"What? The New Fourth Army on the ridge ran away? Jiang Cheng was so shocked that he almost jumped up. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

"Yes, Your Excellency General, when we occupied the mountains, we did not encounter any resistance from the New Fourth Army at all, and there was no shadow of the New Fourth Army around. Judging from all the circumstances, the New Fourth Army should have abandoned its position and fled before we attacked. Captain Aoki said with a somewhat ugly face.

On the way to capture Longguling with artillery shells, his troops surprisingly did not encounter any resistance from the New Fourth Army, and it can be said that he successfully occupied Longguling with zero casualties.

However, when he saw that on the entire Longgu Ridge, except for the damaged guns, not even a single dead New Fourth Army was seen, let alone the wounded soldiers of the New Fourth Army, he immediately understood that the New Fourth Army took the initiative to abandon its position and withdraw from Longgu Ridge.

Later, his men saw a mound of newly fortified graves in a valley, which confirmed his suspicions.

When he thought of the bombing of planes and artillery fire just now, and the fact that so much steel had all fallen on the deserted mountains, he really had a feeling that he wanted to cry or laugh.

Jiang Cheng's face turned black suddenly, he didn't expect that when he was holding back his strength to give a hard blow to the New Fourth Army that dared to resist, the opponent had already run away without a trace, and he was pitiful that he had wasted so much precious ammunition on the empty Longgu Ridge.

When this word spreads, I am afraid that if I don't want to become a joke for the entire empire, I am afraid it will not be successful.

After a while, Jiang Cheng finally came back to his senses, looked at Aoki and said, "Aoki-kun, immediately send troops to capture Ishida County, please." ”

Aoki received the order and immediately asked his second brigade to take the lead in running towards the county seat of Ishida in the Tianmu Mountains, and at the same time, the main force of the entire wing also followed.

Although he has not been taught the ambush ability of the New Fourth Army, he has long heard from the imperial officers that it is only a second brigade, and he still has no bottom in his heart, but if his entire wing is close together, even if the New Fourth Army wants to bite him, he may not be able to bite him.

After all, further west, until the county seat of Shitian, there is no such precipitous terrain as Longguling.

Although the New Fourth Army brought heavy casualties to Jiang Cheng's detachment in Longguling, its own casualties were not small, just looking at the brand-new graves in the valley, Aoki knew that the strength of Shi Qiang's temporary detachment was almost halved.

After Shi Qiang and Chen Jian commanded the troops to withdraw to Jiangjiawan, they immediately ordered the troops to rest and recuperate, and at the same time treat the wounded.

Of course, in order to prevent the devils from pursuing, the necessary vigilance troops were naturally arranged.

When Liu Tianshu received a telegram from the temporary detachment and learned that the casualties of the temporary detachment had reached 1,500, the entire division headquarters fell silent. Xiang Luoquan, Zhang Zhouhong, and Sun Xuexuan all showed grief on their faces.

When the temporary detachment was formed, the 68th Regiment had three main battalions, one special service company, one artillery company, and one guard platoon. Each main battalion has three infantry companies and one machine gun company. The total strength of the regiment was about 1,800 men. The establishment of the 72nd Regiment was the same as that of the 68th Regiment, with about 3,800 men in the two regiments alone, and an infantry battalion in the artillery regiment, the total strength of the entire temporary detachment amounted to about 4,500 men.

From Chengjiapo to Longguling, the number of soldiers sacrificed by the temporary detachment reached more than 1,120 and more than 300 wounded, and these casualties were basically concentrated in the main battalions of the two regiments.

In other words, the strength of the main battalions of the two regiments has been lost by nearly half.

After a while, Liu Tianshu said in a deep voice: "Send a telegram to the temporary detachment, and the division headquarters will praise them for not fearing a strong enemy, stubbornly resisting, and successfully completing the task." ”

After Shi Qiang received the telegram from the division headquarters, he immediately summoned the cadres above the battalion commander level of the temporary detachment to convey the instructions of the division headquarters, and then he summed up the battle, at the meeting, he specifically mentioned that although the temporary detachment sacrificed many comrades, we eliminated at least more than 1,000 devils, which can be said to be a great victory, and even the division commander praised our temporary detachment, it can be said that the temporary detachment not only completed the glorious task assigned by the superiors, but also achieved a major victory.

Because it was a blocking battle, even Shi Qiang didn't know that the Japanese soldiers killed and wounded by the temporary detachment were as high as more than 2,000 people.

After the meeting, the political commissars of each regiment and the instructors of each battalion returned to their units, and immediately conveyed the praise of the division headquarters at the meeting, and learned that the temporary detachment had achieved a great record of destroying more than 1,000 enemies.

Especially those soldiers who survived the battle on the battlefield exuded a kind of solemn aura after experiencing life and death.

In the end, the 68th Regiment retained only one battalion, the 72nd Regiment retained two battalions, and the remaining troops could only be replenished after the siege of the devils was crushed.

The officers and men of the New Fourth Detachment have never had any bad feelings about the readjustment of the troops, and in the independent divisions, the readjustment of the troop structure is a very normal thing, so the readjustment of the troops of the temporary detachment will be completed before dark.

At this time, the news of the fall of Shitian County reached Jiangjiawan, and many soldiers wept bitterly when they heard this unfortunate news.

After the Aoki Wing of the Jiangcheng detachment occupied the county seat of Ishida, it immediately built positions around the county seat in accordance with the order of the detachment Jiang Cheng. As for the Panasonic Wing, one of its brigades held Longguling, one brigade was deployed on the line of Chengjiapo, and the Miki Brigade was stationed in Qinghe Town between Longguling and Shitian County.

The New Fourth Army is different from the guerrillas with shotguns, especially the independent division of the New Fourth Army, and its strong combat effectiveness has really taught Jiang Cheng, an old devil, a lesson, and he does not dare to abandon his retreat.

These three key points, if only a small force is sent to defend, it is simply not enough for the New Fourth Army to plug the gaps, and in desperation, the Panasonic Wing has to be dismantled and arranged on this vital transportation artery.

It's just that in this way, Jiang Cheng's troops can be scattered on the line from Fuchun River to Shitian.

Thinking that his army was suddenly divided into four parts, Jiang Cheng felt an indescribable depression in his heart, but fortunately, he finally completed the task of the headquarters and successfully captured the county seat of Ishida, although the price paid by his detachment was indeed a bit large.

On the afternoon of the day when Jiang Cheng's detachment occupied the county seat of Shitian, the troops of the 22nd Division, which attacked north from the direction of Hangzhou, also successfully occupied the county seat of Wukang.

As long as Zhejiang's 22nd Division and Jiang Cheng Detachment occupy the two county towns of Shitian and Wukang, it will be equivalent to jamming Liu Tianshu's neck, and besides, there are still two wings of the 144th Division on the Linchuan front line that are reserved, and the Zhejiang direction can sit back and relax, and what should be done next is to order the troops in Wuhu and ready for combat to quickly attack Liu Tianshu's base area.

His classmates in the base camp have quietly revealed to him that the base camp is extremely dissatisfied with his actions since he became the commander of the Japanese army in Central China, and it is very likely that he will be transferred back to China in the near future.

As a very dignified soldier of the Empire, it was extremely humiliating to be transferred back to the country as the commander of the reserve forces.

When Liu Tianshu fell into the hands of the enemy in Wukang County, his attention was highly focused on the Japanese troops in the north, west and east.

The Japanese concentrated heavy forces to attack Ishida and Takeyasu respectively, and their operational intentions were obvious, so to speak, the Japanese army's actions in those two places were only a cover for larger operations later.

However, which direction the devil will take as the focus of the attack, Liu Tianshu and a few people from the division have been thinking nervously.

In Huzhou to the east, there is now a wing of the Japanese army, and judging from various circumstances, the Japanese army has no signs of a large-scale increase in Huzhou.

Of course, this is related to the serious shortage of Japanese troops, after all, in the Guannai, just that little force, scattered to the vast land of China, is indeed a little powerless.

News came from the direction of northern Jiangsu and eastern Anhui, where the strength of the Japanese army seemed to be secretly decreasing, and many strongholds were temporarily guarded by puppet troops, and as a result, the New Fourth Army, which was active in Jiangbei, took advantage of the situation to launch a large-scale campaign to uproot the enemy's strongholds, so that many devils could only shrink into the county seats, and watched as large areas of the countryside outside the city fell into the hands of the New Fourth Army of the Eighth Route Army.

Even in the base area in southern Jiangsu, the pressure is also sharply reduced, and the Sixth Division of the New Fourth Army will naturally not let go of such an opportunity, and its main forces will attack everywhere and constantly strike at the enemy.

"Political commissar, although the Japanese army has gathered heavy troops in Suzhou, but if you attack my base area, you need to cross the Taihu Lake by boat, in the case that the Japanese army does not control the lakeside area, I think the little devil does not dare to take this risk, and the enemy strength in Huzhou is not strong, I speculate that the main direction of the Japanese army's attack should be the Guangde line." Liu Tianshu stared at the map and said to Jiang Jinyong, who was sitting on the side.

"What about Yixing's enemies?" Jiang Jinyong's eyes fell on Yixing. The Japanese army in Yixing was a stinger between southern Jiangsu and the Tianmu Mountain base area, although the independent division with the cooperation of the sixth division in southern Jiangsu had also pulled out this stinger, but the little devil sent heavy troops to snatch it back.

Yixing City is not suitable for defense, besides, the devil has the help of planes, and holding the county will do more harm than good, and in the end the independent division has to give up Yixing.

"The devils in Yixing should not rush south, one is that the Yixing devils' forces are more than enough to defend and the attack is insufficient, and the second is that if they go south, the sixth division can attack from behind, once this group of enemies leaves Yixing, it is very likely to fall into the situation of being attacked by the enemy on the back of the abdomen, and in the case that the Japanese army does not have an advantage, the Japanese army in Yixing should not make any moves." Liu Tianshu pondered for a while and said.

"You are right, it seems that as long as we defeat the Japanese troops coming from the direction of Wuhu, the other Japanese troops will not dare to act rashly. What do you think, let's hear it. Jiang Jinyong thought about it carefully and agreed with Liu Tianshu's opinion. (To be continued.) )