The three battalions of the 54th Regiment of the 30th Brigade of the 17th Division met in Dongwuling Village, and Hou Sheng led the vanguard troops to launch propaganda and agitation work in several nearby villages.

Lei Yunfeng's new soldiers who joined the army mainly supplemented the 13th battalion, which suffered the largest casualties in the first line of defense in the defense of Yongji City, and made a reasonable distribution of weapons, ammunition, and military supplies captured by the enemy in this sneak attack, and the combat effectiveness of each battalion was greatly strengthened.

In order to improve the recruits' ability to fight on the battlefield and protect themselves in a short period of time, Lei Yunfeng personally went to each battalion to participate in troop training, and asked the soldiers of each battalion to establish the determination of 'I live for China, I will die for China,' and carry out anti-Japanese propaganda and education.

Due to the weather conditions, the roads were muddy and difficult to navigate, and the 54th Regiment and the 368th Brigade and the 7th and 8th Brigades of the Third Column of the Decisive Death Brigade continued to sneak attack and harass along the way, and the huge transport convoy stopped and stopped, so that the Japanese First Echelon Regiment, which left Qinshui City only three days later, followed.

The seven transport squadrons of the first and second echelons, plus the logistics convoy of the headquarters and the Takeda brigade, totaling more than 300 trucks, stretched for more than 10 kilometers, like turtles crawling on the highway from Qinshui to Jicheng and Quwo, advancing at a rather slow pace.

The Japanese transport convoy was still more than 30 roads away from Wangzhai Town and Dongwuling, and the commander of the Shihe Brigade, who was the commander of the vanguard escort unit, ordered two armored vehicles to open the road in the front and speed up the search and advance.

The commander of the second echelon, Yamashita Nakasa, and the commander of the first echelon, Kawaguchi Nakasa, accompanied the central part of the main convoy, with the aim of mobilizing troops to resist as soon as the Shina troops suddenly launched a sneak attack in the central part of the country.

The Japanese transport convoy, which was again attacked by the 368th Brigade of the Eighth Route Army and the Third Column of the Decisive Death in Laoniugou, concentrated its firepower to launch a fire attack on the enemy who was sneak attacking.

The Stone River Brigade of the Pioneer Escort Operation, ordered the convoy to continue the operation,

The second echelon regiment followed the Shihe Brigade, and when the transport unit, which had been harassed by many sneak attacks, was about to drive to Xihe Village at night, the squadron leader of some of the transport squadrons received a request from some drivers to rest in Xihe Village, and then continue to move forward after dawn.

Captain Shihe, who was in charge of guarding the forward of this transport force, believed that Xihe Village was located on both sides of a narrow road, and that if the Chinese troops set up an ambush on the hillsides on the east and west sides of the village, and suddenly launched a sneak attack at night, the convoy would be very dangerous.

Captain Shihe ordered the follow-up first and second echelon regiments to pass through Xihe Village as quickly as possible, and they must ensure night action, rest for two hours before reaching Dongwuling after dawn, and then pass through the most dangerous Dongwuling at the fastest speed.

The driver was already very tired and mentally paralyzed due to driving on the potholed road for a long time, and if it were not for the co-driver to supervise, he would open and close his eyes and snore in a daze.

When the entire convoy was rapidly passing more than 100 meters through Xihe Village, a heavy machine-gun fire suddenly broke out on the south side of the mountain.

Captain Shihe ordered all armored vehicles and vehicle-mounted mortars to counterattack the attacking enemy with maximum firepower, and ordered to pass quickly and continue to advance within ten minutes under the cover of night.

Less than five kilometers ahead, the Japanese transport convoy was again attacked by light and heavy weapons fire from a battalion of the 10th Division, which had been ambushed in advance in the mountainous area of Dongwuling.

The three columns that were ambushed at the entrance of Dongwuling Pass wore the hat of the Jin Sui Army and received the military salary of the Jin Sui Army, but it was an anti-Japanese new army jointly formed by the Eighth Route Army and the Jin Sui Army. Wen Ting Pavilion

General Dong, who was responsible for leading the 7th and 8th Corps of the Third Column of the Decisive Death Column, cooperated with the 10th and 14th Divisions of the National Revolutionary Army and the 386th Brigade of the Eighth Route Army to set up an ambush in Dongwuling, and found that the vanguard of the Japanese army's huge transport convoy had entered the ambush circle.

The captains of the 7th and 8th Corps, who were standing beside him, saw the enemy's convoy coming over, and not only shouted excitedly: "General Dong, the enemy has entered our ambush circle, to fight or not to fight?" ”

"Don't worry, the Japanese transport team that entered the ambush circle is just the vanguard force, we have to wait for all the second echelon regiment and most of the first echelon regiment of this transport team to enter the entire ambush circle between our army and friendly forces, and then we will take the lead in firing the first shot."

Seeing that the vanguard of the first echelon regiment of the Japanese army entered the ambush circle, it suddenly slowed down and moved slowly.

The 7th Captain of the Third Column asked suspiciously: "What kind of ghost is this?" Didn't the Japanese commander know that the terrain of Dongwuling was dangerous, and it was a pass, and it was very dangerous here? It should pass quickly, why slow down and crawl like a turtle? ”

"The Japanese commander is not a fool, knowing that it is very dangerous to enter Dongwuling, not only did he not speed up and pass quickly, but he moved slowly and there must be a strange way." General Dong held a telescope and glanced at the front and rear transport convoys of the Japanese army from time to time and said.

When the vanguard entered the entrance of Dongwuling Pass, he ordered the follow-up transport convoy of armored vehicles to follow up as quickly as possible, and by no means to lengthen the formation of the convoy, causing a blank space in the middle of the convoy when passing through Dongwuling.

The cunning captain of the Shihe Brigade issued a quick follow-up order, mainly to assemble the huge transport convoy composed of more than 300 trucks more closely, and once it was ambushed by the Shina troops in the dangerous Dongwu Ridge, it could concentrate firepower to carry out a counterattack and pass quickly.

It will not be destroyed by the concentrated firepower of the Chinese troops because of the scattered vehicles, so as to avoid the tragic situation in which the transport convoy cannot be separated and surrounded by each other.

The commander of the 386th Brigade of the Eighth Route Army personally telephoned General Dong, and after discussion and analysis on the phone, the two finally found out the real intention of why the forward troops of the Japanese transport convoy suddenly advanced slowly.

General Dong immediately reported this information to Commander Peng of the 10th Division, and the Eighth Route Army, the National Revolutionary Army, the Jinsui Army, and the Third Column of Decisive Death, which had participated in the ambush, decided to give a unified action order according to the enemy's movements.

This order was to use the three columns that were ambushed at the entrance of the Dongwuling Pass to fight to the death as the first shot of the Japanese transport convoy that set up an ambush at Dongwuling to attack and break into the ambush circle, and that was the order for the entire ambush unit to launch a general attack on the Japanese convoy.

The soldiers of the Third Column of Decisive Death were hidden in the woods and weeds in the mountains north of the entrance to Dongwuling, and were ready to attack the Japanese convoy that had entered the ambush circle at any time, striving to win awards for their heroic killing of the enemy in this battle.

When the 1st and 2nd Echelon Regiment of the Japanese transport convoy was about to enter Dongwuling, the two reconnaissance planes of the Japanese Air Brigade, which was in charge of reconnaissance mission, flew at an ultra-low altitude above without interruption to reconnoitre.

The commanders of the various units concealed in Dongwuling issued the strictest orders, ordering their subordinate units to be absolutely safe and hidden, and to absolutely not expose their targets to be discovered by Japanese reconnaissance planes in the air, so as to affect the entire task of ambushing the large Japanese transport convoy.

At this time, General Dong, who was killed in the third column, stood on a high ground in the woods with a telescope, and closely monitored the movement of the Japanese convoy into Dongwuling under the cover of the woods.