Shen Chong and his reconnaissance platoon finally walked out of the Lushan area, and at this time they were marching in a southwestern direction. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

But when Shen Chong was the first to climb a hill, he suddenly said "lie down" and lay down.

The soldiers behind him instinctively fell to their stomachs, crawling forward one by one, looking beyond the ridge of the hill and gasping for air.

Because they saw the Japanese army, the Japanese army marching like a long snake seven or eight hundred meters away!

There is no head in the south, no end in the north, like a yellow dragon, and to the west of the Japanese marching column is a winding railway line.

Ten minutes later, Huo Xiaoshan, who got the news, rushed up from the rear team, and also lay beside Shen Chong with a solemn expression.

According to the results of the consultation of the heads of their quartermaster's office, they headed southwest, crossed the Nanxun line, and then marched south to find the Seventy-fourth Army.

But I don't know if they were too closed to news, or if there was something wrong with the command of the top level of the national army, and the Japanese army at this time actually went ahead of them.

Looking at the meandering battle of the Japanese army, at this time they were no longer bumping into a wing, but definitely a division with tens of thousands of people.

If the Japanese army was just passing by on the march, they saw that the Japanese army had stopped to build improvised fortifications along the way, and it was obvious that they had taken this place as their sphere of influence.

And that wasn't the worst of all, the worst thing was that there were groups of Japanese troops who broke away from the group and walked towards the side of the hill where they were hiding.

"Withdraw!" Huo Xiaoshan said in a low voice, so the top soldiers who were fighting in front of the station hurriedly turned around and ran back, until they ran back to the wider hilly area out of breath and hidden.

At this time, looking back at the original hill with binoculars, the Japanese soldiers with the 38 big cover appeared, but this time they did not go further, but stood with guns. Obviously, the Japanese army has strengthened its control over the areas at both ends of its marching route and has begun to occupy the commanding heights.

Huo Xiaoshan and Shen Chong both retracted their heads after observing for a while, but they both leaned against the slope of the hill.

"What should I do?" Shen Chong asked.

Judging from the current situation, this team of the Quartermaster Department was actually circled by the Japanese army, and the Nanxun line could not be crossed, and there must be Japanese troops behind.

"I can only rush over in the dark, and I can't stay here for a long time!" Huo Xiaoshan replied that he naturally understood the current situation of his troops.

The northwest of the Nanxun line is Minshan, the southwest is Wanjialing, the northeast is the Lushan that has just come out, and the southeast is Panyang Lake.

Surrounded by mountains on three sides and water on one side, if you want to survive, you can only rush to the side with mountains, where there is water, the terrain is flat, and the terrain on both sides of the Nanxun line is flat, so it is not a small army like yourself that walks on the footboard can pass.

If you go there, you will definitely be discovered by the Japanese army, and the Japanese army brigade is here, and it can destroy its own hundreds of people in minutes.

The Japanese army naturally knew that there were Chinese troops in the Lushan area, but they were interspersed in front of these Chinese troops and did not attack, obviously because this was a mountainous area and there were not many Chinese troops in the mountainous area, and they did not intend to encircle and annihilate them without outweighing the losses.

"Monitor the movements of the Japanese troops on the opposite side, and send two more groups of people to go south and north along the road line, and see where the Japanese defenses are relatively looser, I will go back, it is not only us who are fenced." Huo Xiaoshan ordered the deployment.

What Huo Xiaoshan said was right, of course, it was not only themselves who were surrounded by the Japanese army, and not long after he returned to the brigade, several Chinese troops defending in the Lushan area also rushed up and joined them.

These armies include the Central Army and the Cantonese Army, and they were still fighting fiercely with devils in the mountains, but the inexplicable brigade of Japanese troops had already arrived behind them, and all the officers did not look very good.

But at this point, no one will complain, and how to get out of the current predicament and break out of the encirclement is the most crucial.

The troops that had withdrawn from Lushan gathered more and more, and at about four o'clock in the afternoon, more than 3,000 people had gathered at the place where Huo Xiaoshan and their brigade were staying.

Most of them belonged to the Cantonese army, and a small part belonged to the Central Army, and although Huo Xiaoshan was also from the Central Army, he was in his own group, so the officers of these three units got together to study how to break out of the encirclement of the Japanese army.

The Central Army was led by a regiment commander named Qiao Yunshan, while the Guangdong Army was led by a deputy brigade commander named Wang Fulu.

Although Huo Xiaoshan's level is low, but the current situation of the Chinese army is like this, as long as it is not a department or a unit, no matter how high your level is, you can't control others, so he sat with those two.

Zheng Youjian also came, speaking of rank, his military rank is not low, and the colonel is also at the level of regiment commander.

And around these officers in charge were some junior officers.

Huo Xiaoshan, the regiment commander of the Cantonese Army and the battalion commander of the Central Army that they had helped during the march also withdrew, but the battalion commander had already put a bandage on his head and was obviously injured.

Qiao Yunshan and Wang Fulu naturally discussed which troops would rush in front and which troops would block behind the palace, they were all people who were fighting, but they didn't care about who of their troops might rush to the front or stay behind, and the losses were heavy.

It's just that just when the two of them were about to come up with a plan, Huo Xiaoshan turned his head meaningfully and glanced at Zheng Youjian.

So, Zheng Youjian said with a smile: "There is nothing wrong with the assignment of the two chiefs, but have you chosen a breakthrough?" ”

As soon as he said this, the two officers were not surprised, Qiao Yunshan glanced at the colonel who had been sitting next to him and had not yet sat down in front of Huo Xiaoshan, and then smiled bitterly: "The incident happened suddenly, what time is it now, but how can I have time to explore the terrain." ”

Zheng Youjian replied: "But we arrived early, and our people should come back." "Zheng Youjian has long seen that these two officers are not pleasing to the eye, yes, the two of you have discussed it in a harmonious manner, and you will never care about it, it is against your own army, but why do you two let us make the quartermaster of the palace?

What did Huo Xiaoshan mean when he looked at him, Zheng Youjian naturally understood, Huo Xiaoshan was wearing a military uniform, and he was only a company commander, but his level was really low, and it was more appropriate for him, the colonel, to say it.

"Oh? And there is such a thing, why didn't you say it earlier?! Qiao Yunshan and Wang Fulu said at the same time.

At this point, Shen Chong really brought people back.

"How?" Huo Xiaoshan asked.

"I found a place where the terrain on both sides is high and the middle is lower, and if you run with your waist low, you can block bullets from both the north and the south." Shen Chong said to Huo Xiaoshan a little excitedly.

He was tired, the terrain at both ends of the Nanxun line railway was flat, and it was really difficult to find such a place.

"However, on both sides of the heights, there are improvised fortifications made of Japanese sandbags, one of which has a heavy machine gun." Shen Chong continued.

"This time, I don't know which of the two commanders rushed in front, which army walked in the middle, and which unit went to block and cover?" Zheng Youjian still asked with a smile.

Wang Fulu and Qiao Yunshan looked at each other, and said in their hearts, "Oh, why didn't you send someone to investigate the terrain earlier?" Dare to love the two of us just discussed it in vain!

When the two of them discussed the battle plan, they were naturally very tacitly hiding their selfishness, because the one who arranged the blocking and covering in their battle plan was the Quartermaster Department, which looked disheveled and couldn't even say a single turn.

"This, of course it's still you-" Qiao Yunshan, the commander of the Central Army, was only halfway through his words when he was interrupted by Zheng Youjian.

"If it's still us, then let's all go separately, you can rush directly from here, we will go from that terrain by ourselves, and we will attack ourselves to cover, otherwise if we are with you, we will not be happy to let the friendly troops suffer casualties due to our ineffective combat." Zheng Youjian smiled.

"You-" Zheng Youjian's words really choked this Qiao Regiment Leader at once, he wanted to be anxious, but his level was really the same as himself.

The deputy brigade commander of the Guangdong army, Wang smiled but did not say a word, he did not mix with the affairs of the Central Army, did not mix, did not mix, and absolutely did not mix.

"When the troops are in place, it will be dark." At this time, Huo Xiaoshan said to himself, and then he stood up and said in an unquestionable tone: "We should be the top soldiers responsible for killing the Japanese bunkers on the high ground and then covering everyone to cross the railway line, but the two commanders have to bring us two heavy machine guns." ”