More than ten days passed in the blink of an eye, and the battle in another time and space was still going on, Gu Hao and Gong Haimei still hadn't gotten any news about Nuwa Stone, and they even began to wonder if Ziwei was mistaken.

The officers and men of the 10th Army defending the city had suffered more than eighty percent of the casualties, the ammunition was almost exhausted, and the fish, shrimp and duckweed in the pond behind the position had long been eaten up by the hungry soldiers.

Some people were so hungry that they risked their lives to go into the range of the Japanese soldiers to pick pumpkins, and all of them were shot and died!

On July 22, the Ninth Theater concentrated troops west of the Xiangjiang River to attack the Japanese army attacking Hengcheng, hoping to tear a gap and send reinforcements into the city.

The 62nd Army of the reinforcements once broke through to Hengcheng West Railway Station, but suffered heavy casualties under the resistance of the 40th Division of the Japanese Army, and temporarily retreated after running out of ammunition.

The main forces of the 79th Army and the 74th Army and the 319th Division of the 12th Army were also blocked from the interception line of the 40th Division of the Japanese State and were unable to enter the city for a long time.

On the 41st day, Commander Fang received two telegrams: one was from the chairman of the committee, saying that "reinforcements will reach the outskirts of the city in a few days"; the other was from Fang Xianshou, the younger brother of Commander Fang, with the content that "the 62nd Army and the 79th Army have been ordered to relieve the siege of Hengyang, and now they are breaking through the enemy's blockade and approaching Hengcheng.

On the same day, the air force planes of the Stars and Stripes Kingdom once again airdropped the warrant of the supreme commander to the defenders of Hengcheng, informing them that "reinforcements from all walks of life have arrived at the predetermined line of Ertang, Jialipo, Lujialing, and Qilishan this morning as scheduled, and the air force will be ordered to cover and strictly supervise the advance of the army."

"Reinforcements are finally here!" At this time, Commander Fang Xianjue had not rested for many days. His eyes were red, and he said excitedly as he looked at the chairman's warrant.

Commander Fang urgently ordered Li Huating, commander of the special service battalion, the only remaining battalion, to rush out of the city with a commando team of 150 people and go to Wuliting outside the city to receive reinforcements.

However, the 79th Army reached the vicinity of Wangcheng Pass and was unable to advance a single step in many fierce battles with the 40th Division of the Japanese Army.

The 62nd Army fought a white-knuckle battle with the 234th Wing of the Japanese Army, giving the wing a devastating blow, but there were many casualties in the battle, and the remnants of the Japanese army who relied on the fortifications to hold their positions were not annihilated, and they were blocked outside the Japanese interception line, and failed to rush to Wuliting to join Li Huating.

Three days later, Li Huating, who had already broken out of the encirclement, did not take the opportunity to leave the isolated city of Hengcheng, resolutely turned his horse's head and led everyone to kill him again.

Fang Xianjue said helplessly: "Hey, these 150 people can rush out of the city and kill them back, but tens of thousands of reinforcements outside can't get close?

"Hold for three more days, and reinforcements will enter the city. Commander Fang looked at the telegram he had just received from the chairman, waved his hand and sighed.

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The chief looked at the map and said hatefully: "Okay, you 74th Army! At the beginning, you were surrounded by Japanese troops in Changde, and our 10th Army rushed to save you at any cost, and finally sacrificed a division commander to help you break the siege, and now we are holding Hengcheng for more than 40 days, why can't you get in?"

"Captain Fang, there is a saying...... I don't know if I should talk about it?" said Master Cai, after hesitating for a moment.

After Fang Xianjue nodded, Division Commander Cai looked at the other division commanders and staff officers and said: "The chairman ordered our army to hold Hengcheng for 2 weeks, and now we have been guarding it for 44 days, which can be regarded as a worthy mission; at present, there are less than 1,000 soldiers who can pick up guns, and there are 100,000 Japanese troops outside the city, and reinforcements can't come in, so it's better to break through as soon as possible!"

Several staff officers and two division commanders nodded in agreement after listening to Division Commander Cai's words.

Fang Xianjue hesitated for a moment and then said: "We still have the strength to break through the encirclement, we can go out! But do you still remember the wounded barracks that fell a few days ago, and more than 1,000 wounded soldiers who had not had time to transfer were strafed by the Japanese with machine guns, and none of them were spared! If we break through, will the remaining 5,000 wounded soldiers still be alive? Back then, Division Commander Yu could break through the encirclement by himself regardless of the wounded soldiers, but I, Fang Xianjue, couldn't do it! Even if I want to die, I will die with my subordinates!"

After Fang Xianjue finished speaking, he looked at several division commanders and staff officers, sighed and continued: "I am determined to stay, you can break through with 150 people with Battalion Commander Li at night!"

Several staff officers and division commanders were ashamed when they heard Commander Fang's words, and they were unwilling to leave their wounded subordinates to break through. They all wrote suicide notes, vowing to fight until the last moment, live and die with their subordinates, and live and die with Hengcheng!

Gong Haimei listened intently to the conversations of several commanders in the command post, and she couldn't help, she felt desolate, and held Gu Hao's hand tightly and asked, "Brother Gu, ...... they?"

"Mei'er, don't worry, although the city is broken, these people will be fine!"

"How could it be? The Japanese army is murderous, will they let them go?" asked Gong Haimei in disbelief.

"In a few days, Commander Fang will sign an armistice agreement with the Japanese people!"

"Isn't that a surrender?"

"The merits and demerits of the merits have their own posterity!" Gu Hao said noncommittally, getting up and walking towards a defender's position.

This position leads directly to the command post of the military headquarters, and the Japanese army has sneaked into Hengcheng several times in the dark of night to try to sneak attack the command post, but all of them were discovered and eliminated by the 240 elites of the special service battalion, and the battalion commander was Li Huating, who had just returned to the city.

In the past few years of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, military commanders have not been welcomed by all officers and men, regardless of their purpose in appearing in the army. During the defense of the city, Gu Hao and Gong Haimei, two military commanders, have always been the topic of discussion, and they are also the "focus of attention" of Li Huating, the commander of the special service battalion.

According to Li Huating's observation, these two people were very different from the military commanders he had seen before, they had never interfered in any decision-making of the military department, nor had they investigated any army

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In addition to sending a batch of medicines and armaments when they entered the city, the two only made one suggestion to Commander Fang, that is, all the soldiers withdrew from their positions when the Japanese army was gassed, and this suggestion did save many soldiers. Therefore, Li Huating was not disgusted with the two, but he didn't know that he had already entered Gu Hao's sight!

"Battalion Commander Li is really not bad! he can break through the blockade of the Japanese army and stand out of the city, and he can come back unscathed!" Gu Hao stretched out his hand to Li Huating.

"Where the duty lies, the two of them laughed. ”

Li Huating only learned from Commander Fang that Gu Hao and Gong Haimei were lieutenant colonels and had a secret mission here, and he didn't want to have too much contact with Gu Hao and Gong Haimei, so he stretched out his hand and shook Gu Hao lightly and quickly withdrew it.

Li Huating's newly retracted hand was grabbed by Gu Hao, Gu Hao made a look, Gong Haimei hurriedly held his hand, couldn't help but be surprised, nodded at Gu Hao, Li Huating was very puzzled by the behavior of the two.

"Camp Commander Li, can we talk alone?" asked Gu Hao.

"I wonder what the two of you are looking for me?" Li Huating asked cautiously.

"Battalion Commander Li, don't get me wrong, we just want to know about the deployment of the Japanese army outside the city. Gu Hao said calmly.

Since Gu Hao said this, Li Huating definitely couldn't refuse, so he had to walk to a secluded place on the side, and said solemnly: "Okay!

Gu Hao asked casually about the situation outside the city, and when Li Huating was not wary, he suddenly asked, "Camp Commander Li, what's going on with the true qi in your body?"

"Really angry?" Li Huating asked strangely.

Gu Hao could see that he didn't know about the true qi in his body.

Gu Hao picked up a fist-sized pebble on the ground, and with a gentle pinch, the hard stone suddenly turned into fine powder.

Gu Hao picked up another stone of the same size, handed it to the surprised Li Huating and said, "Battalion Commander Li, in fact, you can do it too!"

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Li Huating took the stone in disbelief, and couldn't crush it with all his strength, so he had to say to Gu Hao: "Sir, I'm ...... I can't do it......" Li Huating was completely unwary of Gu Hao, and his tone was much more respectful when he spoke.

"I'm not a commander, I'm just like you, I'm a Chinese soldier. If you don't mind, we can be brothers, I'm a little older than you, just call me Big Brother Gu!" Gu Hao has already seen that this battalion commander Li Huating is only eighteen or nineteen years old, and he can become the battalion commander of the special battalion at a young age, and he can convince more than 200 of his subordinates, and he must have extraordinary strength.

When Gong Haimei grabbed his wrist just now, he also felt the powerful True Qi in his body, which was almost the same as that of a cultivator in the early stage of the Jindan Realm! However, his True Qi seemed to have been forcibly injected by someone, and he didn't know how to use it.