Eleven o'clock in the evening.

The vast land was covered by the darkness of the night, and the mountains, rivers, and trees could not be seen at all, and the bitter north wind blew whirling, blowing on the face like a knife.

Lieutenant Colonel Zheng Cho, the commander of the second supplementary regiment, walked at the back of the group and heard a cry from the front.

Zheng Alcohol's face was gloomy, this sneak attack on Miaoxi Town, which was captured by the Japanese army, needs to be absolutely quiet, how can there be such a big movement?

Zheng Yu took the guards and walked quickly to the front of the team, and at this time the cry had turned into a whimper.

"What's the matter, you're about to arrive in Miaoxi, who made you make a sound, aren't you afraid of waking up the devil?" Zheng Yu reprimanded in a low voice.

"Tuanzao, that's what happened" Captain Wang Lin, the commander of the first battalion, coughed embarrassedly, approached Zheng Yu's ear, and told the ins and outs of the matter.

It turned out that the crying recruits came from Miaoxi Town, last time Zheng Yu took people to Miaoxi to negotiate with the gentry there, and was ready to send officers and soldiers of the militia to settle in, but the other party refused, but the mayor of Miaoxi Town admired the prestige of the new Second Division on the Songhu battlefield, and after consulting with several local old patriarchs, he sent 29 young people to the temporary third division as soldiers, which also had the meaning of confession.

It's only been two days, and everything has changed when I get home, and the town that used to be quiet and peaceful is now full of corpses and rivers of blood, and it is as terrible as hell in the light of the blazing bonfires around the town.

When Zheng Yu heard this, he strode onto a ridge more than ten meters high on the side of the road, raised his binoculars and looked, only to see that there were corpses everywhere inside and outside the town, and the most poignant thing was more than 50 children who were hanged under the big locust tree, their whole bodies were stripped naked, a big hole was opened in their chest and abdomen, and their internal organs flowed out along the gaps, falling under their bodies, dragging them long, and a creepy feeling arose.

Zheng Yu sighed and shook his head, put down the binoculars, jumped off the ridge, and instructed the guards to call the twenty-nine Miaoxi youths who were choking and crying, comfort them, and then let them remember the scene in front of them and avenge their relatives.

Under the leadership of 29 Miaoxi recruits, the officers and men approached Miaoxi with ease and familiarity, and carried out operations in squads.

One of them, Chen Dafeng, opened a haystack next to the forest in the north of the town, got into it through a secret passage, and when he came out, he was already in the firewood house of a residential house in the middle of the town.

The three scouts assigned to this squad followed Chen Dafeng and cautiously walked out of the firewood room, came to the next door and gently pushed open the door, and under the light of the kerosene lamp lit in the center of the room, the three Japanese soldiers were sleeping soundly, and their military uniforms were placed on the stool next to the bed.

The three scouts glanced at each other, gestured, and tiptoed towards the three devils, one of whom reached out and covered the mouth of one of the devils, and stabbed the guy in the middle of the rib gap, directly piercing his heart, and the little devil suddenly whimpered for his life.

The other two fighters also did the same, and landed on the other two devils in a net profit.

Because the Japanese killed too much, there were not many houses in the whole town that were not affected by blood and corpses, so the Japanese soldiers gathered beds and bedding, sent them to Yujing's courtyard, and moved in according to the detachment. This courtyard is larger, and there are fifteen devil soldiers, except for two who are sentry at the door and three who have been dropped, the rest are sleeping soundly.

It didn't take much effort, and all these devils, who had spent a lot of energy and sleeping soundly in the daytime slaughter and later madness, were killed.

Deal with all the devils in the yard, the three scouts and the officers and soldiers who then came out of the dark passage, change into Japanese military uniforms, and walk to the door.

The two devils who were on guard didn't pay much attention when they saw their people coming out of the courtyard. It was too late, and the two sharp daggers had already pierced the necks of the two of them, and then their mouths were covered. The two unlucky men felt a sharp pain in their throats, and they couldn't sound a warning at all, and their bodies convulsed violently a few times, and they collapsed to the ground like balloons that had released gas.

The officers and soldiers, dressed in Japanese uniforms but with a strip of white cloth tied to their left arm, neatly dragged the bodies of the two devil sentries into the courtyard, and then groped for the next target.

A mysterious detachment, attacking everywhere, in the dark night like a bull-headed horse, most of the devils were sent to meet their Amaterasu in their sleep.

After about an hour, about five squads of troops were gathered together and approached the artillery position constructed by the Japanese in the center of the town.

Due to the inconvenience of carrying over the mountains and mountains, the Japanese army did not bring infantry guns, but carried the 82 mortar produced by the Jinling Arsenal captured in the Songhu battlefield, this kind of mortar weighs 35 kilograms, but can be divided into a gun body, a gun carriage, and a seat plate to carry, and each part is only 10 kilograms, which is very conducive to carrying.

At this time, a group of Japanese were sitting around the bonfire to keep warm, 12 82 mortars were lined up, 38 guns were placed on the shelves on the side, and the surrounding guards were patrolling with guns except for two people patrolling with guns, and the rest of the devils were also surrounding the fire. The Japanese artillery had about one squadron, and an additional squad of Japanese troops was assigned to protect it. The Japanese soldiers in this squad were equipped with three crooked machine guns, and the machine gunners were very vigilant, and directly held the machine guns and sat by the fire to roast the fire.

"Bang bang—"

The mournful sound of gunfire pierced the quiet night sky, and the dense submachine gun bullets were like a raging storm, knocking down the Japanese soldiers who were roasting the fire. With the fire of the submachine guns, twenty or thirty grenades fell into the middle of the Japanese troops, and violent explosions rang out one after another, and the corpses of the devils in a circle were suddenly scattered all over the field.

"Bagachina Army Night Attack"

The little devil who didn't die suddenly exploded into the nest. Just as the three devil machine gunners were about to set up their crooked sub-machine guns to return fire, they were beaten into a hornet's nest by the Thomson submachine gun fired at close range.

The Japanese troops who were attacked suddenly were killed and wounded on the spot by the powerful melee fire of the 2nd Supplementary Regiment, and the remaining devil soldiers tried to run to the place where the guns were placed, but they were beaten into a hornet's nest by the rain of submachine gun bullets.

"Where did the gunshots and explosions come from?" Sakata Shaosa, who was sleeping soundly, was awakened by the fierce gunfire and the loud explosion of grenades, immediately got dressed, rushed out of the room and shouted.

"Report, it seems that our artillery positions have been attacked by the Chinese Army," a lieutenant officer replied

"Baga, the Chinese army dared to launch a night attack, quickly, gather the team and save the artillery" Sakata Shaosa pulled out his command knife and roared loudly.

But at this time, it was too late for the Japanese army to fight back, and the second supplementary regiment blossomed on all fronts in and outside the town, especially the high ground on both sides of the road, which was heavily infiltrated by the Chinese army, and several machine gun positions were all wiped out by the officers and men of the second supplementary regiment, and in the town, the previous action had already put most of the Japanese troops in their sleep, and there were less than two squadrons of Japanese troops in the last place, and they hid in the houses and used the cover of night to shoot wildly

The flamethrowers attached to the second supplementary regiment immediately dispatched, they aimed their nozzles at the house, and with a sudden push of a button, fire dragons shot out from the spray, quickly igniting the door panels and windows.

The high temperature of two or three thousand degrees ignited in an instant, and then there was a terrible scream, and the devil soldiers, who were covered in fire, opened the burning door, rushed out, stumbled up a few steps, fell to the ground, and their crackling and burning bodies twitched a few times, and then did not move.

"Okay, it's to make the devil's blood debt pay for it"

Seeing that the blow was so good, Regiment Commander Zheng waved his fist in relief and said to the young man who was leading the way next to him: "Private Chen Dafeng, don't worry, today, we will avenge everyone in your town."

Chen Dafeng quickly wiped away his tears and said to the officers and soldiers behind him: "Follow me"

Before the aftermath fell, Chen Dafeng had already rushed out, and his belief in revenge quickly made him grow into a qualified warrior, and he did not have the fear of the first time on the battlefield.

In the Japanese headquarters, the gunfire was heard getting closer and closer, and several key places were quickly silenced under the combined attack of flamethrowers, rocket launchers, and submachine guns of the 3rd Division.

The fierce tiger-like attack of the officers and men of the 3rd Division made Captain Itada feel panicked, and after the last day, he led the staff officers and guards of the brigade headquarters to resist stubbornly, and was burned to charcoal by the sprayed fire dragon, and it took no long time for Miaoxi Town to successfully recover, which was really unexpected.

Just when the Second Supplementary Regiment launched an attack on Miaoxi, Chen Yanhua, who was guarding Xiahucheng, supplemented the First Regiment, which was still silently bearing the fierce attacks of the Japanese army wave after wave.

Due to the need for rapid marching and secrecy, the 15th Brigade did not carry heavy weapons, and the firepower of the entire brigade was supported by 16 Taisho 11th and 92 70-mm infantry guns, in addition to the 82 mortars captured on the battlefield.

Looking at the approaching figure of the Japanese soldiers, Chen Yanhua couldn't care about the injury on his thigh. The Japanese army advanced steadily and steadily, step by step, and the houses in the south and center of Xiahu Town were almost blown up, and as the line of sight was wide open, the Japanese frantically threw in their troops, and the battle continued until now, and the replenishment regiment had almost lost two battalions of troops.

It is important to know that when Lu Dao was in Haining, replenishing a regiment and a battalion was equivalent to a regiment for others, which meant that after fighting so far, at least more than 3,000 people had lost their combat strength, and the strength of the remaining battalion was hidden in the houses in the north and northwest of the town, trying to block the enemy's attack.

"Tuanzao, our reinforcements are coming," Deputy Regiment Commander Lieutenant Colonel Zhao Shuqing said in surprise.

Chen Yanhua turned his head to look, and Zhou Juncheng, the commander of the third regiment, and Feng Zhiheng, the commander of the machine gun company, walked over.

Due to the limited ammunition, Chen Yanhua had put the machine gun company on the monk hill behind Xiahu City for the counterattack, and now he finally waited for the third regiment.

The machine gun company was equipped with 12 heavy machine guns, 8 81 mortars, and 3 infantry guns, and the additional combat defense platoon had 20 rocket launchers and five flamethrowers, which could play a major role in both attack and defense.

The 3rd Regiment had fought fiercely with the Japanese troops in the southwest of Wuxingcheng last night, and had just withdrawn to join the division headquarters when it received an order to reinforce the 1st Regiment from the south.

Zhou Juncheng simply replenished the lost soldiers among the officers and men of the militia of the two regiments that accompanied the army, brought enough ammunition and went south.

At the Shijiaqiao Temporary Headquarters in the north of Xiahu Town, Chen Yanhua and Zhou Juncheng warmly embraced each other, and then briefly introduced the battle situation and the follow-up battle plan.

Zhou Juncheng pondered for a while, and immediately agreed to Chen Yanhua's arrangement, and decided to take advantage of the Japanese army's reaction to make a beautiful counterattack, saying that it might not be possible to achieve unexpected results.

Half an hour later, the machine gun batteries of the two regiments were in position, ready to strike at the enemy.

At this time, the Japanese army began to launch a new round of offensive.

One by one, the haggard devil soldiers, holding three or eight guns, hunched and groping forward. The battle in the dark night was so frustrating that it was possible to encounter a sudden enemy at any time, and all the Japanese soldiers were tired from the hard fight under high mental tension.

When the Japanese army approached the defenders' defensive line at a distance of more than 200 meters, they began to shoot, and the Japanese infantry guns and mortars roared in the dark night, and the afterimage of tracer bullets shone brightly in the night sky, exposing their artillery positions.

At this time, the 16 81 mortars of the two regiments of the 3rd Division were concentrated and bombarded the Japanese artillery positions below the mountain from Hongjie Mountain, east of the town.

Almost instantly, the Japanese artillery position was overwhelmed by the huge explosion fire, and as the shells on the gun emplacements exploded, the 92 Infantry guns weighing more than 200 kilograms were thrown into the air like toys, and the shells that fell on other gun positions also ignited and exploded.

As the ammunition box next to the position was ignited and exploded, larger fireballs rose one after another on the artillery position, and the orange-red fireball soared into the sky, and the entire Japanese artillery position was devastated

Everywhere there are flying shrapnel and the broken limbs of Japanese soldiers flying, it is a living purgatory on earth.

The attacking Japanese troops were also shocked by the huge explosion behind them, but the officers on the front line completely ignored the feelings of the soldiers whose morale had fallen to the bottom, and still forced the devil soldiers to move forward, and as a result, when they were forty or fifty meters close to the house in front, a rain of grenades fell from the sky, and a huge explosion sounded one after another, and the deafening sound waves spread throughout the four fields.

The explosion of the grenade was the clarion call for the whole army to attack, and the officers and men rushed out of the various houses, shouting loudly to launch a counter-charge against the Japanese army.

"Kill"

The enemy and the enemy were like two huge waves, seeing that a fierce collision was about to occur, suddenly a burst of red light flashed, and with the fire dragon shooting, the pyro soldiers mixed with the charging team burned the devil soldiers in front of them into burning charcoal.

"Da-da-"

The sound of the barge pistols and submachine guns equipped by the officers and men rang out at the right time, and while the Japanese troops were in a trance, the officers and men rushed into the enemy line without hesitation, and the Japanese soldiers, who were suffering from the poison of the fire dragon, were once again subjected to a dense rain of bullets and were knocked to the ground in pieces.

Stepping on the corpses of the Japanese soldiers, under the leadership of Zhou Juncheng and Chen Yanhua, the soldiers of the two regiments were like demons from hell, quickly reaping the lives of the Japanese soldiers. Although the Japanese reacted quickly and built blocking fire on the spot, they were very weak to resist in the face of the huge power of the bazookas under the cover of night.

However, the most frightening thing for the Japanese soldiers was the flamethrower, the heart-rending howl of the devil soldiers before they died, which made the Japanese army tremble up and down, and felt the same way, and the continuous hard fighting for a day and night brought a huge sense of exhaustion and a sense of the enemy's invincible weakness, so that the Japanese army's psychological defense completely collapsed, and the Japanese army's resistance was completely crushed after just half an hour.

The rout retreated to the southwest like a tide, looking at everything in front of them, listening to the screams of the Japanese soldiers surrounded by fire in the night, and smelling the scorching smell of burning flesh and skin that came from the north wind, and the brigade commander, Major General Taro Katayama, put down the binoculars weakly.

But he didn't think about it, Okamura Ningji's order was to capture the town of Xiahu and open the passage to the west, if he was defeated, how would he explain when he went back? Katayama pulled out his saber suddenly, and was about to command his subordinates to resist, but the four guards and two staff officers next to him picked up Major General Katayama and fled with the rout.

Katayama Shotaro struggled a few times and then didn't move, anyone with a discerning eye could see that with the destruction of the artillery, coupled with the fact that the opponent had bazookas and flamethrowers and other offensive weapons, the chances of successfully holding the defense line were very small, so escape was the best option, and the only headache now was how to explain to Okamura Ninji.

In fact, whether it is the third regiment or the first supplementary regiment, in terms of the actual combat strength of the two sides, it is far from being the opponent of the 15th Brigade of the Japanese army. However, the Japanese army continued to march and fight hard, the men were sleepy, the ammunition supply was problematic, and there was no heavy firepower, and in the dark night, I don't know how many troops were killing them, and the defeat was finally inevitable.

After receiving the news of Miaoxi's loss, Okamura Ningji couldn't stop "chuckling" in his heart, looking at the telegram and shaking his head again and again, this Sakata is really not enough to succeed and more than to lose, and he has called several times in a row to remind him to be careful and careful, but he didn't expect that something went wrong.

If it weren't for the fact that Sakata had been martyred, Okamura Ninji would definitely hand him over to a military court for punishment.

Chief of Staff Tamura hurriedly broke into the headquarters and said with a frightened face: "General Okamura, it's not good, the Katayama Brigade has been defeated by the Shina Army, and it has now retreated to Aoyama Village, and the specific losses are unknown. ”

"What?"

Okamura Ninji stood up suddenly, his eyes widened, and in anger he drew his saber and swung it wildly, like a mad beast, almost trying to choose people to devour.