Yangqu County is located in the area north of Taiyuan City, the capital of Shanxi Province, and is the gateway to the north of Taiyuan City.

At present, the troops of the 120th Division have been stationed in Yangqu County, and the division headquarters of the 120th Division is set up in the Nanliangshan area of Yangqu County.

However, the troops of the 120th Division never fought with the Japanese troops stationed in Yangqu County, and the Japanese troops did not take the initiative to attack.

As we all know, Japan is an island country, and compared to China's huge area, Japan is like a small bug.

Although the Japanese troops captured the Chinese towns, they had begun to realize that as they captured more towns, they had fewer and fewer troops to mobilize, and their supply lines were constantly being stretched.

At the beginning of the Sino-Japanese War, the Japanese army relied on well-trained soldiers and sophisticated equipment to defeat millions of Chinese troops in one fell swoop.

Tactically, the Japanese army rarely lost, but strategically, from the very beginning, the Japanese army was doomed.

Every time the Japanese army tried to encircle and annihilate China's main force, the strategy ended in failure, whether it was the previous Battle of Songhu or the Battle of Xuzhou that occurred soon, the Japanese army's strategic goal of encircling and annihilating China's main force has never been achieved.

The huge occupation area held back many Japanese troops, and even as the northern gateway to Taiyuan, the capital of Shanxi Province, there was only one reinforced Japanese brigade to garrison it.

The Japanese troops stationed in Yangqu County were numbered as the 1st Brigade of the 41st Infantry Wing of the 9th Brigade of the 5th Division, and the captain was Satoshi Matsumotogi.

In addition to this infantry brigade, they also had a reinforced mountain artillery squadron at the wing headquarters, equipped with four 41 mountain guns.

After all, Yangqu County is the northern gateway of the provincial capital Taiyuan City, and the headquarters of the Fifth Division of the Japanese Army is also stationed in Taiyuan City, and the Japanese army still pays great attention to the defense here.

Because East Huangshui Town is directly facing the 120th Division Headquarters here, Matsumoto Mu Satoshi set up his brigade headquarters in East Huangshui Town, and he deployed a brigade artillery squadron, a mountain artillery squadron, a machine gun squadron, and an infantry squadron in East Huangshui Town, and more than 300 Japanese troops were deployed in East Huangshui Town.

Matsumoto's 9th Brigade was transferred to the Songhu battlefield in the previous operation, and the 9th Brigade also participated in the attack on Nanjing with the 6th, 9th, 13th, 16th, and 18th divisions, and followed the above divisions to cause the Nanjing Massacre.

Before coming to China, Satoshi Matsumoto was only the rank of Shaosa, and after coming to China, he was promoted to the rank of Nakasa.

The Japanese soldiers have a very fanatical mentality, they are very concerned about their military ranks, especially the officers of the Dazuo level, they are very crazy.

Like many Japanese soldiers, Matsumoto Satoshi also cares about military ranks, especially after being promoted to Nakasa, which makes Matsumoto Satoshi see hope, he is only one step away from being promoted to the rank of Osa, and when he is promoted to the rank of Osa, then the rank of major general is in front of his eyes.

"Captain, according to our judgment, there should be about two regiments of the Eighth Route Army troops operating in Yangqu County, and according to the report of the division and regiment headquarters, it is very likely that there is a command system at or above the brigade level of the Eighth Route Army in Yangqu County." An officer with the rank of lieutenant came to Satoshi Matsumoto, and he reported with a serious expression.

The troops of the Ninth Brigade were transferred back to the Fifth Division from Central China not long ago, and the officers and men of the Ninth Brigade did not look at the troops of the Eighth Route Army.

Even if Shanxi was rumored about how powerful the troops of the Eighth Route Army were, and how many Japanese troops were annihilated by Sun Weiguo's independent regiment, these officers and soldiers of the Ninth Brigade did not care at all.

In their opinion, China's most elite German armament divisions have been defeated by their own troops, and local armaments like the Eighth Route Army are nothing at all.

What's more, the troops of the Independent Regiment, which had made the Japanese troops worried, had been annihilated in the previous battle, so Matsumoto Satoshi was very arrogant.

He set his sights on the Eighth Route Army in Yangqu County, and he wanted to make meritorious contributions by eliminating this Eighth Route Army unit, so that he could wear the rank of Dazuo earlier.

"The troops of the two regiments, it seems that there should be a brigade headquarters of the Eighth Route Army here in Yangqu County."

Satoshi Matsumoto looked at the map, a pensive expression on his face.

"Captain, the Tongpu Railway has recently been attacked, and His Excellency the Division Commander has asked us to strictly defend our respective jurisdictions, and we are not allowed to attack without his orders. Moreover, the troops of the Eighth Route Army are very cunning, and if we act rashly, we may not achieve any results. ”

After a moment's hesitation, the lieutenant officer whispered his advice.

The Tongpu Railway was attacked by the 120th Division, and the Japanese army also sent a small force to encircle and annihilate it, but the small force sent by the Japanese army was quickly eaten by the 120th Division, and when Itagaki Seishiro dispatched thousands of Japanese troops to encircle and annihilate, the 120th Division troops would quickly disperse, so that the Japanese army could not find it at all.

In desperation, Itagaki Seishiro could only transfer part of his troops to form a mobile force to deal with possible battles, and at the same time, he strictly ordered the Japanese troops guarding various counties not to attack, because Itagaki Seishiro had already received information that the Jin Sui army might counterattack Taiyuan.

The lieutenant officer obviously didn't want to disobey the order of the division commander, but Matsumoto Mu Satoshi, who was bent on improving his rank, couldn't listen to these words at all.

"If we can knock out the brigade headquarters of the Eighth Route Army, we may be able to directly solve the problem of the Eighth Route Army breaking the Tongpu Railway. For these troops of the Eighth Route Army, we must not take a defensive position, we must attack boldly, only in this way can we completely eliminate them. Satoshi Matsumoto said with a serious expression.

The captain officer looked at Satoshi Matsumoto with a serious expression, and he didn't dare to say anything more.

Sun Weiguo would not have thought that he wanted to fight the idea of the Japanese army in East Huangshui Town, but the Japanese officers in East Huangshui Town wanted to start the idea of the 120th Division, of course, the Japanese army did not know that they were regarded as the brigade headquarters of the Eighth Route Army command system, which was actually the division headquarters of the 120th Division.

Outside Donghuangshui Town, Sun Weiguo and the cadres above the squad level of the reconnaissance company have already arrived here, and at this time, Sun Weiguo is holding a telescope to check the situation in Donghuangshui Town.

Seeing that in addition to the Japanese troops stationed in East Huangshui Town, there were also some personnel wearing black clothes and black pants and carrying shell guns stationed there, Sun Weiguo had a smile on his face.

He began to give lectures to the cadres of the reconnaissance company, imparting to them the relevant experience of reconnaissance and telling them the importance of catching smugglers.

In the afternoon, twelve men in black clothes and black pants left Donghuangshui Town on bicycles, Sun Weiguo saw this scene, and he hurriedly ordered the soldiers to get ready.

Four of the reconnaissance company, including Ge Haifeng, were armed with shell guns, and the nine squad leaders were carrying rifles on their backs.

They all came on war horses, and after Ge Haifeng received the order to capture the prisoners, he began to take the initiative to ask for help, and Sun Weiguo also agreed.