The Suzuki Brigade had just made some moves, and Mu Haoren, who was personally responsible for the rearrangement reconnaissance mission, saw it. When he saw the Suzuki Brigade put into battle formation, he thought about it and immediately understood the Japanese commander's intention, "They should They discovered us and regarded us as deserters, so that’s fine, if I do this, I should be able to make the two Japs fight." With this thought in mind, he turned back to Jingcun and gave him a face-to-face lecture. Jiyi, then called over the Japanese deserter who had detected the enemy's situation before, and said to him in half-baked Japanese: "You did a good job just now. Now there is an important task for you. Have you seen that tree? You hide behind and pay attention to the situation to the south. If it is our people who come first, don't make a sound. If it is other troops, wait until they are one kilometer away from us and immediately sound the warning. I understand. ?”
Ten minutes later, as the Japs from the Suzuki Brigade entered the shooting range, Mu Haoren immediately gave the order to fire. The Suzuki Brigade was rushing in, so it was caught off guard at first and several people were killed or injured. This was natural. This made Suzuki more and more firm in his previous judgment. The little devil was not angry but happy. With an order, the Suzuki brigade immediately launched a group charge with a scream.
Suddenly there was a burst of gunfire in the direction of Ganmuling, which naturally alarmed Matsumoto and Zhang Xuyun. Because Matsumoto didn't know what was going on ahead, he deliberately suppressed the speed of the troops. He just wanted to be one step ahead of Zhang Xuyun and the others. , now, the sudden sound of gunfire made him excited. Without thinking, the little devil immediately asked all the troops to attack, "Attack, attack." The little devil waved his command knife and shouted, and only after the troops started running did he move towards Zhang Xuyun and the others looked over, and after seeing Zhang Xuyun and the others running wildly, the little devil put a proud smile on his face and shouted even more vigorously.
Five minutes later, as the troops approached Ganmuling, they could already see two "Kwantung Army" units wearing the same military uniforms exchanging fire ahead. Matsumoto looked back and found that Zhang Xuyun and the others were far behind. , the pride on his face became more and more obvious, and he shouted loudly: "Gentlemen, we will make great achievements today. The honor of rushing through the ridge in front and washing away the humiliation of the Kwantung Army will be ours."
The Ganmuling area is a hilly terrain, with many east-west hills scattered around Ganmuling. When Matsumoto excitedly followed his soldiers to climb the ridge in front, what he didn't know was that a battle was taking place. His side was quickly disappearing into the mountains and forests. At the same time, Zhang Xuyun, whom he regarded as his competitor, began to assemble his troops and formed a long formation of skirmishers.
Opposite Matsumoto, Suzuki didn't know that a trap was waiting for them. Seeing Mu Haoren and the others starting to escape, he excitedly ordered the troops to immediately launch a pursuit, "Catch up, catch up, don't let these guys escape." "He shouted, then mounted his horse and ran in front of the team. Seeing the captain running to the front, the flag bearer of the Suzuki Brigade also started running quickly, and the military flag he held high naturally became a reminder for the Suzuki Brigade.
"The intelligence information I received did not contain the specific number of the brigade where Fujitabe's deserters belonged. Therefore, when I saw the words '134th Division' at the front of the Suzuki brigade's flag, I naturally thought they were Fujitabe's. Deserter, here, I did make a careless mistake..." This is what Matsumoto wrote a week later in the military police headquarters of the Kwantung Army. Matsumoto was lucky and did not die in this battle. However, because This firefight directly caused Matsumoto and the Suzuki brigade to suffer almost all casualties, so as one of the only survivors, he suffered even greater consequences.
The firefight occurred extremely naturally. The Japanese soldiers of the Suzuki Brigade had not stopped firing their guns since the war began. When Matsumoto climbed the mountain ridge, he had already regarded the "Imperial Army" on the opposite side as Fujitabe deserters, and the safety of the guns was also It had been opened, so the two sides immediately started fighting each other as soon as they met.
The first person Matsumoto and Suzuki noticed was Suzuki. Suzuki and Fujita were both members of the 134th Division. Although Suzuki could not name Fujita before, he was familiar with the faces of most of Fujita and the others, and because Due to the differences in the regions where they were organized, there was a big difference between the accents of the Matsumoto tribe and the accents of the Fujita tribe. So, after killing two Matsumoto tribesmen with his own hands and hearing several scoldings from the Matsumoto tribesmen, Suzuki became suspicious. .
"Wait a minute, which part are you from?"
It's just a pity that because of the military flag flying high behind him, no one from Matsumoto's army was willing to answer his questions.
Matsumoto later realized that something was wrong because of the number of people. There were only more than 500 Fujita tribe deserters, but now a large group appeared in front of him, which made him suspicious. However, at this time, the officers and soldiers of both sides had already fired real fire. He wanted to find out, but it was not that easy. Later, because of the disparity in military strength, he had to take the risk of questioning the opponent's identity loudly, but he ran out of time.
About forty minutes after hearing the sound across the mountain, Zhang Xuyun and Mu Haoren led the Japs deserters from the independent detachment who had had enough time to rush out from behind the mountain ridge. They almost annihilated the Matsumoto detachment with one charge, and then chased Suzuki all over the mountains and plains. The devils of the brigade.
"It was truly a magical battle. Looking back now, I still find it unbelievable. You must know that we were facing a group and a half of the elite Kwantung Army. However, not only did we win, but we also suffered zero casualties..." This is a passage from Fujita's later memoirs.
Even decades later, Zhang Xuyun and Mu Haoren were able to complete the battle that was unbelievable to Fujita, because this was the fighting style that their Langya and quasi-Langya special forces were best at.
This battle can be called a miracle in the history of the Independent Detachment. From this battle, not only Zhang Xuyun's prestige in the Independent Detachment was unparalleled, but Mu Haoren also began to gain the respect of the vast majority of Japanese deserters. Therefore, the Independent Detachment Not only did the army have a wooden general, but the Japanese deserters began to blindly trust the two Chinese "generals", almost to the point of obeying their words.
The battle went extremely smoothly, so the Japanese deserters looked very relaxed when they were cleaning the battlefield. Seeing all this, Zhang Xuyun said to Mu Haoren: "Now I can confirm that this army is of great use. .”
"The next step is to go to Changchun, but Matsumoto's military uniforms were all beaten to pieces."
"The blood-stained military uniforms are more valuable. Okay, didn't we seize three electronic watches? Now we will partially cash in the reward you promised."
(Old Poison: There is a dinner party tomorrow, so there may only be one update)