When the chief of staff of the riverside was ruthless at the flag of the Chinese army at the head of Toyodian Castle, Kosuke Otsuka had already arrived at Junling Castle and issued an order to march to Toyoden.

On the way back, Kosuke Otsuka contacted through the radio and learned that his deputy wing captain had retreated to the Tomb with the remnants of the defeated army. Starry Night rushed to the Otsuka of the Monarch's Tomb, and as soon as he saw Aso Nakasa, he roared at him.

As a deputy, of course, Aso didn't dare to tell the difference, and besides, Fengdian County was lost too quickly, and he barely organized any decent resistance, so he was driven out by the Chinese army in a daze. Moreover, the captain Fukudaoka has not heard of the breakthrough so far, but he is afraid that there will be more luck and less luck, and it cannot be ruled out that he will be trapped in the city and the jade will be broken.

If it weren't for the fact that Kosuke Otsuka himself had personally fought with the 391st Regiment of the Shina Army and understood that the other party was not casually with each other, the angry wing captain almost ordered Aso Nakasa to apologize. Rao is like this, he still punitively ordered the deputy wing captain: immediately lead the troops to set off and counterattack Fengdian!

Among the deserters that Aso Nakasa brought out from Fengdian were a disabled squadron of more than 100 people of the Futian Brigade, and a cavalry battalion of the Mongolian Xinjiang Army with less than 100 cavalry. Kosuke Otsuka handed over another squadron of the Fukuda Brigade that he had taken away while escorting the comfort women to the deputy wing commander. In this way, Aso Nakasa led less than 500 foot cavalry, without heavy weapons, and hurriedly drove to Fengdian. It wasn't until half a day after their departure that Kosuke Otsuka personally led three fully formed infantry squadrons of the Nara Brigade, carrying various guns and heavy machine guns, and followed up in a truck.

At the same time, on the Nantongpu Road, the commander of the Hagiwara Akira Brigade rode the comfort women's army all the way south, and turned to the branch line and directly entered the Songjiagou in Xiaoyushu Mountain.

It wasn't until he saw with his own eyes that the comfort women camp behind the platform of Songjiagou Railway Station was intact that Hagiwara really breathed a sigh of relief. Hiraiji Ichichusa immediately commanded the gendarmerie to get off the train and re-alert the train station and the empty camp.

Soon, the head of the small island secret service in Wencheng was also ordered to arrive, and also brought the car of the brigade commander and major general, and they rode out of the car together to the east pass of Little Elm Mountain. At this moment, this inconspicuous Higashiyama Pass gathered important people, including the brigade commander and chief of staff of the Hagiwara Brigade. Hagiwara Akira personally checked with his chief of staff the deployment of the counterattack on Toyoden.

A squadron of the Fukuda Brigade of the Otsuka Wing who remained in Higashiyamaguchi, the squadron leader had previously been ordered to rush to the south gate when the Shina Army attacked Zhanfengdian, but was unexpectedly attacked from behind.

Hagiwara Akira, Kawabe, and Kojima Masao unanimously judged that the Eighth Route Army, which suddenly appeared, was the one stationed at the foot of Guanmen Mountain.

"The hand of the communist army is stretched too long," the brigade commander, Major General, said coldly, and then turned his head to Kojima Masao: "What progress have you made in the reconnaissance there?" ”

Kojima Masao's subordinates have been spying on the west foot of Guanmen Mountain one after another recently, and have basically clarified the reality of the Eighth Route Army in that area. Knowing that the total number of this eight-way force was close to 1,000 people, and that cavalry and artillery were being developed, Hagiwara Akira was even more furious, he absolutely could not sit idly by and watch the existence of such a large force of the Zhina Army only a few dozen miles away from the Songjiagou secret camp, not to mention, this Zhina Army had repeatedly offended his troops and territory.

Hagiwara knew very well that this brigade would not be delayed for too long, and as soon as he recovered the county seat of Fengdian and relieved the comfort women's secret camp, he would have to quickly release it and return to the front line of Nantongpu Road, where the fighting was also tight. In this way, he must make the best use of this new force that is still in his hands in front of him, and borrow a common saying from the people of China: After this village, there will be no more this shop.

"Send a report to Otsuka, their attack on Toyoden North City, the sooner it unfolds, the better, and report the progress to me at any time!" Hagiwara Akira instructed his chief of staff: "As soon as the siege battle starts over there, you will immediately take three squadrons and attack the southern city with heavy artillery!" ”

Seeing off the deputy battalion commander of the Eighth Route Army, Qin Zhongxiao took a breath of relief. He met Wu Zijian for the first time, but he trusted this ordinary appearance of the Eighth Route Army general, and his chief of staff had witnessed the courage and skill of Wu Zijian's subordinates. It seems that as long as their main company joins in, this battle against Little Elm Mountain has a good chance of winning.

The lieutenant of the military commander also went to report to his female superior, and I hope that Major Wang Suihua will not make any more trouble; Speaking of which, this attack was originally fought for the military commander, if it weren't for the repeated requests and urging of the beautiful female spy (of course, behind her was not only the headquarters of the military command, but also the headquarters of the chief of the defense of the second war zone), the colonel of the Central Army would never take the initiative to attack again when the troops were overstretched.

"Have you made contact with the people in the mountains?" Qin Zhongxiao asked Chief of Staff Zhang Hong. He was referring to the third battalion of the 391st Regiment left behind in Great Elm Mountain, which was mostly composed of locals who had recently joined the army, and there were not many veterans leading the team, and the weapons were the worst. This time, Qin Zhongxiao personally led the two main battalions and the special agent company to counterattack Fengdian with all the heavy equipment, and the force left behind in the mountains was extremely weak, so he was a little relieved.

"Don't worry, after recovering the county seat, I have sent two groups of people to ride back on horseback to deliver the message, asking the third battalion commander to keep his eyes open and guard our base camp."

Zhang Hong is a few years older than Qin Zhongxiao and belongs to a relatively serious officer; And the several strongholds in the Great Elm Mountain have just opened up the business situation, and the chief of staff is naturally quite cautious.

"I should still get another radio station," Qin Zhongxiao sighed: "Running around on a horse to deliver messages is not a way after all." It makes our dignified Central Army look like the Eighth Road. ”

Although the major of the Central Army admired the deputy battalion commander of the Eighth Route Army Forestry Division who he had just met, he still didn't look down on this partial division recruited by the Nationalist Government in his bones.

This sentence could not help but touch the mind of the chief of staff, who had always disagreed that his regiment seat was too close to the Communist Party -- it was obvious that the chairman of the committee had let Yan'an live out of helplessness last year, and it was impossible for this group of rogues to resist Japan as they preached to the Chinese people, and they must have grabbed territory and expanded the army under the legal banner of resisting Japan.

"Tuanzao, in my opinion, we have to pay more attention to this joint attack," Zhang Hong looked around, lowered his voice and said to Qin Zhongxiao: "This deputy battalion commander of the Eighth Route Army, Wu has not started fighting yet, even if he is thinking about how to distribute the spoils, he wants to ask for more devils' guns in a different way." ”

"They're poor," Qin Zhongxiao could see this: "It's not like our Central Army is well-equipped, of course, if you can get more, you can get more." ”

Unexpectedly, when Zhang Hong heard this, he immediately cried out bitterly: "My big group, do you really think of yourself as a rich man now?" How long has it been since our 391st regiment was paid and received equipment from above? This cannon company that has just been built is mostly Oriental goods taken from the Japanese! Do you think we're mechanics? ”

Qin Zhongxiao didn't like to hear Zhang Hong crying with him about poverty, although he knew that the chief of staff was now in front of the 391st Regiment's home, and he had to calculate with firewood, rice, oil and salt, but the colonel of the Central Army, who was used to being broad-minded, was too lazy to fall into the calculating stove. At this moment, Zhao Mutou burst in in a hurry, Qin Zhongxiao's eyes lit up, and he immediately threw the annoying chief of staff aside.

"Tuanzuo, the guide has been found, you don't need to go into the mountain, there is a way to know in our county!"

Listening to the words of the spy company commander, Qin Zhongxiao became more and more happy, pulled the thin and tall Zhao Mutou to sit down, and asked him to elaborate.

It turned out that after the joint operations meeting was dismissed, Zhao Mutou quietly expressed his doubts to Qin Zhongxiao: His spy company was responsible for attacking the Songjiagou Railway Station on a side of the path in Xiaoyushu Mountain, but no one in the whole company had seen what Songjiagou was like, let alone walked the path where he didn't know where to hide. Although the Second Battalion of the Eighth Route Army agreed to send a guide, it was not his own person after all, and whether it was reliable or not was a question mark. The beautiful female major of the military command asked her and her subordinates to join the attack direction of the spy company, although she did not say it explicitly, but she undoubtedly valued a certain secret of the Songjiagou railway station. If the attack along the way fails, once the military commander is blamed, he Zhao Mutou's head will not be able to bear it.

Qin Zhongxiao agreed with Zhao Mutou's opinion, in fact, at the meeting, he also questioned the matter of the guide. At this moment, after being reminded by the commander of the spy company, he immediately decided not to wait for the Eighth Route Army to send the so-called enemy engineer team over, but asked Zhao Mutou to immediately send someone into Xiaoyushu Mountain to find a guide. Unexpectedly, as soon as Zhao Mutou returned to Lianli to arrange, some of his subordinates told him that the old shopkeeper of the beef and mutton shop in Xiguan, the county seat, had relatives in Xiyao Village in Xiaoyushu Mountain, and his relatives were hunters, familiar with the trails in the mountains, and had traveled from the trails in the mountains to the abandoned Songjiagou coal kiln.

"I really just wanted to sleep, so I brought a pillow!" After listening to Zhao Mutou's report, Qin Zhongxiao couldn't help but slap the other party's cotton military hat.

Zhao Mutou continued to report with a smile: "I have already sent a platoon leader with a few people, and the old shopkeeper rode out of the city overnight and went into the mountains to find his relatives. ”

"The old man has a long life? Riding a horse in the cold wind and cold night, can you withstand such a toss? Qin Zhongxiao asked with concern.

"It's okay, he's very strong!" Zhao Mutou said: "As long as it is related to fighting devils, this old man has absolutely nothing to say." ”

When Fengdian was occupied by the Japanese army and slaughtered the city, his son was shot to death, and his daughter-in-law committed suicide by cutting her throat after being taken by more than a dozen Japanese soldiers. His family is ruined, and he is bent on revenge on the devil, and his beef and mutton shop in Xiguan was already the secret contact point of the 391st Regiment Special Service Company before the recovery.

"Okay, once the guide is in place, you will take the spy company into the mountain first, I estimate that the Eighth Route Army will be able to send people over tomorrow, this battle, sooner rather than later!"

Qin Zhongxiao and Wu Zijian are actually planning to attack as soon as possible. However, they were still late, because from the two directions north and south of Fengdian, the Japanese counteroffensive forces had already taken the lead and pressed up.