Dongjia Village, Dongjia Ancestral Hall.

The Japanese army was independently mixed into the brigade headquarters of the 9th Brigade.

"General!" Furuya strode in, gathered his feet and saluted the head of the more heisheng tiger nosuke.

Yuesheng Tiger Nosuke withdrew his gaze from the sand table and asked Furuya fiercely: "Furuya-kun, I heard that you arrested dozens of suspicious elements and sent them to the brigade headquarters?" ”

"Hello." Furuya paused, "I think these dozens of suspicious elements are very suspicious. ”

Suzuki Eisaku frowned and said, "Since these dozens of suspicious elements are very suspicious, they can be executed directly, so why arrest them back?" ”

"Chief of Staff, it's a shame to kill you." Furuya said, "If these dozens of suspicious elements are really intelligence officers of the Eighth Route Army, keeping them can be of great use." ”

"That's something to worry about in a special high school." Suzuki Eisaku said, "It's not for you to be an intelligence staff officer, don't forget that we are a combat unit." ”

"Hello." Furuya slammed his head and said ashamedly, "Then I'll go and execute these suspicious elements." ”

After saying that, Furuya turned around and walked out without a moment's hesitation, as if he really wanted to execute these suspicious elements.

"Forget it." "Since the people have already been arrested, let's watch them first, and when this sweeping operation is over, it's not too late to deal with them." ”

"Hello." Furuya paused again and walked to the side.

At this time, another intelligence staff officer hurriedly walked in and reported: "General, I just received an urgent telegram from the 40th Independent Infantry Brigade that a large force of the Eighth Route Army is assembling in the direction of Houmiao Village. ”

"Houmiao Village?" Koshii Toranosuke's gaze returned to the sand table.

Suzuki Eisaku quickly found the Houmiao land, pointed to the sand table and said, "General, Houmiao Village is here." ”

After seeing the location of Houmiao Village clearly, Yue Shenghunosuke's brows immediately frowned subconsciously.

Because Houmiao Village was too close to Dongjia Village, the straight-line distance was less than five kilometers, and the Eighth Route Army almost came directly at his brigade headquarters.

Is this a coincidence?

Or do you have accurate intelligence sources?

Also, what does the Eighth Route Army want to do? A direct attack on his brigade headquarters?

Eisaku Suzuki also found out about this and said, "General, Houmiao Village is too close to Dongjia Village!" Or hurry up and let the 39th Independent Infantry Brigade move closer to Dongjia Village? ”

"No need." Yuesheng Hunosuke waved his hand and said, "There is the 40th Independent Infantry Brigade guarding Houmiao Village, not to mention an independent regiment, even the main force of the 386th Brigade of the Eighth Route Army will never be able to break through the blockade in a short time." ”

After a pause, Yue Shenghu said: "What's more, even if the independent regiment really breaks through the blockade line of Houmiao Village, it will never pose a real threat to our brigade headquarters!" ”

Eisaku Suzuki didn't say anything more.

Because he also thinks that what Koshitonosuke said makes sense.

In addition to a guard squadron, the brigade headquarters of the 9th Brigade Regiment, which was independently mixed, also had an artillery team, a baggage team, an engineer team, and a communications team, all of which had more than 2,000 men!

This is almost equal to the strength of two separate infantry brigades!

With so many people, can't the safety of the brigade headquarters be guaranteed?

Yue Shenghu snorted, and said, "I don't know if the Eighth Route Army's choice of Houmiao Village as a breakthrough is a coincidence, or is it intentional?" If it's just a coincidence, their luck is too bad, but if they do it on purpose, it's looking for death! ”

……

On the right side of Houmiao Village is a large open field, which is easy to attack and difficult to defend.

Under the cover of night, Sun Desheng quietly moved to the west side of this open field with three cavalry companies of the cavalry battalion and lurked in a budding rice field.

All the horses were put on their halts, and their hooves were wrapped in cotton cloth.

This is to be able to engage the enemy as stealthily as possible when the charge is launched.

Even if you can only fight for a dozen more seconds, it is excellent, because these precious ten seconds can allow many well-trained cavalry to survive the enemy's fire!

The military horses were psychic, feeling the tense atmosphere before the great war, and let out an uneasy commotion.

Sun Desheng and the soldiers of the cavalry battalion kept gently stroking the necks of the military horses with both hands to relieve their tension, and the military horses felt the care of their masters, and they gradually calmed down.

At one moment, a dazzling white light suddenly lit up the night sky.

It was a flare fired by an artillery battery, which instantly illuminated an area of several kilometers in a radius.

Immediately afterwards, eight 90mm mortars and one 81mm and one 82mm mortar of the artillery company fired at the same time, dumping rows of shells onto the Japanese positions.

The Japanese position on the west side of Houmiao Village immediately rose with clusters of red light.

Sun Desheng could vaguely see through the telescope's field of vision, building materials such as logs and steel plates being blown up, and occasionally machine guns and devils that were blown up.

Seeing this, Sun Desheng was immediately happy.

Today it was finally the devil's turn to be bombarded.

……

Akimoto Masayoshi had a crooked nose.

Akimoto Masayoshi was the captain of the 40th Independent Infantry Brigade.

When the artillery company of the Independent Regiment launched the artillery bombardment, Akimoto Masayoshi was lying on the observation post above his headquarters to observe the enemy.

Seeing rows of shells falling on the position on the right side of Houmiao Village, blowing up the defensive positions of the 2nd Infantry Squadron deployed there, Akimoto Masayoshi was furious.

"Yaga!" Akimoto Masayoshi said angrily, "Order, the artillery squadron will immediately counterattack!" ”

The Japanese infantry brigade was generally equipped with an artillery squadron, equipped with 4 75 mountain guns and 2 92 infantry guns.

After receiving Akimoto Masayoshi's order, the artillery squadron immediately carried out artillery countermeasures, dumping rows of shells into the artillery positions of the Eighth Route Army.

Akimoto held up the telescope again.

It turned out that the counterattack of the artillery squadron had no effect.

Because the Eighth Route Army built artillery positions on the anticline of the mountain, the Japanese artillery fire could not threaten them at all.

"Yaga Yaru! These damn cunning bunnies! Akimoto Masayoshi was so angry that he cursed again, but there was nothing he could do but watch the position of the 2nd Infantry Squadron being bombed.

The artillery bombardment of the positions of the 2nd Infantry Squadron by the Eighth Route Army lasted more than five minutes.

When the red light from the last shell exploded, the world was once again covered in darkness, and it seemed to be darker than before.

Akimoto Masayoshi subconsciously pricked up his ears.

Because according to the standard infantry drill, after the shelling, the infantry should charge.

The Eighth Route Army would blow the trumpet before charging, and it also liked to yell and shout when charging.

However, this time the situation was a little abnormal, it was almost half a minute after the shelling ended, and I didn't hear the sound of the military horn, let alone the shouts of the Eighth Route Army, what is the situation?

Akimoto Masayoshi sensed that something was wrong.