In the eyes of the officers of the Eighth Division, Okamura Ninji's suggestion was undoubtedly to ask for help from the Sixth Division, and the 33rd Mixed Brigade was a unit that was attached to the Sixth Division to fight, and asking for help from them would leave a shame in the history of the Eighth Division.

"Your Excellency, this division has not yet reached the point of requesting tactical guidance," Takeyama Nei said loudly: "There are still nearly 30,000 people in this division, and the emperor [***] people can block at least 200,000 troops with one as ten." ”

Jiuna was not as excited as Takeyama Uchio, he calmly said to Nishiyichi: "Division commander, I suggest stopping the offensive of Nantianmen, Gubeikou is easy to defend and difficult to attack, one wing can hold it, and the main force of the division can turn to Fengning." The counteroffensive forces of the Chinese army were miscellaneous units like the Jin army and Sun Dianying, the equipment was very poor, and a considerable number of soldiers were still smoking opium, and their combat effectiveness was extremely poor, and they absolutely could not stop the counterattack of the imperial army. ”

Nishiichi was in a slightly relaxed mood, and he looked at Okamura Ninji solemnly: "Deputy Chief of Staff Okamura, please report to the commander that this division has made the following adjustments, and the 14th mixed brigade will strengthen the Samura wing of the 16th brigade, and continue to attack Nantianmen, and the main force of the division will turn to the Fengning area, and first break the counteroffensive of the Shina Army." ”

Okamura Ningji sighed in his heart, the casualties of the 14th Brigade in the attack some time ago were more than 2,000 people, and the total strength of the reinforced Samura Wing was only more than 5,000 people, so this is still going to attack Nantianmen? So who will defend the elite 87th Division of the [***] team in the direction of Simatai.

Perhaps knowing Okamura's thoughts, Nishiichi continued, "The Honma Brigade is responsible for holding the left front. ”

Okamura couldn't laugh or cry, where is the left wing? Sima Tai, the six or seven hundred men of the Honma Brigade wanted to hold the offensive ...... of the 87th Division on the left flank, Okamura couldn't help but shout: "Your Excellency, Sima Tai on the left flank is the most elite 87th Division of the Chinese Army. ”

"The most elite troops of the Chinese army could not break through the defense line of the imperial army, and according to the calculations of the military department, the combat power of a brigade of the imperial army was equivalent to that of a division of the imperial army." Uchio Takeyama immediately retorted: "If Deputy Chief of Staff Okamura still doesn't believe it, division commander, I suggest asking Honma Daisa if he can block the counterattack of the 87th Division." ”

Nishiichi nodded without hesitation, and Uchio Takeyama personally grabbed the phone to talk to Honma.

"Honma Daisa, can you block the counterattack of the 87th Division of the Shina Army and hold the Black Stone Ridge?" Uchio Takeyama asked loudly.

"Good! Very good! It's worthy of being a samurai of my empire! ”

Uchio Takeyama put down the phone and turned around to report to Nishiichi: "Division commander, Honma Daisa promises to hold the Black Stone Ridge and maintain the safety of the left flank of the division. ”

Speaking he glanced at Okamura Ningji a little proudly, Okamura Ningji couldn't laugh or cry, Takeyama Uchio said that a brigade was proposed by the military department when a division in China was proposed, and he raised objections at the beginning, the combat effectiveness of the [***] team is very different, the combat effectiveness of the central army is relatively strong, and the combat effectiveness of the local army is relatively weak, so you can't talk about it, but no one in the military department listens to him, of course, he doesn't insist, otherwise it's cowardice, there is no bushido spirit, and all colleagues will look down on him.

Okamura looked at the officers who were not gone, and suggested euphemistically, "Then report this deployment to the headquarters of General Muto." ”

No one objected to this reason, and Okamura Ninji took the plan to personally send a telegram to Muto Nobuyoshi at the telecommunications office, and at the end he added a suggestion of his own, believing that the left flank was too weak, and if the 87th Division counterattacked, it would be difficult for the Honma Brigade to block their attack.

About half an hour later, Muto Nobuyoshi's order came, Okamura took it and looked at it, and couldn't help but smile bitterly, Muto adopted a compromise plan, first of all, one brigade was changed to a detachment, that is, two brigades, and the extra brigade was transferred from the troops that attacked Fengning, so that the troops attacking Fengning were left with only one reinforced brigade plus the troops directly under the division, with a total strength of more than 14,000 people.

After half a day of adjustment, Nishiichi led the Eighth Division to Fengning, but Okamura Ninji went to Tianjin via Yingkou, and Muto Nobuyoshi also gave him an order in his telegram to go to Tianjin to replace the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Navy, and to participate in the negotiations between the Chinese and Japanese people, and in the words of Muto Nobuyoshi, the affairs of the Kwantung Army were to be settled by the Kwantung Army itself.

When the Eighth Division arrived at Fengning, the 35th Army had already occupied Hou'er Mountain, the commanding heights of Fengning, and Li Fuying's headquarters occupied Guantangpu and Taishang in the south of Fengning City; Sun Dianying broke through Zhang Haipeng's defenses and rushed all the way to Tucheng Town, threatening Fengning from the north.

The small tenant wing of the army resisted along the way, but there were too many passes, and they were attacked by the [***] team in multiple ways, using various methods such as flank attacks, bypassing attacks, and sneak attacks; The army suffered heavy losses, and when they retreated to Fengning, there were only more than 1,000 people left in the entire wing.

The operation of sweeping the volunteers was also not smooth, the whereabouts of the volunteers were strange, the army attacked several times without results, but was ambushed by the volunteers several times, and the range of activities of the volunteers became wider, Jianchang and Lingyuan also found traces of the volunteers, a transport convoy was attacked outside Kuancheng, and when the Motegi cavalry brigade Koga brigade arrived at the battlefield after getting the news, the battle was over, more than 20 soldiers who escorted the car were all killed, and all the shells transported to the Lengkou front line were destroyed.

The captain Koga was extremely angry, and commanded the troops to chase down the other party's horseshoe prints, and after chasing more than ten miles, the horseshoe prints turned into the mountains, Koga didn't think too much, and commanded the troops to continue to pursue the mountains.

The mountain road was rugged, and the cavalry walked with great difficulty, but the horses' hoof prints on the ground were very clear, and the staff officers ran to ask for a halt to the pursuit.

"Eight squares! The bandits of China can go, and so can the warriors of the Great Empire! Koga screamed and slapped him twice.

And the little white dragon in the first ten years is also a little exhausted, he relied on the sense of smell he practiced when he was a bandit in the northeast, and evaded the pursuit of the army several times, and now he smells the smell of the army again.

"The dog said that the chase stopped." The little white dragon scolded and scolded the second master, Pharmacist Cui, and shouted: "Second brother, it seems that the little devil wants to copy our old kiln."

"Boss, I'll lead people away from them." The second master, Pharmacist Cui, has been following Xiaobailong for five or six years in his thirties, and he is very familiar with the mountains from the ginseng picker's background, and he usually takes such actions.

After seeing Pharmacist Cui go north, the little white dragon led the people to the southeast diagonally, and the last few brothers tied branches to the horse's tail to sweep away the traces on the ground.

Koga led people to chase here, did not stop, and followed the trail to the north. After turning over the two mountains, a quiet small mountain village appeared in front of him, the mountain village is not big, there are only a dozen families, Koga carefully observed on the hillside for a while, with a wave of his hand, dozens of cavalry rushed down the hillside, and after a while, there were gunshots, screams, and angry scolding from the mountain village.

In the woods on the other side of the mountain village, Pharmacist Cui hid here with a few brothers, and one brother scolded angrily: "The dog said, the devil wants to slaughter the village, the dog said!" ”

Pharmacist Cui stared at the small village at the foot of the mountain, there was no sound in the village, the houses in the village were ignited, the tongue of fire quickly rolled up to the roof, spreading in the village, dozens of devils laughed and rushed out of the village on horseback, dragging two ** women behind the horse.

Seeing this situation, Pharmacist Cui and his brothers were furious, "Smack! A man who was singing on a horse fell down from his horse, Pharmacist Cui was shocked, and his brothers couldn't help it.

Since it was exposed, it was no longer hiding, Cui Yaoshi and the brothers raised their hands to fight, and the unprepared Yue army knocked down three at once, and the rest of the Yue army hurriedly reined in their horses, and then the hooves sounded like thunder, rushing out of the village A large group of Yue troops, but when they reached the edge of the forest, they reined in their horses. The squad leader waved his hand, and the soldiers jumped off their horses one after another and fanned into the forest. Not far inside, he saw four horses tied to a tree, but there was no sign of them.

When Koga heard that there were only four horses, he immediately understood that he had been fooled, and commanded the troops to outflank him from the side, and he hated these bandits who lured him into being fooled, and he must leave these people in this mountain.

After being entangled in the dense forest for several hours, Pharmacist Cui and the others were surrounded on the cliff, "Second master, you go quickly, we will cover." ”

Pharmacist Cui climbed down the cliff, as a ginseng picker, it was common to climb mountains and mountains, but he didn't expect this to save his life; But he also knew that the three brothers who remained on the cliff would not be able to walk.

Three days later, Pharmacist Cui returned to the team with two people, these two people were the hunters of the small mountain village and the only survivors, and the little white dragon led the team to attack a military station in retaliation, smashing a batch of supplies that were ready to be transported to the front line.

Outside the city of Longhua, shouting to kill the sky, a large number of troops with dogskin hats are frantically attacking the city, the Manchurian flag on the city gate tower is trembling in the gunshots, in the city headquarters, Zhang Haipeng wrote a glance at the army adviser, and his face was blue and ordered his subordinates to resist resolutely, and the soldiers who came to ask for help ran to the city gate tower with a sad face.

Gong Changhai led the troops to storm the city gate, a group of soldiers carried a thick tree trunk and slammed the city gate, every time they hit the city gate, they made a creaking sound, and the soldiers who carried the tree shouted excitedly: "Irrigation!" Irrigate! One more time. Hundreds of ladders were erected around the walls, and ragged soldiers climbed up in the face of a hail of bullets. Gunpowder smoke enveloped the whole city.

Every time the explosion stopped, soldiers in tattered uniforms crawled out from all corners, lay down in the craters, or rushed into the blown trenches, indifferently looking at the troops who were climbing up under the mountain.

"Did you find out?" Fu Zuoyi asked at the front line at the army headquarters five miles away from the main peak of Monkey Mountain.

"It's the Suzuki Brigade of the Eighth Division." The voice on the phone was hoarse and hurried.

"Okay, this old boy has finally come out, you can stay for another hour and then retreat." After Fu Zuoyi finished speaking, he put down the phone. He turned to the chief of staff and said, "Send electricity to Beiping, Xiyi is attacking fiercely, and we plan to retreat." ”

(To be continued)