A round of red sun erupted in the sky, and the dark clouds that had been gloomy all night were swept away by the rising sun and the hunting west wind.

Yang Bangzi stood on the steps of the big house, looking at the red sky in the east, his heart was surging, he thought that he was going to have a duel with the devil today, and he didn't want to say anything that was impossible, thinking about his hard-working father, thinking about his grandfather and sister who didn't know where they were, and thinking about the spicy and amorous lotus fragrance??????

"Burn it, burn it, the old man can't let the ancestors watch the devils enter this ancestral hall." Yang Bangzi was still thinking about reminiscing about it, and someone in the big room behind him was talking.

Mr. Guo, who was on crutches, was standing in the room, directing the housekeeper and a few Zhuang Ding to take off the portraits hanging on the wall, as well as the rows of earth god seats on the offering table. There was a large copper basin on the ground, and a charcoal fire had been lit.

Mr. Guo took the portrait he had taken off, and at the same time gently wiped off the floating ash on it with a handkerchief, slowly rolled up the painting scroll, and put it in the copper basin, and the flames burned up, and orange-red flames appeared.

"Old village master, just put it away, what are you doing to burn it, your eldest son will come back in the next year, without the portrait and tablet of this ancestor, where can you burn paper?" Yang Bangzi rarely spoke without a handle, and he was so respectful and polite.

"The country is ruined, what ancestral tablets are left! The old man is old and his teeth are weak, and he can't lift a knife and leap on a horse, and kill all the slaves, but he can't cause the ancestral tablet to fall into the hands of the Japanese invaders. Even if it is loyal and filial. ”

Yang Bangzi was speechless. He had seen a lot of fellow refugees. If you don't want gold or silver, you also have to use a wrapper to carry the ancestral tablet that you worship in your own home, and you don't surrender to your devil if you live, and these deceased souls don't stay on the devil's side.

"Commander Yang, if the old man's guess is right, the devil's plane will come again in a while, you take the soldiers into the cave to hide, and the old man will finish handling the family affairs. And then came. ”

Right! As soon as the old gentleman reminded him, Yang Bangzi remembered that the weather was good, and the devil's plane was designated, and if he didn't come to bomb, he would have to drop ammunition to the infantry on the ground or something.

Fortunately, Yang Bangzi led the radio station and the soldiers into the cave, and he had to contact several regiments on the periphery, and also reported the battle situation to the military region and Commander Huang.

It didn't take much effort, the portrait and the tablet were almost burned, and the old gentleman walked out of the house. Standing on the edge of the yard, motionless and looking at the devastated cottage. Silent.

After a long time, he slowly turned around and said to the housekeeper and a few Zhuang Ding, go and light the pine oil Mingzi, set fire to several houses and courtyards that have not been blown up on the slope and downhill, and point to the big house with a cane, signaling that this will not be left, and it will be burned!

When the housekeeper heard this, everyone was stupid, and asked timidly: "Master, it's all burned, what's the matter?" Don't go back to this place in the future? ”

"Not anymore! Since then, there will be no more Guo family forts! The old gentleman replied categorically.

"Well, master, if you don't go back, you won't go back, it's windy on the mountain, and it's not comfortable to live, so it's better to go back to the old mansion in Xiwangzhuang and live steadily." As he spoke, the housekeeper waved his hand at the villagers, winced at them, and asked them to hurry up and do what the old village owner said.

"Xiwangzhuang is not going either, the devil will not be driven out for a day, and he will not live anywhere in the world." After saying this, the old gentleman turned his back and looked at Dongfang with his eyes slightly closed.

The housekeeper muttered quietly, "This is also burned, and I don't want it over there, what?" It's really true. "Peeking at the motionless old gentleman, he lightly went to find Akiko Songyou to start the fire.

On the terrace behind the wall, Qing Shui saw the fire and smoke in the cottage, and the soldiers came to report that they saw people in the village setting fire in all directions.

Half-kneeling on the wall, holding a telescope to take a closer look, several remaining houses and courtyards in the lens were billowing smoke and flames, and the big house in the courtyard was also on fire.

Several Chinese in black clothes and black pants gathered along the stone wall of the courtyard, and when they were all white, they couldn't see their eyebrows clearly, and Qing Shui judged that this white-clothed person must be the owner of this cottage, that old gentleman, what was the purpose of this act of setting fire to his house, he couldn't guess.

Anyway, the Air Force is almost here, but his teacher is a little harsh in the telegram, and he has some complaints about the crowd tactics used by Qing Shui's strong attack, and it is estimated that someone has sued Qing Shui behind his back, and the small reports have been sent to the headquarters of the Front Army, and the chief of staff and teacher have to make a show, so as not to be told to back up Qing Shui.

The message was no longer in the tone of a teacher and a student, but from beginning to end it was in the tone of the front army, and Shimizu was strictly ordered to start breaking through in the afternoon, destroying the heavy weapons and materials he carried, moving closer to the 1st Brigade and the garrison, and with the help of the Air Force, breaking through to the direction of Ishii.

Throughout the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, although the armies of the Kuomintang and the Communist Party killed and wounded hundreds of thousands of Japanese soldiers, there was no record of completely annihilating the devils and the formation of a wing, and the most successful example was to beat a wing of dozens of people, but it was still not encircled and annihilated in a system.

This has a great deal to do with the air superiority of the devils, the air force's destroyers open the way and reconnoitre, and provide fire support and aerial reconnaissance intelligence to the breakthrough troops on the ground.

Otherwise, why Jihua, who was originally scheduled to go to Tuanan to join the headquarters of the First Brigade, has changed, that is, aerial reconnaissance found that the road to Tuanan in the north has been blocked by a large number of Eighth Route occupying favorable terrain, and the southward also faces a large number of Eighth Route Army, only to break through in the northeast direction, and the Eighth Route Liliang over there is weaker.

Now there are only more than four hours left for Qing Shui to be used to attack the cottage, and the air force is about to fly over the cottage, Qing Shui looked at Mr. Guo and those Zhuang Ding who were standing on the edge of the courtyard, put down the binoculars, and gave the adjutant an order to blow up the mountain artillery, and the personnel went into the air defense bunker.

"Boom! Boom Boom! After four loud noises, the pillar of black smoke rising from behind the wall woke Mr. Guo from his state of contemplation, raised his eyes to see a few thick pillars of smoke, and the faintly falling earth and stones, turned around to look at the ancestral hall that was about to be burned down by the fire, stretched out his crutches and whispered: "Enter the cave, there are two people left at the entrance of the cave, looking at some devils." ”

Bypassing the big house, walking into the cave from the foot of the mountain, the old gentleman was a little out of breath, in fact, others don't know, he himself knows best, this is not that the body is going to get better, it is back to the light, yesterday I went into battle and fought a breath, and Zuihou's spirit was almost over.

Maybe it was the strength of the old wine at night, or maybe it was the heroism aroused by the cooperation with Commander Yang with King Qin's breaking formation, which could be supported until now, and the little qi of Zuihou, who was about to run out, prompted him to do such a self-destructive thing.

In the words of the old gentleman, this is called rather than broken jade than tile! It is better to destroy the inheritance left by the ancestors for a hundred years than to let the little devils take possession! It's better to burn it yourself than to watch the devil's bomb shatter!

I'm ready to die at any time, what do you care about how many houses there are, what's the use? The old gentleman Zuihou glanced back at the cottage, took a deep breath, and turned around and entered the cave.

The big iron door creaked shut, and when it slammed shut, a few small black dots moved slowly in the glow of the eastern sky, like a few flies falling into a basin of clear water.

Qing Shui communicated with the pilots of the Air Force on the radio, and learned that this time a transport plane, four destroyers, and a bomber had come, and they were to be resupplied first, because not only did they bring ammunition and supplies, but also twenty officers were going to be parachuted down.

It turned out that the chief of staff of the front army considered that among the wounded personnel reported by the Suzuki detachment, the loss rate of middle and lower-level officers had reached 80%, and almost all the squad leaders were killed in battle.

The pilots said that after the airdrop of supplies and airborne personnel was over, the bombers bombed according to the coordinates given by the ground forces, and the fighters only carried out escort missions, and did not provide fire support to the ground troops in the morning, and they were going to help the attack of the 1st Brigade in the northeast direction. (To be continued......)