Zhao Chongshan decided to draw a group of soldiers from Guangxi from the Wulei and Wuting departments as a teaching team and organize them into the Liu Zhengyi and Cao Baofeng departments to conduct simple and practical training while arming defense.

Wu Lei led the cavalry fire battalion and Liu Zheng's regiment to garrison the narrow mountain pass west of Dao County; Wu Ting led a cavalry mobile battalion and Cao Baofeng's regiment to garrison the narrow mountain pass in the south of Guanyang; Wei Biqing's security regiment is stationed in Dao County; Zhao Chongshan led the detachment of the Hunan detachment and one each of Wu Lei and Wu Ting as reserves.

Without waiting for the troops deployed by Zhao Chongshan to be in place, the devils have already arrived unexpectedly. The first to arrive was actually the Lingling and Shuangpai first-line that Zhao Chongshan didn't notice. A brigade of devils actually crossed mountains and mountains and raided from rugged mountain roads.

Wu Lei and Wu Ting led the troops to encounter the devil as soon as they arrived in Meihua Town. The military situation was urgent, Wu Lei and Wu Ting did not dare to meet the battle with miscellaneous troops, Wu Ting used a cavalry charge company and a cavalry fire company to block the vanguard of the devils to prevent the devils from scattering outside the mountain pass, and Wu Lei blocked the devil brigade in the mountain pass with infantry artillery.

Zhao Chongshan was taken aback when he received the reports of Wu Lei and Wu Ting, broke out in a cold sweat, and urgently ordered the Flying Thunder Launcher to be dispatched.

Wu Lei blocked the devil's army in the mountain pass, and Wu Ting exterminated the devils who had rushed out of the mountain pass, and captured 3 light machine guns, 2 grenadiers, and more than 40 Type 38 rifles to control the situation.

After Zhao Chongshan arrived, he immediately bombarded the mountain pass with flying thunder to force the devil back into the mountain.

Liu Zhengyi and Cao Baofeng's troops were convinced when they saw the combat effectiveness of Wu Mujun's troops.

Zhao Chongshan took over the defense of the Wu brothers and ordered the two to carry out the set tasks.

Zhao Chongshan sent a platoon to arrange a surplus of 100 rounds of single-shot Tianyu Flying Thunder at the mountain pass, so that the devils had no chance to take advantage of it.

Wu Lei deployed 9 infantry guns behind the hill at the foot of the fairy, and cooperated with Liu Zhengyi's regiment to firmly lock the mountain pass, while Wu Ting led the troops and Cao Baofeng's regiment to continue south.

The devil did not attack the fairy's feet, but went straight to the Guanyang valley, and Wu Ting and Cao Baofeng were chased by the devil's troops.

Originally, Wu Ting's cavalry battalion was in front, and Cao Baofeng's troops did not have the division of labor between scouts and guards in the march at all.

Wu Ting heard that there was a fight behind him, and immediately ordered the cavalry fire company that served as the rear guard to turn back to meet the devil troops. 6 light machine guns and 6 grenade machine guns rushed violently, and dense bullets and grenades bloomed in the group of devils, and then the heavy machine guns that followed also found a support point and began to suppress the devil's firepower and stop the devil's offensive. At this time, the cavalry charging company also came up and killed the devils who were fighting with Cao Baofeng's regiment with long shotguns and light machine guns.

The devil received a sudden blow, and immediately retreated to reorganize the formation, and Cao Baofeng's regiment was in chaos: frightened and crying, rescuing the wounded, snatching trophies, at a loss, the officer could not find the soldiers, the soldiers could not find the officer, the chaos was inextricable, and the devil could fight back at any time, at this time, Wu Mujun, who served as Cao Baofeng's teaching team, fired a gun into the sky, temporarily suppressed the chaos, and had to line up on the spot, organize the formation, and then divide the labor: the first battalion is responsible for clearing the remnants of the enemy and cleaning the battlefield, the second battalion is responsible for ambulating the wounded, and the third battalion serves as a guard, Only then did order be restored.

Faced with a single wing of devils, Wu Ting had no choice but not to include Cao Baofeng's regiment in the battle plan, and only relied on less than one battalion to meet the battle. He set up more than 100 thunderbolts assigned to him by Zhao Chongshan in various dangerous positions to control the situation, and ordered Cao Baofeng's regiment to give up cleaning the battlefield and retreat with only the wounded.

Cao Bao began to retreat after pulling and pulling for a long time, and the devil did not give Wu Ting time, and a brigade began to attack in three ways.

Wu Ting commanded the troops to launch the Tianyu Flying Thunder without waiting for the devil to get close, although everyone was not very familiar with the Tianyu Flying Thunder, and the launch accuracy was much worse, but fortunately, the Tianyu Flying Thunder was powerful, covering a wide area, and the terrain was narrow, which scared the devils so much that they did not dare to attack with all their might. However, Wu Ting's subordinates quickly found the trick, and their accuracy improved a lot, and they finally stopped the devil's attack.

Wu Ting retreated to the top of the Guanyang Valley overnight, and immediately arranged firepower in dangerous places: rain and thunder, heavy machine guns, grenade machine guns, light machine guns, infantry bunkers, and then arranged the defensive positions of Cao Baofeng's regiment.

Taking time out of his time, Wu Ting counted the battle losses: Wu Mujun lost 47 people, 103 people were seriously injured, 91 people were slightly injured, and nearly half of the casualties were lost; Cao Baofeng's regiment suffered 101 casualties, 179 seriously wounded, and 327 minor wounds, also more than half of which were casualties. Cao Baofeng found Wu Ting and was very embarrassed, thinking that if it weren't for his own troops, Wu Mu's army would not have such a big casualty!

Wu Ting's face was pale, and he called out the officers under Cao Baofeng, and said Cao Baofeng's words again, and the officers under Cao Baofeng were confused again: some were ashamed, some denied it, and some expressed their gratitude to Wu Mujun......

Wu Ting spoke: "My brothers and Wu Mujun and I don't complain about you, no one is born to fight, but you are not afraid of death, you are willing to shed blood and sacrifice for the country, you are all my good brothers!" But you have to learn to fight immediately, otherwise I don't know how many more people will die, we are not afraid of death, but we can't die in vain, we have to pull the little devil on our backs, and we have to die enough, right?! ”

"Yes!" Cao Baofeng's officers replied in unison, like a soldier for the first time.

"Okay, tomorrow you will all withdraw to the second line, trained by the teaching team, and you must learn to fight in two days! If our Wu Mujun does not die in two days, it will be up to you to die! ”

"Yes!"

Wu Ting guarded more than 10 small mountain passes with 200 people with combat effectiveness, machine guns and grenades were set up on the ridges, thunder flew from the rain on ravines and mountain roads, and bamboo sticks and mine arrays were laid at the intersections, making it difficult for the devils to move an inch.

A team of devils broke into a mountain pass and was blocked by a bamboo stick mine array, so they had to use a long bamboo pole to kick the mine and arch forward step by step. The damn thing is that occasionally 1 or 2 grenades flew on the mountain, specializing in bombing machine gunners and grenadiers, and the explosion was very tricky, and finally the team leader was also killed, and the devils advanced less than 200 meters, and 21 devils died, and the team had to withdraw and change to another team.

Another squad came up, intending to occupy the ridge first and make a detour. Unexpectedly, as soon as the formation of the back attack was formed, one flying thunder flew out of the ravine, killing and wounding 41 people at once, and the team was crippled again.

At the end of the first day, the devil was disabled in 3 squadrons and 01 squadrons, with 259 casualties and 5 casualties in the Wu Mu army.

The next day, the devil changed his tactics, using grenadiers and mortars to open the road and break hard, Wu Mujun did not fight back desperately, only occasionally came a cold cannon (rain and thunder), the devil advanced 500 meters all the way, a total of 299 casualties, Wu Mujun casualties 11 people.

On the third day, Cao Baofeng came up with 200 people, fought with the Wu Mu army, and obeyed the command of the Wu Mu army. As soon as these wealthy guys came up, they took out rope anchors, which were the tools that Wu Mujun taught them to climb the mountain, and they used them to hook the corpses of devils, and seize the guns, ammunition, and individual equipment on the corpses.

The devil was in a hurry, and hurriedly sent someone to snatch the corpse, but he was killed by Wu Mujun's elusive grenade. At the end of the day, the devils did not attack violently, and more than 300 corpses were taken away by the soldiers of Wu Mujun and Cao Baofeng's regiment, and 109 rifles, 17 pistols, 4 light machine guns, 9 grenadiers, more than 200 grenades, more than 20,000 rounds of ammunition, 6 boxes of grenades, 3 casualties of Wu Mu's army, and 12 casualties of Cao Baofeng's regiment.

On the fourth day, the devils used mortars and grenadiers to release gas bombs, but it was too late, and Cao Baofeng's regiment seized enough gas masks from the devil's corpse, and Wu Mujun himself had gas masks.

The devil thought that the gas bomb had worked, and swaggered up to occupy the position with a gas mask. Unexpectedly, Wu Mujun's guns and bullets were fired together, killing and injuring more than 600 devils at a time, and the devils collapsed in a hurry and fled back to the flat.

Wu Lei had nothing to do at the fairy's feet, but suddenly suffered a catastrophe, the devil transferred more than 80 heavy artillery from the county (now Quanzhou), and more than 20 planes, and made a surprise attack on the fairy's feet, a burst of bombardment, Wu Lei and Liu Zhengyi's positions were blown to pieces, and then a wing attacked, Wu Lei could not organize troops at all, and was forced to withdraw to Daoxian.

When Zhao Chongshan received the news, Wu Lei was doing his best to contain the team, in a vain attempt to regain the position, and was ordered by Zhao Chongshan to withdraw to Dao County.

Zhao Chongshan knew that Dao County was no longer safe, so he hurriedly ordered Wei Biqing to organize civilians to evacuate to Jiuzhi Mountain in the southeast, and at the same time sent one to go out of the city to meet Wu Lei and Liu Zheng, and he himself was ready to cover the people out of the city.

Unexpectedly, the local people were not mentally prepared, many people refused to evacuate, and the county magistrate of Dao County and Wei Biqing wore out their mouths together, and the people just didn't listen.

When Wu Lei and Liu Zhengyi led the bruised troops to withdraw into the city, the common people knew that they were afraid, and many people began to leave, but the devils would not give the people so many opportunities, and the cannonballs flew into the city with a roar, and the city was in chaos.

At this time, Zhao Chongshan commanded the troops to deploy defenses in various positions without distractions, arranged the flying thunder launch vehicles behind a relatively solid stone wall, and stored a few flying thunders at each key point, who came and who used them; The old-fashioned flying thunder launchers of the firepower units left behind by the Wu Lei and Wu Ting units were put in place, and the infantry guns and anti-aircraft machine guns that were withdrawn were built into the second line of positions...... Zhao Chongshan's task is to resist the devils to the retreat of all the people in the city, otherwise they can only die on the ground!

The devil's heavy artillery has a long range, and only the Tianyu Flying Thunder launcher can reach the devil's artillery position, so Zhao Chongshan did not hesitate to order the Tianyu Flying Thunder to counterattack, but he only returned fire for 5 or 6 rounds, and was covered by the devil's artillery fire.

The infantry of the devil's brigade began to charge. Zhao Chongshan ordered the remaining two infantry guns to open fire, attracting the devil infantry to expose their firepower, and then set up a rain and thunder to carry out a rough bombardment.

The devil artillery quickly destroyed Zhao Chongshan's infantry artillery, and the infantry began to attack the defensive position.

Zhao Chongshan's position flew out one after another rain and thunder, not accurate at all, but the victory was powerful, numerous, and a shot could appear everywhere, making the devils unguardable, greatly delaying the devil's charge, and killing and injuring a large number of devils at the same time.

After two days and one night of bloody fighting, Zhao Chongshan and other troops launched all the flying mines, and all the people in Daoxian County were evacuated, and Zhao Chongshan and others ordered the evacuation. However, the officers and men of Liu Zheng's regiment would rather die than retreat, these officers and soldiers have no combat quality, but they are all fearless of death!

Zhao Chongshan and Wu Lei persuaded the Guijun brothers for a long time, and then everyone withdrew from Daoxian County and moved towards Jiuzhi Mountain.

After entering Jiuzhi Mountain, Zhao Chongshan found that Wei Biqing was still enlightened, and most of the people were bombarded into the mountains, and the security regiment built a blocking position on the periphery, so he withdrew to the second line to rest, and sent a report to Wu Ting to know the current situation of the department, let him do what he could, and then turn to Jiuzhi Mountain and meet himself!

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A week later, Wu Ting led his troops to meet with Zhao Chongshan and Wu Lei, and each department checked the battle damage, and the three divisions of Wu Mujun Zhao Chongshan, Wu Lei, and Wu Ting originally totaled 1,329 people, 571 people were killed (including serious injuries), 321 people were seriously injured, and all the remaining people were wounded, and all artillery and flying mines were damaged; Liu Zhengyi originally had 734 people, but now there are only 321 people left, including 89 seriously wounded and 61 lightly wounded. Cao Baofeng's regiment is not much better, the original 1,081 people are now only 469 people left, including 17 seriously wounded, 189 lightly wounded, many of the wounded left on the way to block the devil, never returned; The Wei Biqing Security Regiment was fully organized, with 1,407 people and only 73 casualties, and is now the main force in the defense of Jiuzhi Mountain.

Zhao Chongshan called Wu Lei, Wu Ting and the 3 regiment commanders over to discuss where the troops should go, without waiting for Zhao Chongshan and others to speak, the 3 regiment commanders knelt down for Zhao Chongshan, Wu Lei, and Wu Ting together, and resolutely demanded to fight to the death with the devil to the end, begging Zhao Chongshan and others to stay and help them!

Zhao Chongshan sighed: "There are so many brothers who are not afraid of death, what more can I ask for my husband, it's a big deal, let's go to Huangquan Road and the first line of the Hades Palace together!" ”

Wu Lei coughed: "However, in the future, you must obey our training and command!" The brothers' desperate spirit is admired by the brothers, all of them are good boys, but working hard is not the same as committing suicide, not only dare to work hard, but also learn to work hard! ”

"That's natural, we don't know how to fight, but we can't watch the little devils arbitrarily harm our fellow villagers and elders, what can we do if we don't work hard? In the future, we will follow you to fight devils, and it is best to take the lives of devils without working hard! Liu Zhengyi was the first to speak.

Cao Baofeng wept bitterly: "It's me who is incompetent, and I have caused so many brothers to lose their lives, I want to continue to fight with you and avenge the dead brothers!" ”

Wei Biqing's speech made everyone feel relaxed: "I will definitely follow you, you are so capable of fighting, I may be a general if I follow you!" I said brothers, don't let us kneel! ”

Zhao Chongshan woke up at this time, and hurriedly helped the three regiment leaders to get up, and then said with a straight face: "Three big brothers, you are heroes, we dare not accept your kneeling, so we want to kneel back to you!" After speaking, he also "pounced" and knelt down, and the Wu brothers also knelt down.

Liu Zhengyi and others hurriedly helped each other, "Don't dare to be, don't dare to be!" ”

After Zhao Chongshan stood up, he put forward his thoughts: "Why don't we marry Jin Lan?" ”

Everyone responded together, so 6 people gathered soil for Xiangyi and knotted Jinlan. Cao Baofeng is the eldest brother at the age of 51, Wei Biqing is the second brother at the age of 47, Liu Zhengyi is the third brother at the age of 41, Wu Lei is the fourth brother at the age of 26, Wu Ting is the fifth brother at the age of 26, and Zhao Chongshan is the old brother at the age of 20. Liu Zhengyi served as the captain of the Jiuzhishan Brigade, and Cao Baofeng served as the deputy captain; Wei Biqing served as the captain of the Dao County Brigade.

Zhao Chongshan ordered all units to send officers and squad leaders to the training team in batches, and the Wumu Brigade dispatched personnel to each unit to guide the training, and deployed defense while accommodating civilians.

At this time, the Battle of Guiliu had ended, and [***] had lost a large amount of land and suffered heavy casualties among the troops. At the campaign summary meeting, due to the loss of a large area of the territory of the three phases of the battles of central Henan, Changheng, and Guiliu, the devils opened up the mainland communication lines connecting the north and the south, and also lost a number of air bases, the domestic and international criticism of the Military Commission was overwhelming, and the chairman of the committee was under tremendous pressure, and at the review meeting, he lamented that "1944 was the worst year in a long war for China", and claimed that "since the beginning of the revolution, I have never suffered such a humiliation as it is now"; "I am fifty-eight years old this year, and I reflect on the shame I have suffered in my life, and this year is the greatest", although the painful review accounts for the vast majority, but it still commends Fang Xianjue's Tenth Army, Lu Qingyang's Ninth Theater Instructor and Fang Jing's Sixth Theater Sixty-sixth Army, Fang Xianjue's Tenth Army held on to Hengyang for 47 days and fought alone, severely damaged the Yue Army with more than 10,000 casualties, killing and wounding more than 60,000 Yue Army; Instructor Lu Qingyang repeatedly rushed and killed on different fronts of the army, invincible, killing and wounding several times his own army with more than 10,000 casualties, although he suffered heavy casualties, he also died generously; Fang Jing's 66th Army actively searched for fighters, intercepted and killed the devil's flank, and won a lot......

The chairman of the committee did not say a word about the achievements of the Wumu Group Army, which was obvious to all, for fear that the Wumu Group Army, which had gained fame and fortune, would arouse the envy of other forces, so he only sent a telegram to Tuesday Dog: The combat strength and achievements of the Wumu Group Army are obvious to all, and it will create new glories!

On Tuesday, after receiving General Cai Tingkai back to Xishan, he proposed to allocate a batch of equipment and personnel to form a division-level unit for General Cai, or General Cai would command the Jiangbei guerrillas.

Cai Tingkai simply refused, saying that the Wu Mu Army's equipment, training, tactics, political training and other aspects were self-contained, and it was difficult for him to adapt, and he was unwilling to lead the army because of his own enthusiasm for resisting, so as to mislead the country and the people, and it was best for him to shout for the Wu Mu Army.

On Tuesday, the dog also held a staff meeting to summarize the gains and losses: the battle of Henan lost more than 10,000 people and a large number of heavy equipment in the Central Plains column; The Yangtze River waterway lost more than 3,000 troops; The detachment to aid Hunan lost 900 people; The battle in Yuzhong will lose more and earn less, but the rescue is more than 100,000; The Yangtze River waterway was recovered in operation, a large base area was opened, a large amount of materials were seized, and an important transportation line of the devils was blocked; The troops of the other Wumu Group Army also performed extraordinarily; The large number of weapons and equipment provided for [***] also made an indispensable contribution to the Battle of Yuxianggui, although it was only in exchange for a large IOU from the Military Commission; On the whole, Wu Mujun not only did not suffer much loss, but on the contrary, it grew one step stronger.

Ma Bufang of the Eighth War Zone used Zhong Limin's 500 single-shot javelin thunder launchers to be very suitable for the cavalry of his department, so he exchanged 1,000 tons of sulfur, 2,000 tons of saltpeter, and 1,000 Hequ horses for 1,000 meteor thunder launchers, 2,000 javelin thunder launchers, and a batch of long shotguns and grenades......

Chennault called for the expansion of air bases and airfields in the base areas of southern Jiangsu and the Third Theater of Operations to facilitate the transfer of the US Army's 14th Air Force and to launch an offensive on the mainland......

The material resources needed by Wu Mujun were continuously transported to Xishan, accompanied by a large number of orders and a large number of IOUs. (To be continued.) )