"Send a report to the 201 Brigade, closely monitor the movements of the Japanese division on the main battlefield, and the troops are ready to retreat and withdraw to Tongbai at any time! Order the 500 Brigade, the Independent Brigade, the 2nd Supplementary Brigade, the Artillery Regiment, the Baggage Regiment, and the Military Headquarters to sort out the personnel and equipment, and be ready to return to Tongbai at any time! Ordered to replenish the 1st Brigade and prepare for evacuation! Order the reconnaissance regiment to shift the focus of the reconnaissance to the direction of Tongbai, and effectively ensure the smooth flow of intelligence of all units of our army on the way to retreat! ”

Gao Quan gave several orders in a row, and his heart calmed down a little. With his reminder, Sun Yuanqing organized the troops to open three convenient doors on the wall of the oil depot in a row, and the convoy carrying oil immediately became unimpeded. Twenty minutes after Gao Quan issued the order, dozens of tons of fuel were loaded onto the car, and more than 100 large cars drove out of Zhongxiang City.

After the convoy carrying oil left the city, Liu Qi led the troops to shoot at the devil's camp and headquarters for a while, and then led the troops to cross cover and withdraw from the city. Outside the city, several troops of the attack on Zhong Xiang converged, and under Gao Quan's order, the soldiers sang a song of triumph and drove to the base of their departure, the beautiful Tongbai Mountain, with these precious diesel.

The commander of the devil brigade in Zhong Xiangcheng, although he knew in the telegram that a large number of reinforcements were already on the way, he didn't know whether the retreat of these Chinese troops was true or not! The various conspiracies and tricks of the Chinese in the war have always been deeply concerned by His Excellency the General, especially the strong combat effectiveness of the 1st Brigade this night, which left a deep impression on the commander of the Devil Brigade, and he never wanted to meet this group of difficult Chinese again! The imperial army would rather let these Chinese go than go out and chase them!

Along the way, he kept receiving the news that the troops had begun to evacuate, and when Gao Quan retreated to the vicinity of Dahong Mountain with his troops, he finally received a telegram from the war zone, ordering the 500 troops to retreat to Tongbai.

When Gao Quan received this news, he was angry, and his heart spoke: "Chief Li, if I had listened to your old man's words and had only started to retreat from Zhongxiang City now, it is estimated that the two divisions of the devils would have been blocked under Zhongxiang City!"

After receiving Zhong Xiangcheng's urgent telegram, the 33rd and 42nd Divisions of the Devil received an order from Commander Kazuichiro Sonobe, and immediately drove towards Zhong Xiang without his life. Two hours after the last unit of the 500th Army withdrew from Zhong Xiang, that is, just after dawn, the vanguard of the 34th Division arrived at the gate of Zhong Xiang City, saying that Gao Quan's one step at night would be in danger of being blocked by devils, which is really not an exaggeration at all.

The 501st Regiment of the 500th Brigade has a non-cottage company commander Liu Hongfa, his hometown is Chongqing, and his sister has loved him since he was a child, and now his sister is married, and his brother-in-law is a cultural person, working in Chongqing Newspaper, and Tang Wenjuan is a peer.

Liu Hongfa has always maintained correspondence with his sister, who can bring him news of his relatives in his hometown, and sometimes send him a little Chongqing specialty, such as a bag of Xiaochuan pepper and the like. As for him, he will also write some of his experiences in the army to his sister through letterheads, first, to vent the negative emotions caused by the long-term war, and second, his sister seems to love to read these things, and every time she comes back, she urges him to reply as soon as possible.

These letters could bring news material to his brother-in-law, who worked in the newspaper, and Liu Hongfa could vaguely guess in his heart. Now is the period of the Anti-Japanese War, the news reports on the theme of the Anti-Japanese War are the most popular in China, and the stories he wrote in the letter are all personally experienced by a grassroots officer, and they are very popular with readers, so Liu Hongfa's brother-in-law's status in the newspaper is also rising day by day, and of course he is urging his brother-in-law to be tight. It is estimated that those specialties of the capital are paid as manuscript fees, right?

Liu Hongfa turned out to be an officer in the Central Army, but when he was fighting guerrillas on Dabie Mountain, his troops were broken up and forced to join Gao Quan's troops.

Liu Hongfa welcomed the fact that the 500 Army often fought against the Japanese invaders. The soldiers of this era generally had a bitter hatred for the Japanese invaders, and although the national strength was inferior to that of others, it could not stop the Chinese people's hatred of the Japanese people. The top level of the government was ambiguous about Japan, but the movement of the people at the bottom to boycott Japanese goods broke out frequently, and it intensified after the full-scale outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japan.

Liu Hongfa, a devil fighter, is willing, but in the 501st Regiment, he can't get used to the bandit habits of the backbone officers led by the regiment commander Jin Feilong. However, as a subordinate, you can only endure it if you can't get used to it, you can only adapt to the leader, so what is there to let the leader adapt to you?

Jin Feilong led his troops to ambush the devil on the road between Zhongxiang and Dongqiao Town, and Liu Hongfa also participated. In the battle, Company Commander Liu was brave and witty, commanded Ruoding, and led his company to fight very bravely, and there were three heavy machine guns that took out the devil alone!

The battle is over, victorious. Collecting the booty and searching the corpses of the enemy, these are acceptable to him, and the Central Army has done the same. It's just that when a soldier ignited a fire on the devil who was not dead, and saw the devil struggling and screaming with fire all over his body, but our soldier was laughing loudly next to him, Liu Hongfa's face changed, and he absolutely couldn't accept such torture and killing of an opponent who had lost his ability to fight!

When Company Commander Liu wanted to appeal to the regiment commander, he found that Jin Feilong was laughing loudly with the battalion commander named Xiaoqiang, and less than twenty meters away from them was a squirming and struggling fire man!

After this scene, Liu Hongfa was completely disappointed, it turned out that all this was acquiesced by the head of this bandit-born regiment! It's ridiculous that I want to ask the head of the regiment to come forward to stop this violence! Liu Hongfa knew his status in this army, he didn't come forward to stop it, he couldn't stop it by himself, once he did, he couldn't do anything but incur the disgust of his colleagues and soldiers!

Liu Hongfa, who was full of bitterness in his free time after the battle, wrote the violent incident that happened that day to his sister in the form of a letter, at this moment, he only thought about catharsis, and the scene of the burning man's struggle often appeared in his mind, which was really a kind of torture for him.

His brother-in-law really has the sensitivity of a journalist, and after receiving the letter, he immediately discovered the huge news value in it, wrote the manuscript overnight, and handed it to the editor-in-chief in person the next day, and watched the editor-in-chief circle it with his own eyes, and then put it on the front page of the newspaper.

The newspaper reported objectively, but only expounded the truth of the matter, and did not make any evaluation. However, after this news was reported in the newspaper, it immediately caused a huge response! The vast majority of people who read the newspaper had a positive attitude, believing that since the Japanese had come to invade our country, they deserved to be treated in any way! I didn't invite you to come, but you were willing to come!

However, those who feel happy in their hearts like this are ordinary people at the bottom, as well as those soldiers who are not highly educated, but the cultural people and social elites who are really talented and rich do not see it this way, they think: The front-line soldiers do this, it is an insult to the face of our heavenly kingdom, and it is a desecration of civilization! These people made an analogy: if a dog bites a person, can the person bite back?

Those who can write articles, and those whose articles can often be published in the newspapers, must be people with energy, so a literary crusade against the 500 Army and the bloody atrocities of the front-line soldiers has been vigorously launched!

As we all know, the commission is very concerned about international influence. And this international is the developed Western countries led by Britain and the United States, and the gentlemen of these countries have to condemn all superficial ugly phenomena. Such a large-scale condemnation will, of course, attract criticism from international public opinion! This is something that the commission never wants!

A day after the news appeared, it was banned. Not only did there be no follow-up report, but even the newspapers that were published that day began to be recovered by the authorities. However, the impact has already been made, and the buzz in the streets is likely to continue for some time.

The propaganda department came forward to refute the rumors, saying that this was a false report and that the newspaper had just taken the wrong draft. Although the news was treated unfairly, Liu Hongfa's brother-in-law became famous as he wished. It's impossible not to be famous for writing an article that has caused such a big response!

As for the perpetrator of the incident, Gao Quan of the 500 Army sent a telegram of condemnation with stern wording, seriously criticizing the behavior of the 500 Army headed by Gao Quan in disregard of international influence, and demanding that Gao Quan strengthen the education of the troops and resolutely put an end to such incidents in the future!

Gao Quan didn't pay attention to this telegram, he was neither removed nor fired, but in this battle of Zaoyi, the 500 army originally made war merits, and it was because of this condemnation telegram that everything was completely zero.