In a large bay at the southern end of the Qingyang Mountains, the headquarters of the 16th Regiment was temporarily stationed. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

In the courtyard of a family, Zhou Aiguo stood in front of Liu Tianshu.

"Regiment commander, the third battalion and one company have successfully returned to Qingyangling, and the devil has lost our traces and is sending plainclothes agents to look around. After Hao Chaoyang received the letter from us, he was ready to evacuate Ningyuan County. Zhou Aiguo reported the surrounding situation to Liu Tianshu.

Last night, the 2nd and 3rd Battalions of the 16th Regiment and the artillery battalion, taking advantage of the cover of darkness, quickly turned around and went east and hid in Qingyangling.

Now the Japanese army going north under the command of Miura Tadaji, has approached Ningyuan County, in the case of the Japanese army's heavy advance, Hao Chaoyang only with less than 1,000 men, naturally unable to hold Ningyuan County.

In other words, Ningyuan County will be reoccupied by the Japanese army in less than five days after it is recovered. But there is no way around it.

Knowing that all the troops had withdrawn, Liu Tianshu breathed a sigh of relief and asked Xie Pingcai and Ou Biaofei and Wu Zhongping, the commander of the artillery battalion, to call over.

"Regiment commander, the devil has approached Ningyuan County, it is said that the devil has also strengthened the defense along the railway, what is the task, you give it to our second battalion, I promise to complete the task." As soon as Xie Ping saw Liu Tianshu, he said eagerly.

His second battalion suffered a large loss in Jinzhutang, and later in the battle against Ningyuan, he did not get the main attack task, and then advanced to the northwest, also with the third battalion as the main force, as the commander of the second battalion, when he thought of this, he felt a little aggrieved.

"Why, as soon as you came to me, you started to grab the task?" Liu Tianshu glanced at him, and then called the three of them in.

"Come, you see, this is Qingyangling, this is Ningyuan County, after the devil approaches Ningyuan County, I estimate that once we lose our news, the little devil will definitely send people to look around, and its main force will stay in Ningyuan, Qingyangling is only fifty miles away from Ningyuan County, the news that we are hiding here should not be able to hide the devil for long, in this way, the second battalion commander, you send a company to feign the main force, move eastward towards the Jinpu Railway, and then quickly break away from the enemy tomorrow night, go directly south into Zhangbaling, and join the first battalion, The rest of the troops immediately moved quietly to the south, and I thought for a moment that during the day we marched in the mountains, except for the aerial reconnaissance of the devils, the rest was not to be worried, and at night, we turned southwest from here and advanced towards Liuji, striving to reach Liuji tomorrow night. Liu Tianshu pointed to the map and said in a deep voice.

The wounded of the second and third battalions were sent to Zhang Baling in advance, and those captured puppet soldiers, after some examination, were executed on the spot for the most heinous crimes, and those who were willing to join the New Fourth Army were directly incorporated into the troops, and those who were unwilling to follow the New Fourth Army were directly released after being registered and put on the record.

Of course, these released Imperial Allied troops undoubtedly all wrote down a guarantee that they would not work for the Japanese in the future.

It can be said that the troops remaining in Qingyangling now are all combat units, and their mobility is naturally relatively strong.

Hearing that Liu Tianshu was preparing to return to the base with the troops, Xie Pingcai, Ou Biaofei, Wu Zhongping, and Zhou Aiguo's eyes suddenly lit up.

The devils occupied the base area, and they and all the soldiers were full of anger in their hearts, and now they were finally going to return to the base area, and with their understanding of the regiment commander, after the troops returned to the base area, they would inevitably find trouble with the enemy who stayed in the base area, and they were naturally very excited at this time.

After the four understood their intentions, Liu Tianshu asked the four to go back and inform the troops to prepare, and set off two hours later.

As usual, the reconnaissance company walked in the head, and then the second battalion and the first company set off from the north of Qingyangling and swaggered towards the Jinpu Road to the east.

At the same time, the main force of the regimental headquarters rushed south from the forest.

Shinohara Seiichiro received an aerial reconnaissance report and learned that Liu Tianshu's troops had appeared in the north of Qingyang Ridge, and it seemed that he was preparing to flee eastward, so he stood on the map and looked at it for a long time, and reported the situation to Miura Tadaji, who had just recaptured the county seat of Ningyuan.

When Miura Tadaji saw that Liu Tianshu seemed to abandon his westward advance, he turned around and headed east, and immediately studied it on the map.

In his research, he immediately found that Liu Tianshu was really slippery, and he seemed to have stopped moving westward as if he had not predicted, and turned around to the east.

You must know that his eastward direction can not only get rid of the encirclement of the two armies of the imperial army, but also threaten the Jinpu line, and when he reaches the vicinity of the Jinpu line, if the imperial army defending the railway is too strong, he can also go south directly and enter the Zhangbaling area.

In other words, if he can't cut off the road for Liu Tianshu to flee to Zhang Baling, then Liu Tianshu is already in a favorable position to be left and right.

It's a pity that he stared at the map and studied it for a long time, and finally came to the conclusion that if he wanted to block Liu Tianshu's road south to Zhangbaling, he had to immediately send troops to go directly from the south of Qingyang Ling.

Thinking that Liu Tianshu had the combat strength to capture Ningyuan County in one go, he knew that even if he sent a large number of troops, he might not be able to block the road to the south.

Thinking of the end, he decided to send two brigades of troops from the south of the Qingyang Mountains, prepare in the area of Chenzhuang, and immediately intercept the air force as soon as they discovered the whereabouts of Liu Tianshu's troops.

Fighting against Liu Tianshubu, the most headache for Miura Tadaji was the erratic nature of Liu Tianshubu, and he was ready to find Liu Tianshu's main force several times, but he escaped from it.

For example, this time, if Liu Tianshu advanced another twenty miles to Bengbu and stayed in that area for a day, his encirclement would be formed.

It's a pity that he hurried and hurried, but he still slowed down, allowing his troops to march east calmly.

The two brigades under the personal command of Matsushita Nobuyuki were responsible for interception, and Matsushita Nobuyuki also Liu Tianshu fought several times, and naturally hated him to the core, and after receiving the order, he immediately asked the troops to forcibly march to Chenzhuang in the south of the Qingyang Mountains.

As long as he rushes to Chenzhuang, he will block the road from Liu Tianshu's south to Zhangbaling, because that area happens to be in the gentle area between Qingyangling and Zhangbaling, and Chenzhuang is in the middle of the two mountain ranges.

And from Qingyangling to Zhangbaling, Chenzhuang is the only way, if you don't take Chenzhuang, you will go around the long road, so you can give yourself time to calmly set up the formation.

Nobuyuki Matsushita rode on his horse, looking at the misty fields in the east, thinking that he was about to start a fierce battle with Liu Tianshube, but he was a little looking forward to it.

It's just that he didn't know that when his troops left Ningyuan County, the main force of Liu Tianshu's 16th Regiment had already left Qingyangling, and after confirming that there were no enemy planes in the sky, he decisively came out of the mountains, and did not go straight to Zhang Baling, but quietly passed through the hills, and hid in a small mountain forest in the south.

When the troops were marching, because the reconnaissance company controlled the road in front and the local party organization took over, more than 1,000 people from the three battalions quietly went south, and not many people knew about it.

Besides, the devils in this area have not established a stronghold, and naturally no one has defected to the Japanese as traitors, and it can even be said that there have never been devils in this area.

On the contrary, there are several self-defense forces operating between these villages.

Before Matsushita Nobuyuki arrived in Chenzhuang, he received a report that the 16th Regiment had fought a battle with the Jinpu Road Guards, although the scale was about the battalion level, but the firepower was extremely strong, not only with mortars, but also with fire support such as 92 infantry guns.

However, the railway garrison had already taken precautions, and within half an hour of the battle, planes came to help in the battle, and the New Fourth Army saw that the situation was not good, and immediately withdrew back.

Knowing that the New Fourth Army was repulsed by the imperial army railway garrison, Matsushita Nobuyuki immediately commanded the troops to rush to Chenzhuang and build fortifications at the key point leading from Qingyangling to Zhangbaling to prepare for the blockade.

At the same time, the troops pressed from the west of Qingyangling were also rapidly advancing eastward, squeezing the space for the New Fourth Army's activities.

Liu Tianshu heard Xie Pingcai's report that the devils had placed heavy troops on both sides of the railway, so he couldn't help nodding, and then ordered the troops who had taken a break to get ready, and as soon as it was dark, they immediately forcibly marched towards Liu Ji.

After the order was issued, Liu Tianshu used the radio to contact Deputy Regiment Commander Liu and asked him to order the 4th Battalion and 2nd Company, which were operating in Sanguba, to launch a feint attack on the enemy in Sanguba tonight to attract the enemy from Wangjiadian to the west.

Ishiya Saburo commanded a brigade to stay in the base area, and its brigade headquarters was located in the original regimental headquarters of Liu Tianshu in Wangjiadian, and a squadron was stationed in Sujiatang, echoing the distance of Linshan County's garrison in Majiaji.

As for Liu Ji, thinking that Liu Tianshu's main force had already withdrawn from the base area, Ishiya Saburo had to send a company of Imperial Cooperative Army to garrison it.

Although Liu Tianshu's main force left, Ishitani Saburo did not dare to be careless, so the Japanese army in his hand could not be used in a scattered manner.

Besides, there are two squadrons of the Japanese army stationed in Majiaji, one squadron is responsible for guarding Majiaji, and the other squadron is carrying out sweeping and searching missions.

Although Liu Tianshu's main force was evacuated, the small units of the New Fourth Army operating in the base area were frequent, which gave Ishitani Saburo a headache.

After receiving a report from the captain of the Japanese squad guarding Sangu Dam that the New Fourth Army was attacking the position of the Imperial Army, Ishiya Saburo thought about it and ordered the defenders to hold their positions and repel the New Fourth Army.

The Japanese troops who entered Sanguba this time were very careful, built strong fortifications outside the town, and at the same time placed the Imperial Allied troops who cooperated with the operation on their positions, and their firing points were also carefully arranged.

The 2nd Company of the 4th Battalion launched a round of attacks on the west side of the town, and found that the grenadiers and mortars of the devils were quickly coming, and at the same time, light and heavy fire firmly blocked the area in front of the position.

The commander of the second company saw that the devils were heavily guarded, so he had to follow the instructions of Battalion Commander Kang and take the initiative to withdraw after fighting for half an hour.

When Liu Tianshu learned that Sanguba was attacked by the New Fourth Army, Ishiya Saburo did not send reinforcements at all, and the enemy guarding Sanguba seemed to be extremely well defended, and the second company had no artillery support and had to retreat, his eyes rolled twice.

It seems that Saburo Ishitani made up his mind to let his men hold on, and he also built stronger fortifications. If their own troops force an attack, the casualties will be too great.

However, the devil easily did not send reinforcements, but Liu Tianshu saw various opportunities to break through. (To be continued.) )