Umei must save Motegi's face, and he has to lead the units of the Fourth Brigade to a decisive battle with the 117th Brigade, and at the same time, Chifeng City can be defended by his name, and all the officials have to look at his face. If the combat effectiveness of the 117th Brigade is like a certain unit of the Northeast Army, which is chased away by the Japanese army, Motegi can sit firmly in Chifeng City, and there is no need for him to personally lead his troops down to chase and kill.

But although he came to chase and kill him personally, the 117th Brigade did not give him a chance. He also graduated from a prestigious military academy and brought out many students to study Sun Tzu's Art of War for half his life. But in the past few days, Sun Tzu's Art of War has not worked for him, and between him and the 117th Brigade, it seems that Pang Juan has met Sun Bin, and he always fails to calculate. At this time, I rode west on a horse, and I regretted it in my heart. It shouldn't be, it shouldn't blow up the monkey's head on impulse. The impact and damage caused is far-reaching.

Umei ordered the Shannan artillery squad to take care of Shannan, who seemed to have become stupid, and walked slowly behind, and the brigade headquarters led the men and horses to Chuanxindian. Motegi put aside the matter of Monkey Head Peak for the time being, and observed the terrain and mountains leading to the area leading to Tegou Gate from Kawaxindian as he walked. said in his heart, Ding Boting, red elements, what kind of trap do you want to set for the imperial army this time......

As soon as he thought of this, the signal soldier handed over the phone, and he took it and said it was Yamaoka Jie. Then he asked: "Shangangjun, what do you do, mountain sports?" Didn't find the defenders? Yamaoka Jie said stiffly but a little anxiously: "General Motegi, we will follow your order from the iron ditch gate to the northwest. But the mountains here are high and dense, and there are few people, so I'm afraid there is no main force of the 117 Brigade......"

Motegi said: "Yamaoka-kun, we have been calculated by the 117 Brigade several times, which time is not impossible to appear?" And where we thought it was impossible, every time there was a strange soldier of China; Wherever we thought it might be, they played us again. So, you have to scout properly and then make a calculation......" Motegi had already heard that Yamaoka Kiyoshi was afraid to move forward due to fear, and he understood very well, knowing that Yamaoka Kiyoshi was afraid that he would repeat the mistakes of Furui Ichiro. They went like this, it is exactly what the ancient books say, "the land is in danger", and the lives of these warriors cannot be broken in vain...... However, the tactics of the 117th Brigade have always been to get out of the way of the front (Pingchuan), and the two sides are skillfully set up with suspicious soldiers, which is both virtual and real. The imperial army hits the left, and his right side is real, and the imperial army hits the right, and his left side is real.

After a while, there was a gunshot from the direction of the wolf ditch in the south, and Motegi listened carefully, there was the sound of 38 big covers, and there was also the sound of Mauser guns. The staff officers of the headquarters were also listening quietly, and one of them, staff officer Qing Houzhong, said: "General Motegi, since the war with the 117th Brigade, they have collected all the weapons and ammunition left by the imperial army, so it is impossible to distinguish from a distance which is the gunfire of the defenders and which is the gunfire of the imperial army......"

Motegi turned around and looked for the signal soldiers, and found that several of the signal soldiers in the headquarters were already sweating profusely, and they were stunned that they had not contacted Ono Yataro. The officers and men of the communications squadron hurriedly went west to lay corded telephones, and Motegi looked at the commander of the communications squadron, Hiroshi Kawagishi, and said, "Shout, don't lay the wires." The imperial army could not advance, and it was useless to lay the line. Kawagishi Hironaka raised his hand to stop the officers and soldiers who laid the line, and the telephone line was quickly taken back.

Motegi ordered the signal soldier to connect to Yamaoka's phone again, and Motegi said, "Yamaoka-kun, where are you advancing now?" Tell me exactly where there is. Yamaoka said: "Report to General Motegi, the forward squad of the 17th Wing has advanced to the back of the mountain, and further on is Gaojiagou. Do you want to go any further? Motegi hung up the phone, looked at the map opened by the staff officers, looked at it for a while, and said: "The gunfire in the direction of the wolf ditch is tight and loose, and the 117th Brigade is there today to show its form and attract the imperial army; Then, the north must be in the area of Gaojiagou, with heavy troops ......"

There were soldiers in the west galloping, and when they got closer, they dismounted and reported, saying: "Report sir, most of the 13th Wing of the Imperial Army has entered the wolf ditch, and the camp west of the wolf ditch gate, and there are newly dug trenches by the defenders, and the defenders in the ambush in the position have just arrived...... "Motegi turned around and said to Umei, who had just caught up: "The 117th Brigade is moving the tiger away from the mountain again, Umei-kun, do you see it?" Shintaro Umei looked at the map and hadn't spoken yet, and Motegi couldn't wait. I called Yamaoka Jie again and said, "Yamaoka-kun, I order you to leave a small team behind the mountain to attack, and the main force will quietly retreat. If you retreat to the Iron Ditch Gate, you can try to get in touch with Ono Yataro, who is fighting the wolf ditch, and then the camera will retreat east......"

Umei not only agreed with his decision, but also felt that his decision was very superb, and it was the result of many confrontations with the 117 Brigade. Over the years, he has followed Motegi to fight in the east and west, chasing and killing in the north and south, and he has read Sun Tzu's Art of War to the end, but he always feels too profound. Although the historical stories are interesting, the principles contained in them are ever-changing, which makes me dizzy.

Ono Taro finally called, he said: "General Motegi, the main force of our department is now stationed in the wolf ditch, because the three major teams under Ono encountered resistance in the wolf ditch, the defenders engaged in a little battle, and retreated inward...... Motegi said: "I have been in contact with you for a long time, but I always can't get through. Your call came just in time, and the 117th Brigade set up a big maze array for us again, and this time the imperial army couldn't drill into it alive. I order you to retreat under mutual cover, withdraw to Tiegoumen, echo with the 17th Wing, drive back to Chuanxindian, and have a ...... to the brigade headquarters."

On the morning of March 8, the headquarters of the 117th Brigade heard reports from scouts from all walks of life, saying that the troops driven by the Motegi devils were retreating, and the devils who attacked Gaojiagou began to withdraw after receiving a phone call; The devils who attacked the wolf ditch, the strikers and the defenders sometimes clashed, and they never pursued in great strides as before, and they had just begun to retreat step by step......

Brigade Commander Ding said, "Well, Motegi retreats, and we move eastward. Let's go to Nantaizi to set up a headquarters. "The brigade headquarters and some of the directly subordinate teams returned to Nantaizi and set up a headquarters at the landlord Cui Fengyun's house. After the headquarters was set up, Chief of Staff Zhang made a phone call, contacted the ministers, and went to the brigade headquarters for a meeting. Investigators and vigilance personnel went east to the area of Tiegoumen to conduct reconnaissance and vigilance.

As soon as the meeting was about to start, Lin Qingshan, the commander of the 235th Regiment who had returned from Gaojiagou, brought two people, these two people were wearing Mongolian robes, Mongolian boots, and dogskin hats on their heads, and there were a lot of things bulging and stuffed in the robes. Commander Lin introduced to everyone and said: "These two are Mongolian people on the grasslands of Bahrain, and they are fighting devils with the Rehe Special Operations Brigade. Their captain Chu and the head of the Mengmin people, Ha Ritu, sent them to bring us medicine......"

Brigade Commander Ding and the commanders who arrived one after another looked at the two rustic Mengmin brothers in surprise. They stood there stiffly, not knowing what to do. Later, one of them said to the other, "Bart, let's not be stunned, let's take out these medicines......" The younger guy named Bartt smiled innocently, and the two slowly untied their robes, and took out some cardboard boxes wrapped in cloth from them little by little. They unloaded the things, and they relaxed a lot, and looked at the pile of things underground as they buckled them.

Director Han saw that the two of them were busy, walked two steps to the front, and said to them, "There are a lot of things!" The older one said: "Things, that's all, Captain Chu and Captain Ha let us all bring them over, and we have to go back to restore our lives." Director Han smiled lightly and said, "Don't be busy when you go back, it's a great achievement to deliver things." Let me ask you both, how did you get all these things? ”

The older one said: "We are herdsmen, and two days ago I saw Captain Chu and them beating devils' carriages on the grassland, and some of them carried some of these things on their backs. Our homes and livestock were also plagued by devils, and Captain Chu and they specialized in fighting devils, not herdsmen, so we joined them and learned from them to fight devils. Yesterday we hijacked a wagon with this stuff. In the process of robbery, two people took their lives. Except for the burnt ones, almost all of them were brought back to you...... His name is Bart, and my name is Jimi, and the people of Haritu told us to send us here, and they returned the way we came......"

Brigade Commander Ding heard him say these words, and although he was not very fluent in Chinese, he had already expressed them clearly. He said, "If medicine can be obtained over there, there will be no hope for our wounded." Then he asked them again: "Are there many wounded over there in Lao Chu?" The herdsman who called himself Zhimi said: "Many of the people led by Captain Chu and the Ha Ritu people have died, and most of the current personnel are herdsmen who joined us later. There are also wounded. The man named Bart finally spoke, and his Chinese was a little stumbling, and said, "Later, those defeated soldiers were also a little wounded......

Deputy Brigade Commander Ji said: "Let them go to the Karajie Field Hospital to see how to bandage, and then return the same way before it is too late...... They didn't dare to look at the commanders more, so they had to follow the guards they led to go out.

Chief of Staff Zhang said: "Guards." The guard who led them shouted, "Yes, Chief of Staff Zhang, please instruct." Chief of Staff Zhang said again: "You give this letter to Dean Wang." When Dean Wang allows them to go, you bring them back and hand them over to Head Lin. Guard Xiao Zhang simply shouted: "Yes, Chief of Staff Zhang." ”

Brigade Commander Ding saw that all the commanders were basically all there, and said, "Commanders, everyone has worked hard. Originally, according to the established deployment, the 11th Battalion of the 234th Regiment was in the position of Xiayingzi to meet the enemy, the 235th Regiment showed its form in Gaojiagou to attract devils, and most of the 233rd Regiment and 234th Regiment waited for an opportunity to eliminate devils in the south. Later, according to the changes in the situation and the pace of the devil's attack, we made adjustments, and the 11th battalion did not change to the enemy, and the special battalion went to fight the wolf ditch to attract the devils; The 235th Regiment ambushed in Gaojiagou and cleaned up one of the devils...... Just now, the old devil Motegi who was sitting in the new store of Sichuan smelled the smell of gunpowder, and hurriedly withdrew the devil who had opened to Gaojiagou and Wolf Ditch. Motegi, it seems, is quite cautious. The devil's tactics have changed abruptly, and we must also have a new ...... to deal with them."