under fire

Chapter 658
Seeing the adjutant walking away, Hu Yi understood something, and walked to Minister Zhang in a few steps: "Instructor Zhang, why don't we go to the communication place?"

Minister Zhang withdrew his gaze from a distance, with a worried expression on his face: "The matter is very serious, and they didn't pay attention to the new round of mopping up by the devils."

Hu Yi calculated silently in his heart: "After a large number of devil troops have been withdrawn, most of the rest in the enemy-occupied area are security forces. According to Commander Li, their group army is 30, and other friendly troops are combined. There are There are nearly 60 troops, and if you include the south bank of the Yellow River, there will be no more than [-] to [-]? Our troops have small arms and legs in companies, so if we have to worry about that, aren’t we worrying too much?”

Minister Zhang shook his head: "If we really unite and fight against the Japanese with all our heart and command properly, these armies alone will be able to confront the devils. It's a pity that some people don't like us."

Hu Yi was at a loss when he heard this: "Who doesn't like us? I don't quite understand what you mean by that."

Minister Zhang glanced at Hu Yi: "Attention, this is top-secret information. As the communication commander, I can tell you that the one in Chongqing ordered the Fifth Army to surrender to the enemy, and then turned his guns against us!"

Hu Yi was dumbfounded, and frowned: "Isn't it alarmist?"

Minister Zhang's face turned pale, and he looked at the church in the distance: "As a commander, you must understand that although this place is not big, it has always been a battleground for military strategists. We established a base here after the start of the War of Resistance. Seeing our rapid development, Yan Laoxi panicked and even accepted the entry of the Kuomintang Central Army into Shanxi and set up the National Army’s Southern Shanxi Working Group.”

"I understand. Yan Laoxi has no ability to keep it. Seeing that we have grown stronger, he has no choice but to invite Lao Jiang?"

"That's almost what it means. Later, Lao Jiang sent a large number of spies to constantly destroy our base areas to create friction and kill our staff. For the sake of the overall situation of the War of Resistance, we have been patient. Later, we tried to drive away their county magistrate. The place ended up in our hands."

"Then why is it occupied by the national army now?"

Minister Zhang looked at the mountains and land in the distance: "Our base is in the countryside and mountainous areas. In the spring of the year before last, the Nationalist government created friction again, and the Southern Anhui Incident occurred in the south. The main force of the New Fourth Army suffered heavy losses. The Fifth Army dispatched six divisions to aggressively attack our base here."

"Hu Yi thought about it for a while. I know about this. The regiment has reported it. At that time, the devils were sweeping up."

Minister Zhang continued: "At that time, the head of the headquarters was furious, and immediately confronted him directly, and immediately increased the number of the newly formed First Brigade of our division, the [-]th Brigade of the brother troops in the east, the Shanxi Death Column, the Hebei Province Independent Detachment, and the Hebei Civilian Brigade. The Fourth Regiment of the Chinese Army and your independent regiment form the "Second Column of the Eighth Route Army" and prepare to severely attack the reactionaries."

Hu Yi listened carefully, frowning and did not speak.

Minister Zhang paused: "At this critical moment, in order not to break the unity of the two parties because of this incident, and let the devils take advantage of it, the chairman instructed our party, government, military agencies, local armed forces, and underground personnel who revealed their identities to evacuate. In Dashan, last month, the first war zone suddenly requested military exchanges with Xiao, trying to let some national troops enter our defense zone, do you understand the general situation now?"

Hu Yi was stunned for a moment. Since the beginning of the Jinkang University, his field of vision has been constantly expanding. Many questions that he could not understand before, or even would not even think about at all, suddenly appeared in his mind: "They plan to send people into the Our bases, and then let the New Five Armies surrender to the enemy, and finally take action against our bases?"

Minister Zhang nodded: "Your staff officer has some brains, but in fact things are far from that simple. There are not many people in the friendly army who are determined to defend their homes and the country. The 24th Army is unwilling to engage in internal strife, so our military comminicate."

Hu Yi figured out the details: "I see, the superior sent us here, in fact, to win over the Pang Department of the 24th Army?"

Minister Zhang got angry: "It's unity! What kind of wooing. We're not bandits!"

"I understand. This is also the reason why the superiors did not send higher-level leaders to participate in the exchange, right?...just to avoid attracting attention." Hu Yi rarely spoke in such a modest tone of asking for advice.

Minister Zhang is in a good mood, and feels that this fake staff officer can still be called out again: "What happened the year before last had a great impact on us, and the central China base area suffered heavy losses. Even so, we are still struggling to rebuild the base area under the eyes of the devils.

But since then, the southward route of our Taihang base area has been cut off by the national army here. The heads of the new Fourth Army had to take a detour over the vast Taihang Mountains when they were going to Yan'an for a meeting. Do you understand now? "

"I understand!" Hu Yi is not a fool, he thought for a while: "Lao Jiang's trick of throwing knives to kill people may ruin the entire Yellow River defense line!"

This time it was Minister Zhang's turn to be surprised: "What do you mean?"

"Yesterday we communicated with Li Zhenqing. In fact, he kept reminding us that the 200 defensive troops of the Yellow River defense line were more than 30 kilometers long, but the 20 defensive troops were not from more than [-] divisions of different orders. With the temper of the Central Army, the commander surnamed Jiang was not If you can’t use your arms and fingers, if the troops on the north bank are wiped out by the devils and surrender, the Yellow River defense line may collapse at the touch of a finger.”

Minister Zhang was stunned, and then nodded after a while: "Jiang asked Sun Dianying to defect to the enemy on purpose, and aimed his gun at us justifiably. send out!"

Hu Yi looked at the densely packed trenches outside the wall: "Even I can think of it, don't you think the superiors can't think of it? Let's just communicate with each other with peace of mind. Look, Commander Pang asked Master Li to build such a large area of ​​fortifications here. People also understand people."

Minister Zhang looked at Hu Yi angrily: "It's just that with their more than 1 people, they can't beat Lao Jiang at all. I have to talk to Commander Pang."

In the wilderness outside the village, surrounded by a large number of troops participating in the exchange.

The first exchange project of military skills, digging fortifications.

The leader of the military skills exchange was a friendly army commander. He glanced at Luo Fugui and Li Huanzhang, who were holding engineering soldiers, and said, "Two teams, dig a standard five-meter-long trench. It takes an hour, isn't it difficult?"

Luo Fugui grinned: "Hey, just look at it. It hasn't rained in a year, so it's easy to dig. It's not a problem to dig ten meters in an hour!"

Temporarily digging trenches on the battlefield without reinforcement, the average soldier can dig more than one side in an hour, which is a little over one meter, and two meters is two meters for two people. Since it is a competition, the workload has doubled.

The two sides immediately selected a venue to draw a line, and a battalion commander led by the national army immediately blew his whistle.

Luo Fugui picked up the shovel calmly.

On the opposite side, the shovels of the friendly army flew over, and the soil with the grass roots was picked up and thrown aside, and a big hole was dug in a few strokes.

Luo Fugui's movements were not fast, much slower than that of the national army. After only ten minutes, the situation began to reverse.

Human muscles have a limit for continuous high-intensity exercise. After doing it for a while, you have to rest for a while, or do not exercise at high intensity, so that the blood can bring sufficient oxygen and sugar to meet the consumption of muscles.

In the five-meter-long trench, Luo Fugui and Li Huanzhang each occupied one end, and the two ends were dug in the middle. The competition actually came to an end in about 10 minutes.

Luo Fugui took off his military uniform and was sweating profusely in only a jacket in the winter. A shovel of soil flew out, and the leader of the friendly army next to him had a black thread. He had never seen such a trench digging at such a constant speed. Fast.

At the current speed, it will definitely take less than half an hour to dig out this five-meter-long trench, which is nothing short of a fart!

Seeing the speed of their opponents, the two soldiers from the national army simply gave up and sat in the pit watching the excitement.

It's better to admit defeat, anyway, the opponent is not ashamed to admit defeat with that big man.

(End of this chapter)