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Almost at the same time that Songshan was airstrike by the Flying Tigers, Zheng Chengkui's village in Gaoligong Mountain was also bombarded by Japanese planes. (_Bao & Book & Bar)

In order to succeed in this sweep, Sakaguchi not only mobilized the Japanese troops from Myanmar to surround the mountainous area where Zheng Chengkui was located in Gaoligong Mountain to prevent Zheng Chengkui and his friends from escaping from the west, but also asked the Japanese headquarters of Myanmar to dispatch more than 20 fighters and bombers to cooperate in combat with the purpose of using air superiority to blow up Zheng Chengkui's two or three thousand men's troops, and then divide and encircle and annihilate them by ground forces, so as to achieve the goal of completely eliminating the anti-Japanese guerrillas in Gaoligong Mountain.

But this wishful thinking from Sakaguchi was messed up by Dong Limao.

Gaoligong Mountain is high and densely forested. Zheng Chengkui and his village are almost surrounded by mountains. There are hundreds of caves of all sizes on the surrounding mountains. Not to mention bombing with planes, these caves will be difficult to collapse even if there is a major earthquake of magnitude 8 or above. People hide in it. The bombing of planes in the sky, and the people hiding in the caves are like listening to the sound of firecrackers during the New Year, looking for joy and joy.

More than twenty planes rumbled into combat teams and flew over the mountain village. Because the mountains were high, they could not dive strafing and bomb too low. They only depended on the good weather, and they saw scattered houses and dropped bombs.

The main base of the village, which is the houses set up by Zheng Chengkui in a mountain village, were almost all razed to the ground. What’s hateful is that the Japanese planes also threw incendiary bombs. The mountains and forests were dense, and suddenly the flames burned in the forests of several kilometers. The thick smoke made Sakaguchi, more than ten kilometers away from the village, see it in a telescope, thinking that their Japanese Empire's air force was extremely powerful.

After half an hour of bombing, Sakaguchi issued an order to attack the infantry.

Everyone in Zheng Chengkui's village had already been divided into three parts, and they had found a cave that covered the air strikes. After hearing the rumbling sound of the plane engine, everyone ran into the cave to hide.

The spy company led by Zhao Yong was the main attacking platoon, and was with Zheng Chengkui, waiting for the bombing to end and start counterattack.

According to the deployment of Dong Limao in advance, Zheng Chengkui had more than 2,000 troops to counterattack from three directions. The three left, middle and right sides attacked the Japanese and puppet troops who rushed up to the bottom of the mountain at the same time. They occupied the advantage of geographical location. They just dragged the sweeping Japanese and puppet troops until dark, moved to the north, bypassed the enemy's encirclement at the foot of the mountain, and pulled the troops to the foot of Songshan, where they met with Dong Limao and others, and then attacked some of the main forces of the Japanese and puppet troops returning to Songshan.

Sakaguchi had just issued an order to attack, but received a report that the Japanese army that was building fortifications in Matsuyama was bombed by planes and ground troops were fiercely attacked. He was shocked and could not understand why there were guerrillas in Matsuyama. Before he could react, he received a report from the direction of Mangshi to cooperate with the sweeping, saying that guerrillas attacked the troops participating in the sweeping from behind and suffered a blow that had never been done after entering the country.

"Where did the Chinese army come out? How could guerrillas appear in the east and west directions at the same time? The intelligence department is full of pigs!" Sakaguchi was furious and asked his subordinates to open the map, and gestured with his fingers in Matsuyama and Mangshi. The two places were more than 100 kilometers apart, and they happened to be on both sides from where they were.

"General, will the guerrillas attack Longling again..." Kong Xiangfei whispered to Sakaguchi.

Sakaguchi's eyes flashed twice, hesitating.

After suffering the loss of Longling being beaten, Koji Ikeda also said, "General, Zheng Chengkui's village has been bombed by the Imperial Air Force so that there should not be many people left. If they are not killed, they should be burned alive. What remains will not have strong combat power. Should I hand over here to me? The general leads a large group of people back to Longling. If the fortifications on Matsuyama are blocked, it will anger the commander of the riverside! (Xiongqi note: The commander of the riverside mentioned here is Lieutenant General Kawabian Masao, the commander of the Japanese Burmese Front Army.)

Sakaguchi then stood up straight and said to Hiroji Ikeda: "Ikeda, I leave two brigades and one brigade of the Imperial Army to be under your command. Be sure to clear all Zheng Chengkui's troops before tomorrow morning!"

"Hey!" Ikeda Hiroji's feet were closed together, and he stood attentively and lowered his head and agreed.

"Commander Kong, your Imperial Army, come with me to help Longling and Songshan!" Sakaguchi looked at Kong Xiangfei and said, and the translator translated his words to Kong Xiangfei.

"Hey..." Kong Xiangfei was like a pug, and he also followed Hiroji Ikeda, bowing his waist and standing attentively.

Sakaguchi thought for a while and gave another order: "Order the brigade stationed in Longling City to rush to the Songshan Fortress quickly!"

The brigade stationed in Longling City this time was Colonel Takeo Nakata and a brigade of the Imperial Army, with a total of more than 2,000 people.

Of course, Takeo Nakada heard about the air strike, but he did not dare to leave his post without permission, worried that he would suffer a crushing defeat like last time Koji Ikeda had. He had a lucky idea, thinking that this was just a bombing of the Chinese team.

When there were dense gunfires coming from Matsuyama, Takeo Nakada could not sit still and received a call for help from Matsuyama, but he refused to ask for help. Because he did not dare to send troops to rescue him easily without Sakaguchi's consent, but ordered the troops to be prepared to be dispatched at any time.

When he received the order from Sakaguchi, it was not dark and the battle was getting lively on Matsuyama. Takeo Nakada ordered a squadron to be left, and the rest were all on board and rushed to Matsuyama Fortress.

The Japanese army's troops were almost the same as Dong Limao had expected in advance.

The offensive order issued by Sakaguchi was immediately changed. He summoned the remaining troops except the two Japanese brigades and one Imperial Army brigade, withdrew from the besieged Zheng Chengkui's village, and quickly went down the mountain to gather on the side of the road. Before the battle started, he changed the order. After Sakaguchi and others returned to Longling and Songshan to provide assistance, they regretted it, but he was unwilling to change it again, as it would cause his subordinates to lose their courage and lose their prestige.

Zhang Dali's machine gun platoon was waiting quietly in the ambush position.

Sometimes, waiting is also a torment. Zhang Dali is already irritable. Listening to the fierce gunfight on the top of the mountain, he is itchy all over his body, but he is the person with the strongest execution ability, especially as long as Dong Limao's orders, he will obey unconditionally and dare not slackew.

It was getting darker and there were no reinforcements from the Japanese. The gunshots on the top of the mountain gradually became sparse. Zhang Dali looked down the mountain with a telescope. Suddenly, an explosion of sky and earth cracks sounded, which made his hands holding the telescope tremble, thinking what was wrong? The plane bombed this way before. He looked up the top of the mountain with a telescope and could only see a ball of light rising up.

"Planer leader, look, there is light!" a soldier pointed to the foot of the mountain and said.

Zhang Dali quickly turned his telescope and looked in the direction with the headlights. Sure enough, a string of flashing lights slowly moved towards the mountain.

"The Japanese are here. Brothers are cheering up and ready to beat them up!" Zhang Dali smiled at the corner of his mouth. After waiting for most of the day, he finally waited for the enemy: "The company commander is so amazing! I guess the Japanese will come to rescue him!"

The vanguard of Takeo Nakada's brigade was a motorcycle squad with more than twenty motorcycles, leaving the large army loaded with trucks behind far behind and climbing up the hill quickly. This is Hiroji Nakada's killer team, which is mobile and flexible, and is very combat-effective. He asked his beloved quick-response motorcycle unit to go first, with the goal of rushing to the top of the mountain as soon as possible to rescue.

Zhang Dali saw that the first batch of people going up the mountain were motorcycles, and gave orders to his brothers: "First, bang me with a grenade! One for each person! Then use a machine gun to shoot! You can't let a Japanese man go!"

After the order was issued, the first motorcycle also arrived. Zhang Dali threw a grenade down first, but it did not explode. However, the grenades thrown one after another were densely packed, almost blocking the entire section of the road. The first motorcycle was blown up as the grenade exploded. The three liang of motorcycles behind him, perhaps because the speed was too fast and there was no time to brake, and the explosions hit the grenade one after another, and the Japanese in the car were thrown high.

The four motorcycles instantly ignited a fire and were blocked in the road. The motorcycles behind stopped one by one, and the Japanese jumped out of the car, but they didn't know where to shoot, so some people shot to the left and some people shot to the right.

After Zhang Dali's machine gun platoon and a round of grenades were thrown, the machine gunner began to shoot at the Japanese and motorcycles on the road below. Locust-like bullets were sprayed out from the mouths of more than twenty machine guns and flew towards the Japanese. More than a dozen Japanese who could not defend themselves fell down.

After all, this was Takeo Nakada's elite squad. The captain found that there was only one ambush on one side but no movement on the other side, so he ordered his subordinates to go up to the side without any movement, trying to occupy a favorable position and shoot at the ambush on the opposite side.

There was indeed only one side where Zhang Dali and his friends were ambushed. There was no machine gunner arranged on the ridge across the road, so that they did not have to cross the highway when evacuating. However, Zhang Dali was not Ma Daha. He had already expected that once it was fired, the Japanese would definitely occupy the opposite mountain, so he had already asked a squad's machine gun to deal with the Japanese who were trying to climb up the opposite mountain. Behind the opposite mountain ridge was a cliff. The Japanese could not climb up from the cliff. They could only climb up from the slope on the side of the road. As long as the machine gun firepower blocked the slope that could climb up, the Japanese said that they could not climb up the ridge, let alone a squad's machine gun firepower blocked.

Takeo Nakada heard the motorcycle team in front fighting with the other party in the truck behind him, and then realized that they were ready and were waiting for him to take the bait. He couldn't figure out how many ambushers the other party had, so he had to order the convoy to stop and let a squadron of the Imperial Army rush forward first to rescue his elite motorcycle team, and he led the main force to observe on the spot.

Zhang Dali had more than 30 machine gun platoons, and his firepower exceeded one company. In addition, he occupied the commanding heights, the grenades thrown by the Japanese could not reach their ambush. The machine guns and rifles that were shooting downwards had no accurate heads at all. A motorized squad of Japanese soldiers, sixty or seventy, had been killed or injured in less than two minutes. More than a dozen Japanese soldiers who were trying to climb up the opposite ridge from the roadside were fired by a squad of machine guns, and seven or eight bodies were left behind, and then retreated.

The team leader hid behind a big tree by the roadside and called Takeo Nakata on a walkie-talkie, asking for gunfire support.

After learning about the ambush position of the other party, Takeo Nakada ordered a team carrying small cannons to go to a ridge in front to fire at Zhang Dali and the others.

First, several artillery shells of distance measurement flew over and landed in the woods more than ten meters behind Zhang Dali and the others.
Chapter completed!