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After saying that, he took out the military map and saw the Feldspar area they had just passed. There was a hill there, which was far away from the surrounding mountains. They could rely on the defense of the top of the hill and wait for support.

He immediately withdrew his troops, abandoned all baggage, and retreated along Yashua with the remaining troops, which were less than a battalion.

However, as they retreated, they were immediately blocked by the 3rd Battalion of the 782nd Regiment, which had already blocked their retreat. Katagiri Morio's face suddenly changed, knowing that today would be a very dangerous day.

With the Eighth Route Army soldiers at the front in groups of three, they began to continuously attack the defense line of the Ninth Regiment under the cover of fire from the machine gun team.

After the Eighth Route Army soldiers at the front were hit by Japanese rifles and fell, the soldiers in the rear continued to rush forward, constantly filling the vacancies left by the previously sacrificed soldiers. With the fierce attack, the Japanese army's formation was soon disrupted by this offensive.

As the Eighth Route Army soldiers seized a gap and attacked, the entire Japanese defense line began to collapse, and the Japanese defense formation was completely destroyed by the continuous influx of Eighth Route Army soldiers.

When Katagiri Mamoru saw this scene, his face twisted. He had never seen such a scene since entering the Chinese battlefield. He immediately ordered the burning of the regiment flag and code book, sent a farewell telegram to the division, and prepared for a desperate attack.

At the same time, time goes back to ten o'clock.

When the 1st and 2nd Battalions of the 83rd Regiment exchanged fire with the 20th Regiment of the 16th Division, the commander of the 20th Regiment, Nobuaki Ohno, immediately determined from the sound of gunfire that they were under attack by a regiment of the 389th Brigade. He then mocked the Eighth Route Army for being so shameless that a single regiment dared to launch a surprise attack on the Locust Army. He immediately ordered the 1st Battalion to attack and defeat this Chinese army.

However, the casualties of the 1st Battalion began to surge under the attack of two battalions of the 83rd Regiment, which immediately surprised the regiment commander Nobuaki Ohno. He did not expect to encounter such a combat-capable Chinese army on the Chinese battlefield. No wonder the 389th Brigade was able to completely wipe out the 108th Division.

At the same time, he also thought that there might be other main forces of the 389th Brigade nearby, and the target force of the encirclement and suppression of the 389th Brigade happened to appear, so he immediately ordered the large force to start attacking the 83rd Regiment.

The Eighth Route Army then retreated all the way. When the 83rd Regiment led the 20th Regiment into the Sijiagou area of ​​Lijiazhuang, the regiment commander Nobuaki Ohno looked at the terrain along the way and immediately realized that the ambush troops of the 389th Brigade might be in this area.

But Nobuaki Ohno was not afraid. He immediately ordered the artillery squadron and machine gun squadron to be ready to fire at any time and to open fire immediately if they found the ambush position of the 389th Brigade.

After all, in Nobuaki Ohno's opinion, the combat effectiveness of this Eighth Route Army was quite good compared to the Chinese army they had encountered before. However, from the sparse gunfire, he found that its light and heavy firepower was seriously insufficient. Even if part of the Eighth Route Army hid, it was no match for the Locust Army.

On the top of the East Huangtu Slope Mountain in Sijiagou, Zhang Ziqing, commander of the 83rd Regiment, and Zheng Lun, commander of the 87th Regiment, looked at the Japanese army's defensive formation along the way and couldn't help but sigh that if the two regiments were not well equipped, this ambush would be difficult to succeed even if a few more regiments were added.

But now he had two fully-staffed Japanese-equipped regiments and an artillery regiment. At the same time, in order to plug the gap in the Japanese army, the brigade commander also transferred the two well-developed local regiments, the 122nd and 125th, as reserve forces on the battlefield. The total number of ambushes reached nearly 8,000.

Besides, the artillery regiment had six 150mm mortars. If Zhang Ziqing let this group of Japanese troops escape, the brigade commander would probably dismiss him and send him to the brigade headquarters to take the blame.

As the Japanese army completely entered the ambush circle, the 1st and 2nd Battalions responsible for luring the Japanese regiment also began to defend against the Japanese attack along the designated defensive fortifications.

Seeing this scene, Zhang Ziqing immediately gave the order to launch an ambush.