It was almost at the same time that Yang Zhen launched a devastating blow on the Japanese troops on the South Road, which was composed of two brigades of the 11th Division. In the middle road, starting from Jiamusi, the 43rd Wing Captain Takeda Shou Dasa, who led the 43rd Wing of the 12th Division, which was the main force in the three-way liquidation of the Japanese army, was very depressed compared with Murata Takayo Dasa, who was struggling in pain.

Without him, since the 43rd Wing set out from Taipingchuan, although it did not encounter the stubborn resistance of the opponent, it was tortured by cold guns and cold artillery. The opponent did not look at him at all, but only talked to him with guns.

Even before the 43rd Wing left Taipingchuan, when it was assembled, it was subjected to a rain of solid mortar shells for a while. Dozens of mortar shells fell from the sky, causing considerable casualties to the assembled 43rd Wing. Although it could not be compared with the treatment of Takao Murata, an entire squadron was bombed and lost its combat effectiveness.

When he went crazy to find these despicable attackers, he didn't find a single ghost except for a few empty boxes used to hold mortar shells in the southwest of Taipingchuan.

And the most difficult thing for Takeda Shoudasa to accept is that the mortars that attacked him and the mortar shells that fell on his head were actually products of the Imperial Arsenal. The Japanese signs on the shell boxes that were abandoned at the scene of the crime were like mockery of him.

Takeda Shou Dasa, who was carrying a few empty shell boxes back as the only trophies, looked at the gloomy face of Lieutenant General Sasaki Zhiyi, and hesitated for a moment to swallow back the building that it was best to clear the area around the Taiping River first. Leaving two squadrons of troops for Sasaki Toichi as a guard, he led the Japanese puppet army to march towards Qinghei Mountain and began to sweep.

The order given to him by Sasaki was clear: it was necessary to rush to the Ryoko River area in the afternoon of the same day to clear out the anti-Manchu forces that might have been hiding there. And cooperate with the other two Japanese armies to encircle and destroy this anti-Manchu armed force, which posed a great threat to the empire, in the Liangzi River area.

In fact, the distance from the Taiheecheon River to the Ryoko River area is not far in a straight line. As a veteran of the 12th Division, Takeda Shoudasa, who has been stationed in northeast China with the 12th Division since 36 and led the 43rd Wing to participate in the Sanjiang Crusade against the Anti-Japanese Federation last year, is no stranger to this place.

Because this area was one of the main guerrilla base areas for the activities of the Third Route Army and the Sixth Army, the target of his main crusade last year, he was also familiar with this area. Last year, he led his troops to carry out many crusades in this area, and also achieved many so-called brilliant achievements.

But this time, looking at the reckless mountains on both sides of the marching route, perhaps it was the attack in the early morning, which made Takeda Shou suddenly feel a faint feeling of uneasiness in his heart. And the next march, for all the soldiers of the 43rd Wing, including Takeda Shou Dasa, can be described as painful.

In contrast to the enthusiasm they received along the way, and the constant rush of chickens and dogs, they realized that the shelling in the morning was nothing more than an appetizer. The almost endless and varied attacks encountered along the way made the entire 43rd Wing far away from the Liangzi River area, and it was already full of soldiers.

As soon as they entered the mountain, the 43rd Wing stepped on a minefield. That's right, it's a mine array, and hundreds of rafa mines are strung together. When the 43rd Wing was more than halfway through the march, hundreds of mines suddenly exploded in the marching brigade.

These mines are not ordinary mines, they are surrounded by bullets, grenades, broken glass, and so on. There were even a couple of mortar shells strapped to it. The damage caused by the explosion of such an unconventional explosive in a marching brigade can be imagined.

An entire infantry squadron was blown up by these mines, leaving only a few men left. Not to mention that the stumps and broken arms flew everywhere, and the mountain artillery squadron was blown into the sky with people and horses. Of the four mountain cannons, not even one was left for him. That is, the 12th Division, which had not yet officially met with its opponents, lost half of its supporting firepower, and it was the main one.

Before the 43rd Wing could recover from the explosion, another dense rain of mortar shells came from the mountains on both sides of the road, knocking down the Japanese troops who had just regrouped after the mine explosion. The attack from the bottom to the top gave the Japanese soldiers of the 43rd Wing a good taste of what it means to be a double heaven of ice and fire.

But for the Japanese troops of the 43rd Wing, the nightmare had just begun. While Takeda was gathering his troops that had dispersed to escape the shelling, a squadron of the spearhead suffered heavy casualties under a dense rain of bullets from at least six heavy machine guns, and lost half of the squadron in a matter of minutes.

The Yan zhòng attack encountered by the vanguard, coupled with the casualties caused by the shelling in the morning and the mines and shelling just now, the 43rd Wing had not yet officially entered the mountains to carry out the clearance, and without even seeing the face of the opponent, it suffered casualties of two and a half infantry squadrons and a mountain artillery squadron. That is, by this time, the forty-third wing had almost lost the strength of a brigade.

An angry Takeda Shoudasa looked at the dead and wounded Japanese soldiers everywhere, and the piles of wreckage left in the mountain artillery squadron, and almost didn't bite out all the teeth in his mouth. What kind of opponent is this?

I don't have the courage to have a face-to-face battle with myself like a samurai, but I play yin. He didn't even see what his opponent looked like, and he lost nearly a third of his troops. If you go on at this rate and wait until you reach the predetermined goal, how many people will be left in your 43rd Wing?

Where did these anti-Manchu anti-Japanese elements get so many mines, and mortars? Haven't they always been short of ammunition? So you can be so generous with so many bullets and grenades tied to the mines?

Afraid of being beaten, Takeda Shou Dasa was worried that the opponent would play any tricks again, so he opened the marching brigade, not to mention, let alone concentrate all the troops on the road to march.

He changed his previous practice of concentrating his troops and divided his troops into three routes. In addition to mortars, heavy machine guns and other heavy weapons, as well as the main force to take the road, other troops, one squadron on each side of the hill, marched along the ridge on both sides. The first is to disperse the troops, and the second is to prevent the recurrence of the incident.

In order to avoid another ambush, and because of the mountain forest, the speed of the march inevitably slowed down. In Takeda Shoudasa's view, it is better to be slow when the march is slower than not knowing when to take another dull stick.

Despite not being able to catch up with the designated place at the scheduled time, Sasaki will not be too happy to arrive at the first junior high school. But if the losses of the 43rd Wing were too great, the commander of his division, Lieutenant General Seitaro Uemura, might not be able to spare himself.

Lieutenant General Sasaki was no longer happy, but he was not his direct superior, and at most he complained to the Kwantung Army Command. If Lieutenant General Seitaro Uemura is not happy, then he will really be unlucky.

After receiving a few sticks in a row, Takeda Shoudazuo was much more cautious. It is better to slow down the speed of the march and either search for a suspicious place or use artillery fire to cover it than to continue to be beaten like this.

It's just that what Takeda Shou didn't expect was that no matter how cautious he was, he still fell in love with others. Not long after setting off again, the newly selected squad of spearheads fell into a king-sized trap. The extremely sharp wooden stakes cut in the pit made the soldiers of this squad die in agony. The two squadrons, which marched on the ridge instead, still could not escape the damage of the mines, and stepped on a lot of mines.

And the various attacks along the way made the Japanese troops of the 43rd Wing almost defenseless. Mines, traps, and even a very simple mine made of a single bullet, the whole ground looks normal, but as soon as you step on it, the bullet passes through the instep of the foot.

Compared with other kinds of attacks that bring death at any time, this kind of lethality is not great, and the psychological shadow brought by the non-lethal mine to the Japanese army is the heaviest. Because as long as this immoral thing is stepped on, you can't die, but the pain behind it is difficult for people to bear.

Although Takeda Shou was furious by the successive attacks, there was no solution to the problem. He did not carry sappers and did not think about carrying them. Who the fuck would have thought that these abominable, despicable and abnormal creatures would not only lay all sorts of seemingly endless mines on the mountain roads, but also lay mines on the mountain ridges.

Wang Guangyu and Li Mingrui can be said to have used the guerrilla tactics handed over by Yang Zhen to the extreme. At the beginning, when he was about to divide the troops, Yang Zhen hesitated for a long time and changed the deployment of troops. Guo Bingxun commanded two battalions of the 1st Regiment to bluff the Japanese troops on the North Road.

Wang Guangyu led a battalion and most of the reconnaissance battalion to adopt various cold gun and cold artillery tactics, as well as mine warfare, to harass the main force of the Japanese army in the center and reduce its marching speed. When necessary, the terrain can be used to fight a blocking battle.

Yang Zhen knew that if it was a regular battle, whether it was a blocking battle or a positional battle, let alone two battalions, even if he concentrated all his main forces, the three regiments would not necessarily have the strength to defeat a regular field wing of the Japanese army.

In order to reduce casualties, delay the speed of the Japanese army in the middle as much as possible, and complete the predetermined combat objectives, Yang Zhen could only rack his brains to formulate some unconventional combat methods. Fortunately, among the training subjects that Li Mingrui's reconnaissance battalion has completed, there are rapid mine-laying and the laying of various kinds of tricky mines.

In order to ensure that Wang Guangyu can use this kind of warrior well, Yang Zhen talked with Wang Guangyu and Li Mingrui all night. Teach them all that they know about this experience. I even took an hour out of my time and practiced a few times.

The reason why Yang Zhen adjusted the deployment of troops was to confuse Sasaki as much as possible so that he could not understand his true intentions, and to delay the marching speed of the main force of the Japanese army, widen the distance between it and the Japanese army on the northern route, and create a Zào fighter for the next operation.

As for whether these two ideas can be finally realized, it is still unclear. But one thing was done. That is, after the 43rd Wing of the Japanese Army on the middle route entered the mountain, it had not gone out of 20 miles for most of the day.

In desperation, Takeda Shou had no choice but to send a report to Lieutenant General Sasaki to the first lieutenant general, and after reporting the encounters along the way, he asked Sasaki to transfer some sappers from Jiamusi to him, but instead of receiving a positive answer, he was severely reprimanded.

In desperation, Takeda Shoudasa had no choice but to line up the puppet Manchu army, which was originally used to transport baggage and lagged behind, to the front of the marching army column, in order to act as a spearhead and mine for the Japanese army.

For what the Japanese army encountered along the way, the puppet Manchu army behind them had long seen it. At this time, there dared to accept such trust from the Japanese army.

But although he didn't want to go, under the threat of Takeda Shouxueliang's saber, the commander of the puppet Manchu army who led the team cursed these Japanese soldiers for being despicable in his heart, and after asking for the gods and Buddhas of the Mantian, from God and Allah in the West, to Buddha, Guanyin Bodhisattva and Taishang Laojun in the East, he could only lead the team to accept Takeda Shou's trust.

In fact, the reprimand that Takeda Shou suffered was not that Sasaki Toichi deliberately did not send them sappers. It's that Sasaki really doesn't have sappers on hand, who would have thought that those poorly armed anti-Manchurian forces would make so many mines at once. Takeda Shou couldn't figure out where his opponent had gotten so many mines, and Sasaki was also confused.

Although Sasaki didn't know more about the true strength of this anti-Manchurian force than Takeda Shou. But Sasaki is certain that this anti-Manchu army, which does not even have the most basic arsenal, should never have mines on hand.

If they have some explosives on hand, this Sasaki to a letter. Because after the attack on the Jingpo Lake Hydropower Station site, a large amount of explosives stored in the entire construction site were all missing. But having explosives doesn't mean they would have mines without an arsenal. Because it is not easy to turn explosives into mines.

To be honest, in the past, when the United Nations was carrying out clearance, the Japanese army had never encountered a mine, a weapon that was neither immoral nor samurai-like in the eyes of the Japanese army. So Sasaki didn't bring sappers with him at all.

They knew that when Yang Zhen's arsenal began to be put into production, the first munitions production order Yang Zhen gave was to produce mines. Use captured explosives to produce as many mines as possible in the shortest possible time.

Although due to the relationship of time, when Yang Zhen went to Liangzihe for training, only 2,000 pieces were produced, but something is better than nothing. But 2,000 mines were produced in seven days, which was staggering at a time when the arsenal had just been put into operation and its production capacity was limited.

It's a pity that because of the production process and technical relationship, only pull and trip thunder can be produced. Pressurized mines and electronically controlled mines are still not counted on for a while. In particular, the pressure hair mine cannot be made now. However, for the Japanese army, which has always despised mines, it is enough to have pulling mines and tripping mines.

Although Yang Zhen brought out all these mines, he left them all to Guo Bingxun when he divided the troops, and he didn't bring any of them. And Guo Bingxun gave seventy percent of these mines to Wang Guangyu. More than 1,000 mines, and in addition to Li Mingrui's reconnaissance battalion, Professor Yang Zhen's method was used to make a lot of bullet mines from local materials. Therefore, the Japanese army refused to be unlucky if they wanted to.

After receiving a telegram from Takeda Shou asking for help, Sasaki Toichi was more shocked than angry. A whole infantry wing, what did this mean for the always arrogant Japanese army? On the battlefield of Kannai, it is not uncommon for an infantry wing to defeat a division of the Shina Army. Now, before even seeing the face of the opponent, nearly a brigade of troops was killed or wounded. If this spreads, won't the face of the imperial army be swept away?

"The hateful and cunning Shina people, and this stupid, damned Takeda Shou." Sasaki Daichi cursed fiercely in his heart.

But he also knows that swearing won't solve anything. These days, the Kwantung Army Command has gradually become extremely impatient with the ineffectiveness of his division. Senior General Kenkichi Ueda severely reprimanded him several times. Even the prime minister of the land sent a telegram to him, conveying that the emperor also expressed his dissatisfaction with the delay in his offensive action.

Kenkichi Ueda's reprimand Sasaki Zhiichi can not care, but the telegram of the prime minister of the land minister is something that he can't ignore it. He turned the entire Xiajiang region almost upside down, and he failed to find this anti-Manchu armed force that had almost become a thorn in the heart of the empire.

Now that I've finally found it, Sasaki will be delayed by redeploying troops. Because he knew that this anti-Manchurian armed force was too elusive, and it was as slippery as a loach. Now that they have finally been caught, Sasaki will delay the redeployment of troops and let this damn anti-Manchurian force slip out of his nose again?

After sending a telegram to Takeda Shou, a telegram from the Infantry Brigade of the 8th Division, which had set out from Tsurudate to participate in the attack, left him confused. The telegram clearly stated that the 1st Brigade of the 17th Wing of the 8th Division, which had participated in the attack, was attacked by a large number of anti-Manchu anti-Japanese forces armed with heavy machine guns and mortars on the north bank of the Fasi River south of Miaoling Mountain.

Looking at the telegrams sent by Takeda Shou and Kawada Takeshi saying that they had been attacked by the main anti-Manchurian and anti-Japanese forces, Sasaki Toichi's brows furrowed deeply. Both of the troops said that they had been attacked by anti-Manchu and anti-Japanese forces, which aspect was their main force?