Wang Haitao took the telegram in Tang Xiaoshan's hand and read it, and after reading it, he handed the telegram to Tang Hongming. After reading it, Tang Hongming returned it to Tang Xiaoshan, and then Wang Haitao asked: "Hongming, it seems that tomorrow Little Japan will launch an attack in the left direction, how long can your division stop Little Japan?" Tang Hongming replied: "Military seat, the mountains and forests on this road are high and dense, and the road is rugged, which is not conducive to the deployment of the Japanese army's large troops, and besides, the telegram only said that the Japanese army's 48th Division is assembling, if the Japanese army only dispatches one division, then it is not certain whether it can hit this Shangsi County!"

Wang Haitao said: "Hongming, you must not underestimate the enemy, if the 48th Division of the Japanese army suffers a loss, there will definitely be reinforcements behind, you don't have to fight hard with little Japan, I will give you a time limit of 15 days, as long as you defend Shangsi County within 15 days, you can retreat on your own after 15 days, how can you do it?"

Tang Hongming stood up and said: "Yes, military seat! Our 210th Division guarantees to complete the task!" Wang Haitao nodded and said: "Remember, don't fight hard with Little Japan, you must suffer as few losses as possible, I don't want you to kill 1,000 enemies and lose 800 yourself." Then he turned his head and said to Tang Xiaoshan: "Xiaoshan, your reconnaissance brigade should make good use of the terrain, show your ability to take care of your house, and constantly attack and harass the enemy army, so that little Japan will not eat and sleep well." It is also necessary to constantly pay attention to the movements of the Japanese army, and report the situation to Hongming in a timely manner. ”

Tang Xiaoshan also hurriedly stood up and replied, "Yes, please rest assured, I know what to do." Wang Haitao nodded with satisfaction. The headquarters of the 14th Army in Qinzhou City was also brightly lit at this time, and the commander of the 14th Army, Lieutenant General Masaharu Honma, was summoning the commander of the 48th Division, Lieutenant General Hiroshi Nakagawa. At the previous battle meeting, Lieutenant General Masaharu Honma had assigned tasks to several of his troops, and the task of the 48th Division was to attack and advance westward, and it was necessary to capture the city of Suzuo.

Today, Lieutenant General Masaharu Honma summoned Lieutenant General Nakagawa Hiroshi, commander of the 48th Division, to encourage Lieutenant General Nakagawa. In the previous Battle of Wuhan, Lieutenant General Masaharu Honma led the 27th Division to fight Wang Haitao's 90th Army. At that time, the 27th Division was almost wiped out under the blow of the 90th Army, and Lieutenant General Honma Masaharu almost died, which was considered a great shame by Admiral Masaharu Honma, and vowed to avenge the blood hatred.

This time, when Tokyo convened the Imperial Council for the loss of Yueyang, it hated the 90th Army of this branch very much, and the base camp decided to draw troops from the Southern Army to carry out a two-sided attack on Longzhou County, the base of the 90th Army, and it was necessary to destroy the 90th Army of this China and the army commander Wang Haitao together.

After a meeting of the Southern Army Headquarters, General Terauchi decided to send the 2nd Division and the 56th Mixed Brigade of the 16th Army to attack Pingxiang City and Longzhou County from the direction of French Indochina (Vietnam). The 14th Army, one of the main forces of the Corps, was withdrawn, landed in Qinzhou Port, occupied Qinzhou City, and attacked Chongzuo City and Longzhou County.

Lieutenant General Masaharu Honma can finally fight the 90th Army of this China again, and Lieutenant General Masaharu Honma is also excited to be able to be ashamed. However, Lieutenant General Yaqing in the middle knew that the 90th Army was extremely difficult, so he asked the 48th Division to take the lead and capture Chongzuo City first, there are reasons why the terrain here in Guangxi is too complicated and the large corps cannot be used, and there is also the strength of the 16th Division to preserve, and after the 48th Division takes Chongzuo City, the elite troops of the 16th Division will be invested to capture Longzhou County in one fell swoop and eliminate the 90th Army and Wang Haitao's mind.

Lieutenant General Honma Masaharu gave the commander of the 48th Division, Lieutenant General Hiroshi Nakagawa, and then asked Lieutenant General Hiroshi Nakagawa to go back and prepare for the next day's attack. The 48th Division is a newly formed three-wing division, and the main force is reorganized from the original Taiwan brigade, and the soldiers are very murderous. In addition, the weapons and equipment of the division and regiment are not bad, so in the previous battles of invading Southeast Asia, they made a lot of achievements.

In his opinion, in the face of the vulnerable Chinese army, the 48th Division only needed seven to ten days to capture Chongzuo City. Early the next morning, the 241st Infantry Wing of the 48th Division set off as the vanguard of the whole division.

Behind the 241st Infantry Wing were the division headquarters, the 221st Wing of the Mountain Artillery, the Engineer Wing, and the Baggage Wing, all of which were protected by the 242nd Infantry Wing, and at the rear was the 243rd Infantry Wing. The 30-kilometer road taken from the barracks outside Qinzhou City was quite easy to walk, and the 48th Division completed the 30-kilometer road in one morning, and the troops entered the mountainous area at noon.

The 48th Division, which also experienced mountain warfare and jungle warfare when it participated in battles in Southeast Asia, was no stranger to this. After entering the mountain, the commander of the 241st Infantry Wing, Gu Wu Yasumasada, became cautious, not only put an infantry squadron in front to explore the way, but also kept the soldiers on guard, and from time to time conducted a fire reconnaissance of the woods on the hillside.

The 241st Infantry Brigade walked smoothly for more than two hours and entered a winding mountain road, where the slope was steep and the road surface was not good. The troops had to slow down. Just after the infantry squadron that had opened the way had turned a sharp bend, gunfire suddenly rang out on the opposite hill beam. The flying bullets knocked down a dozen soldiers at once, and after two minutes of confusion, the infantry squadron began a counterattack under the command of the squadron leader.

Hearing that the gunshots were wrong, Guwu Zhengan Dazuo hurriedly ordered the two squadrons behind him to go up to support. When the two squadrons rushed up, set up crane guns and mortars, and fired indiscriminately at the opposite mountain beam, the opposite mountain beam fell silent. Guwu Zhengan Dazuo sent a team to search, but found nothing. By the time the 241st Infantry Brigade was on the road again, an hour had passed.

The 241st Infantry Brigade advanced more carefully and more slowly. It wasn't until it got dark that Guwu Zhengan Dazuo ordered to camp in a valley. After the 241st Infantry Brigade set up camp, the main force of the division behind also arrived, and the first division of more than 10,000 Japanese troops filled the entire valley. In the middle of the night, except for the soldiers standing guard and patrolling, everyone else had already fallen asleep, when suddenly a few shots flew from the sky*, and in the midst of the explosion, the sound of machine guns was heard, and the Japanese barracks were blown up in one fell swoop.

A dozen shells flew in, and the machine guns rang out for a few minutes, and when the Japanese sent a search team to search in the direction of the machine sound, they found nothing. This toss, when the Japanese military camp calmed down, the sky was about to dawn. The next morning, countless Japanese soldiers were packing up their bags in two black circles, listlessly and angrily.

During the day's march, the 241st Wing was still in front, and Wing Commander Guwu Yasusho Dazuo also sent a squadron to reconnoiter and explore the road in front. This time, however, he also sent two teams to search along the slopes of the hill 50 meters on each side of the road. In this way, there were constant attacks along the way, which made Gu Wuan Zhengdazuo annoyed. From the place where they started to the first position set up by the 210th Division, the 241st Wing walked for three days before reaching the entrance of Bazhaigou.

As soon as he entered Bazhaigou, Guwu Anji Dazuo Liliu was vigilant, the terrain here is too dangerous, there are mountains on both sides of the road, the slopes are still very steep, and the trees are quite dense. The road that zigzagged forward was badly damaged, and the troops' advance could not be accelerated. On the one hand, Guwu Anji Dazuo ordered the troops to be on guard, and on the other hand, he asked the troops to pass through this section of the road as quickly as possible.

As soon as the Japanese army entered Bazhaigou, the two battalion commanders on the defensive line got the news. He Renlong, the commander of the first battalion, spat at the ground and said, "This little Japan is finally here, and the grandfathers have been waiting for a long time! The brothers are ready, and they will beat Lao Tzu hard!" When the Japanese troops were less than 500 meters away from their positions, the ten 82-caliber mortars used by each of the two battalions were the first to strike.

Each mortar was fired three rapid fires, and dozens of shells fell down at once, and the squadron that the Japanese army was searching for in front was immediately drowned in a cloud of gunpowder smoke and fire. As soon as Guwu Anji Dazuo heard the intensity of the shell explosion, he knew that it was wrong, this was by no means a sneak attack by a small force, and the number of artillery pieces was definitely only available to the main regular army in the Chinese army.

Zuowu Anji Daisa immediately ordered the troops to spread out in formation, and the artillery squadron of the wing counterattacked with artillery fire. The Japanese were also well-trained, and in just a few minutes they were ready for the attack, and then four Type 92 infantry guns and twelve 80-caliber mortars began shelling the artillery positions of the defenders. However, due to the limitation of the terrain, the Japanese artillery discharge is relatively concentrated, which gives the defenders a chance.

After communicating with each other on walkie-talkies, He Renlong, commander of the first battalion, and Hua Yuqiang, commander of the second battalion, ordered all artillery fire to be aimed at the Japanese artillery positions and fired. The two battalions together had 48 mortars of large and small calibers, and as soon as the guns were fired at the same time, a Japanese artillery squadron was no match at all, and in less than 10 minutes, a Japanese artillery squadron was completely wiped out.

This can frighten Gu Wu Anji Dazuo, the opposite side of the Chinese army actually has so many artillery, and one of his own artillery squadrons can be completely shattered in a few minutes, how can this battle be fought? Gu Anji Dazuo hurriedly ordered all of them to retreat, and they will talk about it after they withdraw from this ravine. At the command to retreat, the Japanese quickly retreated, leaving hundreds of corpses underground.

He Renlong and they did not chase after them, and let the Japanese army withdraw from the ravine. The infantry didn't fire a single shot, and with only a few dozen cannons, the Japanese army left hundreds of corpses and fled, which also made He Renlong a little proud. He Renlong scolded at the pseudo-back of the Japanese army: "The little Japan raised by the son of a bitch runs faster than a rabbit, and he wants to destroy our 90th Army with this ability?"