Liu Zhen immediately ordered his subordinates to clean up the battlefield, packed the baggage and several cannons left by the Japanese army into a spoonful of stew, and when they returned to the valley after they were ready, the rest of the personnel had already cleaned up the battlefield here, leaving only a few piles of devil corpses piled together.

Bai Fei gathered the team and said: "Although we have eliminated the Japanese army here, but the invading Japanese army in Duchang and Wucheng is still showing off their might, in addition, just received Yang Sen's distress telegram, the Japanese army on the front line of Xiushui has also launched a fierce attack on them, Yang Sen said in the telegram that the Japanese army used a large number of poison gas bombs, resulting in heavy casualties among friendly troops on the south bank, and even broke through the defense line of Xiushui River several times, which can be described as dangerous. So we must return as soon as possible to solve the trouble on Poyang Lake. ”

After a brief introduction to the situation, Bai Fei ordered people to set fire to the pile of Japanese soldiers' corpses. Of course, although burial is the ideal way to deal with it, they are now racing against time, and they simply don't have the time to dig holes and other work.

The fire was together, and the surrounding smoke suddenly billowed and stinked, and no one could stand within a few hundred meters around.

Bai Fei covered his nose and led the troops to leave immediately, trotting all the way, and rushed to Duchang.

At the same time, on the lake not far northwest of Songgu Mountain in Tochang, Izumi Murai, the commander of the Japanese Murai detachment, was at the bow of the Hira to observe the situation of his subordinates' landing operations in Duchang.

In this operation, the Japanese army dispatched a large number of gunboats and gunboats, many of which were large-caliber guns of more than 100 millimeters, and the power of the shells was very powerful.

Before the landing operation began, the commander of the Japanese fleet, Yoshiji Shimauchi, had already ordered several ships to set up their gun positions and began a wave of carpet bombardment towards the landing site in the waters west of Duchang City, the area around the large and small mountains. Immediately after that, the Murai detachment began to send people to take landing craft and, under the cover of artillery fire, began the combat operation of landing in Duchang.

To the surprise of the Japanese troops, their landing operation was very smooth at first, and about 500 Japanese soldiers in landing craft disembarked from the troop carrier and quickly sailed to the shore, and in the process, the landing force was never hindered in the slightest. The second monk of the Japanese soldiers, who was originally worried, was confused, but he did not dare to be careless, so he could only follow the rules and move forward cautiously. However, until they advanced to a depth of more than 1,000 meters on the shore of Duchang, they still did not meet any resistance, and some even wondered if the Chinese army in Duchang had fled.

After receiving the news, although there were some doubts in his heart, he was still a little fluttering, thinking that if he could take Duchang without blood, it would be a highlight of his military career, and at the same time, he would completely compare with Matsui Gui, who was attacking Wucheng on the other side. So Izumi Murai quickly dispatched a follow-up landing force, ordered it to advance quickly, and cooperate with the vanguard to take Duchang as soon as possible.

The second wave of the Japanese landing force of about 800 people did not dare to slack off after receiving the order, and hurriedly took the landing craft to Duchang. However, as soon as they disembarked and stepped onto the land, a fierce battle suddenly sounded near Duchang City in the east.

It turned out that at this time, the vanguard of the Japanese army that landed in Duchang had penetrated deep into the vicinity of Xihe Village north of Ancestral Hall, and because of the unimpeded movement along the way, the arrogant habits of the Japanese army were slowly revealed. Along the way, they passed through a lot of villages, although every household was already empty, but many devil soldiers still couldn't help but go in to search, ostensibly to check the enemy's situation and prevent someone from ambushing, but everyone knew the real purpose. In the process, there were really lucky devil soldiers who found some "good things", which made other devils angry. In order to go to Duchang County as soon as possible to "make a windfall", the entire contingent of the Japanese army went faster and faster, and their vigilance became lower and lower.

However, when they marched to the area from Xihe Village to Xujia, they were suddenly ambushed by the special combat team of the regiment directly under them, which had been in ambush at Toad Stone for a long time, and the joint armed forces of several hundred people led by Tao Jiaqing, the fifth squadron of the Jiangxi Second Security Regiment. The Japanese army was defenseless, in the face of the rushing face, like a violent storm, did not even withstand a face, more than 500 people just started fighting, most of the casualties have been lost, the rest of the devils saw that the situation was not good, the queen retreated, fled to the lake.

After the battle, Tao Jiaqing and his subordinates saw that they had repelled the Japanese army so quickly, and they danced happily like a group of children. However, for Li Hu, the captain of the special combat team, this battle was not to mention how depressed he was.

It turned out that in terms of combat effectiveness alone, these more than 500 Japanese soldiers were enough to plug the gaps between their teeth for the special combat team of the directly subordinate regiment, and they didn't need Tao Jiaqing's help at all. But Tao Jiaqing learned that the Japanese army was coming, and he took the initiative to ask to participate in the war, and begged Li Hu many times, Li Hu could not stand his central pleas and could only agree, but the condition was that all actions were under command, and he was required to lead only veterans to participate in the war. Tao Jiaqing agreed to this one by one, but he didn't expect that something would go wrong when he was about to fight.

Li Hu originally planned that when the Japanese army entered the ambush position 150 meters in front of it, he would initiate the order to open fire in a unified manner, so that the Japanese army would not escape the fate of being completely annihilated. However, what was unexpected was that the Japanese vanguard had just entered the 200-meter range, and a soldier under Tao Jiaqing went off due to nervousness. As soon as the guns rang out, the Japanese soldiers were immediately alerted, and the rest of the people could only open fire when they saw this, and although half of the Japanese soldiers were killed in the end of the battle, they still let the other half escape. Li Hu was angry when he saw this, and he wanted to lose his temper on the spot, but seeing the happy color on the faces of Tao Jiaqing and his subordinates, he still didn't have a seizure in the end, and shook his head silently.

Tao Jiaqing's face was overjoyed, and when he saw Li Hu coming over, he hurriedly asked, "Captain Li, the Japanese army has been defeated, why don't we take advantage of the victory to pursue it." ”

Li Hu took a deep breath, suppressed the depression in his heart, and patiently explained: "The Japanese gunboats on Poyang Lake are very powerful, and the cannon has a long range. Now they are anchored in the waters northwest of the Xiaoji Mountain, if we pursue, we only need to advance one or two kilometers, and then we will enter the firing range of the Japanese artillery, and whether we can destroy the Japanese army at that time is still secondary, once we encounter the shelling of the Japanese ships, then our casualties will be large. ”

Tao Jiaqing was impressed after hearing this, and asked curiously: "Captain Li, forgive me for being presumptuous, how do you know how far the Japanese artillery is?" Besides, if the Japanese drove the gunboats to the shore of Xiaoji Mountain, wouldn't we be within its range of attack here? ”

Li Hu smiled slightly after hearing this, and said in his heart, How do I know? Hmph, Lao Tzu followed us to the group in Shanghai and didn't know how to bomb several Japanese gunboats, and he already knew their range, and this was all the experience of fighting. As for saying that it would be better if the Japanese dared to bring large ships close to the shore, I believe that the brothers who were ambushed in the bunkers on the shore would have been bored with impatience a long time ago.

It turned out that before the Japanese army had launched a large-scale attack earlier, Bai Fei ordered people to make great efforts to build many strong and hidden bunkers in the Da and Xiao Ji Mountains in Duchang and along the waters along Songmen Island in Wucheng opposite, the purpose of which was to deal with the large ships of the Japanese army that passed by from then on. In this southward invasion, seeing the narrowness of this waterway, large ships were never sent to this water, so these hidden bunkers were not used correspondingly, although the personnel had been in ambush for a long time, but they were never exposed, only secretly monitoring every move of the Japanese army on the lake, and transmitting the news to all combat units in time.

Thinking of this, Li Hu raised his head and said to Tao Jiaqing: "In short, we can't chase forward, there is no doubt about this, don't ask again." In addition, you performed well in this joint operation, but the Japanese army has run away now, and there are not so many people needed here, so I think you should lead the team back to the city..."

When Tao Jiaqing heard this, he just wanted to ask for a few words, but he saw a special combat team member suddenly running over and saying, "Captain, Tuanzao has eliminated the Japanese army in the north, and now it is rushing back." ”

Li Hu nodded and said to Tao Jiaqing: "Captain Tao, you have also seen that our group seat is about to return, do you still need him to tell you this in person?" ”

Seeing this, Tao Jiaqing was reluctant, but he had no choice but to give up and withdraw from the position with his troops.

When Li Hu saw them walking away, he immediately said to his subordinates: "Immediately inform the deputy group seat of Wucheng and the brothers on the riverside, we are about to start acting as planned!" ”

"Yes!"