The bandits in the eighteen villages of Feixi didn't know what was going on on the side of the independent regiment, and they were still waiting not far away to see a good show, but the posture of the independent regiment was opened, but after waiting for a long time, they didn't see the fight, and they didn't know what they were doing.

The bandits of the eighteen villages can't help but say some rumors.

"The people of the independent regiment haven't seen any movement for a long time, shouldn't they admit it?"

"I think it's going to start a long time ago, why don't you see any movement for a long time?"

"In this way, this Grand Master Xu is also a flyover trick, and he is a kung fu."

In the crowd, Yang Bagan frowned and didn't say a word, he knew that things would not be so simple, Xu Rui said that the artillery brigade that wanted to fight the devil would definitely fight.

Sun Changhe leaned over and asked in a low voice: "Counselor, what are you waiting for?" ”

Sun Changhe also didn't believe that Xu Rui was letting go of his mouth, one could lead hundreds of remnants to break out of the encirclement from Wuxi, one could lead hundreds of remnants to annihilate the Chongteng detachment in Nantong, and one could single-handedly kill the fierce man of the devil's first wing, how could these bandits be able to match it?

Sun Changhe prefers to believe that Xu Rui is waiting, waiting for a suitable fighter.

Yang Ba shook his head when he heard this, indicating that he didn't know either, and he really didn't know.

At this time, I suddenly saw a figure hurriedly running over, shouting from a distance: "Adjutant Sun? Is Adjutant Sun here? ”

Yang Ba could hear that this was Xu Rui's guard thunder, so he got up and responded: "Thunder, we are here." ”

"Adjutant Sun, you let me find it easily." Lei Xiang hurriedly ran over, and gasped again, and said, "The regiment commander asked me to come to you, saying that he wanted to borrow the machine gun of your guard platoon. ”

"Borrow a gun?" Sun Changhe said, "You tell the group seat for me, you don't borrow guns, but people can borrow them." ”

"The head of the regiment expected you to say that." Lei Xiang smiled and said, "The regiment commander also said that if you are only willing to borrow people and refuse to borrow guns, then even people will borrow guns with them." ”

"This can be there." Sun Changhe said again, "However, can I ask, what task does the regiment commander plan to give to our guard platoon?" ”

Lei Xiang suddenly said, "Don't you know if you go?" ”

After finishing speaking, Lei Xiang turned around and left, without waiting for Sun Changhe.

Sun Changhe turned his head to Yang Bayan and said, "Senza, looking at this posture, Xu Tuanzuo seems to be confident, then I will take the brothers and leave first." ”

"Go ahead." Yang Banan smiled and waved.

Seeing Sun Changhe take the guard platoon away, Tang Kaishan came over and asked Yang Bayan and said, "Chief Yang, you have been hanging our brothers from the Eighteen Villages of Feixi for a long time, but you have never started fighting, what is this singing?" ”

"Don't be impatient." Yang Bayan could only appease, as for what medicine was sold in Xu Rui's gourd, who did he ask?

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Also unable to guess Xu Rui's thoughts is the brigade commander of the 5th Brigade of the Japanese Army's Independent Field Heavy Artillery, Major General Kameda Eiichi.

At this time, Kameda Eiichi had already learned the news that the division headquarters of the Kumamoto Division had been terminated by a pot through a call from the Central China Front Headquarters, and also knew that Inaba Shiro, an Osaka merchant, had surrendered to the Chinese, and that his heavy artillery brigade was now a lone army.

But even if he has become a lone army, even if the reinforcements will arrive in three days at the earliest, Kameda Eiichi didn't pay much attention to it, unlike Inaba Shiro, an Osaka merchant who is greedy for life and afraid of death, Kameda Eiichi is a fanatical militarist, death is not only a daunting path for him, but an honor, don't believe it, among the Japanese army, there are really many devils who think so.

Of course, this does not mean that Eiichi Kameda will have no brains to find his own death.

In fact, on the contrary, the old devil Kameda Eiichi is not stupid, but cunning and has a clear understanding of the current situation of friend and foe.

To give an intuitive example, after blocking the attack of the Nationalist Army, the Devil's infantry is very likely to launch a counterattack in order to pursue as much as possible to kill and injure the living force of the Nationalist Army, but the 5th Brigade of the Independent Field Heavy Artillery did not take advantage of the situation to counterattack after thwarting the attack of the Feixi bandits.

It's not that the devil doesn't want to fight back, but the old devil Kameda Eiichi gave a strict order.

Although this order allowed the bandits in Hisai to rescue their wounded companions, it also saved the infantry of the 5th Brigade of the Independent Field Heavy Artillery from the risk of being ambushed.

Kameda Eiichi knew very well that for the 5th Brigade of the Independent Field Heavy Artillery, the most dangerous thing was tonight, and as long as they survived this night and waited until dawn, they would be able to get air support from the air force, and the pressure would be greatly reduced.

And after a day of unsuccessful onslaught, the momentum of the national army will inevitably fall, and in the next two days, their pressure will be relatively weakened, so this first night is the most difficult and the most dangerous, so he is even less able to take risks.

However, the independent group did not start, but it still made Kameda Eiichi feel a little strange.

Because he didn't know the bottom of his heart, Kameda Eiichi left the command headquarters and came to the forward position.

Kameda Eiichi's 5th Independent Field Heavy Artillery Brigade was deployed with its back to the Fei River, and behind them was the Fei River, which flowed from north to south, and only a small number of troops were needed to hold the stone bridge across the river, so that the entire brigade could be protected from the threat from the east bank of the Fei River.

On the north and west sides of the artillery position, there were more than a dozen small hill packs of varying heights, and the 1st Infantry Brigade of the Heavy Artillery Brigade relied on these dozen hill packs to build a strong fortification group, so Kameda Eiichi was also not worried about the threat from the north and west sides.

What Eiichi Kameda was most worried about was the defense to the south of the position, because the terrain to the south of the artillery position was flat, and the Japanese had no danger to defend at all, and this direction was the most vulnerable to attack, and it was precisely because of this that Eiichi Kameda placed the entire 2nd Infantry Brigade to the south of the position.

Confused and worried, Eiichi Kameda arrived at the position to the south.

Jiro Ogura, the captain of the 2nd Infantry Brigade, hurriedly met him.

"Ogura-san, hasn't the Shina Army moved yet?" Eiichi Kameda asked.

"Hello." Kogura paused heavily and said, "There is still no movement in the Shina army. ”

Kameda Ying looked at the binoculars for a long time, but he was still puzzled, so he asked Xiao Shuji: "Ogura-san, what did you say the Shina army on the other side was waiting for?" ”

"I can't guess this lowly position." Ogura shook his head and said, "However, Xu Rui, the commander of the Chinese Army, is a scheming and ruthless character, and several generals have been planted in his hands before, and this time even Inaba Shiro was captured by him, so Your Excellency the general needs to be careful." ”

"Sodesnay." Kameda Eiichi thought so, "What Ogura-san said is that this Xu Rui is indeed scheming, and until now, we don't know how he and his independent regiment deceived the Kumamoto Division, so I will definitely be more careful." ”

As he spoke, Kameda Eiichi seemed to hear a faint muffled sound.

At that moment, Kameda Eiichi asked Jiro Ogura, "Ogura-san, have you heard anything?" ”

Jiro Ogura obviously didn't hear anything, but he listened sideways for a moment, then shook his head.

Kameda Eiichi also thought that he had misheard, and when he was about to return to the headquarters, he heard a pop again, and it was clearer than the sound just now, similar to the sound of hoeing the ground with his hoe when he followed his father to work in the field when he was a child.

Hoe? Hoe?!

Kameda Eiichi suddenly shuddered excitedly, and thought of a possibility!

The next moment, Kameda Eiichi immediately roared: "Tunneling, sapper blasting!" ”

"Nani?" Jiro Ogura was confused, "Tunneling, sapper blasting?" ”

"That's right, it's tunneling, and then sappers blasting! That's why the Chinese army didn't start! Kameda Eiichi shouted in a low voice, "What a cunning Xu Rui, really cunning and cunning, he actually thought of directly blasting our ammunition depot by digging a tunnel!" ”

"Blasting the ammunition depot?!" Ogura Jiro also understood now, and shivered at that time.

God, if the Chinese were to dig the tunnel under their ammunition depot and detonate it, the consequences would be unimaginable, because the ammunition depot was stockpiled with tens of thousands of heavy artillery shells, and if these shells were exploded at the same time, it would be enough to blow up the entire artillery position, along with all the artillery on the position!

"Quick!" Kameda said urgently, "Immediately ask the sappers to come over with the listening equipment." ”

The so-called listening equipment is actually a big urn, although this equipment is primitive, but its monitoring effect is no worse than the high-tech equipment of later generations, and soon, the sappers determined that the independent regiment was indeed digging tunnels, and in more than one direction, the independent regiment was digging forward from several directions at the same time.

At this time, Kameda Eiichi could not sit still, and immediately transferred all the more than 5,000 devil soldiers belonging to the two heavy artillery wings, and began to dig with their lives, anyway, now there is no artillery to fight, these artillery soldiers are idle, and the trenches dug can not only cut off the tunnels of the Chinese, but also serve as fortifications, which can be described as killing two birds with one stone.

Therefore, Kameda Eiichi gave a death order to the two heavy artillery wings and more than 5,000 devil artillerymen, asking them to dig the front and rear triple trenches around the entire artillery position, except for the east side next to the Fei River, the front and rear triple trenches should be dug in the other three directions, and they should be deep enough to ensure that the tunnels of the independent regiment are cut off.

Kameda Eiichi gave an order, and the more than 5,000 devil artillery of the 5th Brigade of the Independent Field Heavy Artillery immediately began to work in full swing, Kameda Eiichi thought he had seen through Xu Rui's tricks, but he didn't know that he really fell into Xu Rui's calculations by doing so.

The reason why Xu Rui let the four battalions of the Independent Regiment dig tunnels around the artillery position of the devils was that the only purpose was to transfer out the more than 5,000 devil artillery that were cowering in the artillery position.