After nearly nine hours of galloping, at about 10 o'clock in the morning of the next day, Qi Zhenjia and his entourage rode their horses into Guangren County and arrived at the headquarters of the Self-Defense Army. The headquarters was empty, except for the adjutant on duty who wore his hat crookedly and wiped his gun, and could hardly feel the atmosphere of war.

Qi Zhenjia was very angry, and with a horsewhip, he pulled off the hat on the adjutant's head, and asked sharply:

"What about Wu Qijing? What about the people here? Are you fucking dead? ”

The adjutant trembled with fright:

"Report ...... Deputy Commander of the Report, Wu ...... Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces in ...... In the ...... Telephone room, its ...... Others don't ...... I don't know. ”

Qi Zhenjia pointed out the door with a horsewhip:

"Get the Chief of Staff to see me immediately!"

"Yes! Be! ”

The adjutant exited the door in response.

Tired and thirsty, Qi Zhenjia poured a glass of water, poured down his stomach with "goo, goo", wiped the water beads from his mouth and said to Zhang Kui, who was walking with him:

"These dogs should be shot! I don't know what the southern front has become like now, they are so comfortable in the rear! ”

Zhang Kui said suspiciously:

"The ...... Nothing should happen! Wu Qijing is not a very arrogant person, he doesn't stay at the headquarters at this time, and runs to the telephone room, I'm afraid it's ......"

Qi Zhenjia didn't expect the telephone room to be bombed at that time, and Zhang Kui mentioned the telephone room, but he didn't put it in his heart. He thought that Wu Qijing was guarding the telephone room, just to convey and issue orders faster.

Unexpectedly, after a while, the adjutant came in a hurry with Wu Qijing. Wu Qijing had bandages wrapped around his arms, his face was covered with sweat, and when he saw him, he cried out:

"Zhenjia, I'...... I'm ashamed of my grandfather! I didn't ...... this old camp Didn't keep it well! ”

He was shocked:

"What's going on?"

Wu Qijing said in frustration:

"Let's ...... The two telephone rooms of our Guangren and Qinghe were bombed! Qinghe was bombed at about four o'clock in the night, and Guangren was bombed at almost six o'clock here......"

His eyes were dark, and he felt that the sky was dark.

"Out of ...... After the accident, I ...... I immediately arranged for someone to search for the suspects, and I personally ...... Go to the computer room here to organize emergency repairs......"

He asked in a daze:

"Can it still be fixed?"

Wu Qijing shook his head:

"Only...... I'm afraid that it won't be repaired, and the whole ...... The whole computer room was blown up! ”

He tried his best to calm down his emotions, and was stunned for a long time before he asked again:

"So, we can't make phone contact with Shirakawa and Rittle?"

"Yes...... Yes! ”

"When was the last time you spoke on the phone with Shirakawa and Rittle? What's the battle going on over there? ”

Wu Qijing thought for a moment:

"At about five o'clock in the evening, Gong Qi called to inquire about the convening of the reserve army, and asked me to quickly send the guns and ammunition from the stock of the Guangqing Agricultural Machinery Factory to the reserve army, so that it could effectively undertake the task of garrisoning the rear. The meaning of the Duke of Qi is probably to pull the Seventh Brigade that was originally planned to be placed in Kuishan to Ji County......"

He interrupted Wu Qijing's words irritably:

"I asked how the battle was going over there?"

"That'...... Over there? No ...... over there. Not so clear! While...... It was only five o'clock, so I guess there wasn't any big move, right?! Then I didn't know. ”

It made him anxious. Looking at his watch, it was almost eleven o'clock, and he estimated that neither the rift river nor the white river would be calm, and the 37th Division and the 523rd Brigade of the Nationalist Army were already pressed there, and perhaps the 38th Division would also be pressed, so that the battle would be even more fierce than yesterday. Of course, there is another possibility: the telegram dictated by my father last night worked, and Chongqing ordered a truce,—— but this is extremely unlikely. The father lied to Chongqing, and Chongqing will also lie to the father, they will not trust each other, so the only way to solve the problem is war!

From the war on the southern front, I thought of the war on the northern front. The northern front will not be safe and sound, the Japanese Major General Shimizu and the Chi Nanjiao of the Kuang Han Righteous Army are not fuel-efficient lamps, and their promises and righteous anger are worthless in the face of actual interests. As long as they can get benefits, they will never spare the lives of soldiers and the guns and bullets in their hands.

immediately raised his question:

"Chief of Staff Wu, do you think who did the bombing of the telephone room?"

Wu Qijing said:

"So far, I haven't caught a live mouth, and when the accident happened, one was killed, wearing a self-defense army uniform."

He asked:

"Could it be someone sent by Chi Nanjiao?"

Wu Qijing thought for a while:

"Possibly!"

As he was talking, the roar of the plane's motor sounded faintly outside, and a guard ran in to report that the plane was flying low and could see the sun flag on the fuselage.

"Japanese planes!"

He blurted out.

"Looks like there's something wrong with the northern front!"

Wu Qijing also said.

He immediately realized his responsibility, and he couldn't care about the telephone room anymore, so he hurriedly said hello to Wu Qijing, and rushed out the door to get on the horse.

Wu Qijing chased outside the door and shouted:

"Zhenjia, be careful here! The relationship between the 4th and 5th Brigades and Sun Zhongxiao is extraordinary......"

He rode on his horse and reined in the reins:

"Know! Let's go to the Northern Front Command right away, there are two of us pressed there, forgive them for not daring to make trouble! ”

Wu Qijing said again:

"The situation in the north must be told to me in time, and I will send someone to tell the Duke of Qi so that I can make a decision!"

He turned around and nodded:

"Good! I will also be informed of the situation of the battle in Shirakawa and Shirakawa at any time! ”

After that, he finally waved his hand to Wu Qijing, and led a group of people who came with him to gallop out of the headquarters compound.

It was about 11:40 p.m.

At 2:15 p.m., while drinking and eating in Luoma Village, I saw three Japanese planes again, flying from north to south.

At 3:20 p.m., when I was passing through the border checkpoints of Lushan and Neishan County, I saw only one Japanese plane for the third time, and it flew very low, almost passing over their heads.

At 4:40, when he arrived at Shelu County, he unexpectedly saw Chi Nanjiao, commander of the Kuang Han Righteous Army, and his adjutant in the headquarters of the Northern Front of the Self-Defense Army. Wu Tianxiong, who is the commander of the Fifth Brigade of the Self-Defense Army, was bowing his head and bowing his waist to light a cigarette for Chi Nanjiao, and Wu Tianxiong himself also choked on his mouth.

He was furious, pulled out his spear, and pointed it at Wu Tianxiong's back, but unexpectedly, the hand holding the gun was grabbed by Wu Tianxiong's guards, and the muzzle of the gun was raised in the air.

Chi Nanjiao seemed to have expected him to come this way, and he was not surprised when he heard the gunshot, so he slowly stood up with his big belly, walked to his side and said:

"Deputy Commander, don't get angry! Running from all the way to the line of fire of the Split River, tired and tired, and having such a big fire again, but it will hurt the body! ”

He didn't pay attention to Chi Nanjiao at all, and only shouted at Wu Tianxiong:

"Brigadier Wu, are you fucking reversed? The commander is all of us, for the more than 400,000 people of Guangqing on the southern front, you dare to openly collaborate with the enemy on the northern front! ”

Wu Tianxiong didn't buy it at all, and scolded with his waist crossed:

"Who's a collaborator? Who is the enemy? My day your ancestors are eighteen generations, when Lao Tzu and your Lao Tzu pull the militia group, you are still playing ** mile on dog days! Now it's your turn to teach Lao Tzu?! ”

He gritted his teeth in anger:

"Lao Tzu is the deputy commander!"

Wu Tianxiong said contemptuously:

"Your deputy commander Lao Tzu can also feel a lot of it by touching the crotch of his legs!"

He roared:

"Sooner or later, Lao Tzu will kill you!"

Chi Nanjiao filled up the peacemaker:

"Forget it! Forget it! Why bother? At the moment of the enemy, let's sum up a strategy to retreat from the enemy! You also scolded him, he also scolded you, no one scolded anyone, a gust of wind blew away, two clear, let's talk about business now! ”

He stared at him and asked sensitively:

"What are you talking about? You, Chi Nanjiao, are the commander of the Kuang Han Righteous Army, and I, Yan Zhenjia, are the commander of the Self-Defense Army, what do we have to talk about? ”

Chi Nanjiao said with a smile:

"You can't say that! I, Chi, am the commander of the Kuang Han Justice Army, and I am still Chinese, so the Chinese naturally don't want to fight the Chinese! The commander of the Qingshui Brigade asked me to fight, and Commander Li of the Theater Commander's Department asked me to fight, but I can't fight! That's why I'm here with you myself! I'd like to talk to you! Deputy Commander, you don't know how to bite Lu Dongbin and don't know good people! ”

He was stunned by Chi Nanjiao's words, and was silent for a while before he asked hesitantly:

"So Commander Chi doesn't want to take advantage of people's danger?"

"Of course! Of course! Gong Qi, Deputy Commander Sun and I all have friendships! I'm in the pool, someone is in Cao Ying, and my heart is in Han! How can you do such a lack of morality?! But the Japanese and Commander Li are forcing me, I can't help it! ”

Chi Nanjiao once again mentioned Commander Li of the Theater Commander's Department, which aroused his vigilance:

"Is Commander Chi also related to Commander Li of the National Army?"

Chi Nanjiao said with a big grin:

"Yes! Absolutely! I said, I'm in Cao Ying's heart in Han! Commander Li was my commander in the New 47th Army in the past, can I not listen to the greetings?! ”

He was shocked and immediately thought that this war had been planned for a long time, and his father, who was good at plotting, had been swallowed up by an even bigger conspiracy.

Sure enough, Chi Nanjiao said again:

"The 37th Division and the 38th Division are fighting from the south to the north, and Commander Li told me to fight from the north to the south. I can't say I won't fight, I said to the people sent by Commander Li, I'll fight, fight! Fight to Kuishan and join the national army, and also form the national army, it's anyway! ”

He managed to calm down, and said without being salty:

"I'm afraid that the road from shooting deer to Kuishan is not easy, right?"

Chi Nanjiao didn't seem to understand the meaning of the words, and said again and again:

"Yes! Yes! It's not easy to walk! It will take at least two days to walk the main road, and of course, the vanguard on horseback can be faster......"

He sharply interrupted Chi Nanjiao's words:

"I mean, the front line of deer shooting is pressing the four brigades and twenty-three regiments of my self-defense army, and you have to push away the corpses of more than 20,000 of my officers and soldiers before you can step into the realm of deer shooting!"

Chi Nanjiao smiled:

"Deputy Commander, isn't it two brigades and eleven regiments? Where did the four brigades and twenty-three regiments come from? Yes! Could it be that your brother can play tricks and conjure up two brigades and twelve regiments from his pocket? Jokes! Don't be honest! I, Chi, pay attention to honesty in life! How can we work together without honesty? ”

His face turned red all at once, and he was speechless for a moment.

Chi Nanjiao said again:

"I'm very honest today, what do you say! Just now I only talked about Commander Li, and I didn't say anything about the Japanese. The Japanese want me to do it too! General Shimizu summoned me to a meeting at the headquarters of the Imperial Army yesterday and asked me to attack the deer at dawn tomorrow at the latest. The Imperial Army assisted in the air and sent a wing to the rear. Commander Ding of our Second Division said that the Imperial Army only sent out one wing, which was too small. I said, fuck off, the Imperial Army has helped us fight less? Why are we embarrassed to drag down the imperial army again?! The Imperial Army has something to do with the Imperial Army! I made a guarantee to Shimizu Taijun and promised that I would attack Kuishan in front of the national army. ”

He was really confused, he really couldn't figure out the true face of Chi Nanjiao, was this commander engaging in curves to save the country, or was he being a traitor?

"I said to Qing Shui Taijun, I only need the imperial army to send a few planes to cheer in the sky, and I don't want the imperial army to send a single soldier on the ground, and I will be allowed to end the war in three days, and invite Taijun to Guangren City to eat mountain delicacies! Taijun was happy and said, "Okay, this battle will be handed over to your Kuang Han Righteous Army to fight......"

No matter what Chi Nanjiao has in his bones, he must have fought this battle, and he attacked and shot the deer to carry out the orders of Commander Li of the national army and the orders of the Japanese.

Chi Nanjiao said that this is for the sake of the Self-Defense Army:

"Deputy Commander, I'm doing this all for you! Why should I fight? If you don't fight, you can't do it! If you don't fight the Japanese, you can't spare me, and Commander Li can't spare me, since it has reached the point where it has to be attacked, is it still better for me to fight than the Japanese and the army for the peaceful construction of the country? I have a relationship with Gong Yan and Deputy Commander Sun, can I really fight? You can't really fight! It's really beaten, one hurts feelings, two is bad righteousness, and three is also a lose! If my men and horses are gone, the Japanese and Commander Li will not treat me as a master, and if your men and horses are gone, local autonomy will not be possible, is this the truth? ”

He said lukewarmly:

"Commander Chi isn't stupid!"

Chi Nanjiao's two big hands patted:

"Where's the word, compared to Gong Yan, I'm inferior to the old nose! In the autumn of the twenty-eighth year, when I visited him for the first time, I said to him......"

He didn't have the heart to talk nonsense with Chi Nanjiao, and he didn't wait for Chi Nanjiao to finish speaking:

"Commander Chi, I haven't understood what you mean, you want to fight for a while, and you won't fight for a while, do you want to fight or not?"

Chi Nanjiao was anxious:

"Oops, why haven't you understood yet?! A peaceful settlement, of course! Of course not! Brother, you open the net and let me in, we won't win this battle if we don't fight! ”

Surprised, he asked:

"Who's going to win?"

Chi Nanjiao laughed on his back:

"We can win whoever we want – oh! No! No! Whoever wins, we'll win! The national army on the Chongqing side won, and we are saving the country anyway; The Japanese won, let's obey the order and carry out the Great East Asian Holy War......"

"So, what if the SDF wins?"

Chi Nan Jiao's feet:

"Wouldn't that be better? Let's support Commander Qi, from the northern front to the southern front is armed support! You also said that the local autonomy engaged in by the Gong Gong is still a bit interesting! As long as he gives me a deputy commander in the future, I will guarantee that I have the ability to deal with the Japanese and Commander Lee......"

What a bastard!

He forcibly suppressed the anger in his heart and said gloomily:

"What if I'm going to fight?"

Chi Nanjiao confidently said:

"Why do you want to fight? You don't have to fight at all! What are the benefits of hitting? Not to mention the loss of both sides, the people of the eight counties of Guangqing will also suffer! Besides, as long as there are a dozen, local autonomy will not be able to be carried out in the future! I told Shimizu Taijun that if you cooperate with us this time, as long as you change the flag of Wang ** after the war is over, can local autonomy still be engaged......"

He couldn't control himself anymore, pulled out his gun and yelled at Chi Nanjiao's nose:

"Fart! Your surname Chi is willing to be a traitor, but Lao Tzu is unwilling! Come on! Arrest the one surnamed Chi for me! ”

Unexpectedly, Wu Tianxiong's guards did not arrest Chi Nanjiao, but restrained him and Zhang Kui. It was only then that he realized that there was not a single guard he had brought with him.

Chi Nanjiao smiled:

"I said don't fight, you just don't fight! Brigadier Wu and I have already negotiated! That's what I just said, and they agreed! ”

He struggled and shouted:

"The brethren will not listen to you!"

Wu Tianxiong sneered:

"Brothers, if you don't listen to me and Commander Chi, you can listen to Commander Qi! I said that Commander Qi wanted the Fifth Brigade to go to the Split River, which of them would dare to disobey?! ”

Chi Nanjiao also said proudly:

"Brother Wu, did Gong Qi still say that someone from my pool entered the country to help him fight the national army? Are we allies? ”

Wu Tianxiong said:

"Got it!"

Chi Nan Jiao's hand spread:

"Look, you're one step late, and that's it! I'm a little sorry for your brother! ”

Only then did he realize that he was all finished, and he jumped into the trap set by Chi Nanjiao and Wu Tianxiong, and it was no one else who paved the way for him to go to the trap, it was his father who was smart and confused for a while, if his father hadn't adjusted the self-defense forces to listen to him alone, the history of this incident might have to be rewritten. Now it is too late, and the history of the future has been written irrevocably while he has fallen into the trap.

At 6 o'clock in the evening of the same day, all the three divisions of the puppet Kuang Han Righteous Army crossed the defensive line one after another, with the Fifth Brigade of the Self-Defense Army as the vanguard, and quickly moved south......