On the evening of 2 October, the engineer company, as the first vanguard, set out from the garrison of the Independent Regiment to Jiuguan, 8 kilometers away, followed by the 1st Infantry Battalion, then the artillery battalion mountain artillery company, mortar battery, anti-aircraft artillery company, and an infantry company drawn from the bayonet battalion to serve as the guard unit of the artillery battalion.

Although Liu Dazhu held back and didn't speak, Liu Lang still felt the grievances of this old brother, and talked about the merits of the war, the bayonet battalion was located on the Great Wall but above all the infantry battalions, but this time he didn't get the first battle. Liu Lang had to let his 8th Company serve as the guard unit of the artillery battalion, which was a comfort. I didn't see that when the battalion commander Zhou Da went out, he uncharacteristically didn't greet a few old comrades-in-arms, and the first battle in his hand was snatched away, who didn't get angry? The youngest battalion commander is also stepping on the footsteps, expressing his unhappiness that he did not get the opportunity to fight in the first battle.

However, Liu Lang is very satisfied with the attitude of the infantry battalion commanders under him to fight one by one, what he wants is this iron-blooded fearless spirit, since he is a soldier, he is afraid of death to go back to the milk doll, what are you doing on the battlefield?

The field hospital, escorted by the field hospital guard platoon, also finished dinner at 8 p.m., loaded up and set off, slowly moving towards a station found for them after reconnaissance by the special brigade in the direction of Jiuguan.

Although the field hospital is two kilometers behind the old pass, there is basically no need to worry about safety, but the field hospital guard platoon is basically composed of women, and Liu Lang is still worried about the lack of defense forces.

In their opinion, Liu Lang, the regimental commander, is the most important backbone, and all the guard platoons were sent out, and Zhang Ruhao, the deputy of the regiment, was going to lead the rest of the troops to Qiqian Village.

The sword and gun have no eyes, no matter how powerful Liu Tuanzuo is in individual combat, he has to rely on luck under the artillery fire in the sky, seeing Zhang Ruhao, a white-faced scholar, almost have to drop his hat and be anxious, Liu Lang had to give up the plan to get rid of the "tail" of the guard platoon.

In the end, he had to find Yu Xiancheng and ask him to send 6 people led by Chen Yunfa, the strongest special forces team under his command, to garrison the field hospital, on the one hand, to increase the defense of the field hospital, and on the other hand, to use the daytime to reconnoiter the area around Jiuguan, so as not to be outflanked by the little devils from the mountain path like time and space.

The mountains here are too complicated, and the battle line is too long, and the defensive positions of the national army are still insufficient. It's like a fence, no matter how tightly it is rooted, there are holes everywhere, even if Liu Lang knows, he can't defend every path.

Liu Lang's caution still paid off for him after all, if it weren't for this small arrangement, then even if Liu Lang and the Independent Regiment killed the entire 20th Division, it would be difficult to solve the hatred in their hearts.

Because, no one expected that the first battle between the independent regiment and the little devils was not in the old pass, but after the old pass.

And that was the first meeting between the two old friends since they parted from Beiping, although the two were several kilometers apart.

On the evening of October 2, Shijiazhuang was lost.

This important town in northern China, the throat of Hebei, connects the largest northern city in Taiyuan, Shanxi, and more than 20,000 troops of the 20th Japanese Division flocked in.

Yuan Yihonggang led his special attack team of 20 people, and set off overnight in this dark night when there was no moon and stars.

Target, Shanxi, China, Niangziguan Mountain District.

This special attack team, neither taking the main road nor the railway, all along the mountain, compared with the military map they carried, although the night was dark, but still the target was accurate towards Niangzi Pass, 60 kilometers away.

And all of them are extremely athletic, and the rugged mountain roads and steep mountains cannot stop them at all.

Unlike the ordinary Japanese army who still carried the 38 big cover, the Japanese army led by Yoshihiro Gen was equipped with submachine guns, with pistols in their waists, and many people even carried a Japanese-style knife behind their backs, which already had a trace of the prototype of Japanese-style special forces.

There is no doubt that this is definitely an extremely elite Japanese squad, in terms of firepower alone, its combat effectiveness is in no way inferior to a Japanese squad, if coupled with its excellent cold weapon combat power, close combat, an ordinary infantry platoon will not be their opponent.

What's worse is that the target on their map is behind the Chinese army's defense area in Niangziguan, where many auxiliary units of the Chinese army are located, including the field hospital of the Independent Regiment.

The purpose of Minamoto Yoshihiro Steel was to reconnoiter the terrain of the Niangziguan area and assassinate important generals of the Chinese army by the way, so as to demoralize the Chinese army.

A weakly protected branch of the military such as a field hospital is their best target, and for the murderous Japanese army, there is no such thing as the "Geneva Convention" that battlefield medical personnel should be protected.

On the morning of October 3, the first battalion of the 772nd Regiment of the 386th Brigade was transferred under the leadership of its regiment commander, Colonel Ye, and quietly arrived at the old customs defense area. On the evening of October 3, the second battalion of the 772nd Regiment rushed to Jiuguan under the leadership of the deputy regiment commander, Colonel Wang, and the death battalion returned to Qiqian Village in the early morning of the next day with supplies.

By the night of October 4, the third battalion of the 772nd Regiment rushed to Jiuguan, and the artillery battalion of the baggage company of the independent regiment was transferred to Qigan Village.

So far, the Independent Regiment and the 386 Brigade have successfully completed the transfer of flowers and trees across the sky and the sea, not to mention that the Japanese invaders do not know, and even the war zone was concealed by Liu Lang.

As for the frequent exchanges between the two forces in the past two days, it was precisely the defense area of the 169th Division of Feng Qinzai Wu Shimin of the Seventh Army between the two armies, and the gifts that Liu Tuanzuo began to send out finally played a big role at this time. Take people short and eat people softly, you have taken so many benefits from other people's waves, why can't the two troops make some deals in private? Who made the head of the family Liu rich!

All the troops who rushed to the battlefield did nothing else, and all of them repaired fortifications with their lives.

The Jiuguan battlefield was also divided into the main position and the left and right wings by Liu Lang.

Because the tactics of the little devils are just two moves, one to attack the front, two to go around the flanks, and they will also send a small force to go around far and attack the back.

The Japanese army was extremely stubborn in this regard, and its tactics never changed, whether it was fighting in the plains or in the mountains, but the results were surprisingly good.

The reason is also very simple, he has sufficient firepower on the frontal battlefield, and the national army is extremely difficult to resist, even if there are reserves, they are generally either to support the frontal position or strengthen the protection of the two wings, so how many troops are there to block their combat units that have worked tirelessly to detour ten or even ten miles with squads and squadrons as the basic units? Where would the Japanese army, which has always eaten the sweetness, easily give up their tried and tested infantry tactics?

Including the battle of Liu Lang on the Great Wall, the Japanese army also did this, a squadron of elite Japanese soldiers tirelessly climbed the mountain and fought to the death with the regimental headquarters guard platoon, although all the infiltrated Japanese troops, but the independent regiment guard platoon also suffered heavy losses.

The person in charge of the main position of Jiuguan was none other than the first infantry battalion of the Independent Regiment, and the commander of the first company of the first infantry battalion was personally served by deputy battalion commander Ye Zihua.

From the early morning of October 3, the sound of explosions on the defensive positions of Jiuguan never stopped, and the Third Army, which was frightened several kilometers away, hurriedly sent people to inquire about it, until it heard that it was the independent regiment that was digging fortifications with explosives, and it was not until it was the independent regiment that it was the fortifications that put a heart back in its stomach.

The Niangziguan area is basically dominated by stone mountains, and a sapper shovels down to leave a white mark in addition to Mars, but Liu Lang knows very well that there is a highway here, and the artillery wing of the 20th Division, a permanent division of the first division, has a howitzer brigade.

It was not a 75-caliber mountain gun, but a 105-caliber howitzer, and when that shot came down, not only did a radius of tens of meters become powder, but also stone fragments burst out everywhere and deepened its lethality.

The 17th Division suffered heavy casualties at Xuehua Mountain and Donkey Ridge because the time was too short and the fortifications were not dug well.

Liu Lang gritted his teeth and used all the thousands of kilograms of high explosives carried by the baggage company to Jiuguan, not to bomb the Japanese, but to blow up himself。。。。。。 Bomb their own positions, dig ditches and build anti-slope fortifications.

Although it is not as complete as the battle of the Great Wall in the past, as long as the soldiers can be evacuated to the anti-artillery fortifications behind the ridge in the shortest possible time, the casualties will be greatly reduced.

Under Liu Lang's death order, by October 4, all the more than 3,000 people stationed in the Jiuguan area were under the guidance of the engineer company of the independent regiment. This is a matter of everyone's life, whether it belongs to the independent regiment or the 386 brigade and the 772 regiment, they are all bare-chested, so tired that they can't move, that is, they lie down to the side, and they snore like thunder in an instant, and no matter how loud the noise next to them is, they can't wake them up. When you're hungry, more than a dozen cooking squads from the Quartermaster Department of the Independent Regiment make steamed buns at the foot of the mountain with fat meat and a pot of vegetable soup for you to make.

Even the Japanese reconnaissance planes flew overhead, and the work of building fortifications did not stop for a moment.

The Japanese reconnaissance plane was very bold, and in order to see more carefully, it even lowered its altitude to below 500 meters and circled over Niangzi Pass.

It wasn't until the Third Army on the main position of Niangzi Pass was really angry that a platoon of heavy machine guns opened fire into the sky, that they turned their noses and jumped high into the air again, and even swept a few shuttle bullets at the position below, and their rampant meaning was simply about to come out.

Zhao Ergou was so angry that he jumped straight to his feet on the anti-aircraft artillery position at the bottom of the mountain, but he never gave the order to open fire.

There were also three anti-aircraft gun positions erected around the Jiuguan position, and in addition to the reinforcements of the 17th Division, the rest of the regiment's infantry battalions had all the remaining 20-mm twin-mounted Surothong anti-aircraft guns plus 8 artillery battalions, a total of 18 Surotong anti-aircraft guns, which were equally divided between the three anti-aircraft gun positions, and each of them was equipped with 8 MG42 heavy machine guns with extended barrels.

With such firepower, not to mention this small reconnaissance plane flying at a speed of only 450 kilometers, it is a fighter with a speed of 550 kilometers per hour, and once it is fired with all its strength by anti-aircraft guns distributed in such a triangle, it can be beaten into a small turkey in an instant.

However, in order to catch a big one, Zhao Ergou could only watch the rampant little reconnaissance plane swagger away.

The "little turkey" flew away.

However, there was no shortage of covetous eyes on the positions where the independent regiment was in full swing to build fortifications.

Yuan Yihonggang hid in a bush with a telescope and had been staring at it for a long time.

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PS: The last two days, the last monthly pass, the wind and the moon please, the monthly pass is more, tomorrow will be very cool, believe it or not? If the monthly ticket list is taken down by the gods like this, Fengyue will be very bitter in her heart, then 。。。。。。 Only...... Take the little devil out of anger!!!!