Chapter 344: Rescue
The four gunmen in charge of defending the perimeter were killed by the Chinese soldiers, and they could have survived for a long time as long as they had withdrawn to the guest house.
However, the Japanese gunners were ordered to stay outside the guest house and kill all the idlers who came to the guest house.
Elder Futian was not wrong when he answered this order, because at that time, the soldiers in the Xuedou Temple had already made them unconscious, and even if they heard the gunshots, there would not be many idle people who came to see the excitement.
So leaving the four sharpshooters to guard the outside of the guest house, they can eat the military commanders in the guest house with confidence, maybe they can still take these military commanders and Zhang Xueliang together.
It's a pity that people are not as good as heaven, and no one knows why the soldiers of this company, who had to sleep until the next morning to wake up, woke up on their own after sleeping for just over an hour.
So when more than 100 fully armed soldiers rushed to the defensive positions of the four Japanese sharpshooters, they were strongly resisted by the four sharpshooters.
But after more than a hundred soldiers had sacrificed a dozen soldiers, they threw dozens of grenades near the four sharpshooters.
In such a small space, it is difficult to be thrown by dozens of grenades, and it is difficult not to die. So the four poor sharpshooters were blown to pieces by dozens of grenades and went to see their Amaterasu.
And the huge explosion of dozens of grenades outside the guest house naturally woke up the two people who were attacking and killing in the small courtyard of the guest house.
The military commanders who were strictly guarding Zhang Xueliang's room were naturally pleasantly surprised, such a violent explosion could only mean that their reinforcements had arrived, and they Zhang Yu could breathe a sigh of relief.
And the sound of such a close explosion came from outside the guest house, Elder Futian knew that they were now under attack, and under the lightning, Elder Futian made a decision to retreat immediately.
As soon as Elder Futian finished the order to retreat, he threw a few smoke bombs to his side, and then he was the first to pass out of the Xuedou Mountain Guest House.
The other three elders also took advantage of the poor vision in the night, each threw a few smoke bombs to the ground, jumped over the wall and jumped out of the guest house, and disappeared into the vast night.
The Chinese soldiers who came to reinforce could only shout to the guest house and spread out to surround the entire guest house, hoping to rush in and arrest people after the smoke had cleared.
At this time, in Zhang Xueliang's room, the military commander's spies who were huddled together did not dare to rush out of the door, so everyone stayed in the room, covering their mouths and noses with water-soaked sheets, and pointing guns at the door of the room to guard carefully.
Fortunately, the smoke only lasted for a while before it slowly dissipated, and the garrisons of Xuedou Temple who came to reinforce also rushed in. When everyone found out that Zhang Xueliang was not only not injured but was still in good condition, the company commander and the person in charge of the military command who came to reinforce him breathed a sigh of relief.
The company commander and the commander of the military command are also old acquaintances, and the two arranged Zhang Xueliang, and each led his subordinates out of Zhang Xueliang's room, and then sent away their respective subordinates, and each took a henchman to the captain's room and talked cautiously.
The captain of the military commander asked the company commander why they had only come to support now, and where had his company gone when the vanguard guest house was attacked?
The company commander said aggrievedly: "We were all unconscious, maybe the enemy's medicine was not enough, we were only unconscious for more than an hour, and then we heard gunshots, we woke up one after another, and then everyone immediately came to reinforce us."
Outside your guest house, we killed four gunmen, and now the bodies are sitting outside. I don't know if they came here to save people or kill people. ”
Hearing what the company commander said, the captain of the military commander couldn't figure out whether this group of people had come to assassinate Zhang Xueliang or to rescue him. He just sighed that the force of this group of enemies was so strong, if they hadn't reinforced Zhang Xueliang's room in advance, and even arranged the room in the guest house like a bunker, maybe those people would have rushed in.
But no matter what, Zhang Xueliang was not in any danger, and he and the company commander's lives were saved. But it was no longer safe here, and he had made a phone call just after the attack, but now the phone was not working, and it seemed that the enemy had damaged the telephone line.
But he also couldn't understand why the enemy didn't destroy the telephone lines before the attack, but only after the attack.
However, if it weren't for the mistakes in the gunners' attack, they would not have been able to report the attack here to the garrisons in Nanjing and the mountain at the first time.
It seems that the preparation of these uninvited guests is not sufficient, and they deserve to fail in their mission. This time, although their commander killed more than a dozen brothers, they did succeed in repelling the attackers, so they still had merit anyway.
Just as the commander of the army and the company commander were discussing how to distribute the merits of this battle. I heard a commotion in front of the guest house, and then I saw the commander of the garrison at the foot of the mountain, leading a colonel officer and several second lieutenant officers in.
"I am a commissioner sent by Commander Jiang of the Revolutionary Committee of the National Army, and I was ordered to transfer Zhang Shaoshuai, now you can do a handover procedure with me." After speaking, the commissioner took out a warrant signed by Commander Jiang to hand over to Zhang Xueliang from his briefcase.
Where had this military commander seen Commander Chiang's warrant, and he wanted to call Director Dai Li of Nanjing to verify it. But the phone line didn't work.
In desperation, he could only ask the colonel and his men to stay in the guest house for a night, and wait for him to report the situation here to his superiors tomorrow morning before he could handle the handover.
The company commander next to him didn't even dare to make a breath when he saw the regiment commander accompanying the commissioner, and thought that the commissioner's official position was very large, so he relied on his long-standing relationship with the commander of the military command and urged him to handle the transfer immediately.
However, this commander of the military command was very principled, and although the commissioner had a warrant from Commander Chiang and was accompanied by the commander of the garrison under the mountain, it stands to reason that he should not be suspicious. However, he is a member of the military command, and he will not hand over without the approval of the higher-level department of the military command.
Therefore, he insisted that the commissioner wait a while, and if the commissioner was really in a hurry to complete the task, he could go and use the radio to contact Nanjing.
Then he wanted to go out and call someone to fetch the radio, but as soon as he stood up, the four second lieutenant officers of the special commissioner suddenly burst into attack.
An officer directly wiped the neck of the company commander who was helping next to him, and the captain of the uncooperative military commander also asked the commissioner to cover his mouth, and then a short sword pierced his heart.
As for the other two henchmen in the room, they were also dealt with by the other two officers with a knife, and the whole process was not delayed, several people killed the people in the room, and then dragged their bodies to the corner.
The head of the regiment in the room looked at everything that was happening in front of him in fear, and he didn't dare to make a single breath. It turned out that he was actually coerced by the commissioner in front of him.
It turned out that this special commissioner had come to Xikou Town with a team of dozens of people this evening, and came directly to his regimental headquarters.
After showing the relevant certificates, this person just said that he was passing by here, and he came to visit, and brought a lot of valuable gifts.
The regimental commander thought that the colonel had something to ask for, so he immediately drove his guards out of his office and had a good discussion with the commissioner.
I didn't expect this colonel to be really talkative, the two of them talked nonsense for more than ten minutes, but when the regiment commander just thought that it was too late to talk to this colonel's brother, suddenly the phone next to him rang.
As soon as he picked up the phone, he learned that it was the attack at the Xue Dou Guest House, and asked him to immediately go for reinforcements.
He had long been told that the deputy commander-in-chief of the National Revolutionary Army was being held in the guest house on the mountain, so the regimental commander, who knew that he was in great responsibility, could only ask the colonel to resign, and he would immediately lead his troops up the mountain to carry out the mission.
Unexpectedly, the colonel suddenly intervened to restrain him, and threatened the lives of the whole family to accompany him up the mountain. And the person who came promised him that he could give him a sum of money so that his whole family could go abroad to live the life of a rich man.
At the same time, the major told him that they had sent his family to sea before they arrived, and that his family was now waiting to be with him at sea.
Then the colonel took out from his briefcase a handwritten letter written to him by his family, as well as tokens brought with him by his parents and children.
Seeing that the colonel was so well prepared, he knew that he had already let the family target him. The regimental commander, who was already greedy for life and afraid of death, immediately agreed to cooperate fully, as long as it did not harm him and his family.
So accompanied by this regiment commander, the colonel took dozens of his soldiers all the way to the Xuedou Mountain Guest House, and met with the military commanders who were guarding Zhang Xueliang.
When the commissioner killed the commander in front of him, he nodded lightly to the soldiers beside him. The soldiers immediately took out a silencer from their bosoms and put it on top of their pistols.
Then they walked out of the door as if nothing had happened, and began to knock on the bungalows one by one. The moment the door of the bungalow was opened, they rushed into the house together and shot at all the military commanders in the house.
Soon, all the 20 or so military commanders who were still alive in the guest house were killed. Then they walked out of the guest house, called in the soldiers who had come with them from outside the guest house, and began to set up the whole guest house.
Just when these unknown soldiers were busy in the guest house, the colonel took the regiment commander to Zhang Xueliang's room, and the colonel secretly whispered a few words in Zhang Xueliang's ear and showed Zhang Xueliang a token.
Zhang Xueliang's eyes lit up when he saw the token, and then obediently put on a set of soldier's clothes handed to him by the officer. Then the group swaggered out of the guest house accompanied by the head of the regiment and returned to Xikou Town overnight.
When they arrived in the town, these people took Zhang Xueliang and the regiment leader to sit in a few cars, and drove out of Xikou Town all the way, nowhere to be found.