Ancestral hall outside Hai'an Town, the headquarters of the Japanese army. 【Reading.com】

Yoshio Tachibana was patiently waiting for news from the cavalry.

The two cavalry squadrons of the cavalry corps have all been dispatched, and with the mobility of the cavalry corps, within a radius of 100 miles, any disturbance will not be able to hide from the ears and eyes of the Japanese army, and as long as the remnants of the provisional 79th Division enter within 100 miles of Hai'an Town, they will inevitably be detected by the Japanese cavalry.

The main reconnaissance direction of the cavalry was southwest.

In this direction, the 2nd Cavalry Squadron, led by the cavalry captain Sato himself, was responsible for reconnaissance.

Tachibana Yoshio thought that it would take at least an hour or two for the cavalry to find out, but less than fifteen minutes had passed, and the cavalry had discovered the whereabouts of the remnants of the provisional 79th Division.

"Where is it?" Yoshio Tachibana immediately stood up from his chair.

The cavalry lieutenant who came back to report hurriedly walked to the map, pointed to the map and said, "Here it is." ”

The eyes of Tachibana Yoshio, Ogasawara Goro, and several other Nakasa and Shaosa fell on the map at the same time, and fell on the direction of the cavalry ensign's finger, and one of them picked up a ruler, measured it on the map, and then said: "It's in Asakusa Bay in the south of the Manyang River, less than two kilometers away from Hai'an Town. ”

There was an inexplicable fierce light in Tachibana Keio's eyes, and he said, "How many people are there?" ”

The second lieutenant of the cavalry reported: "There are about one hundred and fifty people, and no more than two hundred at most." ”

"One hundred and fifty?" Tachibana Yoshio's thick eyebrows immediately frowned, and he said, "According to the report of the aviation scouts, there are at least more than 500 remnants of the provisional 79th Division, which means that the 150 remnants who appeared on the south bank of the Manyang River are only a part of the remnants of the provisional 79th Division. ”

Ogasawara Goro, who was standing next to Tachibana Yoshio, asked again, "In which direction were they going when they discovered the Shina Army?" ”

"The Chinese army is going in this direction." The cavalry lieutenant reached out to the map and pointed to a lake southwest of Hai'an Town, and the eyes of Yoshio Tachibana and Goro Ogasawara suddenly froze.

"Seven Star Lake?" Ogasawara Goro said in a deep voice, "The Shina army is quite good at picking battlefields. ”

After a pause, Ogasawara Goro said to Tachibana Keio again: "I went to the area around the Seven Star Lake yesterday and found that there are a large number of wetlands and swamps near the Seven Star Lake, and the surrounding area is even densely forested, and the terrain is extremely complicated. ”

Tachibana Yoshio's eyes flashed when he heard this, and the remnants of the provisional 79th Division did not choose the main road that passed through the town from Hai'an Town, but chose the Qixing Lake all over the wetland swamps, which shows that the commander on the opposite side has extremely superb battlefield D reconnaissance power, could it be that the person that Okahara Toshisi said, that dangerous enemy is in this small army?

If this is the case, then we should launch an ambush at all costs to wipe out this small army.

Ogasawara Goro asked, "Detachment leader, this small army has entered the ambush circle, do you want to mobilize the surrounding ambush troops to form an encirclement of this small force?" ”

"Don't worry, it's probably just bait." Tachibana Keio waved his hand and said disapprerovitically, "If an ambush is launched at this time, although this small force can be easily annihilated, it will inevitably affect the follow-up combat operations. ”

Ogasawara Goro thought for a while, and then said, "Then what should we do with this small army?" ”

Tachibana Yoshio pondered for a moment and said to the cavalry lieutenant: "Go back and tell you Captain Sato, don't rashly attack the Shina army, just entangle them." ”

The cavalry lieutenant said: "Detachment leader, before I came back to report to you, Captain Sato had already led the 2nd Cavalry Squadron to attack the China Army. ”

"Yaga!" Tachibana Keio was furious when he heard this, "Sato, this idiot, who let him attack without permission?" ”

"Get ......" Tachibana Yoshio's voice fell, and the sound of horses' hooves suddenly sounded outside the ancestral hall, and then a cavalry lieutenant with a bloody face staggered in, and as soon as he entered the door, the cavalry lieutenant immediately couldn't support it, and his legs fell to the ground.

"Captain Kuroki?!" The cavalry lieutenant was taken aback when he saw the cavalry lieutenant with a bloody face.

"Tsuyoshi Kuroki?" Tachibana Keio's pupils also shrank sharply, and a sense of foreboding faintly appeared in his heart.

Sure enough, that Kuroki sat up with the support of the cavalry lieutenant, and said with a miserable expression: "Detachment leader, the 2nd Cavalry Squadron was severely damaged by the Chinese Army, and Captain Sato was also broken!" ”

"Nani?"

"It can't be!"

"A squadron of cavalry, defeated so quickly?"

As soon as Kuroki's words fell, a sound of inhalation sounded in the ancestral hall.

Rao is Tachibana Keio has long been mentally prepared, and he can't help but be secretly frightened at this moment.

Before today, how powerful and difficult it was to deal with the remnants of the provisional 79th Division, Tachibana Keio had only heard about it, and he didn't feel it personally, but now, Tachibana Keio had a painful experience!

A cavalry squadron, it took less than ten minutes for the opponent to inflict heavy losses!

Such combat effectiveness is simply staggering, and it is indeed not a fluke that the provisional 79th Division was able to repeatedly defeat the imperial army in Wuxi, Baoxing, and Nantong.

However, after thinking about it, Tachibana Keio thought of another possibility, and if that was the case, it would not be surprising that the 2nd Cavalry Squadron had suffered heavy losses.

At that moment, Tachibana Yoshio asked again, "Kuroki-san, can you tell me how you were defeated?" ”

Lieutenant Kuroki explained the general situation of the battle, and after listening to it, Goro Ogasawara and the staff officers of the headquarters immediately broke out and cursed.

"Yaga, how can this be?"

"Sato, this idiot, do you think it's still the Warring States period?"

"Actually charging head-on against the heavy machine guns of the Zhi Na Army, isn't this looking for death?"

However, Tachibana Yoshio did not follow the scolding, because he heard a very useful information from Kuroki Gang's narration, and then Tachibana Yoshio said: "Kuroki-san, you just said that the two armies are thousands of meters apart, and Sato-san was killed by a shot by the sharpshooter of the Shina army?" ”

"Hello." Kuroki paused heavily, "At that time, the distance was at least a thousand meters!" ”

"A thousand meters?" Ogasawara Goro said awe-inspiringly, "This is absolutely impossible, if it is a fixed humanoid target, it is not surprising to hit the target from a distance of a thousand meters, and even a thousand and five hundred meters away can still be hit, but a cavalry moving at high speed wants to hit the target from a distance of a thousand meters, but it is basically impossible." ”

Tachibana Yoshio waved his hand and said, "It's basically impossible, it doesn't mean it's absolutely impossible!" ”

When he said this, Tachibana Yoshio remembered what Toshisi Oshihara had said to him when he was in the naval hospital, he said that there were two * Chinese special forces in the remnants of the provisional 79th Division, and these two * Chinese special forces had extremely outstanding marksmanship, and one of the Chinese soldiers even knew the legendary jump sniper!

Moreover, this Chinese soldier who can jump sniper is likely to be the commander of the remnants of the provisional 79th Division, and this series of battles in Wuxi, Baoxing and Nantong is likely to be written by this person! And his younger brother Tachibana Koji is likely to die at the hands of this person!

Although Tachibana Yoshio said that he didn't want to avenge his younger brother, in his heart, he didn't want to kill the commander of the remnants of the provisional 79th Division and avenge the shame of his dead brother.

Thinking of this, Tachibana Keio couldn't hold back any longer, and said to Ogasawara: "Order, the 1st Infantry Brigade, the 3rd Infantry Brigade, and the Artillery Team will immediately attack and encircle in the direction of Lake Seven Stars!" ”

"Detachment leader?" Ogasawara Goro said in surprise, "The defeat of the 3rd Cavalry Squadron was only caused by Sato's light enemy, and it is not enough to show how strong the combat effectiveness of this small army is, as you just said, if this is just a bait released by the remnants of the provisional 79th Division, wouldn't it be because we launched an ambush at this time?" ”

The rest of the staff officers also bowed their heads slightly, and the detachment leader launched an ambush at this time, which was too hasty.

Ogasawara Goro even suggested: "Detachment leader, it is better to send a squadron to bite them first, prevent them from getting out of the ambush circle, and wait for the remaining remnants of the provisional 79th Division to also enter the ambush circle, and then launch an ambush, so as to ensure that the remnants of the provisional 79th Division will be completely wiped out in one fell swoop!" ”

"No need! Don't wait any longer! Tachibana Keio waved his hand and said, "This small unit may just be a bait released by the Provisional 79th Division, but what I want to tell you is that what I want to bite is also this bait of the Provisional 79th Division!" After eating this small army, the remaining remnants of the army are no longer to worry about! ”

Goro Ogasawara wanted to say more, but asked Tachibana Keio to stop him.

Tachibana Yoshio waved his hand and said, "Ogasawara-san, carry out the order." ”

Seeing that Tachibana Yoshio had made up his mind, Ogasawara Goro didn't say anything more, turned around and walked into the telegraph room next door, and gave orders to the various infantry brigades and artillery teams.

(Dividing Line)

Southwest of Hai'an Town, on the shore of Qixing Lake.

Xu Rui and Leng Tiefeng were leading more than 100 veterans of the 2nd Company to rush towards Qixing Lake.

Leng Tiefeng looked back as he walked, and found that there were no devils within a kilometer, so he immediately took two steps to keep up with Xu Rui's footsteps, and said: "Old Xu, the devils don't seem to have any reaction, in case they don't bite the hook, but focus on the 1st, 3rd, and 4th companies behind, it will be troublesome." ”

"No, it won't." Xu Rui said firmly, "The little devil will definitely bite the hook." ”

Leng Tiefeng glanced at Xu Rui and said suspiciously: "Old Xu, are you so sure?" ”

"I'm so sure." Xu Rui said hesitantly.

"Why?" Leng Tiefeng obviously won't be so easily persuaded.

"Why?" The corners of Xu Rui's mouth suddenly bloomed with an evil smile, and he said, "The reason is that now the little devil already knows how powerful I am, as long as the commander of the little devil is not an idiot, he will definitely concentrate all his strength to encircle and suppress our 2nd Company, and will not pay attention to the 1st Company, 3rd Company, and 4th Company." ”

Leng Tiefeng said awe-inspiringly: "You mean to say that the devil knows that you are in the 2nd Company?" ”

Xu Rui said hesitantly: "Didn't you want to test your marksmanship with me just now?" The shot just now has clearly told the commander of the little devil that I am here! ”