In Xia Lianshan's consciousness, the 5th Company has been preparing to fight the puppet Mongolian cavalry, and according to the ideas instilled to them by the deputy battalion commander Wu Zijian in the past few days, this battle must be fought, it is just a matter of what tactics and timing to choose. Xia Lianshan knew very well that the deputy battalion commander was working against the instructor! But when he thought of his sister's family in Fengdian, his life and death were still uncertain, and Xia Lianshan supported the devils and puppet soldiers who fought Fengdian from the bottom of his heart.

Therefore, when Xia Lianshan saw clearly that this group of cavalry was the puppet Mongolian cavalry he had seen in Fengdian, the word "beat" was initially formed in his mind, although this was contrary to the instructions of the instructor and the battalion commander, but it was also considered to be ready to send an arrow and had to be sent.

It's just that the deputy company commander of the 5th Company didn't expect that this pseudo-Mongolian army, which could not be looked down upon, including Xiao Junping, the staff officer of the Jin Army, was not as straw as the legend, after they were hit suddenly, not only did they not flee in a hurry, but stabilized their position and quickly launched a counterattack.

At this moment, there were more than 70 troops in the 5th company of the entire Hekou Village, with the exception of the Czech-style light machine gun placed at the head of the village, the rest were all medium rifles and pony guns (the pony gun is the Japanese 38-type cavalry gun, which was newly transferred to the cavalry platoon), and the strength and firepower were originally quite strong. However, the counterattack of the puppet Mongolian army was very insidious, they avoided the head of the village and directly attacked the center of the narrow village, plus the cavalry attacked, and the speed was extremely fast. When Xia Lianshan, who was guarding the head of the village, noticed that something was wrong, the smoke and dust kicked up by the Mongolian horses had already approached the village.

Thankfully, the frozen Qinglong River saved the defense line of the Eighth Route Army at the last moment!

The Qinglong River originates from the Guanmen Mountain, rushes forward dozens of zhang away from the West Pass, suddenly comes to a 90-degree turn, flows to the south instead, its flow is parallel to the Guanmen Mountain in the north-south direction, and Hekou Village is sandwiched between the western foot of the Guanmen Mountain and the Qinglong River. This Qinglong River, which is only three feet deep during the flood season, is no less than 20 zhang wide; At present, it is the middle of winter, the river surface is frozen hard, and it is covered with a layer of residual snow, therefore, as soon as the Mongolian horse of the puppet Mongolian army stepped on, the iron-cast horse's paw began to slip irrepressibly, and the dozen or so horses that rushed to the front slipped six or seven in an instant, and the horses behind could not restrain their footsteps, and they trampled and tripped and stumbled.

The 5th Company won this precious respite, and the cavalry platoon arranged by Xia Lianshan at the head of the village ran desperately to the middle of the village, set up a defensive line with another platoon, and fired fiercely at the puppet Mongolian army, which was already less than ten zhang away. The cavalry advance was blocked, and the momentum of the assault was greatly weakened.

Du Dongqiang, who was two miles away, had been paying attention to the battle situation with a telescope. He didn't expect the war horse to encounter the glacier, but while the commander of the cavalry of the puppet Mongolian army screamed, he also discovered that the Eighth Route Army was forced to move from the head of the village to the middle of the village, and he became more and more confident: the number of the Eighth Route in the village is not much, and the defense is not one or the other! On the one hand, he ordered the company that rushed up to resist and not be allowed to retreat, and on the other hand, he sent more than 50 horsemen to quickly attack the head of the village.

The house of Xiao Junping, a staff officer of the Jin army, is in the middle of Hekou Village, and he lives with Wu Zijian. When the battle alarm was issued, Xiao Junping struggled to walk into the courtyard alone on crutches. However, it is reported that the incoming enemy appeared directly in front of the village, and Xiao Junping could not see it here; He watched as the soldiers of the 5th Company hurriedly ran into the defense, and no one paid attention to this Jin army staff officer.

It wasn't until the battle started and the cavalry of the puppet Mongolian army, which had been hit suddenly, retreated in the direction of Tongpu Road that their team entered Xiao Junping's field of vision. The courtyard where he lives is not close to the Qinglong River, but leaning against the courtyard wall, he can still have an unobstructed view of the opposite side of the riverbank. Xiao Junping had the binoculars he had brought from the headquarters of the 12th Independent Brigade, and he saw about 200 puppet Mongolian troops retreating to safety in a hurry, and their nondescript military uniforms could be clearly seen in the binoculars.

The staff officers of the Jin army did not expect that the repulsed puppet Mongolian army would launch a counteroffensive against Hekou Village so quickly, and the knife of the counterattack could be described as accurate and ruthless, and its tactical essence was not inferior to Itagaki Seishiro's division. Amid the sound of the horse's hooves of the cavalry of the puppet Mongolian army, Xiao Junping shouted as hard as he could to move to the center, and there were only a dozen soldiers of the 5th Company near his courtyard at that time. Seeing that the enemy's cavalry was getting closer and closer, Xiao Junping, who was in a hurry, actually pulled out his Browning high-power pistol from his waist, but his matching gun had run out of bullets as early as when Dawangyu was chased and killed by the devil cavalry, and the entire second battalion of the forest division did not have bullets for this kind of gun, so the chamber was empty so far.

"Reinforcements, reinforcements!"

The staff officers of the Jin army, wielding empty guns, shouted desperately, and a dozen soldiers of the 5th Company nearby were hiding behind the temporarily found bunkers, and they had already opened fire. When Binghe stopped the pace of the puppet Mongolian cavalry, and when Xiao Junping's voice was almost hoarse, Xia Lianshan, the deputy company commander, finally led people from the village to join the battle group.

While Xia Lianshan was commanding the battle, he found Xiao Junping who was shouting loudly, and he hurriedly waved his hand at the other party and signaled him to retreat into the house - the staff officer of the Jin Army was a treasure in the eyes of the deputy battalion commander, and Xia Lianshan didn't dare to let him make any mistakes on the battlefield.

Unexpectedly, Xiao Junping not only did not retreat into the house, but after a while, he shouted bitterly, while gesturing vigorously in one direction, Xia Lianshan, who was reminded by the soldiers around him, tried his best to look in the direction of the Jin army's staff officer, and was suddenly shocked: the puppet Mongolian army took advantage of the center of gravity of the battlefield to turn to the middle of the village, and even sacrificed another cavalry and rushed towards the head of the village. Although Xiao Junping's courtyard was far back, the terrain was higher, and he suddenly discovered this movement, so he reminded Xia Lianshan hoarsely.

Xia Lianshan ordered a platoon commander to command in situ, and he himself took dozens of people from the cavalry platoon to run towards the head of the village again, in that direction, the cavalry of the puppet Mongolian army was approaching the ice of the Qinglong River, and was only less than 100 feet away from the head of the village!

In the end, Xia Lianshan and the puppet Mongolian cavalry who slowed down and crossed the glacier encountered at the head of the village, and more than a dozen Mongolian horses had broken into the village, and a melee began in an instant.

The platoon of the 5th Company, which was waiting at the mountain pass, was a little hesitant for a while after the battle was transferred to the village of Kawaguchi. From the fortifications on the gentle slope of the mountain pass, you can see a corner of the village, but you can't see the rest of the village; More than half of the platoon of the 5th Company was stationed in the fortifications, and listening to the fierce gunfire and explosions coming from outside the pass, they understood that the enemy was attacking the village. The platoon commander of this platoon was willing to send people over to support, but he was worried that the enemy would take advantage of the situation to attack the mountain pass—the deputy battalion commander and the company commander, who had personally arranged the mountain pass fortifications, had explained to him the importance of holding on to this place—and for a while, the platoon commander hesitated.

A squad of the cavalry platoon had just driven the horses to the gentle slope of the mountain pass, when they rushed to the fortifications at the forefront of the mountain pass, and the squad leader greeted the platoon commander of the platoon guarding the fortifications, and rushed down with the whole squad. Just when the platoon commander was in a hurry and difficult to decide, there was movement in the direction behind them.

Wu Zijian and Li Tianlin rushed back from the Hongxingxia camp with three platoons of the 5th Company, carrying heavy machine guns and mortars!

The two soldiers who were sent by Xia Lianshan to report urgently to Hongxingxia ran three or four miles away, and they met Wu Zijian and his party head-on. When the deputy battalion commander heard that a cavalry was approaching the 5th Company defense area from the direction of Fengdian, he couldn't help but be surprised and happy, surprised that he was drinking in Hongxingxia last night and delayed his early march, and he didn't know if Xia Lianshan could withstand it; I was happy that I was thinking about how to clean up the puppet army cavalry in Fengdian, and I didn't want these grandsons to be sent to the door.

Facing the gunshots and explosions that were getting closer and closer, Wu Zijian urged him to move quickly. When they arrived at the mountain pass fortifications, the platoon commander who was guarding the fortifications was so happy that he almost cried; Listening to his brief report on the battle situation that had taken place, Wu Zijian ordered Li Tianlin to take two platoons to attack at full speed immediately: this group of puppet cavalry numbered in the hundreds, and the two platoons of Deputy Company Commander Xia might not be able to support it.

Sure enough, when Li Tianlin's more than 80 people rushed to the outside of Hekou Village, most of the village had already been beaten into a pot of porridge. Xia Lianshan and a platoon of horseless cavalry were fighting hard at the head of the village, and farther away, the enemy's cavalry stepped across the frozen Qinglong River and approached the middle of the village. Seeing that the situation was critical, Li Tianlin first ordered the trumpeter next to him to blow the trumpet, and the sharp horn sound pierced the clear sky filled with the sound of guns and cannons in an instant, and told his own people as soon as possible: Reinforcements have arrived.

The commander of the 5th company briefly observed the battlefield, and then ordered a platoon to rush into the village to support the deputy company commander, while he himself led another platoon along the bank of the glacier to flank the puppet cavalry that was attacking the middle of the village. At the same time, he had already noticed that there was still a group of cavalry standing two miles away, which should be the rear of this enemy army, but Li Tianlin couldn't take care of it so much, and he had to remove the threat in the middle of the village first!

The arrival of reinforcements from the Eighth Route Army made the puppet Mongolian army panic, just now it took the initiative with a large number of people, and at this moment seeing that the other party came to reinforcements, the courage suddenly chilled, and some of the men and horses began to wait and see and gradually retreated, and soon evolved into a complete collapse.

Wu Zijian, who came later, shouted urgently:

"Don't hit the horse, don't hit the horse!"

He saw that the enemy cavalry began to lose under the internal and external attacks of his soldiers, and many horses were hit and fell to the ground in the chaotic scuffle. The cavalry company that Wu Zijian was bent on forming relied on these war horses, and he was so anxious that hot sweat broke out on his head.

In the distance, the head of the commander of the puppet Mongolian army was also sweating, but it was a cold sweat. Standing at the height of the horse's back, Du Dongqiang can clearly see the reversal of the battlefield scene without a telescope - the Eighth Road even has a backhand! I really miscalculated today.

The crisis caused by Meng Lang's attack had already been presented, Du Dongqiang hurriedly let his banner soldiers signal to retreat quickly, and he noticed that another Eighth Route Army rushing down from the mountain pass was running desperately across the glacier, and its intention was obvious, to cut off the retreat of the cavalry attacking the center of the village. Du Dongqiang ordered his subordinates to open fire with all their might, and four Taisho 11-type machine guns were set up on the wasteland to strafe, so as to block this eight-way force and cover the retreat of the cavalry company in the center. As for the more than 50 horsemen who had rushed into the village from the head of the village, they had been dragged by the Eighth Route Army and could only resign themselves to fate.

It was a platoon led by Wu Zijian himself who was ready to cut off the retreat of the cavalry of the puppet Mongolian army attacking the center, and under the blockage of the sudden opening of the machine-gun fire net, Wu Zijian had no choice but to give up this attempt in order to avoid casualties. However, the deputy battalion commander, who had never admitted defeat, while directing the soldiers to lie down on the bare wasteland, gritted his teeth and glared at the machine gun position opposite, he remembered the 82 mortar that had just been lifted out of the mountain, so he turned back and shouted to the platoon commander of this platoon:

"Zhao Yejiao! Call Zhao Yejiao over for me! ”

Zhao Yejiao was the artillery that was earlier absorbed by the 5th Company from the 14th Army of the Central Army, and the majestic 82 mortar of the Jinling Arsenal was officially handed over to him yesterday, and at the same time, there were seven oily and shiny guns in his hands.