under fire

Chapter 652 The Origin of Friendship
From the vast plain to the foot of the mountain in the west of Mei County, since the cavalry and encirclement and suppression troops were attacked by the Eighth Route, the devils recruited militiamen to build a lot of new strongholds: gun towers, bunkers, and even in the winter. The blockade ditch gradually forms a mesh blockade system.

The focus of the blockade was placed on the two locations of Lushuipu and Luoye Village. After the phone line was pulled at the gun tower stronghold, the security forces stationed besides Li Youde's department, the devils also transferred a small team to garrison the gun tower in shifts.

The security forces in the county were pulled out directly and stationed at the newly built stronghold near the county.

In the eyes of the devils, this piece of land that was originally a quasi-security zone has now directly become a security zone in the eyes of the enemy.

From the devil's point of view, if the independent regiment's two roads out of the mountain were blocked, the independent regiment would be trapped to death in the mountain!

In order to isolate the influence of the Eighth Route Army on the common people on the plain.

After the New Year, there is still no rain in the cold winter. As the natural disasters intensify, the disasters caused by man-made continue to increase.

For the Eighth Route Army in the mountains, the difficulties it faced were absolutely unprecedented.

In enemy-occupied areas, people starve to death every day.

Up to now, Chongqing still doesn't care about the situation in the disaster area. Maybe in their eyes, since you are a devil and obedient citizen, then you go to the devil for food!

He even forgot that the people in the enemy-occupied areas are still his compatriots.

The Eighth Route Army watched the people struggling on the verge of death, and tried their best, but there was almost no way to solve the unprecedented famine.

The food transportation team raised by the superior finally arrived at Sanjiaji, but the [-] catties of food allocated to the independent group, everyone knew it was a drop in the bucket!Among other things, the Independence Group alone has received more than [-] disaster victims, each weighing six catties. It is not bad if they can last for ten days and a half months. Besides, according to the arrangement of the superiors, most of this batch of food has to be transported. Go out of the mountain and send it to the victims.

The food of the independent group was changed to two meals early, all dilute, and the training of the soldiers was correspondingly reduced, and they studied or slept when they had nothing to do.

In the troops in Sanjiaji, except for a very few people who knew that the division had arranged for someone to restart the investigation of enemy agents, the station was no different from usual.

Head Lu's mood was very depressed, and his bad mood was directly on his face.

Standing on the side of the sand table with Erlang's legs up for a long time, feeling depressed enough, he turned his head and looked at the political commissar who just came back holding the tea mug: "Old Ding, Director Zhang of the Political Department has brought someone here and went to Dabeizhuang."

"What?"

"Investigate the incident where we were poisoned."

"What do you mean by doing this at this juncture?"

"The girl went to the division to participate in an operation. I will tell you in detail later that she met the head of the intelligence section of the headquarters. I don't know how to talk about the poisoning. After analysis, this matter has attracted the attention of the superior. If there is no accident, I reckon there will be a result this afternoon."

"It's great to be able to find out the spies. Isn't that a good thing? Why are you so sad?"

"I think so too, but I'm not at ease!" Head Lu stared at the blood-red eyes: "By the way, how is the situation at Jiulian when you come out of the mountain this time?"

The political commissar suppressed his inner joy: "It's not that good!"

"When did you learn how to lay an ambush? You can see that the flesh on your face is moving. If you want to laugh, you can laugh."

The political commissar smiled slightly: "The Ninth Company has drawn up a team of more than 1000 people. If the militia is added, I think it may break through [-] soon!"

"What?" Head Lu stood up, and pushed the political commissar on the stool next to the sand table: "Tell me carefully, what's going on?"

The political commissar pulled away Captain Lu's hand: "The number of Ninth Company itself has not changed much, and the Water Conservancy Self-Defense Corps... uh... even the security team has not changed much, but they are all learning wine stations. Even Lao Meng set up a militia team , who originally opened a gambling hall at the foot of the mountain, opened the gambling hall into the provincial capital."

Head Lu frowned: "Opening a gambling hall? This is a violation of discipline."

"Don't worry, they are not members of our Eighth Route Army at all. By the way, where is Hu Yi? Aren't they back?"

"Don't worry, let me tell you something. Let's arrange for people to go to the friendly army for exchange. I plan to arrange for Hu Yi to lead the team. What do you think?"

The political commissar froze for a moment: "It's not that good."

"why?"

"He is only a company commander. Don't tell me you don't know what level his friendly army is?"

"Isn't it the No.20 Fourth Army!"

"Just? I also know that they are a group army, so you send a company commander to communicate with the group army?

He is at the same level as our No.18 Army of the Eighth Route Army. He is so stupid that he has also fought tough battles with devils on the frontal battlefield. Although he sent people to our independent regiment to communicate, he slapped us in the face. It means that we are not as good as others. Can not blame others.

You arrange for Hu Yi to go, and then yell at others: Ah, my independent regiment commander Lu sent a company commander to communicate with you, why don't people think that our Eighth Route Army intends to embarrass people? "

Head Lu finished listening to the political commissar's long speech: "Hey, I temporarily promoted Hu Yi to the staff officer, do you have any objection?"

The political commissar had a black line: "Then get rid of this staff officer again when it's over? What will Hu Yi think? Ah? I think you have to throw your face directly to the war zone this time, and be famous in the whole army!"

Head Lu shook his head: "I heard that his troops were defeated by various opponents no less than ten times!"

"But they have the ability to quickly gather the defeated troops every time they are defeated. Not only did they not lose much, but the team grew stronger and stronger. This is also a skill."

Head Lu curled his lips: "Their commander is a well-known old soldier. He is good at preserving his own strength without offending his superiors. Every time a battle starts, he orders the troops to run away. Comparable to others, he has earned himself the reputation of 'Tumbler'."

"Our superiors asked us to be united. Although our neighbor has been defeated repeatedly, at the beginning of the War of Resistance, he once bumped into the 29th Division of the Devils who broke through the defense line of the [-]th Route Army. In Cang County, they played the prestige of our soldiers. , the department has changed from its previous cowardly appearance, and put on a stance to fight the devils, blocking the mighty Tenth Elite Jigu Division for seven days and seven nights!

When the Ministry was ordered to retreat, more than half of their troops were killed or injured. It is said that the regiment that lost the most, after more than 2000 people fought hard, only [-] people remained. Therefore, I suggest that you look at one person better. "

"how do you know?"

"Every time you go to the division for a meeting, don't you ever go to the library? Isn't there an analysis of each opponent by the Eighth Route Army?"

"How can I do that? Tell me about the situation of our neighbor."

"After the Battle of Taierzhuang started, the Fifth Division of Sakagaki, the main force of the devils, went south from Qingdao and rushed towards Xuzhou aggressively. At this time, all the troops with a little combat effectiveness around Commander Li in the theater had been dispatched to fight, and only Pang Bingxun and Qin Dechun were left. , Miao Chengliu, three miscellaneous generals.

Commander-in-Chief Li had no choice but to call the taller one among the dwarfs, and sent Commander Pang, who was the stronger among the three, to stop the Sakagaki Division. Zheng Shilang is an expert in China, and he has already heard the name of the "tumbler" Pang Bingxun. He underestimated the enemy and only sent a brigade to "drive away" Pang Bingxun, but he was beaten so hard that he couldn't find his way and retreated in embarrassment.

Unconvinced, Sakagaki sent another unit to launch a fierce attack on Pang Bingxun's position again. Pang Bingxun did not show any weakness, and commanded the troops to fight bloody battles. For five days and five nights, he insisted that Sakagaki's division did not move forward.

At that time, there were no less than dozens of Chinese and foreign journalists and military attaches from friendly countries who accompanied the army to watch the battle in Xuzhou. No one could have imagined that the best "devil army" would be frustrated by the little-known Chinese "no-name" troops. everywhere.

Sakagaki Seishiro couldn't bear his shame and became angry, so he had to concentrate the main force of the Fifth Division to attack. Later, Pang Bingxun's Third Army had more than 8000 people and more than [-] casualties. The scene was terrible.Pang Bingxun saw the delay in the arrival of reinforcements, and even sent power to the theater, determined to live and die with the position.

At this critical moment, General Zhang *zhong, who had a grudge against Pang Bingxun, led the 59th Army to the battlefield, only to rescue Pang Bingxun and the remaining troops of the Third Army with less than 5000 people. It can be seen that he fought the Japanese army desperately. "

"So, this person is an expert in foreign wars, but an outsider in civil wars?" Head Lu muttered fascinatedly, "I underestimated our neighbor. Forget it, you better go!"

Ding Deyi just put down the drained tea mug: "Do you think I can walk away now?"

Head Lu thought it was impossible for me to go in person: "Then what do you say?"

Ding Deyi held his broken vat and looked at the sand table leisurely, without raising his head, he replied lightly: "Isn't Minister Zhang here? We have small heads and can't hold such a big hat. Let him think about it!"

(End of this chapter)