"What's more! We are heavily garrisoned in Zhangjiakou, and there are important places such as Zhangbei and Yehuling as barriers to the north. ”

Oda Matsuji sneered: "If they are all beaten to the city of Zhangjiakou by Li Yunlong's subordinates like this, it will be our incompetence." ”。

However, as soon as Oda Matsuji said this, the chief of staff of the brigade and regiment, Kenosa Yamanoda, who reported the situation, coughed secretly, and immediately said: "Brigade commander, General Matsui has already sent two reports to warn my imperial army in Zhangjiakou to strengthen its vigilance. In addition, Admiral Matsui asked them to contact the Zhangbei defenders! They judged that Li Yunlong's department already had a war horse at this time, and its mobility ability was very strong, and it was afraid that it had already hit Zhangbei or Yehuling. ”。

Oda Matsuji was stirred by the cold wind blowing outside the door at this time, and suddenly a flash of inspiration flashed, and then he said in a condensed voice: "Could it be that the chief of staff has already contacted the imperial army in Zhangbei and the imperial army troops stationed in Yehuling?" ”。

"Hay!"

Ken Yamanoda paused and said: "This is the reason why the humble position disturbs the dream of His Excellency the Brigade Commander, and our brigade headquarters has no way to contact the 1st Infantry Brigade of the 19th Infantry Wing of the 2nd Independent Brigade stationed in Zhangbei. And the defenders of the Wild Fox Ridge Fortress can't be contacted by phone! ”。

"Nani?"

Oda Matsuji immediately came to his senses, and Zhang Bei could sit back and watch Oda Matsuji lose his grip without much shock. However, once Yehuling is captured by the enemy, then the enemy army that is attacking south from the north of the Saibei will rush all the way south and enter Zhangjiakou.

"Hurry up, immediately send troops to inspect Yehu Ridge, and order the troops in the city to immediately enter a combat readiness posture. Hurry up and drop! "Although Oda Matsuji arrogantly did not believe that Li Yunlong's troops would break south from the Zhangbei line to the south and enter the pass, the Yehuling Fortress was a key pass in the north of Zhangjiakou.

Once lost to the enemy, then for the 52nd Devil Infantry Brigade in Zhangjiakou, it is no less than a thunderbolt!

Yamanoda Ken immediately said: "Brigade commander, I have urgently sent a small force to the north to see if there is a situation in Yehuling and Zhangbei!" However, I'm afraid it is not optimistic! ”。

Oda Matsuji was about to continue answering, when three obvious signal flares suddenly exploded in the sky north of Zhangjiakou. The flickering and bright fireworks exploded in the sky, and they were so striking that they were almost seen by Oda Matsuji and Ken Yamanoda at the same time.

"Yaga! Flares! As the commander of the Devil Brigade, what exactly is the fireworks that suddenly exploded, Oda Matsuji, who is familiar with the taste of the battlefield, immediately blurted out.

Without waiting for Ken Yamanoda to cry out in surprise, suddenly, the north, west, and east gates of Zhangjiakou were simultaneously hit by a large-scale bombardment of the province!

"Boom, boom!!!"

The deafening explosions came one after another, completely waking up Zhangjiakou, who was sleeping in the early morning.

Ken Yamanoda immediately reacted and shouted loudly: "Brigade commander, enemy attack!" ”。

"Bageya Road, is it really Li Yunlong's troops who have passed through Yehu Ridge? Do you really dare to fight Zhangjiakou City, which is high and thick? Oda Matsuji was dumbfounded, listening to the loud explosions coming from three directions, as well as the fire from the massive shelling!

However, Oda Matsuji, who quickly came back to his senses, immediately ordered: "Call immediately and send the guards of each gate to defend it!" Stop the attack of the Eighth Route Army! Hurry up, order the 104th Infantry Wing, which is stationed in Xuanhua, Yulin and Shacheng, to go north to help Zhangjiakou! Hurry up and drop! ”。

"Brigade commander, transfer the units of the 104th Infantry Wing stationed in Xuanhua and other places to the north, what should we do with those cities?"

Oda Matsuji said angrily: "Eight grid tooth road, first hold Zhangjiakou and then talk." If Zhangjiakou is lost, Li Yunlong's troops will rush through Zhangjiakou and move south towards the northern foot of Hengshan Mountain. You and I may be removed from our posts and investigated by the Front Army Command. Needless to say, do as I commanded! ”。 69 school bags

"Hai, brigade commander!" Ken Yamanoda hurriedly paused, and then walked away.

Oda Matsuji hurried to the command room of the 52nd Brigade Headquarters, and at this time there were less than ten Japanese staff officers at the Brigade Headquarters who rushed to the headquarters.

Seeing that the Japanese staff officers who arrived were still calm, Oda Matsuji immediately ordered a counterattack.

At this time, Li Yunlong had already commanded Zhang Dabiao and other troops to launch a key attack from the west gate, Wanquan, north gate and east gate of Zhangjiakou.

Among them, in the direction of the North Gate, which was the main direction of attack, Wang Chengzhu almost assigned half of the artillery force in his hands to the outside of the North Gate, and shelled the enemy defenders in the North City to cover the onslaught of a battalion.

At this time, the Japanese defenders defending the north gate were the headquarters of the 2nd Infantry Brigade of the 103rd Wing of the 52nd Infantry Brigade of the Devils, with a strength of about 1,000 people.

It's just a hasty onslaught, and it's still a sneak attack by a new group. In addition, at the time of the shelling, the Japanese defenders at the north gate had less than 200 defenders at the head of the city, and most of the rest of the defenders were sleeping in the hiding cave behind the city wall and the military camp in the northern city area.

Suddenly attacked, the two hundred defenders at the head of the city were immediately attacked by a battalion ten times their size.

In less than ten minutes, under the cover of the powerful artillery fire of the artillery battalion, Zhang Dabiao commanded the first battalion to take advantage of the situation to attack the city directly through the blasted city gate.

"Brothers, kill me, rush!" Zhang Dabiao was extremely excited, although the Japanese army's defense was strengthened, most of the enemy troops in the early morning were already asleep.

Although there were still one or two hundred Japanese troops at the north gate at the head of the city, under the suppression of Wang Chengzhu's artillery fire, the Japanese army suffered heavy casualties, and the city gate was quickly blown open with explosives bags by several infantry soldiers of a battalion who broke through to the city gate.

As the city gate was blasted, without waiting for the captain of the devil brigade at the north gate of the Japanese army to react, more than 2,000 soldiers from a battalion had already entered the city under the command of Zhang Dabiao.

At this time, the captain of the Japanese army defending the North Gate, Matata Kumagai, had just rested in the North Gate barracks, and the violent explosion woke up the old devil.

By the time Kumagai had reacted, the artillery fire of the artillery battalion of the new regiment had suppressed the Japanese counterattack at the head of the north gate, and after the city gate was breached, the Japanese army was defeated and retreated by the soldiers of the first battalion like a tide.

This is, Kumagai Matata only knew that there was an enemy army attacking Zhangjiakou in the early morning.

"Baga, hold on, hold on!" Kumagai Matata, who got the battle situation, rushed out of the barracks with a few guards, and directly ordered all the North Gate devil guards in the barracks to rise up to meet the battle. However, the city gate has been breached, and some of the defeated troops have withdrawn to the vicinity of the barracks in the northern city area.

As soon as he saw these routs, Kumagai roared at them!

"Captain, the north gate of the city was blasted open by enemy blasts, and one or two thousand enemy troops have already entered the city, it seems to be the troops of the Eighth Route Army!" There are reports of routs!

At this time, seven or eight infantry guns of the artillery battalion followed by a battalion of soldiers advancing with the army, as well as a large number of mortars, also advanced with the army's attack, and at this time they also continued to follow the Japanese rout.

Seeing that the situation was chaotic, the city gate had been lost, and Kumagai was too helpless, so he directly assembled the rest of the troops and barracks to retreat to the Beicheng Railway Station.