Just after one o'clock, the forward units of the Japanese army arrived. These devils rode in more than 40 military trucks, with nearly 20 motorcycles and 100 bicycles as the lead in the search and advanced lightly. The little devil behaved very cautiously, and would stop at an intersection or a place where there was a mountain that made it easy to set up an ambush to reconnoitre. This made Ding Haiyun, the brigade commander of the Xuejiu Brigade, who first discovered this, a little worried, worried that the Japanese army's way of advancing would turn the ambush battle into an encounter.

Ding Haiyun's worries are not unnecessary. After the Japanese forward troops arrived at the Zhangyang Chain Bridge, they stopped, and the captain of the devil brigade got down from a military card, observed the Zhangyang Chain Bridge for a while under the illumination of the headlights of several motorcycles, and then asked the puppet army commander who came over: "Qian Sang, is this the Zhangyang Chain Bridge?" ”

"Yes."

The width of the Zhangyang chain bridge is about one meter five, and the military truck and armored vehicles can't pass through, so the captain of the devil brigade examines it for a while, and orders the leading troops composed of motorcycles and bicycles to cross the river first to occupy the south bank of the chain bridge, and then let a captain lead a hundred and ten devils to cross the river from the ice with two empty military trucks to test the bearing capacity of the ice.

In less than twenty minutes, the Japanese troops crossing the river had established a defensive position on the south bank, and at the same time, large Japanese forces had also arrived one after another.

Surrounded by dozens of devils, Xincang Yinong walked to the north end of the chain bridge. The captain of the Devil Brigade of the vanguard immediately stepped forward to report the situation. Ikin Shinkura walked down the embankment with a group of people, personally inspected the bearing capacity of the ice surface, and decided to cross the river separately according to the advice of the forward captain.

"The little devil is very cautious!" Where the temporary headquarters of the Third Guerrilla Division was located, Jiang Tiejiao whispered to Jiang Tiezhang.

Jiang Tiezhang didn't care much about this, he only cared about whether the iron boss could handle the Japanese artillery.

The Japanese brought a total of 14 cannons, two of which were heavy guns of 150 mm caliber. It may seem like a small number, but for the 3rd Guerrilla Division, which has only a few dozen mortars, it is a huge threat.

Jiang Tietou's reconnaissance battalion suffered heavy losses in the sniper battle at Nanjin Yao, and the first and second companies were almost wiped out. Although some were later replenished from Chu Tiange's guard troops, now there are only two companies. And according to their observations, there was a brigade of the Japanese army that moved with its artillery. 200 people against more than 1,000 people, even though the reconnaissance battalion's level of military skills and tactics was much higher than that of the other party, and it still took the lead, Jiang Tiezhang still lacked confidence.

He was frowning slightly and thinking about this, when the communications staff officer next to him suddenly whispered, "Tieling received." Then, he handed the microphone to Jiang Tiezhang and whispered, "Iron boss!" ”

Jiang Tiezhang took the microphone and said, "I'm the fifth iron boss, boss, what's the situation?" ”

At this time, Tie Boss was lying under the embankment on the west bank of Guantang Lake, about three kilometers away from the Zhangyang Iron Chain Bridge, and about 50 meters away from him, the Japanese artillery and a brigade of infantry were winding south. He protected the microphone and said softly: "Old Five, we have decided to do it, otherwise the devil artillery will meet with the large army!" How's it going over there? ”

Devil artillery is the greatest threat and must be annihilated. However, if the reconnaissance battalion launched an attack first, it would inevitably cause a large-scale counterattack by the main Japanese army. Therefore, for the sake of prudence, of course, it is better for the Third Guerrilla Division to launch the attack first.

Jiang Tiezhang naturally understood this truth, he looked at the south bank of the chain bridge, and said to Zhu Hou, the head of the guard regiment on the side: "Send a signal!" ”

Zhu Hou nodded, raised the pistol and pulled the trigger, "pop papa" three gunshots, one red, two green three signal flares rose into the air one after another, and then drew a beautiful arc in the sky and fell in the direction of the chain bridge.

The signal flare rose into the air, and the field on the east side of the north bank of the iron head peak and the iron chain bridge was shot out as several flares took off one after another, and the sound of gunfire rang out.

Three signal flares suddenly rose in the southwest direction, and Xincang Yinong, who was standing at the north end of the chain bridge and watched his subordinates cross the river, looked up and saw it, and at the same time, he was taken aback, and blurted out: "Enemy attack!" Quick, defend in place! He shouted not necessarily, a hundred and ten meters behind him, a series of explosions sounded, but it was Ding Haiyun who asked his subordinates to pull the pre-planted chain of mines.

"Hit!" "Rush!" The Ninth Brigade took the lead in attacking, and the battalion and company commanders took the lead in getting up from the ground and rushing towards the Japanese army while shouting.

At this time, more than 2,000 devils had crossed the river in the Fourth Brigade, and there were more than 300 military trucks that crossed the river. After the main force crossed the river, the puppet army and devils of the forward force left the south bank and continued to move forward, and at this time, they happened to appear at the foot of Tietou Peak.

The sound of explosions just came from the north bank, Fang Deqing, the commander of the Seventh Brigade, waved his gun and shouted, and more than 3,600 students roared and pounced on the puppet army and devils at the foot of the mountain.

At the same time, the Eighth Brigade of Xue, under the leadership of the brigade commander Luan Shan, fought out from Houlang and rushed straight to the waist and abdomen of the formation of the main force of the Japanese army.

The mortar battalion, the only heavy firepower unit of the "Tongtong ......" Third Division, began to exert its might under the command of Chang Chunguo, the battalion tent, and the shooting of Zhu Yuan had been set up a long time ago, aiming at the river around the chain bridge.

The water of the Le'an River is panting, and even though it is frozen because of the severe cold this time, its ice thickness is incomparable with that of the Ganjiang River and Xiushui. The mortar battalion position is located on the Tietou Peak, and one salvo is more than 30 grenades, but after three rounds of salvo, cracks appeared on the ice surface of the Le'an River, and after five rounds, the ice began to collapse. And once an ice surface collapses, the ice surface of this Le'an River is like an avalanche, and it can no longer bear the weight of the devils and military cards on it, and it quickly collapses as a whole. The width of this section of the Le'an River is about 200 meters, and at this moment, on the surface of the river that is as wide as 3 or 400 meters, there are more than 3,000 devils and hundreds of military trucks staggering. In just five minutes, these devils and military cards were swallowed up by the cracked river, and it became a nightmare for the fourth brigade.

Under the flares, the scene was fully watched by the commanders of the warring sides. The morale of the cadet army was high, the "tick-tock" charge horn sounded, and the cadet soldiers shouted: "Kill!" "Brothers, rush!" …… While throwing grenades wildly, he pulled the trigger sharply, and rushed towards the Japanese army like a tiger in the mountains. As for the Japanese army, listening to the Japanese-style cries for help and miserable howls coming from the river, many devils have lost their courage before fighting, and the puppet army of that regiment only hated that his father and mother had two legs, and ran in the direction that they thought was safe, but they just ran headlong into the hill occupied by Jiang Tiezhang.