The night was like a black cloth hanging over the sky, without a trace of moonlight, without a trace of stars, and the whole earth seemed to fall into a deep sleep.

The sound of the dripping rain falling to the ground is like the breath of sleep, full of rhythm. Suddenly, the sense of rhythm was broken, a bolt of lightning fell, and the embankment of the flowing water in front of him, the rippling river surface in the distance, and the white sky in the distance showed the outline one by one.

Another lightning bolt fell in the distance, and in the depths of the light, a warship illuminated, and the deck of the warship was covered with heavily armed soldiers, whose bayonets and steel helmets showed their brightness and brilliance for a moment, and then plunged into darkness again, and the sky seemed to be shrouded in a black cloth, and the embankment, the river, the warships, and the soldiers disappeared again.

It was dark outside the warship, and the inside of the warship was bright, and Hatashige sat on a stool, his eyes motionless, and his expressionless face was like a statue, and his subordinates knew that this was the habit of their brigade commander while waiting.

A herald came with firm and fast steps, "Your Excellency Brigade Commander, the landing of the Takahashi Wing in Mawo has been successful!" ”

All the subordinates stood up, and everyone had a look of excitement and excitement on their faces, and sure enough, everything was as their brigade commander expected, and the people of China would never have thought of being attacked on such a stormy night.

Shigeichi Harata had a smile on his face, he straightened his neckline, picked up his saber, stood up, and walked out of the command room.

In order to prevent the Japanese from landing, the Chinese side destroyed all the docks, and also laid a lot of anti-landing stakes in the areas suitable for landing, so that the big ships could not approach, but the Hatada detachment had already prepared, and the second infantry wing of Takahashi changed to small boats to carry out the landing, and also prepared a lot of wooden boats for the transportation of infantry.

The Nagai Brigade of the Takahashi Infantry Wing, which was the first to go ashore, followed by the Akiyama Brigade and the Takeman Brigade, also began to land, and to the left of the Takahashi Wing was the 1st Sato Wing, which landed on wooden boats at a distance of three kilometers from the Takahashi Wing.

A team of sappers has already gone ashore, and according to the plan, they will build an artificial dock overnight, and by the early hours of tomorrow morning, a large number of mountain guns and baggage ammunition will quickly come ashore through the pier.

The soldiers went ashore one by one, and then quickly established a beachhead, and the search force also moved forward, and it seemed that neither the night nor the wind and rain could stop the orderly movement of the Japanese troops.

The rain became heavier and heavier, pouring on the heads of every Japanese soldier like water falling under a wooden basin, and the head of the brigade leader, Nagai Shitsu, was in front of his eyes, and some electric lamps were placed in front of him, emitting a bleak light like fireflies.

Nagai pulled out his command knife and aimed it in the direction of Anqing,

"Warriors of the Empire, march towards Anqing!"

A bolt of lightning fell, and the flash of the command knife merged with the light of the lightning.

The Yongjing Brigade was tasked with capturing the Anqing airfield, and one of his squadrons had already searched and advanced first, and the subsequent troops, under his leadership, were advancing rapidly along the Anqing-Mawo road.

Captain Nagai couldn't help but have a smug smile on his face, the road was not destroyed, which was even better than the expected plan, and in less than 1 hour, his troops had advanced nearly 6 kilometers.

"What is this location?"

"Report to Captain, this is Broken Mountain, six thousand meters from the landing site."

"Shout," Nagai waved his hand and ordered his troops to move on quickly.

Suddenly, there was a gunfire like fried beans from the front, and the search troops in front exchanged fire with the squadron.

Jiaojiazhuang, in the middle of Mawo and Anqing, is now the secret headquarters of the 107th Division, Xu Ming appeared in various parts of Anqing during the day, pretending to look at Jixian Pass in the north of the city, but since 10 days ago, when the Japanese Third Fleet destroyed the mines on the Anqing River, Xu Ming sneaked in here at night, preparing to deal with the sneak attack of the Botian detachment.

Harata Shigeichi thought that he was unaware, but he would never have thought that when the first wave of Japanese landing troops came ashore, the observation post along the river embankment had already passed the news.

"Report, the 641st Regiment encountered the Japanese army in Broken Mountain."

"Isn't an ambush planned?" According to the original plan, the 641st Regiment carried out an ambush on the high ground around Broken Mountain, first defeating the vanguard of the Japanese army, Xu Ming was shocked.

"It should be the ambush unit that was discovered," said Zhang Shaofang, the chief of staff next to him.

Xu Ming secretly admired the Japanese army in his heart, the Japanese army's search force was very elite, and during the march, it would conduct effective reconnaissance in front and various mountains, Xu Ming and the regiment commander Zhao Ren both judged that since the Japanese army chose a surprise attack, it was impossible to conduct a strict search on both sides of the road, but he did not expect that the first step of the plan would be in vain, and the ambush battle would become a positional battle.

After discovering the squadron, a squadron of the Japanese army did not choose to retreat or defend in the face of a large number of opponents hidden on both sides of the road, but quickly assembled into different battle groups of 4-5 to 8-10 people, and cooperated with each other to attack the opponent.

One Japanese soldier jumped up, under the cover of light machine guns and grenadiers, bent down, quickly rushed forward, and when he arrived at a cover place, two soldiers, one on the left and one on the right, immediately began to move, and the devil with crooked handles saw that the few people in front of him had reached the designated position, and they also quickly moved forward.

Relying on the cover of darkness and heavy rain, the Japanese army continued to attack, and actually captured two positions in a row, Zhao Ren, who personally commanded it, was furious and ordered the troops to concentrate their firepower to shoot, and then let two companies outflank them from the left and right.

The sniper of the 1st squadron was disguised in a bush, looking at the constantly moving figure in front of him, his eyes motionless. "Pop, pop", two crisp signals came from the left, which was the signal of the observer to inform the shooting.

The Japanese soldier who was advancing fell down, and one of the Japanese soldiers who followed behind him was also killed, and the other was holding a gun and making a tumbling motion in an attempt to roll behind a dirt slope.

"Bang," a shot rang out, and the tumbling Japanese stopped turning and stopped breathing, and another sniper fired a deadly bullet.

The dragged devil fired with a grenadier canister, killing the sniper in the exposed position, and then another Japanese group broke through again.

The battle was short and bloody, the decisive attack of the Japanese vanguard disrupted Zhao Ren's wishful thinking, he would never have thought that the Japanese army would strike first, and could not clean up a squadron of devils, the troops who had just outflanked had appeared on both sides of the Japanese army, but these devils did not consider flank cover at all, and still stubbornly broke through.

After the Nagai Brigade found that the troops in front had exchanged fire with the squadron, they did not hesitate and immediately attacked with the main force of the brigade, and the squadron that had just gained the advantage was once again dragged into the melee.

The troops on both sides were no longer able to form a complete battle line, some Japanese troops broke into the depths of the 641st Regiment, and some Chinese soldiers wedged into the middle of the devil's ranks, and the two sides were divided into countless battle groups to fight.

In the dark night, there were not many gunshots on both sides, and no one easily revealed their position, but every time the gunshots rang out, someone must have fallen, some were Chinese soldiers wearing gray military uniforms and holding 98k or medium formal Chinese soldiers, and some were Japanese soldiers wearing steel helmets and holding long 38-style rifles.

A bolt of lightning fell, and the traces of both sides were discovered at the same time, and immediately, the gunfire was loud, and both China and Japan took advantage of this rare opportunity to shoot fiercely, the lightning disappeared, and the gunfire slowly thinned out.

Zhao Ren secretly complained in his heart, the reaction and combat effectiveness of the Japanese army were completely beyond his expectations, fighting with the 13th Division, he thought that the Japanese army was basically at this level, and the strongest was the artillery unit, but he didn't expect that the opponent in front of him completely surpassed the Ogizhou Division in terms of individual quality, coordination and bravery. Now that the troops of both sides have begun a melee, his own numerical advantage cannot be brought into play, and in less than an hour of fighting, he will be forced to throw his reserves forward.

"Commander Zhao," a soldier from a distance ran in front of him, and Zhao Ren saw that it was Cheng Ziyuan, the staff officer of the division headquarters.

"Xiao Cheng, what did the master say?"

"Commander Zhao, the division has already organized a battalion of reserves, led by Commander Qin himself, and it will be ready to go into battle immediately."

Zhao Ren felt embarrassed for a while, and said forcefully: "Don't reserve, I can complete the task alone." ”

Staff Officer Cheng seemed to have understood that Zhao Ren would say this, and persuaded: "Commander Zhao, the division said that the Botian detachment was very elite, so he sent a reserve team over. ”

Zhao Ren had a fever on his face, fortunately he couldn't see it in the night, he already completely admired Xu Ming in his heart, and all the progress of the battle was under the control of the master.

He overestimated Xu Ming, Xu Ming just wanted to give Qin Lieping a chance to make meritorious contributions, and he didn't expect that the previous battle would be so unsmooth.

Nagai Shitsu's face was pale, and the battle lasted for an hour, but his troops still did not defeat their opponents, but fell into a melee, and every step of their troops in the mud and grass was extremely difficult, and the two hillsides that they had begun to occupy were recaptured by the enemy.

The Hatada detachment conducted a six-month rigorous training in Taiwan, and especially intensified exercises for mountain warfare, jungle warfare, and field warfare.

"Immediately run back and tell the brigade commander that our army has encountered a long-planned attack by the enemy, and the army in front of him is about 2000, extremely tenacious, and there is no progress in the battle, repeat it once."

"I will tell the commander of the Hatian Brigade that my brigade has been attacked by the enemy for a long time, and the Chinese army is about 2,000, which is extremely tenacious, and there is no progress in the battle, and the repetition is over!"

"Very well," Nagai waved his hand, telling the two heralds to go back and report the news.

"Bang, bang!" The herald had not gone far before two gunshots rang out.

Nagai Shizu was shocked, so he had to wave his hand again, this time increasing to a dozen people.

"Bang, bang, bang...", and more than a dozen gunshots rang out.

The Nagai Brigade has been cut off from the detachment headquarters! A whole company of snipers was ambushed on both sides of the road, not to mention a Japanese soldier, "just a rat passed", and Leng Guang also asked to "go to him to make a report application"!