Yu Chenglong was very unhappy when he heard that Guo Zhenlong asked his three regiments to be the vanguard to advance towards Lion Ridge, control Lion Ridge, and ensure the passage of the whole division to the north. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Yu Chenglong was originally the head of the Huainan County Security Corps, and when the devils occupied Huainan County, he, as a local army, had nowhere to go at all. You must know that the authorities of the Nationalist Government at that time were too busy to worry about the central army and the local armies of various departments, and a security regiment like him, which only had an unofficial name in the Nationalist Government, and even had to be responsible for the supply of the Huainan County Government, was directly ignored.

When he was desperate, a relative brokered for him and made him join the Japanese and become the commander of the Imperial Association.

In order to make him work for himself, the Japanese not only reorganized all his brothers, but also recruited more than 200 young people into his team. As for weapons and ammunition, the Japanese occupied so many places in China, and naturally seized a lot of weapons of all kinds, and these weapons were naturally not looked at by the imperial soldiers.

If we want to say that the weapons and ammunition seized in China, the largest should be seized after the occupation of Northeast China nine years ago. The capture of Jufeng was completely beyond the imagination of the Japanese themselves, not to mention guns and ammunition, and the aircraft artillery alone made the Japanese happy.

It's a pity that the performance of the captured aircraft is not as good as the Zero fighters produced by the Empire, but the mountain artillery field artillery is not much different from the Empire's production. Of course, aircraft artillery would not have been issued to the Imperial Army, but rifles, light and heavy machine guns, etc., were used by the Japanese to the best of their ability.

Yu Chenglong's regiment was issued with guns from the northeast, and the whole regiment not only had a rifle, but also an artillery company, equipped with four 82 mortars and eight 60 mortars.

As for the Makqin heavy machine guns, Yu Chenglong's regiment was also equipped with four.

It can be said that the equipment of Yu Chenglong's regiment is not a little stronger than Guo Zhenlong's original two regiments.

Seeing the silent Lion Ridge in front, Yu Chenglong had to order the artillery company to prepare for artillery bombardment under the ridge, and then let a battalion and a company walk along the road that circled over the Lion Ridge and walked towards the ridge.

Hou Yifang, the commander of a company, saw that the large army of the puppet army stopped at the bottom of the ridge, and then saw the puppet army erecting mortars in an open space under the ridge from a distance, and the soldiers of a company walked towards the ridge, and immediately ordered the soldiers to pay attention to concealment.

Guo Zhenlong only sent one company to carry out a tentative attack, which shows that he is very cautious. You must know that his whole regiment is almost 5,000 people, although he has the advantage of geographical advantages, but after all, the disparity in strength is huge, besides, he only sent a company to test the attack, so that his idea of killing Guo Zhenlong in large quantities became unrealistic.

There are people guarding the ridge, and this matter cannot be concealed from the puppet army walking along the highway to the ridge.

Look at the puppet army walking in front of the front less than 100 meters from the forward position, the company and a row of soldiers guarding the front line silently unscrewed the back cover of the grenade, and then quietly placed it on the edge of the trench, and at the same time grabbed the rifle full of bullets in his hand, and aimed at the puppet army who was getting closer and closer.

When the puppet army came less than 60 meters away from the forward position, the platoon commander shouted a dozen violently, and the soldiers in the platoon opened fire one after another, and at the same time, the crooked machine gun in the platoon also rang out.

As the gunshots rang out, the puppet army running in front, no, it should be called the founding army, fell down one by one, and the founding army behind immediately threw themselves when they heard the sound, hid behind the obstacles, and shot desperately in front.

However, when these soldiers saw their companions fall one by one, the rest did not dare to stand up and launch a fierce attack on the ridge.

Yu Chenglong saw that there was indeed someone blocking the attack on the ridge in front, and immediately ordered the troops who rushed to the bottom of the ridge to retreat, and at the same time, the mortars in the regiment began to fire at the forward positions of the New Fourth Army.

Hou Yifang saw that the founding army was hiding on the ground and just shooting, and did not attack, and at the same time, there was a whistling of cannonballs in the sky, and he immediately ordered the soldiers to pay attention to the anti-artillery.

The shells fired by Yu Chenglong's artillery company blew up Lion Ridge in the blink of an eye, and two of the New Fourth Army's blocking positions were unfortunately hit by shells, and four soldiers died on the spot.

When the shelling was over, Yu Chenglong ordered his soldiers to attack forward.

At this moment, the mortar company that Ou Biaofei arranged on the left side of Lion Ridge suddenly fired rapidly at the position of Yu Chenglong's artillery position, and the shells flew out as if they had eyes, and fell on Yu Chenglong's artillery position one after another, immediately raising countless clouds of smoke.

Finally, when the artillery attack of the New Fourth Army ended, Yu Chenglong's artillery position had been blown up beyond recognition.

Yu Chenglong couldn't help but be stunned when he saw his artillery position shrouded in the smoke of the explosion.

He didn't expect that the artillery he was so proud of would be hit so hard with only a little contact with the New Fourth Army, and his heart hurt more than a knife cut.

At this time, the soldiers who were lying on the ground and ready to attack the ridge immediately after their artillery shelling turned their faces changed, shouted Mom, turned around and ran back.

Guo Zhenlong watched all this, his heart sank to the bottom of the Pacific Ocean, he didn't expect that the New Fourth Army would not only deploy troops on the ridge, but also arrange artillery fire.

What made him even more unacceptable was that the artillery fire of the New Fourth Army was so ferocious, and it knocked out Yu Chenglong's support firepower in a blink of an eye.

Could it be that the main force of the New Fourth Army is hiding here? Thinking of this, his face couldn't help but change, and at this moment, there was a sudden sound of gunfire from the west, but it was the Second Regiment that was attacked by the New Fourth Army.

Although the attack of the New Fourth Army lasted only a few minutes, it also brought more than 20 casualties to the 2nd Regiment.

The sudden attack of the second company of Ou Biaofei increased the fear in Guo Zhenlong's heart, and he immediately ordered Yu Chenglong to retreat backwards, and at the same time ordered the troops to stop at Dawangzhuang, two kilometers away from Lion Ridge.

Since the main force of the New Fourth Army appeared here, his move north to reinforce Saburo Ishitani was worth considering.

When Saburo Ishitani received a report from Guo Zhenlong that his troops had been strongly blocked by the New Fourth Army at Lion Ridge and that the troops had suffered heavy casualties, his heart sank.

Guo Zhenlong, the character of these Chinese, he understands, these so-called founding army, it is okay to follow the imperial army to fight a smooth battle, but if they want to fight bloody battles and sacrifice themselves to save the imperial army, I am afraid it will be extremely difficult.

Thinking of this, he had to order Guo Zhenlong that if the situation was not right, he could withdraw to Wangjiadian.

Anyway, at this time, his vanguard had already joined up with the vanguard of the Qinggu Brigade that had withdrawn to Maowan Town.

That is to say, the two troops will be able to meet at Maowan Town in just one hour, and at this time, he has ordered the third squadron of the Matsumoto Brigade to rush to Maowan Town, immediately seize the commanding heights around Maowan Town, and prepare to receive the main force of the wing into Maowan Town.

After Liu Tianshu saw that the devil was attacked by his own artillery, he began to advance to Maowan Town desperately, and at the same time, as long as the outer troops of the devil found anything suspicious, they would first attack with artillery, which made the troops who were originally going to approach quietly suffer a lot of losses.

"Order Battalion Commander Kang and Battalion Commander Qin, the troops will suspend the attack, and the various departments will step up their replenishment." Now it's getting late, the soldiers attacked all the way, and after an afternoon of fierce fighting, they were already very tired, anyway, the night was long, and now the devil was trapped in Maowan Town, and it was not too late to do it slowly.

With the order of the regimental headquarters, the 4th Battalion and the Independent Battalion began to replenish ammunition on the outskirts of Maowan Town for a short break.

Liu Tianshu and Guo Sizhong ate a few mouthfuls of dry food, and continued to surround the map, studying how to act tonight.

At this time, Deputy Regiment Commander Liu had rushed to the north of Maowan Town and personally commanded the Independent Battalion and the Fourth Battalion.

Just when the pencil in Liu Tianshu's hand surrounded a hill east of Maowan Town, Staff Officer Sun hurriedly walked in.

"Regiment commander, reconnaissance company emergency telegram." As he spoke, Staff Officer Sun handed over a telegram.

Liu Tianshu took a look at it, and his face couldn't help but change.

It turned out that a group of the reconnaissance company had sent a telegram saying that the main force of the Miura Tadaji Brigade of the Japanese army had suddenly moved westward in two hours, and that the entire unit had been transported by car, apparently heading to the direction of Kumaba Village to meet the headquarters of Saburo Ishitani.

This time, Miura Tadaji dispatched two brigades and a cavalry squadron, because the cavalry squadron was all on horseback, while the other two brigades were all by car, and the mobility was very strong.

According to the telegram of the reconnaissance company, this unit could arrive at Xiongba Village at 3 a.m. at the latest.

That is to say, after dawn, the reinforcements sent by Miura Tadaji will rush to Maowan Town with murderous violence.

There are so many elites of the Japanese army, not to mention that they only have two infantry battalions and one artillery battalion in their hands, even if the whole regiment is added, it is not its opponent.

Besides, the little troops in his hands are very difficult to deal with the Japanese army in Maowan Town.

Thinking of this, Liu Tianshu looked at Guo Sizhong.

"Political commissar, it seems that Tadaji Miura is worried that the Ishiya United will be eaten by us, well, the enemy is too strong, and we really can't gnaw on this little bit. Looks like we're going to have to change our plans. ”

Thinking that the Shigu United team was about to escape his pursuit, Liu Tianshu had a lot of disappointment in his heart, but the reality was in front of him.

The casualties of the Shigu Wing of Maowan Town should be about 300 under its own attacks along the way today, that is to say, there are at least 1,700 people in its wing, although the combat force in this is only 400 people at most, but even if it is a devil's transport troops, its combat effectiveness cannot be underestimated.

And the Qinggu Brigade suffered losses of about 350 people in the two squadrons under the blows of the 4th Battalion, and the remaining devils also had more than 1,100 people.

That is, the Japanese army in Maowan Town was almost 3,000 people, although less than half of the combat troops in it were inside.

This is also the reason why Ishiya Saburo did not dare to withdraw from the base area alone with the strength in his hands.

Now the main force of the Miura Tadaji Brigade has come to respond, and it is still very easy for these nearly 3,000 Japanese troops to hold on and wait for reinforcements.

"Well, you're right, now our troops in Maowan Town only have three battalions of about 1,500 people, and the rest are militiamen, etc., if we really fight with the devils, our chances of winning are not great, besides, as soon as we stay in the daytime, the devils find our large troops, and they can call planes to help fight, so we are even more disadvantaged." Guo Sizhong said worriedly. (To be continued.) )