Shou County.

Half past seven in the morning.

It was winter, and although it had been sunny recently, the night had passed, and the ground was still covered with a layer of white frost, and in the early morning sun, you could occasionally see a piece of crystal, which was the ground frozen with water.

Even if it is a sunny day, the cold winter in Jindi is already bitterly cold.

Outside Shouxian County, in a piece of rubble beside the road, Cao Mantang tightened the thick cotton clothes on his body, and then spread out the outermost layer of shabby sacks to cover his figure, and his psychology was rare with a trace of emotion.

In the early days of the formation of the new regiment, he also carried out this kind of reconnaissance mission,

That time, it was also winter, and he was also lurking outside the devil garrison, but at that time, the army was poor, and he only had a bombed devil military uniform, and then wrapped in an old sack, and lurked overnight on an empty stomach, and his belly was frozen to the point that his belly was hard and lumpy.

And now, the close-fitting thick warm cotton clothes are tightly wrapped, and the old sack pieces outside are only camouflaged this time, and after a night, although the hands and feet are cold, but the stomach is warm and lively, and the white flour sandwich meatloaf I ate yesterday still does not feel hungry even now.

sighed in his heart, but the movements in his hands did not stop, he took out a piece of dried chili pepper from his arms and stuffed it into his mouth and chewed it.

Hiss... The hot and spicy smell dispersed, dispelling the chill on his body, and also dispelling the sleepiness accumulated after a night of sleeplessness, reaching out to pull the branches outside the observation mouth away, Cao Mantang cast his eyes on the road.

Only about 20 meters away from him, the Japanese troops in the brigade were marching at high speed, the iron nail military boots kicked on the road, and the tires of the cars were rolling up smoke and dust.

Some devils even walked in front of him, and through the observation hole, Cao Mantang could even see the laces on the shoes of the devil army.

The place where he hid was originally a house of a large family, but when the little devil attacked Shou County, it was blown up and turned into rubble, and the owner of the house was nowhere to be found.

Because it was attacked not long ago, the little devil was very vigilant, there was a mine-sweeping team in front of the queue responsible for opening the road, and there were small groups of Japanese troops on both wings of the army to spread the vigilance, and the warning circle extended to more than 500 meters outside the marching army, but the little devils could not have imagined that there were people lurking under their eyelids.

After all, within one or two hundred meters, if you attack the army of devils, you will definitely not be able to escape.

The devil wasn't mistaken.

This time Cao Mantang did not attack the devil, he stared at the devil tightly, until the little devil team left, he got up and walked behind him, and he was holding a notebook in his hand to write and draw, recording something.

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Yang Village.

A pigeon quietly landed, with a small paper tube tied to its feet.

A soldier of the independent regiment caught the pigeon, took off the small paper tube, and sent it all the way to Zhang Dabiao.

After Jiaoxian killed Miyano Road for a while, the mission almost failed because of the backward means of communication, and the independent regiment learned from the pain and found a way to get a set of carrier pigeons to solve the communication problem.

Although the delay of the pigeon is still very high compared to the radio, it is much faster than the transmission of people on horseback, and the distance between Shou County and Yang Village can quickly transmit the message back in just a few hours.

"Six 41-type mountain cannons."

"About 300 people were also used to transport supplies?"

The news that Cao Mantang passed back made Zhang Dabiao frown.

This time, because there was no enemy intelligence provided by Boss Chen, the independent regiment could only find out the intelligence by itself, considering that the previous professional intelligence personnel were caught by devils, and the other personnel in Shou County were not professional in collecting intelligence, so they sent Cao Mantang over.

Snipers are great for being scouts.

It's just that.

Even if he had been prepared for a long time, the little devil's strength in this dispatch was bound to be not weak, but the information passed back still made Zhang Dabiao feel very tricky, and directly overturned the previous battle plan.

Six 41 mountain guns, this is more than the size of an artillery squadron, and there are more than 300 people next to the artillery team to transport supplies, that is to say, the devil has prepared sufficient shells for this battle.

Six mountain guns, again with enough manpower and shells·····

It's not going to be a good fight.

It's absolutely not okay to hold on to Yang Village.

Although he also has the support of three 82 mortars of the artillery company, and the reinforced fire company also has six 60 mortars, the artillery reserves are very sufficient, and there is a strong Yangcun bunker, but the 82 mortars can only deal with the 92 infantry guns, and against the mountain artillery, it is far behind, as for the 60 mortars, it is used to bully the grenadiers.

The artillery of the separate regiment was at an absolute disadvantage in firepower.

Not to mention, this time the devil attacked with more troops than him, and he didn't even have an advantage in numbers.

Spreading out the map near Yang Village and scanning the surrounding terrain, Zhang Dabiao squinted his eyes and thought.

According to the regiment commander's battle plan, after the battle begins, his battalion needs to attract the little devils for at least half a day, but in the face of the devils with the powerful firepower of six mountain guns and the superior troops, this requires some advance preparations.

It's not easy to fight, but it doesn't mean that you can't fight.

The independent regiment now has a lot of hole cards, there are guns and cannons, and it is ten times stronger than the new regiment period, even if it is not as good as the devil, it can also wrestle with the devil head-on.

Moreover, after fighting with the little devil for so long, Zhang Dabiao can already see the little devil's combat plan with his weapons and equipment and troops.

"Go and call the commander of the fire company, and the deputy commander of the artillery company."

Zhang Dabiao said to a fighter.

This time, the commander of the artillery company, Yan Sheng, followed Li Yunlong and the regimental headquarters to act, leaving the deputy company commander with half of the artillery company to support Zhang Dabiao.

Soon, the two came to the regimental headquarters.

"I've given you a mission."

Zhang Dabiao got straight to the point, he pointed to several peaks within a few kilometers around Yang Village, and said:

"You each bring a few cannons, bring more shells, bring big mules, hide around here, and wait for the little devils to attack, and immediately attack the little devils' artillery positions after watching my signal flares······

The core of the devil's firepower lies in the six mountain cannons.

Therefore, the key to this battle is to suppress or even destroy the artillery fire of the devils.

As long as the devil artillery failed to suppress and destroy the defensive position of Yang Village, he was confident that he would hold off the devil for enough time. If he also has a few mountain artillery, and then gives him two more companies of troops, hum, he can be nailed to Yang Village.

"Yes."

After listening to the combat mission assigned by Zhang Dabiao, the two saluted and left.

put away the map, and took one last look at the empty one, Zhang Dabiao scolded and scolded:

"Damn, labor and management hate this kind of battle the most."

Zhang Dabiao follows the temperament of Grand Master Li, likes to attack, and hates passive defense.

But in this battle, he can only let go, at least one to two troops, the complex mountainous environment, so that he has no chance and capital to attack at all, attacking, I'm afraid it won't be to send food to the devil.

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Shou County is more than 70 miles away from Yangcun Road, because it carries a lot of baggage, as well as heavy people, plus to guard against being ambushed by the independent regiment, the marching speed is not fast, and it only arrived around Yangcun in the evening.

At this time, Oshima Suga was in a village with a large army, and this village had already been emptied, and even the furniture and food at home had been emptied, and, judging from the traces, it had been gone for several days.

This situation made Oshima Suga's face ugly.

Obviously, the people here had long expected the Imperial Army to come, so they left early.

This is already the base of the independent regiment, but the core area, and there is a completely evacuated village, which means that Li Yunlong has long known that he is coming to attack, and a few days ago, he organized a retreat with only the common people.

This made Oshima Kan more worried about this offensive operation.

Although at the beginning, he didn't want to hide Li Yunlong from this attack, after all, such a brigade, leaving Shou County, drove all the way in, and it was impossible for Li Yunlong, who was the head snake of the land, not to know.

But he didn't think that Li Yunlong had prepared a few days ago.

It's a different story.

A few days was enough for Li Yunlong to gather all the troops and organize the transfer of all the people in the so-called base area.

If Li Yunlong leaves with his troops and does not engage him head-on, then this time, he can only destroy the opponent's ammunition depot, which cannot solve the fundamental problem, he needs to destroy Li Yunlong's main force, at least severely damage Li Yunlong's troops, in order to meet the minimum requirements of the headquarters, so that Li Yunlong can not make trouble for a period of time.

Then he will have to continue to be stationed in Shou County.

As for killing Li Yunlong, when he saw the empty village, he already had no hope.

He called the officer of the intelligence section and asked:

"Did you get any message?"

"Not yet."

The officers of the Intelligence Section also looked solemn.

He was sent by Yamamoto Kazuki to contact Zhu Ziming, but after coming to Shou County for so long, he still hadn't received news from Zhu Ziming, and all the twelve information contact points had been sent to see it, and no news was delivered.

"Will it be discovered?"

Thinking of the village evacuated days in advance, Oshima's eyes flashed.

"Probably not."

The officer of the Intelligence Section pondered for a moment and shook his head:

"There are traces left by him around the contact point, which means that it has not been discovered yet, it should be that there is no chance to pass on intelligence, Li Yunlong can know about our attack, and the troops must be in a state of combat readiness."

Combat readiness, as long as it is a normal unit, will not give someone the opportunity to act alone, this is common sense.

At night, looking at Yang Village in the distance, Oshima Kan squinted his eyes and looked thoughtful.

After pondering for a moment, he called the various squadron leaders:

"Rest for five hours, and then, according to the battle plan, each of them will enter the predetermined position."

Oshima Kan decided to go on the offensive.

Regardless of whether Li Yunlong retreated or not, he continued to attack according to the original plan.

If there are no Li Yunlong's troops in Yang Village tomorrow, then he will drive the whole army to his ammunition depot, and as long as his ammunition depot is destroyed, Li Yunlong's sustained combat effectiveness will be greatly reduced.