Early in the morning of April 10, the 1st Brigade of the 31st Brigade of the 10th Brigade left Dedu as the forward unit of the West Road, and took a car along the road towards the county seat of Sunwu County.

Orida Shaosa is a calm soldier, not fanatical, not impulsive, and very steady. It was because of this that Yamashita Fengwu took a fancy to him that he served as the vanguard force to ensure the smooth occupation of the county seat of Sunwu County.

A brigade plus a subordinate force and a Xing'an battalion, totaling more than 2,000 people, were mixed and organized, the formation was compact, and they were not in a hurry, and when they found suspicious targets, they immediately fired with machine guns and grenadiers, and the cars at the front were escorted, and more than 50 ordinary people who were collected from the mountains shouted in unison under the persecution of the devils: "Heroes of the Anti-Japanese Federation, don't kill the common people." The miserable cry was heard far away.

More than ten kilometers on the plain passed smoothly, the front was rolling hills, and the road was bombed by the previous imperial planes and bombed everywhere with potholes, there was no way, Orita had to order the troops to rest, and at the same time sent engineering troops and Manchurian soldiers to fill in the road, and he picked up the telescope and looked at the mountains in front of him, looking at the mountains with mountains and mountains, feeling a little uneasy. The people of China like to defend against the mountains, and the enemy who has caused damage to the attacking troops may be in this mountain, so they must be careful and vigilant.

Thinking of the previous several squadrons of Yu Sha, one of which was in his brigade, his brigade originally had four infantry squadrons, machine gun squadrons, infantry artillery squadrons, two engineer squadrons, a joint mountain artillery squadron, a division field artillery squadron, two transport squadrons and other detachment commanders, emphasizing the dangers that may be encountered and the actions of the detachments in the event of an attack, and each detachment was ready for battle and ready to fight at any time, but now there are only three infantry squadrons left.

An hour later, after the sappers had fixed the road, the car struggled to climb the steep hill on the rugged mountain road, which was also the time when it was most vulnerable to ambushes. All the devils vigilantly stared at the surrounding ditches and ditches, and from time to time fired a few shots at the suspected target and a few grenades into the ditch.

I went up the hill with fear, turned a few corners, and the terrain began to flatten, and the danger gradually faded away.

After walking for more than ten minutes, there was a small plateau basin in front of me. The long and narrow valley is very wide, and the low mountain beams on both sides are gathered for two or three miles, and even if the Chinese army establishes a blocking position on the mountain beams, it is impossible to pose a threat to itself, but it is suitable for mechanized troops to exert their firepower and mobility.

Orida looked at the map and found that his current location was called Zhengyang Forest Farm, and there were such wide canyon forests in front of him, and he finally breathed a sigh of relief. It seems that the Zhina army has been frightened back by its own strong forces, and it is estimated that they have retreated to the city of Sunwu County and are ready to hold on. He was full of ambition and ordered his troops to speed up and rush to Sunwu County in the afternoon.

Suddenly, he heard several long whistling sounds. It was a mortar shell, and he hurriedly put his head out of the window to look around, and more than a dozen mortar shells had begun to fall, smashing near the long convoy, kicking up dust and smoke. He knew that this was only the first round of first shots, and the subsequent calibrated blows would be more violent and accurate, and he loudly ordered the troops to get out of the car and organize a return fire.

The second round of shells had already begun to hit the car directly, and when I got out of the car, I found that there were actually 30 or 40 mortars scattered on the hillsides around the basin. The distance is about 3 miles, and the distance is 2 miles. Unable to hit small arms and grenadiers, Orita immediately ordered the artillery to return fire. Let the infantry squadrons rush up the surrounding ridges and destroy the enemy artillery positions.

The artillerymen jumped out of the car, unloaded the guns and began to observe the target, and the ammunition men gathered in front of the guns with the shells. The third, fifth, and sixth rounds of shells had already smashed into the ranks of infantry, mountain artillery, and field artillery, and had become key targets in the next four rounds of bombardment. Before the launch preparations were completed, more than half of them were destroyed by ten rounds of shelling. The detonating shells basically swallowed up the artillery squads, and the blazing fire smashed this long snake formation from the middle.

Orida watched the artillery that he was proud of and relied on as the capital of victory being destroyed, and he himself felt like he had been sucked out of his back, and sat weakly in a crater and made a fool. The people of China are cunning, do not fight in dangerous areas, do not use infantry to fight on the ground in safe places, rely on their own artillery, and concentrate on bombing their own artillery and heavy machine guns. Hit so accurately, it seems to have been premeditated, and the distance coordinates have been measured a long time ago. I have been worried about the ambush of the people of China in front, but I was not ambushed, but I didn't expect to be ambushed in a safe place, and the people of China did not play cards according to common sense.

He hurriedly grabbed his binoculars and looked out into the surrounding mountains. The soldiers of the three squadrons rushed like crazy towards the mountain beams that were not too high on all sides, this kind of hilly and mountainous terrain was not steep, it was basically a large dirt slope, and it could be taken by a single charge. The soldiers watched the shells fly over their heads and land in the convoy behind them, and they were so angry that they wanted to bite.

The grenadiers stopped at a distance of 400 meters from the top of the mountain, found a relatively hidden cliff and set up a grenadier canister, although they could not see where the mortar was, but it was estimated that it was near the top of the mountain, although their power was not large, at least they could play a diversion role, forcing them to move their positions.

The gunners of the 3rd and 4th Divisions of the Anti-Japanese Union saw that the grenadiers had stopped and were ready to fire, and the grenadiers on the mountain, which had accurately tested the distances in various places, took the lead in speaking, and all of them landed around their counterparts at the bottom of the mountain, startling a big jump at the bottom, and also discovering the existence of the other side, and the two sides were 300 meters apart, and launched a big competition between the grenadier soldiers.

The peasants from the mountainous areas of Hiroshima in the infantry squadron were still in good physical condition, and one by one they crossed the ditch and jumped over the stream, looking for shortcuts, panting and relentlessly rushing to 100 meters in front of the grenadier position.

It was a mine and a grenade with a wooden handle from the people of China, and when he came out, the squadron leader specially introduced this kind of sinister and backward explosive device, but he didn't expect to encounter it on the road, but he encountered it on this halfway up the hill. They immediately lay down and summoned sappers behind them to come and clear the mines, while firing at the enemy positions.

Seeing this, Orida sighed, the other party is still these old-fashioned tricks, how can he be fooled? He immediately ordered the sappers assembled in front of the convoy ready to clear the mines to immediately divide into several ways and go to help the infantry. The sappers picked up their tools and ran to the hills according to the commander's assignment.

Suddenly, the sound of horses' hooves gradually came from the south, sending out the momentum of shaking the earth and the mountains, which shocked everyone and frightened. In the blink of an eye, a large group of cavalry of nearly 1,000 people spread out in the relatively wide basin and pounced on the sappers who were about to go up the mountain, carrying thick wire probes, scissors, small shovels, and individual sappers wearing pistols found that something was wrong.

Gunfire rang out, swords sparkled with blood, galloping horses everywhere, grenades everywhere. It turned out that they didn't think the fire was burning well and rushed towards the fire, and behind them were the corpses of sappers. Part of them cruised around the perimeter, hunting for approaching life, attacking the enemy infantry on the hill with grenadiers; The other part pounced on the undestroyed artillery and ammunition trucks in the car queue, throwing grenades into the cars, causing a larger fire.

Seeing the cavalry wantonly ravaging his troops, Orita bravely hid under a car, took out a pistol and fired back, fired several shots, killed and wounded several cavalrymen, and the devils on the mountain were stunned by the sudden killing of the cavalry, and it took a long time to come back to their senses, and one by one they shouted strange slogans and rushed down the hill. And the mortars in the mountains began to chase them, and the whole battlefield was filled with shrapnel, sand, and soot.

The cavalry roared and roared away, and the artillerymen saw the head and the tail, blew up dozens of cars, set a lot of fires, harvested hundreds of lives, and disappeared behind the mountain beams without saying hello.

Hundreds of infantry, sappers ran back out of breath, lying under the car of the baggage soldiers, mountain artillerymen, field artillery, medical soldiers drilled out, slowly converged more than a thousand people, one by one, full of panic, looking at the situation in front of him, Oritian immediately let the rest of the fortifications on the spot to defend, the artillery put the heavy artillery Zhuyuan to the mountain counterattack, and at the same time ordered the signal corps to report the intelligence here to the command, he didn't know if there was an ambush of the people in front of him, he needed to wait for the arrival of the large army together to take revenge.

Lieutenant General Yamashita Fengwu was taken aback when he received the report, he didn't expect that a reinforced brigade would also be ambushed, and the courage of the Jin Sui army was too great. It is necessary to concentrate forces and deal a severe blow to the opponent's will to resist. Miura ordered Oba to immediately lead the 3rd and 4th Squadrons of the 3rd Brigade, the Mountain Artillery Brigade of the Brigade, and the Medical Squadron of the Brigade to chase after the 2nd Brigade that had recently set off to form a strong force group, and go to rectify the 1st Brigade, rescue the wounded, find out the enemy's situation, and force the main force of Shina to fight a decisive battle. (To be continued.) )