Independence Corps

Chapter 7
Tan Weiming said that day: "Brother Shen, it's not that I doubt anyone. During the war, anything can happen. If the Japanese want to enter the Central Plains, they will not be able to cross the rice grain mountain. One is dedicated to Gangben, and as long as the little devil has the ability, he will take it away. The difficulty is, what about Miliangcheng? The young commander has taken over Miliangcheng for a few months. It doesn’t seem to exist. I know that his mind is still on the old commander. The old commander’s tragic accident made him extremely sad. He suspects that someone has tampered with it. Maybe I, Tan, are also within the scope of his suspicion. These It's all a family matter, so I'm afraid you, Brother Shen, will laugh at you if you say it. However, with the interference of the Japanese, many impossible things become very possible. If you read this telegram, you will understand everything."

With that said, Tan Weiming handed the intercepted telegram to Shen Mengzi.Shen Mengzi only read two lines, and his body was on fire.

Brother Lanlong:

I am very happy to learn that you have been appointed as the commander-in-chief of the 11th Army Group. In a few days, you and my brother can meet each other. The 126th Division and the 137th Division have surrendered to Gucheng according to the strategy we had previously agreed upon, and the two divisions have obtained the letter of commission from the Japanese Imperial Army as they wished.When you and I meet in Miliangcheng, I will personally present you with the medal and letter of commission awarded by His Majesty the Emperor.In addition, I also brought you an unexpected gift. Mieko is also with us, and she misses you very much.

Three days later, my 13th division task force will arrive at Liuji first, you just stand still, I will clean up the 12th division for you, and let the surnamed Tan go to Jiuquan to apologize to your father.

Greater East Asia common prosperity!
Okamoto
Okamoto Ichiro!Shen Mengzi gritted his teeth fiercely, and kicked the washbasin away.According to the news that Tan Weiming and his team have scouted, the newly formed 13th Division of the Japanese army is a tiger and wolf force. Okamoto controls tens of thousands of troops. Although the number is not superior to that of Tu Lanlong, the Japanese army has advanced equipment.In addition, Okamoto also has the second tank regiment with the most outstanding record of the Japanese army on the Chinese battlefield.The Second Tank Regiment is temporarily under the command of the 13th Division Task Force. The captain of the task force was Sasaki who severely injured Shen Mengzi in the Battle of Shilou and finally forced Shen Mengzi to change his family.

"Sasaki, come here if you have the guts, I will tell you not to come back!" Shen Mengzi walked out of the temporary headquarters while hating.He was anxious to see the situation of the defense, and he couldn't let the scout Lu Yichuan go.This little bump hasn't come back yet, is he in trouble again?

The rocky hillock under the night presents a different scene at this time.Luanshigangzi is the place where the dead are buried in Miliangshan, and the locals also call it the Luanfen Beach. Grave mounds, large and small, line up one after another, stretching from Shen Mengzi's eyes, extending into the depths of the night.Normally, the air here is eerie and frightening. As the artillery fire approaches, the cold air becomes more and more threatening.Shen Mengzi passed several cemeteries in a row, and all he saw were the busy shadows of soldiers. Although the 12rd Brigade of the 53th Division left the fortifications intact to the 72nd Regiment, these fortifications were obviously too simple.The pampered 53rd Brigade just used the tombs as natural barriers, and at most dug a few ditches for Tibetans beside the tombs.In the eyes of Bai Jianjiang and Shen Mengzi, such a trench is equivalent to a tomb dug for themselves.Sasaki came with the tank regiment, and if he wanted to bury the tank regiment in the rocky hill, at least ten deep trenches that could hold the tanks had to be dug. The brothers of the 72nd Regiment were throwing their arms away like tigers, digging deep into the ditch under Bai Jianjiang's yelling.Someone dug up the bones, someone carried out the coffin boards, and some brothers from the second battalion even dug up a complete corpse. They asked Bai Jianjiang what to do, but Bai Jianjiang didn't even look at it and said, "Bury him in the body!"

This scene is like a group of grave robbers digging a grave crazily.Shen Mengzi felt uneasy in his heart, and said to the grave in the dark: "I'm sorry, no matter whose ancestor you are, I have to disturb you today. If you are disturbed, you should be disturbed. When this evil battle is over, you will be disturbed." , if I, Shen Mengzi, are still alive, I will invite a Taoist to come and comfort your souls."

At dawn, five trenches were dug. Each trench was five meters wide and as deep as a person.Shen Mengzi looked at the panting brother, and said to Bai Jianjiang: "Let everyone rest for a while, after breakfast and sleep, then work again."

"No way, you have to work hard, Little Japan won't give you time to eat." Bai Jianjiang directed the soldiers of the second battalion to pick a ditch in Kuanli, and said to Shen Mengzi.After one night, Bai Jianjiang was ashamed, as if he had just been dug out of a grave.His trouser legs were scratched by thorns at some point, and he flicked and flicked as he walked, revealing the thick hair on his legs that had been dyed yellow by the soil.Shen Mengzi felt a little distressed when he saw him risking his life, but there was nothing he could do. If he didn't risk his life like this, his life would be taken away by the Japanese.

Leaving the trench, Shen Mengzi planned to go to the Fourth Battalion to have a look. The Fourth Battalion was at the forefront. Fang Jinwen, the commander of the Fourth Battalion, was a scholar. It was sealed, and Fang Jinwen smashed the door plaque on the county magistrate's mansion in a rage, and left his hometown to join General Fu.After tossing and turning all the way, they finally got together with Shen Mengzi and the others.In the 72nd Regiment, Fang Jinwen was Zhuge Liang, known as a military adviser. Every time he fought a war, he could come up with something new and something that others could not think of. This time, Shen Mengzi also expected him to come up with another strange move.As he was walking, Lao Luan's voice suddenly came from his ears, Shen Mengzi was startled, thinking that Lao Luan could stay on the mountain well, why did he come here to make trouble?When he looked up, Lao Luan had stumbled to him, followed by Shi Run with a gray head and a gray face.

"Master, call urgently!" Lao Luan wiped off his sweat.Shi Run stared at Shen Mengzi with a pair of unfathomable eyes.

"Read!" Seeing Lao Luan's flustered expression, Shen Mengzi already realized where the electricity came from.

Sure enough, the telegram was sent by Tang Peisen, the brigade commander of the 312th brigade. It was not long, but the tone was very strong.

The 72nd regiment merged with the head of the regiment:
I was shocked to learn that your regiment transferred the main force to Luanshigangzi.This move seriously undermined our army's combat plan and was suspected of surrendering to the enemy.After receiving the power, quickly withdraw the troops back to Huajialing, waiting for the brigade's order.

312 Brigade Commander Tang Peisen

"Damn it!" Shen Mengzi cursed angrily after hearing this, and walked forward.Lao Luan chased after him, and said in a low voice, "Sir, do you want to ignore it?"

"Ignore it!" Shen Mengzi yelled again, looking sideways at Shi Run, he believed that Shi Run had reached Tang Peisen's ears, and he didn't know what Shi Run had said emphatically behind their backs.A group of dogs pee moss!He cursed hard in his heart, and walked towards Fang Jinwen's Fourth Camp.

Shi Run probably didn't see the result he wanted to see, so he chased after him unwillingly: "Commander, this is an order from the brigade, and we should obey it."

"Be obedient!" Shen Mengzi didn't even look back, he threw a dirty word at Shi Run, and walked forward on his own.

Shi Run stood still for a while, then caught up again, this time his tone was different: "Comrade Shen Mengzi, the battle is ahead, you and I should put the overall situation first, this kind of reckless action that disregards our army's overall combat plan should be Stop now!"

Shen Mengzi turned around, as if he had been stimulated by something, he stared straight at Shi Run: "Who are you talking to, tell me, are you? Damn, when is it your turn to teach someone a lesson? Huh? He suddenly yelled, pulled out the gun from his waist, and pointed it at Shi Run's head: "Believe it or not, I will shoot your tongue out first, so that you can't open your crow's mouth again?"

"Boss, don't act recklessly!" Lao Luan was frightened, took a big step forward, and blocked them with his body. "Head of the family, don't play this when you play anything. There is no way to explain the fire between brothers."

"Brother, who is he brother?" Shen Mengzi still stared at Shi Run with his eyes. Shi Run's words just now hurt his sore spot. He has endured Shi Run for a long time, and it seems that he can't bear it anymore today.

Lao Luan signaled Shi Run to leave quickly.Shi Run seemed a little unconvinced, but he was also afraid of the gun in Shen Mengzi's hand, so he walked away resentfully.

"Damn, let me retreat to Huajialing and dream!" Shen Mengzi cursed at Shi Run's back, then withdrew his eyes and stared at Lao Luan seriously: "How are the brothers on the mountain?"

"Don't worry, if I'm always messing around, it won't be messy."

"Where's Battalion Commander Lan?" Shen Mengzi asked deliberately.

"He's still digging fortifications. You know, Lao Lan is very particular about fortifications."

Shen Mengzi nodded knowingly. The old nonsense is correct. Lan Xiaoshi's theory is that half of a tough battle depends on combat power, and the other half depends on fortifications. Whoever neglects fortifications is tantamount to neglecting his own life.

"You go back right away. I guess Shi Run's stinky mouth will cause us trouble. You and Lao Lan will depend on you on the mountain."

Lao Luan answered "Yes", and then asked dawdly, "How do you answer this thing?"

Shen Mengzi glanced at the message paper raised in Lao Luan's hand, and said, "Don't answer anything, let him send as much as he likes."

"I see." Lao Luan is really a rough man, he is in the war industry, and there is no way to deal with this kind of matter.When Shen Mengzi said this, he had the bottom line in his heart, said to Shen Mengzi to take care, and walked away.Shen Mengzi stared at his back for a long time before slowly withdrawing his gaze.

Tang Peisen forced him to retreat, the grandiose reason was to proceed from the overall situation and obey the brigade headquarters' unified combat plan, secretly because he was afraid that he would get mixed up with Tan Weiming and Tu Lanlong.Shen Mengzi couldn't understand why Tang Peisen, who kept saying that he wanted Tan Weiming to surrender and revolt, was afraid that he would go with Tan Weiming when he got to the critical point?Forget it, I will leave these issues to be considered later, the most important thing right now is to deploy defenses.

Shen Mengzi quickened his pace and headed towards Siying.Across a large grassland and over two small hills, Shen Mengzi saw that the brothers of the Fourth Battalion were sweating profusely.The location of the Fourth Battalion is called Widow Slope. It is said that in the last years of the dynasty, there was a strange person in Miliang Mountain, the Immortal Miliang.Zhenren launched a small-scale uprising and led more than 1000 martial arts practitioners in Miliang Mountain to overthrow the imperial court.The real people's team was suppressed by the local army before they walked out of Miliang Mountain.In order to show their loyalty to the imperial court, the local army started killing in Luanshigangzi. The blood of more than 1000 men was sprinkled all over the rocks overnight, and the water in the Gu River was red for half a year.Since then, there have been women crying at the grave every day in Luanshigangzi, their wailing voices piercing the valley and shaking the heavens. The place where more than 1000 people were buried became the widow's slope.Stepping on the soft grass of Widow Slope, Shen Mengzi seemed to have heard the mournful voice of women crying for graves. He didn't know how many more tombs would be left on Widow Slope after this vicious battle, and how many more women would be shed. Tears of sadness and despair.

Shen Mengzi checked around the position and found that the fortifications here were better than those of Bai Jianjiang and the others, so he greeted the soldiers of the Fourth Battalion with satisfaction.After walking for nearly half an hour, Fang Jinwen, the commander of the Fourth Battalion, was still nowhere to be seen. He wondered in his heart, where did this guy go?Just as he was about to open his mouth to ask, he suddenly saw four people walking across the grass, and Fang Jinwen was among them.

Fang Jinwen also saw Shen Mengzi at the first time, and hurried to Shen Mengzi: "Report to the commander, everything is ready for the fourth battalion, please give instructions."

Shen Mengzi waved his hand. He was not used to his subordinates saluting when they saw him, so he reported that he was more used to the way of always messing with them. It was natural, kind, and unobtrusive.He hehe smiled at Fang Jinwen: "Okay, Jinwen, everyone said that you are the worst at repairing fortifications, this time it opened my eyes."

As soon as Shen Mengzi was easy-going, Fang Jinwen became spontaneous: "Commander, don't listen to their nonsense, which fortification did I lose to them? Look, this widow slope, I let it change overnight."

Indeed, the widow Po, who used to be desolate with wormwood and full of messy graves, suddenly became more angry and tiger-like after Fang Jinwen's toss, especially the triangular trench dug by him ingeniously, which made Widow Po even more Share the heroic spirit, vigor.

The two stood on the hillside and talked for a while, Fang Jinwen gently poked his arm, and said in a low voice, "Leader, let me use a place to talk."

Shen Mengzi nodded knowingly, followed Fang Jinwen away from the soldiers, and came to a secluded place.

"Head, the situation is not quite right." Fang Jinwen said in a low voice.

"What did you find?" Shen Mengzi's heart darkened, and he asked in a tight voice.

"It's good to find something. The problem is that nothing has been found since yesterday, which makes people wonder."

Shen Mengzi said "oh", he understood Fang Jinwen's doubts, and the same doubts had actually been stuffed in his heart, but he didn't say it out.

"The three soldiers just now were sent by me to reconnaissance. Last night they borrowed mules from the fellow villager and walked eastward along the valley river overnight. The shadow of Little Japan." Fang Jinwen said again.

Shen Mengzi frowned: "You mean..."

"The Japanese contingent didn't set out, or they just went in a detour. This chaotic hillock is probably the trick of an envoy named Tan."

"Impossible!" Shen Mengzi shook his head resolutely, "Jin Wen, now is not the time to be suspicious, suspicion will disturb the morale of the army."

"Leader, we have to guard against it." Fang Jinwen seemed stubborn.No wonder, he was a very thoughtful person, but now that Shen Mengzi suddenly brought his troops into the land of tigers and wolves, he was even more worried.Once Tan Weiming played tricks, the 72nd regiment had no chance of turning back.

(End of this chapter)