The merchant ships secretly sent by Li Tie were sailing on the sea, and the puppet armies of the two divisions and three armies of the Japanese Kwantung Army had already begun the battle of attacking the passes of the Great Wall on all fronts.

The battle first started in the area of Xifengkou and Luo Jiayu, which was defended by Song Zheyuan's 29th Army of the Northwest Army, and on the afternoon of 9 March, the advance troops of the Hattori of the Kwantung Army and the Suzuki Brigade were the first to arrive at Xifengkou.

The combined advance team, which did not have the 29th Army in the slightest, had a whole wing of 3,000 men, and launched an attack on the defense area of the 29th Army after only a short rest.

Although the Japanese attack was hasty, the 29th Army was not a descendant of Commander Chiang, so the equipment of each unit was extremely poor.

Not only is it impossible to have a rifle in one person, but many companies are equipped with a knife and a gun. The one with the gun fell, and the one with the knife picked up the gun and went on to fight.

The Japanese army was different, although the Japanese army only had 3,000 men, but all kinds of heavy equipment were complete, and the Xifeng Pass and other passes were also easy to defend and difficult to attack, and were not suitable for the deployment of large corps. Therefore, the Japanese army can only put in more than 100 attacking troops at a time. It stands to reason that this kind of terrain is more favorable for the squadron as the defender.

It's a pity that the equipment of the guards is really poor, not to mention the Japanese machine guns and cartridges, mortars are more suitable for this kind of small army in mountain combat, and the result is only one afternoon, and all the defensive lines of the 29th Army are in an emergency.

In particular, the front of Xifengkou is the most critical, because the troops of a brigade of the advance army of the Eastern Army are continuing to attack, and in just one afternoon, most of the battlefield at Xifengkou has been occupied by the Japanese army.

The Japanese troops, who had occupied part of the position, began to shoot at the fighters of the 29th Army on the other side of the position. Because the two sides were mixed up, the Japanese attacking troops did not dare to attack with artillery fire.

The battle lasted until midnight, and everyone went to their respective truces, and each side sent countless sentinels to watch the movements of the enemy on the opposite side. The Japanese slept soundly because they had enough ammunition and food, but a battalion of the Xifengkou Guard of the 29th Army on the opposite side could not sleep, and after an afternoon of fighting, the soldiers who were already short of ammunition were even more miserable.

Before it was dark, the battalion commander of the Xifengkou guard called his top boss for help, "Ammunition is in short supply, if the Japanese army attacks again tomorrow, our army can only use bare hands to deal with it, please Zhao Dengyu, brigade commander, Feng Zhi'an division commander, and Song Zheyuan, commander-in-chief, quickly send reinforcements and ammunition."

That night, Brigade Commander Zhao Dengyu personally called Commander Wang Changhai to give him a face-to-face lecture, asking him to organize 200 daredevils, taking advantage of the fact that the Japanese army had just occupied part of Xifengkou and was not familiar with the position environment, and asked him to lead the team to touch the Japanese camp from the side of Xifengkou overnight to him.

Commander Wang Changhai's face was embarrassed: "Brigade commander, you will let our two hundred people take a big blade to play with the Japanese?" Can't you give your brothers a little long and short guns? ”

When Zhao Dengyu heard Wang Changhai's words, he directly pulled out the pistol on his waist, and slapped it on the table with a loudspeaker: "If you want a gun, you can only use this one, and if you want a soldier, I will be the only one." If you don't go, I'll lead the team myself tonight. Then he took his belt and went to fetch the broadsword on the wall.

Wang Changhai pounced and knelt in front of Zhao Dengyu all of a sudden: "Brigade seat, I think that when I Wang Changhai was about to die of illness on the side of the road when I was asking for food in the northwest, it was you who rescued me from the pile of dead people."

Since then, I have been clothed and fed, and I have gone from a small horse herd washing horses to the head of a regiment. Since he followed Feng Shuai to fight in the south and the north for more than ten years, has my Wang Changhai ever flinched? Have you ever been afraid of death?

But brigade commander, look at it, it is also for the country to fight against foreign aggression, what do we have in the Northwest Army? We had nothing but one head and two empty pockets.

But if you look at the Central Army in the rear, they have enough ammunition and food, why do they still use such good weapons when they don't go to the battlefield now?

Why don't we use good weapons? Even if you don't give it to us, give us some bullets. Brigade Commander, I am the only reserve in the whole brigade, and now I am asking for help at all passes.

I can take the brothers in this battalion to fight the Japanese, even if the whole army is annihilated, we will not hesitate to do anything, I just want to give us more bullets, let us kill more devils before we die, so as to relieve more pressure on the brothers in the back.

Otherwise, even if all of us rushed up and killed all the hundreds of little devils, what was the use? Early tomorrow morning, when people's artillery and planes bombard, we will still be completely annihilated.

The brigade commander is a dead man anyway, since it is a sneak attack, let's come to a big one, and the whole regiment still has a reserve of 500 people, you can simply give it all to me. Two hundred people sneaked up on Xifengkou, and three hundred people tied up grenades and went directly to the bottom of the mountain to attack the Japanese advance team.

Don't worry, you can't blow them up, you can't kill them, even if you bite them with your teeth, I will bite a few more enemies to death for our brigade. ”

"Good. Good courage, good courage. A high-pitched cheer resounded throughout the brigade headquarters, and then the man who spoke was followed by the two guards who were pulling him, and the guards said anxiously:

"Brigade commander, it's all my fault, this person is from the Central Army, he broke in hard, I can't stop him."

Seeing that the person who came had an extraordinary temperament, Brigade Commander Zhao waved his hand to let the guards retreat: "May I ask which part of the Central Army is my brother?" What are you doing in my brigade? ”

"Haha, the contemptible surname is Li Mingjie, the deputy director of the Special Service Division of the Logistics Department of the National Revolutionary Army. Even if it's the logistics department, of course, I'm here to do something related to logistics work. The visitor laughed.

"Oh, I am not satisfied with this Brother Li, although I am in the Northwest Army, I am indeed very familiar with the various yamen of the Central Committee, and I have never heard of the special service department of the Logistics Department.

I wonder what the real purpose of the brother is? Please also tell the truth, please don't cause misunderstanding in these extraordinary times. As soon as Brigade Commander Zhao Dengyu's words landed, he immediately picked up the pistol on the table and pointed it at Li Jie. As soon as the guards at the headquarters saw the brigade commander's movements, they immediately raised their guns and pointed them at Li Jie.

The person who came laughed and was not afraid: "Of course you are not familiar with the secret service, but when it comes to our director, you all know it." ”

"Oh, brother is so confident, you might as well come and listen, if it is really as thunderous as you said, then brother will accompany you personally." Brigade Commander Zhao asked.

"Hehe, our director's name is Li Tie." The visitor smiled slightly.

"Ah, the richest man in the world, Li Tie? That Li Tie who supported the 19th Route Army's Shanghai War of Resistance? Everyone, including Zhao Dengyu, couldn't help but ask.

"yes, who else but him? Who else but him can deliver arms to you all over the country? ”

"Oh, send arms, I don't know where the arms are, how much?" As soon as he heard that he was here to deliver arms, Wang Changhai couldn't help but ask at first, and when he saw Brigade Commander Zhao on the side glaring at him, Wang Changhai was so frightened that he immediately shrank his head and hid behind the deputy commander.

"Not much, a hundred machine guns, a thousand rifles, five hundred box guns, and five base numbers of various bullets. In addition, there were 2,000 American-made grenades at each pass.

"What? Is this true? Not only do we have it, but there are also other passes? This time, it was Brigade Commander Zhao who was the first to ask.

"Yes, we went ashore from Tianjin yesterday, and we have already transported all the arms here at noon today, just in time for the big war, and there is no way to deliver them.

Only now, taking advantage of the temporary ceasefire on the battlefield, we will send you arms separately. Li Jie explained.

"Brigadier, that's great. Give me all the 500 box guns, and I'll go and attack the Japanese advance team tonight, and if I don't bring you the head of their captain, I'll take off my own head and kick it for you. Wang Changhai replied again.

"Okay, Captain Wang, what kind of system will you become, while staying honestly, your share is indispensable. Without further ado, where are the arms? I'll pick it up right away. Zhao Dengyu is also anxious about arms. What kind of battle does a soldier have without guns and bullets, if it is not forced by poverty, a fool will use a big knife to fight the devil.

Several people followed Li Jie to the bottom of the mountain at the brigade headquarters, and at this time there were already ten large cars parked at the bottom of the mountain. Brigade Commander Zhao found that there was not a single soldier around the ten cars:

"You are too bold, so many arms are thrown here, and you don't send many people to protect them, in case the Japanese spies come, it will be dangerous."

Li Jie smiled slightly, blew a whistle, and saw that in the snowdrifts on both sides of the road, behind the trunks of the trees, dozens of figures flashed on the tips of the trees, each of these people were wearing white cloth and wearing straw hats, even under so many flashlights, it was not easy to find.

"Who are these people? Just by looking at the posture of their guns and their cold faces, you can know that these are well-trained and battle-hardened veterans. Zhao Dengyu's heart was shocked, but he did not show any abnormality on the surface, but asked Li Jie without a trace which unit these people belonged to, and at first glance they were elite soldiers.

Li Jie did not shy away from Brigade Commander Zhao at all, these were the Huaxing security teams responsible for ensuring the safe transportation of arms to various passes this time. There is also a group called the special combat team to be responsible for debt collection, and at this time, it should have passed through the defense area of the Chinese and Japanese armies and entered the hinterland of the Japanese army.

As for when they will come back, it's very simple, when you find out that the Japanese army has suddenly retreated, it means that these guys have collected their debts. ”

"Oh! There was also a group of people who actually infiltrated the rear of Japan, but I don't know how they passed through the Japanese defense zone? And then how do they collect their debts, and whose debts do they collect? ”

I only heard Li Jie say without caring at all: "Of course I walked over with a swagger." That Wu Teng Xinyi dared to confiscate the property of my young master's Huaxing branch in Chengde.

Our young master naturally has to send someone to collect the debt, so didn't Wu Teng Xinyi say that he would attack the Great Wall defense line within a month? My young master said, if you dare to confiscate my cigarettes and alcohol, I will confiscate your arms. ”

"Oh, I don't know if your young master is Li Tie? He said that he was going to confiscate the enemy's munitions, did he also send people to the rear to attack the Japanese arsenal? "Brigadier Zhao is even more curious.

"I don't know much about this, you know, my young master has always acted like a whimsical, so we can't guess what he thinks, and we don't want to guess.

But I only know that this Wu Teng Xinyi should not be, he should not provoke my young master, because my young master is very careful, he is most annoying that others stumble on him, and he hates others to say bad things about him behind his back.

It's bad, I just said bad things about him, Ah Mitofo, the Buddha bless you don't let the young master hear it! ”

Brigade Commander Zhao looked at Li Jie's chattering prayers beside him, and hurriedly ordered the soldiers to carry ammunition, he himself looked at the south, and couldn't help but be fascinated: "This Li Tie is really capable." ”