Major General Masasaburo Kato, who was in charge of clearing the West Mountain, did use his troops well, and he first occupied the area of West Zhu and Zhang Zhu in the middle of the West Mountain, where the terrain was relatively gentle, which was convenient for the deployment of troops; It is also in the middle of the western mountains, and after deploying the troops, it can at least drive the Chinese army out of the mountainous area, so that the lazy and incompetent garrisons of Changxing and Guangde will have to participate in the battle to annihilate the Chinese army. The area of Xizhu and Zhangzhu is indeed the soft underbelly of Xishan, because the terrain here is gentle and the products are quite abundant, so the wounded soldier farm of Zhou Yanzi is placed here, raising a large number of ducks and rabbits, as well as many vegetables. Before the devil occupied Zhang Zhu, Tuesday Dog had already arranged for Zhou Dagou to lead people to help his father withdraw the wounded soldiers and many supplies to a nearby cave to hide, but he still lost a lot of fat ducks and fat rabbits.

Major General Masaburo Kanto divided the attacking force into three routes, starting from Zhangzhu in the middle and passing through Taihua, Guantangchong, and Baekhyeon, to Coal Mountain, the command center of the Wumu Army in the hinterland of Xishan; The right road goes straight to Coal Mountain from Xizhu through Hengjian, Xujia, Brick Bridge, Xinhang, and Dongkou; The left road starts from Zhangzhu, passes through Xiaoling, Huangni Mountain, Hufu, and goes straight to Coal Mountain; A cavalry squadron was ambushed on the small flat land on the first line of Erjie Mountain and Xiaopu, the main passage south of Coal Mountain; The two field artillery brigades had to wait for the war with the Chinese army, and after entangled the Chinese army, they would cross the rugged mountain road to prevent an ambush; Due to the inconvenience of command in the mountainous area, the radio station was assigned to the squadron. After everything is arranged, it depends on whether the Chinese army is willing to cooperate.

The first to engage the enemy were the right side of the devil and the third battalion of Xiang Qingyun's brigade.

As soon as the devil entered the mountain, he was targeted by the scouts of the third battalion. The devil sent many spearheads, wanting to climb the nearby mountain beam first and control the commanding heights, but none of the spearheads who entered the mountains and forests came back.

After losing 4 rifle squad soldiers, Koji Kudo, the leader of the devil brigade, came to his senses and immediately sent two squads to forcibly occupy the commanding heights on both sides and cover the passage of the brigade. This trick worked, and the Japanese quickly occupied the two hills, but the brigade was still unable to advance, because the mountain road and the roadside were densely packed with bamboo nails. The squad leader of the Devil's Front Team ordered Jun Cao and Cao Chang to cut the bamboo nails on the road with a war knife, and he also took the lead to clear the road. In this way, the leader of the devil squad took the lead in detonating the grenade under the bamboo nail, killing and injuring all the commanders of the squad, and sparing a few soldiers, and the soldiers who could lie down were also killed by the bamboo nails 5, 13 were seriously injured, 35 were lightly injured, and only 1 person in a squad of 54 people was not injured. A Chinese soldier didn't see it, and the devil lost two squads. But this is only the beginning of the disaster.

The bamboo nails are still endlessly strong on the mountain road ahead. Koji Kudo, who was in the middle of the team, rushed to the front of the team and was dumbfounded, he had never seen this kind of bamboo nail formation.

At this time, the snipers of the Wumu Army on the mountain also aimed at Koji Kudo, who was in the rank of Nakasa, and was resolutely stopped by Han Jinkui, the commander of the third battalion. Han Jinkui was afraid that if he killed the supreme commander of the devil at this time, the Japanese army would retreat, and in that case, many good programs prepared earlier would be in vain. I saw a devil raise his hand and throw out a grenade, blowing down a piece of bamboo nails. Han Jinkui was overjoyed, and Koji Kudo was also overjoyed. Han Jinkui is happy that the devils are one step closer to the ghost gate, and Kudo Koji is happy that he has found a way forward.

When the Kudo brigade threw all the grenades, the troops finally advanced 2 or 3 kilometers. Han Jinkui was a little distressed, so many grenades were ruined by devils! Koji Kudo was worried again, he didn't need so many grenades to move forward for such a short distance, and he really didn't know how to fight the battle in the future. That's when he remembered to report to his superiors, but the answer he got was: keep going! Koji Kudo wants to go to the bamboo nail formation by himself. At this time, the first devil who threw a grenade came forward and whispered again, and Koji Kudo shouted "Yo Department".

The devil pulled the infantry cannon up, removed the warhead, and then blocked the mouth of the shell with mud and sand, and then loaded the bullet and opened fire. Sure enough, pieces of bamboo nails were sprayed down! Han Jinkui was once again strongly distressed: Alas, the two infantry guns were destroyed again! When the devil used up all the shells, he threw the warhead as a grenade, and advanced less than 4 kilometers in total.

Han Jinkui finally gave the order to open fire. Machine guns, rifles, and submachine guns swept indiscriminately. Because of the limited number of grenades and shells, the devil only cleared part of the road surface, not to mention the bamboo nails on the side of the road. At this time, there was no place to lie down, so he could only shoot in a kneeling position, and the heavy machine gun did not have time to be set up, and basically became a live target.

In this way, a brigade of devils was wiped out before they reached the brick bridge, and the devil's right army was completely defeated.

Let's talk about the mid-lane devil led by Major General Shozaburo Kato. This way of the devil because of the short march route, so it was the last way in the battle sequence, and the road went smoothly, out of the mountain to the horn-shaped mountain junction, Shozaburo Kato breathed a sigh of relief, and then ordered to contact the other two roads, the result is that there is no news on the right road, and the left road is still 10 kilometers away. Shozaburo Kato decided to rest in place, wait for the left side, and continue to contact the right side. He didn't know yet that what was waiting for him was not the other two people, but Ke Hua's cannonballs!

Ke Hua didn't have the opportunity to participate in any battles in the previous stage, but this time it can be regarded as a catch, 18 Type 92 infantry guns and a 10-round rapid fire, wiped out nearly half of a brigade led by Masaburo Kato, and the two battalions of Li Haiyang's supplementary brigade took the opportunity to rush up again, and the devils quickly dispersed, and only Major General Masaburo Kato and a few others broke out of the encirclement.

The left army of the devil is the captain of the 103rd Wing, Yukikawa Kozo Osa, who is much luckier than the other two. When passing through the Koling mountain road, Hasegawa Kozo Osa first bombarded the mountain beams on both sides with infantry guns, and then the devils of the two squadrons attacked and advanced on the mountain beams, although they were resisted by the Shina army, suffered more than 100 casualties, and lost a heavy machine gun squad, but still rushed through the mountain pass and reached the open area around the lake. This is a densely populated area, and after they looted a number of cattle, sheep, chickens and ducks, they finally got some compensation.

After entering the mountain, Hasegawa Kozo Osa also encountered a bamboo nail formation, but he had a way to pull the stolen buffalo to pull the large tree trunk cut from the mountain to crush the road. It's a little slower, but it's going 2 or 3 kilometers. At the same time, Hasegawa Kozo Osa was not afraid of trouble, and sent two heavy machine gun squads to the mountain beam to cover.

When Liu Chenghai led his troops to attack, Hasegawa Kozo Osaku was in a much better situation than Kudo Koji, although his terrain was unfavorable, he could still shoot lying down, and there was heavy machine gun cover at the commanding heights, but Hasegawa Kozo still sent a report to Major General Shozaburo Kato in time, and when the other two roads could not be contacted, he decisively ordered the troops to retreat.

Hasegawa Kozo organized the soldiers to resist on the one hand, and sent people to drive the cattle, sheep, horses, donkeys and pigs with torches to drive the bamboo nail formations on both sides of the retreat, and then alternately covered the retreat, but the two heavy machine gun squads could not retreat back. Luckier than the other two, Hasegawa Kozo finally managed to keep the men and horses of nearly three squadrons.

Liu Chenghai couldn't hang his face. He had received a report of battle, and the other two roads had won a great victory, but he had only fought a crushing battle. So Liu Chenghai led the team to bite Hasegawa Yuzo tightly.

Yuzo Hasegawa withdrew from the mountains and let out a sigh of relief. He immediately ordered his troops to concentrate infantry guns, machine guns, and grenadiers to block the exit of the mountain road and block the pursuers. Then retreat to Zhang Zhu one by one. This time, Hasegawa Kozo did not take a detour to the Huangnishan mountain road, but went directly over the mountain and went straight to Zhang Zhu, anyway, he had no artillery and heavy machine guns, and only light infantry remained. This caught Liu Chenghai a little off guard, only one of the two chasing soldiers under his command could bite Hasegawa Kozo, and the other was left behind, Liu Chenghai didn't care about it, he didn't bring heavy firepower, anyway, he bit it first.

Hasegawa Kozo climbed over the mountain and happened to meet Major General Masasaburo Kato, who had escaped. Major General Masasaburo Kato did have the demeanor of a general, and although there were only more than 30 people left, he still rode on his horse and calmly commanded the blockade, and called for fire support from the field artillery brigade and the air force to give combat guidance.

When Liu Chenghai and his troops arrived, the devil had already built a position and was ready to fight a defensive battle. Liu Chenghai didn't care about that, and led people to rush directly to the devil's defensive position. At this time, the two sides were half-pounded and eighty-taels, and the devil had the advantage of numbers and defense, while Liu Chenghai's 3 or 40 submachine guns gave him an advantage in firepower. Both sides, neither heavily armed, began to fight to the death.

Forty minutes later, Yoo Seung-hae's reinforcements arrived. First, another company of the pursuing soldiers, and then the third battalion of the ambush on the front line of Xiaoling Huangnishan also arrived. At the same time, the two field artillery brigades of the devil were also set to shoot Zhu Yuan and fire! The devil's plane also rushed to join in the fun, because it was dark and only one wave of bombing was withdrawn! The battle on the ground is getting more and more lively.

It was dark, and there was a temporary truce between the two sides. Liu Chenghai ordered the troops to take turns to eat---- rice stew, chicken, duck, pork, mutton, beef, all kinds of meat, all of which were trophies left behind by the devils. The devil on the other side can only smell the meat and swallow saliva, who let them lose their provisions?

After dinner, Liu Chenghai arranged for a company to sneak attack the devils from different directions every half an hour, bring more grenades, and withdraw after the explosion; The rest of the troops were arranged to rest after the cordon.

In the middle of the night, the sneak attack troops came back to report that the devils were retreating overnight. Liu Chenghai was anxious when he heard it, and as soon as the devil withdrew, he was about to be bombed. Liu Chenghai hurriedly called the officers of all departments to organize a pursuit! However, the devil's heavy artillery had already smashed over, and although Liu Chenghai responded in time, he also lost nearly a company of troops, after all, the coverage of the devil's 24 field guns was very large.

Just as Shozaburo Kato was listening to the rumbling cannon and stealing fun, the scouts came to report, and the Shina army chased after him. Shozaburo Kato was taken aback, he thought that the pigs would definitely suffer heavy losses, and he wanted to wait for the artillery fire to stop and then counterattack, alas, the sky is not as good as the people! Shozaburo Kato had no choice but to command the battle. At this time, Hasegawa Kozo Osa asked Shozaburo Kato to retreat first on horseback to command the artillery to cooperate, and he would command the retreat. Shozaburo Kato was very moved, and with tears in his eyes, he retreated on horseback with a few guards.

Kozo Hasegawa commanded the troops to alternately cover the retreat of the artillery positions towards Nishigisa, but was blocked by another Shina army behind. This is Liu Chenghai's transfer of the last battalion responsible for Meishan's security, and he must completely annihilate this group of devils.

Hasegawa Yuzo was dumbfounded, in front of him were the chasing soldiers who killed the red eyes, and behind them were the neatly organized new forces, and the end of the annihilation of the whole army was just around the corner. He gritted his teeth and ordered all to attack in the northeast direction, and after breaking through, he retreated over the mountain to Yixing. The Japanese soldiers also knew the current situation and desperately fought in the northeast direction. And Hasegawa Kozo took a squad devil and two light machine guns and dived due south.

Poor Hasegawa Yuzo, he didn't expect that the three Japanese squadrons really rushed out, and nearly 400 people fled back to Yixing, while he himself was caught by a small force assisted by the flank.

Shozaburo Kato was more unlucky than Kozo Hasegawa. He returned to the artillery garrison and ordered the artillery wing commander Hidenosuke Yamada Nakasa to assemble all the soldiers except for the gun emplacements and form a brigade of more than 700 people to meet Yuzo Hasegawa. Then, leaning back on the chair of the artillery headquarters, he fell asleep. When he woke up, he was already a captive.

It turned out that after Zhou Dagou settled Zhou Yuzi's wounded soldiers and supplies, he held back in the cave for two days and two nights, and after receiving the battle report, he knew that Liu Chenghai was fighting with the devil nearby, so he wanted to intervene. Nearby was the devil's artillery position, and he had already reconnoitred it, so he took advantage of the night to sneak attack. They put on devil uniforms, lined up, and more than 100 people were divided into 10 squads, 50 meters away from each other, and infiltrated in batches. Just in time for Shozaburo Kato to gather his troops, there was chaos in the barracks, allowing them to swagger into the devil's artillery position. When Zhou Dagou saw that the lights were on in the village, he knew that there were "goods" there, and with a wave of his hand, all the teams moved closer to the village. When they entered the village, they stabbed people with bayonets, and before the devils could understand what was going on, they broke into the headquarters.

Zhou Dagou kicked open the courtyard door, and the people behind him threw 6 stunned bombs in one go. Then Zhou Dagou commanded his subordinates to divide into two teams in the courtyard, one team to seize the artillery position, and the other team to clear the devils in the village. Soon fierce gunfire rang out everywhere. In fact, there are still 8 or 900 devils, but I don't know that there are more than 100 of them, and Zhou Dagou is wearing devil uniforms, and each of them is a barge gun with fierce firepower, so the devil is dizzy and chaotic.

At this time, the devils who reinforced Hasegawa Kozo found that something had happened to the old nest and immediately returned to the army to rescue; Liu Chenghai's troops also rushed to the artillery position; The three troops were mixed together and made a mess. When Zhou Dagou heard the sound of the submachine gun, he immediately ordered his subordinates to take off their ghost uniforms to prevent accidental injuries, but he still accidentally injured more than a dozen brothers and killed two of them.

The artillery of the devils, of course, was no match for the infantry of the Wumu army, and they soon scattered and fled. At this time, it was dawn. Liu Chenghai hurriedly arranged for the troops to clean up the battlefield and organize a retreat, it was not fun for the devil's plane to come!

The devils rescued in Nanjing have already caught fire with Zhao Dahu's Wu Mujun and Chen Yi's New Fourth Army. The devil who rescued saw the rout under Shozaburo Kato and knew that Shozaburo Kato didn't need rescue anymore. As a result, it was no longer a ferocious attack, but a stalemate, and while the exchange of fire was about to leave, it was necessary to seize and contain the rout.

Zhao Dahu and Chen Yi naturally understood the devil's intentions, but they couldn't afford to eat the devil's rescue force, so they just took advantage of the situation to fight back a few times and make a little profit.

In fact, Shozaburo Kato was not completely wiped out at this time, and the cavalry wing of the 101st Division was still fighting the southern front of Coal Mountain. The Devil Cavalry Wing was ambushed in the bamboo forest on the first line of Liudong and Dushan, and was discovered by the Zhina patrol, so they simply set up a position in the mountain clearing, and the flat ground was the battlefield of the cavalry. But the Wu Mu army did not attack, but only used a dozen heavy machine guns and dozens of submachine guns to intercept the charge of the devil cavalry.

Two days later, the devils were no longer able to charge, more than 720 people were eliminated and more than 400 people were eliminated, and if they did not charge, they would not be beaten, so they could only hold on and wait for help. Wu Mujun was very righteous and threw them some cooked chickens and ducks every day. At first, the devil was afraid of poison and did not dare to eat it, so he let the wounded eat it first, and then ate it in batches when he saw that it was okay to eat it. The Wumu army on the mountain persuaded them to surrender, but they ignored them.

On the morning of the fourth day, the devils and horses all ran away. It turned out that Wu Zhen was familiar with horse nature, and sprinkled salt and sugar water on the grass not far from the Japanese war horses, and the devil's extremely tired war horse was naturally greedy, so he stole most of the devil's war horse. At this time, someone shouted in Japanese: "Japanese devils, if we can steal your horses, we can kill you!" It is not too much to kill you for the crimes you have committed in China, but our chief said that you still have parents, brothers and sisters, wives, and children, and they are waiting for you to come home! So, as long as you surrender your guns, we will let you go home! Otherwise, we will capture you alive and use your methods against the Chinese! ”

The devil cavalry looked at each other, and finally someone came out and surrendered, and then everyone surrendered. The mastermind of this operation is Wu Zhen of that ghost elf again!

The devils on the front line of Liyang and Maoshan also withdrew after containing some of the defeated troops. At this point, the battle of southern Jiangsu was over.

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