Independence Corps

Chapter 45
Strange, how did I fall asleep?Fan Zhong was dizzy, his mind went blank, he had no idea when he fell asleep or what happened after he fell asleep.I just remember that after he finished fighting the devils in the circle, he raised his gun and ran forward. He seemed to fall asleep as he ran.No, it was the addiction bug in his body that bit him. Yes, he could have run to the dangerous opening in one go. Anyway, he is more familiar with this road than the little devil. If he really ran faster than anyone else, he wouldn't Lost to the little devil, besides, he copied a shortcut.But when he was passing through the dense forest, he became addicted to cigarettes. Fan Zhong thought, let's take a couple of puffs before leaving. Anyway, there will be no delay.

Fan Zhong took more than two puffs, the smoke he got from the turtle itself was too much, enough for him to enjoy it for a while.When people see something they like, they always have a feeling that they can't let it go, and Fan Zhong is the same.He liked opium so much, holding it, Fan Zhong became dazed and forgot his mission.

Damn, something bad happened, it must be because I smoked too much!Fan Zhong woke up with a start, his mind seemed to be clearer, and he looked around, the sky was gray, the mountains were shrouded in smoke, and the air was full of a pungent burnt smell.

What about devils, devils!

Fan Zhong suddenly remembered Izawa, raised his legs and ran towards the natural barrier. After running a few steps, he came back again, picked up the cigarette pouch and pocket watch on the ground, and almost lost these two trophies.Fan Zhong didn't dare to dawdle, he thought, Shen Mengzi and the others must have dealt with the little devils almost, and if they rushed over this time, they might be able to help them.

The Tianxiankou has returned to silence, and the vicious battle yesterday lasted until after three o'clock in the morning.Lao Luan and the others were once at a disadvantage in the middle, and the devils rushed up from the south several times in a row, putting great pressure on them several times. If the Tiger Camp from Niangniang Mountain hadn't rushed to reinforce them, it would be hard to say who would win this battle.

The Tiger Camp came after dark. Originally they could have arrived more than an hour earlier, but the battle on the mountain was fierce. Lao Luan and the rocks they rolled down blocked the progress of the Tiger Camp. brother's legs.The Tiger Camp had to change the route, which delayed the time.

As soon as the Tiger Battalion was reinforced, the situation on the mountain changed immediately. The devils were attacked on both sides, and the formation was in chaos.In addition, the sky was as dark as ink, and the devils were not familiar with the mountain. In the panic, dozens of devils stumbled and fell into the cliff, and fell into meatloaf.While commanding his subordinates to resist, Izawa looked for a way to escape.Jing Ze didn't know that it was Liu Mi'er from Niangniang Mountain who came to reinforce him. He mistakenly thought that Tu Lanlong had sent soldiers. Reimbursement to the natural insurance mouth.If the fight continued, Jing Ze was afraid that the entire army would be wiped out, so he left a squadron to cover, dragging Lao Luan above Shifeng and the Tiger Camp encircled by the right wing, while the others returned along the same path.Tiger Camp and Lao Luan fought fiercely with the devils for another two hours and wiped out the devil's squadron.Lao Luan wanted to take advantage of the victory to pursue and fight all the way down the mountain, but the battalion commander of the Tiger Battalion stopped him and advised him to calm down.After all, the mountains are high and the roads are dangerous, so unnecessary casualties are not worth it.

"Leave him alive for the time being, son of a bitch Jing Ze, sooner or later, I will kill him with my own hands!" Lao Luan thanked the battalion commander of the tiger camp, and hurriedly cleaned up the mess.

Although the devils were repelled, there were still many stubborn enemies around Shi Feng.Some were injured and hid under bushes or rocky cliffs, while others were scattered during fierce battles and lost their way.There are also those who wanted to escape at the time, but failed to escape, and counterattacked again this time.

The gunfire on the mountain continued until dawn, and many devils were killed, but the 72nd regiment also suffered casualties. Six brothers were shot by the devil's black gun, and two were picked up by the devil with a bayonet. Among them was the deputy of the sixth battalion.

The Tiger Camp was evacuated at dawn, and they took a shortcut and rushed directly to Luanshigangzi.Last night, Liu Mi'er had already brought a group of fans, and rushed to reinforce Shen Mengzi overnight.The battalion commander of the Tiger Battalion was worried about his master, and dared not love to fight.Lao Luan vowed to wipe out all the remaining enemies on the mountain, and at the same time he was afraid that Jing Ze would come back.It is not an easy task to guard the natural danger.

When the sun was setting, Lao Luan and Fan Zhong saw each other at the same time.Fan Zhong walked out of the woods, and when he looked up, he saw Lao Luan coming out from behind the stone cliff.Fan Zhong didn't recognize Lao Luan, but he recognized the clothes. Ten days ago, he was wearing the same clothes. Fan Zhong was overjoyed and shouted loudly, "Comrade!"

Lao Luan was startled for a moment, and then he laughed out loud, thinking that there is still a little devil here.Lao Luanhuo raised his gun and aimed at Fan Zhong.

Fan Zhong hid in fright, and shouted at the same time: "Don't mess around, I'm not a devil, I'm Fan Zhong."

Fan Zhong?Lao Luan was puzzled for a moment, he was obviously a devil, how could he be Fan Zhong, and who was Fan Zhong?

In an instant, Lao Luan understood that he had met a traitor.Damn it, I said why I couldn't find you, it turned out that I was hiding in the woods.With a "poof", Lao Luan blew on the muzzle of his gun, and took a few strides forward.

"Are you Fan Mazi?"

"I'm Fan Zhong, and I have a tuba size."

"You told the devil this way, right?"

Fan Zhong shook his head, then nodded again, he couldn't make it clear, but he wanted to make it clear that he couldn't recite the name of a traitor.

"Put the gun down and let me speak slowly."

"You fucking traitor, do you still have the guts to call me comrade?"

"It's comrades. Comrade, take me to see Commander Shen. I want to tell him that I killed Oda Atom and five devils. I deserve credit."

"Dog traitor!" Lao Luan cursed viciously, took another big step forward, and put the gun on Fan Zhong's head.

Fan Zhong was so frightened that he trembled all over: "I...I am not a traitor, I am...Fan Zhong."

"Hahahaha!" Lao Lun burst out laughing, he didn't expect that the traitor Fan Zhong would come to his door by himself, and he wanted to represent the 72 regiment, no, on behalf of the whole of China, to announce the death penalty for this traitor!

"Don't... don't act recklessly. I'm not a traitor. I told the devil this way, but I was forced to do nothing. Please put down the gun. If you shoot, I'll die. I still want to kill the devil. .” Fan Zhong’s face turned yellow and pale, and he talked nonsense to the old man as if begging for mercy.

Lao Luan laughed again, why did the little devil dare to bully us Chinese, why did he dare to treat other people's land as his own home, and it was not because of these traitors?
"Are you a fucking Chinese? Look at the skin you're wearing. What good did the little devil do you, ah!" It was all picked up, and he also said that he had beaten devils.

Fan Zhong looked down at himself, thinking it was too bad, this devil's skin hurt him.

"That's what happened..."

At this moment, Fan Zhong suddenly saw three devils emerging from the place where Lao Luanshan was born just now. One seemed to be the captain of the squad. This time, Ci Lang led people to catch them.

"Be careful!" Fan Zhong shouted, raising the gun in his hand at the same time.

Lao Luan thought that Fan Zhong was going to attack him, so his blood surged up, he kicked Fan Zhong in the stomach, and the gun in his hand pulled the trigger at the same time.At the same time, five gunshots erupted in the small open space in front of the cliff.The first shot was fired by Lao Luan, and the bullet hit Fan Zhong in the head.Fan Zhong fell slowly like a tree.The first shot was fired by Fan Zhong, and the bullet passed Lao Luan's ear and hit the right eye of the leader of the devil squad.The leader of the devil squad screamed and fell into a pool of blood.There were three more shots fired by the three devils behind at the same time. The squad leader's shot went flying, and the other two shots went through Lao Luan's chest one after the other.Before Lao Luan could react to what was going on, he felt a sharp pain in his body, as if something had passed through him. He wanted to turn around, but he had no strength left.When he realized that he was hit by the devil's black gun, the bullet exploded in the middle of his heart.

Lao Luan yelled loudly, but he didn't know whether it was for Fan Zhong or the ghost behind him.Then he fell to the ground.

The old mess is dead!

Hearing the bad news, Shen Mengzi suddenly turned pale.

Lao Luan, Lao Luan, is he dead?Shen Mengzi absolutely couldn't believe that his good brother and helper, Lao Luanhui, was shot by the devil. When the Sixth Battalion Commander Lan Xiaoshi helped him and saw Lao Luan's body, Shen Mengzi went crazy. He rushed to Lao Luan, punched and kicked: "Get up, what are you doing lying down? The devils are still at the foot of the mountain, there are as many wolves as there are, so get up and beat the devils. You love to set off cannons, get up and set them off!"

There was a sound of mourning in the mountains, and the brothers of the 72nd regiment surrounded the corpses of Lao Luan and his comrades, apart from tears, there was hatred in their hearts.

Looking at this scene, Liu Mi'er couldn't help crying. She turned around and secretly wiped away the tears.

"Old Luan, wait, I'm going to sacrifice Sasaki's head to you!" Shen Mengzi stood up abruptly, wiped off his military cap, and wiped the blood and tears from his face.

"Listen to me, leave one company to bury the body, and the others will set off at night, I'm going to smash Sasaki's lair!"

This time, Shen Mengzi was going to risk his life, if he didn't drive the little devil out of the rice grain mountain, Shen Mengzi's food for more than ten years would be in vain!

Sasaki was lingering on his last breath, the battle in the daytime was really thrilling, originally he had the upper hand, there were planes bombing in the sky, cannons and tanks on the ground, and the enthusiasm of the soldiers under the heavy reward made him Sasaki thought that he would win this battle for sure, taking down the rocky hillock and eliminating Shen Mengzi was a certainty.Sasaki was not ashamed, and promised Gangmoto that if he couldn't take down the Luanshi Gangzi today, he would apologize to the emperor.

Unexpectedly, at the beginning of the attack, an unknown force appeared on his right wing. At first Sasaki thought it was the remnants of the 12th Division. After fighting for 10 minutes, it felt wrong. It flew over from the place where it was, and blossomed above his head without a doubt.Sasaki was sweating in shock, and hurriedly asked Okamoto, what happened?Okamoto said angrily: "What appeared on the right wing were the two brigades of Chi Shaotian of the 12th Army."

Chi Shaotian?Sasaki struggled to search his memory, and seemed unfamiliar with the name Chi Shaotian, but when Okamoto said the word Zhang Guozhen, Sasaki shouted.

"Didn't you say that there will be no guns fired in the city? Why are there guns everywhere now?"

Gangben was even more annoyed than him. The information he got was that Tu Lanlong's wife, daughter and father-in-law were all in the hands of the imperial army. In three days, they would be escorted to Miliang City by the highest secret service agency. By then, Tu Lanlong would be If he wanted to fire, he might not be able to help himself.Also, Tu Lanlong's boss, Chief Yan, has once again ordered Tu Lanlong to lead the crowd to leave Rice Grain City and hand over this city full of gold and silver treasures to the Imperial Japanese Army.As a condition, the Imperial Japanese Army can spare the 23rd and 25th Divisions of Chief Yan's direct line on the Baishuihe front, and concentrate on dealing with the 18th Army of the Communist Party.It now appears that this information is all false.

fake!

Gangben's anger could not change the fact that Sasaki was beaten in the slightest. Within half an hour of the attack, his plan was completely disrupted. He originally planned to concentrate on dealing with Shen Mengzi, but now he had to focus on dealing with Zhang Guozhen.Zhang Guozhen's heavy artillery was so powerful that Sasaki finally knew why Commander Miyata had to take down Rice Grain City. Rice Grain City had what the Imperial Japanese Army needed.Compared with gold and silver treasures, the heavy artillery developed by Tu Zhucheng is probably what Commander Miyata wants more.

Sasaki concentrated his artillery fire and fought back to Zhang Guozhen's side, but most of the task force was equipped with 75mm mountain cannons, which were inferior to Zhang Guozhen's heavy mountain cannons in terms of range and damage.The two sides fought each other for more than 20 minutes, and Sasaki's seven mountain cannons were blown up, and more than ten gunners died.

"I need reinforcements. The enemy's artillery fire is too fierce. I need aircraft reinforcements!" Sasaki called Miyata directly. He knew that Okamoto was unable to mobilize the aircraft.

The news that Zhang Guozhen and Laohuai had crossed Fengqiao to reinforce Shen Mengzi had already reached Miyata's ears. Miyata was a little shocked. While questioning the secret service agency Xingshi, he hurriedly asked Baishuihe for help.Half an hour later, the plane appeared in the sky above Miliang City, and Miyata's hanging heart could be relieved for the time being.Unexpectedly, as soon as the plane arrived over Liuji, it was suddenly attacked by anti-aircraft fire.In the middle of Hongshuigou and Luanshigangzi, Liu Mier, a bandit from Niangniang Mountain, used more than a dozen anti-aircraft guns and more than 20 heavy machine guns to form a huge firepower net, sealing off the passage of the Devil's plane.The devil dropped a few bombs in a hurry, and fled by plane.

There was chaos in Miyata, he didn't expect that Liu Mi'er from Niangniang Mountain would also become Shen Mengzi's ally.According to the battle plan of the Japanese army, after taking Wufengling and Huajialing, the Japanese army will cross the Hongshuigou and deal with Liu Mier. This is good, and several forces will gather together and start to fight back against him.

Miyata urgently mobilized two regiments, plus three artillery platoons, to reinforce Sasaki.Sasaki breathed a sigh of relief.But less than 10 minutes after he was out of breath, Shen Mengzi's counterattack began.Relying on the fire support from the right wing and Hongshuigou, the 72nd Regiment's counterattack was extremely fierce.The dense bullets and the roaring artillery fire made Sasaki unable to lift his head, so he could only order the task force to retreat. The territory he had worked so hard to win the day before was returned to Shen Mengzi's hands in the blink of an eye.Shen Mengzi's side hadn't stopped the fire yet, Zhang Guozhen's attack started again, and Sasaki suffered a lot that day.By the end of the battle at night, he had been forced by three forces to retreat less than ten miles away from Huanghuagang.Fortunately, the imperial army at Huanghuagang had the upper hand, otherwise, he wouldn't even be able to find a place to stay.

The contingent suffered heavy casualties, more than half of the Japanese troops were defeated, arms and legs were missing everywhere, and there were problems with first aid in the field.Sasaki asked Miyata for help again, but this time, Miyata didn't care about him anymore.Sasaki later learned that the 26th Division of the Kingdom Regiment stationed in Hongshui County was on the verge of hearing the news, and it was very likely that Miyata's retreat would be cut off. Miyata had to make emergency preparations.

It's all messed up!
As night fell, Shen Mengzi and his brothers from the three battalions quietly moved towards Sasaki's camp.Political commissar Bi Chuanyun also wanted to go together, but Shen Mengzi did not agree.The old chaos is heroic, Bai Jianjiang has not come back yet, it is not known whether he is dead or alive, and people must be left on the battlefield.He repeatedly told Bi Chuanyun that Huajialing and Tianxiankou should still be extra careful, and they must not let the devils take advantage of their loopholes.

The air was still filled with a pungent burnt smell, and there were will-o’-the-wisps on the hillside, which were tree trunks lit by artillery fire during the day.In order not to be discovered by the devils, Shen Mengzi avoided the place where he had fought fiercely during the day, and made a detour through the dense bushes under the mountain peak on the south side of Luanshigangzi.In the entire Wufeng Ridge, this bush may not have been attacked by artillery fire.The fierce battle has scarred the land, and under the dark sky, there are groans everywhere.

Shen Mengzi walked in the front, followed closely by Xiaomi Tang. After several vicious battles, Xiaomi Tang matured a lot. This kid no longer dared to be glib, let alone leave the team without authorization.That day, when Shen Mengzi was not paying attention, this kid actually slipped out of the fortification, ran to the pile of devil corpses to grab the machine gun, and was almost reimbursed by a devil who pretended to be dead.Shen Mengzi broke out in a cold sweat, and when he came back, he gave Xiaomitang a hard lesson.It's no wonder that the guns and ammunition can't keep up. In addition to the batch of firearms that were accidentally captured in Hongshuigou, Liu Mi'er from Niangniang Mountain also sent a batch.But in this fierce battle, the bullets were consumed too quickly, and the brothers ran out of bullets in their guns, so they had no choice but to take the risk from the devils.

It was very difficult to walk on the night road, coupled with the obstruction of the bushes and thorns, Shen Mengzi and the others moved very slowly.After walking for about an hour, I still haven't got out of the dense forest.Shen Mengzi thought that this was not possible, so he stopped, and looked around for a while with the flickering fire in the distance, determined to turn over the small mountain ridge in front.As soon as Shen Mengzi led his brothers out of the bushes, Liu Mi'er and Mi Xia chased after them panting.

"Go back quickly, don't mess around." Liu Mi'er jumped in front of Shen Mengzi and stopped him.

"What's going on?" Shen Mengzi was very surprised.

"The devil played a trick, and dug a trap to wait for you." Liu Mi'er walked too hastily, and her body was drenched in sweat.She wiped off her sweat, and said anxiously to Shen Mengzi.A fresh fragrance wafted over, and Shen Mengzi took a few deep breaths.

"No way?" Shen Mengzi hesitated.

"Immediately order the brothers to retreat, this place is very dangerous." Liu Mi'er didn't have time to elaborate, she begged Shen Mengzi to act quickly, if he was surrounded by devils, it would be too late to regret it.

Shen Mengzi was infected by the impatience in Liu Mier's eyes, knowing that this move was a bit risky, he immediately turned around and ordered the brothers to retreat along the same road.

"Everyone, keep your voice down, the devil is probably nearby."

Fortunately, the devils did not lay an ambush, but the brothers of the 72nd regiment were still sweating from shock.After withdrawing from the bushes and reaching the mountain depression, Liu Mier breathed a sigh of relief.

"What's going on?" Shen Mengzi asked unwillingly.

"Wait a while, let your scout tell you." Liu Mi'er could already see that Shen Mengzi regretted it now, as if she had lied and deliberately tricked him back.

How could this person be like this, Liu Mier showed displeasure on his face.

After a while, scout Lu Yichuan came down to Shen Mengzi with the support of several brothers from Tiger Camp.It turned out that Lu Yichuan brought the news, but unfortunately he was injured when he passed through the enemy's position and was shot in the leg.If the brothers from the tiger camp hadn't discovered him, Lu Yichuan might have been a prisoner.

"Captain, Sasaki fled overnight, leaving only dozens of seriously wounded in the devil's camp. This is Miyata's idea to lure you into the bait." Lu Yichuan said in a panic.

Shen Mengzi groaned in his heart, and looked at Liu Mi'er's face again.

"Now you understand, the devil is using the wounded as bait to lure you and me into the bait. As soon as you and I enter the ambush circle, the devil's shells will arrive." Liu Mi'er finally revealed the devil's plot.

"Miyata the son of a bitch!" Shen Mengzi cursed and asked Lu Yichuan what happened to his legs.Lu Yichuan endured the pain and said that he got the information at the intelligence station, worried that time would not be enough, so he passed through the enemy's defense zone in a hurry, but he was discovered by the devils when he was about to leave the defense zone, and a small group of devils chased him. Flying by his ears, he fell and was shot in the thigh when he got up again.

"Brother Luo and the others carried me back." Lu Yichuan gratefully introduced the dark-faced man beside him to Shen Mengzi.

(End of this chapter)