A large river tens of meters wide. White Lang monstrous. This is the new wall river in front of Gao Quan's eyes. The troops have already come out of the Phoenix Mountain, and before going down the mountain, the two commanders of the Independent Brigade took the Niudao detachment around the mountains for a while, until the devil was completely dizzy, and then Brigade Commander Zhang came out of the mountain with his troops and caught up with the large army.

The troops are crossing the river. The engineer battalion pulled a few iron cables on both banks, cut down a lot of wood, built an improvised pontoon bridge, and the 500th division began to cross the river. The 500th Brigade had crossed the river, and now it was the 201 Brigade that was crossing the river, along with the artillery battalion.

Gao Quan stood on the bank, his hands behind his back, his eyes fixed on the troops crossing the river. Behind them stood Hong Yingying and Hui Qin, who were dressed in military uniforms, and the four eyes of the two women were shining.

"Master, it's time for us to cross the river." Hong Yingying saw that the division headquarters had begun to form a team and join the queue to cross the river, so she immediately stepped forward and reminded Gao Quan softly.

"Let's go." After that, Gao Quan took the lead and strode towards the pontoon, followed closely by the two women behind him.

"Report to the division," Gao Quan had just walked down from the pontoon bridge, and a communication soldier ran in front of him, reporting with a folder in his hand: "The independent brigade is calling, they are rushing here with the second column of the Anti-Japanese Decisive Army, and they are still two kilometers away from crossing the river mouth." The Ushijima detachment of the Japanese army has already left Phoenix Mountain and is pursuing in the direction of crossing the river mouth! ”

"This Ushijima came pretty quickly!" Gao Quan glanced at the other side of the river, "Order the engineer battalion to install bombs on the pontoon bridge, and blow up the bridge as soon as the independent brigade crosses the river!" "The pontoon bridge I built, of course, I can't let Ushijima take advantage of that old devil.

Zhang Erxiao and Zhao Ziming's two troops, one is good at mountain marching, the other is familiar with the terrain of Phoenix Mountain, the two teams together, relying on their long legs, finally got rid of the pursuit of the Niudao detachment before rushing out of Phoenix Mountain. However, at present, the devil's technology is superior to that of our army after all, although it is inferior to the 500 divisions in terms of familiarity with the terrain, but Ushijima Mansu insisted on relying on his status as the commander of the brigade of the major general to summon a reconnaissance plane in the air to show him the way.

With the plane as a guide, the Ushijima detachment was no longer afraid of getting lost, and they followed closely behind the pace of our army, followed the same road, went out of Phoenix Mountain, and rushed to the Xinqiang River where our 500th division crossed the river.

The distance between the Ushijima detachment and the 500 divisions was less than an hour, and if the troops of both sides stopped, the artillery of the two armies could fire at each other.

Through the binoculars, Ushijima could already see the pontoon bridge over the Shinkami River and the soldiers of our army who were crossing the river through the pontoon. The two cavalry brigades of the devils formed a double-headed formation with two wings flying together, and quickly rushed towards my crossing. Delusionally trying to seize the pontoon bridge and occupy a river crossing channel for the follow-up Japanese army.

Gao Quan didn't stop, admiring the lively scene of the devil being bombed into the sky along with the pontoon, he had more important things to do.

As the commander of the 500th Division, he had to report to Xue Yue, the commander of the Ninth Theater, and ask Commander Xue Xue to assign combat missions to the 500th Division.

"Report, the Ninth Theater Commander's Department is calling!"

Gao Quan grabbed the draft of the telegram, swept his eyes, and saw that there were only two simple lines on the draft of the telegram: "Order: The 500th Division immediately marched to the defense line on the south bank of the Xinqiang River to assist the 15th Group Army in defending the Xinqiang River." ”

Well, sure enough, where the battle is the fiercest, fill in the 500 divisions! It's not that your own children don't feel distressed! The 500 divisions rushed all the way to help, and as soon as they came, they attacked Yueyang, the logistics base of the Japanese army, and then they were forced by the devils to Phoenix Mountain, and they wandered blindly in the mountains for several days! Now that he has just crossed the river at great risk, he has been driven directly to the front line of the war?

Gao Quan complained in his heart, but he didn't dare to seriously disobey the orders of the commander of the war zone. The battle on the main battlefield of Xinqianghe was indeed tight, and when he was in Chongqing, he strongly asked to lead his troops to participate in the battle, didn't he come to fight the little devils and the Sixth Division?

"The separate brigade was ordered to speed up the crossing of the river. Five hundred regiments guarded the crossing of the river mouth. The 201 Brigade immediately marched west and went to the defensive positions of the 15th Army to participate in the battle! ”

Since you're coming, you're going to fight, so there's nothing to say! Since the commander of the theater assigned the 500 divisions to the focus of the most intense war, then he couldn't say it, Gao Quan had no choice but to lead his 500 divisions to join the arduous battle to defend the Xinqiang River.

The 201 Brigade acted as the pioneer of the whole division, Gao Quan led all the direct teams, and the 500 Brigade with one regiment missing acted as the central army, and finally the independent brigade that crossed the river became the rear guard of the 500 Division. And, of course, the second column of the anti-Japanese deciding army. Now Commander Zhao has a good relationship with Brigade Commander Zhang.

As soon as he walked to the west for less than half an hour, there was an earth-shattering explosion behind him, and the pontoon bridge where the 500 divisions crossed the river exploded!

Gao Quan just glanced back at the reddened sky behind him, then turned his head and continued to walk forward. In order to show the joy and sorrow of the officers and soldiers, Gao Quan gave up riding on horseback and rode in a chariot, insisting on walking forward on foot like most soldiers, relying only on two legs. From here to the position of the 52nd Army, there are at least more than 100 miles, and it will take a while to walk all the way through it. The divisions are all walking, and of course the guards are also walking. The only thing that made Gao Quan a little reluctant was that Red Peony and Huiqin also insisted on going with him. Looking at the perseverance on the faces of the two women, Gao Quan couldn't help but feel a little moved in his heart.

Ushijima Man sent a cavalry brigade to seize the pontoon bridge, but the independent brigade was one step faster, and when the Japanese cavalry unit was less than a kilometer away from the pontoon bridge, they crossed the bridge first. Originally, General Ushijima meant to let his cavalry drag the follow-up troops of the 500 divisions on the north bank of the river, at least, to catch up with the Chinese army in front when they were on the bridge.

It's time to think about it, Ushijima Mandu thought of it, but he wasn't a cavalryman after all, he couldn't calculate the speed of the cavalry brigade running, and the distance between the two armies, and he didn't know the specific location where the two armies met, so he could only watch the cavalry run fast, so he tried to chase forward. The Chinese army crossed the river ahead of schedule? It's over, anyway, the pontoon bridge is still there, as long as the cavalry troops can get to the other side of the river as soon as possible, it's not too late!

Major General Ushijima stood on a Japanese tank and looked at the pontoon bridge in the distance with a telescope. His location is less than two kilometers from the pontoon, and from here, the pontoon bridge can be seen clearly. The cavalry brigade was already approaching the pontoon bridge, and when it came to the bridge, it was on the bridge! General Ushijima's heart suddenly hung in the air inexplicably.

"Boom!" With a loud bang, a dazzling light, and billowing smoke, there was a big explosion on the pontoon!

"Crunch!" With the driver's emergency braking, General Ushijima couldn't hold it steadily, and the telescope came out of his hand, "Dangchang!" "Suddenly, I hit the steel plate of the body. Fortunately, there is still a strap on the telescope, and Ushijima grabbed the strap with his hands and eyes, so that he did not lose his telescope, but the lens on one side was shattered.