After Hao Mengling finished speaking, he was going to go to the position of the Fifth Brigade in person, so frightened that Liu Jiaqi hurriedly stopped, "Military seat, I'll go, it's not appropriate for you to go, this devil's artillery fire is too powerful, what if something happens to you and calls our Ninth Army?" ”

Hao Mengling put on a steel helmet, picked up an MP18, and said with a smile, "The crockpot should have been broken by the well, and the general will inevitably die before the battle, and I am not ready to go back alive when I come to Shanxi." Okay, the military situation is urgent, let's go. With that, he led the way out of the cave.

Liu Jiaqi saw that he had no choice, so he could only pick up the steel helmet and rush out.

The two took a team of guards, braved heavy artillery fire, stumbled to the Fifth Brigade, and found that the Japanese had attacked the position at this time, and hurriedly let the soldiers shout, "The military seat is coming to the rescue." "With the guards, he rushed up.

Hao Mengling held a submachine gun and shot down the two devils with a shuttle, and then led people to charge back. When the soldiers saw that it was indeed the commander who came, they all mustered up the courage to fight with them.

At this time, an officer of the Japanese army who followed the attack found Hao Mengling, and saw that there were many soldiers with submachine guns around Hao Mengling, and immediately knew that this was definitely an important officer of the National Army, so he hurriedly concentrated four crooked handles and shot at Hao Mengling.

Hearing only a burst of gunshots, Hao Mengling, who was in command, felt a shock all over his body, and his body like a mountain slowly fell down. Liu Jiaqi behind him shouted, "Military seat!" "I was about to save the body, but I was shot three times in a row and fell unconscious. The guards had red eyes and shouted, "Quickly take back the military and division seats." "Rushing forward like crazy, and finally paying more than a dozen lives before finally dragging the two back. At this time, Hao Mengling had been broken for a long time, and Liu Jiaqi also had more qi in and less qi out.

Wei Lihuang was shocked when he learned that Hao Mengling had died, this was the first army commander to die since the July Seven Incident. looked at the crying face of the black and red communication soldiers. Wei Lihuang waved his hand and said, "Power generation commission, report the situation, and in addition, order Commander Chen of the 61st Army to take over the command." ”

Chiang in Nanjing, who received the war report, lamented and immediately posthumously recognized him with the rank of general, and Chairman Mao of Yan'an called him a "noble and great model", and was buried in Wuhan with a state funeral a few days later.

Wei Lihuang was not easy, and Seishiro Itagaki was also under great pressure, and the Chinese army's crazy counteroffensive. The casualties of the Japanese army were extremely large, especially in the white-knuckle battle last night, because it was a melee, the casualty ratio was actually 5:7, although the Japanese army was 5, but you must know that the casualties between China and Japan in peacetime were 3:1, which can already be regarded as a big defeat, and the attack in the morning during the day was not a position down, just one day. The casualties of the Japanese army exceeded the 4,000 mark, and they were still rising in a straight line, although there were many puppet Mongolian troops among these people, but such casualties still overwhelmed Itagaki Seishiro.

Chen Changjie took over Hao Mengling's baton as soon as possible. Continuing to lead the army in a counteroffensive, this time the main force was replaced by the 35th Army of the Jin Sui Army, that is, Fu Zuoyi's troops, which was the strongest army of the Jin Sui Army.

Chen Changjie first ordered the 35th Army to attack the old Hebei Village position at night, which was the rear artillery position of the Japanese army. The Japanese army was caught off guard and first was hacked to death by the 35th Army with a broadsword, and then there was a rain of grenades, and after a night of fierce fighting, these dozens of guns were blown up. Then began to encircle and annihilate the remaining Japanese garrison. Soon, the remaining Japanese troops were compressed into a large compound, the Shanxi compound is famous all over the world, this compound was built like a small city, the walls were so high and thick that for a while, the 35th Army could not penetrate at all.

Just when the two armies were fighting fiercely, a little girl trembled and appeared in front of the 35th Army. The warrior hurriedly brought him to Chen Changjie.

Chen Changjie asked strangely, "Girl, why are you here?" ”

The girl looked at her with great fear in her eyes and said, "The devils in the village say that as long as you don't shoot and let them go, they will return the village to you." ”

The staff officer next to him said with a light in his eyes, "Commander, it's great, so that we can recapture this position without bloodshed." ”

Chen Changjie touched his chin and asked, "Nuwa, tell me, how are the people in the village?" ”

As soon as she heard this, the girl cried out, "Dead, my mother threw herself into the well, my father is also dead, my grandmother is also dead, they are all dead, they are still pressing me, and it hurts so much under me." Woo woo woo, they're so fierce,"

Hearing the girl's cry, everyone's eyes turned red, and Chen Changjie said tremblingly, "Take her to the back hospital, let the nurse take a look, and tell the brothers, don't leave a single living mouth, kill all of them for me." ”

Yoshino Kuma, who was in the village, anxiously awaited a response, and the feeling of being surrounded by thousands of Chinese troops with two or three hundred Japanese troops was not good at all, well, he always felt that he had seen the picture of the cherry blossoms withering.

Yoshino Kuma suddenly heard the sound of gunshots and suddenly became intense, accompanied by the sound of explosions, and hurriedly asked, "What's the matter?" ”

A soldier hurriedly came in and said, "Report, the Chinese army has occupied several houses in the village, ran to them, and are suppressing us with machine guns, and they are constantly throwing grenades. ”

Yoshino waved his hand and said, "Kill them with a grenadier for me." ”

Seeing that the attack still could not be carried out, the battalion commander who led the attack simply no longer threw grenades, but threw dry firewood and torches, only to see countless torches flying over the wall into the compound, and after a while, the entire compound was set on fire, and the soldiers of the 35th Army surrounded them, came out and killed one by one, and burned for a day, and the remaining Japanese troops inside had all turned into charcoal.

After a day of such a strong attack, the Japanese army had already been driven back to their original positions. At this time, the new reinforcements that Seishiro Itagaki had been waiting for finally arrived.

This reinforcement has more than 10,000 people, although it was constantly harassed by the Eighth Route Army, but it still reached Xinkou, Terauchi Shouichi directly sent a message and said, "The North China army has been exhausted, and the garrisons of Beiping and Tianjin are only two brigades. ”

Itagaki Seishiro immediately commanded this group of fresh troops to counterattack, at this time Yan Xishan's farming achievements for so many years were reflected, countless bullets, shells, cement, and military rations were replenished to the front line for the first time, and the Chinese army also began to get used to the long-range advantage of the Japanese army, and each time it was waiting for the Japanese army to reach two or three hundred meters before starting to counterattack, and the Japanese army hit the head in front of the defenders with sufficient ammunition and broke the blood, and finally could only helplessly start digging tunnels and slowly approaching the defenders.

The Jin Sui army also suffered huge losses in such a high-intensity defense.

-- Taiyuan

Yan Xishan looked at the battle reports that kept coming up, and he was distressed and wanted to shed tears. He usually can't even split a shell to fight, and he can't stand it anymore when he sees truckloads of supplies being transported away and the casualty figures constantly refreshed.

Yan Xishan found Wang Jingguo and said, "Public security, look at this Jieshan, how did it happen, put our Jin Sui Army at the front line, and let the Central Army rest in the back, is he our Jin Sui Army or Chairman Jiang's people." ”

Wang Jingguo also said worriedly, "Sir Yan, I think Jieshan is dizzy, this Xinkou is indeed for us Shanxi." But isn't it also for China to fight, where is the central army not up, the local army is reasonable, not to mention, Chief Yan, it's not that I talk too much, if you continue to fight like this, the Japanese will drive you away, and our Jin Sui army will be finished. The encirclement and suppression of the Red Army back then was a division of the past. ”

Yan Xishan nodded and said, "You are very right, you immediately take my edict to see Chen Changjie and ask him to take it easy for me, don't work too hard." ”

looked at Wang Jingguo and nodded, and left with a handful of oracles. Yan Xishan sighed with his hands behind his back: "It's really a cub selling Yetian, don't feel distressed." ”

Chen Changjie smiled bitterly when he saw the edict and Wang Jingguo, who had nothing to do with me, and said, "Please rest assured, Chief Yan, I know what to do." ”

The next ten days. The Chinese and Japanese armies fought back and forth in this way, but on the whole, the two sides were evenly divided. Even the scales of victory are tilting slightly in favor of the Chinese army.

- Yuci

Zhou Guansheng looked at Liu Dake in front of him and said excitedly, "In this way, more than sixty percent of the workers have expressed their willingness to go to Yan'an with us." ”

Liu Dake took out a small notebook and corrected it, "But most of them ask after the fall of Taiyuan, after all, the welfare treatment here in Taiyuan is still good, but once Taiyuan falls, these workers will follow us for a safer living environment and job opportunities, in addition, we have also contacted more than 4,000 workers who worked in heavy industry factories before, and they are also willing to go to Yan'an with us, with a total of more than 10,000, plus their families, we need to relocate about 70,000 people this time." There are other light industry workers and students. Maybe it's 100,000. However, there will only be more than 10,000 people in the early stage, and the rest of the family will probably not follow until these people are settled. ”

Zhou Guansheng said with a smile, "I'm just afraid that there will be fewer people, don't you know, the chairman has sent me several telegrams, asking me to increase my work in this area, our factory in Yan'an is now short of people."

Liu Dake has not returned to Yan'an since he arrived in Shanxi, and he can't help but be a little curious about what Yan'an has become.

Zhou Guansheng's eyes were full of hope and said, "The current border area is constantly changing, although the change is not large, but everything is moving forward, don't talk about this, Comrade Bo Shucun, about the new army and machinery, how is it?" ”

"The new army is now in continuous expansion, and it can guarantee that it will reach 5,000 by the end of October, but there is an extreme shortage of weapons, less than one-fifth of them have guns. In addition, the statistical work of machinery has also come to an end. ”

Zhou Guansheng shook his hand and said, "Don't worry about weapons, do a good job of politics first, and when November comes, these new armies will be of great use." ”

Bo Shucun replied: "Please rest assured organizationally, our comrades promise to listen to the party." ”

When Xinkou, Shanxi Province was gradually reduced to trench warfare, Jiang Cheng in Shanghai made the final preparations.

In the past half a month, Jiang Cheng and Zhou Weiguo and others have been training day and night, constantly making all kinds of hypothetical conjectures, and Zhongxi Gong has also come out with some latest news from time to time.

In addition, it should be mentioned that Jiang Cheng checked things carefully later, and found that maybe Ying Tianlin had an uneasy conscience and added some treasures to his things, hoping that these things could play a good role in the future battle.

Three days ago, Jiang Cheng hid the vehicle in Hongkou Park, and because of the war, the Chinese team was isolated, but no one found it. Jiang Cheng looked at the special combat team in front of him, which had nothing to do with 1937 from the outside, and looked at the time, it was almost eleven o'clock. Then he said, "Ladies and gentlemen, then I will leave it to you." ”

Zhou Weiguo saluted and said, "Please rest assured, sir, we promise to complete the task and swear to rescue Miss Yu." ”

Jiang Cheng smiled, "You are wearing the latest body armor, as long as you are not hit by a machine gun, your life will not be in danger, of course." I also don't believe that there will be a lot of heavy machine guns in the devil's headquarters, in this battle, Xu Sheng is not allowed to lose, we not only have to rescue Miss Yu, but also to give the devil a profound lesson, let them know that this place in China is easy to get in and difficult to get out! Let's go. With that, he took the lead and walked down the sewer.

Zhou Weiguo saw that Jiang Cheng also wanted to go in, and hurriedly said, "Sir, are you going too?" ”

Jiang Cheng said as a matter of course: "Of course." Save Yishan, how can I not go. ”

Wang Yong said embarrassedly, "But, the owner, you can't even beat Zhou Luman." ”

Zhou Lumang is one of the fifteen people brought by Zhou Weiguo, and is said to be Zhou Weiguo's distant cousin. When the team members competed, their results were firmly ranked 50th, and they just happened to be selected into the list of this operation, which was called the tail of the Wannian crane. So much so that now Wang Yong has used the symbol Zhou Lumang when he said that he was a scumbag of combat effectiveness.

Zhou Luman looked innocent and muttered, "Who knew that there are so many perverts here, and there are not so many monsters in the Central Army." ”

Indeed, there is Jiang Cheng's offering and Li Qian's martial arts instruction. Wang Yong's combat guidance, one by one, under more than half a year of terrifying training, the quality of individual soldiers is extremely high.

Jiang Cheng waved his hand and said, "I'm among you, wearing a bulletproof vest." It's okay, okay, action. ”

Zhou Weiguo and the others shook their heads helplessly, and they didn't dare to let Jiang Cheng take the lead. Instead, Li Qian was the vanguard, Zhou Weiguo commanded, and Wang Yong was broken. Ba Shun protected Jiang Cheng, and everyone went down the sewer.

The captain of the Chinese team of the International Caravan, who was not far away, looked at the special combat team members who disappeared in front of him, and said softly, "Good luck to you." ”

And the other eight fighters who chose to be the drivers, one sat in the car, and the other was lying around, nervously guarded.

-- Japanese Command

After reading the battle report of the day, Matsui Ishone walked out of the office and came to the intelligence room, and when he saw the happy Kagesa Zhenzhao, he said curiously, "Kagesa-kun, why are you so happy?" ”

Kagesa Zhenzhao smiled and said, "Your Excellency Commander, the telegram just sent that Yanagawa Heisuke's Tenth Army has reached less than 40 nautical miles outside Jinshanwei, and it will attack tonight at the earliest, and tomorrow at the latest." ”

Matsui also smiled when he heard this, "This is great news, well, we should prepare to meet our warriors, so let's take some people and I to prepare some food, and let General Yanagawa come to the Huangpu River to drink with us, and prepare for our victory." ”

-- Headquarters water dungeon

Toushan Geming looked at the woman in front of him helplessly, it has been more than 20 days, and it seems that she has reached the limit every time, this woman is about to collapse and confess everything, and she has survived it again and again, so that now she doesn't dare to be too ruthless, you know, those doctors check the state of this woman, and they end with words like collapse at any time.

If you're really crazy, won't it be in vain?

Suddenly, Toushan Geming heard a sound of footsteps and asked, "Who is it?" ”

"It's me, Toushan-kun, it's so late, why are you still busy here." Toushan Pavilion looked at it clearly, and it turned out to be Zhongxi Gong. Hurriedly smiled, "It turned out to be Zhongxi-kun, why did you come here." ”

Nakanishi grabbed Toushan and said with a smile, "My family brought me some sake and Matsusaka beef from my hometown, didn't I come to you to try it?" ”

Toyama said in surprise, "Matsusaka beef? Wouldn't it be bad? How did you get it? ”

Zhongxi Gong chuckled and hammered his head, and said with a fist, "What do you want, it's braised beef, but it's also the best, do you want to go?" By the way, let's also talk about the Shanghai Red Party. ”

Toushan looked at Yu Yishan, feeling that he couldn't ask anything today, so he shook his hand and said, "Forget it, you two stay, remember to remind her, and the others go back to sleep first." After speaking, he smiled and said to Zhongxi Gong, "Let's go, let's have a good chat." ”

-- Sewers

Jiang Cheng and the others were extremely grateful to Li Qian for the information provided, the air here is no longer bad to describe, and the people wearing gas masks slowly walked in the sewer, about twenty minutes, and everyone came to a wall.

This is the wall that separates the two sides, but it is more of a large piece of iron than a wall.

Jiang Cheng said, "This should be the place where the slippery ghost said, this thing is put here, and there is really no need to worry about anyone being able to beat it." Okay, Wang Yong, let's go. ”

I only saw Wang Yong carrying a strange machine, and when I saw that Wang Yong was going to use it, everyone around him left far away, although I knew that it was not dangerous, but everyone who had seen the demonstration still felt terrifying. This is a new toy that replaces the plasma cutter.

I saw that the machine spewed out a white liquid, and the place where it touched it sank as quickly as ice burned by fire, and finally cut open. After a while, a big hole was cut out of this wall, and in order not to attract attention, Jiang Cheng took out a large magnet to absorb the iron and slowly put it down.

After all, if such a large piece fell to the ground, the sound would probably be heard by the soldiers guarding it in this closed sewer.

Seeing that the exit was opened, Zhou Weiguo waved his hand and said, "Group 9 stays, and the others continue to act." ”

Only five people were left here to guard the passage and the others continued to walk forward.

After walking about a hundred meters, Li Qian waved his hand to indicate that there was a situation, Li Qian stretched out a periscope, only to see four Japanese soldiers walking around boringly, the smell of sewers forced them to wear gas masks, Zhou Weiguo pointed to a few people, waved his hand, only saw those few people and Li Qian, took out a variety of silenced pistols, Li Qian first picked up a stone and threw it at the wall.

The four Japanese soldiers heard the sound, looked at it, and walked over suspiciously, but they were not very wary, after all, the real entrance to the sewer should be on the other side of the river, and this is already the rear.

Li Qian raised her hand fiercely, and the four people selected rushed out in a mess, and after a few "beeps" unique to silenced pistols, these four devils were all shot in the forehead, and they fell into the sewage without even having time to react.

Zhou Weiguo pointed at the devil and said, "You guys change your clothes." After saying that, he took the lead in changing his clothes. (To be continued......)