The most cattle cottage in the Anti-Japanese War

Chapter 393 Do as the Romans do
Gao Jiu said in the telegram: "Sister! Commissar Yang, Chief of Staff Huang, I have returned to Taoyuan Town now."

After reading this, Jiang Xiaomei said excitedly: "Brother Jiu came back so soon, did he fly back?"

Yang Jiong said: "I guess it must be like this. I have heard that Master Jiu can fly a plane and skydive. To be able to come back from Wuhan so quickly, he must have come back by plane."

Huang Shuigen praised: "Master Jiu is really elusive in doing things."

Jiang Xiaomei went on to read: "If the devils dare to invade Peach Blossom Mountain, they must pay the price. The devils who came to attack Peach Blossom Mountain in the past have all confessed here, and this time we cannot let these devils escape.

After your independent battalion entered Taohua Mountain, you occupied the 66th, 67th, 68th, and 69th hills, focusing on occupying the 66th and 67th hills, controlling the valley below, and cutting off the retreat route of the Japanese army in the north. "

See you after victory.Today is the high nine. "

Yang Jiong said excitedly: "Master Jiu has a really big appetite. This is a whole infantry regiment of devils. If these devils are eliminated, our independent battalion will get rich."

Today, Yang Jiong is in charge of the internal affairs of the independent battalion. He knows the importance of logistics support and has become greedy.

Jiang Xiaomei ordered: "The communication team sent an order to say that Master Jiu has returned, and he will take us to fight devils together, so that everyone can speed up the march."

Master Jiu is the guarantee of victory. The soldiers in the independent battalion all know that fighting with Master Jiu can only take advantage of it.Everyone was immediately refreshed, and their steps seemed to be much lighter.

Hamada Yoshiro underestimated the determination of Audio-Technica to support each other. Not only the independent battalion is going all out to help, but Wang Jindong has also invested his money.

In order to be able to rush to Taohua Mountain as soon as possible, Wang Jindong dispatched almost all military vehicles, plus the vehicles that could be used in the three counties of Zhiyuan County, Lanxi County and Lu County, Wang Jindong's 24th Regiment, Guan Lie's Independent Regiment Some people were able to advance by car, while the rest either rode horses or took carriages, forming a semi-mechanized force, which was rapidly advancing towards Peach Blossom Mountain.

On the way, Wang Zhankui received a telegram from Gao Jiu, asking them to cut off the Japanese army's westward and southward breakout route, send a cavalry battalion to Taoyuan Town to accept Gao Jiu's command, and prepare to wipe out the Japanese army that invaded Taohua Mountain.

Wang Zhankui, Guan Lie and the others were very excited. They knew that they would definitely gain a lot of money by fighting with Lord Jiu, so they ordered the troops to march faster.

After Gao Jiu arrived in Taoyuan Town, he immediately sent cavalry messengers to notify the 17 surrounding fortress villages, so that the militiamen would also be mobilized to seal off the valleys to prevent the remnants of the Japanese army from slipping through.

To the people in the 17 surrounding villages, the Taohuashan guerrillas are their parents. If the devils want to cut off their money, it's like killing their parents. The people are jealous, except for those In addition to the militia, many young and middle-aged people also took up arms to fight the devils.

At midnight, it began to rain lightly, and it was so dark that you could barely see your fingers.Nakajima was very happy, and said: "God help me." He ordered the troops to attack the mountain while it was dark.

The devils groped in the dark and climbed cautiously to the top of the mountain.

Nakajima was very nervous because he knew that the enemy had planted landmines on the hillside.Some soldiers stepped on landmines during the attack during the day, and he was worried that if the soldiers stepped on landmines now, their whereabouts would be exposed.

But this is what he expected. He can't guarantee that so many people climbing the mountain will step on the remaining landmines.Fortunately, it was dark, even if the enemy discovered that the Japanese army was attacking, it would be difficult to prevent the Japanese soldiers from dispersing and touching.

However, he still hoped that the soldiers would not step on landmines, or that the sooner they stepped on them, the better, and it would be best if they could directly touch the enemy's position.

It is a pity that when the devils climbed halfway up the mountain, someone still stepped on a landmine. With the sound of a violent explosion, a ball of fire flashed on the hillside, and the figures of the devils were exposed. It fell into darkness again.

The attacking devils knew that their target had been exposed, so in order to avoid the defenders on the hillside from finding them, they did not shoot, but groped desperately up the hill.

Hearing the explosion, Nakajima felt sad. He knew that the enemy troops on the mountain would soon shoot down the mountain with fierce firepower.Although they shot blindly, they still caused casualties to the soldiers of the Yellow Army.

However, something unexpected happened, and no one shot on the mountain.Nakajima Bonggo was very puzzled and felt that this was unreasonable.The soldiers attacking on the hillside also felt that something was wrong, but at this moment they couldn't care less, seized this rare opportunity, and desperately climbed to the top of the hill.

After about seven or eight minutes, no one fired on the top of the mountain.The ghosts took chances, thinking that the people on the mountain might have withdrawn, so they quickened their pace and climbed up desperately.

When they were only six to seventy meters away from the top of the mountain, suddenly, there was a bright light on the top of the mountain, and then, countless torches flew down from the top of the mountain. The strips were dipped in a mixture of gasoline and butter, so they were unaffected by light rain when they ignited.

Peach Blossom Mountain is rich, and has prepared a large amount of various materials. These torches are usually piled up in the fortifications. When needed, dip them in butter, then open the gasoline barrels, dip them in gasoline, and use them as night lights.

There were too many of these torches, and they were thrown everywhere on the hillside, revealing the figures of the devils.

"Fight." Following Zhang Quan's order, the bunkers on the mountain were fully fired, knocking down the devils exposed on the hillside row by row.

Seeing this tragic scene, Nakajima's heart was bleeding. He really didn't expect that a small team of Taohuashan bandits could be so strong.

Faced with this situation, the devil officer commanding in front sent someone to report to Hongo Nakajima and ask him for tactical guidance.

Hongo Nakajima didn't know what to do, so he had to order the troops in front to wait until the torches dropped by the enemy were burned before looking for an opportunity to attack.

It's a pity that the torches of the enemy army on the mountain seemed to be endless. Once they saw that the fire below had weakened, they immediately threw down a large number of torches.

Nakajima Fengwu couldn't laugh or cry, so he could only order the troops to wait patiently, hoping that the torches of the bandits on the mountain would be exhausted.

It's a pity that the bandits on the mountain didn't give him this chance at all.Those bandits had a large number of mortars in their hands. They fired mortar shells at a high elevation angle into the sky, and they were able to land the shells at a distance of more than 100 meters in front of their positions.

The bandits' mortar shells seemed to cost no money, and they shot down from the mountain with one force, causing heavy casualties to the devils on the hillside.

If it was daytime, the ghost soldiers would stand there with officers watching over them, gritting their teeth, but now it was so dark that they could barely see their fingers, and the officials couldn't see anyway, so everyone ran down the mountain one after another.

As the saying goes, going up a mountain is easy and going down a mountain is hard.It was raining lightly in the sky, and the ground was very slippery. Many people rolled directly down the mountain, breaking their bones and tendons.

Knowing that going on like this is not an option, Nakajima Hongo issued an order to retreat.He is now pinning his hopes on tomorrow's air force bombing. He believes that as long as he blows up the enemy's bunker on the mountain, he can still attack the mountain.

At the foot of the mountain, Nakajima Hyougo sat in the tent, listening to the rustling of the light rain on the tent, feeling very irritable.

The ghost soldiers outside were not treated like this. Although they were wearing raincoats, they still felt very uncomfortable in the rain, especially the wounded, who felt unbearable pain.

The devils came to attack Peach Blossom Mountain this time, originally thinking that they could win the battle quickly, so they didn't carry much supplies.Moreover, due to the difficult roads in the mountains, most of the supplies were left outside the mountains.Although the devil's officers and soldiers ate dinner normally, after tossing around for most of the night, they all felt a little hungry in their stomachs, but the food they carried had already been eaten, and the hunger in their stomachs added to their irritability.

A ghost captain walked into Nakajima Hongo's tent, and he suggested: "Your Excellency, Captain, send someone to bring the supplies from outside the mountain."

Nakajima Hyogo is the highest officer here, so his personal material security is naturally not lacking. He runs a small stove by himself, serves canned beef, and drinks small wine. officers and soldiers.

Hearing the captain's suggestion, he said, "Okay then, you can send someone to go outside the mountain to bring the supplies over."

The big captain returned to his army, and sent a small captain to take his men and horses to move supplies outside the mountain.

The mountain road is slippery and difficult to walk at night, which is a hard job.The devil's captain was very depressed, but he didn't dare to disobey the order, so he had to lead his officers and soldiers to the outside of the mountain.

The devil's idea coincided with Gao Jiu's idea. The first thing Gao Jiu wanted to do was to destroy the devil's supply unit.Before this small group of devils set off, Gao Jiu and others had already started to pounce on the Japanese army's supply troops.

Li Chengwu's No. 130 Squadron now has more than [-] people, everyone has a horse, and there are many vehicles stored in Taoyuan Town.Not long after, Gao Jiu and others had already arrived near the Japanese army's supply unit.

Because the Japanese army suddenly surrounded Taohua Mountain, they thought that all the bandits on the mountain had been surrounded in the mountain.How did they know that in Taoyuan Town, there is still a powerful third squadron of Taohuashan Special Warfare hidden under the banner of the Security Force.

Therefore, the Japanese army left only a hundred or so logistics troops outside the mountain, and the number of people responsible for covering the logistics troops outside the mountain was also very small, only half an infantry squadron, and their vigilance was not high.

Gao Jiu commanded the third squadron to quietly approach the Japanese army from three directions, and then suddenly launched a fierce attack.

Li Chengwu's No. [-] Squadron is well-trained. Although it is slightly inferior to the No. [-] and No. [-] Special Warfare Squadrons in the mountains, it is almost the same.Under the cover of more than [-] light machine guns, they rushed and beat the unprepared Japanese army to the ground. Except for a few Japanese soldiers who escaped, the rest were all wiped out.

In this way, most of the luggage of the 18th Regiment of the Japanese Army fell into the hands of the Taohuashan guerrillas.

This time Gao Jiu really made a fortune. Since it was inconvenient for the devils to enter the mountain to fight, all the eight [-]-type infantry artillery were left outside the mountain, and more than [-] shells were captured. A large number of various weapons, ammunition and supplies.

Li Chengwu sent people to transport a large amount of supplies back to Taoyuan Town, and took the rest of the people to block the valley from Taoyuan Town into the mountain.

At 3:20, the infantry team that the devils came to deliver supplies met the devils who had fled in on the road, and when they learned that the supply unit had been destroyed by the enemy, he simply turned around and returned with his men to report to the captain.

5:10.Hongo Nakajima was woken up by the officer on duty, and before the drowsy Hongo Nakajima lost his temper, he was stunned by the bad news-the transportation unit was destroyed.

Nakajima Hongo was furious, and he immediately sent a telegram to Hamada Yoshihito, asking him how he provided the information in advance?Not only is there such a strong fortification and such powerful firepower on Peach Blossom Mountain, but there is also an army with extremely strong combat effectiveness hidden on the periphery. I really don't know what he, a super high-level section chief, does for a living?
The wording in Nakajima's telegram was very harsh. He said that he would report this matter to his superiors and send it to the Hamada Yoshikazu Supreme Military Tribunal.

The reason why Nakajima Hyogo did this is because he is now in trouble.Even if they conquered a heavily fortified provincial capital like Taiyuan, they only lost more than 180 people. However, this time they came to Taohua Mountain, and until now, not only have they not made the slightest progress, but they have lost more than 500 soldiers. The 18th Regiment has never suffered such a large loss of the [-]-type infantry artillery and other weapons. He has no way to explain to the division commander now, so he also has to find a scapegoat.

After sending the telegram, he was in no mood to wait for Hamada Yoshihito to reply to the telegram, and began to think about his next actions.

He is not aware of the great danger now. Although weapons, luggage and other supplies are lost, according to the soldiers' reports, the number of enemy troops attacking them is not large, at most only about 200, and the entire 18th Regiment The team is not a threat.

His current situation is very embarrassing, he is not willing to withdraw his troops, and it is difficult to explain after returning.If they don't withdraw, the troops will have no food, and they won't be able to last long in terms of weapons and ammunition.If enemy reinforcements did arrive, his troops would be in danger.

He thought about it carefully. Before this departure, Hamada Yoshitoshi swore that the enemy's reinforcements would not be able to arrive in a short time.At the beginning, he also looked at the map and thought that even if the enemy's reinforcements were fully deployed, it would take at least two days.

After repeated weighing, Nakajima believed that he should persist until after the Japanese air force bombed, and he launched another attack. If he could destroy the Taohuashan guerrilla's lair, then the battle was finally won.

After repeated consideration, he made up his mind, with tomorrow at 12:[-] noon as the deadline, if Gao Jiu's lair could not be destroyed, he would immediately withdraw his troops.

After figuring this out, he calmed down and sent a telegram to Hamada Yoshihito again, this time the wording of the telegram was much gentler.He hoped that Yoshito Hamada would organize the gendarmerie and security forces in Shoucheng County to raise food to support the 18th Regiment.

Just when he sent a telegram to Hamada Yoshichi for the second time, the cavalry battalion led by Wang Zhankui had already arrived in Taoyuan Town, and the troops of the 24th Regiment and Guan Lie's independent regiment had also rushed to Taohua Mountain, and began to block the west and In the south, there are various valley entrances out of the mountain, and advance towards the Taohuashan cottage.

At the same time, Jiang Xiaomei's independent camp has already approached the Taohua mountain area, and it will be able to block the valley in the north out of the mountain in at most three hours.

If Hyogo Nakajima can wake up at this time and break through immediately, the 18th Regiment still has a chance.

Hamada Yoshito entered Shoucheng County last night, and was warmly received by Gendarmerie Captain Hirata, and a sumptuous feast was prepared for him.

Hamada Yoshito felt very uneasy. During the banquet, he asked Captain Hirata about the situation of Peach Blossom Mountain in detail, but Captain Hirata couldn't say 123.

Hamada Yoshito suspected that Captain Hirata and others secretly communicated with the people in Peach Blossom Mountain. Otherwise, a small Japanese gendarmerie with only a few dozen people was safe and sound on the edge of Peach Blossom Mountain. It's weird.

Hamada Yoshito is a smart person, even if he has such an idea, he will not say it clearly, otherwise, if these people really have connections with Peach Blossom Mountain and expose the matter, they may have to confess their own lives. here.

In order to stabilize Captain Hirata and others, he highly praised their heroic behavior for sticking around the mighty Peach Blossom Mountain, and then asked Captain Hirata to raise some supplies and prepare to reinforce the 18th Wing.

That night, he declined the residence Captain Hirata had arranged for him, and led his people to forcibly break into the compound of a wealthy businessman, and asked the people he brought to strengthen their guard.Even so, he couldn't sleep well.

At around 5 o'clock in the morning, he received a questioning telegram from Hongo Nakajima. He was not angry about it, but felt deeply worried.When he received the second telegram, he thought more and more wrong, and finally made up his mind.

Hamada Yoshito sent a telegram to Nakajima Hōgo, which said: "Because the 18th Wing's luggage has been lost, its combat effectiveness has been greatly weakened, and the 18th Wing is not familiar with the terrain of Peach Blossom Mountain. There is a danger of total annihilation.

Therefore, he suggested withdrawing troops. As for who should take responsibility for this battle, now is not the time to discuss. After returning, he will ask his superiors for punishment.

He suggested that if Hongo Nakajima made up his mind to withdraw his troops, instead of taking the original retreat route, he would go directly north through Pingyue County to Yu County, and he would send a telegram to General Matsuda requesting the Japanese military police and security forces along the way to conduct Collision.

Peach Blossom Mountain.

6:20.Nakajima Hyungo received a telegram from Hamada Yoshito, and he hesitated.He also knew that the matter was serious, and if he continued to stay, he might encounter great danger.But at this time, it was less than three hours before the agreed time for the air force to come to bomb, so he was still unwilling to let him give up.

He hesitated, unable to make up his mind for a moment.

Half an hour later, Hamada Yoshichi couldn't wait any longer, and sent a telegram to Nakajima Hongo again, urging him to withdraw his troops quickly, saying that he would bear the responsibility for the defeat of this battle.

When Nakajima saw that Yoshito Hamada had said this, he also made up his mind and ordered the troops to turn north immediately.

The 18th Regiment of the Japanese Army is only 28 kilometers away from Taniguchi in the north of the Taohua Mountains. Although the mountain road is rugged, they can take the vanguard out in two and a half hours at most.

All the Japanese troops acted immediately, racing against time to leave Taohuashan.

At this time, Jiang Xiaomei's independent battalion was rushing to Taohua Mountain with all its strength.

Jiang Xiaomei hurriedly asked, "How long will it take to reach the 66th and 67th mountains?"

Huang Shuigen, chief of staff of the Independent Battalion, said: "According to the current speed, it will take three hours. But the troops have been marching for such a long time, should we stop and take a rest?"

Jiang Xiaomei said without turning her head: "No! Brother Jiu said, let us rush to Taohua Mountain as soon as possible, and we must block the way for the Japanese army to escape."

Yang Jiong thought that if he could stop the devils, he would be able to seize a large number of weapons and ammunition, and he didn't want to let these devils go because of the independent battalion.

As he walked, he said loudly: "Comrades, you must persevere and never let the devil run away. Master Nine has blocked the other three directions of the devil. If the devil escapes from us, we will be independent. How will Ying face Master Jiu in the future?
Comrades, hold on, we must block the devils before they escape from Peach Blossom Mountain. After this battle is over, there will be a three-day feast, enough good wine and meat, and another three-day holiday for you to go home Hug my daughter-in-law. "

Yang Jiong, who was born as a high-level intellectual, did as the Romans did when he went to the countryside, and his words became a lot vulgar when talking to the low-educated soldiers of the Independence Camp, but these soldiers liked to hear such words. Everyone cheered and accelerated. marching speed.

The two villages closest to No. 66 and No. 67 mountains are Xiwangzhuang and Gaojiazhuang. Many people from these two villages went to Taohuashan to go to the market yesterday, and they wanted to sell supplies to Mr. Han in Taohuashan. The sixth class met devils, and many people died in both villages.They were already impatient, and wanted to fight the devils to the death.

When the people sent by Li Chengwu called them to fight the devils together, the militiamen and young adults in the village took up weapons without saying a word, and rushed towards Taohuashan together with the special forces.

According to Gao Jiu's deployment, they preemptively occupied No. 66 and No. 67 mountains, blocking the only way for the Japanese army to leave the mountains.

At 8:40, the militiamen on the mountain saw the vanguard troops of the devils, and immediately afterward, a large number of devils rolled in like locusts.

There were only 110 militiamen in Xiwangzhuang and Gaojiazhuang combined. Seeing so many devils, they couldn't help but get nervous.

(End of this chapter)