After some discussion in the temporary command post, the two decided to let the independent battalion carry out a feint attack on the Japanese troops in Maowan Town from the east, and the fourth battalion quickly assembled towards Lion Ridge, and once the time was ripe, they would strike at Guo Zhenlong together with the third battalion. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

As for the enemy in Maowan Town, they can eat as much as they can, but after dawn, the troops must evacuate Maowan Town and make way for Ishiya Saburo.

The purpose of this battle was to drive away the Ishiya United, not to annihilate the Ishiya United, and if the New Fourth Army's offensive was too fierce and attracted the main force of Miura Tadaji to the base area, it would be contrary to the original intention.

The attack of the independent battalion, under the command of Qin Yonghe and Gao Chuanheng, was still well fought, and after a rapid artillery attack, the troops launched a brave attack on a position of devils in the east of Maowan Town, and after half an hour of fierce fighting, they wiped out all the dozens of devils guarding there.

However, before the soldiers had time to cheer after occupying the position, they heard the company commander urgently order the soldiers to clean up the battlefield, and then quickly retreat from the position.

As soon as they withdrew, the artillery fire of the devils in the town came rapidly.

The artillery bombardment turned the position into a sea of fire, but unfortunately, the devil's artillery fire stopped after less than two minutes, which disappointed Wu Zhongping, who was originally going to find out the remaining artillery position of Saburo Ishitani.

It seems that the devil has also learned well, and knows that if he continues to fire artillery, he may let the artillery of the New Fourth Army hiding in the shadows find out his position, and then attack him with artillery fire.

After the artillery fire, a small group of devil soldiers carefully launched a counterattack to the east, but unfortunately they did not encounter a single New Fourth Army, but on the position in the east, the New Fourth Army planted some land mines, injuring more than ten soldiers.

The leader of the devil squad found that the New Fourth Army had planted mines on the position that had just been lost, so he had to report to the squadron leader and give up recapturing this position.

In fact, the independent battalion did not bury many mines in the occupied positions, and many of these mines were detonated due to the bombardment of the devil's artillery, and there were less than ten left.

But the power of landmines is actually terrifying, especially when the lights are dark, and the feeling of being frightened when you think of mines buried in the ground under your feet is extremely uncomfortable.

When the independent battalion in the east launched an attack, more than a dozen soldiers of the reconnaissance company disguised as devils, led by the second platoon commander, quietly entered the town.

If you want to talk about familiarity with Maowan Town, where can the devil compare to the reconnaissance company of the 16th Regiment, you must know that the reconnaissance company itself has many soldiers whose families are from Maowan Town.

They disguised themselves as devils, and it was not impossible for them to bypass the devils' outer defense line and enter the town.

When they entered the town, they quietly hid in the shadows near the command post of the Ishiya Saburo Wing, just waiting for the action code.

After the independent battalion withdrew from the battle, according to Liu Tianshu's instructions, it quickly withdrew to a col in the east, with only a few fighters, who stayed in front to monitor the enemy.

At one o'clock in the morning, Wu Zhongping's artillery battalion four 92 infantry guns suddenly opened fire on the station of the Qinggu Brigade in the north of Maowan Town, and the shells flew out rapidly with a long whistle sound, falling like raindrops into the group of devils, blowing up the field tents one by one, and the open space in the north of the town was full of burning fires, and from time to time you could see the devils on fire screaming and running wildly.

Hearing the explosion of the shells, the second platoon commander shouted loudly and commanded the members of the three combat teams to fire fiercely at the temporary headquarters of Saburo Ishitani in front, while grenades and grenadiers continued to fire at the wing headquarters in the front lights.

Saburo Ishitani's wing headquarters immediately rang out a series of explosions, and at the same time, the soldiers guarding outside were shot one by one and fell.

The rest of the soldiers realized that something was wrong and immediately ran out with their guns.

The second platoon commander commanded the soldiers to run out of bullets in the gun in a blink of an eye, and when he saw that the devils rushed out and the whole town rang out with gunshots, he immediately shouted to retreat, and the soldiers of the reconnaissance company quickly divided into three combat groups according to the predetermined plan, evacuated the devil's wing headquarters, and kept running around the town.

Because they were wearing Japanese military uniforms, this action in the town made it impossible for the devils to distinguish at all.

Hearing the sound of intense gunfire and explosions throughout the town, Saburo Ishitani turned pale with shock.

He didn't expect his wing headquarters to be attacked by the New Fourth Army, but fortunately, Matsumoto realized that the situation was not right, and immediately sent a squadron of soldiers to arrive, and quickly established a strong defensive position outside his wing headquarters.

It's just that there is chaos in the town, but no trace of the New Fourth Army has been found.

It wasn't until the chaos lasted an hour that Saburo Ishitani received a report from Matsumoto that the New Fourth Army was moving around the town in the form of Imperial soldiers. Not only did they create panic, but they also caused a civil war between the soldiers of the Ishiya Wing and the soldiers of the Kiyoya Brigade.

"Eight grids, damn Liu Tianshu." Hearing this, Saburo Ishiya gritted his teeth in anger, he didn't expect Liu Tianshu to be so despicable, but this move was quite ruthless.

You know, there are different sequences of troops living in the town, and these Chinese are disguised as imperial soldiers, just imagine, a person who originally thought he was his own compatriot and his comrade-in-arms suddenly raised his gun to shoot at himself, how terrifying this feeling is.

After scolding angrily for a while, after thinking about it, he immediately ordered Matsumoto and Kiyoya to let each unit stick to their camps, not to leave their posts without permission, not to join the ranks of the purging and suppression, and to shoot anyone who approached the garrison without permission, no matter who it was.

With the order of Saburo Ishitani, the Japanese troops in Maowan Town began to work separately and strictly guard their own defense areas, and anyone who came close to their camp could be shot.

In this way, although the Japanese army's ability to coordinate operations was greatly weakened, the three battle groups that had infiltrated the town could not find a chance to fish in troubled waters, and in a fit of anger, they cut off all the power lines scattered on the ground and then flew away.

Hearing the sound of gunfire and explosions in the town gradually subside, Saburo Ishitani finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Frightened until dawn and seeing the winter sun rising over Higashiyama, Saburo Ishitani had a feeling of seeing the sky.

In the early morning of Maowan Town, everything seems so peaceful, if it were not for the countless craters of shells outside the town, as well as some charred trees, no one would have thought that this place had experienced a war of blood and fire.

Saburo Ishitani saw that it was dark, so he sent someone to repair the phone to the ministries, and at the same time contacted the ministries to start counting the losses.

Last night's overnight tossing of the New Fourth Army made Saburo Ishiya and the Japanese army have a hard time.

When the people below counted the losses, Saburo Ishitani couldn't believe his eyes.

In last night's battle, more than 30 soldiers defending the eastern position were all killed, and at the same time, due to the artillery attack of the New Fourth Army, the Qinggu Brigade suffered almost 100 casualties, and the destruction caused by the New Fourth Army that infiltrated the town directly killed more than 200 imperial soldiers.

What's even worse is that last night's experience has brought great damage to the hearts of the imperial soldiers, and the morale of the entire army is seriously low.

Fortunately, the main force of the brigade had arrived at Xiongba Village last night, and the captain of Matsushita Nobuyuki sent a telegram to Saburo Ishitani, asking them to wait for reinforcements in Maowan Town, and then evacuate with the main force after the main force arrived.

Miura Tadaji had become extremely cautious because his troops had been plotted against by Liu Tianshu, and he did not dare to let Ishitani Saburo, a force with obvious demoralization, go north alone.

Who knew that when Nobuyuki Matsushita set off with his troops to Maowan Town, the Japanese troops in Maowan Town were never attacked by the New Fourth Army again.

Just when Matsushita Nobuyuki and Ishiya Saburo were in doubt, they received an urgent telegram from Guo Zhenlong, saying that a large number of New Fourth Army had appeared around Wangjiadian, and his troops had fallen into the encirclement of the New Fourth Army.

Seeing this news, Matsushita Nobuyuki and Ishiya Saburo knew that Liu Tianshu had targeted Guo Zhenlongshi, who was stranded in Wangjiadian.

Guo Zhenlongshi was surrounded, and Matsushita Nobuyuki and Ishiya Saburo couldn't be the masters of such a major matter.

Tadaji Miura received the report and immediately reported it to the division commander, Seiichiro Shinohara. At this time, Shinohara Seiichiro had received an urgent telegram from the Japanese army headquarters in Nanjing, asking him to quickly send troops to meet Guo Zhenlong's division, and be sure to pick up Guo Zhenlong's division.

The Nanjing puppet Nationalist Government is about to announce its establishment to the outside world, and Guo Zhenlong's division has been determined to be the third division of the Founding Army.

Putting down the telegram, Seiichiro Shinohara, could only secretly curse those fools in the Nanjing Headquarters in his heart.

When he ordered Shigu Saburo to withdraw from Liu Tianshu's base, he had suggested that Guo Zhenlongbu and Shigu Saburo should withdraw together, but those guys who were so happy with the achievements above were unwilling to give up the territory in their hands, not only did not agree to the withdrawal of Guo Zhenlong's division, but also sent Qinggu's garrison to go.

Who is Liu Tianshu, that is a ghost-like character, Guo Zhenlongshi is trapped in Wangjiadian, will he be good?

Now it's okay, let yourself send troops to respond, who to send, only the main force of the Miura Tadaji Brigade. However, the main force of the Miura Tadaji Brigade only responded to Ishitani Saburo this time, and did not bring enough weapons and ammunition.

It's just that soldiers take obedience to orders as their duty, and soon after Miura Tadaji's telegram arrived, the order of the division commander came down, and asked Matsushita Nobuyuki to command all the troops and rush to Wangjiadian to meet Guo Zhenlong's division to break through.

Guo Zhenlong was still a little blind, after he found out that there was a large force of the New Fourth Army in Lion Ridge, he immediately realized the danger of staying under Lion Ridge, and after sending a telegram to Ishiya Saburo, he commanded the troops to quickly retreat, and at the same time reported his decision to the above.

Ou Biaofei didn't expect that Guo Zhenlong, this guy, was only messed with by himself, so he hurriedly retreated, so that his troops could not be in place at all.

Liu Tianshu learned that Guo Zhenlong's division had returned to Wangjiadian, and after discussing with Guo Sizhong, he immediately ordered the Oubiao Flying Department to quickly approach Wangjiadian, and at the same time let Xie Pingcai's two companies of the second battalion rush north, seize Sanguba, and block the road for Guo Zhenlong's westward retreat. (To be continued.) )