When night fell, a long fire dragon appeared on the land of Xiangchu and was winding towards the west.

It was a Japanese army carrying countless torches, and the Japanese army was moving in a roundabout way in the direction of Yong'an overnight.

The 74th Army did not know the reality of the Japanese army, but they did not know that they had been targeted by the Japanese army since they received the order of General Tiger Boy, the commander of the Ninth Theater of Operations, urging them to go south to defend Changsha.

An army, starting from the Battle of Songhu, successively participated in the Battle of Nanjing, the Battle of Lanfeng, the Battle of De'an, the Battle of Nanchang, the First Battle of Changsha, and the Battle of Shanggao.

The names of the commanders of the 74th Army, the commanders of various divisions, and even the Whampoa Military Academy and the Baozi Army Military Academy, where the officers of the 74th Army were born, were also well known to the Japanese generals.

The 74th Army rushed all the way to Changsha under the indiscriminate bombardment of Japanese aircraft, but he did not know that the commander of the Japanese 11th Army, Anan, had made the decision to postpone the attack on Changsha and annihilate the 74th Army with all his might.

This tactic is very similar to the "encirclement and reinforcement" used by the Chinese People's Liberation Army at the beginning of the civil war a few years later, but the Japanese army has been rigid in implementing the plan, but it has not yet taken the initiative to realize this.

At this time, in the direction of Yong'an, Hao Lingqi's 58th Division, which was one step ahead of the battalion, had already fought with the Japanese army to a fever pitch.

The Japanese army rebelled against the habit of rarely fighting at night with large troops, but took the initiative to invite the 58th Division to attack at night, and at this time, the 147 Heights outside Yong'an City had already changed hands three times, and even Yu Guangliang, the regiment commander, was already handling his gun at this time.

Huo Xiaoshan's direct battalion was one step behind because of too many battles these days, but it was blocked out of that battle circle.

At this time, this Japanese army, which was like a long dragon, went to attack the 58th Division, which was responsible for protecting the flank of the 51st Division.

Anan Weiji's appetite is really not small, and he wants to swallow the entire 74th Army.

At this time, this Japanese army was the 18th Wing of the 29th Brigade of the 3rd Division of the Japanese Army, and their wing commander was the Ishii Shin who had chased and killed the battalion directly under him until the reckless Qingshan but ran into a nose and went back.

Ishii Shin marched late at night under the strict orders of the division, and at this time he was not afraid of a night attack by the Chinese army.

Because he had received accurate information from the division that the 74th Army of the Chinese army, which was in the area west of Changsha, had all been fighting with the Imperial Army.

All he has to do now is to be the last straw that overwhelms the Chinese army.

However, at this time, Ishii Shin, who was riding on a tall horse, heard the sound of fierce gunfire explosions, which came from the tail of his snake-like team.

Unbeknownst to Ishii, since his roundabout march had blocked a Chinese army that was also about to rush to Yong'an, this force of less than four hundred men had moved in the dark of night against such a Japanese wing of four or five thousand troops.

This army is called the battalion directly under the Ninth Theater of the National Government Army, and the commander of this battalion is called Huo Xiaoshan.

Huo Xiaoshan: They crossed through the Japanese army's baggage troops in a very short period of time when it was getting dark and the Japanese army had not yet lit the torches.

Because it was dark and the Japanese troops were marching in large groups, they greeted the Japanese soldiers in Japanese when they passed through, so they did not attract much attention from the Japanese troops nearby.

Although the Japanese of the scouts of the battalion directly under him is said to be good and bad, he can't reveal the bottom when he says hello.

The Japanese soldiers never dreamed that eight of the twelve would greet them in Japanese, but it was a well-dressed Chinese team.

Huo Xiaoshan: After passing through the ranks of the Japanese army, they soon found the battalion brigade directly under them. Then Huo Xiaoshan began to formulate a combat plan.

If a wing of Japanese troops can be counted as a long snake according to the formation of the march at this time, Huo Xiaoshan will never hit it on the head, because if it does, it will become a blocking battle, and Huo Xiaoshan has to prevent the snake from rolling its body and tail towards their small direct battalion.

Huo Xiaoshan would not hit his middle, if he hit the middle, then the snake head and snake tail would attack them at the same time and become a two-headed snake.

Therefore, Huo Xiaoshan would only hit its tail, remove a small part of its tail, make it hurt, and make it turn around in pain to reveal its poisonous teeth and stick out its tongue to bite him.

But in order to remove such a small and small part of the snake's tail, Huo Xiaoshan's direct battalion also had to go all out.

When Huo Xiaoshan was mobilizing before the war, he said, I don't know if this battle was hard or not, but this is destined to be the first shot that our direct battalion has fought the most. Why? Because the target is very easy to hit! The devil is holding a torch.

As a result, all the soldiers of the direct battalion laughed.

Yes, this attack was destined to be the first shot Huo Xiaoshan had in their combat experience.

Because the battalion under his long-term training has made great progress in marksmanship, those cold gunners with superb shooting skills are not mentioned, even ordinary soldiers also hang bricks on the barrel of guns when training marksmanship.

Huo Xiaoshan set up his position on a hillside 1560 meters away from the Japanese army.

At this distance, it was not difficult for the soldiers to hit the Japanese soldiers with torches, and the battalions directly under them also did night shooting training.

When the Japanese brigade was left at the tail of the line, the battalion directly under it was full of firepower.

Two Makqin water-cooled heavy machine guns, more than 20 Czech, more than 20 grenadiers, and then the concentrated fire of the battalion.

The Japanese army really did not expect to encounter such a fierce attack at this time, and they fell to the ground one after another after being shot, while the Japanese soldiers who fell to the ground were so beaten by the fire of the battalion directly under them that they could not raise their heads.

The most enjoyable thing to fight the Japanese army here is Zheng Youjian and his grenadiers.

Because they had a lot of grenades, they brought all the grenades they had captured from cleaning up the battlefield this morning.

More than 20 grenadiers were lined up one by one, one meter at a time, and once again a covered style of play was adopted.

When the first round of grenades was fired, they turned the barrel and moved the impact point forward for about 20 meters, and the second round of grenadiers flew over.

Then they fought the third round, and when they reached the fifth round, the organized counterattack fire of the Japanese finally arrived, and their wing commander, Nobu Ishii, finally rushed from the middle of the team to the back of the line.

Such a fierce gunfire and such powerful firepower made Ishii Shin instantly conclude that he had encountered the regular troops of the Chinese army, and he had no doubt that the battalion under his direct command was part of the 74th Army, otherwise how could other Chinese troops have such powerful firepower.

So he commanded the Japanese army to attack the ambush point of the battalion directly under him.

Zheng Youjian took the remaining two companies to shoot at the Japanese army and retreat to the southeast, what Huo Xiaoshan wanted was for Zheng Youjian to take those two companies to contain the Japanese brigade.

This retreat direction Huo Xiaoshan is also calculated, because it has been retreating to the southeast, and after crossing the Liuyang River, it is a place called Puji.

There were Chinese troops stationed there, and when these two companies arrived there, they took root again, so they no longer had to worry about the Japanese chasing them endlessly.

At this time, under the cover of the night, Huo Xiaoshan sneaked along his flank in the direction of the Japanese advance, and he wanted to take people to Yong'an.

Although he didn't know what the battle situation was in the direction of Yong'an, he always had to help Yu Guangliang a little, at least to make trouble for the Japanese army.