"Ono-kun, go back and report the news, Xifengkou has been occupied by the Chinese people! Tell the brigade commander that our plan to quickly take Xifengkou is no longer possible." In the crowd of Japanese soldiers down the mountain, one second lieutenant said to another. Then, he said to his subordinates, who had already gathered around him, "Your Majesty the Emperor, dismount, let us show the people of Shina what a true samurai is!" ”

"Hay!" The devils responded loudly, calmly dismounted, and then lined up in a skirmish line, and actually counterattacked towards the mountain on the left that rushed the fastest.

Beside Yang Kangyu, correspondent Xie Changhe saw a few devil soldiers turning their horses and running towards the way they came, and hurriedly reported to Yang Kangyu: "Battalion commander, there are devils who want to escape!" ”

Yang Kangyu put down a devil with one shot, turned his head to look, was anxious, and shouted at a few snipers behind him: "Zhang Dabazi, the devil who reported the news will be handed over to your sniper squad, and no one is allowed to be spared!" Grandma's, don't be a squad leader if you leave! ”

Zhang Dabazi is a man with five big and three thick, and when he heard this, he snorted and lay more steadily. I saw that his left eye suddenly narrowed, and a few seconds later, a light smoke came out of the muzzle of his blocking gun, followed by the second lieutenant of the devil who was running at the front of the devil's escape queue, and the next moment, he fell off the horse.

The horse, not knowing that its master was dead, galloped away, only dragging the second lieutenant on the mountain road with a long, blood-red "one".

With the squad leader as an example, the other sniper squad soldiers began to perform sniper kung fu, and in the sound of gunfire one after another, none of the thirteen devils who galloped out could escape, and all of them were killed with one shot.

The purpose of He Zheng's arrangement of this ambush is to annihilate this part of the devils is one of them, and the other is to make the devil brigade not know the specific situation on the side of Xifengkou, so as to delay a little time, so that the tank and self-propelled artillery units behind can keep up.

The devil of the Japanese attack on Xifengkou was a brigade and a cavalry wing, with a number of about 15,000 people. And He Zheng's regiment was full of only about 1,200 people. With 1,200 men against 15,000 people, and it was known as the second strongest Japanese army in the world, Ouyang Yun had not been arrogant to this extent. All he was thinking about was hoping to delay a little time so that the situation in Peiping would stabilize and the large forces would be brought up.

If He Zheng's regiment wants to achieve this strategic goal, it is impossible to do it without the support of artillery and tank troops, you must know that in the 33-year Great Wall War of Resistance, the national army was 350,000 people in battle, but it was still defeated by 50,000 Japanese troops.

In the headquarters of Xifengkou Pass, He Zhengchuan saw the battle under the mountain through a telescope and sighed: "It's a pity that there is not enough time, otherwise it would be much easier to fight this battle with some mines." ”

The speaker was unintentional, the listener was intentional, and Guo Changjiang, the regimental chief of staff next to him, listened and continued: "With the powerful firepower of the 'Wei Qing style', it should not be a problem to eliminate this cavalry that is not good at gunfighting." The big army of the little devils is still behind, and when the battlefield is cleaned up, we might as well lay more mines. ”

"Great idea!" Looking at the several peaks in front of the Xifeng Pass, and paying special attention to the mountain that had been set up as an artillery position by the little devils, He Zhengchuan said: "We only have the strength of a regiment, and it is not realistic to fully defend all sections of the road. It seems that we have to sit on this 'trick thunder'. ”

Ouyang Yun was influenced by the later movie "Mine Warfare", and attached great importance to the development and application of landmines, and also set up special courses in military schools. However, because of the different circumstances and the different leading ideas of the operation, Xu did not attract the attention of the officers of the cadet army, especially the low-level officers. Now, because of the problem of small troops, He Zhengchuan and Guo Changjiang accidentally remembered the role of mines, and in the subsequent battles, they enlisted the powerful and strange power of mines, so that the vast majority of front-line officers began to pay attention to mine warfare.

The power of the "Weiqing-style" assault rifle has been fully highlighted after the two battles of Wen'an and the victory in Tianjin. Now, not only the 59th Army and the Yuegui Army have begun to buy and equip on a large scale, such as Fu Zuoyi and Han Fuqu's department, but also began to want to buy this kind of gun that can be fired continuously. Of course, because their relationship with Ouyang Yun is not close, they can only wait patiently when the Xuebing Army itself has not completed all the outfits.

The battle at the bottom of the mountain lasted for about twenty minutes, and in the end, with the Cadet Army sparing bullets, none of the devil cavalry of a squadron could escape, and all of them were killed.

After that, after a simple cleaning of the battlefield, He Zhengchuan continued to send reconnaissance troops to find out the speed of the devil's march, and at the same time began to mobilize the whole regiment and lay mines on a large scale. Among them, on the mountains on both sides of the battle just now, many treacherous mines were laid, and a chain of mines that could be controlled by man.

After laying all the mines in his hand, He Zheng's long-awaited tank troops and self-propelled artillery units arrived. According to the order of the military headquarters, these two troops were also under the command of He Zhengchuan. After consulting with Hu Li, the battalion commander of the tank battalion, and Wang Dahai, the battalion commander of the self-propelled artillery battalion, he lined up all the tanks directly on the open space in front of Xifengkou, and then integrated the self-propelled artillery with the artillery battalion of the regiment, and placed the self-propelled artillery in front of the No. 2 position near the front of the No. 1 position.

After completing the deployment of troops, another half an hour passed, and the big battle was finally about to begin as the reconnaissance personnel who had gone to reconnoiter the movements of the Japanese army returned one after another.

As for the 9th Division of the Japanese Army, the commander of the 9th Division was not Lieutenant General Yoshizu Ryosuke, but Major General Nobuyoki Iide of the 18th Brigade and Chief of Staff of the Division Nakagawa Kosa. Among them, the Ninth Cavalry Wing was personally commanded by Nakagawa Kosa.

When a cavalry squadron in charge of exploring the path did not return for a long time, Nakagawa Hiroshi felt that something was wrong. In the operational plan drawn up by the General Staff of the Kwantung Army, it was originally to take Xifengkou directly, then exercise full control over it, and then use Xifengkou as a base to advance to Beiping. Now that the Xifengkou Pass has fallen into the hands of the national army, whether Yoshizu Ryosuke and Nakagawa Hiroshi are willing or not, this direct take can only become a strong attack. What's worse is that because of the various methods adopted by the Cadet Army after controlling Jicha, the spy system operated by the Japanese army during the era of Kenji Dohihara was almost completely destroyed, and the current Japanese have become blind in Jicha. Therefore, although Nakagawa Hiroshi already knew that the Xifengkou of Lu Dao must have been occupied by the Chinese army, he did not know who the opponent really was.

The cavalry troops commanded by Nakagawa Hiroshi were originally known for their speed, but because he didn't know what was going on at the Xifeng Pass, he didn't dare to rush forward so recklessly. After all, cavalry is only suitable for pursuit and one-sided breakthroughs on the battlefield, but attacking fortifications is not its forte.

Once Nakagawa Hiroshi became cautious, the speed advantage of this cavalry would not be there. In this way, it gave He Zhengchuan more time to prepare, and also enabled him to calmly complete the minelaying and troop arrangement.