The rebirth of the Republic of China

On the 16th day of the battle, the Fujin Mountain position was already in a mess. The fortifications built by the entire 71st Army with great effort had been blown up beyond recognition, and ravines lay across the hillside.The enemy army under the hillside also seemed to feel the anomaly of the Huaxia army, and began to attack with all their strength, leaving the corpses all over the mountain behind.The artillery fire fell on the position more violently than the previous days, and in an instant another corpse fell down.

After waiting for another three hours, the task was completed. Lu Yihua took a deep breath. This battle was too tragic. Whenever Zhao Rui told him the battle report ahead, Lu Yihua had the urge to immediately order the troops to withdraw , yet he cannot do so.

Lu Yihua closed his sore and red eyes, and asked casually, "How is the situation of the [-]th Division?"

"They have already retreated to this side. According to what the military seat said, they really retreated very hastily. Now they are almost being chased and beaten by the enemy." A man wearing a major's uniform beside Lu Yihua said humanely.

Lu Yihua pinched his eyes, and his voice was obviously exhausted: "It's not bad that they can survive until now. Pass on the order. After the [-]th division passes, pay attention to my order."

"Yes!"

At this time, Lu Yihua was behind the left wing guarded by the [-]th Division. If the [-]th Division retreated, it would definitely pass through here. Although a battalion of troops could not cause much damage to the pursuing Japanese army, no matter how small a fly was, it was still meat. Wanting to retreat, Lu Yihua decided to go all out, the battle of the past ten days was too noisy.

The cunning of the enemy army and the mistakes of the friendly army made Lu Yihua suffocate, and he just took this opportunity to vent his anger. This is one of the reasons why Lu Yihua agreed to the suggestion of the commander of the 36th Division.Moreover, although he had bought enough time for the Third Corps to defend the mall, he really didn't believe that those people in the mall could stand up to it.

This is obvious, deploying troops in the war zone can make a surprise attack by an enemy army that happens to come across, Lu Yihua thinks about fighting head-on, let's wipe out more active forces while he still has time.After all, if his predictions were correct, even if they retreated, they could only retreat to the vicinity of the Dabie Mountains, and the troops would resume fighting after a short rest. Now that they eliminated more enemy troops, it would be easier in the future.

On the other side of the mall, in the headquarters of the Corps, the atmosphere was equally dignified.

Hearing the sound of artillery fire outside, Commander-in-Chief Sun, who was in charge of commanding the battle, lowered his head to look at his watch from time to time. There was still an hour and a half before the retreat of the Fujin Mountain Defense Army.

"commander!"

Commander-in-Chief Sun recovered from his contemplation, and when he looked up, he saw the excited head of the electrical service team: "Why are you here? If there is anything to do, can you just send an orderly?" Having said that, he As soon as the voice stopped, his eyes suddenly opened wide, "Is there any good news?"

"There is good news!" The leader of the telegraph team rubbed his hands excitedly, "Just now, just now, the 71st Army sent a telegram to the chief of staff, and the 71th Division, which was in charge of guarding the left-wing position of Fujin Mountain an hour and a half ago, followed the plan. After retreating, the enemy followed up with a cover-up, and the commander of the [-]st Army, Lu Jing'an, personally led a reinforced battalion to ambush the enemy on the road that the enemy must pass through. At [-]:[-], the army commander succeeded in a sneak attack."

Judging by his appearance, Commander-in-Chief Sun knew without thinking that Lu Yihua's sneak attack this time might not just be a success, there must be something else, he tentatively asked: "Is there any other news?"

The leader of the electrical affairs group swallowed his saliva, nodded and said: "At that time, the 3000th Division withdrew in a hurry. It may be that the Minister of Libing in Dizhou was urged to attack Fujin Mountain for a while, so he even sent more than [-] people to pursue it. The [-]th Division was looking for a breakthrough here, but they just ran into Lu Jingan."

"3000 people?"

Commander-in-Chief Sun couldn't believe it. When Dizhou Li's military department attacked Fujin Mountain, there were only more than 4000 people. The Ministry of War is only 4000 people, plus the 6000 people who were eaten by Lu Yihua a few days ago, and the number of people consumed in the field, now it is not bad to save [-] or [-] people.

Under such circumstances, the enemy army even sent 3000 people to chase after an almost crippled army, which shows how they were forced by Lu Jingan!

Seeing that Commander-in-Chief Sun's face changed from unbelievable to calm, he dropped a heavy bomb again: "Yes, the enemy army divided some of the soldiers who attacked the right-wing position. This is enough for 3000 people. But they may not have imagined that these [-] people would be wiped out by an impromptu reinforcement battalion led by the Army Chief."

3000 people were wiped out by 900 people?

At this moment, the entire war room suddenly fell into silence, followed by buzzing discussions.

Commander-in-Chief Sun was even more surprised by the good news and stood up suddenly: "The news is accurate?"

The leader of the telegraph group nodded: "This is a telegram sent to the Chief of Staff personally, and he asked our department to prepare. They will retreat across the board in an hour."

Taking a deep breath, Commander Sun nodded and sat down again.

Looking at the staff in the war room, he showed a rare relaxed expression in the past few days, and said with a smile: "Everyone, the Army Chief has already given us a good start, we can't be ashamed, now let's re-determine the battle plan."

An hour and a half passed quickly. Starting from the 36th Division with the heaviest casualties, under the cover of the friendly 71th Army, the [-]st Army withdrew from the Fujinshan position. Before leaving, Zhao Rui suddenly looked back at Fujinshan. After more than ten days of fighting, the top of the mountain with dense forests has become bare, with only a few trees standing alone on the top of the mountain.

This battle was fought beyond everyone's expectations. The blockade of Fujin Mountain was spread bizarrely by people who followed the war in Wuhan. Almost all newspapers in the country published it on the second day. , after the Songhu Anti-Japanese War, Lu Yihua's name once again attracted the attention of the Chinese people.

However, at this moment, the top and bottom of the 71st Army did not celebrate. They are now retreating rapidly, and soldiers supporting each other can be seen everywhere along the way.The number of medical teams is too small, and the number of stretchers has long been insufficient.After Lu Yihua reunited with the troops, he gave the order that unless they were seriously injured, these exhausted soldiers could only walk on their own.

Sitting in the car, Zhao Rui looked back from time to time, Lu Yihua was in the car in the middle of the army, but since he came back, Liu Sheng, together with the military headquarters, conveyed Lu Yihua's order to the staff, and the troops retreated to the Dabie Mountain area at full speed, Do not stay.During this process, Lu Yihua just sat in the car and didn't show up at all.

Thinking of Lu Yihua's pale face when he brought someone back, Zhao Rui vaguely felt that something was wrong.

"Teng! Teng! Teng!" The car window rang, and Zhao Rui looked back, only to see a soldier from the guard battalion trotting outside the car knocking on the window glass.

Zhao Rui signaled the driver to pull the car to the side of the road and stop. After getting out of the car, he let the car go first under the hint of the man, and then ran to the back of the line with the guards who didn't say a lot.

Not long after, Zhao Rui saw another car parked on the side of the road. The guard stopped the soldiers passing by with curious eyes, and then carefully knocked on the window, and the door opened from the inside. Liu Sheng stuck out his head from inside, saw Zhao Rui coming, and motioned for him to get in the car and sit in the vacant passenger seat.

Zhao Rui opened the car door suspiciously and sat in. However, as soon as he opened the door, a strong smell of blood rushed over his face. He turned his head and looked at the back seat. Sure enough, Lu Yihua was lying on the back seat with his eyes closed. There is also a military doctor on board.

"The military seat is..." Zhao Rui was in shock.

"Injured when ambushing the enemy." Liu Sheng carefully moved Lu Yihua as flat as possible under the guidance of the military doctor. He's so dead, he still has a gun in his hand."

The situation was really special at that time. Liu Sheng knew something was wrong when he heard the gunshots. When he turned his head, he saw Lu Yihua, who was pale with one hand covering his chest, and pointing the gun at the dead body on the ground with a bright gun hole. on the forehead.If Liu Sheng paid attention, he would have thought it was Lu Yihua who killed an enemy who was not completely dead.

At that time, Lu Yihua signaled that he should not speak out. Although Liu Sheng was in a hurry, he was retreating at this time after all, and there were large enemy troops behind him. You must know that people's hearts were not stable when they retreated. If the news of Lu Yihua's serious injury spread It doesn't matter if the enemy knows it, it will be troublesome if the army's morale is disturbed.

So it wasn't until Lu Yihua, who was trying his best to support the troops, safely evacuated across the board, that he fainted in peace. Liu Sheng hurriedly called for the staff officer Xiang and the army doctor, and blocked the news at the same time. Even the people in Lu Yihua's guard camp didn't know their army Chang was seriously injured.

Seeing the military doctor put on the bandage and put away the tools, Zhao Rui asked aloud, "How is it?"

The military medical officer wiped the sweat from his forehead: "Fortunately, the military seat's injury looks serious, but it didn't hurt the main part."

Whether Lu Yihua's injury was minor or not serious, he felt that the shot looked serious but didn't hurt anything important, so he didn't pay much attention to it. past.

But he was in a coma after all, and it was really not easy to hide this news, but it had to be concealed.

In the past, Lu Yihua would stay at the end every time he retreated, but this time he stayed in the car uncharacteristically and did not go out. Well, it's hard to guarantee that no one will notice the details and guess the truth.When retreating, the most important thing is to avoid instability of the army's morale. After thinking about it, Liu Sheng had no choice but to invite Zhao Rui, the confidential secretary, over here.

Zhao Rui is Lu Yihua's confidential secretary, and almost all documents have to go through him for review. Usually, the person who is placed in this seat is the person most trusted by the officers. Once something goes wrong, Liu Sheng is certainly confident that the whole army can trust him and To the staff, but it would be the best if you can add a confidential secretary.

After hearing the thoughts of Liu Sheng and Chief of Staff Xiang, Zhao Rui asked, "Then how long are we going to hide the news of Jing'an's injury?"

"It's best to hide it until we reach the Dabie Mountains. If we really can't hide it, then we have to last for a while, and we can breathe a sigh of relief when the Third Corps fights with the enemy." Liu Sheng said, "This time the 36th Division 1 people came to join the battle, but now there are less than 3000 left. It can be said that the troops have been crippled. The biggest reason why they can keep the troops is the prestige of the military seat and the fact that our army succeeded in a sneak attack on the left wing just now. The enemy army lost [-] people, if this morale goes down..."

Liu Sheng didn't say what happened next, and Zhao Rui could guess it. At this time, he really had to be careful, otherwise all previous efforts would be wasted.