In the small village of Da Yushu Mountain, the commanders of the 391st Regiment of the Central Army finally ended the dispute at the regiment headquarters, and the regiment commander Qin Zhongxiao finally made a final decision, and the emergency operation plan of each department began to be implemented immediately:

In view of the fact that the Japanese puppet army in Fengdian County suddenly marched out of the city in the middle of the night to blockade the large and small mountain passes at the eastern foot of Xiaoyushu Mountain, in order to ensure the safety of the four squads of the special service company that were conducting reconnaissance and attack in Xiaoyushu Mountain, and to take them out of the mountain as soon as possible, the second battalion and artillery company of the 391st Regiment immediately launched a fire attack on Fengdian County.

The artillery company's two Krupp 75 mountain guns, one Type 94 75 mountain gun, and one Type 92 infantry gun secretly sneaked out to the northern suburbs of Fengdian County, three miles away, relying on the western foot of the Great Elm Mountain to build an artillery position and bombard the north city wall of Fengdian.

The 4th Company of the 2nd Battalion protected the artillery position nearby, and the 5th Company set up a cordon position on the Junfeng Highway behind the artillery position to strictly prevent the Japanese troops from rushing to the northern foot of Xiaoyushu Mountain and the direction of Junling County.

The main force of the 1st Battalion went around to hide near the eastern foot of Little Elm Mountain, and immediately after the shelling began, attacked the Japanese puppet army blocking the Little Elm Mountain Pass from behind, seizing control of at least two mountain passes and holding them.

The first platoon of the special service company had already sent 20 people to form a reconnaissance team to infiltrate the Little Elm Mountain, and the rest of the first platoon formed three more groups, and after the main force of the first battalion took the mountain pass, they immediately went into the mountain to look for the reconnaissance teams led by the company commander Zhao Mutou, and quickly took them out of the mountain.

The second platoon of the spy company, led by deputy company commander Deng Shoushan, was scattered in the area outside the east gate of Fengdian County, at the western foot of Dayushu Mountain, patrolling and guarding.

The regimental headquarters of the 391st Regiment sent a signal corps to Hekou Village, at the western foot of Guanmen Mountain, to inform the Guanmenshan Detachment of the Xu Brigade of the Eighth Route Army of the sudden military situation in the area of Xiaoyushu Mountain, and at the same time informed the 6th Company of the 2nd Battalion of the 391st Regiment, which had arrived there in advance: First of all, it insisted on cooperating with the local friendly forces in the combat mission unchanged, and if the Xu Brigade Detachment had abandoned Xiping Village, which had been attacked, and no longer needed the help of the Central Army, the 6th Company of the 2nd Battalion could return and approach the southern suburbs of Fengdian County to monitor the south gate of the county.

Qin Zhongxiao, commander of the 391st Regiment, personally went to the first battalion to fight; Chief of Staff Zhang Hong personally went to the second battalion and the artillery company to fight.

Wang Suihua, a female major of the military command, once proposed to attack the mountain pass at the eastern foot of Xiaoyushu Mountain with the army--she wanted to meet with the Zhao Mutou reconnaissance team that came out of Xiaoyushu Mountain as soon as possible--but was resolutely opposed by the colonel and chief of staff of the Central Army, and finally had to stay in the regiment headquarters in Xiaozhai Village, guarding the radio and waiting for news.

At the same time, the 2nd Infantry Brigade of the Japanese Saijo Wing, which was far away in the temporary barracks on the western outskirts of Wencheng, was also urgently ordered to mobilize overnight, and the Hagiwara Brigade and regimental station concentrated all the trucks that could be mobilized, drove into the temporary barracks, carried the infantry of the two squadrons of the 2nd Brigade, and set out first.

After leaving the mountain, two infantry squadrons entered the central and northern part of Little Elm Mountain from several mountain passes blocked and controlled by the Otsuka Wing and the Mongolian Cavalry Regiment to launch a dragnet search.

Another squadron of the 2nd Brigade of the Saijo Wing, which was not carried by trucks, entered the military blockade area of Little Elm Hill on foot, arrived at the position where the Shina Army had infiltrated tonight, and climbed over the wall along the place where it had escaped (the engineer squadron had urgently piled sandbag slopes on both sides of the wall for the infantry to pass through) and carried out the pursuit.

The last squadron of the 2nd Infantry Brigade of the Saijo Wing, on a number of trucks and military motorcycles, patrolled along the western and northern foothills of Little Elm Mountain, and immediately arrested anyone who might be able to leave the mountain from that area.

In order to ensure the safety of the Songjiagou comfort women's secret camp, the brigade commander, Major General Major, after consulting with Chief of Staff Kawabe Daisa, and the head of the secret service agency, Masao Kojima, issued a secret order to the officers and men of the Saijo Wing who were carrying out a dragnet search in the mountains: In addition to focusing on the search for the Shina Army and the personnel of the anti-Japanese organizations, the few aborigines in the mountains should be exterminated and their houses destroyed and burned. In short, it is necessary to completely turn the area outside the military blockade zone of Little Elm Mountain into a no-man's land!

The chief of staff of the riverside personally went to the temporary barracks of the Saijo Wing in the western suburbs and mobilized and deployed the troops involved in the search and arrest. Inside the brigade headquarters, Akira Hagiwara and Masao Kojima waited anxiously for news.

At this time, the 1st Infantry Brigade of the Saijo Wing had already sent a number of battle reports from the foot of Guanmen Mountain, and the troops had broken the periphery of Xiping Village, which was defended by the Eighth Route Army, and attacked the village, and was dealing with the remnants of the enemy; Plainclothes teams of prisoners of war, including warrant officer Takagi of the Search and Rescue Cavalry Wing, have also blended into the village. At the same time, Wing Commander Saijo Daisa personally led another unit to pursue and kill the outer combat troops of the Eighth Route Army to the lower reaches of the Qinglong River.

Hagiwara Akira, who saw the message, felt a certain degree of satisfaction: although there was no final result, it finally delivered a severe blow to the Eighth Route Army entrenched at the foot of Guanmen Mountain. Compared with the Kato Brigade of the brother unit, the Sasaki Wing I, which is currently blocked outside Qinyuan Prefecture and difficult to advance, the performance of the 1st Infantry Brigade of the Saijo Wing is still not bad.

However, the astonishing scene that had just taken place in the military blockade area of Little Elm Mountain completely disrupted the steps taken by Hagiwara's brigade to continue to participate in the First Army Headquarters' plan to encircle the Nine Routes, and the 2nd Infantry Brigade of the Saijo Wing, which was originally scheduled to be engaged in the attack on the Central Army of Great Elm Mountain, was now forced to switch to a small unit of the Shina Army that had entered Little Elm Mountain and searched for and then escaped after breaking into the military blockade area.

Until this moment, the brigade commander Hagiwara Akira had not made up his mind whether to report the incident in Little Elm Mountain to the division commander Lieutenant General Sena now—deep down, he still hoped that he could quickly capture the Shina people who had broken into the military blockade area of Little Elm Mountain, and at the same time complete the complete strangulation of the aborigines in the mountainous area, and then report it later. In this way, some face will be saved from the division commander.

However, there was no proper reason why the 2nd Infantry Brigade of the Saijo Wing could not continue to carry out the Nine-Way Siege Operational Plan if the incident was not reported immediately. And once the commander of the First Army in Taiyuan asked, he obviously couldn't bear it here.

"General, I suggest that the report to the division commander be postponed," said the head of the secret service, who also had evil intentions and was worried about being held accountable, "The search and clearance mission in Little Elm Mountain may bear fruit tomorrow in a day; But regardless of whether or not an intruder is caught, we will limit the reporting time to when it gets dark tomorrow. If the headquarters of the First Army had asked for an update on the progress of the Nine Roads Siege earlier tomorrow, we could have vaguely reported that the 2nd Infantry Brigade of the Saijo Wing had arrived on the outskirts of Fengdian County to prepare for battle. ”

Hagiwara nodded with a heavy heart - this lie is not small, I hope it will not be exposed.

"Three infantry squadrons, to search such a large area of the north-central mountainous area, the difficulty can be imagined. If you hide it, you can only hide it tomorrow and one day. Hopefully catch the damn intruder in the meantime! ”

Masao Kojima raised his hand and gestured with a machete, saying that if the search is really difficult, he simply don't live it, come and kill it one by one, as long as there are people found in the search area, they will be killed, so as to eliminate hidden dangers. Hagiwara Akira heard that the head of the secret service agency had a vicious trick, and he didn't show any unbearable feelings-in order to protect the secrets of the Songjiagou comfort women's secret camp, he had to make this poisonous move. Once Little Elm Mountain is turned into a no-man's land, the comfort women camp in the military blockade area will undoubtedly become safer.

However, the two people sitting in the brigade headquarters miscalculated. The troops they had sent to search for the troops who planned to enter Little Elm Mountain had not yet set foot in the mountain pass near Fengdian, when a new fierce battle broke out there.

The artillery company of the 391st Regiment of the Central Army arrived at the designated place with great difficulty, and temporary artillery positions were erected. The instructions given to the artillery company were to fire four large-caliber flat-firing guns, lower the muzzles, and collectively bombard the northern city wall of Fengdian County. The reason why this was arranged was that Qin Zhongxiao was also out of distrust of the artillery company, and bombarded the county town with a population of less than 10,000 in the dark night. At present, the Japanese puppet grassroots regime in this area is wantonly spreading rumors, falsely accusing the National Army's anti-Japanese war units, including the 391st Regiment of the Central Army, of lax military discipline and harassing the common people and residents through the actual brutality of the anti-Japanese war of firefighting. Therefore, it is absolutely forbidden to give any truth to the other party.

"Lower the muzzle of the cannon, bombard the north city wall, strive to collapse the city gate, and open a few openings in the city wall!"

Zhang Hong, chief of staff who personally visited the artillery company's position to supervise the battle, repeatedly told the artillery company commander. So, three mountain guns of 75 caliber, and one Type 92 infantry gun, pressed the barrels almost to an angle parallel to the ground, and rumbled and fired.

The sudden and fierce artillery fire instantly alarmed within a radius of more than ten miles. At that time, Kosuke Otsuka, the co-captain of the Otsuka Wing of the Japanese Army, was arranging a blockade line for the mountain pass at the eastern foot of Little Elm Mountain; The two squadrons of the Saijo Wing, which had just arrived, were preparing to go into the mountains to search for them. The cannon rang out, and Captain Otsuka's jaw almost dropped in shock. However, before he could figure out what was going on, a large number of enemy troops appeared out of nowhere behind them and launched a stormy attack.

The troops who raided were of course the first battalion of the 391st Regiment of the Central Army, which aimed at the nearest two mountain passes, one large and one small, and attacked violently. The vicinity of one of the mountain passes was crowded with cavalry of the puppet Mongolian army, and the 1st company of the 391st regiment attacked them.

The 2nd and 3rd companies jointly attacked a large mountain pass a little farther away, large enough to get in and out of the trucks, and in addition to some of the puppet Mongolian cavalry regiments, there were also infantry of the Japanese Otsuka Wing, but the sudden outbreak of the back attack soon forced these Japanese puppet troops to retreat step by step.

In less than fifteen minutes, under the cover of rumbling artillery not far away, the first battalion of the 391st Regiment cleanly took the two small elm mountain passes!