From Yinfang Town to Heiyaogou, the highway distance is 12 kilometers, from Heiyaogou to Xingshutai and Shahe Village, the highway distance is 15 kilometers, Kuroda Dazuo originally wanted to retreat steadily, and withdraw the brigade to Heiyaogou in one day, and the forward to Xingshutai and Shahe, so that no matter if the forward troops of more than 1,000 people can't eat the eight roads, the base camp will not be able to gnaw on the eight roads.

However, when the captain of the Kuroda Wing had just moved to Heiyaogou with the base camp, a battle report from Xingshutai came back from the front, and the 1st Division of the Eighth Route had occupied Xingshutai and Shahe Village, and ambushed the mixed infantry and cavalry brigade that was going to open the road on the high ground on both sides of the road.

Encountering the blockade of the Eighth Road, this Kuroda knew in his heart, and it was normal for there to be interceptions in front of the retreat and pursuers in the back, but Kuroda had already taken countermeasures, and immediately let the base camp stay in Heiyaogou on the spot, occupy favorable terrain, and build field fortifications, and at the same time sent a cavalry brigade carrying artillery in the direction of Xingshutai to strengthen the troops on that side.

Kuroda, who was guarding in front of the radio, was more and more panicked when he heard the news from the front line, and nearly 2,000 infantry and cavalry mixed troops carrying infantry guns fought fiercely for three hours, and they were even blocked from advancing a single step on Xingshutai! And the aerial reconnaissance plane also reminded him three times and twice that in the mountains on both sides of the Black Kiln Ditch, a large number of unknown armed men were found approaching Kuroda!

At four o'clock in the afternoon, Kuroda couldn't sit still! The alert troops outside the south entrance of the Black Kiln Ditch have already been attacked! This is the first time in such a day that the troops of the Eighth Route Army dare to take the lead in attacking his troops during the day! This shows that the Eighth Route must have gathered a large force, so it has no fear, and then call for air support at this time. It's getting dark. Army Airlines planes will not come!

In desperation. Kuroda ordered to abandon the base camp of Heiyaogou, and the whole team quickly moved closer to Xingshutai! Only one squadron was left to defend the road in the direction of Xingshutai from the Black Kiln Communication to cover the evacuation of the brigade.

Before dark, the brigade headquarters of the Kuroda Wing, which was as slow as moving, finally crossed the Loess Ridge and arrived at the valley between Shangzhuangzi and the teaching field after getting rid of the blocking and harassment of many small troops of the Eighth Road. This place is less than five kilometers away from the forward troops of Xingshutai.

Kuroda, who had originally wanted to spend the night in Shangzhuangzi tonight, was shocked when he heard the sudden outbreak of fierce gunfire in front of the brigade, and understood that the Eighth Route must have occupied this small village!

Between Shangzhuangzi and Jiaochang is a small basin that is almost circular, the road winds northeast from the valley through this small basin, and between the two sides of the road to the slope is a small piece of farmland, the autumn harvest has been completed, and the ridges in the farmland are as hard as slate.

At present, more than 4,000 people from the headquarters of the Kuroda Wing, the baggage and other troops are crowded into this small basin more than two kilometers long and less than one kilometer wide, and there are only about a dozen households in Kyoba Village, and the common people have long since fled into the mountains. Kuroda had no choice but to set up his headquarters here first.

It was getting dark, and Shangzhuangzi Village had not yet been taken down. This small village is on the ridge next to the road, the road passes by the side of the village, and now the eighth road relies on the houses and courtyards of the mountain village, plus the high ground on both sides of the road, the high and low firepower is matched, and the firepower from far and near is crossed, and it is stunned to repel the attack of the Kuroda Wing from the squadron to the scale of the brigade three times!

The adjutant commander who led the team from the 4th Independent Mixed Brigade reported that his troops had rushed into the village for the fourth time to engage in hand-to-hand combat with the Eighth Road, but the Eighth Route Army was fighting to the death, and they had just been beaten back to the outside of the village by the Eighth Route and Third Route.

According to the adjutant general's report, in the area of Xingshutai and Shahe, it was observed that at least the main force of thousands of people was concentrated on the Eighth Road, not only small artillery and heavy machine guns, but also light machine guns and rifles of the first-line companies were also fierce, and it was by no means the local troops of the Eighth Route or the guerrillas, militia, etc., and he begged the captain of the Kuroda Wing to give up all baggage and vehicles, and quickly move closer to Xingshutai.

The adjutant general's implication is that if he doesn't break through early, I'm afraid he will be surrounded by the Eighth Route Division, and there is a danger of annihilation of the whole army! Kuroda heard this, he didn't think so, although the night is the helper of the Eight Roads, but he has seven or eight thousand soldiers, can he still be scared by this Eight Roads?

Fortunately, there were no planes and heavy artillery on the Eighth Road, and in such a narrow terrain, if there was a bomber on the Eighth Road, it would drop dozens of bombs without heavy bombs, or light ones, and after a bomb landed, it would at least cause hundreds of casualties among the ground troops.

Kuroda set up the defensive position, withdrew the troops to rest, and had dinner, and then set up a fight to fight Zhuangzi at night!

After a round of artillery fire, the houses and courtyards of dozens of families in Shangzhuangzi basically ceased to exist! These hundred-year-old households on the big ridge were all destroyed by artillery fire along with the hundred and ten old trees on the plateau! The flames of the trunks and wooden beams reflected the orange of the valley, and in the light of the fire, the devils rushed up again with their rifles loaded with bayonets!

The other two devil infantry also launched attacks on the terraces and high ground on both sides of the road at the same time, and for a time the northeast half of the small basin was shrouded in smoke and fierce gunfire! The devils don't know how many Eighth Route Army troops are intercepting them, anyway, under such a fierce artillery bombardment, every time the devils think that there will be no more Eighth Route still alive on the position, the Eighth Route will still appear in tattered clothes in front of the devils!

In the first few attacks, the captain assigned by the captain of the Kuroda Wing still attacked in a clear manner according to the normal attack procedure, and the infantry artillery combined with the infantry support to attack in a layered manner, and more than an hour later, the Japanese army with heavy casualties was also like crazy, and they came completely out of accordance with the procedure, and even the formation was disrupted, and they desperately advanced towards Zhuangzi Village in Lushang step by step! Every ditch, every ridge, every rock, every bush is a place where the two sides fight to the death!

Every time the devils take a step forward, they have to pay a great price, Kuroda Daisa, who watched the battle at the entrance of the village of Jiaochang, was frightened, and the hot sweat on his body did not stop flowing in the cold autumn night, and his mouth was dry all the time, but when the people withdrew, he also filled the only well in the village with stones, and before he finished cleaning up and taking out the water, Kuroda could only be thirsty to command the battle.

Seeing that the infantry finally rushed to the Tukan Plateau, a fierce battle broke out in the village of Shangzhuangzi, the flashes of tracer bullets and grenade explosions from machine guns pierced the night sky one after another, and the battle on the terraces on both sides was also approaching the top of the mountain, Kuroda was just about to breathe a sigh of relief, and the troops who served as the rear guard on the radio called the wing headquarters! The rearguard troops in Heiyaogou were surrounded by a large number of eight-way night attacks, and asked the wing headquarters to send troops to meet the breakthrough!

The exit hasn't opened yet, and the back road has been copied by others! Kuroda is depressed, I want to start the fight happily, the Eighth Road doesn't give him a chance, and after so many days, I haven't even seen the shadow of the big army of the Eighth Road, and now I want to withdraw, it's really not easy! The large army of the Eighth Route began to attack from all sides, as if it had fallen from the sky.

To save or not to save? Kuroda pondered for a while, and told the captain of the broken squadron on the radio that he must hold his position and hold off the eight roads, and he immediately sent a cavalry team to meet them to break through!

Putting down the walkie-talkie, Kuroda gave the order, discarded all useless materials except guns and ammunition, and quickly passed through Shangzhuangzi Village lightly to join the troops of the adjutant of Xingshutai!

Kuroda coaxed the broken squadron and let them desperately hold their positions, so as to give Kuroda's headquarters time to break through, but it's a pity that a squadron devil didn't know that he was betrayed by his commander until he died! Before he died, the squadron leader said that the cavalry would come to their rescue!

After more than three hours of bloody fighting, it was almost midnight when the headquarters of the Kuroda United finally took Shangzhuangzi Village, Kuroda listened to the gunfire in the direction of Heiyaogou from a distance, turned his head and ordered, the whole army covered each other and marched to the northeast!

All the cars and other transport vehicles discarded by the Japanese army carried weapons, ammunition and three days' field rations, ignored the bullets fired from the mountains on both sides, and ran lifelessly along the road to the northeast. (To be continued......)