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"If you're dead, you're dead, by the way, what about the people you brought!" The corners of Company Commander Zhou's eyes were slightly astringent, these pro-soldiers had been following him since the Battle of Changde, and it had been more than half a year, after all, they had some feelings, but this was a battlefield, and there was no room for them to have much emotion.

"People are here!" As he spoke, a burly figure appeared in front of Company Commander Zhou: "What part of the brothers are you?" ”

"Hello teacher!" As soon as he saw Division Commander Ge, Company Commander Zhou straightened his legs: "Report to the division, we are the 29th Company of the 1st Battalion and 2nd Company of the 29th Regiment, and I am their company commander, surnamed Zhou!" ”

Ge Xiancai often went to the grassroots troops, and the officers below rarely knew him, whether they were platoon or company commanders, so Company Commander Zhou could recognize him at a glance.

"Very good, you guys are doing a good job, if you can hold this position well, I will promote you when you go back!" Ge Xiancai nodded with satisfaction: "How many brothers are there on the mountain!" ”

"Report Master's seat, haven't counted yet!" Company Commander Zhou hesitated: "But it is estimated that there will be thirty or fifty people in the humble position!" ”

"Only thirty or fifty?" Ge Xiancai trembled in his heart: "Don't panic, I will immediately transfer other troops to replace you!" ”

"Yes, Master, we won't panic!" Company Commander Zhou was excited: "As long as there is one brother in the 2nd Company, Zhangjiashan will not be lost!" ”

"Hengyang, tens of thousands of troops such as the 68th Division and the 116th Division of the Army have regrouped after being reorganized, and with dense heavy artillery and air cover, they have now launched a second round of attacks on our defenders on all fronts, hoping to urge reinforcements to come soon and save tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians from fire and water!" After the telegram was sent, Fang Xianjue seemed to feel a lot more relaxed, although the devils did not expect reinforcements in the first round of attacks on Hengyang, but the second round of attacks had been more than half a month since mid-June, and there was no reason for the reinforcements to come late.

On July 27, at the end of the second attack, the chairman of the committee personally wrote to Fang Xianjue: "The officers and men defending the city are well aware of the hardships and sacrifices. Yu must be more urgent to urge the reinforcements to advance than his brother to hope for help in the city. The younger brother can understand this meaning, and in the future, it is not necessary to send a detailed report for help and difficult situations, so as not to be deciphered by the enemy. Yu Biwei and all the officers and soldiers are responsible for reinforcing and receiving all. Don't read it. Forehand open. Hundreds of copies of this letter were dropped by plane over Hengyang. The garrison in the city also relied on airdrops for ammunition, food, and medical bandages; Even in the rainstorm, the chairman of the CPPCC National Committee ordered Air Force Commander Zhou Zhirou to send a pilot with superb flying skills to fly the plane and take the risk of airdropping.

On July 31, Fang Xianjue replied to the chairman of the committee: "This army has been holding Hengyang for nearly a month, but fortunately, the officers and men have been loyal and brave in their lives, and they have been able to survive one after another. But the fact that it can be sung and cried, and the tragic and heroic sacrifice, make people dare not recall! Since the beginning of the construction, more than two months have passed, and our officers and men have been wearing stars and moons, sleeping and eating all in waste, and finally said that they have been immersed in the scorching rain and baking, fighting with the enemy, and they can all regard death as if they were at home, and they can fulfill their duties. However, the pain of each of them is the same as the current miserable situation, and I can't bear to describe it in detail. But it can't help but be slightly presented with Junzuo.

1. The houses in Hengyang were burned and bombed, and the materials were completely destroyed, but fortunately, the rice and salt were buried in the ground early, and there was no major loss. However, the diet of officers and soldiers did not have any non-staple food except rice and salt; As a result, the number of officers and men who are undernourished and unable to sleep day and night, and who are said to be suffering from diarrhea and abdominal pain due to the wind and sun, and who turn to dysentery, is said to have seen an increase in the number of people who have no medical treatment, let alone a replacement of troops, but only to provoke them to persevere and wait for help.

2. The officers and men suffered heavy casualties, they were overstretched, they lacked ammunition, and their supplies were limited, and the enemy had been attacking fiercely since the dawn of yesterday, and the fierce battle was repeating itself. The crisis lurks, you can imagine. If I am not afraid of the enemy, if I am not bitter, I will never go out of Hengyang! But this is the case, I did not dare to hide it, so as not to mistake the overall situation! ”

The chairman's words were sincere, and Fang Xianjue did not hide it, pouring out all the situation in the city to this principal, he hoped that for the sake of teachers and students, the chairman of the committee could really save himself and the Tenth Army.

On 2 August, a transport plane of the Chinese Air Force dropped some items on the [***] position, among which a letter from the chairman of the NPC Standing Committee was written by the chairman, which was the chairman's urgent reply after receiving a telegram from Commander Fang Xianjue on 31 July:

"The sacrifices and hardships of the officers and soldiers guarding Hengyang, how to quickly reinforce them, and the encouragement to relieve the siege as soon as possible, are all exhausted, although they dare not ignore them in their dreams. However, the success of an extraordinary undertaking must be tempered by extraordinary means, and there must be extraordinary magic to hinder it, in order to test the firmness and strength of one's faith and determination. The gains and losses of Hengyang this time are really related to the survival of the country, and it is by no means comparable to ordinary success or failure, and it will inevitably experience unimaginable dangers and sacrifices. Such a matter of survival has its own destiny, but we must go to it with the determination to repay the country with the determination to die without success, so that we can overcome the magic and break the danger and complete the great cause of final victory. God will bless the final victory and glory of our Hengyang defenders. The second reinforcement of various routes has arrived at the predetermined line of Ertang, Tuolidu, Shuikoushan, Zhangjiashan and Qilishan this morning as scheduled. Yu will order the air force to cover and strictly supervise the fierce advance! ”

On the evening of the 15th of the month, the enemy launched a second all-out general offensive, and the battle was even more fierce than before, the enemy's artillery fire became even more intense, and a large number of enemy planes took part in the battle. Artillery fire and fireworks flew together, gunshots and killing voices resonated, fierce battle space, and the sky and earth shook. The corpses of both sides of the enemy and us are piled up like mounds, and the blood is flowing like a canal, which is shocking and terrifying. After eight days and nights of unremitting bloody fighting, although our fortifications were bombarded by enemy planes and artillery fire, the surface of the ground was also unrecognizable, and the original green mountains and green valleys were turned into yellow mountains, and the green grass and trees could no longer be seen. But our position is still standing unharmed. The army stormed the Zhangjiashan position, and the artillery battalion of the 10th Army fired 1,700 shells overnight, which was more than the number of shells fired in a day than the number of shells fired in a month to defend the city.

According to records, as early as the first air raid (after this bombing, in order to prevent the bombing of devils, the hospital and the shelter for the wounded were forced to be set up in batches and points, which increased the already embarrassing manpower and material difficulties), more than 700 wounded and sick people were killed. The scene was horrific to see, with flesh and blood flying everywhere, stumps and broken legs everywhere; All the buildings in the hospital were blown up, and huge craters were one after another.

Along the way, there were wounded soldiers, and when they saw those who had been evacuated from the battlefield, they all asked about the situation at the front line.

In a makeshift shelter for wounded soldiers, several doctors and nurses had no medicine or facilities, and were helpless in the face of countless wounded people who were crying out for the ground with broken arms and legs.

"Don't scream, don't scream, Senior Ge has come to see you!" A doctor led Commander Ge and his entourage, detailing the condition of the wounded.

"Are they all seriously wounded, and there are still people who haven't been able to hold guns!" Ge Xiancai looked at this and that, his eyes were full of disappointment.

"Master, don't look for it, there is no lack of arms and legs at this time, who is here to come!" A warrant officer stood upright and saluted Ge Xiancai.

"Looks like I'm here for nothing today!" Ge Xiancai sighed.

"Master, what's going on ahead!" Ge Xian noticed that the warrant officer's teeth were clenched, and the part of his missing right arm had been oozing with blood.

"What can I do, all the people have come to you, and all these hilltop positions are empty!" Ge Xiancai sighed: "I can't, can't command!" ”

Although it was a short sigh, Ge Xiancai's voice resonated among the wounded soldiers: "Why, all the people are gone, doesn't the devil drive straight in?" No, this won't work! The wounded soldiers were impassioned: "Where are the reinforcements, where are our reinforcements!" ”

"Brethren, this will be- no reinforcements but ourselves, we have no reinforcements!" Ge Xiancai choked up.

"Master, I can still fight, let me go back to the position, I just have a little injury to my right hand!" A soldier who had been screaming just now stood up with a bloody arm on his shoulder.

"Brother, your right hand?" Ge Xiancai looked at him in surprise.

"Don't worry, I'm pierced by a devil with a bayonet, isn't it just an arm, I still fight devils without him!"

"Shizuo, I don't have a good hand, but my whole body is fine, I can continue to fight when I return to the position!" At this meeting, other wounded soldiers asked for battle, and the scene of grabbing the sky and the earth just now was completely changed because of Ge Xiancai's arrival.

"You guys who are missing hands and feet, the pain is terrible, how can you go into battle to kill devils!" Ge Xiancai was about to leave with tears in his eyes.

"Shizuo, Shizuo, you can't do this, you just said, we don't have reinforcements, we have to rely on ourselves, if the devil attacks in, do we still have a life, instead of being killed by pain, it is better to go to the battlefield to fight the devil and die, Shizuo, you will fulfill us!" The wounded soldiers led by the warrant officer begged hard, which made Ge Xiancai unbearable to listen to it.

"Good, good, since you have this heart, I will fulfill you!" Ge Xiancai turned around: "Warrant officer! ”

"Here!"

"Brother, what do you call you?" Ge Xiancai saluted the other party.

"Report to the division, I am Li Youguo, the trainee platoon commander of the 28th Battalion of the 28th Regiment."

"Okay, today I will promote you to the commander of the wounded company of the second battalion of the 28th regiment, you will take them well for me and follow me into battle to kill the enemy!"

"Yes!" Li Youguo replied.

"Sir, promoted!" The wounded soldiers around him burst into laughter.

When Pingzi returned to the military headquarters, he found that the residence of the former commander had been bombed into ruins.

"Where is the military seat, where is the military seat?" Hirako asked the guards standing guard nearby.

Fortunately, the guards were all from the former special service battalion of the military department, and they all knew Pingzi: "You are back, the military seat has already been transferred, and when he left, he told us that if you come back alive, go to the basement of the Central Bank to find him!" ”

After a lot of trouble, Hirako found the central bank, which had also been bombed into ruins, and the guards took him into the basement to meet the commander of the army, who had been separated for several days.

"It's back!" Fang Xianjue's tone was light, although his voice was peaceful, Pingzi clearly felt a burst of anxiety from that voice.

"Yes, I'm back!" Pingzi also said in a flat tone: "I almost can't see you!" ”

"Yes, killed a few devils on the battlefield?" Fang Xianjue's smile clearly carried an encouragement.

"I'm not a devil!" When he said this, a cold sweat broke out on Pingzi's body, and he knew that Fang Xianjue didn't like to hear such words.

Sure enough, Fang Xianjue was stunned at first, and then said a little bored: "Okay, you little ghost, you really went out to play, and you played for a few days!" ”

"No, I actually wanted to kill the devil, but as soon as the devil rushed to that scene, I urinated, I was paralyzed there and couldn't move, how to kill the devil, I, I really embarrassed you!"

Pingzi said calmly: "No one sees me, even if they do, they can't say it, because they are all dead, but I can't help but say, I come back, just waiting for you to punish me, I'm really bad, very fucking useless!" ”

"You're still a kid, you're untrained!" I didn't expect Fang Xianjue to be surprisingly calm: "When the battle is over, you go home, I will give you a sum of money!" ”

"Junza, Junza, you don't want me anymore, but I really want to stay in the team!" Fang Xianjue's calm words actually made waves in Pingzi's heart: "You just give me another chance, I will never pee again in the future, I will kill devils like other brothers, and kill devils fiercely!" ”

"Alright, get out of the way!" Unexpectedly, Fang Xianjue, who has always been mild-mannered, heard Pingzi's plea and became angry: "Get out of me, get out"

On July 22, this was the second day of the meeting of the army held by Chiang Kai-shek, chairman of the National Political Axe Committee, and the tenth day of the second attack on the defenders of Hengyang. However, after the defeat of the enemy, if I cannot stand on my own feet, what good will I do if I am defeated even though I am victorious? That's all the more anxious! ”

By the end of July, the second round of the devil's assault had lasted for more than 10 days, but not a single soldier had arrived at the reinforcements that the 10 th Army had been looking forward to, and in fact there was nothing to be done every day except to be in a hurry, and as large as the army divisions and as small as the company platoon positions had already fought separately, communications were cut off, and the commanders were like deaf and blind men about the situation on the battlefield in addition to being anxious, let alone commanding operations.

At this time, Chief of Staff Sun Mingyu rushed over with great joy: "There is news, military seat, there is news for reinforcements!" ”

"Good, very good!" Xianxian Jue also felt energetic: "Tell me, it's the reinforcements, how is the progress now!" ”

"Military seat, according to reliable information, our friendly 62nd Army is currently launching a fierce attack on the Yue Army at the West Railway Station, if you listen carefully, you can hear the gunfire there here!"

"Good, very good!" Fang Xianjue muttered in his mouth: "Guard! ”

"Here!"

Hirako, who was listening on the side, snatched it up.

"You go to Senior Commander Ge right away, tell him the good news, and you tell him that I will now allocate the three divisions and nine regiments, no, the eight regiments to him together, and he can rest assured that he will do it with the devil!" The news of the arrival of reinforcements made Fang Xianjue's face excited, and he couldn't wait to share this good news with all the officers and soldiers guarding Hengyang City.

"Throne, Throne, the phone is connected!" Before he had run a few steps, Pingzi ran back and cried with joy to report the good news to Fang Xianjue.

"Okay, very good, give me the command of the 10th Division immediately!" Fang Xianjue grabbed the phone, and the sobbing voice of Ge Xiancai, the commander of the Tenth Division, came from the other end of the phone: "Brother Ge, what's wrong, what's wrong with you, what are the big men crying!" Fang Xianjue's voice was angry with warmth: "The situation is good, the situation is about to improve!" He said that reinforcements were coming, and sure enough, the other party was also excited.

"Junzao, I won't tell you, I estimate that there are few of my people, how many are still alive, even I, the division commander, don't have a little bottom, what 28 regiments, 29 regiments, 30 regiments, can't make up this number, this calamitous pre-10th division, this was just defeated half a year ago, and now it has reached such a situation!"

"Don't panic, I've already given an order, the 8th Regiment and 9th Regiment of the 3rd Division are under your command, then they will keep a 7th Regiment, brother, the family of the 10th Army is now in your hands, you have to fight me well, don't let the devil get a good deal from you."

"Commander, understand, I will not disgrace you!" Ge Xiancai's tone was much better because of the good news, and Fang Xianjue heard the other party's confidence again.

At the time when the squadron suffered heavy casualties, the 11th Army of the Yue Army was not much better, and the 11th Army stationed in the base camp of the Yue Army, Shimaguan Daisa, wrote in the diary: "After our army launched a general offensive again, except for only a very small number of positions like the last time, there was still no progress, and the casualties were even heavier. There is not much left of the original captains of the two divisions; Most of the infantry units have been reduced to non-commissioned officers acting as group leaders, barely supporting the endgame of the battle. In the second general attack, one wing commander and six team leaders were killed one after another; However, the future of the attack is still not promising. So the attack stopped again This Hengyang siege battle, just like the trip of the year, and as far as the opponent is concerned, the situation is more than that! ”

Changsha, the headquarters of the 11th Army, commander Isamu Hengshan, received a phone call that was not angry.

"Yokoyama-kun, I have to tell you a piece of news, due to your extremely ineffective performance in Hengyang, His Excellency Hideki Tojo, Minister of War and Chief of Staff of the War Department of the Base Camp, was forced to announce his resignation, I think, this should be the best reward for you!" The tone of the Hankou Dispatch Army Headquarters Dianjun Liu's non-yin and non-yang tone made Hengshan Yong's mind cold, the battle situation has come to this point, even if Hengyang is taken, he Hengshan Yong will no longer have a faceless foothold in the military circles, not to mention that so far, the army has not bargained for anything in Hengyang City.

"I am deeply ashamed of this, and I must tell you that if Hengyang is not taken, I will never live to see you!" Yokoyama told Tsukuroku in no uncertain terms that he would personally go to Hengyang to supervise the battle, and join the 40th Division, 58th Division, 13th Division, and even the 3rd Division to capture Hengyang, and prepare for a full-scale attack with the strength of five and a half divisions, and the order was as follows:

1. The 40th Division moved south, occupied the northwest corner of Hengyang City, and blocked the reinforcements of the 6th Theater of the [***] team.

2. The 58th Division moved south and joined the siege from the north.

3. The 13th Division (already near Leiyang, south of Hengyang) went north and attacked the south gate together with the 68th Division.

Fourth, the 3rd Division moved from Chaling to the Leiyang area, ready to join the siege at any time.

5. The 116th Division still attacked Ximen.

6. Other divisions and units directly under the army are on both sides of the Xiangjiang River to block other squadrons that come to help, so that they cannot approach Hengyang.

The sound of guns and cannons in Hengyang did not slow down as Fang Xianjue expected, on the contrary, all kinds of heavy artillery and air strikes emerged one after another, wave after wave of fierceness, while the footsteps of reinforcements gradually fell silent.

Fang Xianjue's excited expression gradually dimmed, and the sound of gunfire was getting closer and closer, and he understood that it was the result of Ge Xiancai's division commanders repeatedly shrinking the defensive line, not the gunfire of reinforcements he had heard before.

"Military seat, Commander Ge, they have arrived." Chief of Staff Sun Mingyu's voice interrupted Fang Xianjue's thoughts!

"Oh, it's all there!" Fang Xianjue's haggard face forced a trace of excitement: "Okay, it's good to arrive, as long as they are still there, there is still hope for this battle!" Fang Xianjue's tone carried a hint of helplessness.

In this chaotic situation, it was not easy for officers at the division level to gather together for a short meeting, and everyone found a place to sit down without saying a word.

"Let me talk about it first, there are 7 regiments of our army, and 5 regiments are fighting under my name, and if you don't fight well, I'm guilty!" Ge Xiancai, commander of the 10th Division, made a review: "So far, the casualty rate of our army is more than 70 percent, and the soldiers can fight less than 30 percent. ”

There was silence.

"Why don't you break through!" Zhou Qingxiang, commander of the Third Division, suggested: "In the Battle of Changde at the end of last year, General Yu Chengwan of the 57th Division had no choice but to break through in the end. Everyone understands what Zhou Qingxiang means, it is not only a matter of personal life and death to hold on, perhaps even the establishment of the Tenth Army will be erased from the series of the National Revolutionary Army.

Not to mention that Yu Chengwan is okay, when it comes to Yu Chengwan, Fang Xianjue is not angry: "Last year, in order to save him from the 57th Division of the 74th Army, more than half of our 10th Army was lost, the commander of the 10th Division was killed, and the deputy division commander Ge was hit by a bullet from the devil less than a centimeter from the heart, and he almost sacrificed his life for the country. ”

"Don't talk about this, don't talk about this!" Speaking of reinforcements, the army and division commanders present all sighed for a long time.

"Maybe they also have difficulties, and the devils have a lot of peripheral troops," Chief of Staff Sun Mingyu played a round.

"It's difficult, they are more difficult than us, they have several army troops, but the number of troops who participated in the battle with the devils is only a few regiments, and the gunfire at the West Railway Station can exceed two regiments?"

"Junza, I think we should break through, we still have a chance to break through today!" Zhou Qingxiang, the commander of the Third Division, insisted on what he saw: "A few days ago, my subordinates once smuggled to the nearby market to purchase supplies, and they went victorious, and it was easier to come back, and they purchased a lot of urgently needed items for our division, and I remember that I once sent a little to the military headquarters!" ”

"I have an impression of this, and I also said at the time that such a thing is very dangerous, and it will endanger the lives of soldiers for this, and I must not take any more risks unless I have to do it."

"Besides, what does this mean, what is the use of dozens of people and hundreds of people breaking through to the top, we have the strength to break through, and we can highlight it. But what about us leaving, and with so many wounded soldiers left? The enemy will kill the wounded soldiers when they see them, and Yu Chengwan, who guards Changde, can not ask the wounded soldiers, but I can't do it, if you can't bear to leave this city full of wounded soldiers and let the enemy kill them, which one will be your subordinate if you live in the future! He Yu Chengwan said that he could abandon the thousands of wounded soldiers under him, but I couldn't, my Xianjue and you, the division commanders and regiment commanders, said that they would abandon tens of thousands of wounded soldiers today, how could I bear it! ”

Fang Xianjue's words made others who had the idea of breaking through dare not mention it.

"That military seat, will we keep guarding it?"

"Guard, of course, don't the chairman keep saying, if you don't succeed, you will become benevolent, I think we have succeeded or become benevolent today, and we have finally lived up to the high expectations of the chairman, which day, if we really can't hold it, let's get together again for the last time, everyone leaves a bullet for themselves, if you want to commit suicide, we will be the first to do it."

On August 1, the strength of the army besieging Hengyang increased to 200,000, and the remaining officers and soldiers defending the city were only three or four thousand. With the cooperation of the aircraft, the army launched a third general attack on Hengyang. Fang Xianjue called Chiang Kai-shek to explain the difficulties, and while repeatedly saying that he "must defend to the death", Chiang Kai-shek replied to Fang Xianjue: "The gains and losses in Hengyang this time are really related to the survival of the country, and the rest of the army must be covered and strictly supervised and advanced. On August 3, Chiang Kai-shek ordered the reinforcements on the periphery of Hengyang: "The 62nd Army will advance rapidly and bravely regardless of all sacrifices, and if the siege of Hengyang is lifted, the officers will be promoted and the soldiers will be paid." "One Death for the Nation".

In addition to strictly ordering the 62nd Army to rescue, the 79th Army, the 46th Army, the 74th Army, and even the only armored unit of the 5th Army [***] received the task of swearing to rescue. Because the gains and losses of the Battle of Hengyang at this moment were even related to the international status of the Chinese Brigade, some Americans once believed that Chiang Kai-shek had "no way to command" and wanted to hand over the command of the Allied forces in the Chinese battlefield to General Stilwell, who also commanded the operations in the Chinese battlefield. As early as 24 July, the "special information" of the army received the news: The 48th Division of the Mechanized Corps and the 3rd Tank Regiment of the [***] Mechanized Corps were rapidly advancing from Quanzhou, Guangxi, to Hongqiao and Hengyang. When the [***] tank unit advanced at full speed along the Xianggui Highway and arrived at Ertang, which was only 10 kilometers away from Hengyang, the army had already prepared rapid-fire guns specifically to deal with American medium tanks, and this plan was put on hold.

Early in the morning, Chief of Staff Sun Mingyu hurried in again with a telegram: "Military seat, military seat, there is news for reinforcements!" ”

Fang Xianjue was startled, and almost bounced up from the bed: "Guard, follow me to the conference room!" He shouted as he got dressed and ran to the conference room.

Sun Mingyu held the telegram in his hand: "Military seat, the 62nd Army has arrived about two miles away from Hengyang, and Commander Huang has just contacted us, and he said that he will join us and jointly meet the enemy in front of him!" ”

"No, no, Hengyang can't hold out for a few days, immediately send a telegram to Commander Huang, ask him to send troops to come quickly, if Hengyang breaks the siege, I will be rewarded heavily!"

"Military seat, Commander Huang is overpowered!" The translator quickly handed over a telegram to Fang Xianjue.

"What, the enemy is very strong in resisting and cannot attack the city." A trace of doubt appeared on Fang Xianjue's face: "Tell them immediately that I will send troops to break through the enemy's encirclement and welcome friendly troops into the city, can you!" ”

"Throne, they said okay!" The translator handed the telegram to Fang Xianjue, and Fang Xianjue was relieved.

At this moment, Fang Xianjue had no one else in his hands, except for a dismantled and scattered military special agent battalion!

"Guards!"

"Here!"

"You immediately go to the special agent battalion of the military headquarters, and order Battalion Commander Cao to collect all the personnel who can fight, and fight a bloody way to welcome friendly troops into the city!"

"Come back!"

Pingzi didn't run a few steps, and received Fang Xianjue's order again:

"There are few people in the special service battalion, after the order is delivered, don't come back, go with Battalion Commander Cao to meet the friendly army!"

"Yes!" Pingzi Yileng, although he knew that this trip might be nine deaths, but he did not have any complaints about the military seat because of this, he knew that if it were not for the current situation, Fang Xianjue would never have been able to send a soldier like him to carry out such an important task.

The special battalion and Battalion Commander Cao together, together there are only about 100 people, as the only herald soldier around Fang Xianjue, Pingzi joined this team, Battalion Commander Cao knew the meaning: "Brother, the military seat sent you, this is to take our operation as a very important task, perhaps, Hengyang's gains and losses will be closely related to our action, you join our ranks, I will not take special care of you, everything is to carry out the task as the first priority." ”

"Sir, don't worry, I know in my heart, I know what the military seat means, and I won't discredit the military seat again!" Battalion Commander Cao didn't know anything about Pingzi, and he didn't know what the story was about this person, he only knew that this person was sent by the military seat and was the only guard of the military seat at present.

"Well, since you understand, I won't be verbose, brothers, the only purpose of our trip: to kill out of the city to welcome friendly troops, we want to kill a way for friendly troops to enter Hengyang, and give our more than 10,000 defenders in Hengyang a way to continue to live!"

"Don't go back to camp until you complete the mission!" The soldiers were impassioned, although the number of soldiers in these special battalions was small, most of them were veterans, the elite of the Tenth Army, and even at this time, they were not half discouraged.

The night sky is like washing, the moonlight illuminates the ground like day, the plan to sneak attack in the dark is almost impossible, Cao Battalion Commander rushed out like lightning, and several soldiers rushed to stop it, but it was obvious that they were powerless, and the symbolic surname besieged it, and then let go of the team of more than 100 people.

It turned out that because more than 100 people in Battalion Commander Cao were the elite of the Tenth Army, it was difficult to stop them; Second, because it is the late stage of the second round of strong attacks of the Yue army at this moment, even the Yue army of the two divisions after the reorganization has reached the point of extreme fatigue, and the infantry wings are incomplete, and many generals of the Yue army are even expecting the Hengyang defenders to break through quickly, and they are too lazy to pursue, so that both sides can end this long and terrible nightmare, and in the face of the breakthrough team of more than 100 people, it is simply too lazy to deal with it.

Battalion Commander Cao didn't expect the breakthrough to be such a victory, and when he arrived at the junction outside Hengyang City-Wuli Pavilion, he fired a signal gun, only to find that there was no one there.

"We were fooled, reinforcements didn't come!" Battalion Commander Cao's heart swelled with tragedy: "What to do, what to do, the military seat is looking forward to us!" ”

"Sir, let's go back!" Pingzi's feelings are more complicated than anyone else's, he is by Fang Xianjue's side every day, and he knows how strong the desire of the military seat is to wait for reinforcements.

"Battalion commander, or- let's not go back!" A soldier said timidly: "There is no way to survive if you stay in Hengyang, besides, we have jumped out of the encirclement of devils at the moment, we can go and look for other reinforcements!" ”

"What, you don't want to go back?" Battalion Commander Cao glared at the soldier: "Is there anything else, is there anyone who doesn't want to go back to Hengyang!" ”

Several more soldiers stepped forward.

Battalion Commander Cao raised the gun in his hand, but quickly put it down: "The ants are still stealing, if you want to continue to live, I don't have anything to say, but please remember that you are not a member of my special battalion from now on, let alone a soldier of my tenth army, okay, you can go!" ”

"Sir, you can't let them go!" Pingzi suddenly stopped Camp Commander Cao excitedly: "Sir, everyone has the psychology of fear of death, this is understandable, I am also an incompetent person who is greedy for life and afraid of death, but today, more than 10,000 brothers are in the city, we people go out of the city with their expectations on our backs, we have no right to betray them today, and you are not - you are the current supreme commander of our people, you don't care about letting them go, even if they live, they will feel guilty for a lifetime, what is the point of a person living without dignity all his life!" ”

"So, you're going to hurt them, I don't agree with you doing it!"

These thoughts have been thought about countless times, he hates himself for being too timid, hates himself for repeatedly facing the incompetence of the army, he has always wanted to be a dignified soldier, has always wanted to no longer be a bag, but again and again disappointed himself, but also disappointed people who care about his growth, this time he saw several soldiers about to lose their conscience in the face of righteousness and steal life, he had an impulse to stop it, these words, the battalion commander Cao said one by one, he looked at a few soldiers who had not yet left: "Tell me, Will you blame me in the future, will you live in humiliation? ”

"Battalion commander!" A middle-aged soldier who was about to leave stood up with a trombone: "What's the good of being alive, it's just that I still have a wife and children at home, what should they do if I die!" ”

"Me too, death is nothing, but there is still an old mother at home!" Several soldiers complained.

"You are all veterans for many years, no one will think that you are afraid of death, I know, you are leaving for a reason!" Battalion Commander Cao choked up: "But have you thought about it, really in order to survive, which of the more than 10,000 brothers in the city can't think of a dozen or twenty reasons to survive, which one is not raised by his father's mother, this little brother is right, he is worthy of being a guard on the military seat, I have to thank him when I go back, you also have to thank him, which of you still want to go, please say loudly to this little brother, you are a fucking seed, you fucking want to continue to live, okay, I won't stop it, I will never stop it, you go"

"Battalion commander, we won't leave, we will never leave again, we and our brothers will die in Hengyang City!" These men said that they were left in Hengyang City, and they were originally extremely tempted by the survival **, and they racked their brains and struggled for a long time before they cheekily asked the battalion commander, but this time Pingzi and the battalion commander said so, and they couldn't convince themselves one by one.

Battalion Commander Cao's return to the city was tantamount to a blow to the other army commander.

"What, the joint location is empty!" Fang Xianjue's words were full of anger: "It's all fucking greedy for life and afraid of death, my team of more than 100 people can still come and go freely, what kind of resistance does he talk about in vain, and now the connection is also fake, how can it be fucking reasonable!" As a dignified military commander of [***], Fang Xianjue said that he rarely said a few dirty words, but this time he was dirty, but he couldn't stop the anger in his heart.

"Battalion Commander Cao, how many of your people have been sacrificed?"

"Report to the military seat, I am fortunate to live up to my mission, and none of the more than 100 brothers has died!" Battalion Commander Cao said here to praise Pingzi's performance in this mission, how the military seat taught Fang Yunyun, he didn't see that Fang Xianjue was not in the mood to listen to him talk about this, when he knew that there was no hope for reinforcements, Fang Xianjue's expectations were completely disappointed again, and he even began to doubt the chairman who had been swearing, although he knew that it was not that the chairman himself didn't want to save him.

"Military seat, you see, more than 100 people in Battalion Commander Cao can still come and go freely, or we" Chief of Staff Sun Mingyu took the opportunity to beat the side drum: "It has been more than a month to hold Hengyang, no matter from which aspect, we have not been sorry for anyone, we have already completed the task of repeated revisions by the Command."

"No, I know what you're trying to say!" Fang Xianjue was stunned: "I only ask you, what should I do with the nearly 10,000 wounded soldiers in the city, what should I do, just ignore them?" ”

"Throne, I mean!"

"Needless to say, I said earlier, I will not abandon my subordinates and leave Hengyang!"

"But the military seat, what should we do today, according to reliable sources, a large number of troops are still gathering, and it will not be long before the army may launch an even more ferocious attack than this round of attacks, but we have no reinforcements, and there are fewer and fewer men and horses in the city who can fight, and there are thousands of tired and hungry brothers left, many of whom have already begun to catch rat meat to satisfy their hunger!"

"Catch rat meat?"

"Yes, rat meat!" Sun Mingyu nodded.

Needless to say, what is the taste of rat meat, it is an extremely disgusting animal, this will come in January to the flood of dead corpses, these rats shuttle through the rotten meat of the corpses, eat these filth as food, eat such rat meat, that is really how disgusting and disgusting, as soon as he thought of this, Fang Xianjue vomited for a while, some days ago the kitchen had sent some meat, although he felt that it was extremely unpalatable, but he did not ask about this situation, at this moment when he heard the words of the chief of staff, he suddenly felt a burst of nausea, and wanted to vomit all the food for a few days, Fortunately, even he, the army commander, really didn't have anything to eat, and his stomach was always empty.

The weather in Hengyang is getting hotter and hotter, and the patience of both sides has been extended again and again, the Tenth Army is suffering, and the 68th Division, the 116th Division and other units besieging the Tenth Army are also enduring suffering, and the strong attack has been repeatedly frustrated.

"Officers and men of the Tenth Army, your mission has been accomplished. This is the inherent tenacious surname of Hunan people. It's a pity that your fate is not good, the reinforcements can't advance, and your fate is on the line! But to join the Peace Army, it will never be treated as a hostile act; The Imperial Army is determined to eliminate the U.S. Air Force". The slogan on the return card also depicts a bewitching woman.

"Fool, you see this is the mother-in-law of this book, no, do you want it!" Qiangzi wielded a return card, which was printed with a bewitching woman similar to the maidens.

"I don't want my mother-in-law, I want to fight devils!" The fool smiled innocently.

At this moment, the formation of the troops was basically disrupted, and a few fools were taken to the Eighth Regiment by Company Commander Zhou to guard the position of Xichan Temple together.

"Company commander, look at this aunt!" Qiangzi handed the return card to Company Commander Zhou again.

"Go, go, little devil's thing, it's okay with this cigarette!" Company Commander Zhou pushed Qiangzi away: "Mom, you guys remember, from now on, don't call the company commander, Lao Tzu is now the battalion commander!" ”

"Battalion commander, the battalion commander of several people pinch! How long has this battalion commander done again! Hadron teased.

"You baby soldier, can you say something auspicious!"

It turned out that at this moment, the position guarded by the 8th Regiment sacrificed five battalion commanders within half a day, and it was his turn to serve as the commander of the battalion of the 8th Regiment when he came, and this so-called battalion did not even have 200 combat personnel, at best there was only one reinforced company!

(To be continued)