The defeat of the siege of Huaiyin filled the temporary camp of the entire Ninth Guerrilla Column with a gloomy atmosphere, and the occasional cries and wails of the wounded who lacked medical care and medicine were even more disturbing.

Most of the partisan officers and men fell asleep on the spot wrapped in quilts and tattered blankets, tired from the continuous marching and fighting.

The officers of the guerrillas were still able to live in makeshift tents, and most of the ordinary officers and men had to sleep in the wilderness, where the cold wind howled and the weather was cold, and they could only sleep by the fires.

There was a dead silence and darkness in the direction of Huaiyin City, the battlefield had fallen silent, and occasionally the smell of blood wafted over, and the corpses of hundreds of dead brothers lying there could not be recovered.

Most of them had already dreamed of the guerrilla sentries walking around the makeshift camp with guns on their backs, constantly shouting hot air with their hands to their mouths, shivering from the cold.

Beside a crackling fire, Liu Jinhu, the dismissed leader of the No. 1 Guerrilla Detachment, stared at the flames blown by the cold wind and remained silent.

Although Huaiyin did not have a city wall, the fortifications and pillboxes built by the devils were very strong, and the guerrilla officers and soldiers did not have heavy weapons to suppress the devils.

However, the guerrilla commander was already red-eyed and could no longer listen to the advice, which made Liu Jinhu's face full of bitterness.

If the brothers were allowed to continue the assault, he was afraid that they would have lost everything before they entered Huaiyin City, which he did not want to see, but now he had no way to stop the recklessness of the guerrilla commander.

"Sir, go and sleep for a while, seeing that the sky is about to dawn, and there will be a war later."

An orderly came over and put on a shabby military coat for Liu Jinhu, the detachment leader who was staring at the fire in a daze.

Liu Jinhu's eyes were retracted from the burning fire, and he saw that his orderly Tie Dan was standing next to him, and his skinny body looked extremely thin in the cold wind.

"I'm not sleepy." Liu Jinhu thought that after dawn, the brothers would have to brave the rain of bullets to die, and he could still sleep there.

Liu Jinhu looked at the orderly Tie Dan and asked, "Why don't you go to sleep?" ”

The iron egg added some firewood to the fire, making the fire burn more vigorously, and said quietly, "I can't sleep either." ”

"What, what's on your mind?" Liu Jinhu beckoned the orderly, who had always been simple and diligent, to sit down and ask with concern.

The orderly Tie Dan looked at the direction of the dark Huaiyin City, and was silent for a long time before replying: "The pillar who was a soldier with me died when I was fighting devils just now, and the two of us have the best relationship since childhood......

Tie Dan couldn't help but stretch out his sleeve to wipe the tears that came out of his eyes, which made Liu Jinhu's heart ache faintly.

"He was sacrificed to fight devils, it is glorious, you should be proud of him."

Liu Jinhu's lips squirmed, patted Tie Dan's shoulder, and while comforting Tie Dan, he also faintly blamed himself in his heart, causing so many brothers to lose their lives.

However, this is a brutal war, and an officer who has achieved a lot of success and has no strong psychological qualities will not be able to withstand the tremendous pressure and self-blame.

"Sir, I have a request, can you grant me?" After Tie Dan finished speaking, he raised his head and looked at Liu Jinhu with teary eyes.

Liu Jinhu looked at the orderly soldier who had been following him, and nodded: "You say, what are the requirements?" ”

The orderly Tie Dan wiped away his tears and said seriously: "Sir, I don't want to be a soldier anymore, I want to kill the devil to avenge the pillar!" ”

Liu Jinhu looked at the iron egg with a firm face, and agreed to him after being silent for a long time: "Okay, let's fight devils together!" ”

"Thank you, sir—"

Tie Dan saw that Liu Jinhu agreed, and immediately became happy, he looked in the direction of Huaiyin City, and clenched his fists.

"Is there anyone else in the house?"

When Liu Jinhu saw his orderly, he had mixed feelings in his heart, and he didn't know if his decision would hurt him, after all, the battlefield was much more dangerous than being a orderly.

"There is also a mother's ...... at home" Tie Dan's face showed a happy smile, as if he remembered something warm.

While the officers and men of the Ninth Guerrilla Column were resting in their makeshift camps and preparing to attack after dawn, danger was rapidly approaching in the dark fields.

Yamaguchi Akamatsu, the captain of the devil brigade, sent three squadrons of devils to pretend to reinforce the direction of Lianshui, but after leaving the city, they hid themselves.

At the same time, the puppet army stationed in Huaiyin, except for leaving three companies inside and outside the city, most of them also went out of the city in advance and ambushed.

The devils and the puppet army were hidden at such a distance that the guerrilla scouts did not find out.

And now, while the guerrilla detachment is hitting its head and bleeding under Huaiyin City, the devils and puppet troops are surrounding them from all sides.

A large number of devils and puppet soldiers were like ghosts wandering in the countryside, and the ghostly figures quietly surrounded the temporary camp of the guerrillas.

The bayonets of the devils and the puppet army were smeared with mud, and they lurked in the fields not far from the guerrilla detachment, like poisonous snakes spitting letters, hiding in the dark, ready to deal a fatal blow to the officers and men of the guerrilla detachment.

The devil's spearhead soldiers, with sharp bayonets smeared with mud, prostrate close to the sentinels of the guerrillas on the periphery.

"Poof!"

The devil's spearhead soldiers are all carefully selected elites, and they are agile, silently knocking down the guerrilla sentries and slitting their throats.

Some time before dawn was the time when people were sleepy, and the sentinels of the guerrillas were solved one by one by the sharp soldiers who came up with the devils.

And the cold wind that whistled from the countryside was a good cover for the actions of the devil's spearheads, so that the guerrilla officers and soldiers in the camp did not notice it in the slightest.

"Go to bed, it will be dawn in a little while."

Liu Jinhu talked with Tie Dan for a while, and his anger towards the guerrilla commander disappeared a lot, and he was sleepy and beckoned Tie Dan to sleep.

"Yes!" The orderly Tie Dan was happy because Liu Jinhu promised to let him go to the front line to participate in the battle, and stood up and prepared to send Liu Jinhu to the tent first.

Just as Liu Jinhu and Tie Dan had just stood up, a sudden scream sounded from a distance, and three green signal flares jumped into the sky from the direction of Huaiyin City.

Seeing the signal flare rising to the sky, Liu Jinhu, who looked up at the sky, was stunned for a few seconds, and felt that something was not normal, what kind of signal flare did the devil play this big night.

"Whoosh-"

Before Liu Jinhu could come up with a reason, on a mound on the left, scarlet bullets were already whistling and flying over.

"Sir! Be careful! The orderly Tie Dan's eyes were quick, and he shouted and flashed forward to block Liu Jinhu.

"Puff puff!"

The orderly Tie Dan's body trembled, and several blood holes immediately appeared, as if his whole body had been drained of strength, and he collapsed to the ground.

"Puff puff!"

Dense bullets swept into the guerrillas' makeshift camp from all sides like water splashes, and the guerrilla officers and men who were sleeping around the fire on the periphery immediately became live targets, and before they could react, they died.

"Iron Egg! Iron Egg! Seeing the orderly soldier covered in blood and limp on the ground, Liu Jinhu's eyes immediately turned red.

However, the orderly Tie Dan was shot several times in his body, and he kept spitting blood foam in his mouth, and he wanted to speak, but his head was not angry, and he lost his breath.

"Little devil, my ancestor is your ancestor!"

Seeing the devil soldiers who were stuck in the mound next to the camp and constantly strafing, Liu Jinhu roared angrily.

"Boom! Bang! ”

The piercing whistling sound of the shells followed, and in the deafening explosion, the fires were like live targets, providing coordinates for the devil's artillery.

The sound of gunfire caused the sleeping guerrillas to crawl up in fright, but bullets swept across the darkness all around, and they were immediately confused.

Shells with the breath of death continued to fall on the crowd of guerrillas running and screaming, blowing up clouds of blood mist, and countless mutilated bodies and broken guns were blown away.