"The military seat, the military seat, the news from the three regiments on the front line has successfully taken the outer positions of Jingcheng County! Now Jingcheng County has been surrounded! Chief of Staff Liu Cheng walked into the headquarters with an excited face.

"What? So fast? Zhang Mingyu asked in surprise. You must know that it has been less than an hour since the attack of the third regiment began, and it seems that even the sound of gunfire has not been heard.

"That's right, it was the Fifth Regiment of the Imperial Association Army that was guarding the outer position, and as soon as our people arrived at the place, the commander of the Fifth Regiment of the Imperial Association Army led all his troops to surrender, and the Third Regiment took the position without a single shot!" Liu Cheng explained with a smile.

"Great, let this pseudo-legion leader come to see me immediately, it seems that this person is still Mingzhi." Zhang Mingyu applauded.

A few families are happy and a few are sad, and the reading force is full of joy.

And in Jingcheng County, Xiao Yan Zechuan roared extremely angrily: "Bagaya Road! Damn the Chinese people! Dead, dead, dead! ”

Xiao Yan Zechuan's eyes at this time can kill, he originally put the fifth regiment in the front, which was used as cannon fodder to offset the sharpness of the reading army, but he had no hateful Zhao Sihai actually led his troops to surrender. Now it's a matter of stealing chickens and rice.

The deputy captain, Captain Fushang, hurriedly persuaded: "Captain, now that the people of China have surrounded the city, let's hurry up and ask General Shozo by the river for reinforcements!" Otherwise, the consequences will be unimaginable. ”

"Yaga Yalu!" Xiao Yan Zechuan was still angry, and he pulled out his command knife and cut the square table in front of him in half.

After calming down, Xiao Yan Zechuan said with a heavy face: "Send a telegram to the general of the riverside, the fifth regiment of the Imperial Association Army has defected and surrendered, and all the peripheral positions in Jingcheng County have been lost. ”

After the signal soldier quickly finished recording, he turned and strode away.

………………… Shimen, the headquarters of the army.

Kawabe Shozo looked at the almost farewell message sent by Xiao Yan Zechuan, the captain of the First Infantry Brigade, and slammed his fist on the table, roaring: "Baga Yalu!" Damn the Chinese people! ”

The staff officer next to him immediately persuaded: "General, what should we do?" Did you ask the commander of the army group, General Okamura, for support? ”

"Yaga! Order the first brigade to fight with jade shatters! In addition, immediately send a telegram to General Okamura Ninji and ask for reinforcements to support, but the Shina Reading Army has already attacked in a big way, and our troops are powerless to resist! The river was saying hatefully.

"Hay!" The staff officer of the army bowed his head sharply, and then turned around and strode away.

Outside the city of Jingcheng County.

The two regiments of Li Shisan and Wang Renjie have completed the encirclement of Jingcheng County, and more than 20,000 people and chariots have surrounded the entire Jingcheng County.

"Knock knock...", as the first round of shelling sounded, the siege began.

After the bombardment, the soldiers of the Reading Force followed the tanks and launched an attack on the city wall, and for a time the shouts of killing in the entire Jingcheng County were deafening.

Flying back and forth, bullets shot out like locusts flying in the sky, although the devil soldiers on the city wall were engaged in a jade shattering battle, and their fighting consciousness was extremely tenacious, but only with a stream of blood, they could not offset the gap in weapons and equipment.

Under the suppression of [***] dense artillery, the devils defending the city suffered heavy casualties, and soon the [***] soldiers blew open the city gate under the cover of the tank, and countless [***] soldiers poured into the city from the city gate, and the devils in the city started a fierce battle street by street.

The night battle in the street battle was originally the specialty of the Reading Army, and this time the Reading Army was superior, and the gap between the two sides in the street battle was soon reflected, and with the skillful cooperation of the Reading Army soldiers, the devil was forced to keep retreating.

After a fierce battle until the afternoon, almost all the devil soldiers in the city were wiped out, and the captain of the defenders, Xiao Yan Zechuan, committed suicide, and the rest of the defenders were all annihilated.

…………………… Beiping, Okamura Ninji's office.

An adjutant held a telegram in his hand, and walked into Okamura Ninji's office in a panic, and when he saw Okamura Ninji, he suddenly retracted his feet and said, "General! General Riverside sent an urgent telegram! ”

"Riverside-kun?" Okamura Ninji chuckled in his heart and said, "Read! ”

"Hay!" The adjutant bowed his head suddenly, and then opened the telegram in his hand and read: "The Zhina Reading Army attacked in a big way, and fell into Niangzi Pass last night, and today it is said to be around the county town of Jingcheng, and the Zhina Army is menacing, and it is overwhelming to win the entire territory of Hebei, please send reinforcements to reinforce the headquarters as soon as possible." Otherwise, Hebei will be difficult to protect! ”

"Order the 10th Infantry Brigade of the 33rd Division to rush to the aid of Shimen, and then temporarily transfer the 2nd Division of the Kwantung Army to enter the customs and guard Beiping." Okamura Ninji immediately made a deployment.

"Hay! The adjutant bowed his head again abruptly, and immediately gladly accepted the order.

…………………… Shimen, the headquarters of the army.

The staff officer of the army walked into the headquarters again, saluted the riverside Shozo, and said: "General, the 1st Infantry Brigade has a farewell message, five minutes ago, from the captain of the brigade to the head of the brigade, Xiao Yan Zechuan Nakasa, all the 1st Infantry Brigade was shattered, and no one was spared!" The well fell. ”

This time, Kawabe Shozo was not angry, but surprisingly calm, and he said to the staff officer extremely calmly: "Weijun! The people of China can capture Niangzi Pass and Jingcheng Pass in a row in one day, and this speed will not take ten days to kill Shimen, it seems that Zhang Mingyu's goal this time may not be only Hebei. ”

"What? Not only Hebei? Ignorance, what does the general mean? The army staff officer was puzzled.

"Zhang Mingyu is a very ambitious and imaginative soldier, and his target this time is likely to be Beiping or even Tianjin! and even the whole of North China! Hebe Zhengsan said indifferently.

"Beiping, or even North China? General, does Zhang Mingyu have such strong strength? "Obviously, this staff officer does not believe that the Reading Force has this strength.

"It's not that the people are too strong, it's that we're getting weak! Since the defeat of the last Xinzhou Campaign, our North China Front Army has suffered heavy losses, at least 100,000 excellent imperial warriors have broken jade, and now domestic public opinion is one after another, in a short period of time, these divisions and regiments that were defeated and disabled by the people of China can not be grouped, even if the troops are replenished, due to the death of veterans, the lack of actual combat experience of new recruits so the combat effectiveness has seriously declined, and our opponent is getting stronger and stronger, 80 percent of the soldiers in its troops are veterans, and 100 percent of the officers are veterans. In the face of such an army with rich combat experience and superior troops and equipment to the imperial army, it is only natural that the imperial army will be defeated and retreat. Kawabe Shozo calmly analyzed.

Indeed, their own merits can be seen from this, and they are able to quickly recognize their mistakes and examine their mistakes and shortcomings.

This spirit made him continue to make progress at that time, but in China, the popularization of education was low, 80 percent of the people in the country were illiterate, the domestic warlords were fighting, and the people were not able to make a living, which led to a decline in comprehensive national strength, so there was the later War of Resistance against Japan.

"General, how are we going to solve these problems?" The military staff officer asked.

"With the current situation of the empire, we don't have any effective way to block the attack of the China people for the time being, and even Beiping and even the entire North China will be lost, but before we lose North China, we must not let the China people easily succeed! I decided to telegraph General Okamura Ninji. Kawabe Shozo said coldly.

(To be continued)