The soldiers on the battlefield fought bravely to kill the enemy, the front-line officers kept calculating wins and losses, and Yang Rui could only go back and forth in the semi-basement headquarters in Zhuangzi. Every time he walked, he would stop, and then listen to the sound of gunfire to see if there was a telephone ringing in the communication room next door, there was no phone for a long time, I really don't know how the front line was, if it wasn't for the sake of face, he still wanted to go over and take a look, and ask the staff officers if the phone was disconnected.

Yang Rui was calm on the surface and anxious in his heart, while the staff officers either took the text and looked at it over and over again, or stared at the map to measure it, and only Leo seemed to have nothing to worry about in the whole room, he took out the second pot head hidden under the table in front of Yang Rui, and took a big bite when he looked up.

He didn't drink it and handed the wine bottle to Yang Rui, ignoring the rules in the army, looking at his face that was flushed with strong wine, Yang Rui, who had just sworn not to drink again in this life, couldn't help laughing, thinking that he was going to die, maybe this was the last time he drank, so he took it and poured a big sip, and the liquid of sixty-five degrees flowed down his throat into the stomach, as if he had swallowed a mouthful of sulfuric acid, and the entire esophagus was washed out, and then a fire was angry from the abdomen, along the spine and straight to the brain, The nerves in his whole body trembled violently, and it seemed that all the confusion and anxiety were removed. It's so cool! After taking a sip, Yang Rui poured two more sips before returning the wine. A room full of staff officers watched as the commander and chief of staff blatantly violated military regulations, but none of them stopped them.

The wine was just right, Yang Rui didn't even pay attention to the gunshots outside, only Chen Guangshou, who had been standing at the door, felt that something was wrong, and ran out and shouted: "Where to shoot?" Where to shoot? Before long, the phone in the communication room next door rang violently, and the signal soldier who took the phone immediately came to report and said: "The west of Zhuangzi has been broken in by the Japanese army!" ”

As soon as he said this, he said. The staff officers in the room all stood up, Yang Rui was drunk and courageous but didn't care: "It should have come a long time ago, the dog's battle has always liked to attack the flank, and after attacking the north for so long, I thought he forgot this move." ”

The leader didn't care, but the subordinates were careful, and Bei Shoutong hurriedly asked: "How many Japanese soldiers have come, and where are they now?" ”

The number was unknown, and the telephone said that the Japanese had bypassed the western barrier and suddenly appeared behind the first trench. A company standing there was engaged in hand-to-hand combat with the enemy. The signal soldier who received the news was sweating profusely, and he knew very well that the current shape was extremely critical.

The Japanese attack on the flank was expected, but it was unexpected to bypass the obstacle area, because there was a large forest to the west of Zhuangzi and time was limited. The firing range was not easy to clear for a while, so the depth of the position over there was insufficient. Six hundred meters behind the first trench is the second trench. The second trench was already on the periphery of Zhuangzi, and when the depth was so shallow, most of the barbed wire of the whole army was concentrated in the west to strengthen the defense.

"How can it be bypassed?" Someone on the staff asked.

"Naturally, someone leads the way. The barbed wire is limited, and the layout is thick and thin, as long as you are familiar with the path, quietly cut one place. Then it is not impossible to insert after the first trench after the breakthrough. Yang Rui shook his head slightly, he was a little unacceptable when he said that Zhang Zongchang had betrayed before, but now it has been proved that that Wang Balamb is indeed a real rebel.

"But we still have warning mines?!"

"Nothing is always reliable, it's just that the vigilant mine defenders are careless!" After Yang Rui finished speaking, he looked at Chen Guangshou who came back from outside and said, "Go find me a gun, if the second trench breaks through, then the guards will press it." ”

"Sir, you can't go up, we still have ......"

"What else do we have? That's all these people, the three regiments can't be drawn, and the engineer battalion guarding Zhuangzi is half disabled, and it's not the guard company who goes up. Yang Rui took off the epaulettes on his military uniform as he spoke, and then changed into a military hat of the Fuxing Army and left the headquarters.

Seeing them stopping, Yang Rui smiled and said, "I'm just going to the second trench, not to the battlefield." What is the difference between staying here and being in the second trench, as soon as that side is broken, the whole line of defense will collapse, what is the difference between dying there and dying here? ”

Bei Shoutong saw that Yang Rui said seriously, and said, "Then let's go." ”

"Hehe, you all go there, what if there is something else? Especially on the side of the field artillery company, although it could not defeat the Japanese artillery, it was still able to save one or two emergencies at critical moments. You have to make it clear to Cheng Zhihu, the cannon can be destroyed but people can't die, these people must be given me a good job, otherwise the field artillery will still not be able to defeat the Japanese army in the future. It seemed that there was a lot to say, but he felt that everything that should be said had been said, Yang Rui swallowed his throat, closed his mouth and resolutely came out of the headquarters, heading towards the west of Zhuangzi.

On the whole, the defense line of the first division has reached the verge of collapse, the first division in the north is not fierce, but Xie Cheng's three regiments are all pinned down in the trenches, and in the south, which has been broken, with the decisive charge of one brigade and one brigade of the seventh division, Fang Yanchen's second regiment has been extremely tired, the grenades are basically used up, and the barrels of the machine guns are also red.

Taking advantage of the fact that the north and south sides were pinned, the flank attack that the Japanese had been planning began to be carried out, and the leading officers, in addition to the commander of the 26th Wing under the 13th Brigade and Regiment, Yoshida Shinsaku Nakasa, was Tsunesaburo Takekami, who had previously made plans to kill the spray train, and the division commander had already telegraphed the Manchurian Army Headquarters in recognition of his military exploits and promoted him to Shaozao. The promotion from captain to junior is not much joy for others, but it has a different meaning for Takekami Tsunesaburo who graduated from the fourteenth period of Lu University (1900), and the classmates in the same period are already young Zuo, and some seem to have arrived in Nakasa, seeing that he is still outside the adjutant, Takegami Tsunesaburo has to work harder than others. After solving the problem of the Qing people's spraying train, he came up with the idea of taking a flank attack on the remnants of the Independence Army, and the direction was chosen to the west of Santaizi, as for the terrain over there, someone would naturally tell you.

With a thick stack of Japanese military tickets in his arms, Ma Sanbao's smiling face blossomed, he was a real person. It doesn't matter if Commander Zhang or any other leader is locked up, whether he has a big nose or a small nose, as long as someone gives money, gives a lot of money, he dares to do any work. When the Japanese translator showed a large pile of military tickets, looking at the portraits and foreign numbers printed on them, he immediately knew that this was foreigners' money, looking at this pile of foreign money, listening to the good promises, he volunteered to come out as soon as his heart was hot. After seven turns and eight turns, he led the Japanese army to find the weakest place in the western position: a short section of flowing water ditch, carefully took out the triggered alarm mines buried under the mound, and the barbed wire could be cut, and Yoshida Nakasa, who was next to him, watched him take out the mines and couldn't help but give him a thumbs up. "Yo Xi! You drop, conscience drops greatly! ”

Hear the praise of the little nose official. Ma Sanbao's mouth cracked. Laughing like crying, he didn't care whether the other party understood Chinese or not, and shouted: "This section is still dug by us, I was watching those short-haired thieves of the first division put this thing together, and they said at the time that they wanted adults to feel better, hehe......" Ma Sanbao said. Squinted his eyes and skimmed the other party who wanted him to steal business, looking very complacent. "I'll say it, I'm still familiar with this paragraph."

Although Takegami Tsunesaburo Shaozo could understand Chinese, he didn't care at all what this Qing horse thief said. In his opinion, these people who can be bought with straw paper ordinary military hand tickets have nothing to respect, when the soldiers cut the barbed wire, he looked at the map drawn by Ma Sanbao and another leading party, while pondering how far it was from here to the enemy headquarters, but the map was too unclear, he beckoned another leading party to come over, this is a young man less than seventeen years old, looking at his appearance, Takegami Shaozo seemed to think of his younger brother, he was also so thin back then.

"How far is it to drop here, to the headquarters?" Tsunesaburo Takegami pointed to the headquarters drawn by Ma Sanbao and asked the boy.

Looking at the map carefully, the young man thought for a while and tilted his head and said, "It's not too far, it's more than a mile past here is Zhuangzi, and I know that the place at the headquarters is not here, it's here." The young man's hand moved from the center of the Zhuangzi to the north.

"Drop here, not here?" Shao Zuo only felt that what these two leading parties said was very contradictory, and he didn't know who to believe for a while.

"This is it. I've been there, and there is a bookstore that teaches people to read and write," the boy recalled, his fingers pointing heavily to the north of Zhuangzi, as if he was constantly emphasizing that he was right.

"Oh here...... Command secretary, teach you to read? Shaozo seemed to be a little convinced.

But before he finished speaking, Ma Sanbao over there quickly rushed over, "My lord, he is talking nonsense, the headquarters is in the middle of the Zhuangzi, and there are fortifications dug inside, I have seen it with my own eyes, he is coaxing you." ”

Although it is the same platoon, Ma Sanbao has been very dissatisfied with the teenager who joined halfway from the beginning, this dissatisfaction is not only that there is one more person to share the money with him, but also that this guy is a person from the first division at all, especially after taking a few classes taught by the first division some time ago, he even dreamed of going to the first division. He glared at the boy and said, "Little rabbit, what are you talking nonsense, I'm leaving you here now, if you ruin my good thing, see how Lao Tzu cleans you up." With that, his sleeves were rolled up, and his face was full of fierceness.

"Your Excellency...... In the middle of the Zhuangzi is actually a treasury, which contains silver tickets. He, he just wanted to ......" Before the young man finished speaking, he was punched in the face by Ma Sanbao, and then he was pushed again, and the young man suddenly fell to the ground, and when he was about to step on a few feet, he was stopped by the Japanese army next to him.

Tsunesaburo Takegami asked with a cold face: "He drops, is what he said true?" ”

"My lord, the headquarters is in the Zhuangzi, and there are tickets in it, but ......" Ma Sanbao found that the more he said that, the more indescribable he became, "My lord, he will talk nonsense with this fancy circle, and he went to the first division for a few days, and he talked every day that he wanted to go to the first division." My lord, he is now a red-mouthed and white-toothed coaxing you! ”

The inconsistencies between the two leading parties made the troops confused, and although the barbed wire was cut, they could only run quickly after entering, and if they went in the wrong direction, they might lose the opportunity. Takegami and Yoshida Nakasa glanced at each other and came together. "Takekami-kun, who the hell should we believe?"

"I'm more convinced of the older ones. However, "Thinking of Ma Sanbao's appearance when he saw Qian's eyes, Takegami Shaozo was a little uncertain after speaking, although he felt that the boy was telling the truth, but intellectually he couldn't find a reason for this Qingguo boy who didn't like money to lead the way for him, and he was helpless. He had no choice but to say, "Yoshida-kun, it's better for you to make a choice." ”

"Then let's go to the north of Zhuangzi first, even if the enemy headquarters is not there, we can enter Zhuangzi again, and if we enter Zhuangzi first but it is not right, then we are likely to be surrounded by the enemy." Yoshida Nakasa did not screen the authenticity of the two leading parties, but analyzed these two different options from the feasibility of operation.

The assault team of more than 1,000 people quickly got into the cut barbed wire, and Ma Sanbao ran in front, zigzags and turns, leading the Japanese army around several alarm mines. It was discovered by the defenders who were arranged here, and the soldiers of a platoon stationed here saw so many little devils, and hurriedly opened fire, throwing grenades and throwing grenades, but the Japanese rushed too close. After firing a few shots, the little devil rushed up, and then the small group of soldiers was completely overwhelmed by the Japanese army.

The defenders at the front line resisted only for a few minutes. But the sound of their gunfire alerted the defenders behind. Seeing such a large mass of Japanese troops attacking, the machine guns arranged in the bunker in the combat area immediately strafed, and the bullets "pounced on the ......" in the ranks of the Japanese troops, and the Japanese troops suddenly fell into a piece, but the role of the machine guns was ineffective after a while. After the Battle of Arthur, the Japanese army fully understood the power of machine guns and came up with a lot of ways to do so. If you are not in a hurry, you will dig trenches, civil engineering will excavate, and if you are in a hurry, you will use a shield. The Japanese in this assault brought more than 20 half-man-high shields, and machine gun bullets hit the steel shields. There was a clanging sound, and behind the long row of steel shields, all the little devils were lying down, constantly touching forward, even if they occasionally shot the shield raiser behind the steel shield, the Japanese soldiers next to them would immediately take over.

Looking at the little devil's tortoise formation, company commander Chen Changgeng couldn't help but punch the wood of the fortification, "Fuck it." This little devil is a goblin. If Lao Tzu had mortars......" Chen Changgeng said that he didn't go on here, the first regiment and the second battalion suffered heavy casualties last night, and the battalion commander Zhang Changguo was injured, so the headquarters sent their remnant battalion to guard the western position, because the north and south were fighting fiercely, and in the case of useless field artillery, all mortars could only be transferred.

"Do you want to move the machine guns of the second company?" Deputy company commander Zhao Dawang asked. The devils chose a very clever breakthrough position, if they were a little more in the middle, then they would be in the crossfire of the first and second machine guns, but they chose the outermost side, and the only machine gun that could threaten them was one company and one machine gun.

"Don't. By the time we moved it, our machine gun was long gone. The little devil got closer and closer, and Chen Changgeng saw the little devil behind the shield throwing a bomb, "Notify the whole company, touch it, fuck it!" After Chen Changgeng finished speaking, he stuffed a few grenades into his belt and hurriedly went outside.

Bombs kept falling in the bunker on the side of the machine gun crew, although this was a fully enclosed bunker, but as long as it was a firing point, a firing port had to be opened, and under the rain of bombs, finally a bomb was thrown into the firing port, and with a bang, the machine gun stopped.

When Chen Changgeng rushed forward with people, he saw the little devil kill his machine gun, and his face suddenly turned red with anger. He cursed on his lips, but his legs were not slow, and when he rushed to sixty meters, he bit the grenade fuse and threw it with all his might!

Seeing that the defenders had burst up, Takegami Shaozo was overjoyed, what he wanted was to lure the defenders out, so that his time to break in would be saved a few minutes. When the first company moved forward to meet the enemy, the Japanese soldiers hiding behind the turtle formation took the initiative to meet them after receiving a grenade. Three or four hundred men fought fiercely, and the sound of shotguns, shouts, and bayonets rang out. Taking advantage of the fact that the two armies were fighting each other, the other Japanese troops bypassed the battlefield and rushed behind the enemy in a hurry.

The Japanese army slyly broke off his tail and was so angry that Chen Changgeng only screamed, this bankrupt peddler who was the second smartest in the Yi camp and the fifth smartest in the regiment was greatly hurt, but in the fighting, he had no way to let his company out of battle, and he could only pursue the Japanese army after killing the little devil in front of him. Of course, when he calms down, he will also understand that it is only a matter of time before the little devil breaks his tail and constantly rushes through his defense area, and the disparity in strength will only have two results, one is that the little devil killed him, even more than a hundred people, and then rushed to Zhuangzi; The second is that when he killed more than 100 people from the little devils, the other little devils rushed to Zhuangzi more than ten minutes in advance. The two endings were still better for him than for the Japanese army, and for the entire First Division, especially from the post-war period, they were the same.

Yoshida Nakasa and Takegami Shaosa led more than 800 people to rush to the north of Zhuangzi, which was 500 meters away, and everyone saw the building independent of Zhuangzi during the march, which seemed to be a temple, the temple was not big, and there were many ammunition boxes and rows of ammunition wagons unique to the Russian army piled up around it. The targets seemed to be in sight, and the Japanese soldiers screamed strangely, but when they braved the rain of bullets from the defenders in Zhuangzili to rush in, they found that this was just a land temple, which was dilapidated and empty, and it was not the headquarters of the enemy army at all. was actually fooled, Takegami Shaozuo had red eyes, and when he was about to look for the Qingguo boy in anger, the man had disappeared. (To be continued......)