Section XXIX

In the silent night, only the breeze is left caressing the earth, only the insects shrunk in the corner play a spectacular music, as for the master of the earth, human beings, in this dark environment, should naturally be in a deep sleep, and the earth is rarely quiet.

However, at this moment, in a small forest as dark as ink, a constantly beating oil lamp illuminated the small tent, and the light reflected on everyone's faces, reflecting their slightly excited expressions, more than a dozen people gathered together, almost breaking the small tent, but it was always quiet, without the slightest sound.

Ji Hongru, the head of the 302nd regiment, quietly looked at the map on the table, I don't know how long it took, he slowly raised his head, his face was full of calm, and he only heard him say in a deep voice: "In the past few days, the brothers have been running four or five hundred miles, and they can't even take care of eating, and they don't have to sleep. ”

These words suddenly broke the silent atmosphere in the tent, and made the officers around them chuckle one by one.

Ji Hongru's calm face was also relieved, a smile appeared at the corner of his mouth, his eyes fell on the second battalion commander Hu Liqun, and he chuckled: "Battalion Commander Hu, you should be an exception, I heard that your second battalion has been very lively recently, and several company commanders don't dare to raise their heads when you scold them one by one!" ”

Hu Liqun was suddenly embarrassed and said: "Tuanzuo, you have wronged me!" It's these boys who talk dirty all day long, and they actually say that I'm useless, and I haven't even touched a single devil's hair, and I know how to run away all day long! I wondered, this retreat order is not something I can decide, why did I get scolded? Besides, I'm also their battalion commander, so it's okay to scold me so big or small, and whip them a few times! ”

Everyone suddenly burst into laughter, and the stone on the side didn't think what it was like to be scolded by the people below, and immediately looked at Hu Liqun dumbfounded, as if he was looking at a monster.

Ji Hongru obviously also saw the expression of the stone, and immediately said to Hu Liqun: "If you are scolded, it means that you have not done your usual work well, you look at the first battalion, who dares to scold the stone, I can't see that the battalion commander with a stone can appear and others can smash him flat." ”

Hu Liqun suddenly looked at the stone depressed and said: "Forget it, don't talk about it, who can compare with the stone, I heard that if the officers of their battalion dare to eat an extra piece of meat and drink wine in the barracks, they have to sit on the high platform and eat for a month, such a perverted rule, who can stand it." ”

Qu Yuben on the side also smiled and said: "Shi Tuanfu is very powerful, you do this, who of the brothers below doesn't want to give you their lives, but I really admire the officers of your battalion, this official is really aggrieved." ”

Looking at the slight red face of the stone and didn't know what to say, Lin Xiufeng on the side also said with a smile: "This is also Shi Tuanfu's own good enough, others can't find the slightest fault, just imagine that he is a battalion commander, he doesn't even receive a military salary every month, and he eats and sleeps with those squad and platoon soldiers every day, who dares to doubt his practice." ”

Shi was suddenly ashamed and said: "I just think that they are all soldiers and devils, there is no difference, besides, I am alone, I have food and clothing, and I don't know what to do when I ask for money." ”

These words made everyone on the side a little speechless, and they didn't know what to do with asking for money? This was the first time they had heard that say.

Lin Xiufeng said with a smile: "Shi Tuanfu, you know what to do with the money soon, don't forget that your promotion wine has not been invited yet, and it is not good to put one on at that time, but we people will not agree." ”

"Yes, yes, yes, this wine has to be drunk well, otherwise you will be promoted to the regiment in your early twenties, we are all more than a round older than you and still a battalion commander, then we are not alive and angry." Hu Liqun saw that the topic had successfully shifted from him to the stone, and he was willing to let it go, so he immediately shouted and said.

There was another burst of laughter, and the gloom of several days was cleared away before the battle.

Ji Hongru waited for them to laugh for a moment before waving his hand to interrupt them: "Okay, okay, this meal of wine is naturally indispensable, but at least we have to wait until this battle is over!" In the past few days, you have been running all the way for three or four hundred miles, you don't want to end like this. ”

Hu Liqun didn't catch a battle in the Loess Mountain, and he was holding back his anger, and when he heard this, he suddenly shouted: "Tuanzuo, I have to say it in advance, if there is another battle, this vanguard will have to let our second battalion go up, otherwise those masters under him will really rebel." ”

Ji Hongru glanced at him, and immediately said solemnly: "This battle is not fought by one of our regiments, how to fight is already decided by Shangfeng, you just have to follow the implementation, there may be staff officers from the division headquarters to supervise the battle, you don't want you to have that kind of noisy thing happen again!" This kind of thing, behind closed doors, is nothing, if it is passed to the master's seat, don't say that you Hu Liqun is going to fall down, I'm afraid I won't be able to eat and walk around. ”

Hu Liqun was shocked when he heard this, and he didn't seem to expect that the current situation was not as simple as they imagined. However, they had already had such suspicions before, after all, this kind of large-scale change of guard must have something that they and low-level officers did not understand.

Ji Hongru retracted his previous flat smile, and said with a serious expression: "There are still four hours before the start of the battle, and this time I summoned you here just to make final preparations, I won't say much nonsense, I guess you have been guessing hard these days." ”

After a pause, looking at the serious officers one by one, Ji Hongru nodded secretly and said: "A few days ago, we withdrew our 74th Army from the front line of Loess Mountain, not because we fought badly, on the contrary, the outstanding performance of blocking the Japanese army in Yongcheng and not being able to move made Shangfeng see the combat strength of our 74th Army, so we were transferred here." Maybe everyone has been busy with the road these days, and they don't know the current situation very well, Xiufeng, now you can tell them about the arrangements for this operation. ”

Hearing this, Lin Xiufeng stood up, stood up and saluted and replied, "Yes, Tuanza!" Immediately, he saluted everyone and then pointed to the map on the table and said: "We are located in Beiguan Town at the moment, more than 200 miles to the southeast is the Loess Mountain where we fought a few days ago, and the target of our attack this time is Neihuang County, which is 30 miles to the west, in accordance with the order of the division headquarters, this time our 302nd Regiment is the vanguard of the whole division, and the first to launch an attack on Neihuang, behind us is the 301st Regiment, to ensure that in the case of the offensive blocked, we can continue to attack the Japanese defense line, As for the 305th and 306th regiments of the 153rd Brigade of the friendly forces, after our regiment's offensive is in full swing, they will go around to the west of Neihuang to ensure the encirclement and annihilation of the Japanese troops guarding Neihuang City under the condition of cutting off the retreat of the defenders in the city. ”

Hearing that the whole division was fighting together, Hu Liqun immediately felt that the previous request for battle was really a bit abrupt, and now the entire 302nd Regiment was the vanguard, and naturally it was not their turn to come out of the 2nd Battalion, and the scale of this battle was obviously beyond their imagination.

Just as he was thinking like this, Shi Shi, who rarely spoke, opened his mouth and asked, "May I ask the Chief of Staff, how many devils are there in Neihuang City?" ”

"According to the investigation, it is probably a infantry team." Chief of Staff Lin replied seriously.

"A wing" Shi Shi couldn't help frowning, as a regimental attached, because he is only part-time now, most of the energy is still in the first battalion, so the whole combat strategy is not clear, now after hearing this answer, suddenly hesitated, when they were in the south, the Japanese army in Yongcheng had as many as a brigade, and after being transferred here, it was encountered by a wing stationed in a small county town, and the Japanese army was a little rare step by step.

The other officers on the side also showed a solemn expression, with the strength of a regiment to attack a wing of the Japanese army, there was no advantage in numbers, and the devils not only had an advantage in firepower, but also had a geographical advantage, it can be said that they did not have any advantage in all aspects, which shows the difficulty and danger of this battle.

Ji Hongru saw their hesitation at a glance, and immediately said: "You may not know the movements of the Japanese army, on May 16, more than 20,000 enemies of the 14th Division of the Japanese Army crossed the Yellow River to the south, trying to cut off the Longhai Road and encircle and annihilate the main force of our 5th Theater of Operations, and the enemy of Yongcheng also had the same idea, but our ministers responded in time and held all the important places, and on the 18th, the main force of our 5th Theater has been successfully transferred, and our Eastern Henan Army will be under the personal command of Chief Xue, Encircle and annihilate this lonely army of devils. ”

Ji Hongru's words startled everyone, and Hu Liqun suddenly asked in disbelief: "Tuanzuo, are we going to eat the devil a division?" ”

Ji Hongru nodded seriously and said: "We have two armies here, and in other directions, there are also no less than our troops, besieging a division of devils with hundreds of thousands of troops, since the devils dare to come to death, why don't I have the courage to eat them in one bite?" Then he stretched out his hand and pointed to the map and said: "Now the 14th Division of the Japanese Army is entrenched in the area of Lanfeng, and the inner yellow of Yifeng is their tentacle to the east, after defeating this tentacle, our road to Lanfeng will have no obstacles, and as long as the friendly forces in other directions occupy Zhangzhuang, Quxing, Yanggu and other important towns, they will surround the devils in Lanfeng, even if they take human lives to fill it, they will definitely be able to fight out the devils." ”

Lin Xiufeng also said excitedly at this time: "If you really want to completely annihilate this lone enemy in depth, this battle will be another big victory for our army after the great victory in Taierzhuang. ”

Ji Hongru also nodded and said: "What Xiufeng said is good, now you should know the reason why the battle plan was not revealed until now!" ”