In the Battle of Nanshan, Chen Xiuping's troops did not only care about preserving their strength, and Li Hong would naturally fully cooperate with the friendly forces in the 9th Theater.

In order to cooperate with the counterattack of the friendly forces at night, Li Hong sent a special combat team of 20 people to support the friendly forces.

The counterattack on Madang is a battle of considerable scale, don't underestimate the special combat team of these twenty people, the special combat team can be of great help to friendly forces at critical moments.

The cliffs are dozens of meters high, and it is difficult for ordinary soldiers to climb them, but it is a piece of cake for the special combat team of the security regiment to climb the high mountain cliffs.

Li Hong walked outside the fortifications, looked at the heavily armed special combat soldiers in front of him, and then he sorted out the bags for each soldier.

"Brothers, war is cruel, bloodshed and sacrifice are inevitable, the twenty of you present today are listening to me, Lao Tzu gives you an order, all of you must come back safely!"

"Yes, Tuanza, we promise to complete the mission!!"

"Okay, brothers, when you come back, Lao Tzu invites all of you to drink!" Li Hong patted his subordinates on the shoulders and looked at the soldiers with concern.

"Xie Tuanza !!"

"Everyone, let's go!"

The soldiers of the special operations team took their weapons and equipment, quickly left their positions, and headed for the front line of Madang Fortress.

After the soldiers of the special combat team left, Li Hong looked at the time of his watch, and then began to patrol the position with the guards.

It was just dusk, and the time was only a little past seven and a little bit, and the sky was not yet completely dark.

There was still about an hour before the time of the 9th War Zone's counterattack on Madang Fortress, and although the security regiment had stabilized its foothold in the Nanshan position, Li Hong still did not dare to take it lightly.

The soldiers of the security regiment all stuck to their respective positions, gathering in twos and threes to eat food and dry food.

Li Hong looked everywhere on the position, carefully inspecting every corner.

The Nanshan position is only five kilometers away from the Yangtze River, and the west of Nanshan Mountain is a tidal flat by the river, and the tidal flat on the riverside is a large area of densely growing reeds.

The reeds are nearly two meters high, and the visibility is poor at night, and if there are hundreds of people hiding in the reeds, they will not be able to find them at all.

There were such dense reeds on the periphery of the position, which quickly attracted Li Hong's attention.

The devil commander is not a fool, such a good attack on the natural barrier, it is impossible for the enemy not to know how to use the environment.

If the devil's reinforcements really got into the reeds, they could either suddenly attack the Nanshan position, or avoid the sight of the defenders and quietly bypass the Nanshan blockade line to reinforce the Japanese troops in Madang Fortress.

"Signal Soldiers!"

"Here, Tuanza!" The communications soldier walked up to Li Hong.

"Immediately give an order to the engineer company of the 1st battalion to bring mines and lay some mines along the reeds of the riverside tidal flats!"

"Yes, Tuanza!"

In order to ensure a thorough position, Li Hong not only arranged for sappers to lay mines, but also dispatched a company of soldiers to deploy near the tidal flats on the river.

……

Night fell, and the banks of the Yangtze River fell into darkness.

On the north bank of the Yangtze River, the headquarters of the 106th Division of the Japanese Army.

The 106th Division of the Japanese Army is a division of the Japanese Army, with the 111th Infantry Brigade and the 117th Brigade under its jurisdiction, with nearly 30,000 people.

Originally, the 106th Division of the devil took over the Nanshan position and the Madang fortress position, but the Japanese troops were still one step late, and the position fell into the hands of the security regiment.

A group of Japanese officers sat on both sides of the conference table at the division headquarters with serious faces, and the devil officers of the 106th Division were having a military meeting.

The commander of the Japanese division, Kazutaro Matsuura, was greatly annoyed when he heard of the loss of the Nanshan position, and at this time, his face was very ugly.

"Bagaya Road, the defenders of the Nanshan position are really a bunch of waste, they occupy favorable terrain, the fortifications are so strong, they lost their positions in a few hours, it is really a shame for the Imperial Army......"

Not only did Matsuura, the old devil, expect the position to be lost so quickly, but the rest of the devil officers and generals also didn't expect that their defenders would be so vulnerable.

The Nanshan position is the outpost of Madang Fortress, an important strategic place, and a battleground for both China and Japan.

As soon as the Nanshan position was lost, the Hatian detachment was directly isolated, and the battle situation became more and more unfavorable to the Japanese army.

In order to recapture Bengbu Town, the Sagawa Wing has been requisitioning and dispatching boats to cross the river during the day and preparing for the river crossing operation in advance.

Kazutaro Matsuura stood at the conference table with an angry face, and asked a devil intelligence officer with a still angry face.

"What is the part of the Chinese army that occupies the Namsan position? How can they be so strong? ”

The Japanese intelligence officer shook his head and replied: "Your Excellency, the commander of the reporting division, I have not found out the information of the defenders of Nanshan China for the time being......

"Bagaya Road !!"

Matsuura Ichitaro was furious, and he shouted loudly: "You intelligence departments are all waste, our Imperial Japanese Army has suffered such a big loss, and you don't even have the information of your opponent!" ”

"Ha Yi, I am incompetent, please forgive the division commander!"

The intelligence officer of the Japanese army lowered his head and let Matsuura Ichitaro reprimand.

Matsuura Ichitaro glanced at the subordinates on both sides of the conference table with a fierce gaze, and said in a deep voice: "The Chinese troops that occupied the Nanshan position are not simple, they recaptured the Nanshan position in just a few hours, and completely annihilated our defenders, and even a naval fleet was defeated by them......"

Kazutaro Matsuura was puzzled, as far as he knew, the 9th Theater did not have such a strong brigade-level combat unit at all, and even a corps of the National Army could not conquer the Nanshan position so quickly.

"Baga, where did this powerful army come from?"

Just when the devil officers were puzzled, a devil messenger sent an urgent telegram.

"Report to the general, the Hatian detachment is in an emergency!"

"Hurry up!"

"Ten minutes earlier, the Hatian detachment, which was guarding the Madang fortress, had been subjected to heavy shelling by the Shina artillery. The captain of the Hatian detachment also reported that this time the Chinese army had gathered a large number of troops and means to cross the river and was about to launch an attack, and requested reinforcements from our department......"

"Nani? Madang Fortress was attacked by the Chinese army again? ”

Immediately, Kazutaro Matsuura strode out of the division headquarters with a pair of binoculars.

Walking out of the headquarters, he heard a dull and far-reaching artillery bombardment faintly coming from dozens of kilometers away.

Kazutaro Matsuura walked to a vantage point, followed the direction from which the shelling was coming from, and then raised the telescope in his hand to look into the distance.

Although the sound of the shelling was not very loud, the dense tail flames of the shells kept flickering in the air, and the sky in the distance was half red by the shells.

The chief of staff of the devil next to him said in surprise: "Division commander, the artillery fire of the Chinese army is very fierce, judging from the artillery offensive, the Chinese army has concentrated the artillery of at least two artillery regiments to attack. ”