected, but ・・・・・・"

"Ah・・・・・・ connected, Yan Yi didn't lose the position, right?" Su Peng raised his head suddenly, blurted out, and when he saw Xiao Wanlin's expression, he suddenly became nervous: "What, it's really lost?" "

"The position was not lost, but there were more than 120 people left in the brigade of more than 3,600 people, and the supreme commander was only a battalion commander named Hu Zhankui, brigade commander Yan Yi, chief of staff He Lianshan, as well as deputy brigade commander and several regiment commanders and deputy regiment commanders, all of whom were killed, they used up all the ammunition, repelled the strength of a Japanese brigade with bayonets, and almost completely annihilated this brigade."

"What?" Su Peng muttered and looked at Xiao Wanlin, as if he couldn't believe that this was true, and then his nose stirred twice, tears burst out of his eyes, and he suddenly burst out and smashed the cigarette butt on the ground, and roared: "Little devil, I'm your grandmother!" "

"Shizuo, there is no time to scold our mother, the Japanese army on the Western Front is starting to move again, it seems that they are preparing to attack again, we may not be able to wait for reinforcements from the army commander? As soon as the Western Front collapses, the back of the Northern Front is exposed to the enemy's front, and the retreat of the 2nd Brigade will be a problem, and it will have to be decided! Xiao Wanlin said.

Su Peng punched his head twice, raised his hazy teary eyes and sighed twice, calmed down his agitated mood, and took out a pack of cigarettes from his jacket pocket with a button, took out one and lit it, spit out two puffs of smoke, and walked back and forth in the room.

It has come to the moment of the whole life and death, this decision is really not good, one wrong step may be the annihilation of the whole army, originally thought that as long as it dragged on until the evening, it would be possible to wait for reinforcements from the army commander, but now the Japanese army may have seen through this, and they don't plan to give him this opportunity at all. Back in the city for street fighting? The big fart was not enough at all, and the Japanese army blew it up with a few cannons, obviously not.

The only way is to break through, Liling in the north, Pingxiang in the east, are enemy-occupied areas are obviously not in consideration, there are tens of thousands of Japanese Ninth Division in the direction of Jinggangshan in the south, and now the strength of the whole division is less than 6,000, this is still a battle damage report half an hour ago, and half of the ammunition base is not available, it is not realistic to tear this line of defense, it seems that only the western front is the best direction to break through, but since the enemy is besieging the city, he will definitely have to guard against the base and send troops to rescue, and the strength is definitely not what he sees in front of him, Once they jumped in and couldn't immediately penetrate their defensive line, the Japanese troops from the other three directions swarmed up, and they were afraid that they would die faster, it was difficult, this time the third division was probably doomed!

After a long time, Su Peng stopped walking, looked at Xiao Wanlin and said, "How many shells are there in the mountain artillery battalion?" "

Because the third division was an infantry division, its numbers were also limited, and the division headquarters had only one mountain artillery battalion directly under it.

"There's still half a base!" Xiao Wanlin replied.

"Order the mountain artillery battalion, half of the shells to the western front, and the rest in three directions, to shoot all the shells, and then immediately blow up all the mountain artillery and assemble to the south. Order: After leaving one battalion each in the northern line and the Yan Zheng division on the eastern front, they immediately retreated and assembled in the south of the city with the sound of artillery as a signal. Order: All officers and men of the 3rd Brigade of the Western Front, including the guard company, retreat to the headquarters and break through with the headquarters. Order: The Yan Wang Department of the Southern Front is ready to prepare for the whole division to break through in the direction of Jinggangshan. Su Penglang said.

"Not? Division, you can't pin your hopes on the New Fourth Army, right? If we make a mistake in judgment, we're going to be wiped out? Xiao Wanlin exclaimed. Because the military seat had airdropped supplies to them two days ago, they all knew that there was still a New Fourth Army team on Jinggang Mountain, and Su Peng decided to break through from the south at this time, which must have been calculated that they would go down the mountain to attack the enemy's back, otherwise they would not be able to hit Jinggang Mountain with this point of strength of the Third Division.

Su Peng said: "We have no choice, now only they know that we are besieged, and only they can solve our siege, we can only hope that they will be like Wang Shanhu we know, if Wang Shanhu knows that we are besieged, he will definitely save us regardless of a qiē, and besides, I believe that the military seat will not airdrop materials to them for no reason, maybe some kind of agreement has been reached with them, that is, to leave a way back for us, gamble!" We don't have any more time or a better way, so let's carry out the order! "

"Okay, I hope the other side will be another Wang Shanhu!" Xiao Wanlin nodded helplessly, then turned around and walked to the telecommunications room.

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Early the next morning, the headquarters of the Nanshan Independent Army.

After a night of deployment, Jiang Haoran finally walked out of the war room, rubbed his temples, and went straight to the head of the command headquarters and sat down.

Immediately, Deputy Army Commander Zhang Dabiao and Chief of Staff Liu He also walked out of the war room, sat down in their respective positions, and chose to be silent.

The hurried report of a lieutenant colonel staff officer made them look terrified.

"Report, Chief Xue called, after a night of fierce fighting, two divisions of the Nineteenth Group Army were defeated by the attack of one division of the Japanese army, and the Zhuchang Highway has been cut off by the enemy!"

Jiang Haoran sighed and said dejectedly: "I knew it would be this result, but I didn't expect it to come so quickly and so violently!" "

"Are you saying that the Japanese army's move is really just for us, not Changsha?" Zhang Dabiao said.

"Wait! Zhuang Fuguo telegraphed before the early hours of the morning that Youxian had been fighting all night, and it was estimated that new news would come, and Liu Bao's rescue force should also arrive, and there should be new movements of the enemy! Jiang Haoran said gloomily. Although his face was not shocked, his heart was already dripping blood, and he basically had no illusions about the third division.