Under one person: I, Zhang Zhiwei, the arrogant Zhang.

Zhang Zhiwei's reply was delivered to the Da Shangqing Palace by Tian Jinzhong. Zhang Jingqing still did not open the envelope to read the contents, but he asked Tian Jinzhong.

Tian Jinzhong did not hide anything and told everything.

Zhang Jingqing learned the contents of the letter and Zhang Zhiwei's reply, and pondered for a moment.

In fact, after reading the contents of the letter, even he felt that it was somewhat feasible, but the success rate was not high, so maybe he could take a gamble.

But since his own apprentice didn't want to gamble, Zhang Jingqing didn't think much about it. Zhang Zhiwei's style of doing things was much more radical than his, but even though he was so radical, he didn't make any big moves. He must have his own considerations.

Afterwards, the letter was forwarded to the messenger of Mihuamen through Zhengyi Temple.

After receiving the reply, the courier immediately opened the envelope and passed the contents of the reply to Dou Ruchang through propaganda.

After receiving the reply, Dou Ruchang looked at the four words "the time is not yet right" and was silent for a long time. He then informed Wu Gensheng through Xiqing.

"The time has not come yet?"

After reading Zhang Zhiwei's reply, Wu Gensheng was not angry, but felt a little confused.

"We are about to lose the border, and the time has not come yet. So when will the time come?!"

He found that he could not quite understand Zhang Zhiwei's thoughts.

In recent years, Zhang Zhiwei's strength has become increasingly powerful, and the influence of his Tiantong Church has also been expanding, but compared to before, Zhang Zhiwei's style of doing things has been constantly restrained.

"Did he find it impossible to succeed?"

"Or...he stood high and saw far, and saw the scenery that I couldn't see?"

Wu Gensheng was puzzled. Although Zhang Zhiwei had no intention of intervening, he had already brought people here. No matter what the result was, he had to give it a try.

"Master, I just received news that the famous and upright families headed by the Gao family are coming here to help General Ma deal with the Japanese pirates." Gu Jiting said as he pushed the door open.

"This is good news." Wu Gensheng said.

"You say good news, but there is no smile on your face!" Gu Jiting said.

"Because the little master is not coming." Wu Gensheng said.

Gu Jiting was also shocked and said in disbelief, "Really not coming? Big Ear is still here."

"Really!" Wu Gensheng said.

Gu Jiting said, "But I used my inner vision to calculate. Although the cause and effect of the little celestial master was very large, I only calculated a fireball as big as the blazing sun. However, through some indirect inferences, I still got some results. He should be involved in this matter."

Wu Gensheng said: "Didn't you just say that? Big Ear is still here. If something really happens, he will probably intervene, but that's all. He is unlikely to make a big move, unless..."

"Unless what?" Gu Jiting asked hurriedly.

"Unless the time is right." Wu Wugensheng said.

"Is the time coming?" Which time? This time or next time?" Gu Jiting asked.

"Who knows!" Wu Gensheng said, "No matter who it is, let's try our best to see if we can find an opportunity."

At this time, another person came in: "Master, General Ma wants to see you."

Wu Gensheng nodded, stood up and went to the command center.

There, he met the head of the Gao family and Taoist Master Guo from Tiesha Mountain.

The two were chatting and laughing with General Ma.

Both Patriarch Gao and Taoist Priest Guo were from the Northeast, and they knew each other when the Marshal was still in power.

General Ma was not as wary of them as he was of Quan Xing, and they received a high standard of reception as soon as they arrived.

"Mr. Gao, Taoist Priest Guo, come here, let me introduce you. This is the righteous man Quan Xing, Wu Gensheng Wu brother, who is here to help us deal with the Japanese pirates. Last time we dealt with the traitor Zhang Damazi, they were..."

General Ma began to introduce himself. He had been in the underworld before and knew that the two sides were at odds with each other and their hatred was as deep as the sea. It could be said that there was no way to mediate.

He didn't intend to act as a peacemaker. What he meant by saying this was to tell Mr. Gao and Taoist Guo that Quan Xing was here to deal with the Japanese pirates. Now that they were facing foreign enemies, they should put their hatred aside for now. After defeating the Japanese pirates, they could fight however they wanted.

Patriarch Gao, Taoist Priest Guo and the others had already made preparations when they came, so they would naturally not attack at this time. They looked at Wu Gensheng.

This is the head of Quanxing Sect, Wu Gensheng. He is totally different from the image in the legend! ... The two thought to themselves.

Wu Gensheng is a very mysterious figure in the martial arts world. There are many rumors about him, but very little useful information. We only know that many Quanxing monsters obey him, and he had a very good relationship with the little Taoist priest before joining Quanxing.

As for his skills? There is not much information, but everyone agrees that he should be very powerful. After all, it is impossible to convince all the monsters without some skills.

What's more, he is on good terms with the little Taoist priest. Birds of a feather flock together. Those who are close to the little Taoist priest are all weak.

Patriarch Gao and Taoist Priest Guo nodded at him, without giving Wu Gensheng a cold look, but they didn't communicate much either.

Wu Gensheng didn't want to make trouble. If it were normal times, he might not mind making friends, but he was not in the mood now.

Afterwards, several people discussed the battle plan. This was a defensive battle and they could not be too aggressive. Moreover, they were facing the elite troops of the Japanese pirates and they had to be cautious.

General Ma built a deep defense system on the north bank with the Nenjiang Bridge as the core and arranged three lines of defense.

The first line of defense was the forward position on the north bank of the river bridge. He would deploy a regiment of troops here, lay mines and destroy the bridge deck to stop the enemy.

The second line of defense was along the railway from Daxing Station to Yushutun, where he deployed two cavalry brigades to be responsible for mobile support.

The third line of defense is from Sanjianfang to Ang'angxi, where there is also a brigade of troops defending, forming a 40-kilometer-deep defense.

The total strength of the three lines of defense adds up to more than 13,000 troops.

The first line of defense is positional warfare. Under the hail of thousands of bullets, ordinary aliens can hardly play any role in this kind of battle.

Even if they don't have any means of self-protection, they can easily die from unknown gunfire if they show their face. They won't be much better than ordinary people. It would be a waste of resources to place aliens here.

Therefore, both the Quanxing aliens and the Zhengdao aliens were arranged in the two mobile cavalry brigades of the second line of defense.

In order to avoid conflicts between them, the two teams were divided into different cavalry brigades, commanded by Mr. Gao and Wu Gensheng respectively.

"Okay, this is the tactic. I think you all understand it, right?" General Ma asked.

"Understood!"

The officers responded one after another.

General Ma continued: "For this battle, I will give you a four-word policy."

"One is to occupy the high ground: use the terrain to set up an ambush."

"Second, lure the enemy in: let them get into range and then strike back. Don't shoot blanks at me."

"The third is to seize the opportunity: when the enemy retreats, pursue them desperately."

"Fourth, we must destroy the enemy at close range. We are only allowed to shoot within 100 meters to ensure the efficiency of firepower."

"understand!"

A group of officers said loudly.

"Okay, let's go to the position and swear an oath tomorrow morning," said General Ma.

Every time there is a major war, there must be an oath-taking ceremony, which can boost morale, clarify combat objectives and tasks, enhance team cohesion, and so on.

This time, dealing with the Japanese pirates is no exception.

Soon, the next day arrived, and General Ma arrived at the front line under the protection of several strange people.

Looking at the anxious faces of the soldiers on the front line, he took a step forward and said in a deep voice:

"Brothers, we are about to face the Japanese pirates. Are you afraid?"

"Not afraid!"

"Don't be afraid!" the soldiers shouted in a deafening voice.

“Hahahaha,” General Ma laughed, “You guys aren’t afraid, but I am. I was so afraid that I ate a few more dumplings that night to calm myself down.”

Hearing General Ma say this, even in such a serious occasion, there was a burst of laughter.

General Ma didn't laugh. He said seriously:

"Actually, we are about to risk our lives, how can we not be afraid?! But why would we come if we are afraid?!"

"Because this land is where I was born and raised, where my home, my fields, and my relatives are..."

General Ma did not give a grand speech in classical Chinese, but instead chattered on and on about the gossips of his family, but the breathing of the people below gradually became heavier.

Yes, the highest commander has ordered them not to fight. If they didn't love the land so deeply, why would they disobey the order and gather here? !
Just now, although they shouted loudly that they were not afraid, they were not plants or trees. Tomorrow they would have to risk their lives, and the enemy was numerous and we were few. Except for Quan Xing's gang of lunatics, who would say that they were not afraid at all? That would definitely be a lie.

“My home is here, so I came.”

General Ma shouted with red eyes, "Come here and fight those damn Japanese pirates!"

"Because I know...if we soldiers don't fight hard, our land will be taken away by the pirates. If we don't fight hard, our wives and daughters will be insulted by the pirates. If we don't fight hard, we won't be able to face our ancestors even if we die!"

General Ma's face was ferocious, and he roared: "Brothers, now I ask you, do you have any land?"

Many people replied that they did. At that time in the Northeast, the proportion of people who owned farmland was higher than those in the interior. It was for this reason that people started to cross the Guandong Pass.

"Do you have a wife, children and elderly relatives?" General Ma asked again.

"Have!!"

Everyone shouted in unison.

General Ma paced and asked, "Do you have any brothers or sisters around you?"

"have!!!"

General Ma raised his gun to the sky: "Do you have any weapons?"

"have!!!"

Everyone raised their guns as well.

“Do you have eggs in your crotch?!” General Ma patted his lower body.

"Yes, yes, yes!!!" the crowd shouted loudly, and the crowd was outraged.

General Ma shouted, "We have balls, we won't do anything without balls, fuck him, son of a bitch."

"Fuck him, son of a bitch!"

"Fuck him, son of a bitch!"

The crowd shouted loudly.

Afterwards, General Ma put away the pistol he was holding high. The bullets were limited, so he had to shoot at the heads of the Japanese pirates, not into the sky.

Wu Gensheng and Gu Jiting in the back looked at each other. Although General Ma's words were a bit rough, his few words really boosted the morale of the soldiers.

Then, they saw General Ma take out a piece of paper and start reading:

"We, the soldiers of Heilongjiang Province, would rather die in glory than live in disgrace! We must fight the Japanese pirates to the death..."

"There is no retreat until death, when the bullets run out, the swords will be exposed..."

"I can die for my country, but I cannot lose this place!"

Everyone shouted, "We can die for our country, but we can't lose this place!"

"Okay, so this is the oath!" Gu Jiting whispered, "What is the next step in this oath-taking ceremony?"

Wu Gensheng said: "It's the officers and soldiers who swore an oath with blood, we want to join them too!"

Then, General Ma and several brigade commanders led their officers and soldiers to cut their fingers and add their blood to the wine, and 10,000 people drank together.

The soldiers shouted: "We can cut off our heads and shed our blood, but we will not give up the river bridge!"

Not only the front line, but also the people in Hecheng in the rear were outraged.

Inside the classroom of the Provincial No. 1 Middle School, students swung hammers to smash the glass windows, and girls used the lining of their cheongsams to wrap the broken pieces to make "glass bombs," ready to fight the Japanese pirates to the death.

The principal cried out sadly over the loudspeaker: "Desks become coffins, textbooks become paper money, this is the last lesson of China!"

At the donation stand on the street, the old beggar Sun Quezi came to the donation stand with forty-seven copper coins in a broken bowl and shouted:

"I have been begging for thirty years, now I buy a bullet to kill the enemy!"

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Soon, it was time for the Japanese pirates' general attack.

The Nenjiang River at minus thirty degrees Celsius.

The surface of the river had long since frozen into solid ice, and in the biting cold wind, the vanguard of the Japanese pirates, the armored vehicles of the Second Division, slowly approached, spewing coal smoke.

On the bridge bank, in the snow trench of the Heilongjiang Province defenders, Zhao Lianyi, a soldier of the Guards Regiment, tied 12 grenades to his chest with hemp rope and smiled at his comrades:
"The Japanese pirate tanks are coming, I'm going to gut them!"

Commander Xu, who was guarding the position, spread out a three-meter-long white cloth and wrote in blood: "If you cross the river bridge, you are not a man. I am the boundary marker!"

The moment the flag was raised, the north wind howled and the snow flew into the sky like paper money.

Soon, the Japanese pirates approached. They led the way with five armored vehicles and swept the position with heavy machine gun bullets like water, splashing the frozen soil and ice everywhere.

The commander of the bridge, Commander Xu, was silent as a stone until the enemy troops came within a hundred meters of the bridge. Then he suddenly roared:

"beat!"

"Boom!"

The minefield exploded with a loud bang, and the homemade explosives buried underground overturned the Japanese pirates' armored vehicles, and the tracks broke and twisted in the flames.

The suicide squad jumped out of the snow ditch on the flank and threw grenades and bottles filled with kerosene at the tank's observation windows.

Amid the rumbling explosion, flames wrapped in black smoke engulfed the tank.

…………

"The front line is already in flames, Master, when are we going to attack?"

In a day with the temperature dozens of degrees below zero, a shirtless bald man was riding on a horse with a ferocious smile on his face.

Wu Gensheng glanced at Brigade Commander Wu next to him and shook his head:
"No hurry, it's not time yet. This is just the vanguard. If we go now, we won't be able to kill them easily. Let's play the long game and catch the big fish. When the main force of the Japanese pirates arrives, we can kill them easily."

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On the other side, the cavalry brigade where the righteous people such as the head of the Gao family are located is also lying in wait.

Zhang Huaiyi and some of Wu Gensheng's other righteous friends originally followed Wu Gensheng.

But since Patriarch Gao and Taoist Master Guo brought a large number of righteous people to help, it was naturally difficult for them to continue to fight with Wu Gensheng, so they all joined Patriarch Gao's team.

This was Zhang Huaiyi’s first time fighting on the battlefield. He looked at the thick smoke rising in the distance and wondered how it would have gone if his senior brother was here.
Then, his heart tightened and he turned his head suddenly, and saw a yellow figure flash by in the snowy forest.

"Huang Daxian," looking at the fat girl with a tiger-like face not far away: "Is it hers? Or..." (End of this chapter)