The Japanese troops who retreated to Itagaki saw that the New Fourth Army was rushing again, so they had to pick up their guns and prepare to block the attack, and at this moment, the sound of shells whistling in the sky sounded. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Itagaki looked up and saw that the shells were flying towards his location. Immediately understood that the New Fourth Army was firing at the captured infantry artillery at itself, and after scolding wildly, he had to order the troops to retreat to the west.

There was an attack by the New Fourth Army on the front and artillery fire on the side, and he only had one squadron in his hands, and it was simply impossible to block the New Fourth Army's flanking attack from both sides.

I have to say that Itagaki reacted quickly and was able to make the wisest choice in the shortest possible time, he left a squad to block the pursuing New Fourth Army, and he quickly ran west with the remaining two squads. Gui Xuebing saw that the main force of the devils had fled, so he had to order a company and a company to launch a charge to eliminate all the small groups of devils in front of him.

Matsushima received a report from Itagaki that he had been violently attacked by a large force of the New Fourth Army on the south side of Qinggangpo, and had lost not only the artillery team, but also four infantry squads.

More than half of the troops brought by Itagaki to reinforce have lost, and the flanks of Qinggangpo have been exposed, and holding on to Qinggangpo any longer has no meaning except for increasing casualties.

Subsequently, he painfully gave the order to retreat to the troops of Qinggangpo, and at the same time reported the bad situation to the division commander.

Liu Tianshu learned that the Japanese army blocking the front had retreated, so he naturally let a group take advantage of the situation to advance.

The commander of the 15th Division of the Japanese Army learned that the Songdao Wing had lost ammunition supplies and more than a large group of soldiers, and more importantly, the New Fourth Army had approached Guangde, and if he insisted on letting his troops besiege Guangde, it was very likely that he would fall into the middle attack between the New Fourth Army and the new 58th Division of Guangde.

Although the losses of the Akita United were not large, the puppet troops who cooperated with the operation had no fighting spirit.

With the consent of Commander Tazawa, the Matsushima and Akita wings abandoned the siege of Gwangtoku, and the Matsushima wing retreated to the Ishipu line, while the Akita wing withdrew to the town of Dingyuan, north of Choheung.

Li Guangyuan was naturally very happy to learn that the besieging Japanese troops had suddenly withdrawn, and he warmly invited Liu Tianshu to enter the city, but Liu Tianshu politely refused, saying that since the siege of Guangde had been lifted and he was in military affairs, he would not enter the city for the time being, but the two still said that they would cooperate with each other in the future battle.

Li Guangyuan learned that the Japanese Songdao Wing had stayed in Shipu and had not retreated north, and thinking that the Japanese army would come to besiege Guangde again at some point, he asked that staff officer to remain in the New Fourth Army and temporarily serve as a liaison officer between the two armies.

After Liu Tianshu returned to Si'an with the first regiment, he immediately asked the second regiment to guard against the sneak attack of the Akita Wing, and the first regiment quickly replenished and trained the newly incorporated soldiers.

On the third day of returning to Si'an, the Fourth Regiment was formally established, Liu Tianshu and Jiang Jinyong personally went to the Fourth Regiment to read out the detachment order, Kang Shuidong saluted the two leaders with a solemn expression, and on behalf of the Fourth Regiment, he said that he would strictly implement the organizational decision, obey the leadership of the detachment, and fight more devils and win more battles.

Kang Shuidong has grown up very quickly in recent years, as early as when he was in eastern Anhui, he was the battalion commander at the same level as Tong Guijie, Xie Pingcai, and Oubiao Fei, when the seventh detachment was established, because there were only three main regiments, so he, the commander of the fourth battalion, had to temporarily stop in his original position.

This time the detachment formed the fourth regiment, and he was naturally the most ideal candidate.

However, the fourth regiment was a newly formed regiment, and except for one battalion of veterans, the fighters of the other two battalions were either new recruits or captive soldiers who had undergone ideological education.

The 1st Regiment succeeded in destroying the logistical supply base of the Songdao Wing, and among the captured supplies were heavy machine guns, so the machine gun companies of the three infantry battalions of the 4th Regiment were also formed.

Subsequently, the fourth regiment was transferred to the area of Kongjiazhai in the south of Si'an for training.

After learning that Liu Tianshu had personally commanded the troops to relieve the encirclement of the new 58th Division of the Third Theater, the military headquarters sent a telegram to praise them, and at the same time asked the Seventh Detachment to destroy the enemy at Shipu and be ready to advance westward at any time.

Liu Tianshu looked at the telegram and couldn't help but be stunned.

The enemy of Shipu is his old opponent Matsushima United, although he let Matsushima United suffer the loss of the boss, but Matsushima, the old devil, also learned to be obedient, he sent a brigade to occupy Shipu, but the main force of its wing was arranged in the north, and close to the Akita United, the military department let itself eliminate the enemy of Shipu and open up the passage to the west, what does this mean?

Jiang Jinyong and several leaders of the detachment looked at the telegram and did not understand what the intention of the military headquarters was; in the end, Jiang Jinyong sent a telegram to ask the military headquarters, and the reply they received was that the order was carried out, and there was no explanation at all.

Although the military department did not explain the reason, the order is the order, and it should be carried out unconditionally as a subordinate.

So, at the end of December, Liu Tianshu commanded the 1st Regiment and the Artillery Regiment to suddenly move westward, and at the same time, the 2nd Regiment was also ready to prevent the Akita Wing from moving south.

Fortunately, at this time, the devil who went north from Wukang, and he didn't know why, he actually returned to Wukang.

The Japanese army in Shipu is a regiment of the old enemy Itagaki Brigade, but the Banyuan Brigade suffered a large loss in Qinggangpo, although the troops were replenished later, but it did not reach full strength, after all, at this time, the Japanese army consumed a lot in various battlefields, and the source of troops began to be tense.

In the end, there were only more than 700 Japanese troops stationed in Shipu, and there were more than 300 puppet troops to cooperate with the guards.

The main force of Songdao's wing is in the area of the Shaxi River, thirty miles north of Shipu.

Thinking that the order of the military headquarters was to take Shipu at the end of December and prepare for the main force of the seventh detachment to move west at any time, Liu Tianshu called Wu Zhongping and Tong Guijie, pointed to the map and discussed it, and decided to let the artillery regiment under the protection of the guard company carry out a sudden artillery attack on the troops belonging to the Songdao Wing in the north, and at the same time concentrate the forces of a regiment to destroy the enemy in Shipu as quickly as possible.

In order to ensure the smooth elimination of the enemy at Shipu, the sniper squad directly under the detachment headquarters also sent two combat groups to cooperate with one regiment, and the other combat group lurked north of the Shaxi River to snipe and hunt important Japanese targets north of the Shaxi River.

According to Liu Tianshu's statement, it was to fight so that the Songdao United did not dare to reinforce Shipu, and could only watch the Japanese troops in Shipu being eaten by themselves.

At 10 o'clock in the evening, with Liu Tianshu's order, the artillery regiment concentrated eight infantry guns and suddenly carried out a 15-minute rapid attack on the Japanese defense area north of the Shaxi River.

Matsushima received a report that the Japanese position on the north side of the Shaxi River had been attacked by unknown artillery fire, and the troops had suffered heavy casualties, so he jumped out in a hurry.

It's a pity that the sky to the south has turned red, and the troops on the position can't retreat at all, so they can only die on the position.

Fortunately, the shells that came from nowhere ended fifteen minutes later, but the position of Matsushima, which was defended by an infantry brigade on the north side of the Shaxi River, was blown to pieces, mutilated limbs, and groans of wounded soldiers.

However, the fact that the shells were no longer flying indicated that the Chinese attack was coming, and those surviving Japanese troops naturally held their positions in fear, preparing for a fierce battle with the rushing Chinese.

Unfortunately, five minutes later, the expected attack did not happen.

Matsushima was at a strange time when he suddenly received an urgent call from Itagaki of the defenders of Shipu, saying that Shipu had been fiercely attacked by the Chinese army, and its outer positions had been lost one after another, and the situation was critical and asked for reinforcements.

Only then did Matsushima understand that the real purpose of the Chinese was Shipu Town, but he didn't know why the Chinese army attacked Shipu and bombarded the defenders' positions north of his Shaxi River with artillery fire?

When the results of the troop losses were counted, Matsushima couldn't help but be surprised, he didn't expect that his troops would lose more than 500 people in just 15 minutes of artillery fire.

He was embarrassed that a brigade had lost two-fifths of its size, and more importantly most of its elite infantry.

However, thinking that there must be an ambush by Chinese on the way to Shipu, Matsushima finally dismissed the idea of sending reinforcements, and instead told Itagaki on the phone that he must hold out until dawn, and if he really can't hold on, he can break through on his own.

When Itagaki heard the words of the wing captain, his heart sank to the bottom of the sea and held on until dawn, is this possible? The attacking Chinese army had torn through its outlying positions, and now its remaining two squadrons could only hold on to the hill north of the town with their fortifications. The puppet army that cooperated with the action lost more than half of it soon after the battle began, and the rest could only shrink into the fortifications on the hill.

After Itagaki received the order to garrison Shipu Town, he decided to set up his command post on Shipu Mountain in the north of the town after he had finished looking at the entire Shipu Town.

Although Shipu Mountain is not tall and not too big, it has three small hills, and more importantly, you can build strong fortifications on the mountain and then defend it from a high position.

Of course, in addition to defending Shipu Mountain, he also placed a squadron around the town plus puppet army units.

Who knew that at 10:5 p.m., countless Chinese troops appeared around Shipu Town, and these Chinese suddenly launched an attack on his outer position, and the position defended by a company of the puppet army was the first to be broken, and countless Chinese soldiers broke through from there and divided and surrounded the Japanese soldiers of the squadron guarding the mountain.

He received an urgent call from his subordinates and immediately ordered the artillery set up on the hill to provide artillery support, but he knew that his artillery fire had only been fought for less than 10 minutes before he was violently hit by the artillery fire of the New Fourth Army, and the artillery position was directly knocked out by the artillery fire of the Chinese army.

Having lost artillery suppression, Itagaki had no choice but to order the troops on the periphery to withdraw to Mt. Seokpo. (To be continued.) )