Xiao Xiong led his troops to the mouth of the Longkai River, where they had already heard the surging sound of the Yangtze River rolling eastward not far away, and also saw the lights of the boats moored along the riverbank.

The team members sent out first found Wang Yantai and his water guerrilla team by the river, and everyone hurriedly followed Wang Yantai to the boat moored on the riverbank. Xiong Qiang instructed everyone and the medical soldiers to settle the wounded team members, and looked at the boats again before returning to Xiao Xiong.

The gunfire in the direction of the station's freight yard had completely stopped, except for sporadic gunfire in the vicinity. Xiao Xiong and the others all lowered their heads, tears slid down Xiao Xiong's faces, and their hearts seemed to be grabbed tightly by someone. Xiao Xiong just kept praying silently in his heart, hoping that the Bodhisattva would bless his strong and brave brothers who regarded death as if they were returning home safely.

Suddenly, the team members who were guarding at the mouth of the Longkai River ran back out of breath. He whispered:

"Commander, you're back, you're back."

Xiao Xiong and Xiong Qiang hurriedly stood up and stood on the bow of the boat. I saw that not far to the east, more than a dozen figures were stumbling towards this side. He and Xiong Qiang immediately got off the boat and headed towards the figures.

When I got closer, it turned out that Ma Changyong, Li Minghua, and Liming led more than 10 people to come.

"Minghua, how many of you are left? What about others? Looking at Li Minghua and them, who were covered in blood, Xiao Xiong's heart sank, and he asked in a sad whisper.

Minghua gasped for a while, looked at Xiao Xiong, shook his head, and said:

"Soon after you withdrew, we were unable to stop the enemy's attack on either side, and our troops suffered heavy casualties. We had to fight and retreat, and the two teams were in one place. But the devils went crazy and attacked us in waves, and set up mortars to bombard us. The hardest thing to resist was the devil's armored vehicles, and all the roadblocks we set up were blown up by them. Seeing that everyone was about to be unable to resist, fortunately, this big brother Ma ran over and quickly retreated into the alley with the rest of our brothers. The devil was desperately chasing behind, and we followed Brother Ma around the alley, and finally got rid of the devil. Still, some of the brothers were scattered and did not follow. Alas, but pity the wounded and inactive brethren......"

Li Minghua choked up sadly, and couldn't go on. Xiao Xiong also lowered his head sadly.

Xiong Qiang pulled Xiao Xiong and said, "Commander, let's talk about it when you get on the boat." ”

Everyone got on the boat, pulled up the wooden gangplank, and pulled up the iron anchor on the shore. Xiao Xiong waved his hand:

"Wait. And maybe ......," he whispered, and sat down at the bow of the boat.

After a bag of cigarettes, Xiao Xiong, who was standing at the bow of the boat and waiting, waved his hand weakly and said:

"Let's go." Then he glanced in the direction of the Longkai estuary to the east, sighed and lowered his head and walked into the cabin.

Everyone pulled up the penny of the boat inserted in the water, pulled up the white sail, and the wooden sailboat sailed in the direction of the small pond mouth on the opposite bank.

At this time, it was already 12 o'clock in the evening. A huge sound of firecrackers sounded in Jiujiang, a city of Jiangcheng, and people lit firecrackers to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new, and the firecrackers exploded to reflect the night sky of this beautiful and heroic city in red.

When Xiao Xiong launched an attack on the freight yard warehouse of Jiujiang Railway Station, fierce battles also took place along the Nanxun Railway and the Nanjiu Highway.

The stations, railways, bridges and culverts in Mahuiling, Huanglaomen, Miliangpu, Jiangyi, Yangjialing, and other places through which the Nanxun Railway passed were attacked and sabotaged by the guerrillas.

Guerrillas along the South Kowloon Highway also launched sabotage operations.

Ren Jie and Hu Maofu led the Einsatzgruppen and the Xingzi guerrillas to carry out a large-scale sabotage operation at the Xingzi Pass. They attacked the devil's posts and bunkers along the highway, and uprooted many devil strongholds. And almost all of the nearly 50-meter-long winding road was blown up.

The De'an Puting guerrillas mobilized the masses to carry out a sabotage operation in Yanfang, on the border with Yongxiu, and dug a nearly 100-meter stretch of road into potholes and made it impossible to drive at all.

Yongxiu's guerrillas also blew up the wooden highway bridge in Zhanggongdu.

On Chinese New Year's Eve, in the northern Ganbei region, along the railways and highways, almost all fierce gunfire and heavy explosions rang out.

Because the devils took careful precautions against the guerrillas' sabotage actions, the guerrillas encountered powerful counterattacks from the devils in almost all areas of attack. Due to the disparity in strength, all the attacking troops suffered heavy losses. The Yongxiu anti-Japanese guerrillas who blew up the Zhanggongdu Highway Bridge were almost completely wiped out. After the operation of the 100 members of the De'an Puting guerrillas, there were less than 30 people left. Even the strongest troops of Ren Jie and Hu Maofu's Xingzi destroyed the devil's road, but they also suffered more than 100 casualties.

It can be said that the raid on the night of Chinese New Year's Eve did cause great damage to the Devil's northern Ganbei communication line. It will take at least a month to repair them all, and even if they are barely open, it will take ten days and half a month.

Jiujiang, in the early morning of the first day of the Lunar New Year, the devil's city defense headquarters was brightly lit. The telephones rang one after another, and the devils on the wiring were busy, all from the garrison troops along the railways and highways and the gendarmerie in various places. They were reporting to Yamamoto on the situation in various places.

Yamamoto's combat staff officers summarized the battle situation in various places and sent it to Yamamoto.

In Yamamoto's office, a pot of charcoal was burning red, and the room was warm. Captain Yuanshan, the devil sitting on the sofa, and the police chiefs Peng Fugui and Yamamoto all had red faces with excitement. On the coffee table in front of them was a wine glass, and in the wine glass was the white wine that Yamamoto himself had poured himself.

Yamamoto, who was sitting on the sofa opposite the two, read the battle reports from all over the world, and a smile of relief appeared on his face. He leaned back on the couch and let out a "hahaha" laugh. Then he sat up straight, raised his glass, and said:

"Yuanshan-kun, Director Peng, for our great victory, cheers!"

Putting down the wine glass, Yamamoto filled the two more wine glasses, and he said to Peng Fugui: "Peng Jun, you have made a great contribution to this operation, I salute you." ”

Peng Fugui stood up in panic and said in a loud voice:

"This is the merit of the commander, and he dare not be humble." He quickly drank the wine in his glass. Yamamoto looked at the lackey in front of him with satisfaction and smiled happily.

It turned out that on the thirtieth day of the Chinese New Year's Eve, Peng Fugui, in order to make meritorious service, suggested to Yamamoto to use the trick of "luring the snake out of the hole" in a vain attempt to wipe out all the anti-Japanese elements who were staring at the poison gas bomb in order to prevent future troubles.

Yamamoto took Peng Fugui's advice and ordered the troops in various places to prepare and deploy secretly. They also mobilized troops to carry out large-scale operations in Jiujiang, put them on high alert at stations, wharves, and other places, and dispatched alert troops along the railways and highways, creating the false impression that a large number of important materials were really going to be transported out of Jiujiang. They reckoned that the protesters must have known about their actions, and besides, they had been silent for a long time, and they must have been staring at the gas bombs. Therefore, it is precisely the use of poison gas bombs as bait to deal a blow to the anti-Japanese elements with a devastating surname.

As expected, their decoy worked, and the anti-guerrillas really launched a frenzied attack. This was something that Yamamoto did not foresee, and those enemies did whatever it took to carry out their mission desperately. Although a large number of anti-Japanese elements were eliminated, their own side also suffered considerable losses. In particular, the damaged railways and roads are a little troublesome, and I don't know how much effort it will take to repair them. However, in any case, this time the anti-Japanese elements have dealt a heavy blow and wiped out a large number of their vital forces, and at least they can get temporary stability and tranquility in their rear during the "Poyang Lake Sweeping Battle" to be carried out later.

Yamamoto put away the smile on his face and beckoned back. One of the devil's staff officers immediately walked over. Yamamoto said word by word:

"Order: The transport operation is now underway!"

Xiao Xiong led the battered Einsatzgruppen back to Jiangxinzhou, and it was already the early morning of the first day of the Lunar New Year. His heart was very heavy, and he knew that although the operation had received the expected results, because the devils everywhere seemed to be prepared, the devils did not panic at all, and they resisted in a planned way, and their reinforcements were also very rapid, so they caused huge losses to the troops participating in the operation, and some troops were even almost wiped out.

Xiong Qiang walked in and reported the damage to him. There were nearly 500 troops who participated in the attack on the station freight yard, but now there are less than 200 people who have returned, Captain Hong Zifa of the fifth squadron died, and there are only 5 people left in the fifth squadron of more than 100 people, and the hunter team is no better, and now only more than 10 people have returned.

Xiao Xiong and Xiong Qiang calmed down, there was no time to grieve now, the task assigned by the Commander's Department of the War Zone had not yet been completed. They carefully analyzed the entire process of this battle, and believed that the failure of the attack on the freight yard of the devil's station and the sabotage operations of the troops in various places seemed to be a trap set by the devils. Judging from the fact that a large number of devils were ambushed in the warehouse, especially the armored vehicles were ambushed, the devils were indeed a premeditated and well-prepared ambush. And the same is true of the actions in the following places. In this operation, the enemy seized on our eagerness, judged the purpose of our action, lured us into dispatch, and then dealt us a severe and fatal blow in a vain attempt to annihilate us.

Thinking of this, they couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat on their backs. Yes, if it weren't for Ma Changyong's appearance and rescue them, the two of them don't know if they can sit here now.

Xiao Xiong stood up, took out his map of the situation in Jiujiang and the nearby battlefields, spread it out on the table, and then marked it on the map with a pen. He pointed to the red mark on the map and said to Xiong Qiang:

"Now, after this battle, although we have suffered huge losses, it has objectively caused the paralysis of the devil's railway and road communication lines. At least for a while, there will be difficulties in the transportation of devils. However, judging from the layout of the entire battlefield, the devils' large-scale operation against our Ninth War Zone is about to begin, and they urgently need to transfer personnel and materials from Jiujiang to the crossing, what do you say they will do next? ”

"Waterways? They will certainly transport people and supplies by water. The two said almost at the same time.

"Now that the war is imminent, although we have fallen for the poisonous plan of the devils, we have also forced them to take the only way by water. Yamamoto, Yamamoto, do you think we're going to be shrunken turtles from now on? Go for your dreams, Lao Tzu must let your dreams be shattered! Xiao Xiong gritted his teeth and said.

"Come on, call Wang Yantai and Ma Changyong." Xiao Xiong ordered again.

Wang Yantai and Ma Changyong soon came in. Xiao Xiong looked at them and said to them in a deep voice:

"I order: In view of Ma Changyong's resourcefulness, bravery, and remarkable achievements in this battle, he is now appointed as the captain of the 5th Squadron of the 2nd Brigade."

Ma Changyong looked at Xiao Xiong with a shocked face, and stammered and didn't know what to say. Wang Yantai, who was standing on the side, stabbed him with his hand and said:

"Why don't you hurry up and thank the commander."

Ma Changyong leaned on his heels and raised his hand to salute Xiao Xiong and Xiong Qiang:

"Thank you, Commander, thank you, Chief of Staff!"

"Wang Yantai listened to the order: order the troops along the river and the lake to closely monitor the movements of the devils and prepare to ambush the devil's transport fleet."

"Yes!" Wang Yantai walked out with Ma Changyong.

"Chief of Staff, you go and arrange for the undercover team members to monitor the enemy's camps, warehouses, convoys, etc., and be sure to know the devil's next move at the first time."

"Yes!" Xiong Qiang replied, and he quickly walked out.

Xiao Xiong also walked out of the house. Although it was cold and windy outside, a red sun was rising from the Yangtze River in the east.

"The sea is said to be alive and the night is gone, and the river is in the old year." Isn't this exactly what the Tang Dynasty poet Wang Wan depicted in his poem? Looking at the morning glow in the sky, Xiao Xiong thought about walking into Bai Yu's room.