"Head, it's blown up, it's blown up, the bomb we planted went off" Liuzi looked excitedly at the large smoke rising in the direction of the train station, no need to guess that it was the Japanese puppet army who entered the train station and stepped on those bombs, it seems that everyone's thoughts were not in vain, and the Japanese puppet soldiers who came from the Maliang River can be regarded as a hit.

"Mom, see if you don't cry," the old cat spat out the straw pole in his mouth, pedaled his bicycle vigorously, and disappeared with his team at the turn of the avenue. When Luo Ying returned from Zhangwu County, he brought all the bicycles in Zhangwu County with a big car, and when he retreated from the railway station, Yu Dazhi left enough bicycles for the old cats, so that they could quickly catch up with the retreating army.

"What about our casualties?" Mitsui, who had been knocked out by the explosion, finally woke up, and the first thing he said when he woke up was to ask about the casualties of his adjutant's troops. When Mitsui woke up, the fire in the train station had not yet been extinguished, and the black corpses that had been burned were scattered and unrestrained, and the Japanese puppet soldiers who came from the Maliang River with Mitsui all looked miserable and lifeless, and the wounded soldiers just bandaged each other's wounds indiscriminately, and their mouths were still moaning.

"The Noda squad and the Nomura squad are all shattered, and the second brigade of the Imperial Alliance Army has also suffered more than half of the casualties" The adjutant's words made Mitsui feel sad in his heart, this has not yet fought with the Shina people, and this explosion and fire caused him to lose 10% of his soldiers. Mitsui, who was proud by nature, couldn't bear such a loss, and didn't wipe the stains on his face, so he turned over and got up, pulled out his command knife, and shouted to order the troops to be assembled, except for those wounded soldiers, and he would take the other Japanese puppet soldiers to pursue along the marks on the road.

When Mitsui was busy assembling troops, Zhao Zhi had almost arrived in the middle of Madian and Zhangwu County with a convoy of tanks and armored vehicles, and Luo Ying, who was driving the cart, and the mercenaries on bicycles were still far behind. It was not that Zhao Zhi did not wait for them, but that Zhao Zhi had a new plan -- he was going to ambush the Japanese puppet army coming from the Maliang River in the middle of the road. The reason why he would go first with the mechanized convoy was that Zhao Zhi needed to set up some cover at the ambush point, so that the Japanese puppet army that came in a hurry could not find the tanks and armored vehicles at a glance.

On the road from Zhangwu County to Madian, there is a place called Stone Beach, there is a stone bridge on Stone Beach that can cross large vehicles, Zhao Zhi's tanks and armored vehicles are nothing, and the tracked machinery can easily cross the river through the shallows. The stone beach is like a dividing ridge, and the flat plain terrain on this side of Madian is on the other side, while the dense trees and shrubs grow on the other side of Zhangwu County, which is just convenient for Zhao Zhi to hide tanks and armored vehicles.

Stone beach to Zhangwu County out of the side of the road is only 10 miles, is a place called Banqiao, Banqiao originally had a stone bridge, but after the river dried up for a long time, the local people also reclaimed the river beach into fertile land, and Banqiao, which came and went, gathered a lot of displaced people to gather into a small town. When Zhao Zhi rushed to Madian with the mercenaries, he took his hands to clean up the countless imperial alliance troops and militia groups in Banqiao, and now Zhao Zhi has to use this Banqiao again, so that the Japanese puppet army from the Maliang River thinks that he is leading people to attack Banqiao, so that they have no time to conduct terrain reconnaissance on the stone beach.

After getting more than a dozen mortars from the train station, the artillery commanded by Chekov became the most effective squad in Zhao Zhi's hands, a dozen mortars plus a salvo of those 50mm grenadiers, enough for Chekov to blow up the stone beach into a sea of fire, plus those machine guns on tanks and armored vehicles, the firepower in Zhao Zhi's hands was enough to make the Japanese puppet army pursuing him come and go. In order to achieve the goal of annihilating the enemy at Stone Beach, Zhao Zhi also specially ordered the sappers to plant a large amount of explosives at both ends of the Stone Beach Stone Bridge, preparing to give the Japanese puppet army another fire feast.

With the help of the bushes on the stone beach, Zhao Zhi lined up the tank armored vehicles and hid them on the river bank, and both the muzzle and the muzzle of the gun were aimed at the avenue on the other side of the stone beach. Chekov's artillerymen also repeatedly calculated and calibrated the shooting yuan, and when Luo Ying and the others drove the cart to the stone beach, Zhao Zhi's side had already made preparations, waiting for the Japanese puppet army from the Maliang River to appear.

It took only three hours for Luo Ying to cross the Stone Beach with a mighty convoy, and the scouts left behind by Yu Dazhi reported that the Japanese puppet army from the Maliang River had arrived only 10 miles away from the Stone Beach. "Let's start" Zhao Zhi waved his hand, and the two tanks that had been waiting for a long time rumbled and went straight to Banqiao, as the tanks passed over Banqiao, there were two mortars and a few grenadiers, Zhao Zhi wanted to lure the Japanese puppet army into being fooled, he had to show some momentum, otherwise all the arrangements on the stone beach would be in vain.

Zhao Zhi can now be said to be strong and strong, with sufficient ammunition, the mercenaries who have been killed and wounded and the mercenaries who have been transferred to escort the large convoy, and he still has more than 300 mercenaries and half a company of the Eighth Route Army, with a total number of about 400. Although this idea is not comparable to the Japanese puppet army rushed from the Maliang River, he not only has tanks and ironclad vehicles in his hands, but also a large number of machine gun groups and mortars.

"Open Fire" Provisional Commander Yan Wudao gave an order, and the two tanks that drove to the periphery of Banqiao opened fire together, and the shells fired by the tanks blew up a wasteland outside Banqiao into a cloud of gunsmoke, followed by a soldier of the Eighth Route Army who held a 38 rifle and fired indiscriminately at the stones on the ground without a single shot. The mercenaries brought by Yan Wudao were naturally to cope with errands, but the soldiers of the Eighth Route Army under Sun Jin attached great importance to this live-ammunition shooting.

The rumbling cannons and crackling shots in the direction of Banqiao were also heard by Mitsui and the others, and a squad of sharp soldiers under his command only roughly reconnoitred the somewhat suspicious stone beach, and then hurried straight to Banqiao, where the guns were ringing. "Your Excellency Nakasa, there is a small town called Banqiao in front, and the top soldiers found that a force of the Shina people was attacking Banqiao, and they had tanks and ironclad cars in their hands, which should have been stolen from the Madian Railway Station, so judging from this, they were the troops of the Shina people who attacked the railway station."