The battle in Longling is once again in danger.

Fortunately, an important military situation fell into the hands of Song Xilian.

Captain Akiba, a Japanese officer on the Sunjiashan position on the old eastern slope, was killed by the 262nd Regiment, and an important document was found from his body by the 262nd Regiment.

After the document was released, the face of the combat staff officer changed drastically. He immediately broke into General Song's operational headquarters. After reading the translation, Song Xilian was taken aback.

The Japanese army was quietly making a detour to the flank of the 2nd Army, and we were trying to pinn down the siege force threatening Longling from the right flank, and if it was not intercepted in time, the battle at Longling would be reversed again.

The lesson of losing the Fangma Bridge was very profound, and General Song did not dare to slack off a little.

He immediately dispatched troops and ordered the 84th Regiment of the New 28th Division to cross Mengchang, Daqiao, and Jichang overnight, and rush to the north bank of the Supa River to deploy defenses; The 264th Regiment of the 88th Division was ordered to quickly occupy various important places on the north bank of the Supa River through Bang Miao, Eggplant Mountain, and Tangliping in Banggong and Dachang, and ordered Commander Zhong to personally lead the 82nd Regiment, 83rd Regiment and Mountain Artillery Company of the New 28th Division to the north bank of the Supa River to take command, and ordered the 9th Division of the 2nd Army near Pingga to send mobile troops to intercept the Japanese troops moving towards Longling along the direction of Zhongzhai and Mengdui.

After several days of heavy rain, the water of the Supa River swelled sharply, the waves were turbulent, and the water surface instantly widened a lot. As long as the high ground on the north bank was controlled, the Japanese army could be prevented from crossing the river and the Japanese plot to flank the 2nd Army could be crushed.

On July 12, the vanguard of the Japanese army approached Xiaotianba and Zhongjianshan, and after being intercepted by the 2nd Battalion of the 226th Regiment of the 76th Division and the 1st Battalion of the 26th Regiment of the 9th Division, they flexibly diverted their routes to Antdui and Tangjiafen.

On the 13th, the fog was so thick that there was no human figure at all ten paces away.

When the 1st Battalion of the 226th Regiment of the 226th Regiment discovered the enemy, the Japanese army had surrounded it from all sides, and after several hours of fierce fighting, the 1st Battalion was still unable to block the fierce attack of the Japanese army, so it had to abandon its position.

The Japanese army took Tangjiafen and pounced on the Kuzhuwa position where the 3rd Battalion of the 226th Regiment was located.

At that time, it was just noon, the fog gradually dissipated, and the bitter bamboo recess was clearly exposed to the Japanese guns.

The officers and men of the 3rd Battalion resisted stubbornly and fought fiercely with the Japanese for two days and two nights, but finally had to retreat in the direction of Dajianshan due to heavy casualties.

After the Japanese army soon occupied the Tang family tomb and the bitter bamboo recess, they quickly surrounded the ant pile.

The 1st Battalion of the 226th Regiment guarding the Ant Pile faced the flanking attack of two Japanese troops, and the battle was more difficult than that of the 2nd and 3rd Battalions.

Taking advantage of the fact that the battle on the side of the ant pile was inextricable, the Japanese Takeda troops used artillery to break through the encirclement of the 226th Regiment against the Pingga garrison, and covered the sanitary team and baggage team of Sakaguchi to approach Pingga.

In the rain and fog, on the wasteland southwest of Pingga Town, where the artillery fire was open, Abe Shaosa, the captain of the Pingga garrison, who had been trapped by the expeditionary force for two months, finally connected with the troops sent by Sakaguchi from Mangshi. This time he received the long-awaited ammunition supplies, and at the same time sent his wounded away. Even so, Sakaguchi still did not play this chess piece, and although Abe was replenished with supplies, his Pingga garrison never jumped out of the encirclement of the 226th Regiment.

The military situation in the direction of the Ant Pile is critical. All kinds of indications indicate that the reinforcements of the Japanese army rushed from Mangshi are likely to cross the Supa River and approach the ant pile.

"Keep going! Target: Ant Heap! "On Matsui's orders, the frenzied vanguard of the Japanese army jumped into the bamboo raft and rushed into the choppy Supa River to approach the opposite bank.

More than 200 Japanese soldiers landed ashore one after another, and the outlaws jumped out of the raging and roaring Supa River and rushed in the direction of the ant pile like crazy.

"Hit!" The company commander, who had just arrived on the high ground on the riverbank, immediately ordered the troops to hand over fire. The battle started along the river, there were no strong fortifications, no artillery and machine guns, because of the sudden incident, most of them were temporary recruits who were pulled to the battlefield, but many of these people were local villagers, they flexibly relied on mountains and rocks and trees as a cover, bravely resisted the Japanese army rushing up, but unfortunately there was only one company of troops, how could it withstand 200 well-trained Japanese troops with backward equipment, and after a few hours of fierce fighting, all officers and soldiers were killed.

After a night of rapid travel, the 188th Regiment of the 9th Division finally reached the other side of the Supa River in the early morning of the next day. In the thick smoke, regiment commander Li Zhipeng quickly jumped out of the car, and there were bullet marks on the road, wolf smoke and fallen soldiers, all kinds of signs showed that the fierce battle here had just ended. The Japanese army had already occupied the high ground on the east side, and Commander Li could not care so much about it, so he immediately commanded the troops to quickly seize the high ground on both sides, and fierce gunfire rang out again on the east bank. The soldiers of the 188th Regiment rushed around all night, just to block the enemy on the other side of the river, and when they saw the Japanese army, everyone was red-eyed and pounced on the Japanese position, and after a day of fierce fighting, the 188th Regiment regained the commanding heights on the other side of the river.

It's dangerous! If one step later and a large number of Japanese troops cross the river, the situation will be difficult to control.

The remainder of the 226th Team and a battalion of the 26th Regiment of the 9th Division rushed to Chachaba to coordinate the interception of the Japanese army.

The 264th Regiment sent a reinforced battalion to cross the Supa River and occupy Mengdui and Mengbeng, and set up an ambush to intercept the retreating enemy.

Under the command of Commander Zhong Bin, when the troops were fighting at Antdui, Song Xilian's other strong brigade, the 227th Regiment of the 9th Division, was ordered to take a shortcut and force along Zhongzhai and Mengdui in the direction of Mangshi.

Sakaguchi was a risky move, and his large army poured out to attack the ant pile, and the Mangshi base camp was singing about the empty city plan. When he learned that the 227th Regiment of the 9th Division of the Chinese Expeditionary Force was rapidly advancing towards Mangshi, it had the potential to smash the 56th Division's lair.

When Sakaguchi learned of this, he gasped and urgently ordered Matsui to immediately lead his troops back to Mangshi. On the 16th, Matsui received an order from the 56th Division: "The Chinese army has been moving frequently near Pingga on the 15th, and has set off, and is advancing towards Mangshi in the north direction of Zhongzhai, the intelligence analysis is basically true, and Matsui's troops should return to Mangshi quickly." Matsui did not dare to slack off, and just as he approached the bank of the Supa River, most of the Japanese troops turned around and retreated back to Mangshi.

The 188th Regiment learned that the Japanese reinforcements had retreated, so they concentrated all the firepower of the regiment and launched a charge against 200 Japanese troops. With the strength of the number of people, the Japanese firepower was quickly suppressed. When the soldiers of Regiment Commander Li quickly rushed to the Japanese army, after all, there were not many Japanese troops, and under the full counterattack of our 188th Regiment, 200 Japanese troops were driven back to the Supa River, except for a few who jumped into the river, the rest were all killed.

The danger was finally brought under control.

Under the prepared multi-way interception of the 11th Army, Matsui's multi-way attack was defeated.

The large Japanese forces reinforcing Pingga failed to cross the Supa River.

The Supa River was tense for a while, and the danger of the ant pile was finally lifted.

After eliminating the threat from the left flank, the 2nd Army continued to besiege Pingga with one division, and the main force attacked southwest of Xiangda towards Mangshi.

Zhong Bin, commander of the 71st Army, led his troops back to Huangcaoba.

The offensive of the 11th Army on Longling was more urgent.