The liaison officer sent by Wang Shuanglong to the central position of the Jin army in Zhaojia Village was a platoon commander of the 3rd Company of the 1st Battalion. At the temporary headquarters of the 570th Regiment of the 12th Brigade of the Jin Army, this liaison officer reported to the regimental commander Tian Mingda the enemy situation observed in the right flank position, and asked the two armies to immediately join forces to pursue and kill the Japanese troops who were trying to retreat.

Tian Mingda, the commander of the 570th Regiment, faced with this request from the liaison officer of the Eighth Route Army, almost without thinking, categorically refused - a battalion of his left flank position had just been broken by the Japanese and was still busy gathering his troops; What's more, the attacking Japanese have retreated, and the 570th Regiment has firmly held the front of its own defense area, and there is no need to make any more risky attacks.

Wang Shuanglong actually expected this, and the platoon commander liaison officer, who had been secretly appointed by him, should resign to the commander of the Jin army: not only himself, but also the first battalion and cavalry company of the Guanmenshan detachment of the Xu Brigade of the Eighth Route Army would be separated from the left flank position of this joint ambush and turned to pursue the retreating Japanese army alone.

After hearing this, the Jin army commander waved his hand without being salty, signaling the other party to be casual. He won't care about the next movement of the Eighth Route Army, this alien army that has entered his defense area without authorization is neither a guest army that he can control nor be assured of, and it is just right for them to leave early!

On the banks of the Qinglong River, long before the return of the platoon commander of the liaison officer, Wang Shuanglong had ordered the 2nd Company of the 1st Battalion to set off ahead of schedule and wade across the Qinglong River to take the lead in pursuing the Japanese army. By the time the liaison officer, the platoon commander, panted and ran back to report, the 1st Company had just left the so-called left flank position and rushed away.

"Hello is called, the number of courtesies has arrived." Standing under a large willow tree on the bank of the Qinglong River, the battalion commander of the Eighth Route Army looked at the direction of Zhaojia Village in the night sky and muttered to himself - this is also the first joint operation between the Guanmenshan Detachment of the Xu Brigade and the friendly Jin army, although the intensity of the previous operation was not great.

He ordered the 3rd Company, which had remained on the left flank, to set off: a more intense battle was waiting for them!

In the ensuing battle, it was precisely because the three companies of the 1st Battalion launched the pursuit one after another that they were able to respond quickly at the critical moment.

The 2nd Company of the 1st Battalion, which was the first to set out, was given the order to make every effort to catch up with the Japanese troops as soon as possible and launch an attack from their rear. Therefore, more than 100 people in the whole company almost gave up the alert formation and rushed forward desperately. It was not until the Japanese army approached and was blocked by the fire of their rear guards that they turned to a fighting stance.

However, to the surprise of these pursuers, the Japanese did not do a simple defensive blockade, but sent a powerful force to carry out a counter-charge!

It was the scale of the counterattack of a whole infantry squadron, and there were even six or seven light machine guns at the front - the supreme commander of the Japanese army, Saijo Shigehei Osa, who had nowhere to vent because he had been led by the nose of the Chinese army all night, instantly used a retaliatory brute force against a company of the Eighth Route Army that was catching up at this moment.

The 2nd Company of the 1st Battalion was caught off guard, and under the fierce onslaught of the superior numbers and powerful firepower of the Japanese army, it soon could not resist and began to retreat.

Fortunately, the rout only lasted for a short time, and the 1st Company arrived in time!

The first battalion of the Guanmenshan detachment of the Xu Brigade was expanded with the 5th Company of the 2nd Battalion of the Xu Brigade as the team, and the former commander of the 5th company was Li Tianlin, the famous tiger general and the current chief of staff of the Guanmenshan detachment. After it became the first battalion of the Guanmenshan detachment, half of the main force of the original 5th company remained in the new 1st company -- this is the advice that Li Tianlin said to Wang Shuanglong, who was promoted to the commander of the battalion: Do not evenly divide all the backbone commanders and fighters of the original 5th company into the three companies, but maintain the strongest combat strength of at least one company.

Now, the 1st Battalion, the 1st Company, which has the most powerful combat power, has finally shown its true heroic colors. The commander of the 1st Company, who personally led the team to run in front, made a quick decision as soon as he came into contact with the rear team of the 2nd Company, which was retreating like a tide, and instead of strengthening the frontal blockade, he pulled his team aside and scattered in the direction of the Tongpu Railway.

Gradually, the 2nd Company retreated from the eyes of the 1st Company, followed by a counterattack by a Japanese squadron. The commander of the 1st Company ordered the order to open fire, and the 1st Company, which was well-equipped with Czech, 38, and Lieutenant Formation, immediately broke the flank of the Japanese squadron with a dense rain of bullets.

The sudden flank attack of the 1st Company effectively delayed the footsteps of the Japanese troops who fiercely pursued and killed the 2nd Company, so that the 2nd Company stood firm while breathing, and gradually made an effective resistance; Thus forming a horn trend with the 1st Company. In the end, Wang Shuanglong, the commander of the first battalion, caught up with the 3rd company, and with the research and judgment of the direction of the gun, Wang Shuanglong pulled the team directly to the side of the Qinglong River. As a result, the three companies of the first battalion of the Guanmenshan detachment of the Xu Brigade successively suppressed an infantry squadron of the Japanese Saijo Wing in a semi-encirclement state on the wasteland.

The commander of the first battalion who arrived at the end was undoubtedly anxious to do at this moment to clarify his own layout on the battlefield in front of him. According to the deployment of the troops when they were still in the ambush position in Zhaojia Village just now, the cavalry company at this time should have jumped to the west of the retreating Japanese army, and the Black Stone Cliff bandit gang led by the female bandit leader should be on the side of the Qinglong River together with the 3rd Company led by herself.

Wang Shuanglong immediately sent sharp soldiers to search north along the river bank, so as to contact the men and horses of Liu Wumei, the leader of the female bandits, first. As a result, the spearhead soldiers quickly found the second battlefield: it was the Black Rock Cliff bandits hiding on the other side of the Qinglong River, shooting the Japanese army with trucks that were still slowly moving forward across the river.

The sharp soldiers who ran back to report let the commander of the first battalion, Wang Shuanglong, figure out the tactics of the Japanese, obviously, they divided a part of their forces to suddenly carry out a counterattack backwards, while the main force continued to retreat north!

"We can't let the Japanese continue to retreat!"

Wang Shuanglong was still worried about the heavy pressure on the detachment commanders once the new Japanese army retreated to Xiping Village. He sent people to send orders to the 2nd and 1st companies in the other two directions, asking them to hold back the Japanese army that had just carried out the counterattack. He led the 3rd Company to the front, preparing to meet Liu Wumei's men and horses, and attack the main force of the Japanese army strongly.

At this moment, the Black Stone Cliff bandits who shot the Japanese army across the river are gradually showing interest. Several members of the gang with excellent marksmanship wielded Chinese formal rifles bought from the Wencheng arms black market, and aimed at Japanese trucks guided by headlights, and made small gains. One of the guys shot and hit the cab of a truck, and the Japanese driver, who was wounded by the bullet, lost control and released the accelerator, causing another truck following behind to collide directly with the rear end, and the two cars stopped instantly.

Several bandits who observed this chaos were excitedly clamoring for a while to cross the river to rob the truck that the Japanese had crashed in, but they were stopped by the master next to him scolding angrily - although the old master had never fought in a war, he also knew very well that there would be absolutely no gold and silver treasures on the Japanese truck, but it was possible that there were gloomy machine guns hidden.

Liu Wumei saw that her subordinates had packed up the Japanese truck, and she was also a little excited, and was about to command the Lewis machine gun to kill the Japanese soldiers running around near the stalled truck, when the top soldiers of the Eighth Route Army suddenly arrived; Immediately afterwards, Wang Shuanglong, the battalion commander of the Eighth Route Army, who had just met at the Jin Army's blocking position in Zhaojia Village, rushed over in a hurry.

Wang Shuanglong's familiarity with the female bandit leader is even inferior to that of the cavalry company commander Xia Lianshan. Although he could taunt the other party's righteous sister in front of the second battalion commander Wei Xin, Wei Xin was not present at the moment, and the commander of the first battalion of the Eighth Route Army still lacked the confidence and affection to give orders to Liu Wumei.

"Sir Wang, my people have paralyzed the devil's truck!"

The female bandit leader, who didn't know Wang Shuanglong's hardships, was especially happy to point out to the commander of the Eighth Route Army what was happening across the waterfront - just now the master sternly rejected the idea of the brothers rushing to the truck, but in a blink of an eye, the reinforcements of the Eighth Route Army arrived, and Liu Wumei suddenly began to instigate the commander of the Eighth Route Army to charge the truck that was out of flames.

This suggestion, which was obviously contrary to conventional tactics, aroused Wang Shuanglong's mind at the moment: if he could seize those two trucks and use them as supporting fortifications, it would undoubtedly completely disrupt the order of the Japanese retreat. But after thinking about it, the battalion commander of the Eighth Route Army still dismissed this rather outrageous motion.

"Big boss," looking at Liu Wumei's face under the hazy moonlight, Wang Shuanglong's heart moved, and suddenly thought of Wei Xin, the second battalion commander of the other party's sworn brother, and an idea came spontaneously: "Your sworn brother is fighting hard with the devil in Xiping Village right now, can you take your subordinates to rush over and help them!?" ”

It was only at this time that Liu Wumei learned about the whereabouts of Brother Wei Xin from the mouth of the commander of the Eighth Route Army - the war in Xiping Village was raging, Brother Wei's life and death were uncertain, and he would not help now!

"Chief Wang, what you didn't say, I'll take the brothers to Xiping Village!" Liu Wumei said impassionedly: "You'd better send some more military masters to show us the way, and it's also convenient to contact the commander of the Eighth Route Army in Shangxiping Village." ”

Wang Shuanglong didn't expect this female bandit leader to be so thoughtful, and immediately agreed to handle it accordingly. He was originally worried that the people of the Black Stone Cliff Bandit Gang would not work with the Eighth Route Army to stop the Japanese army here, but now he moved out of the "Buddha" of Wei Xin, which made him feel at ease - the most important thing for the bandits to walk the rivers and lakes is a righteous word, and the righteous eldest brother with the female bandit leader is sitting in Xiping Village, so she does not worry about her not doing her best to fight there.

He immediately divided a platoon of troops and guided Liu Wumei's men and horses to leave the battlefield here immediately and march towards Xiping Village at full speed. This force of nearly 100 people, with two light machine guns, will undoubtedly have a favorable impact on the battle situation there once it appears behind the flank of the battlefield in Xiping Village.

Soon, this team, which was composed of a mixture of regular troops and bandits, hurriedly set off along the banks of the Qinglong River. But what they didn't expect was that the movement had slowed down, the battle in Xiping Village was nearing the end, and the defenders were moving towards the Guanmen Mountain Pass behind the village. The Japanese occupied almost all of the village.

What they were about to encounter was a small group of Japanese troops on a special mission: the Hirai Advance Team from the Songjiagou Comfort Women's Camp in Little Elm Mountain.