At six o'clock in the afternoon, the battle in Datong City continued.

The situation of the battle deteriorated further, and the Japanese puppet army had been sharply reduced to less than 800 men, and was compressed within a radius of less than 500 meters in the middle of the city.

But it is not so easy for the attacking forces to destroy them in a short time.

Actual combat is the fastest way for a person to form combat effectiveness, whether it is the Eighth Route Army or the Japanese army, this method will work.

Survival of the fittest, after a day of street fighting, the few remaining Japanese troops are almost all veterans and elites, not to mention strong combat effectiveness, and they are becoming more and more adapted to street fighting.

The expatriates with poor combat effectiveness are also fighting more and more, and as long as they live, they must have practiced their life-saving skills.

In this case, the attacking force had to pay a great price for every Japanese army destroyed.

Fortunately, Chief of Staff Zhou has enough time and troops to grind slowly with the devils,

He was not in a hurry at all, and constantly ordered the troops to fight steadily and steadily, not to rush forward, to attack courtyard by courtyard, to advance step by step, and to force them out to fight a decisive battle with the attacking troops by compressing the enemy's position......

In a small mountain village about 40 kilometers east of Datong City, Li Hao had determined the troop assembly place before dividing his troops.

Before it got dark, troops rushed over one after another to report.

By seven o'clock in the evening, the small village was already crowded with troops of all kinds.

In order to avoid exposing the target, the soldiers who returned to the village had to stay and rest in the forest outside the village.

A staff officer hurriedly walked into the temporary regiment headquarters: "Regiment commander, except for the two companies that have not yet been established, the other troops have all been assembled, are having dinner, and can set off at any time." ”

Li Hao nodded, looked at Chen Wei, the commander of the reconnaissance company on the side, and asked, "Have you contacted the transport team lurking nearby?" ”

"It's all connected!" Chen Wei hurriedly replied.

"The car transport company in the base area can come over within half an hour, and the transport company we temporarily set up in Datong can come over within an hour."

"Minus the cars that broke down last night, there are still 98 cars in the two companies that can participate in the transport."

"I will definitely be able to send all the troops to the front before dawn."

"Good!" Li Hao was very satisfied with the order: "Then we will act according to the previously planned transportation plan: guard company, special agent company, independent company, reconnaissance company, Hunyuan independent battalion go first, and the other troops will be transported in the second round!" ”

On the Laiyuan battlefield, because the Japanese army deliberately slowed down the pace of the attack, they were finally stopped in front of the seventh line of defense.

After dark, both the enemy and our armies chose to stop, recuperate, and wait for tomorrow to fight again.

Of course, this is all on the surface.

The struggle between the two sides in the shadows has not stopped, but has intensified.

The Japanese mobilized almost all of their spies lurking inside the garrison regiment to determine whether the local troops and guerrillas formed by the garrison regiment had really arrived at the Laiyuan battlefield.

The security department did not let go of this opportunity, and all the staff were dispatched and achieved great results.

"Report ......" He Wenlin, the head of the security department, ran into the headquarters with a smile on his face.

"Political commissar, chief of staff, tonight the security department has achieved the biggest victory since its establishment, six spies have been caught who have been lurking for more than two years, and dozens of ordinary spies have been arrested, all of whom are investigating the whereabouts of local troops and guerrillas."

Wang Hong's focus didn't seem to be on these spies, his face was not shocked, he stared at He Wenlin and asked, "Have you sent out the information they collected?" ”

He Wenlin replied confidently: "Political commissar, rest assured, I will specifically explain to you before the operation: you must wait for the enemy to take action before you can close the net." ”

"So most of the information was sent!"

Wang Hong continued to ask: "Are the few spies lurking in the army still there?" ”

He Wenlin nodded and replied, "It's all there!"

"Through them, we have found two routes for devils to send information out."

"Although the level of these spies pretending to be recruits is not high, because they are inside our garrison group, the devils attach great importance to them and have arranged a large number of peripheral agents to cooperate with them."

"I'm going to use them to catch all of these outside agents before I attack them."

"It's good that you haven't moved!" A sneer suddenly flashed at the corner of Wang Hong's mouth, and he stared at He Wenlin and Hong Linfeng and began to give orders.

"The Japanese army will do whatever it takes to spy on the movements of our local troops and guerrillas, with one purpose, to wipe us out here."

"Since the regiment commander asked us to cooperate with the little devils to act, so that they are convinced of their battle plan, then we will play this scene more realistically!"

"Chief of Staff, how many local troops and guerrillas have we drawn during the day already in place?"

Hong Linfeng blurted out: "There are more than 1,300 people, and nearly 1,000 people are on the way." ”

"Enough!" Wang Hong directly began to give orders.

"The follow-up local troops continue to rush here."

"The troops that are already in place will immediately move and dig four more lines of defense behind our eighth line of defense, and give the Japanese a posture that we are going to fight them to the death here."

"Let the nearby guerrillas find a way to organize 2,000 ordinary people to join us and help us dig trenches and repair positions."

"The recruits who transport the wounded during the day will also join, and those spies are hiding among the recruits, and I will send this information out through them and continue to confuse the devils."

The Japanese military headquarters in Taiyuan was brightly lit in the war room, and everyone did not rest, headed by the army commander, standing next to the huge combat sand table.

The chief of staff held the baton in his hand and pointed to the sand table to introduce today's results to everyone.

"Your Excellency Army Commander, the Datong garrison reports: Today, during the day, the offensive of the Eighth Route Army was as fierce as ever, and the attack did not stop for a minute.

"After dark, the offensive was more fierce than during the day, and all the mountain artillery that had not dared to be used during the day was used."

"So they judged that the main force of the garrison regiment did not return to the reinforcements because of the attack on the base area, and planned to capture Datong first, and then return to the base area."

"I agree with their judgment."

"On the Laiyuan battlefield, at the special request of the military headquarters, the attacking troops only took six lines of defense of the garrison regiment and stopped."

"Just now the military department received a new piece of information, which came from within the garrison regiment, and there are several copies, the content is the same, and the accuracy is extremely high."

"It said that more than 1,000 local troops who were transferred to the battlefield by the garrison regiment during the day began to dig trenches and repair blocking positions."

"Local troops, guerrillas, recruits, and civilians in the vicinity, totaling more than 4,000 people, built four blocking positions at the same time, just behind the blocking positions we attacked during the day."

"It must have been the daytime battle that gave the garrison hope of holding back our attacking troops."

"Then I plan to repeat the old trick, build a few more blocking positions on the battlefield, block at every level, use space for time to drag us down, buy time for the main force to capture Datong, and then return to the base area."

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