Chapter 371: Mission Complete Prepare to retreat

Lin'an County, Western Hebei Region. Lin'an Town. The bright moon is in the sky, as bright as day.

At this time, it was the second half of the night, and the battle in Lin An Town was still raging.

After the four companies of the reinforced battalion of the Eighth Route Army Supplementary Regiment captured the four town gates in the east, west, south and north respectively, they invariably divided half of their forces to attack the town, launched a siege on all sides with the Japanese headquarters in the center of the town as the target, and gradually advanced forward. The soldiers made full use of the dense alleys and alleys that were as dense as spider's webs and extended in all directions to engage in street battles with the Japanese army.

Some of the soldiers in the reinforcement battalion were originally the children of farmers in Lin'an County, and they often came and went to Lin'an Town before joining the Eighth Route Army. Therefore, they know the alleys and alleys of the town well and well. The soldiers who have never been to Lin'an Town are also very familiar with the construction characteristics and trends of alleys and alleys in northern towns and villages. All, the street fight in the middle of the night is handy, flexible, free to advance and retreat, sometimes advance and retreat, sometimes gather and sometimes disperse, fight if you win, and leave if you can't win. Never entangled with the Japanese army, let alone fight with the Japanese army. The fighting styles of street fighting, night fighting, and guerrilla warfare were brought into full play.

The troops sent out by the Japanese commander Kawatani Shaosa were scattered by the Eighth Route Army, and a group here and there, like headless flies, slammed around. The Eighth Route Army, which is elusive, haunting, advancing and retreating, gathering and scattering, is at a loss and has nothing to do. I don't know when I'm going to be killed by a bullet coming from nowhere, or when I'm going to be killed or injured by a * that flew from nowhere. Under the supervision of the officers, the terrified and frightened devil soldiers cautiously searched and moved forward in the labyrinthine alleys and alleys, shooting blindly.

Han Dagang carried a crooked machine gun and led a few soldiers with He Zhongliang and a dozen lightly wounded soldiers of the Imperial Association Army under him to walk through the alleys and alleys all the way. Soon came to the street not far from the headquarters of the Japanese army. At the mouth of the alley, Han Dagang gave the soldiers and He Zhongliang a battle order, and He Zhongliang nodded and led the soldiers of the Imperial Association Army to turn around and run into the alley on the west side of the alley.

The south gate of the Japanese headquarters was heavily defended, and behind the fortifications surrounded by sacks in a semicircle on the street, there was a row of devil soldiers of about a squad of less than a squadron, and two crooked machine guns, four grenadier gunners in the middle of the fortifications were ready for shelling, and Type 92 heavy machine guns were erected on the sacks on the steps of the headquarters gate. The Japanese army was heavily fortified and armed with guns.

The Japanese troops in the fortifications outside the north gate of the Japanese headquarters were also blocking the attack of the Eighth Route Army.

With Han Dagang's low order, more than a dozen * flew from the mouth of the alley to the fortification on the front street of the Japanese headquarters more than 30 meters away, and in the violent explosion and thick gunsmoke, more than a dozen soldiers immediately rushed out of the alley with agility, and then immediately dispersed and hid behind a row of thick trees opposite the Japanese headquarters to shoot at the enemy. A soldier lay on his stomach at the mouth of the alley, clutching a crooked machine gun and firing fiercely at the Japanese soldiers.

A group of devil soldiers ran out of the gate of the headquarters, bowed their heads, bent down the steps, ran into the fortifications, and dragged the devil soldiers who were killed and injured into the gate. Then another group of devil soldiers ran out of the headquarters, lying behind the sack fortifications and firing back. For a short time, the two sides formed a stalemate of shooting at each other.

Hegu Shaozo was furious in the headquarters, shouting and constantly ordering telegrams, urging the Japanese army in Lin'an County to quickly increase troops to support.

Takagi Hirotomo, temporarily replacing Ono Shosa, the acting commander of the Japanese army in Lin'an County, issued an order to send troops to reinforce the town of Lin'an. A small group of Japanese troops quickly assembled and were ready to go outside the south gate of the county seat. However, the two companies of the Imperial Association army gathered together in a procrastinating and slow manner, and only came to the south gate unhurriedly more than ten minutes later than the scheduled time.

Takagi Hirochi was furious and angry at the commander of the Imperial Association military camp who led the team, and after shouting and reprimanding, he loudly ordered the two companies of the Imperial Association Army to immediately march quickly towards Lin'an Town, and a small group of Japanese troops followed suit. Hiroshi Takagi sat in the sidecar of the three-wheeled motorcycle and followed behind.

The soldiers of the Imperial Association Army on the march were all frightened and panicked, and they all knew that they might never be able to return to the county seat standing again, but would lie down and go back to their hometown. So, as they walked, they deliberately slowed down to stall for time, trying to die a little later or save their lives. On the first day, the second lieutenant of the Japanese army ran to the front of the Imperial Allied Army and loudly questioned why the company commander of the Imperial Allied Army had slowed down. The company commander replied that the purpose of slowing down the march was to observe whether there were any * and tripping mines planted by the Eighth Route Army on the main road, so as not to accidentally step on them and explode. The second lieutenant strictly ordered the Imperial Allied Army to speed up the march and delay the military law of the fighters.

Two trucks were seen heading south, reaching an intersection and heading west. Fang Jiren also ordered the two scouts to immediately drive away the two trucks parked on the main road and return to the special column station in Linhe Township, where their comrades would pick up and cover them along the way. Two scouts took the order.

One of the team members strode over with a rifle in his hand, panting, and reported to Francis that a large force of the enemy was coming, and it was still six or seven hundred meters away.

Fang Jiren ordered more than a dozen members of the team to jump off the ditch on the west side of the main road, and lined up in the north and south to prepare to drop bombs, and the grenadiers were ready to be fired.

The devil soldiers in front of the Japanese army headquarters in Lin'an Town fired fiercely and intensively at the Eighth Route Army, which was hiding behind a big tree and at the mouth of an alley more than 30 meters across the street, causing sparks to splash everywhere.

Han Dagang sat in the alley, took out his pocket watch and put it in front of his eyes, and took a closer look at it by the bright moonlight, which was ten minutes and three o'clock. I thought in my heart: It's almost over, the task has been completed, and we are waiting for He Zhongliang's action.

Suddenly, He Zhongliang rushed from the west street of the Japanese headquarters with more than a dozen soldiers of the Imperial Allied Army shouting and launched an attack on the Eighth Route Army.

Han Dagang ordered the soldiers to immediately drop bombs on the Japanese fortifications. Under the cover of the explosions and the smoke of gunpowder, the fighters quickly retreated into the alley to stop shooting.

He Zhongliang led the soldiers to rush into the headquarters and came to Hegu Shaozuo, who praised He Zhongliang's loyalty and courage to the imperial army, and ordered him to lead a small team of imperial troops to kill out, repel and defeat the Eighth Route Army. He Zhongliang patted his chest and said to Hegu that he would definitely defeat the Eighth Route Army and recover Lin'an Town. After speaking, He Zhongliang led the troops away.

He Zhongliang came to the outside of the headquarters and loudly ordered to open fire on the Eighth Route Army hiding in the alley. The Japanese rifles, light and heavy machine guns opened fire in full force, and the gunfire was loud like a storm.

Han Dagang ordered the soldiers to hide themselves and then fired back at the Japanese army. He then pulls out his flare gun and fires three green flares into the night sky.