In the smoke of gunpowder in the city, he could not see the losses when he went to Beijing and Hangzhou, but he could imagine that hundreds of cannons of one or two hundred caliber bombarded for two or three minutes, and thousands of shells fell, and the casualties were inevitably small.

The truck, which had already begun to assemble, roared out of Shanhaiguan at the moment of receiving the order, and fired wildly all the way, slaughtering the dense Japanese soldiers, pressing the minced meat all over the ground, and the wheels shook up the plasma like mud, and ran wildly into the distance.

The long-range artillery was still extending, and the shells tore apart the illusion that the Japanese army would recapture Shanhaiguan, and the shells fell, and the corpses appeared one by one, flying all over the sky with stumps and broken arms.

The artillery reaction speed of the advance army was so fast, Da Da Da exceeded the expectations of the Japanese army, the Japanese army originally calculated, even if the army entered the city, the four or five hundred artillery pieces placed outside the pass were enough to kill most of the advance army, and then, the troops at the city gate poured into the city, strangled the few remaining enemies, and recaptured Shanhaiguan.

But the artillery of the advance army destroyed their position before they fired two rounds of salvo, and the pressure generated by the violent martyrdom caused all the surrounding artillery positions to be destroyed, and more than ten kilometers away, a piece of scorched earth, bare rocks, and no trees. Naturally, there is no need to talk about the surrounding troops, of course, there is not a single left.

And the ensuing dense bullets made the soldiers who were still moving on the road unavoidable, and the one-sided slaughter made the Japanese soldiers shoot back with the opportunity in addition to dodging on both sides. It was all heads dangling in front of them, so they couldn't shoot at all.

The truck didn't care, the barrel was already a little cold, and before it was a kilometer out of the city gate, the barrel was reddish again.

The Japanese troops were shattered by the dense rain of bullets, blood was flying, and trucks rushed by. Trucks in the rain of blood. Then it became dripping with blood, as if it had just come out of a pool of blood.

The frenzied killing caused the Japanese army to collapse instantly, but when there was no escape, there was no way to avoid it, and they seemed to have no other choice but to be torn apart by bullets.

Truck. Spraying flames all the way to the location of the martyrdom, it was blocked by huge pits, and it was difficult to continue to advance.

"Oh yes! Cheap this bunch of chop up! ”

Unable to charge, the soldier on the front truck slapped the anti-aircraft machine gun with a red barrel, cursed hatefully, and then patted the car basket with thousands of steps and shouted: "Let's go back!" ”

Trucks, one by one wrapped in plasma, were in the debris and dirt everywhere, reversing. Turn around and head back.

The Japanese army, on the other hand, retreated twenty kilometers directly and entered the second line of defense, and then stopped.

Inside the city, the soldiers had already eliminated the Japanese army, treated the wounded, and cleaned up the battlefield.

The corpses of the warriors were filled out. It was placed in the open space, and the corpses of the Japanese soldiers were hollowed out. Thrown into a large pile, it will be pulled out of the city by truck to be cremated.

Qu Jun had just come down from the city tower, looking at the corpses of the soldiers, he was so annoyed in his heart, the Japanese army was really crazy, and he didn't care about the tens of thousands of soldiers in the city. Trying to annihilate their own troops altogether.

Fortunately, the enemy's shelling was not effective shooting, and the walls of the houses were blocked, and the people were not dense, and there were almost no people in the center, so that's it. At least 3,000 soldiers lost their lives, 4,000 wounded soldiers from a distance of 4,000, and nearly 1,000 lost their combat effectiveness, which can be said to be the most tragic battle since he led these two divisions. If it weren't for the early erection of the artillery on his side, the regiment would have been wiped out, and it would have really appeared.

"Little Japan with grass mud horses! After cleaning up the old hair, don't step on your broken island, and swear not to be a man!! ”

Qu Jun just scolded hatefully, and shouted on the walkie-talkie: "Clean up the battlefield quickly, build artillery positions, and build a defensive line!" ”

With his order, the soldiers were divided into two groups, one to clean up the battlefield, and the other to build a position outside Shanhaiguan, ready to defend against the Japanese attack.

Qu Jun just sent a telegram to Dong Ku, reporting that Shanhaiguan had been handed over, completely controlled, and reported the loss.

At this time, Dong Ku was preparing to meander and collect the gift at the same time.

The confidential officer hidden in the room secretly sent the message to the fifth, and then went to Dong Ku.

Seeing such huge losses, Dong Ku's heart was also twitched, but he also knew that it was not that Qu Jungang had made a command error, but that the Japanese army was crazy enough.

Then he called back, and asked Qu Jun to recruit troops on the spot, replenish the source of troops, and simply train and recuperate on the spot, waiting for Zhang Zizhong to take over. Mr. Zhang Zi has now arrived in Shijiazhuang, and in two days, he will arrive at Shanhaiguan.

Dong Ku had just finished sending a telegram to Qu Jun, asking Zhang Zizhong to prepare 20,000 cotton jackets and pants to take over the defense of Shanhaiguan, and told him that it was attacked and attacked, and the Japanese army had a lot of guns and ammunition.

Zhang Zizhong looked at the telegram and sighed, and his heart had an irresistible sense of decadence about the combat effectiveness of the advance army. He couldn't imagine why the attack of the advance army was so sharp, and the defense of Shanhaiguan was not comparable to these cities, and it was really difficult to attack there.

But these, if he went to Shanhaiguan and saw the attacking troops of only more than 20,000 people in person, his eyes would fall.

As soon as Qu Jun took Shanhaiguan, the troops began to rest. The recruitment was unexpectedly smooth, and the number of people far exceeded his expectations.

Originally, I thought that it would be good to recruit 10,000 people in the surrounding townships, but who knows, when the battle is over and the people in the corners of the street pour out, the banners at the recruitment office are hung up, and the soldiers are doing propaganda, so people everywhere ask whether they will accept the troops.

As soon as Qu Jun walked out of the city gate, it was very strange to see a pile of noisy people, and he didn't know what these people were doing. If you want to celebrate, you should also join the ranks of those gongs and drums, but they gather dozens or hundreds of people together, and they don't enter the customs.

When his eyes swept over the crowd, his pupils shrank, he reached out and made a few gestures, and then walked over with the guard platoon.

When this group of people saw a bunch of loaded guns and people covered in blood coming, they all took a half-step back, facing Qu Jungang, faintly, and the people who made fighting movements and stood on their front feet and back feet.

Qu Jun just walked up to the group and asked, "Have you eaten military salaries, tell me, in which unit have you worked?" ”

Hundreds of people were silent, all staring at Qu Jungang, but no one showed fear, but they were full of Han spirit.

Qu Jun just glanced at them one by one. He confirmed his thoughts even more, and when he saw that no one squeaked, he asked again: "Don't worry, the advance army never points its guns at its own people, and the advance army kills from Heilongjiang to Shanghai, and then kills back." Tens of thousands of people have been killed, but they have not yet killed their compatriots, of course, traitors and bullies are not included. Tell me which part you are from. ”

"Sir, we are from the 113th Division of the Northeast Army, and we want to go back to the Northeast ......," a strong man with five big and three thick said timidly.

"Northeast Army ......"

Qu Jun was just happy, stretched out his hand and pointed to a group of people standing in the distance and said, "Those are the same, right?" ”

"Yes, sir, we are not from the same army. They are from the 54th Division, and that guy is the ...... of the 27th Division."

The strong man said.

"Huh? How do you know everyone who is not a teacher? ”

Qu Jungang looked at him curiously.

A lean middle-aged man saw that although Qu Jungang was bloody, he was not vicious, so he boldly said: "Sir, he has stayed in the most troops, and there is no ...... in the army that has stayed for half a year."

"Oh?"

Qu Jungang looked at this strong man curiously, and he didn't know why he couldn't stay in one unit for a long time, but this was obviously not the time to gossip. He sighed and asked, "Brother, inquire about someone." Does Meng Zhaocheng know each other? ”

"Meng Zhaocheng? Acquaintance, he is the commander of the 158 brigade, and he is still alive? ”

The strong man did not hesitate to tell Meng Zhaocheng's origin.

"Where's Han Jie?"

"Han Jie is the commander of the 3rd Battalion of the 3rd Regiment of the 158th Brigade......"

The strong man clearly sensed something.

"I really know a lot, what about Xing Yuan?"

Qu Jun just smiled and asked easily.

Xing Yuan...... It was the brigade commander of the 158 brigade...... Sir, you ......"

The strong man hesitated.

"Ha Lu Ha!" Qu Jungang smiled and said, "Xing Yuan." Commander of the First Army of the Advance Army, Meng Zhaocheng, commander of the First Division of the First Army of the Advance Army, Han Jie, commander of the Second Division. ”.

"Huh?"

Qu Jungang's words stunned everyone. I was stunned. You must know that the reputation of the advance army is very good, and the starting point is Heilongjiang, so these veterans of the Northeast Army are very yearning for it, and they do not reject it, but the difference between the army commander and the brigade commander is not a little bit and a half, how did Xing Yuan become the army commander?

"That'...... Can the officers join the advance team? ”

The strong man asked boldly.

"Join the Advance Army? Yes, Xing Yuan has a vote for your brothers in the Northeast Army, but there is one thing, if you want to kill devils, you want to beat Lao Maozi, are you not afraid of death? Not afraid of hardship? ”

"I'm afraid of a bear!"

The strong man puffed up his chest and said: "Lao Tzu has long wanted to beat the little devil and beat the old man, but the official will not let him!" ”

Okay, then you are responsible for recruiting troops, recruiting enough companies, you are the company commander, recruiting enough battalions, you are the battalion commander, recruiting enough regiments, you are the regiment commander, can you do it?

"Sir, then I have recruited enough division, can I be the division commander?"

"Recruit a teacher? If you want to recruit a division, I will let you be the division commander, if it is less than a brigade, I will give Lao Tzu to the gang room to be cauldron! ”

"Sir, as long as you pay the military and give you a gun, I can recruit a division, what do you say?"

"Huh? You are still called a branch, Platoon Commander Sun, you give him the salary standard of the army, and the ten registered guns follow, he can't recruit a division in three days, you send him to the recruit room, Lao Tzu doesn't like to brag the most. Qu Jun just said with a smile.

"Yes!"

The platoon leader of the guard platoon stood upright, shouted the order, and then waved out ten people, put down his backpack, took out a booklet and asked, "What's your name?" ”

"Report to the chief, my name is Li Zhuang."

The strong man stood up and said loudly.

"Do you know how to read?"

"I know a few, I went to private school for a few days when I was a child."

Li Zhuang said as he took the booklet handed by the platoon commander of the guard platoon.

"Huh?"

Li Zhuang froze when he turned the first page, his mouth wide open, staring at the booklet in surprise, with a look of disbelief.

"What? Any questions? ”

Platoon Commander Sun asked puzzled.

"Sir...... What about the food expenses...... How much? ”

"Food?"

Platoon Commander Sun was stunned and suddenly understood what Li Zhuang meant, so he said with a smile: "I have been a soldier in the advance army for a year, and I have not paid for food. ”

"Really!"

A few brave veterans gathered around him said in surprise, "Oh mom, there are more than the platoon commanders!" ”

"And!"

Platoon Commander Sun glanced at the buns and said, "Look, this piece of clothing is thirty oceans." This shovel is forty oceans, this pair of military shoes is thirty oceans, this knife is not available in the market for a hundred oceans, and with guns all over the body, five hundred oceans away, what is the military salary of ten yuan. ”

"! Strong. Done! ”

"Sha Leng, hurry up and recruit troops!"

The veteran's eyes lit up. They could see that the platoon commander of the guard platoon was not wearing homespun clothes, and that the ordnance was the first time they had seen it, like boots, the big backpack, the two new guns, the shell gun stuck in his leg, and the grenade on his chest, all of which were more advanced than they would have been when they were soldiers. The military salary is so high, in a few years, it is enough to get married and marry a daughter-in-law, and the most important thing is that it does not cost money to eat!

Qu Jungang stood next to him and watched, secretly happy in his heart. These veterans have an advantage over the soldiers trained on the island, that is, they are good at protecting themselves on the battlefield, and they have a relatively high sense of survival, plus they are all proficient. Naturally, it saves a lot of trouble.

He saw that it was almost there, so he said loudly: "That Li Zhuang is right." What do you need to recruit soldiers, you tell the guard platoon commander Sun, remember, if you can't recruit enough for a brigade, you will go to the gang room for me, and the military salary will remain the same, and there will be no guns to carry. ”

"Rest assured, sir. In three days, I will definitely pull up a division and give me a truck to run to the countryside! ”

Li Zhuang's excited face lit up.

"Go ahead, I'll see if you can really recruit a teacher."

Qu Jun just waved his hand and left the city gate with the remaining soldiers of the guard platoon. Return to the city and start arranging the defense of the troops and the recruitment of new recruits.

Qu Jungang didn't know what to say, this Li Zhuang was really a bit of a box cannon, and within five minutes of his walk, he asked Platoon Commander Sun to find a loudspeaker, and wrote a banner for the recruitment office according to his requirements, and shouted while standing on the side of the city gate: "Brothers, the moon rings for ten yuan, including food and shelter, and those who want to go back to the Northeast are here to sign up!! ”

It didn't matter what he shouted, and the crowd of people gathered in the distance rushed over and asked nonsense.

Li Zhuang had already selected a few people in the first group of people to use as counselors for explanation, and when these people added fuel and vinegar, these people immediately boiled, and then, the registration was made, and piles of people gathered aside, and in less than half an hour, three thousand people were recruited from around.

If Platoon Commander Sun hadn't seen too many people coming, he used a walkie-talkie to call a battalion to be responsible for registration, maintaining order, and temporarily forming a queue at the moment when the crowd was crowded, I am afraid that it would have been chaotic a long time ago.

After Li Zhuang shouted for more than ten minutes, he put down the iron horn, handed it to a companion, found Platoon Commander Sun, and asked him to arrange dozens of trucks, pull up banners like city gates, and follow the dozens of people he picked out from the crowd to the village below to recruit troops.

Platoon Commander Sun asked strangely, "Li Zhuang, how do you know that so many people can be recruited in the village below Lu Dao?" ”

"Sir, you don't know what to do, we listened to the order and left the northeast and entered the customs, we were all homesick, we left the army, became deserters, but when we arrived at Shanhaiguan, the Japanese army couldn't get by, so we all hid in the surrounding mountains and villages, waiting for the opportunity. I know that there is more than one division of the number of people, and the commander of Qu said that let me recruit a division for three days, I am a little nervous, but it is not a problem. ”

Li Zhuang briefly said the situation.

There are so many ......

Platoon Commander Sun didn't speak, summed it up, took out his walkie-talkie and reported to Qu Jungang.

As soon as Qu Jun heard the great joy, he directly ordered: "The recruitment office listens to the transfer of the guard platoon and platoon commander Sun, and all trucks, as long as they are summoned, must be used by the recruitment office!" ”

Li Zhuang looked at the black thing in Platoon Commander Sun's hand and spoke, swallowed his mouthful of water, envy, and muttered in his heart, what kind of new thing is this?

At the moment when Qu Jungang's order was issued, Platoon Commander Sun turned around and saw Li Zhuang staring at the walkie-talkie in his hand, so he smiled and said: "Li Zhuang, you can't match this when you recruit soldiers, and when you pass the training, you will also have it, but for the convenience of recruitment, I will follow you, and the people you send out will have a squad to follow to ensure smooth communication." ”

"Great!"

Li Zhuang rubbed his hands, excited and couldn't do it.

At the booth where the two were talking, trucks came in the dust, and then the banners written with a brush were in place.

Li Zhuang didn't say anything long-winded, simply explained to the dozens of people who were picked out, and set off with Platoon Commander Sun.

Things really didn't make Qu Jungang expect that within 100 kilometers around, there were scattered Northeast men who were unwilling to leave their homes in a daze and wanted to go home. Some of these veterans have endured for several years in the mountains and forests, in the villages, but they have not been able to pass through the pass, and countless have been caught by the Japanese army and are missing.

They have climbed mountains and mountains. But how many are able to return to their hometowns? Therefore, most chose to stay near the gate and wait for the opportunity.

They, like Xing Yuan, have the blood to fight the Japanese, but because of the order, they abandoned their homes and lost contact with the old people, brothers, sisters, wives and children at home. Longing to return to the Northeast, to return to home.

When I saw the truck that said, "It's a gentleman, kill back to the Northeast!" I heard that it was the advance army recruiting, and I heard that it was Heilongjiang that came out, recovered Shanghai, recovered Xuzhou, and fought until Shanhaiguan, when the advance army won many battles. Some of these veterans of the Northeast Army who have been working hard for several years are boiling with enthusiasm one by one.

They didn't need to explain much, they just needed to know that the advance army was in the cannon they heard. It is enough to take down Shanhaiguan. They knew how difficult it was to fight there, and it only took a few hours for the advance army to defeat the first level in the world, which was enough to make their blood burn.

In the woods, under the hillside, figures appeared near the truck, and with it, more and more people gathered. Even the nearby villagers are very strange, where are these people usually hiding?

Company Commander Sun looked at most of these Northeast men who were ragged and thin-skinned, sighed in his heart, and then took out his walkie-talkie. Let the recruit barracks increase the number of cooks and make more rice steamed buns, it is estimated that these people have not eaten comprehensive steamed buns and fragrant rice for a long time.

Li Zhuang spoke very briefly, just a few sentences, but just those few sentences were enough to make these Northeast men burn.

"Want to go home? No one sent you, so if you are a gentleman, you will carry a gun and fight back by yourself! ”

"Miss your wife? If you don't run away from Little Japan, can you have a chance to hold your wife? ”

"The nest ran away back then, now give you a chance to kill back, don't pretend to be a bear, it's the man who gets the gun himself, don't fucking pretend to be a man with a water gun!"

The reason why these veterans of the Northeast Army became deserters was not only to deduct military salaries and not have enough to eat, but what they hated most was that they did not fight with the Japanese, but chased Lao Mao's troops for a long time, they were tired of killing their compatriots, and they would rather not have military salaries than be nest soldiers.

Li Zhuang's recruitment With the addition of these people, all kinds of information quickly gathered, and one by one they volunteered to take the trucks and went straight to some hidden mountains and forests, and went straight to some remote villages, to find those comrades-in-arms they knew well, and to find those northeastern men who were willing to regain their dignity.

Qu Jun just looked at the mostly ragged veterans pulled back by trucks, and his heart was also sour. They became deserters, it's not their fault, it's the problem of the troops. In the advance army, there was not a single deserter, not only because the military salary was high and the treatment was good, but because the advance army really did a good job.

Those who died in the war will receive a pension in a short period of time, enough for the family to be rich for a lifetime, and a register will be made, and in the future, their families will be arranged to enter the factory.

Those who are disabled can receive enough pensions, and those who are in Heilongjiang will enter the military factory, and those who can do it will do something, and those who can't do it will simply be raised, and those who want to marry a daughter-in-law, as long as the girl likes it, the advance army will pay for the wedding.

Officers, like soldiers, eat and drink, officers, take the lead in battle, in battle, except for giving orders, no one can see who is the commander and who is the soldier.

These all give the soldiers a sense of belonging, how can the soldiers be deserters? The most important thing is to be able to straighten your waist and be able to kill those powers without any burden.

Give me three months, and you'll all be good soldiers!

Qu Jungang silently looked at these recruits who were gobbling up, and said secretly in his heart.

With the snowballing recruitment, Qu Jungang's smile became more and more prosperous, and by the time it was dark, Li Zhuang had completed the recruitment of 13,000 people, far exceeding the previous agreement.

This is the neighborhood, and there are those who are hiding in the mountains, and the remote ones have not been found. And those young people in the village who followed the army are not in the amount of Li Zhuang recruited, according to what he said, these stunned young people are piggybacked.

Dong Ku didn't expect that there would be so many veterans recruited here, these veterans were very useful in the war against Soviet Russia, they were from the Northeast, and they were better able to adapt to the cold than the soldiers in Jiangnan.

He learned that there were so many veterans near Shanhaiguan, so he ordered Liu Canghao to scatter the recruitment office to Tangshan, Qinhuangdao and other places, where there must be many veterans scattered among the people.

With a little training, these people can shorten the training time by two months compared to the new recruits, and they can go to the battlefield completely. As for meeting the standard, of course, three months is still indispensable. (To be continued......)