"Did the 27th of the fleet just depart from Yichang?" Gao Quan took the telegram sent back by the reconnaissance group in front and said to himself, "Then, it's still too late for us to go to Daorenji to prepare now!" He looked at the map again, raised his eyebrows, and Gao Quan's eyes showed a look of determination, "Order the reconnaissance group to be sure to control the Daorenji Wharf." Give orders to the 500th Division and the New 501st Division, and the whole army will travel day and night to rush to Daorenji as soon as possible! ”

"Yes!" The herald said yes and ran away to give orders.

"Second brother, leave a battalion for reconnaissance, and you personally lead the rest of the cavalry regiment to rush to Daorenji to reinforce Shi Lei!" This is a big operation of the whole army, and the military order of the Military Commission, coupled with the temptation of Nakajima Isaago, makes Gao Quan have to go all out. In spite of his confidence in the reconnaissance regiment, he still sent the only mobile force at hand, the cavalry regiment, as reinforcements.

"Rest assured, with my Kong Xuan, Dao Renji must be ours! I'm waiting for the military at the Dorenji Pier! After finishing speaking, he immediately raised his hand and gave a military salute, and the cavalry commander shook the reins: "Drive!" With his hundreds of iron horsemen, he went forward like a gust of wind.

After walking Kong Xuan, Gao Quan's second army seemed to be much quieter all of a sudden. Gao Quan gave the order that the whole army should travel day and night, whether it was the dog king or Gao Guozhong, these guys who were easy to cause trouble all understood the urgency of the military seat to hurry, and they all tried their best to control their words and deeds, and tried not to cause trouble. The Second Route Army, with the Independent Brigade as the main body, was rapidly moving in the direction of the Yangtze River, and there seemed to be nothing else that could affect the troops' progress except for the loud military songs that sounded from time to time.

"Report, in front is Guandao Town, and there are still fifteen miles away from Tongcheng."

Gao Quan unfolded the map, first found Tongcheng, and then followed to find Guandao Town. An inconspicuous town, probably on the outskirts of Tongcheng. "Go around the town and rush to the city!" Tongcheng once stationed a Japanese army, and during the Battle of Changsha, there was a Japanese army that entered the main battlefield of the Miluo River from Tongcheng. Geographically speaking, Tongcheng is in the middle of Xiushui to Yueyang, and the highway from Xianning to Pingjiang is passing through Tongcheng. Although the city is small, it is a key point to defend and is the only place for the 500 troops to go to Yueyang.

There are hundreds of Japanese troops stationed in Tongcheng, and the devils of Xianning can send reinforcements along the road at any time, if Gao Quan forcibly regains the city, it is inevitable that he will fall into a bitter battle with a steady stream of devil reinforcements. However, if he had rushed into the city, defeated the devils defending the city, and led the army all the way through the city, these problems would not have existed. By the time the devil reinforcements came, the 500 Army would have already left! And when the army returns, it can still kill a horse pistol, and then fight through the city, and kill the devil a second stubble! As for Guandao Town, a small town shop, there are a hundred and ten puppet troops in it, and it is purely time-consuming to fight, Commander Gao has never been interested in fighting with the puppet army, it is better to go around the town and go to Tongcheng to fight a battle!

In front were the cavalry, behind the mighty infantry, thousands of troops passed by the side of Guandao Town, and the puppet army in the town was so frightened that they ran into the mountains with their heads in their hands. Gao Quan didn't enter the town, and the puppet army didn't stay in the town, from the first cavalry of the 500 Army passed by the town, until the afternoon of the next day, the entire Guandao Town actually became a three-regardless territory without defenders.

Since the city is called a city, it has a wall. No matter how high or low, there is a walled city gate, which is a defensive fortress. There is a brigade of devils in the city, four or five hundred people. Originally, if the devil honestly closed the city gate and posed as a turtle shell, maybe Gao Quan would have left after hitting him twice and seeing that he couldn't beat him, after all, there were still big things waiting for him to do on the edge of the Yangtze River, and he didn't have so much time to rub shoulders with the devil here. But the devil commander stationed in Tongcheng didn't know if he drank too much sake, or if he stayed up too hard these days and didn't sleep well, so he led people out of the city to fight Gao Quan's ambush with a dizzy head!

The devil commander of Tongcheng was only transferred from another place, and Yokoyama Yong wanted to fight the Battle of Western Hubei and drew people from all the occupied chassis, so that a small county like Tongcheng had no troops to defend. Commander Hengshan was in a hurry and hurried to the headquarters of the occupation army to ask for support. The commander of the devil occupation army had no one in his hands, so he had to transfer from other troops to the 11th Army, and Kinoshita Lang Shaozo and his brigade were transferred to defend Tongcheng at this time, and they didn't come to Tongcheng for even a month.

To say that the 500 Army is now quite famous among the Japanese army, almost all the Japanese troops have heard of the legend of the 500 Army, and it is difficult to think of an ugly unit for the 6th Division several times. With such a force, it is not too far from Tongcheng, and since Kinoshita Shaosa is stationed here, he should certainly know about this strong enemy closest to him. It's just that this Kinoshita Taijun came at an inopportune time, and the entire Eleventh Army, from the commander Yokoyama Isamu to every devil soldier below, focused their attention on the west of Yueyang, along the Yangtze River to the south bank of the Yangtze River in Yichang, and concentrated on the battlefield in western Hubei.

Kinoshita had participated in several small-scale attacks on the local faction forces of our army before, and each time he won a complete victory, and his opponents were basically crushed at the first touch, so Kinoshita Taijun thought that all Chinese troops were like this. Thinking about the Japanese army's easy occupation of most of China, it seems that Kinoshiro has a point in thinking about it. As a result, Kinoshita Taijun believes that the imperial army is invincible in the world!

This guy is so crazy that there is such a thing as I heard today that a Chinese army is going to pass through Tongcheng, and immediately led the troops out of the city to ambush. In fact, Kinoshita Taijun thought that he was already very cautious, and he did not lead his hundreds of soldiers to rush head-on, and he was already a battlefield commander who was proficient in the art of war. Kinoshita Shaosa took his troops, went out of the city, and found a place to the east that he thought was the most suitable for an ambush, and set them up, waiting for the ignorant Chinese army to crash headlong into his encirclement!

"Report, the front reconnaissance cavalry report that there are signs of ambush of the Japanese army near the Taiping Bridge and Xisun Ridge, fifteen miles east of Tongcheng!"

"There is an ambush in the Japanese army?" Gao Quan looked at the messenger in surprise, and after seeing the other party's affirmative nod again, he couldn't help but laugh "haha".

"Haha, isn't the devil crazy? My army was originally going to pass through the city, if the devil had been smarter, he would have gone into the mountains early to hide for three or five days, and when our army had passed, he would have come back, who would have the time to take care of him? Fortunately, the devils in the city actually took the initiative to go out of the city to fight our army! Wow! For the sake of the devil being so diligent, we must have a good fight! Xiao Qi, the independent brigade divided into two roads, leaving the road from both sides and searching forward for five miles. Since the devils want to ambush us, we will give the devils a counter-ambush! ”