Gao Jiu said in the telegram: "Girl! Political Commissar Yang, Chief of Staff Huang, I have now returned to Taoyuan Town."

After reading this, Jiang Xiaomei said excitedly: "Brother Jiu is back so soon, did he fly back?"

Yang Jiong said: "I guess it must be like this. I have heard that Jiu Ye can fly a plane and skydiving. If you can come back so quickly from Wuhan, you must have been back by plane."

Huang Shuigen exclaimed: "Jiu Master is really elusive when doing things."

Jiang Xiaomei continued to recite: "If the Japanese dare to invade Taohua Mountain, they must pay the price. The Japanese who came to fight Taohua Mountain in the past have all told them here, and this time they cannot let these Japanese run away.

After your independent camp entered Taohua Mountain, it occupied the 66th, 67th, 68th, and focused on the 66th, 67th, controlling the valley below, and cutting off the retreat route to the north of the Japanese army."

See you after victory. Gao Jiu is coming."

Yang Jiong said excitedly: "June Jiu has a great appetite. This is a whole infantry regiment of the Japanese. If these Japanese are eliminated, our independent battalion will make a fortune."

Now Yang Jiong is in charge of the internal affairs of the independent camp and knows the importance of logistics support, so he has become greedy.

Jiang Xiaomei ordered: "When the communication class sent the order, he said that Jiu Ye had come back. He took us to fight the Japanese and let everyone speed up the marching."

Jiu Ye is the guarantee of victory. The soldiers of the Independence Battalion know that following Jiu Ye can only take advantage of the situation. Everyone was immediately excited and their steps seemed to be much lighter.

Hamada Yoshihiro underestimated the determination of the Iron Triangle to support each other. Not only was the Independent Battalion coming to the rescue with all its might, Wang Jindong also spent a lot of money.

In order to reach Taohua Mountain as soon as possible, Wang Jindong dispatched almost all military vehicles, plus the vehicles that can be used in Zhiyuan County, Lanxi County and Lu County. Most of the people in Wang Jindong's 24th Regiment and Guan Lie's Independent Regiment were able to move forward by carriage, while the rest formed a semi-mechanized unit, which was quickly advancing towards Taohua Mountain.

On the way, Wang Zhankui received a telegram from Gao Jiu, asking them to cut off the route of the Japanese army to go west and break south, and sent a cavalry battalion to Taoyuan Town to accept Gao Jiu's command, preparing to wipe out the Japanese army that invaded Taohua Mountain.

Wang Zhankui, Guan Lie and others were very excited. They knew that following Jiu Ye would definitely get a lot of benefits and ordered the troops to speed up the marching.

After Gao Jiu arrived in Taoyuan Town, he immediately sent a cavalry correspondent to notify the 17 surrounding fortress villages, so that all militias could be mobilized to block various valleys to prevent the remnants of the Japanese army from missing the net.

For the people in the 17 surrounding villages, the Taohua Mountain Guerrillas were their parents of food and clothing. When the Japanese came to cut off their financial resources, they were just like their parents who were coming to kill them. The people were all jealous. In addition to the militias, many young and middle-aged people also took up weapons to fight the Japanese.

At midnight, it started to rain lightly, and it was so dark that it was almost impossible to see my fingers. Nakajima Fenggo was very happy and said, "God helps me." He ordered the troops to attack the mountain in the dark.

The Japanese touched the darkness and carefully climbed towards the top of the mountain.

Nakajima Fenggo was very nervous because he knew that the enemy had buried landmines on the hillside. When the daytime attack, soldiers stepped on landmines. He was worried that the soldiers would expose their whereabouts when they stepped on landmines.

However, this was something he expected. He could not guarantee whether so many people could step on the remaining landmines by climbing the mountain. Fortunately, it was dark and even if the enemy found that the Japanese army was attacking, it would be difficult to stop the Japanese soldiers from scattering and touching them.

However, he still hopes that the soldiers will not step on landmines, or the later they step on, the better. It is best to be able to directly touch the enemy's position.

Unfortunately, when the Japanese climbed halfway up the mountain, someone still stepped on a landmine. With the violent explosion, a ball of fire flashed across the hillside, and the Japanese figures were also exposed. Then, a darkness fell on the hillside.

The attacking Japanese knew that the target had been exposed. In order to prevent the defenders on the hillside from discovering them, they did not shoot, but just tried their best to touch the mountain.

When Nakajima heard the explosion, he felt sad. He knew that the enemy troops on the mountain would soon use fierce firepower to strafuse the mountain. Although they were shooting blindly, they would still cause casualties to the Huang soldiers.

However, something unexpected happened, and no one shot on the mountain. Nakajima was very puzzled and thought it was unreasonable. The soldiers attacking the hillside also felt something was wrong, but at this time they could no longer care about it. They seized this rare opportunity and climbed to the top of the mountain desperately.

About seven or eight minutes later, no one shot on the top of the mountain. The Japanese were lucky and thought that the people on the mountain might have withdrawn. They speeded up and climbed up desperately.

When they reached only sixty or seventy meters away from the top of the mountain, suddenly, a light appeared on the top of the mountain. Then, countless torches flew down from the top of the mountain. These torches were machined with a cloth strip wrapped around one end, and the cloth strip was dipped in a mixture of gasoline and butter. When lit, they were not affected by the light rain at all.

Taohua Mountain has money and has prepared a large amount of various supplies. These torches are usually piled in fortifications. When needed, dip them in butter, then turn on the gasoline barrel, dip them in gasoline, and serve as night lighting.

There were too many of these torches, and they were thrown everywhere on the hillside, and the figures of the Japanese were fully exposed.

"Fight." With Zhang Quan's order, the bunkers on the mountain opened fire and knocked down the Japanese exposed on the hillside to the ground in rows.

When Nakajima saw this tragic scene, his heart was bleeding. He really could not have imagined that a small team of bandits in Taohua Mountain would be so powerful.

Faced with this situation, the Japanese officer commanding in front sent someone to report to Nakajima Fenggo and asked him to provide tactical guidance.

Nakajima Fenggo didn't know what to do, so he had to order the troops in front to wait until the torches dropped by the enemy were burning before finding an opportunity to attack.

Unfortunately, the enemy's torches on the mountain seemed endless. Once they saw the flames below weaken, a large number of torches immediately dropped.

Nakajima Fuyu was so amused that he could only order the troops to wait patiently, hoping that the bandits on the mountain could be exhausted.

Unfortunately, the bandits on the mountain did not give him this opportunity at all. The bandits had a large number of mortars in their hands. They fired mortar shells into the sky at a high elevation angle, and could actually land the shells more than 100 meters away from their positions.

The bandits' mortar shells seemed to be worthless, and they rushed down from the mountain with great force, and the Japanese on the hillside suffered heavy casualties.

If it was during the day, the Japanese soldiers would have officers to supervise the situation and gritted their teeth and would have stayed there. However, it was so dark that they could hardly reach out to see their hands. Anyway, the officials could not see them, so everyone ran to the bottom of the mountain.

As the saying goes, it is easy to go up the mountain and it is difficult to go down the mountain. It is drizzling in the sky and the ground is very slippery. Many people roll directly to the bottom of the mountain, and their bones are broken.

Nakajima Fenggo knew that this was not a solution, so he issued a retreat order. He now placed his hope on tomorrow's air force bombing. He believed that as long as he exploded the bunkers on the enemy's mountain, he could still attack the mountain.

At the foot of the mountain, Nakajima Fenggo sat in the tent, listening to the rustling sound of the rain hitting the tent, and was very upset.

The Japanese soldiers outside did not have such treatment. Although they were wearing raincoats, they still felt very difficult to deal with in the rain, especially the wounded, who felt even more painful.

The Japanese came to attack Taohua Mountain this time. They originally thought they could fight quickly, so they didn't carry much supplies. Moreover, due to the difficult roads in the mountains, most of the supplies were still left outside the mountain. Although the Japanese officers and soldiers had dinner normally, they felt a little hungry after struggling for the middle of the night, but the food they carried had already been eaten up, and the hunger in their stomachs increased their irritability.

A Japanese captain walked into the tent of Fenggo Nakajima and suggested: "Governor Captain, send someone to transport the supplies outside the mountain."

Nakajima Fenggo is the highest official here, so he naturally has no shortage of personal material support. He opens a small stove, canned beef, and drinks a small wine. The full man doesn't know that the hungry man is hungry, and ignores the hungry officers and soldiers outside.

Hearing the captain's advice, he said, "Okay, you can send someone to the mountain to transport the supplies."

The captain returned to his troops and sent a small team leader to take his men to transport supplies outside the mountain.

The mountain road is slippery and the road is difficult to walk at night. This is a chore. The Japanese team leader was very depressed, but he did not dare to disobey the order, so he had to take his officers and soldiers out of the mountain.

The Japanese's idea coincided with Gao Jiu's idea. The first thing Gao Jiu had to do was to destroy the Japanese's baggage troops. Before this team of Japanese devils set out, Gao Jiu and others had already begun to pounce on the Japanese's baggage troops.

Li Chengwu's third squadron now has more than 130 people, everyone has horses, and many vehicles have been stored in Taoyuan Town. Not long after, Gao Jiu and others have arrived near the Japanese baggage unit.

Because the Japanese army suddenly surrounded Taohua Mountain, they believed that the bandits on the mountain had been surrounded by the mountains. They didn't know that there was a powerful Taohua Mountain Special Forces 3rd Squadron hidden in Taoyuan Town, under the banner of the Public Security Army.

Therefore, the Japanese army had only more than 100 baggage troops left outside the mountain, and the number of people responsible for covering the baggage troops outside the mountain was also very small, with only half an infantry squadron, and they were not very vigilant.

Gao Jiu commanded the third squadron to approach the Japanese army from three directions, and then suddenly launched a fierce attack.

Li Chengwu's third squadron was well-trained. Although it was slightly inferior to the first and second squadrons of the special operations in the mountains, it was almost the same. Under the cover of more than twenty light machine guns, they rushed to the fortunate Japanese army and defeated them. Except for a few Japanese troops who escaped, the rest were wiped out.

In this way, most of the supplies of the entire 18th Japanese Regiment fell into the hands of the Taohua Mountain guerrillas.

Gao Jiu really made a fortune this time. Because the Japanese were inconvenient to enter the mountains to fight, all the eight-type 92 infantry artillery were left outside the mountains, and more than 2,200 shells were seized, as well as a large number of other weapons, ammunition and supplies.

Li Chengwu sent people to transport a large amount of supplies back to Taoyuan Town and took the rest to block the valley from Taoyuan Town to the mountains.

3:20, the infantry team that the Japanese came to transport supplies met the escaped Japanese on the road. When they learned that the baggage unit had been destroyed by the enemy, he simply led his men to turn around and report to the captain.

5:10. Nakajima Fenggo was woken up by the officer on duty. Before he could sleep in a daze, Nakajima Fenggo lost his temper, he was shocked by bad news - the baggage force was knocked out.

Nakajima was furious, and he immediately sent a telegram to Hamada Yoshihiro, asking him how he provided the information in advance. Not only were there such strong fortifications and such powerful firepower on Taohua Mountain, but there was actually a very strong army hidden on the periphery. I really don’t know what he, the chief of the special high school, is doing?

The wording in the telegram of Nakajima Tomogo was very harsh. He said that he would report this matter to his superiors and send it to the Hoshida Yoshisuke Military Court.

The reason why Nakajima Fenggo did this was because he was now in a difficult situation. Even when he conquered a provincial capital like Taiyuan, they had only lost more than 180 people. But this time, he came to Taohua Mountain, not only did he not make any progress, but he had lost more than 500 soldiers, and all the Type 92 infantry artillery and other weapons and supplies. Such a huge loss was never before in the 18th Regiment. He could no longer explain to the division commander, so he also wanted to find a scapegoat.

After sending the telegram, he was not in the mood to wait for Hamada Yoshihiro to reply and began to consider his next actions.

He did not realize the danger now. Although weapons, supplies and other supplies were lost, according to the soldiers' reports, the number of enemy troops attacking them was not large, at most about 200 people, and it did not pose a threat to the entire 18th Regiment.

His current situation is very awkward, and he is unwilling to withdraw his troops, and it is difficult to explain after he returns. If he does not withdraw, the troops will no longer have food and will not last long for weapons and ammunition. If the enemy reinforcements really arrive, his troops will be in danger.

He thought carefully. Before this departure, Hamada Yoshiji vowed to promise that the enemy reinforcements would not be able to arrive in a short period of time. At the beginning, he also looked at the map and believed that even if the enemy reinforcements were fully responsible for reinforcements, it would take at least two days.

After repeated weighing, Nakajima Fenggo believed that he should persist until after the Japanese air force bombing, and launched another attack. If he could destroy the old nest of the Taohuashan guerrillas, the battle would eventually be won.

After repeated consideration, he made up his mind to use 12 noon tomorrow as the deadline. If Gao Jiu's nest cannot be destroyed, he will withdraw his troops immediately.

After figuring this out, he calmed down and sent a telegram to Hamada Yoshizhi again. The wording of the telegram slowed down a lot. He hoped Hamada Yoshizhi would organize the military police and security forces in Shoucheng Prefecture to raise food to support the 18th Regiment.

Just when he sent a telegram to Hamada Yoshihiro for the second time, the cavalry battalion led by Wang Zhankui had arrived in Taoyuan Town, and the troops of the 24th Regiment and Guan Lie's Independent Regiment had also arrived in Taohua Mountain Area, and began to block the valley entrances that came out of the mountains to the west and south, and advanced towards the Taohua Mountain Village.

At the same time, Jiang Xiaomei's independent camp is close to Taohua Mountain, and it will be able to block the valleys that are out of the north in up to 3 hours.

If Nakajima Fenggo could wake up and break through immediately at this time, there would be a glimmer of hope for the 18th Regiment.

Hamada Yoshihiro entered Shoucheng County last night and was warmly entertained by the military captain Hirata, who held a sumptuous banquet for him.

Yoshiji Hamada felt very uneasy. During the banquet, he learned about the situation in Taohua Mountain from Captain Hirata in detail, but Captain Hirata couldn't say 123.

Hamada Yoshihiro suspected that Captain Hirata and others had secretly communicated with the people of Taohua Mountain. Otherwise, the small Japanese military police team had only a few dozen people, and they were safe and sound on the edge of Taohua Mountain. This incident itself was strange.

Hamada Yoshiji is a smart person. Even if he has such an idea, he will not say it explicitly. Otherwise, if these people really have connections with Taohua Mountain and penetrate the matter, they will have to explain their lives here.

In order to stabilize Captain Hirata and others, he praised their heroic behavior around the powerful Taohua Mountain, and then asked Captain Hirata to raise some supplies and prepare to reinforce the 18th Regiment.

That night, he declined the residence arranged by Captain Hirata for him, and led his people to forcibly break into a compound of a wealthy businessman, so that the people he brought were more vigilant. Despite this, he couldn't sleep well.

At around 5 a.m., he received a telegram questioned by Nakajima. He was not angry about it, but felt deeply worried. When he received the second telegram, the more he thought about it, the more he became, the more he thought, and finally made up his mind.

Hamada Yoshihiro sent a telegram to Nakajima Fenggo, which said in the telegram: "Because the 18th Regiment's baggage has been lost and its combat effectiveness has been greatly weakened. The 18th Regiment is not familiar with the terrain of Taohua Mountain, and the enemy's reinforcements will be in danger of being wiped out by the entire army.

Therefore, he suggested withdrawing troops on this matter. As for who should bear the responsibility for this battle, it is not the time to discuss. After returning, he will ask his superiors for punishment.

He suggested that if Nakajima Fenggo made up his mind to withdraw his troops and not take the original retreat route and go directly north through Pingyue Prefecture to Yu Prefecture. He would send a telegram to General Matsuda and request the Japanese military police and security forces along the way to respond.

Taohua Mountain.

6:20. Nakajima Fenggo received a telegram from Hamada Yoshihiro, and he hesitated. He also knew that the matter was serious and he might encounter great danger if he continued to stay. But at this time, it was less than three hours before the agreed time for the Air Force to come to bomb, so he was still unwilling to give up.

He hesitated and couldn't make up his mind for a while.

Hamada Yoshiji could not wait any longer and sent another telegram to Nakajima Bogo, urging him to withdraw his troops quickly, saying that he would bear the responsibility for the failure of this battle.

When Nakajima saw that Hamada Yoshihiro had said this, he also made up his mind and ordered the troops to immediately turn north.
To be continued...