"Lao Hu, no matter how anxious you are, you must not have rested much depending on your tiredness, or will you wash your face first and eat something before you have a meeting?"

Seeing that his old partner was tired, his eyes were flushed with some red threads, and there were obvious signs of dust on his body, all of which showed that Hu Yingze was in a hurry, and he must have rushed back to convey the important tasks of the division headquarters on the way without much rest. This made Zhang Qingshan both moved and admired, and couldn't help but persuade him.

"Forget it, let's hold a meeting first, and it is important to convey the important tasks of the division headquarters. Hu Yingze couldn't help but yawn and said with a smile: "Just use a hot towel to compress your face later, as for eating, isn't there a roasted sweet potato on the brazier? Just take two." ”

Looking at Hu Yingze's back, Zhang Qingshan opened his mouth, but he couldn't say a word.

When he arrived at the regiment command post, Zhang Qingshan hurriedly asked people to fetch hot water, and he personally selected two roasted sweet potatoes and ate them with Hu Yingze - he didn't eat breakfast properly, and now it was noon, and his stomach was already rumbling with hunger.

Seeing this, Tian Guozhong and Peng Peng, deputy commander of the Fourth Battalion (Luo Yingjie, commander of the Fourth Battalion, is also the director of the Intelligence Department, and is now operating in the four areas to establish a regular intelligence network. So, the two of them also consciously gathered around, took the initiative to pick two sweet potatoes, and ate them along.

In this way, the four of them started the meeting while eating sweet potatoes around the brazier and talking and laughing. On the other hand, Xiao Zhang, who was in charge of recording, waited while holding a pen and paper.

Since the meeting is held in such a way, there is no need for everyone to be serious, and according to the habits of the Chinese, it is naturally impossible to get down to business as soon as they come up.

After everyone finished eating the sweet potatoes in their hands in the chat, Zhang Qingshan said with a smile: "Lao Hu, I have eaten this and chatted, let's talk, what are the major instructions of the division headquarters?"

Hu Yingze glanced around suspiciously, and asked, "Lao Liu, why isn't he in the regiment headquarters?"

Tian Guozhong was about to open his mouth, but Zhang Qingshan was now anxious to know the order of the division headquarters, so he thought that this matter would not be clear for a while, or wait until he finished the order of the division headquarters to talk about it, so he took the first step to reply: "Recently, the little devil is restless, I asked Lao Liu to take the first battalion to go around, and by the way, I will train the soldiers of the first battalion." ”

During the war years, this kind of thing was normal, Hu Yingze did not doubt it, but nodded and said: "Forget it, the order of the division headquarters this time is very important, and we will have to gather the cadres above the company level in the regiment to hold a meeting to convey the instructions of the division headquarters." Now, let's have a ventilation meeting for the four of us, which can be regarded as preparing you in your hearts. ”

Peng Peng smiled when he heard this, his eyes flashed with excitement, and he opened his mouth to ask, "Old Hu, do you mean that you are going to fight a big battle?"

After Hu Yingze nodded solemnly, he turned around and grabbed his briefcase from the table, took out a document from it and handed it to Zhang Qingshan, and said to everyone: "There is only one document, and I haven't had time to copy it yet, so I'll briefly talk about the situation first...... When the organization summarized the reasons for the failure of the Battle of Xinkou, it was found that the weapons and ammunition of the little devils had always been sufficient, that is to say, during the Battle of Xinkou, the rear transportation and supply lines of the little devils basically did not suffer too much and decisive damage (after all, victories such as Pingxingguan were a few, and on the whole, the transportation and supply lines for the devils were indeed not greatly damaged as in the Battle of the Hundred Regiments). Therefore, in this Taiyuan Battle, the higher authorities ordered troops such as our assault regiment to go deep into the enemy-occupied areas in advance, mobilize all forces, and give full play to the fine tradition of guerrilla warfare of our Eighth Route Army, not only to ensure that their own strength does not suffer excessive losses, but also to deal a huge and heavy blow to the supply line of the devils, and to support the Taiyuan Battle from the side......"

When Hu Yingze finished speaking, Zhang Qingshan also roughly read the content of the document, which was basically similar to what Hu Yingze said. It's just that the mission on the document says 'if necessary, do whatever it takes,' instead of 'not only saving oneself from huge losses, but also dealing a heavy blow to the enemy,' as Hu Yingze said. However, at this time, Zhang Qingshan will never point this point out, and I believe that others will do the same, doesn't the old saying that 'military orders abroad will not be subject to certain things'?

He handed the document to Tian Guozhong on the left and asked Hu Yingze: "Old Hu, the battle of Taiyuan has begun?"

Hu Yingze lit a cigarette, took a puff, and said, "Counting today, it's been five days since the fight." ”

Zhang Qingshan's eyes sank, and after being silent for a while, he asked, "How is the combat effectiveness of the little devil?"

"As soon as the battle began, I was ordered to come back, so I don't know what the battle is going on. However, when it comes to the combat effectiveness of the little devils, Lao Zhang, Lao Tian, and Lao Peng, I will tell you the truth......" Speaking of this, Hu Yingze glanced left and right slightly. But this kind of action made Zhang Qingshan's hearts sink: Hu Yingze's action obviously didn't want others to hear the next words, that is, the next words would definitely not sound good, otherwise, how could Hu Yingze do this?

"I won't say much about weapons, everyone knows it in their hearts. As far as my personal feeling is concerned, the little devils are better than us in terms of individual quality and overall cooperation. Speaking of which, Hu Yingze picked up a roasted sweet potato and waited while peeling the sweet potato. But he didn't hear anyone ask, he looked up at everyone suspiciously, and saw that everyone was staring at him with wide eyes, and he smiled bitterly: "Don't look at me like that, I'm telling the truth." If you don't believe me, I'll tell you something. ”

"Didn't we never fight the little devil head-on? I wondered how the comrades who had fought with the devil and what their evaluation of the little devil's combat effectiveness was...... In the interval between meetings at the division headquarters, I made a few special trips to the hospital, and one of the soldiers told me about his first confrontation with the little devil. Speaking of this, Hu Yingze remembered something, paused, sighed, and said, "He almost cried and told me about his experience." He was stabbed in the abdomen by a little devil's bayonet, but he cried to me while holding his stomach and enduring the pain. You don't know, at that time, I thought it was really mixed and uncomfortable. ”

Although Zhang Qingshan and the three of them all frowned, they nodded almost uniformly, and they all just shut up, looking at Hu Yingjie directly, waiting to hear the tragic story.

This person's name is Zhou Bo, and he is a deputy squad leader of the second battalion of a regiment of the 120th Division of the Eighth Route Army.

The battalion is responsible for holding back the devils and gaining time for the main force to deploy.

At the beginning of the battle, the dense artillery of the little devils and the non-stop covering fire let them know that this battle was difficult to fight. However, because the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, the predecessor of the Eighth Route Army, was often bombed by Lao Chiang when he was fighting with Lao Chiang in the past, he had already gained some experience in dodging shells. Therefore, although the artillery attack of the little devil is much more intensive and longer than that of Lao Jiang's, everyone has long been prepared in this regard, although they feel that the little devil is difficult to fight, but they do not have much burden in their hearts.

However, as soon as the artillery fire stopped, the little devils rushed up with a roar.

As soon as the two sides fired, they were immediately startled by the little devil's individual soldier quality...... In Zhou Bo's evaluation, 'the little devil has a strong reaction ability and good marksmanship' - the recruits of the Eighth Route Army want to shoot with live ammunition, but they are suffering from running out of bullets. And the recruits of the little devils can't be lazy if they want to be lazy when they shoot live ammunition, and if they don't fill the prescribed amount of ammunition, they will be severely punished, and they will be severely punished if they can't shoot accurately. Comparing the two, at the overall level of shooting, the advantages and disadvantages are clear at a glance (I try my best to restore the real situation fairly, and will not make up nonsense like a divine drama, which is harmful, very detrimental to the future of the Chinese people, and disrespectful to history).

Don't look at the little devils swarming in, it seems chaotic, but if you look closely, you will be surprised to find that the little devils are really in place in terms of cooperating with each other: they are in groups of three or five, which can not only increase a certain attack power, but also support each other.

Fortunately, the second battalion was also full of veterans of Yishui who had been tested by the fire of war for a long time, and after a fierce battle, they repelled the first wave of attacks from the little devils.

Subsequently, it became that the little devils first bombarded with shells, followed by the infantry charges of the little devils, and then were repulsed by the second battalion.

In this way, it seems that the required time for retreat can be maintained, but the problem is that a huge problem is in front of everyone - the war is fought in terms of strength, especially economic and industrial strength, and in this regard, our side was seriously lacking at that time. So, when the fourth charge of the little devil was repulsed, everyone basically ran out of ammunition.

The military order is too big to be in the sky, and the time for retreat has not yet arrived, so who dares to retreat? But if they don't retreat, there will be no bullets, and besides, the second battalion has already suffered more than half of the casualties so far, what should we do?

can only use the old method to engage in the most cruel and iron-blooded battle on the battlefield with the little devils - white-knuckle combat!

Some people say that the brave one who meets on the Xi'an Road wins! This is true, but the problem is that if the two teams that meet on the narrow road are brave warriors, at this time, it is only courage that fights, and there are more factors, such as weapons and equipment, such as hard training in ordinary times, such as on-the-spot play, and so on.

deliberately put the little devil into the thirty meters, and shot out all the last bullets and grenades, and then, taking advantage of the opportunity that the little devil was busy dodging, the remaining soldiers of the second battalion, including the wounded who could still move, all took up their weapons, shouted and rushed over, and fought a white-knuckle battle with the little devil!

The little devils have been under the influence of bushido for a long time, so it is naturally impossible for them to be defeated by the Eighth Route Army, on the contrary, they also roared and greeted them.

The two brave teams collided in this way.

Originally, the soldiers of the Eighth Route Army thought that the reason why the little devil was so powerful was that he was relying on advanced weapons and better training in peacetime, while his side had many years of white-knuckle warfare tradition, and his experience in fighting bayonets was extremely rich - when fighting with Lao Jiang, the weapons were not as good as the other party, the economy was not as good as the other party, and when he fought, he could only make up for it from other aspects, so he had the most classic melee fighting style of the Eighth Route Army. At the critical moment, let the enemy get close, and then throw a wave of grenades first, taking advantage of the opportunity of the dust when the grenade exploded and the enemy dodged in a panic and had no time to shoot, swarming up and rushing up to "...... "no robbery, no artillery, the enemy made for us" This lyric is sung and feels relaxed, but if you savor it carefully, you can feel the helplessness and grief of the guerrillas at that time, as well as the iron blood.

However, what surprised them was that the little devil's white-knuckle combat ability was so strong!