Wu Zijian, who was in a very bad mood, presided over a brief battle summary meeting at the 8th Company station in Hongxingxia.

In this encounter between the 8th Company and the bandits, the price was paid for five dead and eleven wounded, and nothing was captured, and the other side did not abandon the casualties, so the results of the battle cannot be counted.

Because it was the bandits who sought provocation first, and then retreated after the exchange of fire, it can be said that they completely controlled the initiative; The 8th Company was pinned down and suppressed by the opponent, and even had to alarm the main force outside the mountain, but in the end it did not even capture a single prisoner, which can be called a complete defeat.

Company commander Lu Dajiang took the lead in making a review, and was mainly responsible for the negligence of precautions around the camp and the failure of the command operation.

Wu Zijian vented a few words at first, but when he saw that the platoon commanders of the 8th Company were all ashamed, and considering the actual situation of their company, he did not delve into it.

"Da Jiang, a lesson must be learned, but this matter must not stop here," Wu Zijian asked for a box of cigarettes from Li Tianlin, who was attending the meeting, and said while distributing them to those who could smoke: "Speaking of which, I am also responsible, the female bandit leader who fought with you slipped under my nose this morning." If I had detained her at that time, I am afraid there would have been no such battle. ”

Lu Dajiang's heart fluctuated, and his hand holding the unlit cigarette was trembling slightly: "Deputy battalion commander, I have disgraced our second battalion and our Eighth Route Army; Don't worry, as long as I still have a breath of air, 8 companies will definitely turn out that female bandit and her men! This revenge must be avenged, and shame must be snow! ”

Talking about the ferocious firepower of the bandits, and the machine guns were used to suppress them in both directions during the battle, Wu Zijian first smiled and scolded that this gang of bandits could make machine guns, and then he was worried: he was originally going to go into the mountains to pull out the main force of the 8th Company and cooperate with the puppet Mongolian cavalry in Fengdian, but the appearance of this group of bandits in the mountains made the defense of Hongxingxia suddenly tightened, not only was it inconvenient to draw troops from it, but he even had to consider leaving a machine gun for Lu Dajiang - from the hands of the 5th Company, of course - otherwise, If you fight that gang of bandits in the future, you will still have to suffer a loss in terms of firepower.

Li Tianlin really wailed as if he had twitched his muscles. At present, the 2nd Battalion has a total of six Czech light machine guns, of which the 5th Company has three for its own, the 6th Company and the 7th Company have two and one respectively, and the 8th Company has no shares. This time, he rushed into the mountains to help the 8th Company, and Wu Zijian asked Li Tianlin to bring two of them, intending to severely damage the bandits. Unexpectedly, the bandits did not succeed, and the Czechs had to leave half of the 8th Company!

"Lao Lu, didn't you see the bandits with machine guns? Then you have the ability to snatch it from them! What kind of hero is it from me? Li Tianlin shouted angrily.

Since the commander of the 8th company unexpectedly took advantage of this, he did not engage in a verbal dispute with the commander of the 5th company who was damaged, and lowered his head to make a fortune in a muffled voice.

"Deputy battalion commander, then I have to take that 92 heavy machine and mortars away!" Seeing that a Czech-style was cut alive, Li Tianlin's mind turned, and he immediately came up with the idea of heavy weapons. This is also what Wu Zijian revealed to him before.

Wu Zijian nodded in agreement - since he didn't get reinforcements, let's take the heavy machine guns and mortars away. The mortar was equipped with seven shells, and as for the gunner, the 5th Company had a soldier named Zhao Yejiao, who was previously an artilleryman of the 14th Army of the Central Army, who was wounded in the leg near the end of the Battle of Xinkou, and was separated from the retreating troops, hiding in the homes of nearby people, and was later organized by the 2nd Regiment of the Lin Division. Since the second battalion was assigned the 20th mortar of the Republic of China, the brigade headquarters assigned two gunners to the second battalion to act with the battalion headquarters. Therefore, this soldier who can shoot artillery was left in the 5th company by Li Tianlin.

This time he went into the mountains to help the 8th Company, and Wu Zijian was in a hurry, but he still didn't forget to tell Li Tianlin to bring Zhao Yejiao with him. Wu Zijian secretly felt that he deserved to be able to mobilize this artillery, if it weren't for the 5th Company having such a spare artilleryman, he would have to go to the battalion headquarters to ask for the two gunners, and that would inevitably expose his intentions. If the instructor had known, the whole plan would have been in vain.

Lu Dajiang, who was responsible for taking care of the 92 heavy machine gun and the Type 20 mortar, could not have imagined that the transfer of these two heavy weapons was actually the private act of the deputy battalion commander, he had just gotten a Czech type, and the deputy battalion commander also ordered the 5th company to leave the bullets of the two light machine guns to him, which made the 8th company commander grateful, and where would he consider whether the deputy battalion commander's order came from the battalion headquarters?

The 8th Company warmly retained Wu Zijian and the 5th Company, and of course the big brother Lian Jinshan had to entertain him. Wu Zijian saw that it was getting dark, and considering that it would be more inconvenient to carry mortars and heavy machine guns on the rugged mountain roads at night, he simply agreed to stay overnight and return at dawn the next day.

During the banquet, the commander of the 8th company repeatedly expressed his determination to the deputy battalion commander on the suppression of bandits, and repeatedly thanked and compensated the commander of the 5th company for the machine gun.

The south gate of Fengdian County suddenly opened this morning.

The county remains under all-day martial law, with no non-military personnel allowed to enter or leave. At this moment, a battalion of the cavalry regiment of the Mongolian Xinjiang Army was rushed out from the south gate, led by the regiment commander Du Dongqiang, to the northern foot of Guanmen Mountain to clear the attack.

Wing Commander Kosuke Otsuka, who led the troops to Fengdian to participate in the clean-up operation, finally changed the simultaneous attack from three directions to a one-by-one attack at the suggestion of Deputy Wing Captain Aso; That is, in the first wave, Otsuka led the team to the area of the Great Elm Mountain in the north of the city, searching for the Zhina army that attacked the cavalry of the Mongolian army a few days ago; In the second wave, Du Dongqiang led the team to search and clear in the direction of Guanmen Mountain in the south of the city; In the third wave, Aso led a team to clear the direction of the Great Elm Mountain in the east of the city.

The revised plan can maintain the relative sufficiency of troops in the county to prevent the counterattack of the Chinese army during the clearance; At the same time, in the event of a battle in a certain direction, troops can be sent to support the city at any time.

After Kosuke Otsuka searched north for two days and found nothing, Du Dongqiang's cavalry battalion headed south this morning. Two members of the Fengdian Maintenance Association acted as guides, guiding the Mongolian army who were extremely unfamiliar with the geography of this area.

Since he was stably stationed in Hekou Village, Xia Lianshan concentrated a platoon and conducted cavalry training every day. Xia Lianshan is good at riding, but he has never been a cavalryman, and at present, he is only the first to learn to ride a horse as a soldier of this platoon, as for swordsmanship and riding and shooting, he can only wait for the coming day.

In accordance with the suggestion of Xiao Junping, a staff officer of the Jin army, Xia Lianshan also sent three or five soldiers every day to patrol the area with Hekou Village as a radius of about five miles, not only to contact the sentinels set up at several points on the periphery, but also to quickly report to the company headquarters in Hekou Village when there was a situation.

As a result, on this morning, when the three cavalry of Xia Lianshan had just patrolled more than five miles north of Hekou Village, they found a large group of men and horses from a distance, coming in this direction, and the visual inspection was about two or three miles away! Although he couldn't see the banner of the men and horses clearly, given that the direction was Fengdian in the Japanese-occupied area, Xia Lianshan's cavalry immediately flew back with flying horses.

Xia Lianshan was continuing to train cavalry in the wasteland outside the village entrance, and his face couldn't help but change suddenly when he received the flying report, he had personally been to Fengdian to reconnoitre, and knew that there were not only devils in the county, but also the cavalry of the puppet Mongolian army - the cavalry of the puppet Mongolian army that the deputy battalion commander had been thinking about cleaning up recently - the sentries reported that the attackers were all riding horses, so I am afraid that it was this traitor army.

Xia Lianshan urgently ordered combat preparations. At this moment, there is a platoon in Hekou Village, and there is another platoon at the mountain pass, and then there is a "half-hung cavalry platoon" where war horses are fiddled; The rest of the half of the troops were taken into the mountains by the deputy battalion commander and company commander yesterday to support the 8th Company to suppress the bandits: this group of puppet Mongolian troops is really a fucking time!

After all, the 5th Company was the elite of the forest division that had experienced a hundred battles, and under the emergency mobilization, it quickly entered the combat state. Xia Lianshan ordered a squad of soldiers to drive the war horses into the mountain pass - his so-called cavalry platoon had just started, and it did not have the basic elements of horseback combat at all, and although the Mongolian army was not a strong army, it had been galloping on horseback in Mongolia for a long time, and it must be proficient in horsemanship, and it was absolutely impossible to attack the enemy's strengths with its own shortcomings.

In the area of the mountain pass, the fortifications with camouflage (including the fortifications of the only Makqin heavy machine gun in the whole battalion) have just been built, and they are condescending, easy to defend and difficult to attack, the opponent is cavalry, if they attack the mountain pass, they can only attack from the back, so the pressure on the platoon of the 5th company guarding the mountain pass is not great. The key is this platoon in the village of Kawaguchi!

Xia Lianshan led all the remaining soldiers of the cavalry platoon into Hekou Village and joined forces with the platoon in the village to build a position. The so-called position is just the use of the walls and houses of a dozen or so families at the head of the village, and it is far from being as professional as the hidden fortifications in the area around the mountain pass. Fortunately, there was also a Czech light machine gun, which Xia Lianshan arranged behind a rock-walled courtyard. At present, the only favorable point for the defense of Hekou Village is the terrain opposite the head of the village, in addition to the flat wasteland, there is also the frozen Qinglong River, with a wide field of vision and no obstruction.

And what Xia Lianshan is most entangled with at the moment is not fighting, but whether to fight!

He had just sent four soldiers to send an urgent message to Hongxingxia and Xiping Village. Among them, the two soldiers who went to Xiping went on horseback, but no matter how fast the horses ran, it would take more than half an hour to reach Xiping, which was more than ten miles away, let alone the two who had to climb more than ten miles of mountain roads. And the enemy troops who are coming here will arrive in more than ten minutes at most, and if they try to enter the village, then will the 5th Company open fire and resist or not?!

Xia Lianshan clearly remembered that before the battalion commander and instructor left, they repeatedly warned the deputy battalion commander not to take the initiative to attack the nearby Japanese troops, in order to avoid prematurely exposing the movements of the second battalion in establishing a base in this area. But now that the enemy is coming to the door, what should I do?

Deputy Company Commander Xia was hesitating, and a soldier in the front-end position shouted:

"Cavalry! The cavalry is coming! ”

As far as the eye could see, the yellow cavalry let their horses come over without hurrying.

They are the cavalry battalion of the Mongolian Xinjiang Army stationed in Fengdian City and Du Dongqiang.