The 21st Division of the Japanese Army was the first to enter Pingding County, and the search team belonging to the division also began to operate in Guanshan Town.

As the search party discovered the defensive positions of the new 2nd Brigade in the town of Guanshan, the commander of the 21st Division, Lieutenant General Washizu Matsudaira, immediately ordered the troops to accelerate their advance.

The 21st Division is a three-wing organization used to be responsible for the garrison, and the division is subordinate to three infantry wings, and at the same time, the division headquarters also has three wings of artillery, engineers, and baggage, and the original cavalry wing is changed to a search team, and the search team has a mechanized infantry squadron and a cavalry squadron.

At half past six o'clock on the morning of the 26th, Washizu Matsudaira set up a division headquarters in Queshan Village, on the border between Pingding County and Yangquan County, and Washizu Matsuhei commanded the operation in Queshan Village.

The 36 75MM mountain guns of the artillery wing set up an artillery position on the high ground behind Queshan Village to cover the front-line troops, while the engineer wing, the baggage wing and the 62nd wing under the 21st Division stayed in Queshan Village and were responsible for the vigilance of the division headquarters, while the 82nd Wing and the 83rd Wing launched a fierce attack on Guanshan Town under the leadership of the 21st Infantry Regiment Major General Kenichi Shenmu.

Because of the 114th Division, the 3rd Brigade of Independent Mixed Brigade, the 1st Brigade of the Melee, and the 4th Brigade of the Cavalry to assist in the operation, Washizu Matsudaira was full of confidence.

The location of the county seat of Pingding County is relatively close to Yangquan County, and as long as the 21st Division takes Guanshan Town, the county seat of Pingding County will be exposed under the nose of the 21st Division.

If the number of Japanese troops participating in the battle was not large, even if Washizu Matsuhei was given great courage, he would not dare to advance so quickly.

However, now that tens of thousands of Japanese troops were fighting together, Washizu Matsudaira believed that the troops of the New Second Brigade were powerless to resist, and he wanted to win a jackpot in this operation.

According to the order of the headquarters of the First Army, the troops of the 21st Division were to assist in the operation, and the real main attack was the Japanese troops on the east and west routes, and the Japanese troops on the east and west routes would take a flanking attack on the New Second Brigade, so as to completely annihilate the troops of the New Second Brigade.

The troops of the 21st Division seemed to be playing the role of soy sauce in this operation, but Washizu Matsudaira was unwilling to accept that his division was just here to fight soy sauce.

If the 21st Division can gain something from the encirclement and annihilation of the New Second Brigade troops, or even if the 21st Division can capture or kill Sun Weiguo alive, Washizu Matsudaira feels that he will get a great meritorious service.

Washizu Matsudaira was unwilling to let himself just come to make soy sauce, and after the troops marched, he gave the troops a battle order.

The search team had already been impatient for the infantry squadron to launch a tentative attack, and the commander of the 21st Infantry Regiment, Major General Kenichi Kamiki, led two wings to march towards Guanshan Town, and the Japanese troops were bound to win Guanshan Town.

Guanshan Town became the first line of operations between China and Japan, and it was also the first battle between the New Second Brigade and the Japanese troops after making up its mind to garrison Pingding County.

The scale of this operation was not very large, the first battalion of the independent regiment had only more than 500 troops, while the Japanese infantry squadron had less than 200 people, and the fighting strength of the two sides was only more than 800 people, but this operation was of great significance to the troops of the new second brigade.

If this operation can be won, it will greatly boost the morale of the troops of the New Second Brigade, but on the contrary, if the battle fails, the morale of the New Second Brigade will inevitably be affected.

Sun Weiguo specially dispatched Zhu Jianwei, deputy chief of staff of the brigade headquarters, to Guanshan Town to assist in commanding, and Sun Weiguo demanded that this operation must be won.

The deployment of the 1st Battalion of the Independent Regiment in Guanshan Town was to adopt two lines of defense, the first line of defense positions was set up outside the town, and the two companies were responsible for defending an area of 1,400 meters, and the second line of defense was set up in the town, with a distance of 1,500 meters between the two defensive positions, and the 4th Company of the 1st Battalion set up artillery positions and machine gun positions 1,000 meters behind the first line of defense positions, which were heavy weapons positions.

Because the Japanese troops began to operate, Ji Haotian, the commander of the first battalion who was originally commanding in the heavy weapons position, had already begun to come to the front line to direct the operation.

THE FIRST LINE DEFENSE HAS A BATTALION OF 1ST COMPANY, 2 COMPANIES, TWO COMPANIES OF 18 LIGHT MACHINE GUNS, 18 GRENADIERS, TWO HEAVY MACHINE GUNS, TWO 60MM MOTARS, SIX SNIPER RIFLES, EIGHTEEN SHELL GUNS AND MORE THAN 200 RIFLES.

The officers and men waited for the arrival of the devil soldiers, and the light and heavy machine gun shooters were ready to shoot, and as soon as the order was given, they began to shoot.

The maximum defensive range of the infantry company is 700 meters, and the maximum offensive range is 500 meters, the Japanese infantry squadron is carrying out a tentative attack, and an infantry squadron pulls out the attack range of two infantry squadrons.

"Battalion commander, it's three hundred meters, the little devils are very scattered, as long as the light and heavy machine guns fire on our side, we will definitely be able to knock out half of this little devil."

The first company commander glanced at the devil soldiers, and then he said to Ji Haotian, the commander of the first battalion beside him.

The commander of the first company held a shell gun in his right hand, and said with an expectant expression on his face that since the troops were replenished with heavy weapons, the morale of the officers and men has been very high, and many officers and men want to compete with the little devils.

Where would they have had the opportunity to equip so many light and heavy machine guns before, even if they were a regiment, they might not have dozens of light and heavy machine guns.

But now it's different, a battalion has six heavy machine guns alone, and they can't dream of such firepower.

In 1938, the 120th Division had more than 20,000 personnel, but there were only 32 heavy machine guns and 15 artillery pieces in the entire division.

But such a unit of the Eighth Route Army, when fighting with the devil soldiers, can still win the battle, which shows the combat effectiveness of the Eighth Route Army.

"You haven't talked to the brigade commander before, and when you have the opportunity in the future, you will have to learn from the brigade commander. A squadron of little devils pulled out a long line of skirmishers, this is not an offensive posture, they are testing us, as long as the light and heavy machine guns on our side fire, the little devils will definitely retreat immediately, our firepower is exposed, the shells of the little devils will come over, the sharpshooters of the first and second companies, snipers listen, the little devils are free to shoot after two hundred meters, light and heavy machine guns, grenadier mortars can not fire, if anyone fires, don't blame me for turning my face and not recognizing people. ”

Ji Haotian gave the order loudly, the little devil, this infantry squadron, is just a test, Ji Haotian will not be fooled.

An infantry squadron of devil soldiers was only two hundred meters away from the first-line position, and the little devils began to stop advancing, and the squadron's nine grenadiers, nine light machine guns, and more than a hundred rifles began to launch fire strikes, and one bullet after another hit the position like no money, but the position did not react.

"Kill, give!" The captain squadron leader began to draw his saber, and the devil soldiers began to charge.