Ding Wei and Kong Jie glanced at each other, and then nodded in agreement.

Once the Jinling Massacre is widely publicized, the face of the Japanese country will definitely be ugly. Judging from the temperament of the Emperor, there is a high probability that the 6th Division will be dispatched as soon as possible to launch an attack on the base area of the new regiment in Hengshan.

Seeing that Ding Wei and Kong Jie both agreed, I saw Li Yunlong wave his hand and ask a staff officer in the temporary field headquarters to quickly contact Zhao Gang in the Hengshan base area and ask him to send a clear telegram in the base area, vigorously publicizing that the Japanese army had burned, killed, looted, and wantonly slaughtered hundreds of thousands of our soldiers and civilians in Jinling.

And Zhao Gang received Li Yunlong's order, and without hesitation, he sent out a clear code power.

All of a sudden, the new group in the Hengshan base area sent a clear code telegram, and all parties received it. And Gu Shoufu's department, which has a military radio station, naturally received a radio signal from the new regiment in the Hengshan base area.

Soon, in the Imperial Palace in Tokyo, Hirohito, who was keeping an eye on the situation of the new group of Hengshan, got the clear text of the telegram sent by Zhao Gang in the base area.

"Ya Ya Road, what is Gu Shoufu doing to eat? Why is it so slow? They don't do anything in Jinling, just do it, Baga Ya Road! Spread the edict and directly ordered Gu Shoufu to quickly attack the newly entrenched Heng Mountain. If Gu Shoufu delays the fighter, he will die! Hirohito smashed the telegram in his hand to a Japanese war minister who was kneeling below, and scolded with a grim face.

A small new regiment of the Eighth Route Army has already made Hirohito very annoyed. The North China Front Army Tada Jun, as well as the commander of the Japanese First Army, Yoshio Shinozuka and others are all waste.

The Minister of War of the Japanese Kingdom, who knelt below, trembled and said, "Hai, Your Majesty! Obey! ”。

"Get out!" Hirohito has no good face, the war against China has been going poorly recently, and the United States has stopped the empire's steel strategic resources, and the Japanese country has had more and more crises, so that Hirohito, who is sitting in the palace of the Japanese country, has to meddle in the affairs of the Japanese army.

Hirohito's majesty can still be effective, and Tani Shoufu, who had been resting for less than 20 minutes at Heixingguan, immediately received an urgent telegram from the emperor in the name of Hirohito urging Hengshan.

Gu Shoufu received an urgent telegram in the name of Hirohito, and called the chief of staff of the division, Shimono Ichihuo Dazuo, "It seems that we are going to dispatch in advance, just now we received a clear telegram from the Hengshan base for the first time, and His Majesty the Emperor's urgent telegram will come in six minutes!" Shimono-kun, we have to obey His Majesty's orders! ”

"Your Excellency, Division Commander, according to the report of the reconnaissance unit we sent out ourselves, no large-scale Eighth Route Army troops were found east of Pingxingguan, only a few guerrillas of the Eighth Route Army harassing and attacking along the way, and they ran away after firing a few shots. The imperial army in Lingqiu County reported that some guerrillas seemed to want to attack Lingqiu County recently, but they were repulsed. ”

Shimono Yihuo said in a condensed voice, always feeling that things were a little weird.

The new group sent a clear code power in its base area, and he soon received an urgent telegram from Hirohito, which made Shimono Ichiho think that it was the new group that wanted to provoke him?

Gu Shoufu walked to the map that was temporarily spread out, and at this time, from the direction of Hunyuan, Yingcheng, from Weixian, Guangling, Lingqiu, and other places, the first part of the 36th Division and the first part of the 37th Division under the jurisdiction of the Japanese First Army that were blockaded were already in place, and the peripheral blockade of the Hengshan base area was firmly carried out from the southeast, northwest, and northeast directions.

At this time, the 6th Division had already rested at Pingxingguan for more than 20 minutes, although according to Gu Shoufu's plan, it could set off after a short rest of half an hour at Pingxingguan.

It's just that I didn't expect Hirohito's emergency power to come out of the new group of clear electricity in the Hengshan base, which made Gu Shoufu feel that something was wrong.

In any case, Hirohito's urgent telegram has been received, and it is impossible for Tani to act according to his plan.

"His Majesty the Emperor's edict has arrived, not to mention that there is not much time between the time when we set off to attack Heng Mountain. The divisions and regiments were ordered to set off immediately. By the way, Shimono-kun, have you contacted the special operations unit that left yesterday? Gu Shoufu finally gave the order to dispatch immediately, and then asked Shimono Kazuko about the situation of an elite special operations unit formed improvised to secretly detour behind Hutou Mountain the day before the main force of the division departed.

Shimono Yihuo shook his head and said, "Division commander, I haven't received any contact from their radio station for the time being. However, this force made a secret detour according to the route of the path given by Commander Okabe, and according to the time, it would take at least two or three hours for them to penetrate behind Hutou Mountain. It is estimated that it will take at least an hour for the main forces of our division to return to their positions before they press the Jinlongxia Gorge, the first pass of the new regiment's base area. ”。

"Forget it, this roundabout force can only be the icing on the cake. After all, the special combat team only has a strength of 500 people, and whether the sneak attack can succeed depends on the will of God. Gu Shoufu had some doubts about whether the plan of the temporarily formed troops to make a surprise attack behind Hutou Mountain and cooperate with the main force of the 6th Division to storm the defensive positions in front of the new 1st Regiment base area in Hengshan could succeed.

After all, it is impossible for the new regiment to no longer deploy defense troops there in Hutou Mountain.

Shimono Kazuho nodded in agreement.

Then, Tani Toshio ordered the 6th Division to assemble immediately, leaving a force of 1,000 men to Daisuke Kotani, the defender of Heixingguan, to coordinate and command the garrison to strengthen the defense of Pingxingguan. The remaining 22,000 men of the main force of his division were all under the cover of seven Japanese-made Type 94 tanks, and they marched out of Pingxing Kanto and marched in the direction of Lingqiu County.

The main force of the 6th Division came out of the Pingxing Kanto region in a mighty manner, and in less than a minute, Li Yunlong, who had kept in touch with the reconnaissance unit, received information from the reconnaissance unit through the radio in time at the field headquarters.

"Smack!"

With a slap in the face, Li Yunlong laughed and took the telegram that had just been translated.

"Lao Ding, Lao Kong, you see, Gu Shoufu led the main force of the division to gallop eastward out of Pingxing Pass. It seems that Hirohito's rebuke has made Tani Shoo unable to sit still! Li Yunlong smiled, and immediately handed the telegram in his hand to Ding Wei after reading it.

After reading it, Ding Wei handed it to Kong Jie, the head of the independent regiment. After reading it one after another, the two of them were overjoyed.

"Lao Li, this time Gu Shoufu can't escape death. It seems that our ambush has not been exposed until now. Now, it's up to Gu Shoufu, the old devil, to die. ”

Ding Wei smiled and said.

Li Yunlong and the two walked to the table where the map was placed, and saw that the hills on both sides of the Qiaogou Gorge Road, more than ten miles east of Pingxingguan, were densely marked with the ambush positions of various troops.

"The most important thing in this battle is that the commanding heights of Lao Ye Temple must be held, and it cannot be recaptured by the 6th Division after the ambush battle is launched. Once the Lao Ye Temple is lost, it is possible that the 6th Division will control this commanding height, and the firepower will cover the main force of its division to break through, and then it will be troublesome! Ding Wei, the commander of the 28th regiment, suddenly pointed to the topographic map of Pingxingguan and suggested in a condensed voice.