"Captain, you know me. In the battle between Dark Horse Zhangzhuang, we were an ambush. So if you leave this battle to me, there will be absolutely no problem! Just ask Xiao Duan to help us lay out some directional mines!" Third Battalion

I don’t have any requirements for the length, I just like directional mines.

"Okay, Xiao Duan will lend you a day to help you lay out directional mines! In addition, 3,000 of the newly arrived grenades will be given to your battalion, and the shotgun shells will also give you one more base!" Captain Huang said very generously.

"Don't worry, Commander, Qihui Village has been handed over to our battalion! Before receiving the order to retreat, our battalion will fight the Japanese in Qihui Village to the end!" The third battalion commander stood up and stood at attention and saluted the military salute. This was a military order.

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"Now that you said it, I'll take it seriously and go get ready! This time, if the little devil doesn't come, then there will be no return!" Captain Huang slapped the Eight Immortals table in front of him hard, and only left

One crack turned into two...

The commander of the third battalion received the order and directly mobilized the four companies of the third battalion to prepare for a pre-war mobilization. Commander Huang and others helped the people evacuate Qihui Village and other villages, leaving the empty villages for the troops to fight.

To avoid accidentally injuring people.

At the same time, several other regiments of the 120th Division were also actively and secretly mobilizing, waiting for the Japanese to come and take advantage of them.

"Comrades, we have a new task this time, which is to wait for the little devils to come to Qihui Village!" In front of the village ancestral hall in Qihui Village, the commander of the third battalion began to speak energetically.

"Comrades, our 716 regiment has fought many times since it joined the Anti-Japanese War and has always been the most combat-effective regiment in our division. As for our third battalion, even though it is just a third battalion, its combat effectiveness is unparalleled in the entire regiment! So,

This time the leader has given us the most difficult task!"

"Comrades, in this battle, our enemy has a group of more than 800 Japanese soldiers and an unknown number of puppet troops participating in the battle. This is a tough battle for us! But I don't see it that way. I regard this battle as

Let’s fight this battle as the battle for fame for our third battalion!”

"Remember when we just crossed the Yellow River, we dared to fight the Japanese at Yanmen Pass, and we dared to ambush the Japanese convoy. Think about it, what weapons did we have at that time? Guns, no bullets, not even bayonets, grenades

It’s also about numbers.”

"Look now, we have three civilian 2nd and 4th heavy machine guns, and the number of bullets is thousands of rounds; also, the company machine gun, the squad machine gun, and the grenades are all in the dozens and dozens! And

...We also have many new weapons! So this battle, we will treat it as a battle to become famous."

"In this battle, we must not only defend it, but also fight it well, and even kill a lot of little Japs! Whether we can win the title of the most combat-effective battalion of the 716th Regiment depends on this battle.

!Do you have any confidence?" the third battalion commander raised his hands and shouted.

"Yes!" The soldiers also responded positively.

"Okay! I am more confident! Now I order: Company 9 and Company 10 are responsible for building fortifications on the west and south sides of the village! Remember, the fortifications are in the village and built against the village wall. We don't care about the situation outside.

,Don’t let the Japanese see that there is an ambush in the village!”

"If my guess is correct, the direction of the Japs' attack will be the west and northwest/southwest corners of the village. Therefore, Company 11 is responsible for building fortifications in the north of the village. Company 12, you will build fortifications in the village. Note

After living there, we opened up all the adjacent yards, set up machine gun fire points on some streets to block off the streets, and laid mines inside and outside the gates of each house, and opened door mines."

"This time, we will use Qihui Village as the battlefield and grind the little devils to death here!" the third battalion commander shouted loudly, and the soldiers were even more excited.

Then, during the remaining time, the Third Battalion and the engineer company that came to help became busy in the village. Not only did they arrange concealed directional mines on several main streets to the west, but they also dug mines in several nearby yards.

The traffic tunnel comes out.

Some strong soldiers pushed carts borrowed from ordinary people's homes and transported cart after cart of soil from the earth field outside the village to the village. Some soldiers even went to the Guyang River battlefield in the west to get some.

Come over here.

Of course, some people are also doing things like drilling holes in the walls of the common people's courtyard, and neighboring two families breaking open doorways in their houses to facilitate transportation back and forth.

In Ding Wei's words: At this time, don't worry about these bottles and cans. Can they be rebuilt if they are smashed?

The 120th Division received the enemy situation on the 20th and actively prepared. At this time, the little Japanese did not continue to leave the city, but stopped in Hejian City.

It was not until the 22nd that the Japs quietly left the city. With a brigade of more than 800 troops and 50 puppet troops, they arrived at the Sanlipu stronghold along the highway. In other words, the Japs aimed at

The Eighth Route Army's action plan was already obvious, and everyone knew that the Japanese were about to attack.

At the same time, the division headquarters in Dazhu Village received surprising news: the Japs actually went deep in alone!

Yes, the division headquarters' guess is that the Japs are not alone, but will act together with the cooperation of Japs strongholds such as Renqiu in the northwest, Lugongbao and Dacheng in the northeast to achieve a multi-channel attack. Well, Japs

The Japanese like to do this very much, and it seems unsatisfying if they don't attack from all angles.

But this time... I don't know what kind of evil the Yoshida Brigade committed, but they actually dared to go deep alone and face the forces of seven regiments of the Eighth Route Army.

Perhaps, these Japs are too arrogant and confident? Or do the Japs not have accurate information?

In the early morning of the 23rd, at Sansanlipu, the Japs from Yoshida's brigade packed up their equipment and ammunition, came out of the village one after another, and marched toward Qicao Village to the east.

In the village, Captain Yoshida, who had not left yet, held a map and carefully looked at the surrounding terrain and villages.

"Oshima Army, we seem to have missed a place!" Captain Yoshida said to the chief of staff of the brigade.

"Your Excellency, Captain, what did we miss?" Chief of Staff Yukinan Oshima asked curiously.

"Look, here, not far to the west of us, there is the Nishi Shikyo Village. There was a celebrity in this village who was once the acting president!" Captain Yoshida actually had time to say this at this time.

"Are you talking about Feng Guozhang? He was a great man of his generation. What a pity..." Oshima Yukinan knew that Yoshida was a China expert and loved Chinese culture the most.

"Yes, what I want to say is that if the village is named after the Book of Songs, this village should have some ancient meaning!" Captain Yoshida looked to the west as he spoke.
Chapter completed!