A large number of Japanese troops have begun to enter Pingding County, but the Sixth Cavalry Regiment, which was deployed by Sun Weiguo in Zanhuang County, has never received any news of the battle.

The personnel of the brigade headquarters couldn't help but want to send a telegram to the 6th Cavalry Regiment so that they could quickly take action against the Japanese troops, but Sun Weiguo insisted on giving the officers of the 6th Cavalry Regiment the right to command, and he did not send any telegram to the 6th Cavalry Regiment.

In Zanhuang County, near Jianshan Village, the regimental headquarters of the Sixth Cavalry Regiment was established in a dilapidated Guandi Temple outside the village.

Regiment Commander Yin Jinshan, Deputy Regiment Commander Ge Haifeng, and Chief of Staff Liu Ke stood in front of the map, their faces showing solemn expressions.

Previously, the Fourth Brigade of the Japanese Cavalry was stationed in Shijiazhuang, and the Intelligence Section had some information about the Fourth Cavalry Brigade through the intelligence network, but the Intelligence Section did not know the situation very comprehensively.

With the Chen Zhengwei reconnaissance battalion following the 6th Cavalry Regiment to Zanhuang County, the reconnaissance battalion has a comprehensive grasp of the situation of the troops of the 4th Cavalry Brigade of the Japanese Army.

"The number of this cavalry brigade is the Fourth Cavalry Brigade, which has three cavalry wings with more than 2,000 cavalry, and a motorized infantry brigade with more than 1,000 infantry, two cavalry artillery wings with more than 1,000 artillery and 72 field guns, and an independent machine gun team equipped with 12 Type 92 heavy machine guns, as well as a rapid-fire artillery squadron equipped with four 47MM anti-tank guns, a tank squadron equipped with 12 tanks, and a heavy army and engineer auxiliary arms."

Chief of Staff Liu Ke pointed to Pingding County on the map, and he said with a solemn gaze.

Three cavalry wings of the 4th Cavalry Brigade have entered Binh Dinh County with motorized infantry brigades, and two mounted artillery wings and tank squadrons and the rest of the troops are still in Zanhuang County, and they are also marching towards Binh Dinh County.

Zanhuang County and Pingding County are separated by Xiyang County and Jingcheng County, and the Japanese troops probably thought that it was safe here, so they quickly moved the main force of the Fourth Cavalry Brigade to Pingding County, while the auxiliary troops were temporarily left in Zanhuang County.

The 4th Cavalry Brigade of the Japanese Army was not so much a cavalry brigade as a multi-arm mixed combat group.

The 4th Cavalry Brigade has the 25th, 26th, and 72nd Cavalry Wings, the 1st Independent Cavalry Artillery Wing, the 4th Cavalry Artillery Wing, the Independent Motorized Infantry Brigade, the Machine Gun Brigade, the Combat Fleet, the Rapid-Fire Artillery Squadron, the Independent Engineer Squadron, the Sanitary Team, the Sick Horse Factory, the Baggage Corps, and the 1st and 2nd Field Hospitals.

It can be seen from this that the 4th Cavalry Brigade of the Japanese Army not only has cavalry, but also artillery, infantry, armored troops, engineers, baggage troops and other auxiliary units to assist in the battle.

However, because the Japanese army was still in a supporting role for the tanks, this time they left the twelve tanks in the convoy to march in the auxiliary forces.

The brigade commander of the Fourth Cavalry Brigade is Major General Kojima Yoshizo, and Kojima Yoshizo has some complaints in his heart about this time when he came all the way to Shanxi to fight.

But when he learned that the target of the battle was Sun Weiguo's new Second Brigade troops, Major General Kojima Yoshizo's eyes began to glow.

The Japanese officers and soldiers all have a deep bushido spirit, and they are bent on expanding the territory and establishing meritorious deeds for the Hirohito little devils.

With the beginning of the war between China and Japan, the Japanese troops continued to attack the city and seize the land, and they achieved many victories.

In the past, any Japanese officer who commanded the troops to capture a county town would be rewarded, but now such a thing is not a credit at all.

In the past, it would have been a great honor for a Japanese unit to defeat a division of a Chinese army, but now such a thing is a common thing.

Too many counties in China have fallen, and too many troops have been routed, so such things are no longer rewarded and glorified.

But Sun Weiguo's new Second Brigade is different, the new Second Brigade is the elite of the elite of the Chinese army, the trump card of the trump card, the brigade commander Sun Weiguo is known as the first general in the second theater, and in the Japanese army, when it comes to Sun Weiguo's new second brigade troops, even if it is the commander of the North China Front Army, Terauchi Shouichi will have a headache.

At the same time, the officers and men of the Japanese army privately called the New Second Brigade "the First Terror Brigade of China." ”

It was dangerous to fight such a unit, but Kojima Yoshizo also knew that if he achieved some success in fighting the troops of the New Second Brigade, he would definitely be rewarded.

When the commander of the First Army, Umezu Mijiro, gave the order to attack Taiyuan City, Kojima Yoshizo immediately entered Binh Dinh County with three cavalry wings and a motorized infantry brigade, which was the farthest away from Binh Dinh County, and he was afraid that other friendly troops would settle the battle before the Fourth Cavalry Brigade arrived in Binh Dinh County.

After all, this time, the Japanese army dispatched the 21st Division, the 114th Division, the 3rd Brigade, the 1st Brigade and other units.

Kojima Yoshizo left the auxiliary troops in Zanhuang County, and he rushed to Pingding County with the main force of the 4th Cavalry Brigade.

However, Kojima Yoshizo didn't know that the Sixth Cavalry Regiment and other troops had secretly entered Zanhuang County.

There was silence among the personnel in the regimental headquarters of the Sixth Cavalry Regiment, and everyone had a solemn expression on their faces.

There were quite a few Japanese auxiliary units left in Zanhuang County, and all of them were mechanized, whether it was 72 field guns or tanks and anti-tank guns, which would bring a great threat to the armored troops and cavalry of the 6th Cavalry Regiment.

"Regardless of this, the troops will be assembled immediately, and the chief of staff will quickly draw up a battle plan. If we let these troops slip out of our noses again, our mission to Zanhuang County will fail, and we can gather troops first, even if we eat one of the Japanese troops. If we fight on our side, the main cavalry of the little devils will have to come back to help. ”

Yin Jinshan saw that the regiment headquarters personnel had never expressed their position, he stood up from his chair, and he immediately gave an order.

The troops of the Sixth Cavalry Regiment, which were scattered in various places, quickly began to assemble, and Chief of Staff Liu Ke also immediately began to discuss the battle plan with the staff officers of the regimental headquarters.

The armored battalion, the cavalry battalion, the infantry battalion, the cavalry battalion, the cavalry battalion, the reconnaissance battalion, the second artillery battalion, the third company of the first artillery battalion, and the engineer company arrived one after another, and the battalion commanders also began to come to the regiment headquarters, and they participated in the combat meeting.

The Japanese troops in Zanhuang County have two cavalry artillery squadrons, tank pairs, machine gun squadrons, rapid-fire artillery squadrons, independent engineer squadrons, baggage troops, and field hospitals, etc., and the two mounted artillery wings are equipped with 72 75mm field guns, which is a great threat to the troops of the 6th Cavalry Regiment.

Therefore, when formulating the battle plan, Chief of Staff Liu Ke believed that if the troops of the Sixth Cavalry Regiment launched an attack, then they must break through to the side of the Japanese artillery wing in the shortest possible time, so that the Japanese artillery could not set up field artillery, and even after they set up field artillery, they would not be able to carry out artillery bombardment.