An infantry squad attached to the wing headquarters did not return until late at night, which was almost predictable for the two Japanese soldiers who were still proficient in tactics, and the tragic fate of these soldiers sent out by them to "raise military rations" was almost predictable.

Obviously, they haven't returned yet, and they shouldn't be able to come back, thinking of the military order that the division and regiment headquarters said unclear but strictly ordered the whole army not to go out of the position at will, but the two couldn't help but feel a chill in their hearts, and now it seems that the main force of the division and regiment headquarters has also suffered a big loss in the Great Wall Mountains, as evidenced by the disappearing baggage squadron and the infantry battalion of the Fengtian Independent Brigade.

However, as the supreme commander of the Fourth Infantry Brigade today, Kasahara Kawa could not allow an entire infantry squad of 48 imperial officers and soldiers to disappear into the mountains of the Great Wall of China for no reason.

So, the sky was bright, and Kasawara Kawa Daisa, who was biting his back molars, sent the most elite of his wing headquarters and the last force he could muster, and in order to meet the baggage troops sent by the division and regiment headquarters, he entered the Great Wall Mountains head-on, to search for the whereabouts of the missing infantry squad.

It was a reinforced infantry squadron, and in order to ensure the safety of this unit, Kasahara River, who was about to turn gray with his hair, not only transferred men to four infantry squadrons, but also gave them three heavy machine guns, which was a quarter of a heavy machine gun squadron.

One infantry squad is 54 men, four infantry squads are 216 men, and will have 12 grenadiers and 8 light machine guns, plus 3 heavy machine gun groups of 18 people, the strength will reach 234 people, and the combat strength will be close to two infantry squadrons.

Generally speaking, the Chinese will be active in the depths of the mountains with small units of hundreds of people, which may be a threat to an infantry squad or even more, but if you want to annihilate such a team with two infantry squadrons, without heavy weapons such as artillery, don't think about it.

The mountains are rugged, the grass is deep and the forests are dense, for the speed of the march, they can't bring infantry guns, but the Chinese are not gods, and they naturally can't carry heavy firearms, right?

Kasahara even considered the Chinese army that had been besieging a few days earlier, with a large number of melee continuous-fire firearms such as submachine guns and shell guns, because the terrible weapons that could fire continuously at a range of more than 100 meters had caused his Imperial warriors to suffer heavy casualties.

That kind of weapon is very good in the close combat of offensive and defensive warfare, but it also has an extremely fatal shortcoming, that is, the range is limited, as long as it is separated from the distance of 200 meters, the trajectory is extremely unstable, no matter how dense the bullet is, there is no accuracy, and there is no use for people?

A large number of grenadiers and three heavy machine guns were equipped for this weapon, and as long as the Chinese armed with such weapons dared to come, open the distance, and use the accurate shooting and grenadier canisters of the imperial officers and soldiers and the cover of heavy machine guns, they could be calmly buried in the mountains of China.

In fact, the muzzles of the four 150 heavy guns were reversed and turned in the direction of the infantry squadron's advance, and if the infantry squadron carrying the field radio could report the coordinates by telegraph, the four heavy guns with a range of up to 10 kilometers would support it.

Of course, if you go beyond 10 kilometers, you can't help it.

Kasahara Chuan can only hope that his nephew, who may have lost his life, will not be so stupid and run out for dozens of miles in one go.

It can be said that for this search operation, this reinforced infantry squadron, which risked a possible ambush, had prepared everything.

Since the main position was launched, Captain Nakano Hiromori, who had already received a face-to-face instruction from His Excellency Captain Daisa, used an infantry squad two miles in front as a spearhead squad, and the two infantry squads in the center also each sent a lightly armed squad to extend 300 meters from the two wings, and an infantry squad searched and advanced in formation behind the palace.

This was probably the first time that the Japanese had marched so carefully through the mountains, and for this reason the pace of the advance was slow to five miles per hour, only a third of the usual march.

But, everything was worth it, at least for three hours in a row they were not attacked by the legendary small group of Chinese troops. The two light infantry detachments spread along the two wings along the mountain contributed to it, and although the uniforms were about to be torn into beggar's suits in the thorny mountain forest, they also avoided the possibility that Chinese could lie in the bushes above the mountain and shoot them at them on the mountain road below.

Compared to precious lives, being pierced in the foot is not a problem.

And, as it was close to noon, they finally found traces of the missing infantry squad passing by, and the burning fires and the butts of dropped Japanese cigarettes proved that they had stayed here and continued to move on.

After complaining about the courage of these fools, the Japanese army could only continue to search forward, and the mountains became more and more steep, with deep ditches on one side and mountains on the other, and they could only withdraw the reconnaissance soldiers on one side.

Therefore, not surprisingly, two sharp detachments sent by the cautious Captain Nakano Hausen found traces of Chinese passing on the mountain ridge, and the whole army was on alert soon after the Chinese attacked.

Although the terrain here is extremely dangerous, but with preparation and sufficient long-range firepower, the short gun fire fired by the Chinese has lost its previous threat to the Japanese troops on high alert, and most of the bullets fired from more than 200 meters of space either drift into deep ditches or hit stones overhead.

That is, a few unlucky people who were not hiding well enough were killed by the opponent's accurate shooters with spears.

And three heavy machine guns and up to twelve grenadiers are definitely not vegetarian, and the fierce return fire also hit the Chinese lurking positions on the mountain ridges, if nothing else, the invisible deep forest, the Chinese should have suffered more casualties than them.

The Chinese were very tenacious and intelligent, and after firing extremely stubbornly with light machine guns and grenadiers for more than ten minutes, they took the initiative to retreat after finding that there was no way to take the opponent.

The three infantry detachments that pursued past found a carefully constructed blocking position by the Chinese in that mountain forest.

Most of the Japanese soldiers had a layer of fine sweat on their heads.

They had dug a shallow but shallow trench on the mountainside, which was large enough to hide the soldiers' bodies, and covered it with shrubs on top of it, if it weren't for Nakano Hiromori's cautious and stubborn dispatch of an infantry detachment to search and advance on the mountainside, despite the high mountain and dense forests, once they entered the Chinese's carefully constructed position within more than 100 meters。。。。。。。

The thought of the dense fire from their submachine guns and shell guns made all the Japanese eggs swollen.

Fortunately, the detachment of sharp soldiers searching and advancing in the mountains and forests prevented this disaster, and the Chinese had to launch an attack in advance, and the distance of more than 200 meters was enough to ensure that the imperial warriors did not have to be too afraid of the bullets that rained down.

The Chinese retreated quickly, and the carefully constructed ambush position left no corpses except for the charred black from the grenade explosion and the bullet holes of 92 heavy machine gun bullets, that is, a cloud of scarlet showed that they had a lot of casualties here, which basically met Captain Nakano's expectations.

In order to prevent the Chinese from using these fortifications to find work, Nakano Hausen even ordered several infantry squads to work tirelessly to destroy and blast the trenches and fortifications with the sapper shovels and explosives they carried with them.

The Japanese army was busy, looking into the distance, Diao Ye, who was in charge of observing with a telescope, scolded and scolded.

Those fortifications, but the success of the 300 brothers of the Independent Guerrilla Brigade after a night of hard work, the big guys' arms were almost exhausted, and they were destroyed by these dogs before they could be used.

Of course, this is not the most breath-holding, the most breath-holding thing is that the Japanese have learned to be smart, and it is impossible for the independent guerrilla brigade to replicate the glorious results of the last ambush of the Japanese baggage team at Qinglongshan in such an advanced formation.

Even if Captain Lang accurately predicted that the Japanese army would inevitably come to find the missing Japanese squad and would inevitably pass through this mountainous area, but so what?

At this moment, the Japanese army is like a hedgehog full of thorns, no matter how good the teeth of the independent guerrilla brigade are, if you bite it like this, it will be a hedgehog meat that is not eaten but a mouth full of blood.

However, just let this group of Japanese soldiers come and go with swagger, not to mention that Diao Ye is unwilling, and the main force of the independent guerrilla brigade three miles away from here is probably not willing!

However, Diao Ye always had an intuition that Commander Lang would have a way to deal with this group of Japanese invaders, otherwise he would not have put the strength of two infantry squads on this carefully constructed position, which was only half of the infantry strength of the entire independent guerrilla brigade, and even the heavy weapons of the fire support squadron did not appear.

Perhaps, the focus of his attack is not here at all? But the main force of the independent guerrilla brigade has no intention of leaving here at all! And staggered here, where would it be a suitable area for ambushes?

Not to mention that Diao Ye didn't understand, maybe the 300 officers and soldiers of the Independent Guerrilla Brigade were thinking about this issue.

The Japanese army that has cleaned up the battlefield no longer has this concern, and they will still maintain this rhythm to move forward, no matter what conspiracy the Chinese use, as long as they are careful enough and do not make mistakes, the Chinese will not be able to do anything about them.

This is the self-confidence of those who are strong enough.

However, the Chinese in this mountain are equally confident.

All of them have faced Japanese invaders far superior to their own forces, and they have never flinched.

What's more, at this time, there is a deep feud in the sea of blood.