The brigade commander of the provisional independent first brigade is Han Yunhua himself, but the deputy brigade commander Zhang Hao who manages the daily affairs of the brigade headquarters is Zhang Hao, Zhang Hao is an expert in war, and he was originally a deputy brigade commander of the Song Zheyuan Department of the 29th Army of the Kuomintang, and later in 1937, his troops were broken up by the devils in a major war, and he was also injured and captured by the devils, until he was rescued by Han Yunhua's department from the Datong coal mine. Zhang Hao graduated from the Fifth Infantry Department of Huangpu and has strong strategic and tactical ability, and is a rare graduate of the Inner Mongolia Military Region.

Han Yunhua has always been very optimistic about the temporary formation of the First Independent Brigade, not for anything else, but because this brigade has two cadet corps, and these two cadet corps are Han Yunhua's heart. The weapons and ammunition are all given priority to replenishment, and the food is also the best among all the troops in the Inner Mongolia Military Region, the equipment of these two cadet regiments is the most advanced equipment that Han Yunhua took the risk to buy from the Germans, and the rifles are all Mauser 98K, you must know that this rifle is the standard equipment of the German Army, so far the regular troops of the German Army have only just been reequipped, and there are still a small number of troops that have not yet been reequipped.

The fierce attack of the Japanese 39th Brigade did not frighten the provisional independent 1st Brigade, and Zhang Hao ordered the main force of the 1st Regiment to rely on the pillbox group built in Fengzhen County to block the enemy, and not allow the 1st Regiment to withdraw from the county seat until it ran out of bullets. At the same time, Zhang Hao ordered the 2nd Regiment, the 3rd Regiment, the 1st Cadet Regiment, the 2nd Cadet Regiment, the Supplementary Regiment, and the Fengzhen Security Regiment to ambush the Japanese army's various attack echelons along the way to buy more time for the 1st Regiment.

Major General Yoshito Takagi, commander of the 39th Infantry Brigade and Regiment, has not dealt with the Inner Mongolia Military Region for a day or two, as early as when General Terauchi Shouichi sent troops to attack the Inner Mongolia Military Region for the second time, Major General Yoshito Takagi and the entire 39th Infantry Brigade were transferred from the operational establishment of the 20th Division by Terauchi Shouichi.

In addition to the 77th Infantry Wing, the commander of the 77th Infantry Wing, the commander of the first echelon of the attack on Fengzhen, there were three independent mixed brigades, the 6th, 7th, and 8th brigades. Like Yoshito Takagi, Kotobu Yukioshi is also a pioneer in the invasion of China, and he is also a war maniac. Although the combat effectiveness of the 77th Wing could only rank lower among the hundreds of wings of the Japanese army, it still could not change the arrogant character of Liden Xingda.

As soon as Liden Xingda Zuo entered the sphere of influence of the Inner Mongolia Military Region with more than 6,000 people and horses, he began to be animalistic, all the villages through which the department passed were destroyed, and some villagers who had no time to withdraw were also slaughtered. He believed that only killing could completely destroy China's will to resist.

However, the road of the first echelon of the Japanese army was not easy to walk, as long as there were mountains and high ground along the way, there would be ambushes by the Eighth Route Army, and sometimes even undisguised blockades. Normally, at this time, the Eighth Route Army would occupy all the favorable terrain early, waiting for the first echelon of the Japanese army to come to the door. More often than not, these Eighth Route Army will leave after fighting, and after giving the Japanese a certain amount of damage, they will not hesitate to retreat quickly, and with their familiarity with the terrain, they can always get rid of the pursuit of the Japanese army.

Along the way, Lideng Xingda Zuo calculated, from just stepping into the territory of Fengzhen to Fengzhen County, their first echelon was attacked a total of 46 times, when they were young, only a dozen Eighth Route Army artillery carried a few mortars to bombard them across the mountain, and then quickly flashed people. At the big time, thousands of people were waiting for them in the fortifications that had already been built, and thousands of people fought a fierce battle of positional attack and defense.

But whether it is a small-scale attack or a large-scale positional offensive and defensive battle, it is basically the first echelon led by Liden Xingda Zuo who suffers. When they arrived at the county seat of Fengzhen, Liden Xingda Dazuo was heartbroken to find that his first echelon had lost more than 2,000 people, although there were not many real deaths, only more than 600 people, but there were more than 1,700 light and serious wounded.

However, Liden Xingda Zuo was a stubborn person, and he believed that the reason why the Eighth Route Army "fled" after fighting was entirely because of the strength of the Eighth Route Army itself. His first echelon lost more than 2,000 people along the way, and he believed that the Eighth Route Army would not be much easier, and the losses would be at least more than 5,000 people. ,

In addition, before the war, a secret telegram came from the Japanese North China Front that the latest investigation by the special high-tech department learned that it was a newly formed brigade of the Eighth Route Army stationed in Fengzhen, and in view of the fact that the establishment of Han Yunhua's unit has always been very different from other units in China, the North China Front Army Headquarters estimated that the Eighth Route Army stationed in Fengzhen should be about 6,000 people.

Based on this estimate, Lideng Xingyizuo judged that there should be little left of the Eighth Route Army stationed in Fengzhen, so Lideng Xingyizuo ordered the troops to gather all the light and serious wounded, and sent a squadron of soldiers to take care of them, and the other soldiers quickly assembled and launched a tentative attack on Fengzhen County.

Although the first attack of the soldiers was quickly repulsed, the infantry of this brigade almost attacked the county town, which further strengthened the conjecture of Liden Xingyizuo.

With a low carp in his heart, he no longer hesitated at the moment, he ordered the whole army of troops and horses to press, and launched a group charge against the regiment defending the city, hoping to complete the battle. In one fell swoop, he took the county seat of Fengzhen.

He first ordered a regiment to show weakness to the first echelon of the Japanese army, so that the Japanese army almost attacked the county seat, and then he ordered all the troops to hide in bunkers and pillboxes, and use these strong fortifications to resist the attack of the devils.

The battle began to heat up, and although the Japanese army was on an expedition of laborers and was in such an unfavorable situation as attacking a heavily guarded county town, the Japanese army was victorious because the weapons and ammunition were quite sufficient, and the quality and training of the soldiers were very strong, which was far from being able to compete with the temporary independent 1st Brigade.

The strength of both sides has its advantages and disadvantages to each other, so it was a tiebreaker for a while. The battle continued, and the two sides fought for nearly an hour at a single charge. Although the soldiers of the regiment hiding in the bunkers and pillboxes gave enough casualties to the Japanese army, their own casualties were also very large, and now only two and a half of the four infantry battalions were left, and the casualty rate reached an astonishing 40%, especially those veterans who were not many in the first place.

However, the Japanese army did not take advantage, and the first echelon changed from 6,000 at the time of the expedition to 1,300 now, and the entire first echelon was almost completely wiped out.

In less than a day, he, the commander of the first echelon, was about to become the commander of the light pole, and if it went on like this, it would be okay. At this time, Kotobu Xingoshi didn't care about face or anything, so he earnestly sent a telegram to his old boss Yoshito Takagi with combat guidance.

Takagi Yoshito is also very anxious, his position is much higher than that of Takagi Yoshito, although the rank of Carp Dengxing is only one level shorter than Takagi Yoshito, but in fact, the status of the two can be described as a world of difference, there is a difference between cloud and mud. So Yoshito Takagi learned the news yesterday that the 1st Wing of the Yamashita Brigade was completely annihilated. After receiving a telegram from Kotobu Yukiosa, saying that there were only more than 1,300 people left in the first echelon, Takagi Yoshito couldn't help but think of the first wing of the Yamashita Brigade, and he didn't want to become Yamashita Fengfumi's second.

Yoshito Takagi ordered the commander of the second echelon, the commander of the 78th Infantry Wing, Kobayashi Hengichi, who had just stepped into the territory of Toyozhen, to make every effort to rescue the Kotobu Odaisasho Division.