On the morning of the second day, after a night of ambush, many soldiers' clothes were wet with dew, fortunately, this day was a sunny day, the warm sun shone on the body, driving away the chill of the night, brigade commander Liu Hua couldn't help but sneez, stretched, came to the table made of bullet boxes, looked at the map, hoping to find some loopholes that still exist in some troops.

After looking at it for a long time, I found that there were no major loopholes, so I picked up the breakfast that was already cold and began to eat.

And the wing headquarters of the Kowloon Pass Army, the first captain Sakai Nakasa, was happily eating breakfast and drinking sake, because he had received a good task last night. "Sakai, as a university professor, was forced to join the army at the beginning of the Imperial Holy War, and because he had a good uncle, he let himself rise all the way, and Sakai, who had not gone through any major battles, went from a second lieutenant officer to the current Nakasa officer in a few years, although he has now become a captain, but as a professor, he still hates to fight, and has been avoiding until the frontal battlefield. When he told his uncle what he thought, he knew his surname very well, and did not criticize him, but used some connections to send him to a county town in China to serve as a garrison. You know, as the highest governor of the county, this is very oily, Sakai as a professor, although he is afraid of war, but it does not mean that he is not greedy for money, so he is very satisfied with the errand arranged by his uncle.

Sakai was thinking about how to loot money after he took office, and while drinking sake, a bottle of sake was soon at the bottom. After looking at the time, it was finally time for the troops to leave, so he sorted out his clothes and walked towards the stationing of the brigade, followed by his own ground orderlies.

When they came to the brigade station, the troops had finished their formations under the command of their respective squadron leaders, and were waiting for their own orders to set off, looking at the more than 1,000 people in front of them lined up in a neat phalanx, mortars, and heavy machine guns all mounted on mule horses, and six mountain guns neatly placed in front of the team, pulled by several mules, Sakai was full of confidence in his future at this time.

"Go" Sakai mounted his horse and shouted to the team in front of him, and soon, a squad of cavalry left first, followed by a squadron of soldiers, followed by a squadron of ammunition, supplies, heavy weapons, and finally followed by two squadrons of soldiers, one of whom was on guard as a rearguard, the standard formation of the army on the march.

Sakai rode a war horse, happily thinking about his destination, because Sakai was eager to see his future station, where he would serve, the march of the troops was very fast, in this way, it led to the avant-garde squad of cavalry many mountain beams have not been searched, the main force came over, the cavalry squad leader just began to remind his captain, but it attracted countless slaps, in the end, the cavalry squad leader was not even exempted from searching, just a simple fire reconnaissance, Then it gave the main forces a signal that everything was fine.

Sakai rode on a war horse, enjoying the scenery on the side of the road, and kept introducing to the staff officer next to him, soon, three hours passed, looking at the soldiers below who had obviously slowed down their pace, Sakai, who was in a good mood, did not get angry, but generously asked the soldiers to stop and rest for 10 minutes to continue to hurry, and this move was enthusiastically supported by the soldiers, which made Sakai feel even happier.

Ten minutes later, the troops continued on their way. It didn't take long for the Sakai Brigade to enter the field of vision of the cavalry company of the Reading Brigade, and at the same time, Liu Hua also knew that the Devil Sakai Brigade would enter the ambush circle in an hour, Liu Hua immediately issued a combat order through the field telephone and radio, and the soldiers who got the order were like taking stimulants, and the originally tired and lazy soldiers immediately concentrated on checking their guns and ammunition, and quickly got ready, staring at the road in the distance.

An hour passed quickly for the excited Sakai, but it was slow for the vulcanization to prepare for the battle. Finally, Liu Hua's telescope appeared in the devil's cavalry squad.

The cavalry squad leader did not show any vigilance in the face of the river valley in front of him, because there were many terrain better than here along the way, but there was still no enemy attack, let alone the river valley in front of him, still according to the custom, he ordered the machine gunner to shoot two shuttle bullets at the hill next to him, and when he saw that there was no reaction, he swaggered into the river valley.

Five minutes later, the cavalry squad had already walked out of the river valley, and the army brigade appeared in Liu Hua's telescope, looking from a distance, the entire marching army was like a long dragon, in front of it was a squadron of devils, and in the middle were hundreds of mules and horses carrying supplies and heavy weapons, Liu Hua counted them, and it happened to be six mountain cannons. "Political commissar, the devil has sent us the equipment of a mountain artillery company again!" Liu Hua said jokingly to the political commissar next to him.

Seeing that the political commissar was still carefully observing the marching columns of the Yue army, Liu Hua was embarrassed to continue, and also observed.

And just as Liu Hua spoke, the Yue army had already walked through a group of ambushed Fengju Village, and completely entered the pocket set up by the Reading Brigade, and now they were waiting for the heavy weapons of the Yue army to enter the river valley, and the battle could start.

"Brigade commander, the enemy's cavalry squad has already passed the position of the second regiment, if after the battle starts, the devil cavalry suddenly assaults behind the back of the second regiment, then the second regiment will definitely not be able to withstand it." The commissar, who had been holding a telescope, suddenly noticed a problem.

"Yes, political commissar, immediately concentrate the men and horses of the first company of the cavalry battalion, and after the troops attack, carry out an attack on the devil's cavalry squad, and must defeat the enemy's cavalry squad at one time, and then quickly assemble at the headquarters, and order the second cavalry company to quickly assemble outside the headquarters and stand by." Liu Hua immediately reflected, and at the same time, under the reminder of the political commissar, he wanted to use the assault force of the cavalry to give them a fatal blow when the enemy was struggling.

"Go and convey the order immediately, and do what the brigade commander wants." The political commissar also realized some meaning from Liu Hua's order.

Soon, a squadron in the vanguard of the enemy has entered the river valley, Chief of Staff Li Qing held the pistol in his hand tightly, his eyes stared at the army motionlessly, a squadron of the army was only less than 200 meters away, but when the enemy's first squadron walked in front of his eyes, Chief of Staff Li Qing found that his right hand holding the gun was all drenched with sweat, Li Qing took a deep breath and calmed his nervous mood. The enemy's baggage and heavy weapons slowly entered the river valley, and gradually the devils of a squadron following behind the baggage had already entered more than half. At the same time, the pistol in the chief of staff's hand also rang out, and a devil riding on a standing horse fell under his own gun.

The soldiers of the three regiments and the soldiers of the two battalions who received the order immediately let go, desperately scattering ammunition on the army in the river valley to kill and injure the devils in the river valley as much as possible. Because they knew that killing more devils in the river valley was the best help to the comrades who were guarding on both sides without terrain cover.

Since only half a squadron of infantry troops entered the river valley, and the rest were all the enemy's technical troops, in the face of such a troop deployment, most of the soldiers aimed at the soldiers of half a squadron behind the enemy, and all of a sudden, nearly a thousand rifles and machine guns all spit out tongues of fire and fired at half of the squadron, and the artillery company was even stronger, 16 mortars were all aimed at the devils of half of the squadron that had not entered the valley, when the devils saw that the artillery in the valley in front of them was hit by such fierce fire, As an excellent soldier of the Imperial Army, his first reaction was to rush forward and save the trapped Imperial Army, but when his squadron leader was about to give the order, 16 shells accurately fell among his remaining more than 100 soldiers, even if one shell took the lives of three Imperial soldiers, 16 shells suddenly cost half of the combat effectiveness of his soldiers, and the power of the shells was not what he estimated. The second squadron leader no longer had the courage to take his own soldiers to death, and hurriedly retreated with the remaining squad of soldiers to the third squadron of the rearguard.

Sakai Nakasa, the captain of the devil brigade who was riding leisurely on his war horse, was suddenly rolled under his horse under the sudden sound of gunfire, and when he raised his head, he had already seen gunfire and cannon sound everywhere in the river valley not far ahead, Sakai roughly estimated that in terms of the density of firepower, there were at least two regiments of troops ambushed in front, and they were also equipped with certain heavy weapons.

"Report to the captain of the group, the baggage squad in front, the artillery squadron, the heavy machine gun squadron, a squad of the second squadron was ambushed by the Shina troops, asking for reinforcements, the second squadron was attacked by Shina artillery fire and has now retreated." An ensign walked up to Sakai's side and said.

"Nani, how can there be a large number of Chinese soldiers here, how can it be?" Sakai asked in surprise. At this time, the squadron leader of the second squadron came to Sakai's side with the remaining soldiers of less than one squadron, and hurriedly asked: "Report to Your Excellency the captain, our unit has been subjected to heavy shelling, the troops have suffered serious losses, and the soldiers and artillery baggage of the squad are still in the valley, please send troops to rescue them quickly." ”

"Baga, you are stupid, there is such a fierce artillery fire, aren't we going to die. Ordered the troops to retreat quickly, retreat to the village they had just passed, and wait for reinforcements, and asked His Excellency the Wing Commander to send troops to support. When the captain heard his subordinates asking him to send troops to his death, he immediately shouted angrily.

"Hi" Hearing the captain's decision, the squadron leader of the third squadron immediately readily agreed, seeing that the squadron leader readily agreed with his opinion, Sakai nodded with satisfaction, and then ordered, "Send a report to the first squadron, asking the first squadron to prohibit the rescue of the soldiers in the river valley, immediately seize a position, and wait for help." After speaking, he turned around and wanted the soldiers of the third squadron behind him to chase, while the squadron leader of the second squadron looked back at his first squad that was still struggling, shook his head, and led his already incomplete squad to chase after the captain in the distance, because he knew that the captain's method was the best.

(To be continued)