At 2:30 pm on May 24th, on the west bank of Xiaoba River, at the bend of the lower reaches of Xiezhuang.

Yuji Ogasawara and Jun Imai are two second-class privates in the 30th brigade of the Japanese Army. His current mission is to warn this section of the Xiaoba River, which is about 200 meters long.

The Xiaoba River turned a big bend in this section, which seriously affected the Japanese army's surveillance on the surface of the Xiaoba River and the other bank. The Japanese squad leader Ogawa, who was responsible for guarding these miles, also attached great importance to this place and made an exception to put Shuanggang here. The Japanese army in other places monitored the river sections of more than 300 meters by one person, but the Japanese army released two people in the area less than 200 meters here, which was "strong".

Less than 300 meters behind Ogasawara and Imai is the main position of the Japanese Ogawa Squad. There are more than 20 Japanese devils there, and a simple sentry tower was built, and the others were all at the sentry.

At present, the Japanese army is being beaten everywhere in Xiaoxian and the east bank of Xiaoban River. The troops are very tight, so they can only invest so much force here. There are such troops there in the Japanese army dozens of miles up and down the Xiaoban River. The reason why there is a whole team on the banks of the rivers these miles is because the terrain here is that it is very easy to smuggle.

At this time, the Chinese and Japanese armies were fighting more than ten miles away on the other side, but it was quiet here. There was no sign of wind and wind on the other side. From time to time, a wave of cool wind blew from behind to Yuji Ogasawara and Jun Imai, making the two Japanese devils feel very unsatisfied. They all thought to themselves that it was comfortable and safe to work here. They almost forgot that this was the land in China, and the two of them talked about the "happy" time in Nanjing last year.

Suddenly, two flying knives flew over, one of which was inserted into Yuji Ogasawara's carotid artery, causing him to suffocate quickly. The other flying knives' head was slightly worse and inserted into Jun Imai's face. The sharp blade of the flying knives pierced his tongue, causing the Japanese to draw circles on the ground.

Jun Imai, who was struggling on the ground, wanted to fulfill his duties. He took out a flag and shook it hard, hoping to call the police to the sentry behind him. Unfortunately, it was a pity that the sentry in the small sentry opposite him did nothing until he inserted it into his throat.

Until his death, Jun Imai was wondering why the sentries in the small sentry tower could no longer see the signal flag he was shaking.

The answer to this question is very simple, that is, Jun Imai and Yuji Ogasawara were already the last person to Ogawa's team to leave the world. Before they were attacked, the civilian armed forces in Xiaoxian had no choice but to solve all the other Japanese in Ogawa's team.

The West Bank solved the Xiaochuan team, and the troops of the Independent 100 Brigade who were lurking on the east coast immediately waved their flags to respond. Then, twenty or thirty small boats on the east coast were pushed into their hands by hundreds of strong men.

When the Independent 100 Brigade blocked the Xiaobian River, it still detained many ships on both sides of the river. There was no shortage of tools for crossing the river. Cheng Jiaji was afraid that the people who were responding to the west bank would be exposed because they had to prepare ships and affect these actions. He refused the people in Xiaoxian County to provide ships for the army, but only required the other party to occupy the west bank of the river bend, and it would be better to solve the devils guarding there without a single shot. After negotiation, the people of Xiaoxian County sent a team of dozens of "heroes" who were strong under their command to complete this task.

In order to do a good job, the regular army on the other side did not let the heroes of Xiaoxian County underestimate them. They still spent a lot of effort to ensure that they did not fire a single shot and deal with the Japanese under Xiaochuan. As a result, it took half an hour more than the scheduled time to deal with the Japanese in Xiaochuan's team.

As usual, Wen Songyuan still grabbed the life of the first echelon commander. The first wave of crossing the river this time was his 200th Regiment, a brigade guard company that strengthened the company and Cheng Jiaji's treasure, and dozens of people drawn from Tian Jiafu's special operations team, with a total of less than four hundred people.

Originally, he could have dispatched more ships to come up with more people, but Cheng Jiaji considered that having soldiers but no ships meant no soldiers when fighting across the river. If the Japanese army found that all the ships arrived on the west coast were blown up, he wouldn't have to hold the soldiers and horses in his hand on the east coast and was anxious. Then he decided to invest half of the ship first and stay on the other half on the east coast.

However, although these two companies are not large in number, their weapons and equipment are all the best in the entire brigade. The two companies have changed their equipment before crossing the river. Each of them has two weapons, one long and one short, and the long one is a German M18 submachine gun, and the short Mauser automatic pistol is a worthy twenty-shot pistol. Everyone's ammunition bags are full. If Lieutenant General Huang had not drawn a lot of automatic weapons and ammunition from the two regiments of the Central Army to the independent 100 brigade, it would have been a hard time for Cheng Jiaji to gather the two companies with firepower equipment now.

To be on the safe side, the first wave of troops seized the Japanese military heads from military uniforms and caps to belts in previous battles. This would make them confused if the Japanese army discovered it at least.

As soon as they got ashore, Wen Songyuan commanded them to scatter everywhere. The personnel of the special operation team under Tian Jiafu went to officially take over the various posts of the Japanese army. As long as the other Japanese troops did not approach and observe, they would never see through these people.

As for Tian Jiafu himself, he was responsible for guarding the small poster and answering calls that might be sent by the Japanese squadron headquarters and asking if there was any situation ahead.

Behind Wen Songyuan and others, Cheng Jiaji and Qian Shen were organizing the troops of the 100 Independent Brigade to cross the Xiaoban River one by one.

There were more and more Chinese troops ashore. Under Cheng Jiaji's strict order, they did not advance deeper into the west bank, but instead became hidden. For a time, this small area where the west bank of the Xiaoban River had been controlled by the Chinese army was hiding everywhere.

After 3:30 pm, Cheng Jiaji saw that the Xiaoban River, which had been crossed by 1800,900 people from the Independent Brigade. Moreover, Wen Songyuan sent several teams to deal with all the nearby Japanese with the cooperation of those heroes in the martial arts world. In the process, the guns had been fired, and it would be meaningless to hide them.

Cheng Jiaji then ordered the main force of the troops who had crossed the river to dig into two routes to pounce towards the predetermined target at the same time. In order to meet the troops who had not crossed the river, he asked Qian Shen to stay in place with the second battalion of the supplementary regiment.

Cheng Jiaji also had selfish intentions to ask the Second Battalion of the Supplementary Regiment to take on this task. Most of these were exiled students from the Northeast. After several battles, they had a strong sense of belonging to the Independent 100 Brigade and accumulated a certain amount of practical experience in the battle.

Cheng Jiaji felt that this had already achieved his original intention of bringing them to the battlefield. This battalion's young intellectuals are the military backbones that Cheng Jiaji would focus on in the future. If they really had to be treated as a big-headed soldier, it would be too unprofitable. The battalion suffered more than a hundred casualties in the previous battles, which made Cheng Jiaji very heartbroken. Keeping them down to follow Qian Shen to take warning is also the meaning of protecting these crafty materials.

With the order, more than 1,600 Chinese troops were divided into two routes and began to advance deep into the west bank. They wiped out the 122 howitzer battalion assigned to the 30th Brigade of the 16th Division of the Japanese Army, and attacked the two infantry squadrons of the Japanese Ono Brigade on the west bank with the armed cooperation of the people in Xiaoxian County. As for the Japanese baggage on the river defense line, they should be left to the follow-up troops to clean up.

Cheng Jiaji personally marched and rushed to the Japanese heavy artillery position with two and a half battalions. Since the Japanese army is now very scattered in Xiaoxian, he did not expect that the Chinese army would openly "smuggle" in broad daylight and almost no resistance along the way. The two battalions commanded by Cheng Jiaji rushed to the back of the Japanese heavy artillery position.

When the Chinese army was about to rush to the Japanese heavy artillery position and was about to seize the Japanese howitzer, the Japanese artillery soldiers started to frantically. They used zha medicine and detonated shells to blow up all the cannons. If Cheng Jiaji had not seen it early, he would not have thought that these few cannons would have killed or injured their subordinates, at least half of the two and half battalions would have died together with the Japanese artillery position.

At around 4:50 pm on May 24, the Japanese howitzer positions on the west bank of the Xiaoban River were blown up by the Japanese army themselves. The loud bang and the dense guns and cannons from deeper on the west bank announced that the Japanese army on the east bank of the Xiaoban River had been surrounded on all sides.

Major General Sasaki held up his telescope and was nervously paying attention to everything that happened on the West Bank. It was not until the Chinese army battle flags were flying high on the Japanese artillery positions that the Major General reluctantly convinced himself that all this was true. After losing the fire support from the other side, the 30th Brigade was truly in a desperate situation this time.

Put down the telescope and Major General Sasaki gave an order that everyone was puzzled, "Seize all the photos taken by the officers and soldiers in Nanjing and burn them, and violate the law of the army."

When the brigade commander, the most trusted staff member, asked him what he did, Sasaki replied sadly, "This time, the 30th brigade may be doomed. The things that boast about victory they took when they were in Nanjing were better to destroy, otherwise the Chinese would take them internationally."

When the staff officer expressed his lack of understanding of the meaning of this sentence, it was rare to be so patient Major General Sasaki continued to explain: "The winners in this world are uncondemned. If my brigade has been in war for a long time, then the British and French will not be able to give up a single fart. If the things that my brigade have completely wiped out, then the crime of renovating the Japanese Empire will be safer. In the future, the empire will also deny all this!"

After talking about the above "high" theory, Major General Sasaki returned to the brigade headquarters to send a report on the battle situation to the base camp, reporting in detail the latest situation on the battlefield and strongly demanding that the base camp send reinforcements as soon as possible.

This kind of telegram that was outspoken to demand reinforcements was still extremely rare among the Japanese army at that time.

After sending this earnest call for the life, Major General Sasaki went to the front line again, and an emergency occurred there.

As soon as he arrived on the line of fire, Major General Sasaki's ears were buzzing by the explosions one after another, and he almost lost his hearing.

He calmed down and looked in the direction pointed by a staff officer next to him. He saw that the front ends of the trenches dug by the Chinese army gradually turned into large pits with the sound of explosions.

Major General Sasaki understood why the Chinese army did this after thinking a little. These large pits that were blown up with zha medicine at the top of the moat will be expanded and deepened by the Chinese army to become one by one for the Chinese army. Once these forward teams of the Chinese army are consolidated, it will be even more difficult for the Japanese army to withstand the encroachment of the Chinese army. The most terrifying thing is that the Chinese army will obviously keep digging and blowing like this. If the Chinese army uses the previous method to extend forward, these constantly emerging forward positions will become sharp knives that stab the Japanese army in the chest step by step.

But the 30th Brigade now has no strength to stop the Chinese army from eroding tactics, and the battle with heavy casualties and minimal results has been fully proved.

Major General Sasaki and Colonel Noda Kengo, the captain of the 33rd Japanese Regiment who arrived after hearing the news, thought for a long time, and finally the two figured out a solution that was not a solution, and learned from the Chinese army, and the Japanese army also dug a circular position.

From 5 p.m., the remnants of the 30th Japanese Brigade, who was already surrounded on all sides, were remnants of the 30th Japanese Brigade, who was already surrounded on all sides.

Large-scale civil engineering operations were also started on the positions on the east bank of the Xiaoban River. The Japanese army's operating procedures were exactly the same as those of the Chinese army. They also first dig the moat and then buried medicine at the front end of the newly dug moat and blasted a large soil pit to fill the current position, and then connected the moat and ditch to form an annular defensive position.

Before nightfall, six Japanese bombers finally arrived above the battlefield under repeated urging by Sasaki and others. What disappointed Major General Sasaki was that the effect of the Japanese bombing this time was obviously much worse than the one in the morning.

Few Chinese troops hiding underground were killed by bombing. However, a Japanese army was smashed into pieces by a fire net woven from the ditch with several heavy machine gun firepower shot out of the ditch because it flew too low.

Seeing this, the other five Japanese planes rushed to raise the altitude of the plane and exploded in the air.

This bombing lasted only half an hour, and the aerial samurai of these "imperials" were bombed away by Major General Sasaki. (The two armies were below the surface and were very close. Japanese pilots were unable to distinguish between enemies and us when the altitude of the aircraft was too high. The bombs dropped basically half of the Chinese army exploded, and the other half was thrown on the head of the 30th Brigade. There was no objection to the accuracy of this bombing. Anyway, the Chinese army had never had air superiority and were used to being bombed. But the Japanese army could not stand it. As soon as the two sides were killed and injured by planes, the number of Chinese troops was several times that of the Japanese army. The two armies were naturally quit.)

Colonel Kengo Noda was already clamoring to send a telegram to the Tokyo base camp to sue the air force pilots for the ineffective combat. Major General Sasaki stopped Colonel Kengo Noda's impulsive behavior and had to continue the battle. The Air Force had a lot of support. Now the 30th Brigade is at the moment when it is asking for help, so he dare not offend the Air Force at this moment.
Chapter completed!