The cavalry battalion of the puppet Mongolian army, under the guidance of the Fengdian guide, went out of the south gate of the county seat, trotted all the way, and gradually arrived at the northern foot of Guanmen Mountain. Along the way, except for some scattered homes outside the south gate, the rest are uninhabited wastelands. When they passed in front of the mountain pass of Little Elm Mountain, they saw that it had been blocked and guarded by Japanese soldiers, and the degree of strictness far exceeded the current four-gate guard of Fengdian.

Although Du Dongqiang was the head of the cavalry regiment under the Otsuka United, he didn't know why the mountain pass of Little Elm Mountain was closed by the imperial army, so that the shortcut between Fengdian and Wencheng was blocked, and he didn't bother to care. The task given to him by Captain Otsuka was to patrol and clear to the south, but even the Wing Captain himself didn't think that there would be anything worth clearing in that direction, so he let the cavalry of the Mongolian Army deal with it by himself.

At this moment, what Du Dongqiang was thinking about was still the legendary female bandit leader of Guanmen Mountain - if he could find the bandit's nest and capture the female bandit leader in one fell swoop, it would be beautiful. With this idea, when his battalion approached the northern foot of Guanmen Mountain, Du Dongqiang actually had a little excitement, but this excitement gradually came into view with Guanmen Mountain, and quickly disappeared into invisibility. Like the big and small elm mountains, it is the same north-south Guanmen Mountain, and its north and south ends are only a dozen miles wide each, and the cliffs are high, and there is almost no possibility to climb, let alone enter the mountain.

"Damn, there can be bandits in here?!"

The cavalry commander of the puppet Mongolian army pointed to the high cliff at the northern foot of Guanmen Mountain with the horse whip in his hand, and cursed in his mouth:

"They've all got wings, can they fucking fly in and out of Guanmen Mountain?"

The guide hurriedly explained the topography of Guanmen Mountain and told Du Dongqiang that if you want to enter the mountain, you must bypass the northern foot and continue to walk along the west foot of Guanmen Mountain to have a mountain pass into the mountain, and there is a village there is in the nearest mountain pass. Du Dongqiang's mind turned: he was originally coming for the female bandit leader, looking at the posture of this mountain, the female bandit leader may not be caught, but if he can find a village to settle down and get some income from the villagers, it is not worth the trip.

They then continued on their way to the village of Hekou.

However, when Du Dongqiang followed the guide's gesture and saw Hekou Village two miles away, he was extremely disappointed again: What kind of oil and water can there be in such a small village with a big fart?! He almost whipped the guide. After thinking about it, the centaurs also drove here anyway, and they ran for a long time, so they just rested.

At this moment, they saw the pass of Guanmen Mountain.

The guide said that it was the mountain pass, and if you wanted to enter Guanmen Mountain, you had to go up from there.

"Female bandits go back and forth, do they go there too?" Du Dongqiang was interested, and asked while squinting his eyes and carefully looking at the gentle slopes around the mountain pass.

The guide didn't know how to answer for a while - he was a person who sold oil, salt, sauce and vinegar in Fengdian County, how could he have seen any female bandits?

Suddenly, Du Dongqiang reined in the horse's reins, twisted the horse's head in the direction of the mountain pass, and then raised the telescope hanging around his neck.

At that moment just now, he saw a group of horses appear on the gentle slope of the mountain pass, and the cavalry commander of the puppet Mongolian army couldn't help but be stunned, where did the herds of horses come from in this barren mountain pass? When he looked carefully through his binoculars, he found that in addition to the group of horses, there were horses moving in front of and behind the houses of more than a dozen houses on the gentle slope; Moreover, after a few more scans, Du Dongqiang's heart was full of suspicions: if he was not mistaken, these horses lying idle on the gentle slope of the mountain pass a few miles away should be the military horses of the Japanese Imperial Army!

The traitor regiment commander guessed correctly, it was the men of the 5th Company of the 2nd Battalion of the Eighth Route Army who urgently drove to the gentle slope of the mountain pass with 25 Japanese cavalry horses; The warriors were already hiding, but the targets of these Oriental horses were too large and numerous to hide on the unsheltered gentle slopes.

Du Dongqiang, who was outside the mountain pass, looked at this group of military horses suspiciously, and he even felt that it should be a stronghold of the imperial army, so there would be so many military horses. As early as Suiyuan, Du Dongqiang's cavalry regiment had assisted the cavalry brigade of the Kwantung Army in carrying out exercises and even operations, and was deeply impressed by the Oriental horses under the crotch of the imperial cavalry. He just didn't understand, why did the imperial army lead the military horses to the hillside? And, at this moment, in his telescope vision, there was not a single human figure in sight.

These military horses came from the capture of the second battalion of the Lin Division in the ambush of Dawangyu, but when the battle took place, Du Dongqiang's puppet Mongolian cavalry regiment was still far away in Taiyuan; And the incident of the Iwata Cavalry Squadron being attacked and broken has never been mentioned to Du Dongqiang - after all, it is a very embarrassing thing for the imperial army. This made it difficult for the cavalry commander of the puppet Mongolian army to imagine that there would be a murderous opportunity hidden near those military horses at this moment. He hesitated for a moment, and decided to send a few of his men up the gentle slope of the mountain pass to inform the owner of the horse about the task of the cavalry regiment, and to ask which unit of the Imperial Army belonged to the other party: it must not be Captain Otsuka's subordinates, otherwise the Wing Captain would have warned him long before leaving.

At this moment, waiting in the area of the mountain pass is a platoon of the 5th Company of the 2nd Battalion of the Eighth Route Army; After receiving the battle alarm from Xia Lianshan, the deputy company commander, the platoon immediately entered the preset fortifications. There are a total of five preset fortifications on the gentle slope of the mountain pass, which were designed by the deputy battalion commander Wu Zijian, and these five fortifications make full use of the original terrain and mountain rocks, and repair and camouflage them on the basis; This makes it difficult to see through the hidden mechanism when viewed from outside the mountain pass.

Although Du Dongqiang was suspicious, he still thought that the imperial army was stationed on the gentle slope, so he sent the deputy commander of the cavalry battalion and five soldiers to abandon their horses and climb on foot. He himself held a telescope and watched his men move forward step by step.

Unexpectedly, a thrilling scene appeared in his telescope: when the deputy battalion commander and five soldiers climbed the gentle slope of the mountain pass without effort, suddenly out of nowhere appeared a group of people dressed in gray cloth, armed with rifles with bayonets, knocked down their subordinates in three strokes and divided by two, dragged them behind several rocks, and disappeared!

The cavalry commander of the puppet Mongolian army felt that he had seen a ghost for a moment - in a panic, he hurriedly adjusted the focus of his telescope, trying to see what was going on, but soon there was no figure in sight, and the bare hillside was left in the morning sun. He realized that something was wrong, and he couldn't see what kind of outfit the person who rushed out, but it was definitely not the Imperial Army!

"Prepare for battle, all the companies dismount!"

Du Dongqiang issued an order in panic, and some of the ignorant puppet Mongolian cavalry dismounted in a panic. Immediately, he sent a company in the direction of the mountain pass and launched a tentative charge on foot.

In Hekou Village on the south side of the mountain pass, Xia Lianshan closely monitored the movements of this group of cavalry, because the view was blocked, he could not see what was happening on the mountain pass, but from the sudden dismount of this group of cavalry to make a vigilant posture and dispatch a charge in the direction of the mountain pass, Xia Lianshan realized that the soldiers behind the fortifications there must have attacked the sharp soldiers sent by the enemy just now.

There is no choice but to hesitate any longer! Xia Lianshan instructed the light machine gunners around him to prepare, and the charging puppet Mongolian troops gradually entered their frontal firing range, facing them at a distance of less than a hundred zhang, Xia Lianshan shouted softly: "Fight!" ”

The Czech machine gun roared suddenly. As soon as the machine gun rang out, the soldiers of the 5th Company who were ambushed at the head of the village immediately pulled the trigger, and the bullets poured from the side of the puppet Mongolian army, knocking down a small piece in an instant. Some of them turned around and ran back, while others leaned in the direction of the pass in a panic to avoid bullets, and as a result, a more violent rain of bullets suddenly flew down from above the pass—it was the five Maxim heavy machine guns on the mountain pass fortifications that opened fire.

The combat effectiveness of the puppet Mongolian army was already average, and fighting on foot was not their forte, and under the surprise attack of the Eighth Route Army's light and heavy machine guns, the strength of a company collapsed in less than a minute. Du Dongqiang watched his more than 100 people being knocked down by nearly thirty percent, and hurriedly ordered the company that did not move to retreat, he turned his gaze to Hekou Village, which was closer, and this time he clearly saw the enemy figure lying in ambush behind the courtyard wall from the telescope, and the cavalry commander of the puppet Mongolian army shouted in shock:

"Eighth Road, it's the Eighth Route Army!"

Du Dongqiang was familiar with the military uniform of the Eighth Route Army, and when he was fighting with the Imperial Army in northern Jin last year, his cavalry regiment was attacked by the 120th Division of the Eighth Route Army several times; What made Du Dongqiang hate and fear was that the team of the Eighth Route Army specially selected his cavalry regiment to fight, and as soon as the Japanese came up, the other party disappeared. In just over two months, he lost almost a battalion.

The cavalry of the puppet Mongolian army, a regiment is composed of three battalions, one battalion has two companies under its jurisdiction, and one company has about more than 100 cavalry; Therefore, Du Dongqiang's cavalry regiment could reach more than 600 horses when it was fully loaded, but it was killed by the Eighth Route Army in northern Jin Province by more than 200; Later, after supplementation, it was restored to more than 500 horses when he went south to Taiyuan. Unexpectedly, after arriving at Fengdian garrison, he first encountered the lure of unknown enemy troops, and a company of people lost everything from war horses to weapons and equipment, and then encountered the Eighth Route Army again!

Du Dongqiang couldn't help but be frightened, and while he commanded to retreat, he was still shocked that there were eight roads here. Finally, they retreated beyond the range of the two positions of the Eighth Route Army.

The cavalry remounted their horses, and Du Dongqiang, who was just about to give the order for a full retreat, suddenly realized that the Eighth Route Army in these two directions was just firing on the spot, and did not pursue and kill after defeating his subordinates. Du Dongqiang was shocked for a moment, and raised the telescope to look.

There was still no one to be seen on the pass, and the horses were still walking leisurely on the gentle slopes, and the sudden sound of gunfire apparently did not affect them; At the head of Hekou Village, you can clearly see a small number of soldiers of the Eighth Route Army running behind the courtyard walls and houses.

Not a lot!

The cavalry commander of the puppet Mongolian army showed a cruel smile on his face: Damn, I have more than 200 horses, and I also carry four Japanese-made Taisho 11 light machine guns (also known as crooked machine guns), on the other hand, looking at these two eight-way formations, there should not be many troops, so they can only hold behind the position.

Du Dongqiang called the battalion commander and the two company commanders over, pointed out the battlefield just now, and decided to give up the attack on the gentle slope of the mountain pass, which was condescending, and his side would not only struggle to attack from the back, but also the route of attack would be flanked by the eight roads at the head of the village.

"Listen to me, the cavalry will attack this small village with all their might, dodge the head of the village, and go up from the middle!"

After all, Du Dongqiang had fought with the elite harem division of the Kwantung Army, and after seeing the situation clearly, he decided to concentrate a company first and attack the village in front of him on horseback. This small village leaned against the foot of Guanmen Mountain, in the shape of a narrow strip, and the ambush of the Eight Roads just now obviously came from the village near the mountain pass, and now they had to face the middle of the village to launch an attack.

The sound of horses' hooves was fierce, and more than a hundred Mongolian horses urged the formation, ran with all their might, and rushed to the center of Hekou Village!