The cavalry regiment of the Mongolian army was instructed to approach Hekou Village before 10 o'clock. In view of the fact that the regimental commander Du Dongqiang had personally led his troops there, Otsuka Kosuke asked him and the cavalry regiment to control the position of the advance on their own, but never to enter the line of sight of the sentries of the Eighth Route Army: intelligence from the Wencheng secret service showed that the Eighth Route Army stationed in these two villages had set up sentries at a distance of more than 3 miles from the villages.

As soon as the Mongol army was in place, it was deployed in a cavalry attack formation, at which point Kosuke Otsuka would lead two infantry squadrons of the Nara Brigade to their rear. At ten o'clock in the evening, the cavalry officially launched an attack, and Otsuka's two infantry squadrons followed in echelons.

At this moment, Wu Zijian also clarified the position of the cavalry forward of the Mongolian Xinjiang Army, and according to his estimates, they were about five miles away from Hekou Village, which was still a long distance from the sentry post stationed outside the village by the 5th Company, so no sentry had noticed it so far. Gotta get started!

In the night, Wu Zijian led a platoon of more than 40 people to outflank the left flank of the Mongolian army; Since he did not know the actual number of cavalry, he ordered a platoon leader to keep a soldier every other zhang during the outflanking march, so as to open the direction of Hekou Village in a line to complete the battlefield unfolding.

The 5th Company is the elite of the forest division, and the veterans who have experienced a hundred battles account for more than half of the company, and the training in ordinary times is also very formal and targeted. In this dark night, which was almost out of sight, the two platoons outflanked the two wings of the Mongolian cavalry silently and quickly. Wu Zijian looked at the soldiers on his side, and calculated that the platoon led by the deputy company commander on the opposite side should almost be outflanked. He asked for one* from one of the warriors beside him, pulled it, and threw it about a dozen feet away.

Rumble!

With the explosion of Wu Zijian's *, the two platoons outflanked on both wings followed closely and threw out dozens of *; They threw themselves completely by feeling, and threw them in the direction of the Mongolian cavalry in the dark night. In the dense explosions, a large number of neighing horses sounded in the night sky; Hearing this voice, the commanders and fighters of the Eighth Route Army understood that they had hit the right shot.

* Before the blow was over, the rifles on both wings opened fire. At this moment, aiming had become a meaningless act, and the more than eighty three-eight and middle formal masters, almost by their ears to distinguish the movement, fired wildly at the place where the horses were neighing in the night.

The machine guns were also fired at this time, and the unique Czech sound of gunfire signaled that the commander of the 5th company had launched an attack behind the cavalry. The 5th Company currently has a total of two Czech light machine guns (there were originally three, but not long ago they gave one of them to the 8th Company to deal with the bandits in Guanmen Mountain), and the fireworks from their muzzles clearly tear through the night.

Before being raided, Du Dongqiang's attention was completely focused on the direction of Hekou Village in front of him, and while listening to the two battalion commanders under his command to arrange the attack sequence, this big man was deserting in his mind, fantasizing about whether he could catch a few female soldiers of the Eighth Route Army for a while. Unexpectedly, the male soldiers of the Eighth Route Army came to greet him first, and for a while, the cavalry commander was dazed in the team of people on their backs, and it was not clear who was launching the attack.

The beaten cavalry began to scurry around like headless flies. Du Dongqiang's cavalry regiment has suffered successive defeats since it arrived in Fengdian, and now there are only 400 cavalry left in the formation of more than 500 people, and dozens of people have been killed and wounded in the round of raids just now. But a cavalry is a cavalry after all, and the owner on horseback is confused, but the horses under his crotch are still galloping on their own. Wu Zijian and Li Tianlin did not expect a scene to happen, the U-shaped encirclement of the Mongolian Xinjiang army that had just been formed was quickly rushed to pieces by the Mongolian horses that burst into the surroundings. This is a wasteland with a flat river, and the soldiers of the 5th Company standing in the outer ring do not have any cover, and they cannot stop the impact and trampling of wild war horses.

The encirclement turned into a chaotic battle in the field, and the cavalry of the Mongolian Xinjiang Army and the soldiers of the Eighth Route Army fought blindly in the vast dark night.

History may have to sincerely test the ability of the second battalion of the school forest division to face the cavalry - since the whole battalion went to this area from Wutai in the northeast of Shanxi, the second battalion has been the third time to clash with the cavalry of the Japanese puppet army. The number of cavalry is also increasing each time, ambushing a cavalry squadron of the Sena Division in Dawangyu, the cavalry battalion of the Mongolian Army that met inside and outside Hekou Village last time, and tonight, they are facing the entire cavalry regiment of the Mongolian Army.

Of course, Wu Zijian didn't know in advance that the other party had 400 horsemen, and the number was almost twice as many as his own. This is a typical encounter, out of fear that the enemy will blitz the unsuspecting village of Hekou, Wu Zijian's battle order was given in a hurry, and it was completely a preemptive attack. And it was not until the battle was in full swing that the deputy commander of the second battalion realized that the enemy's cavalry was everywhere.

But the troops could no longer be contained, and within five or six minutes of the battle, each other's infantry cavalry was mixed together, and the hostile often relied on the blurred images before them to decide whether they were friends or foes: those on horseback who ran on the ground, and those on the ground who had horses' hooves and bells. The battle situation is chaotic like a pot of boiled multigrain porridge.

The 5th Company of the 2nd Battalion had a total of six platoons, and when five of them attacked the Mongolian army, the 6th platoon was fortifying in the direction of Fengdian, while anxiously looking back or listening to the battlefield behind them. The setting up of this temporary defense line is due to the tactical literacy of the chief officer Wu Zijian, although he was determined to fight soon after encountering this Mongolian army, but in his busy schedule, Wu Zijian still considered his back: there is a road to Fengdian County, and it is very likely that this cavalry in front of him is from Fengdian County. As a commander, he had to take into account the possibility of the appearance of the enemy's follow-up forces in that direction after the battle began.

However, at this moment, the platoon left on this line of defense was completely focused on the battlefield behind him. Through communication with each other, they basically decided that the one who was fighting with their own troops was the traitor cavalry who had attacked Hekou Village not long ago. The sound of gunfire and killing horses in the night sky made the blood of the whole platoon boil, especially the recognizable roars and screams of comrades, which confirmed the fierceness of this encounter. Some people have begun to impatiently ask the platoon commander to send a part of his troops over to support the battlefield behind him. But none of them expected that a vicious devil was quietly touching their own defense.

Kosuke Otsuka deliberately ordered two infantry squadrons of the assembled Nara Brigade to board trucks outside the gate of the county government after a long interval after the departure of the Mongolian Frontier Army Cavalry Regiment. He instructed Deputy Wing Commander Aso Nakasa to lead the other two squadrons of the Nara Brigade to stay in Fengdian County, while he and Captain Nara Shaosa personally led the team to the battle.

"Let those Mongol cavalry go first, we are not in a hurry;" The wing captain confessed to his captain: "Du Dongqiang, that bastard, was beaten by the Eighth Route Army in Hekou Village last time, and today he is given a chance to make meritorious contributions." ”

In fact, Kosuke Otsuka has already heard that the Eighth Route Army in the Shina Army is better at night battles; Now the Nara brigade in his hands is also responsible for stationing in Tunfengdian and assisting in the defense of the Xiaoyushu Mountain Pass, and Dazuo doesn't want them to take too many risks. The brigade commander, Major General, even told him: Fengdian is like the back gate of the Songjiagou secret camp in Xiaoyushu Mountain, and its safety cannot be compromised.

Major General Hagiwara actually took advantage of the Tyumen Brigade that had been temporarily supported by the Jinnan Front, and asked them to send troops from the Tongpu Road tonight to the west to press another base of the Eighth Route Army at the foot of Guanmen Mountain; At the same time as himself, he started the battle at ten o'clock. Kosuke Otsuka couldn't help but smile in his heart, and in the process of laughing, he felt more and more that he let the Mongolian army take the lead, which should be very in line with the heart of the brigade commander and major general.

Before leaving, Otsuka once again warned his deputy wing commander: Strictly prevent the Chinese army in the Great Elm Mountain in the east from stealing the city. Aso was very cautious because he had already learned his lessons; However, with only two infantry squadrons left behind in Toyoden, Aso felt overwhelmed.

"Please also ask Dazuo to send troops back as soon as possible after the battle on Guanmen Mountain is over." Aso pleaded with great sincerity, sincerity and trepidation.

Kosuke Otsuka didn't say much. Ever since his deputy captain lost Toyoden, Otsuka has lost respect for him, especially the captain of the First Brigade, Fukudaoka Shaosa, who was killed in that battle, which made Otsuka regret it even more; This fierce general, who entered the Pingjin area of North China from the Sena Division, has been following him, but unexpectedly in this little-known county town, the jade is broken, which is sad and indignant.

The wing commander has his own plan - to use troops tonight, and the total strength of his northern road and the western road of the Tyumen brigade has exceeded 2,000 people, which is estimated to be one to two times the strength of the Eighth Route Army at the foot of Guanmen Mountain. Coupled with the factor of night sneak attack, you shouldn't have to wait for dawn to wipe out the opponent. During this period, the Central Army of China, which had just abandoned Fengdian County and fled in embarrassment, would not set off any big waves.

The infantry of the two squadrons were carried by fifteen trucks to the western foot of Guanmen Mountain, and since he could not sit down, Otsuka simply let one of the squadrons follow behind the trucks on foot, which was also convenient for this squad to serve as a communication center with Fengdian.

To the surprise of the Japanese commander, the truck team under the command of him and Nara Shaosa was still on the road after leaving the county seat of Tohodian, but fierce gunfire suddenly broke out in front of them. Of course, Otsuka knew that in front of him was the cavalry regiment of the Mongolian Frontier Army, but when he looked at his pocket watch, there were still more than twenty minutes before the attack was launched, and he was suddenly at a loss - could it be that Du Dongqiang's spearhead was discovered by the Eighth Route Army?

No way!

Judging by the sound of gunfire coming from the increasingly clear distance, it is clear that this is an exchange of fire between two large forces, and that the gunfire is so dense and the explosions (presumably *) that it is not a skirmish. The commander of the Japanese wing, who did not know the situation, ordered the convoy to stop immediately, and a small team led by Nara Shaosa himself ran towards the direction of the battlefield.

As a result, this Japanese vanguard squad, which was marching quickly with a cat on its waist, ran headlong into the defense line of a platoon left here by the 5th Company of the Eighth Route Army!