Not long after the Wolf Tooth team reached the top of the hill, a patrol car drove along the railway.

It was not the kind of open hand-cranked patrol car that drove over, but an armored patrol car driven by a steam engine, which had a strong independent combat capability.

Unless there are anti-aircraft guns of caliber 37mm or more, it is very difficult to destroy them.

The devil's patrol car drove over the hill and didn't go far, so there was no way to go further.

Because a few kilometers of tracks further on have already been destroyed, and one of the bridges in it, which was also blown up.

So the patrol car stopped, and more than a dozen devil infantry walked down from the carriage, guarding the spot.

Wang Xikui corrected the scope of the Shui Lianzhu sniper rifle in his hand, and whispered: "The distance is six hundred meters, within the effective firing range, captain, take his vote?" ”

"Don't worry." Wang Yan shook his head, "The main task this time is reconnaissance. ”

Wang Xikui put down the rifle again, the little devil of the dog day, let you live a little longer.

After about half an hour, a military column slowly clicked over.

Since the patrol car was reported in advance, the army had slowed down in advance, so there was no derailment accident.

When the train stopped, groups of devil infantry drove down from the train, and artillery and even tanks were unloaded from the train.

Because the Tongpu railway is parallel to the highway, it is convenient for the devils.

At this time, the sky was already dark, and the devils also lit torches, and at night, the long queue of torches of the devils was pulled out along the railway line for several kilometers.

Sun Ming put down the binoculars and said, "Lao Wang, looking at the posture of the devil, there must be at least one infantry brigade!" ”

"Almost." Wang Yan said while holding the binoculars to continue observing, "In addition, there is a search team with a mixture of cavalry and tanks, plus an artillery wing. ”

"The total number of troops is at least tens of thousands!"

"Tens of thousands?!" Sun Ming's heart sank when he heard this.

There are more than 1,000 people in the spy company, plus the county brigade in Yan County and more than a dozen district teams, there are less than 4,000 people! Even if the brigades of several counties such as Fanxian, Wuxian, and Shuoxian all arrived later, there would be only five or six thousand people, and the strength would be less than half of the devils.

As for the technical and tactical attainments of the officers and men of the two sides, the gap is even greater, and it is not at all on the same level.

So the difficulty of this battle can be imagined, but fortunately, they will hold out until tomorrow evening at most.

At this time, the forward search team of the devils had already begun to search along the highway in the direction of Yanmen Pass.

Wang Yandang stood up and said in a deep voice: "Go, go back!" ”

……

The results of the reconnaissance of the Wolf Tooth squad were basically correct.

The 26th Division went south to reinforce this time, dispatching all of the 11th Independent Infantry Wing, two independent infantry brigades of the 13th Independent Infantry Wing, plus the 26th Independent Artillery Wing and the 26th Independent Search Team.

In addition, there are a small number of auxiliary troops such as engineers, baggage troops, and medical soldiers.

The total number of troops is more than 8,000 people, which is not much different from Wang Yan's estimate.

The commander of the reinforcements was the commander of the 26th Infantry Regiment, Fumiro Saeki, with the rank of lieutenant general.

According to convention, the commanders of the infantry regiments of the Japanese Army's B Division were all major generals, and there were very few lieutenant generals.

Therefore, the appointment of Fumiro Saeki as the commander of the 26th Infantry Regiment was only temporary, because the current commander of the 26th Division, Kanshiro Shibayama, was about to be transferred to the Nanjing Restoration Government as general adviser.

After Shibayama Kaneshiro is transferred, Fumiro Saeki will take over as the commander of the division.

Even so, Saeki Fumiro also knew that if the southward reinforcement of Ping'an County was not successful this time, the base camp would most likely send someone else to take over as the division commander of the 26th Division.

At that time, he could only remain an infantry commander.

And such a result is unacceptable to Fumiro Saeki.

Because of this, Fumiro Saeki attaches great importance to this battle.

Halfway through, without even seeing the shadow of the enemy, Fumiro Saeki was already pulling several operational staff officers of the regimental headquarters to deduce the possible battle situation.

"Ladies and gentlemen, please see, this is the whole map of the northwest of Jin."

"Judging from the map, after the Sanggan River is the Yanmen Mountains."

"From Yanmen to Ping'an County, it can be used as a blocking position everywhere."

"But I think that the most likely to be used by the Eighth Route Army as a blocking position is Yanmen Pass."

"There is such a proverb in Zhina, Jiuzhai in the world, Yanmen is the head, although I have not been to Yanmen Pass, but with this proverb you can see how dangerous Yanmen Pass is."

"The key to whether our detachment can arrive in Ping'an County in time lies in whether it can quickly break through the Yanmen defense line."

"Considering that the Eighth Route Army will definitely deploy heavy troops in front of Yanmen Pass, I think it is necessary to send an infantry brigade from here, and the seventy-two bays will detour past!"

"At the beginning of the Battle of Xinkou, the reason why the 5th Division was able to quickly defeat the frontal China Army was mainly because of the partial division of an infantry brigade that detoured from Niangzi Pass, which greatly shook the military spirit and fighting spirit of the China Army."

"Therefore, in this battle, we can still copy the tactics of the 5th Division, flanking and detouring."

Speaking of this, Fumiro Saeki turned his gaze to the wing of the 13th Independent Infantry Wing, Nagashiro Naganomura, and Kunomura Momoyo subconsciously retracted his feet and stood upright.

Saeki Fumiro said in a deep voice: "Kunomura-kun, you will lead the 1st Infantry Brigade of the 13th Independent Infantry Wing to make a detour from Seventy Dao Bay overnight and attack Yanmen Pass from the flank!" ”

"Hello!" Kunomura Momoyo paused.

……

It didn't take long for a Japanese force of more than 1,000 men to separate from the 26th Division's brigade and turn to the right.

Saeki Fumiro didn't expect it at all, he was a little too careful, because under the night, every move of the Japanese army was completely hidden.

The wolf's tooth team, which was walking back, turned around by chance and soon discovered the movement of the Japanese army.

"Lao Wang! It seems that a Japanese army is going in the direction of the right flank. Sun Ming said in amazement.

Wang Yan observed for a moment, smiled and said, "The little devil's routine is really unchanged for ten thousand years. ”

"Captain, what do you mean?" Wei Dayong said, "What kind of routine is this devil?" What hasn't changed for 10,000 years? ”

Wang Yan said: "The devil's routine is that once the frontal attack fails, it will be supplemented by a flank detour, and the devil commander on the opposite side estimates that we will be heavily fortified at Yanmen Pass, and also expected that the attack on Yanmen Pass will not go well, so I sent a partial division to flank detour early." ”

"Trying to crush our line with a flank detour."

"It's a pity that our Eighth Route Army is not a national army, and we will never neglect the protection of the flanks."

After a pause in speaking, Wang Yan said with a cruel smile: "The right flank of Yanmen Pass is seventy-two bays, since the devil has chosen to take seventy-two bays, he should have the consciousness of being ambushed!" ”

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