The system sent me to fight

During the Battle of Xuzhou, the main force of Wu Botao's troops was wiped out by the Japanese army.

After the battle, he led the remnant troops to withdraw to the Dabie Mountain area with the 5th theater, and was ordered to rest and garrison in Yuexi.

At this time, the main force of hundreds of thousands of Japanese troops was launching a fierce attack on Wuhan, and the areas along the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River were all occupied by the Japanese troops going up the Shuojiang River.

The others who were originally stationed near Qian Bojun's headquarters either retreated or were ordered to transfer away.

Wu Botao's unit became the only armed force in the Yuexi area.

At this time, the time had come to September 1938. As the Battle of Wuhan was coming to an end, the War of Resistance Against Japan was about to enter a stage of strategic stalemate.

In addition to continuing to gather troops to launch attacks in Hubei and surrounding areas, the Japanese army continued to gather forces.

In the rest of the area, the crusades and raids are basically used to secure their occupied areas.

To put it simply, apart from Hubei, there have been no major wars in other places.

Among them, the Japanese army will deal a resolute blow to the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army led by China.

As for the various local miscellaneous armies led by the nationalist government with many factions, they mainly focus on instigating rebellion, supplemented by attacking encirclement and suppression.

Wu Botao, who was born in the Shandong Army, was in the ranks of the Japanese.

3Chapter 16 Putting Down the Rebellion 2

Just when Yang Jing opened up a base area in Laibang Township in the northwest of Yuexi, and built an arsenal, the progress was in full swing.

Accompanied by a puppet army officer, a Japanese army agent entered Yuexi County in disguise, and met Wu Botao and his adjutant.

In order to deceive others, he escaped the surveillance of the military commander and the Central Command agent.

Wu Botao and his adjutant arranged for a meeting place in an unremarkable small restaurant in the city on the grounds of having a meal.

After the meeting, Wu Botao's adjutant and the puppet officer took cover on the street outside.

Wu Botao and the disguised Japanese agent hid in the private room of the restaurant, and started to discuss conditions quietly under the pretext of having dinner.

After some bargaining, in the end, the Japanese exchanged 10 silver dollars plus a teacher's post for Wu Botao's defection and surrender.

At that time, Wang Jingwei, a big traitor, had already hooked up with the Japanese and was planning to establish a puppet national government.

Therefore, the division commander promised by the Japanese to Wu Botao was not an empty promise, but intended to incorporate them into the pseudo-National Revolutionary Army led by the Wang puppet regime.

In order to show his sincerity, the Japanese agent wearing a pair of round-frame glasses paid Wu Botao 5 silver dollars in advance.

And agreed to pay another 5 silver dollars after the matter is completed.

After agreeing with Wu Botao on the time to defect, the Japanese agent slowly took out a cashier's check with a face value of 5 silver dollars from his pocket, patted it in front of Wu Botao, and said with a smile: "Wu Sang, this is 5 silver dollars. Please take a look."

Wu Botao picked up the cashier's check and looked at it. After confirming the authenticity, a chrysanthemum-like smile bloomed on his face, "Mr. Yamamoto, you are very polite. If that's the case, then I'd rather be obedient than respectful!"

After finishing speaking, he couldn't wait to put the promissory note into his pocket, for fear that the Japanese agent opposite would snatch it back.

The Japanese agent raised the full wine glass in front of him and said, "Wu Sang, wish us a happy cooperation!"

Wu Botao also raised his wine glass: "Happy cooperation!"

After a few simple words of courtesy, Wu Botao got up and left the restaurant, and returned to his headquarters with his adjutant.

He is now appointed as the brigade commander of the Yuexi Anti-Japanese Rescue, responsible for commanding all the regular troops and guerrillas in the entire Yuexi area.

However, the major general and brigade commander seems to have a lot of power, but in fact he doesn't have much power.

After all, Yuexi is a mountainous area with poor resources and a small population.

It is completely incomparable with the affluent Jiangnan area.

Most importantly, Wu Botao also felt that he came from a miscellaneous family, not from the Whampoa family. It was almost difficult to compete with those generals of the Central Army, who were promoted like them by plane.

Major General Brigadier Commander, it might be the end.

Coupled with the steady retreat of the national army, he couldn't see any hope.

Therefore, as soon as the Japanese came to him and promised him a high-ranking official, this guy chose to betray without hesitation.

Not long after Wu Botao returned to the headquarters, one of his officers in charge of reconnaissance and intelligence hurried over on horseback and ran into the headquarters compound.

Immediately after that, he got off his horse and entered the headquarters to find him. He couldn't wait to salute and report: "Lu Zuo, in the area of ​​Laibang Township, a large number of anti-Japanese armed forces of unknown origin suddenly appeared!"

"What?" Wu Botao, who was sitting on a chair drinking tea, fantasizing about a rich life after betrayal, and a bright future, was shocked when he heard the words, and sprayed out a sip of tea.

It can be sprayed all over the face.

"Bang!"

Wu Botao put the teacup on the table next to him, stood up abruptly, and asked loudly, "What did you say?"

"Lu Zuo, an anti-Japanese armed force was found in Laibang Township. Its strength is at least 2000. Its movement, purpose, and identity are all unknown!" The investigator reported again in detail.

Wu Botao looked vigilant, gritted his molars and asked, "2000 anti-Japanese armed forces? Where did they come from?"

The detective said: "I'm not sure about this humble job, but judging from the map, they probably came from Huoshan or Yingshan."

"Huo Shan or Ying Shan?" Wu Botao fell into deep thought.

The adjutant on the side said: "Traveler, could this be the Communist Party's New Fourth Army? Apart from us, they seem to be the only ones in this area."

"Well, the possibility cannot be ruled out."

Thinking that it might be the New Fourth Army, Wu Botao felt a little relieved, but he still asked the scouting officer suspiciously and worriedly, "Is there anything unusual in other directions?"

The scout replied nervously: "This, it's not clear yet."

Wu Botao reprimanded angrily: "Then why are you still standing there? Hurry up and send someone to investigate!"

"Yes! Tour seat!" The scout quickly agreed, then turned around and ran out in a panic.

Originally, Wu Botao thought that the news that he was going to defect to the country and defected to the enemy had leaked out, and the more than 2000 Nationalist government dispatched troops to encircle and suppress him.After all, he is still very clear about the strength of the military command and the central command.

It wasn't until he sent people to scout around and found that there was no abnormality in other directions except Laibang Township that he finally breathed a sigh of relief.

However, the sudden appearance of Yang Jing and the Huben group still made him a little restless, as if he had a lump in his throat.

After all, I did something bad, and I was afraid of ghosts knocking on the door.

After thinking about it, Wu Botao decided to report this abnormal situation to the Japanese and ask the Japanese army for assistance.

Therefore, the Japanese army and Wu Botao's unit quietly dispatched special agents to conduct an in-depth reconnaissance of Laibang Township to prevent any accidents.

At that time, after Yang Jing led his troops to open up a base area in the mountainous area of ​​Laibang Township, he was also paying attention to the situation of the troops stationed in the county.

However, Wu Botao's unit was originally a friendly unit, and there were no other changes, so Yang Jing continued to train the unit without incident.

After all, as long as they don't come to make trouble for him or turn to the enemy, Yang Jing will not take the initiative to fight against them.

Even if the opponent is in trouble, when necessary, he will send troops to make a rescue.

On this day, Chen Shuisheng followed Yang Jing's order and continued to conduct reconnaissance.

Unexpectedly, before he walked out of the boundary of Bang Township, he ran into two suspicious-looking men on the way.

Chen Shuisheng immediately said to the 1st platoon leader who was also wearing casual clothes and with a short gun on his waist: "1st platoon leader, these two people are weird, immediately bring someone to stop them, and carefully interrogate them!"

"Yes!" The 1st platoon leader of the reconnaissance company responded, and immediately greeted several plainclothes soldiers, and was about to go up.

Unexpectedly, the two men were also quite vigilant, seeing that something was wrong, they immediately ran away.

Seeing this, Chen Shuisheng immediately pulled out his waist gun, and shouted at the first platoon leader: "They have problems, catch them! Don't let them escape!"

In fact, without Chen Shuisheng's order, the 1st platoon leader had already taken the lead in catching up.

The other soldiers followed closely behind and chased after the two men.

3Chapter 17 Catch the Spy!

"Stop! Don't run, if you run again, I will shoot you!" The 1st platoon leader raised his gun and shouted loudly while chasing him.

Unexpectedly, instead of stopping, the two men took out their pistols from their bodies, turned around and fired at the 1st platoon leader and the other pursuing soldiers.

"Snapped!"

"Clap clap clap!"

In an instant, gunshots rang out, and the first platoon leader was agile and reacted quickly, and hurriedly dodged to avoid it.

The bullet almost grazed his skirt, and hit the ground behind, splashing a cloud of mud and grass dust.

There were also two reconnaissance company soldiers who were unable to escape and were unfortunately shot.

"His grandma, courting death! Brothers, open fire and kill these two bastards!" The 1st platoon leader was furious, and was about to lead his men to open fire.

At this time, Chen Shuisheng had already caught up and stopped him loudly: "Keep them alive, don't kill them!"

The leader of the first platoon understood, adjusted the muzzle of the gun slightly, and shot at the lower body of one of them.

The other soldiers also paid special attention to aiming and shooting. After a few shots of "papapa", one of the men was shot in the leg, and fell down with a scream of "ahah".

The other person was taken aback, just glanced at his companion, and then continued to run forward desperately.

"stop!"

"stop!"

The 1st platoon leader and soldiers kept shooting and shouting, because most of the bullets hit the open space because they wanted to keep alive.

The man who was injured and fell to the ground just struggled to get up from the ground when he was kicked over by Chen Shuisheng who was chasing him.

"You guys, rescue the wounded! And watch him here!"

After making simple arrangements, Chen Shuisheng continued to chase forward with a group of leaders and others, and soon overtook them and rushed to the front of the group.

Under the wild pursuit of more than 10 soldiers from the guard company, the last man panicked and rushed into a forest by the roadside.

As a result, just after running in less than 200 meters, he stepped on the trap placed by the householder.

"Bah!"

The mechanism was triggered, and two rows of sharp iron teeth clamped the man's left ankle fiercely. The pain caused him to let out an "ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh"" and howled miserably bullying.

People also fell to the ground.

"Do you still want to run?"

Chen Shuisheng ran over quickly, and the moment the man was about to get up, he flew up and kicked him on the back, directly sending him flying.

The man rolled several somersaults on the ground, and didn't stop until he hit a tree a few meters away.

He was completely dizzy from the fall, with stars in his eyes, and he still hasn't recovered.

Chen Shuisheng took the soldiers and surrounded him.

Facing more than a dozen black gun muzzles, the man turned pale with fright, raised his hands in horror and said, "Don't shoot, I surrender! I surrender!"

"Leniency for confession, strictness for resistance!" Chen Shuisheng glared and asked, "Who are you? What are you sneaking here for?"

The arrested man quibbled: "We are good people!"

"Fart, why does a good man run away when he sees us? And he has something on him?" Chen Shuisheng couldn't help being furious when he saw that he was dishonest, raised his hand, and threw a big ear scraper out, beating him until his teeth bleed It splashed and fell to the ground again.

Before he got up from the ground, Chen Shuisheng had already pushed the cannon on his forehead: "My patience is effective. If you want to die, I will grant you now! Anyway, even if you die, I can still Ask the answer I want from him!"

After speaking, Chen Shuisheng turned his head to look outside the woods, in the direction of another man, as if he was about to pull the trigger.

Seeing that Chen Shuisheng didn't seem to be joking, the man frightened his chrysanthemum tightly, and began to explain: "We are from the Yuexi garrison brigade."

The garrison brigade is exactly the designation of Wu Botao's department.

At that time, Yang Jing was training troops with Wang Dali, Bi Yuntao and others.

After more than 20 days in a row, many soldiers injured in the battles of Jinzhai and Huoqiu have gradually recovered.

A part of the arsenal has also been built, and the rifle workshop has been put into production, and the Type 2 Garand automatic rifle has been continuously produced.

Yang Jing was not idle, and immediately equipped the army with this automatic rifle to enhance the combat effectiveness of the Huben regiment.

At this time, Yang Jing was holding a tweeter, explaining the difference between this automatic rifle and the bolt-action rifle on the school field, and teaching the soldiers how to use it.

Chen Shuisheng immediately rushed all the way to the training ground, found Yang Jing, and interrupted his explanation directly.

"Group seat!"

Yang Jing knew that Chen Shuisheng was not a reckless person, and if it wasn't urgent, he would definitely not interrupt him, so he asked: "Shuisheng, what's the matter?"

Panting heavily, Chen Shuisheng said, "We were going to continue our investigation today, but we caught two spies sent by the Yuexi garrison brigade and learned an important piece of information.