； It's hard to get used to the heat. "But as long as the rain does not fall to the ground, the weather will not be eased."

Since the beginning of summer, it has not rained in the central part of the Liaodong Peninsula, and some cumulonimbus clouds have finally accumulated, but it has not rained, the air humidity is heavy, and the temperature is high.

Especially staying in an armored combat vehicle, it is hot outside, and it is also hot inside the stuffy tank, and people stay in the car for a few minutes. It's a hot sweat.

Tian Miao was sweaty and lifted the top cover of the armored car turret, poked his head out of the hatch, gasped for breath, and then jerked his arms up. The whole person jumped out of the hatch like this, jumped out of the armored car neatly, sat on the ground, took off the tank cap on his head, and then reached out and took out a copper cigarette case from the wet military pocket, after opening it, he picked out a relatively dry paper cigarette from it, recorded the paper skin, stuffed the tobacco into his mouth, and chewed it.

As an armored commander from Wuhan Military and Political College, Tian Miao has no other hobbies. He loves to smoke, but in the armored forces, it is strictly forbidden for soldiers to smoke during wartime, because the armored forces are full of flammable and explosive materials, and he has no choice but to change the way he smokes and changes smoking to chewing tobacco.

"It's hot

Tian Miao scolded and put the copper cigarette box back in his pocket, got up, and another person jumped out of the armored car behind him, it was the driver.

"Battalion commander, why hasn't the supply convoy caught up with this back?"

The Yue driver of the armored car looked at Tian Miao and asked, but Tian Miao obviously couldn't answer this question.

"You ask me, who do I ask? Just now I sent a telegram to the Radiant Camp, and they said that they were still on the way, and that we were rushing too fast for them to keep up

Tian Miao chewed on the tobacco and muttered a few words vaguely. Then he walked to the front of the armored car and looked at the other armored car soldier to check the motive.

At this time, a staff officer hurried over. Take out a military map from the chair bag you were carrying. Spread it out on the armored car, pointed to a point on the map, and muttered a few words to Tian Miao.

"Battalion commander, we're in this place right now. There are still about twenty miles away from Changlingzi. It is also nearly twenty miles away from our Ronghua Mountain this morning. I don't see the village before, I can't go to the store behind, and now the heavy troops have not yet arrived at Ronghua Mountain, and our diesel and gasoline are only enough to run more than ten miles, so we can either continue to walk forward, or just wait here, and it is impossible to return to Ronghua Mountain. Three

After listening to the staff officer's report, Tian Miao complained.

"How did your staff office plan the route of the march? Do not calculate the fuel and distance in advance. Now tell me to wait here, you're here to practice? ”

The staff officer looked helpless, pointed to the map, and said: "This is also to blame the staff office, the scale on this map is not accurate enough, and the Air Force Surveying and Mapping Brigade is also responsible. Now we'd better just wait here, waiting for the next radiator to come back. ”

Tian Miao chewed a few mouthfuls of tobacco, then spat the tobacco in his mouth to his feet, snatched the military map in the staff officer's hand, and carefully studied it with a ruler.

Since the day before yesterday I received an order to go south. Tian Miao's identity as the commander of the reconnaissance battalion has always led this mixed unit of the armored unit of the East Road Column to the front of the main force, and they are actually the vanguard force. The reconnaissance detachment, numbering more than 1,000 people, arrived at Ronghua Mountain only yesterday afternoon, rested there for the night, and waited for the main force behind to catch up, this morning. Tian Miao commanded the reconnaissance detachment to continue southward, but when he came here, he realized that the map was wrong, so he quickly stopped and waited for the Gezhong troops behind.

Tian Miao was a little anxious; since the weather turned cloudy the day before yesterday, the air force had not been able to dispatch reconnaissance to reconnoitre, so he was not clear about the whereabouts of the Japanese troops at present, and because he was stunned too quickly, he was worried about whether the armored reconnaissance detachment had penetrated into the Japanese army's in-depth defense area.

In this pursuit of the main force of the Japanese army in Dagushan, Zhou Daowang, commander of the East Road Column, was bent on holding back the Japanese army before the West Road Column, so he attached great importance to the advance of the troops, especially the armored troops, and it was precisely under the urging of Commander Zhou that Tian Miao went so fast, racing against time on the battlefield, whoever showed the enemy's whereabouts first would have an advantage, and now the Air Force could not dispatch reconnaissance planes to carry out aerial reconnaissance missions, so it had to rely on armored reconnaissance detachments.

In order to go faster, Tian Miao did not even carry a tank, this armored reconnaissance detachment was equipped with all armored vehicles, although it had some firepower enhanced armored vehicles equipped with short-barreled tank guns, but in terms of protection, it was far inferior to tanks, and it was precisely because of this that Tian Miao was worried about a sudden encounter with a large force of the Japanese army.

"Give the order, set up defenses on the spot, and wait for the logistics to return. In addition, ask the cavalry to send some people to reconnoiter nearby, and then ask the infantry to dig trenches and bunkers on the high ground in the west, and we will camp at the foot of the mountain. His instincts told him that the situation was very unusual, and that the Japanese were either far away or had concealed their whereabouts.

While the staff officers were arranging the defenses. Tian Miao rushed to the avenue with several high-ranking officers to carefully study the traces on the road.

This road is also a dirt road, built on the eastern coast of the Liaodong Peninsula, when Japan and Russia went to war, in order to facilitate the transportation of field military supplies. Both the Japanese army and the Russian engineering units contributed to the construction of this avenue, and after the Japanese occupied the southern part of the Liaodong Peninsula, they connected these crisscrossing avenues. The original construction blueprint was to use this north-south extension of the dirt road, but so far, this railway has not yet started, so far, the north-south traffic on the eastern coast of the Liaodong Peninsula can only rely on this dirt road.

The colonial authorities of Gumoto operated the leased land of the Liaodong Peninsula in accordance with the colonial management, so although this road is a dirt road, it is quite regular. There are drainage ditches dug along the roadside, and even trees are planted, which may not turn into a road with oil in time.

Tian Miao's armored reconnaissance detachment marched south along this north-south avenue, and when they came all the way, there were many traces of military heavy wagons marching on the road, and the traces were very new, showing that a large number of troops had recently moved along this avenue, and this was probably the traces left by the Japanese troops coming from the direction of Dagushan, and these traces had been extending to the south, and according to common sense, the Japanese troops should have been marching southward.

But some attentive staff officers showed the remains of the Japanese camping left near the road. The number of Japanese troops marching south along this road will not exceed 10,000, and according to the previous aerial reconnaissance of the Air Force, the Japanese troops in Dagushan have already been dispatched with more than 40,000 troops, so there is a question, where are the other 30,000 Japanese troops?

Some staff officers believed that the Japanese army was divided into two routes, with the heavily armed troops and the heavy troops heading south to Lushun, while the lightly armed infantry marched westward, going over the mountains and mountains, and that the Japanese army probably planned to cross the great watershed separating the eastern and western parts of the Liaodong Peninsula and go west straight into the direction of Gaiping to cut off the rear road of the West Road column.

This possibility exists, after all, there are quite a few avenues that cross the Great Dividing Range, but there must be a premise for this. That is, it has sufficient logistical support forces, considering that China's eastern route column still threatens the Japanese logistics line in the eastern part of the Liaodong Peninsula, then the Japanese army going west may be cut off from supplies at any time. It's a risky move. Unless the Japanese army is desperate. Otherwise, according to common sense, this advance plan would not have become a long-term plan for the Japanese commanders.

There is another possibility, that is, the Japanese army was indeed divided into two units, one to the south, the other road to hide their whereabouts, they did not go to the west in the direction of Gaiping, they were still in the eastern part of the Liaodong Peninsula, as for the specific place, then it needs to be carefully dialed, and this is the main task of Tian Miao's armored reconnaissance detachment.

Tian Miao led the officers and staff officers on the avenue to carefully ponder the rut marks and horse manure, and continued to discuss the possible direction of the Japanese army's advance, or the location of the lurk.

Hustle, while they were busy, suddenly there was a gunshot from the west, at first, only sporadically, but after less than a minute, the gunshots rang out, and then. The roar of mountain artillery was also heard.

The armored reconnaissance detachment was not armed with mountain artillery. This can only be the sound of Japanese artillery.

Hearing the sound of cannons, Tian Miao hurriedly ran towards the campsite. Officers and staff officers followed. When they rushed back to the foot of the mountain, everyone realized that the infantry who had gone up the mountain to dig bunkers had been driven down the mountain, and at this moment, the Japanese army's rising sun flag had been raised on the top of the mountain and on the high ground.

"***, where did so many devil soldiers come from?"

Tian Miao hurriedly jumped onto an armored car. He commanded the Xijia soldiers to fire at the hill with the millimeter short-barreled tank gun on the vehicle to suppress the Japanese artillery fire. However, the Japanese army was condescending, coupled with the limited elevation angle of the tank gun, it was impossible to effectively suppress the Japanese firepower, and at this time, more and more Japanese soldiers wearing yellow military uniforms appeared in the dense forests in the mountains, and they used rifles and mountain artillery to shoot at the camp of the squadron at the foot of the mountain.

"Withdraw! Withdraw".

Tian Miao stood on the side pedal of the armored car and gave a loud order, directing the armored reconnaissance detachment to retreat eastward, cross the drainage ditch on the west side of the avenue, and retreat north along the road.

The place where the Japanese army was encountered was the junction of the plains and the hills, Tian Miao originally wanted the infantry to occupy the high ground, but he never thought that the Japanese army had set up an ambush, fortunately, the infantry felt in time, and now the Japanese army rushed out of the dense forest where they were hiding, and decisively engaged with it, although it was driven down the mountain by the Japanese army, but it warned the armored troops, the troops retreated in time, the casualties were not large, and only a few trucks were lost. Read the latest Children's Day on the wash stream books, dry the fine concave and say that the situation is full of umbrellas