The vast expanse of wilderness west of Guanmen Mountain looks flat from a distance, but the ground beneath the weeds is actually uneven, and it can be quite bumpy for cars to drive on it. As a result, the headlights of the fleeting Japanese trucks swayed up and down and from side to side, like a group of drunken beasts. The commanders and fighters of the 7th Company of the 2nd Battalion of the Xu Brigade of the Eighth Route Army widened their eyes in the night, watching the gradual approach of this team of steel behemoths.

"Hit!"

When the first truck finally drove to the front of Wei Xin's ambush, he roared, and the first one threw out the * in his hand, this wooden handle* flew nearly ten zhang away, and hit the glass window of the truck cab impartially and exploded, before Wei Xin could see the effect of the explosion, his subordinates threw out the * clusters one after another, and they exploded in front of and behind the truck team.

The Japanese driver of the first truck was on the side of the explosion, the fragments of the window glass and shrapnel instantly smashed his head into a blood gourd, and the truck that lost control staggered forward and drove more than ten meters away, and was hit by the Japanese commander in the co-pilot position: the squadron leader of an infantry squadron stretched out his foot and stepped on the brakes, and the steel giant finally stopped on the wasteland.

At the same time, nearly 10 trucks in the first half of the convoy were hit by this rain of bullets, one of which exploded and caught fire on the spot when its fuel tank was hit, and the rest were either hit by bullets to varying degrees, or stopped in a hurry amid explosions from front to back, left and right. The entire Japanese truck fleet was stopped in the wilderness.

The attack and harassment plan of the company commander of the Eighth Route Army has achieved immediate results!

Hordes of Japanese soldiers jumped out of the carriages screaming, and immediately lay down or knelt down and began to shoot in the direction of the attack; Light machine guns were set up on the truck's bed and fired condescendingly.

After the Japanese army was attacked, this kind of tactical literacy of not being shocked and quickly organizing a counterattack caught the commanders and fighters of the 7th Company of the Eighth Route Army off guard! None of them expected that the Japanese soldiers, who had just suffered a sudden blow, would be able to defend on the spot so calmly, and the firepower of the counterattack would be so swift and fierce; In the unsheltered wilderness, they had relied only on the cover of night, but now as soon as their positions were exposed, they were completely undefended under the rain of bullets on the opposite side.

The Czech machine gun in Wei Xin's hand had already fired, and the other two platoons that did not participate in the bombing also began to shoot, but their firepower was undoubtedly dwarfed by the Japanese troops opposite. As the Japanese soldiers of the second half of the truck team, which were not attacked, also jumped out of the car and outflanked this side, the 7th Company of the 2nd Battalion of the Xu Brigade, which was fighting with flesh and blood on the wasteland, immediately became precarious.

Kosuke Otsuka sat in the truck at the center of the entire convoy, and behind him the compartment was packed with the command personnel he had with him, as well as a full machine-gun squad. When the Eighth Route Army* flew over, the truck he was in was also within the strike range, but fortunately, the cab where the Japanese wing commander was sitting was not shot. Otsuka pushed open the right door in time and fled the cab quickly. At this time, the two squadron leaders under his command, one in the first car of the convoy and the other in the last car, the Japanese wing commander could not wait to find them, and shouted and ordered the accompanying commanders in the carriage to jump out of the car to fight.

Relying on advanced communication equipment, the Japanese wing commander quickly got in touch with the two squadron leaders at the head and tail of the convoy, and after asking about the situation, he immediately issued an order for the front team to support the front team in place and the rear team to outflank the attack.

At this moment, Kosuke Otsuka knew very well that the attacker should be the Eighth Route Army that had set up a blocking position just now, and they changed to a flank attack after withdrawing from the frontal position because they could not resist the powerful firepower of the imperial army.

It's also the end of the crossbow! Otsuka muttered with annoyance and contempt that the ambushers did not open fire on the Mongolian cavalry that was opening the way in front, obviously gathering strength and deliberately dealing with the truck team behind. The Chinese army is really cunning!

"Concentrate all your firepower on me and fight hard, and you must defeat the enemy within five minutes!"

The commander of the Japanese wing gave the order almost with a roar. At the same time, he did not allow the four Type 92 heavy machine guns carried by the machine gun squad to get out of the car and participate in the battle - the heavy machine guns are bulky and too time-consuming to load and unload back and forth from the carriage.

"Telegraph to the commander of the cavalry of the Mongolian Xinjiang Army, let them not turn back, and continue to the Tongpu railway line*!" At this moment, Otsuka Kosuke was still thinking about the Mongolian cavalry that had rushed out a few miles away, and the Eighth Route Army did not intercept the cavalry, which may become a good thing: as long as Du Dongqiang's men and horses can rush to the battlefield next to the railway line as soon as possible, it can be regarded as Fengdian reinforcements outflanking in time, and he has an explanation from the brigade commander! As for whether this rabble of Mongol cavalry can play a role after arriving at the battlefield, it is another matter.

After receiving a telegram from Wing Commander Dazuo from the walkie-talkie, Du Dongqiang, the commander of the cavalry regiment of the Mongolian Xinjiang Army, suddenly became suspicious. The imperial convoy was attacked, which meant that the cavalry regiment at this moment had no backing, Otsuka Osa ordered the cavalry to continue to advance alone in the direction of the railway line, but the less than 300 horsemen and horses under his command were really going to be thrown into the battlefield of the railway line, but I was afraid that it would be more than lucky. But if he leads his troops now, once he is noticed by the wing commander, he will have to be severely punished - a cavalry company commander under his command has just been punished on the spot, and the Japanese who killed the red eye will definitely not recognize it!

Du Dongqiang ordered the front team to slow down temporarily, and then summoned two cavalry battalion commanders to urgently discuss countermeasures. The cavalry regiment of the Mongolian Xinjiang Army fought all the way from his hometown Suiyuan to Jinzhong, and was repeatedly used as cannon fodder by the Japanese masters. Soon, the three commanders came up with a plan: the main force of the cavalry regiment moved forward slowly, leaving a platoon to stand still, waiting for the movement of the imperial convoy behind, as long as the convoy was found to be following again, the cavalry platoon immediately rushed forward to catch up with the main force to report the news, and then the whole regiment accelerated in the established direction; At the same time, another cavalry platoon was sent as a spearhead to quickly insert itself into the Tongpu railway line, and once it came into contact with the battlefield, it immediately sent people back to report the battle situation to the main force of the regiment. In this way, it can not only prevent the cavalry regiment from being attacked by the Chinese army in depth, but also deceive the wing commander Dazuo.

Du Dongqiang is very proud, this best of both worlds strategy is the most gratifying thing tonight. He immediately assigned a platoon of cavalry to move forward in a rapid search, and it was not until the sound of the horse's hooves of the platoon completely disappeared in the night that he urged the main army to set off in an almost strolling form.

However, the cavalry commander of the puppet Mongolian army still miscalculated, so far, he still estimated in his heart that the Chinese army was not far from the railway line, but unexpectedly, a unit of the other side had rushed towards him.

The commander of the 2nd Battalion of the 391st Regiment of the Central Army was ordered to rush to the blocking position of the 7th Company of the 2nd Battalion of the Xu Brigade of the Eighth Route Army with two companies, ready to help. Previously, the regimental headquarters of the 391st Regiment had been informed that the reinforcements of the Japanese puppet army from Fengdian were attacking the blocking position of the 7th Company of the Eighth Route Army, and Qin Zhongxiao's order to the second battalion commander was to make every effort to help the blocking company of the Eighth Route Army and resolutely block the reinforcements of the Japanese puppet army in the direction north of Xiping Village until the main force of the regiment safely withdrew into the Guanmen Mountain Pass behind Xiping Village.

The commander of the second battalion of the Central Army had been in a depressed mood on this night of the battle, and the main force of the battalion under his command was responsible for attacking the Japanese army columns that had entered the ambush circle, but they could not be captured for a long time, and a number of brothers were lost in vain. When the regimental lord personally gave the order to retreat, the second battalion commander's mood was extremely gloomy. Anger, remorse, anxiety, and disappointment can be described as a mixture. But the military order cannot be violated, and it can only be withdrawn helplessly; However, he was immediately assigned by the regiment to the Eighth Route Army's blocking position in the rear, which made him feel somewhat excited: the Japanese army did not move, so it would be good to vent his anger on the battlefield! Therefore, he led two companies and ran all the way in the direction of Hekou Village, Guanmen Mountain. Until suddenly a gunshot rang out ahead!

It was the top soldiers of the 4th Company of the 2nd Battalion who opened fire, and they always ran in front of the main force of the entire battalion more than a mile away. Suddenly, the sound of horses' hooves sounded in front of him, and in the blink of an eye, the sound of horses' hooves came from far and near, and it was very violent. The identity of the horseman could not be seen clearly in the darkness, considering that the friendly Eighth Route Army was equipped with a cavalry company, the top soldiers of the second battalion of the Central Army immediately asked each other loudly for the password - the unified password for the joint operation of the two armies tonight is: Eagle, and the reply order is: Wild Wolf.

The oncoming cavalry was the platoon led by the cavalry regiment of the puppet Mongolian army, where could they answer the order, and the few cavalrymen who reacted quickly knew that something was wrong, so without saying a word, they picked up the 38-style cavalry gun and fired it.

The gunfire spoke for itself, and the spearheads of the 2nd Battalion of the 391st Regiment on the opposite side immediately returned their colors, and a skirmish began in the wilderness.

Both sides could not see anything, but in the darkness the sound of the horses' hooves and the huge target of the puppet Mongolian army with men and horses suffered losses, after fierce fire, the 391st regiment's spearhead was killed and wounded, but the Mongolian cavalry was knocked down a small piece, and the rest turned their horses' heads and fled desperately to the original road.

The commander of the second battalion of the 391st Regiment, who received the battle report, was not only not as excited as the mood of the top soldiers, but a sense of foreboding came to his heart: the regiment headquarters just received a report from the signal corps of the Eighth Route Army, the enemy reinforcements dispatched by Fengdian included the cavalry of the puppet Mongolian army, and his own top soldiers actually encountered this traitor cavalry here, could it be said that the blocking position of the 7th Company of the Eighth Route Army had been broken through? !

"Did you catch a live mouth?" The second battalion commander interrupted the soldier's rambling narration and asked directly.

"It seems that two injured people fell from their horses and were caught by our squad leader."

"Why don't you try it?!" The commander of the second battalion was furious, raised his leg and kicked the top soldiers, and then ordered the whole battalion to stand by, and he took a few people to run to the place where the battle had just begun. The top soldiers, who had obviously won the battle but were still kicked, were confused, so they had to pull out their legs and run away.

The commander of the second battalion of the Central Army, who was running, secretly prayed in his heart: I hope this is just a small group of puppet Mongolian cavalry flowing over, not the Japanese puppet reinforcements who broke through the blocking position of the Eighth Route Army. If the Eighth Route Army really failed to stop the enemy, then the main force of his second battalion would soon face the possibility of confronting the Japanese puppet army in the unsheltered wilderness. This is a dangerous situation that neither his regimental lord nor the commander of the Eighth Route Army had imagined before this joint operation!