However, at a time when more than 4,000 little devils were resting in place because of the temporary loss of air support. The fighters who were sticking to the various blocking positions had already begun to assemble rapidly at the sound of orders from commanders at all levels. Because there was no reconnaissance and harassment by the planes, the speed of the soldiers' assembly was very fast, and in less than half an hour, nearly 4,000 soldiers of the two main regiments were already standing on their starting positions... Then, nearly 4,000 soldiers of the two main regiments, under the leadership of their respective regiment commanders, quickly disappeared into the dense forest. Four thousand warriors, with the help of the cover of the dense forest around them, quickly detoured to the two wings of the little devil... At this moment, after almost an hour of resolute resistance and attack by regiments and battalions, the army had directly lost more than 1,100 men, and the avant-garde wing was almost completely wiped out except for a few commanders. Then, in the process of skillfully blocking the second battalion, the army once again lost a reinforced squadron of nearly 300 men. Combined, the army directly lost more than 1,400 people in less than an hour, which is a quarter of the overall strength.

Even more important, before approaching the blocking positions of the Guards Brigade. The remaining thousands of remnants of the 109th Division directly lost several hundred troops under the combined attack of mines along the way and local guerrillas, local troops, and militia units. Coupled with the more than 1,400 people who had just been lost, at this moment, at the side of the division commander, Lieutenant General Shigemu Yamaoka, there were only about 4,000 people left. Moreover, these 4,000 troops did not have any heavy weapons, lacked ammunition, and their morale was very low.

Four thousand demoralized little devils, after getting the order to stand by in place. Ignoring the reprimands of the commanders around him, there was almost no discipline, and several people gathered in a heap, sat on the ground, and began to chat. And more soldiers are waiting for a pair of big eyes, motionless looking at the end of the road, thinking about whether their troops can break through today, and whether they can return to China smoothly and reunite with their families after the battle....

Four thousand troops, barely alert or disciplined, occupied less than two kilometers of the road. What's more, these little devils, except for some machine gun positions scattered around the troops, used to symbolize the guard, did not send any sentries and patrols.

And the 4,000 soldiers of the two main regiments of the guard brigade took advantage of this favorable vacancy to quickly shuttle through the dense forest on the two wings of the little devil and gallop towards their final destination... Finally, just twenty minutes later, the two main groups of two or three who were making a detour on the two flanks of the little devil finally converged once. Until this moment, the remaining 4,000 people of the army have been completely surrounded by the heavy troops of the guard brigade.

At the same time, the two main regiments completed the encirclement of the little devils on the road. Seeing that a few hundred meters away, there was hardly any vigilant little devil, and the two regiment commanders did not hesitate and immediately ordered the surrounding soldiers to shrink the encirclement. Reduce the contact distance between the enemy and our armies, and strive to kill the little devil by surprise when the battle starts. Under the cover of the dense forest, almost every soldier quietly climbed to a distance of almost 100 meters from the position of the army.

The black rifles and machine gun barrels, under the influence of the soldiers, through the dense weeds or leaves, aimed at all the machine gunners arranged in the outermost part of the army. One mortar after another, under the influence of the gunners, aimed the muzzles of the black holes at the places where the little devils gathered the most on the highway.

In a word, at this moment, there are nearly 4,000 fighters in the two main regiments of the Guard Brigade. They all held their breath and lay quietly opposite the little devil, looking at the little devil in front of them, waiting for the order to fire at the end.

However, at this moment, the little devil soldiers, who had fallen into the heavy siege of the guard brigade, did not notice anything. In particular, Lieutenant General Shigehou Yamaoka, the commander of the division, who was sitting in the middle of the entire unit, was quietly waiting for the arrival of aircraft reinforcements under the service of several orderlies. He didn't even think about his troops being surrounded by the Eighth Route Army.

Because he believed that the Eighth Route Army blocking in front of him was most likely a small force of the Eighth Route Army, and wanted to block his troops here, and then cooperate with the main force of the Eighth Route Army dozens of kilometers away to annihilate himself. However, according to the report of the Air Force, it will take at least ** hours for the Eighth Route Army behind him to arrive here. And ** hours later, his own 109th Division, perhaps already under the support of other imperial troops, successfully broke through... I looked at the sun that was almost overhead. Although the weather at this moment is not particularly hot. However, the division commander, Lieutenant General Shigehou Yamaoka, who was sitting on the ground, couldn't help but frown. Because he roughly calculated, an hour had almost reached since he ordered the troops to start resting until now. Thinking of this, the division commander turned to look at the division chief of staff Kuramoge, who was frowning and deep in thought at this moment, "Kuramo-kun, why hasn't our air support arrived yet?" Immediately send a telegram to inquire about the specific situation, is it wrong..."The division commander interrupted the chief of staff, who was deep in thought, and ordered angrily.

Seeing the division commander who was frowning, the chief of staff quickly reacted: "Hey, Your Excellency the division commander, I'll go right away..." However, just as he got up from the ground, a buzzing sound of the engine slowly reached his ears from far and near. Hearing the roar of the engine, those little devils sitting on the ground raised their heads and looked at the sky... In less than a few seconds, several black dots slowly appeared in everyone's field of vision.

"Yo Xi, Your Excellency the Division Commander, our air reinforcements have arrived, a total of nine planes..." The chief of staff hurriedly turned around and came to the front of the division commander and reported excitedly.

"Huh? Cang Maojun, it's time to make the Eighth Route Army pay the price. The chief of staff immediately ordered a bomber squad to bomb the Eighth Route Army in front of him in turn, destroying all surface positions on the position. At the same time, send a reinforced squadron of soldiers, and immediately after the bombardment is completed, launch an attack and occupy the position of the Eighth Route Army..."The division commander nodded with satisfaction, and then ordered..."Buzz... Woo woo... In less than a few minutes, nine planes, except for six planes, circled back and forth over the battlefield. Three light bombers, under the guidance of the ground forces, began to bomb the second battalion blocking position, which was already empty... Along with aerial bombs weighing tens of kilograms, explosions constantly occurred on the positions. The position, which had just been silent, was immediately covered by the smoke from the bomb explosion and the smoke and dust that rolled up. At the same time, the whole earth began to tremble in the sound of explosions... In the process of bombing, those little devils who were sitting on the highway and waiting for orders stood up from the ground one after another, stretched their necks, and looked at the position of the Eighth Route Army a few hundred meters away, which had completely fallen into a sea of fire. At this moment, except for more than two hundred little devils who are about to go to the battlefield and launch an attack, they have no time to enjoy this free fireworks. The rest of the little devils were completely attracted by this magnificent bombardment.

Just when the eyes of all the little devils were all focused on the blocking position of the second battalion. An order to prepare for the attack reached the ears of every warrior on the battlefield. Under the cover of the sound of violent explosions a few hundred meters away, the soldiers who had already lurked almost a hundred meters away from the garrison position of the Japanese army. Once again, I touched the position of the little devil, eighty meters, sixty meters, fifty meters... All the way to the range of grenade throwing, the little devils on the road, still did not find the troops of the Eighth Route Army that were already close at hand... Finally, when all the soldiers were lurking in place, the bombs brought by the three planes also all poured into the trench that was only a few hundred meters wide that day. And at the last moment, the bomb had just exploded, and the smoke on the position had not completely dissipated. A reinforced squadron of nearly 300 imp soldiers, under the cover of a dozen heavy machine guns, began to launch a new round of charge.

"Bang bang bang..."Just nearly three hundred little devils, who have just walked out of a distance of less than fifty meters... Three different gunshots easily penetrated the strafing sound of heavy machine guns and reached the ears of everyone on both sides of the battlefield. Three flares, at the command of the commander of the guard brigade Bruce Lee, were fired into the sky ... Looking at the three signal flares that exploded in the sky, the soldiers who had already been hidden to the point that they were only thirty meters away from the various machine gun positions of the Japanese army, immediately threw the grenades in their hands fiercely... Immediately, a dense explosion sounded around the little devils, and the only obstacle that stood in the way of the soldiers' charge was solved in this way... Just when the little devil in the encirclement was staring blankly at the machine gun positions around him that were constantly exploding, listening to the screams of his comrades before they died, and they were at a loss. A voice that they were particularly familiar with sounded on the huge battlefield, "Tick tock... Tick-tock..."More than a dozen trumpeters blew the charge horn in their hands at the same time.

"Comrades, kill with me...."Just when the sound of the charging horn began to echo on the battlefield, and the little devil still did not react from the explosion around him, a huge shout of killing immediately came from the surrounding woods. Through the smoke of gunpowder from the explosion of grenades around me, I vaguely saw groups of soldiers of the Eighth Route Army, under the command of their respective commanders, quickly interspersed with their own positions....

"Baga, the enemy is attacking, we are surrounded by the Eighth Route Army, Bage Yalu..." These little devils, who had already lost their sharpness and had almost no combat effectiveness, immediately began to yell and scream, scurrying back and forth on their positions, using them to vent their panic and worries in their hearts.

Of course, just when the little devils fell into temporary chaos under the fierce attack of the various units of the guard brigade. Lieutenant General Shigehou Yamaoka, the commander of the division who was located in the center of the entire unit, also discovered this serious problem: "Baga, I really didn't expect that there were so many Eighth Route Army hidden around us. Eight Geya Road, Cang Maojun, now that we are surrounded by heavy troops of the Eighth Route Army, it seems that our 109th Division is unable to escape this time..."

"Your Excellency, Division Commander, as long as you can break through safely, there is still hope for our 109th Division... Your Excellency, Division Commander, I request that our defensive circle be tightened immediately, and that the Eighth Route Army must not be allowed to mix with us. As long as we maintain a certain distance from the Eighth Route Army, we can successfully break through with the reinforcement of aircraft...."In the face of the increasingly serious situation around us, even the division commander lost his mind. The chief of staff, Kuramo Daisa, instead calmed down and said to the division commander with a rational suggestion.

"Yo Xi, Cang Maojun, now I order, the command of the troops will be handed over to you, and you will command the remaining troops of my 109th Division. I hope that the Kuraki Army can bring me an unexpected result, Kurashige-kun, the future of our 109th Division will be entrusted to you. "Seeing that in the face of such a bad situation, Kuramo Daisa, as the chief of staff of the division, was still able to maintain his sanity, and looked at himself who had lost his mind at this moment. The division commander commanded wisely to the chief of staff in front of him.

"Hey, thank you for your trust in the division commander, I will definitely not give the division commander the great trust to break through the encirclement of my 109th Division from the encirclement of the Eighth Route Army..."

Since he had the personal authorization of the division commander, the chief of staff, Kuramoge Daisa, did not hesitate any longer, and immediately began to issue an operational order according to the train of thought in his heart: "Order all the imperial troops on the periphery to resist on the spot, and not to retreat... Order the remaining troops of the 119th Wing and the 69th Wing in the center of the position to immediately build fortifications on the spot, and if they find the Imperial soldiers who dare to retreat, they will immediately open fire..."

As the teams rushed to the battlefield with machine guns, the little devils who were still in chaos just now immediately stopped. Under the command of the surrounding commanders with higher ranks than themselves, they began to build fortifications on the spot. At the same time, more than a thousand little devils on the periphery faced the wolf-like Eighth Route Army. At this moment, as if they had taken the wrong medicine, they were still in a panic just now, and immediately raised the weapons in their hands and launched a counter-charge against the various units of the Eighth Route Army... Under the backlash of more than a thousand little devils, the offensive of the fighters was immediately blocked. Nearly 4,000 soldiers, on the outlying positions, began to fight with more than 1,000 little devils... Although the strength of the warriors is more than twice that of the little devils. However, at this moment, although the little devils have lost their strength, they are fighting with the belief that they will die. Even before he died, he would detonate the grenade on his body and die with the surrounding Eighth Route Army.

As a result, on the battlefield of tragic hand-to-hand combat, the sound of grenade explosions continued to sound. And every explosion of a grenade, after all, will take the lives of several fighters ... Of course, the scene on the battlefield did not escape the eyes of those front-line commanders. Seeing the little devil who seemed to have gone crazy, every commander began to give new combat orders.

"The little devils are crazy, comrades, immediately distance yourself from the little devils, try to solve it with guns if you can solve it with guns, don't fight with bayonets..." It was still a fierce hand-to-hand combat battlefield just now, and immediately there were bursts of gunfire from barge guns... Commanders at all levels, armed with their own guns, began to shuttle back and forth on the battlefield. Seeing the little devil who was a threat to the fighters, he didn't hesitate and directly raised the shell gun in his hand... Finally, under the frantic blows of the two main regiments and nearly 100 shell guns, more than 1,000 little devils who were still very crazy just now, at this moment, there are less than a few hundred people left, and they are carrying out the final stubborn resistance... However, at this moment, an even greater challenge is in front of the two main regiments. In the tragic hand-to-hand combat just now, the soldiers not only paid a huge price in casualties, but more importantly, more than 3,000 soldiers were dragged by more than 1,000 little devils for ten minutes.

In just these ten minutes, the remaining more than 2,000 troops in the center of the battlefield had quickly assembled around the division commander under the command of Chief of Staff Kuramo Daisa. Relying on light and heavy machine guns, a ring of fortifications was quickly formed, blocking the fighters from a distance of 100 meters.

Just when the fighters eliminated more than a thousand little devils on the periphery and prepared to continue the attack. A dense rain of bullets shot out of the little devil's position. Dozens of soldiers who were at the forefront of the charge, without accident, fell on the way to the charge.

More importantly, at a time when the two armies of the enemy and our army were facing each other, the two main regiments on the periphery were preparing to draw mortars behind them and destroy all the heavy machine-gun fire on which the Japanese army depended. The six planes hovering in the air joined the battle at an inopportune time.

It turned out that all of this was from the hands of Kuramoge Daisa, the chief of staff of the Little Devil Division. As the temporary supreme commander of the division, the reason why he gave up the more than 1,000 imperial soldiers on the periphery was very clear, that is, to delay the pace of the Eighth Route Army's offensive, to avoid a scuffle between the enemy and our army, and to make it impossible for the planes in the sky to take up support.

And at this moment, his purpose has been achieved. The troops of the Eighth Route Army, which were several times their size, were blocked by their own temporary ring fortifications 100 meters away. Looking at the dense troops of the Eighth Route Army on the periphery, and seeing the more than 1,000 Imperial Army soldiers who were almost all killed, Chief of Staff Kuramo Dasa knew that the time had come for the plane to attack.

(To be continued)