In the middle of the night, a group of ragged soldiers, armed with weapons, advanced from the Japanese-occupied area toward the line of fire on the border between the two armies. The Japanese troops behind seemed to be chasing the group, and sparse gunfire rang out behind them from time to time. Seeing this, the border guards located here immediately sounded the battle alarm. The sleeping officers and soldiers woke up to the sound of the screeching siren, hurriedly put on their padded jackets and took off their guns, and then gathered their whole formation towards the door.

"Hurry, hurry, hurry!" On the playground, the sound of passwords, military whistles, and the sound of officers and soldiers pacing the whole team was endless. After a while, the originally chaotic playground had quieted down, and the officers and men rushed to their combat positions one after another, and tanks, armored vehicles, and all kinds of artillery were also torn off their gun jackets, revealing the barrels of the black holes.

Being on the front line, it is natural to have a spirit of 12 points, and such war readiness is commonplace for them, although the Japanese are now at a disadvantage, they still cannot be taken lightly.

"Are the teams all in position?" Ji Xingwen, the commander of the 3rd Airborne Division, walked over neatly. In the observation lookout, all the officers stood upright and fixed their eyes on him.

The junction between Shanghai and Kunshan is the defense area of the 3rd Airborne Division and the 2nd Regiment, and Ji Xingwen did not dare to take it lightly; in addition to putting all the permanent field fortifications in place and implementing the rotation of officers and men on three boards, he also recruited and mobilized a large number of militiamen from the local area to carry out reconnaissance and defensive operations on the front line.

"The team is in the predetermined position, but it doesn't look like the Japanese are attacking." A staff officer walked over and pointed to the position in front of him and said, "Shizao, you see that this group of people seems to be fighting with the Japanese. There are not many people, and the guys in their hands are mainly light weapons. ”

What the staff officer said to him, Ji Xingwen had already seen it clearly in the telescope, what this group of people were doing is unknown, it is very likely that they are their own people?

He put down the binoculars in his hand and said without looking back: "Send a reconnaissance company over and bring this group back to ask." ”

After Ji Xingwen finished speaking, the brothers below began to deploy. After a while, a reconnaissance company drove away in an armored reconnaissance vehicle towards the area of engagement.

The Japanese in pursuit followed the group, but the Japanese soon stopped showing themselves under the fire of several 12.7 mm heavy machine guns on the reconnaissance vehicles.

After driving away the pursuing Japanese, the reconnaissance vehicles and scouts immediately moved to surround the group. The dazzling headlights turned on, and several pillars of light pierced through them, and the muzzles of the black holes were pointed at them, as if they would be beaten into a sieve by these machine guns if they moved slightly.

The group of people who were surrounded were also like great enemies, they either slightly blocked the light of the headlights with their hands, or squinted their eyes, but the various weapons in their hands were also aimed at the group of people around them.

There seemed to be a tense atmosphere in the air, and the faces of the people who were surrounded were full of fortitude, but the palms of the hands holding the handles of the guns were already drenched with sweat.

"What do you do? Put down all your weapons first! "A helmeted head poked out of the armored vehicle, and he was the reconnaissance company commander.

"Which team are you on? Is it a good defender? A moment later, in the crowd that was surrounded, a man asked in a thick Central Plains accent.

As soon as they heard this, the commander of the reconnaissance company and the brothers of those reconnaissance companies breathed a sigh of relief, this accent sounded kind, and it seemed that they should be their own people.

"We are the Wehrmacht. What are you from? Put your weapons down first! The reconnaissance company commander repeated what he had just said.

The man who had just spoken glanced at the brothers around him, hesitated for a moment, and then asked, "We all escaped from the prisoner of war camp!" My name is Wei Yongxiang, and it turned out that I was temporarily assigned to the 15th Division! What part are they? ”

When the reconnaissance battalion commander heard this, he looked at the embarrassed appearance of these people and the injured brothers, and he had a plan in his heart, so he changed his tone and said: "Jiang Qinghe, the commander of the 5th Company of the 1st Reconnaissance Battalion of the 3rd Division of the Airborne Army. You've done a great job, but until you can be identified, please lay down your weapons and come with me! ”

There was an uproar among the crowd of the "prisoners of war", some said that they could not lay down their arms, some said that they should not lay down their arms at this time, and everyone chattered in unison.

"Medium!" Wei Yongxiang, who had just spoken, stood up, and he was the first to throw the Type 38 rifle in his hand on the ground and said, "Brothers, don't talk about it, hand over the guns in your hands." It's our own team! Put all the guys in your hands down! ”

"Can't they say yes? Evidence has to be presented. "That's right, what if they are Wang Jingwei's traitor team?"

There was a commotion in the crowd again, Wei Yongxiang seemed to see it more thoroughly, he waved his hand and said, "Don't make any noise!" Listen to me, if this group of brothers is a traitor, we have no room to fight back now! ”

The crowd seemed to be impressed by this reason, and then everyone threw out all the guns and ammunition in their hands. The sound of throwing guns rang out, Jiang Qinghe tilted his head and motioned for his soldiers to put away these guns, and then said to these people: "Come with us in the car, go back and decide." ”

As a result, this group of "prisoners of war" got into the armored car of the reconnaissance company in twos and threes, and when they got into the car, Wei Yongxiang made eye contact with several other people, and everyone got into the car.

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The rescue plan for the Pingtang prisoner of war camp has been determined, and after the action was reported, the Ministry of National Defense immediately approved it, and Huang Ke also personally instructed: "It is very good to carry out active rescue of the captured comrades-in-arms!" ”

After the approval, Zhu Jingxing's special battalion and Huang Zheng's hummingbird special attack team launched targeted simulation training. This mission is not a difficult task, the garrison of the Pingtang prisoner of war camp is not much, there is only a brigade of a few hundred people, and they are all third-rate troops of the Japanese army, and the threat posed by combat effectiveness is not great.

In addition, geographically located at the junction of Jiangsu, Shanghai and Zhejiang, it is not far from their location, and the location of the prisoner of war camp is relatively remote, and there is no garrison for dozens of miles around, which is also conducive to the helicopter retreat of the special attack team after the attack.

After a long period of reconnaissance and a great deal of preparatory work, Huang Zheng and Zhu Jingxing studied a predetermined combat plan, which was originally to be carried out at night, but it rained heavily at night, and the weather was afraid that the weather would have a great adverse impact on the flight, so they had to delay it.

In the evening of the same day, the troops gathered in the Pukou area of Nanjing and prepared for departure.

They were accompanied by 17 multinational delegations from different countries in the United States, Britain and the Soviet Union, led by Colonel Hammer of the United States Army, Lieutenant Colonel Clark of the British General Staff, and Colonel Ivanovich of the Soviet Red Army.

Unexpectedly, after arriving in Nanjing and getting off the plane, they were informed that the special forces were preparing to carry out a special rescue operation and that it was not appropriate to receive them publicly, and that they would need to wait another day before they could exchange and study.

How can you want to wait another day? What's more, the commanders who are here today are the front-line combat commanders of various countries, and they are not old bureaucrats sitting in their offices.

Therefore, after hearing such words, Colonel Hammer immediately stated that their itinerary was very urgent, and they had come to China not far away to visit and study, and since the special forces had actual combat operations, they would have to follow the combat units to observe anyway.

The representative of the Ministry of National Defense said helplessly that he should consult his superiors on this matter.

After asking for instructions, the superiors approved the request of Hammer and others after questioning the combat troops as usual.

Zhu Jingxing suggested to the delegates that due to personnel restrictions, each delegation should only send one representative.

However, the various observation groups did not do it, saying that they had to be knowledgeable, and that they did not need to be protected alone, and Colonel Hammer proposed that each of them be given weapons and that they should also participate in the battle. Finally, after communicating with the diplomatic departments and the diplomatic departments of many countries, and after clarifying the danger of this observation, I agreed to their request.

As a result, the 17 officers of the observation group changed into training uniforms and weapons prepared for them by the special service battalion, and were neatly draped in the waiting room waiting for the order to leave.

They were accompanied by more than 100 officers and soldiers of the special service battalion, and the ground leader was still Zhu Jingxing. Zhu Jingxing was wearing a camouflage training uniform, with a * on his chest and a * and daggers on his waist.

At this moment, the more than 100 officers and men behind him were all sitting cross-legged in several rows, some of them taking advantage of this rare time to close their eyes and rest, while others were staring at the front with their eyes wide open, waiting for the order to set off at all times.

Zhu Jingxing smoked a cigarette, raised his hand to look at his watch from time to time, and couldn't help but look at the dark weather outside, the rain was still falling, the flight was very unstable in this weather, and the action at this time was risking the lives of the brothers.

"Mr. Commander, I wonder if you're going to cancel this operation because of the weather?" Colonel Hammer and the other commanders, who were also dressed in training uniforms, came over and chatted with Zhu Jingxing.

Zhu Jingxing shook his head, "Actually, I don't know. If the weather is too bad, we will most likely cancel the operation. ”

Hammer looked at the weather outside and couldn't help but frown. Ivanovich of the Soviet army looked at it and said, "Zhu, why don't you take this time to explain to me the common sense of your warriors' weapons." I just noticed that these lads have a variety of weapons in their hands, both American-made and your own weapons. ”

Zhu Jingxing nodded, and walked over to explain their basic weapon configuration to the officers of the observation group.