"Quick, clean up the battlefield, leave a company to guard the prisoners, and the others will run with me, the pressure on Deputy Army Commander Xiang will definitely be greater, we have to support the Jiangnan detachment!" Commander Ye Ting shouted again.

Seeing that their own men on the ground had taken control of the situation, the squadron of Howler bombers circled and climbed back to the cheers of the fighters. The soldiers of the secret service group can also be regarded as Grandma Liu's entry into the Grand View Garden - their eyes are not enough to see, how can they usually see so many trophies?

But after hearing the words of the military commander, everyone just had to throw away the Hanyang made in their hands, pick up a 38 big cover, don't care if it is smooth or not, at least this little devil's rifle has enough bullets. Resist the few crooked machine guns that were not damaged by the machine guns, the special service group quickly finished the formation, there is nothing to say, the military situation is like fire, the comrades-in-arms of the Jiangnan detachment over there must be a hard fight, many people have more strength, Ye Ting gave an order, except for the left-behind company, the others ran forward, and the target was Huarong Ancient Road.

Huarong Ancient Road, "Ziye Tongjian" annotated as: From this road can go to Huarong. This ancient road is the escape route of Cao Cao in the Battle of Chibi.

Long 7. The 5-kilometer ancient road lies in the recess of Taohua Mountain, and there are still relics such as Zilonggang, Hulukou, Caotian, Caowhip Port, Jiguangou and Caopo along the way.

Both sides of the ancient road may be muddy swamps, making it difficult for pedestrians; Or it is a forest of mountains and rocks, and the steep slope is dangerous. Xiang Ying led a total of more than 7,000 troops including the Jiangnan Detachment of the New Fourth Army to defend here, and selected narrow and difficult places in the ancient road to arrange blocking positions. However, in a hurry, there were many yellow mud puddles on both sides of the ancient road, and it was difficult to find suitable materials for building a position. Fortunately, the New Fourth Army was fully moved, and there were a lot of bits and pieces in the military headquarters, so they simply dug trenches directly on the ancient road and piled up soil into firing positions.

This method was appreciated by Xiang Ying, who ordered each unit to dig a trench every other section, and the soldiers hid in it, blocking the Japanese army section by section. In the most outrageous place to put Cao Po, that is, the place where the legend of Guan Erye released Prime Minister Cao, Xiang Ying personally led a brigade to build the last blocking position, and Deputy Commander Xiang did not forget to make a joke, "Guan Yu let Cao Cao go in order to repay his kindness and righteousness, and ruined the Han family, but our New Fourth Army has nothing to talk about with the little devils, we must not let the little devils go, let them continue to harm our China!" ”

As one of the oldest founders of the New Fourth Army, although Xiang Ying was slightly inferior to Ye Ting in terms of military command ability, he was still more loved by the soldiers as a worker leader.

The battle soon began, and the reckless pursuit of the Takata wing made Iida Shojiro furious, and in front of Maruyama Masao, the commander of the second division, he scolded Muto Daisa for being a fool. "At such a critical juncture, you are still wasting time for a ragtag army!"

Lieutenant General Maruyama had nothing to say, and if he hesitated a little, he would fall into the enemy's encirclement again, and he didn't have the heart to fight for the advantage of that tongue, so he waved his hand and called the 4th Sendai Wing, the main wing of the division, "At all costs, open up the Huarong Ancient Road leading to the river!" ”

The contradictions between the two armies, which were not heavily armed, on the narrow ancient road that was not suitable for the battlefield at all, were the aces of the Japanese army who were desperately charging for their lives, and on the other hand, the red iron army that was determined to fight to the death. The battle entered a white-hot battle from the beginning, and Xiang Ying's blockade plan was very effective in the early stage of the battle. The soldiers of the Jiangnan detachment lay in the trenches, and they didn't need to aim too carefully at all, they could hit the little devils who rushed up on the ancient road, and the flat and narrow ancient road made the charging Japanese army have nothing to hide.

However, the madness launched by the Japanese army, which had no way to retreat, completely magnified the weakness of the weak firepower of the New Fourth Army. If it was the automatic rifle and platoon-level firepower of the Han army, such a charge could only be suicide, but for the Zhongzheng rifle equipped by the Jiangnan detachment, this crowd-style tactic was extremely effective. However, there were dozens of soldiers in each trench and as few as a dozen, and the Japanese troops who swarmed up were often instantly drowned in the sea of people.

Receiving the news that the armored forces of the Han army were approaching at high speed, Iida ordered the two independent brigades to hold Nanxian to the death, and the Guards Division and the Second Division took turns to attack the Huarong Ancient Road. "Or, we open up the ancient road and cross the river; Either we are trapped and die in the ancient road, and the Guards Division and the Sendai Division will be removed! Maruyama-kun, please! ”

In the seventh trench, Iida Shojiro bowed deeply again. This scene was recorded orally by the soldiers of the Guards Division who survived after the war, and then it was adapted into a script by Japanese director Akira Kurosawa, and a "Death of the Guards Division" was filmed, which is called "The Tomb of the Fireflies" with another description of the bombing of Kobe. In the post-war imperial Oriental colonies, such films were banned, and the Japanese preferred to watch science and education films, such as the world between men and women.

Movies always have to be artistically processed, no matter how powerful Kurosawa is, he can't shoot the gore on the ancient road, and the Japanese army has to pay one or several corpses for every step of the way; Each trench was lined with soldiers in yellow or gray uniforms. The sound of gunfire and shouting, scolding and screaming came into the ears of Deputy Xiang in the Cao Po position, and then saw the anxious expressions of the soldiers around him, Xiang Ying clenched his fists fiercely, and Commander Ye said bluntly many times: It is too easy for him to believe in the illusions around him.

Sure enough, because the trenches dug by the soldiers themselves easily decided to block the attack in sections, without fully considering the intensity of firepower and the possibility of the Japanese army's decisive charge, the already small number of troops were now distributed on the length of several kilometers of ancient roads and were broken by the Japanese troops separately. "It was my decision that hurt them!" The soldiers of the Jiangnan Detachment of the New Fourth Army brought out by one hand were assassinated in the trench by the Japanese army, and no one was more heartbroken than Xiang Ying. The fighters were good, they were wedged in the trench positions like nails, but the wrong tactics led to their inability to concentrate their fire and the devils pulled nails one by one.

The soldiers in the nearest few trenches had withdrawn, and Xiang Ying was preparing to block the Japanese army with all his might at the last position of Fangcaopo. More than 200 meters wide, three trenches were dug in a hurry, and there were no suitable tools, and the shallow trenches could not guarantee hiding their bodies, so the soldiers could only take a sitting position or lie on the slope with their upper bodies to shoot.

"Comrades, this is the final decisive battle! Or we hold off the Japanese and leave them here; Or let the little devils trample on our corpses! Xiang Ying opened the safety of the Mauser pistol, commonly known as the box cannon in his hand, and shouted loudly.

"Fight to the death!" Seeing so many comrades-in-arms die tragically under the swords of the devils, the soldiers on the Cao Po position were already red-eyed.

This paragraph was also made into the movie "Jiangnan Detachment" in later generations, and General Xiang Ying's command mistakes were artistically dealt with in the movie, highlighting the fearless spirit of the soldiers of the New Fourth Army who bravely killed the enemy. "Jiangnan Detachment" was a hit in the countries of the Greater China Alliance and won several awards at the annual Danyang Film Festival!

Hollywood? What's that? Isn't the most famous movie mecca after the war Danyang in Yangzhou, South China?