Chaohu Lake.

Less than a moment after the command vehicle of Major General Kunizaki Noboru left the city, heavy snow fell in the sky, and after moving forward for less than five miles, Second Lieutenant Kateng Haruyoshi, a communications staff officer, ran panting and reported: "Your Excellency General, Yamada Daisa has sent an urgent telegram that a road bridge from Chaohu Lake to Hanshan has been damaged by the Zhina people, and I am requesting support from the engineer brigade. ”

"Yagayalu." Chief of Staff Yasuda Daisa said angrily, "The people of China are too unfriendly to the imperial army, and they are dead, dead, dead!" ”

"Yasuda-kun, don't be angry." Major General Kunizaki Noboru said calmly, "It's just a bridge, it can't stop the imperial army for too long, and soon our sappers will be able to repair it." ”

"Command." After saying that, Noboru Kunisaki said to Haruyoshi Kato, "The engineer brigade immediately rushed to the accident site and rushed to repair the bridge. ”

"Hello." Haruyoshi Kato suddenly retracted his feet and straightened up, and then turned around.

Major General Kunisaki Noboru saw the figure of the communications staff officer disappear, suddenly raised his head to the sky, and said quietly: "However, this sudden heavy snow is likely to bring great difficulties to our march. ”

………… Major General Noboru Kunisaki's fears eventually came true.

The goose feather snow has fallen for a whole day, and the entire southern Anhui Province has become a world of ice and snow in an instant, and the snow on the road from Chaohu Lake to Hanshan is knee-deep! The huge convoy of the Kunisaki detachment could only move cautiously and slowly along the ruts of the previous car, otherwise it would easily slide off the roadbed and roll over.

At night, the snow crushed by the car in front began to freeze, and there was no possibility of marching.

Even so, there are still problems along the way, or the truck's refrigerant has a problem and breaks down, or the truck's snow chain falls off, and the car turns sideways on the road, and a huge convoy, as long as one of the trucks or armored vehicles has a problem, the follow-up convoy can only stop and wait.

As a result, the speed of the march was greatly affected, and it was not even as fast as the speed of the infantry brigades.

It is only forty or fifty miles from Chaohu to Hanshan, and under normal circumstances, the Kunisaki detachment can arrive in more than an hour, but due to the fact that a bridge was blown up by a group of bandits on the way, coupled with the impact of snow on the road, the Kunisaki detachment finally walked for two days, and it was not until the evening of the next day that it drove into Hanshan County in embarrassment.

………… But that's all for later, so let's not mention it for now.

At the same time that the headquarters of the Kunisaki detachment left Chaohu and marched towards Hanshan, the 3rd Infantry Brigade of the 21st Wing, which was the vanguard, also marched from Hexian County under the leadership of Yanagida Nakasa, and went north along the road to Jiangpu Town.

………… The fertile Jiangzuo Plain has become a snowfield at this time.

The road leading from Hexian to Jiangpu has also been completely covered with thick snow, and if it weren't for the guardrails on both sides of the road, no one would have been able to find the exact location of the road.

On a gentle slope about four or five hundred meters from the road, there were three inconspicuous bumps on the smooth snow.

If you look closer, you will find that there are actually three big living people lying here, but the white cloth on their bodies blends well with the surrounding snow, so it is difficult to be found, these three people are of course Yue Weihan, as well as his guard company commander Hua Hanlin, and guard Tang Dashan.

As for the more than 100 fighters of the guard company, they were nervously digging roads and destroying bridges in the back at this time.

Of course, Yue Weihan and the three of them didn't do it themselves, anyway, they were idle, so they turned to the front to look at the wind.

On the road ahead, the devil's convoy could already be seen in the distance, Hua Hanlin took a breath of hot air into his hands that were about to freeze, and said to Tang Dashan: "Datang, can you blow up the mine modified with artillery shells?" ”

"It can be fried, of course it can be fried." Tang Dashan said, "In the northeast, I often steal shells and convert them into mines, and then secretly take them into the mountains to make traps. ”

"Just blow it." Hua Hanlin didn't believe it, "Just this broken grenade, can it really be made into a mine?" ”

"Isn't that a drop?" Seeing that Hua Hanlin didn't believe it, Tang Dashan hurriedly said, "The mine I modified is Keling, it doesn't matter if the black blind man is stepping on it, or the wild boar is arching, or the big tiger is biting, it will explode as soon as it is pleased!" ”

"Boom!" As soon as the words fell, there was a loud bang on the road ahead.

When Hua Hanlin and Tang Dashan looked up hurriedly, they saw that the three wheels on the side of the devil who were at the head had been overturned by the huge air wave generated by the explosion, and the three devils sitting on it were thrown out of the distance, and there was no movement after falling into the snow, and it was estimated that most of them were shocked to death by the shock wave.

The other two side three-wheeled vehicles, an armored car, and three large trucks that followed immediately stopped, and forty or fifty devil infantry in cotton coats jumped out of the truck with a scream, and after landing, they quickly scattered in all directions, each occupying a favorable position and starting to guard the scene.

Hua Hanlin instinctively clenched the Type 38 rifle wrapped in white cloth in his hand.

"Don't move." Yue Weihan lowered his voice and said, "These are all small minions, waiting for the big fish to come out of the hole." ”

After careful observation for a while, the devil did not find anything suspicious, so he used light machine guns to strafe the surrounding snow fields indiscriminately, which is the so-called fire reconnaissance.

The trick of fire reconnaissance is still very effective when used to deal with those guerrillas who know the Daomen armed forces or have just been formed, and they will jump up and run as soon as they sweep over, but if they are used to deal with the [***] elite of the Baoshan Regiment, it will be blind, Yue Weihan and they didn't pay attention to it at all, and let the little devils waste machine gun bullets.

The fire reconnaissance lasted for several minutes, and the little devil found that there was still no movement around, so he stopped shooting.

After a few more minutes, the closed door of the armored car finally opened, and a devil officer in a tweed army coat bent out of it.

More than 400 meters away, Yue Weihan and Hua Hanlin pulled the trigger almost at the same time!

Listening to the two gunshots, the second lieutenant was shot at the same time, and there were four more blood holes on the skull, two in the back of the head, the size of a goose egg!

Almost at the same time that Yue Weihan and Hua Hanlin pulled the trigger of their rifles, the crooked handle in Tang Dashan's hand also fired, and a long point shot over, and immediately swept down the three devil soldiers!

After a long point shot, Tang Dashan rolled sideways and slid down the gentle slope.

Long before Tang Dashan, Yue Weihan and Hua Hanlin had already gone downhill first.

When the retaliatory fire of the devil soldiers smashed the gentle slope into snow and scattered it, Yue Weihan and the others had already slid down the gentle slope and slipped into the ditch that had been explored at the bottom of the slope to escape.

The devil soldiers were obviously enraged, and immediately divided into two groups of infantry to chase after them.

Yue Weihan and the others didn't fight back, they just ran forward along the winding ditch, this place is still within the range of the little devil's armored car heavy machine gun, and the idiot will stay and fight the little devil! As long as the heavy machine gun is out of range, these dozen or so little devils dare to chase after them again, then Yue Weihan and they will no longer be polite.

However, Yue Weihan's wishful thinking ultimately failed.

The dozen or so little devils were very alert, and they only chased more than two hundred meters before they stopped chasing, obviously, they also felt that the three Chinese who sneaked up on the attack were difficult to deal with, and if they chased further, they would definitely have to suffer losses.

………… On the highway from Hexian County to Gangpo, the headquarters of the Yanagida Brigade.

Because the wheels of a baggage truck slipped and rolled over in the middle of the road, causing the entire marching convoy to stop, Yanagida Nakasa, who was hiding in the armored vehicle, was watching through the window as the soldiers were nervously loading and unloading supplies and rescuing the accident of the baggage truck, and Second Lieutenant Takeda, a communications staff officer, suddenly ran in a hurry to the armored vehicle.

"Sir, the Striker Team is in a hurry!" Second Lieutenant Takeda suddenly retracted his feet and stood upright.

Yanagida Nakasa returned the military salute and said, "Where has the forward team arrived?" ”

Second Lieutenant Takeda said: "The forward team has arrived in Qiaolin Township, but they were attacked by the special forces of the branch in Qiaolin Township, and Second Lieutenant Dongxiang was shattered on the spot. ”

"Baga Yalu, the special forces of China!?" Yanagida Nakasa's brows immediately frowned, "Your nonsense, how can the people of China have special forces?" ”

"Hello." Second Lieutenant Takeda bowed his head suddenly, and then straightened his feet again.

"Order, the Dongxiang squad stops advancing, the fourth squadron accelerates its march, and the two divisions converge before attacking forward!"

Yanagida Nakasa's military literacy is still quite good, from the fact that the Dongxiang team was ambushed, he basically judged that this branch army is not an ordinary branch of the army, this is likely to be the legendary branch of the Baoshan regiment, at this time to send a team as a forward, it would be a bit risky.

………… Jiangpu Town, southern suburbs.

In just half a day's effort, there were a lot of bunkers on the periphery of the regiment headquarters, these bunkers were large and small, round and square, the big ones could accommodate dozens of people, and the small ones could only accommodate two or three people! Moreover, these bunkers are all made of masonry and ash, and the surface is dark blue, which is quite unsightly on the plain white snowfield.

"Quick, quick, scatter the straw and sprinkle it with snow! Fast! ”

Liu Yi, the deputy of the regiment, is leading the soldiers of the guard company to build straw on the large and small pillboxes.

The main purpose of covering the straw is to confuse the devil reconnaissance plane in the sky, and this bunker is covered with straw and sprinkled with some snow, which is no different from the straw stacks on the field when viewed from the world.

Not far away, Zhao Xinyi, the war correspondent who declared, walked over accompanied by Liu Xin.

Zhao Xinyi said: "Liu Xin, there is still so much ash here, why don't you build more bunkers?" ”

"There's not enough manpower." Liu Xin sighed and said, "There are only more than 400 people in our guard company, and more than 100 people have been taken away from the regiment, and the rest have to dig trenches and repair bunkers, so where can we be busy." ”

"Not enough people?" Zhao Xinyi's beautiful eyes rolled, and suddenly said, "Or I have a way." ”

Liu Xin said in disbelief: "Xinyi, what can you do?" ”

Zhao Xinyi said: "Liu Xin, don't forget that I am from Pukou Town, and my uncle has some friendship with the mayor of Jiangpu Town, as long as the mayor is willing to come forward, he can recruit thousands of people." ”

"Thousands of people?" Liu Xin was surprised and said inexplicably, "That helped us a lot." ”

Zhao Xinyi said: "I'll go to the mayor, Liu Xin, you just wait for my good news." ”

(To be continued)