Overnight, Wang Sitong captured 5 strongholds of the devils, captured 3 heavy machine guns, 7 light machine guns, 12 grenadiers, and a number of other rifles, pistols, grenades and other weapons and ammunition, killed 67 devils, and captured 7.

Wang Sitong is a reasonable person, and he won't always eat one, so it's a bit excessive, so after handing over the seizure, he led people to Jingjiang.

In the northern suburbs of Jingjiang, there is a devil's military horse farm, which raises hundreds of war horses and more than 400 pack horses. Wang Sitong has long taken a fancy to this big fat meat. However, the three devil strongholds around the military horse farm surrounded the military horse farm tightly, which gave Wang Sitong a headache, and a large number of captured war horses and pack horses could not be placed.

Anxious to eat hot tofu, Wang Sitong asked Liu Chenghai to apply to Xishan for a horse training expert to help him control the horses, and at the same time turned to Jiang Xinzhou, a hundred miles to the east, where there was a heavy warehouse for the devil, and the guard company could not be idle.

This side is more tightly defended than the military horse farm in Jingjiang, a whole reinforced squadron is stationed in three turrets, each turret is connected by defensive positions, heavy machine guns, mortars are in a state of firing at any time, the periphery of deer, trenches, barbed wire, courtyard walls, bunkers are readily available, it is the most difficult bone that Wang Sitong has ever seen, because he has never fought a tough battle, and now he does not plan to attack.

In the evening, several large carts pulled the old wooden boxes from more than 100 meters in front of the devil's position, the devil knew that it was the beekeeper's cart, which was very common in this area, and was another livelihood for farmers in addition to farming, and it was also one of the important materials looted by the devils, because honey was not only sweet food, but also a raw material for medicine.

The devil stopped the convoy and forced the beekeeper to drive the cart into the turret. The beekeeper begged again and again, but the devil was unmoved, and the beekeeper had to obediently enter the turret.

Entering the turret, the devil took out the tools and utensils that had been prepared long ago, and ordered the beekeeper to extract honey, royal jelly, beehive, beeswax and other things on the spot.

A beekeeper gently kicked the wheel of the cart, the bees blew up the nest at once, and rushed towards the surrounding devils, several beekeepers hurriedly got into the ground of the cart, covered their heads and faces with fat clothes, and continued to kick the wheels to stimulate the bees, the devils became the target of the bees, and were stung by millions of bees to run around and run around, a few smart devils were in a hurry, put on gas masks and gloves, and other devils followed suit and ran to the positions and dormitories to get gas masks......

Several "beekeepers" continued to hide under the cart and "shiver", kicking the wheels to urge the bees to attack. With the protection of the gas mask, the devil is much better, and as the sky gradually gets dark, the bees slowly subside.

Wang Sitong, who was outside the stronghold, saw the opportunity and began to attack. Although the devil was very uncomfortable being disturbed by the bees, he still had the quality to enter the combat state as soon as the gun went off, and immediately entered the position to counterattack. The devils in the rush ignored a few "beekeepers". Several "beekeepers" lit the cigarette packets under the beehives, took advantage of the smoke to climb to the top of the turret, occupied the heavy machine gun position at the commanding height, and then threw grenades at the bottom of the turret in a hurry......

Wu Mujun outside the turret first used javelin thunder to destroy the devil's deer, barbed wire, and courtyard wall, and soon rushed into the turret, and took the turret inside and out.

The outer devil positions and the other two turrets began to fight back desperately, which no longer mattered. Wu Mujun put three mortars on the roof of the turret and fired 45 rounds of yellow phosphorus incendiary bombs at Jiang Xinzhou, and Jiang Xinzhou burst into flames.

Wu Mujun achieved his goal and evacuated the artillery tower under the cover of two heavy machine guns, and the soldiers in the cover also quietly withdrew after blowing up the heavy machine guns.

At the same time that Jiang Xinzhou was on fire, 4 small boats upstream of Jiang Xinzhou went down the river, taking advantage of the chaos to rush directly to Jiang Xinzhou, and 18 Qiguang submachine guns swept away when they saw the devil, and soon occupied Jiang Xinzhou.

A green bonfire was lit in Jiangxinzhou, and hundreds of large and small wooden boats docked upstream. The transport team on Jiangxinzhou will load the ship when it sees it, no matter what the materials are, just load them and go. The devils on both sides of the Yangtze River saw that Jiang Xinzhou was lost, and sent troops to seize it overnight. Seeing that the battle was getting bigger and bigger, Liu Chenghai ordered other troops to attack the position by the Devil River, and at the same time contacted Wan Zixiong in Jiangnan to contain the devils in Jiangnan.

At this time, Wan Zixiong had already entered the suburbs of Shanghai, and the Suzhou area was in charge of Li Jiakui. Li Jiakui has long had the heart of looking at the river, so that the Yangtze River in the north, the Nanjing-Shanghai Railway in the south, and the two transportation lines of the devil to eat, too fat, too beautiful, too fat! So his guerrillas have spread to the periphery of Changshu. After receiving Liu Chenghai's telegram, Li Jiakui immediately contacted the Xishan Command Center and informed him by radio that the Jiangnan guerrillas would attack the nearest target of the devils, and that they would not seek to capture or capture them, but only to contain the forces of the devils.

As the battle in the south of the Yangtze River became more and more intense, Wang Sitong organized troops to loot the supply base of the devil's Jiangxinzhou, and other troops of the Wumu Army downstream organized militia and ordinary people to receive supplies.

The devils on the Jiangbei position have been stumbling against Liu Chenghai's frontal attack, and Wang Sitong's back knife made the devils unable to support it anymore, and withdrew in the direction of Nantong, and encountered the Wumu army troops who received the supplies.

Liu Chenghai's battalion was responsible for receiving supplies, and when he saw the devils attacking, he organized a defense on the spot. The devil also thought that when he encountered an ambush, he also defended on the spot. The two sides were deadlocked for a while, and the commander of the first battalion understood that this was the devil who retreated in front, and he had no combat effectiveness, but once the battle started, it would definitely bring panic to the people transporting supplies, and it was not cost-effective, so it was better to wait until the supplies were finished.

The devil also saw the transport team behind Wu Mujun, but he didn't dare to attack, because his own strength was not enough for Wu Mujun to kill a charge, so he could only wait for the people to finish transporting supplies.

When all the supplies passed, the commander of the first battalion launched an attack on the devils, and found that the devils had jumped into the Yangtze River and fled along the river.

The devil suffered a big loss, believing that if Liu Chenghai became bigger in Jiangbei, the base area of the imperial army would be seriously infringed upon, and it might spread rapidly, so it was necessary to deal a major blow to the main force of Liu Chenghai's department to prevent it from becoming bigger and spreading. The devil also knows that it is impossible to eradicate the cunning Wu Mu army, as long as it can hit its main force and curb its development and growth, it will achieve its goal. Therefore, he ordered the Kanai Minglu Mixed Brigade, which had just been transferred from the Japanese mainland, to set out from Nantong to attack the Liu Chenghai Department in Jiangbei, cut off its base area, annihilate its main force, and weaken the strength of the anti-Japanese armed forces in Jiangbei.

At the same time, the horse taming expert sent by Xishan arrived at Liu Chenghai's brigade headquarters. Wu Zhen, the captain of the cavalry brigade, with more than a dozen company platoon leaders; Hu Zhaoyue, with the female soldiers she personally trained and Lu Qinghu's search team, are all experts in horse and dog training; I heard that there were more than 500 military horses, and these people wanted to come and join in the fun and lead some good horses back.

Liu Chenghai handed over Wang Sitong to Wu Zhen and Hu Zhaoyue, and arranged more important things by himself: distributing the seized guns and ammunition to various militia organizations, and stepping up efforts to improve combat effectiveness. The militia has received all kinds of training, and they are short of weapons and equipment, and now they have weapons, and they immediately ordered Liu Chenghai to have more troops of more than 6,000 people, according to the company system of each township or town, the platoon system of 3 or 5 villages, and the formation of 1 or 2 squads in each village, a total of 15 companies, 75 platoons, and 415 squads, and the entire three battalions and the troops directly under the brigade were all incorporated into the recruit battalion, and served as the commander of the squad platoon company, and the soldiers led by the commander of the three battalions were several times more than Liu Chenghai's first battalion, the second battalion, and the guard company combined, but the heavy weapons were not enough. 1 heavy machine gun per company, 1 light machine gun per platoon, 2 grenadiers, no Japanese-made grenades, all clay pot lime grenades, fortunately, the veterans invented a bamboo barrel of earth grenades, which can fire clay pot lime grenades, with a range of more than 100 meters, an average of two per class. It's just that these recruits have not been tested in actual combat, and they don't know to what extent their combat effectiveness has been.

Wu Zhen and Wang Sitong had a very unpleasant quarrel as soon as they met. Wu Zhen believes that he has a high military rank and should be responsible for overall command, Wang Sitong thinks that he is the local army, the master, and is responsible for the main task of breaking the enemy, Wu Zhen and others are only assisting in the handling of horses, both sides want to command each other, and no one obeys anyone.

Hu Zhaoyue stood up to play a round. Hu Zhaoyue has no position, but the wife of the commander-in-chief Zhao Dahu, the goddaughter of the general staff Zeng Qi, the commander-in-chief of the women's corps and the search team, is older than Wu Zhen in age and seniority, so her words still carry a lot of weight. She thought that she and Wu Zhen were here to assist Liu Chenghai, so they should be under the overall command of Wang Sitong, and Wu Zhen had no choice but to obey.

Wang Sitong first communicated with Hu Zhaoyue, Wu Zhen, and Lu Qinghu about the control plan for the horse herd, and then went back to formulate the battle plan, and then took it back to discuss with Hu Zhaoyue and others.

Wu Zhen, who fought with aura, couldn't help but feel ashamed when he saw Wang Sitong's meticulous battle plan, and willingly obeyed Wang Sitong's dispatch.

Wang Sitong brought in 6 mortars and launched an attack on 3 strongholds at the same time. Each stronghold was shelled with 2 mortars, 3 grenades and machine guns; Mortars with grenades, grenades with grenades mixed with faint bombs, the devils quickly lost their combat effectiveness and barely resisted.

The cavalry squad of the devils in the military horse farm rushed to help, and was entangled by more than a dozen cavalry elites led by Wu Zhen, Wu Zhen's shotgun prevailed, and the devil had to retreat to the range of the shotgun to shoot at Wu Zhen, but Wu Zhen was not inferior to the devil except for the shotgun.

At this time, they used wooden forks, guillotines, and bamboo poles to attack the remaining devil grooms and veterinarians, and broke through the fence to blast the horses out.

The female soldiers are all from the Lu family class, and they can ride horses, drive horses, and train horses, and Lu Qinghu's search team came to control the horses and retreat to the base area.

Seeing that something had happened in the racecourse, the devil cavalry hurriedly broke away from Wu Zhen's cavalry and chased after the horses. The women's and search teams can ride but not fight, so they throw their horses behind and let the devils rush into them.

There was also a group of vicious dogs in the herd, led by the golden lion and the golden tiger, who rushed out of the herd and pounced on the neck of the devil's war horse. The devil cavalry had never seen this situation, and was caught off guard and was completely wiped out by Wu Mujun's horse gun.

Wang Sitong took the stronghold, loaded the booty and transported it away, and then led people to rush into the military horse farm, and pulled away the forage, carts and a piece of application in the military horse farm.

The horses domesticated by the devils did not have saddles, and 11 of the captured horses of the devil cavalry were wounded, 13 were ridable, and the others were killed. The women's team used the saddle of the dead and wounded horses on the horses that were almost tamed, and finally rode on the war horses, and most of the search team could only ride horses without saddle horses.

After a while, Wang Sitong chased after the cart and gave the saddle and the saddle seized from the military horse farm to the search team, and the search team also prepared the saddle and horse, so it was much more comfortable to ride a horse.

Halfway through, after receiving Liu Chenghai's order, the Nantong devils came to clean up again, the horse herd is now a huge target and has no combat effectiveness, covered by the guard company, Wu Zhen and Hu Zhaoyue controlled the horse herd to retreat westward to the Liumaoer defense area.

Wang Sitong held a meeting with Wu Zhen and Hu Zhaoyue, agreed on a retreat plan, and retreated in the direction of Gaoyou Lake in Liu Mao'er step by step.

The Jinjing Mixed Brigade has 2 wings and 6 infantry brigades, and 1 brigade of artillery, cavalry, engineers, and baggage troops, totaling more than 10,000 people. Major General Kanai Meiroku did not underestimate the enemy, so he called the commander of the last liquidation unit, summed up the experience and the operational characteristics of the Wumu Army, and worked out a steady and steady combat plan: 4 infantry brigades were deployed in front to clear the armed forces of China; The artillery and cavalry in the rear followed the strategy, and there was an infantry brigade on each side of the artillery and cavalry, which served as a reserve to respond to all aspects of the troops; The brigade headquarters was located between the artillery and the cavalry; Engineers and baggage soldiers followed up with the team.

Liu Chenghai also issued a battle order: all troops should prepare enough dry food and evacuate the villages; All units are hidden in the field, try not to take the initiative to engage the enemy with the devil combat units, prepare more than 3 hidden positions, fight and withdraw quickly, do not clean up the battlefield, and do not fight entanglement battles; The devil's logistics, transport troops, supply depots, shelters, and rear hospitals can take the initiative to attack, but they must not be entangled; The company-level commanders listened to the radio throughout the day, waiting for the order to counterattack; The militia left behind in each village or town is to organize the people to conceal important property, food, and women, and may use a small amount of food and materials to appease the devils so that they do not harm the villagers, and if the devils do not seriously kill or injure the villagers, the militia must not resist or incite the villagers to resist......

The eradication of the devils was unusually "smooth", the farmers of China were very cooperative, stationed in the village, and the villagers took out food, chickens and ducks to cook for the imperial army, that is, they hid the flower girls, but the imperial army was not in the mood to think about the flower girls during the war; Occasional encounters with small rebel groups of the Chinese are also at the touch of a button, and they are not a problem; But the main forces of China could not be found......

In the first 4 days, the devil's troops advanced 60 kilometers, except that they did not find the main force of China, exchanged fire with the people of China 31 times, killed more than 50 militants in China, and suffered more than 80 casualties.

A number of weapons and ammunition were seized.

On the night of the fourth day, Kanai Akiro received a report that a squad of the baggage brigade was attacked, with more than 30 casualties, supplies were looted, and the troops of other baggage brigades also exchanged fire seven times; The engineer brigade was attacked and exchanged fire four times, with a total of more than 20 casualties......

During the day on the fifth day, the baggage brigade and the engineer brigade exchanged fire with the Chinese militants 21 times, with more than 150 casualties, and also killed more than 30 Chinese militants, and lost a batch of supplies, and the cavalry brigade engaged the enemy twice, killing 17 Chinese people, 13 casualties themselves, and 9 war horses.

On the night of the fifth day, Kanai Akiroku listened to the sound of gunfire all night, and the baggage brigade, the engineer brigade, the artillery brigade, the cavalry brigade, and the infantry brigade all exchanged fire, and all of them attacked the weak links such as the transport team, the artillery position, and the stables. Kanai Akiro understood that the Shina people had infiltrated his own front, and after a few days of concealment, the supplies of the Shina people were exhausted, so he couldn't bear to come out and attack his weakness. He immediately summoned his staff and staff officers to formulate contingency measures: the baggage brigade, the engineer brigade, and the artillery brigade compressed the formation and strengthened the defense; The two infantry brigades that were dragged behind surrounded them in the direction of the baggage brigade and the engineer brigade; The cavalry brigade, the four infantry brigades in front turned back and searched the rear, so as to clear the Chinese armed forces that had infiltrated the imperial army's line.

For a while, the battle became fierce, and the two sides scuffled together, unable to distinguish who surrounded whom and who attacked whom. The tactics of both sides are one attack and one retreat, one rigid and one soft. The devil is searching, attacking, the Wumu army is defending and retreating, the peripheral Wumu army is sneak attacking, pursuit, both sides have friendly forces to support each other, cross cooperation, the Wumu army is small in number and weak in firepower but familiar with the terrain, the devil has strong firepower and high quality soldiers, but the tactics are extremely unsuitable, in fact, the number of people goes to the devil's pure defense of the baggage soldiers, engineers, artillery, the devil is not superior, and the Wumu army retreats is not backward, in most cases it is sideways and forward, so after a day, the devil's combat range has not been reduced at all, but is getting bigger and bigger, because many Wu Mu troops interspersed and broke through to the outside line.

After a day of fierce fighting, the sky that both sides had been looking forward to finally got dark, and the exhausted soldiers on both sides were rested, and no one was able to fight again.

During the night, the companies of the Wumu Army received a radio from the General Headquarters, ordering all units to give full play to the role of mines. The company commanders could only shout "sweet potato" to the scattered troops, which was the code word of the Wu Mu army---- landmines.

On the 7th day, the devil found that there were mines on the roads and ridges, and they were porcelain pieces with lime, which hurt the flesh and eyes, and where there were no roads, such as small dirt bags, ditches, embankments, small puddles, old willow trees, and groves, there were hiding places for the people of China everywhere, and a grenade appeared from time to time, which was also the kind that hurt both flesh and eyes.

Kanai Minglu was depressed, as if he was caught in a spider's web, he couldn't tear it open or break free, and the supplies were almost consumed, and the people of China seemed to still have supplies, because the devil scouts found a lot of smelly and hard stools of the people, and what was even more terrifying was that there were still many troops in the periphery who infiltrated into the encirclement, and Kanai Minglu knew that with such consumption, the imperial army must be the one who suffered, and it was impossible for the Central China Dispatch Army to send more reinforcements, so he reported the situation and asked the Central China Dispatch Army to decide. Shunroku Hata had no choice but to encourage Kanai Akiroku that your unit has inflicted a lot of casualties on the Shina army, and to complete the set goal, you can gather the troops and withdraw, and you can give the final blow to the Shina army on the way!

As a result, Kanai Minglu gathered his troops overnight.

After daybreak, artillery shelled all "suspicious targets", including woods, ditches, dirt bags, everything where soldiers and troops could be hidden, as well as villages! Then the large force returned to Nantong by the same route.

The devil's move really caused great damage to Wu Mujun and the common people, and Kanai Minglu threw himself to the ground for the five bodies that Shunroku hata admired.

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