The moment before night falls, the snow has begun to fall, the cold wind has subsided slightly, and the weak light illuminates the northern winter night in a gray sky. The sky and the earth seem to be shrouded in a huge dark gray twilight. Although it is impossible to see far, but
However, the outlines of objects within tens of meters can be recognized. This strange sight makes the soldiers of the mixed brigade who have come from afar feel very fresh.
Outside the side halls on both sides of the Laoye Temple, several brothers were pouring bags of raw salt into the steaming cauldron and stirring them with wooden sticks. In the side hall, more than 70 people suffered frostbite and injuries from falling.
The brothers were lying on the long hot kang and wooden boards in various postures. A squad of ambulance soldiers who came with the team were instructing the helping brothers on how to wipe the wounded's body with strong liquor and how to soak and clean the wound with strong salt water.
Outside the main hall, Yang Jiuxiao and Gu Changfeng exchanged fires intimately, and took a few puffs of high-quality cigarettes produced by the old Nanchang Cigarette Factory specially for An Jiajun. From time to time, the sound of ticking alarms could be heard in the main hall.
After only meeting for a few hours, the northern and southern brothers hit it off immediately because of their similar personalities and temperaments. During dinner, Yang Jiuxiao took out a leather bag filled with five kilograms of roasted knives and asked Gu Changfeng if he could warm himself up with a few mouthfuls.
?Gu Changfeng had read Yang Jiuxiao in detail before setting off.
After looking at Yang Jiuxiao's photos from three years ago, I learned that the fierce general with a beard like a steel needle next to him was nicknamed "Yang Bu Dao". After asking An Yi carefully, I learned that Yang Jiuxiao drank a lot.
It is said that until now, no brother has ever seen Yang Jiuxiao lying down after drinking.
Therefore, when Gu Changfeng saw Yang Jiuxiao's sly smile, he immediately understood what was going on. Without saying a word, he took the bag and drank more than a pound of wine, immediately winning the favor of Yang Jiuxiao and his brothers.
The whole house cheered.
Yang Jiuxiao, who was full of sincerity to his brother, couldn't help but feel proud when he saw this, and gave Gu Changfeng a thumbs up. While laughing, he took the skin bag handed by Gu Changfeng and followed the same example, and drank it in one gulp.
After more than a kilogram, he wiped his beard with a smile on his face. Neither of them took a sip of the soup. In the blink of an eye, they drank three or four kilograms of roasting knives. They both stood up and looked at each other with a smile.
They ate a piece of braised mutton that weighed almost two kilograms. After wiping their hands, they walked side by side to the large incense table on the left side of the hall. They pointed at the map and exchanged opinions nervously without swaying at all.
It was as if the three or four kilograms of Shaodaozi that he had just drank were not liquor but tea. The generals of the two armies who were eating together were all stunned.
After discussing the military affairs, the two handed everything over to their brothers and came to the door of the main hall together. They opened their clothes in the biting north wind and smoked and chatted. Gu Changfeng said: I originally thought that the Laoye Temple was a run-down little place on a barren mountain.
Temple, I didn’t expect that the Laoye Temple here is not only not built on a barren mountain, but is instead a large-scale temple with a long history located in a lively town. I have gained a lot of experience today.
Yang Jiuxiao nodded and smiled, looking very proud. There were more than a dozen anti-Japanese armed forces around, Yang Jiuxiao's team was the only one who dared to station in a lively town with convenient transportation and less than 20 kilometers away from the enemy. The reason was that Yang Jiuxiao
Our team has been assisting local folks for several months and has never been able to purchase supplies.
For less than a penny, he also sent his own health team to take out the special medicines sent by the Peiping headquarters after all the hard work, and treated the sick fellow villagers for free. With his practical actions, he won the support and kindness of the people from all over the country.
Even the abbot of the Laoye Temple and a dozen monks became brothers with Yang Jiuxiao.
Because he often led his team to stay at the Laoye Temple, Yang Jiuxiao also learned about the history of the Laoye Temple. He told Gu Changfeng that this old temple existed as early as the Northern Song Dynasty, and it was dedicated to Guan Erye.
, the large temple is three rooms wide and six rafters deep.
Covered with snow, during the day you can see the nine ridges, ten beasts and four sets of heads on the roof of the main hall. From front to back, it is divided into the outer courtyard, the lower courtyard, and the upper courtyard, which are stacked from low to high. The four thick tiger-head columns under the eaves of the main hall are all of the highest quality.
The logs and the whole tree were brought down and then hundreds of people moved them here before they were processed and erected.
When Gu Changfeng heard this, he walked around with interest. Two guards raised lanterns with long sticks and followed suit, illuminating the murals depicting Guan Yu's stories on the four walls of the palace. The statues in the palace are complete, each with its own characteristics and Guan Yu.
The golden-faced statue of the Duke is majestic and majestic, while Guan Ping on the side is vigorous and graceful, Zhou Cang is majestic and not angry, and the other statues are well-dressed and have different faces, lifelike and lifelike.
After walking around, Gu Changfeng sincerely praised him, saying that this was the oldest and most well-preserved Guandi Temple he had ever seen in his life. He hoped that the little Japan could also respect Buddhism and worship Guan Erye.
, don't destroy it.
Yang Jiuxiao laughed out loud when he heard this, and then shook his head: "Since the Japanese believe in Buddhism and Guan Diye, how come they don't have the compassion and compassion of the Buddhists at all, let alone any benevolence and morality, and are so heartless that they kill people like crazy?
Isn’t it even worse than an animal?”
Gu Changfeng said: "I heard from our boss that after Buddhism was introduced to Japan, as some of the masters who practiced Buddhism from the East passed away, it was gradually exploited by people with ulterior motives, and slowly deteriorated. Later, it even advocated violent struggle.
In the form of fighting against all enemies, the Honganji Ichigo sect during the Warring States Period in Japan even developed into a separatist force. You said that in this kind of land
Does the spread of Buddhism have anything to do with Buddhism, which talks about compassion and prohibits killing? As for the Guandi Temple, I think the Japanese have read too many Romance of the Three Kingdoms. They have always admired China's military culture and have unparalleled loyalty to those who ride alone thousands of miles.
It’s not surprising that Mr. Guan Erye has a favorable impression. Everyone hopes that others will be loyal to them, but whether they do so or not is another matter entirely!”
At this time, the intelligence staff hurried over, handed a message and a folder to Gu Changfeng, and reported in a low voice: "There is a call from the Lu Yanqing Brigade. They have successfully blown up the railway seven kilometers east of the Linghe Iron Bridge.
The main force successfully detoured back to the Xiahe Mountain line south of Jinling Temple and was waiting for the opportunity to fight for
Blow up the Linghe Iron Bridge as soon as possible. The message said that the Japanese army has only passed two special trains, but the third train has not arrived. It is expected that the 8th Division's 16th Brigade, the division headquarters and the baggage units have not passed.
, the Japanese troops passing in front seemed to show no sign of stopping, and instead accelerated towards Chaoyang City."
Gu Changfeng nodded and signaled that he would telegraph this abnormal information to his predecessor and continue to contact him. He then handed the telegram to Yang Jiuxiao and waited patiently for him to read it.
Yang Jiuxiao closed the folder and asked very puzzledly: "Half an hour ago, the three detachments of 1,500 soldiers led by Zhiqiang and the young marshal's small group of lurking troops worked together from inside to outside to successfully capture Beipiao City and successfully mobilized
Two brigades of Japanese troops came back for reinforcements, annihilating more than 160 Japanese troops in the city, and killing more than 800 puppet troops who were frightened by the news.
Disarmed, and also led out more than 300 surrendered puppet troops who were no longer willing to help little Japan to harm their own people. I believe such a big incident must have alerted the headquarters of the Japanese Kwantung Army. Why didn't they stop as we expected?
To recapture Beipiao City, instead accelerate towards Chaoyang? Could it be that Little Japan has seen through our plan?"
"Probably not. At least the Japanese army doesn't know yet that my younger brother has led more than 4,000 brothers to sneak here." Gu Changfeng thought for a while and shook his head. He walked to the map with Yang Jiuxiao, looked at it carefully, and thought nervously. After a while,
Gu Changfeng raised his head and made a judgment:
"There are only two possibilities. First, the Japanese army has strict military orders. Without orders from the top, they will not change their action plan without authorization. Beipiao City is the defense area of the 7th Independent Brigade, and most of the 7th Independent Brigade
The main force and at least four regiments of puppet troops are around Daheishan, launching an encirclement and suppression campaign against various anti-Japanese armed forces and the Fourth Brigade left by Brother Nine. The Eighth Division will not change because of the defeat of the Seventh Brigade.
After all, in comparison, Chaoyang is much more important than Beipiao, and the Japanese army will definitely not worry if it cannot be stably occupied. Secondly, maybe the Eighth Division will take measures after learning that Beipiao City has been captured by our army.
Continue the strategy of stabilizing Chaoyang, and then turn around after gaining a firm foothold, and together with the Seventh Independent Brigade, we will attack from three sides in an attempt to encircle our anti-Japanese armed forces in the Dahei Mountains."
Yang Jiuxiao looked at the map and nodded slowly: "It makes sense... If your analysis is good, brother, it is very likely that Little Japan did not know that my three brigades had left Daheishan, and thought that our detachment was the Communist Party's Bayan 37th Army.
, Feng Zhanhai’s temporary division is located in the hinterland and northern foot of Dahei Mountain.
, otherwise the Seventh Independent Brigade would not have spent so much effort and deployed almost all of them, but we took advantage of a loophole. However, we did not dare to act rashly until further information was sent back from the Lu Yanqing Brigade and the Chaoyang City Investigation Team.
Otherwise it will easily disrupt our scheduled plans."
"There is no other way. We can only wait for now. I don't know what judgment Boss and Huzi will make after the intelligence is sent back to Peking... Come on, Ninth Brother, let's put aside those messy thoughts and calm down and make a careful calculation.
In total, for example, if you are the old thief Xi Yiyi, the commander of the Eighth Division, how would you deal with such a chaotic situation?" Gu Changfeng looked at the map and asked in a low voice.
Yang Jiuxiao was stunned for a moment. He was still not used to Gu Changfeng's perspective-taking method. After thinking about it, he felt it made sense, so he lowered his head and stared at the map: "Yeah, what would little Japan think..."
At 8:50 pm, Tangshan, Beiping, frontline headquarters of the North China Theater.
Dozens of generals in the headquarters were still overjoyed that Yang Jiuxiao's detachment and Marshal's latent team had captured Beipiao, but An Yi was already lying on the edge of the sand table, saying to himself: "What on earth does that old thief Xi Yiyi think?"
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Zhao Rui on the side said in a low voice: "The analysis of Hutou and Jiu Ge makes sense to a certain extent. It is very likely that the Japanese 15th Brigade will occupy Chaoyang first and stabilize the situation as they guessed. And my subordinates estimate that,
The two special trains that did not stop could not load a Japanese brigade.
It doesn't matter if it's just transporting seven or eight thousand people, but the two infantry regiments have a large amount of baggage, horses and artillery that cannot be loaded. Therefore, my subordinates boldly estimate that the Japanese troops heading to Chaoyang are likely to have only one complete regiment, about
There are about 4,000 people, and the other main forces are still lagging behind."
An Yi's eyes lit up: "Liu Qing, call me immediately."
"yes!"
Nine o'clock in the evening, Yixian Railway Station.
The two old stuffy trains on the platform were still motionless. The Japanese officers and soldiers crowded in the carriages were all talking in low voices, wondering if something had happened and why they hadn't started yet.
The Lieutenant General of the Eighth Division of the Japanese Army and a group of generals under his command were all crowded in the station commander's office, facing the military map spread out, and having an intense discussion.
The generals were very angry at this time, cursing the 7th Independent Brigade as idiots and bastards. Chaoyang did not remember the last time someone had stolen their home, and after moving the headquarters to Beipiao, they became careless due to their eagerness for revenge.
, thinking that the anti-Japanese armed forces did not dare to attack
, a regiment and a half that had not yet been replenished were dispatched to encircle and suppress the Daheishan front line, but were once again captured by the anti-Japanese armed forces. Although the brigade leader Nakamura led his troops to recapture Beipiao within an hour, the losses and consequences caused
shadow
The noise was so great that the total length of the section of railway that was bombed was more than 700 meters. The rails and roadbed could not be repaired in the first time. The Eighth Division, which was now shouldering the heavy responsibility, could only pass through the strength of one regiment, and
The two artillery squadrons of this company
Still on the third train that stopped halfway, more than two thousand artillerymen, baggage troops and engineers were stranded in the barren mountains and wilderness, starving and freezing, unable to advance or retreat. Most of the main force of the division was forced to stop moving. If there was a sudden change,
The impact is really hard to estimate.
In such an embarrassing and embarrassing situation, how could the generals of the Eighth Division not be filled with anger and anxiety?
Faced with the chaotic and urgent situation, Nishi Yiichi finally made up his mind and ordered the two trains already loaded with soldiers and equipment to set off immediately, even if they were blocked halfway. At the same time, he ordered Chief of Staff Kakutaro Kobayashi to call the Kwantung Army immediately.
Headquarters, requiring the Seventh Independent Mixed Brigade to immediately repair the railway to ensure traffic safety.
After the order was issued, before Nishi Yiichi could take a breath, several gunshots and roars suddenly came from outside. The generals were shocked and walked out of the office one after another, asking what was going on?
Xiyi's face was livid and full of anger. He stood motionless on the spot. The constant gunfire and curses finally made him unable to bear it anymore. Regardless of his identity, he strode out of the office to see what happened.
The scene that happened at the end of the platform shocked Nishi Yiyi. There were four or five corpses lying on the ground. A man in a railway uniform stood on the burning locomotive, laughing, with the oil drum in his hand and his body
Together, he was licked by the fire, but he was still laughing loudly. In the blink of an eye, he was knocked down by the dense bullets. His burning body threw forward and was instantly drowned by the fire...
At nine-thirty, Shuncheng Palace.
After hearing the report from his beloved general, the young marshal slowly stood up with a sad face, picked up the phone, and whispered to An Yi on the other end: "Brother, according to reliable news from Yixian County, there is a fire at the train station.
The fire soared into the sky, the only two remaining locomotives were burned out, and the Japanese special train was unable to leave the station before dawn..."