After a few loud bangs, Liu Xiaohai and the others died together with dozens of devils, and after the fire and gunpowder smoke dissipated, tens of thousands of devil soldiers swarmed up, rushed into the trenches of the Dragon's Tooth Task Force, and then quickly captured and continued to rush towards Dahe Village.

The entire position was soon crowded with devils, Qiao Youhua and the others withdrew into the tunnel in Dahe Village, blocked the tunnel entrance, and continuously set up a minefield with a distance of dozens of meters in the tunnel entrance to prevent the devils from discovering the tunnel and entering.

Only then did he and Wu Ming retreat towards Feiyunling with the guards, and after withdrawing to Feiyunling, Qiao Youhua said to Zhao Youde, the deputy commander of the third battalion: "I will leave you a company to be responsible for the safety of Feiyunling, and at the same time, it should be noted that the entrance and exit of the tunnel from Dahe Village must be watched by people twenty-four hours a day, and if you are not afraid of 10,000, you must be afraid of what happens." ”

Zhao Youde nodded with a somewhat solemn face: "Yes, please rest assured, the head of the regiment, I will be on strict guard." ”

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Shimen, the headquarters of the 5th Division of the Japanese Army.

Seishiro Itagaki was frowning and pondering in front of the map, when a Japanese signal soldier came to him with a telegram in his hand, stepped forward and saluted: "General, the 9th Brigade is calling, they have successfully broken through the minefield defense line of the Shina people in Dahe Village, and are now marching rapidly towards Luquan County, and it is expected that in an hour, they can complete the encirclement of Luquan County." ”

Seishiro Itagaki finally smiled happily when he heard this, and nodded happily: "Yo Xi, there has finally been substantial progress!" Victory in this battle is in sight. ”

The chief of staff next to him, Nishimura Levin Daisa, also said with joy: "General, the western front defense line of the Shina people has been broken through by us, and Luquan will be completely encircled by the imperial army, and we can finally completely destroy this cunning opponent." ”

"Sue Sù Takagi Duanji, don't be careless, give full play to the advantages of the imperial army in strength and equipment, and do your best to eliminate the remnants of the Dragon Tooth Task Force." Itagaki Seishiro Road.

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"Did Deputy Battalion Commander Sun and Deputy Company Commander Liu die?" From the tunnel of Luquan County, the political commissar Guo Meng caught up with Qiao Youhua and asked.

Since the devil had already occupied Dahe Village and quickly blocked the communication between Feiyunling and Luquan County from the ground, Qiao Youhua and they could only march through the Guò tunnel, of course, this also had an advantage, that is, the devil thought that the dragon's tooth troops who had withdrawn from Dahe Village had entered Feiyunling, which was a few kilometers away, and was trapped in the mountains.

Because of this, the Japanese army temporarily gave up the attack on Feiyunling and used its main forces to attack Luquan County.

Qiao Youhua ran quickly in front and replied, "Well, they all sacrificed, in order to cover the withdrawal of the large army, in order to destroy the devil's tank." ”

The Japanese army has too many troops, and the disparity between the enemy and us is too great, and after this battle, Qiao Youhua has also thoroughly realized a serious problem, that is, before his side is equipped with advanced weapons across the era, in a head-on battle, the probability of winning more with less is almost equal to zero.

In particular, when personnel training is insufficient and equipment is inferior, today's battles are the best example, and future battles should still be dominated by flexible movement warfare, and only by not going head-to-head with devils can we make the most of our strong points and avoid our weak points.

This point has long been summed up by the great Chairman Mao, just in order to develop the base area, Qiao Youhua had to engage in a hard-fought positional defense and blocking battle with the devils, in the final analysis, the Dragon Tooth Task Force is still too weak, and the scope of the base area occupied is too small, and there is not enough strategic depth to detour.

At least until you build a well-established military industrial complex, you should avoid a head-on confrontation with the Japanese invaders. However, now that the Japanese army has arrived in the city, in order to fulfill the previous promise, this battle must continue to be fought no matter what, because people will not stand without faith, and survive this crisis, and in the future, in this radius of hundreds of miles, the Dragon's Tooth Task Force will gain great popularity.

This also shows that there are gains and losses in everything, and the blood of the fallen soldiers will not be shed in vain.

And Luquan County is no better than the small Dahe Village. The Dragon's Tooth Task Force has been operating in the county for a long time, with well-developed underground and surface fortifications, and the county town is countless times larger than Dahe Village, which also provides room for maneuver on the defending side.

Relying on the fortifications of Luquan County, there is still hope for this battle, and the biggest hope is the underground passage dug with manpower and material resources.

A dangerous plan has been born in Qiao Youhua's heart, and it can be implemented just by waiting for the right reality, whether it can reverse the tide of the battle and turn defeat into victory depends on this time.

In Luquan County, Ma Yunlong, the commander of the artillery battalion who was in charge of staying behind, had been notified by Qiao Youhua by phone, so he transferred all the artillery and militia in the city out of the city and stationed in the field defense positions outside the city.

At the same time, the first battalion of Erdaogouzi and the second battalion of Magou Town were also ordered to withdraw to Luquan and concentrate their forces to hold the Luquan defensive line.

Almost at the same time as the vanguard of the devils, they made up for the dilemma of insufficient strength of the artillery battalion in time.

The devils of the 5th and 10th Divisions were the first to reach the west of Luquan City, and launched a tentative attack, which was repulsed by a battalion of combined artillery and militiamen who rushed to reinforce them.

Subsequently, Qiao Youhua, Guo Meng, and Wu Ming led more than 1,700 officers and soldiers who had withdrawn from Dahe Village to arrive, and the strength of the whole regiment had arrived at this point.

After these days of fighting, the Dragon's Tooth Task Force lost a lot of troops, with less than 900 men left in the first battalion, and the second and third battalions in better condition, with more than 1,000 men each.

The reconnaissance company suffered the greatest losses, except for Liu Jianhua, the company commander who was seriously wounded and did not wake up, and a few wounded soldiers who had been wounded in the Western Front blocking battle and were sent back to Feiyunling.

It can be said that the current reconnaissance company has already existed in name only, and in addition, Zheng Yunshan's guard company has also suffered heavy losses, and the original guard company of more than 200 people, after continuous combat these days, only more than 90 people remain.

Of course, the Guard Company is also the unit that has participated in the most battles in the Dragon's Tooth Task Force.

The only thing that did not lose was the artillery battalion, which was still full of more than 600 people, and now the total strength of the Dragon Tooth Task Force was more than 3,800 people, of which more than 200 people followed Zhao Youde and stayed in Feiyunling.

There are about 3,600 people in Luquan, plus more than 500 militiamen with very weak combat strength, a total of more than 4,100 people, this is all the troops in Qiao Youhua's hands now.

After Qiao Youhua arrived, he immediately took advantage of the fact that the devil troops had not yet arrived and there was no time to launch an attack, and convened a meeting of officers at and above the company level, and the meeting arranged the defense and deployment of the whole regiment.

The third battalion with the largest number of troops is responsible for the defense of the west of the city, the second battalion is responsible for the north of the city, and the first battalion is responsible for the west and south of the city.

In order to make up for the lack of troops, more than 500 militiamen were all replenished into the first battalion, the guard company was responsible for the defense of the city walls, and the artillery battalion was ready to provide artillery support to the battalions outside the city.