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Chapter 696: Lao Li, your abacus beads make such a loud noise!
The Japanese troops were coming at a very fast speed.

Gao Yuanzhi had just evacuated his original position with the last five mountain cannons when the soldiers of the Special Forces Regiment saw billowing smoke and dust coming from the direction of Damai Valley.

He Yunfu was originally leading the soldiers of the second battalion to capture the stray horses all over the mountains and plains. When he saw this, he immediately shouted loudly:

"Quick, retreat! Retreat to the trenches!"

At the command, the soldiers immediately turned around and rushed towards the trenches.

The third company commander Quan Feihu couldn't help but shout to He Yunfu:

"Captain, there are still several horses over there that have not been caught. Don't you want them anymore?"

"No more!"

He Yunfu's attitude was very firm.

"Captain, that's a waste of things, isn't it?
Such a good warhorse, if we kill one, it will be enough to fill the stomachs of all the soldiers in our battalion!"

Quan Feihu was heartbroken.

He didn't know that if his words were heard by people from other troops, they would scold them for wasting things!

“Nothing to regret.

After we kill the Japanese, these horses will eventually fall into our hands. They can’t escape!”

He Yunfu said firmly.

The important thing now is to stop the large Japanese army.

For the Special Forces Regiment, war horses are nothing more than walking food!

It's not a very important thing.

Seeing him say this, Quan Feihu had no choice but to obey the order and hurriedly led the soldiers towards the trench.

Soon, when half of the Japanese troops emerged from the foot of the mountain, the soldiers of the Second Battalion had already hidden in the trenches, holding their guns, quietly waiting for the order to fire.

……

On Shuiquan City, Yang Yuanshan saw that the Japanese army had finally arrived, and immediately ordered the telegraph operator:
"Send a telegram to our superiors immediately and tell them that the Japanese have arrived at Shuiquan City.

Their vanguard, about four to five hundred cavalry, has been basically wiped out by us."

"Yes!"

After giving this order, Yang Yuanshan called another messenger and said to him:

"Go and inform Guo Youqing of the Second Anti-aircraft Artillery Battalion to have their machine guns open fire immediately after the large Japanese force enters the range!
Do our best to destroy the Japanese's effective forces."

The current deployment of the Special Forces Regiment to the north of Shuiquan City is: the second battalion of infantry is in the first trench, about 3 kilometers away from the Shuiquan city wall.

The infantry of the Fourth Battalion were in the second trench, about 500 meters behind the Second Battalion.

The artillery companies of these two battalions, with a total of 24 Type infantry guns, were located about one thousand meters behind the fourth battalion.

Diagonally behind these two artillery companies is Guo Youqing’s Second Anti-aircraft Artillery Battalion.

Their more than 500 Oerlikon machine guns were deployed only meters away from the Shuiquan city wall, so that they could be covered by the heavy machine guns on the Shuiquan city wall.

Yang Yuanshan couldn't bear to see their last batch of air defense troops suffer huge losses again.

Upon hearing his order, the messenger immediately shouted:

"Yes!"

Then he turned around and ran towards the city.

Han Yang next to him immediately asked:
"Captain, there's no need to rush Lao Guo and the others into action, right?
Why not let the Second and Fourth Battalions consume a wave of the Japanese first, and then suddenly open fire with their machine guns to damage their morale?"

“Because there are so many devils!
If they are just a regiment or a brigade, it would be easy to defeat them using your style of attack.

But now, the Japs are a division.

We can't wipe them out in one battle, so we have to seize every opportunity and destroy as many of their living forces as possible, and finally swallow them up in one gulp."

Yang Yuanshan explained.

"I see."

Han Yang nodded.

……

On the Japanese side, when Harada Yuji led a large force of the 35th Division out of the Barley Valley and arrived at the flat land north of Shuiquan City, he immediately saw Shuiquan City a few kilometers to the south.

There was also the battlefield where the 35th Regiment had just been searched and suffered a disastrous defeat. On the battlefield, there were still some seriously injured soldiers and injured horses who had luckily survived and were wailing.

Seeing this, Harada Yuji immediately pointed at the captain of the 219th Regiment and the rd Battalion, Hosoya Motohisa, and shouted:

"Hurry up, rescue our wounded, gather our horses, and collect the bodies of our warriors!"

Then he ordered the entire army to assemble and prepare for battle, and called the telegraph operator to issue two orders in succession:
"Hurry up, send a telegram to General Okamura and inform me that the 35th Division has successfully arrived at Shuiquan City."

"Notify Tanaka-kun of the 21st Division and have them speed up and join us at Shuiquan Castle!"

The telegraph operator received the order and immediately went to work.

At this time, the scout he arranged in front hurriedly reported:
"Your Excellency, the Eighth Route Army has dug a lot of trenches ahead, and it looks like there are many troops ambushed in them." Upon hearing this, Harada Yuji nodded and said calmly:

"It seems that the commander of the Tubalu is quite capable!
They actually knew that relying solely on the city walls for defense would not be possible due to the lack of depth.

Where are the Tubalu's tanks? "

"We used telescopes to observe that the eight chariots are now under the Shuiquan City Wall. We don't know if they were damaged in the battle with the warriors of the search team just now.

Now they don’t seem to be activated.”

The scout replied.

"it is good!"

Harada Yuji picked up the telescope and observed carefully, then smiled:

“This place should be no more than 8 kilometers away from the Shuiquan City Wall.

Immediately order Mr. Hoshino to find a favorable terrain, deploy his field artillery, open fire first, and blow up those tanks!
I want to let the Tubalu know that if they provoke my locust army, even if they hide in their rat holes, they can't escape my locust army's artillery bombardment!"

"Yes!"

……

Upon hearing Harada Yuji's order, the field artillery regiment commander Hoshino Hideaki took his only three remaining artillery pieces, found a relatively high gentle slope with a wide firing range, and began to deploy.

After arranging the artillery, Harada Yuji called the commander of the 220th Infantry Regiment, Colonel Kawase Shigemasa, and arranged:

"Kawase-kun, wait a moment. Your regiment will advance slowly forward to test the strength of the Eighth Route Army in the trenches ahead. Find a way to eliminate these rats!"

Kawase Shigemasa immediately received the order:

"Hi!"

……

In a cave in Dazhai Mountain.

Li Yunlong received Yang Yuanshan's telegram and immediately said to Zhao Gang excitedly:
"Old Zhao, the devils are finally here.

Next, it’s up to Yang Yuanshan and Xing Zhiguo.

As long as they can wipe out two or more regiments of the Japanese in Shuiquan City, I will definitely win this battle."

"Old Li, are you so confident?
The brigade headquarters just sent us another telegram, asking us to retreat if we can’t hold on any longer.

The superiors said that the Japanese soldiers with more than two divisions in the Changzhi direction were very difficult to deal with, and the various troops suffered heavy losses in their efforts to stop them.

It is estimated that it can only delay us by 10 days at most! "

"hey-hey.

Old Zhao, think about it, even though the Japanese have two divisions, look at how many of them were killed by our people starting from Niangzi Pass?
There must be at least one or two regiments killed or injured in the battle, right?

If we lose two more regiments under Shuiquan City now, as soon as my people withdraw, they will have to allocate at least one or two more regiments to occupy cities like Heyuan and Shouxian.

At that time, I will go back and surround these cities and wipe out all the Japanese defenders. How many of them will be left?

When the time comes, I will go to the water fountain and easily wipe them out."

After hearing Li Yunlong's calculation, Zhao Gang immediately felt that it made a lot of sense and couldn't help but praise:

"Good guy!

Old Li, the beads on your abacus make such a loud noise.

It’s no wonder that Captain Ding and Captain Kong always say that you are better at business than that stingy Yan!”

"Hahaha, of course!

I was born into a poor family. If I didn’t know how to settle accounts, I would have starved to death long ago!”

Li Yunlong was not ashamed of it, but proud of it.

At this moment, a telegraph operator suddenly came over to report:
"Leader, the brigade called to report that the main force in Jizhong ambushed the baggage trains of the Japanese 21st and 35th Divisions, and has now temporarily cut off traffic from Shimen to Niangziguan."

Upon hearing the good news, Li Yunlong jumped three feet high:

"Very good!

Lao Zhao, have all the villagers in the village near the spring moved into the mountains?"

"yes.

Now all the villages within dozens of miles of Shuiquan City are empty."

Zhao Gang nodded.

"Haha, now the little devil has to follow my instructions. If he doesn't leave, he will starve to death!"

Li Yunlong laughed out loud.

Zhao Gang knew that Li Yunlong's arrangement was that if the Japanese turned back, they would have to split their forces to occupy Heyuan and other county towns.

Because all the food and supplies in Shuiquan City had been emptied by them, there were simply not enough food and supplies to feed the 20,000-strong Japanese army!
……

(End of this chapter)