Suddenly, more than ten rounds of 75mm Type 94 mountain artillery shells flew over the head of the thunder iron leopard and smashed into the position of the devils on the opposite side.

Before Lei Tiebao could react, another wave of shells poured into Liu Xiaochen's guard company, and the two heavy machine guns directly turned into several pieces, flying all over the sky.

After the third wave of shells came, there were less than forty devils left with arms and legs.

After the sound of the cannon died down, Lei Tiebao heard the sound of a car coming behind him. He turned his head and saw five trucks parked on the road behind him, and a hundred men armed with Type 49 rifles, light machine guns, and heavy machine guns jumped out of the cars. A strong man who looked like a leader methodically commanded a hundred big men to attack the devil's position.

On the roof of the first truck, a young and beautiful girl sets up an unknown sniper rifle. I only heard a bang, and the sound of tearing the air came into everyone's ears, and the bullet spun at high speed and flew towards Liu Xiaochen.

Liu Xiaochen, the commander of the 4th Regiment of the 796th Division of Zheguo, was stunned by the familiar sound of 75mm shells, and his first feeling was that he was directing the artillery battalion to bombard the positions of the government troops. When he saw the stumps and severed arms of the soldiers of the guard company, he remembered the pleasure of seeing the body of the assassin soldier being blown to pieces through the telescope, but now he did not have any pleasure, only deep fear.

The deafening sound of artillery stopped, and when Liu Xiaochen was about to escape, there was suddenly a shadow of a bullet in his eye. In an instant, the part above his chest flew out, and before this part of his body hit the ground, he knew that the gun that killed him was: a domestic N95 sniper rifle.

The hundred people led by Yao Meng dealt with the devils of Zheguo who had been baptized by mountain artillery, which was simply too childish, coupled with the condescending sniper rifle support of Li Butterfly on the roof of the car, the thirty or so devils only lasted ten minutes, and they all met the king of Hades.

Lei Tiebao stood up, he couldn't believe his eyes. Is the tough guard company reimbursed like this?

Yao Meng saw that the devil was not moving, and knew that this battle was a complete victory. He ordered the soldiers of the Self-Reliance Regiment to put away their weapons and ammunition, and gestured to Li Butterfly on the roof of the car, who motioned to him to return.

On the way, Li Butterfly discussed with him and handed over the matter of cleaning the battlefield to the ambush team, who had to quickly rush to the north of Xianlong Village to support the second company led by Wang Xiangpeng. Wang Xiangpeng and the second company were responsible for the blocking mission, and they may be facing two companies of Zheguo devils, or even a battalion.

Lei Tiebao saw that the person who helped him was leaving. He hurriedly chased after him and shouted, "Hero, which part of you are from? We want to thank you very much." ”

Yao Meng turned around and said, "No thanks, we are from the 212th Regiment of the People's Army." "The government army of the Assassin State is also called the People's Army, because the government of the Assassin State is governed by the Popular League, and its government army is naturally led and commanded by the Popular League.

Yao Meng and more than 100 others got into the truck, the truck turned its head, and the five trucks kicked up billowing sand and dust amid the roar of the engine. Drive in the direction of Higashiyama Castle.

Zhao Tongbao ran over from the side position, saw Yao Meng and the others leaving, and asked Lei Tiebao: "Old Lei, who are they?"

"The 212th Regiment of the People's Army. However, the 212th Regiment went to Dongshan City, 400 kilometers away, to fight devils? Lei Tiebao said suspiciously.

"Old Lei, it doesn't matter who they are, but one thing is clear: they are friends and foes. Liu Xiaochen died. The devils of Zheguo will definitely take revenge like crazy. Let's clean up the battlefield quickly, this place should not stay for long. Zhao Tongbao thought of the danger of this battle, and he was very afraid. If you don't have the help of allies. He and the Iron Leopard will suffer heavy losses. They did not consult the superior leaders of the Harmony Society, and if they destroyed the team, they would not be able to explain it to their superiors.

Yao Meng and Li Butterfly rushed to the north of Xianlong Village, and when they were four kilometers away from Xianlong Village, the rumbling artillery sound in front of them continued to come, and it turned out that the devil reinforcements led by Wang Xiangpeng and Ling Yunmu were engaged in an artillery battle.

After driving three kilometers forward, Yao Meng saw a dirt slope that was not low on the side of the road, so he ordered the car to stop and instructed the artillery to push the mountain guns to climb to the dirt slope and establish an artillery position. According to the sound of the devil's shells in front of him, Yao Meng roughly judged that the current distance of the devil was about five kilometers. The maximum firing range of the Type 94 mountain artillery is eight kilometers, and the position of the devils is exactly within the firing range.

Wang Xiangpeng's mountain artillery position was about a kilometer ahead, and Yao Meng planned to build an artillery position with Wang Xiangpeng echoing the front and back.

Li Butterfly didn't speak, she didn't know anything about this kind of marching formation, so she was only responsible for sniping, which was her strong point.

Yao Meng and Li Butterfly drove to Wang Xiangpeng's defensive position, and Wang Xiangpeng complained to the two: "Ling Yunmu of the Zheguo 796th Division is crazy, and he brought a battalion of troops to support Liu Xiaochen. Where did I think he brought so many people? We are a battalion that even resists devils, and I fought with him just now, which is really enjoyable! You can get rid of Liu Xiaochen. ”

Liu Xiaochen didn't hit him at all, and Director Li shot his upper body into the air. My artillery is a kilometer behind you, and today we will have a good meeting with this guy Ling Yunmu. Yao Meng said.

"Battalion Commander Yao, Director Wang, you assign me two scouts, let them bring the radio, and I will lead them to break through the devil's defense line and locate the location of the devil's artillery and heavy weapons. Li Butterfly heard the sound of the devil's cannon, and felt that the first task was to kill Ling Yunmu's artillery position, otherwise his own casualties would be very large.

"Director Li, reconnaissance is very dangerous, you can't take risks. Wang Xiangpeng immediately objected, and Yao Meng then objected.

"Thank you, I know the danger, and if we don't do our best to fight off the devils, we will be in a bad situation. I am worried that the 796th Division will come out of the nest and form an encirclement of us. Li Butterfly waved his hand and continued: "I have a sniper rifle, and my task is only to find out the location of the devil, it should be fine. ”

Yao Meng and Wang Xiangpeng couldn't help but admire when they saw that Li Butterfly had made up their minds. Li Butterfly is a girl, and it is really impressive to have such courage.

Five minutes later, Li Butterfly led two scouts with radios on their backs to quietly touch into the mountains and forests on the side of the devil's position.

Li Butterfly dared to enter the devil's defense line alone, and there was a basis for it. Now that she has achieved a little success in cultivating the Xuangang Technique, her perception range has increased, and her stealth technique, soft skills, shadowless legs and other martial arts are becoming more and more proficient, and she is confident that it will be no problem to escape.

A quarter of an hour passed, and Li Butterfly and the other three found Ling Yunmu's artillery position. The two scouts immediately sent a report. After a while, Yao Meng and Wang Xiangpeng's shells smashed like hail into the devil's artillery position. The devil's mountain cannon was overturned and shattered, and the shells were detonated one after another.

Li Butterfly and the other three didn't have time to appreciate their own masterpieces, so they quickly came to the side of the devil's position to observe the devil's light and heavy firepower configuration.

After Ling Yunmu received Liu Xiaochen's telegram, he immediately mobilized a battalion of troops to meet the regiment commander. He sees it as a greeting, not a support. He was well aware of the firepower configuration of the guard company, and it was too easy to deal with the ambush team. Therefore, he brought ten mountain cannons, which were made for Commander Liu to see. said that he, the deputy head of the regiment, attaches great importance to the safety of the regiment leader.

To his surprise, his troops stepped on a landmine on the road north of Xianlong Village, killing more than 70 soldiers on the spot. Ling Yunmu was suspicious, this road is usually very safe, where did the landmine come from now? After many years of military service, he told him: Liu Xiaochen's ambush and his encounter with landmines are not isolated incidents, and there are strange things in this.

Ling Yunmu ordered the soldiers to disperse and send sappers to clear mines, and at the same time ordered the signal troops to contact Regiment Commander Liu. Regiment Commander Liu called back and said that the ambush team would soon be defeated. His mind settled. After the sappers had cleared the mines, he ordered the soldiers to raise their vigilance and be cautious in the area of the village of Xianlong.

Sure enough, after the team advanced 200 meters. It was blocked from the south-west slopes. Ling Yunmu was stunned when he heard the other party's gunshots, the other party was all Zheguo-made weapons, occasionally mixed with Manguo-made weapons. Which anti-philosophical organization has such a powerful outfit?

Ling Yunmu had a lot of combat experience, and he immediately ordered the troops to be arranged in echelons to counterattack. At the same time, a relatively flat high ground was selected as an artillery position, the enemy's position was visually surveyed, and the artillery was ordered to fire at the enemy position. In his impression, as long as his own mountain artillery bombarded, the anti-philosophical organization that assassinated the country would collapse.

However, Ling Yunmu never expected that as soon as his artillery pushed the shells into the chamber, the enemy shells fell into his own position. He was a little stunned, the troops equipped with artillery were definitely regular troops, not grass platform teams. Could it be that the regular army of the Assassin Kingdom attacked Dongshan Castle on a large scale? But the intelligence department of Zheguo did not have any information on this. According to common sense, it is impossible to move and assemble the regular army without being aware of it, because after all, the Zheguo Air Force firmly controls air supremacy, and the march of a large-scale regular army cannot hide from the eyes of reconnaissance planes.

Ling Yunmu felt more and more that the situation was serious, and he hurriedly ordered the communication soldiers to contact Liu Xiaochen, but this time he did not get a response from Liu Xiaochen. An ominous premonition rose in Ling Yunmu's heart. However, according to the analysis of the enemy's gunfire, he estimated that the enemy had about 100 men or a company, and now he was carrying a battalion of more than 500 people.

If more than 500 Zheguo soldiers could not do more than 100 Thorn soldiers, this would be a great shame for Ling Yunmu, so he ordered the artillery to bombard the enemy's position, and the infantry to attack the enemy's position in a company.

After the fierce mountain artillery bombardment, it was a brutal positional battle. Ling Yunmu was once again surprised by the enemy's firepower, not only a large number of light machine guns, but also no less than ten heavy machine guns, when did the Assassin army become so rich?

Ling Yunmu's bloodiness was completely aroused, he brandished his command knife and ordered the troops to attack on all fronts in three directions under the cover of artillery and heavy weapons.

Suddenly, the sound of enemy shells burst out of the air and rushed towards their own artillery positions, and under two waves of shells, their own artillery positions were completely destroyed. Ling Yunmu was directly stunned, did the enemy scouts sneak into their positions so quickly?

Another wave of shells flew and smashed into one of your heavy machine gun bunkers, while another wave of shells rained down on another of your heavy machine gun bunkers. Ling Yunmu came to his senses, either the enemy's reinforcements arrived, or the enemy had hidden his strength before, no matter what the situation was, it would be a catastrophe for Ling Yunmu.

Ling Yunmu hurriedly ordered his scouts and snipers to search for and kill the enemy scouts.

Li Butterfly led two scouts to constantly change directions, interspersed in a roundabout way on the flanks of the devil's position, and sent five enemy fire points to the artillery position of the self-supporting regiment. Suddenly, Li Butterfly keenly sensed that there was something unusual on the side, and she ordered the scout to hide behind the rocks, while she lay down in a hollow, carefully observing the movement on the side.

After glancing for a moment, she locked on to a wooded area five hundred meters to the left. Through point-by-point observation of the sniper rifle scope, she aimed the muzzle of her gun at a thigh-thick tree, revealing the corner of a man's sleeve behind the tree.

Li Butterfly's heart is like water. Motionless like a clay sculpture, a sniper is more than patience, and in the days of following Ruan Jingtian, she has learned and mastered many skills, among which patience is an important compulsory course.

Ten minutes later, the devil sniper finally couldn't hold it anymore, and he decided to continue his search because he believed that the movement he had discovered earlier was caused by the animals in the mountains. He slowly climbed out from behind the tree, and was just about to stand up when a bullet burst through the air. His head exploded, red and white splashing into the branches and grass.

As soon as the devil sniper died, the three devil soldiers behind him jumped out and fled frantically.

Li Butterfly quickly aimed and shot, and the two devils separated one after another, and the devil who ran first was so frightened that he fell to the ground and rolled down the hill.

Putting away the N95 sniper rifle, Li Butterfly beckoned to the two scouts, and the three continued to make a roundabout way towards the devil's position.

Ling Yunmu never thought that he would be suppressed by the enemy's artillery fire and couldn't raise his head. Enemy shells are like eyes. Wherever there is a dense point of your own firepower, there will be enemy shells, how can this battle be fought?

Although there is a battalion of more than 500 men, the guns are excellent and the ammunition is sufficient. However, without artillery support, their positions and soldiers are like lambs waiting to be slaughtered, and they are powerless to fight back.

Ling Yunmu already knew that the opponent's strength was about two hundred people, and it should be two companies. But there were two artillery positions, one in front and one behind, echoing each other from afar. The commander is definitely from the regular army and has extremely rich combat experience.

In desperation, Ling Yunmu had no choice but to order the messenger to send a telegram for help and ask for air support. In the telegram, he said that he was surrounded and suppressed by the regular army of the Assassin State and hoped that the other brothers of the 796th Division would rush to the north of Xianlong Village as soon as possible.

After a while, Yao Meng received a telegram from Ruan Jingtian: Don't fight positionally, but move to fight, get entangled with devils as much as possible, and retreat to the garrison an hour later.

Looking at Ruan Jingtian's message, Yao Meng thought for a while. Suddenly thinking of the devil's plane, he suddenly realized that the current strength of the self-reliance group is not enough to resist the devil's air power.

He and Wang Xiangpeng urgently discussed and discussed, and decided to divide more than 200 people into four squads, and under the cover of artillery fire, attack and harass the devils from four directions, and after attracting and scattering the devils, they returned to the Rabbit Ridge station from different directions.

Yao Meng ordered the messenger to send the latest instructions to Li Butterfly, and then led a team of fifty people to touch the devil's position.

After receiving Yao Meng's telegram, Li Butterfly discussed with the two scouts for a while, and decided to expose his whereabouts, attract the devils, and then divide and annihilate them.

An hour later, Yao Meng, Wang Xiangpeng, Li Butterfly and others successfully attracted the devil soldiers to their positions, and then they quietly retreated. Five devil bombers roared and flew in, dropping aerial bombs one after another on the site reported by Ling Yunmu half an hour ago.

Ling Yunmu was overjoyed when he heard the sound of the plane flying. Suddenly, thinking of the tactics that the enemy had just adopted, a cold sweat broke out on his head, and he hurriedly asked the correspondent to send a report: Don't drop bombs!

But his order was too late, and the bombs from the sky rained down like drops, and they landed exactly where the enemy positions he had just occupied.

After dropping nearly a hundred bombs, Zheguo's plane flew away. The battlefield calmed down.

Ling Yunmu wanted to cry without tears, before the plane came, the enemy had already retreated without a trace, and his own soldiers had already scattered in order to avoid the bombs that fell from the sky, and the dead were killed and wounded, and their losses were simply unbearable: a team of more than 500 people, more than 300 were killed, more than 100 were wounded, and less than 50 people had complete parts on their bodies.

Sitting in his office, Ruan Jingtian stared at the radio. When he received the telegram that the Self-Reliance Regiment had returned safely to Rabbit Ridge, he encouraged and praised it, and asked the Self-Reliance Regiment to strengthen its vigilance and prevent the devils from searching the mountains on a large scale.

Ever since he learned that the Self-Reliance Regiment had attacked the 796th Division of the Devil, Ruan Jingtian had been staring at the radio all the time. When he received a telegram from the Devil Air Force to replenish ammunition and fuel, he knew that Ling Yunmu's troops would not be able to withstand it. Nguyen Jingtian decisively ordered the Self-Reliance Regiment not to fall in love with the battle, and it must withdraw from the battlefield before the Devil's Air Force arrived, otherwise it would suffer huge losses, because the Independence Regiment currently does not have air defense strength and cannot confront the Devil's Air Force.

Considering the need to build an air defense system in the future, Nguyen Jing Tien sincerely felt how difficult it would be to have his own side of paradise. However, since it has already begun, he will not give up. Current. His strength is weak, and he can only do things step by step, without showing the mountains and waters, and slowly develop and grow in the cracks.

Yuen Ching Tin retracted his thoughts and focused on the salt problem that he had discovered yesterday, thinking about how to open the gap in the water system on the one hand, and how to find a reliable salt producer for the self-reliance business zone, so he asked Gan Tianyi of the secretarial section to collect information on salt and its management.

Now he has in his hand the reports and complaints letters that Gan Tianyi has compiled for him in the past ten days, and these more than 40 letters are all reports and complaints about the Salt Bureau's misdeeds and the issue of embezzling fines:

The Salt Bureau will divide the fines privately and issue them as bonuses, especially for those who issue fines and confiscate salt across regions. Therefore, during this period, the personnel of the salt bureau went crazy to inspect the salt, even to the point of entering private homes and inspecting the salt used by residents.

When the water authorities received such reports, they all put them on the shelf. Without the leadership to ask, the internal investigation department of the water agency will not take the initiative to care about the life and death of ordinary people.

The issue of table salt was so small that none of the leaders asked about it. Indeed, the leaders eat all special salt, how can they know the hardships of the lives of the common people?

Ruan Jingtian looked at these complaint letters that were about to enter the garbage heap, and sneered a few times in his heart.

He dialed the number one Wu Bai's house. He wanted to talk to the leader first, after all, this was his first shot.

"Hello, Director Wu, I'm Gong Xiaomu. Is it convenient for you now? I have something to report to you. ”

"Hello, Deputy Director of the Palace, I'm free now, come here. ”

Ruan Jingtian put down the phone. Enter Wu Bai's office.

Placing three typical complaint letters on Wu Bai's desk, Ruan Jingtian said: "Director Wu, these complaint letters reflect some of the things that the Salt Bureau has done recently that have a bad impact. I believe that some of the practices of the personnel of the Salt Bureau are in violation of the disciplinary regulations of civil servants and need to be rectified. ”

Wu Baijia flipped through the three letters, looked up and said: "Deputy Director of the Palace, the amount of money involved in these problems is not large, and it only involves a trivial issue of salt, if our water organ intervenes, is it a bit of a fuss?"

"Director Wu, the salt problem seems to be a small problem, but salt is a daily necessity for everyone, and once the salt bureau goes overboard, it is easy to trigger extreme resistance from the people. In addition, the Salt Bureau not only targeted the people of Zheguo, but also treated our expatriates in Zheguo harshly, arbitrarily fined and confiscated, which caused the Zheguo diaspora to complain, and in the long run, I am worried that it will lead to a civil uprising. Ruan Jingtian was deliberately alarmist.

Wu Baijia looked at Ruan Jingtian meaningfully and said, "Since the deputy head of the palace thinks that salt is a big deal, then do it according to your ideas, these things are originally within your responsibility." Wu Baijia saw Ruan Jingtian put on the big hat of the people's rebellion, and knew that Ruan Jingtian was determined to rectify the Salt Bureau. He really couldn't understand how the new director of the Salt Bureau, Ju Gangshu, had offended this evil star, but these things had nothing to do with him.

Wu Baijia was looking forward to the battle between Ruan Jingtian and the Salt Bureau, because he knew that Ju Gangshu was brought from Quanshui City by Sun Maoyu, Minister of the Army.

After getting back the three letters of complaint and report, Ruan Jingtian returned to the office and thought about how to do it. His main purpose was not to rectify the salt bureau, but to take the water organ to open the knife.

The Salt Bureau is a division-level unit of the government and is under the responsibility of Section 9 of the Internal Investigation Division, while the Salt Works is a government-run enterprise and is under the responsibility of Division 11 of the Internal Investigation Division.

Nguyen asked Gan Tianyi to notify Wang Keyye, the deputy director of the Ninth Division of the Internal Investigation Division, to come to his office.

Five minutes later, Wang Keye stood in front of Ruan Jingtian, who had been promoted by Gui Jingchuan.

The merchant had an accident, and Katsura Igawa, as the son-in-law of the merchant, was investigated by the General Administration of National Security of Zheguo. However, Katsura Chuan disappeared before the merchant's accident. Therefore, the middle-level leaders, who are not very close to Katsuraigawa, have not been greatly affected, but they are not very well received by the leaders above. Wang Keye belongs to this type of middle-level leader, and when Hu Qiuyuan was in power, he always ignored them as the deputy promoted by Guijingchuan.

When Wu Bai's family came to power, he wanted to lean in, but Wu Bai's family stretched his face all day long, as if everyone owed him three hundred hangings. Wang Keye met and greeted Wu Baijia on the road, Wu Baijia always breathed out of his nostrils, and his expression on his face did not have the slightest heat.

Next, Gong Xiaomu became the second-in-command of the water mechanism, which shocked many people's eyes. Gong Xiaomu did not deal with the merchants, which is a well-known thing, so Wang Keye also broke off the idea of jumping up, and had the mentality of eating and waiting for death.

Today, the deputy head of the palace was suddenly summoned, and Wang Keye's heart was like a rabbit, jumping up and down, thinking: Couldn't I do this deputy department?

Ruan Jingtian really didn't know that Gong Xiaomu's notoriety was so far and wide that many middle- and low-level civil servants were afraid of him to death. He saw Wang Keye's nervousness, and wondered a little in his heart: "I'm more than ten years younger than you, are you afraid of being like this?"

Ruan Jingtian pushed the report and complaint letter in his hand in front of Wang Keye and said, "Deputy Director Wang, have you read these letters before?"

Wang Keye hurriedly picked up the letter, skimmed through it quickly, and said embarrassedly: "Deputy head of the palace, the lower official hasn't read it before." "According to the procedure, these letters first go through the letter processing office, referred to as the letter office, and then transfer the information office to the relevant classroom according to the content of the report and complaint, and the relevant classroom discusses and studies, and finally reports to the deputy director in charge, who decides whether to investigate.

On the left side of the header of each letter is the seal and signature of the letter office, indicating that the letters have been forwarded to the ninth section of the internal investigation office; looking at the middle of the header, there is a red slash, Wang Keye understands that the ninth section thinks that this letter is not worth mentioning, and directly turns it into a document to be cleaned up and throws it into the warehouse of the waste documents of the water agency.

After understanding the general content of the letters, Wang Keye also thought in his heart that the complaints of these ordinary people were completely vexatious, and that if the water organs were to investigate a few lowest-level civil servants who had received bonuses for three melons and two dates? If the people of the ninth class delivered such letters to his desk, he would definitely drop the letters on that person's face.

However, now it is the letter from the deputy head of the palace, and he must handle it with respect. His mind spun around a few times, wondering what Gong Takaki had done to show him the letters.

"Deputy Director Wang, why haven't you seen these letters? The Information Office has already forwarded the letters to the ninth lesson, but the ninth lesson has not been submitted to you?" asked Ruan Jingtian.

"Deputy Director of the Palace, the ninth lesson may be given to me in a few days. Wang Keye heard his boss's unkind tone, and his heart was sudden.

"These letters were found in the old document warehouse, could it be that Lesson 9 will wait a few days to pull out these letters from the waste documents and give them to you?" Ruan Jingtian unceremoniously unveiled the old bottom.

"Deputy Director of the Palace, Lesson 9 may think that the content of the letter is a trivial matter and is not worthy of our water agency. Wang Keye felt that his legs were a little trembling, so he had to play a round for the ninth lesson. (To be continued......)