"Brigade commander, I received an order to attack, and the division commander ordered us to attack the flank of the enemy's 87th Division!" The chief of staff of the 14th brigade said to the brigade commander. "Good! It's finally our turn! The commander of the 14th Brigade stood up and said, "Order the Gumu Wing to be the vanguard and attack the enemy!" ”。 Nobuo Watanabe's pre-arranged ambush was activated. In fact, after Liu Hai set up an ambush to eliminate the Japanese armored troops, Nobuo Watanabe knew that it was difficult to stop the attacking national army without the armored troops, so he ordered the 14th Brigade of his division to go to Huilong Mountain in the northwest of Longling to lurk, and at the same time ordered the 4th Brigade to lurk in the Fenglai Valley in the southwest, and he led the 16th Brigade to deploy in the surrounding strongholds to resist the attack of the national army.

"Stop attacking!" Liu Hai ordered his Liu Xiaoshan regiment and Huang Kesheng regiment to stop the attack, the reason is very simple, the 11th Army has completed the battlefield rest and replenishment, while the resistance of the old city of Longling is becoming more and more fierce, in addition, according to aerial reconnaissance, the Japanese army in the city is moving on a large scale, and the two regiments lack flank cover. "How could the Japanese army have so many troops moving, why didn't the other side counterattack when we captured the outlying strongholds, and now that they have hit the old city, these troops have begun to counterattack?" Liu Hai couldn't figure it out, the Japanese army still had so many troops in the old city, they should have launched a counterattack in advance, why did they know that they only came out now! Liu Xiaoshan and Huang Kesheng, who had withdrawn from the battle, ran to see Liu Hai. "Shizuo, why don't you let us continue the attack, we are already halfway through the attack, and we will be able to cut off the enemy in another hour!" Liu Xiaoshan said.

Liu Hai looked at the map, thinking in his heart, but did not answer Liu Xiaoshan, because he couldn't see the purpose of the Japanese counterattack now, if they counterattacked now, the Japanese army would have no terrain at all, they had to attack their own peripheral strongholds, and the national army had already built fortifications on it, that is to say, the Japanese army's current counterattack was equivalent to turning all its terrain into disadvantage, Liu Hai believed that the division commander of the 56th Division, as the elite of the Japanese army, was not so stupid! "Do you know that there are two wings of Japanese troops flanking and rearing behind you?" Bangs said. "Two wings?" Liu Xiaoshan and Huang Kesheng said in surprise at the same time. "That's right, that's why I told you to stop attacking!" Bangs said. "Then why are you fighting back now?" Huang Kesheng asked. "That's the last thing I understand right now!" Bangs said with a frown.

"Report Junzuo, the big thing is not good, in the direction behind the 87th Division, there is about a brigade of Japanese troops approaching, and now it is less than ten miles away from the 87th Division!" The staff officer rushed to report. "What? A brigade? Song Xilian was so shocked that he dropped the pen in his hand on the ground! Ran to the map, Song Xilian glanced back and forth a few times, grabbed the pen and spent a few lines, and immediately understood the reason for the matter, the Japanese army had an ambush in Huilong Mountain, and now the attack is to attack his back! But Song Xilian didn't stop there, but continued to look at it, drawing a few straight lines on the map with a pen, and he suddenly gasped, because there is also a place called Fenglai Valley, if the Japanese army ambushes another army there, their retreat and supplies may be cut off! Now that a brigade of the Japanese army has killed the 87th Division, what we need to do now is to immediately withdraw the 88th Division and go to the Jiazi Mountain north of Fenglai Valley to occupy it, so as to ensure its own logistics channels and retreats, otherwise the consequences will be unimaginable!

After thinking about it, Song Xilian immediately made arrangements: the 87th Division immediately broke away from the battle and retreated to the rear, the 88th Division should rush to Jiazishan as quickly as possible, and the 89th Division went to Dujiachang to arrange a blocking position to cover the retreat of the whole army! After the order was issued, Song Xilian suddenly remembered that there were still Liu Hai's troops, he knew the weight of Liu Hai, if he didn't withdraw him, even if he withdrew himself, he would have to be shot! "Tell Division Commander Liu that all his troops are retreating to Dujiachang, be fast, and the 89th Division will cover it, be fast!" After Song Xilian finished speaking, he added: "I request the Allied Air Force to bomb the road from Huilongshan to Yunlongshan on the periphery of the Japanese army's Longling, as well as the road from Fenglai Valley to Jiazi Mountain!" ”。 When Liu Hai was still meditating, he received an order from Song Xilian to retreat, although the order did not explain why he retreated, but from the perspective of the situation, the matter was very urgent! Liu Hai did not delay, and directly ordered Liu Xiaoshan and Huang Kesheng to attack together, with Liu Xiaoshan as the vanguard and Huang Kesheng as the queen, the two artillery regiments were in the middle, and the whole army retreated immediately! When Liu Hai's troops retreated to Dujiachang, Liu Hai saw the troops of the 89th Division of the 11th Group Army who were building fortifications! When Liu Hai saw the position of the 89th Division, he instantly understood in his heart that this was a defensive position, and it seemed that the 89th Division was going to stay and block the attack!

Liu Hai sat in a jeep and rushed to Song Xilian's headquarters as fast as possible to inquire about the situation! "Junzuo, why is there such a big movement, why do you want the whole army to retreat!" Liu Hai asked urgently, "Retreat now, please don't we fight in vain with all the hard work in front?" "Liu Shizuo, I also know, but now it is impossible to retreat, the Japanese army has two brigades and regiments from Huilongshan and Fenglai Valley to our back, if we don't retreat, it is very likely that we will be dumplings!" Song Xilian slammed his hammer on the table and said, "We are too light on the enemy, and after fighting for a long time, we found that the main force of the 56th Division was not in Longling at all, but in ambush on the periphery!" "Since that's the case, then don't think about it, let's withdraw first!" Bangs didn't ask again, because now is not the time to speak! The 11th Group Army deserved to be the elite of the party-state, and the troops began to retreat efficiently, but for the 87th Division, the speed was still a little slow, and the way was blocked by the vanguard of the Japanese army, and it was all besieged in Yunlong Mountain! When Song Xilian heard the news, he immediately thought of Liu Hai and asked him to use artillery to support the retreat of the 87th Division. But Liu Hai's artillery has not been completely detached, and in case something goes wrong with the shelf mountain, it will be difficult for Liu Hai to withdraw! After all, his troops are only artillery divisions, and once they are hit by large-scale melee combat, they will have to suffer big losses!

"Liu Shizuo, is it okay to ask your artillery to provide fire support to Yunlong Mountain for half an hour to cover their breakthrough?" Song Xilian asked. "Half an hour, you can have no problem at all!" Bangs said. "But now the situation is very unclear, your artillery speed must be fast, you must know that the artillery stops firing and continues to retreat, this process is very troublesome, half an hour is already the longest shelling time!" Song Xilian said. "Junzuo is worthy of Junzuo, it seems that you understand the combat use of artillery very well, but you still don't know my artillery, please tell the commander of the 87th Division, my artillery will give an hour of artillery cover time, please break through immediately!" Bangs said. "An hour? It's too long, plus the preparation process, you will be delayed for two hours, and if something happens, I can't afford to pay for that ancestor of your communication battalion! Song Xilian said. Junzuo, don't worry, my troops have the technique of shooting between the marches, and you just need to ask the 87th Division to tell me the area of covering the shelling! Bangs said. I don't know much about the artillery technique on the march, but I believe you! Song Xilian immediately contacted the 87th Division and asked them to report the section of the breakthrough to the road.

"Fire!" The Japanese troops who were besieging the 87th Division did not expect that the retreating national army would have such fierce covering artillery fire, and for a time it was blown up, and the commander of the 87th Division took the opportunity to lead the troops to break through! Under the double blow of artillery shells and the national army, the 87th Division successfully broke through, and most of the troops rushed through Dujiachang! The 14th Brigade that followed the pursuit was satisfied that it was already a battle to beat the water dogs, but it did not expect to encounter a strong resistance in Dujiachang! The troops of the 89th Division here, with the help of the preset fortifications, blocked the Japanese army in Dujiachang! After several hours of forced march, Liu Hai's troops had already withdrawn across the Shelf Mountain and reached a safe area! However, Song Xilian was unwilling to accept that the battle of Longling, which he was about to win, fell short, and concentrated all the artillery in his group army to conduct a firepower demonstration on Dujiachang, which gave the 14th Brigade a lot of damage! However, the situation soon took a turn for the worse, and Nobuo Watanabe soon found that the Nationalist army had begun to retreat, but there was a division left in Dujiachang to block the attack, so he came up with a way to order the 4th Brigade to abandon the attack on Jiazi Mountain, suddenly turn eastward, attack the back of the 89th Division, and completely destroy the 89th Division with the strength of two brigades! For such a situation, Song Xilian did not expect that the result was that the 88th Division did not wait for the Japanese army at Jiazishan, and the 89th Division, which could have calmly retreated because of the 88th Division blocking Jiazishan, fell into a heavy siege! At this time, even the immortals were difficult to save, so Song Xilian had no choice but to order the 89th Division to break through on its own!

Liu Hai and Song Xilian retreated to a safe place, and they were immediately very depressed, they fell short after fighting for a long time, and let the little devil fight to the end of the battle, but it was like this, which is really unacceptable! However, the news that made Song Xilian even more unbearable was still to come, although the eighty-ninth finally withdrew, but lost most of the troops, and the division commander was also killed, which can be said to be extremely frustrating!