Yasushi Sakai received a telegram from the commander of the Eguchi wing, sat in the car and couldn't help but look stunned, and then ordered the moving car to stop on the side of the road. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

"Sato-kun, didn't the main force of the New Fourth Army go to Goldfish Ridge? Why was the Eguchi United attacked and suffered such heavy losses? Sakai Yasushi looked at his chief of staff and asked with some puzzlement.

It stands to reason that even if the Independent Division of the New Fourth Army sent troops to block the Jiangkou Wing on the front line of the Xiaoning River, it should not be the main force, but why did the Jiangkou Wing come under such heavy artillery fire and thus lose almost one brigade.

"Your Excellency General, as far as I know, Liu Tianshu's independent division is a unit with super combat effectiveness in the entire New Fourth Army, which is not inferior to the other seven main divisions of the New Fourth Army, and the losses caused to the Imperial Army are also the heaviest among Liu Tianshu's troops. This is also Commander Doze did not hesitate to mobilize three divisions to besiege Tianmu Mountain. The Jiangkou Wing was attacked by artillery fire from the New Fourth Army, as evidenced by the heavy losses. Your Excellency, I believe that our next action must not be rash. Sato Osa looked at the division commander and said with some solemnity.

As soon as the two armies fought, they lost almost a brigade, which is by no means a good sign.

When Sakai Yasu heard this, he looked to the east, and after a while, he looked at Sato and said, "Your worries are not unreasonable, order the Eguchi Wing to advance carefully, and if there is any situation, immediately report to the division headquarters." ”

Although the Eguchi Wing suffered heavy losses, this was caused by the failure to correctly estimate the independent division, and as long as the Eguchi Wing was careful everywhere, it should not repeat the mistakes of the past.

After receiving a reply from the division commander, Eguchi immediately ordered the troops to slow down, and at the same time sent a search force to open a distance of ten miles between the main force.

Long Zhishui commanded the 64th Regiment to give the Jiangkou Wing a hard blow, and immediately retreated to the south, and after confirming that the Jiangkou Wing had slowed down, Long Zhishui ordered the 1st Battalion to quietly detour to the left flank of the Jiangkou Wing.

Of course, the movement of Long Zhishui's first battalion was discovered by the search unit of the Jiangkou Wing, and after Jiangkou learned that the New Fourth Army had appeared on his flank, he was frightened and immediately ordered the troops to press towards the Taihu Lake.

There was the New Fourth Army on the flank, and when the main force of the division did not occupy the front line of Guangde and Changxing, he did not dare to rashly advance, and it was the inevitable choice of Jiangkou to do a good job of guarding against the flank.

Liu Tianshu couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief when he learned that Long Zhishui's 64th Regiment had used artillery fire to deal a heavy blow to the Jiangkou Wing, and what he was most worried about was that the Jiangkou Wing was advancing all the way and forming a pincer attack with the main force of the 17th Division coming out of Xuanzhou.

Just as the Jiangkou Wing was slowing down, the 67th and 69th Regiments of the 22nd Brigade commanded by Xie Pingcai had quietly moved north from the mountains between the Jiangkou Wing and Jinyuling, and at 10 a.m., they rushed to the north of Jinyuling.

At this time, the Nakagawa Wing, in accordance with Sakai Yasu's order, marched into Goldfish Ridge in a hurry.

However, as soon as the Nakagawa Wing entered Goldfish Ridge, it was immediately attacked by five special squads and guerrilla units sent by Zhou Aiguo, but the attacks of these sporadic units were all one-shot and left, firing a few shots or a few cannons, knocking down seven or eight enemies and immediately retreating, not entangled with the Japanese army at all, and what annoyed Nakagawa even more was that among the Chinese who attacked their own troops at Goldfish Ridge, there seemed to be snipers, these people hid from a distance and shot, and they singled out the junior officers in the army to shoot.

As a result, the troops were walking on the road in the mountains and forests, and suddenly a bullet flew out, killing the squad leader who was commanding in the marching column, and at the same time killing several machine gunners and grenadiers, etc., causing great panic to the troops who were striding southward.

And these damned attackers, by the time he sent his troops in pursuit, these people had already run away.

In the end, in order to ensure the safety of the main force, he had to deploy a search team in an area of one kilometer on both sides of the road.

Although this ensured that the troops on the road would not be attacked again, those search teams were attacked by the Chinese from time to time, either a few bullets, or one or two grenades, and sometimes even two or three mortar shells, so that the sides of the marching procession were shot from time to time.

Nakagawa's almost rogue harassment of the New Fourth Army was really miserable, although he had thousands of brave and warlike imperial soldiers under his command, but there was a feeling that a lion could not be used in the face of mosquito bites.

Sakai Yasu couldn't help but be anxious when he learned that the Nakagawa Wing had been attacked by a small group of Chinese troops at Goldfish Ridge.

By now, according to aerial reconnaissance, it seemed that the main forces of the New Fourth Army were rushing towards Goldfish Ridge, and once the Nakagawa Wing could not get out of Goldfish Ridge before dark, it was very likely that it would be attacked by the Independent Division in the dark night.

However, given the current pace of progress of the Nakagawa United, it may no longer be realistic to get out of Goldfish Ridge before dark.

At two o'clock in the afternoon, Sakai Yasu had no choice but to send a telegram to the Nakagawa Wing, telling them to choose a favorable terrain to stop at Goldfish Ridge and at the same time prepare to prevent the attack of the New Fourth Army.

Originally, it was intended for the New Fourth Army to concentrate the main force on Goldfish Ridge and then encircle it, but now that the Eguchi Wing is moving slowly in the east, Sakai Yasu is worried that his encirclement has not yet been formed, and the fishing bait will be swallowed by the New Fourth Army.

Nakagawa received the order and immediately ordered the troops to stop in the Jinyuling Mountain, and at the same time ordered the 1st Brigade to be responsible for the defense of the eastern and southern hills, the 2nd Brigade to be responsible for the northern and western hills, and the artillery squadron of the wing headquarters to guard the center with the 3rd Brigade.

Zhongchuan shrunk his troops into a ball, and Zhou Aiguo's special squad naturally couldn't find an opportunity to take advantage, so they simply hid aside to rest.

Anyway, there are still a few hours left when the night comes, so why not recharge your energy now, and wait for the moon to be dark and the wind is high, and then do that murder and arson.

The first and second battalions of the 70th Regiment suddenly attacked the Japanese stronghold in the town, and in less than 40 minutes, more than 300 Japanese puppet troops were wiped out, and after the 70th Regiment captured a batch of supplies, it quickly withdrew from the battle and disappeared into the mountains and forests of the water towns south of the Yangtze River.

The commander of the Sancheng Division couldn't help but be surprised when he learned that the New Fourth Army had suddenly appeared on the outskirts of Hangzhou, and when the reinforcements he sent arrived in that town, what appeared in front of the troops was the corpses of the Japanese puppet army all over the ground, as well as the dilapidated stronghold that had been blackened by the smoke of gunpowder.

From the mouths of a few frightened puppet soldiers, I learned that the New Fourth Army suddenly rushed up, first bombarded the stronghold with mortars, blew up the stronghold, and then rushed up, these puppet soldiers were stunned by the shells at that time, fell to the ground, and when they woke up, they saw countless New Fourth Army rushing up, and those imperial soldiers who resisted bravely were all killed.

If they hadn't been lying on the ground and pretending to be dead, I am afraid they would not have escaped the end of losing their lives.

As for the direction in which the New Fourth Army withdrew after destroying its strongholds, some of these puppet armies said east, and some said west, but they did not have an accurate direction at all.

However, while Sancheng was listening to the report of the commander of the reinforcement base at the division headquarters, a stronghold on the Fuchun River was suddenly attacked by the New Fourth Army, and after an hour of fierce fighting, all the defenders were killed.

The garrison of this stronghold belongs to the 22nd Division, but this stronghold is next to the defense area of the 144th Division, and more importantly, when the Jiang Cheng detachment attacked the temporary detachment of the independent division, one of its wings was hiding here.

After Jiang Cheng's wing moved westward, a batch of combat materials was stored here. Unexpectedly, this stronghold actually fell into the hands of the New Fourth Army, and the two steamboats docked in the river were immediately sunk, and at the same time, the batch of war materials also fell into the hands of the New Fourth Army.

Because the New Fourth Army appeared very suddenly, and the speed of the attack was also very fast, when the reinforcements sent by Sancheng broke through the resistance of the New Fourth Army and arrived at that stronghold, the reinforcements that appeared in front of them were naturally the end of people going to empty buildings, and all the fortifications were destroyed, and it would take at least half a month to repair them.

When Sancheng received this news, he couldn't help but feel anxious, you must know that the loss of this batch of combat materials was a trivial matter, but the Jiang Cheng detachment, which was now staying on the front line of Ishida, was in danger of being trapped in the mountains by the New Fourth Army.

Thinking of this, Sancheng had no choice but to send troops and try his best to re-establish a logistics and transportation line for Jiang Cheng's detachment.

After the temporary detachment retreated to the Jiangjiawan line to rest, the 71st Regiment naturally had no need to rush over, so in accordance with the instructions of the brigade headquarters, it sought an opportunity to attack the enemy behind enemy lines.

The destruction of this riverside stronghold allowed the 71st Regiment to obtain a large amount of war materials, especially ammunition and medicine, and unexpectedly obtained a large pile.

Of course, the medicine and ammunition, except for a part left by the 71st Regiment, the rest were all quickly sent to Tianmu Mountain.

Major General Jiang Cheng learned that the shadow of the New Fourth Army had appeared on the front line of the Fuchun River, and he couldn't help but feel surprised, you must know that after he fought all the way, captured Shitian County, and cut off the retreat of the New Fourth Army to the south, the temporary detachment of the New Fourth Army is said to have retreated to the front line of Jiangjiawan to recuperate, and he is thinking about what way to take to deal a fatal blow to Liu Tianshu's temporary detachment. Besides, Wukang County was also attacked by the Imperial Army, where did these New Fourth Army, which suddenly appeared near Hangzhou and on the front line of the Fuchun River, come from?

What is their purpose?

Because for a while, Jiang Cheng failed to figure out what the New Fourth Army was going to do, and finally adopted the method of static braking to order his troops to stop at their current position and prepare for defense.

Although the 144th Division knew that the New Fourth Army appeared in the defense area of the 22nd Division on the Fuchun River, it was unable to provide assistance, and one of its wings was now advancing to the front line of Simingshan and constantly contending with the Simingshan Independent Regiment of the New Fourth Army, while the rest of the troops had to prevent the troops from the south and the Third Theater from taking advantage of the opportunity to counterattack, so they could not spare their hands. (To be continued.) )