In the city of Changchun, the headquarters of the rebels.

Ji Xing rushed to the headquarters, and when he entered the door, he asked, "Brother Xi, why are you looking for me in such a hurry?" ”

Xi Qia, who was sitting in the chair, hurriedly got up, and at the same time picked up a letter on the table, and said, "Brother Pei, take a look." ”

Jixing took the letter, looked at Xiqia suspiciously, and asked, "What is this?" ”

"A letter sent to me by Ding Chao, the commander of the 28th Brigade of Reading Force." Xiqia replied.

"Ding Chao?" Jixing opened the letter suspiciously.

"What do you think of Brother Ji?" Xi Qia asked after seeing him finish reading.

"It's not credible, what if it's a trap?" Jixing worried.

"Jixing's worries are not unreasonable, now that the rain is pouring down, the roads are muddy, Ding Chao and Li Du and others are unable to attack it, and it is not impossible to lure our army out of the city with this plan." Xi Qia nodded and said: "In my opinion, let's still stick to the army, anyway, Honzhuang Fan has already called back, the main force of the Kwantung Army has already marched towards Shenyang, not to mention that the troops are about to come to Shenyang." ”

The old and cunning Ji Xing pondered for a while, and suddenly said: "Brother Xi, Ding Chao is not Sabuli's cavalry regiment will be transferred to Shenyang in the letter, and it is agreed that at two o'clock in the morning, he will lead the 28th Brigade of Reading Power to attack Li Du and Xing Zhanqing's brigades?" ”

"yes, what do you mean?" Xiqia asked.

"Send additional scouts to closely monitor the movements of the brigades outside the city, if Ding Chao really leads his troops to attack Li and Xing's second brigades, we can delay the attack for half an hour, and when they are both defeated, they will attack out of the city and reap the benefits!" Ji Xing's eyes flashed with a hint of cruelty.

Xiqia fell into hesitation.

"Brother Xi, if Sabuli's cavalry regiment is really transferred, our army can attack for a try, as long as we win this battle, we can really control the entire Jilin Province, and at that time, we will have more confidence and capital to negotiate with Yue himself, and the revival of my Qing Dynasty can be waited!"

As he spoke, a smile appeared on the corner of Ji Xing's mouth: "Brother Xi, we can also let Li Guilin lead his 23rd Brigade of Reading Power to take the lead." ”

Xi Qia's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he immediately slapped the table and decided: "Brother Ji, that's it!" ”

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At the same time, inside the 23rd Brigade Headquarters of Reading Power in Changchun City.

Li Guilin found his friend Mu Chunchang, the commander of the 10th Regiment of Artillery. "Brother Xinshan, what's the matter with me in a hurry?" Mu Chunchang asked when he met.

Li Guilin took out the secret telegram sent to him by Zhang Shaoshuai, and said to Mu Chunchang: "Brother Mu, we are all under the great marshal, the young marshal is kind, now that the young marshal has an order, we should also resolutely abide by it, take it as our responsibility to stick to Changchun, and wait for the young marshal to return to Ji, don't you say?" ”

After reading the secret telegram, Mu Chunchang pondered for a moment, and just wanted to speak, when Li Guilin's adjutant suddenly walked in in a hurry.

"What's the matter?" Li Guilin was extremely dissatisfied with the adjutant's sudden intrusion, and asked in an unhappy tone.

"Brigade seat, Xi Shenzuo sent someone to invite you and Mu to go to the headquarters for a meeting." The adjutant didn't care about explanation, and hurriedly said.

"Oh?" Li Guilin and Mu Chunchang glanced at each other,

He opened his mouth and asked, "Brother Mu, shall we go or not?" ”

Mu Chunchang thought for a while and said: "Go, the meaning of the young marshal's secret telegram is to let us be false and wronged, stick to Changchun, and firmly hold the control of Changchun in our hands, not let us turn against Ji and Xi now." ”

Li Guilin nodded when he heard this, indeed, if he turned his face with Jixing and Xiqia now, and didn't say who won and who lost, then Changchun would definitely not be able to hold it.

After thinking about it, Li Guilin and Mu Chunchang left their brigade headquarters and headed straight for the headquarters with a guard platoon.

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Outside the city, read the headquarters of the 24th Brigade.

"Brother Sa, Shenyang is in danger, you lead the cavalry to help first, and Li and Brother Xing will arrive soon!" Li Du patted Sabuli's shoulder very solemnly and said.

"Please rest assured, Chief Li, Sabuli will live up to his mission!" Sabuli gladly stepped forward to accept his fate.

"Be careful all the way!" Li Du saluted.

"Farewell!" Sabuli saluted in return, turned around with his saber on his shoulder, and strode away.

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In the evening, the torrential rain continued, and the 1st Company of the 2nd Battalion of the 3rd Regiment of the South Canal outside Shenyang City was positioned.

Liu Zhenhu, a student of the 11th class of the Northeast Lecture and Martial Arts Hall, has now become the captain and company commander of the second battalion and the first company of the third regiment of the garrison brigade.

Before entering the lecture martial arts hall to study, Liu Zhenhu was a second lieutenant platoon commander of the 23rd Brigade of Reading Force, and after more than half a year of advanced study in the lecture martial arts hall, he is now a captain company commander, which is not a problem at all.

Today, Liu Zhenhu's 1st Company has a special recruit.

"Company Commander Liu, he is the younger brother of the brigade, born in Yanjing, I will arrange him in your 1st company, you have to take care of me." Liu Zhenhu looked up and down at Zhang Xinghua, who came to report with his bags, and couldn't help but hear in his ears the instructions of the head of the regiment, Wang Yicai, before leaving.

Zhang Xinghua couldn't help but look at himself when he saw Liu Zhenhu, and involuntarily straightened up, accepting Liu Zhenhu's review with the best mental outlook.

"Your name is Zhang Xinghua? Born in Yanjing? Liu Zhenhu asked after looking at it.

"Yes." Zhang Xinghua replied neither humbly nor arrogantly.

"Alright, from now on you can stay in the company headquarters as my orderly." Liu Zhenhu said.

Unexpectedly, Zhang Xinghua stood up and objected: "Sir, please send me to the front-line infantry squad, I want to be a combat soldier!" ”

"Huh?" Liu Zhenhu was secretly surprised when he heard this, looked at Zhang Xinghua again, remembered Wang Yicai's instructions, and finally shook his head and said: "No, all infantry platoons are full, and I am short of a service soldier." ”

"I don't want military pay, the company commander can put me into that platoon at will." Zhang Xinghua insisted.

"Huh?" Zhang Xinghua's performance greatly exceeded Liu Zhenhu's expectations, in his opinion, Luzao's younger brother, a talent from Yenching University, came to his 1st Company to exercise and exercise, gilded, or it would not be long before he would have to be transferred to be promoted and become a staff officer or something.

This point, not only Liu Zhenhu thinks so, but even Wang Yicai, who is Zhang Xinghan's brother, thinks so, so he gave Liu Zhenhu a wake-up call in advance and asked him to take special care.

"Zhang Xinghua, can you tell me why you have to go to the front-line combat unit?" Liu Zhenhu asked with some curiosity.

"In order to kill devils and defend the country!" Zhang Xinghua replied without pretentiousness.

"The front-line combat squad is very dangerous, and it may shed blood and die at any time, aren't you afraid?" Liu Zhenhu nodded and asked again.

"At this time of national disaster, the autumn of national survival, Xinghua has already put personal life and death aside, if you can sacrifice for the country, Xinghua is lucky, why be afraid?!" Zhang Xinghua said righteously.

"Well said." Liu Zhenhu couldn't help but nod his head when he heard this, and immediately got up and said to Zhang Xinghua meaningfully: "Brother, let me tell you the truth, as soon as the war starts, including me, the company commander, you have to go to the front line to participate in the battle, so as my orderly, you don't have to worry about not having the opportunity to go to the battlefield, I hope that when you go to the battlefield, don't be frightened by the rumbling cannon." ”

"Please rest assured, the company commander will never have a bad breed of male in the Zhang family." Zhang Xinghua swore and promised.

"Okay, drop your bags and follow me to patrol the trenches." Liu Zhenhu picked up the steel helmets hanging in a batch and commanded.

"Yes!" Zhang Xinghua immediately put down his bags and followed Liu Zhenhu out of the company.

At this time, the water in the traffic trench was almost knee-deep, and Liu Zhenhu and Zhang Xinghua had just taken two steps before their bodies were completely wet with rain, and their feet were even more mired in silt.

Zhang Xinghua could even clearly feel that his shoes were filled with cold rain and mud.

In order to clear up the stagnant water, most of the officers and men of the 1st Company were using shovels, water tanks and other objects to splash the stagnant water in the trenches outside the trenches.

What's more, because there are no shovels and other things, they directly hold their steel helmets as water scoops.

"Company commander, it's raining so hard, why don't the brothers even have a raincoat? Can't you leave the fortifications first, take shelter from the rain in the city, and come back when the rain stops? Zhang Xinghua looked at the officers and soldiers who were drenched in the rainstorm and said unbearably.

Liu Zhenhu looked back at Zhang Xinghua, and patiently explained: "This is what we should do as soldiers, we are not even afraid of death, are we afraid of a little rain?" ”

"However, the soldiers will get sick if they are exposed to the rain like this." Zhang Xinghua didn't know why.

"Sickness does not necessarily mean death, if the position is lost, not only will we have to die, but the whole city will also suffer." After Liu Zhenhu finished speaking, he continued to stride forward.

Of course, Zhang Xinghua couldn't understand Liu Zhenhu's words at this time, and he couldn't fully understand the meaning of the sentence "military orders are like mountains" when he just became a recruit.

Just as he was about to find Liu Zhenhu to continue the debate, one of the guards in his entourage stopped him and explained in a low voice: "Brother, you didn't understand anything just now, don't ask more, the company commander is polite to you, if you were someone else, you would have been scolded a long time ago." ”

"Why? Aren't all officers and soldiers equal? And I'm right, right? The big guy is just drenched in the rain, sooner or later he will get sick, how can he fight when he is sick? Zhang Xinghua asked inexplicably.

"Equality of officers and soldiers?" The guard said disapprerovingly: "The commander is the commander, the soldier is the soldier, if everyone is equal, how can we fight?" This is the army, not the school. ”

"Also, do you think the company commander is willing to watch the more than 100 brothers of the company suffer in the rain here? It's not like the little devils are coming. Moreover, the brigade has an order, and the officers and men on duty of the whole brigade must be ready for battle, and they must always stick to it and be ready for battle, and whoever dares to disobey the order will be shot on the spot! ”

"Traveler? Shoot on the spot? Zhang Xinghua was secretly surprised.

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In the city of Shenyang, the headquarters of the garrison brigade.

Su Hanyun walked into the war room with a telegram in his hand, and saluted Zhang Xinghan with his chest on the ground: "Brigade seat, read the 24th Brigade of the emergency telegram." ”

"Oh?" Zhang Xinghan took the telegram in surprise, opened it and looked at it, and immediately said: "Great, call General Li back immediately, and say that I, the father of Shenyang City in the Han Dynasty, thank him." ”

"Yes!" Su Hanyun was ordered to turn around, and after walking for less than two steps, she suddenly stopped and turned around and asked, "Luzao, can I ask you one thing?" ”

"What's the matter? You said. Zhang Xinghan was in a good mood and said solemnly.

"Xinghua, he was incorporated into that unit?" Su Hanyun asked.

"3rd Regiment, 2nd Battalion, 1st Company." Zhang Xinghan replied.

"Oh, thank you." Su Hanyun nodded and turned to leave.