From the time of the surprise attack in the early morning to more than 7 o'clock in the morning, it was estimated by visual inspection that at least a few hundred people of the Eighth Route were eliminated and 100 of them were wounded and wounded, but at about 8 o'clock they were caught by the unknown Eighth Route troops in the Niugou Ditch southwest of Shuigou and the North Mountain in Nanmazhuang, and a squadron was almost completely lost at once.

Judging from the combat characteristics and revealed weapon configuration of this mysterious Eighth Route Army, it is a tough opponent that Qing Shui has never seen before, and in terms of the size of the troops, it is at least about 1,000 people, and now it occupies the key point of Beishan, this battle is not easy to fight.

There was no record of the 11th Division of the Eighth Route in the information collected in advance, and the intelligence of almost all the combat units of the Eighth Route and 11th Army Division had been reported by the intelligence station in Kawaguchi Town earlier.

Judging from the aerial reconnaissance, the troops of the 11 th Division were rushing back from the eastern front in the starry night, and they did not even care about air defense, and they marched on the avenue in broad daylight, without even a single camouflage, and they did not hide when they saw the reconnaissance planes, and it seemed that they really wanted to rush back to Nanmazhuang.

When will this large number of eight roads be rushed back, Qing Shui Dazuo still has a number in his heart, it is now more than nine o'clock in the morning, whether to stay here and start with this eight roads, or to rush to the next target with a false shot, you must think carefully.

Shimizu Daisa called the two brigade commanders and the main staff officers to the wing headquarters in Shuigou for a meeting to study the next military action and pursue the Eighth Road and the common people's brigade on the East Omo Mountain. Shimizu told them to stop on the radio. Don't chase it just yet. Wait for wing orders.

The devil looked like he was going to guard the bank of the West River and didn't plan to leave, Fan Daring saw it clearly in the north mountain, many devils were busy between the hundred and ten adobe houses in the ditch, digging holes through the houses, as if they were building a village position, this guy wondered, is the devil going to stand still and not leave?

I thought about it for a while. Fan Daring felt that the current situation was favorable to him, and the sub-district authorities had already withdrawn to the area between Sidaoling and Shangzhai, where the mountains were high and the forests were dense, and the devils couldn't find the way even if they were forced to break there.

So Fan boldly decided to take the initiative, he left two companies, one to guard Nanmazhuang and one to guard Beishan, and he took one company to move to the east covertly. If you are going to attack the devils at the fork of the Yulong River, you can also go down to block the company of the devils in Damao Mountain.

If you take a detour directly from the East Village Entrance of Nanmazhuang along the fields between the foot of the mountain and the river bank. The devils on the other side will definitely find out, so they can't go from the river bank, Fan Daring and they went down from the back cliff of Beishan, and the comrades of the besieged teaching brigade who rushed up to eliminate the devils and saved them said that the bodies of the comrades who died in the battle were pushed under the cliff, in order to prevent the devils from trampling the bodies, Fan Daring ordered to put down the rope at that time, and sent people down to collect the remains.

When the company that carried out the roundabout task went down the rope to the bottom of the cliff, dozens of corpses had been simply wrapped, and the villagers who came from several villages in the north helped to send them to Sidaoling on stretchers first.

After instructing the villagers, Fan Daring took the second company and walked a short distance along the ravine to Sandaoling, where the teaching brigade also guarded the mound on the bank of the river according to the agreement with him, and the Japanese army on the opposite side did not extend too far along the river bank to deploy defenses, and placed a defensive circle of about a mile between the foot of the mountain and the river bank at the fork of the Yulong River.

Fan Daring remembers that not too far to the east is a bend of the West River, called a South Stone Pond, after the South Stone Pond west of the ravine called the Harrier Ditch, this Harrier Ditch is stretched to the southwest, just behind the fork of the Yulong River and the mountain is connected, from there climb up the cliff, to the north is the fork of the Yulong River, to the south is Xiaoguancheng Village.

No matter where you hit, go over and see first! Just when Qing Shui Dazuo convened a meeting of middle and senior officers above Shaozuo, Fan Daring led people along Tuliangzi to Nanshitang.

Successfully crossed the Nanshitang, sure enough, there were no devils to control the river bank in this area, and they actually met more than 30 guerrillas in Harrier Valley, and when they asked a squad belonging to the Damao Mountain guerrillas who came from Qimutai, they provided information to Fan Daring that there were hundreds of devils who were now on the mountain road in Xiaohuangyuna, and they had just reconnoitred that the devils were making a fire and cooking.

Judging that this may be the devil who went to pursue our people who retreated to Xitai, in terms of numbers, more than half of the brigade, Fan Daring also asked this guerrilla squad to continue to monitor this group of devils, and send someone to report at any time if there is a situation, he left a squad at the mouth of the harrier ditch, responsible for delivering news and monitoring the riverbank.

The harrier ditch is not long, the deep ditch of more than two miles, it will be completed soon, the west end of the ditch is a mountain beam several hundred meters high, that is, the mountain behind the fork of the Yulong River that can be seen from the north bank of the river, first sent two soldiers who climbed the best to touch it with a rope, and reconnoitred it, the devil actually did not occupy the mountain, and deployed troops on the hill on the west and north sides of the mountain, and controlled the trail up the mountain.

This is what happened, Fan boldly ordered the whole company to climb the mountain immediately, and hide down on the mountain beam first, this mountain climbing is a unique skill! Just the shrubs and vines that are all over the mountain in Damao Mountain, without even using ropes to hook the tree, pedaling on the stone face of slate and sedimentary rock, grasping wild red willow and yellow wattle, soon more than 200 people arrived on the mountain beam.

The soldiers thought that they were going to attack the Japanese troops on the bank of the river below the mountain from the top of the mountain, but Fan Daring not only did not give the battle order, but instead asked everyone to rest on the spot, eat some dry food and drink some water, he took the two soldiers to quietly disguise themselves, slipped down the mountain beam, crossed the winding mountain path, and went down to the valley of the Yulong River.

Half an hour later, a man came back, a soldier who followed Fan Daring to reconnoitre, brought back the order, and the whole company walked south along the mountain beam for more than a mile according to the leader's order, and then used wild grass to make a good camouflage, quietly descended to the foot of the mountain, and hid under the stone beam more than 300 meters away from Xiaoguancheng.

Fan Daring was hiding there, he had just reconnoitred the devil at the fork of the Yulong River, and found that although the devil did not occupy the mountain, the entire original garrison of our troops had been transformed into a defensive position, and the cliff against which the devil was back, the straight wall was very high, and there was no vegetation.

If you attack along the trail, the devils are starting from the river valley, there are at least four or five machine-gun fire points on the mounds and stone beams, and the devils at the fork are also very close, and they can be reinforced in a few minutes when they hear the gunshots, and the terrain and vegetation there are very small, and it is difficult to approach the devils during the day without being discovered.

However, the number of devils in Xiaoguancheng is small, most of them are stationed in the village, and there are more than 30 people on the earthen beam in the south of the village who simply dug field fortifications, which is to prevent attacks from the south, and there are only a few mobile posts at the entrance of the village in the north of the village, and they don't see any fortifications dug or anything, maybe the devils think that the north is their wing headquarters, and there are no eight roads in the entire triangular arming area, so there is no need to make fortifications or anything.

Fan boldly observed, and judged that there were more than 100 devils in the village and outside the village, and they were relatively scattered, it seemed that in addition to the devils on Tuliangzi in the south of the village, they were still more vigilant, and the devils in the village might be sleeping, and they couldn't see any devils moving around.

From Xiaoguancheng Village to the fork of the Yulong River and the water ditch, there is a five-mile road, after hearing the gunshots, it takes at least 20 minutes for the devils in these two places to rush over for reinforcements at the fastest speed, so their troops will take 15 minutes to solve the devils in the village, and it will take 5 minutes to prepare to block the reinforcements of the devils or retreat to the south and west, and the time is enough.

Fan Daring is bold! In the defense area of thousands of devils, he actually found an attack point, figuratively speaking, he was going to attack Xiaoguancheng Village, as if he was going to attack the devil's buttocks, lighting a fire on the buttocks, and the devils jumped up accurately! It's much more effective than attacking along the river bank from this side!

So he brought his troops over and lined up along the mountains east of Xiaoguancheng Village, divided into two parts, a reinforced platoon to attack the devils on Tuliangzi in the south from behind, a platoon to attack the south side of the village from between Tuliangzi and the village entrance, and the remaining two platoons and machine gun groups to attack from the north!

The time of the attack was set at half past eleven at noon, and at this time, Fan boldly judged that the devils were making lunch, and it was not yet time to start eating, which was the time for the devils to relax their vigilance.

And half past eleven also happens to be the action time set by Shimizu Daisa's meeting! Qing Shui decided to make a false shot and feint to capture the Eighth Route Army on the north bank, and then the whole army quickly advanced south along the Yulong River Valley! After the meeting, he had already telegraphed the brigade in Xiaohuangyu to turn around immediately and go south through Caidigou to the Longwang Temple, which was equivalent to a control point thirty miles south of Xiaoguancheng Village from the map.

That is to say, starting at half past ten after the meeting, Xiao Huangyu's brigade set off first to occupy the Longwang Temple and hit the front station, and then at half past eleven the artillery began to bombard Nanmazhuang and Beishan on the north bank, as well as the Niu Groove Ridge behind the ditch, and the devils of the two squadrons made a feint along the river bank, and at the same time as the shelling, the troops at the wing headquarters of the ditch and the fork of the Yulong River began to move south.

As soon as the wing headquarters arrived at Xiaoguancheng Village, the troops who feinted immediately covered the transfer of artillery troops and took on the task of guarding, Shimizu Dazuo analyzed that the Eighth Route on the north bank did not dare to rush forward to attack, the Eighth Route in Niuchuling was not many people, and there was no strength to chase it, and even if Yang Bangzi's troops who were still rushing on the road guessed his intentions, they would not be able to catch up with him at all. (To be continued......)