When Sasaki was formulating this plan to attack, the reason why the Japanese 8th Division arrived on the North Road only dispatched an infantry brigade was actually a card for him to figure out the opponent's background. He also hid the Japanese brigade as bait to attract the opponent to be deceived so that he could gather and annihilate it.

Since the Battle of Jingpo Lake, through a prisoner of war captured at Harbaling, Sasaki has a rough number of troops in his difficult opponent at this time. But he never believed that although his opponent now has more than 10,000 troops, he dared to face the head-on battle with the dignified Japanese Imperial Army in the absence of guns and bullets, especially lacking training.

Although he didn't believe that his opponent would have the courage to fight against the Imperial Japanese Army head-on. But Sasaki, who knew that his opponent needed supplies in urgent need, knew that even if the opponent did not want to fight, the current situation could only force him to fight.

Needless to say, the weapons and ammunition of more than 10,000 people alone are the most direct needs of the opponent. Without weapons and ammunition, how can he use to arm his troops? Is it just by seizing the broken guns of self-defense regiments in various places?

His opponent is very cunning and cautious, but sometimes he is very brave. When necessary, he may not dare to take such risks. You should know that if you use troops that are not trained or equipped to train, and those who are well-equipped are fighting hard, there is no such stupid thing in the world that anyone with a little brain can do.

Although most commanders would not do this, judging from his opponent's battles since he came out again, this guy has never lacked the spirit of adventure. When necessary, he is very brave.

In the battle in the northern part of Dunhua, he had only a thousand troops, so he dared to attack a reorganized brigade of the Imperial Army with the cooperation of the Manchukuo Army. Now he has tens of thousands of soldiers, and he may not have the courage to fight against an Imperial Army brigade that broke into alone, in the urgent need of supplies.

So when deploying to clear the mountain, I made a big move and used an infantry brigade as bait. I tried to lure the opponent into the hook, so that they thought they could take the opportunity to take advantage of the situation and get a fish in troubled waters. I lure them to plains or low hills and hills to create an opportunity for themselves to wipe out the entire annihilation. After all, fighting in plains is much easier than going into the mountain and finding the primeval forests of the Little Khingan Mountains.

Moreover, the northern part of Yuyuan has completed the reunion of households. If these people want to obtain food and supplies, they can only go out. As a graduate of the Imperial Army University, more than 10,000 troops, Sasaki can still estimate how much food they need every day.

He didn't believe that the food his opponent seized from Jingpo Lake could last too long. So when Sasaki made a bet, his opponent knew that it was a hard walnut that he couldn't bite, so in order to survive, he could only bite the bullet.

But judging from the firepower equipment of the two Japanese troops encountered by the two telegrams, they all looked like their main force. Especially in the telegram sent by the 17th Regiment, even the opponent had several heavy machine guns and several mortars.

From this point of view, the anti-Manchu armed forces encountered by the 17th Regiment were like the main force. However, Sasaki did not dare to ignore the telegrams sent by the 24th Regiment.

Which one road is the real opponent? If both roads are deliberately released smoke bombs? Then what is their real intention? If the opponent's weapon equipment is really as stated in the telegram, then where did they get so many weapons?

Of course, Sasaki didn't know that Takeda Shou, who had not met his opponent head-on, said that he had encountered the main force of the anti-Manchurian anti-Japanese armed forces, which was calculated from the density of mortar shells landed on his head and the number of heavy machine guns used by the opponent.

For Sasaki, the calmest thing now is that the marching routes are mostly in the mountains, which makes him most worried about the Japanese army on the southern route, which is ambushed. Although this route is the most hidden, it is also the most vulnerable to ambush due to the limitations of the terrain.

After observing on the map for a long time, Sasaki Dōichi called his adjutant over and said, "Is there any telegram from Colonel Murata Takayo?"

Hearing Sasaki Raiichi's inquiry, his adjutant quickly stood at attention and said, "Your Excellency, there is no news from Colonel Murata. Moreover, the contact time specified with them has not yet arrived. They are in the procession and cannot set up a radio station at all. Therefore, we cannot get any reports from them without the contact time specified."

After hearing the adjutant's report, Sasaki went to the forthcoming thought for a moment and said, "Don't wait for me, go to the telegram room. If there is a telegram from Colonel Murata, I will hand it over to me immediately."

Sasaki Raiichi, who put his hope on the Japanese army in the south, didn't know that the two brigades of Murata Takayoshi, who was the surprise soldier, had been destroyed by Yang Zhen's intensive firepower attack.

Murata Takayo's dying struggle did not save the situation. The remaining Japanese troops, which suffered heavy casualties under artillery fire, were defeated in pieces by the opponent's dense machine gun firepower while trying to open a road to break through.

During the battle, it was the first time that Murata Takayoshi, who had fought with the most elite so-called German-armed division of the Chinese government army in the Guanzhong area, saw that there were so many machine guns, mortars, and even mountain cannons in the Chinese army. You should know that even the most elite and equipped German-armed divisions at that time, there were not as many light and heavy machine guns as there were.

The failure of the continuous attacks not only failed to open a road to break through, but his remaining troops were killed by dense firepower on the front and side. When Yang Zhen issued the general attack order, less than one squadron could stand up.

Looking at the remaining squadron, seeing the opponent rushing up to retreat bullets and preparing for hand-to-hand combat, Yang Zhen was willing to fight with them? He concentrated all the speed and slow aircraft and swept across the board, and even Colonel Murata Takayoshi, who was holding the saber to protect his officer honor, made a hornet's nest.

In addition to the excessive ammunition consumption, this ambush battle was very exciting. With less than 100 casualties, two Japanese brigades were annihilated, one group of the Puppet Manchukuo Army was killed, and more than 300 puppet Manchukuo Army were captured. Yang Zhen was naturally not polite to the wounded Japanese army. With one gesture, each of them added a bayonet.

Sasaki Hiroichi, who had not yet known that the Japanese and puppet troops on the southern front had been destroyed, didn't know that when he gave his adjutant orders, Yang Zhen, in addition to leaving Liu Changshun to lead a battalion with the cooperation of the engineering battalion, preparing to launch a large-scale attack on the section between the Haolianghe and Chenming of the Jiasui Railway, which had not been fully completed, the main force had completed the turn. The target was the Taipingchuan area where he was.

Of course, Yang Zhen didn't know that Sasaki was in charge of command in Taipingchuan. The reason why Yang Zhen changed his combat plan was to choose the Taipingchuan, which was only fifteen kilometers away from the Tangyuan County and located on the Sanjiang Plain.

It was because after receiving the report from Dong Ping, who was carrying a reconnaissance platoon and a five-wa radio station, continued to reconnaissance near Taipingchuan. After the Japanese main force began to sweep the front line of Liangzihe, the Japanese army actually left two Japanese squadrons on Taipingchuan. This situation attracted Yang Zhen's attention.

After receiving reports from the report that the 43rd Japanese Regiment did not all enter the mountains and left two squadrons in the Taipingchuan area, Yang Zhen frowned. Although the Japanese army was divided into three groups, the Liangzi River line on the southern slope of the Little Khingan Mountains was densely packed with forests and great room for maneuver.

For such a large mountain forest, the strength of a regiment is not enough even if it is a puppet Manchukuo Army infantry regiment with 800 people. You should know that last year, the Japanese army used more than 20,000 Japanese and puppet troops to clear out the three anti-Japanese armies in Tangyuan and Luobei. Among them, three Japanese reorganization gangs were used.

Why did the Japanese army leave two field squadrons on the Taipingchuan line this time, while the troops were not sufficient, and what is the reason? Is it careless? Or is there something else in the Taipingchuan area? Is it the supply point where the Japanese army cleared this time?

After thinking for a while, Yang Zhen decided to touch what was going on here. If it was really a supply point for the Japanese army, then getting it done would be equivalent to cutting off the entire lifeline of the Japanese army entering the mountains.

Moreover, the reason why Yang Zhen decided to pay attention to touching the Pingchuan located in the plains was that he felt a little worried. There was a precedent for the Japanese anti-Japanese war team to clear out many times. Who can guarantee that the Japanese army put down their butcher knife when they entered the mountain?

If the Japanese army is preparing to use poison gas in the mountains this time, then the deployment of so many Japanese troops in this Taiping River area is likely to be a poison gas reserve point for the Japanese army. As long as it is destroyed, the casualties of the troops in combat can be reduced.

So although Yang Zhen hesitated for a while, he finally decided to touch the real situation here. Although it is very close to the Jiamusi area where the Japanese division is stationed, Yang Zhen believes that as long as he moves fast enough, he should be able to mess with him before the Jiamusi Fourth Division reacts.

After making up his mind, Yang Zhen led the team to set off immediately. Avoid the Japanese army, who had arrived at the Bajiazi line, and went straight to Taipingchuan from north of Tangyuan County, along the north back mountain, Jingchuntun line. Now, Yang Zhen's troops have almost complete sets of Japanese equipment, including weapons, except for the lack of military ranks and seals. This makes several Japanese planes flying westward in the sky have no doubts about the marching force below.

With the general trend of the Japanese army in the Tangyuan area, most of the people in the entire Tangyuan area were concentrated in several large group tribes. There were not many people along the way. Even if there were so many Japanese soldiers, they would dare to ask carefully. They had long avoided them.

However, Yang Zhen carefully avoided each pioneering regiment. Yang Zhen did not want to touch these pioneering regiments for the time being. His equipment, military uniform, and Yang Zhen’s own carefulness, before attracting the attention of the enemy, Yang Zhen quietly led his army to a forest on the Xin'an line southeast of the Taiping River to meet with Dong Ping.

After seeing Dong Ping, Yang Zhen ignored other things, and the first thing he did was to ask him to report the situation immediately.

Hearing Yang Zhen's order, Dong Ping was not vague and immediately reported the situation he had detected in detail with Yang Zhen: "Commander, this morning, Deputy Chief of Staff Wang mobilized some battalions of the battalions of the first regiment to launch an artillery attack on the Japanese army gathering in Taiping River."

"Although I don't know the result of the artillery fire this time, based on the strength of the Japanese army after the departure, it is estimated that at least one Japanese squadron has lost its combat effectiveness. After the Japanese march brigade set off, Deputy Chief of Staff Wang ordered me to stay here to monitor the Japanese follow-up troops. Because the number of Japanese troops set off is very different from the strength that arrived here, almost a whole brigade's strength is reduced."

"After the main force of the Japanese army set off, I am going to approach and observe how much force the Japanese army left here. But the Japanese army is too vigilant and we cannot get close at all. We can only rely on telescopes for long-distance reconnaissance."

"However, although we have not been able to figure out the specific number of Japanese troops here, we found antennas of high-power radio stations in Taipingchuan Village. Judging from the appearance of the antenna, the radio stations here are at least fifty watts. And in terms of the number of antennas, there are more than one such high-power radio station."

"After observing these antennas, I always felt that this place should be at least the command center of a Japanese wing. So I took various methods to get in and reconnaissance carefully, but unfortunately I gave up because the Japanese army was too alert."

"However, we caught a puppet Manchukuo policeman stationed in Taipingchuan Police Station in Xin'an. According to his confession, after the Japanese army arrived in Taipingchuan, all the people of the tribes there were originally in the Shuangtaitun Group to the north temporarily."

"Also, all the puppet Manchukuo police were moved there. He heard that a high-ranking Japanese official came and was preparing to use Taipingchuan as the command center. In order to ensure the secrets, the Japanese moved all the people here. Even the puppet Manchukuo police did not leave any of them."

"It was because his mother who lives in Xin'an that he took leave from Shuangtaitun to visit his mother. Before leaving, the Manchu director of the puppet Manchukuo Police Department in Taipingchuan repeatedly told him not to walk from Taipingchuan, but to walk around from Jinjiatun in the east. Otherwise, once the Japanese discovered him, he would definitely behead him as a spy who peeked at military information."

"With the confession of this puppet Manchukuo police and the high-power radio antenna observed from the telescope, I wonder if this is the command center of Sasaki Hiroichi? At this time, the Japanese army in Taiping Haruka should be around two squadrons.

"Because I observed in the telescope that after the artillery bombardment in the early morning, the Japanese army incinerated at least seventy corpses outside the village. According to this number of casualties, the Japanese lost at least one squadron during the artillery bombardment. According to the Japanese army's departure, a large squadron was missing, which means that there are two Japanese squadrons in Taipingchuan Village now."

After hearing Dong Ping's report, Yang Zhen tapped his finger on the map. He pondered for a long time. He looked up at the sky, but asked Wang Guangyu about the situation: "How is Deputy Chief of Staff Wang? Can you drag the 24th Regiment of the Japanese?"

"It should be no problem. Deputy Chief of Staff Wang used the tactics you taught yesterday, using cold guns, cold cannons, landmines, and traps to make the Japanese suffer. Most of the day passed, and even the twenty-mile route was not taken."

"One hour ago, when I contacted Deputy Chief of Staff Wang for the last time, the Japanese army had just arrived at the Jianshanzi line. This was the result of the Japanese army's dispatch of a large number of aircraft to cover it. Otherwise, they would have been happy to arrive at the Xinwang line now. The Japanese army set out from Heli, who was confused by the Chief of Staff's virtual tactics, had not crossed the Fasi River."

"Now the distance between the Japanese army in the middle and the Japanese army in the north is getting bigger and bigger. Unless they march overnight, at the current marching speed, it is impossible for them to arrive at the Liangzi River line before midnight today."

Regarding Dong Ping's report, Yang Zhen calmed down and thought for a moment, "Look, it's getting dark now, and the Japanese planes cannot appear. No matter what the Japanese are doing here? If we will concentrate all our firepower and take advantage of the Japanese to drive away all the people on the Taiping River line, how about it?"

Dong Ping looked at Yang Zhen staring at his eyes, thought for a while and said, "In this way, Commander, don't you still have the forces of the two platoons of the reconnaissance battalion in your hands now? I still have a platoon in my hands. I see if we are taking advantage of the night to get as close to Taipingchuan as possible."

"One is to indicate the target for artillery fire. Two, if we have the chance, we can mess with his family and thoroughly touch the Japanese here. What do you think?"

"Okay, that's it. But if you touch the night screws, the strength of a reconnaissance company is not enough. In this way, I'm choosing a company for you, strengthening two heavy machine guns, and being unified by your command. But if you have the chance, you can catch him. If there is no chance, please withdraw immediately after my artillery fire stops." Yang Zhen agreed without thinking about Dong Ping's idea of ​​taking the opportunity to mess with his family.

At this moment, Sasaki, who had already hung his sword high above his head, was furious for receiving the news that the Haolianghe to Chenming line of the Jiasui Railway that was under construction was heavily damaged by unknown armed forces and prepared to be used for the construction of the Jiasui Railway and the hinterland branch to the Little Khinganling that nearly 10,000 workers were robbed by unknown armed forces.

The Jiasui Railway was cut off, coupled with the fact that it was impossible to contact the Japanese army in the South Road before, and the report of dense cannon sounds from the north mountain sent by the police from the Haolianghe Railway, Sasaki felt extremely unexplained for the two infantry brigades on the southern front as surprise soldiers.

Before dusk, after receiving large-scale damage from the Jiasui Railway, Sasaki was sent back from Jiamusi by Japanese planes to find the South Road. There were traces of fierce fighting south of Yuntou Mazi. At the same time, a report of the bodies of a large number of imperial soldiers were found in the local area, which made Sasaki Ichi was shocked.

Sasaki knew very well what this report meant. He understood that the two brigades he used as a surprise soldier had been destroyed. Only then did he realize that his opponent was no longer the former Wu Xia Amon.

The thunderous Sasaki Hiroichi, who was destroyed by the Japanese army in the south, said angrily to the adjutant beside him: "Baga, where do these people get so many weapons and equipment? You immediately send a telegram to the Kwantung Army Headquarters to ask if the secret warehouse has been attacked recently. Especially all the arms warehouses located in Tangyuan County, Luobei, and Foyun, you have to ask. If you don't have it, send someone to check it yourself. I want to get the results in the shortest time."

"Tele to the Yilan Gendarmerie to conduct a thorough investigation of the Yilan territory. I want to know who leaked the route of the South Road to march, which allowed those anti-fulfilling elements to understand our deployment so accurately?"

"In addition, I will send a report to Takeda Shou and ordered him to stop moving forward immediately and prepare for battle. At the same time, I sent a report to Colonel Kawada Yi, telling him that he was surrounded by small anti-Monopoly armed forces. Tell him not to get entangled with him and immediately go south to the front line of Jianshanzi to join the 24th Regiment."
Chapter completed!