"Lao Zhang is right, although this devil is divided into three ways, but the distance is only thirty miles, it is indeed not easy to divide. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 However, Matsushima also underestimated our seventh detachment too much, and really thought that his Matsushima United was invincible in the world. Lao Zhang, Lao Luo, you see, the enemy in Huzhou is assembling, and the enemy in Wukang is adopting the tactics of steady advancement, and it will take at least three days to reach Si'an Town, only the Songdao Wing is in a hurry, since he is going to die, how can we be polite. I just estimated that according to the speed of the Japanese army going south, we should be able to reach these positions tonight, and now there are still four hours before dark, and tonight we will meet the old devil Matsushima. Liu Tianshu stared at the sand table and said hatefully.

When Xiang Luoquan heard this, he knew that Liu Tianshu had made a decision in his heart, so he looked up at him and said, "What does the detachment leader mean?" ”

"Lao Zhang, in order to crush the enemy's siege, we must defeat the enemy all the way, and now the Matsushima United is rushing forward, just giving us the opportunity to break through, my thoughts are like this. The 1st Regiment, 1st Battalion, and 2nd Battalion immediately rushed west to Niutou Mountain, and launched an attack on the 1st Brigade of the Songdao Wing at 10 o'clock tonight. The first battalion and the second battalion of the third regiment immediately rushed to the edge of Taihu Lake in concealment, and after dark, they took advantage of the cover of night to rush to Dingyuan Town by boat, and went around to the back of the third brigade of the Songdao Wing, and the third battalion of the third regiment quickly went north, and the third battalion of the first regiment took advantage of the westward movement of the Songdao Middle Route Army, and immediately inserted themselves into Xiaowangling between the second brigade and the third brigade, cut off the connection between the two, and cooperate with the third regiment to eat the brigade on the east road. The second company of the infantry artillery battalion and the mortar battalion of the artillery regiment took part in the siege of the 3rd Brigade of the Japanese army. The guerrillas operating north of Dingyuan Town were ordered to attack the Japanese strongholds around Yixing, attract the attention of the Japanese army, and create conditions for the total annihilation of the 3rd Brigade of the Japanese Songdao Wing. Liu Tianshu said the idea of the entire battle in a deep voice.

Hearing that Liu Tianshu decided to encircle and annihilate the Eastern Route Army on Songdao first, Deputy Detachment Leader Zhang couldn't help but light up his eyes, but Xiang Luoquan fell into deep thought.

After a while, he looked at Liu Tianshu at Luo Quan: "Detachment leader, the Japanese army in the north has a wing, although its strength is scattered, but each brigade has about a thousand puppet troops to cooperate with the battle, we besiege with the strength of a regiment, is there less troops?" ”

Although the Third Regiment had three infantry battalions, one machine gun battalion, and one artillery company and one reconnaissance company, the whole regiment had only about 2,500 men, while the enemy who advanced to Dingyuan Town was only 2,000 men.

"Chief of Staff, the second regiment cannot be used for the time being, I have calculated, as long as we act covertly, and the first regiment attacks the enemy on the west road and achieves the goal of mobilizing the enemy in the middle, then there is still a good chance of winning by eating the enemy on the east road. Although the enemy has about 2,000 people, those puppet troops can fight a good battle, but when they really encounter a big battle, their combat effectiveness should not be too strong. Besides, it was a night battle, and the enemy did not know what we were doing, let alone imagined that we would transport our troops behind the enemy's back by boat. Liu Tianshu analyzed.

"Okay, since you've made up your mind, let's fight according to your ideas." Although Xiang Luoquan was a little worried, the detachment commander had already made a decision, and as the chief of staff, he should strictly implement it.

Subsequently, the specific combat missions of each unit were immediately issued, and the first and second battalions of the third regiment and the second company of the mortar battalion of the artillery regiment quietly moved to the shores of Taihu Lake, and at the same time, the Taihu guerrillas began to prepare their boats. The three battalions of the three regiments, the first company of the guard battalion, and one company of the 92nd infantry artillery company, under the command of deputy commander Zhang, quietly moved north.

At the same time, after the first regiment, one battalion, and two infantry artillery battalions of the infantry artillery battalion urgently assembled, under the leadership of Tong Guijie, they hurried to the direction of Niutou Mountain.

The three battalions of the first regiment and the first company of the mortar battalion secretly moved northward, preparing to wait until the direction of Niutoushan started, and then take the opportunity to rush to Xiaowangling to cut off the reinforcements of the enemy's central route army on the east road.

In order to use the command, Liu Tianshu, Jiang Jinyong, Xiang Luoquan, and Su Lan rushed to Tangzhuang, thirty miles south of Dingyuan Town, with the command headquarters.

Zhou Aiguo's reconnaissance brigade special operations squadron sent four combat teams, equipped with snipers, to quietly sneak north, preparing to take the opportunity to launch a merciless attack on the devil's logistics line when the battle began.

When Matsushima Osa received the task of attacking the Seventh Detachment of the New Fourth Army that stayed in Changxing through Yixing, he did not think so. According to the report, the Liu Tianshu Division of the New Fourth Army in Changxing was only more than 7,000 people, and you must know that the Songdao Wing, as an elite unit of the empire, had a record of chasing one division of the Kuomintang Army and had a glorious history of withstanding the attack of two divisions of the Chinese Army.

In Matsushima's view, the headquarters dispatched three wings this time, plus more than 8,000 puppet troops to cooperate with the operation, to besiege the New Fourth Army, which only had more than 7,000 troops.

Therefore, after receiving the order, he only informed the commander of the 22nd Division, Xiaocheng Sanhu, and rushed to Yixing with the troops in a murderous manner, and then the troops were divided into three ways to press south.

The 22nd Division belonged to the Triple Garrison Division, while his Matsushima Wing was subordinate to the 15th Division and was the elite of the Empire.

In his opinion, even without the cooperation of the 22nd Division, he could easily defeat Liu Tianshu.

Although he looked down on the backward New Fourth Army in his heart, he was still very cautious when it came to action, and after the troops moved south, the three armies were only 30 miles apart, and they were advancing in unison.

When it was dark, the wing directly under his command and the second brigade crossed the Xiaoning River and stopped at Chenzhuang. At the same time, contact the left and right armies.

After dinner, Matsushima sat in the wing headquarters, looked at the information sent by the intelligence department, and learned that the New Fourth Army was waiting for it in the south, and couldn't help but sneer.

Liu Tianshu is too self-sufficient, and he even wants to use the built defense line to compete with the Imperial Japanese Army, does he really think that with his flesh and blood, he can resist the shells of the Imperial Japanese Army.

He didn't know that the people who were guarding the so-called defense line now were only the people from the county brigade that Liu Tianshu had temporarily replaced.

At 10 o'clock in the evening, just when Songdao was lying on the marching bed, suddenly a fierce gunfire sounded in the direction of Niutou Mountain, and when he heard the sound, he suddenly got up from the bed, and saw a staff officer running to report that the first brigade was attacked by a large force of the New Fourth Army in Niutou Mountain, because it was caught off guard, the first brigade suffered heavy casualties under the fierce artillery fire of the New Fourth Army, its first line of defense had been broken, and the puppet army that cooperated with the action was even more defeated.

"What? The first brigade was attacked? Matsushima couldn't help but be stunned, you must know that the first brigade plus the puppet army that cooperated with the operation, there were more than 2,000 people, and now it was surrounded by the New Fourth Army, could it be that Liu Tianshu was ready to eat the first brigade?

Matsushima couldn't help but fall into deep thought.

However, less than 10 minutes later, an urgent telegram from the First Brigade was sent, and it turned out that the New Fourth Army had concentrated infantry artillery and mortars and carried out a fierce attack on the First Brigade, and at the same time, countless New Fourth Army launched a fierce attack, and the First Brigade suffered too many losses and had to shrink its defensive line and hold on.

At this moment, the logistics troops in the north sent an urgent telegram, saying that they were being attacked by the New Fourth Army.

When Matsushima heard this, his head began to mess up, and after a while, the telegram of the first brigade came again, Matsushima glanced at the sky in the west that was red by artillery fire, and finally gritted his teeth and ordered the second brigade to rush to reinforce the first brigade overnight.

In fact, although the attack of the first regiment was fierce, it was more bombarded by artillery fire, and at the same time the infantry also approached, but there was no large-scale attack.

The 1st Brigade of the Japanese Army and the puppet army that cooperated with the operation suffered heavy losses during the first round of artillery fire of the 1st Regiment, and when they later retracted their forces and held on, although the fighting was fierce and the momentum was terrifying, their losses were not large.

But Rao is like this, the Western Route Army in Songdao alone suffered more than 200 Japanese casualties, and the puppet army lost one-third, and those who were alive were also frightened and had no fighting spirit.

Upon learning that the Songdao Brigade had begun to reinforce to the west, the 1st Regiment and 3rd Battalion immediately advanced to Xiaowangling, and at the same time, the 1st and 2nd Battalions of the 3rd Regiment and the 82nd Mortar Company of the Artillery Regiment and the 60th Mortar Company of the Regiment immediately pressed to the 3rd Brigade of Songdao from behind.

The three battalions of the three regiments, an infantry artillery company, and a detachment guard company, under the command of Deputy Regiment Commander Zhang, quietly approached the third brigade facing Songdao from the south.

Teng Ye, the commander of the third brigade of the Songdao Wing, did not know that the real target of the New Fourth Army was him, and when he received a report from the wing that the New Fourth Army was besieging the first brigade in the west, he only asked the Japanese troops camped to strengthen their vigilance, and as for the puppet army guarding the periphery, he didn't even bother to report it.

In Teng Ye's view, the first brigade had a wing commander to lead the reinforcements, so it was naturally safe and sound, while his third brigade, the wing commander's order was to stay in place, just wait for dawn, break through the position of the New Fourth Army, and go straight to Changxing.

As for the New Fourth Army coming to besiege him, he never thought about it, because Taihu Lake is in the east, and there is the main force of the wing in the west, and if the New Fourth Army attacks from the front, it will not be his opponent at all.

When he camped tonight, his troops were arranged, and the main direction of defense was all in the south.

Matsushima led his troops all the way to hurry, and after an hour and a half, he finally arrived at Niutou Mountain, who knew that his troops had not yet launched, and the New Fourth Army, which was attacking the first brigade, suddenly retreated, and disappeared into the night in a blink of an eye, leaving only a fire still burning everywhere, as well as the constant groaning of imperial soldiers and the puppet army that cooperated with the action.

Seeing that the First Brigade was so embarrassed by the night attack of the New Fourth Army, Matsushima only felt the fire in his heart rising outward.

Just when he asked the first brigade to count the losses with a blushing face, suddenly a staff officer ran over.

"Wing Commander, no, the third brigade is under attack by the New Fourth Army."

"What? The New Fourth Army attacked the 3rd Brigade? When Matsushima heard this, he couldn't help but be stunned.

At this time, the New Fourth Army suddenly attacked the Third Brigade, and if he didn't understand the real intention, then he, the wing commander, would be in vain.

"Quick, order Teng Ye, you must hold your position, and order the troops to rush to the east to reinforce the third brigade." Matsushima had fully woken up at this time, and the real purpose of Liu Tianshu's attack on the First Brigade was to force his Central Route Army to move west. (To be continued.) )