"Hai, Your Excellency the Commander!" Kawaguchi Jitaro paused when he heard this, and immediately called back to Taro Miyano, the chief of staff of the First Army of the Devils in Taiyuan.

Okabe Naosaburo looked at the map with a gloomy face, and the news that Huairen was attacked by the main force of the Independent Brigade could not spread on a large scale.

You must know that Huairen is a traffic base on the Tongpu railway line. Although the importance is not as good as Datong, Xinkou, Taiyuan and other places, but it is close to Datong in the north, Shanyin and Daiyue in the south, and it is an important node along the northern transportation line of Jin Province.

Once lost, the northern section of the Tongpu Railway will also be cut off by the Independent Brigade.

At this time, the massive amount of military supplies, grain and grass required by the Japanese army of more than 100,000 people every day on the Zhongtiao Mountain front all needed the support of the Tongpu Railway. In particular, a large part of the military supplies needed to go around Zhangjiakou by railway from Beiping and go south on the Datong line to support the Japanese troops on the Zhongtiao Mountain front.

Therefore, even if it is temporarily cut off by the independent brigade for a while, it is enough to affect tens of thousands, or even more than 100,000 Japanese troops here on the Zhongtiao Mountain front.

What's more, at this time, more than 100,000 Japanese troops on the Zhongtiao Mountain front were advancing in a high spirit, and they had already cut off the main forces of the first theater of the Zhongtiao Mountain National Army. Once the rear is interrupted by rail transportation and supply, it will inevitably have a great impact.

Thinking of this, Okabe Naosaburo could only transfer a brigade of the 33rd Division from the Japanese army here on the front line to secretly go north and put it under the command of Taro Miyano. At the very least, to block the possibility of the Independence Brigade rushing south.

"Bageya Road, Li Yunlong, you are really looking for a good time!" Okabe Naosaburo gritted his teeth secretly in his heart, and the main force of the Independent Brigade came out of the Hengshan Mountains a week ahead of schedule. First solved the headquarters of the 31st Brigade of the 110th Division in Yangyuan County, and then when Okabe Naosaburo, Miyano Taro, Tada Jun and others judged that it was likely to advance westward and attack Datong, the other side actually turned around and attacked Huairen in the southwest.

This caught Okabe Naosaburo off guard, and the Tongpu railway was in danger of being cut off.

As a last resort, Naosaburo Okabe could only transfer a section of the Japanese army on the front line to the north to help.

After all, here on the front line of Zhongtiao Mountain, the main force of the Japanese First Army and the two divisions under the command of Okabe Naosaburo were drawn from the headquarters of the North China Front Army of the Japanese Army, and the logistics supply of more than 100,000 Japanese troops in total could not be cut off, even for a while.

Not to mention that after Okabe Naosaburo learned of Miyano Taro's urgent telegram, he immediately dispatched a brigade and two Japanese flying teams with a total of more than 30 fighters without thinking and began to immediately go north to help.

Let's just say that at this time, the battle in Huairen County has entered the moment of fierce battle!

"Boom, boom!! Boom Boom Boom !! ”

In the county seat, in the core blocks around the headquarters of the Japanese army Yoshimoto in the city, in the dense buildings, the sound of artillery rumbled. In the night, the explosion of grenades, mortars, and artillery directly blew up the flashes of light around the little devil Yoshimoto's brigade headquarters.

Street fighting in the city, some shops and restaurants on both sides of the street have been affected by artillery fire, and the ruins have been blown up.

The walls of the buildings on both sides of the road are densely packed with bullet holes.

The 1st Regiment of the Independent Brigade, 3rd Battalion, 1st Division, 4,500 men under the command of the battalion commander, had already conquered a block defense area west of the Yoshimoto Brigade Headquarters. More than 80 Japanese troops were killed, but their own casualties were less than 10.

But it has to be said that the defense of the Japanese army was very tenacious, and under the strict orders of Shiki Yoshimoto, the Japanese army fought fiercely with the soldiers of the Independent Brigade in every street and every house.

The street fighting between the two sides at night was even more tragic than during the day.

At this time, the fierce battle between the enemy and us in Huairen County had been going on for a long time, and the units of the independent brigade behind the core position of the Devil Yoshimoto Brigade Headquarters launched fierce attacks according to their respective combat areas.

Although Yoshimoto Shihui himself sent all his troops to defend every street and every house. However, it was still defeated by the various units of the Independent Brigade, and suffered heavy casualties.

At this time, the old devil Yoshimoto Shihui was staring at the map of Huairen City in front of him in the dim light in the dim light of the chief of staff Captain Matsuki Sakuragi in his brigade headquarters. Many of the small signs that had been placed on it had been removed, indicating that the place defended by the Japanese had been captured by the Separate Brigade.

"Report to the Chief of Staff, the Group Leader, and the Third Squadron of the First Squadron all killed!"

"Report to the captain, the 4th squadron guarding the east side has suffered heavy casualties, request reinforcements!"

"Report to the captain, the 2nd squadron defending in the north can't stand it, the enemy is nearly 2,000 people, ask for reinforcement!"

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The devil heralds who kept running in to report the situation reported the latest battle situation to Yoshimoto Shihui, and Yoshimoto Shihui and Matsuki Sakura, who listened, glanced at each other, both a little bitter.

"Command them to hold their ground and not to take a step back. This is the time to dedicate oneself to the Empire, and to tell all the soldiers that the military headquarters will send troops to reinforce us. Datong is only a forty-minute train journey away from us, as long as we hold on for an hour, reinforcements will arrive! Can't my Yoshimoto brigade hold out for even an hour? ”

Yoshimoto Shihui waved his hand, pretending to be calm and ordered to the devil's heralds!

"Hay, Captain."

A few devil heralds looked at each other, but they were helpless, and they had to deal with it in this way. Immediately, several devil heralds turned around and ran away to give orders.

However, Yoshimoto Shihui's chief of staff, Matsuki Sakura, had a grim face, and the surrounding gunfire and shouts of killing were already approaching his brigade headquarters less than 100 meters. It is not impossible if the Independent Brigade can find a shortcut to the gate of its brigade headquarters.

"Captain, the situation is not optimistic! Heavy casualties were reported in all divisions, and our defensive positions were constantly being captured from all sides by separate brigades. If it goes on like this, I'm afraid I won't be able to last half an hour. Pine Sakura said in a worried voice.

When Yoshimoto Shihui didn't know the situation at this time, the shouts of the soldiers of the Independent Brigade came to his headquarters from all around. At this time, the command headquarters where he was commanded by Yoshimoto, except for a Japanese signal soldier who was responsible for radio liaison with the outside world, the devil staff officers and miscellaneous personnel of the rest of the command headquarters were all driven out by Yoshimoto Shihui and picked up guns to fight.

After all, Yoshimoto Shiki has no reserve troops in his hands. If there is more, it is only him and Matsuki Sakura and a communication soldier.

"If you can't hold on, you have to insist, even if we break through at this time, it will be impossible! Listen to Songmu-san, there are as many independent brigades as there are attacking us. It won't work to break through, but we've been holding out for fifteen minutes, and if we continue to hold out for half an hour, it shouldn't be a problem. Yoshimoto Shihui sighed and smiled helplessly.

It's just that Yoshimoto doesn't believe these words. After all, nearly 8,000 Japanese troops in the 31st Brigade of the 110th Division of the Japanese Army in Yangyuan County were wiped out within an hour under the surprise attack of the Independent Brigade.

For his Yoshimoto brigade, it is unknown whether they can hold out until the nearest Datong garrison to the south for reinforcements.

"How many more men do we have? Matsuki-san! The rumbling sound of gunfire woke up the stunned Yoshimoto Shiki, and immediately asked the pine cherry tree in a condensed voice.

"Captain, the troops that have withdrawn to the Imperial Army around the brigade headquarters and other troops that have defected to the Imperial Army have all been annihilated by the Independent Brigade. At the moment, there are less than 700 warriors left in my brigade! ”