Wing Commander Matsumoto abandoned his troops for breakfast in Sangtou Town, and ordered his troops to leave the destroyed Sangtou Town and march quickly towards Qingshui Bridge, where they encountered a small unit of the Eighth Route Army and were quickly annihilated with maximum firepower.

Enraged, the Matsumoto United quickly left Sangtou Town, leaving behind the embers of Sangtou Town, this ancient town with a history of several hundred years, was destroyed by inhumane little devils, leaving more than 200 villagers homeless and displaced.

When the vanguard of the Japanese army arrived at the west mountain of Sangtou Town, the cunning Captain Ida ordered the troops to suspend their advance, and he scanned the west mountain again and again with a telescope, trying to see if he could find that the Eighth Route Army had an ambush here.

For the sake of prudence, Captain Ida ordered a squad to run and rush over, shoot at the bottom of the hill and strafe the hill, and then order the vanguard to continue to advance if there was no suspicion.

The devil's squad received the order and ran to the foot of the West Mountain, which is more than 300 meters high from the bottom of the mountain, the slope is gentle and not steep, and it should not take more than an hour to rush from the bottom of the mountain to the top of the mountain.

The little devil who rushed to the bottom of the mountain looked up at the top of the mountain, and saw dozens of pines, black locusts and poplars scattered on the western mountain, and the grass kept swaying under the autumn wind, and it seemed that if the wind was a little stronger, these grasses would be uprooted.

The leader of the devil squad frowned at the top of the mountain and looked at the top of the mountain, but did not find anything suspicious, let alone any signs of an ambush by a large army of the Eighth Route Army.

But this cautious-minded guy had just experienced the incident of all the jade shattering of the cavalry squad in Sangtou Town, and saw with his own eyes the madness of the enraged Matsumoto Wing, he was afraid that if he did not carefully search the West Mountain, the large army marched to the bottom of the mountain and was suddenly ambushed, then he was very likely to be dealt with by the Matsumoto Wing Captain on the spot.

He ordered the little devil to quickly climb to the top of the mountain, and once he did not find the ambush of the Eighth Route Army, he would send a signal to the captain of the vanguard team to continue advancing.

At this time, Wang Xiaoliang, who led the third battalion to ambush on the top of the mountain, saw that the large army of devils on the Wufu Highway suddenly stopped advancing, and soon sent a team of devils to rush to the West Mountain, apparently to do reconnaissance on the way to the march.

Wang Xiaoliang ordered the main force of the third battalion to quickly retreat to the back slope of the west mountain, hide in the dense woods halfway up the mountain, and wait for the devil reconnaissance team to leave, and immediately rush to the top of the mountain to prepare to ambush the Matsumoto wing marching towards Qingshui Bridge.

The leader of the devil squad led a team of devils, and quickly rushed to the top of the mountain along the gentle slope, Wang Xiaoliang ordered the three rows of soldiers left behind him: "Immediately retreat to the woods halfway up the back mountain, and act secretly and not expose the target." ”

Wang Xiaoliang led the three platoons to retreat into the woods halfway up the mountain to hide, the devil reconnaissance team stood on the top of the mountain at this time, looking at the woods halfway up the mountain with guns one by one, suddenly the devil squad leader raised his hand and slashed down fiercely, and the devil on the top of the mountain pulled the trigger with his gun, and shot the woods halfway up the mountain like crazy.

Wang Xiaoliang didn't expect the little devil to shoot at this woods hidden by the three battalions, some of the soldiers who did not hide to a safe place in time were shot and wounded, and some soldiers lay on the ground and raised their guns to aim at the little devils on the top of the mountain, ready to shoot back at any time.

Duan Zhiquan, the commander of the third battalion, climbed up to Wang Xiaoliang and whispered: "Deputy Commander Wang, dozens of little devils are standing on the top of the mountain and shooting so arrogantly, if you give the order to charge, grandma's, in less than half an hour, will wipe out all these mongrels, and even one of them will not be able to escape." ”

"Third battalion commander, if you are exposed to this West Mountain in advance and ambush you, the elite third battalion of the Eighth Route Army, and alarm the commander of the devil Matsumoto Wing, it is very likely that the entire deployment of the commander of the Thunder Sword Regiment will be broken, so bear with it My brother, if you want to fight and eliminate the devil, I will give you a chance in a while."

Duan Zhiquan, the commander of the third battalion, said in a low voice: "I know this, it's just a mouthful, to be honest, Deputy Commander Wang, I admire you more and more now, according to my ideas, I will definitely rely on the elite of the third battalion to fight the enemy." Hehe, thanks to you for stopping me, if the devil reconnaissance team would have found out, my third battalion would have been hidden in the woods halfway up the mountain, and it would not have been safe. ”

Wang Xiaoliang listened to Duan Zhiquan's praise of him, and his heart was very useful, not that he was proud, but that he had been by Lei Jian's side for so many years, and he had learned a lot of tricks to adapt to changes on the battlefield, thinking of these at this time, he admired his foresight, not only said with a little modesty: "Battalion Commander Duan, I feel that I have made progress, if I can follow Commander Lei for a longer time, I will learn more things." ”

Duan Zhiquan suddenly grabbed Wang Xiaoliang and shouted in a low voice: "Deputy Head Wang, listen to what you mean, our Leader Lei really wants to leave the only regiment?" If that's true, then what do we do? ”

Wang Xiaoliang shook his head and said: "Battalion Commander Duan, you have to remember the sentence 'Iron-clad battalion and flowing soldiers', no one knows when they will be adjusted to what troops and posts, let's just talk about our old independent regiment, this is a new unit formed by Commander Lei and sixteen cadres after studying from the Jiaodong Military and Political Cadre School, how many bloody battles have they experienced?" However, in the Peacock Valley on the way west, we left the old independent regiment and re-formed the new unique regiment of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region.

Now the leader of the only regiment is Li Gang, do you say that Captain Lei can still stay in the only regiment? Besides, who is Captain Lei? During the Anti-Japanese War, he made great achievements, especially led the only regiment to perform more well in the Battle of the Hundred Regiments.

I guess that in the front-line blocking campaign in the military city, the head of the military region suddenly appointed Li Gang as the commander of the only regiment, first, Regiment Commander Lei was dying and did not know if he could survive, and second, the head of the military region must have a new arrangement for our regiment commander Lei, otherwise he would not have asked Li Gang to be the commander of the only regiment. ”

"Hey, if Commander Lei leaves the only regiment, I am really reluctant, even the soldiers of the only regiment are reluctant to leave Commander Lei." Duan Zhiquan shook his head and said depressedly.

Wang Xiaoliang no longer discussed with Duan Zhiquan about the whereabouts of Lei Jian, and concentrated on looking at the top of the west mountain through the gap in the woods, and found that the devil team had not left yet, not only scolded in a low voice: "This group of mongrels, lie on the top of the mountain and wait for death?" ”

The Japanese squad leader who led the devil squad to the top of the west mountain ordered to shoot at the woods on the back slope of the west mountain, and once there was an ambush by the Eighth Route Army, the Eighth Route Army ambushed in the woods would be blasted out by firing, and as long as the Eighth Route Army troops were found, they would immediately report to the joint commander Matsumoto to encircle and annihilate them.

The leader of the devil squad saw that shooting at the woods did not cause suspicion, and this bastard ordered the devils of the squad to rush down the hill and continue to shoot to test the woods.

Wang Xiaoliang, who was hidden in the woods, saw the little devil on the top of the mountain suddenly rushing down the mountain, shooting while running, and he shouted to the soldiers of the fourth battalion in a low voice: "Press your body to the lowest and do a good job of concealment, as long as the little devil walks into the woods, you must divide and encircle it with the most courageous speed to eliminate this devil team." ”

The little devils who rushed down the mountain were getting closer and closer to the woods, and the soldiers hidden in the woods really wanted to aim at this group of bastards who were sent to the door to find death, and shot them one by one, but without the order of Deputy Commander Wang Xiaoliang, they could only hide in the woods and watch the little devils arrogantly shoot and provoke.

Duan Zhiquan, the commander of the third battalion next to Wang Xiaoliang, lowered his voice and said: "Deputy Commander Wang, the little devils have been sent to the door when they break away from the big army, you said that if our third battalion suddenly fires at the devils who are coming down the mountain, won't it take a bag of cigarettes to destroy this devil team?" Why hide here and suffer this grievance? ”

"No, Commander Lei ordered the three battalions to occupy the Xishan position in Sangtou Town, the main task is to fire against the main force of the Matsumoto Wing marching to the Qingshui Bridge, and now for a small team of devils to expose the position of the three battalions, it will definitely disturb the Japanese commander who is marching to the Qingshui Bridge, if the cunning devil commander gives up attacking our three battalions and goes straight to the Qingshui Bridge, then the Qingshui Bridge position will be very dangerous, do you understand?"

Duan Zhiquan said disapprovingly: "I don't understand, Deputy Commander Wang, let's eliminate this devil squad in the woods, and immediately occupy the Xishan position, so that we have time to stop the main force of the Matsumoto Wing and continue to march towards Qingshui Bridge." ”

"No, once our three battalions can't eliminate this devil squad in a short time in the woods, and the enemy and us are in a stalemate, the devil squad leader will immediately report to the Matsumoto Wing, and the enemy's vanguard will rush up to the West Mountain to join the encirclement and suppression of our third battalion, and at that time, how can we stop the Matsumoto Wing who is rapidly marching towards Shimizu Bridge?

I'm afraid that the third battalion will also engage in a fierce battle with the enemy in this wood, which will disrupt the combat deployment of the commander of the Thunder Sword Regiment on the front line of the Qingshui Bridge, causing the troops to be dispersed and passively respond to the battle, don't you understand what I say? ”

Wang Xiaoliang didn't wait for Duan Zhiquan to answer, he lowered his posture again and ordered: "Pay attention to concealment, you must not shoot without an order, and those who violate the order will enforce battlefield discipline." ”

When the leader of the devil squad led the team to rush to forty meters away from the woods, he suddenly stopped and shouted: "Stop, quickly spread out and shoot the woods, quickly." ”

(End of chapter)