After Ge Zengfu and Fu Boss and his entourage broke up in Xiashui River, they immediately rushed back to Pi County. At the north gate of Pi County, they met Lei Ying, who told them that the 27th Division and the Mountain Division had been evacuated, and asked them to immediately rush up and join the large army.

"Directly give up Pi County?" Ge Zengfu was puzzled.

Lei Ying couldn't say anything, he just emphasized that it was Brigade Commander Liu's order and left.

The news of the imminent attack of the Japanese army has spread in the county seat of Pixian County, and many people are fleeing here with their families. This made Ge Zengfu and others feel a deep shame and shame - the existence of the army is to protect the people, but when the invaders came, they had to choose to retreat. He looked at the tall county seat of Pixian County and secretly swore: One day, Lao Tzu will come back.

Ge Zengfu and the others did not enter the city, but directly bypassed the county seat and rode a motorcycle, and caught up with the large army after half an hour. The 27th Division was in front, the Cadet Army was behind, and more than 10,000 troops formed a long winding dragon. He was about to report the situation to Liu Shurong when the roar of an aircraft engine suddenly came from the northeast. He turned his head to look and saw that the Century fighter plane was flying in a northwesterly direction. "Crickets—" A series of sharp whistles sounded, and the large army that was marching rapidly scattered on both sides, and lay on the ground one after another.

Liu Shurong's armored command car stood out, he twisted the accelerator and chased after it, and then directly threw the car to the ground next to him and ran to Liu Shurong, who had just gotten out of the armored car.

Liu Shurong was holding a telescope to look at the enemy plane, put down the binoculars, he saw Ge Zengfu, and asked with a smile: "The amplification is back?" What's going on? ”

"The cabinet brigade was trapped by our ecstasy thunderstorm, and it is estimated that it will take two and a half hours to reach Pixian. Brigade Commander Liu, I don't understand a little, what are we evacuating for! The little devils do not have an advantage in strength. Boss Fu is very disappointed in us, saying that we are not as tough as the 51st Army. ”

Liu Shurong smiled and said, "You probably forgot the purpose of our visit to Pi County, Chief of Staff Guo's surprise operation has been successful, and if we stay here any longer, we will wait to die." You said that the cabinet brigade was trapped by the ecstasy thunderstorm, what does this ecstasy mean? ”

The Cadet Army has always attached great importance to the use of landmines, and reconnaissance pioneers like Ge Zengfu have landmine laying in the assessment subjects. Ge Zengfu smiled and said, "Lei Ying brought too few mines this time, and the power of the mines they made was too low, so we collected grenades and made quite a few mines. At first, the cabinet tried to find a way out with soldiers, but it was blown up by our treacherous thunder. Before the cabinet brigade entered the Xiashui River, we laid a lot of tricks around them, so that the little devils couldn't even retreat and transfer, so they could only rush forward, and the cabinet body sympathized with the subordinates, and they had to drain the mines before they dared to pass, so that they were not trapped? ”

"Yes, there is a set, when this battle is over, you are responsible for promoting this experience in both divisions."

"Yes."

The cabinet brigade was delayed by the mine array, but it turned out to arrive in Pi County almost at the same time as the Seya detachment. Kai Seya grabbed a few fleeing fellow villagers on the way, and only then did he learn that the defenders had retreated, which made him very angry. After meeting with the cabinet brigade, he asked the cabinet body Shengyu very unceremoniously: "Cabinet body king, you let us rush to encircle and annihilate the enemy of Pi County, what about the branch army in Pi County now?" ”

The cabinet was destroyed by the mines planted by Ge Zengfu and them, and the marching speed of the army was greatly slowed down, not to mention the loss of more than 200 people and several chariots in vain, which made him feel quite bad. The cabinet body was already holding back the fire in his belly, but now he was criticized by Segu Qi, his face became very ugly, and he asked quite unceremoniously: "You are coming from the direction of Taierzhuang, if the speed is fast enough, you should be able to block the Zhina army, I have to ask you, what about the Zhina army?" ”

Segu Qi suffered a big loss in Taierzhuang, and was already on the verge of an outbreak, when he heard this, he immediately jumped three feet high and yelled: "Eight grids! What do you mean, it was our responsibility to be escaped by the Pixian defenders? Our detachment fought bloodily in Taierzhuang for a day and a night, and the soldiers rushed over with their tired bodies without resting, do you still want us to be the main force of the attack? So what are you doing with the 3rd Mixed Brigade? Do you have an autumn breeze along the way? ”

The two were arguing, and suddenly Second Lieutenant Akita Hongichi, the squadron leader of Kei Seya's communications squadron, hurriedly ran over and reported: Your Excellency, Captain Isoya, has called, asking us to rush to the Longhai Railway Canal Bridge immediately, and the first division of the Isoya Division and the people of China have started fighting.

"What?" Seya Kai couldn't find the cabinet to be angry, and immediately ordered the staff officer of the army to take out the map, looked at the cabinet and said, "I'm going to lead the team to the canal bridge, you can do it!" ”

The cabinet body Shengyu snorted and ignored him, but thought in his heart: "Let you go first, and when you and the Zhina army are defeated, I will go and pick up a bargain." ”

The Seya detachment did not even enter the county town of Pi, and immediately rushed to the canal bridge.

8:23 a.m., Taierzhuang.

"Calling ......" As the sound of the bomb accelerating tearing through the air sounded, Guo Da issued an order for all departments to organize themselves to avoid the bombing. The Japanese planes were menacing, four fighters escorted the escort, one reconnaissance plane patrolled the vicinity of Taierzhuang, and the twelve bombers divided into three formations and dived down to their respective targets.

The two formations had already crossed Taierzhuang at this time, and were pursuing the tank troops that had just withdrawn from the Grand Canal. One formation dropped eight bombs on a section of the burning wall.

Guo Da took the telescope and looked into the sky, the distance was so close that he could even see the face of the devil aviation. "What does the little devil want to do? Blow up the walls? Xu Dalin said softly, very puzzled.

Guo Da's face was worried, he thought for a while and suddenly said: "Quick, let the left security lead a regiment into the third area, if that section of the city wall is blown up, it is very likely that the little devil will form a breakthrough from there." ”

After the raiding troops withdrew, the tank troops immediately left Taierzhuang and returned to Hexi, while the Xueyi Brigade stayed. As the temporary commander of the First Brigade, Zuo An'an naturally stayed and was borrowed.

Zuo Security and Liu Shurong temporarily changed their command posts in order to give full play to the strengths of the two people, and as for why they were not allowed to command their own troops to fight, it was because they considered that the Overlord Brigade was still a new recruit, while the Xueyi Brigade was a veteran, and there was a difference in combat experience between the two units.

"What a shame!" Xu Dalin answered, and personally ran to the cantonment of the First Brigade.

The power of the eight bombshells made the city wall, which had already produced cracks, collapse and turn into ruins, and the four bombers had just pulled up the nose of the plane, and Isoya Ryosuke gave an order, and the Anzai and Aso brigades, which had been on standby not far away, immediately shouted and pounced.

The artillery of the "empty ......" Isogu Division followed closely, and the fierce artillery bombardment made the eastern city of Taierzhuang almost completely shrouded in gunsmoke, and the officers and men of the 1st Division were forced to shrink into the simple fortifications, not daring to make the slightest transgression.

In a wooden building about 300 meters away from the west gate in Taierzhuang, Su Haihu, who was leaning against the wall and pretending to sleep, heard the sound of cannons and opened his eyes violently. Wang Linren next to him had been carefully wiping the walkie-talkie, but at this time he stopped what he was doing, leaned on the window, picked up a telescope and looked at the place where the cannon sounded. Su Haihu also picked up the binoculars and lay on the window, neither of them spoke, they looked intently for a while, and after the little devil fired another round of cannons, he put down the binoculars and looked at each other, and said almost in unison: "3400!" ”

Wang Linren was a rangefinder of the artillery unit of the 1st Division, and Su Haihu was the commander of an artillery regiment of the 51st Army. Their task was to judge the orientation of the Japanese artillery positions and then report to the artillery units in the rear.

The two looked at each other and smiled, and Wang Linren handed the microphone to Su Haihu.

Su Haihu hesitated for a moment but took it, and then he pressed the send button with the thumb of his right hand and asked, "Is that so?" ”

Wang Linren smiled and nodded.

Although Su Haihu has practiced several times before, he is still a little apprehensive when he really wants to use it, as if this walkie-talkie is a man-eating monster.

Su Haihu was recognized by Wang Linren, and he coughed twice and said: "I'm a tiger, I'm a tiger, and the distance is 3400!" After saying this, he waited nervously, and after waiting for a while without getting a response, he was a little anxious, and shouted loudly: "Please reply when you receive it!" ”

Wang Linren smiled, he climbed over two steps, and pulled away Su Haihu's thumb that was tightly holding the send button.

Only then did Su Haihu realize that he had forgotten a crucial step, and he couldn't help but smile. At this time, a human voice came from the chatter: "The old wolf received!" The old wolf received, done! ”

Anxi Eagle Shaozuo climbed to a high place under the escort of several gendarmes, and then he saw the messy inner city of Taierzhuang Dongcheng. After the round of artillery fire just now, many places in the city were smoking and burning on a small scale. Anxi Eagle looked far away, but did not see a single figure, and his heart completely settled down.

As early as a week before the Battle of Taierzhuang, Li Zongren mobilized the local residents to evacuate, and those who remained in the city were not only some old people who refused to leave their homeland, but also those bullies and wealthy businessmen who were willing to be traitors, and the ambulance team spontaneously formed by local anti-Japanese organizations.

It was only a few hundred meters away from the west gate, and Anxi Eagle looked over and even saw a corner of the sandbag fortification. He waved his command knife vigorously and shouted behind him, "Rush up, rush up!" Shooter, seize the high ground! ”

After Zuo An'an received Guo Da's order, he relayed this order to the three regiment commanders of the Xueyi Brigade, and the following had already shouted: "Brigade Commander Zuo, let's go to our regiment, our regiment suffered the smallest casualties in the previous raid-" "Joke, your regiment has the smallest casualties, the sentence is fourteen, should we count it on the spot?" Our second regiment must have more people than your third regiment. "Everyone, don't fight, let's come in order, let's go first."

Xu Tai, the head of the first regiment, Huang Feihu, the head of the second regiment, and the head of the third regiment, Xing 14. These three people are famous for their love of raising the bar, and they once made Liu Shurong's head extremely big. The three of them didn't look at the situation, and at this time they actually got on the bar - "Okay, do you think it's a playhouse?" Fourteenth, take your people with me. Cai Cannon, don't look around, just say what about you, bring your mortar company to follow! The three of them were fighting for joy, and Zuo An'an stopped them all with a shout. Cai Hongguang was dozing there, and was suddenly called a nickname, and he didn't know what happened to Lu Dao, so he stood up instinctively, looking ignorant, which made everyone laugh.