In the early morning of the next day, the large force of the 136th Division arrived at Shuozhou, although yesterday the cavalry regiment sent a telegram saying that Shuozhou City was slaughtered by little devils, but when everyone really arrived at Shuozhou City, they were still deeply shocked by such a miserable scene.

Zhang Yunfei saw that there were ruins everywhere, ruins turned to ashes everywhere, blood stains everywhere on the ground, and many corpses on the ground had not yet had time to be cleaned up and buried.

Yesterday, although the surviving people helped clean up for a day, and the fire was basically extinguished, many of the corpses still did not have time to be buried.

Seeing this scene, Zhang Yunfei's heart was extremely heavy, and he was also extremely angry with the little devil, and secretly thought in his heart, little devil, one day you will pay for your blood debts.

When many soldiers saw this scene, some even wept bitterly as if they had lost their loved ones, and some soldiers had nowhere to vent their grief and anger in their hearts, so they had to look up to the sky and howl and shout.

Several brigade commanders around Zhang Yunfei were also full of grief and indignation, and Wang Haiyang, commander of the first infantry brigade, said to Zhang Yunfei: "Division commander, I ask all the officers and soldiers of the first infantry brigade to fight, let me lead the troops, attack Xinkou, attack Taiyuan, and kill all these little devils who have exterminated people's surnames." ”

The rest of the brigade commanders were also with Wang Haiyang, ready to open their mouths to ask for battle, Zhang Yunfei patted Wang Haiyang's shoulder hard, and wanted to speak several times, but he was so choked that he couldn't speak.

After a long time, Zhang Yunfei said: "I can understand everyone's feelings, and I am as sad as everyone else, but our current priority is to help the people rebuild their homes as soon as possible and restore their confidence in life." ”

After a pause, Zhang Yunfei said again: "We want the whole world to know the beastly behavior of the little devils, use the army's high-power radio, and use the clear code to send reports, on the morning of September 3, the little ghosts stationed in Shuozhou carried out a brutal massacre against the people in Shuozhou City, tens of thousands of innocent people were killed, and thousands of houses were burned down. ”

The next day, all the major newspapers published the beastly deeds of the little devils in Shuozhou, and some patriotic students and workers held huge demonstrations in major cities to further publicize the crimes of the little devils, and at the same time put pressure on the Kuomintang authorities, demanding that the authorities actively resist and severely punish the little devils.

Lao Jiang, who has moved the capital to Chongqing, saw the news, except for scolding a few "Niang Xipi", but also powerless, at present, the battle of Wuhan is in a white-hot state, millions of elite troops have been put into the Wuhan battlefield, and Lao Jiang's control over Shanxi is now very weak.

Zhang Yunfei, who is in Shanxi, did not know that these caused such a big repercussion in all parts of the country.

At this time, Zhang Yunfei had already led the troops to clean up and bury the corpses, sweep the streets, and repair the destroyed houses in Shuozhou City, and at the same time, a large number of soldiers and political cadres went to the families of the people who had lost their relatives to help them rekindle their hope in life and publicize the determination of the Eighth Route Army to resist the Japanese.

At noon, the soldiers of the cavalry regiment came back, because of the big victory, most of the soldiers could see a smile on their faces, only the regiment commander Sun Chuanzhi, was in a worried mood and did not know how to report to the division commander.

Yesterday evening, without asking for instructions, he led the cavalry regiment to pursue the escaped little devils, and although he annihilated an infantry brigade, he was still worried that he would be severely punished.

"Report, the cavalry commander Sun Chuanzhi came to accept the punishment of the division commander." Sun Chuanzhi's loud voice sounded outside the door.

At this time, Zhang Yunfei was working in the temporary office, and at present, all the little devils had fled back to Xinkou, and if the troops continued to go south, they must first lay down Xinkou, but at present, there are tens of thousands of people in the two divisions of the little devils stationed in Xinkou, and the time is not ripe to attack Xinkou.

Zhang Yunfei was frowning, and when he was thinking about countermeasures, a loud voice sounded outside the door.

"Please come in"

Seeing Sun Chuanzhi push the door in, Zhang Yunfei immediately put on a serious expression, and looked at Sun Chuanzhi who was standing straight in front of him after coming in.

Zhang Yunfei said solemnly: "Commander Sun, do you know the consequences of sending troops without asking for instructions. ”

Hearing Zhang Yunfei's words, Sun Chuanzhi thought in his heart, I haven't learned from you the division commander, when the division commander sent troops to fight, and when did he ask his superiors for approval, but every time he has made meritorious contributions, great merit and fault, and there is no punishment from above.

Although he thought so in his heart, Sun Chuanzhi still replied loudly: "I know, teacher, I am willing to accept any punishment." ”

Zhang Yunfei walked back and forth in front of Sun Chuanzhi a few times, and his serious eyes made Sun Chuanzhi's heart furious, and he didn't know how the division commander was going to punish him.

"In this way, you go to the cooking class to carry the cauldron for a month, the cavalry regiment has no combat mission this month, and the cavalry regiment will return to Datong for training, during which the cavalry regiment will be temporarily commanded by the chief of staff of your regiment." Zhang Yunfei finally spoke.

"Division commander, this can't be done, just punish me personally, why punish the whole regiment of our cavalry regiment, now all regiments and brigades are fighting on the front line, and our cavalry regiment is shrinking to Datong for training, and the people in the infantry brigade are not laughing at our cavalry regiment." Sun Chuanzhi was anxious, and hurriedly said loudly.

"This is an order, and it must be executed."

Seeing that there was no room for bargaining, Sun Chuanzhi immediately became like a frosted eggplant.

Since then, in the next month, there was an additional regiment commander in the cooking class of the division headquarters who carried a cauldron, and the regiment commanders and brigade commanders saw Sun Chuanzhi in the future, and they all affectionately called Sun Chuanzhi "Sun Da Black Cauldron", of course, this is a later story.

The cavalry regiment led by Sun Chuanzhi won a great victory yesterday and annihilated more than 1,000 people who were inferior to beasts.

Zhang Yunfei himself also wanted to peel this group of little devils who exterminated people's surnames alive, and if it was himself, he would not hesitate to lead the troops to catch up.

But now that Zhang Yunfei is the commander of the first division, the discipline of the troops and his own authority must still be maintained, and Sun Chuanzhi must be punished, but the punishment must be grasped well.

If the punishment is heavy, it will chill the hearts of the soldiers, after all, the cavalry regiment has won a big victory, and the punishment will not work if it is light, and if it is light, it will not serve as a good warning.

Therefore, Zhang Yunfei thought of asking Sun Chuanzhi to go to the cooking class of the division headquarters to carry the cauldron, and the regiment commander to carry the cauldron in the cooking class, it must be the news of the explosion surname, and it will not be long before the officers and men of the whole division will know that not only punishing Sun Chuanzhi but also serving a good warning role is a matter of killing two birds with one stone.

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