After the battle at the castle gate, Nokanichiro knew it at the time. The captain of the Japanese army in the city, since he sent his troops to the city gate, of course, had to report to his general.

I heard that a squadron has attacked Xinyang, and if you want to say that Nokanichiro is not afraid, it is definitely not true. The devils are like this, the more low-status soldiers are, the more they pay attention to the spirit of bushido, and the more they are not afraid of death. A devil who really has an identity and status actually cares about his life very much, and when he deals with things, he is also very tactful.

As soon as he learned of the battle in Xinyang City, General Ye Kan ordered the captain of the Shao Zuo Brigade in the city to transfer all his troops to the courtyard of the headquarters. His headquarters has a very high and thick wall, and the defense ability in the compound is much stronger than the simple barracks of the Japanese army. Even if he is really defeated in the end, he still has this four-story office building here, which can be held on to the building and fight for the arrival of reinforcements for a while.

As for the reinforcements, General Ye Kan must have been calling everywhere. In addition to Yingshan, Luoshan, Huangchuan, Tongbai, Suixian, Xuanhua, in short, as long as there are places around Xinyang and where Japanese troops are stationed, all of them were sent urgent telegrams asking for help by Major General Ye Kan, ordering the Japanese troops in these places to rush to Xinyang City as quickly as possible to save General Ye Kan's driver.

These are still scattered troops, and the ones that really belong to His Excellency the General directly governs, and the Ito Nobuyoshi Daisa, who is located in Yanagilin, was given an ultimatum by His Excellency the General. If that Ito Osa has not arrived at Xinyang Castle before the squadron defeats his defending army, His Excellency the General will remove Ito Osa from his position as co-captain and report to the base camp, so that Ito Nobuyoshi will be judged by the emperor!

The mixed brigade in Kaifeng, of course, was also sent a telegram urging by General Ye Kan. Although they are a little far away, it is a whole brigade, and if they can come in time, of course, they will be able to solve the great difficulty of General Ye Kan. Although Kaifeng is a little far away from Xinyang, there is a railway between the two places. The brigade in Kaifeng could take the train to Zhengzhou, and then go south along the Jinghan Railway, and in a day or two, it would be able to reach Xinyang.

After Ito Osa received the ultimatum from General Nokan, he no longer dared to shrink into Liulin Town as a shrinking turtle, this is not only a matter related to his career, but if he doesn't get it right, he may not even be able to save his life!

Regarding Gao Quan's quiet withdrawal of troops, Ito Osa has a lot of opinions, you say you can withdraw, why are you fighting Xinyang if it's okay? Isn't this all for His Excellency Dazuo!

Ito Osa was anxious to gather his troops, and when he got out of the town, he wanted to rush to Xinyang City. The independent brigade outside the city, of course, couldn't let them leave easily, and the two sides set up a position and fought outside Liulin Town. When Gao Quan was leaving, although he left the artillery battalion and the engineer battalion for Zhang Erxiao, the artillerymen couldn't keep firing at Liulin Town? How many shells does that get? How can they afford it? Occasionally, I hit a shot and harassed it, so that the devils are not so comfortable.

The engineer battalion had dug a lot of trenches and traps outside the town, but digging traps now was different from digging them at Wusheng Pass. At that time, it was a road, and it was enough to dig a hole in the road. What now? Liulin Town is so close to Xinyang, the devil can go from any direction, just turn a corner, you can turn to Xinyang, the engineer battalion can't dig a moat around Liulin Town, right? Even if they want to dig, they don't have that much manpower, right?

So, Ito Daisa and his troops went out of the town smoothly, and in the field outside the town, they fought with the Independent Brigade.

Ito Dasa is actually very capable, he lost the battle last time, mainly because the strength of the two sides is too different, plus Gao Quan has a lot of killing moves in advance, and the moves come true, not to mention Ito Nobuyoshi, even if it is replaced by Okamura Ningji, it is still no way.

The current situation is different, the independent brigade has about 4,000 people, and Ito Daisa also has nearly 4,000 people on hand, and the ratio of troops between the two sides is almost one-to-one. The Japanese army's level of training, weapons and equipment, the quality of individual soldiers, and the situation of weapons and equipment are generally one or two grades higher than that of our army. This battle, before it was fought, was already doomed to lose.

However, the officers and men of the Independent Brigade, in the face of the little devils who had an overall advantage, still put up a heroic resistance. The artillery battalion ran out of all the shells, and the fighters of the independent brigade also inflicted a lot of casualties on the devils, and of course, the troops themselves suffered heavy casualties.

Three hours after the battle, Zhang Erxiao sent a telegram to Gao Quan, explaining the current situation of the two armies. After the battle, he sent a report to Gao Quan, and if he said it at this time, he would have a little bit of complaint. But he can't help it, the troops have already lost almost one-third, as the commander of the troops, it is also a dereliction of duty not to report to the superior leadership!

As soon as Gao Quan looked at Zhang Erxiao's telegram, he understood what was going on. Of course, it is a good thing to fight devils, but it is not his original intention to fill in all the troops at hand. Desperate to resist the Japanese, of course he also wanted to, but the facts were in front of him, and he couldn't help Gao Quan put the preservation of strength in the first step every time, his troops were exhausted, but no one added to him! Even if it's a recruitment, it's not that easy to recruit.

Gao Quan's reply to Zhang Erxiao was: Get out of the way, let the enemy come, harass from behind, and try to slow down the enemy. Finally, I added another sentence: the main thing is to preserve strength.

Zhang Erxiao has been fighting with Gao Quan for many years, and when he saw this telegram, he immediately knew what was going on. Brigade Commander Zhang, who breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, immediately ordered his troops to get out of the way and let the devils pass.

The Independent Brigade was ordered to intercept the devils here, this order is known to the officers and soldiers of the whole brigade, and everyone has been fighting here for so long, and the brothers have sacrificed so much, and now they know that they are fighting to the death with the devils in Xinyang City, and they have to let these devils go over! Not only did Zhang Erxiao feel that his face was gloomy, but even the officers and soldiers under him couldn't figure it out. No, Zhang Erxiao's two main commanders, Huang Sanpao and Chang Zhankui, came to their brigade together.

"Brigade, it's not righteous for us to withdraw like this! The division is at a critical time when they are fighting in Xinyang, let's let these devils go over, didn't they copy the back road of the division? "Huang Sanpao, the king of the mountain, has an unprecedented enthusiasm for resisting Japan, and he has a big opinion on the withdrawal of troops.

"That's it, Brigade. The division said that on the telegram, it was because we were afraid that we would not be able to get up and down in face, but we can't help but fight for this face, right? Brigade, let's fight again with the big guys? Chang Zhankui followed to the side.

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