For the 32nd Group Army's farewell, I hated Tuesday Dog and others for itching their teeth: these grandsons gave up the Maoshan position to the devils without saying a word, so that Jintan, Liyang, Lishui and even Xishan were threatened!

So, on Tuesday, the dog dispatched troops to block the attack of the devils, and reported to the Military Commission: [***] The 32nd Group Army fled without a fight, lost its division and lost its territory, and fell into a dangerous situation in the defense area of the Southern Jiangsu Garrison Command.

The Military Commission replied: The war is imminent, regardless of the merits and demerits for the time being, and the Military Commission will have its own fair judgment after the war, and everything should be based on the overall situation of the War of Resistance.

On Tuesday, the dog didn't expect a "fair judgment" from the Military Commission, and sending a telegram was just a mess for the Military Commission, anyway, if you don't make trouble for it, it will make trouble for you! It's up to you to regain lost ground!

Fortunately, Zhao Dahu and Xiang Qingyun had already planned the reception plan after the withdrawal of [***], so as soon as they received the news of [***] withdrawal, they immediately took pre-prepared countermeasures: the Changzhou garrison brigade guarding between Taihu Lake and Zhuhu Lake monitored the devils in the direction of Changzhou, and the sailor brigade monitored the devils in Wuxi, ready to defend and counterattack or take the initiative to attack at any time; The Baohua Mountain River Defense Brigade guarding between Zhuhu Lake and Changdang Lake quickly occupied the positions on the periphery of Jintan and launched a feint attack on Danyang; The Zhenjiang garrison brigade guarding between Changdang Lake and Maoshan seized the Maoshan position and held it; The Jintan Garrison Battalion actively organized the militia to prepare to provide reinforcements and logistical support for the Baohuashan Garrison Brigade and the Zhenjiang Garrison Brigade; The cavalry brigade quickly occupied the hilly area of the southern section of Maoshan Mountain; The artillery brigade sent 2 infantry artillery battalions to urgently reinforce the Zhenjiang garrison brigade; The teaching brigade was stationed in Liyang to stand by; Other units were brought to combat readiness.

Sure enough, the devils also quickly sent troops to seize the [***] position, and they were evenly divided with the Wu Mu army and occupied a part of the position. Due to the haste of the incident and the lack of preparation on both sides, there was no large-scale fighting, but the stalemate between the existing positions was maintained.

Zhao Dahu adjusted his deployment again, transferred the special operations brigade to Maoshan with the Zhenjiang garrison brigade, and launched an attack on the enemy in Maoshan with two infantry artillery battalions to provide fire cover; At the same time, the brigade was instructed to take over the southern section of Maoshan from the cavalry brigade, and the cavalry brigade launched an attack to the west of Maoshan Mountain, forming an encirclement and flanking attack on the enemy at Maoshan.

On the one hand, the devils were in a hurry and were not well prepared, and on the other hand, the large troops were transferred to the third theater of operations, and the troops were insufficient, so they were quickly driven out of Maoshan.

Therefore, Zhao Dahu ordered Wang Laodun's engineer detachment to send a unit to urgently consolidate the fortifications and positions for Maoshan, and at the same time, Zeng Qi and Jin Manlou came to command.

Although the Zhenjiang garrison brigade was evacuated from Zhenjiang, it did not experience any hard fighting, it was the smallest loss among the troops, the most complete combat strength of a unit, the original team of more than 2,000 people still had more than 1,600 people left, in view of Maoshan being at the forefront of the enemy, Zeng Qi added more than 2,000 militia to the Zhenjiang garrison brigade, so that it reached 4,000 people. However, most of the militia equipment is a miscellaneous rifle: Zhongcheng, Hanyang-made, old sleeves, and even "Ying-77" (Lee-Enfield rifle), the original Mauser 98K, these guns and ammunition are massive, most of the barrels are aging, many rifles are rifled, and the range cannot be guaranteed, let alone shooting accuracy, but the Wu Mujun does not have much gun reserves.

Zeng Qi had a way to get a batch of guns and grenades from Shu Jintang and convert them into Hanyang-made and old-fashioned sleeves, and change a large number of Hanyang-made and old-fashioned sleeves into special gun-grenade launchers, and there was no problem with the supply of medium-formal, 98k ammunition with better condition, so he continued to use them.

Before the Zhenjiang garrison brigade finished changing its clothes, and Wang Laodun's fortifications were not completed, the devils attacked again.

It turned out that Sawada Shigeru thought that Maoshan was of great significance to the threat to the base area in southern Jiangsu, so he hurriedly dispatched a detachment of troops to attack Maoshan in an attempt to recapture Maoshan and deter the Wumu army.

The leader of the devil detachment, Suzuki Jiulin, was really unlucky, he didn't catch up with the regular army of China, and was only sent to fight against the miscellaneous army, but fortunately, Commander Sawada Shigeru still looked down on these people, and actually sent him 3 infantry brigades, 1 mountain artillery brigade, one engineer brigade, one transport brigade, and each infantry squadron also strengthened 1 flat-fire gun, 1 mortar, 1 heavy machine gun, there are more than 4,000 people, so as long as you take Maoshan this projectile land, you will have no problem with Major General Dazuo.

Soon, Suzuki Daisa knew that this major general was not so easy to rise: the troops came to report, the roads were flooded by the river, it was difficult for the infantry to march, and the baggage was almost impossible to pass. Suzuki Osa finally knew why Commander Shigeru Sawada sent him an engineer brigade.

Another subordinate came down to report that there were mines on the road and asked for sapper support!

The sappers came to report that the mines were all porcelain, and mine detectors could not detect mines!

Suzuki had a way to order people to unload the stone mill from the surrounding village and use long poles to advance, although many long poles were blown up by mines and some soldiers were lost, but he was finally able to advance.

When the Suzuki detachment reached the foot of Mount Mao, it lost more than 200 people, and when it was about to deploy the troops, it was discovered that there were denser minefields around, and there were people shooting cold guns behind the minefields.

Suzuki Daisa, who was going to go crazy, hurriedly ordered the troops to retreat, and then waited for the artillery brigade to catch up and blow up the offensive channel with artillery. Suzuki Osa didn't know that his ancestors had already used this method, and as a result, he still became a martyr.

Suzuki Jiulin was still plotted. The distance he controlled was 1,000 meters away from the position of the Wu Mu army, far beyond the range of the rifle, and the threat of machine gun fire was minimal, but he forgot that the Wu Mu army had many artillery.

Dozens of infantry guns fired three salvos, blowing up the Devil's vanguard infantry unit to pieces, and after losing 4 or 500 people, Suzuki Jiulin had to retreat his troops back to 3,000 meters away.

The disaster of Suzuki Kurin's is not over. The artillery brigade called, was attacked by the Chinese cavalry, asked for reinforcements!

It turned out that Xu Jiguang led the cavalry brigade to outflank the devils, and happened to collide with the devil's artillery brigade. In order to avoid the artillery bombardment of the devils, Xu Jiguang ordered the cavalry charging company to immediately enter the attack to prevent the devils from firing artillery, and the fire company quickly set up artillery and placed heavy machine guns to carry out fire strikes on the devils.

The Devil Artillery Brigade is equipped with 75mm mountain guns and field guns, which are relatively cumbersome, and there is no time to set up guns, so they can only be blocked by guard troops.

As soon as the mortar of the cavalry brigade sounded, the cavalry charging company quickly moved out of the front and spread out towards the two flanks of the devil. The front was ceded to heavy machine guns, anti-aircraft guns, mortars.

The devil still has a certain combat quality, and although he was attacked by surprise, he still quickly formed a defensive formation to support it. In addition, there are nearly 700 people in an artillery brigade of the devils, in addition to artillery, there is also a reading transport system, a security system, and is equipped with automatic weapons such as light machine guns, and the firepower is not too weak, and there are trucks as bunkers. Therefore, the cavalry brigade failed to take the devil artillery brigade in one fell swoop in the first round of attack, but only blew up 4 mountain guns and some ammunition, killing and wounding 100 devils.

Just as Xu Jiguang was about to launch the second round of attack, the captain of the devil artillery brigade was in a hurry, and led the truck to pull the artillery out of the encirclement and move closer to the devil infantry.

Therefore, the anti-aircraft guns, mortars, and heavy machine guns of the cavalry brigade launched a round of slaughtering fire attacks on the covering troops of the devils and quickly retreated to prevent the devil's artillery from counterattacking; The cavalry charging company cleaned up the battlefield and quickly withdrew from the battlefield after capturing a batch of shells, guns and ammunition.

Suzuki Osa learned that the artillery brigade had been attacked, so he had to ask the aircraft for operational guidance.

Maoshan's air defense measures have not yet been deployed, but fortunately, there are still dense trees as cover, but the huge bomb explosion has brought a lot of panic to a large number of recruits, and the veterans have no choice but to organize and counsel the recruits on the spot to carry out air defense techniques and tactics such as concealment and lying down.

The devil planes mainly destroyed the minefields on the periphery of Maoshan Mountain, and it seemed that it was not wise or cost-effective to bombard the dense mountains, just to deter the defenders of China. The actual effect was that both sides took what they needed: the devils destroyed the minefield defense positions of the Wu Mu army, and at the same time, the huge craters provided a lot of cover for the attacking devils, and the Wu Mu army gave the recruits an experiential training in air defense and anti-bombing shelling, while the veterans also aimed a large number of guns and grenades at the craters.

The devil artillery brigade finally arrived at the front line, which made Suzuki Osa overjoyed, originally thought that the artillery brigade would be wiped out, but he didn't expect to save most of the artillery and nearly half of the shells, which increased the chances of victory for the Suzuki detachment out of thin air.

While Suzuki Osa ordered the artillery to hurry up and build a position, he also commanded the infantry to launch an attack, first occupying the offensive position composed of a large number of craters.

For a time, hundreds of huge craters were full of devil soldiers, each crater was as little as 3 or 4, and as many as 7 or 8 devils. The captain of the Suzuki detachment became proud again: It seems that the people of China still lack tactical literacy, so they let me occupy the offensive position so easily.

Suddenly, a cannon fire was heard, followed by thousands of grenades flying towards the craters, followed by another round of grenade bombardment a few seconds later.

In less than a minute, the Suzuki detachment suffered more than 1,000 casualties. The commander of the Suzuki detachment collapsed directly, and under the command of the chief of staff, on the one hand, he asked for a retreat or for reinforcements, and on the other hand, he asked for a large number of ambulance teams and medicines, because the bombardment of the Shina people caused a large number of wounded, and the number of casualties was not many, and on the other hand, he organized personnel to ambulate the wounded on the front line.

When the devils were ambulating the wounded, Wu Mujun's side rang out sparse gunshots, and the ambulances who killed the devils were not dense, but they almost bit the flesh, and the rescue work had to stop. At night, the devils secretly rescued the wounded, but many of them were incurable.

The next day cleared, the devil's reinforcements arrived, there was a brigade of devil infantry and a mixed brigade of the puppet army, and there were also 4 mountain artillery of the devil, and the puppet army also had 6 mountain artillery, 10 mountain artillery were added at once, plus the original 8 mountain artillery, there were 18 mountain artillery.

The devils who suffered losses no longer cared whether it was cost-effective or not, and bombed the deep positions of the Maoshan defenders with 8 bombers, and then covered by mountain artillery fire, and the devils and puppet troops of the brigade poured into Maoshan.

Jin Manlou has his own plans to let the devil into the mountain. There are tens of thousands of devils, 7 or 8,000 infantry, and only more than 4,000 of them. If you let the devil enter the mountain, as long as your troops hold the commanding heights, intersections and other favorable terrain, the devils will have to besiege at least 3 times the number of troops, so the devils will not have enough troops.

Sure enough, on a hill occupied by an infantry squad of the Zhenjiang Garrison Brigade, 3 light machine guns, 6 formal rifles, and 6 Hanyangzao, which acted as gun grenade launchers, firmly controlled the fork in the mountain road: the rifle sniped the devil commander, Jun Cao, and Cao Chang, and the gun grenade bombarded the devil grenadier and the infantry, and the smoke of the gun grenade blocked the view of the devil machine gun. In half a day, 2 squads of devils were disabled, until the devils were transferred to mortars. Because of the dense trees on the mountain, the mortar bombardment effect was not ideal, and the shells were blocked by the trees, causing accidental injuries, until it was dark, and a squadron of devils and 1 mortar failed to advance half a step under the block of a squad.

The other squad was more unlucky, they encountered the devil's anti-aircraft guns. Two of the three light machine guns were quickly blown up, two grenades were also blown up, and seven casualties were lost, but the seven soldiers still kept moving their positions, sniping the devil soldiers, and finally had to put the devil close and kill and wound the devil with grenades. After killing and wounding 4 or 50 devils, they had to withdraw from their positions.

There is also a squad with only 2 veterans, the others are all recruits, but very smart. Because the position was relatively backward and there was enough time, a bamboo skewer mine array was built using the branches on the mountain, and the mountain road was full of wooden skewers, and there were tripping thunderbolts made of grenades in the grass and branches. It is still difficult for the devil to march in the face of the bamboo stick mine array, and he can only become the target of the soldiers of the Wumu army......

At the intersection of a major road, there was a platoon of Jin Manlou, and the devils also transferred 1 flat-fire gun and 1 mortar, and after fierce fire from both sides, Wu Mujun was left with only sparse rifle shooting, light and heavy machine guns, and gun grenades were extinguished.

So the devil launched an attack in high spirits. Wu Mujun took advantage of the terrain and repelled the devil's attack with a large number of stones.

Seeing that Wu Mu's army was running out of ammunition and food, the devil concentrated all his forces to attack. A group of devils rushed up screaming, and the Wumu army position threw down a large number of grenades, blowing down the devils in pieces, and at the same time, the light and heavy machine guns swept towards the devil's flat-fire artillery position, killing all the devil artillery, and the artillery was actually scattered by the dense rain of bullets.

After attacking Maoshan for three days, the Suzuki detachment only advanced more than 1,000 meters at the farthest point, but lost more than 2,000 people, and Suzuki Osa couldn't hold it and asked for reinforcements again.

Sawada Shigeru really had no troops to send, so he had to order Suzuki to withdraw from the hinterland of Maoshan and only blockade Maoshan on the periphery to prevent the Wumu army from further expanding in the direction of Nanjing.

Suzuki Daisaku was granted amnesty and hurriedly ordered a retreat. However, Wu Mujun was not yet addicted and didn't want the devils to withdraw easily.

It turned out that Jin Manlou had saved a large number of troops through the tactics of luring wolves into the house, and most of the reserve troops had not yet been put into use.

Zhao Dahu ordered the cavalry brigade to attack again, flanking the devil's rearguard troops, and at the same time authorized the Zhenjiang garrison brigade to launch a counterattack.

As a result, Xu Jiguang's cavalry brigade once again covered the rear of the devil, and at the same time, the troops in Maoshan counterattacked.

As soon as the rear of the Suzuki detachment was in chaos, Jin Manlou issued an order to counterattack. The units attacked alternately with grenades, light machine guns, and submachine guns, and riflemen interspersed with sniper officers, non-commissioned officers, grenadiers, and machine gunners.

The Suzuki detachment was defeated, and the retreat was uncontrollable, and it was not until it was supported by the rear stronghold that it stabilized its position.

Wu Mu's army won a complete victory, but Zhao Dahu ordered the troops to quickly close the battle line, the cavalry brigade returned to the southern section of Maoshan in the original defensive area, and the Zhenjiang garrison brigade retreated to Maoshan and only built a position on the periphery of Maoshan to consolidate the garrison fortifications.

The leaders of the various departments can't figure it out, they finally occupy so much territory, and it's too unjust to give up!

At the battle summary meeting, Zeng Qi scolded the complaining officer with a loud voice: "You know a fart!" So much territory? Those places are all flat land, how to keep them? Repair fortifications, build turrets? How many manpower and troops do you need? It may not be able to hold it, so what are we doing with it? The solid territory is your own, understand? ”

"Then it's for nothing?" Xu Jiguang was still not convinced.

"Who said it was for nothing?" Jin Manlou understood, "If we can't keep it, the devil can hold it?" If the devil dares to enter, let's clean him up! We don't want it, and the devil doesn't want it! ”

Zeng Qi nodded approvingly and reprimanded Xu Jiguang: "Look, look, the captain and the captain are not the same, you are a horse charge!" How long will you grow your brain in the future! Go to the Military Industry Department to get supplies, Shu Jintang has allocated you new equipment! ”

Xu Jiguang ran away happily, and Jin Manlou quit: "Captain, don't bring such a playful person, Xu Jiguang received new equipment after being scolded, and sent me away with a word of praise?" ”

"You consolidate the garrison first, and the equipment will be talked about in a few days, stingy!" Zeng Qi replied vaguely and walked away with his hands behind his back. (To be continued.) )