That evening, a call back from the military headquarters arrived. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

In the telegram, Commander Chen instructed the independent division to make preparations for counter-sweeping, try to avoid a decisive battle with the main force of the Japanese army, and give priority to preserving the vital forces, and if necessary, temporarily abandon Changxing and withdraw to Tianmu Mountain.

At the same time, the military headquarters mentioned in the telegram that the military headquarters had asked the 6th Division to cooperate with the independent division's counter-sweeping operations.

After reading the message, Liu Tianshu passed the message to several division leaders for review, and he began to think about how to deal with the next test.

The Japanese army's concentration of heavy troops this time is probably also to drive the independent division into Tianmu Mountain, after all, it is not an easy task to really eat the independent division. This is because the current independent division already has more than 20,000 troops in three brigades and nine regiments, and in terms of combat effectiveness, I am afraid that it has the ability to challenge a division of the Japanese army.

As for the garrison division of the Japanese army, it may not be the opponent of an independent division.

Of course, the disadvantage of the independent division is that the supply of weapons and ammunition is too far from that of the Japanese army. Although Liu Tianshu also built a small arsenal in Tianmu Mountain, it can only be regarded as an ordnance repair shop, and cannot produce bullets and guns.

Sun Xuexuan came in with a few pieces of information, and saw that the division commander was standing in front of the map and pondering, so he stood quietly to the side, and did not interject to affect the division commander's thinking.

However, when he saw Liu Tianshu's wide figure, his heart was full of incomparable admiration.

In terms of age, Sun Xuexuan is three years older than Liu Tianshu, but since Liu Tianshu's arrival, he has seen an indescribable general demeanor from this young man who is three years younger than himself, and that kind of self-confidence in strategizing.

After Liu Tianshu's eyes scanned the names of various places on the map, he noticed that Sun Xuexuan had come in, so he turned his head, looked at him and asked calmly, "What's new?" ”

"Division commander, one division of the Japanese army is moving in the direction of Wukang, and the other division is moving in the direction of Linchuan." As he spoke, Sun Xuexuan handed over a telegram.

"It's finally time to come." Liu Tianshu groaned, took the telegram and read it carefully. I looked at it again on the map.

"Xue Xuan, how is the situation of the New Seventh Brigade?" Liu Tianshu asked without looking back.

"Brigade Commander Hao sent a telegram that all the officers and men of the New Seventh Brigade are ready to meet the Japanese army."

In this way, send a telegram to the New Seventh Brigade and order the 70th Regiment of the New Seventh Brigade to rush to Yutangling, east of Ishida, to ensure the safety of Ishida County. The 71st Regiment and the 72nd Regiment stayed in place for the time being, and at the same time asked the local comrades to do a good job of evacuation and transfer, so as to cover the transfer of the villagers in the event of a heavy attack by the devils. Liu Tianshu thought about it and asked Sun Xuexuan to send a message to Hao Mengxuan.

The New Seventh Brigade has developed well in the vicinity of Wukang County, and now there are more than 6,000 people in the brigade. However, with the New Seventh Brigade alone, if the Japanese army marched north with more than one wing, it would still be a little difficult to defeat.

Especially during the day, the enemy can be reinforced by aircraft, and if his own troops engage in positional warfare with the enemy, the losses will be too great, so Liu Tianshu still decided to adopt movement tactics and break the enemy individually.

After the 68th and 69th regiments led by Shi Qiang and Xie Pingcai met in Yujiashan, the two had been thinking about how to teach the Japanese army in Xia Yucun a lesson. It's a pity that after Fujiki occupied Xia Yu Village, he did not rush south, but seized the time to build fortifications in Xia Yu Village. made Shi Qiang's idea of ambushing the Japanese army in Yujiashan frustrated.

Of course, when Shi Qiang was in Shandong, he was the captain in charge of special operations, and when he saw that the devil was staying in Xia Yu Village, he naturally sent a reconnaissance company of the 22 nd Brigade to attack the enemy in Xia Yu Village in several groups.

In the reconnaissance company of the 22nd Brigade, there were also several snipers, and these snipers hid in the distant mountains and forests, sniping the enemy with sniper rifles, and the effect was surprisingly good.

Fujiki knew that there were snipers of the New Fourth Army in the mountains and forests around Xia Yu Village, and he initially sent troops to drive them away, but who knew that as soon as the small group of troops he sent attacked, they were bombarded by the mortars of the New Fourth Army, and these New Fourth Army were very tricky, almost running away after a few shots, so that their artillery could not be locked at all.

In the end, Fujiki simply let the troops on the periphery stick to the fortifications and not show their heads at all.

Shi Qiang saw that the devil was shrinking in the turtle shell and did not raise his head, but there was no way for a while.

Liu Tianshu learned that the enemy in Yixing and the enemy in Xia Yucun were all standing still, and at the same time, the enemy in Huzhou was also confronting the 64th Regiment of the 21st Brigade in the area of Zhujiaxiang.

So, with Liu Tianshu's order, the 65th and 66th regiments of the 21st Brigade, under the command of brigade commander Tong Guijie, quietly moved to the area of Zhujia Lane and hid themselves in the area of Zhujia Lane at night. At the same time, the 68th and 69th regiments of the 22nd Brigade in Yujiashan also quietly hid on the spot.

The Japanese troops in the direction of Yixing suddenly found that the New Fourth Army in front of them had lost their traces, and they couldn't figure it out for a while, but because the Japanese troops in the direction of Yixing and the Japanese troops in the direction of Huzhou were not in the same sequence, the coordination between the two was naturally poor.

Tazawa received a report that the New Fourth Army in the south of Yixing seemed to have suddenly disappeared, and after studying the map, he felt that Liu Tianshu's real target was most likely the Fujiki Wing in Xia Yucun.

So the Japanese army in Yixing was ready to reinforce Xia Yucun, and at the same time, two more brigades of troops were gathered in the direction of Wuxi, ready to reinforce Xia Yucun at any time.

Duo Ze's idea was to let the 142nd Division, which had arrived in Hangzhou, squeeze north from the direction of Wukang, and the 144th Division would go straight to Linchuan and drive the troops of the Third Theater back to Tianmu Mountain first. As for the troops in Yixing, Songjiapu, and Xiayucun, the main task was to prevent the independent division from moving north to southern Jiangsu. Huzhou's troops blocked the way for the New Fourth Army to advance eastward.

In that case, Liu Tianshu's troops could only retreat westward, and the relationship between the New Fourth Army and the Third Theater was not harmonious.

However, after studying the map for a long time, Duo Ze felt that Guangde County was still a problem, although the number of the new 58th Division in the Third War Zone was not large, but according to the information obtained by the imperial agents, the division commander Li Guangyuan and Liu Tianshu seemed to have a good relationship. And if he wants to hit the third theater of operations, Guangde must capture it in advance.

Thinking of this, Duo Ze ordered a wing of the Japanese army that had arrived in Wuhu to rush south, waiting for an opportunity to capture Guangde and block the road for the independent division to retreat westward.

A wing of the Japanese army in Wuhu rushed south, and this information was sent to Liu Tianshu five hours after the Japanese army was dispatched.

Liu Tianshu couldn't help but be stunned, it stands to reason that just to deal with the independent division, the strength of the Japanese army in the north already has two wings, plus the puppet army that cooperates with the operation, its strength is enough, and there is no need to increase the troops.

What does this devil want to do?

As for the base area in southern Jiangsu, when the Japanese army gathered heavy troops to surround the independent division, a large number of Japanese puppet troops were already sweeping up.

However, thinking that even if the Japanese army arrived in Changxing, it would be two days later, Liu Tianshu just ordered the reconnaissance personnel to closely monitor it.

In the evening, Tong Guijie ordered the 65th Regiment to suddenly insert itself under the city of Huzhou to cut off the connection between the enemy in Huzhou and the enemy in Zhujiaxiang.

The enemy who confronted the 64th Regiment at Zhujiaxiang was only a reinforced brigade of the Japanese army and a regiment of the puppet army. At that time, the Japanese army built a defensive line at the horse riding pass east of Zhujia Lane, and the puppet army was arranged on both flanks.

After the 65th Regiment bypassed the Japanese defense line of the Riding Pass from the south, it immediately prepared for the siege outside Huzhou City, while the 66th Regiment made preparations for battle on the south side of the Riding Pass.

According to the division commander, this time it was to kill chickens with a knife and concentrate all the forces of the 21st Brigade in an effort to eat the enemy on the horse pass in one fell swoop.

At 10:10 p.m., with Tong Guijie's order, the 64th Regiment in front of the Riding Pass took the lead in launching an attack, and the shells flew towards the Japanese position.

Jiechuan, the commander of the Japanese army stationed at the horse pass, did not expect the New Fourth Army to suddenly launch an attack on his position, so he jumped up from the bed and ordered his troops to quickly enter the position, preparing to have a good battle with the New Fourth Army that rushed up.

After he commanded the troops to occupy the Horse Pass, there was nothing unusual about the New Fourth Army on the opposite side, but he knew that the opposite side was defended by the 21st Brigade and the 64th Brigade, and without the order of the wing commander, he did not take the initiative to provoke.

Although the strength of the 64th Regiment of the New Fourth Army was almost the same as that of its own reinforced brigade, it also had a regiment of puppet troops to cooperate in the operation, so it naturally had an advantage in terms of strength.

Who knew that the New Fourth Army took advantage of the dark night to attack, which made him suddenly excited.

After the 64th Regiment shelled, the 1st Battalion took the lead in the attack, and in a blink of an eye it was in full swing with the Japanese troops holding the forward position.

Jiechuan couldn't help but feel proud when he learned that the attack of the New Fourth Army was blocked, but unfortunately he was just about to give the order for the troops on both sides to carry out a counter-encirclement, when he heard an explosion suddenly sounding in the position defended by the puppet army in the south.

Immediately, the phone rang rapidly, and a Japanese officer took the phone, and after saying a few words, he ran over and said nervously: "Captain, it's not good, Han Guming's position in the south was raided by the New Fourth Army, and I asked to send reinforcements." ”

"What? Han Guming's position was attacked? Jiechuan couldn't help but be stunned, at this time, he sensitively realized that something was wrong with the situation.

Han Guming's position was on a small hill five miles south of Qilong'ao, and it was one mile away from the Japanese position.

"Order Qin Kejian and ask him to immediately reinforce Han Guming." Jiechuan thought for a moment and immediately ordered the puppet army commander Qin Kejian to send troops to reinforce Han Guming.

Qin Kejian's puppet legion, its Han Guming battalion was guarded in the south, Jiang Guosen's battalion was guarded in the north, and another battalion remained in the reserve, placed in a village east of the riding pass.

Now that the frontal battle was raging, he naturally didn't want to send in heroic Imperial soldiers to reinforce the timid puppet army. (To be continued.) )