When the battle of Shilipu began, the base of the independent regiment stationed at the General's Temple was as quiet as usual. It's no wonder, after all, the two places are separated by nearly 100 miles, not to mention that they are shooting guns and guns at this time, but they are encountering devil planes bombing the independent regiment, as long as no one informs them, the independent regiment should not know or not.

At this time, Zhang Shan, who did not give up, was still in Yang Longfei's room and asked him if he wanted someone, looking at this posture, if he couldn't get Shi Chahai's kid to his side as a guard today, he wouldn't leave. Yang Longfei's attitude is also very clear, if you want to transfer Shi Chahai from Lao Tzu's regimental headquarters, you might as well kill Lao Tzu. Didn't you stay here and not leave? Okay, then Lao Tzu will go to sleep in your house at night, as long as you are not afraid of other people's strange words, what are you afraid of?

The two were sitting opposite each other at the kang table, drinking Shanxi Laofen wine while chewing the freshly peeled peanuts. Anyway, they all belong to the kind of people who are sloppy and sloppy, and they don't usually care much about their image, so they naturally don't care about their ugly appearance. It seems that these two people are intent on fighting to the end today......

At this moment, a soldier rushed into the regiment headquarters compound in a hurry, and even broke into Yang Longfei's house without even knocking on the door, startling Yang Longfei and Zhang Shan, who were competing.

Yang Longfei squinted his eyes and scolded: "Are you kid oiling the soles of your feet?" Why is there such a hurry and you don't knock on the door? ”

"The regiment commander, the brigade communications officer brought an urgent order, ten ...... The main force of devils appeared in the direction of Shilipu, and the second-line hospitals, divisions, divisional guard platoons and local militia also ...... It was also shelled by devils and suffered heavy casualties...... The division headquarters guard battalion and the directly subordinate team are organizing troops to counter and counterattack, and the brigade commander asked our independent regiment to assemble as quickly as possible...... Gather troops to reinforce Shilipu! The warrior thumped his breathless chest.

As soon as the words fell, Yang Longfei jumped off the kang with a harrier turned over, and divided all the equipment thrown on the edge of the kang with three strokes and five divisions. He thought to himself: Damn, since he was attacked by the previous group of devils, the evil qi in Lao Tzu's chest has not been smooth! It's good this time, God opened his eyes, let Lao Tzu find a chance to be ashamed!

"Where's the communicator?"

The soldier said: "I have fainted, I have run two hundred miles of mountain roads, and when I arrived, the horses are tired and dead, and the comrade has to hold on to this place with his last breath." Commander, what do you say? ”

Yang Longfei tightened his belt and said, "Then what are you doing in a daze, gather the team, and prepare to set off......"

Zhang Shan, the deputy head of the regiment, shouted from behind: "Commander, don't worry, wait ...... later."

"What is there to wait for? This is the day I was waiting for! Damn, I've been suffocating Lao Tzu like a bastard these days, and I've finally found a punching bag! This gang of devils is unlucky, and they hit the muzzle of Lao Tzu's gun. Look, Lao Tzu has to take these dogs' sacrificial knives today! Yang Longfei said impatiently.

Zhang Shan grabbed Yang Longfei, who couldn't hold back his excitement, and said, "Commander, don't be in a hurry to assemble the team first. You forget, our regiment was only divided yesterday, and the three battalions have long been withdrawn. If you want to assemble a team in a short period of time, I guess it will be difficult. You think, we don't even have a radio station, and we can only rely on manpower to deliver letters. In this way, let's send three correspondents out to call people first, and when the team has all received the order to come over, let's organize our troops to move closer in the direction of Shilipu, what do you say? ”

"No, you call it a drag tactic, it's easy to delay a big deal! Our regiment has to walk more than 90 miles of mountain roads to ten miles, and if we wait until all three battalions are returned to the construction of the team, I estimate that the division headquarters guard battalion will also be eaten by the little devils. If you really want to arrive at that time, it's not interesting to talk about yourself, and the brigade commander will have to shoot me if I don't make trouble! Don't forget, he still remembered the account for me last time! ”

"But the regiment commander, there is only one reconnaissance platoon and guard platoon in our regiment headquarters now, and then there is the cooking squad and the groom squad, and there is not even a main force, let's ......" Zhang Shan still hesitated.

Yang Longfei endured his last temperament and told him: "Why do you kid talk so much nonsense? Who said that Lao Tzu did not have the main force in his hands? Aren't the battalions that have just been separated the main force of our regiment? I've seen all their stations, and even the second battalion, which is the farthest away from the regimental headquarters, is only fifty miles away, which is still a straight line distance! Before the three battalion commanders led the team out of the General's Temple, I told them that if there was any movement at the regimental headquarters, they must fully cooperate. This is the homework I left for the three of them, what are you doing if you don't even have a good basic tacit understanding, go home and coax the child! With that, he lifted the curtain and rushed out of the house.

After hearing the sound of the horn, the guard platoon and reconnaissance platoon directly under the regiment rushed to the regiment headquarters to assemble and stand at the regiment headquarters as quickly as possible, and even the cooks and horsemen who were not combatants also picked up their guys and rushed to the regiment headquarters. Like Yang Longfei, everyone is holding back a momentum in their hearts and is ready to go.

Looking at the soldiers who were completely clothed and energetic, Yang Longfei's heart felt sincerely gratified. He didn't intend to talk nonsense with the soldiers, so he directly issued a combat order: "Brothers, the news from the brigade headquarters is that a large number of devils have appeared in the Shilipu area, which is twenty miles away from the division headquarters, and the specific number is unknown. The brigade commander ordered our regiment to be the vanguard regiment, and let us rush to Shilipu as quickly as possible and crush this group of Japanese troops raised by bitches to death under the feet of our Eighth Route Army! Is this the case, do the brothers have faith? ”

"There is ———," the fighters shouted in unison.

Yang Longfei nodded with satisfaction: "It's all good, I said a long time ago, since the day our independent regiment was established, there has never been a single mischief, and it will be the same in the future!" Now obey my orders, the commanders of each unit will lead the troops to assemble in the area around the entrance of the village, and the regimental headquarters will arrive later! ”

As soon as the troops were halfway out, Yang Longfei suddenly closed his eyes again, he gritted his teeth and slapped his head violently and said, "Alas, it's too bad......"

Zhang Shan hurriedly asked, "What's the matter, Commander, what did you think of again?" ”

Yang Longfei pursed his lips and said: "Lao Tzu just thought about fighting bayonets with the devils of Shilipu, and almost missed a big mistake. You see, if all the regimental headquarters organs are pulled to Shilipu at one time, then our station will be completely empty. Let's not talk about Yangquan, but the devils in the two counties of Pingyang and Binye know about it, and nine times out of ten, they have to seize this opportunity to stab Lao Tzu in the back. Let's not just save others and destroy our own nest! In this way, you don't want to participate in this battle, just stay at the regimental headquarters! I will immediately send a messenger out to find the third battalion, and ask Cao Guang to pull the team over and cooperate with you to pay attention to the defense of the regimental headquarters. The devil's intelligence network is not muddy, if little Japan takes this opportunity to come out and sweep us, you kid will resist me no matter what! Even if the troops are exhausted, I have to bite the bone of the General's Temple and not let go, do you hear? ”

Zhang Shan said in embarrassment: "Commander, why don't you change someone." You've all gone up and eaten meat, so stay here and watch, and you'll have to suffocate me to death!" ”

"Where do you kid talk so much nonsense? Lao Tzu left you here to watch the house because he believed in you kid, and it was your turn to pick and choose? The devil's reinforcements are really coming out, and the General's Temple is a place they must pass through, as long as you kid command properly, there will still be meat to eat when the time comes...... Correspondent! ”

Correspondent Wang Benchu "snapped" a standing: "What does the regiment commander command?" ”

"You go to Heiyunling to find the third battalion commander Cao Guang, tell him what I said, let them return to the company immediately, and rush to the General's Temple as soon as possible to arrange the defense line, and when I am not there, I will be under the unified command of Deputy Regiment Commander Zhang!"

"Yes!" The correspondent saluted, then turned and ran away.

Yang Longfei then said to Zhang Shan seriously: "Let me tell you Zhang Shan, Lao Tzu has handed over the nest to your kid, you know what to do!" If I come back and find that I have no place to sleep at night, I will pick your skin and use it as a mattress! ”

Zhang Shan immediately stood up and saluted: "Zhang Shan, deputy head of the Independent Regiment, promised the regiment commander that as long as I, Zhang Shan, have a breath of air, I will never let the devil reinforcements get close to the regiment station!" ”

Soon after the guard platoon and the reconnaissance platoon were assembled at the entrance of the village, Yang Longfei and two staff officers from the regiment headquarters also arrived quickly. As soon as the order to pull out was issued, two more people ran in the distance, shouting: "Commander Yang, wait a minute......

Looking at it, Yang Longfei muttered in his heart, what does the newly arrived political commissar surnamed Xiao mean by coming over at this time?

Xiao Zhiyuan gasped and stopped in front of Yang Longfei, his face was suffocated red, and there was sweat on his forehead and cheeks. He was accompanied by a fully clothed guard.

"Commander Yang, I heard that you are going to take the troops to Shilipu?"

Yang Longfei narrowed his eyes and said, "Comrade Political Commissar, the combat mission should not be within the scope of your work, right?" The order for the independent regiment to reinforce Shilipu was personally given by the brigade commander and political commissar, if you have any opinions, you can go to them, I will not accompany them. If you have anything to say, I'll talk about it when I come back......" Yang Longfei finished speaking and was about to leave.

"Head Yang, I know you're still angry about what happened a few days ago, I've thought a lot about it in the past two days, I didn't do it right, I need to apologize to you and Deputy Head Zhang, and make ......a review."

Yang Longfei looked at Xiao Zhiyuan with a wicked smile and said, "Ouch, don't you dare, Comrade Political Commissar is serious!" You are a high-level intellectual sent by your superiors to specialize in the ideological education of our backward elements, and you are guilty of apologizing to me, because it is easy to scare me. ”

"Head Yang, you misunderstood. We don't know anything about our lives, and I personally can't talk about prejudice and hostility towards you. It may be that I have been doing interrogation work for a while, and my temper tends to become irritable when dealing with problems. Since we are working in a team, there is no need to hide it. I have also heard the order of the brigade commander, and I have no right to stop it, but I just want to participate in this battle with you. ”

Yang Longfei glanced Xiao Zhiyuan up and down suspiciously, and said cautiously: "This is not appropriate, right?" You are a political work cadre, and you have just been in our regiment for a few days, and this devil is not as easy as you write a report, and you have to move if you are not careful. If anything goes wrong with me with your senior political commissar, the superior chief must send me to the Judge Advocate General's Office......"

"Lao Yang, it's better for us to be calm and talk to each other. Although I, Xiao Zhiyuan, am a political cadre, I have experienced some battles in the past few years, and it cannot be said that I have no combat experience at all. During the fifth anti-encirclement and suppression, I served as an instructor of the Sharp Knife Company in the Red First Army, and I also came from the rain of bullets. ”

"It seems that our political commissar Xiao is still 'Confucius hangs his waist knife——— both civil and military', since I have said this, I really want to ask Political Commissar Xiao for help......"

"You say, as long as I can do it without violating the principles of the organization."

"Of course it won't violate the principles of the organization, where does Commissar Xiao want to go? I just wanted to ask you to write a few more seals for me before the battle is over. When we clean up the battlefield, we have a stick in our hands, and our waist pole is hard, isn't it? Yang Longfei said with a sneer.

Where can Xiao Zhiyuan see through the little flowery intestines in Yang Longfei's stomach? He didn't think much about it and agreed, "Okay, I'll leave this matter to me." ”

……

The 2nd Garrison Regiment, the 7th Regiment and the 769th Regiment of the 385th Brigade of the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army have launched eight consecutive attacks on the Japanese troops occupying the Shilipu position, and the battle has lasted for more than two hours. Brigade commander Wang Hongkun was very frustrated by this, and he saw through the telescope that the area around Shilipu had become a sea of fire, and the mountains were full of corpses of soldiers of the Eighth Route Army.

Brigadier Wang Hongkun shook off the telescope in his hand suddenly, stood in place with his hands crossed and scolded: "How did the fuck fight this battle? After more than two hours of fighting, he didn't even touch the edge of the enemy's position! ”

Chief of Staff Geng Biao persuaded on the side: "Brigade commander, don't be too angry, after all, we have broken through the first line of fortifications of the devils. The Japanese interpreter of our brigade learned from the documents found on the body of a killed second lieutenant officer that this group of devils belonged to the Fifth Brigade directly under the Fifth Division of the Japanese Army. After investigation, the commander of the fifth brigade was named Ono Hirakawa, and his military rank was army lieutenant. ”

Brigade Commander Wang was stunned when he heard this: "The Fifth Division? ”

"That's right, it's the Fifth Division, this is our old enemy! During the Battle of Xinkou last year, the Fifth Division, under the command of division commander Seishiro Itagaki, successively defeated all the main forces of the Central Army and the Jin Sui Army assembled in the Xinkou area. According to intelligence, this Ono brigade is known as the elite of the main force in the Itagaki Division. At the end of last year, this Ono brigade defeated three regiments of the Central Army in one fell swoop with a force of less than 1,000 men in Nanhuaihua Village. After the war, they also carried out a massacre in Nanhuaihua Village, and more than 1,000 people in Nanhuaihua Village were killed until only about 200 people remained, and they were almost wiped out. Judging from past examples, it is not surprising that this Ono Hirakawa was able to repel eight successive charges launched by our army. ”

Brigade Commander Wang slammed his palm on the table of the open-air command headquarters: "Damn, I don't believe in this evil, he's not a Japanese?" It doesn't matter if he's the trump card in the hands of that old bastard in Itagaki or not, or the pearl of his mother's palm, I have to break him into glass ballast today! Pass my orders, and the troops will stop attacking! Concentrate all the mortars and aim at the enemy positions and give me a damn bang! ”

The artillery battalion directly under the brigade immediately entered the designated position after receiving the order, and the soldiers were adjusting the firing of the artillery as quickly as possible. Then the commander of the artillery battalion waved his arm: "Listen to my order, load the ammunition...... Ready to ——— release! ”

"Boom! Rumble! The artillery positions of the Eighth Route Army opened fire, and dozens of shells of different calibers crossed the sky, outlined into curved arcs, and then fell into the Japanese positions, and the Japanese fortifications instantly fell into a sea of fire............

"Ono Nakasa, the artillery of the Eighth Route Army has launched two rounds of artillery fire on our fortifications, and our army has suffered heavy casualties!" Adjutant Makino rushed to report.

Ono Hirakawa, who was sitting in the open-air headquarters, acted as if nothing was right after hearing this, and still said calmly: "Makino-kun, don't be nervous, this is an opportunity for us. Keep in mind that when you get into the range of your opponent's artillery, your opponent is also in your bombardment range. Pass my order, the artillery squadron concentrated all artillery fire and carried out artillery bombardment on the enemy's first-line fortifications! With all the broken copper and iron in the hands of Tu Balu, you also want to eat my headquarters? Go, Makino-kun! ”

The Japanese artillery quickly responded with a front-line fortification built by the three regiments of the 385th Brigade almost to the ground by the Japanese artillery fire. After three rounds of bombardment, the total number of dead and wounded soldiers of the Eighth Route Army exceeded 300. Brigadier Wang Hongkun visually measured the straight-line distance between the enemy and our army, and it was less than three hundred meters! The distance of 300 meters turned out to be an insurmountable place of death!

Peng Dehuai, deputy commander-in-chief of the Eighth Route Army, called the headquarters of the 385 Brigade, and after asking about the battle situation, Mr. Peng roared angrily on the other side of the microphone: "I don't care if he is the elite of devils, even if this group of devils is the personal guard of the Japanese emperor, you must choke him to death in the acre and three points of land in Shilipu!" I don't care what tactics or methods you use, there is only one way, even if you break your front teeth, you have to bite this bone open for me! Otherwise, I will tear down your black yarn hats with the Political Department! ”

"Yes, mission guaranteed! I promise the head of the headquarters that if I can't gnaw this bone, I'll come and see you! After that, Brigade Commander Wang "snapped" and deducted the phone. After a few rounds at the headquarters, he suddenly asked, "Has the Independent Regiment arrived?" ”

"The Independent Regiment has just entered the front-line position and is building a ring fortification to the north!" The correspondent replied.

Brigade Commander Wang immediately picked up the microphone and shook the rocker behind the phone: "Hey, if you want an independent regiment, I'll find their regiment commander Yang Longfei...... Hey, Yang Longfei? What are you doing when your old cow pulls a broken car ——— grinding and chirping? Why is it only now...... You give me less! I ask you, haven't you been fucking yelling to sing a one-man show? Now the opportunity has come, Lao Tzu has set up the stage for you, and the ticket holders have also invited you to the boy. Let me tell you Yang Longfei, the devil in Shilipu has lost more than half, if this battle is still like last time, Lao Tzu will not just dismantle your kid's stage, Lao Tzu will have to shoot you, do you hear clearly? ”

"Yes, mission guaranteed! But Brigadier Commander, before the battle begins, I have a request! Yang Longfei's reply came from the other side of the microphone.

"Say, as long as you can kill this group of devils, Lao Tzu can give you this hat on his head!"

"Brigade commander, please give Battalion Commander Wu an order, the artillery battalion will be under my command from now on. When the battle is over, I'll return the full amount, this condition is always okay, right? ”

"This one does. But I warn you Yang Longfei, this is all Lao Tzu's belongings, you should be more leisurely when you use it, don't give Lao Tzu a ruthless one as if you don't want money! If you can solve the problem with cannonballs alone, I don't need you kid! If you really want to engage the enemy in close combat and fight it out, you have to do it yourself! Okay, you can do it yourself, I'll hang up! ”

The 1st and 2nd Battalions of the Independent Regiment have also entered the designated area to build fortifications, and the total number of personnel in the regiment is less than 500. In the face of the Japanese ace brigade, which was slightly superior in terms of troops, weapons and equipment, and the quality of soldiers, not only Brigade Commander Wang Hongkun, but even Division Commander Liu Bocheng couldn't help but pinch a cold sweat for Yang Longfei and the Independent Regiment.

Several other brother units responsible for blocking the Japanese army simply looked lively, they wanted to see how Yang Longfei, this kid, dealt with this group of Japanese troops known as the elite of devils!

Yang Longfei walked to the position of the artillery battalion, looked east and west, and said without a word: "What is the effective range of your two Type 92 infantry guns?" ”

The artillery battalion commander Wu Manchu said without thinking about it: "Yo, that's far away, it's more than 2,000 meters......

Yang Longfei nodded as if he understood, and continued to ask: "How about these grenadiers and mortars?" ”

"Then it depends on who you compare it with, if you compare these two with these two ninety-two styles, it's not half a star. If you take the earthen cannon made by our arsenal as an example, this thing is still a little easier. Let's take these grenadiers, the effective firing range is 300 meters, and it is convenient to hold back and forth, which is suitable for close-range shelling. ”

"Okay, that's it. Let your artillerymen bring all the grenadiers here and follow me into the ring fortifications, and if you have a few guns, you will have a few shells, and you won't need any more! Yang Longfei said and jumped into the ring fortification......

The cunning Ono Hirakawa Nakasawan did not expect that at this time, there was a unit of the Eighth Route Army behind him secretly carrying out earthwork work, gradually encroaching on and getting closer to his fortifications. He had already released the latest battle situation to Lieutenant General Yoshio Shinozuka, commander of the Japanese First Army stationed in Jinjin, on the radio: Under the dense fire network organized by our Fifth Brigade, the Tsuchibachi Road, which had launched eight consecutive charges, had not yet come one step closer to our army's position, and the commander of the brigade, Ono Nakasa, was determined to end the battle before dark and completely crush the main force of the Eighth Route at present.

The Japanese headquarters in Taiyuan soon sent a telegram back, asking if the Fifth Brigade needed to send aviation troops to fly over Shilipu to provide air support. Afterwards, Ono Hirakawa politely refused, and the battle situation was in front of him, although the winner was still not decided, but the outcome was already known. Ono Hirakawa even wondered what Lieutenant General Shinozuka was worried about. Now that he is sure of victory, wouldn't it be more than enough to call the aviation support team over? Maybe before they arrived, the battle was over.

Ono Hirakawa, who was stubborn and self-serving, once again pulled out the saber at his waist that he loved as his life, and the blade was engraved with wavy lines on one side, and the blade would glow with a dazzling white light from time to time in the sunlight. He was proficient in positional warfare, and he seemed to have a good understanding of human psychology, and he knew that at this time, not only the headquarters of the First Army stationed in Taiyuan was receiving his telegrams, but it was estimated that the high-level leaders of Tubalu, who surrounded him on all sides, were also trying in vain to steal the telegrams he sent. In this case, it is better for him to push the boat with the current, so that the other party can know his current situation and the next strategic purpose......

Ono Hirakawa Nakazo specially instructed the signal corps to send a telegram in clear code, the content of which read: During the Battle of Xinkou, our Fifth Brigade had successively defeated three regiments of the main force under the command of the Shina government army. This telegram is presented to Lieutenant General Shinozuka of the Headquarters of the First Army stationed in Jin, and the commander of the Fifth Brigade, Ono Hirakawa Nakasa.

As expected, when Commander Shinozuka received this telegram sent through a clear code, the radio stations of the Eighth Route Army Headquarters, the 129th Division, and the 385th Brigade also intercepted the telegram one after another. After reading the content, Deputy Commander-in-Chief Peng Dehuai tore the telegram to shreds at that time, and scolded his mother in anger. If it weren't for the deputy chief of staff Zuo Quan and the commander of the headquarters guard company Tang Wancheng and others desperately stopping them, the boss would have walked away a long time ago.

After reading the telegram, Master Liu Bocheng looked very calm, he squinted his eyes and sneered: "This Ono brigade is inevitably too arrogant, we have killed and injured more than half of them, and you want to do something more?" If you want to eat my division, you still lack a good pair of teeth, right? ”

After reading the telegram, Wang Hongkun, commander of the 385 Brigade, was even more angry; he threw the telegram in his hand casually, and paced back and forth in the command post with his hands on his hips, without saying a word. Chief of Staff Geng Biao could see at a glance that the brigade commander was not angry at the blatant provocation of the little devil, he was anxious that the independent regiment had not moved so far!

Suddenly, a rush of phone calls suddenly remembered, and Brigade Commander Wang subconsciously rushed to the table and picked up the microphone......