Tachibana Osa suddenly pointed to a grove of trees and cornfields hundreds of meters outside the city.

"Captain Hakuda, have you conducted a close search in that area?"

A small officer hurriedly came over, bowed and puffed up his chest with confidence: "It has been closely investigated, and there is no trace of the enemy at all!" ”

Tachibana Osazo paused for a moment, a little unwilling: "Go, send the cavalry team to continue the search, search all the ground, and after that, continue to expand to the periphery, we must ensure that behind us, it is safe enough, and there is absolutely no enemy ambush." ”

Second Lieutenant Hirota was the leader of a reconnaissance detachment of the cavalry squadron, responsible for the overall search and alert, and had thirty-five cavalrymen under his command. There are very good scouts.

Another wave of cavalry was scattered.

The cavalry Kataoka and First Class Kodama marched together and entered the cornfields and bushes to the southwest.

The two of them galloped on one side and observed with binoculars on the other, and were very disappointed.

"What is the madness of the captain of the Sutsuda detachment? We've checked it out and nothing! Kataoka said angrily.

The re-examination was a distrust and denial of the effectiveness of their previous investigation, which greatly challenged his conceit.

Kodama is a little lower in the rank of first class.

Kataoka is a private.

Kodama smiled and said: "It's okay, let's accept the order, anyway, idle is idle, they are officers, don't play prestige, isn't it boring?" ”

Kataoka was comforted and felt a little better.

"They are really stupid, can the people of China still ambush heavy troops in such a small area?"

Kodama followed his meaning and was responsible for opening the corn field in front, "It's impossible, in such an area, at most you can ambush the strength of one platoon, but for our Tachibana Wing, even if you ambush a platoon on the Eighth Road, what's the point?" Completely sent to death. ”

Kataoka stopped his horse: "A platoon? Even if you ambush a company, a battalion, a regiment, what can you do? Can you beat our Tachibana United? Even if there are 10,000 people on Tubalu, they are not the opponents of the imperial army, their weapons and ammunition are very poor, especially the ammunition, there are very few, and the firepower is too weak, so they are not the opponents of our army at all. ”

As they walked, the two of them mocked the stupidity of the superior officer, and suddenly, they heard the fierce sound of gunfire and cannons from the west.

The two hurriedly looked to the west and immediately exclaimed: "Look, the Chinese army, the large army of the Chinese army, they have come to reinforce it!" ”

To the west, gunfire followed one after another, and the roar of grenadiers and mortars.

Even, there are heavy artillery!

Ministry, that's infantry artillery and mountain artillery, those things, as soon as you hear the sound, are very familiar, they should be the standard equipment of the imperial army, it seems to be the standard configuration of an infantry brigade!

"Takada Brigade!" The two shouted in unison.

The enemy came and used the weapons of the Takada brigade, and the fire was so fierce that it exceeded the expectations of the Japanese army.

Two scout cavalrymen, looking at the west with binoculars, and the other with their hands in front of them, were also observing.

They saw the Chinese army, attacking, all of them were people's clothes, it was Tubalu.

A turtle who doesn't even have a military uniform dares to come to fight the imperial army?

Can you have such a good weapon?

To the west, under the cover of corn and green gauze tents and various bushes, woods, millet, beans, wild amaranth and large pine and cypress woodlands of private graves, many Chinese troops were indeed seen.

"At least one battalion! No, it's more, sure enough, it's the reinforcements of the Chinese army! ”

The two observed for a while, discussed for a while, and decided to leave and report the military situation to Captain Botian.

On the city wall of the county seat, for the first time, the supreme commander of the Japanese army, Tachibana Daisa, saw it.

He was shocked and angry.

What is surprising is that there are so many troops and such sophisticated equipment in the Tubalu, you listen, there are no less than twenty machine guns, no less than four machine guns, no less than eight grenadiers, mortars, no, that's a battle defense artillery!

There were also infantry artillery and mountain artillery.

Dirt Eight Road equipment?

He turned his head and looked at Takada Shaosa.

Takada Shaosa shuddered a little, and lowered his head sadly and angrily.

The artillery fire of the Dirt Eighth Road must have captured Takata's troops!

Tachibana Daisa was a little resentful, and finally didn't say anything.

"Second Lieutenant Hirota, order all of your men to change their combat missions and go to the front line to reconnoiter the enemy!"

Osa began to issue various on-the-spot orders.

The Japanese made contact with the artillery using a temporary telephone line: "Lieutenant Yuanlishan, immediately observe the enemy, prepare to shoot at the enemy in a few minutes, and support our infantry with fire!" ”

The artilleryman agreed: "Report to Dazuo, we are preparing, the direction has been adjusted, and in less than five minutes, the shells will be discharged and cover the enemy!" For the victory of my main infantry, provide fire cover! ”

Takada Shaoza, after waiting for a while, looked at Captain Fujii: "The main force of the Shina army is indeed on the periphery, but this time, they will encounter a bitter hand, and the power of our Tachibana Wing will definitely be enough to wipe out the enemy!" ”

Captain Fujii was eager to try: "Your Excellency, I think we should grasp the key issues, now, we must first solve the battle on the Western Front, as for these enemies in the county, we only need to use a small number of troops to blockade it, anyway, our elite field army, in front of the tunnel, really can't use their hands and feet, with artillery to fight mosquitoes......"

Actually, Fujii has an extra heart.

It's not cost-effective to fight in the county.

The Sakurai Brigade has already lost more than half, and if it continues to fight, it may be able to eliminate the Chinese underground army, but it will have to exhaust its vitality!

Captain Fujii was apprehensive about the constant and skillful counterattacks of the Chinese troops from the tunnels.

It's hard to work with these rats.,It's very uncomfortable.。

Go to the plains to fight, use your housekeeping skills, and you will definitely get great results!

Tachibana immediately understood what he meant.

"Well, the Chinese army in the county town has also been seriously hit, and its vitality has been greatly damaged, and our army can't blindly attack, so let's leave an infantry squadron to monitor, and the rest of the troops will immediately reinforce to the west!"

Captain Fujii was overjoyed, bowed, and quickly issued the order.

The Japanese left an incomplete infantry squadron, about a hundred people, and the rest of the four hundred, led by Fujii, quickly left the county seat.

"Adopt a flanking tactic, right?" Tachibana Osaku muttered.

He wasn't worried, though.

On the Western Front, there was an infantry brigade, a complete infantry brigade, strong, fighting in the daytime, on the plains, with the blessing of artillery units, the Japanese army would win, moreover, it could easily win.

Even if it doesn't work, he has another infantry brigade, a cavalry squadron that can help.

An infantry brigade was left as a general reserve.

Tachibana Osa felt that he was a terrific military expert and was very pleased with his arrangement.

The guards of the wing headquarters beside him had an infantry squad, plus the troops in the city and the troops on the ruins of the city walls, the total strength was a little more than a squadron.