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Wu Mujun's garrison troops in Xishan were: more than 4,000 people from Xiang Qingyun's First Infantry Brigade, more than 7,000 people from Li Haiyang's infantry supplementary brigade, more than 2,000 people from Ke Hua's heavy artillery brigade, nearly 2,000 people from Ouyang Cheng's teaching brigade (including students), more than 3,000 people from Wang Laodun's engineer brigade, more than 1,200 people from Qi Yuankai's joint logistics brigade, more than 2,000 people from the military police, guard battalion, reconnaissance battalion, cavalry battalion, and communication battalion under the headquarters, and more than 10,000 militiamen from Shijilun's headquarters, totaling more than 30,000 people.

Xiang Qingyun's First Infantry Brigade was originally responsible for the entire Xishan defense, and was arranged to be responsible for the southern line of Xishan according to the needs of the war.

Although Li Haiyang's infantry supplementary brigade was large in number, the majority of recruits were recruited, and some of the recruits had been trained for less than a month, and the equipment was not in place, so it was arranged on the Xishan North Road, facing the southern Jiangsu Plain controlled by the Wumu Army, so that other troops could be picked up.

Ke Hua's heavy artillery brigade was in the center and responded to the fire of the various units in Xishan.

Ouyang Cheng's teaching brigade and the combat battalions directly under the headquarters serve as reserves. Although Wang Laodun's engineer brigade and Qi Yuankai's joint logistics brigade had a certain combat effectiveness, many vehicles, and strong mobility, Zhao Dahu was confident that Wu Mujun's combat effectiveness was mainly responsible for concealing and protecting factory materials in the base areas in addition to normal logistical support work, and even some factories continued to operate.

Shi Jilun organized the militia's squad leaders, detachment leaders, squadron leaders, and group leaders to go to the front line to observe the operation, and assisted the joint logistics brigade in transporting supplies.

Fighting on the southern front was not easy. Xiang Qingyun arranged blocking troops at various intersections on the southern front and withstood the attack of the Japanese army, but the devils were not muddy, powerful firepower, and the combat quality of the soldiers was still higher than that of the Wumu army, not to mention the task of guarding dozens of intersections so that Xiang Qingyun's troops were scattered, so he had to use a large number of bamboo sticks and minefields.

Xiang Qingyun is worried: If a squad guards three small intersections, it will have to occupy two companies, and platoon and company-level troops must be sent to defend key areas, and troops at and above the platoon level must be supported in depth; the defense line of more than 100 miles is too loose, and the units directly under the joint logistics, artillery, reconnaissance, and communications departments are not easy to cooperate with the combat units, and three companies have already been transferred to mobile operations on the outside line. Alas, there are not enough troops, and it is impossible to prevent it. No, we have to change the way we fight!

Major General Ueno Kamefu was also worried, and more than 10,000 people fought on a frontline of dozens of kilometers. No, we have to change the way we fight! It is necessary to concentrate forces and attack the key target ---- Meishan. Therefore, Major General Ueno Kamefu decided to gather his troops, and the 56th Wing withdrew to Liudong, cooperating with the 12th Wing of the Field Artillery and the Songshan Brigade of the 55th Wing, first taking Xinhang, and then dividing the troops into two routes, one route was the Chunshan Brigade of the 56th Wing and the Liutian Brigade to take the coal mountain directly through Baekhyeon; On the other hand, the 56th Wing Chongteng Brigade and Songshan Brigade went straight to the coal mountain through the flower wall; The 55th Wing took the coal mountain directly from the Qinggang Brigade through Xiaopu; On the other hand, the Shuiquan Brigade first withdrew its troops from Shuikou, making the illusion of merging with the Qinggang Brigade, and then returned to attack Shuikou and took the coal mountain directly as a surprise soldier.

Xiang Qingyun also asked Tuesday Dog and Zhao Dahu for instructions, asking to gather troops, abandon the western part of Xishan, and then lure the enemy to go deeper, gather and annihilate the first part of the devils on the South Road in the small flat area around the coal mountain, and at the same time ask the headquarters to move to a safe area.

On Tuesday, Gou and Zhao Dahu agreed to Xiang Qingyun's suggestion, and at the same time said that they were ready to provide reinforcements to Xiang Qingyun at any time.

Li Haiyang is much more comfortable than Xiang Qingyun on the northern line. Li Haiyang considered that the supplementary brigade had many new soldiers, no heavy weapons, and was easy to be defeated and scattered by devils, so he did not plan to hold all the northern lines at the beginning, but only concentrated his forces to hold all the intersections and hills leading to the coal mountain.

Major General Tezuka Province of the 35th Infantry Brigade was the commander-in-chief of the Northern Route Army, and he did not intend to attack the Lisu Mountains at first, because he also had another secret order ---- waiting for an opportunity to seize military rations. On the one hand, with the support of the 22nd Cavalry Brigade of Koike Shoji Nakasa, he planned to first sweep the grain-producing areas of the plains and plunder grain and materials, and on the other hand, he would lower the defense line in the north of the Lisu Mountains, waiting for the 23rd Infantry Brigade of the Southern Route Army to drive the Wumu Army out of the mountains and make some ready-made profits for himself. Therefore, he ordered: The commander of the 114th Infantry Wing, Kataoka Kakuji Nakasa, was responsible for the attack on the front line of Danyang, Jintan, Maoshan and Jurong, and paid attention to raising military rations; The commander of the 124th Infantry Wing, Xiao Jiao Fangsong Zhongzuo, was responsible for attacking the first line of Yixing, Liyang, and Lishui, and it was not advisable to deploy it, so as not to suffer losses in complex terrain, and when it reached between Yixing and Liyang, it was deployed south of Xizhu to the south, and an attack posture was made to put pressure on the northern line of the Wumu Army; Koike Shoji Nakasa's 22nd Cavalry Brigade coordinated between the two wings and relied on the superiority of maneuver to annihilate the loose small forces of the Takemu army. The third major general of Tezuka Province was a little selfish when he deployed: the first line of Danyang, Jintan, Maoshan and Jurong was a battle on the plains, and the relatively light combat mission was light, and the credit for preparing military rations was almost in vain, so he sent to his cousin Wing Commander of the 114th Infantry Wing Kataoka Kakuji Nakasa, although the Yixing, Liyang, and Lishui fronts did not fight tough battles, but there was still a possibility of mountain battles, and the material on the edge of the mountains was not very oily, so it was sent to the 124th Infantry Wing Wing Commander Xiao Jiao Fang Song Nakasa, who loved to fight; Doesn't Koike Shoji Nakasa's 22nd Cavalry Brigade have horses, and if they run fast, let them connect the two fronts, and by the way, strike at the small force of the branch, and it is estimated that there is not much chance of making great contributions. The troops were also satisfied with this assignment.

After the 124th Wing actually bypassed Yixing and directly occupied Xizhu, it quickly advanced to Taihua and began to build fortifications, assuming a defensive posture. In fact, the belligerent speaker Yoshimatsu Nakasa had other plans: the fortifications were built only to establish a stable support point for a sharper attack.

However, it was Li Haiyang who attacked first. Seeing that the devils were building fortifications, Li Haiyang decided that after the various units had perfected their defenses, they could take turns to send small units to carry out small-scale attacks, and that the offensive methods of the detachments of each unit should not be repeated, and arrangements should be made for the deployment of the troops.

As a result, sneak attacks, feints, attacks from the east to the west, and joint attacks with devils as the object of all kinds of "exercises" appeared, making the small talk of Fang Song Zhongzuo Qi Qi smoke and evil from the side of the guts, but he endured it and ordered the troops to hold on. He estimated: his own casualties were more than 120, while the people of China had to suffer 300 casualties, to say the least; The own side is the defender, there are casualties but no equipment loss, and the Chinese have equipment losses; Some of your firepower has been exposed, but these are only temporary and do no damage.

What Li Haiyang calculated: Through small-scale, lightly stimulating battles, a group of recruits will quickly become excited, and complete the transformation from recruits to veterans. Xiang Qingyun concluded: This is an appetizing soup before a meal to stimulate the appetite of the diners.

Just when Li Haiyang kept teasing Fang Song Zhongzuo, and Xiao Fang Song Zhongzuo was sitting in a serious position, the 114th Infantry Wing began a nightmare journey.

The commander of the 114th Infantry Wing, Kakuji Nakasa, believed that using a division against a militia was like hitting a rabbit with infantry artillery. So, his indifferent soldiers were divided into three routes, all the way to attack Danyang with the Yokohama Brigade, all the way to the Longsheng Brigade to grab grain, all the way to the Jingcheng Brigade to Jintan to guard the reinforcements from Jintan, the artillery squadron cooperated with the Yokohama Brigade to attack Danyang, the Transport Brigade cooperated with the Longsheng Brigade to grab food, and Kataoka Kakuji Nakasa led the wing headquarters to personally command the capture of Danyang.

The first unlucky one was the Yokohama Brigade led by Kakukaku Jinakasa himself. It was Liu Chenghai's Third Infantry Brigade stationed in Danyang, but there was not a single soldier of Liu Chenghai in Danyang City, and all of them were scattered in the brick kilns, lime kilns, and hidden fortifications at various intersections.

Kakukaku Kakuji Nakasa is not incompetent.

The first time he saw the brick kiln, he sent a squad of sharp soldiers to search and occupy it, but there was no one left in a volley fired by Wu Mujun at a distance of 80 meters! The leader of the devil squad, who had lost one squad, was in a hurry, and immediately ordered the light machine gun and grenadier squads to cover, and the other two infantry squads to attack.

Garrisoned at the brick kiln was a platoon of Liu Chenghai, 47 people, with 3 light machine guns and 3 grenadiers, 8 submachine guns, and the firepower was stronger than that of the devil squad. A standard infantry squad of 54 people, with three infantry squads and a grenadier squad equipped with three grenadiers, each infantry squad has 13 people, including the squad leader, 4 machine gun shooters and 8 riflemen, with a light machine gun and four people (commander, shooter, two deputy shooters with ammunition), these four people are equipped with self-defense pistols, and sometimes carry rifles in battle (except machine gun shooters); The remaining eight riflemen, each with a 38 rifle. At this time, there were only two infantry squads left in the devil squad, and there were only 41 people in the whole squad.

The devils attacked with light machine guns and grenadiers, and the positions of the Wumu army did not react; The infantry pressed up to 80 meters, but the position of the Wumu army still did not respond; The leader of the devil squad ordered the infantry to stop advancing and cover the machine gunners and grenadiers behind to move forward to improve the accuracy of fire, but Wu Mujun still did not react; The leader of the devil squad did not dare to be careless and ordered the infantry to crawl forward.

Suddenly, Wu Mujun fired another round of rifle salvo, knocking out the devil's grenadier, light machine gun and devil's 96 light machine gun fired at each other, and quickly knocked out the devil's 3 light machine guns, the devil's infantry all jumped up and charged at this time, and rushed to the Wumu army's position cleanly, and then was wiped out cleanly by a burst of submachine gun fire! Then, the Wu Mu army retreated from the battlefield like a rout.

Kataoka Kakuji Nakasa immediately ordered a brigade 500 meters away to fire heavy machine guns and infantry artillery in pursuit, but the Takemu army retreated extremely quickly, causing only 6 or 7 casualties. Although Kataoka Kakuji Nakasa was mad, he did not forget the purpose of the battle, and sent a squad to garrison the brick kiln, and the brigade still advanced towards Danyang.

In front of the second brick kiln, Kataoka Kakuji Nakasa ordered the artillery squad of the brigade to attack first, and then send a squadron to encircle it. The garrison Wu Mu army lost more than a dozen people and retreated in a hurry! Kataoka Kakuji Nakasa left another squad to garrison.

In one day, Kataoka Kakuji Nakasa successively occupied 11 brick kiln or lime kiln fortresses of the Mumu Army, losing 8 or 90 men, leaving 11 squads, and 4 infantry squadrons each lacking a squadron, as well as a machine gun squadron, an artillery squadron, a transport squadron, and an artillery squadron. Kataoka Kakuji Nakasa feels uncomfortable, not quite right! He hesitated, did he want to attack Danyang?

Wu Mujun did not give him time to hesitate, and the artillery squadron of the rear team was attacked by more than 10 machine guns of Wu Mujun, with more than 20 casualties! Kataoka Kakuji Nakasa hurriedly sent a team to the rescue.

Kataoka Kakuji Nakasa calmed down, and he suddenly understood that he had been mobilized by the Wu Mu Army! In this case, attacking Danyang is undoubtedly self-defeating, no, we must get rid of this passive situation! Kataoka Kakuji Nakasa decided to return the way he came, contain the troops left behind, and then turn to join up with the Takasho brigade, which was robbing grain.

Speaking from the heart, Kataoka Kakuji Nakasa does have some ability. Originally, he should have let the Longsheng Brigade move closer to him in order to complete the main goal of capturing Danyang, but his people had already fallen into passivity, so it was better to move closer to the Longsheng Brigade first, get rid of the passive situation and then make plans. This is not something that every arrogant Japanese officer can do.

When Kataoka Kakuji Nakasa returned back the same way, he was strongly stimulated again: the soldiers left behind were only **naked and castrated corpses! Moreover, this is the case for three consecutive strongholds. Instead of fear, the whole army went crazy! Kataoka Kakuji Nakasa understood that the stronghold in front of him could not escape the doom, and there was no need to return along the same road, so he turned directly to the west and moved closer to the Rising Brigade.

Kataoka Kakuji Nakasa's move was indeed unexpected by Liu Chenghai. Liu Chenghai had no choice but to order all the departments not to intercept the devil, because the devil was already in a state of madness, and Wu Mujun could not touch this mold! All the ministries need to do is follow and harass.

At this time, Kataoka Kakuji Nakasa went a lot better, burning and looting all the way to vent his anger. Along the way, the common people fell into bad luck. Fortunately, the Wumu military first arranged a lot of methods and places for them to hide and store grain, and the losses were much smaller than those when they retreated in the Battle of Songhu.

After Kataoka Kakuji Nakasa joined the Longsheng Brigade, he took a short rest, replenished supplies, gave up the food he had already grabbed, and killed Danyang with a horse gun!

Liu Chenghai was caught off guard again. Liu Chenghai's troops did not receive the order, and most of them blocked on the spot! Guarding brick kilns, lime kilns, and hidden fortifications to fight back and fight a blocking battle.

Kataoka Kakuji Nakasa gathered more than 3,000 people from two brigades, artillery squadrons, and transport brigades to attack Danyang, but was blocked by Liu Chenghai's department along the way, and killed more than 300 people, resulting in more than 200 seriously wounded, and finally attacked outside Danyang City.

Liu Chenghai received information from various departments, and also dispatched troops, placing the first battalion outside Danyang City, the second battalion followed the Devil Brigade, and the artillery company directly under the brigade was on standby, preparing to destroy the Devil Artillery Squadron and the artillery attached to the Devil Brigade in one fell swoop.

One of them came down, the devil called the plane to help in the battle, and Liu Chenghai suffered a lot of losses: the first battalion in the front was blown up by the devil's plane and the artillery platoon and 4 heavy machine gun positions, sacrificing a deputy battalion commander, a company commander, 3 platoon commanders, 11 squad leaders, and more than 300 casualties. The other battalion of the devils was killed and injured more than 100 people by the planes before they saw the devils, and in order to avoid the planes, they also delayed the time of the devils and did not arrive at the designated position until it was dark. Li Hu, the commander of the second battalion, couldn't swallow this breath, and after arriving at the designated position, he launched an attack without stopping.

Kataoka Kakuji Nakasa had already received information from the Air Force that he knew that there was an enemy attack in his rear, and arranged for two squadrons to protect his back. Helplessly, Li Hu's attack speed was too fast, and the soldiers of the second battalion, who had been bombed for a day, took all their grievances out on the devil infantry, and the two sides soon fell into a melee. Xu Jiguang, the commander of the first battalion, also took advantage of the situation to fight back. The two sides engaged in savage fighting in the night, with machine guns, rifles, pistols, submachine guns, bayonets, shovels and pickaxes, clubs, steel helmets, teeth, and ...... All the means of war and group fights are shown, tragic! Tragic! Tragic!

The difference is that Kataoka Kakuji Nakasa is within the war group, and Liu Chenghai is outside the war group, and he has a joint logistics battalion, an artillery company, a reconnaissance company, a guard platoon, a communications platoon, and other formed reserves.

Kataoka Kakuji Nakasa could not hold on, so he had to order a retreat to the south, and finally retreated 15 miles before dawn. Yoo Seung-hae's infantry battalion was also powerless to pursue. Liu Chenghai ordered the joint logistics battalion, artillery company, reconnaissance company, guard platoon, communications platoon, and other units to hurry up rescuing the wounded, cleaning up the battlefield, and urgently retreating to a safe area to prevent air raids by devils. It is not cost-effective to win a big victory, and it is not cost-effective to be found by the devil plane to make up for some back.

Kataoka Kakuji Nakasa was not relieved because Liu Chenghai gave up the pursuit, and militias from all over the country caught up and beat the water dogs. The devils burned, killed, looted and committed many atrocities in the war, and now the common people also have to pay off their blood debts. Shoot cold guns, kill soldiers, pick up equipment, and bite a lot of meat after the devil!

Kataoka Kakuji Nakasa finally took a breath, and while ordering the Keijo Brigade to quickly move closer to him, he reported the battle situation.

Major General Tezuka Province of the 35th Infantry Brigade received a report from Kataoka Kakuji Nakasa, and was so angry that he scolded: Kataoka Kakuji, a fool, didn't know to ask for help from the 22nd Cavalry Brigade of the mobile unit Koike Masaji Nakasa! If it weren't for his relatives, he would have apologized to the emperor by disembowelment!

In fact, the third major general of Tezuka Province wronged Kataoka Kakuji Nakasa, and Kataoka Kakuji Nakasa did ask for help from the 22nd Cavalry Brigade, but Koike Masaji Nakasa was targeted by Liu Chenghai's three battalions, and was attacked and harassed along the way, adding pits, mines, and tripping horses and delays for most of the night, and more than 30 casualties and more than 50 war horses.

Although the third major general of Tezuka Province is very realistic, he is also a person who wants to save face, and he can't take Danyang, let alone Jintan, Maoshan, and Jurong. He had no choice but to send Kataoka Kakuji Nakasa to lead the remnants of his 114th Infantry Wing with one and a half infantry brigades as a grain collection team, and all artillery was assigned to the command of the 124th Infantry Wing Wing Commander Koyoshimatsu Nakasa.

In this battle, the devils suffered more than 1,000 casualties, and 2 infantry brigades, transport brigades, transport squadrons, artillery squadrons, and artillery squads all suffered losses, with more than 80 carts, 4 Type 92 infantry guns, more than 50 war horses, and more than 400 other horses. Liu Chenghai's troops suffered more than 1,300 casualties, most of which were injured under the bombing of devil planes, but fortunately many were captured.

Kataoka Kakuji Nakasa was not angry, and the third major general of Tezuka Province could only rely on the commander of the 124th Infantry Wing, Kokobanyama Nakasa, to regain face.

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