Chapter 138: Ambush on the Qiulin River

On June 30, after a day and a night of galloping, the convoy finally arrived at the Qiulin River west of the Yellow Flag before dawn, and rested in a dense forest not far from the other side of the river.

In the tent, Ma Zheng ordered with a tense face: "Set up a radio station immediately, contact the political commissar, and report the situation of our department!" ”

"Yes!"

Soon the messenger replied loudly: "Commander, the commissar has been contacted. ”

"Tell the commissar that we have now arrived at the predetermined location, and tell him that the net can be closed!" Ma Zheng said.

"Yes!"

Neither the commander of the Mongolian army, Hou Gong Chun, nor the commander of the 1st Cavalry Brigade, Ying Xiaosen, knew that in the territory of the Yellow Banner controlled by the Japanese army, an elite force of up to 7,000 people had already set up a pocket formation and waited for the 1st Cavalry Brigade to take the bait.

More than 3,000 Japanese soldiers surrounded the brains of the mountain, and then everyone put their horses down the mountain at the same time and began to search for them up the mountain. Soon the Japanese had a harvest, and within an hour of entering the forest, they found an important clue - two seriously wounded and dying horses.

According to the report of the members of the "Katana" Rangers, one of the two horses was the mount of the Shina woman, so it can be determined that the Shina woman was nearby.

Such a conclusive evidence really made Major General Takashi Mori a lot happy, as long as the direction was correct, otherwise it would be meaningless to waste half a day of effort here and finally run away.

Now that they have found their war horses, it means that those cunning people must still be in the mountains, after all, this is the grassland, and once they appear on the grass below the mountain after losing their war horses, it is no different from sending them to death.

However, just as Ying Xiaosen was about to let the soldiers gradually gather from the bottom of the mountain to the top of the mountain to find Li Lanqing and others out of the mountain forest, he suddenly received a bad news - the troops left behind in Tieshagai Town were raided by the Chinese cavalry.

The news came back from a few remnants, according to the report of the few cavalrymen who escaped by chance, that thousands of Chinese cavalry suddenly appeared in the town of Tieshagai, and launched a full-scale attack on them, although they had more than 700 people, but there were 500 light and serious wounded, and in addition to the prisoners of the Chahar tribe, it was impossible to organize effective resistance, and they were scattered in just one round, and then all the wounded were slaughtered, and only a few of them escaped by luck.

After receiving the news, Ying Xiaosen was shocked, and immediately sent a report to the headquarters of the Mongolian army, and at the same time ordered the headquarters to immediately avoid the main force of the Chinese cavalry and flee all the way to the east. Ying Xiaosen knew very well that they were not only inferior to Ma Zheng's cavalry in terms of numbers, but the most important thing was that his troops had been fighting for three days and three nights, and both the horses and knights were already very tired, and Ma Zheng's troops were equal to waiting for work, so the two sides must not meet, once they met, his first cavalry brigade was likely to be wiped out.

Originally, victory was in sight, but I didn't expect the ending to be like this, which made Eagle Xiaosen feel a little anticlimactic. But if they are not happy, they have no way to deal with such a situation, who let Ma Zheng's department come so quickly.

However, Takataka Moriichi still had a faint expectation, because the "Katana" Einsatzgruppen stayed behind and continued to search for the whereabouts of the Shina woman.

This was not an order from Takashi Moriichi, but a request from Miyamoto Daisa himself. In Miyamoto's words, they are small in number and easy to escape, even if they are discovered by the Shina cavalry. Besides, that woman was close at hand, it would be a pity to give up, and the front army was still waiting for which woman to exchange for the more than a thousand imperial expatriates, so he asked to stay.

Takamori himself didn't want to go back like this, so he only thought about it for less than half a minute before agreeing, so he left some weapons and equipment and a radio station for the Katana Rangers and left directly with his troops.

Ying Xiaosen had no idea that the Chinese cavalry in Tieshagai was just here to scare and scare them, and the real killing move was on the front line of the Qiulin River.

On July 1, after a day and a night of galloping, the 1st Cavalry Brigade, which had withdrawn from Brain Baoshan, finally returned to the territory of the Yellow Banner. Due to the news from the rearguard that a large cavalry was chasing them, Takashi Mori did not dare to stop for more and galloped all the way.

As soon as the Ying Xiaosen Division appeared in the territory of the Yellow Banner, the observation post of the Duqi Division ambushed in the dark discovered them, and quickly transmitted the news back to the forward headquarters, and after receiving the news, Ma Zheng immediately ordered the troops to prepare for battle.

Zadagai Mountain, two small hills stretching on the west bank of the Qiulin River, the mountains are not high, but they force the Qiulin River down the river to turn two big bends.

This is the only way to enter the yellow flag, because the water of the Qiulin River swells in summer, and it must be crossed by the Qiulin Bridge, otherwise even the war horses will be washed away by the turbulent river.

What's more, the 1st Cavalry Brigade carried a lot of ammunition, and the most feared thing about these ammunition was dampness, so it was necessary to cross the Zadagai Mountain and then cross the Qiulin Bridge.

One side was in a hurry to flee for his life, while the other side was prepared, and soon the two forces encountered each other at Zadagai Mountain.

At the west entrance of the Zadagai Mountain, the tired 1st Brigade walked in low morale, and although this battle successfully broke the Golden Horde, the leader of the Chahar Division, it also killed the old leader of the tribe, Bayar, and captured the leader Bilig. If there were no incidents of wounded being raided by Chinese cavalry, this result would still be acceptable.

But now, after the surprise attack of the Chinese cavalry, less than 3,000 of the more than 4,000 people in the department remained, and more than 1,000 casualties were killed, and this time the casualties were different from the last time, this time it was a real absolute casualty, that is, all the losses were killed.

In addition, the other goal of this operation was not achieved, so it can be said that it was a failure, so Takashi Moriichi was extremely irritable all the way.

"Shibata, where are you now?" Eagle Takamori asked loudly.

"Your Excellency, the front is the Zadagai Pass, and after here is the Qiulin River, and as soon as the troops cross the river, they will not be far from the Yellow Flag City." Chief of Staff Shibata Nakasa replied loudly.

"Well, order the troops to hurry up the time to pass through this mountain, and then immediately go to the county seat of the Yellow Banner to rest." Takashi Sen commanded loudly.

"Hay!"

However, when the vanguard of the Japanese army had just crossed the mountain pass, they found that hundreds of cars were parked outside, full of machine guns, and at the same time, a large number of infantry were lined up, waiting for them.

"Boom" "Boom" "Boom"

"Da Da Da"

"Da Da Da"

The artillery fire was fired in unison, and the cavalry of the 1st Brigade was beaten back as soon as they rushed out of the mountain pass, suffering extremely heavy casualties. In desperation, Ying Xiaosen had to order the troops to turn around immediately and withdraw from the Zadagai Valley by the same route.

However, as soon as this order was issued, he heard rapid gunfire from behind, and it turned out that Ma Zheng had put Xu Hu's regiment behind the Japanese troops, and after they all entered the valley, he would close the door and beat the dogs, cutting off their retreat.

It wasn't a battle, it was more like a premeditated massacre, with more than two thousand Japanese cavalry slaughtered in less than an hour.

In fact, less than ten minutes after the start of the war, Ying Xiaosen regretted it, in the face of these combinations of cars and machine guns, the cavalry had almost no room for resistance, except for a few grenades that were useful, as for the cavalry guns and sabers were almost useless, in desperation, Ying Xiaosen gave an order to disperse and break through, hoping to escape a few.

But Ma Zheng, who had been prepared for a long time, could not guard against this move, and after Ying Xiaosen gave the order to break through, more than six or seven thousand people under Ma Zheng's department swarmed up and launched a full-scale attack on the Japanese army. In less than half an hour of fighting, the Japanese army was wiped out except for a few cavalrymen who escaped by chance.

At 6:10 p.m., the battle was finally over, and the whole battlefield was silent, except for the captured Japanese officers, there was not a single Japanese on the whole battlefield who could catch their breath.

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