As soon as the artillery unit of the Devil's Special Operations Wing opened up in such a posture and bombed a mountain cliff indiscriminately, time was delayed, and when the forward troops encountered stubborn resistance from the Eighth Route at the fork of the Yulong River five miles away, the rearguard troops escorted the artillery team before they began to set off for the north.

By the time the artillery team arrived at the mouth of the battlering valley, both sides had already exchanged hands twice! The mountain beams on both sides of the valley mouth that extend from the cliffs south of Xiaoguan City are extremely steep, and it is difficult to climb empty-handed, not to mention the heavily armed devil soldiers, who can't take the high ground on both sides, and the terraces on both sides of the valley mouth have become insurmountable barriers!

Many junior officers and ordinary soldiers of the special operations wing complained in their hearts that if they didn't take the road south, they had to take this way back, and the result was one card after another! The fortifications on this ditch and the fork terrace are all built by the devils themselves, which is called a refinement!

Foxholes, communication trenches, main trenches, secondary trenches, machine gun fortifications, side-fire points, bunkers and more! The soldiers of the third division of the teaching brigade are simply useless, and they all praise the devil for being serious and responsible in his work!

But the attacking devils are about to cry! On the flattened river beach, can the troops be deployed too much, because there is no shelter, and investing too many troops is equivalent to adding live targets to the opponent, and the number of troops invested at one time is less, and under the cross-fire of the east and west, it can hardly play any deterrent role on the position of the Eighth Road!

If you want to hit the fork in the east platform, you have to find the firing position along the western slope, but the best firing position close to the west is within the firing range of the eight roads on the side of the ditch!

How do you think this battle will be fought? Fire support can't go up. As soon as the infantry charged, they were flanked from both sides. Eight roads are not dirt eight roads. Rifles, machine guns, even grenadiers! In this small area, the density of firepower is even more fierce than that of the Japanese army!

It wasn't until the mule and horse teams of the artillery unit arrived that this situation was broken, and the artillery group composed of mountain artillery was on board, which was considered to have borrowed the strength of the infantry! After all, the artillery fired direct fire more than two miles away, and it could hit the range of the mouth of the river valley, and the Eighth Route could block the impact of the infantry with its fortifications, but it had to be blocked under such fierce artillery fire. But it's hard!

This time, the devils were not in a hurry to put in the infantry, and the artillery fire was prepared for more than half an hour, until the positions exposed on both sides of the valley mouth of the eighth road were silent at all, and the infantry divided into two groups, sticking to the foot of the mountain on both sides, and slowly wanted to move on the side of the valley mouth.

Like Tuliangzi in the south of Xiaoguan City, after the artillery fired hundreds of shells, there were no people on the position of the Eighth Road! Where have all the people gone? The Japanese soldiers have seen it! There is a red flag clearly planted on the cow trough ridge on the west side of the ditch, and a red flag is also tied to the old locust tree in Nanmazhuang on the other side of the river, even on the north mountain behind Nanmazhuang. There are also a few flags fluttering in the wind.

Now the sun is setting in the west! Departing from 12 o'clock at noon, 30 miles of river beach road. After walking for more than five hours so far, Shimizu Dazuo confidently thought that he could raid the predetermined Heishigou before dark, but he didn't expect to finish even half of the way!

But he thought about it for a while, whether he got to Shuigou here, at least stationed at the fork in the road, and the Eighth Road couldn't judge which direction he was going to go for a while, and after letting the troops rest, he suddenly attacked the first target he set after returning to the north - the horse post!

It is a very clever choice to go to the horse post after returning to the north, either go west to Duyu and go to Shentangbao to return to Fanzhi, too far, or go east to go to the horse post, retreat can go back to Laiyuan or Lingqiu, do not retreat from the central area of the Eighth Road Kawaguchi Town is not far away, over the inverted horse pass, that is, do not retreat or advance to stay in the horse post, but also ask the front army to send troops from the source and Lingqiu to the south to converge, which is equivalent to wedge the hinterland of the Eighth Road military division into a big nail at once, and divide the territory of the Eighth Road called Yang Bangzi into two!

Therefore, Qing Shui Dazuo didn't want to expose this intention in advance, so he ordered to prepare for defense at the water ditch and the fork of the Yulong River before dark, and spend the night here today!

The eight roads on the other bank blew up the repaired wooden bridge again, and even the piers were pulled out, and only the river flowed quietly from west to east between the two sides.

There are two main things that give Qing Shui a headache, one is that the number of wounded soldiers is gradually increasing, and most of them are not seriously injured, what is the head and chest, either the ankle or the leg, or the stomach, there is no fatal injury, but he can't walk, and he can't be cured if he is not seriously injured, so he solves it on the spot, and now more than 100 wounded soldiers have to be carried by people, and hundreds of mules and horses have to carry artillery and ammunition on their backs, which is more important than wounded soldiers.

Moreover, the large troops of the Eighth Route have not appeared, they are all small units that run away with a few shots, and even if there are many of them here in Xiaoguancheng and Shuigou, according to Qing Shui's estimate, it is only the size of a company of 100 people, so where is the Eighth Route of the brigade that the reconnaissance plane pilot reported to have rushed back from the east?

He just came to find Yang Bangzi's main force for the eight-way decisive battle, and now he can't touch the opponent, so he is so entangled with some small troops, which is really unpleasant! You see that after the sky darkens, on the mountains far and near all around, the Eighth Road is still uncharacteristically lit with bonfires everywhere, on the contrary, the Japanese camp controlled by the lights is dark and lifeless.

The morale of the troops was a little low, and Qing Shui decided to go for a walk among the soldiers, knowing that the old tradition of lack of communication between officers and soldiers in the Yellow Army was not a good phenomenon, and that when he was in the hinterland of the enemy's base area, he, the highest field commander, had to go and talk to the soldiers.

Since the eight roads are lit with bonfires, why do we have to go dark! Besides, there is no long-range artillery on the Eighth Road, and the nearest occupation point is more than two miles away from a river, Qing Shui called the duty officer and ordered to light a bonfire and let the soldiers roast the fire, and if there is no fire in the mountains in early winter, it can cold people to death!

Dozens of bonfires were also lit in the camp of the devils, and for a while, within a circle of more than ten miles up and down the mountain, there were swaying bonfires everywhere, regardless of whether anyone was roasting the fire, anyway, looking at the bright one, the enemy and I tacitly used the bonfire to cheer ourselves up!

Yang Bangzi stood on the north mountain, looked at the devils in the ditch camp opposite, and wondered in his heart, the little devil had never made a fire, and now he also lit a fire, this is a demonstration with us! This is going to make them psychologically stronger, and won't their morale come up?

This bad guy immediately sent an order to Fan Daring, who was on the other side of the river, on the west side of the ditch and on the east side of the fork of the Yulong River, secretly dispatched a team carrying mortars to lurk in a place where the shells could reach the devil's camp and fire three rapid shots! Evacuate immediately, when will the devil put out the fire, and when will he not fix this matter!

The order was issued, but it didn't arrive for half an hour, and the cannonballs exploded in the devil camps on both sides! The devils who were attacked by the shells were beaten by artillery and machine guns in four rounds for a long time before they stopped.

The devil still has a long memory, and he hasn't put out the fire yet, so isn't the pile of bonfires the same as illuminating the artillery of the Eighth Road? Half an hour later, there was a chaotic sound, and more than a dozen shells flew into the devil's camp again! This has finally stabbed the hornet's nest out! The devils followed the direction of what might be an incoming shell, and fought for more than half an hour in one breath!

The gunfire hasn't stopped, and the bonfire has finally gone out! As a retaliation, the devil also fired a cannon at the eight-way bonfire within the radial range, but no one looked at the bonfire we lit, and it was beaten and extinguished.

Shimizu Daisa was sitting with the soldiers drinking sake and singing songs when he was almost hit by a cannonball, and if it weren't for the fact that his adjutant heard the sound of the cannonball at the tip of his ear and jumped up and crushed him down, Shimizu would have gone back to see the emperor's ancestors!

The angry Qing Shui is really scolding! The good mood of drinking and singing songs is gone! This doesn't make people live! But there was no trick, and in the end I had to listen to the adjutant, so that the whole battalion extinguished the bonfire. (To be continued......)