Lai Guqi's distress is still to come.

The moon tonight is very bright and bright, the wind blows through the Beisha River in early spring, and the ripples that ripple lift, sink, crumple and restore the moon projected in the heart of the waves, painting a colorful river.

If it weren't for the devil's invasion of Lunan, this Beisha River would have been a different scene at this time: when the peasants drank the muddle made of sorghum, talked about the growth of wheat, and discussed which mutton soup in the city tasted more pure. It's a pity that God doesn't have long eyes, and a group of two-legged beasts were born in the world, and the pastoral scenery of Lunan in early spring was smeared alive into a picture of purgatory in the world.

Chen Li met the 125th Division and the 127th Division that broke through by the Beishahe Railway Bridge, and when he saw that the team was beaten like this, Chen Li's throat was sour, and he looked at Chen Dingxun, the commander of the 125th Division, who was covered in blood, and said: "It's good to stand out, it's good to stand out!" ”

Chen Dingxun looked miserable: "The devil's firepower is too fierce, and the trenches have been blown up by the turtle's plane." After the plane was blown up, it was a cannon, after the cannon was fired, it was a tank, and behind the tank were light and heavy machine guns and grenadiers. Think about how many fights we used to have in Sichuan, fighting back and forth, that formation is compared with the firepower of the devil, it is simply a little baby's **, not a ball! ”

Chen Li already knew about the death and wounding of several regiment commanders, and as soon as he discussed with Chen Dingxun, he decided to downsize the troops again. The 125th Division and the 127th Division were each reduced to a reinforced regiment, which was led by two men personally. Chen Dingxun led the 125th Division to set up a position by the Beisha River on the first line of the railway bridge, which was connected with the position of the 370th Brigade, preparing to block the devils coming from the front of the Jiehe River and from the deep well. Chen Li led the 127th Division and the 364th Brigade of the 122nd Division to attack the devils who harassed Longyangdian.

At the time of separation, Chen Li told Chen Dingxun that the instructor of the Eighth Route Army came to a deputy chief of staff, and he told Commander-in-Chief Wang Mingzhang that a single-line position could not be built, but that the positions should be built into triangles and connected to each other, so that the devils would be hit from both sides if they broke through a little, which was conducive to the troops fighting with the devils, lest the whole line collapse once the position was broken through.

They are all old people who have fought wars, and they can understand it at one point. Chen Dingxun immediately called in his staff officers, quickly drew out a defense map according to the triangular formation, asked the 370th Brigade to also operate according to the plan, organized troops to build fortifications overnight, and sent sappers to plant explosives on the railway bridge to prepare for the bombing.

Chen Li saw that Zhang Xuanwu's team was complete, so he wanted to do a big job. Zhang Xuanwu also had this intention, and wanted to take advantage of the cover of night to concentrate two regiments to launch a night attack and drive the Yue army back to the north of the Beisha River.

Chen Dingxun held the Jiehe position for two days, and knew very well about the firepower and combat effectiveness of the devils, and when he heard that Chen Li and Zhang Xuanwu were discussing to drive the devils back to the north bank of the Beisha River, he hurriedly shook his head and said that it was impossible, not to mention two regiments, and it would not be possible to concentrate all the troops on the front line of Beishahe. It is likely that the meat bun beat the dog and never returned.

Chen Li thought for a while and said: "Division Commander Wang told me that the deputy chief of staff of the Eighth Route Army instructor told him that early tomorrow morning, after blocking the first line of Beishahe, withdraw the troops from their positions, let the devils go south to attack Teng County, and let the defending troops rely on the city fortifications to kill and injure the devils. Tomorrow night, it is best to blow up the devil's artillery position, so as to provide the greatest support to Teng County. ”

Historically, during the defense of Tengxian County, the 45th Army retreated from Jiehe on the morning of the 16th, when the Yue Army had already begun to attack Tengxian. After the defeat of the troops, because the commander Chen Li was seriously injured and had no one to command, it became a plate of scattered sand, bypassing Tengxian County and retreating to Lincheng, resulting in the defenders of Tengxian County becoming a lone army. Most of these scattered troops fell prey to the tanks and cavalry of the troops defending Tengxian County, and suffered great losses. The troops of the 124th Division of the 41st Army blocked the devils all the way from Shenjing and withdrew to the outskirts of Tengxian County, where they were glued together with the devils, and the troops suffered two-thirds of the casualties. Zhang Xuanwu Regiment of the 364th Brigade of the 122nd Division first sent a battalion back to the city to reinforce the city, and then the other two battalions were beaten badly and also retreated to Tengxian County to defend the city, and all of them were martyred. Only Wang Zhenwen's regiment returned from Pingyi and encountered the main force of the devils in Longyangdian, and only one battalion entered Tengxian, and the other troops had to retreat to Lincheng and were saved.

Now, due to the arrival of Zhu Zhexiao and Wang Pengju, the 22 nd Group Army has gained insight into the devil's conspiracy and quickly adjusted its deployment, and the 45 th Army has also withdrawn before the Yue Army attacked Teng County. In addition, the Zhang Xuanwu Regiment of the 364th Brigade and the 370th Brigade left in Tengxian County are all new forces, and the troops of the 22nd Group Army in Tengxian County still have the strength to fight with the Yue Army.

Chen Li said this, and several people felt that the Eighth Route Army's tactics were good, which could not only support the entrenchment of Tengxian, but also reduce casualties, so they immediately learned the tactics of the Eighth Route Army, and sent several small units with platoons as units, telling them that the purpose was to harass the enemy, not to destroy many enemies.

At this moment, Lai Guqi also felt what it means to be troubled. All day and night, the sound of gunfire and grenade explosions around the camps of various units continued, causing Lai Guqi to stay awake all night and have a headache in his head.

Because these small troops were not death squads, the commander made it very clear that they would run away after fighting. As a result, the results were very good, most of them came back, and each of them also carried the 38 covers and grenades of the captured devil patrols and sentinels, and showed off in front of their comrades.

Seeing such results in attacking and harassing troops, Chen Li, Chen Dingxun, and Zhang Xuanwu strengthened their confidence in studying the tactics of the Eighth Route Army.

At dawn, the positions on the front line of Beishahe were basically repaired. Wang Mingzhang went to the front line to inspect it, listened to the report of Chen Dingxun and the 370th Brigade on the defensive battle of Jiehe and Shenjing, and knew that the firepower of the army was too strong, and it was impossible to hold the front line of Beishahe. If the defense line is broken through, there will be no danger to defend within a radius of several kilometers around Teng County. The troops can easily be divided and surrounded by the enemy, forming a rout.

Chen Li took advantage of the situation and proposed to learn the tactics of the Eighth Route Army, instead of fighting to the death here and depleting the troops under the wanton and indiscriminate bombardment of the devils, it was better to move the troops behind the enemy, cut off the devils' rear roads, and seek opportunities to annihilate the enemy.

Several people discussed and discussed, believing that Tengxian County must be defended to the death, and Shangfeng's order was to hold it for three days, and according to the firepower of the Yue Army and the combat effectiveness of the 22nd Group Army, it would be difficult to hold these three days. The city wall can't stop the devil's aircraft and artillery, and there is no weapon to deal with the devil's tank, and some are just the blood of the brothers. I'm afraid that the blood is flowing in, but it still can't stop the footsteps of the devil. In the end, Wang Mingzhang decided to transfer Zhang Xuanwu's regiment into the city, with Zhang Xuanwu as the commander of Tengxian County's urban defense, and commanding Wang Zhenwen's regiment and several division headquarters and brigade headquarters remaining in Tengxian County's guard units and militia regiments to form a city-defying group to hold Tengxian County. The 372nd Brigade in the city immediately left the city to hold on to the Nansha River and maintain the contact between Tengxian County and the Lincheng Group Army Headquarters. After Chen Li commanded the 125th Division and the 370th Brigade to block the Yue army at Beishahe, the camera evacuated and went to the area west of the railway in Dongshahe to hide and wait, and return to Lincheng at any time to support Tengxian and Nanshahe operations. At night, you can secretly move behind enemy lines and copy the back roads of the devils.

After the adjustment and deployment of the troops was completed, the sky had already dawned, and a cruel day began.

Due to the lessons learned from the blows in Cangxian County, and the instructions of General Terauchi Shouichi, the devils who broke through from the front of the Jiehe River did not take advantage of the victory last night to pursue the 45th Army that broke through. Early in the morning, the devils began to commit murder on Jiehe Street. Shi Kezeng, who sells steamed buns, still gets up early in the morning to burn the fire and steam the steamed buns as usual. When the bun was ripe, Shi Kezeng picked up a basket of hot white buns and put them at the door, and was about to shout "The hot bun is coming", when a ghost soldier saw him, picked up his rifle and hit, Shi Kezeng pounced on the hot bun cage, and the gurgling blood dyed all the white buns red.

In this way, more than a dozen villagers on Jiehe Street who did not have time to run away were all slaughtered by the army.

When the addicted devil arrived in Xiwanyuan Village, the villagers fled, only one family surnamed Liu, because the woman wanted to sew the child's cotton pants before leaving, this hesitation made the devil's cavalry catch up and scatter, and the three adult men were all killed by the devil's cavalry.

When the devil arrived in Xiliuquan Village, he searched door to door when he saw that it was an empty village, and this search really found a person, this is Mr. Kong Congwu's housekeeper Zhang Fengyan, where did this pedantic old gentleman know that he was facing a group of man-eating monsters, and when he saw the devil, he began to preach the sage and talk about benevolence, righteousness and morality, and was killed by the devil with a knife.

The most typical is to the twenty mile shop, a few old men in the village are afraid that the devils will spoil the village, so they burn the sorghum rice tea in advance to greet them, but the devil soldiers are very simple, directly overturned the wooden barrel containing the sorghum rice tea, stabbed the bayonet into the chest of several old men, and then poured into the Wang family tavern, burned and drank the sorghum stored in the tavern, and smashed the tavern clean by the way.

Just when this group of brutes was doing evil all the way, Lai Guqi, who had not slept all night, ordered the 63rd Wing to bypass Tengxian County and attack Lincheng directly, and he drove the 10th Wing to start from Longyangdian and start attacking Dongguan, the county seat of Tengxian County.

The troops stationed at Dongguan in Tengxian County were Wang Zhenwen's regiment of the 366th Brigade, which had fought at Longyangdian yesterday, and they already had the experience of fighting with the Yue army yesterday.

The devil's planes began to bomb, and 12 planes pounced on Tengxian County, dropping bombs and strafing the county seat, collapsing the houses and causing dust to rise everywhere.

Wang Mingzhang, who was in Xiguan, saw that the military planes were so rampant, and his heart was gloomy, this Tengxian County would definitely not be able to defend the city with its own garrison troops alone, and the firepower of the army was so fierce that there was no need for infantry to attack, and the planes and artillery alone could raze Tengxian to the ground. At this time, if it is still too late for the troops to evacuate Tengxian, they can still go to the outside of the city to maneuver and fight, and no matter how late it is, I am afraid that they will not be able to withdraw if they want to.

Wang Mingzhang couldn't help but send a report to Sun Zhen again, stating his opinion.

Sun Zhen replied in a clear telegram that the chairman of the committee had called and said that Tengxian County must hold on for more than three days, and if the garrison of Tengxian County was insufficient, the 370th Brigade and the 372nd Brigade could all be withdrawn into the city, but Wang Mingzhang must personally command it in the city.

Wang Mingzhang understood that Chief Li and Sun Lao always wanted to use Teng County in exchange for the surprise attack of the Lincheng troops, and Teng County played the role of covering the main force and delaying the enemy.

Wang Mingzhang completely dispelled the idea of going out of the city for mobile warfare, moved the division headquarters from Xiguan back to the city, ordered Zhou Tong, the magistrate of Tengxian County, to quickly evacuate the people in the city, and then blocked the north and south city gates, and temporarily left the traffic passages at the east and west city gates, and sent messengers to various positions to convey his order of "determined to defend Tengcheng to the death, and I will work with everyone to survive the city and survive, and the city will die and perish."

Just when the 10th Wing of the Yue Army was attacking Dongguan, the Yue Army, which had arrived from Jiehe Heshenjing, engaged the 125th Division, the 127th Division, and the 370th Brigade at Beishahe.

The first to arrive was an ironclad patrol car of the devil, and the machine guns on the car kept firing around, carrying out fire reconnaissance and slaughtering the Chinese who could be seen.

As soon as Chen Li saw the devil's ironclad patrol car arrive, he hurriedly ordered the sappers to use explosive packs to blow up the railway bridge over the Beisha River. With a few loud bangs, the railway bridge collapsed, and the raging ironclad patrol car slipped directly into the Beisha River.

The first battle was won, and the soldiers were cheering. Unfortunately, the cheers did not last long before they were interrupted by the sound of the devil's cannon.

The shelling of the devils continued for an hour before it stopped, and then the tanks took the lead and began to cross the river. This time, the defenders were not angry, and concentrated all the mortars and heavy machine guns of a mortar company brought out from the Jiehe River to carry out a rapid fire attack on the Yue troops who were crossing the river.

The defenders' rapid attack did not last long, because the mountain artillery and field artillery of the defenders immediately adjusted their firing range and began to destroy the defenders' firepower after the defenders' heavy firepower opened fire.

Chen Li saw that the artillery shells of the Yue army had fallen near the mortar position, and hurriedly ordered the mortars to move their positions and continue to block the artillery bombardment of the Yue army's river-crossing troops to cover the troops' blockade. The surviving artillerymen were all veterans of a hundred battles, and when they received the transfer order, they immediately packed up and transferred, and it was said that the military artillery fire blew up a cannon and killed more than a dozen brothers.

Chen Li couldn't be angry, and scolded the little devil over and over again in his heart, and he could hit so accurately across the hills.

Seeing that the devil infantry crossed the narrow and shallow Beisha River under the cover of artillery fire and tanks, and began to organize an attack, Chen Li commanded the defenders to open fire, and the position on the south bank of the Beisha River was immediately filled with gunfire.

This time, the fortifications of the defenders were built differently from the past, and the depth was arranged, and even if the little devils attacked it, it was impossible to immediately expand to the two wings and cut the defenders apart as they did in the battle at the Jiehe River. This is the first time that the 45th Army has built fortifications like this, and the weapons are poor, if it is replaced by the troops of Liu Yimin's instructor, the army will be strangled by fire as soon as it comes in, and it will not be able to retreat if it wants to.

The devil's tank came up, and the soldiers' rifles and machine guns hit it and sparked a spark, which did not work at all. The machine guns on the devil tanks kept raging, so that the soldiers in the trenches could not raise their heads.

Wang Zhongren, the squad leader of the 127th Division, was furious when he saw this, picked up six grenades, tied them together, and shouted, "Brothers, which one can go back to Sichuan, tell your sister-in-law, remember to burn a paper for your brother during Qingming!" After shouting, he climbed out of the trench and rolled towards the tank under the hillside.

The army found Wang Zhongren, and the machine gun on the tank and the rifle on the back of the tank shot at Wang Zhongren, breaking Wang Zhongren's legs and spilling blood all over the ground.

Wang Zhongren is a native of Zhongjiang, Sichuan, and is a veteran. In the Sichuan Civil War, he did a lot of things that made him blush when he said it. This time on the battlefield, it was reborn, and he showed heroism in several battles. In his words, it is to atone for sins. After all, he is a veteran of a hundred battles. Experienced in combat, he did not roll directly forward after being wounded, but retracted into a crater and did not move again. The machine gun shooter and the accompanying infantry on the devil tank thought he had been killed, and the tanker grinned and pressed at the crater where he was hiding, trying to crush him into a meatloaf.

How can the devil tanker know what it feels like to be worse off than dead in China under the invasion of the Chinese army? How can we know what kind of sacrificial spirit this group of Sichuan men in tattered military uniforms and with broken guns with rifled and smoothed rifling is embracing? Just when the tank pressed into the crater, there was a muffled sound from under the tank, which directly blew up the guard plate under the fuel tank, and the spark directly ignited the engine, and then caused the engine explosion and ammunition explosion, sending the devil tanker's smiling and frightened face directly into his mother's nightmare for decades to come.

There is a fierce battle on the front line of Beishahe, and there is also a fierce battle in Teng County. By noon, the 366th Brigade, which was holding Dongguan, was forced to retreat to the city due to heavy casualties, relying on the city wall for defense.

In Seya Kai's imagination, as long as he interspersed in place, the plaster flag floated under the city of Tengxian, the frightened defenders would immediately abandon the city and flee, and the Chinese defenders' defense line from the boundary river to the city would be shaken on all lines, and even driving tanks and horses would catch groups of prisoners and kill piles of resisters. He never dreamed that the roundabout sneak attack that he thought he had planned would be seen through by the [***] team, which has been blocked and harassed by the [***] team since yesterday afternoon, and he can't even sleep well at night. It seems that this small Tengxian County and this inaccessible Sichuan Army turned out to be a hard nail that will not retreat!

Annoyed and angry, Kei Seya kept sending reports to the commander of the division, Lieutenant General Ryosuke Isoya, demanding that the air force intensify the bombing. Ryosuke Isoya was also unequivocal and sent a report to Lieutenant General Nishio Toshizo, saying that the elite 10th Division was blocked by the elite troops of China in Tengxian County, and suffered heavy casualties, and asked the commander to order the aviation force to cooperate vigorously. Dozens of bombers, under the cover of fighter planes, went all out to bomb the defending positions in Tengxian County and the Beishahe line, and dropped tons and tons of bombs, drowning the county seat of Tengxian County in the smoke of gunpowder and blowing up the defenders' positions without air defense weapons.

An inch of mountains and rivers and an inch of blood!

(To be continued)