Seeing the defeated army fleeing in the direction of Lushan, Matsuura Junrokuro hesitated, because his mission was to go south along the Nanxun Railway, and Okamura Ninji repeatedly told him to quickly advance and take Nanchang.

The overall battle plan of the devils was that the 11th Army would divide its troops into two routes after capturing Jiujiang, one route would be the Hatian detachment advancing west along the river, and the 1st Division of the 9th Division and the 27th Division would advance west along the shogunate mountain.

The other way is for the 101st and 106th divisions to move south along the Nanxun Railway to seize Nanchang, and then move west to occupy Changsha, Hunan Province, cutting off the retreat of the million-strong army of the Guo army.

The Devil Central China Dispatch Army Headquarters guessed that if the Guo army was defeated and retreated, there were only two ways, one was to enter Sichuan, but to enter Hunan, and the road into Sichuan was not easy to walk, so they were likely to retreat to Hunan, so as long as Changsha was taken, the Guo army would have nowhere to retreat!

As long as the million-strong army of the Guo Army is eliminated, the Japanese side will have enough bargaining chips to force Lao Chiang to end the resistance and surrender, and when the war is over, the last thing the little devils want to fight is a protracted war, because they themselves know very well that they can't afford it at all.

Okamura Ninji was the commander of the 2nd Division of the Kwantung Army, he was specially recalled to Japan to be appointed commander of the 11th Army, and was also summoned by Emperor Hirohito, who accepted the imperial bounty, wine, and a scarf sewn by Hirohito himself, which is very rare in the Japanese army, and it can be seen that Hirohito attaches great importance to Okamura Ninji.

Not only that, but both the army sent from Central China and the Japanese military department had high hopes for him, so they gave him the most troops! And his Eleventh Army was also the earliest.

Junrokuro Matsuura was also very aware of this, so he had to act according to Okamura Ninji's orders, and he didn't plan to chase the fleeing Guo army in his heart, but wanted to continue south along the Nanxun Railway.

"Chief of Staff Kataoka! Do you have any ideas? ”

"Division Commander! The Chinese army fled in the direction of Lushan, and a few kilometers forward should be another position for them! Kataoka Masato wanted to wait for the 101st Division to unite before advancing, because the previous Guo army was very tenacious, but this time he fled after a round of bombardment, and he suspected that there was an ambush ahead.

"You want to attack?" Junrokuro Matsuura asked,

"Division commander, if we don't care, what if they copy our back road and attack from both sides?"

"There is an open field in front of us, and there are woods on both sides, if there is an ambush in front of us, and they take our back road, and if there is an army in front of us, we will be completely surrounded! I'm not going to let that happen! Junrokuro Matsuura snorted and said,

"What is the division commander going to do?"

"Our mission is to capture Dean quickly! We must move forward! So we split up and marched all the way! Stay at the pass all the way to prevent the sneak attack of the Chinese army! ”

"Division Commander! Now the 101st Division is attacking the front line of Lushan, if we go over, can we help them! Wouldn't it be more certain if we could go hand in hand with the 101st Division? ”

"No need! I still know the ability of General Masaki Ito, the commander of the 101st Division, and the little Lushan can't stop him at all! Rest assured! Just do what I say! Junrokuro Matsuura waved his hand and said,

"Hey!"

"Captain Tanaka Sacred Path!" Matsuura shouted,

"Hey!"

"Your wing is advancing quickly! Be sure to pay attention to the level, especially the woods on both sides, you must send scouts to investigate first! ”

"Hey!"

"Captain Yoshimura!" Junrokuro Matsuura shouted again to the captain of the 147th Wing, Tetsuhei Osakishimura,

"Hey!"

"You 147 Wing is behind 113 Wing! Keep your distance! Once the enemy situation is discovered, support according to the situation! ”

"Hey!"

"Ichikawa Nakasa!"

"Hey!"

"You'll leave us to defend this pass together!"

"Hey!"

Tanaka Seido led the 113th Wing to advance along the railroad first, and when they were almost to the woods, the whole army stopped, and he sent two reconnaissance teams to reconnoiter the woods on both sides.

At this time, Qi Rui and Liang Qing were ambushed in the woods, and they all clearly saw a devil wing coming along the railway, and a brigade walking in the front.

The reason why Qi Rui was ambushed so close to the pass was to see how the devils arranged, and found that they did not send troops to both sides, which means that Matsuura Junrokuro planned to go south directly, so he had to use the second set of combat plans.

If this is the case, then Qi Rui and they will have to play their role, and they must lure the devils away from the railway line, and it is best to let them all enter the hilly areas on both sides, and then divide and annihilate them.

Qi Rui knows very well where the specific fruit army is ambushed, what he has to do is to destroy it if he can, and if he can't eliminate it, he will bring devils to the ambush circle of the fruit army.

The reconnaissance team of the little devils came to the woods, and the gunners of the devil's squad held a Type 96 light machine gun and fired at the woods.

Qi Rui took the Dragon Tooth Squad and the Blood Wolf Commando with fifty people in front, Han Qi and the rest of the Blood Wolf Commando were two hundred meters away from him, and the other guerrilla team soldiers were five hundred meters away from the Blood Wolf Commando.

Qi Rui now wanted the devils to discover them, so he gestured for the members of the Dragon Tooth Squad and the Blood Wolf Commando to shoot this devil squad.

There were exactly sixty people on Qi Rui's side, all of them wearing gilly suits and hiding behind trees, and when the devil machine gunners stopped shooting, they immediately opened fire.

These people usually have a hundred shots and marksmanship, and now this devil squad is only fifty meters away from them, and they shoot almost at the same time, and all thirteen devils are shot in an instant.

Hu Tian and Luo Nan rushed over with a few members of the Blood Wolf Commando to pick up all the guns and ammunition of the devils, and then heard the sound of gunfire in the woods opposite, Qi Rui knew that Liang Qing and they were also acting according to the plan.

Because Qi Rui and the others used all the devil's guns, at first Tanaka Shengdao and they thought that the reconnaissance team was reconnoitring firepower, but after waiting for a while and not seeing the reconnaissance team come back, Tanaka Shengdao felt that something was wrong, so he sent two soldiers to check both sides.

As a result, the two soldiers did not come back after two gunshots, and Tanaka Shengdao was a little puzzled, if there was really an ambush in the woods, it was not exposed, could it be that the fire reconnaissance of the scouts just now found them.

Tanaka Seido looked at his surroundings again and found that it would be a good place to set up an ambush because there were woods on both sides.

Because it was not far away, Junrokuro Matsuura also heard the gunshots, and immediately sent a telegram to contact Tanaka Seido to ask about the situation.

I heard that there were people shooting in the woods on both sides, and the reconnaissance team did not come back, and Junrokuro Matsuura was also strange, if there was really an ambush, even if the fire reconnaissance was killed, he would not shoot! After all, his opponent is not an ordinary fruit army.

"Telegraph Tanaka Seimichi! Let him send a few more people to see it! ”