After Zhang Shan caught up with Yang Longfei, he asked: "Regiment commander, there seems to be a bit of a problem with our current march route, I just looked at the map on this road, it is a straight road, and the two wings are not crossed, and it deviates from the route agreed with the political commissar before by a full seventy degrees, we should be on the wrong path." ”

"That's right, I deliberately led the team on this path." Yang Longfei replied expressionlessly.

"What is the reason?" Zhang Shan asked eagerly.

"The reason is very simple, the road under our feet is the closest of all the routes that can directly lead to the west of Hushou Mountain."

"Hushou Mountain? Regiment commander, are you going to lead the team to support the 2nd Battalion? Zhang Shan suddenly realized.

"What? Isn't it okay? Could it be that this kind of thing still needs to be asked for instructions from your deputy head Zhang? Yang Longfei asked with a sneer.

"I didn't mean that, regiment commander, I just want to say that we just went to reinforce the second battalion so quietly, the political commissar is still in the dark, once there is an emergency, I am afraid we will not be able to explain to the political commissar...... Zhang Shan muttered in a low voice.

"Don't worry about this, no matter what happens, the responsibility is borne by me Yang Longfei alone, and it has nothing to do with others...... Lao Zhang, if I'm not mistaken, it must have been nearly seven years since you reported to the Independent Regiment, right? Yang Longfei changed the subject.

"No, it's been more than six years, but at that time, the troops were still in the battle sequence of the Central Army, and the official number of our regiment was the 25th Regiment of the 67th Division of the 18th Army of the National Revolutionary Army, and you were the regiment commander when I first arrived in the regiment."

Yang Longfei was happy: "The door is clear." I know that your Lao Zhang came to our regiment to carry out special tasks at that time, and I heard that you had already become a deputy division commander when you were in the Red Army, if it weren't for the Central Liaison Bureau to temporarily transfer you from the combat unit to engage in intelligence work, I estimate that before the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, you would have been able to become a division commander. After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, the troops were unified and reorganized, and the original team began to be reduced downward, and many division commanders and deputy division commanders of the year have become the current brigade commanders, detachment commanders, and military division commanders. At the age of fifteen or sixteen, the red imp who dared to pick up the flat shoulder to participate in the revolution in the team is not as good as me, a monk who became a monk halfway, and his heart is a little unbalanced, right? Say whatever you want in your heart. I won't hide it from you, I have always kept these words in my heart, and today I want to take this opportunity to talk to you, but I am afraid that I will not have this opportunity in the future......"

"Don't say that, Captain. Just like you said, since I, Zhang Shan, joined the Self-Defense Army in my hometown, I have been prepared to lose my head at any time. You know me, I came from a poor background, and in our country, if any child wants to study, the whole family has to tighten their belts to get by. In the food of our group cooking class, the thick and mushy wild vegetable soup is light enough, right? But it's in our hometown, that's a baby! As the saying goes, people are poor and short-minded, horses are thin and long-haired, we are people who are used to being poor, we can't enjoy that blessing, and we don't want to be promoted and get rich in this life. Seriously, at that time, it was not so much a revolution as a fool's errand. You think, I was only fifteen at that time, and I didn't know the age of nonsense, so I didn't know how to write the word revolution. At that time, I was mainly idle at home, and every day in addition to working in the field was to eat and sleep, and my life was so greasy. I said in my heart, what is the strength of this kind of life? It's also a coincidence, one day I was sitting in my yard blowing the wind, but two people came in from outside the door, and they were a few of my fellow villagers. They told me that in the past two days, someone had been pulling a team outside the city to prepare to fight the county seat, and asked me if I wanted to join the gang? I was stunned and agreed.,I thought I could send it to our guy or something after joining the team.,At least it has to be a Hanyang made, right? If it's not good, you have to fire the firebolt, right? As a result, my two fellow villagers waved their hands directly at me and said, "Do you think we are the regular army of the Kuomintang?" This is a newly formed team, and if you want to join the gang, you have to bring your own guys, and what you want after you attack the city. I was in a difficult situation at that time, and my heart said that this house is bare, what can I bring? Guess what my two fellow countrymen say? My two fellow villagers said, "Are you brainless?" If you really want to find it, why can't you find it? Kitchen knives, axes, and rakes are all fine, but if you can't do it, you can bring the big iron spoon you use to make soup. Later, as soon as I gritted my teeth, I picked up the flat pole by the wall and went to Xizhangdian with my two fellow villagers. I remember that my superior's surname at the time was Xu, and as soon as he saw me, he patted me on the shoulder and asked me, little brother, why did you come to join the Self-Defense Forces at such a young age? I didn't know what was wrong at the time, so I asked him directly, saying sir, I can now be regarded as defecting to the team, can you send some military rations? Let's send it to my father and mother at home, my father and mother haven't settled down yet. At that time, the chief surnamed Xu burst into tears when he heard my words, and then said to me Brother, don't worry, as long as we conquer the county, all the people will have food to eat. As a result, within a few days of the battle, the self-defense army took down the county seat, and I remember very clearly at the time that the first place the team ran to after entering the city was the county granary. If you want me to say that the old wealth of those landlords is really bad, and the mountains of grain are piled up in the wooden house, and they would rather have insects than give a little to the common people. When we had chiseled the door of the granary with a hammer, all the soldiers began to go about their own business, dividing the bags into grain, filling as much as they could, and tying ropes to carry them home if they could not fit them. At that time, I had to carry nearly 40 catties of grain alone, which was also the only few days of prosperity that our family lived. At that time, my father and mother were holding the bowl of rice that had not yet been capped, and the tears flowed uncontrollably. It took more than an hour to eat a bowl of rice, but there was no way, I was hungry, and I couldn't wait to divide a grain of rice into several slices. To tell you the truth, when I saw the old man and the old lady like this, my heart was even harder. I patted my chest and said to my father, "Dad, don't worry, we can eat this food, and after eating, I will carry a bag back for my son, and from today onwards, our family's hard days are over!" ”

"I've heard a little bit about that incident, it seems that a few days after you captured the county seat, the instructor of the Kuomintang 12th Army rushed to reinforce it, your self-defense army lacked training, the soldiers lacked combat experience, and the troops, firearms, and combat effectiveness were inferior to others, so they withdrew after a few days? How did the two old men arrange it later? ”

"Ahem, what else can I arrange? The enemy came too suddenly, and we have no experience in head-on confrontation with others, so if we can't beat it, we will run. At that time, the enemy placed sentries in every village, and roadblocks were set up on every road, so there was no way, there was no second way but to enter the mountains. At that time, a few people wanted to go home in the middle of the night, but they were killed by the enemy's lurking post as soon as they entered the village. I gritted my teeth and stomped my feet, and said in my heart that it would be a death if I went back, and I would find another chance in the future! In this way, the team rested in the mountains for more than three months. Later, one day the team took advantage of the night to kill back to the hometown of jute, when the Kuomintang instructor was still stationed in the city, so the large army was basically operating outside the city, and now it was the turn of the landlords in the villages to be unlucky. The calligraphy, painting and porcelain at home were almost smashed clean by us, and the food of each family was also cleaned. This time I didn't pack much, less than 30 catties, and this was the last time I sent food to my family. Since then, the team has been going all the way south, and finally the team has been active in the Hubei-Henan-Anhui base area. ”

"You haven't been home since? Have you ever replied to the second elder? ”

"Commander, look at what you said, don't you know how much ink I have in my stomach? I don't know a lot of words, so it's good to be able to write my name. Not to mention my father and my mother, since I can remember, my father and mother every day in addition to rolling up their sleeves to work is to go to the back mountain to herd cattle for the landlord's family, tired and tired and not enough to eat. Sometimes I'm hungry and I don't even know what my name is, so how can I still read and write? Even if I find someone to write it for nothing. To tell you the truth, there are few people in our village who have ever studied, and the top of their heads is full of sorghum flowers, and it is better to send a letter than a piece of butt wiping paper......"

"Homesick, right? If the old man knew that you were the way you are, maybe he would be happy for you. It's a pity, this time the devils have strengthened their sweeping efforts, and the troops and firepower they used have never been seen before, and our independent regiment has never suffered such a big loss since it entered Shanxi. If you are not careful, you may let the enemy make dumplings, and then the family business that our group has worked hard to save in the past few years will be complete. Judging from the current casualty situation, we can't hang up the brand of the main regiment, the casualties of the troops are more than nearly two-thirds, and there are also a lot of non-combat attrition. It is estimated that there will be a few more vicious battles to be fought in the next few days, I am thinking now, God can give us a face, don't wait until the end of the battle, I Yang Longfei became the commander of the light pole, if the independent regiment is mixed up in the end, it is not even as good as the county brigade, the head of the headquarters must withdraw the establishment of our regiment, and Lao Tzu can't afford to lose that person. ”

"Regiment commander, don't worry, as long as I, Zhang Shan, still have a breath of air, I will never watch the independent regiment being defeated by the enemy, what's so great about the little devil? Isn't he a fairy, what's invulnerable? A knife was still a bloody hole in the past, we were not afraid in Luodian and Guanghuamen back then, and today in the northwest of Shanxi, we will not scare him for a dog day. is still the same sentence, the head fell off and left a bowl-sized scar, even if he gave up this life, he had to beat his son of a bitch! Don't give the dog a little bit of a day, look at it, they really make our Chinese soldiers muddy! Zhang Shan said loudly.

At this moment, the forward observation post suddenly reported that the troops had spotted a Japanese sweeping unit a kilometer ahead. As soon as the words fell, Yang Longfei immediately came to his senses, he immediately ordered the troops to stop advancing, and he took a step and rushed up a hillside.

In the telescope, a Japanese unit of about 300 people was patrolling the opposite hillside, and there were many scattered corpses of civilians lying in the surrounding trees, and several Japanese soldiers at the end of the group were checking whether there were any live wounds in the corpses with bayonets in their hands.

Yang Longfei held a telescope in his hand and muttered to himself while observing: "I don't know where this group of devils came from, if they don't have anything to do, they will take the local people out of anger, something ......"

"Commander, you see, the clothes on these devils are as clean as new, and the equipment and formation are also very neat, I estimate that this is an ordinary sweeping force of the Japanese army, even if it has experienced battles, nine times out of ten it is sporadic fighting, otherwise it would have been disgraced a long time ago...... Alas, look again, regimental commander, this gang of devils doesn't seem to be equipped with any heavy weapons, except for a few mortars behind the buttocks, that is, three machine guns. Commander, I think this is an opportunity, shall we do it alone? Zhang Shan also picked up his telescope and observed.

Yang Longfei was happy: "Damn, it's really a bad thing." , of course you have to do it when the opportunity comes! This road is the only place we must pass to go to Hushou Mountain, and it is also the only mountain road that can be walked at present. Instead of taking a detour, it is better to take the initiative, and Lao Tzu simply gave him a dog day! On my orders, the troops advanced along this road, pushing as much as they could, until they were engaged in the enemy's fire. The Heavy and Bombardier are also in position at once, aiming to end the battle in less than twenty minutes! The principle of this operation is different from the past, our strength is limited, we cannot fight hard, and we cannot stick to the enemy. Don't seek total annihilation, as long as you can kill a way! ”

"Yes!" Zhang Shan, Xie Dacheng and others went down one after another to assign tasks after receiving the order, and Li Shenshu pulled out the big knife hanging on his back and put it on the ground, unbuttoned his trouser belt and took out the work and began to pee. Yang Longfei sniffed his nose fiercely and scolded: "Li Shenshu, you don't want to find a good place to pee?" Why are you so close to Lao Tzu? You bunny......"

"Commander, I'm preparing for a bayonet fight for a while, the little devil is cheap, I'm afraid of dirtying my knife, isn't it? Go get rid of the bad luck......" said Li Shenshu as he tied the belt of his trousers and pretended to enjoy it.

Yang Longfei frowned and shouted, "Who told you that you were going to fight with the devil for a while?" Did Lao Tzu say it? My exact words are to push the troops forward and try to resolve the battle in twenty minutes, you kid stuff donkey hair in your ears? You kid, the typical cucumber on the board ——— looking for the goods! ”

Li Shenshu scratched his head embarrassedly after pulling the belt of his trousers.

The machine gunners and bomb throwing team of the first battalion preemptively occupied a suitable blocking position in front of the main force, and the ammunition man was lying on the right side of the machine gunner, and was pressing the bullet into the * with a rope, and he did not forget to nag a few words in his mouth: "Alas, when you fire for a while, don't come up and shoot repeatedly, save some bullets, we don't have much ammunition left, keep a little to use when you turn around and break through, you can't just care about the pleasure in front of you!" ”

"I mean, what kind of nonsense are you talking about? You're just going to be a good orderly for me, are you supposed to worry about that? Looking at the whole camp, there is no better location than ours. As long as I fire here, the devil on the other side will have to take down a piece first, such a good opportunity, why are you waiting for him if you don't him well? The Heavy said disapprovingly.

The two remaining mortars of the first battalion were also in place, and the artillery was calibrating the firing elements.

Yang Longfei put down the telescope with his left hand, and pulled out the gun tied to his waist with his right hand. He first put the brim of his hat with the muzzle of his gun, and then stretched out his thumb to visually measure the distance between the vanguard and the Japanese troops. When everything was ready, Yang Longfei turned the gun to the sky, and the index finger of his right hand holding the gun pulled the trigger violently......

Just listen to the "Horn!" With a bang, two * burst out, crossed two white arcs in the air and then fell to the ground, and the Japanese sweeping troops seemed to have encountered an eight-magnitude earthquake without knowing it. More than a dozen Japanese soldiers were directly torn in half by the wave of air caused by the shells that landed, and many soldiers fell to the ground after being hit by the flying shell fragments. Before the attacked Japanese troops could launch a counterattack after forming formation, the soldiers of the Eighth Route Army hidden behind the mountain bags poked their heads out one after another to open fire to block the attack, and the machine gunners who were stationed at the commanding heights also fired one after another in response, and the battle quickly entered a white-hot state.

After Yang Longfei threw the telescope to Li Shengun, he covered his waist with his left hand, and stood up from the spot with the gun in his right hand, and then said to the regimental communicator: "Tell Company Commander Shi not to entangle with the enemy, the guard company will be changed to an assault team, and beat the enemy's weak point according to the weak point of the enemy's defense, and strive to bite open a hole within ten minutes, and the rest of the company and platoon units will cover with fire, and break through the encirclement of the enemy on the opposite side as quickly as possible, go quickly!" ”

Not long after the correspondent left, Yang Longfei collapsed on the mountain bag due to a recurrence of his back injury, and Li Shengun's face changed greatly, and he immediately reached out to help. Yang Longfei tightened his lips, endured the severe pain and waved his hand at Li Shengun, signaling him not to touch himself, this kind of injury had to be slowly eased by himself, otherwise the more he touched it, the more painful it became.

After the pain subsided a little, Yang Longfei's forehead was already sweating profusely, and his gums were bitten open, and blood stained his teeth while flowing down the corners of his mouth......

"Damn, this kind of old injury is the most difficult to rectify, I don't know if it doesn't hurt, it really hurts and it can cost half a person's life...... Help me up! Yang Longfei stretched out his hand to Li Shenshu.

After Li Shenshu grabbed Yang Longfei's hand, his body slowly helped him up from the ground in a lunge and said: "Regiment leader, you should go on a stretcher, I will find two brothers to carry you, I am afraid that if you continue like this, your body will not be able to bear it......"

"Forget it, leave those stretchers for the seriously wounded in the regiment, I'm not so delicate. This injury comes at a time, and the pain will hurt for a while, so just grit your teeth and hold on. Also, remember to see Deputy Head Zhang for a while, don't mention it, did you hear it? You kid doesn't know how to look like it, the iron body is like a rabbit's mouth, and it's not once or twice that you make mistakes with this broken mouth. Oh, there is one more thing you have to remember for me, when I see Battalion Commander Xie in a while, tell him to let him give an order to the soldiers below, all the fighters who are easy to move take turns to take care of a few seriously wounded in the regiment, and the stretcher will also be handed over, how long will it take to change a group of people for him to decide according to the physical condition of the soldiers, do you understand? ”

Li Shenshu pursed his lips and snorted, "Didn't you think I talked too much and didn't let me talk more?" The commander of the first battalion is in front, no more than 500 meters away from the two of us, and when you see him in a while, you can tell him yourself that you will not be done? ”

Yang Longfei scolded: "Damn, you kid still learned to take advantage of Lao Tzu's loopholes?" Lao Tzu asked you to talk less, so you don't talk nonsense. Say what should be said, and don't mention a word that shouldn't be said. Lao Tzu has to remember more things every day than your kid has eaten, and you can't stuff so many things in your mind for a while, you as a guard to help remember that it's your job, do you understand? ”

"You can pull it down, from the night to the present, not to mention food, I haven't even touched a drop of water, and I won't tell you, my stomach is still screaming." According to your logic, my stomach is called a groove, and you probably can't stuff anything in your head......"

"Damn, are you still a rabbit cub? Lao Tzu said that you should say a word, and see what your kid can do! Are you still talking to Lao Tzu? If I'm not mistaken, you Li Shenshu seems to have been born as a cattle herder before he became a soldier, although he has practiced martial arts for a few years, can he be used as a fart? You still have to obediently herd cattle and sheep for the landlord's old wealth! You kid has sorghum on his head, stepped on dung, ate mixed noodles, slept on a bare bed, he was born a bun, and he still reasoned with Lao Tzu? Dare to whine again, see if I don't kick you! ”

"Commander, this is your fault, I am seeking truth from facts. Originally, the troops had been out of food since before the breakthrough last night, and the whole regiment tossed back and forth for dozens of kilometers. The fighters don't say anything, and the complaints are all in their stomachs. You don't know what happened to our group before, if you have nothing to do, you can block the devil's highway and do a ticket, and get a few truckloads of food supplies, and we can have a fat year. Slowly, the appetite of the soldiers of our regiment has been adjusted up by the little devil's supplies, and there is no oil and water in the stomach coldly, who is not in a hurry? In other words, don't you have to be in a hurry? Li Shenshu smiled with a flattering face.

"It's nothing if the food is interrupted, and you can survive it for a few days, mainly because Lao Tzu's cigarettes have stopped. Lao Tzu is greedy for this mouthful, you kid knows. No matter how fierce the battle is, as long as you can smoke a cigarette, the spirit will come. This thing is like the job in the crotch of the pants, and it's almost fucking the lifeblood of Lao Tzu. Without it, it would feel like something was missing in the body. Yang Longfei's lips slowly began to twitch.

"This is easy to do, when I break through for a while, I will go to the corpse of the devil to look for it, and see if I can turn over a bag and a half of it, why can't I let the regiment commander break your pause?" Li Shenshu said in a big way.

"No, the troops must break through as soon as possible and cannot stay. We must hurry up and rush out, this place is less than thirty miles away from Hushou Mountain, let the soldiers work harder to arrive, and wait until they meet with the second battalion to consider ammunition and food, everything must have a priority, score priority, we can't lose big because of small! ”

……

The battle between the 2nd Battalion and the Japanese troops on the opposite side was still raging, and Lin Zhiguo, chief of staff and Qian Li, commander of the 2nd Battalion, who were in charge of directing the battle, were far from expecting that as soon as the guns rang out here, almost all the Japanese troops carrying out the search mission in the vicinity surrounded them, and a cavalry brigade, two infantry squadrons, and three companies of the Imperial Allied Army were rushing in from all directions to reinforce them. They didn't know that there was only one battalion of troops in the Eighth Route Military Region here, but they were operating here as the main force of the Eighth Route Army, thinking that they would be able to have a big meal.

In the melee, the second battalion commander Qian Liyuan's shoulder blade was hit by two machine gun bullets, and the white bones were clearly visible in the open flesh, and black-red blood trickled out from the wound like a stream. Due to excessive blood loss, Qian Liyuan's consciousness gradually blurred, he was no longer able to pick up the gun in his hand and pull the trigger, and the whole person fell to the ground on his back like a broken door, and began a brief shock......

The commander of the first company rushed to the side of Chief of Staff Lin Zhiguo like a hurricane and shouted: "Chief of Staff, the devil's firepower is too fierce, they have already charged our company's position three times in a row, we can't withstand it!" ”

"If you can't stand it, you have to top it, as soon as your company's defense is broken, the devils will go straight to our main peak position, and we will be even more passive when the time comes! Tell the comrades, grit my teeth and hold on for a while, and my side will immediately organize a commando to break through! ”

Before the words of "Yes ......" could be spoken, a bullet spinning at high speed in the air "whizzed" into the temple of a company commander, killing him instantly.

Lin Zhiguo smashed his fist on the sandbag fortification in front of him and scolded: "I'll fuck him grandma...... Correspondent, call me the commander of the second and third companies...... I wish the sixth, give me the machine gun, damn it, fight with the dog......"

Captain Ishigaki, the leader of the Japanese squadron who was engaged in the battle, received three telegrams in succession, respectively from the 3rd Cavalry Brigade of the 8th Brigade, the 5th and 6th Squadrons under the 9th Infantry Brigade of the 14th Brigade, and the 4th Mixed Brigade Engineer Battalion of the Imperial Allied Army.

Squadron Leader Ishigaki casually threw the telegram aside and said: "The front line of the Eighth Route has been destroyed by our artillery, order the 1st and 2nd squads to move forward and shoot closely, and we will also encroach step by step, tell Yamamoto and Kameda squad leaders that there is no need to rush to take the opponent's position, just consume the opponent's ammunition by shooting at close range, and then launch a general attack on its main peak after the reinforcements from all sides arrive!" ”

Not long after this order was issued, the latest situation came from the Japanese observation post: It was reported that the Eighth Route on the opposite side seemed to have the intention of abandoning its forward position, and its main force was moving from the direction of the two flanks towards the second-line defensive position of the Eighth Road, as if it was preparing for the troops to concentrate their firepower and attack outward.

Captain Ishigaki picked up the binoculars and observed it, and found that, sure enough, the Eighth Route that had been stationed at the forward position had long since disappeared, and it was impossible to know whether it had been withdrawn or destroyed, but one thing was guaranteed, the battalion of the Eighth Route was ready to charge. The positions of the two armies were less than 150 meters apart, and it could be clearly seen from the telescope that the units of each company and platoon of the Eighth Route were distributing ammunition according to the base number, and the front ends of their rifles had also been loaded with bright bayonets, and the only two machine gunners left among them also occupied the favorable terrain, and it seemed that this group of Eighth Route was really going to make a final fight with my Ishigaki squadron!

In order to avoid unnecessary casualties, Captain Ishigaki temporarily revised the battle order. After looking through the entire map, he found that about two miles west of Hushou Mountain, there was a village called Wei Wangzhuang. Captain Ishigaki thought to himself, even if the Eighth Route successfully broke through from here, it didn't matter, the area of Weiwang Village was the only place for the 3rd Cavalry Brigade under the jurisdiction of the 8th Brigade to come here to reinforce here, and this was the case, no matter how fast he was on the paws of the Eighth Road, it would not be faster than the iron hooves of the imperial army!

Captain Ishigaki said in his heart that he might as well be a favor and lure the main force of the Eighth Route on the opposite side to Weiwang Village and then annihilate it in one fell swoop, so as to prevent the Eighth Route from entering the mountain again to fight guerrilla attacks with him, and secondly, it can be regarded as a meeting gift to the commander of the 3rd Cavalry Brigade, Yoshino Nakasa.