Yuan Zishan took a deep breath and wiped the already very old Hanyang in his hand with his shabby sweat towel, which was already very old at this time, and even if he was in the south, the cold still made people feel the pain of drilling bones. He is a native of Hebei, and since he came to the south more than two years ago to fight with the New Fourth Army, he has been very overwhelmed by the climate here, with damp and sultry summers and cold winters. But there is no way to resist it, Yuan Zishan has never considered the problem of a bad environment, and in his heart, only the two most important things are fighting devils and doing revolution.

Even today, the main force of the New Fourth Army has more than 10,000 people, and the scale is not small, but most of the soldiers don't even have guns, they all use weapons such as javelins and machetes.

"Squad leader, two groups of people have gone up, and Xingtan Village has not been captured. The comrades suffered a lot of losses, and there was a class that went up, and only one person came back......" Wei Jin, who was wearing round lenses, trembled a little in his voice, and he was also holding a gun, but this gun was actually a homemade rifle, which was not only not accurate, but also often exploded.

Yuan Zishan stopped Wei Jin's words and said: "The 40th KMT Division occupies the commanding heights of Xingtan Village, establishes fortifications, and guards this pass like an iron bucket, it is certain that it will be difficult to attack, but if we don't capture it, our whole army will be in big trouble." The enemy has besieged our troops here, if we can't break through the pass before midnight today and let our large army break out, tomorrow the other horses of Shangguan Yunxiang in southern Anhui will surround them, how many people are there? I'm afraid there are 70,000 or 80,000, but we have a full army of 9,000 people, and we lack weapons and supplies, so we will definitely not be able to defeat the well-equipped and well-guarded troops of the national army. ”

Wang Dailiang, who had cuffs and a firewood knife tied around his waist, snorted and said, "Squad leader, this is not like your usual tone, usually you can swallow the enemy with your mouth open." ”

This kid has always been lazy, when he was a child, the family was still a landlord and a rich man, and later suffered an accident, all the family wealth was lost, he was desperate to join the New Fourth Army, with his spiritual consciousness, this is a very incredible thing in itself.

Jiao Hui, a handsome little brother who has always supported the squad leader, pushed Wang Dailiang and said, "Speak well, don't be yin and yang." ”

Jiao Hui has a height of more than 1.8 meters in this era, which can be regarded as a tall man, while Wang Dailiang is only 1.65 meters, and he is also slightly worried when he looks at Jiao Hui.

Yuan Zishan waved his hand, stopped the dispute of several comrades, and said: "We have orders to be executed, even if Xingtan Village is difficult to fight, we must fight hard." After a while, several other brothers will attract the fire of the fortifications for us in the front, let's climb the mountain from the side to approach there, Ah Huai, you have the best skills, you carry the explosives bag, let's blow up this fortification to the sky, and the comrades will be able to attack the pass. ”

Ah Huai, who was wearing a dusty military uniform, but had a bald head and even a ring scar, didn't say much, just nodded, and agreed to this task that might be extremely dangerous and fatal. But he didn't mind at all, the squad leader Yuan Zishan handed over the most likely death job to himself. It's an unconditional trust, something that can only be cultivated after countless experiences of life and death.

"Let's go!" Yuan Zishan exhaled, lifted his gun, and took a few comrades in the squad to start fighting in a roundabout way. Yuan Zishan's squad was not full of members, and now there were only six people, and there was a comrade who was being treated by the health team because he was injured and did not follow them, so only the six of them participated in this operation.

The gunfire at the pass of Xingtan Village began to sound sparsely, and at this time night had quietly fallen, and since noon, the New Fourth Army has tried to continuously send soldiers in an attempt to seize this pass. The terrain here is not good, and it is difficult for the large forces of the New Fourth Army to deploy from here, and it is impossible to attack this narrow pass. And just like Yuan Zishan said, if you don't break through the pass and leave this dangerous place before today, then tomorrow the New Fourth Army will be ambushed on all sides and fight with an enemy ten times its size.

If you are a person with a slightly better history, you should be able to see at this time that the New Fourth Army is located in the Maolin area of Jing County, Anhui Province, and this is known as "a strange injustice through the ages, a leaf in the south of the Yangtze River; in the same room, why hurry to fry each other". In the "orthodox historiography" of the mainland, this is also called the peak of the second anti-communist wave. It is an outbreak of the long-term rabbit bald contradiction (unknown rabbit and bald man, please Baidu) in the War of Resistance against Japan into a stalemate stage. Moreover, this incident has a relatively strong middle- and lower-level military cadre, and the KMT Central Committee followed the color of posthumous recognition. In fact, this style continued in the KMT regime several decades after the relocation to Taiwan.

Not to mention these overall and macro contents, Yuan Zishan and his entourage, who were in a tiny part of the incident, were nervous, worried, scared, and excited, and secretly climbed up from the side of the pass that was difficult to go up.

"Keep it up, we'll be done at the top!" Yuan Zishan encouraged his comrades.

Ah Huai has the best skills, even if he is carrying an explosive bag, he is like flying, if it weren't for accommodating a few of his partners, I'm afraid he would have left them behind.

In the distance on the front of the pass, the New Fourth Army organized an assault, and the soldiers of the two platoons withstood the blazing flames swept out by the machine guns in the fortifications, and weakly counterattacked with the rifles in their hands. Yuan Zishan and others saw this scene, and their eyes couldn't help but feel hot and moist, Yuan Zishan gritted his teeth and said to his partners, "Hurry up and kill this fortification, so that our comrades did not sacrifice in vain!" ”

This sentence is like a stimulant, even the weakest Wei Jin in the past is holding a gun, climbing this mountain step by step, and the fortifications at the pass are getting bigger and bigger, right in front of them.

But at this time, the soldiers of the New Fourth Army who were involved in the firepower of the fortifications were exhausted, and as soon as the firepower of the fortifications was collected, and soon, someone discovered the abnormal movement on the side of the fortifications, and several soldiers of the New Fourth Army were touching it, and the machine gun was immediately moved from the front to the side, and the red muzzle that was still fired just now was already facing Yuan Zishan and a few people.

Just when the eyes of Yuan Zishan and the others were already full of despair, suddenly a violent light appeared above the fortifications, stabbing everyone's eyes painfully.

What's going on?