In the middle of the night, the headquarters of the Jiangfang Group was brightly lit and busy, the devil's army was pressing the border, the war in southern Jiangsu had deteriorated sharply, and the 21st Group Army and the 40th Division, which had withdrawn from Shanghai, could not withstand the onslaught of the devils. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

With the fall of several defense lines such as the Zhajia line, the pressure on the Jiangyin direction increased sharply, after all, this was already the last line of defense to Nanjing.

General Liu Xing, commander of the Jiangfang Group, with a haggard face, stood in front of the huge combat map in his tweed army coat, looking at the intricate situation of the enemy and the enemy on the map, and his brows furrowed.

In the face of the menacing enemy, Liu Xing did not have many available troops, only the Northeast Army, the Hubei Army and the four divisions allocated to the Jiangfang Group in the Guizhou Army system, but because they were all provincial armies, the combat effectiveness of weapons and equipment was also uneven, and it was very difficult to hold Jiangyin in the face of well-equipped devils.

The 13th Devil Division has attacked the first line of the Yunting South Gate, the defense line is in an emergency, most of the fortress guns in the Huangshan Fort in the fortress are fixed guns, and the devil troops attacking from the flank are not able to catch it, and they can only watch the Jiangfang infantry fall into a bitter battle and be helpless.

"Ding Ding Ding ......" When General Liu Xing, commander of the Jiangfang Group Army, was frowning, a rapid telephone rang in the headquarters.

Without waiting for the adjutant to react, the commander of the fortress, General Xu Kang, had already strode over and quickly grabbed the phone: "I'm Xu Kang......"

Before General Xu Kang put down the phone, Liu Xing couldn't wait to ask, "But Huashan called?" ”

Xu Kang nodded: "It was the Huashan 667 Regiment calling." ”

Liu Xing snuffed out the cigarette butt in his hand and walked over excitedly: "How is the commando?" Did they destroy the enemy artillery positions in Joyama? ”

"The 667th Regiment reported that what they received was not the assault team we sent to blow up the devil's artillery position, but a force that had retreated from Shanghai, numbering more than 800 people."

Hearing this answer, Liu Xing's face was full of excitement, and what he desperately wanted to know now was the situation of the commando, but he quickly reacted, and raised his head to look at Xu Kang with a shocked face: "What did you say?" Troops retreating from Shanghai? More than 800 people? ”

Xu Kang nodded and said: "I don't believe it either, but the 667th Regiment reported that it has been repeatedly confirmed, and it is indeed our people who have retreated from Shanghai, and there are people from all units, and they should be broken up, and they are temporarily grouped together, and the leader is a regimental deputy of the 174th Division Supplementary Regiment." ”

Liu Xing was stunned for a few seconds and then ordered: "Call the 667 Regiment to bring the deputy of the regiment to the headquarters, I want to see him in person!" ”

It is no wonder that Liu Xing was eager to see Liu Ming, deputy of the supplementary regiment, because the 21st Group Army and the 40th Division covering the retreat had been defeated and withdrawn a few days ago, and the entire southern Jiangsu region had fallen, and there were sporadic routs breaking through the encirclement a few days ago.

But as time went by, except for the devils who rushed over, Liu Xing hadn't heard of a rout breaking through for several days, and he thought that there was no formed Chinese army in southern Jiangsu, and even if there were, they were wiped out by the devils.

After so many days, not only did there be troops breaking through from the devil's heavy army, but the number of people reached more than 800 people, which made General Liu Xing unbelievable at all, and their luck was too good, so he was now eager to see the commander of this rout.

If it is really this regiment deputy who leads this subordinate to the different numbers of the soldiers to break through in the devil's heavy army, then the future of this regiment deputy is limitless, if they have a record of eliminating devils on the way to break through, then it is undoubtedly a major encouragement for the current difficult situation and depressed morale.

Xu Kang, as the commander of the Jiangyin Fortress, saw that Liu Xing attached so much importance to it, and after a little thought, he also figured out this layer of things, and immediately turned around and asked for the phone number of the 667 Regiment, asking them to immediately send someone to send the deputy commander of the supplementary regiment that broke through to the headquarters.

As soon as the phone here was put down, the staff officer of the communications office over there hurried into the headquarters.

"Chief Liu, our radio station has received a message from the commando team sent to the Dingshan Assault Devil Artillery Position.

"Oh? Take a look. ”

The staff officer of the communications office immediately handed the folder of the message to Liu Xing, who threw away the cigarette butt, and Liu Xing quickly read the message at a glance.

"How?" The commander of the fortress, Xu Kang, saw that Liu Xing's face was not good, and hurriedly asked.

Liu Xing sighed heavily and closed the message: "Their raid failed, most of them died, and only one company commander and more than forty people broke out. ”

Although they didn't have much hope that they would be able to blow up the devil's artillery position, now that they had heard the news of the defeat and the loss of nearly 200 people, their hearts were heavy and lost beyond the comprehension of others.

"Do you want the rest of us to turn back and try again? Maybe it will have a surprising effect. "Some staff officers were unwilling and opened their mouths to suggest.

Liu Xing shook his head: "There are only more than forty people left, and there is a shortage of explosives and ammunition, the devil's artillery position is so noisy, it will definitely strengthen the vigilance, and they will only increase the casualties if they go back, let them come back according to the predetermined retreat route." ”

"That's all there is to it now." General Xu Kang also agreed with Liu Xing's idea, and waved his hand to ask the staff officer of the Communications Office to send electricity to the old smoking gun and ask them to withdraw.

In a hidden artemisia bush in the north of Yunting Town, the old smoking gun and more than forty embarrassed soldiers were hiding here, the antenna held high, and the radio station equipped with them was communicating with the headquarters.

"What does the command say?" Seeing the telegraph operator take off his earmuffs, the dirty old smoking gun couldn't wait to ask.

The telegraph operator replied: "The mission failed, and the command told us to withdraw according to the planned retreat route." ”

The old smoker looked in the direction of Joyama, his face was full of unwillingness, hundreds of brothers were lying there, and they just blew up more than a dozen cannons of the devils, and the battle was a nest.

originally thought that two hundred people blowing up the devil artillery position must be a sure thing, but their lack of experience, coupled with the low point of the little devil's strength, who knew that the artillery position was stationed with two squadrons of devil infantry, so they returned home.

The fat man Tian San was carrying a seventy-nine rifle in his hand, and he approached the old smoking gun and said, "Company commander, let's withdraw?" ”

Although the old smoking gun was unwilling, he also knew that there was no other way but to withdraw now, and if he waited until dawn and the devil reconnaissance plane went into the sky, they would be in trouble.

"Alright, put away the radio and prepare to withdraw." The old cigarette gun waved his hand and ordered.

At the headquarters of the 104th Brigade of the Devils in Yunting Town, a Devil Captain hurriedly rushed into the room of the brigade commander, Major General Tomamidi.

"Brigade Commander, our listeners have detected an unfamiliar radio signal."