The brigade headquarters was shocked when it received a telegram from Battalion Commander He, and Brigade Commander Chen also learned about the report from the Commander's Department of the Second World War Zone to the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army, about the situation of tens of thousands of devils and large-scale mobilization of troops. No matter how careful you are in secrecy, you will inevitably show traces, and the military commanders have intelligence agencies in Taiyuan and various county seats. Although he did not investigate the devil's intention to transfer troops and understood that there was a big military operation, Chongqing Zheng F quickly learned about this situation and called to ask Commander-in-Chief Yan if he had made a big move.

Chief Yan looked at the Chongqing telegram and confused him, no troops have reported military operations in the past few days! If the Eighth Route Army is wiped out by the army of the island country, it is also a good thing, it is strictly forbidden to send aid, not a single soldier can be dispatched without his order, and the central army does not have to worry about fighting with the army of the island country.

At the beginning of the Eighth Route Army Headquarters, Commander-in-Chief Zhu and General Peng were equally puzzled when they got the news. Recently, I have not heard of any Eighth Route Army team having major combat missions, and now the devils are very rampant and their morale is booming. All the departments are reluctant to touch this mildew at this time, and the battles are mainly guerrilla warfare, and they will run away if they scratch the devils, just to tell the devils and the common people that the Eighth Route Army is still fighting in various parts of Shanxi.

From the telegram sent by the 385 Brigade, I learned that the devil made such a big move because he besieged an anti-war team composed of bandits, and the name of the Cheetah Brigade had heard Brigade Commander Chen mention it as early as the Spring Festival, and the activities in the area of Pingding County had a good relationship with the three battalions of the 772nd Regiment of the 385 Brigade. Brigade Commander Chen had the heart to be recruited, but because this group of people was too murderous and skilled, it was difficult to discipline, and the Cheetah Brigade itself was unwilling to join the Eighth Route Army, so he temporarily dispelled the idea of integration.

The headquarters didn't expect the devils to value this cheetah brigade so much, surrounded by nearly 10,000 devils, how could the cheetah brigade of only a few hundred people jump out of the encirclement? Of course, it can also be seen that tens of thousands of troops are not just aimed at the Cheetah Brigade.

The message also mentioned that Battalion Commander He led the whole battalion to the rescue, isn't this playing the piano indiscriminately? Brigade Commander Chen was very worried that the three battalions, which had worked so hard to pull the powerful battalion, would suffer heavy casualties again, and no matter how strong the combat effectiveness of the three battalions was, and how well-equipped, it would not be possible for him to be ten times more prepared for the island army's opponent. Now Brigade Commander Chen has already set off to the 772nd Regiment to discuss with Commander Ye, and immediately led a small number of troops to the third battalion to stop it.

Commander-in-Chief Yan received a request for coordination from the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army, under the pretext that the intention of the devil's operation had not been investigated clearly, and the Commander's Department of the Second World War Zone would not take any military action before that, so as not to disrupt the deployment of the entire Shanxi War of Resistance, but it would not restrict the Eighth Route Army's right to unilateral freedom of military action.

Seeing that the soldiers were ready for battle, Battalion Commander He ordered the artillery to be fired. There were only two wings in the original county seat, and today thousands of Japanese troops were dispatched from the county seat, which was basically an empty city, and it was not difficult to take it.

The artillery began to bombard violently, only to hear the continuous rumbling explosions, and the devils and puppet soldiers on the city wall and at the city gate flew up to a height of more than ten meters with the explosion, and fell down and became dead bodies.

Seeing that the city gate was easily blown open, Shui Wa led the cavalry to rush to the city first. The recruits of the Cheetah Brigade also followed closely behind the cavalry and ran desperately towards the city, eager to catch up with the four-legged war horses on two legs, not much slower.

Of course, the soldiers of the Tiger Battalion were not far behind, and rushed into the city with guns and screams, and it only took a few minutes from the opening of the cannon to the attack on the city gate, which seemed to be very smooth.

Battalion Commander He ordered the artillery and the remaining soldiers of the first company to stand guard outside the city, and the rest followed the Cheetah Brigade into the city.

As soon as they entered the city, many guns protruded from the houses on both sides, followed by fierce gunfire. Among them, there were a lot of machine guns, and the hand-held L-bullets also continued to fall into the crowd of the Cheetah Brigade and the Eighth Route Army, the streets were not spacious, and there were many people, and the soldiers who rushed to the front fell to the ground one after another in an instant.

"It's not good, it's an ambush" Battalion Commander He roared, and only the soldiers around him could hear it, the gunshots and explosions didn't stop, and when they saw that something was wrong, the experienced soldiers hurriedly found a place to cover and fight back.

The water baby cavalry rushed to the front, and when they heard the fierce gunfire behind them, they didn't have to think about it to know what was going on? Hurriedly rode his horse back, while rushing to throw H-bombs into the houses on both sides, in the smoke of the explosion of dozens of cavalrymen's L-bombs, rushed out a lot of devils, the Eighth Route Army and the Cheetah Brigade saw that they were wearing yellow dogskin tweed clothes and shot at them fiercely.

There are more and more devils pouring out from all directions, it turns out that what you see outside the city is an illusion carefully arranged by devils, and all the intersections in the county are traps, and you are afraid that you will not be able to wait for the troops to attack the city. There must have been a huge conspiracy for the devils to gather so many troops around Camel Mountain in Pingding County, but unfortunately the third battalion and the cheetah brigade were fooled, and it was too late to understand.

Camp Commander He, Shui Wa and everyone knew that in this narrow alley, there were too many people to perform. The fight is a favorable terrain, compared to firepower, the artillery outside can not carry out fire support, people on both sides are in the roadway, it is easy to hurt their own people.

There are many devils and strong firepower, and there are only eight or nine hundred people in total from Battalion Commander He and the Cheetah Brigade, and the weapons are also very sophisticated, and there are many casualties on both sides in the fierce battle.

Battalion Commander He was very anxious, he had been entangled by the devils, and someone would make up for the death of the devils immediately, and the strength of the devils in this county seemed to be endless.

The cavalry also became a live target, with large targets and easier to hit. It was not easy to dodge on the horse, so they had to jump off the horse and find a place to shoot with the devils, and many of the horses were killed by random guns and shrapnel in the battle.

The houses on both sides were also destroyed by them, and there were many devils killed in the houses.

Battalion Commander He commanded the soldiers to retreat while fighting, and a few dozen meters away was the city gate, but it became their death distance. The Eighth Route Army retreated a foot, and the devil pounced forward by one meter, and a few soldiers had just turned around, and they had been shot at least seven or eight times, and the situation was very dangerous.

The devil was about to rush to the front, and the battalion commander He was worried that he would be surrounded by the devil, so he ordered Company Commander Li to organize troops to block the attack, and Company Commander Zhong and Company Commander Yi led people to withdraw first.

Seeing that the third battalion had paid a heavy price for the cheetah brigade, Shui Wa and Li Cheng urged the third battalion to go first, and they covered.

So the soldiers of the Cheetah Brigade disregarded their personal safety, and kept throwing L bullets at the devil crowd, and several machine guns also kept spraying angry flames, and the dense bullets formed a network of cross fire, which finally temporarily suppressed the devil's firepower, bent their bodies and did not dare to come out, and the third battalion took the opportunity to evacuate the county seat.

The remaining nearly 100 Cheetah members saw that the three battalions had all retreated, and they put down the stones in their hearts, and the deputy captain was also besieged, and their life and death were unknown. These recruits and cavalry teams have become orphans without parents, so it is better to fight with the devils to buy more time for the third battalion and shoot more fiercely.

The devils in the vicinity were suppressed, and the devils in the distance had already set up their pursuit guns, and the shells flew towards them, and the ruined walls everywhere were broken, and the corpses were in disarray. The blood of both sides stained the streets and alleys, and the pungent smell of blood rushed to the face, and the cruelty and tragedy of the battle can be imagined.

"Boom" a few cannon shots, but the sound came from the city gate behind the Cheetah Brigade, and the shells flew into the artillery position of the devils, and the devils suddenly panicked. Then rushed into a large number of soldiers of the Eighth Route Army from the city gate, the front row of machine guns, punch F guns frantically fired at the devils, the bullets splashed sparks on the walls on both sides of the front, the devils who were shot fell to the ground one after another, rushing to the front is Li Company Commander and Xiao Shanzi, Li Company Commander swept wildly with a machine gun, and shouted at the Cheetah Brigade in his mouth, "Quick, all withdraw from the battle."

Shui Wa and the team members jumped over quickly, fighting and retreating, approaching Company Commander Li and them, under the cover of the Eighth Route Army, they quickly converged and withdrew out of the city gate, and there were many soldiers of the Eighth Route Army outside the city gate, and hundreds of guns were aimed at the city gate three or four meters wide.

As soon as the Eighth Route Army and the Cheetah Brigade withdrew from the city gate, dense devils rushed out from behind, rushing out of the city. The guns of the soldiers rang out again, and the fierce and dense bullets shot at the devils, like cutting wheat, the devils kept falling, and the corpses soon piled up at the city gate, and the base was very high, blocking the way out of the devils, and in a few minutes, there were thirty or forty devils falling there, and the blood mixed together and flowed on the ground, staining the entire city gate, and the devils behind saw such a powerful firepower outside, and they did not dare to rush out for a while.

The soldiers of the Eighth Route Army and the Cheetah Brigade supported the wounded, carried some of the corpses of the soldiers who had been snatched out, and hurriedly retreated into the forest. Immediately after that, I saw several tanks and armored vehicles driven out of the city, and the devil dispatched the mechanical troops so quickly, but fortunately they retreated in time and got into the woods.

As the saying goes, when Lin Mo chases, he runs into the mountains and woods, and the devil's tanks and armored vehicles can't do anything with them. The infantry following behind the tanks and armored vehicles also cowered when they saw this, and they did not dare to pursue alone, and the tragic situation at the city gate made them feel weak and afraid, of course, if they retreated a few minutes late, the consequences would be very serious, and they did not know whether they could leave safely.

Shui Wa and Li Cheng chased to the front of the army to find Battalion Commander He, wanting to express their gratitude in their hearts. From afar, I heard that Battalion Commander He was scolded by people, saying that he was unorganized and undisciplined, that such an important battle was cut before being played without asking for instructions, and that his personal heroism and disregard for the safety of the soldiers caused huge losses.

According to the preliminary statistics of the battalion, more than 130 people were killed in the two battles, more than 20 were seriously wounded, and more than 200 were slightly wounded, and the casualties reached one-third of the three battalions. It can be said that the strength of other battalions is all over, and such huge casualties make everyone very sad and sad, and they can't raise their heads when they are scolded by Battalion Commander He, and they don't dare to explain a word.

Company Commander Li quietly told Shui Wa and Li Cheng that it was Brigade Commander Chen who lost his temper and wore glasses at Battalion Commander He, and it was Regiment Commander Ye who was glaring at Battalion Commander He next to him.