readx; The bombers quickly ran out of bombs, the shelling stopped, the light and heavy machine guns that had been silent for a long time roared again, rows of bullets made countless craters on the charred hillside, and broken branches and leaves fell one after another, paving the ground a golden color. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info immediately afterwards, the infantry of the army went out again, bent over, holding guns, slowly climbed up the hillside, and when it was less than two hundred meters away from the position, the grenadiers in the team fell on one knee and put one miniature stray bullet after another into it, providing close fire support for the attacking troops.

It was not until the army advanced to a distance of less than 100 meters from the position that Zhu Yihong ordered the troops to return fire, and light and heavy machine guns and various automatic weapons opened fire at the same time, forming a network of fire close to the ground to prevent the enemy from continuing to approach.

The infantry quickly lay down and gradually advanced to the defenders' positions under the cover of the undulating hillsides, while at the same time, from time to time they attacked the Chinese soldiers behind the fortifications with their rifles.

The grenades again played the role of savior, dozens of grenades exploded in the air, scattering thousands of shrapnel at the soldiers, forcing the enemy to retreat from the bare half-hillside, and the first attack was thus repulsed.

It didn't take long for five bombers to appear in front of Niubei Ridge, and huge sulfur incendiary bombs quickly ignited flames several meters high on the hillside, and the soldiers who were unfortunately surrounded let out painful screams, and at the same time, the trunks of trees that were wet with fog and water also burned, and the control area of thick smoke and fire became larger and larger, and the infantry of the army took the opportunity to rush up.

The defenders did not keep the enemy waiting long this time, dozens of burning logs rolled down the hillside, and the formation of the charge broke up, and then hundreds of soldiers silently rushed towards the army, and then cut through the gap made by the rolling logs, and struck left and right.

In the face of the deadly threat of automatic weapons, the Yue army did not flinch, but did not hesitate to meet it, one fell, the other made up, and relied on the superiority of strength to rush in front of the Chinese soldiers, and fought with bayonets on the hillside.

The advantage of the army is that it is skilled, while the advantage of the squadron is that it is well protected, and there are still bullets left in the chamber of the gun. Because the body armor protected all the vital points such as the chest and abdomen, the Yue army could only attack the limbs of the Chinese soldiers, and could not cause greater damage, while the opponent's bullets could penetrate their bodies very easily.

Zhu Yihong saw that the enemy had retreated, how could he let go of this opportunity, and was about to order the troops to counterattack on all fronts, so as to defeat the Yue army in one fell swoop, however, he received a report from the troops deployed behind the mountain: Thousands of Yue troops suddenly appeared at the foot of the mountain on the back, and their vanguard was attacking the top of the mountain at full speed!

Prince Beichuan, commander-in-chief of the Taiwan Dispatch Army, was a very cunning old fox, and after a brigade of the First Division surrounded the Niubeiling Regiment, he did not let the troops immediately launch an attack, but only sent a few bombers from the naval air force to disturb them from time to time, and then secretly mobilized the main force of the Eighth Division to lay a huge pocket in the Xiaoshishan area southeast of Niubeiling, and patiently waited for the [***] team to come to reinforce it.

However, the seemingly very secretive actions of the Yue army themselves did not escape the eyes of the Gaoshan people living here, and they soon sent this extremely important information to the headquarters of the Taiwan Army in Datashan.

Although he knew the intentions of the Yue army, Xie Changfeng still felt very tricky - it was impossible for him to sit back and watch the troops being annihilated by the Yue army, but if he attacked rashly, he would fall into the hands of the enemy, and if he made a slight mistake, not only would the troops in the encirclement not be able to be saved, but the main force of the army might fall into it!

After thinking about it for more than ten minutes, Xie Changfeng threw himself on the map, carefully studied the terrain around Niubeiling, and then he found more than a dozen Gaoshan warriors who had recently joined the army, and prepared to have a good deal with the army.

On the afternoon of the second day after Zhu Yihong's headquarters were besieged, the intelligence officers of the Yue Army, who had already infiltrated the hinterland of Alishan, sent back news one after another: The [***] team scattered on the periphery had begun to assemble in the direction of Niubeiling, and the main force of the Taiwan Army in the Daxiatashan area also showed signs of dispatch!

Immediately afterward, Prince Beichuan received a report that more than one infantry division of troops had set off from Xiaota Mountain and advanced at full speed towards Niubeiling. In order to paralyze the squadron, Kitagawa immediately ordered the bombers and reconnaissance planes to stay away from the path of the squadron, so that they could burrow into their well-designed pockets very smoothly.

At eight o'clock that night, the Taiwan regiment stopped in a valley only five kilometers away from the circle of the Japanese army's ambush, and then began to camp in the middle of the dense forest on the hillside, as if preparing to wait for dawn before continuing its advance.

The night sky was covered with thick clouds, and by the faint glimmer of the waning moon, you could see a cloud of indistinct dark clouds, blowing in the wind, drifting around, like a prodigal son who was at home from all over the world, always unwilling to stay in one place; The valley was almost completely covered with darkness, and beneath the dense foliage was even darker, and the sights of the distance and the near, the visible and the invisible, were all mixed together haphazardly.

A small detachment quietly came out of the camp, deftly through the thick woods, appeared in the deep ravine half an hour later, and then proceeded in the direction of Niubei Ridge along the riverbed that had been washed out of the summer when the stream was inflated. Not long after the detachment disappeared in the canyon, the Taiwanese regiment lined up in a neat queue and quietly fled in the opposite direction in an orderly manner.

Wan Qiujun quickly stripped naked, and then smeared all the surface of his body with white wine with the assistance of his comrades-in-arms, and his skin suddenly felt hot, and the cold wind of the cold night was not so biting. Then, several warriors carried a thick bundle of ropes to a large tree with a diameter of more than one meter, tied one end of the rope to the trunk of the tree, and tied the other end to Wan Qiujun's waist with a rope the thickness of a finger, and then pulled the rope several times to test whether it was strong.

Wan Qiujun nodded vigorously to these comrades, turned his head and walked towards the turbulent stream between the two mountains, and the others followed closely behind with ropes.

Wan Qiujun drank all the last bit of soju in the bottle, and a warm current suddenly rose in his chest and abdomen, so he raised his foot and stepped into the water. The cold stream stimulated the pores of his whole body to stand up, his body trembled involuntarily, he hurriedly gritted his teeth, forced himself to slowly approach the middle, his body was gradually surrounded by the stream, behind the rocks on the bank, his comrades watched with concern as he disappeared into the dark night.

At first, Wan Qiujun could barely stabilize his body, but when the current reached his neck and forced him to start swimming, a torrent rushed over and pushed him up and downstream; He hurriedly waved his arms and swam to the opposite shore with all his strength, as if the current was deliberately against him, holding him hostage and rushing away. The huge roar of the waterfall can already be heard in the distance!

Wan Qiujun kept waving his arms and paddling backwards, and his feet also slapped the water violently with the limit of his muscles, trying his best to fight against the stream, however, his strength was quickly exhausted, and he could only wave his arms mechanically, and his speed became slower and slower, while the sound of the waterfall became louder and louder, and the speed of the stream was getting faster and faster!

At the moment when he was about to fall down the waterfall, his shoulder was suddenly hit by a rock, he hurriedly stretched out his hand, firmly hugged the rock standing in the middle of the waterfall, and stabilized his body, and then, Wan Qiujun turned to the other side of the rock, stretched out his right foot to test the ground, fortunately, there was actually a rock next to it!

After crossing several rocks in a row, the water became gentle, and Wan Qiujun jumped forward suddenly, and there was a solid feeling from the soles of his feet!

"Don't move!" Exhausted, he had just walked to the shore when he was pointed at the muzzles of several black holes, and at the end of the rifles were several pairs of surprised eyes.

"Don't shoot, it's your own people!" Wan Qiujun panted and said, "I was sent by the headquarters to rescue you out!" Then he gave up his legs and sat down on the ground.

An officer immediately took off his coat and put it on Wan Qiujun's body, and then ordered several soldiers to escort him to the regimental headquarters, while he quickly ran to the back and called over a dozen soldiers to closely monitor the dark stream.

Half an hour later, the first rope bridge was raised, and Wan Qiujun slid first, and behind him were several warriors with ropes on their backs. Soon, all the three rope bridges were pulled up, connecting Niubeiling and the opposite peak, and the soldiers lined up in a neat row on the hillside and slid towards the opposite side in turn, and when it was five o'clock in the morning, more than 2,300 people, including the wounded, were successfully transferred to the opposite peak, and jumped out of the encirclement under the noses of the army, however, due to the limited load capacity of the ropes, more than 20 infantry guns and all the war horses were discarded.

At about eight o'clock in the morning, the fog on the top of the mountain had not yet cleared, and the bombers began their routine harassment again, and after dropping a few bombs, the pilots unexpectedly found that the squadron did not counterattack, and the fierce and tenacious anti-aircraft machine guns that were fierce yesterday seemed to be all dumb! The group of suspicious bombers turned around and returned, carefully observing the situation at the top of the hill while dropping bombs in a row. Soon, they stopped dropping bombs and returned at full speed, and by the time the Army received a telegram from the Navy from the aircraft carrier and learned of the unusual situation at the top of the mountain, it was already ten o'clock! The troops gathered at the foot of the mountain reported the situation to the headquarters and sent troops to quickly advance to the top of the mountain.

There was nothing on the top of the mountain except for the traces left by the bombing and the corpses of dozens of war horses, and after some searching, the army finally found the rope between the two peaks, and then, the three soldiers slid along the rope with fear, and after landing safely, they immediately found the traces of the passing of the [***] team, and hurriedly fired a report. One by one, the heavily armed soldiers climbed onto the ropes, tightened them in mid-air with their belts, and quickly slid towards the opposite side. The soldiers at the front had just slipped into the middle when the rope suddenly fell from the opposite side, and the screams of dozens of soldiers suddenly echoed in the valley.

The angry commander of the army hurriedly ordered the rope to be pulled over for inspection, only to find that it had already been cut in half with a knife!

After receiving the report, Prince Beichuan immediately realized that his intentions had been detected by the other party, and the plan to encircle the point and send reinforcements had lost its meaning, and hurriedly ordered the Eighth Division, which was ambushed in the Xiaoshishan area, to immediately launch a strong attack on the opposite squadron, and absolutely not let them escape again, and at the same time asked the navy to dispatch bomber groups to block the way for the Taiwan army to retreat, and it was necessary to annihilate them on the periphery of Alishan.

However, the same incident happened again, and the mountains and forests where the main force of the Taiwan Army was originally stationed were already empty, and the [***] team was already in sight!

The commander of the 8th Division, who was extremely angry, immediately sent people to find the spies lurking in the nearby area, asking them to explain what had happened, why the squadron [***] was able to calmly escape under their noses without noticing it at all! Originally, before leaving the Big and Small Tashan, the Taiwan Legion sent out a small detachment composed of more than a dozen Gaoshan soldiers to specifically clear out the nearby reconnaissance personnel of the Yue Army, and the native Gaoshan people knew every mountain forest here well, and easily discovered the hiding places of several groups of Yue soldiers and cut their throats with machetes.

The sudden loss of the opponent's trace caused Prince Beichuan to have an ominous premonition in his heart, and he hurriedly telegraphed the defenders in various places to strengthen their vigilance, and at the same time urgently dispatched a large number of reconnaissance planes to carefully search the area around Alishan, and strive to discover the location of the main force of the Taiwan Army as soon as possible.

At five o'clock in the afternoon, a large number of squadrons suddenly appeared outside Taichung City, and after a short assault, they quickly defeated the stubborn resistance of a large group of the Yue Army in the city, entered the city, and then burned the military supplies that the Yue Army had hoarded here, and then swaggered back before the reinforcements of the Yue Army arrived

In the evening of the same day, the [***] squadron attacked in many ways, successively conquering Changhua and Nantou, and then sent two infantry regiments to sweep the central blockade line of the Yue army from west to east, while the rest of the troops rushed to the central mountain range by forced march, and re-entered the high and densely forested mountains to hide.

Under a series of blows by the Taiwan Corps, the encirclement of the Yue army was not only completely shattered, but also lost more than one infantry wing, and it was no longer able to maintain a huge encirclement.

However, to Prince Beichuan's surprise, instead of acceding to his request, the high command directly asked him if he could transfer some troops to support the battlefield in Chinese mainland, because the Central Army concentrated nearly a hundred divisions and launched an unprecedented and fierce winter offensive against the Yue army in both directions of Guangxi and the Yangtze River at the same time!

In early November 1939, the Chinese army bomber group attacked Chiang Kai-shek's hometown, Xikou Town, Fenghua, Zhejiang, and killed Chiang Kai-shek's wife, the eldest son Jiang Jingguo's biological mother, Mrs. Mao.

Under the double pressure of national hatred and family hatred, Chiang Kai-shek resolutely decided that the troops that were conducting the second phase of reorganization training on both sides of the Yangtze River should end the training ahead of schedule and devote themselves to the winter counteroffensive against the Japanese army.

Beginning in early December 1939, the Chinese side had more than 500,000 troops directly engaged in front-line operations, and Okamura Ninji's 11th Army was exhausted from running for its life, and the most tragic battles were fought in Guangxi on the southern front.

On December 4, the 21st Brigade of the Fifth Division of the Chinese Army, under the command of Major General Nakamura Masao, the commander of the brigade, captured Kunlun Pass, a strategic point in Guangxi, thus attracting the anger of the Central [***] Brigade and Chiang Kai-shek

In order to teach the army a painful lesson, Chiang Kai-shek personally selected a group of elite troops from the Central Army to participate in the battle, including the Fifth Army, a mechanized army that had just been formed! As the chief of the general staff of the base camp, Bai Chongxi personally served as the commander-in-chief of the Kunlun Pass Campaign, and the troops under his command included 13 infantry divisions of the 38th Group Army, 7 divisions of the 17th Group Army, the 43rd Army, the 74th Army, and the 77th Army, as well as more than 100 fighter-bombers of the Air Force, with a total strength of more than 150,000 troops.

Bai Chongxi divided the counteroffensive forces into three routes: east, west, and north, of which the West Route Army consisted of five infantry divisions of the 17th Army, which was responsible for attacking the area west of Dafeng; The Eastern Route Army, consisting of the 43rd, 74th, and 77th Armies, was responsible for attacking the area east of the Qinzhou-Nanning Highway; The Northern Route Army consisted of ten divisions of the 38th Group Army, with another six divisions of reserve troops, to counterattack the area around Kunlun Pass.

Although the intelligence officers of the Chinese army constantly sent reports on the frequent movements of the squadron and the preparation of large-scale military operations to the headquarters of the Fifth Division, the arrogant Masao Imamura laughed at this, asserting that in the mountains north of Nanning, it was absolutely impossible for a 100,000-strong army to pass.

Just when Imamura was arrogant, the squadron had quietly entered the attack area according to the order of the commander-in-chief Bai Chongxi, and more than 100,000 troops were ambushed in the mountains north of Nanning, waiting for an order to attack on all fronts.

On December 17, Du Yuming, commander of the Fifth Army, held a meeting of officers above the regimental commander level in Tanlian Village to announce the combat mission and plan!

(To be continued)