Seeing that the fourth squadron could not attack the mountain mouth for a long time, Saito was anxious.

Although he had heavy troops in his hands, he could only listen to the baggage troops behind the mountain mouth fall into a fierce battle.

The two sides fought fiercely for twenty minutes at the mouth of the mountain, and the gunfire on the other side of the mouth gradually stopped.

Seeing that the devil's baggage squadron was annihilated, Liu Tianshu immediately ordered the fifth company and the militia squadron to clean up the battlefield, and then loaded the spoils on the undestroyed carriage, retrieved the scattered horses, and drove the carriage to the east.

Liu Tianshu commanded Liu Sutang, pulled out a box of grenades, and used the stones, wood, and destroyed carriages on the highway to make more than a dozen tricky mines. Seeing that the 5th Company and the militia squadron were driving the carriage away, and the heavy machine gun platoon of the machine gun company also withdrew, it sent a signal to Shu Zhihe and the 2nd Platoon of the 5th Company to block the attack.

Shu Zhi saw the retreat signal, wiped his tears, said retreat, and led the artillery team to carry the remaining two mortars, and quickly drilled into the mountains and forests.

The second platoon of the fifth company and a heavy machine gun group of the machine gun company, which cooperated with the artillery squad to block the attack, also immediately carried their guns and quickly ran towards the mountains and forests according to the predetermined route.

It's just the remains of more than a dozen soldiers who sacrificed, but they can't take care of it anymore at this time.

Saito saw the gunfire and explosions at the mouth of the mountain stop, and his heart sank to the bottom of the sea. The Fourth Squadron cautiously walked through the mountain, and what appeared in front of them was the corpses of the extremely dead Imperial soldiers all over the ground, and the materials on the road were searched by the Eighth Route Army except for the corpses.

When he looked up, he saw countless eight-way carriages, running east along the road, his eyes were spewing fire, and he just wanted to order the troops to pursue, when he heard the two soldiers in front of him preparing to clear the obstacles on the road, but he didn't expect the grenades below to explode immediately, and the two soldiers were directly blown away.

Now, no one dares to move the messy obstacles on the highway anymore. Even when stepping between these obstacles, you have to be very careful.

After Liu Tianshu saw that the devil chased after the mountain, he detonated two tricky thunders and had to slow down, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

When he was doing tricks, he originally wanted to use the corpse of the devil, but he thought that there were soldiers sacrificed in the second platoon of the fifth company that blocked the attack, and if he used the corpse of the devil to make a trick mine, it was difficult to ensure that the devil would not vent his anger on the remains of the sacrificed soldiers.

Saito saw that the Eighth Route Army was out of sight in a blink of an eye, took a few breaths, and then ordered the troops to take the corpses of their companions and report the situation to Watanabe while rushing in the direction of the Seiryu stronghold.

Watanabe learned that Saito's brigade was ambushed by the Eighth Route Army in Shintazui, and he couldn't help but stare at the map for a long time, and for a while, he really couldn't figure out how many Eighth Routes there were at the bottom of Fuya Mountain.

According to the information sent from the inside, Liu Tianshu only had five infantry companies and one machine gun company, and there were only about 800 people in the full battle, and it is said that in order to control the direction of Songkan Town, Liu Tianshu placed his first and fourth companies in Songkan Town, and placed the second, third and fifth companies in the direction of Yaping Village.

As for the machine gun company, it was with the battalion headquarters.

According to Xiao Tian's report, in the battles of Shigou and Rhino Ridge, Liu Tianshu's second, third and fifth companies were heavily damaged, but how could Liu Tianshu withdraw his troops to ambush Xiaotian's Zhaoyuan squadron in Jinshuigou in a very short period of time.

In particular, Saito's attack on Shintazui made Watanabe very confused.

You must know that the two units of the Eighth Route Army in Songkan Town marched west along the road, and this incident was seen by his intelligence officers, and who was the one who ambushed Saito in Xintianzui.

Could it be that this Liu Tianshu ran to Xintianzui after ambushing the Zhaoyuan squadron in Jinshuigou?

If that is the case, the Eighth Route Army in Songkan Town attacked the Qinglong stronghold, probably just to attract Saito to the west.

Thinking of this, Watanabe suddenly thought of the last time Liu Tianshu destroyed the Qinglong stronghold very quickly, and then walked away, and this time, dozens of Japanese troops and the Imperial Alliance Army in the Qinglong stronghold actually repelled the two attacks of the Eighth Route Army?

Thinking of this, Watanabe immediately understood that the Eighth Route Army's attack on the Qinglong stronghold was fake, and it was true to lead Saito to the west and then ambush its rearguard.

Watanabe stared at the map for a long time, and finally felt that the real target of the Eighth Route Army was probably the Maotang stronghold.

Thinking that Saito's brigade had already advanced westward, Watanabe had no choice but to order nearby troops to reinforce the Maotang stronghold. At the same time, the Oda brigade was ordered to move closer to the Saito brigade.

After the Xiaotian brigade withdrew all the way out of Yaping Village, it successfully arrived at Shigou Village through Rhino Ridge, but because there were Tuba Road hidden in the forest along the way, it was attacked from time to time, which caused the troops not only to move slowly, but also to be very tired.

When they arrived at Shigou Village, not only were the Imperial Allied troops who cooperated with the action exhausted, but even the brave and fearless soldiers of the Imperial Japanese were also exhausted.

Seeing that the troops were too tired, Oda had no choice but to order the troops to camp in Shigou Village.

After setting up a guard in a vital place outside the village, Oda ordered the soldiers to begin removing the roofs of the villagers' houses in preparation for the incineration of the remains of the Imperial soldiers who had been brought back.

According to the practice of the Japanese army, the remains of all soldiers who died in battle could not be brought back, so they had to be cremated on the spot and then the ashes were brought back.

When Saito arrived at the Blue Dragon Stronghold, the Dirt Eight Road that attacked the Blue Dragon Base was long gone, and he saw that it was getting late, so he had to order his troops to camp at the Blue Dragon Base.

Of course, the Qinglong stronghold simply couldn't accommodate so many Japanese troops and the Imperial Cooperative Army, so the Saito brigade was stationed in the open ground outside the Qinglong stronghold, but the surrounding points were all set up by Saito to set up alert troops.

After Liu Tianshu withdrew from Xintianzui with his troops, he immediately used the radio to order Yang Donghu and Hua Xiaohu's troops to abandon their entry into the Qinglong stronghold and quietly go west.

At the same time, Liu Tianshu asked the machine gun company, the fifth company, and the militia squadron to quickly replenish the captured supplies, and then hide the remaining materials on the spot.

Subsequently, the machine gun company, the fifth company and the militia squadron began to quietly press towards the Maotang stronghold.

Watanabe's guess was correct, and after successfully ambushing the baggage squadron of the Saito brigade, Liu Tianshu set his sights on the Maotang stronghold.

On the way to the Maotang stronghold, Liu Tianshu used the radio to contact Shi Qiang's reconnaissance platoon, and after learning that the detachment had connected with the party organization in Fukan Town, he escorted the group of patriotic students and went straight west to bypass the boundary of Fuchang County and arrived in Jiping County, west of Fuchang County.

Watanabe will definitely block the way for the team to return north, which Liu Tianshu knows very well. Therefore, when he broke up with Shi Qiang and others, he determined the route of the team's return to the north as bypassing Fuchang County, returning north from Jiping County in the west, and then returning to Fuya Mountain in the east.

Although in this way, the squad has to go a long way and go around the circle of the boss, but this is much more secure.

It's just that Shi Qiang said in the telegram that when the team escorted the patriotic students out of Fukan Town, they unfortunately encountered devils, and Lao Song took the initiative to ask to stay behind for cover, and unfortunately died heroically.

Knowing that Lao Song sacrificed, Liu Tianshu felt miserable in his heart. He knew that Lao Song had betrayed the organization and his comrades, and he had already made up his mind to die in guilt.

Perhaps choosing to die desperately with the enemy is the best destination for Lao Song.

Zhu Aiguo, who was in Chenjiayu, immediately followed the movements of the Xiaotian Brigade after receiving the letter sent by Liu Tianshu, and after learning that the Xiaotian Brigade had withdrawn from Yaping Village, he immediately commanded the Third Company and the newly established Sixth and Seventh Companies to follow.

At Zhu Aiguo's instructions, these two infantry companies, which were reorganized from the Imperial Allied Army, were only equipped with rifles, not even grenades, and at the same time, there were not only Yu Yongzhong's three companies, but also more than 40 militiamen.

Hou Guoquan is very prestigious among these soldiers of the Imperial Army, and in just one day, his sixth company has made great improvements, while Hao Mengxuan's seventh company, because Hao Mengxuan has only known them, lacks trust between them.

It's just that the battalion commander Liu Tianshu said that before smashing the devils for this sweep, these imperial alliance troops must strictly obey the order, and must not have the slightest action to disobey the order, let alone cooperate with the enemy.

And Battalion Commander Liu also agreed, after smashing the devil's sweep this time, whether they left or stayed, they all listened to it, so that not only those who followed Hou Guoquan to fight devils in eight ways, but also those who wanted to leave, also behaved very obediently at this time.

Zhu Aiguo commanded three companies and dozens of militiamen to chase all the way to the north of Shigou Village, and when he saw that the devils had arranged a strict guard around Shigou Village, he immediately asked the troops to stop at the north of Shigou Village.

According to Liu Tianshu's orders, the troops commanded by Zhu Aiguo were to join up with Yang Donghu's troops, who came later, and then Yang Donghu commanded them to attack Oda Tashiro's troops who had evacuated the base area.

At 12 o'clock in the evening, after Yang Donghu used the radio to report the enemy situation to Liu Tianshu, Liu Tianshu asked Yang Donghu to use the night to launch an uninterrupted harassment of the Japanese troops staying in Shigou Village, and he could carry out long-distance shooting and mortar bombardment on the devils, but he would not launch a fierce attack on Oda Tashiro's unit for the time being.

After all, there are still more than 400 Japanese troops and more than 200 imperial troops under Oda Tashiro's department, and if they are forced to be in a hurry, I am afraid that Yang Donghu and they will not be able to please them.

The best way to deal with these devils is to cut the flesh slowly with a blunt knife.

After Liu Tianshu gave Yang Donghu the order to attack and harass Oda Tashiro's headquarters, he immediately ordered the fifth company and the machine gun company to launch a fierce attack on the Maotang stronghold with the cooperation of the militia squadron.

However, the attack on the Maotang stronghold was dominated by the heavy machine gun platoon and artillery squad of the machine gun company, and Liu Tianshu attacked Saito's logistics squadron and seized a large number of weapons and ammunition, including many grenades and shells, but unfortunately those shells were all used by the 92 infantry guns, and Liu Tianshu failed to capture the infantry guns, and those shells could only be hidden first.

However, the shells and bullets of the grenadiers were captured, so the 92 heavy machine guns belonging to the machine gun company fired fiercely at the defenders of the Maotang stronghold, and at the same time, the mortars of the artillery squad also began to bombard the stronghold.

A few minutes after the battle began, Liu Tianshu found that the strength of the defenders of the Maotang stronghold was surprisingly strong, and the shells of the devil's counterattack kept hitting the positions of the independent battalion.

After hearing the sound of the 92nd infantry cannon, Liu Tianshu immediately realized that the devil had already taken precautions, and hurriedly ordered the troops to withdraw quickly. (To be continued.) )