Chapter 769 - Don't come to the rescue

The puppet army units regrouped, and more than 2,000 puppet officers and soldiers of the three regiments began to assemble on three sides of Shuangmiao Village, and six mountain guns, 12 mortars, and 18 heavy machine guns were also erected.

Under the cover of shells and bullets, more than 2,000 puppet officers and soldiers quickly launched an attack on Shuangmiao Village.

The commander of the first battalion, Huang Gang, commanded calmly, considering the number of puppet troops, Huang Gang immediately transferred the first company of the reserve to serve as the defensive force of the peripheral position, and the second company was deployed by Huang Gang on the flank.

The two sides fought fiercely for an hour, and the puppet army paid more than 400 casualties, while the casualties of Huang Gang's first battalion did not exceed three digits.

The fierce battle continued, and Huang Gang promptly dispatched the second company to launch a counterattack against the puppet army.

The attack of the puppet army was repulsed, and their casualties reached more than 600 people, counting the casualties of the first regiment of the puppet army before, the puppet army had already paid more than 1,000 casualties.

After Cheng Wenxuan knew this casualty figure, the expression on his face became extremely annoyed, he gave up the attack on Shuangmiao Village, he planned to disperse and break out.

The troops of the first division of the puppet army began to disperse and break through, and Cheng Wenxuan began to carefully bypass Shuangmiao Village with his descendants.

But not long after the first division of the puppet army chose to disperse and break through, the troops of the fourth battalion of Zheng Guan Zilin began to rush to Shuangmiao Village.

Zheng Guan Zilin found that the puppet army troops were scattering and breaking through, he did not hesitate, he immediately led three infantry companies and one machine gun company to immediately attack the puppet army.

Under the cover of three heavy machine guns and three infantry guns in the machine gun company, more than 500 infantry began to attack the puppet army from the flank.

The originally scattered puppet army troops were suddenly attacked by the fourth battalion troops, and they were caught off guard, and a large number of puppet troops were killed on the spot.

These puppet troops were scattered and broke through, and their largest number was only one battalion of more than 300 people, and such troops were vulnerable to the attack of the fourth battalion.

After the troops of Zheng Guan Zilin's 4th Battalion arrived, Huang Gang's 1st Battalion began to attack with Shuangmiao Village as the center, and three infantry companies began to strike at the scattered puppet army.

The 1st Division of the puppet army in Shuangmiao Village began to encounter blows, and their troops scattered and broke through, but the troops of the 1st Battalion and the 4th Battalion brought them almost devastating blows.

And here in Baiheji, the second division of the puppet army was also intercepted by Zhang Wenbin's third battalion, Guo Qing is not as smart as Cheng Wenxuan's mind, after he encountered the third battalion interception, Guo Qing directly dispatched three regiments to launch a fierce attack on Zhang Wenbin's third battalion troops, Guo Qing was personally supervising the battle, and the battle here was extremely tragic.

However, Zhang Wenbin's third battalion was holding the position, they did not give way, and the troops of the second division of Guo Qing's puppet army were pinned down on the periphery of Baiheji.

At the same time, Li Jiaxin's 12 75MM cavalry field guns of the 3rd Artillery Battalion began to shoot at the troops of the 2nd Division of Guo Qing's puppet army.

The fierce fighting in Linzhang County is still continuing, and in Shijiazhuang, Hebei, in the headquarters of the Japanese First Army, the lights are bright, and the commander of the First Army, Lieutenant General Umezu Mijiro, and the chief of staff of Major General Iida Shojiro are gathering together, and the expressions on the faces of the two people have become extremely solemn.

The Battle of Wuhan was a decisive battle between China and Japan related to the future of the country, and the number of troops participating in the battle on both sides had exceeded 1 million, and the Chinese troops had gathered all the few air forces and navies on the Wuhan front, and this time the Chinese troops were going to fight a decisive battle with the Japanese army.

The North China Front had to send troops to fight on the front line, and at the same time, the Japanese troops in North China had to make a feint attack on the Tongguan area in Shaanxi, in a vain attempt to contain the Chinese troops.

At present, the Japanese army in North China can be described as suffering from internal and external troubles, and the Eighth Route Army in the occupied areas has frequent activities, especially Sun Weiguo's troops in Pingding County, which are an extremely headache for the Japanese army in North China.

"Your Excellency Commander, now we can confirm that the troops of the Eighth Route Army that appeared in Linzhang County are indeed Sun Weiguo's troops, according to the information we have obtained, Sun Weiguo's troops have been expanded into the so-called Sixth Army Division, and at present, Sun Weiguo's troops already have an armored regiment, a cavalry regiment, an artillery regiment, and three infantry regiments.

Chief of Staff Shojiro Iida looked at Commander Umezu Mijiro with a solemn expression on his face.

Hearing that it was Sun Weiguo's troops appearing in Linzhang County, the expression on Umezu Mijiro's face was not very good, and his originally kind face also showed a fierce light.

Umezu Yoshijiro served as the commander of the First Army for a short time, and his first goal after taking over was to get rid of Sun Weiguo, a confidant of the Japanese army in North China.

For this reason, Umezu Mijiro assembled two divisions and three brigades, but these troops did not annihilate Sun Weiguo's infantry brigade, but a cavalry brigade was almost completely annihilated, and an armored detachment was directly annihilated.

Such a loss made Umezu Mijiro have no face on his face, and the Japanese military top brass also appeared to question Umezu Mijiro.

"Your Excellency Commander, there are no Japanese troops in Linzhang County, only the Imperial Association Army and bandit troops supported by us, although they have received our weapons support, but they have not received formal training after all, with their strength, they will not be the opponent of Sun Weiguo's troops at all. And according to the information we have received, Sun Weiguo personally commanded this operation, and with Sun Weiguo's command ability, it is very easy to deal with these imperial troops and bandits, if we want to control Linzhang County, then we must send troops to rescue. ”

Seeing that Umezu Mijiro didn't speak all the time, Iida Shojiro pointed to Linzhang County on the map, and he said heavily.

When Umezu Mijiro heard Shojiro Iida's words, he looked at Linzhang County on the map blankly, and he didn't answer anything for a while.

After a long silence, Umezu Mijiro still didn't intend to speak, but a staff officer hurriedly walked over.

"Your Excellency Commander, Your Excellency Chief of Staff, the intelligence agency has sent an urgent telegram, the first division of the Imperial Association Army and the second division of the Imperial Association Army in Linzhang County have been attacked by the troops of the Eighth Route Army of China, and they are currently in a very critical situation, according to the estimate of the intelligence agency, if we do not come to the rescue, the Imperial Association Army of these two divisions will definitely be wiped out, and Linzhang County will also be controlled."

When the Nakasa staff officer came to Umezu Mijiro and Iida Shojiro, he first saluted, and then he reported in a solemn tone.