"Regiment commander, why don't you let the third battalion rush to Motianling immediately, the devils opposite Songkan Town and Pingyuan Town have moved, if we use the first battalion and the second battalion, I'm afraid it will give the devils a chance. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 info" Yang Donghu thought for a while and said.

The third battalion is stationed on the front line of Qinglongkou, where there are no devil activities, relatively speaking, it is more appropriate to transfer the third battalion than the first and second battalions.

"Commissar, what is your opinion?" Liu Tianshu asked while thinking in his head.

"Regiment commander, the brigade commander ordered us to occupy Motianling, it should be aware that the devils have the possibility of cutting off the back road of a regiment, it stands to reason that the first battalion and the second battalion cannot move, but Motianling is in the southeast of Pingyuan Town, if you let the third battalion rush over, I am afraid that it will be too late." Liao Zhifeng said with some concern.

After listening to the opinions of the two, Liu Tianshu had already made a decision in his heart.

"The political commissar is right, it will take at least three more hours for the third battalion to rush over, and I am afraid that it will be too late in time, so the political commissar, Donghu, I personally took the machine gun battalion, a reconnaissance brigade, and a mortar company of the artillery battalion, and immediately rushed to Motianling, so that the first company and the second company of the third battalion came as a reserve under the command of Donghu. The political commissar was responsible for commanding the first battalion to guard Pingyuan Town. In addition, he told Hao Mengxuan that he must be careful of the devil's small actions. Fifteen minutes later the troops departed. ”

Fifteen minutes later, Liu Tianshu quickly left the station with three squadrons of the reconnaissance brigade, a machine gun battalion, and a mortar company, and ran quickly in the direction of Motianling.

As soon as the troops ran out of less than ten miles, the sky began to get brighter, Liu Tianshu turned his head to look in the direction of Yongle Town, and then ordered Shi Qiang and Chen Jian to march forcibly to Motianling.

The fighters of the reconnaissance group were not only well-trained, but also did not have many heavy weapons, and their supporting firepower was light machine guns and mortars.

When the two received the order, they immediately shouted to follow me, and ran quickly to the southeast with the reconnaissance team.

Just when Liu Tianshu rushed to Motianling with his troops, Hong Feihu and Jiang Jinyong had already asked Du Ningyuan to command the troops to withdraw from the battle and retreat in the direction of Pingyuan Town.

It's a pity that the devils who sent reinforcements in front of Qufeng's stronghold found that the regiment and battalion that were blocking the attack showed signs of retreat, and immediately chased after them, so that the battalion had to retreat while fighting.

When Du Ningyuan learned that the devil found the first battalion retreating, he did not let go of the first battalion to advance towards Yongle Town, but stubbornly stalked in the back, and immediately knew that the situation was a little bad.

When it was dawn, two planes suddenly appeared in the sky, swept over the hill, and rushed towards the second and third battalions of the regiment.

Hong Feihu saw that the devil's plane appeared early in the morning, so he had to order the troops to hide in the woods.

It's a pity that the devil knew that the Eighth Route Army was in the area below, and he couldn't leave in the air, which made Hong Feihu and Du Ningyuan very depressed.

Fortunately, there were only two planes in each place, plus the militia of Songkan Town and Pingyuan Town, they set up a guard post ten miles away from the two towns, and when they found the devil's plane, they immediately used the buried telephone to report to Songkan Town and Pingyuan Town.

The villagers knew that the devil plane was coming, so they naturally hid in the cellar, and as for the troops guarding the two towns, they hid, and in the end, more than 20 houses in each of the two towns were blown up by the devil plane.

Liu Tianshu heard a violent explosion in the direction of Pingyuan Town, and immediately knew that the devil had bombed Pingyuan Town with an airplane, he stared intently for a while, turned back to the machine gun battalion commander Pang Fuyong and said: "Battalion Commander Pang, order the troops to speed up and be sure to occupy Motianling in front of the devil." ”

Although the reconnaissance team has rushed over in advance, the reconnaissance team only has so many people after all, and if it encounters a large army of devils, it may not be able to hold Motianling.

When Pang Fuyong heard the words of the regiment commander, he immediately turned around and shouted at the soldiers, so everyone cheered each other up and ran towards Motianling.

Seeing that it was only twenty miles away from Motianling, a correspondent came to report: "Regiment commander, the political commissar sent an urgent telegram, saying that the devils of the two squadrons and more than 500 puppet troops suddenly launched an attack on Pingyuan Town. The first battalion had already engaged the enemy with fire. ”

Liu Tianshu took the message, but before he could finish reading it, another soldier rushed over with the message.

"Regiment Commander, Captain Shi sent an urgent telegram, the devils have occupied Motianling, they failed to get ahead of the devils, Captain Shi asked the reconnaissance team for the next move."

"What? The devil has preemptively occupied Ferris Ridge? Liu Tianshu's face changed in shock, he grabbed the message, read it carefully, and couldn't help but fall into deep thought.

The devil suddenly occupies Motianling, and it is clear that his goal is to attack a group of Yongle Town.

As for the devil's sudden attack on Songkan Town and Pingyuan Town, it should be to drag the arm of the second regiment and create conditions for the devils to concentrate their forces to besiege the first regiment.

After reading the message, Liu Tianshu immediately asked the guards to bring the map and spread it on the ground to look at it carefully.

To the north of Motianling, there are all small hills, and there is no danger to defend at all, and it is unrealistic for him to let the reconnaissance team recapture Motianling, after all, devils are not soft eggs.

Besides, since the devil has occupied Motianling, he has already taken advantage of the geographical advantage, how can he go to the hard fight.

"Order Shi Qiang to immediately establish a blocking position in the chaotic stone gangzi ten miles north of Motianling, and stop the devil from advancing north at all costs. The machine gun battalion and artillery company immediately ran and advanced towards the rocky hill. After Liu Tianshu studied the map, he decided to set up the blocking position in the Ranshi Gangzi.

Although the rocky hill is not as steep as the Sky Ridge, it is also a long mountain range, as long as you hold the rocky hill by yourself, a group can still retreat safely from the north.

If the devil crosses the rocky hill, the road to the eastward retreat will really be cut off.

Hong Feihu received a telegram from Liu Tianshu, saying that the devils had occupied Motianling first, and immediately called Jiang Jinyong and Du Ningyuan, and after giving a briefing on the situation, he said in a deep voice: "Political commissar, the commander of the first regiment, it seems that the devils have long been prepared for us to attack Yongle Town, and the commander of the second regiment has decided to block the enemy in Ranshigangzi and cover our retreat, but the devils have made such a big move, which shows that there must be a lot of troops dispatched, and the pressure on the second regiment is too great, and the sooner we withdraw to the base area, the sooner we can reduce the pressure on the second regiment, Ordered the troops to retreat to the base area on a run. ”

I fought in the middle of the night last night, but I didn't say anything about it, and let the devil chase after him, thinking about Du Ningyuan is belly fire.

However, he knew that if the devil really cut off the passage to the east, it would be a real trouble.

At that moment, a battalion and a company were ordered to stay behind to block the enemy and cover the retreat of the main force of the regiment to the east.

Unfortunately, as soon as a group of people got out of the woods and went a short distance to the east, the devil's plane came out like a ghost, forcing the soldiers to burrow into the woods to hide again.

When Liu Tianshu arrived at the Ranshi Gangzi with the machine gun battalion and the mortar company, it happened that the devil had also arrived on the opposite side of the Ranshi Gangzi.

In fact, the time when the devils originally arrived at Ranshi Gangzi should have been an hour ago, but they met Shi Qiang and Chen Jian's reconnaissance team.

After receiving the regiment commander's order to let them retreat to the Ranshi Gangzi, Shi immediately put the reconnaissance brigade with the 1st Squadron and the 2nd Squadron to be responsible for delaying the devil's northward advance, but the 3rd Squadron rushed to the Ranshi Gangzi.

After the third squadron left, Shi Qiang personally commanded the first squadron to line up on a small hill below the Ferris Ridge, of course, the three combat teams of the first squadron did not prepare to defend there, but on the road in front of the mountain, they buried four mines brought, and then prepared to block them on the mountain.

After the vanguard of the devils came down from the Sky Ridge, a squad immediately advanced northward with great vigour.

The devils who occupied Motianling did not let the Imperial Alliance Army cooperate with them.

When the devils of this squad saw the opposite hill, they didn't even send out the top soldiers, and immediately rushed towards the hill in battle formation.

At the back of this squad are a large number of devils.

When he saw the devil rushing less than a hundred meters from the mountain, Shi Qiang raised his pistol and snapped at a devil who was running in front, who stumbled and then fell to the ground.

The sound of gunfire was the signal, and immediately the three combat groups of the first squadron of the reconnaissance brigade on the hill immediately continued to shoot at the devils on the hill.

And Shi Hu and his sniper team lay on the top of the mountain, constantly pulling the bolt, harvesting the lives of machine gunners and military caoes in the devil squad.

The devil saw that there were eight ways to block the hill in front of him, and there were also light machine guns, and the guns were also very accurate, so he had to find cover and shoot at the top of the hill.

At the same time, the artillery fire that followed behind also began to fire accurately.

After a few minutes, the devil's cannonballs hit the mountain, blowing up the mountain in smoke, and the whole air was filled with sulfur.

Seeing that the top of the mountain was blown up by its own shells, and rushed to the vanguard of the devils under the mountain, I couldn't help but feel ecstatic in my heart.

Fifteen minutes later, the shelling of the devils ended, and with a loud shout from the team leader, the devils got up from the ground one after another, and rushed towards the hill while firing their guns.

It's a pity that a few devils who ran in front unfortunately stepped on a mine.

With the violent explosion of the mine, the four devils were blown into the sky, and three devils fell around them.

After spotting the mines on the hillside ahead, the devil became cautious in his progress.

The fighters of the 1st Squadron of the Reconnaissance Brigade, after firing the five bullets in the gun in a blink of an eye, immediately ran to the side with the gun. As for Shi Hu and the others, after firing five shots in a row, they quickly got out of the way of the front and made a detour to the side.

After stepping on four mines, the cautious devil never encountered a mine again.

Not only are there no mines, but there is also no trace of the eight roads that had just struck them. Gradually, these devils began to become emboldened, and rushed up the hill at an accelerated speed.

After occupying the hill, the devils immediately set up guards on both sides of the road, and then the devils' army began to run towards the mountain.

It's just that although the devil occupied the mountain, he wasted forty minutes on this nameless mountain, and lost more than twenty lives. (To be continued.) )