Chapter 11: Wild Supplement (24)

Liao Hanguo slept until the middle of the day, and Liao Hanguo, who slept until he woke up naturally, opened his sleepy eyes, looked at the watch on his wrist casually, and sat up suddenly, it was already twelve o'clock! Rolling over and getting up, he rushed out of the tent, the sun was shining outside, the sun was shining through the pine forest, and the ground was dappled. As far as the eye could see, there was still silence, not a trace of cooking smoke, and not a trace of post-war joy.

"Get up!" Behind him, the voice of deputy head Li Ruiquan.

"Why don't you call me, just let me sleep so unconscious." Liao Hanguo was a little angry and said, "If the enemy has any trouble, how can I get it!" ”

"Hey, hey!" Li Rui thought to himself, isn't this also heartache for you, caring for you, knowing that you haven't slept for a day and a night, so let you make up for it. smiled: "The Japanese army withdrew." ”

"Haha!" Liao Hanguo's eyes opened in surprise, and the Japanese army retreated like this! Asked, "All back?" ”

"No, half of it was back." Li Ruiquan said.

"Half back?" Liao Hanguo nodded, half of his clothes were half draped on his shoulders, and thought, "What the hell is the little devil trying to do!" ”

"There are no clothes, no guns, and it's useless to follow, so it's better to go back and re-equip." Li Ruiquan said.

"Not necessarily." Liao Hanguo shook his head.

With questions, thinking all the way, all the way to the mechanical gargling and washing of the face, Chinese breakfast together. Chief of Staff Li Feng, who was in the tent of the temporary headquarters, explained the situation more clearly, about half of the Japanese troops retreated to the lower reaches of the Ba River, and most of these Japanese troops were Japanese soldiers whose equipment was burned during the fire attack, and the other part was the guards who accompanied them back. Last night, the Japanese army did not suffer many casualties, and the reconnaissance company said that there were about 50 corpses, and many of them were wounded, and that an infantry brigade of the Japanese army had only one infirmary, two doctors and two nurses.

The Japanese army left half and walked half, did it really return to Huanggang? Liao Hanguo couldn't tell. In the end, it was still the same sentence, send a telegram to Mo Di to ask.

In order to wait for Liao Hanguo's telegram, Mo Di has postponed his trip for half a day, and if the telegram is not yet available, he will not hesitate to cancel today's trip. As soon as dawn in the morning, he was waiting for Liao Hanguo's telegram, after all, this was his own idea, what was the result of last night's operation, what the effect was, and what countermeasures the Japanese army had to deal with it, all of which were the basis for the next operation. As for the Japanese army retreating half and leaving half, there is no need to guess, just pay close attention, and if the other party's actions are not clearly understood, don't act rashly. After Jin Tongxuan sent a telegram to Liao Hanguo, he ordered all of them to open after lunch, and today's destination was Banqiao Village in Yingshan County.

After receiving a telegram from Mo Di, Liao Hanguo told Li Ruiquan that Mo Di was right, even if there was only one infantry brigade in Pinghu, it was not something that could be shaken by a regiment of the 514 Regiment, and that it suffered a loss last night, and it would definitely be a hundred times more vigilant today, and if it acted again today, it would definitely fall into the preparations of the Japanese army, so today's work is to strengthen vigilance, have a good rest, and let the Japanese army prepare for a day in vain. After that, go back to the tent and go back to sleep.

Li Ruiquan understood that the regiment commander was right, but whether he was consciously harassing him or not, he couldn't be sure, according to the routine, he should also send a small unit to harass and harass today, the regiment commander didn't say anything, he didn't do it, he just told the third battalion to pay attention to vigilance, he himself was tired, and after a few words with the chief of staff Li Feng, he also fell asleep.

Today, there was no fighting on the southern front, and the Japanese troops who remained in Pinghu were worried for a day, and no happened.

There was no fighting on the southern front, and the northern front had entered into a fierce battle.

The 171st Division observed the Japanese troops on the northern front for a day, and the actions of the Japanese army were basically clear, if a Japanese army was a headless fly, then a wing was more than 3,000 headless flies, and under the leadership of Koizumi Masatoshi, the 68th Wing was on the verge of collapse, and they were completely lost.

Wang Weicang, chief of staff of the 171st Division, sat next to the veteran regimental commander Chen Kairong and said very respectfully: "Commander Chen, there are two dilemmas in this operation, one is that the Japanese army cannot help fighting, and the other is that the Japanese army does not take the bait. ”

Chen Kairong, a native of Guangnan, Yunnan, a graduate of the 19th class of Yunnan Jiangwutang, was able to accumulate merit and be promoted to major general in the Gui troops with strong xenophobic feelings, and he must have his merits; he looked at the chief of staff of the division who was younger than him, and did not sell the old according to the old, but said very sincerely: "In my opinion, if you want to achieve your goal, there is no more than one word, that is, to perform the word." Performance is an important means to achieve the goal. How to act, not only to make the other party feel that you are not fake, but also to feel that you can't fight anymore. Remember not to fake fights, fight realistically, and retreat in embarrassment. The two of us divided the work, I was responsible for fighting, and you were responsible for leading, and we were taken to the ambush enclosure set up by the division. Don't take the wrong way, we can't beat the Japanese pursuers with one regiment. ”

Wang Weicang laughed and shook his head: "Don't worry, I will not be lost in this mountain like Mr. Koizumi Masatoshi." ”

The Japanese army came, like a yellow mud flow in the valley, and more than 3,000 people gathered together in a large group, pulling a long strip. The general direction of the Japanese army was right, and the road in front of them was the road leading to Banzhuyuan, and after walking back and forth in the mountains for several days, they finally found the right direction. However, the right path is not easy to find, and a short walk along the valley there is a small mountain road to the left that leads to the pass gate, and if you miss this junction, go a mile further along the valley to the cliff, which is not passable. The reason for this impassable but easy to walk dead-end road is that when the logging season comes, the loggers will slide the wood down the cliff and then detour down to the bottom of the cliff, so that they can easily find another main road.

The path was consciously destroyed by the 511 regiment, covered with turf and paved with dry leaves, and it was not easy for even locals to find this road.

The Japanese army naturally missed the junction, and stopped after walking to the edge of the cliff, they had no wings, they were not flat-haired livestock, they couldn't fly, not to mention the livestock, carrying the disassembled infantry guns and food, and they couldn't go down compared to here, they could only stop, look at the mountains in the distance and sigh.

This is the third day of walking in the mountains, and the dry food is about to be eaten, although the spring water in the mountains is very sweet, but drinking water alone cannot quench hunger. If you can't find a way again, I'm afraid you'll starve to death here.

Suddenly, a dense burst of gunfire rang out on the mountainside on the right, and bullets were fired at the Japanese troops in the valley. The Japanese were well-trained troops, and immediately looked for cover on the spot and launched a counterattack. Wing Commander Koizumi Masatoshi heard the gunshots and cried with joy: "Gunshots, ah! Gunshot! We are saved! The soldier next to him looked at the wing captain who was so fond of shooting bullets, and almost thought that this guy was crazy.

"Mortars, attack! Infantry artillery, attack! Emperor's valiant soldiers, attack! Brave warriors of the Empire, attack! Repel them, repel them. By following them, we will find our way out of this hellish place. Koizumi Masatoshi screamed excitedly.

Infantry artillery, assembly, mortars, return fire, after a cannon fire, the infantry charged, and the ambushed Chinese troops withdrew like a tidal wave. The hateful Chinese army, when it withdrew, caused a wildfire in an attempt to cover up its retreat.

"The 1st and 2nd Infantry Brigades, lightly armed, rushed through the mountain fires, and could not let the enemy go missing." With Koizumi Masatoshi shouting, the Japanese soldiers divided into two routes, all the way to the spot guard, all the way down, it turned out that there was a small mountain road on the right slope in the dense forest.

Wang Weicang ran fast, he ran at the front, Chen Kairong ran at the back, he needed to master the rhythm, the Japanese army was too far away, he had to wait, the Japanese army was close, he would run, this fish could not be lost.

On the edge of the Dishui Cliff, Wang Weicang asked the vanguard to go from the left fork in the road, and it was not until Chen Kairong came that the fork was hidden, and at the front of the main road, the reconnaissance company had already put on a posture of luring the enemy, with tattered clothes and guns, and a broken shoe, and they were responsible for the next task of luring the enemy.

The Japanese army did not expect at all that in this place, the chasing people were changed.

The men of the reconnaissance company shouted, and the footsteps sounded, and the two infantry battalions of the Japanese army followed closely. The road is getting bigger and wider, and the Japanese know that this time they have found their way.

With a turn, a waterfall hangs in front of you, and below the waterfall is a deep pool of turquoise water. The road is lost here! On one side of the cliff, there is a very small path for herb pickers, where the Chinese army is struggling to climb upward. The Japanese army didn't say a word, and then climbed.

At this time, the Japanese troops of the two infantry brigades had all passed past the fork in Wang Weicang's road and entered the pocket.

"Fallen trees!" With Wang Weicang's order, the division's special service battalion detonated the * tied to the bottom of the big tree, and the dozens of big trees that had been cut down before fell accurately, blocking the mouth of the valley tightly. As soon as Chen Kairong beckoned, the entire 511 regiment surrounded two more layers outside the valley, using the fallen tree as a cover, and the muzzle of the black hole was aimed at the way out in the valley.

Hearing the explosion coming from the mouth of the valley, Qi Daozheng shouted: "Do it!" Little Browning, who took out his waist, shot the first bullet at the Japanese soldiers who were struggling to climb on the herb collecting trail.

Meng Peiqiong, the colonel of the 512th Regiment, and Li Fangxi, the colonel of the Field Supplementary Regiment, also fired the first bullet, and then there was a dense gunfire of more than 2,000 people.

This location, the terrain is too good, so good that it can't be overstated, a standard semi-funnel-shaped terrain, with cliffs on three sides, and only one way to enter, this only access is also blocked by a hill, narrow exit, and dozens of huge trees are falling horizontally and vertically. Outside the big tree, there is a thousand muzzles. The people of the lacquer road are all at the height of the cliff, and the only medicine collection trail leading to the cliff is also firmly blocked. The two Japanese infantry brigades of nearly 2,000 people who entered the Dishui Cliff were surrounded in the valley, with no way forward or retreat, so they could only rely on the trees and rocks in the valley as shelters, and the beasts were still fighting.

Koizumi Masatoshi waited for the infantry artillery to cool down and disassemble and load it on horseback, only to find that the forest fire in front of him had spread, and he couldn't find or get through the way out of the previous two infantry brigades in the firelight, hesitated for a while, and decided to retreat to Kangwangzhai first, and then go down this road after the fire was extinguished tomorrow, as for the two infantry brigades, let them reach Banzhuyuan first.

Under Cao Maocong's eyes, Koizumi Masatoshi retreated to Kangwangzhai with the 3rd Infantry Brigade and the Artillery Brigade.

"Koizumi Masatoshi will soon know that his front team is surrounded, he will definitely lead the whole team to rescue, although we only have one regiment, but we must block his rescue, as long as the division commander and they take down the devils over there, they will definitely come to support us, we can take down the Japanese army here together, we must resist, we can't let them converge." Deputy division commander Cao Maocong said to Xiao Xiangyang, the colonel of the 513th regiment.

Xiao Xiangyang nodded and said, "No problem, even if we complete the regiment, we will drag this Japanese army to the death and prevent them from converging." ”

Sure enough, Koizumi Masatoshi soon received a distress telegram from the two infantry brigades that were surrounded, and rushed back as fast as he could, and when Xiao Xiangyang decided to take the initiative to attack while the Japanese army was not firmly established, Cao Maocong stopped him and said: "Wait a minute, let them be tired first." ”

Xiao Xiangyang stretched out his head and looked at it, and laughed dumbly, the first thing this group of fools from Japan did was to extinguish the mountain fire that blocked the road, stupid, such a big mountain, just recognize a road junction, the mountain road is so long, you won't change to a place without fire and fork the mountain road on the right! In the face of such a rigid Japanese army, Xiao Xiangyang was speechless, but he didn't know that the Japanese army was lost in the mountains for three days and finally found a way, how important it was to cherish it.