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Chapter 502 Highway Ambush
In the No.20 brigade camp, the brigade commander, Major General Ikeda Naozo, sat alone in the tent, with soldiers patrolling outside.

The candlelight was flickering, and he was holding a photo, which was a group photo of a family of three.

Looking at the familiar faces in the photo, Ikeda Naozo has not seen his native wife and son for four years.Looking at the son in the photo, he couldn't speak when he left the country, and now he doesn't know where he is wandering.

Outside the camp, war horses neighed.

This time, thanks to the impact of the cavalry, a gap was successfully opened.

And this cavalry unit in the [-]th Brigade was originally brought here to maintain the law and order in Nanchang.

The material delivery teams in the county bases around Nanchang were often attacked by anti-Japanese armed forces, so the devils specially prepared a cavalry unit of more than 20 people to be organized into the No.[-] brigade as a fast-moving team to attack the anti-Japanese armed forces.

With this cavalry unit, if the anti-Japanese armed forces want to fight guerrillas, they have to consider whether their legs can run faster than the four legs of a military horse. Once they encounter cavalry, they will undoubtedly die.

This night, there was nothing unusual about the night of vigilance.

The devils in Nanchang City also breathed a sigh of relief, and it is rare to sleep with peace of mind. There are signs that the Chongqing Army active outside the city has withdrawn, but just in case, the division staff who stayed in Nanchang did not open the city gate and still Carefully defend on the walls.

The officers and soldiers of the 190th Division regrouped in one place, and stayed overnight on the Gao'an Highway to Nanchang. They each occupied a hillside within the one-kilometer winding section of the Gao'an Highway.

In the ambush section of this kilometer, the officers and soldiers of the 190th Division were divided into three groups with brigades as units, and the communication soldiers pulled up temporary telephone lines between the three ambush lines.

The first line is at the front, responsible for letting the cavalry come in and attacking the devils behind the cavalry.

The second one was in charge of the Temporary First Brigade where Li Chong belonged, and it was dedicated to attacking the devil cavalry that came in.

The third is to attack the devils who have crossed the first two blocking lines.

According to the news from Shanggao Battlefield, there are cavalry troops among the devils. The officers and soldiers dug traps and set up horse ropes on the ground overnight on the road in advance, using the old tricks against cavalry.

However, in order to prevent the devils from discovering abnormalities in advance, traps were dug at the end of this ambush section, and as for the tripping cables hidden underground, a lot of them were arranged.

At the same time, in order to avoid the impact of the cavalry after the ambush started, the main force of the 190th Division was all behind the hillside, except for a few platoons of officers and soldiers who pulled up the horse rope at that time, so as to use the natural terrain to block the impact of the cavalry.

When the dawn began to appear in the sky, the officers and soldiers of the 190th Division were all lying behind the grass, woods and mountains, quietly waiting for the half-disabled 34th Division and No.20 Brigade to arrive.

In the city of Wuhan.

Enwabe Ichiro sat on the ground, incense was slowly burned in the living room, and the fragrance of tea was faint.

Aromatherapy calms the mind, and the aroma of tea caresses people, but Yuan and Ichiro's mood cannot be calmed down at all.

With the number of casualties in his hand, he understood how great it was to win the Zaoyi battle last time, and how miserable he lost this time.

It is not good to attack Shanggao, which is tantamount to putting another layer of dust on the headquarters of the dispatched army after the death of Admiral Dajiao Censheng and Major General He Yanjiro at the beginning of the year.

Madokabe Ichiro had a vague feeling that after this disastrous defeat, he probably wouldn't have much time to sit in the 11th Army headquarters, and even though he was originally in this position, he was only temporarily in this position.

Outside the sliding door, the staff officer of the Army Command stood with his hands down and said, "Your Excellency, the Suzuki Brigade has returned to the Sixth Division. The 34th Division and the No.20 Brigade will soon arrive in Gao'an, and they will arrive in Nanchang by tonight. "

Yuanwabe Ichiro waved his hands and said, "Well, order them to speed up their journey and arrive in Nanchang as soon as possible! Has the whereabouts of the Chongqing army been determined?"

The staff officer said, "The Third Flying Regiment took to the skies several times and found no whereabouts. According to the reaction from Nanchang, this Chongqing army seems to have withdrawn overnight. The humble staff thinks that these Chinese people took advantage of our 33rd Division and 34th Division When the heavy troops were transferred from Nanchang, they deliberately went to attack the county seat of our imperial army; now that the 34th Division and the No.20 Brigade are returning to Nanchang, they will leave by night."

Mentioning Nanchang, mentioning the Tenth Army in Chongqing, Yuankabe Ichiro felt as if he was holding back shit.

Summarizing the failure of this attack on Shanggao, he admitted that he underestimated the ability of the 33th Army to rebound. After the [-]rd Division defeated the Chongqing army on the left wing, he did not expect that the Chongqing Army on the left wing of Shanggao could continue to resist.

Yuan Hebu Ichiro felt that the biggest lesson he had learned was that for the Chongqing Army in China, defeating it was not a victory, and they had to be killed on the ground. There was no other reason. They were too capable of retreating. Aoyama is not afraid of the essence of burning without talent.

Baga watched as the Chongqing army collapsed at the first blow, and the crowd retreated in a hurry, but after these people regrouped, they were able to form a resistance force again.

But for Yuanwabe Ichiro, the most disgusting thing was the elusive Chongqing Tenth Army.

The sudden appearance of the Tenth Army in Wuqiao River was very surprising, and the whereabouts were uncertain. It was divided into two parts, one part appeared on the Shanggao battlefield and attacked our army from behind, and the other part appeared even more disgustingly around Nanchang, which was empty of defense. .

Yuanwabe Ichiro had never been so eager to kill a Chongqing army unit, but he knew that the possibility of him continuing to command the 11th army was no longer high.

While Enkabe Ichiro burned incense and drank tea, feeling a lot of emotion, he was on the Gao'an Highway.

The No.20 brigade cavalry unit walked in front, the brigade commander Ikeda Naozo rode on the army horse, and the infantry, heavy soldiers, and armored soldiers walked behind.

Morale is not very high, after all, this is not returning to Nanchang City after winning the battle.

Ogamo no longer rode a high-headed military horse and walked in the team with high spirits like before he came, but sat in the car, feeling uneasy.

Originally, he wanted to conduct a cleansing sweep of the anti-Japanese armed forces deep in Nanchang when the 33rd Division of the Friends of Neighborhood was transferred to North China to relieve the pressure on himself stationed in Nanchang in the future. As a result, this sweep failed and he lost most of his troops. There is a bleak situation where you can't steal the chicken and turn back the rice.

The car is driving on the Gao'an Highway, the road surface is a bit rough, and the bumps up and down make people feel very irritable.

On the high-security highway that the devils walked, in the ambush area, there was a pool of heavy machine guns on the hillside hidden among the grass, which was prepared for the devils cavalry unit.

For the fast-running cavalry, the tripping ropes buried in the ground are only auxiliary, and these heavy machine guns are the protagonists to deal with the devil cavalry.

It was neither cold nor hot at the end of March, and the officers and soldiers comfortably waited for the devils to come to their door.

The telescope is empty.

At one point, a horse came into view.

Then, a group of devils on horseback appeared in front of the officers and soldiers of the first line.

Devils are coming!

(End of this chapter)