The battle in Yanggu County was very fierce, and although Huyan Evil Quan led a group of troops who had never been on the battlefield, on the one hand, because they occupied an absolute geographical advantage, and on the other hand, because they were much larger than the Yue army, the troops of the two squadrons of the Yue army stormed for more than two hours without any progress at all.

In fact, this is not to say that the combat effectiveness of the army is low, but because Tang Guosheng is a coward. Maybe it's because of his birth, so this guy has always had a serious sense of crisis about his living environment. In addition, although Tang Guosheng's strength is average, this guy is born a human spirit and knows how to protect himself. This is also an important reason why he, a guy who doesn't love his grandmother and uncle, can win the love of his second uncle Tang **, so Tang Guosheng is much more sensitive to the current living environment than ordinary people.

Not long after coming to the small place of Yanggu County, Tang Guosheng felt that in fact, Yue Jun did not value him and his second uncle as much as he imagined, and he himself was more like a proton. The mansion built by the army said that it was to protect him, and the high-walled mansion looked good and safe. But Tang Guosheng knew that Yue Junkai didn't have any good intentions. The high-walled and deep mansion is indeed very safe, coupled with the standard light and dark bunkers built by them, not to mention ordinary people, even those strong people who come and go may not be able to please in the Tang Mansion, but once the door is closed, how does this Tang family mansion look like a big prison. In addition, the army sent people to patrol the mansion almost 24 hours a day. This made Tang Guosheng, a person who was particularly suspicious, even more uneasy, so Tang Guosheng strengthened the Tang family's mansion with the tacit consent of the Yue Army, and built a large number of bunkers. At the same time, in order to increase the wide field of vision of shooting, Tang Guosheng ordered his subordinates to collect all the houses around the Tang Mansion, and then pushed them to build a trench with a width of three meters and a length of more than 700 meters.

Originally, Tang Guosheng was going to use this trench and the bunker group of the Tang Mansion to protect himself, but who would have imagined that Huyan Evil Quan and the others would come so quickly. Before his people could react, a large number of "refugees" were swallowed up by the sudden appearance of "refugees". Tang Guosheng, who knew very well that he knew these powerful people, did not dare to stay here, and led more than 150 housekeepers and his wife and children to escape from Dongcheng District of Yanggu County as quickly as possible.

Tang Guosheng fled, but he left a big enough Lan stall for Yue Jun. At the first time Tang Guosheng fled, Huyan Evil Power sent an infantry battalion to the Tang family's mansion, and at the same time sent an infantry battalion to the trenches on the periphery of the Tang Mansion, and set up more than ten heavy machine guns outside the Tang family's mansion.

To be honest, if you count it based on the real combat strength of the two sides, the more than 1,000 troops of the Huyan family are really not the opponents of the Yue army. Not to mention anything else, the military is much higher in terms of weaponry, equipment, and personnel quality alone. Most of the troops of the Huyan family still use Hanyang-made, and the better ones are Zhongzheng, and only a few of them use German-made Mauser rifles. In terms of individual heavy weapons, the troops of the Huyan family have nothing but some heavy machine guns. However, in addition to the two heavy machine guns in each infantry squadron, there was also a heavy machine gun squadron equipped with eight Type 92 heavy machine guns. At the same time, the Yanggu County Army Brigade also has a mortar squadron equipped with four mortars and an artillery squad equipped with two Type 92 infantry guns. And the elite infantry 42nd Brigade, which is the elite of the 10th Brigade of Reading Force, is even more well-equipped, not to mention the local troops formed by the Huyan family themselves, even those descendants of the Central Army under Lao Jiang can't compare.

As far as the source of the soldiers is concerned, the vast majority of the soldiers in the army are predators who have undergone rigorous training, although most of the soldiers of the 10th Brigade are composed of soldiers in the township, that is, reservists, but in fact, the military level of these people is very good. The officers were drawn from the major field divisions and regiments, and their tactical literacy was very good. As for the source of the Huyan family's troops, there are three major parts, the first and largest one is selected from the displaced people who fled north or south, which accounts for more than half of the total strength of the Huyan family; The other is a part of the soldiers and officers brought out of the army by Huyan Evil Power, these people are an important part of the backbone members and officers of the various units of the Huyan family, accounting for less than a quarter of all the soldiers of the Huyan family; The last piece is the elite selected from the major underworld gangs controlled by the Huyan family, these people are brave and experienced in combat.

Although they have been cultivated by the Huyan family for so many years, the combat level of these people, especially the actual combat experience, is still weak and pitiful. Combat effectiveness is not something that can be solved by training alone, and it is impossible for a person who has not been on the battlefield and has not really seen blood to become a real soldier. Therefore, in terms of the quality of the soldiers, the troops of the Huyan family are still far inferior to the defenders of Yanggu County. Although the soldiers of the Huyan family looked tall and big, they suffered a big loss as soon as they first engaged, but an hour later, although the troops of the Huyan family suffered heavy casualties, they became more and more courageous. The participating troops of the Yue army launched more than a dozen squad-level charges, but they were all repelled by Huyan Evil Power.

The front-line commander of the Yue army saw that the situation was becoming more and more unfavorable for the Yue army, so he reorganized his troops and began to charge, launching a squadron-level group charge. This time, the main attack was the 1st Squadron of the Yamada Brigade, and the squadron leader, Captain Ueharada. Huyan Evil Quan looked at the hundreds of corpses of the Yue army in front of the trench, and there was an indescribable pride in his heart. Not to mention that they are not even a local army like a ragtag army, even if it is the elite of the Central Army, there is a unit that can kill and wound hundreds of little devils almost at one to one, and such a record will definitely cause an uproar.

However, Huyan Evil Power is not ready to stop there, his goal this time is not just as simple as severely damaging the Yue army. Now that more than half of the combat troops of the Yue army have been attracted to Dongcheng District by him, the other half of his remaining troops will definitely have great gains. Seeing that Yue Jun came up murderously again, Huyan Evil Quan sneered in his heart, and said secretly: "Come on, come on, come as many as you want, the more the better, and there will be a time for you to cry." ”

This time, the army was more cautious, and all the little devils bent their waists low, and even the guy who was holding the pair of "sanitary napkins" looked extremely "low-key", and he was not as invincible as before. Huyan Evil Power is not a good person, he can see that this is the prelude to a wave charge. So immediately beckoned the soldiers to prepare for battle, and after two or three hours of fighting, Huyan Evil Quan had already gained some experience in fighting against the Yue army. Therefore, when the army had not yet launched a charge, he organized more than 30 sharpshooters who were extremely accurate in their usual training to act as snipers.

Not to mention these 30 or so people, the effect is really good. At present, Shandong's army has not suffered the losses of Han Yunhua's troops, and it has not yet learned that China has troops that have mastered the elite of special operations, let alone the horror of special forces. Despite the blows of Han Yunhua's subordinates, the Yue army also began to popularize some concepts of special operations among various field units. However, that was only the troops stationed in the First Army in Shanxi and the surrounding areas of Beiping, and as for Shandong, a place that had just been severely hit by the puppet army, the little devils had not yet begun to receive training in this area. Therefore, although these "snipers" of Huyan Evil Power are just a grass platform team, they have also submitted a satisfactory answer. There is no shortage of sharpshooters in the first squadron of the Yamada Brigade, but because they have not received systematic special training, these excellent devil soldiers are just relatively good soldiers, and they cannot form a real special force, let alone combat effectiveness, which is a serious waste of the army's combat effectiveness.

Soon after the battle in the east of the city began, Huyan Evil Power secretly ordered the troops in the west of the city to begin to assemble. Although Huyan Evil Power only attracted a little more than half of the devils in the city to the east of the city. However, Apeiichiro Shaozo was afraid that there would be reinforcements outside the city to rescue Huyan Evil Power, so he specially transferred two squadrons of infantry to strengthen the defense of the city wall and the city gate.

Therefore, Huyan Evil Power caught up with a good time, and only a small number of devils were patrolling in the inner city of Yanggu County. More than 1,000 elite soldiers of the Huyan family quickly gathered in Xicheng District, Yanggu County, and quickly killed the gendarmerie headquarters where Ampeiichiro Shaozo was located under the command of Huyan's vicious killing.

Ampeiichiro Shaozo was also born at the wrong time, and he was originally considered a masterpiece at the Imperial Army University, but since he sent troops to China, especially recently, Ampeiichiro Shaozo can be regarded as unlucky, and he was overwhelmed by unknown enemies, and today he was inexplicably attacked into the city, as a samurai who advocates the spirit of bushido, this is more sad than killing him.

However, the current situation is relatively urgent, and the Chinese [***] team is carrying out fierce sabotage in various areas of Liaocheng, and sometimes a transport team of the Yue army is likely to encounter more than a dozen interceptions during a single transport. Therefore, whether it is Lieutenant General Otaka Kamezo, the supreme commander of the army stationed in Shandong, or Major General Nobu Mizuno, the commander of the 10th Brigade of the Reading Army, they are all at a loss, and if the big leaders above are not happy, then Apeiichiro and others at the level of other small soldiers will be in big trouble. Within one day, Ampeiichiro Shaozo received an order from His Excellency the commander of the Third Brigade, asking them to clear the remaining armed forces of China in Yanggu County within a week, otherwise they would come to see them.

However, the battle in the east of the city has not been smooth, let alone the total annihilation of this bold [***] team, even if it is defeated, it has become a luxury. The anxious Abeichiro is now like an ant on a hot pot, he knows very well that Yanggu County at this time is no longer Yanggu County a few months ago, and maybe there are many potential threats at this time just peeping at him. The sky in Yanggu County is about to change, and the enemies are by no means the ones he imagined, and there are several powerful existences that he didn't know until now.

Apeiichiro Shaozo also understood that if the battle in the east of the city continued like this, it would definitely be a disaster for them, and the reinforcements should not be considered, the 10th Brigade of Reading was just a second-line garrison brigade that had just been formed, and it was full of strength according to the establishment. However, the real elite units of the Yue army will have one or two wings of supplementary troops, which is why a field division of the Yue army will reach a terrifying number of more than 30,000 people, which can compete with two or three units at the middle [***] level. There is no doubt that the fighting strength of the army is strong, and another important reason is that the actual number of divisions and regiments of the army, which was originally equivalent to the level of the Kuomintang division, is much larger than that of the Kuomintang army. Therefore, it is not necessarily true to always scold the [***] team for its low combat effectiveness.

However, these good treatments are only compared to those field divisions and regiments, and second-line units such as the 10th Brigade and Regiment are only second-rate in the establishment of the army, not to mention that their combat effectiveness cannot be compared with that of field divisions and regiments, and even the treatment is far from being able to be compared. The 10th Brigade of Reading Force had only five infantry brigades and some auxiliary units, and the total strength was not small, with more than 6,700 people.

Liaocheng is located in the economically developed Shandong Province, Juluxi, Henan and Hebei, and is located at the junction of the three administrative regions of East China, North China and Central China. The Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, which represents China's commercial civilization, and the Yellow River, which represents agricultural civilization, converge here, Liaocheng not only plays a central role in radiating the border areas of Hebei, Shandong, and Henan and driving the economic development of western Luxi, but also is an important channel for economic, technological and cultural exchanges with Shanxi, Hebei and other inland provinces. The total area under the jurisdiction of Liaocheng is 12,000 square kilometers. It has jurisdiction over 9 counties, 169 townships (towns and sub-district offices), and 5,645 administrative villages (neighborhood committees).

Therefore, the political, military, and cultural aspects of the entire Liaocheng are irreplaceable for the entire Shandong Province, but it is such a strategic place, and the army only put an infantry brigade plus some two devils. This is not to say that the military does not attach importance to Liaocheng, still less that the senior officers of the military lack strategic vision. In fact, there is a reason for this, on the one hand, the Chinese resistance forces are not strong in Shandong, Shandong is not Shanxi, in addition to the active guerrillas of the Eighth Route Army in Shanxi, there is also Yan Xishan, an old warlord who is decisive and ruthless, so Shanxi presents a chaotic situation, and in some areas, there will even be more than three county magistrates in a county, and the deputy county magistrates will even reach seven or eight terrifying.

However, Shandong was different, the entire Shandong region was one of the first provinces to fall during the Chinese War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, and the great warlord of Shandong at that time, Han Fuqu, had the luck of preserving his strength, and almost ceded the Shandong region to the Yue army. Except for a part of the troops led by the Ai [***] officer who remained in Shandong to continue the resistance, the rest all obediently withdrew from Shandong. Of course, Han Fuqu's final ending also got the punishment he deserved, but as a general who sits on one side, you are very active when you are a fish and a common man, but when the external turmoil comes, you are the first to take the lead in escaping, and it is not a pity for such a person to die.

Although the Kuomintang also fought several major battles in Shandong, and even won such a glorious victory as Taierzhuang, due to the huge disparity in the strength of the enemy and ourselves, it finally had no choice but to withdraw from Shandong. As for [***] The strength in Shandong is even weaker, and the large army of the Eighth Route Army has developed rapidly into Shandong, but it was beaten out of Shandong by the army. At present, Shandong is peaceful in the eyes of the top level of the army, the people "live and work in peace and contentment", the political axe "performs its own duties", and all walks of life are "thriving", so only one infantry brigade is stationed in the Liaocheng area.

More importantly, Liaocheng is located in Luxi, not too far from Jinan and the military town of Jining, and it is only four or five hours by train, how can an infantry brigade last for five hours, and then the troops of Jining and Jinan will send reinforcements in a very short time. Therefore, Lieutenant General Otaka Kamezo thinks that although Liaocheng is very important, there is no need to station many troops. In addition, out of absolute trust in the combat effectiveness of the Imperial Army, Otaka Kamezo did not think that there would be any forces in Shandong that would allow the Imperial Army to use troops at the division and regiment level, and the troops stationed at the brigade level were already very face-saving for the Chinese.

But no one expected that the invincible Imperial Army would be repulsed by the escort of a small family before it had gone far. Not to mention the loss of soldiers, they will be embarrassed, and now they are even more beaten by others. Ampeiichiro Shaozo was about to collapse, and when he heard that the battle in Dongcheng District was still going on, and there was still no way to take those thousand and hundreds of people. In desperation, Apeiichiro Shaozo had no choice but to let his junior brother Yamada Shaozo go to command the battle on the front line, while he himself stayed in the command headquarters to sit in charge of the overall situation.

Not long after Yamada left, a large number of "troops" dressed as peasants appeared on the periphery of the military police headquarters in the western part of the city, numbering more than 1,000 people and equipped with a large number of automatic weapons. These people did not hide their whereabouts, and rushed all the way to the gendarmerie headquarters to kill them.

At this time, Ampeiichiro Shaozo was staring closely at the map on the wall at the military police headquarters to figure out a way, and Tang Guosheng on the sofa was trembling. Ampeiichiro Shaozo looked at the person in front of him with disgust, and asked unhappily: "Tang Sang (sir), do you have any authentic work in your residence, and the progress of our frontal attacking troops is not going well. We work at great loss, and you work quickly and thoughtfully. ”

(To be continued)