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    Shoji Xun's change of tactics brought a lot of trouble to the defenders.  ¡¾.Especially the attack tactics combining frontal and flanking attacks put a lot of pressure on Wang Deyao.  The Thirteenth Regiment only had two battalions of troops on the front line of Zhang Zheng's shack, and the front of the defense was equivalent to the entire southeast of Shuangcheng County. Although the depth of the defense was not large, the front was very wide.

    ¡°In addition, in order to rescue the Kong family¡¯s shack, two companies were forced to fight.  In fact, Wang Deyao only had one battalion of troops at this time. To defend such a large position, the number of troops seemed somewhat insufficient.  Especially the Sujiayao line on the flanks was under great pressure.

    A fierce battle lasted from noon to midnight. Although Wang Deyao held the second-line position, the first-line position had to be abandoned voluntarily due to serious casualties.  Zhang Zheng's shack, which was the main defense support point of the Thirteenth Regiment, was also abandoned with the consent of Ma Fengqi under the premise that the troop losses were too large.  The two 75mm field guns previously captured by the Thirteenth Regiment at Shuangcheng Station were also destroyed by Japanese artillery fire during the artillery battle.

    After arriving at Zhang Zheng¡¯s shack, which was within easy reach of the county seat, the artillery fire of the 25th Division had already begun to fall into Shuangcheng County.  In order to facilitate the next battle, the Japanese army used artillery to carry out large-scale damage to the east wall of the twin cities during the battle.  During the fierce fighting, the Chengxu Gate, a large-scale east gate of the twin cities built in the seventh year of Tongzhi of the Qing Dynasty, was completely destroyed by Japanese artillery fire.  The entire city tower was reduced to rubble by intensive Japanese artillery fire.

    The two squadrons of 120mm Meiji 36-type howitzers equipped by the 25th Division have a range of only more than 5,000 meters and are already obsolete products, but they are still very powerful.  The Shuangcheng City Wall is the same as other walled counties in the Northeast, except that it is wrapped with a layer of blue bricks on the outside and built of rammed earth on the inside.  Under the Japanese bombardment regardless of artillery shells, the entire city wall was blown to pieces.

    Suzuki Teiichi's plan was very clear, which was to destroy the city wall that the defenders could best rely on as a defensive position.  Making it impossible to use the city wall as a fortification.  After breaking through the outer defense line of the twin cities, he can directly enter the street fighting without having to climb the four or five meter high city walls.

    At the same time, in order to cut off possible reinforcements, the Japanese army used long-range artillery fire to blockade Shuangcheng Station.  A squadron of Japanese Type 92 105 cannons with a range of more than 18,000 meters, combined with a squadron of Type 91 105 field guns, completely destroyed Shuangcheng Railway Station.

    Since the Japanese army has the most accurate map of the Twin Cities, the accuracy of the shells fired by the Japanese long-range artillery is extremely high.  When the first batch of shells landed at Shuangcheng Station, a train that had just entered the station to transfer people was immediately hit.  The destroyed train blocked the entire Shuangcheng Station.

    At the same time, as the Japanese army's subsequent artillery fire continued to fall, Shuangcheng Railway Station, which was originally responsible for the largest evacuation work, was completely blocked.  At this time, there were still more than 2,000 people in the city and at the station who had not yet been transferred.  In other words, it is impossible for the last two thousand people to evacuate.

    When the Japanese artillery shells fell into Shuangcheng County, these former political workers did nothing to urge them, and even used forced relocation.  The people who would rather hide and seek with the troops than evacuate began to become anxious.  But at this time, the train station had been blocked by Japanese artillery fire, and it was too late to retreat through the railway.

    In desperation, Ma Fengqi could only find a blind spot to settle them down.  As for when to retreat, we can only tell how the war progresses.  Most of these people stayed behind, holding on to the old and the weak who died at home. Less than one-third of the young and middle-aged people voluntarily stayed to protect their homes.

    Looking at these crowds of mostly old and weak people who suddenly appeared from nowhere, Ma Fengqi, who originally thought that only a few hundred people and some students who asked to join the army were left, could not help but feel dizzy.  Damn it, these people were hiding somewhere before.  In order to ensure that no one was left behind, the evacuation personnel almost scraped the ground within three feet of the county town. How could so many people be left behind?

    It¡¯s just a big headache, but these people must make a stable arrangement no matter what the headache is.  In desperation, he gathered together about 600 young and middle-aged people among the people who stayed behind, and sent a platoon to urgently conduct military training on them so that they could be pulled up to the front to fight if necessary.

    ¡°Didn¡¯t I tell you not to leave at the beginning? My good old man¡¯s troops are fighting fiercely and the soldiers are nervous. You stay here just to fill the gap between your teeth.  These more than 600 people were enough to form a temporary battalion.  Although it is a little less, the training effect of sharpening the gun in battle will not be any better than nothing.  But in Ma Fengqi's opinion, it was better for these people to fire guns while hiding in the fortifications than not at all.

    As for those old men and women who could not leave now even if they wanted to, and who could neither replenish the troops nor arrange special care for them, Ma Fengqi placed them in an Orthodox church, which was the strongest building in the city.  This Orthodox church is built entirely of large stones., at least blocking the Japanese 75mm mountain field artillery bombardment is not a big problem.

    In order to ensure that these elderly people, who are not young, and the youngest is over 50 years old, do not have any accidents due to being frightened, Ma Fengqi specially dispatched a doctor from the brigade health team to lead an intensive care class.  Although he cultivated his own two knives, except for morphine and aspirin, the rest of the first-aid drugs were pitiful.  But something is better than nothing.

    When watching Ma Fengqi arrange all this, he muttered something in his mouth and didn't know what he was talking about. On the other side, the political commissar of the Second Independent Brigade, Huang Shengbin, who served as the political commissar of the detachment in the Fourth Division of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region before being transferred from Guannai to the Northeast, did not listen.  Clearly, but I can roughly guess what this guy is talking about.

    Huang Shengbin knew that Ma Fengqi was expressing his dissatisfaction with so many people slipping through the net after the evacuation, but he couldn't say it out loud.  He could only mutter a few words to himself, just to vent his dissatisfaction.  In fact, it was not just Ma Fengqi who was very dissatisfied. Huang Shengbin, who had single-handedly conducted the evacuation work, was also very dissatisfied with such a large-scale evacuation operation.

    It¡¯s just that this is a new area after all, not an old base like Guannai.  Although the mass base is not bad, the time is also too rushed to do the work too carefully.  As a result, an evacuation operation that should have been quick with modern transportation was delayed for most of the day and could not be completed.

    ??However, it is not dissatisfaction, but after all, Huang Shengbin is a veteran party member who joined the party during the Great Revolution and is a veteran political worker.  Although he was dissatisfied, he did not express it.  Regarding Ma Fengqi's unusual venting, Huang Shengbin could only smile bitterly and said: "I'm talking about Ma Fengqi, what are you mumbling about?"

    "I know you feel sorry for the soldiers who are fighting for every inch of territory in the front, and I feel sorry for myself too. Don't I know that every minute the evacuation time is delayed, how many soldiers will fall under the fire of the Japanese army. But what can China do?  There has always been a saying that people should never leave their hometown. As long as there is some way to survive, few people are willing to leave their homes, especially in a rich place like the Northeast. "

    "You let people just leave their homes and careers. Is there such an easy thing there? Mass work has always been a big problem and it is not easy to do. This is a newly liberated area, and we have no way to improve the ideological consciousness of the masses in a short period of time.  It will be improved to the same level as the old base within time.¡±

    "In just half a day, we were able to evacuate 90% of the people, and we were barely qualified. You know, this kind of evacuation is usually impossible to succeed in two or three days. These people, ordinary people, do not obey all orders.  The army. And this is a big move of tens of thousands of people, not three to five hundred people."

    Hearing Huang Shengbin¡¯s emotion, I saw a big bump on his head that was knocked out by the incomprehensible people with crutches because he personally did the evacuation work.  Although Ma Fengqi knew this was the case, he still said with some resentment: "Old Huang, I'm not complaining about your slowness. But I really don't understand."

    "You said these people, we are not trying to rob their property. We are evacuating to ensure their lives and safety in the war. Let's not talk about whether they are conscious or not, but they should stay away from the war.  Understand. At the very least, you should know what it means to be a rebel. Do our soldiers know you as a Chinese, but do they think you are a Chinese?"

    Having said this, Ma Fengqi angrily slammed his fist on the table in front of him and said: "Our soldiers originally didn't have to fight for every warning position on the front line, but it was just to buy them time to retreat.  , Our soldiers have to fight for almost every village repeatedly, regardless of whether it has defensive value, not for anything else, but to win as much as possible every minute."

    "At the Kong family shack, in order to complete the task I assigned, I held back the 40th regiment of the Japanese army for four hours. With the strength of a reinforced company, I fought hard with a regiment of the Japanese army. At the cost of the destruction of the entire army, I barely managed to win.  Come here for four hours. Gou Zaiquan, one of my best battalion commanders and the most promising battalion commander in our brigade, died like this."

    "In order to reinforce the Kong family's shack, the Thirteenth Regiment also spent two entire companies. In the Sui family's shack, one company only had less than three of the youngest lightly wounded soldiers left in the company because their company commander wanted to retain  Only a few seeds were removed, and the rest were sacrificed.¡±

    "Some of these soldiers survived the first phase of the battle, and some are veterans who have just recovered from the hospital before we set off. These people are all old bones. They have fought so many battles and have not been sacrificed. Now they are fighting for this  Several hours were sacrificed here in vain.¡±

    "Old Huang, you don't know, my heart ached like a knife when I received Gou Zaiquan's farewell call. I joined the Anti-Japanese War in 34 years ago.? This is the first time I have given such an order, knowing that my soldiers will die in vain.  I have never fought such a useless fight in my life.  "

    "I tried to persuade you repeatedly before, but I refused to leave. You can use force, and I'll hide and seek with you. But now it's better. The Japanese army's long-range artillery fire blocked the train station. I couldn't leave until I thought about leaving. But in this world  How can they advance or retreat as they wish?"

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