Fan Zhu first stroked his white beard with a length of six or seven inches on his chest, and then said to the advance team members: "Fellow advance team members, your determination to resist Japan is very good, and as far as I am concerned, I appreciate your determination to resist Japan very much. But after all, you are too young, and you still need to eat more food, grow more strength, and grow taller, so that it is most suitable to go to the battlefield. If we want to repel the attack of the Japanese bandits, we must fight an all-out war of resistance, and we must mobilize the people of the whole country and the army of the whole country. This is everyone's business, it's the whole nation's business! It's like fighting a monster, how do we deal with it, always call the most powerful to rush to the front, and call some old, weak and disabled people to wave the flag and shout in the back, cheering for our most powerful people, isn't it? If you ask the old, weak and disabled to rush to the front, and let the young and strong wave the flag and shout in the back, is it not right? ”

Fan Zhuxian's analogy caused everyone to laugh.

Fan Zhuxian said again: "Okay, the advance team actively asked to go to the front, and I agreed." However, you can only cooperate with the main force to do some auxiliary battles, and when you train and train again, and after a few more years, I will definitely send you to the fiercest battles, do you say? ”

The members of the advancing team applauded together, and there was warm applause, especially Fan Shumin, who was even more happy, and said loudly: "Okay, okay, we can finally go to the front line, and we can finally kill the Japanese devils with our own hands." ”

The next day, the advance team received an order to go to the front and work with Bu Yongyan of the 19th detachment to do battlefield propaganda work. Fan Zhuxian dialed the only phone number of Wang Wei, the chief of staff of the 19th detachment, and said: "Chief of Staff Wang, the advance team is all child soldiers, and they have no combat effectiveness, you must protect their safety." ”

Wang Weiwei hurriedly said respectfully on the phone: "Don't worry, Commander Fan, the advance team is all some dolls, I know." Especially Fan Gongzi is also in the advance team, of course I have to try my best to protect it, so that the advance team is in a little bit of danger. ”

Fan Zhu put down the phone first, and then settled down.

Why did Fan Zhu call Wang Wei first, so where did Bu Yongyan go. It turned out that Bu Yongyan's 19th detachment had been stationed in Pozhaozhuang, more than 20 miles west of Qihe County, for half a month. Bu Yongyan was accidentally stabbed by the feudal Taoist gate "Huangsha Society" in Danzhen, Changqing County, when he advanced into the Qi River, and had to go to Liaocheng to recuperate, so the troops could only be temporarily commanded by the chief of staff Wang Wei.

Besides, there were only forty or fifty Japanese soldiers in Qihe County, and there were only more than 100 traitor troops. At night, lanterns and torches hung on the city walls, and soldiers patrolled, fearing that Fan Zhuxian's troops would attack the city. As soon as the gunshots rang out, the city was also frightened overnight, and the devil and traitor ran up the city wall with their pants, always afraid that someone would pounce on the city.

In order to strengthen the strength of the Qihe front, Fan Zhuxian decided to transfer Wang Shantang's 29th detachment to Bu Yongyan's 19th detachment to change guards.

This news has been detected by the small spies arranged by Tian Yuaner, the head of the Liaocheng Xinmin Association, in the 19th detachment, and reported it to Tian Yuaner. Besides, the 19th Detachment had been stationed in Pozhaozhuang for 15 or 6 days, and Tian Yuaner had not eaten dry food, so he had already reconnoitred all aspects of the 19th Detachment.

The Japanese army began to dispatch troops, and they secretly transferred four or five hundred Japanese puppet army infantry, cavalry, and artillery troops stationed in the three strongholds of Qihe, Yucheng, and Yancheng.

In the sky of August, when the east is still relatively dark, the morning star is particularly bright, and the sound of the motor of the car is heard from the road leading from the Qi River to Pozhao Village, and the dogs in the village bite very badly. At this time, in Pozhao Village, the 19th detachment and the advance team members were sleeping soundly, and from time to time there were dreams and bursts of snoring.

The nearby sentry came quickly, woke up Wang Wei who was sleeping, and reported to him: "Report to the chief of staff, there is a sound of cars from Qihe, and it doesn't sound like a car, there may be an enemy situation!" ”

Wang Wei thought that the sentry had disturbed his good dreams, and reprimanded the sentry: "What kind of hostile situation, the devils of Qihe have long been too scared to come out, and there will be hostile situations." If there is a situation, it is also the people of the 29th detachment who have changed their guards. ”

The sentry continued to raise his own questions: "Even if the 29th detachment came to change the guard, it shouldn't have come so early, and it was still in a car. ”

Wang Weiwei continued to reprimand the sentry and said: "What is the rarity of taking a car, our troops have already had cars, didn't our automobile factory build a lot of cars, and drive back a lot." ”

At the same time, the sentry of the advance team also came to report to Fan Shumin that a car had been found at the entrance of the village, and after Fan Shumin heard the sentry's report, he was also skeptical: "It can't be a devil, the devil has long been afraid to come out in Qihe County, they dare to sneak attack us?" ”

The sentry also reported: "There are quite a few cars, most likely devils." ”

Fan Shumin listened to the sentry's report and realized in his heart that the situation might be strict, so he immediately ordered: "All the members of the advancing team should gather immediately and prepare for battle. ”

The advance team members quickly got up and gathered, and Fan Shumin said to Yan Rong again: "Director Yan, you quickly take a few people to see the situation." ”

Yan Rong agreed, "Yes," and immediately led a few people to check the situation.

Yan Rong led a few people to the north of the village first, and to the north of the village was an endless field of crops, and there were a few miscellaneous trees in the sparse land. At this time, from the crop field, a troop wearing a bright steel helmet rushed towards Pozhao Village from the north.

Just fifty or sixty meters away, the sentry of the 19th detachment shouted: "What are you doing?" Which troops? ”

The opposite one is in Chinese: "The 29th detachment changed guards." ”

The sentry shouted again: "Stop, if you don't stop, you will shoot!" ”

The troops wearing steel helmets on the opposite side did not listen to the greeting at all, but continued to rush forward with their guns in hand.

Yan Rong looked at it and shouted: "It must be a devil, shoot!" "As soon as the shots were fired here, the devils also shot.

As soon as the gunfire rang out, it was clearly fired, and the devil's cannonballs also came, and the sound of shells breaking through the air was heard with a "whoosh-" and "boom-" explosions violently around Yan Rong's side, killing and wounding one of the two advancing team members beside him.

The sentry of the 19th detachment quickly reported the enemy situation to Wang Weiwei, Wang Weiwei knew that the real devil was coming, and he had no mental preparation at all, but at this time he seemed panicked and hurried, and he hurriedly issued an order to the herald and said: "Quickly call Fan Shumin's advance brigade and battalion commander Li Zongqin to lead the team to resist the devil and cover the retreat of the large army." ”

After giving the order, he hurriedly led the other two battalions to the west to flee for his life, and he had long forgotten Fan Zhuxian's words.

After Fan Shumin received the order, he hurriedly took the advance brigade to the north of the village to participate in the battle, and when he arrived at the north of the village, he saw that Yan Rong was the only one left in the advance brigade, and the rest of the team members had already died.

As for the Li Zongqin battalion of the 19th detachment, he didn't see a shadow at all. It turned out that Li Zongqin was also afraid of fighting head-on with the devils, so he had already sneaked away with one of his battalions, leaving only the child soldiers who advanced into the brigade to block bullets for them.

Once the devils rushed into the village, the 19th detachment, which had not yet withdrawn, would face the danger of being surrounded by the enemy. Fan Shumin hurriedly ordered all the team members to rely on the houses on the edge of the village and the courtyard wall to resolutely stop the enemy's attack.

A squad of devils pounced, one by one the devils were extremely vicious, holding their bayonet rifles, and the monsters screamed in their mouths, hoping to wipe out all the young advance members.

Relying on dozens of Czech rifles, the advance team fired platoon guns at the enemy, and one after another platoon guns hit the enemy one after another. When the enemy got closer, Fan Shumin shouted again: "Grenades-grenades-" A row of grenades smashed over, and the little devil was dead, dead.

The first attack of the little devil was repulsed in this way.

The little devil's weapon is good, after a while, the devil's grenade grenade came over, "silk-" "boom-" one grenade after another exploded in the team of advancing members, the casualties in the team were constantly increasing, and they held on for a while, Fan Shumin saw that the time was almost close, and it was estimated that the 19th detachment had all withdrawn, so he asked the chief of staff for his opinion: "Chief of staff, the task is almost over, let's withdraw quickly!" If you don't withdraw, you can't withdraw. Which direction should we go to break through? ”

He Fang's arm was already hung with flowers, and his face was also scratched by a grenade, he had long been observing the surrounding movements, and said to Fan Shumin: "The gunfire in the west of the village is also very intense, and the gunfire in the south of the village is still relatively rare, so let's break through from the south of the village and the west of the village respectively, and whoever stands out will be the winner." ”

Yan Rong said to Fan Shumin: "Otherwise, I will lead a team to break through from the west and cover the large army, so you can break through from the south!" + Fan Shumin said: "I am the captain, or am I leading a squad to break through from the west, covering the large army to break through from the south." ”

Yan Rong said to Fan Shumin anxiously: "At this time, no one should fight, it is still unknown whether it can stand out." As soon as the west side hits, the ghosts are attracted first, and the south side starts to act. ”

At this time, Fan Shumin had nothing to say, and shook Yan Rong's hand tightly and said, "I wish you a successful breakthrough." Yan Rong also held Fan Shumin's hand tightly and shook it and said, "I also wish you a successful breakthrough!" Then the troops broke through from the west and the south in two ways.

Let's talk about Yan Rong's way of this, leading more than 20 people to rush out of the village from the west of the village, they were attacked by the side fire of the devil's machine gun in the north of the village, and five or six people fell down at once. Yan Rong ordered all the team members to lie down, holding on to the frame and dragging the wounded, rolling and crawling to the ground, finally highlighting the encirclement of the devils.

Fan Shumin and He Fang led the advance team to the south, and there were about 30 people left, breaking through along the south of the village. The devils came from the east, and their attempt was to focus on attacking from the north, driving the Chinese army to the south, and in the south they happened to arrange a pocket, and Fan Shumin, who had little experience, did not know these situations, just because the south was easy to break through.

Fan Shumin took the lead, followed closely by He Fang and the advancing team members, although they were running out of breath one by one, they were still running desperately.

Suddenly, there was a violent machine gun sound in front, and the advancing team members around Fan Shumin fell seven or eight at once.