Although the troops are safe now, the situation is very bad, they have received urgent orders, and they come out with almost no baggage. Coupled with the panic and panic along the way, the heavy weapons were almost lost.

This is only one thing, the most important thing is the morale of the soldiers. The teaching regiment was the last unit of the 120th Division to cross the Yellow River to the anti-Japanese front, and the first battle of Jiaozigou was the first battle of the first battalion against Japan. The imaginary victory did not come as expected, but suffered an unprecedented crushing defeat, and the blow to these soldiers of the Eighth Route Army, who had been tested by the Long March, was fatal.

This is especially true for those heroes of the Long March who once broke through the encirclement and interception of hundreds of thousands of Kuomintang troops and successfully completed the 25,000-mile strategic transfer. Under the encirclement and interception of the Kuomintang's million-strong army, they arrived safely in northern Shaanxi, never thinking that they would almost be wiped out after just one encounter with the Japanese devils, and the soldiers already had a psychological fear of the Japanese army. So now the mood of the fighters is very sensitive, and the morale is extremely low.

What's more, due to the exhaustion of the siege, they have now lost contact with the regimental headquarters, and in fact they have become a lone army with no logistics support and no personnel supply.

The only good news may be that Ma Zheng doesn't need to explain his identity to others, and from Tie Niu's mouth, he learned that the body he leaned over was also a legend. With the same name and surname, he was born in Ruijin, Jiangxi, the holy land of the Red Revolution, and is 27 years old this year.

Ma Zheng joined the Red Army at the age of 12, and at the age of 17, he was appointed as the battalion commander of the Red Army because of his bravery in battle, and he was already a division commander of the Red Army before the Long March.

Since it is almost fatal to fight, his favorite thing is to charge with his troops, so injuries have become commonplace. The most serious one was when the troops arrived in northern Shaanxi and marched east to Yan Xishan, when he was hit by a bomb dropped by a plane of the Jin Sui army, and a large piece of his skull was cut off.

Fortunately, there were several foreign doctors with particularly superb medical skills in the army at that time, and this guy had tenacious willpower, so he was able to survive. Although his life was saved, his brain was damaged, and all his previous memories were gone, and even his daughter-in-law who had not yet entered the cave room after passing through the door was forgotten, and it once became a joke in the Red Army. Because of this, when the troops were reorganized, he was demoted from division commander to battalion commander.

Everyone was accustomed to being injured this time, thinking that he had the same amnesia as the last time, after all, this time he was stunned by the Japanese mortar.

Just as Ma Zheng was thinking, he heard someone shouting at the bottom of the hillside, and after seeing that it was the iron bull, Ma Zheng turned around and went down the hillside.

"Battalion commander, the soldiers who went out to reconnoiter the enemy situation have returned, and Company Commander Huang asked me to tell you to go back quickly!" As soon as they saw Tie Niu, he hurriedly said.

"Let's go!" Ma Zheng said lightly.

Back at the temporary camp headquarters, it was actually just a larger cave, and the few remaining cadres in the camp had already arrived. In addition to a few cadres, there are eighty or ninety warriors in the cave, because this cave is the only place that can shelter everyone from the wind and rain at present.

Seeing Ma Zheng walk in, everyone stood up.

Ma Zheng motioned for everyone to sit down, and then asked in a deep voice, "How is the situation, have you checked it out?" ”

Huang Sicheng, deputy commander of the first company, replied: "After investigation, the exact location of the current unit is Maohugou Village, Huhe Wusu Township, the front banner of Chahar's right wing. It is more than 80 kilometers away from Tuguiula Town, the front banner of Chahar's right wing, and more than 90 kilometers away from Fengzhen County. ”

"Have you found out the situation in the surrounding towns?" Ma Zheng continued to ask.

"It has been found out that the two closest county towns to this place, Longshengzhuang and Tugui Wula, have fallen two months ago, and Jining, Guisui and Baotou, which are a little farther away, have also fallen." Huang Sicheng replied in a heavy tone.

"Have you counted the soldiers and equipment?" Ma Zheng asked again.

"It's been counted, and now we have 104 people left, and there are no seriously injured people. The weapons include 12 Chinese formal rifles, 38 Hanyang-made rifles, 48 old sleeves, and 76 machetes. In addition, there is a Czech-type one, 280 grenades, and more than 3,000 rounds of various bullets. ”

"That's it?" Ma Zheng asked with a frown.

It's no wonder that Ma Zheng's expression, as far as he knows, the teaching regiment is used by the 120th Division as a shelf force. The so-called frame troops are units that can be expanded into brigades or even divisions at any time as long as necessary. As the absolute main force of the teaching regiment, the first battalion is much better than the ordinary Red Army units in terms of the quality of its soldiers and weaponry, although it is not equipped with individual artillery such as mortars, but there are quite a few light and heavy machine guns, adding up to at least six.

"That's it, the most important thing is that we have no food, and the soldiers have been hunting and digging whackers to satisfy their hunger for the past two days. But it's not a way to stay like this for a long time, you must know that many of our soldiers are still wearing single clothes. Huang Sicheng said worriedly.

"How is the situation with the fighters?"

"It's still the same, morale is low, but the morale of the army is still there, and there are no deserters!" Huang Sicheng replied.

"Well, that's fine, but we have to find a way to change the current unfavorable situation, what do you all think, say it and listen!" Ma Zheng said in a deep voice.

Wang Hansen, deputy commander of the second company, said: "Battalion commander, why don't we go south and join the regiment headquarters, as long as we converge with the large army, won't all these problems be solved in front of us?" ”

"No, I'm against it!" Huang Sicheng said with a frown.

"Tell me your opinion!" Ma Zheng said.

"Battalion commander, we are more than 300 kilometers away from the location of the regiment headquarters, and even if we are fast, we have to run for two or three days to arrive. Not to mention that there are so many devil strongholds and a Fengzhen county seat in the middle, so it is unrealistic to go back and join the regiment headquarters. Huang Sicheng replied.

Ma Zheng nodded and said: "What Company Commander Huang said makes sense, besides, our army is short of food and clothing, and the distance of 300 kilometers is enough for us to walk for half a month." And now there are wars going on everywhere, the situation on the front line is changing all the time, the troops may be transferred every day, and the possibility of us being able to contact the regimental headquarters is very small. ”

"Battalion commander, then what do you say we should do, we can't just wait here for death, right?" Wang Hansen said in a deep voice.

"Comrades, what are we taking off our five-pointed red star hats and wearing this sunny day and white sun badge for?" Ma Zheng asked loudly.

"Anti-Japanese devils!"

"Drive the Japanese devils out of China!"

Ma Zheng nodded and said: "That's right, we crossed the Yellow River east and came to this land of the Three Jin Dynasty to fight devils, and to drive little Japan out of China." Now that we have indeed suffered a little setback, do we have to admit defeat because we have lost a battle? ”

Suddenly, Ma Zheng's voice increased greatly, and he said loudly: "No, we will not admit defeat, because we are not qualified to admit defeat." Now that the little devils have hit our house, they want to kill our parents, ** our sisters, and rob us of wealth and food, can we let them do this? ”

"Can't!"

"Can't!"

"Can't!"

One two, ten hundred, when all the people in the cave were infected by Ma Zheng's words, they erupted into an earth-shattering roar.