Captain Maori, the deputy commander of the Japanese army, had just run to the last carriage of the military column in the face of a hail of bullets, when he received an urgent call from the captain of the squadron Ushijima, and the truck team was attacked by the Shina Army on the road, and the number of opponents was unknown but the fire was fierce. Captain Mori couldn't help but be taken aback, and hurriedly inquired about the location of Ushijima's attack, only to learn that the reinforcements of this squadron were already very close to him, and he immediately instructed Lieutenant Ushijima not to get too entangled with the Shina army that attacked him, and to make an all-out assault in the direction of the column, and then decide on the next move after achieving a rendezvous.

After talking to his squadron leader, Captain Maori was secretly shocked: How many of the Chinese army are coming?! In addition to the troops who were besieging the military columns, there were also surplus troops in the direction of Fuwen City! It seems that the Chinese army has been quite meticulous and resolute in its deployment for this siege and reinforcement operation.

Captain Maori was composed, and now he was in the last wagon of the military train, and his twenty or so men were leaning against the edge of the carriage, firing wildly at the Chinese troops on both sides of the railway with rifles and two Type 96 light machine guns; The members of the artillery squad reinforced by the brigade headquarters were huddled in the middle of the carriage around the two 92 infantry guns, unable to move. The Maori captain also crawled to the side of the captain of the artillery squad and shouted at him amid the deafening sound of gunfire: "Don't lie here like a quail, unload the cannon outside the carriage and fire at the Chinese people!" ”

Seeing that the deputy captain personally came to supervise the battle, the captain of the artillery squad did not dare to slack off, and his two 92-step guns were completely installed before they were loaded into the wagon, and the baffle of the carriage was higher than the gun body, so it was impossible to fire in the car in place like a curved mortar. Captain Maori looked around, ordered the infantry to take full cover, and at the same time opened the tail flap of the last wagon, while the artillerymen placed a large and heavy plank diagonally between the wagon and the railroad bed, and then pushed the wheels of the 92 rifle down the sloping plank.

In the process of scrambling, several members of the artillery squad were knocked down by bullets, but they finally succeeded in unloading the two 92-step guns from the carriage; The artillerymen pushed the two guns, one on the left and one on the right, to the bottom of the roadbed, and immediately began to aim at the Shina military shells lying in the wilderness.

Two or three miles north of the column, Lieutenant Ushijima, who had received the order from Captain Maori to die, ordered the five trucks in front of him that had not been ambushed to continue to move at full speed in the direction of the main battlefield, and he himself led a detachment to direct the officers and men on the four trucks that were attacked behind him to resist and make a detachment posture. One of the four trucks hit the roadbed tracks and couldn't move, and the other three were all desperately moving forward - trucks were a valuable resource for the automatic convoy of the Hagiwara Brigade and Regiment Station, and they should never be discarded until the last resort, and all the officers and men knew this very well - Ushijima had his infantry gather around the three trucks and fight back with all their might towards the ambush position set up by the Shina Army on one side, and fought and retreated.

Like his own commander, Lieutenant Ushijima's heart was full of surprise at the moment, the sound of fierce firefighting from the battlefield of the railway line ahead was enough to prove the intensity of the attack on Captain Maori's army (the attacking and defensive sides were actually engaged in an artillery battle), and the ambush he was encountered on the road, there were a large number of attackers on the position*! It was an automatic weapon that had never been installed in the Imperial Army, but its power was obvious to all. Where did this large and fierce army that suddenly appeared tonight come from? Could it be the Central Army that broke through through the net on the Jinnan front controlled by the division commander Lieutenant General?

"Report to the captain, the front convoy has found that there is a branch army intercepting it, and it has exchanged fire with them!"

Rolling and crawling back to report that it was a senior soldier, and Ushijima couldn't even believe for a moment that what this senior soldier said was true: Baga! Did the people of China scatter beans into soldiers as they did in ancient mythology?! How could so many troops pour out endlessly!

"Concentrate all the machine guns to open the way in front, open the way at all costs, and rendezvous with the Maori captain!"

The squadron leader gritted his teeth and roared. His squadron was not reinforced by any heavy weapons during this trip, only two mortars, nine light machine guns, and nine grenadiers were routinely equipped in the team, but this was actually strong enough, because at this moment, it was the first company of the first battalion of the 391st Regiment of the Central Army that was blocking the direction of the convoy in front of them, and the more than 100 officers and men of the company had only three Czech light machine guns and one grenadier in addition to rifles.

The 1st Company of the 1st Battalion, as the general reserve of the 391st Regiment tonight, had been patiently curling up next to the artillery position, so once it was released from the regimental seat, it pounced like a pack of wolves on the road to the north. The faint roar of Bergman*, the spy company's position, became the company's air guide, and when the Japanese car lights on the highway came head-on, the battle broke out instantly.

In fact, it was less than a mile away from the main battlefield of the railway line, and with the occasional flash of moonlight, the Japanese automobile soldiers could even vaguely see the swarthy military figures on the railroad tracks in front of them, as well as the fireworks and sparks spraying from the muzzles of the military columns. This gave hope to the trucks, and on the roofs of the cabs of several vehicles, a number of Type 96 light machine guns were erected, and they were firing frantically at the side of the road, and the officers and men in the cabins and jumping outside to meet the battle were also firing incessantly.

The first company of the 1st Battalion of the 391st Regiment also put all its machine guns in front, and three Czechs spat dazzling tongues of fire in the night, and the rain of bullets rained down on the truck fleet with conspicuous targets. The men behind the machine guns threw the * in batches onto the road after forming an attack formation. The warring sides have their own strengths, and the Japanese troops on the road have cars to rely on, which are powerful and condescending; The Central Army quickly completed the individual deployment on the roadside wasteland, with small targets, but it could easily aim at moving behemoths to shoot and drop bombs. The encounter heated up from the start, and casualties on both sides increased rapidly in a short period of time.

After letting go of the first company of the first battalion, Qin Zhongxiao no longer had any mobile forces at hand that could be mobilized. Just now, the commander of his artillery company finally drove him away from the temporary position of the 92nd infantry gun: because of the continuous approaching and firing of the artillery, the Japanese troops up and down the opposite column had obviously noticed this infantry gun that was in a vacant position, and a large number of weapons began to greet it, and one of the small * grenadiers exploded in front of the gun emplacement, and the two artillerymen were killed and wounded on the spot.

The battalion commander of the two companies of the second battalion, who finally withdrew from the front line of the attack, found Qin Zhongxiao in a hurry, and said with shame and indignation: "Tuanzuo, I have no ability, the military column is unreliable, and I have broken a lot of brothers......

The colonel of the Central Army stretched out his hand and pressed the shoulders of the second battalion commander, interrupted the other party's review, and ordered him to lead the team to continue to monitor the military column in front of him to strictly prevent the Japanese army from counterattacking.

"Wait, as long as the first battalion is withdrawn from the opposite side of the railway line, Lao Tzu will use the 75 mountain cannon to blow up the small Japanese military column into the sky!" Qin Zhongxiao gritted his teeth and said.

"And then, and then how to fight?"

"And then a fart! The Japanese began to continue to reinforce from the direction of Wencheng, and the new arrivals were almost the size of an infantry squadron, Deng Shoushan's spy company was blocking, and a battalion and a company were also intercepted by me! Little Japan still has reinforcements to send in the future, so we can't all fight it out here. ”

The expression of the second battalion commander was shocked, and only then did he know that the Japanese army had sent new reinforcements from Wencheng, and listening to the meaning of the words of Lord Tuanza, this planned siege and reinforcement was about to be abandoned halfway and died down!

Perhaps in order to corroborate the judgment of the colonel of the Central Army, before the commander of the second battalion could make an argument, a staff officer of the regimental headquarters suddenly came to report: The 7th Company of the 2nd Battalion of the Xu Brigade of the Eighth Route Army sent a cavalry liaison from the direction of Guanmen Mountain, informing Fengdian County that the Japanese puppet army had been dispatched, with the cavalry of the puppet Mongolian army in front and the Japanese automobile fleet behind, and the total strength should be more than a few hundred people; The 7th Company of the 2nd Battalion is blocking the preset position with all its might!

At this moment, Qin Zhongxiao's face also showed a shocked expression: The reaction speed of the Japanese army in the various strongholds is really fucking fast, and the Japanese puppet army in Fengdian County has made a big move, which means that this battle next to the railway line should not be fought again, otherwise, once the 7th Company of the Eighth Route Army can't withstand it, the 391st Regiment will carry heavy equipment to be attacked in the open field without danger to defend, and the sky will be bright, and the consequences will be unimaginable.

"What about a battalion? Has it been taken down? Rush immediately! The colonel's tone suddenly became stern, and he shouted to several operational staff officers around him: "Let the chief of staff hand over the command of monitoring the east gate of Lingshi County to Zhu Xingyun, and he himself will come back to me immediately." ”

Zhu Xingyun is the commander of the 6th Company of the 2nd Battalion of the 391st Regiment, and it was his company that feinted to attack the east gate of the county just now under the personal leadership of Chief of Staff Zhang Hong.

"Also, let Zhu Xingyun immediately send a liaison officer to the position of the 5th Company of the 2nd Battalion of the Xu Brigade to meet their Chief Wu Zijian and Chief Li Tianlin, and convey my personal request!"

The reason why Qin Zhongxiao used the word "personal request" in his order was because he was about to give the 5th Company of the 2nd Battalion of the Eighth Route Army a delicate task: to abandon the existing preset blocking position south of Lingshi County, and the whole company would move to the wide front of the Japanese military column, and be responsible for blocking the rear after the 391st Regiment began to withdraw.

This is indeed a delicate task. If the two Japanese armies, one after the other, only want to ensure that Lingshi County is not lost, they will sit back and watch the enemy completely withdraw and stand still; In this way, there will be no pressure on the troops who are responsible for the break. However, once the Japanese army discovered that the enemy troops on the opposite side were carrying out a general retreat and took advantage of the situation to cover up, the Eighth Route Army would take over this company in the frontal position of the 391st Regiment and would bear the fierce blows of the Japanese heavy forces alone!

As far as the joint operation plan of the two sides is concerned, the shared role of the 5th Company of the 2nd Battalion of the Eighth Route Army is to cover the flank of the 391st Regiment and the safety of the retreat. However, the colonel of the Central Army now has a bad omen in his heart: the Japanese puppet army in Fengdian County is dispatched late at night, and it is by no means as simple as simply relieving the siege of Lingshi County, and the intention of the Japanese army command is very likely to encircle and annihilate the incoming enemy!