District 9

On the south side of Lukou Port, Feng Ji led 20,000 troops to pursue the remnants of the Shen Department. The two sides engaged in more than a dozen small-scale encounters in the vast mountains and snowfields.

The terrain in the mountains is complex, and large-scale troops cannot advance together, and the remnants of the Shen Clan have no reason to spread out their formations and fight tens of thousands of Feng Clan, so the choice is to divide the troops and retreat, and whoever infiltrates first will be supported from the outside. .

Throughout the day, gunshots and cannons were fired on the south side of the coast of Lukou Port.

It's about eight o'clock in the evening.

Near the Lindian Mountains, a company directly under the field division of the Shen Department headquarters was encircled and suppressed by two battalions of the Feng Department. Hundreds of people were blocked halfway up the mountain, unable to move forward or retreat.

Behind a protruding rock, the company commander was lying in the snow shell, holding a telescope and shouting at the intercom very fast: "Each platoon and each squad, find your own cover and defense. Don't be exposed unless you have to." Our location and firepower point. It's dark now, and the visibility is very poor. Their infantry units are all up the mountain, and the artillery units will not be able to launch artillery attacks easily. We wait for a while, and wait until their attack directions are all exposed, and we find Find a weak point and then hit it outside."

"receive!"

"receive!"

"...!"

A series of responses came from the intercom. The company commander put down the night vision binoculars and reached out to touch the cigarette box.

"Creak, creak...!"

At this moment, there was the sound of feet stepping on the snow on the left side. The deputy company commander bent down and ran over, saying in a low voice: "Lao Wang, I think this battle can't be fought."

The company commander turned his head: "Why can't we fight?"

"We started to break out in the afternoon and fought two encounters in total. The ammunition of the second and third platoons was basically exhausted." The deputy company commander frowned and said: "Moreover, we still have more than 30 wounded people with us. They also need soldiers to take care of them... I just went to the front to observe. At least two full battalions came over from the east and west. In this situation, we can hold on for at most two hours which is pretty good.”

"Then what do you mean?" the company commander asked.

"Surrender...surrender." The deputy company commander hesitated and said, "This is the wisest choice at the moment."

"How many surrenders!" the company commander glared at him and said, "Are you afraid of death?"

The deputy company commander gritted his teeth: "I'm not afraid of death, but I still have a wife and children at home..."

"You have a wife and children, what kind of soldier do you want to be?" the company commander scolded unceremoniously: "The order we received is to break out. All you can do is two things, either die in battle or fight out. Surrender is not an option. within!"

"Old Wang, why are you so stubborn?!" the deputy company commander shouted in confusion: "We have no possibility of breaking out. If we persist, we will die. Even if you don't think about yourself, you have to think about the following. Think about it, soldiers? What can they gain from the fight for power above? To put it bluntly, the Shen system is finished. If they die, they may not even get their pensions. Do you understand?"

The company commander looked at his deputy coldly and said in a trembling voice: "Xing Gang, we have been friends and comrades-in-arms for five or six years. I don't want to fall out with you at this time. Commander Shen has not fallen for a day, so you and I will They are all his soldiers, his officers. Without the Shen system, you and I would not be where we are today, and there would be no opportunity for your brother-in-law to make a lot of money outside the district. The first virtue of a soldier is loyalty. If you are afraid of death, you will You have no right to wear this outfit.”

"Don't tell me this." The deputy company commander was also anxious: "All the good guys have let you pretend, right? Lao Wang, no one can stop you if you want to die, but you have to think about these soldiers, they are willing I don’t want to die. Shen Wanzhou has ruined himself. It’s not that he has to kill Commander He. Will our Shensha Corps’ hundreds of thousands of troops reach this point?! I didn’t surrender from the beginning of the war. After fighting to this day, there is no point in sacrificing anymore, we have done our best to the Shen system."

"If you dare to rebel, I will beat you to death." The company commander stood up on the ground and shouted in a low voice: "Second squad leader!"

As soon as he finished speaking, seven or eight soldiers ran over. The company commander pointed at Xing Gang and shouted: "Catch him and take him to the back."

"Raise your hands!" The second squad leader shouted at Xing Gang with his gun in hand.

Xing Gang gritted his teeth and slowly raised his palm.

"Hang Kang, Kang Kang...!"

Just as the people from the second squad were about to step forward to arrest Xing Gang, several gunshots suddenly sounded in the distance.

"Gudong, Gudong...!"

Four or five soldiers of Class 2 were shot in the head and fell to the ground.

"CNM, you forced me to do this!" Xing Gang roared angrily, pulled out his military bayonet and stabbed the company commander.

"Pfft!"

The blade entered the body and pierced the company commander's chest.

"Kang!"

There was another gunshot, and the company commander's head was smashed, and he slowly fell to the ground with his eyes wide open.

"Hooraa!"

More than twenty people rushed out of the woods, holding guns and shouting at the remaining people of the second squad: "Raise your hands, don't move!"

Xing Gang didn't seem to be relieved. He held the military thorn in his right hand and stabbed the company commander crazily. He cursed crazily: "You are the only one who is loyal, right? You are the only one with noble character, right?! I will stab you to death." Let’s see if you are noble and loyal!”

At this moment, Xing Gang actually collapsed inside. His faith collapsed the moment he rebelled, and he used a crazy acting style to hide his inner fragility and shamelessness.

After all the people in the second squad were cleared, Xing Gang surrendered to the Feng clan with nearly a hundred remaining soldiers.

In the forest, all the soldiers of this company threw away their guns and squatted on the ground with dull eyes.

Xing Gang followed behind Battalion Commander Feng, nodded and bowed and said: "If you ask Battalion Commander Guo to take care of you in the future, we people will definitely swear loyalty to the death..."

The battalion commander took Xing Gang to the foot of the mountain and suddenly turned around and asked, "I heard from your soldiers that you were the one who took the lead and killed the company commander?"

Xing Gang was stunned for a moment: "Lao Wang doesn't open his eyes, brothers..."

"Damn it, your company commander and you have been working together for a few years, right? I'll do it to you if you say I'll do it, so how can I take care of you in the future? If something goes wrong, something will happen, and you still have to You're going to attack me." The battalion commander replied lightly and waved his hand directly.

"Kang!"

With a gunshot, the back of Xing Gang's brain was cracked and he was executed on the spot.

In Shen's escape battle, scenes that test human nature occur all the time. After many people lose their faith and direction, the ugliness of human nature breaks out, which is jaw-dropping.

Xing Gang was not the first to rebel, but he was undoubtedly the worst. All his soldiers from the Feng family were left behind, but he was executed. His body was thrown into the mountains by the soldiers of the Feng family, with no one to bury him...

On the top of another mountain, fifteen Shen battalion-level officers who were overtaken had no way to retreat. They exhausted all the ammunition in their hands and jumped down the mountain stream. They were all soldiers who had been taken care of by the Shen Department. In the end, they chose to die rather than surrender and defended the final dignity of the Shen Department Corps...

…

On the withdrawal route, a staff officer whispered to Shen Wanzhou: "Xu Biao, the commander of the third battalion of the Guard Regiment, and the battalion officers and officers, when they were sure that they could not escape from the war zone, they chose... to jump into the mountain stream... Five people, all sacrificed, Xu Biao finally called and said that he will always be your battalion commander..."

When Shen Wanzhou heard this, he clenched his fists and replied with red eyes: "Xu Biao was working as a guard for me from the beginning... Alas, my old Shen... didn't lead such soldiers well."

"Report to the commander. The headquarters is directly under the Second Regiment of the First Field Division. All members have lost contact..." The signal soldier ran over and shouted: "Commander Liu sent a telegram saying that they may have mutinied or ran away from the battlefield alone."

When Shen Fei heard this from the side, he secretly thought that the opportunity he had been waiting for had finally come.