On October 18, 1941, the domestic political scene changed dramatically, and the main battle faction cabinet headed by Hideki Tojo was established. These fanatical militarists inherited the dream of the "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere" of their predecessor Konoe Cabinet, and arrogantly wanted to build a colonial empire that included China, Korea, and the entire East Asian region, and thus Oceania.

In fact, as early as April 1941, Yue Ben successively occupied the entire Indochina Peninsula, making it a strategic material supply base and a springboard for its southward expansion.

Ben's expansion in Southeast Asia has long aroused the dissatisfaction of the United States, a major power in the Pacific region. In order to give the book a little color, the United States froze its economic and trade with the capital, including the embargo on the important strategic material oil. Without oil, airplanes would not be able to ascend to the sky, warships would not be able to sail in the sea, and it would be impossible for them to continue to expand to the outside world. In addition, the domestic oil supply can only last for half a year at most, and he understands that he can either obediently withdraw his troops from China and stop his foreign expansion. Diplomatically, we can only move closer to the United States and compromise with the United States. Either they simply raise the banner of aggression, go south to occupy the sphere of influence of the United States, Britain, and other powerful countries, seize the necessary strategic resources, and continue to intensify foreign aggression. To do so would be to declare war on the United States and Britain.

However, the invading politician decided to desperately send troops to occupy the resource areas of Southeast Asia, seize the necessary strategic resources by force, and prepare for war against the United States and other allies at all costs.

Therefore, as soon as the belligerent Hideki Tojo came to power, he actively planned to realize his dream of a "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere" as soon as possible, and he ordered the troops stationed in China to take action as soon as possible to eliminate the [***] squadrons that were still resisting in the occupied areas and consolidate their colonial rule. He also demanded that we continue to adopt strategies and tactics that combine striking and co-opting to divide and disintegrate China's anti-Japanese forces. In this way, the army was free to draw a part of its troops from the occupied areas of China to carry out its strategy of moving south.

Therefore, the 11th Army of the Japanese Army had just carried out the "Operation Plus" operation, which hit the squadron, so it was praised by the cabinet of Hideki Tojo.

At this time, the old devil Yamamoto also learned about the changes in the domestic political situation in his own country, and the rumors that he might be going to send troops to the south in the near future. Therefore, under such circumstances, he felt that it was necessary to immediately launch an encirclement and suppression operation in the Minshan area, to eliminate the Einsatzgruppen as soon as possible, and to concentrate his forces to stabilize his rear before the troops were withdrawn.

Yamamoto did not move troops in this operation with great fanfare, but quietly tightened the blockade of Minshan, and at the same time secretly moved his troops forward, mobilized them to various entrances and exits of Minshan, and tightly sealed every way into the mountain. He wants to implement an "iron bucket tactic" to surround and eliminate the Einsatzgruppen.

After a period of careful planning and arrangement, Yamamoto's big net for the Einsatzgruppen has been opened, and he is ready to wipe out the Einsatzgruppen.

However, Xiao Xiong and the Einsatzgruppen were still recuperating, and they did not realize that the danger was approaching Minshan step by step, approaching the Einsatzgruppen. Because Xiao Xiong felt at this time that after this brutal battle, the team suffered huge casualties, and coupled with the continuous combat and rushing, everyone was too mentally and physically consumed, and they should rest for a while. Wait until the team members have recovered their spirits before making other plans.

In order to ensure the success of the encirclement and suppression operation, Yamamoto also brought the secret spy team to the foot of Minshan Mountain, and they detected the location of the Einsatzgruppen. Through repeated reconnaissance, the devil's spy team finally determined that the Einsatzgruppen was in the Jinpanding area of Minshan.

As a result, the army's sweeping battle against Minshan began on October 19.

In the early hours of that morning, when it was still dark, Xiao Xiong got up. When he had finished washing in the spring pool on the mountain, as usual, whenever he had time, he would take a book to a quiet place and read it aloud by himself.

Today he brought a copy of Lao Tzu to the highest place on the top of the golden plate, and sat down to read on a huge stone like a millstone on the top of the mountain.

The first thing he read was Mencius:

"Fish, I want too; Bear's paws, as well as I want. You can't have both, and you can't have both, and you can give up the fish and take the bear's paw. Life, also what I want; Righteousness is also what I want. You can't have both, and those who sacrifice their lives to take righteousness are also. Life is also what I want, and what I want is more than the living, so I don't want to get it; Death is also evil to me, and evil is worse than the dead, so I have no way to get rid of it. ……”

Xiao Xiong chanted repeatedly, especially when he read "Sacrifice Life and Take Righteousness", there was a feeling of blood boiling. Yes, the Chinese nation has reached a critical moment of life and death, and as the descendants of Yan and Huang, everyone must bear the responsibility of sacrificing their lives and forgetting their lives for the sake of the national righteousness. Whether you are a prince or a nobleman or a common person, you have the obligation to sacrifice for the country and the nation.

By this time, the sun had risen in the east, and its golden light was shining over the mountains. Xiao Xiong put down his book, looked at the lush and beautiful mountains, and recalled the fiery and passionate fighting years he experienced after graduating from college, he couldn't help but chant Wen Tianxiang's "Crossing the Zero Ding Yang":

"Once the hardships have been encountered, the stars have fallen all around. The mountains and rivers are broken and the wind is fluttering, and the life experience is ups and downs. The panicked beachhead said panic, and the zero ding sighed in the ocean. Since ancient times, no one has died, leaving Dan to take care of his sweat. Who has not died in life since ancient times, and left Dan to take care of his sweat! ”

After reciting, Xiao Xiong couldn't help but sigh that his combat life was so similar to Wen Tianxiang. Then, he recited Wen Tianxiang's "Song of Righteousness":

"Heaven and earth have righteousness, and miscellaneous manifolds. The lower is the river, and the upper is the star. …… When the poor festival is seen, one by one.

In Qi Tai Shi Jian, in Jin Dong Fox Pen. In Qin Zhang Liangshi, in the Han Su Wu Festival. For General Yan's head, for Ji's blood. For Zhang Suiyang's teeth, for Yan Changshan's tongue. Or for the Liaodong hat, clear and fierce ice and snow. Or for the teacher's table, the ghosts and gods weep strongly. Or to cross the river, generously swallow the hu.

…… It is majestic and majestic. When it runs through the moon, life and death are sufficient. ……”

After chanting, Xiao Xiong only felt that he was in a good mood, and the pain of losing his comrades-in-arms that had been accumulated in his heart for a few days was also relieved a lot. He couldn't help but think of the people who often say that "it is better to be a centurion than a scholar", and that "a hundred useless scholars are scholars". However, as a scholar, he has written his brilliant life with youth and blood, and he is no longer a useless scholar who has no power to restrain the chicken, but a heroic soldier who charges into battle to kill the Japanese invaders. He is proud of himself.

What is there to fear in life and death, as long as you are loyal to history, this life is enough!

Suddenly, Gao Qixing and Xiong Qiang hurriedly walked to the top of the mountain. Xiao Xiong hurriedly greeted him:

"Deputy Commander, Chief of Staff, what happened?"

Gao Qixing said anxiously:

"Commander, none of the brothers we sent to the bottom of the mountain have come back so far, I don't know what happened to the bottom of the mountain?"

"Did you send someone down to reconnoitre?" Xiao Xiong was also surprised and asked.

"I asked Li Minghua and Liu Junshan to take a few team members down the mountain to inspect Shannan and Shanbei respectively, and it is estimated that they will come back soon to report the situation." Xiong Qiang continued.

Xiao Xiong also felt that the situation was a little bad, this was a situation that had never happened before, so he immediately said to the two:

"Inform Zhang Shan to quickly send additional manpower to strengthen the vigilance, pay attention to the situation at the bottom of the mountain, and especially strengthen the defense of the road crossings up the mountain. The enemy must not be left with any opportunity to take advantage of it. ”

He then asked Xiong Qiang:

"What happened to the wounded?"

"The vast majority of the wounded were able to move on their own, and only a few of the wounded who were seriously injured in the legs were in greater trouble and could not get off the ground."

Xiao Xiong pondered for a while and commanded:

"In order to be foolproof, you must be prepared for the unexpected situation now, immediately send someone to set up the cave where the wounded are hidden, store enough food and water, and move a few of them into it and hide them if something happens."

"Yes!" The two of them received the order and immediately began to prepare separately.

Xiao Xiong sat down, he felt that the devil's actions were a bit strange recently, the Einsatzgruppen moved to Yunshan, which was originally unaware, and after going up the mountain, the contact with the outside world was blocked. However, how did the devils grasp their whereabouts so quickly, and soon mobilized a large number of people to immediately go up the mountain to encircle and suppress them. Although he narrowly escaped, so many wounded were all killed. It's weird, how do they know where we are?

Xiao Xiongzheng was wondering, and he walked to his residence while thinking.

Suddenly, I saw Xiong Qiang and Li Minghua walking over with nervous expressions.

He hurriedly stepped forward and asked anxiously:

"Minghua, what's the situation at the bottom of the mountain?"

"It's not good. At several intersections leading to Shannan, we found that the devils had increased their sentry posts. They have forbidden anyone to go up the mountain, and those who come down must be strictly interrogated, and all those who do not have a "security certificate" will be detained. It is estimated that a few of the team members we sent out may have been captured by the devils. ”

"Why did the devil do this? Have they discovered our whereabouts? Impossible. ”

Xiao Xiong: They felt that the situation was more serious. He then asked:

"Did you find anything else? Minghua. ”

"Oh, again, because we don't dare to get close to the devil, we can only observe from afar. We saw that there seemed to be a lot of devils in the distance, they came by car, and this was the case in several mountain passes. ”

"Not good! The devils must have discovered us, and now they are building an encirclement, trying to lock us in the mountains first, and then come to clear us. Walk! Hurry back and let's discuss countermeasures. ”

As soon as they returned to the station, Liu Junshan ran in breathlessly.

He gasped and said to Xiao Xiong:

"Oh no, Commander. The devils are coming to beat us. ”

"Don't worry, speak slowly." Xiao Xiong handed him a glass of water. Liu Junshan drank it in one go, and then said:

"We went down to the north of the mountain to reconnoitre, and found that the devils had blocked all the intersections in the north of the mountain, and we couldn't get out. Later, we climbed the cliff at the mouth of the valley and found that there were a lot of devils from outside the mountain, and they carried a lot of guns. Now they have surrounded Shanbei, and it looks like they are coming to attack us. Commander, what should we do instead? ”

Several people looked at Xiao Xiong anxiously.