"Brother Liu, look at what good things I have brought you." Ge Kunshan, who disappeared from Mengcheng for three whole days, returned to Mengcheng and came to the military camp of the militia group, which couldn't help but surprise Liu Goat. Tang Cheng noticed the change in Ge Kunshan's name for Liu Goat. When he met Ge Kunshan before, Ge Kunshan called Liu Goat as Liu Company Commander, and later when he asked Liu Goat to train the militia, he called Liu Goat as Chief Liu, and now, Ge Kunshan, who had not seen him for three days, began to call Liu Goat Brother Liu. During this period, the change in the name made Tang Cheng secretly wonder about Ge Kunshan's intention.

Liu Shanyang was slightly stunned, he should have also noticed the change in Ge Kunshan's name and that inexplicable familiarity. "Brother Liu, you are really my lucky general, this time I went to the provincial capital, guess who I met?" Ge Kunshan, who was familiar with himself, pulled a chair and sat down, seemingly eagerly waiting for Liu Goat to answer, with inexplicable excitement in his eyes.

Liu Goat secretly scolded Lao Tzu Where would you know who you met in the provincial capital on the dog day, Ge Kunshan is a county magistrate after all, Liu Goat is naturally not good at having a seizure in person, so he had to shake his head with a smile and say that he couldn't guess. "Even I didn't expect to meet you in the provincial capital, Chief Li" Ge Kunshan slapped his thigh and finally revealed the mystery, and Tang Cheng, who was sitting next to him, almost laughed out loud when he looked like an old farmer under him, but he was quite interested in what Ge Kunshan said about Chief Li.

"I escorted those three Japanese soldiers to the provincial capital that day, and I wanted to send them directly to the provincial capital, but before I could do it, I met Chief Li of the Fifth War Zone in the provincial capital." Ge Kunshan mentioned that when he met Li Zongren, his lips and teeth were foaming at the mouth, and he was completely a country face who had never seen the world. Now it's not just Liu Goat who is secretly scolding Ge Kunshan, even Tang Cheng, who is sitting on the side wiping his gun, is constantly squinting at Ge Kunshan, and the disgust and contempt in his eyes are obvious.

"County Magistrate Ge, let's not be busy talking about this, I want to ask how the war is going now? Have you heard any news about the 88th Division in the provincial capital? Seeing that Ge Kunshan was more excited about Yueyue, Liu Goat had no choice but to interrupt him. Since Ge Kunshan met Li Zongren, the commander of the Fifth War Zone, in the provincial capital, Liu Shanyang guessed that Ge Kunshan must have known some other news related to the national army.

Ge Kunshan, who was interrupted by Liu Goat, was not angry, first took a big sip of the teacup on the table, and then looked at Liu Goat with a heavy expression, "To be honest, I didn't hear the news of your 88th Division in the provincial capital, but the news of the national army is a lot of information, and the current war is very worrying, although the five theaters of the national army have won a big victory under the support of Chief Li, but it is an indisputable fact that the Japanese army is now powerful, and Chief Li went to the provincial capital this time to inspect the defense line. I heard that Chief Li was preparing to shrink the defensive line of the Fifth Theater and to shrink his troops to the Henan-Anhui border. ”

"A big win?" Staying in Mengcheng for four months has made Liu Goat a master of the world who does not care about the world, so Liu Goat is eager to know what the big victory mentioned in the Ge Kunshan Pass of the Dao is referring to. Seeing that Liu Goat asked about this so impatiently, Ge Kunshan's face showed a look that he had already known that you would come like this, and then took out a few expired newspapers from his briefcase and handed them to Liu Goat, indicating that all the contents he had just said had been published in the newspaper.

Liu Goat is almost illiterate, and the work of reading the newspaper and reading the news can only be handed over to Tang Cheng, but Ge Kunshan doesn't want this to be delayed. "Brother Liu, I'm really here to bring you something good, take a look." Ge Kunshan opened his black briefcase again, took out a letter of appointment from it and handed it to Liu Goat. "This is the letter of appointment I asked you from the commander of the Fifth Theater of Operations, Chief Li, you are now the major commander of our Mengcheng garrison regiment, and the other officers of the garrison regiment are appointed by you, how about it?" Isn't that a big gift of mine? ”

Looking at Ge Kunshan's smiling face, Liu Goat hated to immediately swing his fist and beat this unbeaten face into a pig's head, this letter of appointment seemed to promote his military rank to a major on the surface, but this major was a major of a local garrison regiment, and the weight was too much worse than his current captain and company commander of the 88th Division. Ge Kunshan, a guy who doesn't understand military affairs, actually turned himself, a captain officer of a subordinate unit of the national army, into a third-rate major of a local militia group, and if those guys in the 88th Division knew about it, his face would be completely lost.

Tang Cheng, who was a bystander, didn't know this, in the memory he could know, the major was naturally higher than the captain, and Liu Goat was originally just a small company commander, but now he became the regiment commander, and he directly skipped the rank of battalion commander in the middle. didn't pay attention to Liu Goat's face, Tang Cheng just looked down and looked through those newspapers, Liu Goat wanted to know about the current war, but Tang Cheng wanted to know how Shanghai was doing.

"Your major's military uniform, I also brought you a piece, and a batch of arms brought back from the provincial capital, you send someone to the yard to count it, I'm also a little tired, so I'll go back first." Seeing that Liu Goat's face was not very good, Ge Kunshan, who wanted to take Liu Goat to the restaurant to celebrate, immediately said goodbye and left. Anyway, now that Liu Shanyang is already the head of the Mengcheng garrison, there will be time to drink in the future, and Ge Kunshan, who is in a hurry to return to the county government under the pretext of being in a hurry, is not in a hurry at this time.

"This old bastard thing, if it weren't for Lao Tzu's injuries, he would have killed this old bastard here just now." Watching Ge Kunshan's truck out of the barracks from afar, Liu Goat, who turned around, immediately changed his face, revealing a face that wanted to kill people and relieve hatred. "Lao Tzu is a captain officer of a regular lineage unit, but this old bastard has put Lao Tzu into a bullshit guard regiment that is not in the stream, what a fucking major commander, pulling out of the army is not as effective as a second lieutenant platoon commander of the 88th Division."

Liu Shanyang slapped the table and smashed the teacup again, so that Tang Cheng understood the difference between the captain of the regular army and the major of the third-rate local army, it turned out that what he thought before was wrong, and Ge Kunshan did bad things with good intentions. "Bullshit's kindness, Ge Kunshan, this old bastard, is watching us fight, and tied us to Mengcheng to guard the door for him." Liu Shanyang broke the mystery in one word, and Tang Cheng realized that he had jumped from one cannon fodder pit to another, and the pit in Mengcheng was obviously more dangerous than Nanjing.

"So what do we do? Now you may not be able to leave if you want to, since Ge Kunshan wants to tie us up here in Mengcheng, he will never watch us leave. Tang Cheng has no idea now, he can only pin his hopes on Liu Goat, but unfortunately Liu Goat has long been dizzy, and now he can't come up with a suitable idea. There was no good way to sit down, and Liu Goat, who was in a hurry, simply asked Tang Cheng to read him the news related to the war in the newspaper, and after reading more than a dozen newspapers, an afternoon passed.

"It seems that the situation is not very good" After listening to the news that Tang Cheng read, Liu Goat's face became even more gloomy. On March 20, after the Segu Detachment of the 10th Division of the Japanese Army advanced south and captured Lincheng Xuecheng, Zaozhuang, and Hanzhuang, despite the fact that the attack of the 5th Division and the 10th Division Changse Detachment was blocked on both sides, the lone army went deep and broke through to Taierzhuang, in an attempt to capture Xuzhou in one fell swoop. Li Zongren, commander of the Fifth Theater of Operations, led his troops to hold Taierzhuang under the leadership of Sun Lianzhong, commander-in-chief of the 2nd Group Army, and Tang Enbo and Feng Yizhong, commanders of the 20th Army Corps, led his troops to open the front of the Jinpu Railway and turned into the mountainous area of Lanling and its northwest Yungu to lure the enemy deep and wait for the opportunity to break the enemy.

On March 23, the Japanese army moved south from Zaozhuang, and engaged the garrison alert troops in the Kangzhuang and Nigou areas on the north side of Taierzhuang, and on the 24th, the Japanese army repeatedly attacked Taierzhuang and entered the village many times. The defending 2nd Army stubbornly resisted and engaged in a fierce battle with the Japanese army. The Fifth Theater of Operations used the main force of the 20th Army Corps to maneuver towards Taierzhuang, pinched the enemy's flank, formed an internal and external attack with the 2nd Group Army, and ordered the 3rd Army to advance to the north of Lincheng and Zaozhuang to cut off the enemy's rear route. In order to relieve the danger in front of Taierzhuang, the Japanese army quickly rushed to the aid of the 5th Division Sakamoto detachment from Linyi and entered the Qiuhu area north of Lanling, where it was surrounded by the 20th Army of the 52nd Army. On April 3, the Fifth Theater launched a counteroffensive on all fronts, fighting fiercely for four days, and annihilated most of the Japanese Seya Detachment and the first part of the Sakamoto Detachment, totaling more than 10,000 people. The rest of the remnants of the Japanese army retreated to Yicheng and Zaozhuang on the 7th.

Judging from the contents reported in the newspapers, the Battle of Taierzhuang, in which more than 10,000 enemies were annihilated, was indeed a great victory for the Nationalist Army, but before the Battle of Taierzhuang, the defense area of the Fifth Theater was attacked and broken through by the Japanese army one after another. On January 26, the Japanese 13th Division attacked Fengyang and Bengbu in Anhui Province, on February 3, the Japanese army successively captured Linhuai Pass and Bengbu, and on the 9th ~ 10th, the main force of the 13th Division of the Japanese Army crossed the Huai River in Bengbu and Linhuai Pass respectively, and launched an attack on the north bank.

In late February, the Japanese 2nd Army began to split its way to the south. The 5th Division of the East Road went south from Weifang, Weixian County, Shandong, and fell into Yishui, Juxian, and Rizhao in succession, and went straight to Linyi. The 10th Division of the Japanese Army on the West Road Changse Detachment crossed the canal from the west of the Jining area and attacked Jiaxiang, and after encountering the stubborn resistance of the 3rd Army, the Seya Detachment, which had been frustrated in the attack, immediately advanced south of the Jinpu Railway to the south, and on March 14, it attacked Teng County from Liangxiadian south of Zou Cheng in Zou County, and broke through Teng County on the 17th.

Liu Goat listened attentively to every word read out by Tang Cheng, and he couldn't wait to break these words and crumple them and engrave them in his mind, although the Japanese army had only experienced the defeat of Taierzhuang, they were still menacing. Judging from the current situation, the national army does not have the ability to gather heavy troops and the Japanese army again, and Tang Cheng, who was driven back to sleep, did not know that Liu Goat sat in the chair all night without closing his eyes.