The night was as dark as ink, and in the plain a kilometer away on the west bank of the Nanzamu River, a little fire flickered. Matsumoto's anger did not subside, he had the opportunity to destroy the about 2,000 Chinese troops in front, but his division launched two attacks, but failed to break through the defense, and wanted to organize another attack, but it was dark, so he had to order the troops to camp on the spot.

Looking at the horizontal layout of the troops more than 400 meters long, he looked quite helpless, the Chinese army on the opposite side seemed to be also a horizontal defense, he had ordered the troops to launch a full-scale attack horizontally, but he could not break through the opponent's defense. He even suspected that the reinforcements of the Chinese army had arrived, and everything had to wait for dawn, and after careful observation, the situation was not good, so he immediately retreated.

Liu Erlong, like the other seven regiment commanders, was nervous and excited, recalling that he and the others had been detained in the prison of Tonghua County for a long time, and thought that there would be no chance to regain freedom in this life, but he was rescued by Lin Junxiong, and after seeing the battle of Guandaoling, he decided to follow Lin Junxiong to fight a sky in the northeast.

Although he was later sent to the Fifth Column, he also worked hard to improve himself, accepted many of Lin Junxiong's military ideas in the officer training class, and gradually grew up in many actual battles, and was appointed by Diao Yongyun as the commander of the 118th Regiment of the 109th Division.

A firework rose from the rear, and Liu Erlong knew that it was a signal for the start of the operation, and he immediately gave an order to the two battalion commanders: "Ready!" ”

The soldiers of the 118th Regiment immediately stood up and assembled in formation, Liu Erlong looked at the long line on the left and right, clenched his fists, and concentrated on looking at the instructions for the next move in the position of the rear headquarters.

When the two fireworks rose into the sky, Liu Erlong ordered: "Points! ”

The movement of three fireworks within a few minutes alarmed the Japanese army, and Matsumoto Yao looked nervously at the situation opposite, "Could it be that the Chinese army is going to raid at night?" ”

Three fireworks rose up, and the bright light formed by the explosion illuminated the dark and dreary plain for a moment, and completely broke the peace of the night.

"Shoot!"

With Liu Erlong's order, dozens of rocket launchers fired shells almost simultaneously, and there were also seven such situations on the left and right, and a dense explosion was immediately heard on the Japanese position on the opposite side, and Matsumoto Yao didn't even have time to give an order, so he was frightened by the explosion of several shells and hurriedly retreated.

The bazooka firing lasted for five minutes, and the position of the Japanese troops on the opposite side could be seen in a panic through the telescope, and Liu Erlong immediately ordered: "Charge!" ”

After speaking, he rushed to the Japanese position opposite with the soldiers on the left, and the long shape formed by the five columns at the beginning was instantly divided into sixteen columns and rushed towards the Japanese position.

Matsumoto Yao retreated to the rear of the troops, and saw the Chinese troops on the opposite side rushing towards more than a dozen columns, and hurriedly ordered the troops to block the attack, but the continuous bombardment of the bazookas, the Japanese army had no way to gather at all, and most of the energy was used to flee for their lives, and in the face of the Chinese troops rushing over, the resistance was also very weak.

The light machine gun team behind Liu Erlong fired wildly at the panicked Japanese army, but the pace of advance did not stop, until it rushed to the ditch, and then ordered the troops to turn around, and the soldiers on the right side of the 118th Regiment annihilated the Japanese troops sandwiched in the middle.

The battle lasted less than fifteen minutes, and after the Japanese troops surrounded by the 118th Regiment were completely wiped out, Liu Erlong ordered loudly: "Light the torches and force the march for five kilometers." ”

Dozens of torches were immediately lit in the troops, and the soldiers quickly crossed the improvised bridge where the Japanese crossed the ditch and galloped forward.

While Liu Erlong's troops were advancing, the troops of the two regiments on the far left and far right of the Fifth Column were also rushing forward.

The remaining troops of the Fifth Column evolved into three horizontal platoons, interspersed back and forth, and wiped out the remnants of the Japanese army.

Matsumoto Yao realized that everything was over as early as when the large force of the Fifth Column rushed over, and he hurriedly retreated with the soldiers around him, and did not come back to his senses until he had advanced two kilometers, and counted the troops and found that there were less than 5,000 men left in the division of more than 16,000 people.

Before there was time to grieve, some soldiers reported the presence of a pursuing force in the rear. Matsumoto looked at the demoralized troops, thinking of the heavy losses just now and the heavy artillery fire of the Chinese army, and ordered to advance to the left in fear.

To Matsumoto's wondering, the Chinese army pursuing them seemed to have completely ignored their presence, and simply marched forward, as if something more important was rushing to do. He ordered the troops to stop and rest for ten minutes and move on, while allowing the reconnaissance unit to reconnoiter the surrounding situation.

When Matsumoto was about to continue with the participating troops, the news from the troops sent out to reconnoiter made him sit helplessly on the ground.

It turned out that the reason why the troops who had just pursued them did not stop was to rush to the front to block the way, and he cautiously ordered the troops to avoid to the left, but the time to retreat was delayed, and now there was a force on the left and right, and a large number of troops were chasing after him, and Matsumoto Yao felt that the end was coming.

On September 24, when the first rays of dawn lit up the earth, it was not hope but endless despair that brought Matsumoto Yao, the Chinese army had surrounded him and the remaining less than 4,000 men, and last night organized two breakouts, more than 1,000 people rushed over, but it was no different from sending him to death, he could only build fortifications on the spot, and immediately asked Kinoshita Tenghide for help.

Kinoshita Tengxiu received a distress signal, he stood on the high place of Nanzamu Mountain until dawn, watching the flow of the Nanzamu River although calm, but the river surface remained at nearly 20 meters, the river beach on both sides is still deep silt, other places bypassed, it is estimated that it will take a day to reach the location, and it will not play any role at all.

All your strength to save? Then his own division was afraid that it would also fall into disaster, and he ordered the staff to ignore Matsumoto Yao's call for help, and the distress signal reports several times an hour annoyed him.

Hu Xianqiang and Hu Xiansheng came to the front line to inspect the situation, Hu Xiansheng said with some loss: "Second brother, this battle is beautiful, but unfortunately it is not as cool as before, I really want to take the soldiers to kill among the devils, hey!" ”

"Third child, do you remember Commander Lin's words? Those who are soldiers must be brave; To be a general, you must be wise. Whether or not the limited strength of the soldier can be brought into full play depends on the general's ability to understand the overall situation. Now that you are a division commander, you should focus more on studying strategies and how to minimize the casualties of the soldiers, rather than just trying to be happy for a while. ”

Hu Xiansheng touched his head and smiled, "Second brother, I know, that is, talk about it, let's be happy, last night's battle annihilated more than 10,000 enemies, but our army also had hundreds of casualties." It's a pity that our mortars were transferred away by the eldest brother and the fourth brother, otherwise, in the face of the defeat of these remnants, it is estimated that there will be little left soon. ”

Hu Xianqiang thought for a while and said solemnly: "We must work harder to eliminate the remnants of Matsumoto Yao as soon as possible, otherwise we won't be able to catch up with the designated place." ”

"Well, second brother, my suggestion is to scare these devils first, bomb them intermittently with bazookas for another hour, and when the devils are desperate, attack again and destroy them in one fell swoop."

Hu Xianqiang nodded with satisfaction.

Matsumoto Yao was about to collapse, surrounded by groups, rushing and rushing out, expecting Kinoshita Tengxiu to rescue, but sent so many distress signals, none of them replied. The Chinese army shelled every few minutes, and the position was not fixed, he judged that the Chinese army had a modified grenadier canister, the range far exceeded the grenadier they were equipped with, so passively beaten, where did the soldiers still have any morale, he had ordered to shoot several soldiers who had collapsed to the point of crying, but still could not prevent the soldiers from collapsing.

Finally seeing the Chinese army charging on the opposite side, he was determined to fight to the death and destroy some Chinese troops before he died.

However, he soon despaired again, for the Chinese troops on the opposite side were advancing at a very fast pace, maintaining a scattered and orderly formation, and their grenadiers would be blown up by the shells fired from the opposite side as soon as they fired from them.

Shoot? The once proud 38 cover seemed to be inferior to the rifles of the Chinese army on the other side, and the machine guns were completely suppressed, and some machine guns were killed before they could shoot.

Matsumoto Yao felt that this was a completely unequal war, in terms of weapons and equipment, the quality of the soldiers, the Chinese army possessed, not to mention the morale of the troops, on the one hand, the remnants of the morale dropped to the freezing point, and on the other hand, it was appropriate to chase the poor like a rainbow.

Surrender? Looking at the Chinese soldiers rushing over like fierce tigers, where there was still a living mouth wherever he went, he remembered the rumor that Lin Junxiong, the butcher who led the Guandaoling bloody case, according to rumors, killed the surrendered Japanese army, and now the troops he brought out are still like this.

Matsumoto Yao sat on the ground in despair, perhaps what Lin Toshio said was not wrong, since these Japanese entered China with guns, they are invaders, everyone has Chinese blood on their hands, and if they fight for their lives, they don't know how many times they should die.

Watching the soldiers fall one by one, once upon a time, such a scene appeared countless times, but it was the Chinese soldiers who would fall, and the winner was the Imperial Japanese Army, but now, Lin Junxiong's new army has completely reversed this situation, maybe this situation will continue in the future, Matsumoto Yao knew that he could no longer see, he drew his katana, and ended his life.

In the first battle on the west bank of the Nanzamu River, more than 16,000 people of the Japanese army Matsumoto Yao Division were annihilated, and the five columns only paid more than 400 casualties.

Lin Junxiong's theory of a one-word multi-directional array is to change the basic idea of the ancient one-word long snake formation to attack the head and tail and attack the tail and the first reinforcement, forcibly change the enemy into a horizontal or vertical arrangement, and then the troops will attack from multiple directions under the cover of artillery fire, cut the enemy into several sections, and take advantage of the confusion to defeat the enemy with the superiority in individual quality.