Xiao Xiong and several officers were lying on the thick thatch, none of them spoke, just quietly listened to the sound of the north wind blowing outside the canopy, and the water of Poyang Lake gently lapped the side of the boat, making a pleasant ding sound.

The wick of the horse lantern hanging on the canopy rack has sintered into a beautiful lantern. Li Minghua lifted the glass lampshade, took out his hunting knife and gently pulled off the lantern, and the horse lamp immediately became bright.

Xiao Xiong sat up and twisted the wick to dim the light. Then, a piece of the canopy was lifted. All of a sudden, the cabin suddenly became very bright. I saw a bright moon hanging in the middle of the night, and the silver moonlight poured down from the open ceiling, and everyone could clearly see the hairs on each other's faces.

Xiao Xiong sighed softly and shifted his body, allowing himself to be completely bathed in the watery moonlight. He pondered for a while, and then said to everyone:

"I know that everyone is very sad that so many familiar brothers died at once, and no one can stand it. To this day, I still think about the brothers who are floating in the icy water, shouting the slogan of 'kill the devil' in their mouths, paddling the water and rushing towards the devils. They are true heroes, and they fought until the last moment of their lives. I'm so proud of them. But now, because of the great losses we have suffered, there are only 100 men left in the army after the battle, and even if we add those brothers who did not come to the battle, there will be no more than 300 men. The water guerrillas and hunters were even worse, with only a dozen men left with me, and each of the rest squadrons was no better, with less than 40 men left. Seeing that the devils are about to launch an attack on the Ninth War Zone, we also have to find a way to continue operations behind enemy lines in order to disrupt the enemy's deployment and disrupt the devils' offensive plan. ”

Speaking of this, Xiao Xiong turned his head and said to Gao Qixing:

"Deputy Commander, tell everyone the contents of the telegram from the Theater Commander's Department."

Gao Qixing hurriedly sat up and took out the draft of the telegram from his body. Everyone also quickly sat up and looked at Gao Qixing.

Gao Qixing took off the lantern, twisted the wick a little more, read the draft of the telegram again, and then said to everyone:

"The commander's command spoke highly of our operation, praised our courage and tenacity, fought bloody battles to eliminate the devil's gas bombs, made a good start to the upcoming battle, and paid tribute to us on behalf of the brethren in the entire theater of operations. Commendations were given to all those who had participated in the war, and bonuses and pensions for the brothers who died in the war would be sent in a few days, asking us to extend our condolences to the families of the brothers who died in the war. ”

Speaking of this, Gao Qixing glanced at Xiao Xiong and said happily:

"The Commander's Department also said that in view of the heavy casualties of the brothers of the Einsatzgruppen, which will seriously affect future combat operations, it is ready to allocate some supplies to us and ask us to quickly expand our army. The best news was that the Commander's Department had decided to send us some veterans from the combat units to replenish the losses of our troops in order to strengthen our forces as soon as possible. He also demanded that the hometowns of these soldiers should preferably be in the northern part of Jiangxi, so that it would be conducive to our future operations in the enemy-occupied areas. ”

Hearing such good news, everyone felt that their eyes lit up, and they happily slapped each other, and said good words repeatedly, saying that they really couldn't imagine that the commanders had thought so carefully, so that our northern Jiangxi anti-enemy special forces could show their skills in the enemy-occupied areas again.

Gao Qixing said to everyone:

"This is our Commander Xiao on the way here to report the specific situation of our battle to the Commander's Department, and put forward the above request to the Commander's Department, Commander Luo not only immediately approved our request, but also personally issued an order to transfer troops from above."

Everyone looked at Xiao Xiong with admiration. Xiao Xiong continued on the topic of excitement:

"At present, the devils are stepping up the deployment of troops and preparing strategic materials. Their intention is obvious, that is, to concentrate their forces in an attempt to destroy the main forces of our Ninth Theater of Operations and consolidate their rule over central and northern Jiangxi. Therefore, as part of the 9th War Zone, our Einsatzgruppen is to carry out the orders of the Commander's Department to the letter, and try our best to disrupt the rear of the devils, delay their movements, and disrupt their strategic intentions as much as possible. ”

After listening to Xiao Xiong's words, the dull atmosphere just now was swept away and they cheered up again.

"Alright. Everyone then listened to Deputy Commander Gao. ”

Xiao Xiong simply lifted the roof of the cabin, and the mercury-like moonlight poured in, sprinkling on the bodies of these people who seemed very excited. Although the evening breeze in Poyang Lake was very cold and cool, everyone's hearts swelled with the passion of fighting eager to kill the enemy, and they felt their blood boiling.

"Commander, what do you think we should do next?"

Everyone looked at Xiao Xiong with expectant eyes.

"Rush back to Jiujiang first and then make arrangements. We must have stabbed the devil's hornet's nest this time, and I don't know what happened to the old devil Yamamoto now. Okay, let's rest for a few days, let everyone recover and recover, and when most of the wounded and sick have recovered, we will rush back to Jiujiang immediately, and then do a good job. You should sleep in peace now. ”

After Xiao Xiong finished speaking, he lay down and said to Li Minghua:

"Close the roof, turn off the lights and go to bed!"

Sure enough, as Xiao Xiong expected, the devil's transport fleet was wiped out in the waters of the Lao Ye Temple in Poyang Lake, and disappeared without a trace, leaving not even a single living mouth. This news made Yamamoto, the commander of the Jiujiang City Defense of the devil, unable to believe it, he really met a ghost in broad daylight. Not to mention himself, even the attacker disappeared into Poyang Lake in just a few minutes.

According to the devils who observed the battle from the shore, the Imperial army was sure of victory, the vast majority of the attackers' ships had been sunk, and the lake was filled with the bodies of the enemy who had fallen into the water and the corpses of those they had killed. But at that moment, the lake was suddenly covered with dark clouds, strong winds, smoke, turbid waves rolling, and the waves were more than a foot high. In less than ten minutes, the fierce battle between us and the enemy in the lake had all disappeared after the storm.

It's incredible! Yamamoto thinks this is just nonsense, like a fantasy. In order to find out the truth of the matter, he hurriedly reported the situation to the headquarters of the 11th Army of the Yue Army.

The military headquarters of the 10th Army felt that this was too ridiculous, so it transferred a five-person diving team to Jiujiang through the navy stationed on the Yangtze River. Their mission was to go to the waters around the Lao Ye Temple in Poyang Lake to find the missing transport ships.

Yamamoto immediately sent several ships carrying this diving group to the temple of the old man. Several divers of the devil measured the depth of the water, but it was only close to 30 meters deep.

They looked at each other and smiled, thinking that the lake here was too shallow, and it was a piece of cake for their experience, and it was really a knife to find out the situation underwater.

From the devil's ship, three devils went down first, and the rest of the people sat on the bow of the boat talking and laughing. However, suddenly, the rope connecting the underwater diver shook rapidly. The devil who answered on it hurriedly grabbed the rope and pulled it up desperately. However, after pulling for a while, they felt that the heavy rope in their hands suddenly became empty. Several of the devils who were pulling were defenseless and fell backwards on the deck of the bow of the ship together.

They got up and pulled the rope out of the water. I saw that the rope had been broken, and one section fell into the lake. The section that was pulled up was as if it had been cut by someone, because the break was neat and tidy.

What a hell of a thing. The rope was broken. Something had never happened before, and the three divers had been in the water for a long time, so it was common sense that they should have come in the morning. It hasn't surfaced yet, it's been time, and it looks like they should be more than lucky.

Of the two remaining devil divers, one has the rank of captain. This captain can be described as battle-hardened and experienced. He has been in all kinds of water, not to mention this obscure little Poyang Lake, even the water conditions are so complicated in the Pacific Ocean, and he has often been there in the sea water as deep as 100 meters. Therefore, the devil captain asked the people on the boat to lower a rope into the water again, and he and another diver easily went into the water, and the two of them dived underwater.

However, after about 10 minutes, the rope that had been put into the water suddenly shook violently. The devil above immediately pulled to the surface of the water. However, the situation was the same as just now, and the rope that was pulled up was still half broken.

The devils were very panicked, and their eyes were staring straight into the water, not knowing what was going on underwater.

Suddenly, a wave broke out on the surface of the water, and the devil captain rushed out of the water. He hurriedly climbed onto the ship, and sat down on the deck of the ship, with an unusually frightened look in his eyes, and something still reading in his trembling mouth.

The other devils crowded around the devil captain. I only heard the captain's face turn pale, and he shouted incoherently:

"Hell, ghost!"

His strange behavior frightened the devils. A devil kept slapping the devil captain in the face, and shouted at him:

"Captain, wake up, what do you see down there? What the hell is going on down there? ”

"Nothing, nothing. There are ghosts, there are ghosts! Run, the devil is coming to arrest someone! ”

The devil captain suddenly screamed frantically, turned desperately and rushed into the cabin, and closed the hatch tightly.

The rest of the devils saw that the situation was not good, and they were also frightened one by one. They hurriedly started their machines, drove their ships, and hurried away from this terrible place.

When the devil's ship sailed back to Jiujiang, he told Yamamoto what he had seen and heard. Yamamoto also felt a chill in his vest when he heard this. He hurriedly reported the situation to the headquarters of the 11th Army of the Chinese Army in Wuhan.

The military headquarters of the 11th Army quickly called back and ordered Yamamoto to suspend the search for the missing convoy.