When faced with China's vast battlefield and when the Japanese army was using its strength to the limit, the embarrassment that it could only occupy a point in the occupied area but could not control the area made the Chinese Military Commission feel that it could make a difference.

At the end of 1939, China was determined to launch a winter offensive and organize regular field armies to attack the Japanese army in all directions, and at the same time cover the guerrilla units that had been formed to advance behind enemy lines, so as to make up for the shortcomings of regular warfare by means of guerrilla warfare.

It is a pity that there is a big gap between the intelligence system of the Chinese army, especially the level of anti-surveillance and anti-decipherment, and the Japanese army, and such a major operation was soon known to the Japanese army.

Before the winter offensive was launched, the headquarters of the Japanese 11th Army had grasped the Chinese side's winter offensive plan in advance by intercepting and deciphering the secret telegrams, and all units were taking precautions.

The Japanese 11th Army also changed its deployment accordingly, transferring the tired divisions back to Nanchang one after another, and the new 33rd and 34th divisions took over the defense.

However, this important information was not very clear to the Chinese army, but the military order was still carried out, and the 74th Army was ordered to take over some of the positions of the 19th Group Army on the north bank of the Jinjiang River.

The 51st Division decided to test the reality of the opponent and the degree of consolidation of the position, and from the evening of 15 November, the 51st Division formed a number of "capture teams" and moved around the wide position.

The three battalions also formed three "capture teams", each infantry company formed one, led by the company commander or deputy company commander, and the capture team was divided into plainclothes groups carrying shell guns, hemp ropes, and sacks, as well as combat teams with loaded guns and ammunition.

The capture team was actually a guerrilla force, nothing more than a regular field army, with a small force that actively sought out fighters, both to attack and to capture prisoners.

The attack was simple, but it was much more difficult to capture prisoners than expected, and the Japanese army, due to its small number of troops, and now receiving information that the Chinese army was going to attack, continued to hold together, and withdrew the small forces far away from the main force.

The guerrillas of the 51st Division continued for more than ten days, and they made some achievements in the attack, knocking out many puppet positions, but they could not capture a single Japanese prisoner.

The task was not completed for more than ten days, and the division headquarters was in a hurry, and Sangou received Liu Guangyu's order and simply took command by himself.

Pulled in a few trainees Wang Xinjia, Luo Xian, Tao Wei, plus Xia Chen, Chen Yanxin, Ma Zhaokai, monks and a few others, and formed a new team.

Sangou decided to go to a place he was familiar with first, Lion Rock, this place had been fought and held by the 51st Division not long ago, and although it was lost in other units, now the 51st Division is back.

In view of the important location of Lion Rock and the entry point of the road connecting Fengxin to Huibu, although the Japanese army now withdrew the defenders of Huibu to Fengxin, they still left some troops to defend Lion Rock.

After all, the Lion Rock position is similar to a bridgehead position for Fengxin, and the forward position must be defended, otherwise it will be surrounded by the superior forces of the Chinese army and die in Fengxin.

Any general with some command ability will not stubbornly defend a point or a city, and must combine the terrain outside the city to assist in defense.

Therefore, as the high point of the western terrain, Lion Rock has become the fulcrum of the Japanese 34th Division to defend the new forward position, and its role is very obvious.

But now if you want to fight Lion Rock, it is more difficult, without a few divisions of troops, it is difficult to start fighting, after all, it is not such a simple matter as fighting a single Lion Rock, but also to deploy troops to send reinforcements and blockade reinforcements.

At present, the Winter Offensive of the Military Commission is mainly guerrilla warfare, not the operation of this kind of large corps, so even if Sangou becomes the commander of the army, he cannot decide whether to fight Lion Rock or not.

What's more, Sangou is only a small battalion commander, but it's not that the officer can't fight, as long as he fights well, he can also mobilize the troops, which Sangou often did in the past.

Sangou stared at a place with a mountain pass, which was under the Lion Rock, near the edge of the Ganxiang Highway, and belonged to an earth eye.

The reason why the Japanese army withdrew most of the main forces outside Fengxin and kept Lion Rock is obvious, that is, because Lion Rock is on the side of the Ganxiang Highway, and the road can be used to transfuse blood and contact the Fengxin base camp.

It is precisely because of the connection of the Ganxiang Highway that the Japanese army dared to defend the Lion Rock far away from Fengxin County, and the mountain pass under the Lion Mountain was on the side of the Ganxiang Highway.

This is similar to the teeth in the tiger's mouth, and the three dogs have to go over and pull them out.

But even if he ate the leopard's gall, the three dogs didn't dare to go to the tiger's mouth to extract his teeth, no one was so stupid, he sent himself into the tiger's mouth, the three dogs drunkard's intention was not to drink, but to come out of the devil.

Yes, it is to lure the snake out of the hole, but this snake, if it doesn't hurt, it won't get out of the hole, and now it's in the most sensitive place of the Japanese army, and the devil will come out.

Although Sangou came with a company of people, the main force of the third battalion still followed, and even the 152nd regiment followed, after all, this mission was a bit tight.

When they arrived at the south side of the road in the mountain pass, a place to go down to the mountain, the troops stopped, while reconnoitering the terrain, and at the same time asking the villagers about the local situation.

But now in wartime, the nearby villages are almost empty, and there are no villagers to be found, and most of them have fled to the mountains to hide from the devils.

This is difficult for the three dogs, and they have already found the villagers in this part of the Lion Rock in the mountains with other brother troops, and found a few young people who are willing to serve as guides.

The three dogs inquired about them carefully, and learned about the terrain of this area and the deployment of the enemy, in fact, the three dogs had fought in Lion Rock before, and they knew something about the terrain, but no matter how much they knew, they were not as good as the villagers who grew up here.

After inquiring about the situation, I learned that there was a squadron of Japanese troops stationed here, all of which were currently cowering in Lion Rock, and the mountain pass position was only defended by a company of puppet troops.

A Japanese squadron cowered in a fortified position on Lion Rock, even if the three battalions were to fight with the whole battalion, it might not be able to do it, and it was still necessary to fight the puppet army company of Yamaguchi first.

In order not to let the devil risk coming out to save him, Sangou still chose to fight at night, he rarely fought with the puppet army before, Sangou had never even fought a civil war, and he was very disdainful of such a traitor army.

But the Ninth Company of Tienon had a lot of contact with the puppet army in the area of Baohua Mountain, in fact, most of these traitor troops, most of the soldiers, were just for a bite to eat, and they would not die for the devil.

Since this is the case, the three dogs will call the Ninth Company to fight this puppet army, surround the three and lack one, as long as it is defeated, there is no need to annihilate them all, and these people and everyone will fight to the death.

The three battalions and four companies, although one company was transferred out by the three dogs, but the machine gun company had a lot fewer people, and the main force of the other three infantry companies was there.

Under the leadership of Tienon, the Ninth Company took up the task of fighting the puppet army with ease, and Tienon first took advantage of the darkness of the night to send people to carry out a semi-encirclement of the puppet army's position at the mountain pass.

Then began to launch a surprise attack, the sudden attack of grenades and shell guns, only to beat the sleeping puppet army company dizzy.