Inside China's high-level headquarters, the phone rang incessantly.

"It's chaos everywhere, how are our troops retreating, have the troops at the front been contacted?" General Chen Cheng asked a chief of staff.

"Report to the sir, half of the front-line troops have been withdrawn, and half of the troops have not been withdrawn, as for that unit, they have been surrounded by devils last night, and the reconnaissance troops we sent out have all been blocked by the little devils." A staff officer said.

"In any case, be sure to send someone to get in touch with them." Chen Cheng was very angry, the army of 800,000 was chased and beaten by hundreds of thousands of troops of the little ghosts, and he was almost divided and surrounded by them. General Chen Cheng looked at the statistics of the past few days, and the casualties of the German armament division were more than 40 percent, not to mention the other troops, which had already suffered nearly 200,000 casualties. The final result could not be accepted by General Chen, and they still had to evacuate Shanghai at such a heavy price.

Now, thanks to Liao Fan's troops in the front, they have attracted the strength of a division of the little devils and bought them time to retreat, otherwise the consequences will be unimaginable, and the casualties may exceed 300,000.

That night, all the Chinese troops had withdrawn, and Liao Fan had just repelled an attack by the little devils at this time. When the sun completely set, Liao Fan knew that he had won this time, and it was very dangerous to win, after dinner, Liao Fan asked the soldiers to call Zhao Dahai and Liao Jundong, tonight was their best chance to break through, Liao Fan needed to discuss the specific retreat plan with them.

"Battalion Commander Zhao, what do you think?" Liao Fan asked.

"Sir, I think we should break through to the southwest, where the two wings of the Japanese army are combined, and the defense should be weaker, as long as we can launch a surprise attack, there is a great chance of success." Zhao Dahai drew a simple map on the ground.

Liao Fan shook his head and said: "No, our mobility ability is not as good as the little devil, after we break through from here, if we don't meet our troops, once the little devil reacts quickly, we will soon fall into the second encirclement, and it will be difficult for us to break through again." ”

"Fanzi, what do you think, say it, and I'll discuss it with Camp Commander Zhao." Liao Jundong listened to the thoughts of the two people on the side and did not express his opinion.

"My idea is that the little devils look down on our Chinese army, and they will also think that we are breaking through from the south, and we can let the mortar company bombard the joint of the little devils, creating an illusion that we are going to break through from this direction, and the little devils on our two wings will definitely rush to support them, and then we will take the opportunity to lead the troops to break through to the north. The troops north of the little devils attacked us for two days and one night, and they were already exhausted, and as an attacking force, they had suffered a lot of casualties in the past two days, even if they knew that we had broken through and no one to assist them, they could not surround us. Liao Fan continued.

"But the north side is now full of little devils' troops, how can we return to the army and rebuild?" Battalion Commander Zhao asked.

Liao Fan glanced at Camp Commander Zhao: "As for the issue of reconstruction, we have to wait until we break through and completely get rid of the little devils." We have been here for two days and one night, and the little devil's strategic mission has not been achieved, and the little devil will definitely stare at us until he destroys us, and we will never get peace until we get rid of the little devil completely. ”

"Okay, sir, I'll listen to you for everything." Zhao Dahai replied happily.

"Next, I arrange the task, at one o'clock in the morning, we began to break through, I led a battalion plus a mortar company to bombard the joint of the little devils, with the sound of artillery as a signal, half an hour after my side started, Battalion Commander Zhao and my brother led the rest of the troops to break through to the north immediately, I led a battalion of soldiers to the palace, remember to take care of the wounded when retreating."

"Fanzi, where are we going to meet when we break out?" Liao Jundong asked.

"Yes, sir, what are you going to do after we break out?"

"Zhang Baling in the northwest direction is a good place to get rid of the Japanese devils, if the little devils chase after them, you sneak into the reeds in Hongze Lake to hide, and after arriving at Zhang Baling to meet, we will talk about the next specific action." Liao Fan drew a general route on the ground.

Liao Fan chose 500 people of the German Armament Division to follow his palace, Liao Fan knew their combat effectiveness, they were all trained by German officers, and their individual combat ability was much stronger than that of ordinary troops.

Liao Fan said to the five hundred people: "Brothers, do you know why you have not been sent to the forefront in the past two days? I know that you are all hot-blooded, angry, and eager to kill the devil sooner, but you just want to use the blade. ”

"Sir, when will we be able to go into battle to kill devils?" A soldier asked.

"Yes, when did you go and kill the devils, you came here with you, of course you can't let you go home empty-handed, right? We have a mission tonight, to launch a surprise attack on the little devils in the south, to cover the breakthrough of our troops. ”

"Sir, are we going to let the little devil go like this?" Or the soldier asked.

"Of course we can't let go of the little devil, but we also have to be on time, right? The little devils surrounded us in three layers and three layers outside, beat us for two days and one night, and treated us as elite troops, if we have to destroy us, I can't do what they want, and you must remember in the future, no matter where you fight devils, you can't do the business of losing money, even if you fall into the tiger's mouth, we have to knock off two teeth as souvenirs, not to mention that the little devil is not a tiger. ”

Liao Fan continued: "Let's all sit down, we have time tonight, we can have a good chat, don't treat me as your commander, just treat me as an ordinary soldier among you, come and relax, sit down." ”

"Sir, you're so good, you don't have the slightest pretension to be an official." A platoon commander said, "As soon as our regimental commander heard that he was going to retreat, he ran away with his own guard company first, leaving us soldiers behind." ”

"Actually, I was the same as you at the beginning, I was also a small soldier, and then I was appointed by the line of fire to sneak attack the artillery position of the little devil, speaking of which was lucky, one shot hit the command of the little devil, if it wasn't for my artillery, maybe I would have been a piece of loess by now, our regiment commander died in battle, and then I became the regiment commander like this, and then our division commander also died in battle, and our division lost its backbone, and it almost fell apart."

"Sir, what did you think when you brought us back?" A soldier asked.

"As you think, it's too much to die on the way to retreat, we are soldiers, and if we want to die, we will die on the battlefield, so as to be worthy of the thousands of people behind us." Liao Fan answered each soldier's question seriously.

These soldiers also like Liao Fan more and more, because Liao Fan is different from other commanders, he does not leave his soldiers, he fights very bravely, and soldiers are willing to follow such commanders.

Liao Fan looked at the time and gave an order, asking the soldiers to check their equipment and bring ammunition, ready to break through at any time.

Liao Fan ordered the artillery squad leader to leave only ten shells for each cannon, and the rest were finished. As soon as the explosion sounded, Liao Fan picked up a machine gun and rushed to the front.

"Dada, dada!"

The light machine gun spat out tongues of fire.