The guards lined up in the depression for an hour before and after the battle, and the troops commanded by Suzuki also marched for an hour. At this time, they were only an hour away from Zougang, the ambushing place of the third brigade.

The simple fortifications in the Zougang position had long been built, and Li Qinglin was lying on a grass to rest.

The messenger who reported the message to Chen Zhendong had returned. Chen Zhendong had indeed not reconnaissed the enemy had been dispatched. Fortunately, Li Qinglin sent the message to him, and the first and second brigades had already begun to prepare. However, the messenger said that they were actually strengthening the original fortifications. It seemed that these people were still preparing for a positional battle.

The reconnaissance cavalry kept reporting the enemy's distance, and someone from Wang Xingfu had already come back to report the victory, saying that he had won a battle. After receiving this news, Li Qinglin felt much more at ease. Chen Zhendong could not command himself. As long as there was no problem with him, the first battle of the third brigade crossing the Yellow River would never suffer.

In response to the enemy's troops and combined with the terrain of Zougang, Li Qinglin placed Zhang Ergou's eighth squadron on the left hill, the big Zhao Shoushan's ninth squadron on the right hill, and the little sixth squadron on the reserve team, stayed behind the hill, and the mortar squad was placed next to his command center. As the most important heavy weapon of the brigade, this mortar must be firmly controlled in his own hands. At the critical moment, Li Qinglin also wanted to use it to achieve great achievements.

Now Wang Xingfu's guard platoon and Dong Zhao's two cavalry squads have completed the mission. Li Qinglin specially sent a messenger to give them an order, which is to let them use mobile forces to stab the enemy in the back at the right time. Since he was following the 10th Division to fight, Li Qinglin has witnessed the Japanese army's detours and side attacks many times. Now he also wants to use his own way to treat him and see how the Japanese army dealt with their own killer tactics.

Time passed little by little, and Suzuki's mobilization troops were getting closer and closer. The reconnaissance cavalry reported that the enemy was only three miles away from Zougang.

The enemy was about to arrive soon, and Li Qinglin turned over and said to Ding Goudan beside him: "Tell all squadrons to prepare for battle!"

Ding Goudan immediately arranged for people to pass orders to the squadrons. Li Qinglin picked up the telescope in his hand and began to observe the enemy situation.

"Bang bang bang", "Da da da"..., there were bursts of gunfire from afar, which was the harassing troops sent by Xiao Liuzi's 7th Squadron shooting at the enemy.

Li Qinglin thought it was very necessary for this kind of harassment. Small groups of troops came and walked quickly. When the enemy brigade marched, the small groups of troops on his side continued to harass, that is, they kept making the enemy's nerves tense until they collapsed.

Sure enough, after this gunshot, the front calmed down. After a while, another gunshot sounded again in another place, and this time the distance was closer.

Hearing these gunshots, Li Qinglin smiled. Xiao Liuzi sent not many troops, which was a platoon of troops. This platoon was distributed in three places, and each place would harass him. Because he had been familiar with the terrain and roads in advance, and the order he gave them was to fight if he could fight, and if he couldn't fight, he ran away if he couldn't fight, so Li Qinglin was not worried that these troops would not come back.

The third gunshot sounded not far away, and Li Qinglin had clearly seen the figure of the enemy in the telescope.

This time, the puppet army was still the leader. The soldiers of the first squadron fired a gun for a while. After the marching puppet army was knocked down, the soldiers of this squad quickly slipped away. However, this time the puppet army seemed very angry and sent some people to chase him.

Seeing the enemy walking over from afar, the recruits lying on the hills were a little nervous. The veterans were very experienced. Seeing the recruits around them nervously, they smiled and said, "What are you nervous? It's still early."

The troops were constantly being harassed. There was no news about a company sent out to pursue more than an hour ago. Second Lieutenant Suzuki felt that the operation was not good. During the break of the team's marching, he was also using a telescope to observe the surroundings.

There is a small hill ahead, with no plants on the hills, and the road I am walking now passes through the middle of the hills. Suzuki looked through the telescope, and there was no one on the hills, but Suzuki, who had been in the army for many years, always felt that there was something wrong here. After calming down and looking carefully, Suzuki found that it was possible to fight a blocking battle here. To be on the safe side, Suzuki sent vanguards to the hills to reconnaise.

Sure enough, when the squad of vanguards had just approached the hill, a row of bullets suddenly shot over the hill. Two of the vanguards were knocked down, and the rest retreated.

However, this time was different from the previous few times. The enemy ambushed on the hill did not retreat, so Suzuki decided to increase his troops and reconnaissance.

When a platoon of puppet troops approached the hill again, a fiercer bullet flew over again, and the puppet troops dropped a few bodies and retreated. Second Lieutenant Suzuki finally determined that this was the main position of the national army.

Zougang is about seven or eight miles in a radius, and there are no villages except for some crops. The road leading to Tonghuagou just passes through the middle of this hill. From the map, it is necessary to walk seven or eight miles apart from this road, and it is almost noon now, and the journey to Tonghuagou has not yet reached halfway, so it is impossible to change the route temporarily.

Since the opponent's main position is established here, their main force must be here. Second Lieutenant Suzuki believes that going to Kirigakura is to sweep away the enemy's main force. If he can seize the enemy's main force here and eliminate them, this will also achieve the purpose of this mission. Second Lieutenant Suzuki decided to fight the enemy here.

According to the regulations of the infantry exercises, Lieutenant Suzuki quickly deployed his troops and began to build simple fortifications. According to Suzuki's deployment, the puppet army was naturally the leader, and the Japanese strengthening team stayed by his side as the trump card in his hands so that he could join the attack at any time.

Before leaving, the command center equipped him with a 92-heavy machine gun, so the Suzuki Lieutenant's reinforcement team had a total of 58 people. Now the Suzuki Strengthening Team has three grenade launchers, a heavy machine gun and three crooked machine guns. According to previous combat experience, Suzuki confidently believed that it would be impossible for his reinforcement team to deal with the two companies of the regular army of the National Army, let alone the advancing column like the other party, which is not even a Type B unit.

Half an hour later, the puppet army began to attack the three brigade positions on both sides. The puppet army had little combat effectiveness, but the attack was normal. Neither of the two puppet army company commanders adopted the group charge, but each sent a platoon of troops to conduct a tentative attack.
Chapter completed!