"Yo Xi!" Okamura Ninji nodded with satisfaction and said, "Except for the infantry wings that were left to prepare for the Jade Shatter operation, the rest of the wings immediately retreated to Tianjin!" ”

"Hay!" Tanabe Shengwu bowed his head suddenly, and then asked: "General, Qi Xieyuan's Imperial Allied Army is still in the area of Bazhou and Wen'an County, and the 42nd Group Army of the Chinese Army must exchange fire with Qi Xieyuan's Imperial Allied Army if it wants to attack Beiping. ”

"Well, telegraph Qi Xieyuan and ask him to immediately lead the Imperial Alliance Army of the headquarters to Beiping, hurry up! Otherwise, his family in Tianjin will all die! Okamura Ninji frowned and said coldly.

"Hay!" Tanabe Moritake bowed his head suddenly, and then turned around and strode away.

Seeing Tanabe Moritake leave, a strange smile appeared on the corner of Okamura Ningji's mouth, and said: "Zhang Mingyu, this time I will definitely let you break your muscles and bones, and if you don't pay a heavy price, you don't want to set foot in Beiping City." ”

……………

Wen'an County, the headquarters of Qi Xieyuan's Imperial Army.

Xue Ming, the attendant adjutant, strode in, and saw Qi Xieyuan squinting his eyes and humming a little song, so uncomfortable, Xue Ming strode forward and said, "Commander, it's not good." ”

"Huh? What's up? Qi Xieyuan opened his eyes and asked when he heard this.

"The 42nd Group Army is moving north, and more than 100,000 troops are divided into east and west roads due north, and the position we are in now is the first to bear the brunt. And just now, Okamura Ningji sent a strict order from Beiping, asking you to lead the headquarters of the Imperial Association Army to retreat to Beiping immediately, otherwise..."Xue Ming said with some hesitation.

"Or what? Say it quickly, don't spit it out. Qi Xieyuan said impatiently.

"Okamura Ninji said in the telegram that if you are unwilling to lead the army back to Beiping, then your family in Tianjin will also suffer!" Xue Ming finished in one breath.

"Fuck! They even threatened me with my family! This wolf-hearted Oriental devil! Qi Xieyuan couldn't help but be furious when he heard this.

"Commander, extinguish the fire, think about what we should do? If you go back to Beiping, it will be tantamount to a moth to a fire, and when the time comes, Okamura Ninji will swing the brothers to the front line, then we will all have to be cannon fodder for myself, but if we don't go back to Beiping, my sister-in-law and niece will be poisoned by devils again, how can this be good! Xue Ming hurriedly persuaded.

Qi Xieyuan frowned, stood up and began to pace back and forth in the room, at this time he couldn't make up his mind in his heart, Xue Ming was right, if he led the troops back to Beiping at this time, Okamura Ningji would definitely not be able to spare him, but if he didn't, his wife and children would be poisoned. So it was very difficult for him to decide. Choosing between loved ones and lives is undoubtedly the most difficult choice!

Seeing where Qi Xieyuan was hesitating and pacing back and forth, Xue Ming suddenly had a flash of inspiration and said, "Commander, otherwise let's ask Zhang Mingyu's 42nd Group Army for help!" ”

"What? Looking for them, do you mean to make us surrender to [***]? Qi Xieyuan said quite puzzled.

"Not surrender! We can cooperate with them, I heard that Zhang Mingyu has a special combat unit under him, and the combat effectiveness is extremely strong, we can ask Zhang Mingyu to send his special combat team to infiltrate Tianjin to rescue your family, so that you can no longer be subject to Okamura Ningji. Xue Ming explained.

"I'm afraid Zhang Mingyu won't agree easily." Qi Xieyuan frowned.

"Commander, this is nothing more than a sharp word, as long as they feel advantageous, I think Zhang Mingyu will definitely agree!" Xue Ming smiled weirdly.

"How can we make them feel advantageous? Let's hear it. Qi Xieyuan asked

"We can do this... That's it..."Xue Ming leaned into Qi Xieyuan's ear and whispered.

"This? What if after the matter is completed, what if he Zhang Mingyu crosses the river and demolishes the bridge? Obviously, Qi Xieyuan had some doubts about Xue Ming's suggestion.

"Commander, even if he crosses the river and demolishes the bridge, you can take your brothers to the mountains of eastern or western Hebei, after a bloody battle with him, it is impossible for him Zhang Mingyu to have the strength to annex more than 100,000 of us, maybe when the time comes, the commander can come to a fisherman to make a profit and enter Beiping City!" Xue Ming's words obviously moved Qi Xieyuan.

He pondered for a while and said, "Okay, Ah Ming, this matter will be handed over to you, after all, you have dealt with [***] and are very sociable." ”

"Please rest assured, Commander, I will guarantee the completion of the mission!" Xue Ming snapped up and stood upright, and then turned around and left quickly.

………….

In Qingxian County, after a day's march, Zhang Mingyu came to Qingxian with the senior generals of the Third and Second Divisions, which were the second wave of attack groups, and at this time the vanguard of the First Division had already reached Dacheng, and would be able to reach the boundary of Wen'an County by tomorrow morning at the latest.

After getting out of the jeep, Zhang Mingyu and a cadre of generals walked directly to the headquarters, and the original headquarters of the 1st Division was directly upgraded to the headquarters of the 42nd Group Army.

As soon as he entered the headquarters, his buttocks were not yet hot, and at this time, a staff adjutant led a person in, Zhang Mingyu didn't recognize it, but Lai San was the first to recognize it, and couldn't help but step forward and scolded with a smile: "Hey, what's the matter with you two devils here?" It won't be to represent Qi Xieyuan to surrender to [***], right? ”

"Chief said with a smile, Xue Ming came here this time because he wanted to cooperate with your ministry for something important!" Xue Ming smiled and bowed his head slightly.

"Lai San, who is this?" Zhang Mingyu listened to the conversation between the two and asked puzzledly.

"It's better for you to introduce it yourself! Two devils! Lai San raised his eyebrows and motioned for Xue Ming to say himself.

"Presumably, this should be the famous General Zhang Mingyu!" Xue Ming stepped forward and said to Zhang Mingyu with a smile on his face.

"Exactly the contemptible one, are you?" Zhang Mingyu nodded and asked.

"In the following, the adjutant of Qi Xieyuan, commander-in-chief of the North China Pacification Army, has long admired the name of General Zhang, and I have long heard that General Zhang has become the commander-in-chief of the Lieutenant General Group Army of the National Political Axe at a young age, becoming the youngest general in the history of the National Political Axe, and now I say...."

"Oh! If there's anything, just say it! Zhang Mingyu waved his hand and directly interrupted Xue Ming's sycophancy.

Xue Ming paused and said a little embarrassed: "Yes, this time I came to ask General Zhang Mingyu on behalf of Commander Qi Xieyuan to help rescue our Commander Qi's family in Tianjin, Okamura Ningci took his family as a threat, and asked our Commander Qi to retreat to Beiping with his brothers, and our Commander Qi also knew that Beiping could not go back, and if we went back, Okamura Ningci would definitely use us as cannon fodder and exchange fire with your troops, which is the last thing we want to see!" ”

"Then Adjutant Xue, I want to ask, what do you mean by Commander Qi, is it that if we help him rescue his family, he will lead his troops to surrender?" Liu Cheng, the chief of staff on the side, asked.

"We haven't thought about this for the time being, but we can also do you a favor and exchange it with each other!" Xue Ming saw that everyone's faces changed slightly, and hurriedly said.

"Oh? How can you help us? Zhang Mingyu was interested and couldn't help asking.

"That's the case, isn't your ministry going to fight Beiping, we can ...... like this" After Xue Ming finished speaking, he looked at Zhang Mingyu with some expectation and said, "General Zhang, do you think this is appropriate?" ”

Zhang Mingyu and Liu Cheng glanced at each other, and couldn't help nodding secretly, Qi Xieyuan's condition was really tempting, if it could really succeed, it would be easy to capture Beiping City.

Thinking of this, Zhang Mingyu smiled and said: "Adjutant Xue, I agreed to your request, I will send someone to Tianjin immediately, you go back to tell Commander Qi, just say that I agreed, let him fulfill his promise, if he still wants to be a Chinese, we all welcome it from the bottom of our hearts." ”

"Yes! Thank you, General Zhang! I'll go back and tell Commander Qi and arrange everything, if nothing else, we can act! Xue Ming snapped forward.

"Good! When the time comes, we can contact by radio! Zhang Mingyu stood up and said with a smile: "Chief of Staff, send Adjutant Xue for me." ”

"Adjutant Xue, please!" Liu Cheng also stood up and said with a smile.

……….

On the highway from Bazhou to Beiping, the puppet army of the brigade is advancing along the road, these puppet troops are the puppet North China security army of Qi Xieyuan's department, and the team at the back of the team, although they are also wearing puppet army uniforms, but both the spirit and the pace of walking are significantly higher than the other puppet troops in the past.

This "puppet army" was divided into three parts, and it was sandwiched between Qi Xieyuan's other puppet armies and followed them towards Beiping, because Qi Xieyuan's troops had more than 100,000 and more than a dozen divisions, so except for the division commanders, the officers and soldiers of the ordinary lower-level troops did not know each other, and there were no accidents along the way.

Just when Qi Xieyuan led his hundreds of thousands of troops to the north, Zhang Mingyu personally selected a group of capable soldiers from the guard regiment, and Xu Wen, the head of the guard regiment, personally led the secret in the direction of Tianjin.

In fact, Zhang Mingyu's original idea was to use a transport plane to airdrop the special combat team to the boundary of Tianjin, so that he could greatly save the time of hurrying, but the soldiers of the guard regiment had not carried out paratrooper training, and if the special combat team was airdropped, it is estimated that Qi Xieyuan's family has not been found, and he will be the first to tragedy.

Therefore, they had to find their own way to sneak into Tianjin secretly.

Xu Wen and a group of 18 members of the special combat team set out from Qingxian County, first took a modified truck to the boundary of Jinghai County, which is less than 50 kilometers away from Tianjin, and then got out of the car and walked towards the Tianjin area.

In fact, Qingxian is less than 150 kilometers away from Tianjin, and it is more than 150 kilometers away from Beiping in a straight line, and if you count the distance, it is a full 300 kilometers, but Zhang Mingyu still has to fight Beiping first, for two reasons, first, although Beiping is far away, it is geographically easier than attacking Tianjin, and Tianjin's naval aviation with its back to the East China Sea can take off at any time to provide support for the army, and the combat radius can completely cover the city of Tianjin. The number of aviation forces is also beyond the reach of the army.

Second, the political benefits of recovering Beiping are even greater than those of Tianjin, and if the 42nd Group Army abandons Beiping and goes to attack Tianjin, then the Yue Army in Beiping can completely go south to cut off the rear route of the 42 nd Group Army, or it can go north and attack the 42 nd Group Army on both sides with the Yue Army in Tianjin.

Therefore, Zhang Mingyu can and must fight Beiping first, and then Tianjin.

Xu Wen knows this very well, so the important surname of this mission is self-evident, if he can't successfully rescue Qi Xieyuan's family, then Qi Xieyuan will be coerced by Okamura Ningji, and it is very likely that he will be in battle against the water, so that the first division that follows them into the defense line of the Beiping army will be dangerous. You must know that there will be more than 100,000 puppet troops around Beiping City at that time, plus there are more than 200,000 devils and horses, and more than 30,000 people in the first division will be in danger. In this operation, in order not to arouse the suspicion of the devils, the 1st Division left the artillery regiment behind, and only took away the three main infantry brigades, if the 1st Division was allowed to fight hard with the 200,000 puppet army without the support of artillery and tanks, then there could only be one outcome, that is, the entire army was destroyed.

Therefore, Xu Wen's trip must be successful, even if all the eighteen special combat team members are sacrificed, then the task must be completed to rescue Qi Xieyuan's family.

After Xu Wen and his party got out of the car, they walked along the woods on the side of the dirt road for about two hours, and finally found a village, because this was already within the sphere of influence of the Yue army, in order not to cause necessary trouble, Xu Wen did not let the soldiers into the village, but rested in the woods on the mountainside not far from the village.

After resting for about 100,000 minutes, Xu Wen looked at his watch and said in a low voice: "Okay brothers, it's time!" Ready to go! ”

Hearing this, the eighteen people got up one after another and followed Xu Wen to continue to the north.

At this time, the eighteen of them have not changed except for their weapons and equipment, and their outfits have already changed, Xu Wen has a turban wrapped around his head, and he is carrying a cloth bag on his back in the north, dressed as a refined businessman, and some of the soldiers behind him are carrying burdens, and some are dressed as entourage.

After a hard journey, Xu Wen finally came to the boundary of Tianjin, in a certain woods on the outskirts of Tianjin, Xu Wen gathered everyone together and said: "Brothers, the front is Tianjin City, this time we will enter the city in batches, everyone will find a way to secretly transport the equipment into the city, and then gather in the same place." I will leave you a code, you must be careful, you can find me by following the code. Do you understand? ”

"Got it!" Everyone said in unison.

"Good! Let's do it! Stay safe, everyone! Xu Wen waved his hand, and everyone scattered one after another, and went to prepare for it.

He took another soldier to pick up the burden and swaggered towards Tianjin City.

After walking a distance, Xu Wen and another soldier came to the east gate of Tianjin, only to see a moat about four meters wide outside the city gate, about a squad of devils and a platoon of puppet soldiers at the city gate were on guard, they built two simple machine gun positions with sandbags on both sides of the city gate, and the four devil soldiers looked ahead with machine guns with indifferent expressions.

The rest of the devil soldiers and puppet soldiers were pacing back and forth around the door, and at this time, Xu Wen cast a color to the soldiers behind him, and the two of them lowered their heads and followed the ordinary people who entered the city towards the city one after another.

When he walked to the city gate, a puppet army squad leader swaggered over with a crooked hat, stopped Xu Wen and the others, and shouted: "Stop! What do you do? ”

Xu Wen hurriedly stepped forward with a smile on his face and said: "Boss, our brothers grow pears, aren't the pears ripe in August now, so I picked up two burdens and wanted to come to the city to sell some money to buy some medicine for our old lady, and the old lady at home has been bedridden since she was sick." ”

"Pears?" The puppet army squad leader suddenly burst into tears, looked at the burden behind him with bright eyes, tiptoed over, lifted the curtain on the burden, and saw a basket full of yellow, orange and orange fragrant pears, the puppet army squad leader immediately swallowed saliva and said: "Is this pear sweet?" ”

"Sweet, this is our own fragrant pear, fragrant and sweet." Xu Wen nodded again and again, and then grabbed two big yellow pears with one hand and handed them to the puppet army squad leader and said with a smile: "Boss, come and eat pears!" ”

"Hmm!" The puppet army squad leader took the pear and nodded: "You kid is quite sensible, come on, you have a lot of tolls, leave a few more pears to honor a few Taijun over there!" ”

"Yes, yes, that's as it should be, thank you, boss!" Xu Wen nodded again and again, and then gave another soldier a look, and the two of them hurriedly lowered their heads and took out more than 20 large yellow pears from the basket, and took out a cloth bag to put the pears in, and then Xu Wen smiled and said to the puppet army squad leader: "Boss, take it, you eat first, the little brother has to go to the city early to see if he can buy a good price." ”

The puppet army squad leader checked the pear bag in his hand, nodded with satisfaction, tilted his head and waved his hand: "Let's go!" ”

"Hey! Okay! Xu Wen and the others hurriedly jumped up their burdens and strode towards the city, and out of the corner of Xu Wen's eyes, he saw that the two devils who had flaunted their might in front of him just now were bowing their heads in front of several devil soldiers and offering the pears they had taken from his hands.

Seeing this, Xu Wen couldn't help but take a sip: "Fuck your dog!" Then he and the warrior quickly disappeared into the middle of nowhere.

Immediately afterwards, a few people dressed as rural men came over pushing a pure wooden cart, and the puppet army squad leader just now changed his low-level posture just now, and roared arrogantly: "Stop! The one who pushes the cart, stop for Lao Tzu! Said you, didn't hear it? ”

Several soldiers immediately stopped the car when they heard the sound, and everyone's hands invariably touched their waists or arms.

These people are all among the best masters in the guard regiment, and the soldiers of the fourth platoon of the former guard battalion are all skilled. Once the puppet army finds out something, they will kill them as soon as possible, in their eyes, these two devils are like garbage, and they are not worth mentioning at all.

At this time, the puppet army squad leader, wearing the military hat that had been crooked, walked over angrily, kicked on the wooden cart, and said to one of the soldiers: "What is in this cart?" ”

(To be continued)