Section 254 Red Pine Mountain

Standing at the top of the mountain, looking at the rushing water in the distance, the stone is not in the mood to enjoy the surrounding scenery at all. In fact, it is indeed a beautiful place, although the mountains are inevitably covered with dead trees and fallen leaves because of winter, but the mountains in the distance still look lush and green, like a brightly colored landscape painting, which makes people indulge in it without realizing it.

However, there are some particularly eye-catching existences on this picture scroll, that is, on the avenue on the south bank of the water, groups of stragglers are appearing from time to time, rushing towards the south in an embarrassed manner.

This is already Chisong Mountain, five miles northeast of Cili, and Shi was ordered to rush here with an independent regiment to set up defenses, stuck on the main road between Shimen and Cili, as the advance position of the entire Cili. At this time, it was already the afternoon of the 16th, and they had just arrived here since yesterday, a distance of 145 miles, and they marched for a day and a night plus a morning. However, the brothers in the regiment were able to rest, but the regimental commander Shi did not have such a chance, and after he arrived here, he immediately climbed to the top of the mountain to observe the surrounding terrain, preparing to meet the Japanese army.

"Stone, why is this battle at the forefront of our fighting? Although we rested there for a while longer, the battle in western Hubei did not cause any battle in the other three divisions! Liu Wenfeng and Gao Da Hammer came together, and as soon as he saw the stone, he couldn't help but ask.

Hearing this, Shi couldn't help but smile bitterly: "Crazy, you don't know the current situation of the 74th Army. As he spoke, he sighed and said: "Since the reorganization of the whole army in northern Jiangxi, it is the 57th Division that has taken on the heavy responsibility of the whole army every time, not only the Battle of Shanggao, but also the subsequent Battle of Changsha. However, this time, the 57th Division was asked by the Shangfeng designated team to garrison Changde, and the military seat was useless even if it wanted to. And the remaining two divisions, the 51st Division is the starting capital of the military seat, the 58th Division collapsed once in the Battle of Changsha, and since Liao Shizuo was inexplicably shot, the 58th Division is equivalent to completely overthrowing and rebuilding, and now it is only less than two years, how the combat effectiveness of the 58th Division is not known, the military seat has always valued Brother Zhang, how can it be easy to let his troops take risks? ”

Liu Wenfeng couldn't help scolding: "Then you can't let us fight this battle at the front, how many people are there in our regiment." ”

The tall sledgehammer on the side looked calm, and he said disdainfully: "Crazy, what's the use of you yelling here? Can this be solved by stones? ”

Shi waved his hand and said, "It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter what you say in front of your own people." After speaking, he pointed to the routed soldiers on the avenue ahead and said: "Since we started to deploy here, there are almost one or two thousand troops scattered and withdrawn, right?" Looks like the devil is almost here. Madman, let you send someone down there to inquire about the situation, did you inquire about the previous news? ”

Liu Wenfeng said with some anger: "What is there to inquire about, there is news of the defeat everywhere." I was surprised, we did not participate in the last Battle of Changsha, and as a result, the troops of the Ninth Theater attacked the Japanese army and annihilated 20,000 or 30,000 enemies. The battle of western Hubei, we did not participate, and the news reported was also a great victory, now that we have just arrived here, there is news of defeat everywhere, could it be that we have become a broom star? Where to fall the frieze? ”

Shi said: "This is what to do, this battle has just begun, and it didn't have the upper hand in the early stage, isn't this a normal thing?" As long as you fight the battle behind and seize the opportunity to hit the devil hard, it will still be a great victory. Perhaps, the retreat of these friendly forces was deliberately done by the upper peak? ”

Liu Wenfeng sneered: "Deliberately a fart!" After scolding a few words, Liu Wenfeng also said with a straight face: "I have inquired with several waves of people, and the troops that have been withdrawn now are from the temporary 5th Division of the 73rd Army. The troops behind us now in Cili are the 44th Army, and the 5th Division belongs to the 73rd Army, which belongs to the 29th Army together with the 44th Army in Cili. ”

Shi was a little surprised and said, "The 29th Army? I remember that the north of Dongting Lake was their defense area, and the devils in Huarong and Shishou were their enemies in front of them, how did they withdraw so quickly? ”

Liu Wenfeng couldn't help sneering: "It doesn't matter where they were guarding the place, now they are defeated all the way, and in the end, we will follow the inverted frieze in front to wipe their butts." I heard that they have begun to retreat since yesterday, and the other two divisions of the 73rd Army withdrew earlier, and although the army suffered considerable losses, some people have withdrawn back. This temporary 5th Division was more miserable, and was ordered to stay behind the Shimen to block the enemy, but on the way to retreat after completing the task, it was attacked by devils, and basically died almost. Now these survivors have really picked up a life. ”

Gao Sledgehammer said coldly: "It's said that I picked up my life now, but it's still early." Shimen is only sixty or seventy miles away from us, and the devils are coming soon, and the devil troops that no one else can stop by an army, do you think we can stop it with one regiment alone? ”

Liu Wenfeng scolded and said: "Isn't Cili still the 51st Division and the 44th Army? With so many troops, you can't just count on our small independent regiment, right? When I came here, Shangfeng also said, only let us block here for a while, and if we can't stand it, we will retreat. When the sky falls, there is always a high top, and everything can't be relied on on us, right? ”

Shi turned a deaf ear to their dissatisfaction, he touched the stubble on his chin and said in a deep voice: "The friendly forces of the 44th Army and the 73rd Army should not be able to count on it, the troops that have lost the battle, even if the losses in the troops are not large, but the morale is definitely gone, a force without morale and the courage to win, what battle can be won?" To go to the battlefield is to send to death. We all know this, and Shangfeng must know it too. If this 44th Army can fight again, they will not give up Shimen and withdraw here directly, what are they doing when they retreat? Naturally, it continued to retreat under our cover. ”

When the two of them heard this, they couldn't help but snort coldly at the same time, as if they were angry when they talked about this issue.

At this time, Chief of Staff Wu Zihuai hurriedly rushed up, and as soon as he saw them, he hurriedly said: "It's good that the two battalion commanders are there, Tuanzuo, just now the brothers of the reconnaissance company came to report, and the devil has been killed in front of him." ”

Shi just nodded calmly, two years, the first battle after the independent regiment had rested for so long, and he could be considered to have been prepared. After resting for such a long time, whether the sword of the independent regiment is rusty or not, it depends on the battle in front of him, he took a deep breath, he tried not to think about other things, turned to Liu Wenfeng and said: "Crazy, this place will be handed over to your battalion, I will supervise the battle on the mountain, there has been no war for two years, I want to see what the little devil has become now!" ”

Although Liu Wenfeng was full of unhappiness before, but the devil had already rushed to the front, thinking of the upcoming battle, he also ignited the fighting spirit in his heart, he looked at the dust rising in the air in the distance, and said coldly: "Count these little devils down, it just happened that Lao Tzu was not in a good mood, so I used them as this punching bag!" ”

Mt. Akamatsu is tall and tall, and the mountains stretch. To the east and south are rolling hills, and there is no road at all. People can climb over on foot, but the weight of grain and grass cannot be crossed at all, so these places do not need to be fortified at all. The official road from Shimen to Cili is in the flat place north of Chisong Mountain and on the south bank of Yanshui.

In this way, the northernmost mountain range of Akamatsu Mountain is particularly important. As long as you hold this mountain, it is equivalent to choking the throat to Cili, and if the devil does not take this mountain, there is no way to ensure the safety of grain and grass. This road has such terrain and mountains all the way, but only the mountain of Chisong Mountain is the tallest and most steep, and the distance from Cili County is just right, making it an excellent frontier position.

At this time, seeing groups of scouts rushing from a distance, and listening to the sporadic gunshots in the distance, everyone couldn't help but get nervous. The officers and men of the first battalion are okay, although they have not fought for nearly two years, but they have obviously not forgotten their fighting instinct because they have been extremely experienced in combat. Feeling the atmosphere of the approaching battle, their originally somewhat unfamiliar feeling disappeared without a trace in vain, and all the soldiers couldn't help but be excited.

"Kill the devil......" I don't know which soldier couldn't help but roar, and then the soldiers of the battalion who heard the shouts roared one after another, this simple byte, this simple voice gathered more and more loud, and the more amazing it gathered, and finally converged into a torrent-like dragon, hovering over this sky, not only to surprise the Japanese scouts who had been close to inquire about the news, but also to surprise the friendly troops who withdrew around.

These people, who couldn't figure out the situation, first wanted to get into the woods in a panic, and instinctively thought that the devil had come to kill them. But they reacted immediately, and when they saw the army in front of them, everyone was brave, all of them were big shoulders and round rounds, and they couldn't help but be stunned.

Just now they just evacuated almost instinctively, numb like thoughtless walking corpses, but now they were roared by this voice, and they immediately came back to their senses, and their originally wooden eyes immediately regained their former brilliance. Immediately, they thought of the bloody battle before, and thought of the dead robed brothers, and they couldn't help but be angry.