After receiving the instructions of the brigade commander, Ishiya Saburo immediately knew that the situation was serious, and it seemed that it had been decided to let the Qinggu Brigade stop carrying out the task of stationing in Wangjiadian. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Saburo Ishitani immediately contacted Kiyoya Daisa, asking his troops to immediately rush to Maowan Town to join his own troops, and at the same time order the troops to accelerate their advance to the north.

After Liu Tianshu saw that the Qinggu Brigade was eaten by a squadron, he did not stay more in Jinzhutang, but gathered his troops and carefully advanced towards Maowan Town, while Shigu Saburo's troops did not entangle with his own troops who harassed him at all, but left small troops to block them, and its main force quickly advanced towards Maowan Town.

It seems that Saburo Ishitani has sensed that the situation is not good, and the two Japanese armies are ready to meet as soon as possible. It's a pity that the strength in his hands is not enough to stop Ishitani Saburo from advancing north.

Thinking of this, after discussing with Guo Sizhong, Liu Tianshu immediately organized the transfer of the people along the line, and at the same time, Maowan Town also carried out a strong wall clearance.

Subsequently, Liu Tianshu called Wu Zhongping, pointed to the map, and asked him to quietly arrange the six infantry guns of the 92nd Infantry Artillery Company of the Artillery Battalion in the woods behind a small hill south of Maowan Town.

This position is a straight-line distance from the highway, just outside the Wuli Road, however, the small hill in front, the devil wants to pass through the highway, so it is naturally impossible to let go of this mountain, so according to Liu Tianshu's idea, that is, when the devil is passing the highway, the guard company suddenly kills and eliminates the vigilant troops of the devil on the mountain, and then the artillery quickly enters the position and quickly withdraws after launching a fierce and short attack on the enemy on the highway.

The main purpose of this operation of the artillery battalion is to kill and injure a large number of devils, not to completely eliminate them, so it pays attention to fast in and out quickly.

At five o'clock in the afternoon, Ishiya Saburo's troops finally arrived on the road north of this small hill, and of course, the vanguard of the devils naturally did not forget to occupy this small hill less than four miles from the road.

After receiving the signal of the lurking personnel in front, Li Dawei, commander of the guard company, waved his hand and shouted action, and the two platoons suddenly jumped out of their hiding places and launched an attack on the top of the mountain.

There were only about 30 devils who occupied this small hill and served as guards, and before they could recover from the sudden shelling of the New Fourth Army, two platoons of the guard company bravely rushed over, and the two sides fought fiercely for less than 20 minutes, and the devils on the hill were either eliminated or driven down.

When Li Dawei saw that the devil was driven down the mountain, he immediately left a few observation posts on the top of the mountain, and the rest of the people withdrew from the mountain.

Less than a minute after the soldiers of the guard company withdrew, the devil's retaliatory artillery fire came towards the hill.

It's just that the devil didn't expect that Liu Tianshu's artillery battalion infantry artillery company was hiding behind the mountain, and at this time, under the command of Wu Zhongping, it was rapidly pushing the cannon forward.

Wu Zhongping immediately commanded the infantry artillery to prepare for the artillery bombardment, and with his loud roar, the six infantry guns suddenly roared, and the shells rolled over the hill and flew straight towards the position of the devil artillery.

The devil artillerymen, who were fighting vigorously, suddenly heard the whistling sound of shells in the sky, and when they looked up, they found that there were shells flying out of the opposite hill, and then they realized that the New Fourth Army's sudden capture of the hill was not to harass them, but to allow the artillery to carry out artillery shelling of the troops on the road.

It's a pity that their target just now was the top of the mountain, and at this time they had to hit the back of the mountain, but they had to adjust the angle, and at this time, the opponent's shells were flying towards the position of their artillery position, and their faces changed in fright.

Wu Zhongping's infantry artillery fired a quick blow at the two 92 infantry guns that Saburo Ishiya had placed on the highway and directly blew them into parts, and then the shells flew down wantonly on the road, raising columns of smoke one after another, and the two cars were unfortunately blown up, igniting a raging fire.

The rest of the artillery of the Japanese artillery squadron immediately set up infantry guns in another place and prepared to carry out artillery bombardment towards the estimated position behind the hill, but unfortunately at this time, the shells of the New Fourth Army behind the hill no longer flew out, and everything returned to calm.

When Matsumoto sent his troops to rush up the hill, he found that the New Fourth Army had already run away.

However, this wave of rapid attacks by the New Fourth Army caused heavy losses to Saburo Ishitani, dozens of soldiers guarding the hill were either killed or wounded, an infantry artillery squad was blown up, and two cars were blown up, and the entire highway was full of screams of wounded soldiers.

As for the soldiers who were unfortunate enough to see Amaterasu, their bodies began to cool down gradually.

When the battle damage was counted below, Ishiya Saburo's face became even more ugly, in the round of attacks just now, the number of soldiers killed was one hundred and two, and the number of wounded soldiers was as many as fifty-six, and what made him even more uncomfortable was that an infantry artillery squad of the artillery squadron was basically reimbursed.

Coupled with the losses caused by the attack of the New Fourth Army along the way, the casualties of the troops exceeded 200 before they reached Maowan Town.

Although his army had 2,000 people, he lost a tenth of it at once, which naturally made him unacceptable, besides, most of the soldiers killed in the battle were infantry.

Seeing the smoke everywhere on the road, he suddenly had a shaky feeling.

After a while, he stabilized his mind, called Matsumoto, and asked his troops to strengthen their vigilance, and the main force of the troops continued to advance towards Maowan Town.

At this time, he had no other way to go except to rush to Maowan Town to meet the Qinggu brigade.

It's just hateful that the New Fourth Army is always a one-hit departure and has no chance to compete with him at all, so that the air support he relies on will not be useful for a while.

When Miura Tadaji received a report from Ishiya Saburo, he immediately knew that the situation was serious, and while ordering the main force of the brigade to move eastward quickly, he telegraphed Ishiya Saburo and told him to rush to Maowan Town as soon as possible, and after meeting with the Kiyoya brigade, he would hold on there and wait for reinforcements.

In order to contain the New Fourth Army, after thinking in his head for a long time, Miura Tadaji had to go through the channel and order Guo Zhenlongbu of Wangjiadian to immediately go north to reinforce Ishiya Saburo.

Anyway, these Chinese who defected to the imperial army are cannon fodder and can be sacrificed at any time, and they will not be forced to go north at this time.

At this time, Shinohara Seiichiro had dispelled the idea of garrisoning troops in Wangjiadian.

Judging from the current situation, the strength of Liu Tianshu's department cannot be underestimated, not to mention a brigade, I am afraid that the strength of a wing will not be able to help Liu Tianshu.

At this time, he couldn't help but think of the reminder of his old classmate Sakai.

Alas, if I had listened to Sakai's reminder earlier, how good it would have been if I hadn't swept Liu Tianshu's base area, but now it's better to make the Miura Tadaji Brigade lose its generals, and if this matter is investigated by the base camp, I'm afraid that my position as the commander of the division will not be guaranteed.

Now his only thought is to safely bring the Shigu United back, as long as the Shigu United comes back and he lets people operate on it, this matter may still be a big thing and a small matter.

The key is that the Shigu United must come back safely, you know, if the team flag is handed over by Liu Tianshu, then the Shigu United can only cancel the establishment.

Guo Zhenlong received an order from above, asking him to quickly gather troops to go north to reinforce the captain of Shigu Wing, and he couldn't help but be surprised.

You must know that his current army has a regiment in Sanguba, and in Wangjiadian, plus Ning Chenglong's regiment, there are two regiments of troops.

However, the above requirement was for the whole division to go north quickly, he thought about it, and ordered the regiment of Sanguba to go north quickly, and he personally commanded the two regiments of Wangjiadian to go north, and the whole division met in the south of Shishiling.

The Imperial Japanese Army passed the Lion Ridge safely, and was now attacked by the New Fourth Army south of Maowan Town, and at the same time, the Qinggu Brigade that was heading south from Xiongba Village was ambushed by the New Fourth Army at Jinzhutang.

After all, Liu Tianshu only had one regiment in his hands, and with this amount of troops, it was impossible to ambush the Qinggu Brigade again, attack the Shigu Wing Captain, and block himself at Lion Ridge.

Because according to intelligence, the New Fourth Army in Banqiaoji did not go north.

It's just that he didn't know that although the troops in Liu Tianshu's hands were nominally a regiment, they had five infantry battalions and an artillery battalion, with a total of 3,000 people, plus the militia and other anti-Japanese forces that cooperated with the action, but there were as many as 3,500 people.

And he ambushed the Qinggu Brigade in the north, but he let go of the main force of the Qinggu Brigade and concentrated all his strength on attacking its rear guard squadron, plus the support of a mortar company, and his sudden artillery bombardment caught the Qinggu Brigade by surprise, and he was unable to figure out how many New Fourth Army troops were around.

Qin Yonghe's independent battalion did not participate in the battle of Jinzhutang, but according to the instructions of the regiment headquarters, it wreaked havoc on the road between Jinzhutang and Maowan Town, and also planted mines everywhere, so that the Qinggu brigade going south would have a hard time.

Ishiya Saburo felt that he was surrounded by the New Fourth Army, but in fact, at this time, in addition to the two platoons of the guard company, there was a 92nd infantry battery of the artillery battalion.

The other is a platoon of the reconnaissance company.

However, the people in the reconnaissance platoon are all masters of playing this kind of fight and running for a while, especially the two snipers Hu Yezhuan and Zheng Guangdong are waiting for an opportunity to sneak attack on the side, which makes Ishiya Saburo suffer a lot.

Guo Zhenlong's three regiments finally met at the foot of Lion Ridge, and then Ning Chenghua's regiment, as the vanguard, took the lead in walking towards Lion Ridge.

At this time, Ou Biaofei, his third battalion had quietly come to the Lion Ridge after Shigu Saburo's troops had passed the Lion Ridge, and then learned that Guo Zhenlong's troops had left Wangjiadian and went north, and after reporting to Liu Tianshu, he immediately ordered a company to prepare for blocking on the mountain ridge.

Guo Zhenlong is a division, and Ou Biaofei has only one battalion in his hands, but fortunately, he has a geographical advantage.

The machine gun company of the 3rd Battalion set up a position on the hill, and at the same time the artillery platoon also accelerated the formation of a position on one side.

The second company of Ou Biaofei quietly moved to the west of Guo Zhenlong's department, and the third company was kept by him as a reserve. (To be continued.) )