Hearing that Wang Haitao asked him to lead the last two battalions to attack at a critical time, although Tangshan Leopard disagreed a little in his heart, he still agreed, knowing Wang Haitao's temper, and prayed in his heart not to appear at such a time. As soon as it was dawn the next day, all the officers and men began to make preparations for the launch, and everyone knew that there would be a big battle with the Japanese army today, and they were excited and a little nervous at the same time.

As in previous days, the 1st Mixed Armored Battalion set out first, followed by the officers and men of the 877th Regiment. As the vanguard of the whole army, they were to rush to the city of Xingan before 10 o'clock in the morning and prepare for the attack. The feint assault on the county seat of Xingan will also begin promptly at 10 a.m. The vanguard troops set out for nearly two hours before the main force of the 878th and 879th Regiments, the headquarters of the 211th Division of the 1st and 2nd Mixed Armored Battalions, and the self-propelled howitzer and artillery regiments left the station, and the two units opened a distance of 10 kilometers.

Soon after the departure of the main force, Wang Haitao led the 3rd Guard Regiment, the 211th Division's Guard Regiment, the 211th Division's Light Armored Regiment, and the 130 Heavy Cannon Regiment to also set off, marching more than 10 kilometers, and the 130 Heavy Cannon Regiment and a Guard Battalion broke away from the troops and selected a site to build an artillery position. At this time, the main force was at the foot of KONE Horse Brain Mountain.

When the vanguard passed under the horse brain mountain, it had already alarmed the Japanese troops who were lying in ambush at the foot of the mountain, and the information that the Chinese troops had arrived was immediately sent to Lieutenant General Oshirodo Sanji, commander of the 22nd Division. In fact, when the Chinese army captured the county town of Xiajiang, Lieutenant General Sanji Osejoto had already received information. What he didn't understand was why this rescue force was moving so slowly.

After some discussion with the chief of staff, Major General Yamawaki Masao, it was concluded that the rescue army had a lot of heavy weapons and was difficult to travel on mountain roads, so the march was so slow. The plan for this encirclement and reinforcement was proposed by Lieutenant General Oshirodo Miharu to Commander Isamu Yokoyama, because the 22nd Division arrived late and did not make any contribution when ambushing the besieged Shina troops.

When the Twelfth Army was lost, Commander Isamu Yokoyama was worried that the Chinese army would attack Nanchang City, so he sent a telegram to the headquarters of the Sixth Front Army in Wuhan to request that troops be sent to reinforce Nanchang City. Although the commander of the Sixth Front Army, General Okamura Ninji, was extremely dissatisfied with the fact that Commander Isamu Yokoyama had lost troops due to his ineffective warfare, Nanchang City must be defended.

Therefore, General Okamura Ninji urgently mobilized three divisions from the area near Nanchang to reinforce Nanchang. The 22nd Division was originally stationed near Jingdezhen, and was originally going to reinforce Nanchang via Jiujiang, but because Yokoyama Yuji* wanted to ambush the Shina army attacking Nanchang, it was temporarily changed to take the direction of Yingtan to go around to the rear of the Shina army and block its retreat.

But after the ambush began, although the Chinese army was ambushed and suffered heavy losses, they unexpectedly not only did not retreat in the direction of Ji'an, but fought hard to capture Zhangshu County, and waited for reinforcements in the city. Lieutenant General Oshirodo Sanji was unwilling to fail to achieve military merit, and he expected that the Dingshina army would definitely send troops to rescue the troops besieged in Zhangshu County, so he proposed to Commander Isamu Yokoyama a battle plan to encircle the point and send reinforcements.

The fact that they were able to inflict heavy losses on the troops of the China that came to attack Nanchang, especially the troops of the 90th Group Army, which had extremely strong combat effectiveness, had already overjoyed Commander Isamu Yokoyama. Because of the crushing defeat of the 11th Army and the 12th Army, especially the loss of five divisions of the 11th Army at once, which was almost a devastating blow, and the loss of most of the cities in Hunan, he thought that this time he lost his official position and went to his post was the best result, even if he returned to China and went to a military court.

But the victory of the ambush gave him hope that if he could defeat or even eliminate the 90th Group Army of China, which was hated by the Imperial Japanese Army, he would not only not lose his official position and be tried, but would also become a hero. Therefore, when Lieutenant General Oshiroto Sanji's battle plan was reported, Lieutenant General Yokoyama did not hesitate to approve the battle plan.

In the dense forest of Nantou Mountain, the division headquarters of the 22nd Division is located here. Lieutenant General Oshiroto Sanji looked at the telegram in his hand with two panda eyes. In the past few days of ambush on the mountain, his life has not been easy. The concentration of the two infantry wings was too large, and Lieutenant General Oshirodo Sanji was worried that such an obvious target would be detected by the Chinese army and thus sabotage his battle plan, so he scattered his men in the South Head Mountain.

But in the past two or three days, there have always been small groups of guerrillas attacking the troops everywhere day and night. These small groups of troops always took advantage of the unpreparedness of the troops, firing a burst of guns, throwing a few grenades and bullets, causing more than a dozen casualties to the troops, and when the troops counterattacked, they quickly fled without a trace. At one time, I thought that the plan had been discovered, but the chief of staff, Major General Yamawaki Masao, pointed out that the Chinese army that attacked and harassed was very much like the guerrillas of the Chinese Communists, and it was not like the style of the regular army such as the 90 Ji Trapped Army, and if it was the guerrillas of the Chinese Communists, then the Chinese Communists would not obey the orders of the Kuomintang regular army such as the 90 th Group Army, so it is unlikely that the plan will be exposed.

In this way, Lieutenant General Daijo Sanji persevered. But every day, there were casualties caused by poisonous snake bites, accidental ingestion of poisonous food, and other circumstances, and the attacks of the guerrillas, which made him restless and unwilling to stay here for a day. Even Wang Haitao was cursed by Lieutenant General Sanzhi of the big city because of the slow movement of the troops.

The telegram in the hand of Lieutenant General Oshirodo Sanji was sent by Fukano Tokinosuke Osa, the commander of the 84th Wing who was ambushed in Mabrain Mountain, and the telegram reported to Lieutenant General Oshirodo Sanji that the Shina army was passing through the road under Matou Mountain, reported the size of the Shina army, and asked the division commander if his troops would attack. After reading the telegram, Lieutenant General Oshirodo Sanji scolded angrily: "Idiot!"

Judging from the size of the Shina army reported by telegram, it is obvious that it is the vanguard of the Shina people and is also the unit used to explore the road, and if they attack at this time, will they not be completely exposed? As soon as the main force of Shina retreats, won't they have to wait for so many days? Isn't the sin they suffered in vain? Lieutenant General Oshirodo Sanji immediately sent a telegram back to Fukano Tokinosuke Osa, telling him that it was only the vanguard of the Shina people who were passing by now, and that he was to hide it well, not to be exposed, and to wait for the order to attack.

More than an hour later, his men came in to report that the troops of the Chinese were passing by the road below the Nantouling Mountain. Lieutenant General Ojodo Sanji couldn't help but get excited, he expected that when the Shina army gathered under Xingan County, and when it launched an attack on Xingan County, his mountain artillery wing would bombard the attacking Shina army, and then his own division would attack with all its strength to destroy this coming reinforcement of the Shina army under Xingan County.

Lieutenant General Oshirodo Sanji seems to have seen the yellow medal awarded to him and the increased general star. The sound of a report at the door interrupted his illusions, and Lieutenant General Oshirodo Sanji was a little displeased to let the person who reported in. It was a signal soldier who sent an urgent telegram from Tokinosuke Osa. Lieutenant General Miharu Oshirodo opened the telegram, and Tokinosuke Osa Fukano reported to him that the main force of Shina was passing under Mt. Mabrain.

At 9:30 a.m., the 877th Regiment and the 1st Mixed Armored Battalion rushed to the outside of Xingan County and immediately began to make preparations for the attack. The Japanese army did not build fortifications outside the city of Xingan, and all of them retreated inside the city. The first thing the 877th Regiment rushed to repair was the fortifications. When Major General Takeshi Kono, commander of the Kono Mixed Brigade in the city of Xingan, learned that the Chinese army was approaching the city, he ordered the troops to defend and sent a telegram to Lieutenant General Miharu Ojoto, asking him to attack the Chinese troops outside the city with artillery fire.

Lieutenant General Oshirodo Sanji simply ordered the Mountain Artillery Wing to prepare for the bombardment, and waited for the Chinese troops to gather under the Shinkan Castle. At the same time, Tokinosuke Osa of Mabrain Mountain also received an order to prepare for an attack. The two infantry wings here also began to assemble, and when the shelling began, the two ambushes would attack with all their might to destroy the Chinese army.

At ten o'clock, the 877th Regiment outside Xingan County on time used the heavy mortars of the regimental heavy fire battalion to shell the city wall of Xingan County, and several tanks mixed with the armored battalion also approached the city wall and launched an artillery bombardment of the city wall, but the infantry were hidden in the trenches that had just been dug out and did not attack, and even the armored vehicles did not move. Almost at the same time as the shelling of Xingan County, the reconnaissance regiment of the 211th Division and the anti-Japanese brigade, which had been in ambush for a long time, also moved against the Japanese artillery positions.

The reconnaissance regiment and the anti-Japanese brigade lurked under the noses of the artillery positions, and the Japanese defenses, which thought they would not be discovered, were extremely lax. As soon as the battle began, the reconnaissance regiment used the mortars it carried to catch the defending Japanese troops by surprise, and the ten-minute shelling had already caused chaos on the Japanese artillery positions and caused heavy casualties. The commander of the 52nd Wing of the Mountain Artillery, Commander Tashoyoshi Osa, while organizing his subordinates to defend against enemy attacks, asked the division commander for help.

The sound of artillery from the mountain artillery wing made Lieutenant General Sanji Ojodo and the chief of staff, Major General Yamawaki Masao, stand up in shock. Lieutenant General Oshirodo Sanji thought that the mountain artillery wing had opened fire without permission, but when he heard it, he found that something was wrong, and the difference between the sound of artillery and the sound of explosions could be heard by fools, and Lieutenant General Oshirodo Sanji glanced at Major General Yamawaki Masao and asked, "When did the communist guerrillas have so many mortars?"

After asking, Lieutenant General Oshirodo Sanji and Major General Yamawaki Masao, who immediately reacted, changed color in unison. Lieutenant General Oshirodo Sanji immediately reacted that his ambush had already been discovered by the Chinese army, and the Chinese army had also sent a main force to lurk near his artillery wing, and at this critical moment he attacked his own artillery position.

Thinking that he was still stupid enough to think that the Chinese army would not find out about his ambush and was tricked by the Chinese army, Lieutenant General Oshirodo Sanji was ashamed and angry. But this is not the time to fire, the top priority is to first hold the artillery position, and then attack with all your strength to fight to the death with this Chinese army. Lieutenant General Oshirodo Sanji immediately ordered the two infantry battalions in ambush near the mountain artillery wing to reinforce the artillery positions that were being attacked, and at the same time ordered all the ambushed troops to attack the Chinese army with all their might.