Okabe Naosaburo's worries are naturally numerous, but even if Kenichi Muto has this idea at this time, he doesn't have time to come up.

At this time, at the bifurcated estuary of the southern tributary of the Sangqian River north of Wei County, there were already shouts of killing all around.

"Your Excellency, Division Commander! Your Excellency the Division Commander, the Taiyuan Military Department is in an emergency! Kenichi Muto, who was supervising the main force of the Japanese army on the North Road to break through and attack in the south, heard the report of the communications staff officer in the temporary field headquarters.

Taking the telegram from the communication staff officer, Kenichi Muto frowned and looked at it for a while, and his face finally soothed.

"Convey a telegram from Commander Okabe and tell all the Imperial Army soldiers that our air reinforcements will arrive soon. Order everyone, go all out to break through to Wei County, and advance with a fierce attack! Kenichi Muto breathed a sigh of relief and waved his hand to the communications staff officer.

"Haiy, Your Excellency Division Commander."

The devil's communication staff stiffened, and then hurried away to give the order.

At this time, Kenichi Muto picked up the binoculars again and looked at the enemy ambush position hundreds of meters south of the ambush circle, and his expression returned to worry.

Judging from the current battle situation, Kenichi Muto had to admit that the Eighth Route Army that ambushed them was indeed an elite Chinese army that was brave and good at fighting. The combat effectiveness is strong, the tactical distribution is reasonable, the blocking positions are built layer by layer, and a large number of barbed wire, trenches and other blocking fortifications used in defensive warfare are used to block the breakthrough of their own troops to the south.

The other Eighth Route Army, which was encircled on three sides, also compressed its position step by step, trying to block its own troops in a circular center point, so as to facilitate their artillery bombardment and light and heavy machine gun firepower.

However, this hand, Muto Kenichi, who was stunned, had to be convinced, and was able to ambush the main force of the 6th Division under the command of Toshio Tani in a canyon more than ten miles east of Pingxingguan, and the combat effectiveness of the regular army of the Eighth Route Army could not be underestimated.

"It seems that my 2nd Division has met a strong opponent!" Kenichi Muto thought to himself at this time, but what the old devil didn't expect was that only a handful of more than 15,000 devils in his army of the 2nd Division North Road could survive in the end. That's an afterword!

As Kenichi Muto muttered to himself, the sound of gunfire around him kept rang out. Major General Kenichiro Yokogawa, the brigade commander of the 15th Brigade in charge of the front-line command to break through the encirclement and attack southward, roared that the two infantry wings under his command had invested a great deal of strength to cross the river to the south and attack, but they were all blocked by the defenders of the new regiment of seven or eight blocking fortifications.

"Boom, boom! Boom Boom! Boom Boom! ”

"Dada!!!"

Light and heavy machine guns, Japanese-made Type 92 infantry guns went all out to block the blocking positions of the 3rd and 4th Battalions of the New 1st Regiment to the south, and the fire was accumulating, so that the fortifications of the new regiment on the blocking position were filled with smoke, and soon the soldiers of the new regiment in the trenches were killed and wounded.

However, the Japanese army was blocked by a diverted river at the mouth of a forked river after the southern tributary of the Sangqian River, and when crossing the river, they encountered a new artillery fire from an ambush from the south, and many devil soldiers were drowned and froze to death by falling into the river from the top of the shattered river.

And this, Kenichiro Yokogawa was heartbroken when he saw it.

"Brigade commander, brigade commander, can't rush like this. My wing has already suffered casualties of an infantry brigade, and the 30th Infantry Wing has also suffered heavy casualties, almost losing an infantry brigade, and if we continue to fight, the casualties of our 15th brigade will be too great! ”

The commander of the 29th Infantry Wing of the 15th Brigade of the 2nd Division of the Japanese Army, who was leading the attack on the 2nd line of the Japanese army, hurriedly rushed to the temporary brigade headquarters of Kenichiro Yokogawa from the front line of the command, and said anxiously.

Kenichiro Yokogawa frowned, "But for now, we can only attack and advance to the south and kill to Wei County." According to the latest reply from the military headquarters, the main force of the 3rd Brigade under the command of the chief of staff of the South Road has begun to move north from Lingqiu County and advance towards Guangling. Once the 3rd Brigade took Quang Ling, it could launch an attack on Ul County from the west. Once the 3rd Brigade takes Wei County, then the main force of the 3rd Brigade can flank and encircle the Eighth Route Army that ambushed us from behind, forming a counter-encirclement of them! Therefore, we can't sit still here, we must give full play to our current superiority in strength and go all out to break through to the south! ”

After a pause, Yokogawa Kenichiro continued to say to Yamano Weixiong in a condensed voice: "Command your wing, take the opponent's position for me, at least seize there first, the first and second blocking fortifications of the new regiment of the Eighth Route Army." Once captured, we can open a breakthrough. ”。

Seeing that Kenichiro Yokogawa made such a tough statement, Yamano Weixiong was helpless, and said with a wry smile: "Haiyi, brigade commander, I understand my humble position!" ”。

"Don't talk nonsense, give me a quick execution! Time is no longer in our favor! Hurry up and drop! ”

Yamano Weixiong bent down and said, "Hayi, brigade commander!" Then, Yamano walked away quickly, returning to his own team to command the battle.

Kenichi Muto supervised the troops of the 15th Brigade to attack southward, constantly attacking the defensive positions of the 3rd and 4th Battalions of the New 1st Regiment.

At this time, the 3rd and 4th Battalions of the New 1st Regiment mainly coordinated the attack on the left and right flanks, with a total of 3,000 men and horses in the two elite divisions, plus Li Yunlong transferred 2,000 back guerrilla troops within five or six minutes of the start of the battle, and the 5,000 blocking troops relied on the pre-constructed blocking battlefield, plus Wang Chengzhu's artillery support, firmly blocked the fierce charge of nearly 9,000 people of the 15th Brigade of the Japanese Army commanded by Kenichiro Yokogawa.

"Well, the third and fourth battalions fought well. Order the third and fourth battalions to block the charge of the devils. Order Wang Chengzhu to increase artillery strikes, look at the gathering place of the devils, and fight hard! Li Yunlong was standing in his temporary field headquarters at this time, holding a telescope and looking at the 15th Brigade of the Japanese Army that was blocking him, laughing.

With the blessing of the weather, with the support of artillery fire, two battalions of our own side, plus 2,000 guerrillas with a total of 5,000 men and horses, blocked the fierce charge of nearly 9,000 Japanese troops of the 15th Brigade under the command of Kenichiro Yokogawa in the south.

The bullets, grenades, etc., that were constantly pouring out of the blocking fortifications, the devils who blew up and charged suffered heavy casualties, and constantly dropped countless corpses in embarrassment during the repeated attacks.

"Yes, Captain." The staff officer waiting next to Li Yunlong replied at any time, quickly picked up the field telephone of the headquarters, and ordered the third and fourth battalions of the blocking position to intensify their firepower, and the artillery unit opened fire violently.

Li Yunlong continued to observe the battle situation with a telescope, judging from the current progress of the battle, it is estimated that his side has eaten at least 4,000 Japanese troops on the northern route, which makes the strength of the devils commanded by Kenichi Muto continue to weaken.

At this time, Kenichi Muto wanted to go south to Wei County, and it was impossible not to pay the price.