There is a small village to the east of Yuhuatai, where more than a dozen peasant families originally lived, but later Chairman Chiang engaged in a "scorched earth policy." "All the villagers were forcibly moved into the city of Nanjing, and the houses in the village were burned down.

The moon hung high in the sky, and the abandoned village seemed silent and eerie.

A group of Japanese soldiers are standing in a solemn formation on the barn field at the entrance of the village, the whole queue is divided into four rows, each row is about 80 people, a total of more than 300 people, in front of the queue scattered a large number of rags, obviously, this team of Japanese soldiers is Qiao disguised as fleeing people and then take advantage of the cover of night to infiltrate.

This Japanese army is naturally a special combat team of Shigemi Ohara.

The soldiers are all elite veterans drawn from various permanent divisions, and the equipment is also a fully automatic Thomson Al submachine gun purchased from the United States.

Of course, due to the short time of forming the army, it still can't be compared with the real special forces.

In addition to four infantry squadrons, there are also artillery squadrons, heavy machine gun squadrons, and baggage squadrons, a standard infantry brigade has 1,100 soldiers, but the special operations brigade has only four special operations squadrons, and each special operations squadron has only more than 80 people, which is less than half of the infantry squadron.

The special operations brigade does not have heavy firepower, but its individual firepower is much more powerful than that of the infantry brigade, each person is equipped with a Thomson submachine gun as standard, 5 30-round magazines (4 chest cartridges, 1 on the body of the gun), 4 packs of 50-round bulk ammunition, 4 melon grenades, 1 southern-style pistol, and 3 magazines.

In addition to the standard equipment, each soldier also carries a cold weapon of his choice.

For infantry, cold weapons are insignificant, but for special forces, cold weapons are their lives!

When Ohara Shigemi was mobilizing before the war, he was attracted by a crossbow carried by a high-ranking soldier and asked, "Ono-san, what kind of weapon are you carrying, is it a crossbow?" ”

"Hello." Senior Private Ono bowed heavily and replied, "Captain, it's a crossbow." ”

Ohara Shigemi took off the crossbow from the back of Ono's senior soldier, and when she took it in her hand and looked at it carefully, she found that this crossbow was extremely well-made, and the crossbow machine was even equipped with a scope. ”

"Hello." Private Ono bowed again, and said confidently, "Captain, I don't think the soldiers are worthy of being called soldiers at all, they are just a group of prey waiting to be hunted. ”

"Yo Si." Owara Shigemi patted Ono's senior soldier on the shoulder, then looked around at the other Japanese soldiers, and said coldly in a low voice, "Ono-san is right, this is just a cupboard hunting game, and now I order that all creatures that stand in the way of the imperial army's advance, regardless of human or animal, will be killed." ”

"Hello." More than 300 soldiers bowed heavily.

"Let's go." Ohara Shigemi raised his right hand and pressed forward, and more than 300 Japanese soldiers turned around one after another, quickly disappearing under the dark night sky outside the village.

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Yuhuatai is about 100 meters high and about 4 kilometers long, and is a barrier to Zuihou outside the Zhonghua Gate.

Yuhuatai is not unimportant for the defense of Nanjing, so in addition to Feng Shengfa, Wang Yaowu, the commander of the 5L Division, also sent a powerful force to Yuhuatai, which is Qiu Weida's 306th Regiment.

Qiu Weida's 306th Regiment arrived at Yuhuatai a few hours earlier than the 19th Brigade, which was rushing to repair the fortifications on the top of the mountain.

Yuhuatai actually has permanent fortifications, but like Niushou Mountain, these permanent fortifications are all built at the foot of the mountain, which has no practical value, Qiu Weida has no intention of relying on these fortifications to defend at all, not to mention that these permanent fortifications have already been bombed by the Japanese air force, and have basically lost their defensive function.

Yuhuatai is composed of three small hills, from east to west are Meigang, Fengtai and Xigang, originally stationed in a regiment of the 88th Division, after the 306th Regiment arrived at Yuhuatai, the regiment of the 88th Division withdrew to the city, what made Qiu Weida angry was that the regiment of the 88th Division did not build fortifications on the mountain.

Qiu Weida set up a battalion on each hill, and the regimental headquarters was set up in Meigang in the east.

The 306th Regiment fought fiercely with the Japanese army in Hushu Town and Chunhua Town for four days, with heavy casualties, and now the whole regiment adds up to less than 1,000 people.

Yue Weida continued to train the recruits in the regiment while repairing the fortifications: "The heavy machine gun bunker can't be repaired on the slope, let alone on the ridgeline, on the slope, Xiao Ri will kill you with one shot, and it is more dangerous to repair on the ridgeline, Xiao Ri will be able to hit you by lying at the foot of the mountain, hey, you have to repair the fortifications on the platform behind the ridgeline." ”

"Who let us not have an air force, and the artillery is far inferior to others."

"It's just such a little bit of family foundation, you are all on the front, and it will be shaken off at once.

"The shooting range is not wide enough to only hit the head? Boy, it's enough to be able to take the lead. ’

"Also, the Ministry of Works must be locked, and it must be reinforced with logs, and if time permits, it must be camouflaged, disguised as a mound of dirt, a grave bag or a small bush, you can do it, as long as you can't find Xiao Ri's bomber, you can disguise it however you want, if your bunker is over the battle, it's okay, and the old man will give you a great credit."

"Boy, what kind of trench are you digging? You can't hide the whole thing while you're lying on your stomach.,When the time comes, Xiao Ri's book won't eject over.,It's not someone else who died.,But yourself.,Dig for the old man! ”

Qiu Weida said that he was a little anxious to get on fire, after the 51st Division withdrew to Nanjing, a large number of recruits were replenished, and the military skills of these recruits can only be described as miserable, many recruits can't even remember that they need to open the insurance before shooting, and there are recruits who close their eyes and put their guns, as for the repair of trench fortifications, it is even worse.

Of course, the most people who died in the war were also recruits, and now among the nearly 1,000 remaining officers and soldiers, more than half are veterans who have been withdrawn from the Songhu battlefield, which is the only thing that can make Qiu Weida feel gratified.

"Damn, that's also called a soldier?" Qiu Weida threw the sapper shovel in his hand to the ground, puffing and panting.

Hu Hao, the commander of the 3rd battalion, walked over with a pointed pickaxe and sighed: "Tuanzao, our 306th regiment is completely disabled. ”

"How about our 306th regiment?" Qiu Weida also sighed and said gloomily, "Isn't the entire 51st Division or even the dozen divisions that participated in the Battle of Nanjing the same? Compared with before the Battle of Songhu, it is far worse. ”

"Tuanza, why do you say that?" Hu Hao's face was full of depression, and he also had a deep confusion, to say that Xiao Ri was powerful, five years ago, the Nineteenth Route Army and the Fifth Army also worked with Xiao Ri in Shanghai, and only five divisions fought with Xiao Ri and Xiao Ri, and he was so stunned that Xiao Ri was forced to increase his troops three times and change the commander of the four changes, but this time the Songhu Hui Warring States Civil Affairs Government invested more than 80 divisions before and after, including 59 German divisions, how could it be like this?

Qiu Weida didn't say anything with a dark face, Hu Hao couldn't reach the high-level, but he, Qiu Weida, was able to get in touch with the high-level of the national army, and he also knew that the reason why the Battle of Songhu was fought like this was entirely because Chairman Jiang made a serious strategic mistake, but naturally these words couldn't be told to Hu Hao, and Qiu Weida didn't even want to think about it

Hu Hao said again: "Tuanzuo, I have been a soldier for many years, and I really haven't fought such a battle. ”

"Okay, where is all this nonsense?" Qiu Weida interrupted Hu Hao and said, "Don't go over and stare at the point, let these soldiers quickly repair the fortifications, otherwise the day will not come over and your battalion will suffer." ”

Hu Hao pursed his lips and said disapprenously: "There is a 305th regiment guarding the Heding Bridge, how can Xiao Ri Ben hit Yuhuatai so quickly." ”

Although Zhang Lingfu was appointed as the commander of the 305th Regiment by the chief of staff of the 51st Division for a short time, the reputation of the 51st Division was already very bad, especially the words he harshly scolded his subordinates after being wounded, which had spread throughout the entire 51st Division: In the past, Xiang Yu was defeated and still unwilling to cross the Wujiang River, how could I cross the Yangtze River because of my injuries? When you fight the enemy to the death, you can practice!

"That's not to be careless." Qiu Weida said, "In the battle for Luodian, the artillery battalion of the 58th Division gave an end to a small group of Japanese troops, it can be seen that Xiaori does have an elite Japanese army that is very good at sneak attacks, we must not repeat the mistakes of the 58th Division artillery battalion, have the sentries in all directions been sent?" ”

Hu Hao said: "You can rest assured that the regimental seat has already been arranged, and all directions and key passes have been sent with light and dark double posts, and a squad of patrols has been sent to the southeast of the highway, and I dare not say that there is no leakage, but Xiao Rijian wanted to touch Meigang silently, it was wishful thinking." ”

"You kid." Qiu Weida smiled and pointed at Hu Hao, and picked up the sapper shovel to do the work, Hu Hao spat on the left and right palms, and also picked up the pointed pickaxe to dig up the trench.

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Meigang, North Slope.

In the half-human deep artemisia grass, three heads with steel helmets quietly poked out, and the steel helmets were buttoned with net pockets, and there were dead grass and branches stuck in the net pockets, even under the light of the bright moon, there was no trace of reflection, so if you didn't go to a very close distance, you wouldn't have found that there were still people hiding here.

These three steel helmets are the pathfinder group of the Ohara Brigade, led by the senior soldier Ono.

By the bright moonlight, Ono easily discovered the sentry post of the national army, but he did not act rashly, because he knew that it was only the sentry of the national army, and he knew that there must be a hidden sentry near the sentry of the national army.

Private Ono patiently observed the surrounding terrain, carefully sifting through the grass, bushes, and trees near the national outpost, and finally his eyes locked on an extraordinarily dense bush, although the national army outpost was well hidden, but still found a trace of the little devil.

The senior soldier Ono made a group of gestures, and the other two Japanese soldiers immediately disappeared into the grass, and the senior soldier Ono also removed the crossbow from his back, and then silently touched the extraordinarily dense artemisia grass in front of him with the crossbow.