Time passed in a flash, and at about four o'clock in the morning, Shibata, who had been waiting for news from Takeuchi, had not given the order to break through for a long time, heard a message that made him jump to his feet.

His own reinforcements, that is, the reinforcement wing composed of the demobilized soldiers of the Shibata Wing, which Shibata himself relied on the most, took a fork in the road while marching in the mountains and got lost.

"Lost !!" Shibata tore the telegram to shreds in anger, and the rest of the officers in the command post, all of them had strange faces, but no one dared to squeak.

If someone else was the commander of this wing, Shibata would definitely ask the other party to commit suicide by caesarean section in minutes, and at such a critical moment, he even said that he had led the team to get lost, is this mocking the Imperial Japanese Army for not even knowing the road?

However, it's a pity that the identity of the other party is a little special, this person is Shibata's eldest brother-in-law, although there are many brothers and sisters in the Shibata family, but his father has more than one wife, but this sister was born to Shibata's mother, plus the eldest sister is like a mother, Shibata has been behind her sister since she was a child, and she grew up by her cooking. This eldest brother-in-law is also from a family of generals, but he has been in the army for nearly 30 years, and his position stopped at the rank of captain 20 years ago. Although the two families worked together to allow him to participate in the Goryeo War, and he also participated in the suppression of the Goryeo bandits in peacetime, so many opportunities could not make him go to the next level, which is already very telling in itself.

This time, I heard that a new team was going to be formed, and the eldest brother-in-law's family was also quite hard, from the twelve places, he got the title of a wing captain after passing five levels and six generals, and there was no way to let the other party's family Ding not be as prosperous as the Shibata family, and the eldest brother-in-law was such a lone seedling!

With the title, it's a matter of recruitment, Shibata's eldest sister read in Shibata's ear, and read it for a month, forcing Shibata to come forward to gather a lot of retired old subordinates, and fill in the eldest brother-in-law's wing, nominally two different wings, but in fact, they still listen to Shibata's dispatch, which can be regarded as a win-win situation for the two families. But in his heart, Shibata is not at ease with this "official N generation" eldest brother-in-law, more than 70% of the soldiers in the entire wing are from the Shibata Wing, and the remaining 30 are mostly "family members" from the eldest brother-in-law's family. In order to bring it to "gild", after entering China, in the event of a war, Shibata directly "invited" the other party to his command post, seized his command, and personally commanded. This time to besiege the Jinfeng coalition army, although it was already a pursuit battle, Shibata was still not at ease, and on the grounds that our army was outnumbered and the enemy army was outnumbered, he forcibly transferred it from Takeuchi's hands to his own vicinity in order to protect it. It's just a thousand calculations, but I didn't expect that this time the enemy didn't pinch the soft persimmons, and he picked the hard stubble of Shibata when he came, so that Shibata had to pull down his face and ask for help.

Hearing that his unreliable eldest brother-in-law had led the troops to the ditch, Shibata took a deep breath, loosened his white fist, and asked with a smile: "Since they are lost, then let them search in the direction where there are gunshots!" It's a little slower, but they're not going to give up on us, are they? ”

Hearing this, officers at all levels nodded one after another, although this eldest brother-in-law is unreliable, but he breaks his bones and tendons, no matter how difficult the situation is, he will not abandon the Shibata United. But the other team and Shibata United don't have such a deep friendship, "How is the Takayama United contact?" An hour ago, I said that I had moved closer to my department, and now what? Can't even hear a single gunshot, are they lost too? When Shibata said the last sentence, the chill in his tone could already penetrate into the bone marrow.

The Huaxia Task Force was a temporary patchwork team, and Takeuchi was also temporarily ordained, so the Japanese army from multiple units was not monolithic, and Shibata himself knew that he was unruly and had already made a name for himself. As a descendant of Takeuchi, the Takayama Wing was arranged on the side of the Shibata Wing, which actually had the meaning of supervising the army, otherwise if another team was sent to Shibata, then half of Takeuchi's team would be out of Takeuchi's control. Therefore, while the Gaoshan Wing is responsible for the logistics of the Shibata United, it is also a tight spell that Tang Seng gave to Sun Monkey. With such a relationship, you can imagine how "good" the relationship between Shibata and Takayama is.

"Still no news, it's been half an hour since the contact was interrupted!" An officer in charge of liaison replied respectfully.

"Urging again, urging continuously, in another ten minutes, if there is a call, notify me, if not, the rain is about to stop, and the sky is almost dawn. We don't have time to wait any longer, we have to break through right away. Otherwise, when the day dawns, we will be in the back of the enemy. Shibata said coldly, these words were not so much an order as for officers at all levels. There is no need to do any pre-war mobilization, and the corpses lying on the ground are the best pre-war declarations. The other party is not good, and if you don't get it right this time, you have to explain it in this foreign country, which is already the basic consensus of the Shibata Wing, up to Shibata, and down to ordinary soldiers.

Shibata listened to Takeuchi's orders and continued to do "bait" while preparing to break through. Takeuchi was not idle, as early as half an hour ago, the rain had just become lighter, when the headquarters of the Japanese Huaxia Task Force was still carrying out pre-war mobilization, and at the same time was preparing logistics materials to deal with a big battle, the Japanese cavalry wing had already carried half a day's rations of the whole army, set off in advance, and rushed to the defense line of the Shibata wing.

There is a saying that the ass determines the head. Unlike Shibata's own considerations, Takeuchi was more concerned with the layout of the entire campaign.

The number of Japanese troops was smaller than that of the Chinese army, and it was already in this situation long before Zhao Yun came. However, the Jin Feng coalition army, which had a large number of people, was beaten and lost their armor and had to rely on the mountainous terrain to support it. However, the Japanese army, which was relatively small, leisurely surrounded the majority with a few, and calmly laid a pocket to swallow the Chinese reinforcements. The passivity and initiative of the two sides are clear at a glance, of course, Takeuchi didn't know that Zhao Yun personally led the troops this time, otherwise even if the Huaxia side had 10,000 reinforcements outside, Takeuchi's plan still had a 60% chance of success. Of course, even if Zhao Yun's name is reported to Takeuchi now, it is estimated that Takeuchi does not know which green onion Zhao Yun is, Zhao Yun plays low-key, and plays too deeply, so that in China, many people's impression of Zhao Yun is still stuck in this capable businessman, or a capable businessman, the spokesperson of the outside world, and no one knows it abroad.

Faced with complete information asymmetry, Takeuchi drew a large circle near the white horse collar. From the headquarters of Takeuchi to the defense line of Shibata's wing, one in the north and the other in the south, the mountain road is tortuous, the ravines are vertical and horizontal, and the distance in a straight line is only seventy or eighty miles of mountain roads. The all-cavalry wing sent by Takeuchi had more than 500 people, which was the strongest mobile force in Takeuchi, and it took more than an hour for this wing to complete half of the journey.

Suddenly, the leading adjutant of the wing, Sato Nakasa, ordered to stop the march and rest on the spot, one of which was to consider that it was not far from the defense line of the Shibata wing, and he was afraid that he would appear in front of the enemy in a tired state all the way, which was a taboo for soldiers, although the Japanese army was full of contempt for the Chinese army, thinking that it was decided to fight a war, but this was a strategic contempt and a psychological advantage, and in terms of tactics, the Japanese army never underestimated the opponent. At the same time, Sato also needs to give the scouts a little time to provide first-hand information on the battlefield; Second, in order to wait for their two infantry wings to set off from the high mountains on both flanks of Shibata's wing, they had already received information from Shibata that the Chinese army was spread all over the mountains and fields, and there were many people, and it was not under the scale of the besieged Jinfeng coalition army, and there were two strong friendly armies composed of infantry, and the Japanese cavalry of only 500 people would be much more solid in their hearts. This is no longer the era when the cavalry is the king and hegemon, and Sato does not have the courage to command more than 100 cavalry to learn from Gan Xingba's night battalion of 10,000 people.

Taking advantage of the moment when the cavalry was feeding the war horses, Sato was staring at the map and pondering, striding towards him, Sato didn't need to look up, and he knew that he could get close to him without reporting, and the people who didn't stop the guards would be no one else except his left and right hands, Adjutant Koyama. "There is an open field ahead, and in an hour at the latest, we will go into battle with the opponent's Huaxia army, what do you think of this victory?" As the name suggests, the mountain man is tall and mighty among the Japanese, sitting on a dry stone, taking off his helmet, picking up a military kettle, and opening his mouth with his neck up. After a long while, he wiped his mouth, "As long as the Huaxia people are not stupid, they will definitely deploy defenses in this open field, do we rush over or bypass it?" Koyama pointed to a spot on the map and asked Sato for an answer.

In fact, in terms of kung fu immediately, the three Sato plus together are not Koyama's opponents, in order to learn equestrianism, Koyama once went to Mongolia alone to study under a pseudonym for six years, participated in the Mongolian war against Russia, and later his file was provided to Takeuchi by Tegaoke, which was transferred back by Takeuchi and assigned to Sato's men. Therefore, Sato also knew that he only had the advantage of occupying the family status and being the henchman of Takeshi, and in terms of cavalry tactics, he still had to consult the expert Oyama more.

"Our purpose is to rescue and sabotage, so we can ......still avoid it until we find the Shibata Wing or the leader of the other side," the two commanders of the Japanese cavalry wing were discussing and deducing the possible fierce battle when suddenly there was a rush to report.

Sato instructed the guards to put away the map and said in a deep voice, "Come here." ”

It was Sato's guard captain who came, but when he saw that he was holding a ball of dirt in his hand, his face was shocked: "Report to the co-captain, Fang Cai found some strange horseshoe prints on the mountain road......"

Xiaoshan stepped forward and stretched out his palm, and with a gesture, the horseshoe print was even bigger than his fan-like hand, and his face changed greatly: "This, this is really found on the mountain road?" ”

"Yes......"

"What's the pitch?"

"More than one meter two."

Koyama looked back, his eyes meeting Sato, and they saw the fear in each other's eyes.

"Assemble! Gather! Assemble the whole army! Koyama and Sato roared at the same time.