Kobayashi Tatsunosuke had red eyes, staring at the Cockscomb Mountain three hundred meters ahead, and the corpses of the five scouts in the trees to the west, panting for breath to vent the anger in his heart.

This Cockscomb Mountain seems to be round and not dangerous, but the dense trees on the mountain, the knee-deep snow on the mountain, through the alternation of the sun during the day and the cold wind at night, has formed a thick layer of hard snow grains on the surface of the mountain.

If the horse is forcibly driven to charge, not only is the slope slippery horse easy to stumble and fall injured, but what is even more terrifying is that once the horse's hooves are deep in the snow, a quick sprint can even easily break the horse's hooves.

"The first, second, and third squads went up to the river bank and fortified and guarded the remaining three sides of the mountain, and the fourth squad strangled on the river and confronted each other from a distance; Don't attack rashly, remember the lessons and shame of the blood of Dongxian Ridge and Tiger Mountain!

"Bang!"

Tatsunosuke Kobayashi fired a warning shot into the sky, and the gunfire roared and spread far away in the vast air.

After the two total annihilations of Dongxian Ridge and the right bank of Tiger Mountain, Kobayashi Chennosuke is a pig, and he doesn't dare to underestimate this Qing army, looking at the existence in front of him that is obviously like a trap, how dare he easily take risks.

"Bang, bang, bang—"

Suddenly, the cavalry of the first squadron raised their guns one after another to shoot into the sky to warn.

The north tributary of the Jiujiang River, the lower reaches of Qiupi Lake, the Liuli River.

Hearing the faint sound of gunfire from the north, the Japanese troops on the march were all startled and raised their eyes to the north.

It's just that the winding river and the mountains and forests on both sides block the view to the north.

"The whole army accelerates, and the cavalry immediately reinforced!"

Su Fanyuan's face showed a hint of joy, as long as this Qing army can be solved today, the wing can immediately go to the nine gates to fight and regain the prestige of the 19th wing.

"Bell!"

With a clear sound of metal sharpening, Kimura pulled out the Toyo sword at his waist, which shimmered in the sunlight: "The whole army is advancing at full speed, target Lake Akipi!" ”

"Hey!"

With the roar of the cavalry of the 23 squadrons, more than 260 Japanese cavalry soldiers stepped up their horse's belly at the same time, driving their horses to speed up and gallop.

Qiupi Lake, the camp of the independent battalion of the anti-Japanese army on the west bank.

Hearing the gunshots at the mouth of the river, the bodies of the soldiers of the independent battalion, including Luo Minglei, were shocked, and they didn't expect the Japanese army to come over so quickly.

"It's better than a dog's nose!"

Luo Minglei glanced at the grain piled up in the open air on the shore of the lake, and shouted loudly: "The grain doesn't need to be transported to Songling, just hide it in batches nearby!" ”

"The first wave of Japanese attacks was either a tentative attack or a thunderous blow; Gotta go to a company to help. ”

Shi Weiyuan's heart was also beating violently at this time, at that time, he put forward this battle plan with blood bravery, but now he calmed down, but he was worried for a while.

Luo Minglei looked at the lake, there were three platoons of troops at this time, preparing to transport grain, and the rest of the team was still on the way to and from Songling.

He commanded in a loud voice: "All the soldiers gather at once, and follow me to the mouth of the river; Lao Shi, you are here waiting for the rest of the troops to come back, and deliver food first, this is our lifeline! ”

"Battalion commander, I'll go!"

Shi Weicheng looked at Luo Minglei resolutely and said: "I proposed the plan, and I should fight the first game!" ”

On the Cockscomb Mountain.

"Cao, these Japanese soldiers can really endure it! The divisions are well concealed, and the large forces of the Japanese army will soon arrive, either to attack tentatively, or to attack with all their might; There must be no retreat! Remember, there is no way back, there is only a dead end to retreat to the top of the mountain, and a tough counterattack is the only chance to win! ”

Huang Bojie looked at the Japanese cavalry besieged around Jiguan Mountain, as if he had returned to the series of battles outside Jinzhou City, Nanguanling, and roared with enthusiasm: "The anti-Japanese army is invincible!" Long live the anti-Japanese army! ”

"The anti-Japanese army is invincible! Long live the anti-Japanese army! ”

"The anti-Japanese army is invincible! Long live the anti-Japanese army! ”

Suddenly, the soldiers of the independent battalion on the mountain roared in unison, at this critical moment of life and death, no one had the heart to scruple about the word 'long live'.

Since last night, the Second Company of the Independent Battalion has started a series of arrangements.

The low shrubs at the foot of the mountain, which obstruct the view, have been cut down in advance, and the branches of the shrubs seem to be discarded here and there.

In fact, there are either hidden horse traps with hard snow and hard sticks on the four walls, or there are dry mines buried.

Almost all of the explosives and drought mines that He Changying got from Nie Shicheng were allocated to the independent battalion, and the explosives had been exhausted at the foot of Biyun Mountain, and eighty percent of the 160 dry mines were buried on the slopes of this Cockscomb Mountain.

At the foot of the Cockscomb Mountain, the Jiujiang River.

Listening to the roar on the mountain, Kobayashi Chennosuke's face changed several times, although he couldn't understand the meaning of the words, but just listening to the excitement inside, he knew that this Qing army on the mountain was not easy to deal with.

Moreover, there seems to be quite a few of them!

Fortunately, he didn't rush straight up.

Kobayashi Tatsunosuke was frightened by the secret passage, and his ears heard the roar of a horse's hooves in the south far away, shaking the ice under the horse and shaking slightly.

"The main force is coming!"

Tatsunosuke Kobayashi suddenly perked up, looking at the corpses of the five Imperial soldiers tied to the tree, his heart full of hatred.

"Kill these clear dogs in a while, and hang them all on a tree!"

Tatsunosuke Kobayashi yelled: "Avenge the warriors of the empire!" ”

"Snow hate!"

"Snow hate!"

The Japanese cavalry surrounding Jiguan Mountain roared with hatred on their faces.

"Boom, boom, boom-"

The horse's hooves struck the ice on the river, and the iron palms smashed countless ice chips, and before he could reach the front of Cockscomb Mountain, Kimura Shige saw the dazzling red flag fluttering on the top of the mountain.

Then he saw with tears in his eyes the corpses of five Imperial soldiers tied to the trees near the river.

"Yaga!"

Kimura was so angry that his eyes erupted with fire, and once again he drew the Toyo sword at his waist, and shouted on the horseback to give the order to attack: "All the cavalry, go up the mountain from the southern slope, attack, and defeat them in one fell swoop!" All the Qing troops, don't take prisoners, kill them all! ”

"Hey!"

The Japanese cavalry who let their horses charge shouted for orders, and the trumpeters picked up the trumpets on their horses and sounded the trumpets of the charge.

“？”

Kobayashi Tatsunosuke listened to the sound of the charging horn a mile to the south, and his heart beat a little faster.

He was tempted to run over on horseback, stop the captain, and advise, 'This Qing army has always been cunning, and it should not launch a general attack rashly, but wait until Kurifan Daisa's infantry arrives before launching a thunderous blow. ’

However, the successive fiascos of the first squadron have made Tatsunosuke Kobayashi have no confidence to speak in front of Kimura Shige.

What's more, looking at Shaozuo's indomitable momentum, maybe he can really wipe out the Qing army on the mountain in one fell swoop.

Kobayashi Chennosuke only thought about it slightly, and the shock cluster of the Southern Cavalry Brigade had already reached a distance of less than two hundred meters from the southern slope of Jiguan Mountain.

"Fight!"

When Kobayashi Tatsunosuke himself gritted his teeth and shouted this sentence, even he didn't realize that the anti-Japanese army had left a very fierce and vicious imprint in his subconscious.

So much so that he unconsciously regarded this battle as a fierce tiger and a rabbit in Kimura's eyes as a 'fight'.

"The whole squadron accelerates, attack with all your might!"

With the roar of Kobayashi Tatsunosuke, more than 30 Japanese soldiers of the fourth squad beside him began to tighten their horse's belly and rushed towards Cockscomb Mountain.

"The team assembles and charges in a cone formation!"

On the southern and eastern slopes of Cockscomb Mountain, the second and third squads of the cavalry in charge of fortification, hearing the trumpet of the charge from the south, did not wait for an order that Kobayashi Tatsunosuke might transmit, so they ordered the team to assemble and launch an attack.

Nearly 400 Japanese cavalry troops suddenly assaulted the whole army, and the mouth of Qiupi Lake was thundering, stirring in the mountains.