The night passed quickly, and it was the morning of August 2, 1939.

After a night of rapid marching, the main force of the 116th Division of the Japanese Army had already entered the Niutou Mountains, which was less than 50 miles away from the county seat of Songyang, and if nothing else, it would definitely be able to arrive before noon.

However, the Yamazaki Brigade in Songyang County could not hold out at that time.

Yamazaki Uyoshi's original intention was to expel the Chinese troops in Songyang Castle with lightning speed, and then defend the city to meet the main force of the 41st Group Army that was swarming in, and finally to encircle and annihilate the main force of the 41st Group Army with the main force of the 116th Division.

However, when the fierce fighting lasted until dawn, the 109th Infantry Wing of the Japanese Army was unable to advance an inch, let alone expel the Nationalist troops, and could not even occupy one more street or alley, and the area under control was reduced.

At the same time, under the onslaught of the Chinese troops from the other three directions, the 120th Infantry Wing was too late to build fortifications, so the defensive line was repeatedly compressed, and by dawn the area under control was less than 10 square kilometers.

And that's not even the worst of it.

……

The most serious thing is that Yamazaki Youyoshi's command has been targeted by special forces.

Targeting Yamazaki Youyoshi's command was a special operations detachment led by Li Sigen.

As early as three days ago, long before Yamazaki Youyoshi's 119th Infantry Brigade entered Songyang County, this special operations squad led by Li Sigen had already lurked in a small village called Meishuliao in advance.

Before the arrival of the devils, Li Sigen led the team members to transfer the villagers in time, but they did not transfer, but continued to lurk in Meishuliao in order to monitor the movements of the devils at close range.

It was also Yamazaki Youyoshi's bad luck that he actually chose to set up the brigade headquarters in Dongyangguan, and Dongyangguan was only 600 meters away from Meishuliao in a straight line!

Although the devil guards at the brigade headquarters searched Meishuliao many times and set up a sentry at the entrance of the village, because the special combat team was so well hidden, the devils did not discover the existence of the special operations team from beginning to end.

At about eight o'clock in the morning, Li Sigen, dressed in camouflage, came out of the cellar and crawled towards the observation post little by little.

Meishuliao has been poisoned by little devils, most of the houses have been burned down, and there are broken walls and ruins everywhere.

The observation post of the special operations squad was set up in the ruins of a civilian house, and because of the existence of camouflage clothes, Li Sigen's figure merged with the ruins, and the devils could not find it at all.

Silently, Li Sigen crawled towards the observation post.

Sixi, who had been holding out at the observation post for two hours, heard movement behind him and immediately looked back.

Seeing that it was Li Sigen, Sixi quietly released the trigger of the rifle that was tightened, and then turned around and continued to observe the devil headquarters six hundred meters in front of him.

Li Sigen climbed to Sixi's side and asked in a low voice, "How is the situation?" ”

Sixi replied in a low voice: "More than a hundred devils have been transferred away just now. ”

"More than a hundred were transferred?" Li Sigen was overjoyed when he heard this, and said, "How much is left now?" ”

"There are fifty or sixty left." Sixi replied, "At least half of them are medical personnel. ”

"The medical staff should also be careful, and they should also be equipped with guns." Li Sigen said, "However, if there are only fifty-six left, then the opportunity for our team will come." ”

To be honest, Li Sigen has been waiting for this opportunity for a whole night.

Since yesterday evening, Yamazaki Youyoshi has set up his brigade headquarters in Dongyangguan, and Li Sigen has been waiting for this opportunity.

Of course, until this time, Li Sigen didn't know that it was Yamazaki Youyoshi's brigade headquarters in front of him, he only knew that this was the headquarters of a devil.

At that moment, Li Sigen said: "Go, call all the brothers over!" ”

Sixi retreated silently and went back to the cellar to call someone.

Less than five minutes later, the entire team led by Li Sigen and the fifteen members who had undergone the cruel test came to his side silently.

……

In the main hall of Dongyang Temple, Yamazaki Youyoshi was roaring angrily.

What made Yamazaki Ukichi feel extremely angry was the "clumsy" performance of the 120th Infantry Wing.

From last night until now, from the launch of the offensive by the "seventh" main divisions of the 41st Group Army of the Nationalist Army, the 120th Infantry Wing has been losing ground one after another, losing three lines of defense in succession.

Now, even the last line of defense is in jeopardy.

Once the last line of defense is lost, the national army will be able to hit him directly!

To make matters worse, the 109th Wing was also losing ground in the city.

"Yaga, idiot, trash!" Yamazaki Ukichi brandished a snowy saber and was eager to cut down Shima Harayoshi, the wing commander of the 120th Infantry Wing standing in front of him.

Shima Harayoshi had a dark face and didn't say a word.

But deep down, Shima Harayoshi also roared.

There is no time to build fortifications at all, and in the face of the national army, which has an absolute superiority in troops, and in addition, it is at night, without aviation and artillery support, isn't it normal for the defense line to be lost?

What's more, I have long advised you to shrink and build fortifications, and now that the situation is not right, you will blame others again? Can I be blamed for this? Baga Yalu!

At this moment, a dense burst of gunfire suddenly rang out outside the main hall.

"What's going on?" Yamazaki Ukichi and Shima Harayoshi turned back at the same time.

The two guards guarding the entrance of the main hall also immediately rushed out with the 38 big covers.

But the next moment, the two guards who had just rushed out of the gate fell to the sky.

Yamazaki Ukichi and Shima Harayoshi happened to rush to the gate, so they happened to see the two guards fall backwards, and saw that both guards were shot in the eyebrows, and they lost consciousness in an instant.

"Yaga!" Yamazaki cursed and leaned behind the crack in the door to look out.

But I saw that there were two unknown militants in "strange costumes" in the field of vision, one holding a submachine gun, and the other holding two large mirrored boxes made in Germany.

These two people have extremely accurate marksmanship, especially the person in front, who shoots left and right, and the middle one is killed instantly!

In the blink of an eye, the two militants had already rushed to the front of the main hall, and they were about to rush through the gate.

Shima Harayoshi immediately took out a southern-style pistol with his backhand and fired continuously, but the two militants flashed left and right, and easily dodged Shima Harayoshi's shot, and the leading militant fired again while dodging, only to hear two horns, Shima Harayoshi's brow had been shot, and he fell straight back.

"Shima-kun?!" Miura Ukichi couldn't help but be taken aback.