Before smashing the radio station in Longmen Village, the devil's adjutant sent several telegrams, one of which was sent to Lieutenant General Yoshitaro Hayashi, commander of the 110th Division, although this Shimizu Special Operations Wing nominally belonged to the 110th Division, but it was directly under the headquarters of the Front Army in Beiping and under the command of Lieutenant General Anda, Chief of Staff of the Front Army. The commander of the 110th Division couldn't sit still.

Nearly two-thirds of the soldiers from Himeji alone in the 110th Division were from Himeji, and more than half of the more than 1,800 veterans from the 110th Division were also Himeji, and the adjutant of the Shimizu Wing was previously a captain in the 139th Wing, and the entire 139th Wing was composed of Himeji people.

If this matter is not handled well, it will directly affect the combat mentality of these Himeji soldiers, so Lieutenant General Yoshitaro Hayashi is in a hurry to Beiping on the one hand, and on the other hand, he has summoned senior staff officers to study whether he can support the Shimoshimizu Wing.

However, the results of the study were that the whip commander could not reach it, and the 110th Division was now mostly deployed in the southern Hebei region south of the Zhengtai Line and west of the Jiaoji Line, and the Baoding area where it was originally stationed had been handed over to the 63rd Division, and the distance between Shijiazhuang, where the division headquarters was located, and the area from Nandaozui, where the Qingshui Wing was besieged, was more than 300 kilometers away in a straight line, and there was still a base area on the Eighth Route and a heavy mountain in the middle, and the rescue was an impossible task.

At this time, the staff headquarters of the North China Front Army in Beiping was also nervously studying the changes in the battle situation, and the breakthrough operation of the Qingshui Wing was reported to Beiping, but there was no mention of the rearguard troops in the telegram. The "desperate telegram" sent by the adjutant commander of the wing denounced Shimizu Daisa for deliberately leaving the rear guard behind as bait. It doesn't matter whether hundreds of soldiers live or die. The General Staff Headquarters was also in an uproar!

Now the whole of China's dispatched troops are busy with the campaign to open up the mainland's communication lines, but the northwest of Hebei is not worrying, this Qingshui Da Zuofei stayed in the base area of the Eighth Road and did not come out, and said that he would stay for a few months and wait for the war in the south to stop, and then turn back to sweep up, but this lord has only stayed for a month, and he will start with the troops without saying hello!

This run was also ambushed by the Eighth Road, and the troops deployed by Lieutenant General Anda went to rescue him. As a result, as soon as the two troops were dispatched, the Eighth Route copied the back roads of Yixian and Laiyuan, and now the Kato Wing was also blocked in the iron camp in a dilemma, and there was a scandal that the adjutant commander of the wing and the rear guard unit were abandoned.

Despise is contempt, people have the chief of staff to protect, but also to study the rescue method, research is time-consuming, you can comfortably drink tea and look at the map when you are tired, you can rest, more than a hundred devils under Longmen Mountain are not so leisurely!

The fire dragon that the adjutant chief saw at a glance was indeed the new force of the two Eighth Route Armies! The two small regiments that had brought the replenished ammunition from the barracks town arrived ahead of schedule! They did not stop at the barracks for one night as planned. Yang Bangzi's telegram orders were sent to the military camp town, asking the logistics department to cook meals for 3,000 people. After eating these two small groups, they carried ammunition and hurried overnight!

In Kawaguchi Town, they also took dry food and ate while walking, and it was the same when they arrived at the Zouma Station, and in this way, more than 2,000 soldiers carried ammunition for more than 160 miles in a day and a night, six hours ahead of the scheduled arrival time, just in time for the battle at Longmen Mountain.

The adjutant of the devil ordered ten people to be left behind and guard at the small mound, and the rest were divided into three teams, one on the left, one on the right and one on the right, and they made an all-out assault into the valley under Longmen Mountain!

Longmen Mountain is two opposing peaks, the Tang River flows through the narrow valley between the two peaks, the narrowest point is only a few tens of meters wide, and the large open river beach in the north and south of the mountain peak is too contrasting, the 17th Regiment was originally in the half of the mountain peak, and there are two blocking forces arranged on the mountain beams that stretch down diagonally on both sides, and now only two companies are left on the mountain beams on both sides, and the people on the mountain peaks have withdrawn to the north to besiege the devils.

In this way, the adjutant led his subordinates to use people to cushion out a road, and when they rushed into the valley, they lost one-third of the people, and the injured really couldn't take them away, and the seriously injured could only be shot, and the lightly injured ones who could walk followed them, and those who couldn't walk were put under the stone rock next to them, and took care of themselves.

At the north entrance of the river valley, this small group of Japanese troops was intercepted by the 18th Regiment that was besieging the devil's position on the river beach, and the guns and cannons of Longmen Mountain rang out all night, and the focus of this meeting was on the west side of the mountain beam, whether it was the devils in the encirclement or the eight roads outside, no one expected that there were dozens of devils out of the river valley!

This devil is really playing with his life, the rifle with the bayonet in tattered clothes is really rushing north against the bullets of the eight roads, when people are numb to this kind of despair, they really don't know what to call afraid, the devil also wants to live, there is only one thought, and the large army can have the hope of getting out alive, so there is no need to shout, no greeting, gritting his teeth and not hiding or retreating!

The 18th Regiment did not put many people on the river beach, only a few combat groups, the terrain of the river beach was gentle, and the positions temporarily built by the devils were not conducive to the attack, so only a few troops were put to contain the firepower of the devils.

However, the troops on the eastern highlands and on the ridges of Longmen Mountain still discovered this group of devils, concentrated their firepower and smashed them violently, most of the devils who rushed out of the river valley fell, and only a few of the devil soldiers who came out of the encirclement to respond were brought back.

There were more than 600 people who stayed in the rear of the entire wing with the adjutant, and there were only seven left in the camp of the wing on the north side of Longmen Mountain alive! The adjutant general was undecided, so he asked the co-captain? As soon as the soldiers replied, they learned that Shimizu Daizo had taken part of the first brigade and the third brigade to stand out, and the remaining second brigade and more than a hundred wounded soldiers were intercepted here.

The captain of the second brigade, Ito Keiyuki, had already been killed in battle, and when he was commanding the attack on the west side of the mountain beam, he was hit in the head by a heavy machine gun bullet from the eighth road, and he died at that time, and two of the three squadron leaders also died, and the remaining one was also seriously injured and unconscious.

When the adjutant arrived, many of the soldiers were also from Himelu, and the fellow was in tears when he saw the fellow, not to mention that this is still the only senior officer who has not died or been injured, which is equivalent to the backbone of the main heart! The despair and panic in my heart were somewhat comforted.

It is an unshirkable responsibility, whether it is as the highest military rank in existence or as a fellow countryman, the adjutant has to be strong to command this group of headless flies-like soldiers, now the Eighth Road is heavily besieged on the river beach, and it is very likely that new troops will be transferred, and the adjutant wants to at least hold on until dawn, and then use the radio to call the air support camera to break through.

Quickly organize the people, all the officers even Cao Chang, Jun Cao, and Wu Chang called over, and held a meeting in the artillery fortification area, the adjutant chief can say, no one can be relied on now, everyone is from the 110th Division, they are all fellow villagers of Himeji, and they will have to rely on themselves to break out.

Do two things first, check the number of people and weapons and equipment, and count them immediately, the sooner the better! It's different if someone came to command, and the Japanese position, which was messy just now, was immediately organized! The number of people was quickly reported, and there were 784 people who could move and hold guns, and the situation of weapons and equipment was also reported, all the calibers of the cannons were counted, and there were 11 cannons that could still fire, and there was only one base number left in the shell reserve, and there were still six heavy machine guns, 19 light machine guns, 21 grenadiers equipped with projectiles, and an average of more than 60 bullets per soldier.

That's the basic situation, according to this posture, it will hold on to a defensive battle for more than half a day at most, if the Eighth Route is a tactic of fighting people regardless of casualties, just this amount of ammunition will be consumed in an hour or two at most!

When the statistics were counted, the adjutant chief also surveyed the entire defensive position, and felt that it was guarded on the big river beach, exposed to the peaks and high ground on three sides, which means that there was no heavy artillery in the dark night and the Eighth Road, and once it was dawn, the entire position had to be under the noses of the Eighth Road, so that people could see it thoroughly.

Therefore, after reporting the number of personnel and the number of people to be held, the adjutant decided to move the entire position to the north, abandon the open land of the big river beach, and concentrate the personnel in the crooked river valley on the north side, and there are inward depression impact surfaces on both sides of the river valley, so that it is convenient for the Tibetans, and use heavy machine guns and small-caliber rapid-fire guns to close the rock walls on both sides, and hold the mouth of the river valley on this side of the big river beach.

Facts have proved that the adjutant of the devil still has a bit of military literacy, and his vision is also very poisonous, so he pinched the Eighth Route and did not have heavy weapons, and gave up the position of the large river beach with too wide a defensive surface, and went to hold on to the relatively narrow river valley.

Moreover, the adjutant commander also ordered to save ammunition, not to shoot indiscriminately, to fire when he saw a moving target, and also collected the bullet magazines on the dead and wounded soldiers, distributed the ammunition uniformly, and tried to leave as much as possible for the machine guns.

Such a toss, not to mention, it works, the remnants of the army, which were about to collapse under the siege of the eighteenth and eighteenth regiments on all sides, seemed to have changed people, and after retreating into the river valley, they guarded the mouth of the valley less than 100 meters wide, like a hedgehog curled up in the corner of the wall!

Taking advantage of this time, the adjutant commander also directly called the headquarters of the Beiping Front Army and the division headquarters in Shijiazhuang in his own capacity, reported the situation of the remnants of the wing he led, and asked for support! (To be continued......)