Matsushima rushed to the east with his troops non-stop, but unfortunately because of the reinforcement of the first brigade, the distance between it and the third brigade was tens of kilometers, and it was impossible to rush over in a short time. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

His only hope is that Teng Ye can hold out until the main force of the United arrives.

It's a pity that when he first arrived ten miles away from Xiaowangling, he received the last telegram from Teng Ye, and then lost contact.

He urgently ordered the operator to call Teng Ye, but unfortunately there was no response.

Matsushima suddenly became much haggard, glanced at the sky to the east, and had to order his troops to stop advancing and immediately build fortifications in place.

There are still three hours before dawn, and night has always been the world of the New Fourth Army, and judging from the loss of contact with the Third Brigade, it is very likely that his Third Brigade is finished.

The situation in the east was unknown, so he wisely chose to stop where he was, and wait until after dawn.

Liu Tianshu received a report from Deputy Detachment Leader Zhang and was relieved to know that the Third Brigade of Songdao had been wiped out, so he ordered the Second Regiment to clean up the battlefield and return to Changxing. The first regiment retreated to Si'an Town.

As for Dingyuan Town, Liu Tianshu did not leave troops there.

Although he defeated the third brigade of Matsushima in a fierce battle after a fierce battle, and its first brigade also lost more than 200 people, Matsushima still had more than 2,000 Japanese troops and more than 2,000 puppet troops in his hands.

If Matsushima concentrates all its efforts on the edge of Taihu Lake, it will easily cut off the connection between Dingyuan Town and Changxing, and in that case, Dingyuan Town will become behind enemy lines.

If you have troops there, you will most likely fall into the encirclement of the Japanese army.

Of course, the main forces will not stay there, but the guerrillas, reconnaissance squads, etc., naturally there will be quite a few.

When there were still two hours before dawn, the results of the battle were counted, and the third brigade of the Matsushima Wing was completely wiped out, except for dozens of Japanese soldiers who escaped in the dark, the rest of the Japanese soldiers were either killed or captured because of injuries, and at the same time more than 500 puppet soldiers were forced to surrender with guns.

The 1st and 3rd regiments suffered more than 400 casualties and captured large quantities of weapons and ammunition. What made Wu Zhongping particularly happy was that when Songdao's transport team was surrounded and annihilated, the devils did not have time to blow up the supplies, but actually captured a batch of infantry shells and other ammunition.

The wounded soldiers were quickly sent to the field hospital in Si'an Town, and the wounded Japanese soldiers were also simply bandaged, but Liu Tianshu directly vetoed the request that someone first bandage the wounded Japanese soldiers.

The more than 100 wounded Japanese soldiers were concentrated in a small village and cared for by two captured Japanese health soldiers.

Ou Biaofei only gave the Japanese medical soldiers some first-aid kits for individual soldiers, and as for the medicines captured from Tengye's brigade, they were naturally sent to the field hospital.

At dawn, Songdao sent troops to the east to reconnoitre, and learned that the New Fourth Army had withdrawn to Si'an, and the entire east of Xiaowangling was full of corpses of fallen Japanese soldiers and puppet soldiers, so he had to let the second brigade send troops to protect the flanks, and then rushed to the south of Dingyuan Town with the third brigade.

One morning, those puppet soldiers were forced by the Japanese army to collect the corpses of the Japanese puppet soldiers who were killed by the New Fourth Army.

Seeing the corpses of the Imperial soldiers laid out on the ground, Matsushima couldn't help but feel in a trance.

At this moment, a disheveled puppet army officer stumbled over.

Songdao heard a report from his subordinates that Liu Tianshu, the commander of the seventh detachment of the New Fourth Army, had someone send a letter, and forcibly suppressed the anger in his heart and let the puppet army officer who delivered the letter in.

The puppet army officer looked at Matsushima in fear, shouted Taijun, and after getting Matsushima's permission, he hurriedly handed over the letter in his hand.

Matsushima took a look, and Liu Tianshu told him in the letter that this time, out of the spirit of humanitarianism, the New Fourth Army had taken in more than 100 wounded Japanese soldiers, but the New Fourth Army lacked medical treatment and medicine, and it was unable to protect the lives of these wounded Japanese soldiers.

After reading Liu Tianshu's letter, Matsushima's eyes were red with anger, panting and scolding Bage in his mouth.

He didn't expect Liu Tianshu to be so despicable and make a big fuss about using the wounded soldiers of the empire who fell into his hands.

Just thinking of the more than 100 wounded soldiers of the empire who fell into Liu Tianshu's hands, he suddenly lost his mind.

Although the Imperial army would rather die than be captured, these soldiers were warriors who were seriously wounded in battle, and if they abandoned them, not only would they be unhappy, but they would also make their soldiers sad.

But he lost a full brigade, if he didn't get back the field, where was the dignity of the imperial army?

However, when he gritted his teeth and decided to ignore the lives of these wounded soldiers and ask planes to bomb Changxing and Si'an, he was vetoed by Commander Tazawa.

Liu Tianshu had more than 100 Japanese wounded soldiers in his hands, and Duo Ze still knew, he knew that if he really ordered the indiscriminate bombardment of Changxing and Si'an, he was really not sure what would happen to Liu Tianshu, who had always played cards out of common sense.

Before he reached Changxing, Matsushima lost a brigade, which made Tazawa, who was originally full of confidence in this siege, can't help but doubt his decision.

Of course, as an army of tens of thousands of people, losing a thousand people is nothing at all, but he knows that it is easy for him to capture Changxing City, but it is even more difficult to eliminate Liu Tianshu's seventh detachment.

After taking up the post of commander of the Japanese army in central China, Doze studied in detail all the battles of Liu Tianshu in eastern Anhui, and was surprised to find that the sweeps of the 166th Division were all more than worth the losses.

At the beginning, the 166th Division concentrated the troops of a brigade and regiment to sweep away, but the final result was only an armed parade in Liu Tianshu's base area, and in the end it retreated in disgrace.

Although three wings were concentrated this time, the area where Liu Tianshu was located was close to Tianmu Mountain.

However, the saber of the empire has been waved, and there must be something to be gained, otherwise what will be his face.

After staring at the map and thinking for a long time, Tazawa turned his eyes to the direction of the stone shop.

To the west of Shipu is Xuanzhou, which is also the defense area of the Third Theater of the Nationalist Government Army, where a regiment of the Third Theater is stationed, and Xuanzhou is a division of the Third Theater.

Since Liu Tianshu can eat a brigade of Songdao in one night, it means that Songdao United alone is definitely not the opponent of Liu Tianshu's seventh detachment, and even if Wu Kang's troops go north with all their might, it will take two days.

Even if Wukang's Japanese army could go north as originally planned, if it could not cooperate closely with the troops of Songdao Wing and Huzhou, once besieged by the New Fourth Army, I am afraid that it would end up with the three major teams of Songdao Wing.

If the losses of his troops are too great, even if he completely destroys the seventh detachment, I am afraid that what he will win in the end is only the ridicule of his peers, or even the accusations of the base camp.

After thinking about it for a long time in the command post, he found that the Third Theater was completely watching from the sidelines this time, and not only did it not have the slightest intention of sending troops to support the Seventh Detachment, but it also did not even take the necessary precautions.

Although the base camp has changed its strategy towards Chongqing somewhat, it does not affect its ability to squeeze the activity space of the third theater.

After deducing it in his head countless times, Tazawa ordered the 22nd Division to advance steadily, and then ordered the Matsushima Wing to suddenly turn west, take Shipa, and approach Guangde.

To this end, he ordered the Japanese army in Wuhu to dispatch a wing to cooperate with the Songdao wing.

Liu Tianshu found that the Japanese planes did not come to make trouble in Si'an, and the Japanese troops in Wukang also became more cautious, and the enemy in Huzhou still formed a standoff situation with the Second Regiment in Zhujiaxiang.

And after the Matsushima United occupied the town of Summit, they did not continue south.

For a moment, he was very confused by the devil's actions.

When the military headquarters learned that the 7th Detachment had eliminated a large battalion of the Japanese army going south, which had greatly damaged the offensive momentum of the Japanese army, it sent a telegram to praise it, and at the same time reminded the 7th Detachment to guard against the conspiracy of devils.

The devils who went south stopped advancing, but Liu Tianshu did not dare to take it lightly, he ordered the first and third regiments to quickly complete the replenishment, and at the same time drew out the troops and controlled several key points in the southwest of Si'an Town into Tianmu Mountain.

Anyway, the New Fourth Army in northern Jiangsu has carried out a polite and courteous counterattack against the recalcitrant army that dares to attack, and if the troops of the Third Theater really dare to prevent themselves from entering Tianmu Mountain, they can only force their way in.

Anyway, the third theater of operations is northeast of Tianmu Mountain, and there is no large army, just some stragglers, and they can't stop the seventh detachment at all.

Just when Liu Tianshu and Jiang Jinyong were discussing their next move, they suddenly received an urgent telegram from the reconnaissance brigade, and the Songdao brigade suddenly rushed westward and occupied Shipu, and the friendly forces defending Shipu suffered heavy losses and had to abandon Shipu and retreat to Xuanzhou.

"Tianshu, what is this little devil doing? Aren't they going to encircle our base? Why did you suddenly attack the stone shop again? Jiang Jinyong looked at the report of the reconnaissance brigade and was immediately puzzled.

Liu Tianshu also frowned at this time, the geographical location of the stone shop is very important, Liu Tianshu knows this, as long as the devil occupies the stone shop, he can coerce Xuanzhou, and cut off the connection between Xuanzhou and Guangde, and the friendly troops guarding Guangde will face the siege of the Japanese army.

Could it be that the Japanese army's target this time was not itself, but the third theater of operations?

Liu Tianshu immediately shook his head, he felt that it seemed impossible, you know, the main task of the 13th Army of the Japanese Army is to ensure the logistics and transportation lines of the 11th Army, control the important towns in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and do not have much interest in southern Anhui, eastern Jiangxi, western Zhejiang, and northwest Fujian, where the third theater is located, because these areas are mostly mountainous.

However, in any case, the Japanese concentrated their forces to attack westward, but they let themselves breathe.

At this time, the Battle of Huangqiao in northern Jiangsu came to an end, and the New Fourth Army defeated Han Deqin's troops with 7,000 troops. Liu Tianshu looked at the news from his superiors, and couldn't help but worry about the military headquarters and the third detachment of the New Fourth Army that were still in southern Anhui.

After discovering that Songdao and the Japanese army coming from Wuhu had captured Shipu and approached Guangde, Liu Tianshu also wanted to concentrate his forces to attack the enemy in Wukang's north, but who knew that the enemy's actions along the way were slow, not to mention, and a wing was huddled together, and he couldn't find a chance to attack. (To be continued.) )