After everyone heard Liu Junshan finish speaking, several people looked at Xiao Xiong with anxious eyes.

Xiao Xiong, who had been in danger, was not confused, and he said calmly:

"'The soldiers will block, and the water will cover the earth', I estimate that the devils will attack soon. I feel a little strange that the devil's two operations, their intelligence is so accurate and fast. We need to be ready for battle before the devils attack. ”

Xiao Xiong then ordered:

"Chief of Staff, you immediately transfer the wounded to a secret cave and leave a medic to look after. Deputy commander, you go and arrange the defense of the two mountain passes to the north and south of the mountain, especially pay attention to the devils in the south direction of the mountain. Li Minghua and Liu Junshan are in charge of the hunter team, and as the mobile unit of the team, they listen to my orders and are ready to be dispatched at any time. All are ready for battle and ready to withdraw at any time. Got it? ”

"Understood!" Everyone replied in unison. Then they split up and prepared to go.

It can be said that the devil's action greatly surprised Xiao Xiong's expectations. He thought that the devils didn't know that they had gone up to Minshan. I wanted to give the devastated brothers a good rest here, but I never thought that the devil would immediately target him.

He asked the telegraph operator to send a report to Jiang Feng, Wang Yantai, and Jiang Yongming, who had already arrived in Jiangxinzhou, telling them about the situation in Minshan, and asking them to prepare for the troops that broke through.

The Einsatzgruppen had just been arranged, and before noon, the devils launched a large-scale attack on Minshan. The key attack routes of the devils are the two valley passes in the south of the mountain and the north and south, and the other roads into the mountains are only stationed with heavy troops, and the troops are advancing and blocking at all levels. Yamamoto thought that this time the operation of the Einsatzgruppen would definitely be able to be secured.

The battle first began in Shannan. With a squadron of nearly 200 people as the vanguard force, the devils entered the road south of the mountain, and their progress was not very fast. Not far behind was their large force following behind.

Because the mountain in the south of the mountain is a windward slope, it is not as steep as the north of the mountain, and the slope is gentle, which is relatively easy to attack and difficult to defend. Therefore, the defensive force deployed by the Einsatzgruppen in Shannan is relatively strong. Xiao Xiong mobilized almost half of the 200 existing members of the Einsatzgruppen to Shannan, and Zhang Shan was personally responsible for leading the team to block the enemy. Their mission is very clear, that is, to try to stop the devils as much time as possible, and to give the Einsatzgruppen a chance to transfer.

Although the slope of Shannan is gentle, the road to Jinpanding is relatively long, nearly 20 miles. Zhang Shan considered that he had a small number of people and could not fight hard with the devils. He set up the blocking positions in three places: Wolf Howl Valley, Yilintian and Eagle's Beak Rock, and took layers of resistance to the devil's attack, resisting step by step, and minimizing casualties. Because these places are dangerous, condescending, and easy to defend.

After the advance squadron of the devils entered Shannan, they were very cautious at first. However, after walking for three or four miles, they were not blocked by the Einsatzgruppen, so they became emboldened, swaggering to speed up the march and walking towards the mountain, and even some devils simply put the 38 big cover on their shoulders.

Soon, seeing that the devil was about to enter the wolf howl valley, the team members held their breath and stared intently at the devil who entered the valley.

The terrain of this place is very dangerous, it has a small mouth and a big belly, like a big-bellied gourd, the entrance and exit are small, and the valley is relatively large, and the valley is only 2 or 3 miles long. A sheep's gut path passes through the valley, and the terrain is completely different from the outside of the valley, not only steep, but also narrow. On both sides of the path are cliffs as high as ten feet.

Zhang Shan waited until all the devils had entered the valley before he suddenly ordered to open fire.

In an instant, it was like a dense rain of bullets falling in the valley, which made the devils turn on their backs and become a mess. Patches of devils were knocked to the ground.

However, after all, the devils were well-trained, and after a sudden attack, they immediately organized a team to use the large rocks in the valley as cover and fought against the Einsatzgruppen.

The devil's machine gun bullets were intensively strafing the mountain, causing the stone fragments in front of the team members to fly, and the firepower of the Einsatzgruppen suddenly decreased a lot.

The devils took the opportunity to set up mountain artillery and fired at the mountain. The cannonball hit the cliff above the heads of the team members, and although the shell did not directly hit people, the rocks also injured many team members.

The battle lasted for more than an hour, and more than half of the devils of a squadron were killed and wounded under the ambush of the Einsatzgruppen. But soon, the devil brigade caught up behind and immediately threw themselves into the battle. The devil's attack suddenly became much fiercer. Mountain artillery and machine guns fired heavily at the positions of the Einsatzgruppen.

Zhang Shan saw that the devil's reinforcements had arrived, the firepower was very fierce, and if he persisted, he would not be able to take any advantage, and the expected goal had been achieved. Therefore, he ordered everyone to take the wounded and immediately leave the battle and withdraw to the second blocking point -- the "first-line" position.

Unlike Wolf Howl Valley, there is only a narrow path sandwiched between two cliffs, about a mile long, and the path is only two or three people wide.

Zhang Shan asked everyone to arrange explosives and grenades along the cliffs on both sides, and then everyone hid on the cliffs, just waiting for the arrival of the devils.

The devils, who had suffered a loss in the Valley of the Wolf's Howl, no longer marched as swaggering as they had begun to enter the valley, and before they had reached the "first line of heaven", they set up their cannons and bombarded the mountains on both sides of the road violently, and the shells of mortars and small steel cannons blew up all the trees on the mountains on both sides, and the gravel was blown up and rolled straight down.

After a fierce bombardment, the devils saw that there was no movement on the mountain, so they trembled and walked towards the valley. The devil sent more than a dozen sharp soldiers with guns to search and advance in front.

Zhang Shan whispered the order:

"Let the devil's spearmen go over, and wait for their large army to come in before firing."

The devil's spearhead fired at the mountains on both sides as they walked, and soon passed the "first line of sky". As soon as the devil in the back saw that the front was fine, he followed into the "first line of heaven". After all the devils came in, Zhang Shan shot at one of the devils in front, and the devil's head immediately bloomed.

With the gunfire of Zhang Shan, a deafening explosion sounded in the valley, and the huge stones and rolling logs on the mountain all smashed into the devils at the bottom of the valley. For a while, the "silver line" immediately became a hellish horror, and the devils who were not killed by explosives grenades and were not stoned to death by rolling stones and sassalwoods hated their parents for giving birth to two legs at this time, and they fled from the valley mouth frantically.

The devil soldier who had already walked out of the valley in front suddenly heard a huge explosion behind him, and was so frightened that they all fell to the ground. However, the rangers guarding the exit had already targeted them. The snipers on the hills on both sides were like shooting wild boars, almost one at a time, and a dozen devils all lay on the ground and did not move after a burst of gunfire.

The group of devils behind began to be completely blown up, and when they saw their companions who had fled like ghosts and crazy, they all hurriedly lay on the ground. When the smoke and dust in the valley cleared, they saw that the valley was full of boulders and trees, and all the devil soldiers inside were buried in it, and it was difficult to see how many people had died.

The angry devil commander ordered the artillery and machine guns to fire desperately at the hill. This burst of firing lasted for more than 10 minutes. The devils sent out to attack the mountains on both sides.

It was only when the devils climbed halfway up the mountain that Zhang Shan and the rangers opened fire. There was a burst of bullets and grenades, and the devils who had just climbed up left dozens of corpses, and they crawled down.

In this way, the devils continued to attack the mountains on both sides, but they were all repulsed by the Einsatzgruppen. Some of the devils tried to take advantage of the opportunity to cross the valley, but as soon as they entered the valley, they were beaten back by the sudden fall of grenades and stones.

However, as the fighting continued, so did the casualties of the Einsatzgruppen. The devils had to use heavy artillery fire to open the way before each attack, and the dense artillery fire brought a lot of losses to the Einsatzgruppen, especially the threat of those mountain artillery was greater, and almost all the positions on the mountain were destroyed by artillery fire.

Zhang Shan looked at his watch, and it was almost four o'clock in the afternoon. This burst of resistance has delayed the devil's attack for more than two hours. So, he led the team to quietly withdraw.

The devils who were kept in the dark continued to fire their artillery at the positions on the hill. After a while, the devils saw that there was no movement on the mountain, so they slowly went up to the mountain. However, what I saw was bullet casings and grenade rings all over the floor.

Eagle's beak rock is the last natural danger leading to the top of Jinpan in the south of the mountain, and there is no danger when you pass through the eagle's beak rock, and you can go directly to the top of Jinpan.

The road to the summit is a staircase carved out of the rock, with more than 1,000 steps. The mountain is high and the road is steep, and on one side of the mountain, on the other side is facing the abyss. The mountain road is dangerous, easy to defend and difficult to attack.

The bandits who have been entrenched on the top of the golden pan for generations, they have set up camp on the mountain by virtue of these natural dangers of Minshan, blocking the attack of the officers and soldiers and are safe and sound.

In the spring of 1939, some diehards of the Kuomintang Jiangxi Security Corps, under the pretense of cooperating to resist Japan, finally deceived them from the eagle's beak rock to the top of the mountain, killing many anti-Japanese fighters. On the top of Jinpan, the famous "Minshan Bloody Case" that shocked the whole country was caused, which was strongly criticized and criticized by the anti-Japanese military and people in the whole society.

Zhang Shan led the remaining team of more than 60 people to retreat to the Eagle's Beak Rock and joined up with the troops guarding here. Zhang Shan had most of his men guard on top of the Eagle's Beak Rock, and also deployed some troops on the hill opposite it. Because the eagle's beak rock is the last obstacle to the top of the mountain, they want to stop the devil's last attack on the top of the mountain here.

Zhang Shan suddenly felt that the burden on his shoulders was very heavy, and the responsibility on his shoulders was heavy. After arranging everything, they quietly waited for the arrival of the devils.