At the East City Gate of Loufan County, on the starting position of the Japanese army, the two captains of the First Brigade and the Second Brigade were already standing together.

Seeing that the attack of his troops was progressing relatively smoothly, the faces of the two Shaozuo captains were full of excitement.

"It seems that we will enter the city before the roundabout troops, and if we can capture Sun Weiguo alive, we will definitely be rewarded."

The captain of the first team, Ikuta Kozai, looked at the second captain next to him, and a confident smile appeared on his face.

The captain of the second brigade also had a smile on his face, seeing that the combat effectiveness of the Chinese troops in the positions outside the city had obviously begun to decline, he felt that it was only a matter of time before he could attack the city.

The faces of the two Shaozo captains were full of smiles, and they felt that the troops of the Eighth Route Army would not be able to hold their positions at all.

Seeing that his troops were able to attack the county seat, but at this time, the sound of artillery began to sound on the positions outside the city.

THE ZHENG JINGJING ARTILLERY COMPANY WAS EQUIPPED WITH FOUR 82MM MORTARS AND FOUR 75MM MOUNTAIN GUNS, AND THE ARTILLERY COMPANY OF THE FIRST INDEPENDENT REGIMENT WAS EQUIPPED WITH FOUR 82MM MORTARS, EIGHT MORTARS, AND FOUR MOUNTAIN GUNS, AND BEGAN TO SHELL THE JAPANESE ARMY.

One by one, the cannonballs quickly hit the charging devil soldiers, and the dense cannonballs fell among the charging devil soldiers, and after a while, the ghost soldiers began to cry wolf.

The devil soldiers lay on the ground one after another to dodge, and while they were dodging, more than 900 people from the 3rd Battalion and the 1st Brigade quickly withdrew from their positions, and they quickly advanced to the right side, and more than 1,000 people quickly began to detour towards the Japanese flank after Liu Jingnuma's guard company.

The two artillery batteries continued to fire for ten minutes, and then the artillery fire began to extend, and the 1st Independent Regiment, with the battalion as a unit, began to step on the artillery point and carry out a group counter-charge against the Japanese army, and the troops of the three battalions quickly charged the Japanese under the cover of light and heavy machine guns.

The two Shaozuo captains standing on the starting position of the Japanese army widened their eyes at this time, and they looked at the scene in front of them in disbelief.

Originally, he saw that his troops were about to capture the opponent's position, but at this time, the other side launched an artillery attack.

The two captains believed that these artillery interceptions were the last killer of the other side, and they were ready to go to the front line to boost morale after the artillery attack, but as the artillery fire began to extend, hundreds of Chinese soldiers began to counterattack their own troops.

"It's not good, it's the troops of the Jin Sui Army, Ikuta-kun, this is an infantry regiment of the Jin Sui Army, all three of their battalions have participated in the counteroffensive, you see, there is a branch of troops behind, they have three battalions of troops."

The captain of the second brigade held up the binoculars to watch, his brows furrowed tightly, and his face showed a solemn expression.

As the 1st Independent Regiment launched a counterattack under the leadership of Commander Qian, many grenadiers in the unit quickly began to fire flares.

The dark night was like day, and the warriors had light, and they fought back even harder.

Eighteen Japanese heavy machine guns quickly launched fire interceptions, and the bullets rained down on the soldiers of the 1st Independent Regiment.

Dozens of fighters were caught off guard by bullets, and their bodies fell to the ground, blood staining the ground red.

The two artillery batteries quickly began to adjust their angles, and one shell after another quickly fired at the Japanese heavy machine gun shooters.

With the suppression of the artillerymen, the fire of the Japanese heavy machine guns was significantly weakened a lot.

At this time, several captains and squadron leaders of the Japanese army were lying on the ground, looking at the Chinese soldiers rushing over like a tide on the opposite side, their faces showed solemn expressions, and they immediately organized light machine guns and grenadiers to shoot.

But these light machine guns and grenadiers often do not shoot many bullets and miniature grenades and are knocked out.

"Light machine guns and grenadiers for cover, quickly evacuated." The captain squadron leader of the Japanese army began to give orders.

The two sides continued to shoot at each other, but the 1st Independent Regiment had an advantage in numbers, and the devil soldiers could not compete.

Hundreds of devil soldiers withdrew to the rear, more than 20 light machine guns and more than 30 grenadiers stayed behind to cover, and the rest of the devil soldiers quickly withdrew, and the Japanese army organized powerful machine gun fire, and the counter-charge of the independent regiment was interrupted.

The soldiers quickly lay on the ground to avoid bullet attacks, while they fought back with their rifles.

"The second battalion, make a detour from the left, knock out these light machine guns and grenadiers for me, the first battalion will cover, and the third battalion will rush over with me."

Commander Qian was obviously not a wine bag and rice bag, and when he saw that his troops were blocked by Japanese fire, he reacted quickly.

The battalion, which had rushed to the front, began to counterattack, with light machine guns and grenadiers and rifles firing at the Japanese.

The second battalion quickly made a detour from the left, while the third battalion at the rear, under the cover of the first battalion, attacked from the front.

"Bang bang."

The sound of light machine gun fire continued to sound, and soldiers on both sides fell to the ground.

After all, the 1st Independent Regiment had the upper hand in numbers, and when the 1st Battalion began to stop advancing in place to counterattack, the Japanese firepower was obviously suppressed for the most part, especially when the 2nd Battalion appeared on the flank of the Japanese army, and the Japanese began to panic.

The three battalions rushed forward regardless of casualties, and the Japanese light machine gun shooters began to evacuate with light machine guns, and they handed over the cover task to the grenadiers, but it was obviously impossible for the grenadiers to intercept the Chinese troops.

Because at this time, the troops of the 3rd Battalion, the 1st Brigade, the Guards Company, which had been assembled on the right side, had already begun to attack.

The troops of the guard company quickly attacked under the leadership of Sun Weiguo, and the soldiers with Thomson submachine guns followed behind Sun Weiguo.

When he was less than 100 meters away from the Japanese grenadiers, Sun Weiguo began to shoot.

Bullets shot out of the chamber, and the four devil soldiers who were less than 70 meters away from Sun Weiguo were killed on the spot.

The Japanese grenadiers were firing heavily at the 1st Independent Regiment, and they fired out miniature grenades.

These devil soldiers wanted to stop the counter-charge of the 1st Independent Regiment, but where would they have expected the movement of their flanks.

It wasn't until Sun Weiguo shot and killed the four devil soldiers that these grenadiers realized the situation on their flanks.

"Cover, fast cover, light machine gun shooter cover." A Japanese second lieutenant shouted.

When the light machine gun shooters who had evacuated from the front found Sun Weiguo and the others, they had shocked expressions on their faces.

These devil soldiers wanted to set up light machine guns on the ground and shoot, but Sun Weiguo did not give these devil soldiers a chance to shoot.

Dozens of Thomson submachine guns began to fire, and hundreds of bullets came at the devil soldiers.

Before many of the Devil Soldier Shooters could put down their light machine guns, their bodies were beaten into sieves.

The light machine gun shooters and grenadiers who remained behind to block the 1st Separate Regiment were attacked by the flanks of the guard company, and they paid a heavy price.