In the cold wind of the morning light, on the road from Fengdian to Hekou Village at the western foot of Guanmen Mountain, the special service company of the 391st Regiment of the Central Army was marching rapidly.

The order given to the company commander Zhao Mutou was that the entire spy company searched and advanced in the direction of Hekou Village. But at dawn in the middle of winter, there was no figure in sight on the vast wasteland, and the spy company forgot the word "search" and headed towards its destination at an almost running speed.

The direction leading from here to Kanmon Mountain is said to be a main road, but in fact, it should be said to be a wasteland. The east and west sides of Fengdian are the mountains that extend from the big and small elm mountains respectively, and the front of the south gate of the county seat is a wide wilderness, which is enough to extend to the south for more than ten miles, and only then does the Qianren cliff at the north foot of Guanmen Mountain appear in front of you, and you can reach Hekou Village by going around the north foot and turning to the west foot.

On weekdays, Fengdian was stationed with heavy troops of the Japanese puppet army, and often sent rangers and small units to patrol around the outside of the county town, so the people of the 391st Regiment of the Central Army rarely appeared in this area publicly. But today is different, Qin Zhongxiao's intelligence shows that the Japanese puppet army in the county town is almost out of the nest, and one of them carried out a night attack on the Eighth Route Army in Hekou Village, which is dozens of miles away; The colonel of the Central Army gave the order to rush to the aid of friendly forces in the early morning, and the special service company that fought the vanguard rushed out of the Great Elm Mountain and began to march rapidly.

When they swaggered through the south of Fengdian City, Zhao Mutou saw the panicked movement of the Japanese garrison at the head of the city. The commander of the spy company knew that at this moment, the Japanese soldiers on the city gate tower and the city walls on both sides were at best dozens of people, and the little devil probably thought that his group of men and horses was here to attack the city. Zhao Mutou basked in disdain, and warned his subordinates not to pay attention to the movements of the Japanese army in the city, and march at full speed.

After a while, the people of the first battalion will follow this route, leaving it to the commander of the first battalion to scare these little devils who are cowering in the city-Zhao Mutou thought so, and a mysterious smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

Suddenly, there was the sound of cannons in the north, which sounded exceptionally clear in the great density of the air in the morning. There is no doubt that two companies of the 2nd Battalion, armed with Type 92 infantry guns and mortars and grenadiers, were launching a feint attack on the northern city of Fengdian. This time, the Japanese army at the head of Nancheng City was really more busy.

Zhao Mutou's spy company, after several additions and reorganizations by Qin Zhongxiao, has reached 90 people, divided into three platoons, each platoon of 30 people, each platoon is organized into two squads. The Spy Company's proud German-made Bergman* and Shell Gun dual gun configurations were also discounted in several battle losses, and now only two platoons are still armed, and they are not up to the level of two guns that everyone has two guns. The third platoon even had to be armed with a medium formal rifle.

According to Zhao Mutou's meaning, he would rather lack than indiscriminate, and did not agree to transfer troops from the first battalion and the second battalion to supplement the spy company, but Qin Zhongxiao felt that the spy company was the blood and blood of the division headquarters and could not be lost in his own hands, so he still gave great preference and care.

Right now, this reorganized spy company is marching all the way with vigor. When they threw Fengdian County far away, they vaguely heard the sound of machine gun fire coming from behind them. Zhao Mutou smiled again on his face: The main force of the first battalion should be passing through the south gate of Fengdian, it was obviously the gunfire from the 92 heavy machine, if it was not hit by the devils in the city, it must have been hit by the machine gun company of the 391 regiment headquarters - the last counterattack on Fengdian, two Type 92 heavy machine guns were captured, and they were all moved out today.

Before leaving, Qin Zhongxiao told Zhao Mutou that the front team must send top soldiers. Although the 391st Regiment dispatched the size of five companies this time, it was only more than 500 people, with heavy machine guns but no artillery (the cannons were placed outside the north city of Fengdian to make a feint), and it was marching on foot on the open wasteland; Once they meet the heavy forces of the Japanese puppet army, the other side has trucks, cavalry, and various artillery, and the gap between the two sides in the balance of forces is not small, so it is necessary to be cautious.

The colonel of the Central Army dared to send troops on a large scale in the open terrain during the day, mainly in a hurry to relieve the siege of the Eighth Route Army at the foot of Guanmen Mountain. Of course, he also calculated that the Japanese puppet army and the Eighth Route Army fought fiercely for a night, no matter what the outcome of the Eighth Route Army was, the Japanese puppet troops would have considerable losses, after all, Wu Zijian's subordinates were still very strong. On this basis, the 391st Regiment sent the main force of five companies forward, as long as it did not engage in a large-scale field battle with the Japanese puppet army with heavy weapons in the wasteland, the situation should be controllable.

For this reason, Zhao Mutou was seated in the group, the front team of the top soldiers pulled very open, twenty people composed of a team of two people, each group of about ten zhang apart, once the front of the top soldiers found the enemy's situation, that is, quickly passed backwards, ten groups of sharp soldiers full of a hundred zhang away. The main force of the spy company followed behind the spearhead team, and followed suit. The three companies of the first battalion and one company of the second battalion led by Qin Zhongxiao were separated from the spy company by about two miles.

They traveled more than ten miles and arrived at the northern foot of Guanmen Mountain. The north foot does not enter the mountain pass from Guanmen Mountain, all of them are cliffs as high as dozens of zhang, and the big elm mountain and the small elm mountain that extend parallel on both sides of Fengdian come to an end here, and the Guanmen Mountain is just like its name in front of it, closing a gate to the middle corridor between the big and small elm mountains.

Accompanying the special service company was the company commander of the 6th Company of the 2nd Battalion of the 391st Regiment, who had already traveled back and forth to Hekou Village several times as a liaison officer, and was familiar with the path, so he was asked to play a guiding role with the forward. Qin Zhongxiao considered that the commander of the 6th Company had a very hard journey overnight, and specially prepared a horse for him. The energetic Zhao Mutou saw that the commander of the 6th company rode the war horse of the Mongolian cavalry alone and walked in the ranks of the spy company, and his little naughty boy's mischievous heart was difficult to contain, so he ran to his horse and warned that the intelligence showed that the Japanese army in front had snipers with accurate marksmanship, and the 38 big cover was specially aimed at the officers on horseback in the national army, and they could generally shoot their heads with one shot. He should be careful.

Although the commander of the 6th company was suspicious, he was warned by Zhao Mutou several times, and he couldn't help but feel a little hairy in his heart. At this moment, two crisp gunshots suddenly rang out in front of him, and it sounded like they were fired by Japanese 38 guns. The commander of the 6th company could no longer hold back his nervous nerves, rolled over and rolled off the horse's back.

But Zhao Mutou no longer had the heart to make fun of the other party, because he could hear it as soon as he heard it from the shell gun carried by his subordinates, and he had already seen the long line of spearheads beating drums and passing the news to him.

"Spread out, find shelter, and prepare for battle!"

The spy company commander, who was still full of jokes just now, changed into a person in a blink of an eye, and decisively gave an order.

Soon, the intelligence of the spearhead arrived: a team of unknown cavalry was found galloping towards this place in front, and after the spearhead fired a warning shot, the other party reined in his horses, dismounted and put on a fighting posture, and there were about dozens of horsemen and horses.

No need to ask, it must be the cavalry of the puppet Mongolian army! The commander of the 6th company and a few of his subordinates were on this road last night, and they saw with their own eyes that there were a large number of puppet Mongolian cavalry in the team that drove by. Now that they have returned, is the battle in Kawaguchi over?

Gunfire rang out again, and this time, not only the rifles, but also the Bergman* of the Secret Service Company's spearhead began to shoot, and it seemed that the other side had engaged in the engagement. Zhao Mutou ordered his subordinates to report to the regimental seat behind, and he personally led a platoon and ran in the direction of the firefight-this rabble of the puppet Mongolian army dares to face the battle, see how Lao Tzu cleans you up!

But the commander of the special service company of the 391st Regiment made a mistake, what his top soldiers just discovered and fired at was not the cavalry of the puppet Mongolian army at all, but the cavalry company of the second battalion of the Eighth Route Army's Forest Division!

Under the guidance of the enemy engineer captain, Xia Lianshan led the cavalry company to raid the Japanese headquarters, and almost killed the Japanese commander.

In fact, the purpose of this raid was to encircle Wei and save Zhao, and strive to force the Japanese puppet army that attacked Hekou Village to retreat partially. Xia Lianshan himself did not dare to hope that his actions would really destroy the command center of the Japanese puppet army tonight. When he unexpectedly found that the target of their surprise attack was only guarded by a small number of troops, and they were panicked and chaotic in the face of the surprise attack. Xia Lianshan suddenly became excited: If he really took the command of the Japanese army and could even kill their commander, it would be a miracle!

He ordered to rush and beat the trucks that had already collided with each other and stopped ignishing, and if nothing else, the trucks should be the highest officer commanding the Japanese puppet army to fight tonight. However, the Type 96 light machine gun hiding under the truck seriously slowed Xia Lianshan's pace of attack.

The Japanese wing commander Kosuke Otsuka, under the cover of this machine gun, was protected by several staff officers, and fled south in embarrassment.

Sure enough, before he could run to the place where the cavalry of the Mongolian Army had been standing, Lieutenant Mizuno's staff officer came up with more than a dozen soldiers, including the two machine guns. Kosuke Otsuka was so frightened that he immediately ordered the machine guns to be erected in place, and once the cavalry of the Shina soldiers rushed over, they would hit them fiercely.

At the same time, Otsuka also saw that the attacking troops, apparently receiving an urgent report, began to withdraw from Kawaguchi Village and swept towards this side. The wing commander couldn't help but be taken aback, he didn't expect that Nara Shaosa gave the order to withdraw all the troops. Shaozo received an urgent report and mistakenly thought that the Chinese army had come with reinforcements and was outflanking them, so he immediately withdrew all his men.

In this way, the Japanese puppet army attacked Hekou Village, which had only been assaulted overnight, and gave up completely at this moment.

Xia Lianshan didn't notice this, what he was thinking about now was to desperately end up the command of the Japanese puppet army!