Li Gang looked at Ma Ming's face distorted by the pain in his heart, and then said: "Everyone knows that our relationship with the head of the Lei Sword is a good brother condensed with blood and life on the battlefield to kill the enemy, and now that the head of the Lei has died, it is up to me Li Gang to be the only head of the group, you say Ma Ming, can I feel good in my heart?" ”

Speaking of this, Li Gang wiped away the tears on his face and said sternly: "Ma Ming, we are all brothers of the head of the Lei Sword regiment, although the head of the Lei Sword sacrificed and left the only group, but we are still alive, and we will continue to kill devils if we are alive, we can't let our head Lei see that we are not productive in heaven and embarrass him, do you know?" ”

"I know, I know everything, but we already know that Captain Lei really sacrificed, you tell me, how could I, Ma Ming, pretend that nothing happened, and live the same as before? I can't do it——。 ”

"Bastard, Deputy Commander Ma, I order you, from now on, you must always make sure that every battle conducted by our only regiment is personally commanded by Captain Lei Jian, do you want to disobey Commander Lei's orders? Commander Lei will deal with you by military law, do you understand Ma Ming?

My good brother, you cheer me up, in order to kill the devil, in order to avenge our sacrifice of Captain Lei and all the soldiers, you must recognize the road of killing the devil, and keep going without flinching, you have to do it, I want to do it, every soldier of the only regiment must do it. ”

Li Gang said a heavy thunder punch to Ma Ming, and continued in a stern tone: "Deputy Regiment Commander Ma, I must now return to the main position in Beishan, according to the order issued by Commander Nie, command the only regiment and the fifth regiment, use blood and lives on the position, resolutely block the Japanese army for four hours, wait for the order of the head of the military region to withdraw from the battle, take care, Deputy Commander Ma." ”

Ma Ming heard Li Gang say this, and said with a heavy heart: "Commander Li, in our hearts, no one can let go of our Commander Lei, you are now the commander of the only regiment, the burden on your shoulders is very heavy, it is not terrible to fight with the enemy, what is terrible is that once the cadres and soldiers of the only regiment know that the commander of the Thunder Sword has really died, how will they react?" Captain Li, you have to be mentally prepared.

Then there is the North Mountain Resistance Battle of the Military City, which is a very arduous and difficult battle, the two regiments of the Eighth Route Army of more than 6,000 people have to fight with nearly 10,000 devils of the Japanese army, our only regiment has never fought such a battle, you have to take care, I hope we are all alive, alive to continue to fight, for the sacrifice of the Lei regiment commander and soldiers, kill the devils to avenge. ”

"Okay, kill the devil for revenge." Li Gang said goodbye to Ma Ming, led a platoon of soldiers, and ran to the Beishan position along the mountain beam in concealment, he couldn't wait to fly to the Beishan position with wings, and commanded the soldiers to meet the large-scale attack of the Japanese army.

Zhang Ping, escorted by a squad of soldiers, left the position of the only regiment in the military city with the radio, he turned around several times, and whispered with tears in his eyes: "My good brother, I leave today, I don't know how many people are left when I say goodbye, take care all the way." ”

Li Gang took a platoon of soldiers and finally returned to the Beishan position, and when the commander of the fifth regiment saw Li Gang coming back, he happily hugged Li Gang and said emotionally: "Commander Li, if you don't come back, I will ask someone to carry you back to the Beishan position." ”

"What's going on? Why did your brother tie me up? ”

"Commander Li, when you left the Beishan position, the little devil launched an attack on my mountain peak position like crazy, the first battalion of the only regiment on the front and the first and second battalions of our fifth regiment on the two flanks, the sky was dark and the enemy was fighting, and the forward positions were almost lost several times, but the soldiers took it back with their lives.

No matter how grim the situation on the battlefield is, I don't dare to move the few battalions that have just been replaced and repaired, for fear that the enemy will increase the strength and firepower to attack, and if we don't have reserves, the position will be dangerous. ”

Li Gang patted Regiment Commander Pang on the shoulder and said: "Commander Pang, there are two points that you have done that are very worthy of my approval, first, you did not expose all the strength of our troops in the Beishan position, so as to provide the possibility of readjusting the strength of the enemy's offensive position.

The second point is that in order for us to hold our position, a reserve force has been reserved, and once the battle is very fierce, we can gradually adjust the troops, and in the end, we will not be left without soldiers. Commander Pang, according to the instructions of the head of the military region, our only regiment and the fifth regiment will engage in a bloody battle with the enemy in the air and ground at the military city position, and it is difficult to say ....... ”

Hearing Li Gang say these two points, Regiment Commander Pang said sincerely: "Commander Li, are the commanders at all levels of your regiment so domineering in their thinking? It's just convincing. ”

"Yes, Commander Pang, the cadres and soldiers of our only regiment, always think that every battle, although the commander of the Lei Jian regiment is not in command on the spot, they always feel that the commander of the Lei sword is by their side, this kind of habitual thinking and execution of orders is inseparable from the skills of the commander of the Lei Jian regiment, I have only learned a little bit of the surface, and it is still far behind."

"I really didn't expect that the prestige of the head of the Thunder Sword Regiment in your only regiment would be so high, everyone was sacrificed, and I thought that he was commanding the battle, this kind of realm is not something that ordinary troops can achieve, I admire it to the extreme."

Li Gang deeply felt that the current battlefield situation was very dangerous, and he asked: "Commander Pang, now that the enemy is waiting for reinforcements from the air fighter group, and then adopts the strategy and tactics of concentrating superior firepower on the ground and air in an attempt to annihilate the Eighth Route Army in the Beishan position of our only regiment and the fifth regiment in one fell swoop. ”

"Okay, I couldn't agree more."

A few minutes later, the cadres of the only regiment and the battalion level of the fifth regiment in the Beishan position of the military city quickly assembled, and according to the spirit of the telegram from the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region Headquarters, Li Gang said short-sightedly: "Comrades, the military city blockade battle is a test of all the soldiers of our only regiment and the fifth regiment.

The task we have undertaken to block the enemy is to cover the organs of the military region to highlight the enemy's encirclement and cover the safe transfer of the military and civilians from Fuping. Now the enemy has suddenly stopped attacking and repaired fortifications on the spot, waiting for air support from enemy fighters.

It will not take long for enemy planes to bombard our positions in the air, and the Japanese ground troops, under the cover of fighter firepower, will attempt to break through our positions in one fell swoop and open up the passage to Chengnanzhuang under the cover of fighter firepower. ”

When Li Gang said this, he looked at the faces of every cadre above the battalion level with a look of astonishment, and he continued: "We are about to face the Japanese army's frenzied fire attack and attack in the air and ground, and according to the order of the military region headquarters, we must hold our positions for four hours, and withdraw for time to wait for orders, that is, it may take longer to block the enemy."

However, the more than 6,000 soldiers of the Eighth Route Army, who were poorly armed and short of ammunition, had to fight bravely against the enemy with nearly 10,000 little devils and with the support of dozens of fighters in the air. ”

Li Gang looked at the solemn expressions on the faces of the cadres above the battalion level, and he continued: "According to the frenzied attack that the Japanese army is about to carry out in the air and ground, I have studied and decided with Regiment Commander Pang: Order the 1st and 2nd Battalions of the 1st Regiment to hold on to the front of the position, the 3rd Battalion to set up an ambush on the right flank, and the 4th Battalion to respond to the position on the left flank, and we must repel the attack launched by the enemy's ground troops on our forward position under the cover of fighter planes. ”

Order one battalion and one company of the Fifth Regiment to supplement the positions on the left and right flanks respectively, strengthen the firepower of the positions on the two flanks, and when the enemy's vanguard forces storm the forward positions, cut off the enemy's attacking ranks from the middle, and block the enemy's large forces in the follow-up attack.

The 2nd and 3rd Battalions of the 5th Regiment were ordered to serve as the general reserve of the Beishan blocking position, ready to rush to the front line at any time and strengthen the force to fight the attacking devils. ”

Li Gang looked at Head Pang as he spoke, and asked in a concise voice: "Head Pang, time is very urgent, if you see anything you need to add, please ...... immediately." ”

"Commander Li, time is pressing, my old Pang didn't add anything, and immediately issued an order for the troops to enter the position, and it will be too late to delay any longer."

Just as Li Gang had just given a new combat order and the troops were quickly entering the position, I don't know which soldier on the position suddenly shouted: "Look, from the southwest sky, dozens of enemy planes flying over in the dark are obedient, this is also too strong." ”

Li Gang saw that the enemy fighter plane suddenly lowered its flight altitude from a high altitude, leveled the fighter plane when it was 1,000 meters above the ground, and frantically rushed to the positions of the Eighth Route Army in the west and north mountains of the military city. He shouted loudly: "Pay attention to concealment, protect your weapons and ammunition, quickly withdraw fifty meters behind the mountain, and be ready to rush into the position at any time to counterattack the attacking Japanese ground forces." ”

General Katayama, commander of the Fourth Brigade of the Japanese Army, who was standing at the foot of the mountain, kept his eyes on the southwest sky with a telescope, and when he found that more than 20 black spots in the air were slowly getting bigger, and only in the blink of an eye, the enemy fighter plane had become the size of a kitten, and it was getting bigger and bigger and rushed over.

The commander of the Katayama Brigade shouted excitedly: "Shout, with the air support of the fighters of the Imperial Japanese Army, my brigade will definitely break through the mountain peak position of the Eighth Route Army, destroy the Eighth Route Army, and capture alive the commander of the only regiment, Shina Wazi Lei Jian." ”

(End of chapter)