The 120th Division had also known about the Japanese army's large-scale attack on Ma Zheng's station, and the division headquarters had sent a telegram to the Chanan guerrilla detachment that if something could not be done, perhaps they would withdraw to the northwest of Shanxi, and the division headquarters could send a strong force to meet them.

However, Ma Zheng called back to the division headquarters, and he was completely sure of this battle, so that the division headquarters should not worry. At the same time, he also said that if things really come to that point, he will consider breaking through.

However, after reading Ma Zheng's reply, Master He worriedly said to Director Guan and the others that Ma Madman said this to comfort them, and with his understanding of this madman, he would never break through unless he had to. Fortunately, Division Commander He and others also knew that the main force of Ma Zheng's department had jumped outside the encirclement of the Japanese army, as long as he did not rush into the encirclement of the Japanese army stupidly, the little devil would have nothing to do with him.

On the morning of 25 February, an infantry company and an artillery wing of the 26th Division of the Japanese Army, with the cooperation of a tank squadron, rushed straight to Yama Mountain. At the same time, after learning the lesson of the seizure of the logistics base under the headquarters of Sakai, an infantry squadron and an infantry regiment of the puppet army reinforced from the direction of Jining urgently stationed in Hongshaba Town, and together with the original garrison of Hongshaba, guarded the rear road for the 26th Division.

In order to slow down the Japanese army's offensive speed, and at the same time to create for the Japanese army that the main force of the Chanan guerrilla detachment was still within their encirclement, Yun Jian, who stayed behind in Yama Mountain, led his troops to dig up all the roads into the mountain in advance, and at the same time laid tens of thousands of mines on the main road and auxiliary road.

In addition to these, Yun Jian also led an infantry squadron and a machine gun squadron left behind in Hades Mountain to take advantage of the terrain to block the Japanese army.

On the front line of Daqingshan, Huang Sicheng, who stayed in Daqingshan, also used the same tactics to deal with the invading Japanese army, but compared to the terrain leading to Hades Mountain, the terrain leading to Daqingshan was not precipitous.

But there are patches of pine forests along the way, and ordinary people can't find the way to get in. Huang Sicheng and others used trees as shelters to constantly harass the Japanese army.

Although the Japanese troops on both sides had tanks and armored vehicles to open the way, the losses were still not small, and the Japanese tanks were all thin and large iron boxes, which were very vulnerable in front of Ma Zheng's special mines, so they were destroyed a lot along the way, and even forced the Japanese army to open the way with engineers.

In charge of the command of the Yama side was the commander of the 11th Wing of the Japanese Army, Chida Sadao Osa, and before the operation, His Excellency, the commander of the division, had warned them that the opponent this time was very difficult, but he did not care about it. In his opinion, no matter how powerful the Chinese army is, it is just like that, but when they come out of Hongshaba Town, they realize how cunning the enemy really is.

In the short distance of more than 50 kilometers from Hongshaba to Hades, they walked for two days and two nights, and the bitterness of this road was really not enough to carry it to outsiders. Along the way, there must be ambushes in the mountains, mines in the forests, and from time to time a few mortar shells will fall from the sky, or they will be violently attacked by the machine-gun positions set up on the high ground. But every time Sakamoto Daisa sent people to counterattack, he found that the enemy had long since disappeared without a trace.

The most odious thing is that the road leading to Hades is almost completely destroyed, and almost a complete kilometer is easy to walk. In addition, there is only one road leading to Hades Mountain, and there is no other path to detour.

The march along the way was a disaster, but fortunately there were tanks in front of it, otherwise it is not known how many soldiers would have been lost. But even so, when they arrived at the foot of Hades Mountain to count casualties, the 11th Wing still lost nearly 200 men.

What angered Chida Daisa the most was that he didn't know if it was intentional, when the Eighth Route Army sneak attacked, he rarely chose to kill people directly, but wounded his soldiers. So when they arrived at the foot of Hades, the wounded of the 11th Wing turned out to be a kilometer long.

In fact, this was all requested by Ma Zheng, although it was said that killing a Japanese soldier could indeed destroy an enemy. But in this situation, it is most appropriate to hurt the little devil, not that it is a question of patience or not, but to injure a Japanese soldier, especially if he is seriously injured, which requires at least two soldiers to take care of him. As a result, three times the number of wounded in the Japanese army would become non-combatants.

The Japanese army lost more than 200 people along the way, but the result was that more than 600 people could not go to the battlefield, which was quite a serious weakening of the Japanese army's combat effectiveness. In addition, the painful moans/moans and shouts of the wounded are also an invisible blow to the morale of the troops, although there is nothing to be seen on the road, but the power is shown when the real battle is made.

On the other hand, the commander of the Japanese army was Naganonmura Momoyo Osa, a wing of the 13th Infantry Wing, whose troops took a train from Datong to Jining, and then made a detour from Jining to Xinghe, and the journey was relatively peaceful. But when he went from Xinghe to Daqingshan, he was met with stubborn resistance from the Eighth Route Army, and Nakamura Dazuo originally thought that a small hill should be easy to take, but as soon as he came out of Xinghe County, he was blocked by the Eighth Route Army.

The Eighth Route Army's resistance was nothing, and the losses caused to the troops were not very large, but the ubiquitous cold guns made the soldiers of the 13th Wing suffer. Especially after the troops entered the large area of pine forest on the periphery of Daqing Mountain, the snipers of the Eighth Route Army suddenly became dense, and the cold gunfire continued, and every time a gun was fired, a soldier would fall, and everyone was directly shot in the head.

There is no doubt that this is the masterpiece of the special operations brigade of the Chanan guerrilla detachment, after Ma Zheng inspected the terrain near Daqingshan, he felt that this was a natural sniper position, marching in such a dense pine forest, completely putting the troops under the guns of snipers, if it was fought well, this distance alone could defeat most of the Japanese infantry brigade.

The special operations team now has more than 50 snipers, all armed with Japanese-made Type 97 sniper rifles, which were captured during the last attack on Hongshaba Town. For this batch of sniper rifles, Ma Zheng was like a treasure, and immediately equipped all of them to the special operations team, and personally trained this group of snipers, and after more than a month, these snipers were finally trained to look good, and this was their actual combat debut.

Along the way, the snipers of the Eighth Route Army were everywhere, and the bullets were even more bizarre, each containing blood, basically a Japanese soldier was killed as soon as the gunfire rang out, coupled with the ubiquitous mines and mortars, Nakamura's troops suffered heavy losses, and their morale was seriously frustrated.

Fortunately, Xinghe County is only a short 20 kilometers away from Daqing Mountain, and the depth of the pine forest is only five or six kilometers, and after paying more than 600 casualties, Nakamura Dazuo finally arrived at the foot of Daqing Mountain.

But when he arrived at Daqingshan, he was stunned by the terrain in front of him. I saw that Daqing Mountain was like rising from flat ground, and the surrounding terrain was gentle, but the whole mountain peak was left behind and independent, as if it had been deliberately trimmed with a knife and axe.

Through the telescope, Kuno Daisa saw that the mountain was full of various pillboxes, especially the position at the entrance to the mountain pass, the three pillboxes on the left, the center and the right completely blocked the road, and there were almost no dead spots for shooting, and if it was attacked, the casualties would be absolutely unimaginable.

Although they carried a large number of artillery this time, it was unknown how powerful the artillery would be in the face of this terrain.

However, Kuno Osa also knew that this battle was a direct order from the headquarters of the Mongolian army, and they had no way back, and they had no choice but to take this steep mountain.