After Yang Zhen's words, he was stunned, and it was not only Guo Bingxun and Qiu Jintang who didn't understand what he meant for a long time, but also the other party, Ma Qichang, who was also stunned by him, obviously at a loss.

Ma Qichang, who reacted, hurriedly waved his hand, and said with a somewhat bitter face: "Sir, I didn't mean that." We have been traitors for all these years and have been following the little devils to oppress and slaughter our compatriots, and we have long wanted to join the Anti-Japanese Federation and fight devils with you. ”

"But can you trust us? Since ancient times, loyal ministers have not served the two masters, and we have been traitors and have committed crimes against the country and the nation. There is a stain on us people. We've also fought against the Anti-Alliance. ”

Hearing Ma Qichang's words, Yang Zhen and Guo Bingxun shook their heads at each other, and then sighed and said: "It was not your own volition to be a traitor, but under the persecution and deception of the commander. You don't have any burden in your heart, as long as you are determined to fight devils in the future, we will be comrades-in-arms and brothers who live and die together. ”

After Yang Zhen finished saying this, Ma Qichang, who was still bowing his head just now, raised his head and said in disbelief: "Do you really still trust us?" ”

"Why not? As long as you have the intention to kill devils, we welcome them. After that, Yang Zhen stretched out his hand to Ma Qichang and said, "Welcome to you." ”

Ma Qichang tightly grasped the hand handed over by Yang Zhen, and excitedly said to the subordinates who were looking over here: "Brothers, from today onwards, we are not traitors, we are upright Chinese, and we are anti-alliances." ”

After shouting, Ma Qichang didn't look at his brothers who were also excited, but turned his head and raised his hand to give Yang Zhenjing a standard military salute and said: "Please give an order, if you let us fight that, we will fight that." ”

Yang Zhen nodded and said, "Okay." Our artillery is in need of manpower, and from now on you will be the deputy commander of our artillery company and the captain of the artillery training team. But now your mission is to cover one of our blocking forces with accurate artillery fire. I'll go up there myself and be an observer for you. ”

After that, Yang Zhen smiled and waved his hand to stop Guo Bingxun and a few people around him from trying to persuade him to dispel this idea, and said to Ma Qichang: "Although I am not an artillery soldier, I have also learned some about artillery business. Although he did not know how to use this kind of Japanese-style mountain artillery, he was confident that he was barely qualified as an artillery observer. As it happens, I'll be able to see how good you are at it. ”

Yang Zhen said here, what else can Ma Qichang say. He said to Yang Zhen and Guo Bingxun with some excitement: "Please be optimistic about the two chiefs, I will definitely guarantee to complete the task today." ”

After listening to his assurance, Yang Zhen nodded and said, "Okay, it's a mule or a horse, let's see the real chapter on the battlefield." ”

After that, he turned his head and said to Guo Bingxun: "Old Guo, leave me a company." You take the rest of the men to cover the wounded and the booty to join the commissar. And these six mountain cannons can leave me two, and take the rest with me. I took someone to pick up Deputy Chief of Staff Wang. "Lao Yang, you are the highest commander of the unit, not a company commander or battalion commander, I hope you don't act rashly. What you bear is the fate and future of all the officers and men of this unit, not the future and fate of a certain unit. I want you to put yourself in your position and stay in your command position at all times. I'll go there, Wang, and you take the troops to withdraw first and join the political commissar. Regarding Yang Zhen's arrangement, Guo Bingxun seemed very dissatisfied.

In his opinion, Yang Zhen, the military commander, is very unprofessional. He was the commander of this unit, the commander-in-chief, not a battalion company commander. He should be in his own command position, not to do something that should be under his command.

Regarding Guo Bingxun's words, Yang Zhen shook his head and said, "Old Guo, I don't know where my location is. But Lao Guo, will you calculate the density of artillery and the firing boundary in azimuth? Do we have anyone else here who will use it? There is no small difference between the use of mortars and the use of mountain artillery. It's like a rifle and a heavy machine gun, although they are both guns, but there is a world of difference in construction and use. ”

"What we lack now is not only soldiers and equipment, but also all kinds of command and technical personnel. Don't you think it's ironic that artillery is captured but not used? ”

"If it weren't for Ma Qichang today, we would have captured these guns without heavy firepower, but we could only blow them up or bury them. Because no one knows how to use our mountain artillery. ”

"Lao Guo, I don't want to either. But before the necessary talents are cultivated, there are some things that I can only share more. Lao Guo, you don't have to argue, we don't have much time. ”

Seeing that Yang Zhen had made up his mind, Guo Bingxun could only sigh slightly and said, "Okay, I'll obey." However, just as the loot was counted, we seized one fifteen-watt radio and two five-watt radios from the devil, and you took them all with you. I'm picking two of the best operators. This is a mountainous area, and the fifteen-watt radio station is slightly more powerful, and the signal is stronger than the five-watt one. ”

"No, I'll take the two five-watt ones, and you take the fifteen-watt ones. Lao Wang also has a radio station, and you can send him the situation if there is anything. Also, the radio station you brought was blown up by devil fire, and you can't do it without means of communication. ”

After that, Yang Zhen patted Guo Bingxun on the shoulder and said, "Old Guo, I'll go first." You must bring the wounded safely to the commissar. In the event of an emergency, even if the loot is thrown away, even the artillery, not a single wounded person can be lost.

"Also, you communicate with Lao Peng, after this battle, we are going to withdraw to Lao Heidingzi to rest. In addition, you have to go through the trouble of making up a few more sets of passwords. Our current password is too simple, and it is easy for devils to decipher. There are a lot of talents in this area, and we must be on guard. Okay, let's not talk about it, we'll see you at the commissar. ”

When Yang Zhen rushed to Wang Guangyu's blocking position, he found that the situation was much worse than what Wang Guangyu said on the telegram. Although only a small part of the Japanese puppet army faced by Wang Guangyu was Japanese, most of the troops were puppet Manchurian military police, and the number was not as large as Guo Bingxun's, only seven or eight hundred. But the spiritual head of this puppet Manchu military police is very different from the puppet Manchu military police that Yang Zhen met before.

These puppet Manchu soldiers not only have clean tactical movements, but they are also strictly trained veterans at first glance. Moreover, after each attack was repulsed, there was very little rout, and the advance and retreat were extremely orderly. After the attack failed, those who did not die lay on their stomachs and fired at the blocking troops on the mountain, looking extremely tenacious. And the marksmanship is also very accurate. Although there were no mountain artillery artillery, the number of mortars covering the attack reached a dozen.

Looking at the Japanese puppet army under the cover of the flares and desperately attacking with flashlights, they went to the front-line position together, and Ma Qichang, who was observing the movement under the mountain with the artillery team mirror at this time, couldn't help but sigh for a while, and said to Yang Zhen: "Sir, these puppet troops under the mountain are not comparable to our old Northeast Army, they are all trained by the little devils themselves, and the officers at all levels are all Japanese, and the equipment is much stronger than ours, and they are all the latest Japanese-style equipment." ”

"Damn, this is the Jing'an Army specially trained by the little devils in order to encircle and suppress the Anti-Japanese Federation in the South Manchurian region? You see they all have a red arrow on their sleeves, which is the symbol of the Jing'an Army. The little devil actually transferred them over this time? ”

"Didn't these Jing'an troops be transferred to Guannai by little devils to fight the national government? Sir, this Jing'an Army is the most effective and best-equipped unit in the puppet Manchu army, and all kinds of treatment are incomparable with the ordinary puppet Manchu army. I heard that when he fought with the Japanese army in Kannai last year, he won many battles, and even the regular army of the Nationalist Government was no match for him. ”

Yang Zhen heard Ma Qichang's report and hurriedly raised the binoculars to take a look, sure enough, there was a red arrow embroidered on the sleeves of the military uniforms of these puppet soldiers. Although he didn't know what the origin of this Jing'an army was, judging from the fighting strength of these puppet Manchu troops, he knew that these puppet armies should definitely not be underestimated.

Yang Zhen put down the telescope in his hand, but he didn't say anything deeply, but said to Ma Qichang beside him: "How about it, do you have the confidence to defeat them with artillery fire?" ”

Ma Qichang did not answer Yang Zhen immediately, but raised the telescope and carefully observed the attack formation of the puppet army under the mountain before saying: "Sir, although we only brought two mountain cannons this time, we brought sixty shells. ”

"You see that these Jing'an troops are very arrogant, and when they attack, the formation is very dense, and the straggler line is not very open. These two Japanese-style 94-type mountain guns have a long range, great power, and greater lethal effect than the 41-type mountain guns. Their main assembly points, and even ammunition parking points, are within our range. ”

"You see if I hit his follow-up echelon and the place where the main force is assembled with artillery fire, as for their attack troops, I think it is better to suppress them from the front with light and heavy machine guns. We suppressed the follow-up echelons with artillery fire, and at the same time the troops holding the front took the opportunity to launch a counterattack, and I think we should be able to crush these puppet troops in front of us in one fell swoop. Although they were trained by the Kwantung Army, their combat effectiveness is still different from that of devils after all. ”

Yang Zhen listened to Ma Qichang's construction, pondered for a while, turned his head to look at Wang Guangyu beside him, and said, "Old Wang, what do you think?" ”

After Wang Guangyu glanced at the frontline troops who were fighting hard with the puppet army that was desperately attacking, he hesitated for a moment and said: "Commander, due to the limitations of the previous conditions and equipment, we have not used the tactics of infantry and artillery coordination, and we don't know much about it. However, Commander, we now have a limited number of troops at hand. ”

"Since the exchange of fire with these Jing'an troops, after fighting for such a long time, the company of Liu Changshun that I brought is now less than one and a half platoons of lightly wounded people who can move together. Even if you add the one you brought, the company that is not yet in formation, at best it is the strength of a reinforced company. ”

"Moreover, our firepower is limited. The two mortars I brought with me are now running out of shells, and the remaining light and heavy machine guns are only six left, and the key point is that there is not much ammunition. And that's all the machine guns you brought. ”

"Commander, we can now say that we have lost the ability to fight back. I have been fighting guerrilla warfare with devils for many years, and I am still very clear about their tactics. We have defeated two of the devils' three-way encirclement, and I'm afraid the little devils' reinforcements are already on their way. ”

"According to the tactics of the company commander Ma, it is not difficult to defeat this puppet army. But you also see the strength of this puppet army, although it is not as good as the real Japanese army, but it is not much worse. Once we were entangled in them, devil reinforcements were arriving. With the number of troops we have at hand, it will be very difficult to get rid of it. ”

"Commander, the days to come are long, and we can't be at this time. We can't let a moment of greed cut us off this force. I built yì, or to give it a certain amount of damage with artillery fire, to cover the retreat of the troops, and to join the main force. As for these puppet Manchu troops, let's let them go first. Commander, it's easy to hold on to eating too much. ”

After listening to Wang Guangyu's words, Yang Zhen raised his binoculars again and looked at the Japanese puppet army under the mountain, and then was silent for a while before gritting his teeth and saying to Ma Qichang beside him: "Listen to Deputy Chief of Staff Wang, you concentrate all the artillery fire on me to fight their main force and cover the withdrawal of the forward troops." These puppet Manchu troops, let them live a few more days first. There is a chance to pack them up in the future. ”

Ma Qichang didn't say anything about Yang Zhen's order, nodded, put away the artillery team mirror captured with the artillery, turned around and went down the mountain, and ran towards the artillery position that was ready to shoot.

Yang Zhen said to the operator who was following him: "In a while, you have to accurately send the number I reported to Commander Ma." Remember, if you make a mistake, the shell may fall on our own heads. Miscalculated, kill my head. Report the mistake and kill your head. ”

Seeing that after listening to his words, the operator nodded busily, Yang Zhen turned his head to Wang Guangyu and said, "Lao Wang, you immediately give an order to the troops, and when the artillery sounds in a while, let the troops immediately withdraw under the cover of artillery fire." All the supplies and weapons that could not be taken away were blown up. ”

After giving two orders in a row, Yang Zhen raised his binoculars and carefully observed the movements of the Japanese puppet army while following the flares fired by the puppet Manchurian army under the mountain, and at the same time quickly calculated the various numbers needed for the artillery bombardment in his heart.

The Japanese puppet army under the mountain was not guarded against these bandits on the mountain, although their combat effectiveness was relatively fierce, but their equipment was much more rudimentary compared to them, and at most only two mortars would come out with so many artillery pieces at once. When the first shell used to correct the trajectory fell, these Jing'an troops, who had just been extremely fierce, were suddenly defeated.

Ma Qichang's technology is really excellent. After the first shell missed, the trajectory was quickly corrected according to the number reported by Yang Zhen. The follow-up shells were like eyes, and one after another accurately fell into the queue of the Jing'an Army Brigade.

Ma Qichang's excellent technology, Yang Zhen's constant accurate number of jù, formed an optimal combination. Just now, it was extremely fierce, regardless of the straggler line and follow-up queue of the Jing'an army that was desperately attacking, and was blown up by this period of dense and accurate artillery fire.

When the artillery of the Jing'an Army, which had been serving as cover, tried hard to find out the opponent's artillery position, fight an artillery battle with the opponent, and cover the bombed infantry back, they sadly found that the range of the mortar at hand was far from being the opponent of others. The shells can't even reach to tickle people. On the contrary, he brought people with cannons, and was blown up into the sky by the artillery fire transferred by others.

Just when Yang Zhen and Ma Qichang formed a double sword wall and blew up the Jing'an army with fierce and accurate artillery fire, and it was a mess, Wang Guangyu did not delay in the slightest and immediately organized the forward troops to withdraw.

Yang Zhen saw that Wang Guangyu had withdrawn, and the Jing'an army, which had been defenseless before, had also lost its combat effectiveness due to this artillery fire, and he did not hesitate to give the order to retreat.

Although at least in the eyes of most of the cadres and fighters in the troops, the Jing'an troops under the mountain who had been bombarded by a full 60 shells had lost their combat effectiveness, going down the mountain at this time should be able to achieve a great result.

In particular, Liu Changshun, who has been pressed and beaten by these Jing'an troops, strongly demanded that even if it was a tactical counterattack, even if it could not completely defeat these arrogant puppet troops under the mountain, it would be necessary to bite off a piece of their flesh.

Regarding Liu Changshun's request to attack, Yang Zhen refused without the slightest hesitation. Even because of the time, there is not much explanation.

Seeing the commander's tough attitude, although he was unwilling, Liu Changshun could only lead the troops according to Yang Zhen's order and evacuate the front-line position with the wounded.