Chapter 177: An Inexplicable Battle

Ruan Jingtian examined this hidden cave again, and saw that a square hole was neatly cut by the meditation sword in the middle of the iron gate. He suddenly felt that he had left a lot of flaws, and the iron door had been made like this, clearly showing how the top secret thing in the cave had been removed.

Looking at the square hole in the iron gate, Ruan Jingtian thought he could try it. He came to the iron door inside, placed the cut iron plate in the square hole on the door, took out some spirit stones, arranged a formation in front of the iron door that could increase the temperature of the flame, and then sent a fireball towards the cut in the iron door.

Under the effect of Spirit Stone Formation, the temperature of the fireball increased rapidly. Ruan Jingtian used his Xuan Qi and controlled the fireball to scorch the incision with all his might. Soon, the iron around the incision began to melt, and the iron plate that had been cut gradually merged with the iron door.

After more than an hour, Ruan Jingtian finally fused the two cut iron plates with the two iron doors, which were comparable to the strongest welding.

Seeing that the iron gate was almost restored to its original state, Ruan Jingtian felt a little satisfied in his heart. He thought of another problem: if there were sixty-two sentry guarding this place at night, there should be a similar number of guards during the day. In this way, the number of guards of the 679th Division* was more than sixty-two, and it is possible that the entire guard company remained to guard this place. Where will the rest of the rest rest?

Ruan Jingtian carefully analyzed and believed that the shelter of these people should be near here, and if the distance was too far, it would be quite difficult to guard and support each other in shifts.

Starting the flight suit, Ruan Jingtian jumped into the air. At this time, it was more than five o'clock in the morning, the sky had already brightened, and the range of sight in mid-air could reach within a radius of one kilometer.

Carefully looking around the surrounding terrain, Ruan Jingtian quickly locked his eyes on a group of houses and buildings seven hundred meters away.

There are about 30 bungalows in the front and back rows of this building, which look like the barracks of the army * in terms of style and pattern.

Ruan Jingtian quietly touched over, and there were a total of twelve secret sentinels around the building. He uses invisibility. Take control of the flying sword and quickly harvest the lives of these dark sentinels. After checking the documents of these people, Nguyen Jing Tien determined that they were the soldiers of the 679th Division* Guard Company.

The scene of corpses strewn all over the ground and flames in the Ruan family's compound came to mind, and Ruan Jingtian rose with infinite killing intent. He knew that there were still sixty-four devils in these houses.

Entering the first house, the two devils slept like dead pigs, and Ruan Jingtian popped out the black belly needle, hitting the foreheads of the two devils.

Ruan Jingtian concocted it according to the law, and all the sixty-four devils who were sleeping died under the black belly needle. He dragged the corpses of the sixty-four devils inside the house and the twelve secret sentries outside to the open space in front of the barracks and placed them together.

Get down on your knees. Ruan Jingtian kowtowed nine times in succession in the direction of the Ruan family's compound in the south, and silently shouted in his heart: "Father, mother, your son Jingtian killed one hundred and thirty-eight devils of the 679th Division* today, and avenged a part of your revenge, you close your eyes for a while. Wait until I kill all the devils of the 679th Division*, so that all your grievances can be released. ”

Ruan Jingtian sent out more than ten fireballs, and the seventy-six devils placed together gradually disappeared into the firelight. He entered the house and searched carefully. Two radio stations, a codebook, a filing cabinet, a number of weapons and ammunition, and cashier's checks of more than 200 million zeals were found.

Carrying these things to the cliff cave where the top secret was hidden, Ruan Jingtian took out the materials in the filing cabinet and flew quickly towards the hotel.

At half past six in the morning, Ruan Jingtian was lying on the bed in the middle of the hotel suite. Listening to Wang Jiahe, who was sleeping outside, was still snoring, his mind was thinking about why Sun Maoyu hadn't arrived in Taishui Town yet.

Ling Yunmu led the reinforcement company, a total of more than 130 people, dressed up as an ambush team. Ambushed in a wood. The woods are backed by a small hill, and the terrain is undulating and can be attacked. It can be retreated later, and it is an excellent place for ambushes.

He didn't know who was going to ambush him, Hang Songqing only told him that he had to annihilate more than 20 vehicles, about 100 people, probably carrying heavy weapons, from the direction of Taishui Town, and told him the license plate numbers of several vehicles.

According to the information provided by Hang Songqing, Ling Yunmu made combat arrangements, arranged key weapons and equipment at the five commanding heights, and carried out all-round cross-fire control on the road, striving to stun the opponent at the first time, and then annihilate the opponent in one fell swoop.

Little by little, the road was unusually quiet, and the scouts ahead didn't send back any news. Ling Yunmu looked at his watch, it was already eleven o'clock in the evening, but why hadn't there been any movement?

Ling Yunmu did not doubt Hang Songgan's instructions, if the situation changed, Hang Songgan would definitely send a notification. Ling Yunmu thought about his deployment again, and suddenly felt that he had overlooked a problem: he was only concerned about the direction from Taishui Town to Dongshan City, and did not consider the direction from Dongshan City to Taishui Town, if the opponent's accomplices came out from Dongshan City to meet the opponent, it would be a big trouble.

Ling Yunmu immediately adjusted his deployment and sent scouts to the direction of Dongshan City, paying close attention to the movements in the direction of Dongshan City, he didn't want to be attacked by the enemy.

Around midnight, the roar of airplanes could be heard in the distant sky. Ling Yunmu's heart moved, and he ordered the soldiers to enter the bunker. He clearly knew that he was an ambush at this time, and he had to be highly vigilant against any armed forces of Zheguo.

Three bombers dropped dozens of aerial bombs, which landed precisely in the woods where Ling Yunmu was hiding.

Hearing the rumbling explosion, Ling Yunmu's heart sank, and he secretly screamed that it was not good, what was going on?

The dispatch of the Zheguo Air Force shows that this incident has alarmed the garrison of Pingzhou City, could it be that Hang Songqing asked me to ambush the Pingzhou garrison? The Pingzhou garrison is the brigade headquarters of the 796th Division*, and its own people beat its own people, what is this?

Hang Songqing is Ling Yunmu's cousin, but Ling Yunmu is absolutely obedient to this cousin.

After being transferred to the 796th Division*, Ling Yunmu received a formal instruction from the elders in his family: "Obey Hang Song's instructions!" Moreover, he also faintly heard the whispers of the elders in his family, revealing that Hang Songqing was shouldering an important mission in Taishui Town and must not leave Taishui Town.

After a circle, the three planes flew away. In the middle of the night, the line of sight was not clear, and the pilots and bombardiers could only drop bombs according to the pre-given coordinates, and as for the bombing effect, they were not visible or unknown at all.

Ling Yunmu hurriedly counted the battle damage and found that six people were killed and eight were injured. He was secretly glad that he had made the decision to enter the bunker. Otherwise, the number of casualties would have at least more than doubled.

He ordered the soldiers to enter into combat readiness, and in accordance with the customary practice of the offensive of the Cheolkook *military*, first the bombing of aircraft, and then the advance of ground troops. Now that the planes have arrived, the ground forces should arrive soon.

Ling Yunmu really couldn't understand why Hang Songqing ambushed the 796th Division*, but thinking of the instructions of the elders in the family, Ling Yunmu had no choice but to raise his spirits and prepare for the upcoming battle.

Suddenly, a telegram arrives from the scouts who are monitoring the direction of Higashiyama Castle. It said that a large number of vehicles were found coming from the direction of Higashiyama Castle, and in about a quarter of an hour, these vehicles would reach the vicinity of the woods.

Ling Yunmu felt that he was deviating from his imagination, Hang Songqing's instructions were to annihilate the people who came from the direction of Taishui Town, but the first person to appear was the people from the direction of Dongshan City. Even if he thought about it with his knees, Ling Yun could be sure that this group of people must be related to the people mentioned by Hang Songqing.

The fighter plane was fleeting, and Ling Yunmu immediately made a decision, and immediately ordered the first and second platoons to carry heavy machine guns and mortars. It is necessary to annihilate all the people who came from the direction of Higashiyama Castle.

Sun Maoyu led the Dongshan City Gendarmerie and the garrison directly under the Ministry of the Army, about 200 people, and the heavy equipment of these local armed forces was light machine guns, no mortars.

It was learned that an ambush was laid in ambush here. Sun Maoyu didn't take these people to heart. The ambush team is notoriously poorly equipped, and most of these people are armed with earthen guns and cannons, and the Type 49 rifle is a luxury for them. Therefore, Sun Maoyu took out the light machine guns of the War Department and the gendarmerie. There was the feeling of anti-aircraft guns hitting mosquitoes, and besides, the planes of the Air Force had just come to this ambush team. I'm afraid the ambush has already killed and wounded more than half of them.

Sun Maoyu didn't understand why Gong Xiaomu asked for air force support, but he was relieved to think that Gong Xiaomu was the son-in-law of the head of the Ning headquarters. It is also understandable that the son-in-law of the head of the Ning General Headquarters was threatened with his life and asked to send planes to support him. Isn't the army * team serving these feudal officials and their families?

Suddenly, a mortar shell landed on a patrol car, which fell apart and shattered. Immediately after, dozens of mortar shells fell from the sky and exploded in the convoy led by Sun Maoyu.

Sun Maoyu was horrified in his heart, when did the ambush team have mortars? He immediately ordered to stop and let the gendarmerie and the garrison directly under him organize a return fire.

The sound of heavy machine guns rang out from the opposing position, and more than a dozen people directly under the garrison fell to the ground one after another. Sun Maoyu's scalp was numb, where is the equipment of the ambush team, this is the regular army of the 19th Route Army of the Tongxin Society.

Sun Maoyu put away his previous contempt and ordered the gendarmerie and the garrison directly under him to occupy the favorable terrain and counterattack in layers.

Most of the members of the directly subordinate garrison are retired soldiers of the army, and their military qualifications are quite high. Despite being overwhelmed by enemy raids and heavy weapons, they quickly relied on the terrain and with the support of a dozen light machine guns, they began to charge.

The Taishui Town Horse Gang is a private armed force supported by Hang Songqing, with a number of about 300 people, the gang leader Ma Dalong, and the deputy gang leader Chu Zengyu, and its equipment is the standard weapons of the Zheguo Army, including mortars, heavy machine guns, light machine guns, and 49-type rifles. This time, in order to intercept and kill Gong Xiaomu and others, Hang Songqing mobilized all the men and horses of the horse gang and laid two lines of defense on the road leading to Dongshan City, of which the first line of defense was the main force, about 200 people, and the commander was Ma Dalong, the leader of the gang, and the second line of defense was supplemented, with about 100 people, who were responsible for clearing out the people who had slipped through the net, and the commander was Chu Zengyu, the deputy gang leader.

Due to Gong Xiaomu's temporary diversion, Hang Songqing changed his deployment and ordered the gang leader Ma Dalong to lead a team of less than 80 people to hunt down Gong Xiaomu, and the rest of the people and Chu Zengyu's personnel in the second line of defense were combined to form a new line of defense.

Hang Songgen's instructions to Ma Dalong were: If Gong Xiaomu and the others are vulnerable, they will all be annihilated; if Gong Xiaomu and the others have a battle, they can force Gong Xiaomu and others to the road leading to Dongshan City, and together with Chu Zengyu's new defense line, they will destroy Gong Xiaomu and others. In addition, for the sake of insurance, he asked Ling Yunmu to lead the reinforcement company to organize the last line of defense not far from Dongshan City to prevent Gong Xiaomu from escaping the encirclement of the front defense line.

With these arrangements, Hang Songqing thought that it was ten out of ten to deal with Gong Xiaomu and the secret service of the water agency, even if Gong Xiaomu had three heads and six arms, he could not escape being strangled by so many heavy weapons.

However, to the surprise of Hang Songqing and Ma Dalong, Gong Xiaomu actually dared to organize the people of the special service department of the water agency to carry out a counter-interception, not only defeating Ma Dalong's pursuers in one fell swoop, but also killing back to Taishui Town and capturing Hang Songgen alive.

Ruan Jingtian used the Divine Soul Technique to question Hang Songqing for a very limited time, and only asked Ling Yunmu to disguise himself as an ambush team to set up an ambush. I don't know that Chu Zengyu, the deputy leader of the horse gang, led the first line of defense of more than 200 people.

Around midnight, Chu Zengyu's caravan ran into a team of about 200 people in two companies led by Ling Zhihui, the new commander of the 4th Regiment of the Zheguo 796th Division. In fact, it was Ling Zhihui's scouts who were the first to spot the caravan hiding on both sides of the road.

The two companies of the 796th Division*, which had more than 200 people, were almost the same in weapons and equipment against the horse gangs of more than 200 people.

Ling Zhihui was extremely surprised that Taishui Town was hiding such a strong ambush team, and he had to ask the signal corps to send reinforcement telegrams to the 4th Regiment*, and it would take at least a battalion of troops to completely eat this well-equipped ambush team.

Chu Zengyu of the horse gang was even more uncomfortable in his heart, he knew that Hang Songqing was going to intercept and kill Gong Xiaomu of the Dongshan Chengshui Agency, but he didn't expect Gong Xiaomu to let the regular army of the 796 Division escort. It was too much of a surprise to him.

The armed forces of the Ma Gang are more than enough to deal with ordinary people and ambush teams, but it is a little difficult to deal with the regular army of Zheguo, and the most important thing is that the regular army of Zheguo can call for reinforcements at any time, and the family background of the Ma Gang is all here, how can this battle be fought? As a last resort, Chu Zengyu asked for help from Ma Dalong, the leader of the gang, and Hang Songqing, the head of the army department of Taishui Town. It is hoped that the two will send people from the War Department to help.

After two hours of fierce fighting, Ling Yunmu originally only sent half of his troops to deal with the people coming from the direction of Dongshan City, but the first platoon leader and the second platoon commander were in a hurry one after another, not because the opponent's weapons were good. It's that there are more people on the other side, three times more, and no matter how good your own weapons are, you can't stand the other side's large number of people. Moreover, the other party is a garrison directly under the War Department of Dongshan City, and its military quality is not bad, if it does not increase its manpower. The other party will press hard at any time.

At this time, the scouts sent a telegram in the direction of Taishui Town, saying that on the way from the direction of Taishui Town, fierce battles were taking place, and judging from the number of gunfires, both sides were teams of more than 200 people, and their weapon configurations were almost the same.

Ling Yunmu was determined, and immediately ordered the remaining two platoons to turn their guns and block the incoming enemy from Dongshan City.

Sun Maoyu was happy when he saw that his side was gradually gaining the upper hand, but suddenly the opponent's firepower doubled, and he shouted in his heart that it was not good, the ambush team still had a back hand, but why didn't the 796th Division* come to exterminate the ambush team? No matter how important Hang Songqing of Taishui Town was, it was not as important as his own life. At this time, he had the idea of retreating.

So, Sun Maoyu issued an order, the forward turned into a rearguard, and only half of the men and horses left in the cover retreated to Dongshan City.

Seeing that the other party was retreating, Ling Yunmu naturally had no intention of pursuing. He thought that more than half of his casualties would be encountered, and if he encountered the enemy again, he was afraid that he would not be able to defeat the enemy, so he had to retreat quietly.

At three o'clock in the morning, Chu Zengyu, the deputy gang leader of the Ma Gang, waited for Ma Dalong and Hang Songgan to call back, but Ma Dalong and Hang Songqing seemed to have evaporated from the world, and there was no news.

Chu Zengyu's heart was clouded, he felt that at least one of Ma Dalong and Hang Songqing must have a problem, if even Hang Songqing was in trouble, then all hope would be unreliable.

Listening to the fierce artillery fire from both warring sides, Chu Zengyu began to consider his own way out and continued to entangle with the 796th Division*, but there was only one result, that is, a dead end.

Chu Zengyu decided to retreat and fled to Kouzi Mountain, north of Taishui Town. The mountains and forests are dense and suitable for hiding, and although the conditions are harsh, it is better than being exterminated by the 796th Division*.

Ruan Jingtian slept until more than eight o'clock in the morning, he pushed open the door of the inner room, and Wang Jiahe was waiting for him in the living room.

"Deputy Commander of the Palace, at about seven o'clock, Minister Sun called, asking you to wait for the arrival of Cao Zhengqi, the colonel of the 796th Division* in Taishui Town, and hand over Hang Songqing to Brigade Commander Cao for disposal. He may be in Taishui in the afternoon. Wang Jiahe hurriedly reported.

"Well, I know, let's go to the central hospital to see Hang Songgan's condition. Ruan Jingtian wondered why Sun Maoyu didn't leave for Taishui Town last night, and said secretly in his heart: It seems that the leader's schedule is changeable.

Of course, the subordinates cannot have any objections to the leadership change plan, and at most they will have a few slanders.

handed over Hang Songqing to Cao Zhengqi, Ruan Jingtian did not make the slightest fuss about it. He guessed that most of the incident had something to do with the guard company of the 679th Division*.

In order to take care of the three boxes, the guard company of the 679th Division* stayed quietly in Taishui Town for several years, and this matter must be the top top secret of the 679th Division*.

Hang Songgan became the head of the Army Department of Taishui Town, and his main purpose should be related to these three boxes, in addition, Hang Songqing should also be responsible for hiding the guard company of the 679th Division* from exposing these people to the outside world, so the relationship between Hang Songqing's family and the 679th Division* must be very deep.

Ruan Jingtian then thought that maybe Hang Songqing might know the whereabouts of the 679th Division*, and that it would be best for him to use the Divine Soul Technique on Hang Songqing and ask about the 679th Division* before Cao Zheng came up. Therefore, he decided to go to the central hospital and meet Hang Songqian for a while.

On the way to the hospital, Wang Jiahe reported to Nguyen Jingtian the two telegrams he had just received. (To be continued......)