The first to arrive in Suzhou were the two cavalry search units of the 6th Division and the 16th Division, and when about 1,000 devil cavalry launched a tentative attack, they unexpectedly found that Suzhou City had become an empty city.

There was no trace of the Dragon's Tooth Task Force, but when these ghost soldiers searched the city, they found dozens of naked female corpses in a compound, and only after careful persistence did they find that these were all nurses of the Imperial Army's field troops.

Before Qiao Youhua led the team to evacuate, he killed all the devil doctors who had been used, of course, for the Japanese, it was a tooth for a tooth and blood for blood, and the Japanese soldiers did not have any softness when they killed the Chinese female soldiers!

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Shanghai, the headquarters of the Central China Front of the Japanese Army.

Tsukada said to Matsui Ishone: "General, the Sixth Division reports that the Chinese Dragon's Tooth Task Force entrenched in Suzhou has disappeared, and now Suzhou has been reoccupied by the imperial army, and the logistics supply line between Shanghai and the front line has been opened. ”

"Nani? Nowhere to be found? Matsui Ishine was surprised when he heard this, and frowned: "They actually escaped?" Both the north and the south have been blockaded by the imperial army, and places such as Wuxing and Wujiang have also been reoccupied by the 11th Division to the north, where can they flee? ”

"General, there is another place that is not within the blockade of the imperial army." Tsukada reminded.

"Huh? You mean Taihu Lake? Matsui Ishone said suddenly.

"Hay! The water area of Taihu Lake is more than 2,000 square kilometers, and as long as the people of China have a boat, they can enter Taihu Lake and easily jump out of the encirclement of the imperial army by waterway! Tsukada bowed his head and said.

"Yaga, these cunning foxes!" Matsui Ishine said angrily: "Immediately order the 11th and 3rd Divisions to prepare ships and pursue them." ”

Tsukada persuaded him: "General, the water area of Taihu Lake is too large, and it is too difficult to find a few ships of the Dragon Tooth Task Force, and by the time the imperial army finds the ships and launches into the water, maybe the people of Taihu Lake will have already evacuated from either direction."

In the first battle of Wusongjiang, although they completely annihilated the marines of the imperial army, their own casualties were not small, and they were no longer enough to suffer.

If we have not been able to take Nanking a year ago, it will have an extremely negative impact on the imperial army. Tsukada persuaded.

Matsui Ishine was persuaded by Tsukada to do this and calmed down.

It is true that chasing a few ships on the vast Taihu Lake is tantamount to looking for a needle in a haystack, not to mention that the enemy may have already fled ashore and returned to the national control area.

After pondering for a moment, Matsui Ishine Shige nodded and said, "Tsukada-kun, you are reasonable, order the 6th and 16th divisions to stop the counterattack and continue to attack Nanjing north!" It's just that it was stirred up by this cunning Chinese army, and the efforts of tens of thousands of imperial soldiers on the front line for many days will be in vain, and an attack will have to start from scratch, alas. ”

Tsukada bowed his head violently and replied: "Hai, the general is wise, and there is no need to mind too much, no one thought that there would be a Qiao Youhua in the Chinese army, and his dragon tooth task force is a group of miscellaneous rabble. ”

"It was such a rabble that caused nearly 20,000 heavy losses to the imperial army, you must know that in the entire Battle of Songhu, we fought with nearly a million regular army of the ace of the government for more than three months, and the imperial army only suffered more than 30,000 casualties." Matsui Shigen said with some bitterness.

"General, after analyzing the combat style and characteristics of this Dragon's Tooth Task Force, we found that it has won the essence of special small unit operations, and its actions have repeatedly exceeded the expectations of the imperial army, and the tactics of small unit operations have almost been applied to the extreme.

From a humble point of view, if you want to deal with him, you have to rely on the special forces of the imperial army to carry out unconventional tracking and pursuit! "Tsukada attacked.

Matsui Shigen raised his eyebrows and asked: "Our Central China Front has just been established, and it is not equipped with special forces, only the Eastern Army and the North China Front Army have this kind of elite small troops, Tsukada-kun, what do you mean?" ”

"Borrowing troops from the North China Front, General Terauchi Shouichi will definitely agree, because the predecessor of the Dragon Tooth Task Force was the Dragon Tooth Anti-Japanese Team, which caused a lot of trouble to the North China Front Army on the Zhengtai Railway Line! General Shouichi Terauchi should hate it as much as we do! "Tsukada attacked.

"Yo Xi, that's it." Matsui nodded happily in agreement.

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In the vast Taihu Lake, on the endless turquoise water, several sailboats were roaring and breaking the waves, Qiao Youhua stood solemnly on the bow of a boat, and Jiang Haidong stood beside him with a small combat map in his hand.

Suddenly, he looked up and said, "Judging from the map, we should be almost at Lingyan Island!" According to Company Commander Liu of the reconnaissance company, there are three water bandits of comparable strength entrenched in this Taihu Lake, and Lingyan Island is one of them. ”

"Since you're here, let's solve these scoundrels by the way, and it can be regarded as eliminating harm for the people." Qiao Youhua lit a flue.

"Well, we don't have much food to carry, so we can also go to the island to replenish it." Jiang Haidong said.

There are about 100 people in the water colony entrenched in Lingyan Island, which is the second largest in Taihu Lake, and the leader is called Ma Yunlong.

This Ma Yunlong was originally a fisherman who fished in Taihu Lake for a living, because of the military disaster in the village later, his wife and children died tragically, and Ma Yunlong, who was extremely angry, killed several warlords at that time, and brought a few companions from the same village to this Taihu Lake.

Because he is well versed in water nature and is righteous for others, his water coward business has flourished, and he has been entrenched in Lingyan Island for more than ten years, which can be said to be deep-rooted.

It is also famous in the green forest of Taihu Lake, and more than ten years of green forest career has sharpened Ma Yunlong into a qualified water coward, ferocious, lustful and good wine, all the characteristics of bandits will be fully embodied in him.

No, when Qiao Youhua quietly approached his lair with the dragon tooth task force, Ma Yunlong was indulging in the lust of a woman with white flowers in his arms.

Due to the cold winter and the continuous wars around Taihu Lake, the merchant and guest brigades on Taihu Lake were almost extinct, and the water robbers had no major activities, like snakes, and were in dormancy.

Except for a few water gangsters standing symbolically outside their righteous hall, other large and small water gangsters gathered in the caves on the island to play money, drink and play with women.

With the combat effectiveness of the Dragon Tooth Task Force, a group of veterans who have survived the bloody battle, even if Ma Yunlong and his bandits are fully armed and prepared, they will definitely not be able to resist the advance of the Dragon Tooth Task Force, let alone such a lax guard.

When the ship docked, Liu Yidao and Liu Jianhua each led dozens of elite dragon tooth warriors to flock ashore, and then moved towards the gathering hall of the water robbers in the center of the island.

"Come ashore, let the brethren have a full meal, rest for two hours, and then set out!" Qiao Youhua stepped onto the shore road.

The remaining hundreds of dragon tooth officers and soldiers got off the boat one after another, went ashore, and followed Qiao Youhua towards the island with great momentum.