There was constant sound of gunfire outside the city.
At the west gate, not far from the city gate, a group of people were waiting nervously.
The two figures ran quickly and turned into an alley. The young man knocked on the door twice in succession.
The people in the house noticed that the young man came back with another person before the two of them approached the alley.
After the door opened, several black guns were pointed at the door secretly. The young man who opened the door looked at Tang Dagou and asked the young man: "What's going on?"
The young man outside the door was a little excited: "The people guarding the south gate are from the Independent Regiment!"
The young man was shocked and narrowed his eyes slightly: "The Independent Group? The Independent Group close to Meixian County? Impossible..."
"Captain 1, can we go into the house first? Time..." the young man reminded.
"Come in?" The first captain gestured towards the darkness and put away his gun in the darkness.
An oil lamp was lit in the room, and a tall and thin man's eyes lit up. Big Dog's face that had not been washed for eight hundred years appeared in front of him: "Tang Big Dog...is it really you?"
The captain who followed him in was stunned: "Do you know each other?"
"Hehe, they are the Ninth Company of the Independent Regiment. After they came out of the mountain, they also formed an armed work team with the Qiufeng Guerrilla Brigade of the division. Speaking of which, they are still together!"
"what happened?"
"Damn it, Lao Zhou came to find you. Your people said they wanted to confirm their identity, but they haven't responded yet..."
"You said the south city wall is yours to defend?" The first captain didn't have time to listen to the big dog's nonsense and asked the key question directly.
"Hehe, not only Nancheng, but also Dongcheng and Beicheng are all in the hands of...our...deputy battalion commander!"
"What? Are you here as a battalion?" The first captain was shocked.
"Hehe, just one company."
"Although you have surrendered to the enemy, now anyway, we can forget the past." Captain Yu, who was standing in the darkness next to him, probably understood the situation and immediately said to Tang Dagou seriously.
In his mind, the armed force of the Independent Regiment must have been swept away by the Japanese and surrendered to the enemy as prisoners. Now a large force is about to attack the city and let them correct the chaos and perform meritorious service. Even if there are stains in the files in the future, Haodai is different from a traitor. .
Big Dog is not stupid: "What the hell, wait, what did you say? Who did you say defected to the enemy?"
"Didn't your security team surrender to the enemy? Now I'll give you a chance to change your ways!"
"Why don't you, mother, stop spouting nonsense? When did I take refuge with the Japanese?
"If you hadn't surrendered to the Japanese, would they have allowed you to defend the city?"
"Hey, how dare you be such a stupid young man, call your chief to come and talk!" Tang Dagou suddenly felt that this guy was very funny.
Captain Yu also looked young. He had joined the Red Army at the age of sixteen and had traveled tens of thousands of miles during the Long March. At this moment, someone pointed at his nose and called him a stupid young man. Not only was he stunned, but a group of people next to him were also stunned. Chi laughed out loud.
Everyone finally understood that the meaning of Da Gou's words could not be more clear: he was in Cao's camp and his heart was in Han.
Captain Yu blushed: "Well said, very good!"
Isn't this obvious? To be able to say such a shameless thing about surrendering to the Japanese with such confidence, the Independent Group is really shameless.
Tang Dagou was also stunned. He looked at the young people around him with raised eyebrows, then looked at the people who were laughing dimly, and suddenly laughed: "What the hell? Your leader is not here? Xia, you can't trust me? How dare you? , let’s break up at once!”
Captain Xia quickly moved closer to Captain Yu's ear and lowered his voice: "He is really from the 9th Company of the Independent Regiment, but why he is here I don't know."
...
The chairman of the maintenance committee was crying and leading a few people to "work" on the city wall. His men, wearing patched gowns, carried the basket and picked up two more white-faced steamed buns.
There were people sitting everywhere at the city wall station. Looking at the three people led by the big dog walking steadily, it was obvious that the person coming was not an ordinary person.
The tall and lanky man must also be the leader. There are many veterans in the security team, and there is no shortage of people with vicious eyes. He kept his mouth shut and did not follow the big dog to say hello.
Captain Yu grabbed two steamed buns from the "Laojun" basket, stuffed one directly into his mouth, swallowing until he rolled his eyes, and put the other into his arms.
Tang Dagou next to him could see a black line on his head: Is that broken steamed bun really so delicious?
If there is no authentic product to go with the roasted chicken, how can the dry and hard steamed buns be swallowed?
Xia Yong had seen Tang Dagou before and was overjoyed. He grabbed a few steamed buns and stuffed them into his bag without any courtesy.
He bypassed the security team squatting on the wall and went straight to the girl's headquarters at the South City Gate.
Lao Zhou, who returned to the tower, looked at Captain Yu who was walking over, and his eyes lit up: "Have you checked the situation?"
Captain Yu smiled. It seemed that he had really missed the point: "Old Zhou? Why are you here?"
"We were originally operating in the northern area of An County, and we happened to recruit a security group. The security group received an order to go to the south to cooperate with the raids, so we went to the occupied area to conduct reconnaissance under the guise of the security group." Lao Zhou made the matter clear in a few words. .
"The flood has really washed away the Dragon King Temple!" Captain Yu was overjoyed and reached out to hold Old Zhou's hands tightly: "Who is in charge here now?"
The girl who had been playing with the searchlight wandering around beside her was too embarrassed to play anymore, so she quickly dropped the searchlight and stood up: "Hey, the battalion commander is here, generals, listen to your orders!"
With a pop, Captain Yu, who was turning around, saw the incoming general clearly, and was about to announce his name when he saw the half-grown girl kicking her calf, causing her to fall over on the spot.
...
At the same time, more than thirty gray figures crouched and rushed outside the moat in the south of the county seat.
Attacking directly from the suspension bridge, the Ninth Company would not do such a stupid thing, and neither would the Second Company.
"Company commander, the Japanese are really cunning. Their searchlights have no pattern at all. It's hard for us to grasp the timing of action!"
"How about knocking off the searchlight?" Another soldier immediately suggested.
"No need for the moment. If we use searchlights, the enemy will be able to discover our intentions immediately." Gao Yidao frowned and thought for a long time.
Suddenly, the searchlight above the city gate stopped rotating and shone on the suspension bridge.
"Act!" Gao Yidao saw the opportunity and immediately ordered.
More than thirty soldiers immediately stood up, jumped to the moat in a single step, slid into the moat along the bank they had been looking forward to, and swam in the mud to the other side of the narrow river.
At the front is Gao Yidao, who is carrying a rifle. In order to minimize losses, after a while, the military subdivision will take the lead in a feint attack in the west of the city.
The real direction of attack is the south gate, and the Ninth Company will arrange firepower near the suspension bridge to suppress it.
There is a distance between the moat and the city wall, about fifty meters. Unlike the west side, there is a moat under the city wall.
Gao Yidao led the second company soldiers to climb to the other side, immediately pulled away, and crawled forward hidden in the withered grass.
Behind them, one or two hundred people were lying on the ground in darkness.
The searchlight is parked on the suspension bridge. How can we let go of such a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity? Ma Liang immediately led his men about thirty meters outside the suspension bridge to quickly dig a trench and prepare to establish a machine gun position.
The sound of the engineers shoveling the soil was very loud, mixed with the bursts of gunfire in the west, and could not be heard further away.
In the hazy moonlight, dust was flying.
The searchlight swayed again and found the dusty place. Without stopping, it swung directly to the west!
Ma Liang quickly broke away from the team and crawled to Hu Yi: "Brother, something is wrong. The searchlight clearly hit the machine gun position, but why didn't it react?"
"Take your platoon and continue digging to connect the three positions into a line. After the battle starts, go to the front and help Li Xiang target the machine guns on the city wall!"
"Are we really not going to attack?" Ma Liang's excitement was mostly extinguished.
"The city wall is seven or eight meters high. Can you go up there? Gao Yidao likes to charge. Let's see if his second company can blow up the city gate first." Hu Yi looked carefully and found that the south of the city was at least better than the west. The wall there was built directly from the river. up, almost ten meters high.
If the siege team had the skill of the division agent Pai Wang Liujin, they would be able to climb up a city wall with a sloping slope, and a team of two would work well together.
Thinking of this, Hu Yi immediately ordered Ma Liang next to him: "Go and ask Platoon Commander Wang to come over. If Gao Yidao can't blow up the city gate, let them climb over the wall directly!"
