As soon as Shi Qiang commanded the 68th Regiment to withdraw from the Xiaotongling position, he saw the Japanese planes in the sky flying viciously. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

The devil's plane circled in the sky for a while, failed to find the New Fourth Army below, and had to fly back, but before Shi Qiang could catch his breath, the soldiers of the reconnaissance company ran to report that the Japanese army suddenly appeared in the north and blocked the way for the 68th Regiment to retreat north.

At the same time, there was also a large army of devils in the east.

Shi Qiang couldn't help but be stunned when he heard it, where did these devils come from? However, knowing that the situation was critical, he immediately ordered Wang Shizhu, the commander of the 68th Regiment, to have his first battalion quickly retreat to the west, seize Longguling in the west, and cover the retreat of the second and third battalions.

The devils in the north blocked the retreat, and the 68th Regiment could only retreat westward first, and after joining up with the 72nd Regiment, then look for an opportunity to strike at the enemy.

Now that the specific target of the enemy is not clear, Shi Qiang naturally will not easily let the 68th Regiment exchange fire with the devils.

The planes of the hateful devils came after a while, seriously affecting the rapid retreat of the troops.

At this time, it was still six hours before dark.

The main task of the temporary detachment is to contain the enemy and reduce the pressure on Siming Mountain, so the attack on Liujiazhen is naturally chosen during the day. Who would have thought that the real target of the devil does not seem to be the New Fourth Army of Tianmu Mountain, but I don't know how big a posture the devil will put on this time.

Liu Tianshu received Shi Qiang's report, and immediately and several leaders of the division headquarters urgently studied the map, the devil hid at least two wings by the Fuchun River this time, and also concealed the intelligence personnel of the New Fourth Army, indicating that the devil definitely has a huge conspiracy.

"Division commander, you say, how did the devils quietly transport so many devils to the Fuchun River area and avoid our sight?" Xiang Luoquan was really puzzled by this situation.

You must know that both the 22 nd Division in Hangzhou and the 144 th Division on the Linchuan front line are the key targets of the intelligence personnel of the New Fourth Army.

Where did the devils of these two wings come from?

Liu Tianshu pinched his chin with his hand, stared at the map for a long time, and finally sighed and said: "I understand, this group of devils should be the Jiang Cheng detachment who just arrived in Shanghai from Japan." The devils must have taken advantage of the night to quietly transport this group of devils to Hangzhou, and then used the night to transport them along the Fuchun River to the Linchuan line to hide. The target of the devils is not the independent regiment of Siming Mountain, but our independent division. You see, the devils of these two wings, plus the Japanese army in Linchuan, can divide their troops into two routes, all the way to Tianmu Mountain, capture Ishida, and all the way to attack Wukang in the north. As long as the Japanese army captures Ishida, it will be able to cut off the way for our independent division to retreat to the depths of Tianmu Mountain, and then the enemy in Hangzhou will come out again and work with the enemy in Huzhou and Xuanzhou to encircle our independent division with an iron wall. ”

Hearing Liu Tianshu's words, Jiang Jinyong, Xiang Luoquan, Zhang Zhouhong, Su Lan and Sun Xuexuan couldn't help but change their faces.

At this moment, a staff officer hurriedly walked in, looked at Liu Tianshu and said, "Division commander, the military department is in an emergency." ”

"Read!" Liu Tianshu said without looking back.

"According to the information obtained from the inside line, the Japanese army in Central China will launch a combat operation codenamed Killing Tiger, and according to the preliminary judgment of the military department, the target of this combat operation is the independent division, and it is hoped that the independent division will be ready to crush the enemy's attack."

"Codename Killing Tiger?" Several people couldn't help but be stunned when they heard it, but judging from the telegram from the military department, the military department only knew that the Japanese army had a major operation, but it was not clear how many troops there were and what the specific plan was.

Even if the combat goal of the Japanese army is an independent division, the military headquarters is not sure now.

When Liu Tianshu heard this, he pondered for a while and looked at Luo Quandao: "Chief of Staff, calculate the strength of the Japanese army around the base area, and estimate the maximum number of troops that the devil can draw." Deputy Chief of Staff Sun, immediately let our people make every effort to collect the movement of Japanese troops, and provide intelligence support for the division to smash the devil's attack, political commissar, I think we must urgently mobilize the whole division to prepare for the siege of the devil. ”

Although the south has already started, Liu Tianshu believes that the devils in the north, east and west will not always be on the sidelines.

"Yes, division commander, I'll arrange it." Sun Xuexuan said immediately.

Subsequently, Xiang Chief of Staff and Deputy Division Commander Zhang also said that they would immediately start the relevant work to meet the devils.

Jiang Jinyong saw that several of them were solemn and said that they would take immediate action, he smiled and said: "Comrades, it's not once or twice that the little devils have beaten our independent division, but which time is it in the hands of our independent division?" As long as all of us are united, under the correct command of our superiors, and under the heroic struggle of all the commanders and fighters, I believe that the devil's plan to besiege our independent division this time will definitely end in our victory and the devil's defeat as before. ”

Jiang Jinyong said with confidence, so that everyone's faces also showed a confident smile.

"The political commissar said well, although this time the little devil looks not small, but in my opinion, it is a paper tiger. As everyone knows, since the little devils launched the Pacific War, a large part of their troops have been transferred to the Southeast Asian and Pacific theaters, and it is said that the devils are attacking Indochina and thus attacking Yunnan, China's rear, in order to cut off the lifeline of China's international aid. Let's think about it, little Japan is just a land of projectiles, and it is intolerable to want to swallow an elephant with a snake, and it is simply not perishable. This time the devils concentrated their forces to besiege our independent division, in my opinion, that is, to return to the light, as long as we repelled the devil's attack, the devils will never dare to fight our independent division again. After listening to Jiang Jinyong's words, Liu Tianshu suddenly stood up and said loudly.

The words of the division commander's political commissar can be described as inspiring, especially when the division commander Liu Tianshu judged that as long as the independent division resisted the devil's attack, the devil would not dare to fight the idea of the independent division in the future, which made several people's eyes shine.

Subsequently, the division headquarters sent a telegram to Shi Qiang, asking him to command the temporary detachment to retreat to the area of Longguling, and adopt flexible and effective blocking methods to delay the Japanese attack in the direction of Shitian as much as possible.

The Japanese army knew that the New Fourth Army had always been erratic, and it was almost impossible to seize its main force to encircle and annihilate it, so under normal circumstances, the Japanese army's sweep of the base area of the Eighth Route Army of the New Fourth Army was to first capture its key points, and then encircle the New Fourth Army of the Eighth Route Army, so if it wanted to complete the encirclement of the New Fourth Army, Shitian County should be the first target of the devils.

When Shi Qiang commanded the troops to move in the direction of Longguling, Shitian County also received an order from the headquarters of the independent division and began to carry out emergency evacuation.

Although Ishida Prefecture is only a small mountain town, the possibility of the devil using planes to bomb cannot be ruled out.

However, in order to prevent Japanese planes from bombing Ishida, Liu Tianshu urgently ordered all the nearby Japanese wounded soldiers and prisoner of war camps to be moved to Ishida Castle, and at the same time hung the Red Cross logo.

Of course, the news that the wounded Japanese soldiers and the Japanese soldiers who had fallen into the hands of the independent division of the New Fourth Army were placed in the county seat of Ishida was disseminated through clever channels.

Not only Ishida, but also Changxing, Wukang and Guangde, there were also devils, wounded soldiers and prisoners of war.

Duo Ze received the report from Commander Mei, and couldn't help but be stunned, the independent division actually put the imperial soldiers who fell into his hands in several county towns, this Liu Tianshu is really a scoundrel and insidious.

Doze thought for a long time with a gloomy face, and finally decided that the planes should not bomb the county town in the hands of the independent division.

Anyway, he was originally going to bomb the county town, but it was just to increase the pressure on the New Fourth Army and cause panic among the people, as for the military significance, it was not very big, and now Liu Tianshu detained the Japanese soldiers who fell into his hands in the county town, and if his bombing accidentally injured the Japanese soldiers, I am afraid that it will bring disadvantage to himself in public opinion.

During this time, the base camp already had a lot of complaints about himself, the commander of the Japanese army in Central China, and he naturally did not want to cause unnecessary trouble in this matter.

This tiger killing operation was also forced by him to find a way to draw out heavy troops to carry it out.

After the outbreak of the Pacific War, the blockade of coastal communications in Chinese mainland became an important task facing the empire, and although the western Pacific was all under the control of the imperial navy, in order to prevent the United States from using China's southeast coast for assistance, the empire had decided to tightly seal off China's coastal locations.

The troops attacking the direction of Guangdong had already set out, and it was necessary for the Japanese army in Central China to strengthen its control over Fujian and southern Zhejiang in order to cooperate with the Japanese army in South China, so it was imperative to destroy or rebuild the independent divisions of the New Fourth Army.

It's just that he didn't expect Liu Tianshu's newly formed temporary detachment to react so quickly, and as soon as he found out that the situation was wrong, he didn't entangle with the Japanese army at all, and directly abandoned Liujiazhen and withdrew westward.

In this way, the two wings of Jiang Cheng's detachment had not yet reached the designated position, and they had not yet completed the encirclement of Liu Tianshu's temporary detachment, and this temporary detachment was like a slippery loach and fled to Longguling.

Duo Ze immediately ordered Jiang Cheng to immediately command the troops to penetrate Longguling in two ways, defeat the resistance of the temporary detachment, and go straight to Ishida.

The battle that took place in the area of Longguling on the eastern side of Tianmu Mountain immediately touched the hearts of the independent division headquarters and the Central China Command of the Japanese army.

It is said that this is only the combat operation of the two wings of the Jiang Cheng detachment, and for the commander of the Japanese army in Central China, Ta Ze, he should not be taken seriously, but whether the Jiang Cheng detachment can successfully capture Ishida and cut off the rear route of the independent division of the New Fourth Army is related to the actions of the subsequent units.

Jiang Cheng's Songshan Wing eventually caught up with the 3rd Battalion of the 68th Regiment, which was in charge of the broken rear.

Because the devil's planes hovered in the air from time to time, which seriously affected the retreat speed of the 68th Regiment, the 3rd Battalion in charge of the broken rear found that the Japanese army's pursuit momentum was very strong, and in order to gain time for the main force of the regiment to set up a blocking position in Longguling, the 3rd Battalion quickly built a position at Chengjiapo, 20 miles east of Longguling, and prepared to block the enemy. (To be continued.) )