It is located in the northeast of Fogang County, 10 kilometers away from Fogang, 20 kilometers away from Yingde County, but it is an endless group of mountains in the middle of Yingde.

Although these mountains are not high, it is not very convenient for the army to march.

To the north and northeast of the ridge is a relatively flat area, suitable for the deployment of mechanized troops.

It is this kind of terrain from the head to Wengyuan, so the Japanese army will use this as the middle road.

The Yingde on the left was attacking along the Beijiang River, and there were many mountainous areas along the way; Xinfeng and Longmen on the right are also mountainous terrain, which is not suitable for mechanized troops and Japanese troops with a lot of heavy equipment.

The two regiments of the 40th Division did not carry heavy weapons in order to pass through the mountainous area between the county town of Yingde and Jitou as soon as possible.

Of course, the only heavy weapons that the 40th Division can count as heavy weapons are those mountain artillery and field artillery, and nothing else.

The lack of artillery support meant that they had to rely on mortars and light and heavy machine guns, and they did not know how many Japanese troops there were.

Everything is unknown, so the Japanese army must be taken by surprise.

As soon as the sky was slightly bright, Yang Yi, deputy commander of the 120th Regiment, arrived at Gaogang in the northwest of Jitou with a battalion.

"There's movement ahead!"

As soon as they crossed the stone bridge over the small river, they were ready to wait here for the arrival of the follow-up troops, and then launch an attack on the Japanese troops at the end of the day.

At this time, a rapid sound of horses' hooves suddenly came from the flanks, and as soon as Yang Yi turned his head to look over, his gaze suddenly froze!

Steed!

At least hundreds of war horses!

"It's cavalry, be careful, devil cavalry."

Before the company commander of the Spearhead Company could finish shouting, he saw a Japanese cavalryman who rushed over brandishing a saber and cutting his trachea along his neck, and blood gushed out like a spring, staining the grass red in an instant.

"Company commander!"

The soldiers of the Sharp Soldiers Company were frightened and shocked to see this scene. In particular, the picture of the company commander's head tilted and blood gushing out of his neck made the recruits who had been in the army for less than two months behind him tremble.

"Kill the Exhaust Branch!"

After the Japanese cavalry cut off the neck of the commander of the spearhead company, he triumphantly raised his saber and took the lead in shouting and charging.

More than 300 war horses, spraying rough white mist, lined up.

The iron hooves lifted the turf, splashing a large number of water droplets, and Sen Han's saber caught the soldiers who had just arrived here off guard, and many of them were cut off their necks before they could react, and blood flowed down the corpses to the lower places.

Before a soldier of the Sharp Company who had just pulled out a grenade to throw it at the Japanese cavalry had not thrown the grenade, a war horse suddenly sprang out from the side, and the sharp saber directly cut off his arm.

Rumble!

The grenade did not hit the enemy, but exploded next to him, and the bloody corpse was blown away several meters.

A massacre, this is a massacre!

The Japanese cavalry, which was skillful in controlling horses, was extremely fast, and three hundred war horses could completely cover this small battlefield.

"Don't run around!"

"Shoot, machine gun fire!"

Hu Liang was the first to come to his senses, and when he saw some soldiers running around to avoid the cavalry, he shouted a reminder while aiming his submachine gun at the two Japanese cavalrymen who were trying to rush over.

"Bulging."

The submachine guns continued to strafe, but because the horses were sprinting too fast, the Japanese cavalry was so skilled that after emptying a magazine, one of the horses rushed into the ranks, cutting off a soldier's hand before falling to the ground crookedly.

"Medic, take the wounded to the woods!"

"The others go to the high ground and find a place to defend!"

As the deputy company commander, Hu Liang hurriedly ordered.

The death of the two Japanese cavalrymen could not change the situation in which the spearhead company was in a weak position, and the entire grassland was filled with the shouts of the Japanese cavalry and the sound of horses' hooves.

Hu Liang knew that someone had to stand up at this time, so he immediately changed the magazine, asked people to escort the wounded soldiers to the nearby woods, and then led everyone to the nearby high ground to defend and wait for reinforcements to arrive.

At this time, Yang Yi also arrived at the battlefield with his troops and began to attack the Japanese cavalry.

With the fire of light and heavy machine guns, the Japanese cavalry was constantly swept off their horses. When facing poorly equipped enemy troops, especially those without machine guns, cavalry is indeed very lethal.

However, Yang Yi's troops did not have a lot of light and heavy machine guns, and as a large number of Japanese cavalry fell off their horses, the Japanese cavalry, which could not withstand more casualties, finally began to retreat.

However, after a while, a large number of Japanese troops appeared from the Japanese garrison at the end of the road, and launched an artillery bombardment on Yang Yi's troops.

A battle that was supposed to happen by accident leads to an unpredictable large-scale encounter.

。。。。。。

"I'm going to kill him, I'm going to kill this bastard! I know that he must have been cowardly, that he was a disgrace to the Imperial Army. ”

In the front-line headquarters of Conghua County, Ando Rikichi pinched the battlefield report sent by Fukutaro Nishiyama, and kept shouting and scolding.

Under his order, Nishiyama Fukutaro gathered the strength of two wings and launched a counterattack on the county seat of Yingde in the early hours of this morning, and fought fiercely for several hours, until dawn, but failed to take the county seat of Yingde.

The battle between the two sides was fierce, during which the Japanese side once attacked the county town of Yingde, but it was quickly defeated.

After daybreak, reinforcements from the Chinese army arrived, and Fukutaro Nishiyama once again chose to retreat in order to avoid being surrounded.

So this made Toshikichi Ando very unhappy.

At this time, the battle on the side of the 18th Division was not going well, the main force of the 18th Division and the Guards Mixed Brigade was attacked by the 14th and 50th Divisions of the 54th Army of the Chinese Army, as well as two divisions of the 65th Army, and the 154th Division of the 63rd Army was also attacking the flank of the main force of the front.

What made Ando Toshiyoshi even more troublesome was that on the Guangxi side, the 5th Division was actually defeated at Kunlun Pass, and the 21st Brigade was almost wiped out, and the brigade commander, Major General Nakamura Masao, and the acting brigade commander Sakata Daisa were both killed in Kunlun Pass.

The imperial army in Guangxi had already asked him for help, and it was at this time that the battle in northern Guangdong had reached a stalemate, and Ando Toshiyoshi had the intention of withdrawing his troops to end the battle and instead reinforce Guangxi.

"Your Excellency, Commander, telegram from the 18th Division." Just as Ando Toshiyoshi was hesitating on his side, the combat staff officer suddenly rushed in and said loudly, "Your Excellency Commander, the 18th Division has come to report that in the early hours of this morning, a group of troops appeared at Jitou and had a fierce battle with the imperial army stationed at Jitou.

At this point, the head has been lost! ”

"Nani!"

Ando Rikichi was startled, and after reading the telegram, he was a little angry, "How is it possible, how can the Shina army appear here?" Are the Imperial troops stationed along the route sleeping? ”

The chief of staff, Yuyi Tsuchihashi, reminded, "Your Excellency, the Chinese army that attacked the head may be from the Yingde side. ”

"How is that possible? The commander of the Xishan Brigade had just finished the attack on the British and Germans, and if there were still troops to attack and capture the head, how could the British and German sides defeat the Xishan Brigade. Toshikichi Ando couldn't believe it.

"Your Excellency, the Chinese army is not only the 54th Army, but also other reinforcements. And in the case of the Nishiyama Brigade, if the Shina army resists stubbornly, these Osaka soldiers will not fight to the death, it is very likely that there are not many Shina troops, but the commander of the Nishiyama Brigade lied! Tsuchihashi Yongyi analyzed.

"Yaga!"

Ando Rikichi gritted his teeth, looked at the telegram in his hand, and tore it to shreds in one go.