Chapter 198: A New Mission
"Brigade commander, hurry up and find a way to let us leave from this ghost place, it's been more than a month, we really can't stand it, what kind of people are here, you said that I am the captain of a wolf's tooth special operations brigade, what is the matter of feeding horses here all day long, sending little devils is my strength, this horse feeding should find a professional groom, let us here, this is a complete waste of talent." Cao Shangfei complained while adding food to the manger.
"Get out of here, you've been nagging in my ear since the first day you came to the stable, and it's been so many days that I've been grinding out calluses from you. Can't you just shut your foul mouth? And you're still a bullshit captain, now that our wolf's tooth special operations brigade has been demoted, Lao Tzu is the captain. Do you think it's cool for Lao Tzu to feed the horses here? In the past month or so, watching the troops of the 129th Division go out in batches, every time they return with a full load, Lao Tzu's heart is more anxious than you, but what's the use of being anxious, if you don't speak, we can only feed the horses here. You can just feed the horses here honestly, don't chirp all day long, make me upset. Originally, Lao Tzu's waist was about to break this month, and you are still noisy in Lao Tzu's ears every day, you don't want me to live, right? Zhang Dongbei is also extremely unhappy, the key is that now everyone else is bending down to feed the stable, but he has to stiffen his body and put the material into the manger little by little, looking very twisted, and it is very uncomfortable. But the physical discomfort is enough, he can bear it, the key is that the psychological discomfort makes him particularly depressed, and now the entire wolf's tooth special combat team of thousands of people have been scattered to various regimental headquarters to serve as horsemen, and they never know all the news from the outside world, even if they want to inquire about something, those soldiers in other regimental headquarters are also silent, and tell them that this is what the boss meant, saying that they are now in the observation stage, and they cannot participate in any military operations. Therefore, the thousands of people in the entire wolf-tooth special combat team are now almost as if they are isolated from the world, every time they only know that the troops set off is that there is a battle, and when they come back, they can only judge whether they are victorious or defeated, but they never know what battles they have participated in, which is very torture for a soldier.
However, for Zhang Dongbei, although they are now cut off from all news, he still knows from the history of his previous life that the final result of the Battle of Xuzhou is victory. Although some of the things that have happened so far are somewhat inconsistent with history, making Zhang Dongbei a little uncertain about the current situation, he can analyze the results of the battle every time he sees the expressions on the faces of the returning soldiers. During this time, the 129th Division was frequently dispatched, and every time they came back, the soldiers were elated, although they were told that they could not let Zhang Dongbei know everything about the battle of Xuzhou, but when squatting in the thatched pit, Zhang Dongbei still overheard some gossip about the battle between the two soldiers.
Because Zhang Dongbei and others completely destroyed the enemy's 70,000 elite divisions in the defense of Tengxian County, the Isogu Division and the Sakagaki Division as the main attack were all destroyed, so that the Yue army participating in the Battle of Xuzhou directly lost nearly one-third of its troops, which greatly damaged the morale of the Yue army. However, the people of China took advantage of the low morale of the army to carry out a crazy counterattack on all the enemies of the Xuzhou front, so that the army suffered heavy losses again after losing the two masters of Isogu and Banyuan, and the most famous of them was the Battle of Taierzhuang, in which the people set up an ambush in Taierzhuang, directly annihilated more than 10,000 enemies and captured thousands. For this victory, Chiang Kai-shek also said in an interview after the war: "The Eighth Route Army is a magical team, there are too many magical characters in this army, the previous wolf's tooth special combat brigade has let the world see the strength of our [***] people, and now there are [***] such characters again, maybe in the future war, I will consider more let the Eighth Route Army act as the main force to resist the enemy." ”
It was precisely because he heard that there were not too many deviations between the results of the Battle of Xuzhou and history that Zhang Dongbei was so quiet during this time, otherwise he would have gone to the division headquarters to find Liu Bocheng and ask for battle.
Since the Wolf Tooth Special Warfare Brigade eliminated 70,000 enemy troops in the battle of Huaxian, the war in Xuzhou has been invincible, since then in the month since then, the army has organized several large-scale attacks, but in the end they are all returned without attack, and each attack will bring huge losses, in desperation, the army can only give up this attack on Xuzhou. After the removal of the supreme commander of the state battle, Yantian Liuyi, the newly promoted commander Yuo Tsuka, in order to prove himself, frantically mobilized 600,000 troops to prepare to attack Xuzhou again. At this time, Chiang Kai-shek made a move that puzzled all Chinese, that is, to withdraw the hundreds of thousands of [***] who had already gathered in Xuzhou again, and Xuzhou suddenly lost protection and became an empty city, and after the withdrawal of the Kuomintang troops, the Yue army grandly stationed troops in Xuzhou City, and cleared the remaining and evacuated Kuomintang troops. At this time, Zhang Dongbei and his wolf-tooth special operations brigade were still feeding horses in the various regimental headquarters of the 129th Division.
For such a result, the other fighters of the Wolf Tooth Special Operations Brigade did not know, but Zhang Dongbei had already known the result. In history, the Battle of Xuzhou ended with the Chinese victory, but after the end of this battle, Chiang Kai-shek hastily withdrew from Xuzhou in the face of the regrouping of the Yue army, and easily transferred the initiative that had been controlled in his hands to the Yue army again. History has mixed opinions about Chiang Kai-shek's decision to flee without a fight, and the official version given by the Kuomintang is that it is a strategic shift for the sake of the overall situation.
On this day, Zhang Dongbei and others were feeding the horses, and when they saw the reading group attacking again, Cao Shangfei would run over to the monk Wei Dayong and ask: "Monk, go out to fish for oil and water again?" The two of them worked together in the battle in Huaxian, but they didn't expect that the cooperation between the two was quite tacit, and then the two became good brothers. After returning to the division headquarters, this time Cao Shangfei and his group happened to be assigned to the Reading Force Group to feed the horses, so they would say hello every time they saw them. Seeing them ready to go again today, Cao Shangfei still asked the monk as usual, but this time the monk did not answer him with a smile, but nodded with a serious face. Seeing the monk's expression, Cao Shangfei knew that something might be wrong, and he immediately returned to the stable to report to Zhang Dongbei.
Soon after the departure of the Reading Group, Liu Bocheng personally came to the stable of the Reading Group, which was the first time Liu Bocheng came after Zhang Dongbei and others were demoted to feed the horses.
Looking at Liu Bocheng's serious face, Zhang Dongbei, who had just received a report from Cao Shangfei, also knew that something big should have happened this time.
"Boss, what happened, is there a big battle to be fought?" Without waiting for Liu Bocheng to speak, Zhang Dongbei asked first.
Liu Bocheng nodded and said, "This time the matter is a little tricky. Just a few days ago, Chiang Kai-shek suddenly and quietly evacuated Xuzhou, making Xuzhou an empty city in an instant. The Kuomintang's withdrawal was not foreshadowed at all, and even we did not know about it. After the Kuomintang withdrew, the army had already entered Xuzhou and imposed martial law on Xuzhou. The Central Committee also reprimanded Chiang Kai-shek's actions for this private action, but it was too late. Xuzhou is now in the hands of the enemy. Originally, in this situation, our 129th Division could not do anything but retreat. But now something is out of the ordinary. Not long ago, the central government secretly hired a group of scientists to go to Yan'an under the protection of the comrades of the underground party along the way, and they are now in Xuzhou City, but the army has now imposed martial law on Xuzhou, and these scientists cannot leave the city at all, and the central government is worried that if these scientists stay in Xuzhou City for a longer time, their lives will be more dangerous, so they decided to rescue them and rescue them safely from Xuzhou City. And this important task fell on the shoulders of our 1st and 2nd Divisions. However, I have sent three groups of soldiers to Xuzhou, but these soldiers have not gone without exception, and just this morning, we finally got the news that all the soldiers sent were captured and killed by the little devils in Xuzhou City, and these crazy little devils actually hung the bodies of those killed soldiers on the city gate of Xuzhou this morning. ”
"What? These bastards would do such a thing. Division commander, let me gather a team to enter Xuzhou City and destroy these little devils. Zhang Dongbei's eyes were split, and he clenched his fist and angrily smashed it on the manger next to him, neighing the horses who were enjoying the food.
Liu Bocheng waved his hand and said: "Northeast, I know how powerful your wolf-tooth special operations brigade is, but I have gathered all the troops of the 129th Division, and after getting the approval of the central government, we are ready to carry out a tough battle against Xuzhou." However, Xuzhou now has 600,000 troops, and only our 20,000 people can't break through Xuzhou, so this attack on Xuzhou is just a pretense, and our real purpose this time is to infiltrate Xuzhou and secretly rescue the group of scientists trapped in the city. The soldiers we sent before all died at the hands of the little devils in the city, and I think these little devils must have sensed something, so the situation of those scientists is even more dangerous now. And our assembling of troops this time is nominally to avenge the dead soldiers, but in fact it is to cover your infiltration into Xuzhou. In the Northeast, this task is very arduous, and at the same time, it is also very important. I want you to tell me if you have the confidence to complete this mission? ”
"The boss can rest assured that Zhang Dongbei guarantees to complete the task and will definitely protect the personal safety of these scientists at all costs." Zhang Dongbei said solemnly.
"Well, I didn't see the wrong person. Northeast, the success or failure of this mission depends entirely on you and these soldiers of the Wolf Tooth Special Operations Brigade. Liu Bocheng patted Zhang Dongbei's shoulder and said with relief.
Suddenly, Zhang Dongbei smiled with ill intentions: "Boss, from just now, I can understand it, you can directly say that it is the Wolf Tooth Special Operations Brigade, does the boss mean that I am now reinstated as an official?" ”
Liu Bocheng laughed and said, "I didn't expect you kid to be so obsessed." Originally, there was no official demotion in the punishment of the central government, and this article was only added by myself at that time. So you've always been the commander of the Wolf's Tooth Special Operations Brigade. ”