Miyoshi Motomitsu waited blankly for the scout to send back the news, and looked at the soldiers who continued to die under heavy artillery fire, and he was annoyed by his carelessness and greed.

When the scouts sent back the news, there was no trace of the New First Army within three kilometers to the north, Miyoshi Yuanguang kept wandering on the map, and the south was the place where the shells flew over, since there was such a fierce artillery fire, the number of the New First Army should not be small, although the east and west sides seemed to have few people, but the troops were under artillery attack, morale was low, and it was basically impossible to break through the blockade in a short time.

Could it be that the north side is calm on the surface, but in fact hides some great danger? But there is no better way to do it at the moment, so we can only take a risk.

Miyoshi Yuanguang was surprised, all the way to the south ten kilometers to flee for his life, but the new army behind him had no intention of continuing the pursuit, he immediately ordered the remaining troops of less than 10,000 people to turn around and move eastward, he no longer had the ambition to win any credit, just wanted to take the rest of the people back to Yanji County as soon as possible, to accept the wrath of Koizumi Gui Falcon.

Xie Qin did not order the troops to continue the pursuit, he asked the artillery to move quickly to the south, looking for a place to hide, and he took a regiment and the troops originally in the west, together with a concealed advance towards Nanping Town, southeast of Helong County.

Koizumi looked at the situation in his hand, kept knocking on the table, and after a long time, an officer walked in and reported that more than 100 of the more than 10,000 Imperial Allied troops who disappeared earlier had fled back and brought back a lot of information.

The more than 100 people also brought back a few wounded soldiers of the New First Army, and under the severe torture and punishment of the devils, one soldier confessed everything. Koizumi looked at the information obtained from the interrogation, like a treasure, after a few years, he finally figured out that this new army in Majima Province was the third column, with nearly 20,000 people, the commander was called Xie Qin, and the political commissar was called Qian Changjiu.

It's just that this soldier doesn't know much, so he is slightly disappointed, after reconnaissance everywhere, more than 10,000 imperial troops are attacked in the south, although Miyoshi Yuanguang was hit in the southwest, but there should not be the main force, he unfolded the map, his eyes focused on Nanping Town in the south, which is only a few dozen miles away from Changbai Mountain, and it is indeed an excellent place to advance and retreat.

Koizumi slammed the table and analyzed several officers: "Now that the deployment of the three columns of the new 1st Army in Majima Province is clear, most of its main forces are concentrated in the area of Nanping Town, and I believe that the branch in the southwest direction is also approaching there. To the north and northeast there are almost negligible hundred-odd men confusing us, and the east and northwest are the calmest, and there should be no troops. ”

Koizumi stood up straight and was about to give an order, when a Japanese soldier came to report that Miyoshi Motomitsu had returned. Koizumi Kiyabusa's excitement just now clouded a little haze, and he ordered in a deep voice: "Let him in!" ”

Miyoshi Yuanguang trembled and reported the situation, thinking that Koizumi Gui Hayabusa would scold him if he didn't shoot him, but he didn't react for a long time.

"Your Excellency Lieutenant General, your subordinates' improper command caused the death of thousands of imperial warriors, I am willing to die to apologize!"

Koizumi Guifalcon hesitated for a long time before shaking his head and sighing: "You deserve to die, but I also blame these bandits for being too cunning, now that it is the time to employ people, I will give you another chance, you lead two wings to encircle and suppress a small number of troops of the New First Army in the north, northeast, and northwest directions of Yanji County, if you fail again, I can't protect you, you know what the consequences are." ”

Miyoshi Yuanguang sighed softly, and his nervousness eased, "The subordinates must learn a lesson, go all out to complete the task, and if there is any failure, they will apologize!" ”

Koizumi nodded, "Very good, you haven't lost the glory of the Imperial Japanese soldiers, you go down to rest for two days first, and then contact the scouts in the three directions and start the action immediately." ”

After saying that, he picked out the information from the three directions and handed it over, Miyoshi Motomitsu took it excitedly, and secretly warned himself that he couldn't disappoint Lieutenant General Koizumi again this time.

After Miyoshi Motomitsu walked out, Kuroda Kantoshi, the commander of another division, said: "Your Excellency, Miyoshi-kun has recently suffered a crushing defeat, and letting him continue to fight may make the Imperial Warriors suffer another blow." ”

"I also hope that he will be ashamed and brave, but I don't expect him to do much, as long as he can contain the detachments of the New First Army in those three directions, the focus is that we will eliminate all the main forces of the New First Army and the three columns in the south, and then go back and clear the remnants of other places."

Koizumi continued with a grim face: "This battle is related to the control of my Great Japanese Empire in Majima Province, if we make a mistake, we will lose control of Majima Province, Kuroda-kun, please!" ”

"My subordinates must do their best!"

Koizumi Gui Hayabusa walked over slowly and patted Kuroda Guanshou on the shoulder, "Kuroda-kun, you take your division from the southeast to go around between Nanping Town and Changbai Mountain, block the back road of the three columns, and I will lead another division to attack from the front." If this battle goes well, and if there is any misstep on Lieutenant General Kasawara's side, I think it is very likely that I will replace him as the chief of staff of the Kwantung Army Headquarters, and I will definitely promote you to major general at that time. ”

Kuroda Kantoshi trembled slightly with excitement, and immediately expressed his loyalty to Koizumi Takahara.

After Xie Qin and Qin Zheng met in Nanping Town, they discussed their next move with several officers until Lin Junbi brought someone to bring supper.

"Junbi, why are you here?"

"It's one o'clock in the morning, I'm afraid you'll be hungry, so I'll send you some supper."

"It's so late, the plan of action has been decided, and the gossip confusion will start tomorrow, I think after our layout, the little devil should have been fooled, and he will go all out to come to our side. Let them be confused for two days, and then launch the final 'Kanshui Away from Fire, Shock Sweep' operation, cripple and even eliminate the Koizumi Guifala Department in Pseudo-Ma Island Province in one fell swoop, and now everyone will have supper first. ”

Two days passed, and the news of the discovery of the New First Army everywhere made Koizumi Kiyabusa doubt his judgment, Kuroda Kanju came in with a piece of information, and Koizumi Kiyabusa frowned after reading it.

"Sure enough, as I expected, although only a small number of New First Army were found everywhere, I think this is Xie Qin's confusing plan, the main force of the three columns of the New First Army must be in the south, Kuroda-kun, act according to the original plan, order Miyoshi-jun to start acting immediately, and it should be time for Majima Province to be quiet."

"Your Excellency, Lieutenant General, would you like to inform Lieutenant General Kasawara of our actions?"

"No, wait until we return triumphantly, he should be in Huinan County by now, it is estimated that he will be difficult to take care of himself, so why should we bother him?"

Kuroda Kanju looked at Koizumi Takahara's somewhat disdainful expression, and guessed that Koizumi Kiyabusa wanted to prove that he didn't have to be Kasahara Yukio and accumulate credit for the upcoming opportunity, so he immediately stepped forward to compliment him before leaving to prepare for his departure.

The lower reaches of the Songhua River ended in the area of Changshan Town, and the water north of Yanji was basically collected in the Sandaowan Reservoir, and Bian Zhengbei hid in a forest south of the reservoir with more than 20 commandos.

"Are you all ready?"

"Captain, everything is ready, just wait for the little devil to come. However, in terms of intelligence, it seems that there are only two wings on our side, which is a bit unpleasant. ”

Bian Zhengbei slapped the commando who spoke, "You little rabbit cub, we have less than fifty people in total, and there are more than 6,000 people in the two wings, it's good to be able to eliminate a large number of them, aren't you happy?" Can we eat a division? ”

The commando who spoke smirked and touched his head.

The topography of Luguo Ridge is like a crescent moon, and the trees on the ridge seem to be a little lacking in life when the cold winter is approaching, and the Luguo River meanders behind the ridge, and there is a large fertile field in front of the ridge. From the topography, if there are troops trapped on Luguo Ridge, the barrier of the Luguo River will become a deadly barrier to retreat.

Qin Zheng stood on the Luguo Ridge and asked the deputy division commander with an excited face, "Lao Zhang, are everything ready?" ”

Deputy division elder Zhang was originally the leader of an anti-Japanese volunteer army in Changbai Mountain, and was moved by Xie Qin's three visits to the thatched house, and joined the new First Army with the team, and was appointed as the deputy division commander by Xie Qin by virtue of his merits.

"Division commander, it's all ready, when the little devil comes here, he will definitely think that we are killing ourselves, don't you know that everything is in our control, Lingqian has done some tricks and feet, leaving only two roads to pass, I'm just worried that the gasoline is not enough, and the fire will not be big enough at that time, hehe."

"That's good, order the soldiers to fight hard, our 106th Division can't fall behind other troops, we must let them see, our 106th Division is also a brave division."

Xie Qin sat in a private house, listening to the report of the guard company commander that Koizumi Gui Falcon had personally arrived at the upper reaches of the Luguo River with a division, and seemed to be waiting for the convergence of another division, he stood up and looked at the direction where Koizumi Gui Falcon came, Xie Qin put his hands behind his back, smiled and said, "It's finally here!" ”

After thinking about it, he turned around and said to the guard company commander: "Xiao Li, tell Qin Zheng that you must beat Xiaoquan Guifalcon hard, it is best to let him come and go, I want to win the battle in one battle, I believe that in a few days, the puppet island province will become the first puppet province in the northeast to recover." ”

On October 16, when Koizumi Kiyashi learned that Kuroda Guanshou had gone around to Changbai Mountain to intercept the back road of the New First Army's three columns retreating to Changbai Mountain, and then analyzed the situation in the area of Luguoling that he had learned in the past two days, he felt that it was redundant for him to let Kuroda Guanshou cut off the back road, and as far as reconnaissance knew that there were more than 10,000 people of the New First Army on Luguoling, it seemed that his guess was not wrong, but he wondered why the main force of the Third Column of the New First Army would put on a stubborn posture in Luguoling.

Since there was an opportunity, he categorically did not give up, he ordered Kuroda Kanju to block all the ways out in front of Changbai Mountain, and then ordered a small group of Japanese troops to blow up all the passages on the Luguo River, and he himself rushed to the front of Luguo with a large army, ready to attack with all his might.

"Cunning prey, this time I'm going to make it hard for you to fly!" Koizumi seemed to see more than 10,000 soldiers of the Third Column of the New First Army, who had been bothering him for a long time, constantly falling, until they were all wiped out by himself.