Because Ma Yunlong is righteous on weekdays and has a lot of prestige in the green forests of Taihu Lake, after getting his notice, the next day, the other two bandits in Taihu Lake rushed to the appointment with dozens of people with guns and sticks.

When a group of water coars entered the cave of the Gathering Hall, they were immediately surrounded by the dragon's tooth officers and soldiers who had been waiting for a long time.

Facing the black muzzle of the light machine gun, a one-eyed man shouted with a big change in his face: "Ma Yunlong, you fucking yin old man?" ”

Ma Yunlong slowly stood up from the first position, and said solemnly: "One-eyed Dragon, I advise you not to resist needlessly, tell you the truth, today is not me Ma Yunlong wants to clean you up, but the famous Dragon Tooth Task Force wants to clean up the Taihu Lake!" ”

"Task Force Dragon's Tooth?" The one-eyed dragon and the other bandit leader couldn't help but change their expressions when they heard this, and they looked around, only to find that the people who surrounded them were all wearing gray-blue military uniforms.

"Task Force Dragon's Tooth? Qiao Youhua's Dragon's Tooth Task Force? Isn't it in Suzhou? The one-eyed dragon couldn't believe it.

Qiao Youhua walked in from the outside, surrounded by Jiang Haidong and others.

"It is contemptible that our troops fought in Suzhou for more than three days, annihilating more than 3,000 Japanese marines, and now they are ordered to retreat along the Taihu Lake, and sweep away all the bandits entrenched in the waters of Taihu Lake along the way, and any attempt to resist will be killed! Those who surrender will not die! ”

"Put down your arms, shoot or kill!" A group of dragon tooth officers and soldiers shouted in unison.

In the face of the murderous aura exuded by the group of veterans of the Dragon Tooth Task Force, these bandits who were rampant in Taihu Lake on weekdays all lost their arrogance in the past, and one by one they wilted like frosted eggplants, and without waiting for their boss to speak, they threw their respective weapons to the ground and raised their hands.

"Take them all out and deal with the old rules." Qiao Youhua commanded with a wave of his hand.

Nearly 100 officers and soldiers of the Dragon's Tooth immediately drove the bandits who had exchanged their guns to the outside of the cave, leaving only the one-eyed dragon and another bandit leader.

"Sir Qiao, I have admired the name for a long time, and today it is planted in your hands, and my one-eyed dragon can be regarded as a receptac! Give it a good time! "When the one-eyed dragon saw Qiao Youhua appear, he gave up his plan to fight to the death.

Who is this in front of him, that is a big hero who doesn't even pay attention to hundreds of thousands of Japanese troops, from the Battle of Wuhu to Suzhou, tens of thousands of devils have been annihilated, and they have already become famous all over the world.

Who doesn't know the fame? Who doesn't know, and it is deliberately ambushed, how can they have the slightest chance of winning on their own? His one-eyed dragon has been rampant in Taihu Lake for many years, and he can still see this thoroughly.

Qiao Youhua went to the top of the chair with a golden knife, lit a cigarette, and said meaningfully: "I don't say that you also know, you bandits have been harming the waters of Taihu Lake for many years, if you are guilty, killing you ten times is not enough to forgive your sins, but now I have a way to live, I don't know if you want to go?" ”

"Survival? Dare to ask Chief Qiao what he means by this? The one-eyed dragon's one-eyed one eye was amazed.

"Join my Dragon's Tooth Task Force and follow me to Nanjing!" Qiao Youhua said.

"Is this true, sir?" The one-eyed dragon and the other leader were taken aback, they didn't expect such a good thing to happen. You must know that the current Dragon Tooth Task Force is the most famous heroic anti-Japanese unit in the country, and how many people want to join this army full of honor.

If what Qiao Youhua said was true, they would not only be able to have a way out, but also become a national hero admired by thousands of people, and they couldn't even believe that this kind of good thing was true.

"Of course it's true, I, Qiao Youhua, spit and nail when I speak, but I also said ugly things in front, I will give you a way to live, give you supreme honor, and you must also carry out my orders to the letter, joining my Dragon Tooth Task Force is to fight on the front line of anti-Japanese salvation, it is possible to sacrifice and die, you have to think about it carefully.

Once you join, you will become real soldiers, and the duty of a soldier is to obey orders and defend the country, and it is no longer when you are a bandit that you can act recklessly.

And there is no way to quit, there is only one end for deserters, and that is death. Qiao Youhua said.

The two-eyed dragon glanced at each other, and said loudly: "Chief Qiao, as long as we join the Dragon Tooth Task Force, you and the other commanders don't take us as stepmothers, and my one-eyed dragon will follow you to fight devils with all my heart, and this hundred and ten catties is yours!" ”

"All those who join the Dragon Tooth Task Force are my Qiao's brothers, of course I will treat them equally!" Qiao Youhua nodded.

In the end, Qiao Youhua absorbed most of the three bandits in a way that was almost complete, and got a total of 300 new soldiers.

The Dragon Tooth Task Force lost more than half of the Dragon Tooth Task Force in the First Battle of Suzhou, and the strength of the army declined, but seeing that Nanjing was imminent, Qiao Youhua still felt that it was too small with only these hundreds of troops, so he thought of recruiting the Taihu Lake bandits to supplement the combat strength.

This is also a helpless move, if it weren't for the imminent war, Qiao Youhua would definitely not accept these water bandits as recruits, but time is pressing, although the water bandits are lazy in discipline, they all have actual combat experience, and they can basically use guns when they take them, and they can form combat effectiveness at the fastest speed.

On the Nanjing front, because the Japanese 6th Division and the 16th Division were ordered to counterattack Suzhou, this gave the Nanjing defenders a rare respite.

By the time the 6th and 16th Divisions had fought in Suzhou and continued their attacks, the Nanjing garrison had re-established the already precarious defensive line.

The two sides once again engaged in fierce fighting, and the Japanese attack was tantamount to starting from scratch, and it seemed difficult to attack the city of Nanjing in a short time.

However, a partial division of the Japanese army's North Road, that is, Shigeto Chiaki's detachment, had already captured Yangzhou at this moment, and went up the Yangtze River, directly to Liuhe, and went to Yizheng, aiming directly at Pukou in Nanjing.

In the city of Nanjing, the headquarters of the garrison theater.

Commander Tang Shengzhi was standing in front of the combat map with Deputy Commanders Luo Zhuoying, Liu Xing and others to discuss the military situation.

"The enemy's Shigetsu detachment has already broken through Yangzhou City yesterday evening, and Gu Zhutong, the commander of the Third Theater of Operations, together with the theater headquarters and other directly subordinate troops, has withdrawn to Taizhou and other places at this moment, and the strategic intention of the Shigeto detachment is very obvious, that is, to attack Liuhe, Yizheng, and go straight to Pukou to cut off the connection between our garrison theater and Jiangbei." Liu Xing held a command pole and pointed on the map.

Luo Zhuoying said with emotion: "Thanks to Qiao Youhua's Dragon Tooth Task Force, not only recovered Wuhu and other lost territories, but also killed the Kunizaki Detachment, a Japanese army on the southern route, otherwise Nanjing may have been lost."

Now that Wuhu is still in our hands, and our army's land lines of communication remain unimpeded, what can we do even if the Shigeto detachment hits Pukou? ”

"That's right, but we also have to prevent the Japanese from reorganizing their forces to occupy Wuhu in order to cut off our land lines of communication, so that the evacuation operation cannot be carried out, so we still have to find a way to block this Shigetsu detachment in Liuhe, Yizheng and other places, until the last moment, we must not let them hit Pukou and copy our back road!" Tang Shengzhi said with a frown.

"But at the moment we don't have many suitable troops to send, Qiao Youhua attracted the Japanese counterattack in Suzhou, just to win a rare opportunity for our army to counterattack, the original positions of the frontline troops have basically been restored, and now they are fighting bloody battles with the Japanese army.

There is no way to draw out the effective support of the troops, but there are still two inferiorly equipped Sichuan infantry regiments in the city, but there are no suitable people, it is still embarrassing to use! Liu Xing couldn't help frowning.

Just when they were at a loss, an adjutant hurriedly walked in and saluted the three of them: "Commander Tang, I report to the advancing troops of the 66th Army of the Jurong Garrison that the remnants of the Dragon Tooth Task Force led by Qiao Youhua have broken through and withdrawn from Taihu Lake to Jurong, and are currently rushing to Nanjing. ”

Tang Shengzhi and the others glanced at each other when they heard this, their eyes lit up, and they said: "Yes, Qiao Youhua is really our timely rain, with him, he will definitely be able to block the Japanese Shito detachment!" ”