Major General Taji was born into a samurai family. Graduated from the 19th Infantry Section of the Army Non-commissioned Officer School, and later studied at the Army University, successively served as a team leader, a wing commander, a division staff officer, a detachment commander, and a brigade commander.

Now the general said that this was a trap for the Zhi Na people, and the officers all scolded them, saying that the Zhi Na people were cunning, and we would never be fooled, Tian Lu Chao smiled faintly, and said: "You are all wrong, I want to go into the mountain." ”

The officers looked at each other, not knowing what the general's intentions were.

Tian Lu said loudly: "I know that there are tigers in the mountains, and I prefer to go to the tiger mountains." ”

At this time, snowflakes floated in the sky, white hexagonal snowflakes and black dust formed by the burning of houses mixed in the sky, forming a strange scene, slaughtering, the officers wore yellow tweed army coats, carrying sabers behind the general, although they could not understand the general's intentions, but the feeling of wind and gloom naturally spread.

Great, the imperial army, the Korean translator was so moved by this scene that he almost shed tears.

Major General Tian Lu actually thought very simply, Chen Zikun designed to destroy himself, why not plan and go forward bravely to destroy the enemy army, although the Chinese pay attention to the military and do not tire of deceit, but in the face of great strength, all conspiracies and tricks are ridiculous.

The enemy's direction was clear, and Major General Tian Lu ordered his troops to point directly at Niumazhuang, first raze the base area of the Eighth Route Army, and then go into the mountains to eliminate Chen Zikun, and solve the problem of public security in Jiangbei once and for all.

The 800 Japanese troops advanced forward like rolling iron buckets, with scouts in the front and cover on both flanks, and they walked in a very orderly manner, and the harassing troops of the guerrillas could only look at the opportunity to bite like flies nearby, but they could not hurt the main force of the Japanese army.

When the Japanese army drove into Niumazhuang, it was already the afternoon of the next day, still the artillery fire opened the way, the infantry assaulted, rushed into the empty village, and burned all the houses, Niumazhuang is a barren village at the foot of Daqing Mountain, the houses are made of adobe mountain stones, the thatch is laid on the top, there has just been a sleet, the thatch is wet, and it cannot be lit with matches, and the Japanese soldiers poured gasoline before setting the fire.

The people of the mountains wept when they saw that their homes had been burned for generations.

When the commanders and fighters of the Eighth Route Army saw that the base area that had been established with great difficulty had turned into a sea of fire, they gritted their teeth with hatred and hated that they could not immediately rush out and destroy the enemy.

The Japanese army set fire to Niumazhuang and began to prepare to enter the mountains to encircle and suppress, and the planes went out first to reconnoiter over Daqingshan, and when they saw that there was cooking smoke or people moving below, it was a burst of machine guns that fired at them, and the large-scale troop movement could not hide the eyes of the planes at all.

Reinforcements were continuously transferred from all over Jiangbei, and the Tianlu Brigade had a total of five brigades, at least three of which were dispatched, including an artillery team, a large number of supplies were piled up at the foot of the mountain, and the soldiers set up marching pots and boiled the looted livestock and poultry to eat.

Seeing the enemy raging at the foot of the mountain, the guerrillas were powerless, first, they had no long-range weapons, and secondly, their troops were insufficient, and the slightest movement would lead to artillery bombardment.

Chen Zikun personally reconnoitred the enemy situation at the foot of the mountain, he held a telescope and looked at it for a long time, pointed to a tent in the middle of the Japanese barracks at the bottom of the mountain, and said: "The field road is there." ”

Wu Changqing also raised his binoculars and saw that near the big tent, there was a radio antenna, and officers carrying sabers were coming in and out, which should be the command post of the Japanese army.

"What does General Chen mean, him?" Wu Changqing said tentatively.

Chen Zikun shook his head: "Tian Lu is much more cunning than I imagined, he is stubborn, stupid, step-by-step, step by step, there is no mistake, if you send a death squad, I am afraid that it will be eliminated before it is close." ”

Wu Changqing said: "Didn't we capture a lot of Japanese army coats, disguised as devils and sneaked in while it was dark, and killed him by surprise, as long as we can knock out the enemy's command post, even if we sacrifice all, it is worth it." ”

Chen Zikun still shook his head: "This is the Japanese regular army, the night defense measures are very complete, do you know all kinds of passwords, do you speak Japanese, the slightest carelessness will be exposed, the risk is too great." ”

Wu Changqing said: "Then there is no way?" ”

Chen Zikun said: "There is really no way, unless...... Unless we have a long-range cannon, if we fire it here, we can blow up the command post of the devil with one shot. ”

The guerrillas did not have heavy weapons, not even small mountain guns, and the most powerful thing was the grenadier canister, but this thing had a short range and little power, so it was not useful at all.

Wu Changqing thought of the 88 gun, and couldn't help sighing: "It would be nice if the German cannon could be used, we still have one shell." ”

It happened that Liu Xiaoyong came over and heard them talking about German artillery, so he couldn't help but ask, "Do we have artillery?" ”

Chen Zikun said: "I got an 88 cannon without a bolt, you don't know about it, by the way, you weren't in the bitter well that day." ”

Liu Xiaoyong said: "It's normal to have no artillery bolts, when Beitai fell, the artillery blew up some 88 guns, and the last one ran out of explosives, so the artillery bolts were dismantled and buried somewhere." ”

Chen Zikun said: "Do you know where it is buried? ”

Liu Xiaoyong said: "I know, I will bury it in the city hall square." ”

"Quick, you take a few capable personnel down the mountain to dig out the cannon latch, if there is any difficulty, find Xiao Lang to solve it, you must be fast!"

Liu Xiaoyong took three brothers down the mountain quickly, which is more than 100 miles away from Beitai, and it is impossible to run on two legs alone, not to mention the transport vehicles and checks of the Japanese army all over the road, it is simply difficult.

However, Liu Xiaoyong is very wise, he can speak a few words of Japanese, wearing a yellow tweed army coat and pretending to be a Japanese officer, stopped an empty car back to Beitai on the road, came to Beitai unimpeded, found Xiao Lang, and successfully dug up the cannon bolt wrapped in moisture-proof oilcloth in the sewer of the city hall square, opened it and looked at it, it was still shiny.

On the return trip, I still took a Japanese transport vehicle, and it took only 12 hours to make a round trip.

The bolt was taken, Lao Zhang was inexplicably excited, holding it up and down, smacking his lips and sighing: "The Germans' things are good." ”

The cannon was too heavy to pull up the mountain, and it was hidden at the foot of the mountain and covered with branches, and how to pull it to the right firing position became the biggest problem.

The guerrillas dispatched 200 strong men to take turns to pull artillery up the mountain.

The cannon is too heavy, after dismantling, each part is still extremely heavy, dozens of men can't pull it, the mountain road is rugged, and they don't dare to pull it during the day, they can only go out at night, it is simply difficult to go to the sky, but in order to fight the Japanese invaders, everyone fought hard, played shirtless in winter, tied hemp rope on the sole of the shoe to prevent slipping, step by step, use the strength of the milk to carry up, pull forward and lift back, everyone's fingers and shoulders were strangled out of the rope blood.

The sound of the trumpet spread far away in the night, and Major General Tian Lu in the barracks also heard the strange sound, walked out of the tent with the stove, looked up at the reckless mountain in the dark, and was silent for a long time.

A staff officer came over: "Your Excellency, what are you shouting?" ”

"It's an ancient ritual to express reverence for the mountain gods." Major General Tian Lu said.

The staff officer suddenly realized: "Soga, it turns out that they are praying to the mountain god. ”

Major General Tian Lu suddenly laughed and patted the young staff officer on the shoulder: "Actually, I guessed blindly." After that, he went into the tent by himself.

The staff officer scratched his head: "That's it." His Excellency Major General Xindao is sometimes really funny, and he helped his saber into the tent: "Your Excellency, when will you attack?" ”

Major General Tian Lu frowned and said, "I originally wanted to continue to exert pressure and wait for another heavy snowfall to trap them, but now it seems that ...... Let's strike tomorrow. ”

"Hay, I'll give the order." The staff officer saluted and went out.

Tian Lu pondered intently, and it was probably not a good omen for the people of China to make such a shocking cry at night.

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The cannon was about to pull up to the top of the mountain, everyone was exhausted, Chen Zikun personally came to cheer everyone on, and it was more than ten meters away, when suddenly a huge black blind man came out of the woods.

Many people know that there are no bears in winter, and this adult male bear probably lives in a nearby cave, and was disturbed by the sound of men's slogans, and went out of the cave to see what was going on.

The incident happened suddenly, everyone was stunned, but no one flinched, at this time if you loosen up, the cannon slides down the mountain, but the previous efforts are lost, someone pulled out a gun and wanted to hit the bear, but was stopped by Chen Zikun, and shouted tentatively: "Da Zhuang? ”

The bear let out a low roar, apparently recognizing his master.

Chen Zikun's hanging heart was put back, and he pointed to the cannon and said, "Da Zhuang help carry it together." ”

Then everyone saw the extremely heavy black bear crawling down slowly, and the two huge claws held up the base of the cannon, and everyone suddenly felt much more relaxed on their shoulders.

Good fellow, this bear is at least five people's strength.

With Da Zhuang's help, the 88 gun was finally pulled into the firing position, the ground had been leveled, the branches were placed as cover, the gun bolts were installed, and they were tightly fitted, Lao Zhang temporarily made some aiming mechanisms with iron sheets, and they could also be used, and the 88 mm shell was also moved, and it was extremely shiny.

At dawn, the Japanese reconnaissance plane swept through the sky again and dropped a piece of leaflets, and in the past few days, the Japanese army has used the tactics of persuading them to surrender, and tens of thousands of leaflets alone have been scattered, all of which have been used by the soldiers as butt wiping paper.

The Japanese troops at the foot of the mountain began to assemble, and a dense yellow figure lined up in front of the tent of the headquarters, probably waiting for the officer's order, and the opportunity must not be lost and not come again, Chen Zikun hurriedly ordered the artillery to be fired.

The artillery is Liu Xiaoyong, he is the best artillery in the guerrillas, but he has never used this kind of German artillery, the 88 gun is an anti-aircraft gun, the trajectory is straight, not like a howitzer curved shot, direct aiming is OK, but also consider the altitude of the mountain, the shooting distance, the wind speed, and the quality of the shell, whether the barrel is deformed, etc., in short, various reasons will affect the shooting effect, if it misses, there will be no second shell.

Chen Zikun, Chen Shougai, Longquan Wu Changqing, Ye Xuefeng, Zhao Ziming and others all came to the launch site, Zhao Ziming said anxiously: "Why don't you fire the cannon yet, if you can't do it, I'll come." ”

Liu Xiaoyong said: "What if you can't play accurately." ”

Chen Zikun said: "You just have to open fire, and you can't count me." At the same time, he silently said in his heart: "God bless ......"

Liu Xiaoyong filled the cannonball into the barrel, closed the cannon, gritted his teeth, and pulled the cannon rope.

With a loud bang, 88 mm caliber shells burst out, and an orange-red muzzle flame rose from the muzzle, and everyone felt their eardrums vibrate.