The battle was still in full swing, the guns rumbled like thunder, shattering the sky, and the fierce scene was clearly visible under the observation of the telescope: the vanguard of the Eighth Route Army poured like a tide towards the fortifications of the 3rd Brigade of the Imperial Army, and launched a fierce attack on its carefully constructed shelters, foxholes, and fire support points. Less than 20 minutes have passed since the battle began, but the blockade of the 3rd Brigade has been torn through several openings, and more than 1,000 soldiers of the brigade have been beaten to the point where they are powerless, and the first encirclement is about to be broken by the Eighth Route Army......

Major General Cai Xiongfei, commander of the first detachment of the Imperial Cooperative Army, shook the telescope in his hand aside, and scolded dryly: "Damn, are these eight roads crazy or are they in a hurry to reincarnate?" Lao Tzu's two machine guns swung there, and even the mosquitoes were enough to dodge, and they dared to rush into Lao Tzu's hinterland so desperately, isn't this looking for death? ”

Chief of Staff Guo Yuanren sighed and said: "I don't think it's that simple, don't you see these dirty people?" There are a total of three troops on the periphery of the first encirclement, of which the Japanese are guarding both flanks, and only this southeast part is our team. If he really didn't want to die, why did he break through from our direction, doesn't this make it clear that bullying us is not as strong as the Japanese? ”

Cai Xiongfei snorted and punched in mid-air, bared his teeth and roared viciously: "Grandma's, you can't just let them go!" Pass the order down, let the artillery battalion, aim at the enemy's center of gravity and hit me hard! Lao Tzu doesn't believe in this evil, this gang of Tubalu is also a mother's flesh and blood, and it is not a copper-headed iron arm, I want to see, those parts on their bodies can withstand my cannons? Call me! ”

"Isn't it thinking about it? Now that the forces of the enemy and ours are completely intertwined, although there is no close contact, the distance between the two sides is too close, and if the forward positions are shelled, I am afraid that our soldiers will also suffer together. This kind of fighting method of killing 1,000 enemies and inflicting 800 self-losses is really a bit unacceptable, and if it spreads, I am afraid that it will make the brothers below chill ......," Guo Yuanren, the chief of staff, suggested.

"So what do you say?" Cai Xiongfei asked anxiously.

"If you want me to say, we'll get it when we see it. Anyway, there are still three encirclements waiting for them on the periphery, and we can do our part. If all the troops of our detachment are exhausted, who will handle the security problems in this place in the future? The Japanese know this in their hearts, we are a monk for a day, and we are not really working hard for his little devil. Besides, if they have a feud with Balu this time, what can they do if they want to settle accounts with us in the future? As the saying goes, 'Hades is easy to see, but the little ghost is difficult', he is not only the current power, he has a lot of heaven and sea, we have to leave a way back for ourselves, right? If you can't do anything too much, you will have the meaning! ”

"You mean to open the way and let the eight roads pass?"

"Hey, why do you still need us to speak? Don't you see? The fortifications on the east side alone have been torn apart by the Eighth Route for three or four openings, and it looks like this is going straight to the direction of Matian, and now it's too late for us to gather troops, and the Eighth Route will not give us this opportunity at all, so it's good if I can ensure that the system is intact. We have the right to be a favor, even if we want to eliminate this gang of eight roads, we have to let the Japanese carry this pot, we have more than one thing is better than one less. ”

"Forget it, just do as you say. You're right, we can't afford to provoke and hide, even if he wants to take revenge in the future, it won't be on Lao Tzu's head. Anyway, I haven't settled accounts with them yet, why did they put a basin on my head? Well, that's it, pass on my orders......" Cai Xiongfei muttered a little unwillingly.

Before the words fell, a puppet soldier ran to Cai Xiongfei and Guo Yuanren in a puff of smoke, saluted with a document in his left hand and saluted with his right hand, and reported: "Report to the chief, this is an urgent telegram sent by Commander Yansong!" ”

Cai Xiongfei and Guo Yuanren looked at each other and asked, "What did it say?" ”

"General Yoshio Iwamatsu, commander of the First Army stationed in Jin, sent an order: Major General Cai Xiongfei, commander of the first detachment of the Imperial Allied Army, told the Third Brigade under his command as soon as possible, ordered it to disperse in the direction of the two wings, let the main force of the army break through in formation, and immediately block the original road after the other side entered the second encirclement, and cooperate with the 4th Brigade to accelerate the encirclement and suppression of the Chinese army. This is the highest telegram issued by the forward command of the First Army stationed in Jin, and all departments of the Imperial Allied Army must strictly abide by the order, and those who violate it will be severely punished! ”

Guo Yuanren smiled bitterly: "It seems that he Iwamatsu Yoshio is also a smart person, so he wants to go with us." Brother Cai, in this way, we can avoid a head-on confrontation with the Eighth Road, and we don't have to take the responsibility of disobedience, which is also a good thing. ”

Cai Xiongfei couldn't laugh, but had a stern face: "I'm afraid it's not that simple, haven't you heard?" The forward command means that we will block the other party's retreat as soon as the main force of the Eighth Route breaks through, and then cooperate with the 4th Brigade to encircle and suppress it, what the hell is the difference between this and letting us do it ourselves? In the end, this account has to be calculated on Lao Tzu's head! ”

"Well, that's a bad word. Brother Cai, what do you think, the Japanese only said that they would let us cooperate with them to participate in the encirclement and suppression, and did not make specific requirements for the operational deployment and results. His forward command just wants us to do what we are told, and who the knows if the Eighth Route will be able to break out of our encirclement? In my opinion, we still follow the old rules, surround the connection points, and if the eight roads want to pass from our territory, then we will fight, and if we can beat it, we will not talk about it. If they don't come from our territory, then we will watch the fire and watch the excitement from the other side, anyway, this telegram does not clearly point out, saying that we want to kill the eight roads in the encirclement. When the Japanese want to ask, let's use this word to tell him, I think he and the Japanese don't dare to take us for this little thing, otherwise he won't want to have peace in the whole Shanxi for a day! ”

"Yes, that's it! No matter how I say it, Lao Tzu still has a sign of 'Provincial Public Security Director', forgive him, and the Japanese don't dare to do anything to me. If you push Lao Tzu into a hurry, it will be the opposite of his mother! Seriously, Lao Tzu has already worn enough of this skin...... Banner soldiers, flag soldiers, come over to me! What kind of god are you stunned about? Asleep? Something that I can't see...... Quickly, notify the troops under the mountain, let them open the way for the Eighth Road, and let them pass. If you want to defend like this again, Lao Tzu's little strength must be exhausted! ”

By the time the puppet army troops received the order and gradually began to disperse in the direction of the two flanks, the special service company of the independent regiment had already smashed the opponent's defense line to pieces, and the formation of the defenders' squads was almost disabled. At the same time, the casualties of the special service company also reached two-thirds, company commander Shen Jianmin and instructor Wang Gensheng were killed one after another, and Xie Dacheng, the commander of the first battalion in charge of commanding the commando team, was also shot in the leg and fell to the ground in confusion. The second echelon led by Yang Longfei immediately went up, and the first battalion and three companies and the second battalion and one company in charge of the two flanks also quickly joined forces with the second echelon, reorganized their firepower and charged outward.

Yang Longfei inserted his own gun into his waist during the run, and carried Xie Dacheng, who had collapsed to the ground, on his shoulders as quickly as possible, and roared and ordered the soldiers not to fall behind while rushing forward, and to continue to break through in accordance with the pre-determined direction.

Xie Dacheng beat his head uncompetitively, sobbing and pleading: "Commander, you leave me alone, put me down, leave me one*, you lead the team to break out, don't let me drag the brothers down......"

"Shut up Lao Tzu, you kid is a man, don't fucking have tears and snot. When Lao Tzu was injured, you rushed to carry Lao Tzu out one by one, and the same thing was done on Lao Tzu! Where is this? Let me tell you, such days will last for a long time, as long as I still have a breath of life, I will never leave a ......brother behind," Yang Longfei shouted.

As soon as the second echelon broke out of the first encirclement, the fighters in charge of forward reconnaissance turned around and ran back: "Report to the regiment commander, there is an opening in front that has been blocked, it is a sandbag fortification of the devils, and there is a heavy machine gun on it......"

Yang Longfei roared and said: "Second company commander, go, give you ten minutes, take a few soldiers to kill the devil's heavy machine gun, tear the hole open, quickly!" ”

After the second company commander Jiang Zhixing received the order, he rushed over with the soldiers of the company's sharp knife squad in the direction of the opening...... After arriving at the target location, it was realized that this was a three-pronged crossing, with mounds of earth on both sides, like a connecting point of a circular fortification. The Japanese troops stationed here had chosen this location as the best blocking fortification, and this junction was definitely a must for the Eighth Route Army troops breaking through from both flanks. Therefore, it was enough to set up a Type 92 heavy machine gun here to block the passing Eighth Route Army......

Jiang Zhixing first planned to knock out the opponent's machine gun position with *, but to no avail, because their current position was fifty meters away from the Japanese machine gun position, and if they wanted to aim and throw their fortifications, they had to expose themselves to the opponent's firing line. In this way, the fighters may have been beaten into a sieve by the devil's machine gun before they could throw the * out. For the throw* alone, the Sharp Knife squad has already sacrificed two fighters.

"Li Baoqing, bring the * bag to Lao Tzu and ......bring it" Jiang Zhixing inserted the weapon into the holster, stretched out his hand back while revealing half of his head, and looked intently at the enemy position opposite while shouting the name of the squad leader of the sharp knife squad.

Squad leader Li Baoqing said and snatched a * bag from the hands of the soldiers next to him, and roared in a low voice, "Company commander, I'll go to ......," and then rushed out of the fortifications in front of company commander Jiang Zhixing. I saw Li Baoqing carrying a * bag and slamming left and right, moving sensitively to avoid the attack of bullets. But the gun had no eyes, and before he could rush out ten meters away, the whole person was hit by the Japanese machine gun, and the whole person convulsed in the rain of bullets for a few seconds before suddenly falling to the ground.

"Squad leader———" The tears of the soldiers flowed down the ground, and they rushed out of the fortifications one after another to block the enemy's bullets with their flesh and blood, and the soldiers behind also recaptured the blood-stained * bag with lightning speed, and stood up again to prepare to charge, and the soldiers of the sharp knife squad fell one after another. Before the last three soldiers fell, the company commander Jiang Zhixing also rushed out of the fortifications with a roar, grabbed the "surviving" bag first, and crawled forward on the ground: fifteen meters, ten meters, seven meters, five meters, three meters...... Jiang Zhixing made a final sprint against the enemy's gun, and while the heavy machine gun bullets pierced his chest and back, Jiang Zhixing used his last force to pull the fuse of the * bag violently...... I could only hear a "boom" explosion, and Jiang Zhixing's body, along with the Japanese soldiers in the fortifications and the heavy machine gun, turned into a wisp of green smoke and disappeared into the air......

It's just a sandbag fortification, and it just reimburses the life of a soldier in the top squad! Yang Longfei's mood suddenly became extremely heavy, in the charge just now, almost all of the more than 100 people in the special service company directly under the regiment were killed, and then this machine gun fortification guarded by only three Japanese soldiers was destroyed by the flesh and blood of a squad and a company commander...... Yang Longfei gritted his teeth and said, damn it, this time it's really evil, Lao Tzu has never suffered such a big loss in his eight lives, not to mention that it is still planted in the hands of the puppet army's miscellaneous troops and three Japanese soldiers!

Wave after wave of unsettled, wave after wave, the troops had just rushed out of the enemy's first encirclement, and before they could catch their breath, a fierce attack from the second encirclement followed. The Japanese tanks and armored vehicles were rampant across the vast plains, as if they were in a no-man's land. In the blink of an eye, half of Chen Jiayu fell into a sea of fire, and Yang Longfei saw that there was no hope of breaking through head-on, so he had to temporarily change the direction of the breakthrough and take the waterway detour to move closer to Matian Town. To be honest, this battle undoubtedly rekindled the passion that had been buried in Yang Longfei's heart for a long time. I have to admit that since the end of the Battle of Songhu and the Battle of Nanjing, Yang Longfei himself has never encountered such a sinister situation, and even the Battle of Shilipu and the Battle of Yuxian during the Battle of the Hundred Regiments did not make him feel so much pressure and excitement. He didn't have time to think about it, the vanguard of the Japanese army was pressing forward step by step, and the puppet army behind was also putting pressure on him layer by layer, and the situation was so serious that he couldn't give him time to think about it. What he can do now is to break the original direction of the breakout, organize the troops to divert to the territory of Nanaipu in Shexian County, and then make arrangements.

When the soldiers of the second echelon arrived at the ferry, they found that the bridge that had been erected in the middle of the ferry had been completely blown up by Japanese shells, and the current bridge was nothing more than a few broken logs. Before the battle began, Yang Longfei had sent a reconnaissance company here to calculate the depth of the river, and the deepest position was about one meter six high, and most of the soldiers would not go down to their necks at most. The other side is only a little more than 100 meters away, and you can cross it with more effort.

Political commissar Liu Ping stood on the edge of the ferry and shouted to direct the soldiers to go down the river, but found that the soldiers of the Mafuban did not move. He anxiously rushed to Ge Laoliu, the leader of the horseman class, and asked, "What's the matter?" Didn't hear the order? Why not transition the mouth! ”

Squad leader Ge pointed to the two Mongolian horses behind him and shouted: "Political commissar, it's not that I don't obey the order, it's that these two horses have been refusing to go down, I just chased it a few times, but these two beasts' hooves didn't touch the water and fell back, I can't help it......"

"What do you mean you can't help it? If you don't move, you will whip it, and if you don't move, you will kill these two horses for me, and you must not delay the march of the large army in any way, so carry out the order! Liu Ping roared angrily.

When Squad Leader Ge heard this, he was immediately frightened, and he hurriedly protected the two horses and dissuaded: "Don't you dare, political commissar, these are the two favorite horses of the regiment commander, before leaving, the regiment commander specially instructed me not to leave them behind, let alone shoot them!" No, no, if you kill them, the regimental commander will have to skin me! ”

"Bullshit, what a fucking bullshit order! Is it important for two broken horses to have the safety of the headquarters organs? You don't do it, do you? Get out of the way for me......" Liu Ping exploded as soon as he heard this, he pushed Ge Laoliu aside with his left hand, and quickly pulled out the matching gun from the holster with his right hand, and pulled the trigger without aiming......

Just listen to the "Horn!" Trumpet! After two shots, the two sturdy Mongolian horses fell to the ground abruptly in a burst of neighing, and the sound of the guns also alarmed Yang Longfei, who was organizing soldiers to cross the river on the other side. He couldn't help but be furious when he saw this, he rushed to the scene as if he had gone crazy through the crowd, and looked at the two Mongolian horses that had collapsed to the ground, each with a bloody hole in their abdomen, and they looked like they were dying, and it seemed that they would definitely not survive.

Yang Longfei's temples burst with green tendons, his upper and lower teeth creaked, and the unhappiness and anger suppressed in his heart were suddenly released, straight to the top of his head. As he spoke, he took out a shell gun from the holster, strangled Liu Ping's collar with his left hand, and put the gun against the opponent's chest with his right hand, and scolded dryly: "Damn, who let you shoot?" When you have a meeting, you can endure Lao Tzu when you do something with Lao Tzu, and you still dare to fucking kill Lao Tzu's horse! , Lao Tzu...... I'm crashing you! ”

At this critical moment, a familiar roar came into Yang Longfei's ears: "Yang Longfei! ”

Yang Longfei tilted his head to one side, that person was none other than the brigade commander Chen Xilian. Looking at Brigade Commander Chen on horseback, with the posture of being a good man, he was even more angry. Yang Longfei doesn't care about these now, he only feels that there is a nameless fire "rubbing" up at this moment, if he can't extinguish this fire, let alone the brigade commander, even if the division commander comes, he will not be used, he must suffocate to death!

"Brigade commander, you can also see, it's not my fault, it's this dog day who killed my horse, I have to ask him for an explanation today! If it is clear, it will be me who will fall under his gun in the future, you don't care about this today, I have to collapse him today......"

"You dare! I see you dare to shoot and try? Fuck, I can't take care of you, can I? It's a good thing.,Still play with me at first? What do you kid want to rebel against? Still pulling out a gun, what do you want to do? Put down the gun to Lao Tzu and let go of your hand! If you dare to come nonsense again, I will remove you from your post! ”

Yang Longfei hatefully moved the muzzle of the gun, and while letting go of Liu Ping's collar, he also pushed the other party vigorously, already venting his anger.

Chen Xilian's tone softened a little: "Liu Ping, go back to your seat, you know what to do, let's go......"

Liu Ping saluted Chen Xilian with a military salute, then looked back at Yang Longfei with a strange look and ran away.

Yang Longfei stared at the direction Liu Ping left, panting in his mouth, like a hungry wolf. He muttered in his heart: If the brigade commander hadn't been involved in this matter, Lao Tzu would have tore this kid surnamed Liu apart today......

Chen Xilian looked at Yang Longfei angrily and scolded: "Look at your kid's virtue, like a commander?" Less than an hour into the fight, you're fucking playing the same old tune again, aren't you? I warn you Yang Longfei, don't blame me for not reminding you, think about what the boss said at the meeting yesterday? If this person trips on a stone three times, then there is no such thing as self-control, that is, there is something wrong with his brain, and he does not have a long memory! The big war is coming, for the sake of the overall situation, I have the right to revoke your main attack mission at any time, and when the time comes, don't fucking bargain with what I have! That's what I said, think about it yourself......" After speaking, Brigade Commander Chen drove his horse to the ferry in front of him.

Looking at the back of the brigade commander who was gradually moving away, Yang Longfei slammed his hat on the ground, and at this moment, grievances and resentment filled almost his entire body. He said in his heart: Damn, these two people came out of the Red Army troops, they are really eccentric......

Ge Lao Liu picked up the hat from the ground, carefully handed it to Yang Longfei, and said softly with relief: "Commander, you extinguish the fire, it's not worth it to be angry about this matter." ”

Yang Longfei snatched the hat from Ge Laoliu's hand, clenched it fiercely in the palm of his hand, and his grip was deformed. He scolded without looking back: "Get out! Then he walked away with a grunt.

After going ashore, the soldiers took off their military uniforms and wrung water, and at the same time, they began to talk about the increasingly bad relationship between the regiment commander Yang Longfei and the political commissar Liu Ping......

"Well, I said you all saw it just now? The political commissar killed the horse of our regiment leader. Hey, I said in my heart, what kind of horses did you say he killed, not those two? That's almost the meat of the leader's heart. Now you guys are okay, our independent group will have a good show in the future......"

"I said too, our head of the regiment is tempered enough, right? I didn't expect this commissar to be a fuel-efficient lamp either. Even the former political commissar Xiao didn't dare to confront Mai Mang with our head of the regiment, this political commissar Liu is good, he only dared to smash our head like this after only a year of our independent regiment, I look at the fight between the two of them in the future......"

"Hey, what's so strange about that? Since ancient times, who has a little ability, which one is good-tempered? Besides, our political commissar Liu was born in the old Red Army, and I heard that he was already the division commander of the Red Fourth Front Army before the Long March. This time he deigned to be the political commissar of our independent regiment, and his heart was naturally unbalanced, who would he do if he didn't take the head of the regiment to spread fire? ”

The conversation between the soldiers reached the ears of Qian Liyuan, the commander of the second battalion, and he was busy muttering to Cao Guang, the commander of the third battalion who was walking aside: "I said, it seems that our regiment commander is a pleat this time, and he is used to saying the same, but when he met such a living prince, he came up and slaughtered the two horses, and I saw that the regiment commander would be angry in the future......"

"I think it's the same, one is the regiment commander and the other is the political commissar, we as battalion commanders don't have much to say, we can't offend anyone. But don't say it, I kind of admire this political commissar Liu. What do you think, since the establishment of the Independent Regiment, except for the brigade commander and division commander, who dares to do this to our regiment commander? Even those cadres at the same level scolded each other and played with each other, and no one was serious. It's good that our political commissar has only been here for a long time before he dares to argue with the regiment commander, and there is a brigade commander on the side to support him, and you don't say anything on the south wall, and you have to suffer obediently. Our political commissar, there is a kind of ......" Cao Guang shook his head and smiled bitterly.

……

At noon, the troops finally entered the territory of Nan Aipu. The headquarters organs that successfully broke through the first blockade line immediately looked for open space to set up antennas, and activated radio stations to liaise with other organs, departments, and combat units. Who would have thought that before they could get in touch with the troops below, the band emitted by the radio was captured by the Japanese army's telecommunications interception department. When the Japanese intelligence department immediately reported the news to Iwamatsu Yoshio, he only said one sentence: The band that had been the focus of the telecommunications intelligence office stationed in Taiyuan appeared in an area called a remote town in Shexian County, Hebei Province......

It wasn't until about half past eight in the evening that the band that was identified as the radio sent by the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army finally sat in the exact direction, and it was in Nanaipu Village, in the northwest direction of the town!

Yoshio Iwamatsu was in the open-air command room, looking at the map with a telescope in hand, searching for the strange place name of Minami Aipu Village. I have to say that this place is so small that there is not even a sesame seed size on the entire map, so that Iwamatsu Yoshio wasted a lot of energy, and it was not until he felt that his eyes were tired that he was able to explore this area called Minami Aipu Village.

From the map, the area is connected with Liao County, Shanxi, belongs to the eastern foot of Taihang Mountain, and is at the junction of Shanxi, Hebei and Henan provinces. Looking closer, this place is close to the cross ridge area of Matian Town, Liao County. Although it bears the name of the village, it belongs to the real deep mountainous area, which is more than 20 kilometers deep, and is still surrounded by mountains. The eastern part is bounded by Lao Ye Mountain, Eastern Suburb Mountain, and Gu Brain; It is connected to Wu'an in the north; It is adjacent to Ci County to the south; The west side is connected with Dazhai Yuan, Huangqi Yuan, and Huanghua Mountain. It is no wonder that the Eighth Route chose this place as a temporary headquarters, and as soon as the situation changed, they could immediately dive deep into the mountains, give full play to their advantages in the surrounding dense forests, and engage in tug-of-war and so-called guerrilla warfare with the encirclement and suppression forces of the First Army.

With a hideous smile on his face, Iwamatsu took off his glasses and slowly wiped the lenses with a flannel cloth while puffing through his mouth. He was thinking in his heart: the deputy commander-in-chief of the Eighth Route Army, who was known for his bravery, would never have thought that although his soldiers were good at hiding in the mountains and forests to fight guerrillas, the warriors of the imperial army were not vegetarians. Don't forget, 70% of Japan's land area is covered by mountains. Long before the Sino-Japanese War began, most of the young soldiers recruited from the Japanese mainland were already "experts" who had undergone training in mountain warfare, and all of them were well-trained, good at climbing and surviving in the wilderness. If the soldiers were told that the temporary headquarters of the Eighth Route Army Headquarters was in the area of Nanaipu Village in Shexian County, one could imagine how much passion those bloodthirsty soldiers would have burst out at this time to resolutely overload the encirclement and suppression of the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army!

"Pass my order, the 4th and 8th brigades will turn around and move closer in the direction of Shexian, and the 14th brigade will make a detour to the southeast of Shexian, so that they can't take care of each other, and they must trap the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army in the middle, and they must not let go of a single soldier of the other party!"

The herald cautiously asked, "Your Excellency, can you give an accurate figure how far the headquarters needs the 4th, 8th, and 14th brigades to advance?" So that the three brigade commanders were informed. ”

"There is no specific number, the three brigade commanders can compress the encirclement according to their own wishes, and move forward with their own military strength, and it is best to compress the Eighth Route Army into the size of a piece of iron. I think the firepower of three full brigades is enough to wipe the entire county off the map......" Iwamatsu Yoshio said meaningfully.

Uenomura, commander of the 4th Brigade of the Japanese Army, was conveying the orders of the headquarters to his subordinates, and at the same time added an additional operational policy formulated by himself: The vanguard of the 4th Brigade and regiment, from officers to soldiers, all took off their leather shoes and boots, changed into cloth shoes suitable for mountaineering, went into the mountains overnight to search, and immediately surrounded the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army as soon as they found traces. The six full-fledged brigades under the jurisdiction of the brigade were successively deployed in a "combing" formation, and if the Eighth Route broke through from which brigade's defense line, the responsible person should cut his own stomach and cut himself to thank the emperor.

At the same time, the 8th and 14th Brigades of the Japanese Army also successively carried out strategic encirclement in the direction of the town, and planned to eat all the troops of the Eighth Route Army stationed in the area of Nanaipu Village in one hour. The intention of the Japanese army this time was very obvious, aiming to concentrate forces to completely destroy the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army, which was a matter of lice on the bald head——— so obvious that most of the main forces under the jurisdiction of the Eighth Route Army had become fish that had slipped through the net and broken through the enemy's outer defense line in turn before dark, and had long since disappeared.

The Independence Regiment was temporarily stationed in a long-lost manor called Stone Kiln Village, and in order to prevent the enemy from discovering their traces, there was no fire in the village, and the soldiers who had been fighting for nearly a day were already exhausted. The exhausted warriors didn't care about comfort or discomfort at this time, and sat on the ground in pairs, leaning against each other and falling asleep for a short time......

The vast night sky is filled with billowing wolf smoke, and no one knows what kind of danger tomorrow will encounter, even if they can see the sun tomorrow morning. The warriors had long since forgotten themselves and their identities at this time, and they just wanted to enjoy the taste of life when they were on the verge of death......

Yang Longfei sat quietly on a grinding plate in the courtyard and smoked a cigarette, coughed violently without taking a few puffs, and spit out a few mouthfuls of black phlegm, it is estimated that it was the cannon fodder that was inhaled into his throat when he commanded the battle in the morning, and now it turned into pus and phlegm and returned to himself, what his grandmother's bad luck! Then he thought of what had happened at noon at the ferry, and his heart was filled with fire. Damn, what a good two horses, that's Lao Tzu's baby, and he was beaten to death by that bullshit political commissar surnamed Liu, and the brigade commander still talked to the dog, what the hell is this...... Thinking of this, Yang Longfei couldn't help but be angry, he shook off the cigarette butt that was only half-smoked, and there was a commotion in his mind, at this moment he really wanted to roll up his sleeves and find someone to fight, and relieve the anger in his heart. He said in his heart: Damn, Lao Tzu has been a military commander for so many years, from the National Army to the Eighth Route Army, and he has never been bullied like this, and when he has time in the future, Lao Tzu will settle accounts with Liu Ping's rabbit cub, Lao Tzu's horse can't die in vain......

Xie Dacheng limped to Yang Longfei with a wooden stick, and said with a bowl of water in his hand: "Commander, you are tired for a day, smoke less, drink saliva and ...... slowly"

"Take it away, Lao Tzu doesn't drink. I said you kid, don't pout your eyes and look at the sky——— you have no beads, don't you see that Lao Tzu is annoying? I said ugly things in front, don't look for scolding on Lao Tzu's fire, and when the time comes, when Lao Tzu's dirty words come out, don't blame me for not reminding you......"

Xie Dacheng's way of speaking to Yang Longfei has long been commonplace, if an ordinary soldier dared to talk to him like this, he would have already fanned his big mouth, but if the regiment commander wanted to say his words like this, he was not only angry, but also had a sense of accomplishment. Xie Dacheng put the bowl of water in his hand on the grinding plate, and he sat on the side and talked to Yang Longfei with his back to each other.

"Regiment Commander, don't be too serious, our political commissar has this temper, from the first day you two met, didn't the deputy head of the regiment talk to you through the bottom? People have always been military commanders before, and this is the first time that they have been assigned to our independent regiment to do political work, and it is normal to be easy to get angry. What the political commissar did this time was a bit too much, so don't be like him. Partner, since they are separated together, they naturally inevitably rub together, and their teeth and tongue must not often touch twice? You should be a good person, and you should be a good person, and you should be accumulating virtue and doing good! ”

"Fart, Lao Tzu is not a monk who has a relationship, why do you just want Lao Tzu and me to accumulate virtue and do good? What's the wrong with me? You say, Lao Tzu's two horses are usually like that, and Lao Tzu is hotter when he sees them than when he sees a beauty. That kid is good, without saying a word, Lao Tzu's two horses collapsed, what a good horse, Lao Tzu has only encountered such a time in a few lifetimes, he will fucking kill me! Grandma's, what about his mother's poor background, just such a bad thing? It's a loser......" Yang Longfei shouted excitedly.

"It's not me saying, Captain, you have to change your temper. I'm not saying you have a bad temper, I mean that, if it were before, no matter what you do, no one in the whole group would dare to say anything. But now it's different. I can see that the higher-ups sent this political commissar over a little bit of 'calling the big girl in the middle of the night', and the person who came was not good. You said that with your quick temper, can you have a good time bumping into the straight nature of this political commissar Liu? It's nothing now, you two are just unforgiving, if you really fight one day, it's a lose-lose situation. I inquired, this Liu political commissar was assigned to the regimental headquarters reconnaissance platoon when he was a soldier, and later he was assigned to the chief as a guard, not to mention what kind of martial arts master, but the most basic grappling skills are still in hand, and you are also a chess opponent, half a catty and eight taels, if you really pinch it up one day, I don't think anyone can fall well. ”

"Just him? Let's talk nonsense. At most, it is a little more than Lao Tzu and me, if you want to say that his feet are neat, I believe it, if you want to talk about fists and feet, plus a helper, he is not Lao Tzu's opponent. Hey, you think that's all you know? Lao Tzu, I have already looked through this kid's resume, this kid didn't fight a few battles at all when he was in the Red Army, and after the Long March, he was transferred to the Liaison Bureau to do underground work. That is, I have participated in the anti-encirclement and suppression of the Soviet area several times, can the formation be compared with the defense of Luodian? Look at his old hat, the soil is all scum, it is estimated that when his mother was herding cattle for the landlord, he let the cow's hooves kick his head stupidly. And captured? The three-legged cat kung fu is about the same, and the dog meat can't be served on the table. ”

As Yang Longfei was talking, Duan Tiezhu, commander of the fourth company of the third battalion, and Zhu Yonghe, commander of the fifth company, who were in charge of the security work of the division hospital, also rushed from the entrance of the village to report their tasks. Yang Longfei looked at the clothes of the two, and could only describe them in two words: dusty and ragged, I don't know where I thought the two called Hanako came from. Especially the fifth company commander Zhu Yonghe, Yang Longfei deliberately looked at his arm and paused for a few seconds, the blood soaked in the cuffs of this kid trickled down like a stream, it seemed that his arm was seriously injured.

Duan Tiezhu "snapped" and said: "Regiment commander, according to your instructions, the fourth and fifth companies of the third battalion have successfully escorted the field hospital to transfer, and arranged for them to rest in Hubeizhuang, which is about ten kilometers southwest of Shiyao Village. The commander of the fifth company and I have come to ask for instructions, I wonder if the regiment commander will issue a new combat mission? ”

"Have the comrades of the General and Branch Hospitals been transferred? What about casualties? Yang Longfei asked.

"Yes, it's all transferred. President Lu of the General Hospital, President Gao of the Branch Hospital, and the Political Department of the Hospital are currently resting in Hubeizhuang, and the casualties are ...... The casualties are good, and the system is basically intact. Company Commander Duan and Company Commander Fifth Company Commander Zhu Yonghe said after looking at each other.

Yang Longfei tilted his head, as if he had seen that the other party was lying, and simply asked straight to the point: "The establishment is basically complete?" I don't think so, do I? You look like you two have just been dug out of a coal pile, and your clothes are all in tatters, so it can't be a bullet, right? What's wrong? You two have only been company commanders for a few days, and you have learned to be Menglaozi? Dare to love Lao Tzu for so many years of fighting in vain? I tell you, since you two appeared in front of me, I knew that this casualty would be small! Honestly, how many casualties exactly? If you don't tell the truth, see if I don't beat you two bunnies! ”

When Duan Tiezhu heard this, he suddenly cried "wow", and he sobbed while wiping his tears with his sleeve: "Commander, it's not that we mean to hide it from you, it's that we really can't say it, and we don't have the face to see you...... Although the order of our fourth company's assault this time was the last in the whole regiment, our loss of troops was no less than that of the assault team. The devils chased after them so closely this time that their shells were like eyes on them, and they continued to carry out extended bombardment along our retreating route, and within an hour of the battle, our fourth company suffered nearly one-third casualties. The enemy is like crazy, once bitten it, they will not let go, and this time the main task is to escort the transfer of the division hospital, they carry too many medicines and luggage, and the carriage is not enough to pull and have to rely on manpower, we really have no choice but to slow down the march. In the end, there was an encounter with a group of puppet soldiers in Zhangjiayu, and after a while of the battle, the devil's plane came again. We were less than 50 meters away from the puppet army's position, but the devil's plane ignored it, and it was a wanton and indiscriminate bombardment according to the depth of the enemy and us, and we had no time to react at all...... Commander, what's going on this time? I've been fighting with devils for so many years, and I've never suffered such a big loss, I regret it to death! ”

Yang Longfei shouted impatiently: "If you don't give me the opportunity to die and live here, I'll ask you a question, how many people are left in your fourth company now?" ”

"Counting the three seriously wounded, there are still eight people left...... "Company Commander Duan said tremblingly.

Yang Longfei suppressed his bad mood as much as possible, gritted his teeth and shifted his gaze to Zhu Yonghe, the commander of the fifth company, and raised his chin at the other party and asked, "How are the casualties of your company?" ”

"Commander, our situation is not too optimistic......

"You don't bite the words with me, just say the result, good is good, bad is bad, I don't have time to listen to you complain!" Yang Longfei interrupted sharply.

"More than two-thirds of the combat personnel were reduced, the three platoon commanders under my command were all killed, Instructor Li was also seriously wounded, and we only have about a dozen soldiers who are still capable of fighting...... Zhu Yonghe lowered his head and muttered. Yang Longfei closed his eyes with difficulty, meditating painfully, he couldn't wait to rush to the Hades Hall right now to snatch back all the soldiers who had died under him. He secretly complained in his heart: My God, what kind of fucking battle is this fighting? Even the two companies in charge of guarding the hospital were almost exhausted by the enemy, and less than twenty of the more than 200 soldiers came back in the end, which was more than the estimated number of casualties before the battle! What the is this fighting?

Yang Longfei opened his eyes, the whites of his eyes were bloodshot, he sat down on the grinding plate and said to himself: "Well, the strength of the two companies, there is less than one platoon left in the end, if the battle is delayed for a few minutes, I'm afraid I won't need to withdraw your formation, you will give an explanation yourself." Now that the battle is over, there's no point in letting you do whatever you normally would. You know me, I don't like to play false, and I want to ask you a question while the political commissar is not there, the casualties of your two companies are so serious, why did you just ask me if I have a new combat mission? I want to know what's going on in your hearts, can you tell me about it? ”

Duan Tiezhu said in a low voice: "I...... I think that if I can give up my life in the future mission, I will be worthy of those sacrificed brothers, and I will be worthy of you, the head of the regiment......"

Yang Longfei then looked at Zhu Yonghe and asked, "You think so too?" ”

Zhu Yonghe turned his head and looked at Duan Tiezhu, who was still sobbing on the side, and nodded slowly: "Regiment leader, you can punish us, no matter how big the crime is, even if you really want to withdraw our number, you don't say anything." I have one request, if there is a combat mission, please give priority to our company, let us fight with the dog! Desperate for this life, I will go to the underworld to make amends to the brothers, they are all my soldiers! ”