In order to operate and hold Fengxincheng, the Japanese army not only sent thousands of people from the 216th Infantry Wing of the 34th Division to garrison it, but also had a field artillery squadron and a tank squadron.

Together with cavalry, engineers, baggage soldiers, puppet troops, etc., the enemy has at least about 5,000 people in Fengxin, and a small Fengxin city cannot fit so many people at all.

So the commander of the 216th Wing, Ogawa Daisa, sent his troops out to expand the defensive area in the surrounding areas of Fengxin, such as Lion Rock, Wangjialing, Wubu City, Pheasant Tail, Mantou Mountain, Yunwuling and other strategic points.

But it is a pity that the troops sent to these places have all returned, especially Lion Rock and Mantou Mountain, which not only lost their positions, but even lost a lot of troops.

Lion Rock, Wangjialing, and Wubu City, which were far away from Fengxincheng, were forced by the large forces of the Chinese army to gather and oppress, and most of the Japanese troops gave up voluntarily, constantly shrinking their forces, retreating to build a city defense position outside Fengxincheng, and defending Fengxin.

Ogawa Daisa, who was stationed in the headquarters of the 216th Wing in Fengxincheng, was now as anxious as an ant on a hot nest.

His right-hand man, Harada Shaosa, led the Third Infantry Brigade to withdraw from Mantou Mountain, which had been withdrawn since last night, and there was still no news.

It is said that there are 5,000 troops, but after the piecemeal fighting of the guerrilla tactics of the Chinese army at this stage before, more than 1,000 officers and men of the imperial army have been lost, which makes Ogawa Osa very worried, and he has no confidence at all in whether he can hold Fengxin.

It would be nice if Harada's Third Brigade returned, but he didn't know that Harada had been dead in Ganshulong for a long time now, and Ogawa kept urging the radio to connect to Harada's Brigade, but he didn't get any response.

An ominous premonition made Xiao Chuan feel a little chilled, was it that they had already broken the jade in Harada last night? Hopefully not, Harada is a neat infantry brigade.

In this era, if you want to eat an infantry brigade of the Japanese army in one bite, the Chinese army without division level and above cannot do it at all, and it is necessary to have troops above the division level of elite troops.

If an infantry brigade is allowed to be prepared to hold on, the Chinese army of a division-level unit will not be able to take it for a few days.

Therefore, Ogawa Osa still has confidence in his subordinates, it is estimated that Harada and they are in trouble, and I believe that they can get through it and will return to Fengxin today.

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Luo Zhicheng, commander of the third battalion of the 152nd regiment, was also very sad at the moment, if it was at night, the third battalion would be able to accept it even if it was difficult to walk at night, but now in broad daylight, the planes flying from Nanchang overhead were constantly flying to Fengxincheng to drop bombs.

How did the hundreds of people in the third battalion successfully pass through the seven or eight miles of land? This move will inevitably become the target of strafing by Japanese planes, and there will hardly be any chance of backhanding, so they can only passively be beaten by bullets and shells.

These seven or eight miles of land, it is estimated that even if they arrive in Fengxinbei, the third battalion has been almost bombed, how can they still have the strength to attack the city?

Such a senseless sacrifice is really a loss, but the orders from above have to be carried out, and Luo Zhicheng doesn't want to learn from some slippery commanders, so he pulls out a small part of the troops to deal with the orders of his superiors.

It's not interesting to do that at all, it's better to disobey the order directly or tell the truth, this is not Luo Zhicheng's style, nor is it the style of the third battalion.

Luo Zhicheng couldn't bear to continue to look at those lovely soldiers, many of whom were still childish children, curled up together to warm each other and fell asleep.

Let him sleep a little longer, even if it is to death, let them sleep comfortably before dying.

Luo Zhicheng turned his gaze to the guard platoon that was cleaning and cleaning up the battlefield, and the guard platoon Jiang Zhonghan was leading dozens of brothers to bury the sacrificed soldiers, register their identity information, and indicate the place of sacrifice and the place of burial.

Just as they were about to throw the corpses of those devils into a dry pond with their clothes and people, Luo Zhicheng suddenly thought of something and immediately stopped Jiang Zhonghan and them.

In the past, the clothes of these Japanese soldiers would be stripped off by the soldiers, and the clothes of the Japanese soldiers were of good quality and kept warm in them, but now the soldiers are in a hurry to sleep, and no one is going to pick up the clothes of the corpses of these devils.

Luo Zhicheng thought of pulling out the clothes of the devil, but he thought of not only pulling the clothes of the devil, he wanted the troops to put on the uniforms of the Japanese infantry brigade and swaggered to Fengxincheng.

As soon as he thought of this, Luo Zhicheng immediately called a few company commanders, and although everyone was a little worried, there was nothing better than this method at present.

So everyone got up, took off the clothes of the devil's corpse, and put them on directly, and if there were not enough clothes, they changed the Japanese military uniform that they had worn inside and put it on outside.

In order not to cause misunderstanding among the brother troops, Luo Zhicheng sent several scouts wearing the clothes of the Chinese army to set off first, informing the possible brother troops along the way, as well as reconnoitring the possible Japanese troops.

Normally, there are no Chinese troops in this area, but there is no guarantee, because today is the general offensive day of the winter offensive, and maybe some of the troops will break through, and if there is a misunderstanding, they will fight their own people.

However, the Japanese army estimated that there was nothing, and the Japanese 216th Wing had withdrawn most of the Japanese troops around Fengxin and held four or five positions outside Fengxin.

Sure enough, there was hardly a single person along the way, only the Japanese planes in the sky were flying at low altitude, and when they saw the three battalions wearing Japanese uniforms below, they also flapped their wings and shook their heads in greeting.

The soldiers of the third battalion held the plaster flag of the Japanese army and waved upwards in return, and everything was so harmonious.

It's just that when it was almost time for the Japanese army to reach the forward position outside the Fengxin North Gate, Luo Zhicheng transferred Xia Chen, Wang Xinjia, Chen Yanxin, Luo Xian and other people who could speak Japanese to shout to the Japanese army.

But the matter did not go as smoothly as expected, and the Japanese sentries were still very vigilant and loudly demanded to report the passcode, but the third battalion did not know the enemy's temporary change of password.

The Japanese sentry asked for more than one password, it could be a combination password, similar to password encryption, this is even more difficult, it seems that the 216th Wing is not as rough as the infantry brigade last night.

Xia Chen and they had to find an excuse to retreat, Luo Zhicheng saw that he couldn't pass, so he could only launch a surprise attack, while telling Chen Yanxin and them to continue to fight with the devil sentinels.

said that he was his own person who was ordered to come to the aid of Mantou Mountain, and fought several battles with the Chinese army on the way, and even the radio station was damaged, and he could not receive the latest password, so he asked the other party to quickly ask his superiors to let them enter the city.

Taking advantage of this time, the three battalions quickly deployed their forces, pretending to prevent the Chinese army from attacking behind, and built their positions first, pointing their guns at the outside.

The Japanese army replied by calling from above, asking this unknown "Japanese army" to build a position on the spot and defend the forward position outside the north gate of Fengxin.

It seems that the Japanese army did not dare to let the three battalions enter the city before they figured out the situation, and besides, it happened that the North Gate was empty, so it was just called this army to defend, and if there was a situation, it could be prevented.

The vigilance and adaptability of the Japanese army were quite high.