Seeing the devils on Hulu Mountain popping up like ants, Shan Dong immediately knew that the devils' large army was guarding the front, and immediately commanded the troops to quickly retreat. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

However, after retreating into the valley, he did not let his troops continue to retreat back the way they came, but turned into a valley to the north, and climbed along a path to the hill to the north.

Kagano didn't expect that as soon as the Eighth Road made a slight contact with him, he immediately retreated, and without thinking about it at the moment, he ordered the first squadron to pursue immediately, and the rest of the squadrons followed suit.

To the west of Hulu Mountain, Sakai received a report from Kagano that the Eighth Route Army had appeared opposite the Hulu Valley, but after the Eighth Route discovered that there were Japanese troops in front, it quickly retreated and had now retreated to the Shengji ridge to the north.

Looking at the location of Shengji ridge on the map, Sakai was a little puzzled.

It stands to reason that the Eighth Route knew that Hulu Mountain was guarded by Japanese troops, so it either forcibly broke through the Hulu Mountain defense line and advanced westward, or it returned the same way, and rerouted from Sunjiayu to the south or north from the east of Hulu Mountain.

The north of Shengji ridge is full of mountains, is it possible that the eight roads want to go over the mountains and then go back to Rongshan.

If that's the case, they don't need to choose to go to Hulu Mountain.

"Send a telegram to Kaga to confirm the exact number of the Eighth Route Army." Sakai felt that the Eighth Route Army, which retreated to Shengji, was not necessarily the main force of the Eighth Route Army.

After receiving a telegram from Kaga, it was confirmed that this Eighth Route had at least four 92 infantry guns, but because this Eighth Route saw that the situation was wrong, it immediately retreated backwards, and then turned back to Shengji Ridge, asking Kaga to determine the specific scale.

"Order the Kaga Brigade to immediately launch a pursuit on the line of the Itsuki ridge, and at the same time order the Fuji Nohana in the north to immediately make a detour to the line of the Itsuki ridge." Sakai stared at the map and thought for a moment, and ordered the Kaga Brigade and the Fujino Flower Brigade to attack together on the Ikuji ridge line, and at the same time ordered the Ono Brigade to press from the west to prevent a gap in the area of Hulu Mountain after the Kaga Brigade pursued.

As for the Sasaki brigade, it pressed from the south to the north.

Since the Eighth Road appeared in Hulu Valley, even if it was not its main force that fled to Shengji, the main force was not far from here.

Sakai has asked the Air Force to step up aerial reconnaissance, and Liu Tianshu's troops are not small units, so they cannot escape the eyes of the reconnaissance planes.

Sure enough, just as the Kaga Brigade was chasing to the north of Shengji, the aerial reconnaissance plane sent information that a large number of Eighth Route Army troops had been discovered in the valley east of Hulu Mountain.

When Sakai saw this, the corners of his mouth couldn't help but smile.

It seems that Liu Tianshu wants to use the troops withdrawn to Shengjigong in the north to divert the troops he has arranged in Hulushan, so as to quietly return to Rongshan.

Therefore, he immediately ordered the Sasaki Brigade in the south to immediately rush to Sunjiayu on the eastern side of Hulu Mountain to cut off the retreat of the Eighth Route Army.

Liu Tianshu was standing with Liao Zhifeng on a hill southeast of Hulu Mountain, and around him, the two battalions of the Second Regiment of the New First Brigade of the Eighth Route Army were all hiding in the woods near the mountain.

Appearing in the valley on the eastern side of Hulu Mountain, Han Fangping's second battalion, this battalion pulled a long line, and from the air, it seemed to have the size of a regiment.

As soon as they heard the roar of the plane, the soldiers immediately lay down on the spot, and their appearance seemed to be dewed, and the devils could not figure out the truth at all for a while.

"Regiment commander, the reconnaissance brigade reports that the devil Sasaki brigade has arrived at Sunjiayu behind the second battalion of the third regiment and blocked the retreat of the second battalion."

"Regiment commander, the reconnaissance brigade reports that the Japanese Kaga Brigade is currently concentrating its forces to storm Shengji Ridge, and the battle with the three regiments and one battalion is very fierce."

"Report to the regiment commander, the reconnaissance brigade reports that the Japanese Fuji Yehua Brigade is pressing towards Shengji Ridge from the north, and the first battalion has fallen into the encirclement of the two Japanese brigades."

"Report to the regiment commander, the reconnaissance brigade reports that the Japanese Ono Brigade has occupied Hulu Mountain."

A series of information was sent to Liu Tianshu.

At this time, in the direction of Shengji Ridge, the rumbling sound of cannons has sounded, and the smoke of gunpowder can be seen slowly rising in the distance.

However, the terrain of Shengjigang is dangerous, even if the Japanese army concentrates two brigades, it is not an easy task to successfully eat three regiments and one battalion.

This Shengji ridge is a steep mountain, a small road along the mountain ridge to the north, both sides are cliffs, above is a very wide mountain, as long as a battalion guards the north and south ends of the Shengji ridge, the devil will not easily attack.

Besides, in order to strengthen the firepower of the first battalion, Liu Tianshu asked Shu Zhi's artillery company to draw out four 92 infantry guns to cooperate with its actions.

"Order Shi Qiang to closely monitor the enemy in the direction of Hulu Mountain, and at the same time attack and harass the Japanese army west of Hulu Mountain." Liu Tianshu stared at the area of Hulu Mountain, which was gradually becoming chaotic, and said in a deep voice.

Although the reconnaissance brigade lost more than half of its losses, it still had six combat squads, one of which was responsible for reconnaissance in the south of Hulu Mountain, one in charge of reconnaissance in the north, and one in the mountains and forests near Hulu Mountain to monitor the enemy. The other three teams, led by Shi Qiang, have quietly touched the west of Hulu Mountain.

After Han Fangping learned that a brigade of devils appeared in his rear, he immediately ordered the troops to speed up their advance in the direction of Hulu Mountain, and there was no posture at all to reinforce Shengji.

In the blink of an eye, Han Fangping's second battalion appeared on the opposite side of Hulu Mountain. As soon as he got out of the valley, he immediately sent a company of troops to rush in the direction of Hulu Mountain.

Ono Saburo, who was guarding Hulu Mountain, saw that the eight roads appeared in the valley mouth on the opposite side, and he couldn't help but sigh that the brigade commander judged the preparations, and he immediately ordered the troops to prepare and only wait for the eight roads to rush to the position before shooting.

But who knew that the attacking company ran to the middle of the open ground under the gourd mountain, suddenly stopped, and then began to dig the fortifications.

Ono Saburo couldn't help but be stunned when he saw this, the Eighth Road was a full five hundred meters away from his position, and unless he used artillery fire, he couldn't reach it at all.

It seems that the troops who were ambushed in Hulu Mountain have been discovered by the Eighth Road. After Ono Saburo consulted the brigade commander, he immediately commanded his troops to descend the mountain and attack the Eighth Road.

Anyway, at this time, Sasaki's brigade had blocked the retreat of the Eighth Road.

Hearing the sound of artillery shells whistling in the air, the Eighth Route Army, which was building a position at the foot of the mountain, immediately dispersed in all directions, and then turned around and ran towards the valley mouth.

Ono Saburo didn't expect that the eighth road would retreat at the first touch, so he couldn't help but smile contemptuously and ordered the first squadron to catch up immediately. The two squadrons behind also pressed up.

In the blink of an eye, the first squadron chased to the improvised position abandoned by the Eighth Road, and when they saw the fortifications that had not yet been dug up, the anxious devil soldiers didn't think much about it at all, and immediately rushed forward like a swarm.

A few fighters hiding at the foot of the mountain on the side, seeing that the devils were crowded with the positions they had just abandoned, looked at each other and immediately pressed the detonator.

Suddenly, a series of explosions sounded like the ground shaking the ground abandoned by the Eighth Road, and these devils only felt a shock from the ground, so they flew into the sky, and after shaking their teeth and claws in the air, they flew out screaming in all directions.

Ono Saburo, who was standing on Hulu Mountain, did not expect that the Eighth Road was ostensibly building a position just now, but in fact it was planting explosives underneath, and he felt sorry for the more than 180 soldiers of his first squadron, all of whom were drowned in the smoke of the explosion.

In Ono's stunned eyes, the smoke finally gradually cleared, and what caught his eyes was the battlefield still smoking and the corpses of the Imperial soldiers lying there in all directions.

Among them were Japanese soldiers who were lucky not to be killed, and they were desperately crawling slowly on the ruins.

Saburo Ono carefully searched the entire area and found that the squadron that had just rushed up was standing there with only a dozen or so people standing there in a daze.

In just a few minutes of explosion, he buried an entire squadron, and Ono Saburo felt that his head couldn't react at once.

Han Fangping saw that the chasing devil was directly blown away by the explosives he had planted in advance, and he was so happy in his heart that he felt as if he had eaten honey. It's a pity that the explosives found from the supplies transported by the devils have been used up. Otherwise, give the devils a few more blows, and I'm afraid they won't dare to chase themselves unscrupulously anymore.

When I rushed to Sakai in Hulu Mountain, I heard a series of explosions in the distance, and I couldn't help but be shocked, and when I received a report from Saburo Ono that the despicable Chinese had planted explosives in the ground, so that all the soldiers of a squadron could not close their mouths.

Is this still the Eight Roads?

A dark cloud suddenly rose in his heart, you must know that Fuji Yehua's brigade had a squadron that was directly disabled by the eight-way artillery attack in Dai Po Ling.

Now Saburo Ono has lost another brigade.

The Kaga Brigade and the Fuji Nohana Brigade are fighting fiercely with the Eight Roads who fled to Shengji Ridge, and the figure of the Eight Roads appears on the opposite side of Hulu Mountain, where is the main force of the Eight Roads?

What does this Liu Tianshu want to do?

Sakai thought for a long time and ordered Saburo Ono to command the troops to carefully squeeze towards the Eighth Road, and strive to encircle the Eighth Road opposite Hulu Mountain with Sasaki's brigade.

Ono Saburo commanded the main force of the brigade, and after rushing down Hulu Mountain, he cautiously rushed towards Han Fangping's second regiment.

Han Fangping saw the devil chasing after him, and immediately commanded the troops to retreat to a valley to the south.

This valley is actually a Jedi, the valley is about three miles long, there are steep mountains and forests on both sides, but the southernmost part is a mountain range, the whole valley is wide in the north and narrow in the south, high in the south and low in the north.

Ono Saburo didn't expect the opposite Eight Roads to make a little contact with him, so he retreated to the valley to the south, and without thinking about it, he commanded the troops to cover up the past directly.

The topography of this valley, Ono Saburo has already investigated, and there is no way out of the valley.

Unless the Eight Roads can cross the mountains, as far as he knows, this valley is surrounded by cliffs on three sides.

But he didn't know that although he could not climb up from this valley, he could climb the mountains on both sides of this small valley from other places.

The first and second battalions of the 2nd Regiment commanded by Liu Tianshu were ready for battle early on the hills on both sides of the valley. The third battalion quietly touched a small hill on the side of Hulu Mountain from another hidden path.

Han Fangping commanded the second battalion of the third regiment to slowly retreat into the valley, and gradually reached the bottom of the valley, probably seeing that it had fallen into a desperate situation, the second battalion stopped at the bottom of the valley, and began to stubbornly block the enemy with the help of the rocks in the valley. (To be continued.) )