When the messenger sent by Wu Zijian rushed from Pegasus in Hekou Village to Xiping, where the battalion headquarters was located, just as the offensive and defensive battle here was coming to an end, several Japanese soldiers who rushed up in the night retreated in the night. Seeing this, the correspondent also understood that the fierce battle that broke out in Hekou Village was by no means accidental, and that it should be a premeditated and organized surprise attack by the Japanese army specifically targeting the base area of the Eighth Route Army.

On the bank of the Qinglong River in Xiping Village, the communicator met Liu Shu, and the instructor was urging the recruit company that had not yet been assembled. This recruit company, which was composed of the children of the peasants in the village, had not been officially fired for less than three days before it caught up with the sudden battle, and it could not help but look nervous and hectic. Before, Liu Shu had already asked the battalion commander to personally serve as the company commander of the recruit company, and Feng Changzhi agreed without thinking about it at that time.

But Liu Shu's mood at this time was like knocking over the five-flavor bottle.

Being able to successfully serve as the commander of the recruit company - he is already preparing to name it the new 5th company - makes Liu Shu secretly excited, in the past, he only existed as a political work cadre, but in the future, it is obviously different, if there is a team in his hands that can be assigned to him, the right to speak in the battalion headquarters will naturally increase. He hated the arrogance of Wu Zijian, the deputy battalion commander, who had always supported the army and respected himself and did not take himself seriously. This phenomenon is about to become history!

However, the battle that has begun tonight is uncertain; There is no answer to the question of how many enemies have come and what kind of attacks they have. The recruit company has just been completed, and most of the training it has completed is basic subjects such as parades and drills, and rifles with an average of two people and one rifle have just been issued, and professional militarized training has not yet been carried out, so there is no combat effectiveness. Liu Shu is worried that relying on the enthusiasm for joining the army brought about by the rent and interest reduction policy, it is not easy to pull up such a team, but don't die in the cruel war!

With complicated thoughts, Liu Shu sharply reprimanded some recruits who were not in place, while nervously listening to the movements in the west of the village. Thankfully, the gunfire over there had finally subsided: the incoming enemy had been repulsed by the battalion commander and the 6th Company led by Wang Shuanglong.

When the recruit company was hurriedly assembled, on the other side of the Qinglong River, the 7th company was led by the company commander and instructor to prepare for battle; A platoon of men and horses of the cavalry company was also on standby with the 7th company.

Another platoon of the cavalry company led by Xia Lianshan was originally going to rush to Hekou Village to inquire about the situation, but as soon as Xiping started here, he changed his original intention and decisively led the platoon to gallop out from the village head in the north (the village head of Xiping Village, like Hekou Village, drove at the north end of the village) and turned to the flank of the attacking enemy army to carry out the attack.

Finally, the gunfire subsided, and the village of Kawaguchi, shrouded in darkness, waited anxiously for the fate of the next.

Feng Changzhi was still immersed in fear.

It's so dangerous! If he and the 6th Company had been slower for a minute just now, the enemy's advance might have penetrated into the village. Although it was not clear what the enemy was looking at, the Japanese shouts that sounded from the opposite side confirmed that it was undoubtedly the Japanese army.

Fortunately, there was timely support from the artillery squad. After this encounter was fully fired, the number of Japanese troops who swarmed in was completely beyond the ability of the 6th Company to block the attack, and as long as it fought for a while, the 6th Company really could not withstand the Japanese soldiers' charge. But the large and small cannons of Zhao Yejiao's artillery squad finally saved the entire defense line in the west of the village, and Feng Changzhi personally felt the shells flying from behind him, and listened to them explode in the distance on the opposite side. At that moment, the commander of the second battalion was glad that he resolutely did not agree to the instructor's motion to replace the artillery squad leader.

When the battle came to an end, the commander of the 7th company also came up with a few people, and Feng Changzhi ordered him to immediately return to the 7th company to divide the troops, and sent two platoons to the head of the village and the end of the village to guard, led by the company commander and the deputy company commander respectively; The instructor led the remaining two platoons to stand by the Qinglong River.

Taking advantage of the temporary subsidence of the battle, Feng Changzhi handed over the defense line west of the village to the command of Wang Shuanglong, the commander of the 6th company, and hurriedly ran to the headquarters of the land temple camp. When running to the frozen Qinglong River, the instructor Liu Shu anxiously stepped forward, with the help of a few lit torches, Feng Changzhi recognized at a glance a soldier leading a horse beside the instructor, who was the battalion headquarters to follow Wu Zijian's correspondent, and before he could ask a question, Liu Shu shouted angrily:

"Battalion commander, it's been figured out! It was Deputy Battalion Commander Wu who attacked without authorization from the battalion headquarters and attracted the Japanese puppet army! ”

Feng Changzhi was stunned, and didn't understand the meaning of the instructor's words for a while: Lao Wu's side attacked without authorization, how did he lead the devil here?!

Liu Shu excitedly pulled the arm of the messenger sent by Wu Zijian, and continued to shout to Feng Changzhi: "I just asked him, the 5th Company did fight with the Japanese puppet army first, and our sentry heard the sound of gunfire from the direction of Hekou Village before, it was Deputy Battalion Commander Wu who was exchanging fire with the enemy. This Wu Zijian, without reporting to the battalion headquarters for approval, actually ran to Fengdian with the entire 5th Company, and wanted to jointly attack Xiaoyushu Mountain with the Kuomintang Central Army! ”

The more the commander of the second battalion listened, the more confused he became, he had no idea that Wu Zijian had made a series of actions in Hekou Village these days; And the correspondent sent by Wu Zijian did not have a complete grasp of the situation; Just now, under Liu Shu's fierce interrogation, the young correspondent felt a burst of panic, so he made a lot of omissions in his story. Wu Zijian sent him Pegasus to report that Hekou Village was attacked by the cavalry of the puppet Mongolian army at night, and the enemy situation was unknown, so Xiping Village should be on guard in advance.

Feng Changzhi stopped the instructor's venting, dragged the messenger aside, and asked in detail, which roughly clarified the idea: the night attack of the Japanese puppet army on Hekou Village and Xiping Village was not caused by Wu Zijian's unauthorized attack; His attack was originally in vain, but on the way back, he encountered the puppet Mongolian cavalry who were about to launch a night attack.

Is it providence?

The commander of the second battalion broke out in a cold sweat again. If it weren't for Wu Zijian and his 5 companies of ghosts to meet the puppet Mongolian army, if Hekou Village hadn't started in advance, then tonight for the two base areas of the Second Battalion of the Eighth Route Army's Forest Division, I'm afraid they would have suffered a catastrophe!

"Is there only the cavalry of the puppet Mongolian army? Are there any devils? Feng Changzhi continued to ask Wu Zijian's correspondent.

"Report to the battalion commander, I don't know," the messenger who had already been reprimanded by the instructor replied cautiously: "I did not follow Deputy Battalion Commander Wu and the 5th Company to Little Elm Mountain. ”

It's the cavalry of the puppet Mongolian army again!

Feng Changzhi remembered that in the previous stage, it was a cavalry battalion of the puppet Mongolian army that wandered to Hekou Village and was ruthlessly cleaned up by the 5th Company. On that occasion, they were supposed to be wandering around aimlessly, and there were no Japanese troops following; But tonight, this traitor cavalry obviously wanted to take the initiative to launch a sneak attack; Since it was the Japanese army who came to attack Xiping, it is very likely that there were also Japanese troops outside Hekou Village and behind the puppet Mongolian army.

This will be a big battle, a big battle that will decide the life and death of the base area of the Eighth Route Army in Guanmen Mountain. The commander of the second battalion meditated silently in his heart.

Just now, Feng Changzhi was still worried about whether his troops at hand could hold the village - judging from the battle, the number of incoming Japanese troops was definitely above the hundreds - now, he was even more worried about his old comrade-in-arms Wu Zijian's side, a mere company, even if it was the main company, it was difficult to deal with an enemy force that was one or two times or more than his own.

The commander of the second battalion decided to immediately send troops to support Hekou Village.

He told the instructor that the two platoons that were going to let the 7th Company on standby in front of him, plus the entire cavalry company, led by the cavalry company commander Xia Lianshan and the instructor of the 7th Company, rushed to Hekou Village at full speed to help.

"I disagree!"

Liu Shu, who was still angry, felt that his brain was about to explode: this unruly Wu Zijian, who didn't know how to keep to himself, had a catastrophe in the end! The scene that I had been most worried about and that destroyed the good situation in the Guanmenshan Base Area still happened. Hekou and Xiping were attacked at night almost at the same time, and the Japanese puppet army obviously concentrated heavy troops and came prepared. What to do?!

"If it weren't for Deputy Battalion Commander Wu's repeated serious violations of discipline and unauthorized attacks, how could it have caused such a grim situation now?" Liu Shu still shouted at Feng Changzhi bitterly: "Now that he has caused trouble, do you want us to clean up the mess for him?" You sent all the cavalry and even those troops to the village of Hekou, what should we do here? Are you sure to hold Xiping? ”

Feng Changzhi was very dissatisfied with Liu Shu's attitude, especially the current enemy, and he was still complaining in front of so many commanders and fighters, which was too inconsistent with the identity of an instructor. But now is obviously not the time to worry about these, the commander of the second battalion endured the unhappiness in his heart and said to Liu Shu:

"We have artillery squad support here, and the firepower is strong enough; Just now, it was only thanks to their artillery fire on the outskirts of Zhao Yejiao that the depth of the attacking enemy army was disrupted, and the position at the west end of the village was stabilized. The fact that the Japanese retreated under artillery fire shows that their attack power is not so strong. In my opinion, with the 6th company of Ssangyong, plus the main force of the 7th company, it should be possible to hold the village. ”

When Feng Changzhi said this, his tone revealed a trace of hesitation: in all fairness, at this moment, he really didn't dare to guarantee that Xiping Village would definitely be able to defend it.

Liu Shu sensitively caught the battalion commander's hesitation, and immediately retorted: "It should be possible?" My comrade brother, is this time for ambiguity? Our Xiping Village has a health team, a field mobilization committee, a newly established recruit company, a large number of baggage, and even Japanese prisoners! Have you thought about it, if you can't hold it, what if you can't fight? ”

Feng Changzhi suddenly became annoyed. In normal times, he can accept all kinds of lectures from instructors, but at this moment, he lost this patience when he was anxious and nervous:

"I'm the military commander, I'm in charge! Reinforcements must be sent to the village of Hekou. Here, I will defend it with my life, and when I die, your instructor will be on top! ”