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Chapter 776—The Baptism of Ice and Fire (1)

At the moment before nightfall, the snow is beginning to fall, the cold wind is slightly reduced, and the faint light illuminates the land of the northern winter night in a gray area, and the heaven and earth are like shrouded in a huge dark gray twilight. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Outside the side hall on both sides of the temple, several brothers are pouring bags of raw salt into the steaming cauldron, stirring them with wooden sticks, in the side hall, more than 70 brothers who have been frostbitten and injured by falling are lying on the long hot kang and wooden planks in different postures, and a squad of ambulance soldiers who came with the team is instructing the brothers who are helping how to wipe the bodies of the wounded with strong wine, how to soak and wash the wounds with concentrated salt water.

Outside the main hall, Yang Jiuxiao and Gu Changfeng had an intimate confrontation, comfortably taking a few puffs of high-quality cigarettes produced by the old Nanchang Tobacco Factory for An Jiajun, and there was a ticking sound in the main hall from time to time.

After only a few hours of meeting, the two brothers from the north and south hit it off at first sight because of each other's similar personalities and temperaments, and at dinner, Yang Jiuxiao took out a skin bag full of five catties of burning knives and asked Gu Changfeng if he had a few mouthfuls to warm his body? Gu Changfeng had read Yang Jiuxiao's file in detail before he set off, and had seen the photos of Yang Jiuxiao three years ago, and knew that the fierce general with a beard like a steel needle around him had a nickname called "Yang Bu Fall", and after asking An Yi carefully, he learned that Yang Jiuxiao drank an astonishing amount of alcohol, and it is said that until now, no brother has ever seen Yang Jiuxiao drink and lie down.

Therefore, when Gu Changfeng saw Yang Jiuxiao's smiling tiger's eyes, he immediately understood what was going on, and without saying a word, he took the skin and poured more than a pound of wine, which immediately won the applause of Yang Jiuxiao and the brothers.

Seeing this, Yang Jiuxiao, who was full of sincerity to his brothers, couldn't help but be arrogant, gave Gu Changfeng a thumbs up, laughed heartily, took the skin bag handed by Gu Changfeng and drew a gourd in the same way, and then wiped his beard with a smile, neither of them drank a sip of soup, and drank three or four catties of burning knives in a blink of an eye, both stood up and looked at each other and smiled, each of them carried a piece of braised mutton weighing almost two catties and ate it in a big gulp, finished wiping his hands, and walked side by side to the big incense case on the left side of the hall, pointing at the map, and exchanging opinions nervously, the body didn't sway at all, as if the three or four catties of burning knives just drunk were not spirits, but tea, and the eyes of the generals of the two armies who ate together straightened.

After discussing military affairs, the two handed over everything to their brothers, and came to the door of the main hall together, opened their clothes in the cold north wind, and smoked and chatted. Gu Changfeng said: I thought that the Lao Ye Temple was a dilapidated small temple on a barren mountain, but I didn't expect that the Lao Ye Temple here was not only not built on a barren mountain, but it was located in a lively town with a large scale and a long history.

Yang Jiuxiao nodded and smiled, looking very proud, there were more than a dozen large and small anti-Japanese armed forces around, and only his Yang Jiuxiao's team dared to be stationed in a lively town with convenient transportation and less than 20 kilometers away from the enemy, the reason is that Yang Jiuxiao's team has often helped local villagers for several months, and has never lost a penny in purchasing materials, and has also sent his own health team to take out the special medicine sent by the Beiping headquarters with great painstaking efforts, and provided free treatment for the sick fathers and villagers, and won the support and kindness of the people in ten miles and eight townships with his own practical actions. Even the presiding abbot of the Lao Ye Temple and more than a dozen monks became brothers with Yang Jiuxiao.

He told Gu Changfeng that this old temple had it as early as the Northern Song Dynasty, and it was dedicated to Guan Erye, the big temple was three wide and six rafters deep, if it weren't for the heavy snow cover now, you could see the nine ridges and ten beasts and four sets of heads on the roof of the main hall during the day, from front to back it was divided into the outer courtyard, the lower courtyard, and the upper courtyard, from low to high, the four thick tiger head columns under the eaves of the main hall were all high-grade logs, After the whole tree was brought down, hundreds of people moved here to process and erect it.

When Gu Changfeng heard this, he walked around with interest, and the two guards used long sticks to pick up the horse lantern, and followed suit, illuminating the murals about the story of Yu painted on the four walls of the hall. The statues in the hall are complete, each has its own characteristics, the golden face statue of Guan Gong is mighty and majestic, the air is magnificent, Guan Ping on the side is heroic and vigorous, the demeanor is graceful, Zhou Cang's momentum is awe-inspiring, not angry and self-mighty, the other statues are well-dressed, the face posture is different, vivid, lifelike.

After walking around, Gu Changfeng sincerely admired, saying that this is the oldest and most well-preserved Guandi temple that he has only seen in his life, and I hope that the little Japan that also respects Buddhism and reveres Guan Erye will accumulate some yin virtue and not destroy it.

Yang Jiuxiao laughed interestingly when he heard it, and then shook his head: "Since this Japanese believes in Buddhism and Emperor Guan, how can he not have the compassion of Buddhism at all, let alone talk about benevolence and morality. ”

Gu Changfeng said: "I heard our boss say that after Buddhism was introduced to Japan, with the death of some masters of intensive Buddhism in Dongdu, it was gradually used by people with intentions, and slowly deteriorated. As for the Guandi Temple, I think the Japanese have seen the Romance of the Three Kingdoms more, they have always worshiped China's military culture, and have a good impression of Guan Erye, who has traveled thousands of miles and rode alone to be loyal and unparalleled, which is not surprising, people hope that others will tell themselves about faith, as for whether they talk about it or not, that's another matter! ”

At this time, the intelligence staff officer hurriedly walked over, handed a telegram to Gu Changfeng along with the folder, and reported in a low voice: "Lu Yanqing's brigade has called, they have successfully blown up the seven-kilometer railway east of the Linghe Iron Bridge, and the main force has successfully detoured back to the line of Xiahe Mountain south of Jinling Temple, and is waiting for the opportunity to blow up the Linghe Iron Bridge as soon as possible. The telegram said that now the Japanese army has only passed two special trains, but the third train has not arrived for a long time, and it is expected that the 16 th Brigade of the Eighth Division, the division headquarters, and the baggage units have not passed, and the Japanese troops passing in front of them do not seem to have stopped and are speeding up towards Chaoyang City. ”

Gu Changfeng nodded, signaled to telegraph this abnormal information, and continued to contact, and then handed the message to Yang Jiuxiao, patiently waiting for him to read it.

Yang Jiuxiao closed the folder and asked very suspiciously: "Half an hour ago, three detachments of 1,500 soldiers led by Zhiqiang and a small team of young marshals lurked in the city, and successfully captured Beipiao City, and successfully mobilized two brigades of Japanese troops to come back, annihilating more than 160 Japanese troops in the city, and disarming more than 800 terrified puppet troops, and Shun led more than 300 Toucheng puppet troops who were unwilling to help little Japan to mutilate their own villagers, I believe that such a big incident must have alarmed the headquarters of the Japanese Kwantung Army. Why didn't they stop to recover Beipiao City as we estimated, but instead accelerated to the front line of Chaoyang? Could it be that little Japan has seen through our plan? ”

"I don't think so, at least the Japanese army doesn't know that the younger brother led more than 4,000 brothers to sneak here." Gu Changfeng shook his head after a little thought, walked to the map with Yang Jiuxiao, looked at it carefully, and thought nervously, and after a while, Gu Changfeng raised his head and made a judgment:

"There are nothing more than two possibilities, first, the Japanese army has strict military orders, and without the order of the peak, they will not change their plan of action without authorization. Beipiao City is the defense area of the Seventh Independent Brigade, and most of the main forces of the Seventh Independent Brigade and at least four regiments of puppet troops are around the Great Black Mountain, encircling and suppressing the anti-Japanese forces from all walks of life and the Fourth Brigade left by the Ninth Brother, and the Eighth Division will not change its plan because of the defeat of the Seventh Brigade, after all, in comparison, Chaoyang is much more important than Beipiao, and the Japanese army is absolutely not at ease if it occupies it unsteadily. Second, perhaps after the 8th Division learned that Beipiao City had been captured by our army, it adopted the strategy of continuing to advance and stabilize the rising sun, and then turned back after gaining a firm foothold, and together with the 7th Independent Brigade, it was attacking from three sides, in an attempt to encircle all our anti-Japanese armed forces in the Great Black Mountain. ”

Yang Jiuxiao looked at the map and nodded slowly: "Reasonable...... If your analysis is good, brother, it is very likely that Little Japan does not know that my three brigades have left the Great Black Mountain, thinking that our detachment, the 37th Army of Bayan, and the temporary 1st Division of Feng Zhanhai are all in the belly and north of the Great Black Mountain, otherwise the Seventh Independent Brigade would not have spent so much effort to almost dispatch the nest, but we took advantage of a loophole. It's just that before the Lu Yanqing Brigade and the Chaoyang City Investigation Team send back further information, we don't dare to act rashly, otherwise it will be easy to disrupt our scheduled plan. ”

"There's no way, I can only wait for the time being, I don't know what judgment the boss and beard will make after the information is sent back to Beiping...... Come on, Brother Jiu, let's put aside those nonsense thoughts, calm down and sum up, for example, you are the commander of the Eighth Division, Xi Yiyi, that old thief, how will you deal with such a chaotic situation? Gu Changfeng looked at the map and asked in a low voice.

Yang Jiuxiao was stunned for a moment, and for a while he was not suitable for Gu Changfeng's empathy method, and after thinking about it, he felt that it was reasonable, so he also lowered his head and stared at the map: "Yes, what will little Japan think......

At 8:50 p.m., Tangshan, Beiping, the front headquarters of the North China Theater.

Dozens of generals and colonels in the headquarters were still happy that Yang Jiuxiao's detachment and the young marshal's latent team had coordinated to capture the North Ticket, but An Yi was already lying on the edge of the sand table and muttering to himself: "What does that old thief think about Xiyiyi......"

Zhao Rui on the side said in a low voice: "Hutou and Jiuge's analysis has some truth, it is very likely that the fifteenth brigade of the Japanese army is just as the two of them guessed, first occupy Chaoyang to stabilize the general trend." Moreover, his subordinates estimated that the two special trains that did not stop could not load a brigade of the Japanese army, and it didn't matter if they were just transporting seven or eight thousand people, but the large number of baggage, horses, and artillery possessed by the two infantry wings could not be loaded, so the subordinates boldly estimated that the Japanese troops heading for the Chaoyang line were likely to have only one complete wing, about 4,000 people, and the other main forces were still lagging behind. ”

An Yi's eyes lit up: "Liu Qing, immediately connect the young marshal's phone to me." ”

"Yes!"

Nine o'clock in the evening, Yixian Railway Station.

The two old stuffy tank trains on the platform were still motionless, and the Japanese officers and soldiers in the crowded carriages were talking in low voices, wondering if something had happened and why the train had not yet departed.

The commander of the lieutenant general division of the Japanese Eighth Division and a group of generals under his command were all crowded into the stationmaster's office, facing the military map spread out and engaged in tense discussions.

The generals were very annoyed at this time, and scolded the Seventh Independent Brigade for being stupid, a bastard, the last time they took out the old nest Chaoyang is not a long memory, after moving the headquarters to the North Ticket, and because of the desire for revenge, paralyzed carelessness, thinking that the anti-Japanese armed forces did not dare to attack, and a half wing that had not yet been replenished was actually dispatched to encircle and suppress the first line of the Great Black Mountain, and was once again captured by the anti-Japanese armed forces. This section of the railway was bombed to a total length of more than 700 meters, and there was no way to repair the railroad tracks and roadbed in the first place, and now the Eighth Division, which was shouldering heavy responsibilities, had only passed through the strength of one wing, and the two artillery squadrons of this company were still on the third train that stopped halfway, and more than 2,000 artillerymen, baggage soldiers, and engineers were stranded in the barren mountains and wilderness, starving and freezing, and unable to advance or retreat, and most of the main forces of the division and regiment were forced to stop moving.

In such an embarrassing and embarrassing situation, how could the Eighth Division General not be filled with anger and anxiety?

Faced with the chaotic and urgent situation, Nishi Yoshiichi finally made up his mind and ordered the two trains that had been loaded with soldiers and equipment to leave immediately, even if they were blocked in the middle of the road, and at the same time ordered the chief of staff, Kobayashi Kakutaro, to immediately call the Kwantung Army Headquarters, asking the 7th Independent Mixed Brigade to immediately repair the railway and ensure the safety of passage.

After the order was given, before Xi Yiyi could take a breath, a few gunshots and roars suddenly came from outside, and all the generals were startled and walked out of the office one after another, asking what was going on?

Xiyi's face was pale, his face was full of anger, he stood motionless in place, and the constant gunshots and angry scolding finally made him unbearable, and immediately ignored his identity and strode out of the office to see what was going on.

The scene that happened at the end of the platform surprised Xiyi, there were four or five corpses lying on the ground, a man in a railway uniform stood on the burning locomotive, laughing, the oil drum in his hand and his body were licked by the fire, but he was still laughing loudly, and in the blink of an eye, he was knocked down by a dense number of bullets, and his burning body threw himself forward, and he was instantly overwhelmed by the flames......

At 9:30, Shun Cheng Wangfu.

After listening to the report of his beloved general, the young marshal slowly stood up with a sad face, picked up the phone, and whispered to An Yi on the other end: "Brother Xian, according to reliable news from Yi County, the railway station has burst into flames, and the only two remaining locomotives have been burned out, and the Japanese special train cannot leave the station before dawn......"