Yoshimura Tetsuhei saw that if they didn't charge, they would be wiped out by the enemy forces in ambush in the woods sooner or later, because even if they retreated, they would not be able to avoid the pursuit of the people in the woods, and the casualties would be greater.

As soon as his command knife was raised, a bullet sank into his brow, and his body fell heavily to the side of the railway.

"Retreat! Fall back! Seeing this, Tanaka Seichi shouted in fright,

There are still more than half of the more than 6,000 people in the two wings, and the line that is advancing side by side is not very long, and the retreat at this time will be as Yoshimura Tetsuhei thought, and the casualties will be greater, because there is no cover next to the railway at all.

"Call for air support!" Junrokuro Matsuura already knew about this scene, and he thought that there were at least two divisions of the fruit army in ambush in the woods, so he planned to send bombers over to blow up the woods.

Qi Rui and the others have always been a two-sided attack on the devil now, that is, a pincer attack, and they have the cover of trees to make them simply uncomfortable, and they have only lost two fighters so far.

Are these warriors so godly, aren't they! This is all because of Qi Rui's good command, because when they attacked, the devils were completely suppressed, and when the devils counterattacked, Qi Rui and they had already retreated into the woods, and when the devils just stopped attacking, Qi Rui and they returned to fight with all the firepower of the devils, and there were woods as cover, so the casualties were very small.

In fact, Qi Rui didn't expect this battle result now, so he took advantage of your illness to kill you, since the devil had no chance to set fire, then continue to pursue and cover up.

Headquarters of the 1st Corps of the 9th Theater of Operations

The Scout ran back again and reported: "Report! ”

"Say!"

"The 106th Wing and the 113th Wing of the 147th Division were severely damaged by Qi Rui! The captain of the 147th Wing, Tetsuhei Osakishimura, was killed, and now Qi Rui is chasing and killing the less than 3,000 devils who have escaped! ”

Hearing the news, all the officers of the Guo Army in the command headquarters were stunned,

"There are more than 6,700 devils in the two wings, and there are less than 3,000 left! Really fake! How long has it been! Yu Jishi couldn't believe that every time they eliminated even a devil squad, they would pay a big price, not to mention that in such a short period of time, more than half of the two wings were wiped out.

Seeing that many of the commanders present did not believe it, Xue Yue said to Yu Jishi: "Immediately telegraph to ask Qi Rui about the battle situation, and also ask him how we need to cooperate next!" ”

The communications corps immediately sent a report to inquire and soon received a call back from Qi Rui.

"Qi Rui said that the devil may not advance again, let us immediately press the heavy artillery regiment up, carry out a comprehensive bombardment of the pass position, and immediately counterattack the pass after the bombardment!"

"I'm Cao! Has this battle become so simple? "A division commander still wants this = to fight an ambush after the devil divides his troops, but he doesn't want the battle plan to change again now, and it has become a simple and direct positional war.

Xue Yue thought for a while and said: "Qi Rui is right to change the battle plan, because the 106th Division only has four wings, and the 123rd Wing was completely wiped out before, this time Qi Rui is equivalent to destroying another wing, and now the 106th Division has less than two wings left, and it is impossible for them to continue to go south according to this strength!" So they can only retreat to the pass and wait for reinforcements! ”

"So we have to take back the pass position before the devil reinforcements arrive!" Xue Yue was still very excited when he said it, because this victory was inevitably a little simple, and such a good plan planned before was not needed at all now.

And this is all because Qi Rui's three thousand soldiers played a great role, and they actually relied on the cover of the woods to severely damage the devil so easily!

A commander said excitedly: "Commander, should we directly counterattack and then take Jiujiang back!" ”

Xue Yue shook his head and said: "No, according to the report of the brother troops, now the 27th and 9th Divisions of the Devil are also blocked and march slowly, if we recapture Jiujiang, we will not be able to hold it, once the 101st, ninth, and 27th divisions counterattack back, we will become turtles in the urn." ”

"Yes! Now Okamura Ninji is in Jiujiang! How easy is it for you to take it back! ”

"Didn't that kill him!"

Xue Yue waved his hand to signal them all to stop and said, "You still do what Qi Rui said, and immediately counterattack and attack the pass!" ”

"Commander! In this way, it will not be possible to completely annihilate the 106th Division! Wang Yaowu said, because once the pass is bombed, the devil is not stupid and will definitely retreat.

Xue Yue said: "I know! After the bombardment, there is still more than a third of the strength of the 106th Division, and he will definitely need to go back to repair for a while before he can continue to fight! That's just the time for us to redeploy! Let's do it! Don't make Qi Rui wait too long! ”

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At this time, Tanaka Shengdao fled back to the pass with the remaining more than 2,000 troops of the two wings, and Qi Rui had already asked the soldiers to stop the pursuit, and even let them clean up the battlefield and evacuate immediately, because Qi Rui did not see the devils in the pass come out to respond, and knew that the devil's fighter group was about to arrive.

So Qi Rui and the others evacuated to the deepest part of the woods as quickly as possible, and soon heard the sound of explosions behind them.

All the soldiers lay on the ground, and Qi Rui hoped that the devils would not blow up all the woods on both sides.

"Brother Qi!! Brother Liang Qing's telegram! Long Lan said,

"Read it!"

"There are fires in many places in the woods, and the fire should spread quickly! Are we retreating or advancing? ”

"Call back! Immediately advance to the front line of Minshan Pass! But don't get involved in the passes! We crossed the Minshan Pass and ambushed the 106th Division in advance! Hit them one more ambush! Qi Rui said,

After the telegram was sent, Qi Rui immediately asked all the soldiers to set off, Minshan Township has 60 percent of the mountains and forests, and it is not easy for the devil's motorized troops to climb over the mountains and mountains, but walking in front of Qi Rui and them is simply like walking on flat ground.

By the time they crossed the mountains and forests, the artillery regiment had already begun to bombard the pass position, and Matsuura Junrokuro had no choice but to give up and retreat.

At this time, Okamura Ningji, who was fishing in Gantang Lake by the Jiujiang River, had already learned of the fiasco of the 106th Division, and he couldn't believe that it was true.

Now Okamura Ninji is really a little anxious, because not only the 106th Division did not advance quickly according to the original plan, but the 9th Division, the 27th Division and the 101st Division have all made no progress.

Okamura Ninji is a very calm and excellent commander, which even Mr. Peng admitted, and said that there is a lot to learn from this devil commander.

"Immediately telegraph Matsuura! Let them go back to Jiujiang County to repair! "It doesn't make much sense for a division that is almost gone, and it doesn't make much sense to hold on.

"Hey!"

"Another telegram to the commander of the 27th Division, Masaharu Honma! Let him transfer the 1st and 2nd Wings back to support the 106th Division! The task of continuing to advance will be handed over to the 9th Division, the 3rd Wing and the Search Team! Okamura Ninji ordered,

Because taking Nanchang is the top priority in the overall battle plan of the Wuhan Battle Devils, and because only by taking Nanchang can we continue to advance westward to capture Changsha and cut off the retreat of the million-dollar army, so Okamura Ningji was very reluctant to transfer back to the 27th Division.