Ask for the second explosion.

The devil's troops at the North Gate were originally not much, just a small team. But after the West Gate was opened, the main force of the Devil Infantry Squadron and the cavalry squadron living near the North Gate woke up and began to reinforce the North Gate.

Wang Laohu had already heard the footsteps of the devils running on the street below the north gate, and he knew that he had to hurry up at this time and compete with the devils for time. As long as the battle is resolved before the devil reinforcements ascend the city wall, the devils can be gathered and annihilated under the city wall.

Wang Laohu no longer cared about protecting cultural relics at this time, so he ordered his special combat team's bazookas and grenadiers to kill the devil's machine gun, and led a special operations team to rely on the battlements of the city wall to shoot devils with an automatic rifle to cover the rapid attack of other special operations teams.

The battle for the north gate city wall did not last long, a squad of devils against a special operations team, 38 big cover against 81 automatic rifles, this battle itself is a bit unfair, a bit of an adult beating a child. So, when a rocket gets into the devil's heavy machine gun position, the battle can basically be said to be over.

The 1st Battalion of the 22nd Regiment and the Fire Support Battalion of the 22nd Regiment immediately took control of the North Gate, and poured bullets from 60 mortars, grenadiers, air-cooled Maxim heavy machine guns, 92 heavy machine guns, Czech light machine guns, crooked machine guns, submachine guns, and rifles on the heads of the devils who were reinforcing the North City Gate. The rifle shooters simply threw away the grenades, and wrapped all the devil infantry and cavalry under the city in a rain of bullets. By the time the troops of the 23rd Regiment returned to the North City Gate, there were already corpses of devils all over the place, and Wang Laohu led the 2nd Squad, the 1st Battalion of the 22nd Regiment, and the Fire Support Battalion to the East Gate.

When Sasaki went to the top of the small yellow building to observe, the gunfire at the west gate, north gate, and south gate had already been sparse. He knew that the unbreakable Weicheng had been broken in his own hands, and looking at the posture, the [***] team had developed into the city, and this Weicheng was afraid that it would not even be able to defend Tianming.

Sasaki to Ichichi is best at public security warfare, and after being transferred to the commander of the 3rd Brigade and Regiment, although he was aggrieved, he still performed his duties conscientiously and wanted to get the set he did in the northeast to Shandong. It is a pity that the attention of the main force of the Second Army of the Yue Army is not taken care of here for the time being, and he has no choice but to wait for the opportunity to establish a puppet regime in various counties and prepare for the establishment of a puppet police force and a security team.

Recently, Sasaki has received bad news from Ichimitian, either this stronghold has been taken by the Tuhachi guerrillas, or the stronghold has asked to withdraw to the county seat, because the soldiers standing guard and patrolling are always inexplicably killed by cold shots. Sasaki wanted to organize forces to sweep up, but unfortunately he didn't have enough spare strength, and his troops were assigned to more than a dozen prefectures, and he couldn't keep up with the defense alone, so where was the extra strength to sweep. It was this Sixth Infantry Brigade that stayed in Weixian that he left behind in order to retain a little mobile force, and if it was according to the orders of the Second Army, this brigade, including the cavalry squadron, would be sent to garrison below. Sasaki had no choice but to hope that the main force of the imperial army would end the Battle of Xuzhou quickly, strengthen his troops, and let him strengthen law and order.

It's too late to say anything now, I originally thought that the Tu Eighth Route guerrillas with earthen guns were developing in the surrounding areas of Weixian, but I didn't expect that it was the main force of the Eighth Route with such strong combat effectiveness, and they had such a big appetite, they would take the impregnable Weicheng to attack. Don't complain, you can't complain about anyone, only complain about your own carelessness. If all the troops had been gathered back as soon as possible and Weicheng had been guarded, the Eighth Route Army would not have taken advantage of the emptiness of its own troops.

Sasaki, who was depressed, went downstairs and returned to the headquarters, and ordered the chief of staff, who was already panicked, to call Oko Kuma-Lang Nakasa, the commander of the 6th Infantry Brigade of Yoriki, and asked him to organize his troops to hold on to the spot and engage in street battles with Dohachi Road. At the same time, he called the defenders of Dongguanwu and Dongguanwu, asking the squadron guarding Dongguanwu to quickly reinforce Dongchengmen and ensure the safety of Dongchengmen. Then he ordered to contact the Reading Artillery Team, the Cavalry Team, the Engineer Team, and the Baggage Team, and ordered them to move closer to the East City Gate and prepare to withdraw to Dongguan Wu to hold on.

Unexpectedly, except for the baggage team and the engineer team, which did not attack, the other squadrons in Xicheng had lost contact, and even the captain of the 6th Infantry Brigade of Reading Force, Oko Kuma-Lang Nakasa, had also lost contact. The defenders of the East City Gate answered the phone, but they reported that Dongguanwu had fallen, and they were now being attacked by the Eighth Route Army from the three directions of the North City Wall, the South City Wall, and the East Guanwu.

After listening to the report of the chief of staff, Sasaki sat down on the chair one by one, pondered for a moment, and ordered the engineer team to quickly reinforce the east gate, and be sure to control the positions around the east gate and wait for reinforcements. The baggage brigade was ordered to concentrate at the brigade headquarters, and all personnel at the brigade headquarters were immediately assigned weapons to defend the headquarters. The gendarmerie was ordered to immediately use a loudspeaker to inform all the troops that were fighting to move closer to the east gate, and to inform the expatriates in Weixian County to immediately gather at the brigade headquarters and accept the reorganization of the troops. Order all the staff of the maintenance council, the security team, and the police team to cooperate with the imperial army to retake the east gate.

Sasaki thought that it was impossible to solve the danger of Weicheng even if he temporarily held the headquarters and the east gate, so he asked the radio station to immediately ask for help in the direction of Jinan and Qingdao, and ordered the troops of the 3rd Brigade and Regiment stationed in the surrounding counties of Weixian to quickly return to Weicheng overnight.

After giving the order, Sasaki went to Ichichi to personally deploy the defense of the brigade headquarters.

Sasaki didn't expect the situation to turn out worse than he expected.

When the Eighth Brigade was formed in Shanxi, there were 10,000 people, and the weapons were made in the country. From Taiyuan to Tianjin and then to Nangong, the troops were not only well trained, but also expanded. Especially after the eastward march to Jiaodong, there were soldiers everywhere, and the regiments naturally expanded. However, Zhao Shan knew Liu Yimin's method of expanding the army, so that each regiment had a new barracks and participated in the battle while training. The difference is that the recruit battalion is basically under the management of the baggage battalion during the battle, and is responsible for battlefield rescue and carrying captured materials. In the middle of this, those long-trained former [***] retired officers and soldiers were integrated into the army in advance.

At present, the Eighth Brigade has three main regiments, the 22nd Regiment, the 23rd Regiment, and the 24th Regiment, as well as the New Eighth Regiment and the Supplementary Regiment, which are not worse than the main regiment in terms of combat effectiveness and equipment, as well as the elite brigade directly subordinate troops. However, the army was in a hurry to meet the battle, and the soldiers were all awakened in their sleep, and under the leadership of the officers, they carried out reinforcements at the west, south, and north gates, hoping that the Eighth Route Army would only be a local guerrilla force and leave with a single shot. So if nothing else, the amount of ammunition that soldiers can carry on their bodies is very limited. With such a comparison, all fools know what the outcome of this battle will be. Sure enough, it didn't take long for Sasaki to give the order, and the gunfire at the east gate stopped. Instead, the gunfire gradually moved towards the small yellow building where Sasaki was headquartered.

Sasaki has been in the military for a long time, and when he hears the gunshots, he knows that the general trend has gone. However, the gendarmerie and baggage brigade were stationed near the headquarters, and they still rushed to the headquarters according to the order, and even the engineer corps, which had been ordered to reinforce the East City Gate, rushed back to the headquarters station. Michichi Sasaki finally cobbled together a guard force of about 500 people, seized some yards around the headquarters, and began to hold on.

Sasaki didn't know that he did this and fell into Liu Yimin's calculations. What Liu Yimin wants is for him to stick to asking for help. Therefore, when the battle reached 4 o'clock in the evening, not only did the 1st Special Operations Squadron take an intercepted train on the Jiaoji Road to the east. Even the Eighth Brigade was taught, and only the 22nd Regiment of the Sect commanded by Zuoye was left behind, forming an encirclement of the brigade headquarters of Sasaki to Ichi, fighting with the devils from house to yard, and organizing the retreat of the residents. All the other troops withdrew from Weicheng and set up an ambush around Weicheng.

After receiving Sasaki's order to return for reinforcements, the 7th Reading Infantry Brigade, the 8th Reading Infantry Brigade, the 9th Reading Infantry Brigade, and the 10th Reading Infantry Brigade stationed in the surrounding counties of Weixian were all busy assembling troops and driving towards Weixian. With this build-up of troops, several captains stretched their faces, because after this period of attack and harassment on the Eighth Road, not only the strongholds outside the county town were lost, but more than half of the troops were also lost. But no matter how difficult and tired it is, it is necessary to reinforce Weixian, and His Excellency the brigade commander is being attacked by Tubalu. It doesn't matter if Your Excellency the brigade commander is broken, the charge of ineffective rescue must not fall on his head, he must apologize for his seppuku! Besides, the baggage of the whole brigade and regiment was in Weixian, and if Weixian was lost, the troops had to apply to the Second Army for ammunition supplies. According to the practice of the imperial army, as long as the entire brigade headquarters is broken and the battle flag falls into the hands of the enemy, the unit will immediately be dismembered and divided into other units, and you will have to act according to the faces of others in the future.

So, starting from 3 o'clock in the morning of the 27th, the reading forces of the people around Weixian County were mixed into various troops, either by car or on foot, like moths to a fire. Those who are close naturally arrive early and die early. Those who are far away arrive later, and those who die later. However, the devils were all in a hurry, and they arrived at the latest on the night of the 27th, and the word "death" was waiting for them. Because all of these returning troops crashed into the nets of the instructors and troops who were hiding and waiting on the outskirts of Weixian. A few unlucky ones were caught up by the local troops and militia, and they were stalked all the way, and they were forced into the fire net of the 1st Brigade, the 3rd Brigade, the 4th Brigade, and the Cavalry Brigade.

Since then, the bait action of the third phase of the Luzhong Campaign has been completed, and it is waiting for the main division on the Jinpu line of the army to bite the bait.

The commander of the Second Army, Lieutenant General Higashijuergu Tsukihiko Wang, was taken aback when he received a rescue telegram from Sasaki Toichi, why did the Eighth Route Army suddenly attack Weixian when it was obviously launching an attack on the Pinghan Line and the Jinpu Line? Could it be that they have a doppelganger?

Surprised to surprised, King Tsukihiko of Higashijur Palace climbed to the map and examined it quite seriously. This examination found that after the Eighth Route Army captured Weixian, not only the Jiaoji Railway was cut off, but also the entire Jiaodong Peninsula and Luzhong were cut off. The cunning Eighth Route Army really chose the time, and it happened to attack such an important place in Weixian County at the critical time when the main force of the imperial army rescued the Tufeiyuan Division, what did they want to do?

While ordering the Eighth Division to quickly assemble troops, King Tsugahiko of the East Gyuer Palace invited Lieutenant General Naosaburo Gangbe, from the enemy's command post before the Battle of Xuzhou of the North China Front in Jinan, to jointly study the situation in Weixian.

At dawn, the military planes stationed in Jinan were ordered to rush to Weixian to reconnoitre. According to the air force report, the county seat of Weixian County is engaged in fierce fighting, and it is impossible to bomb because the enemy and us are intertwined. No large Chinese troops were found around Weixian, but there were imperial troops advancing in the direction of Weixian, and it was judged that the troops stationed in various places of the 3rd Brigade were ordered to return to help.

King Tsukihiko of Higashijur Palace sent a telegram to Sasaki again to inform him of the reconnaissance situation of the aircraft.

Sasaki didn't think at this time that the real purpose of the Eighth Route Army's sudden slowdown in the pace of attack was not fishing, but he knew China too well and knew that most of the [***] squadron did not have anti-aircraft firepower, and thought that the Eighth Route Army slowed down the pace of attack because he was afraid of being bombed in the middle of the day, and at night it was probably the time for his jade to be broken. Therefore, Sasaki Daiichi, who was afraid of his death, hurriedly reported the critical situation of the defenders of Weicheng to Lieutenant General Tsukihiko of Higashijur Palace, and begged Lieutenant General Kushihiko of Higashijur Palace to immediately mobilize a large army to relieve the siege.

Afraid that Lieutenant General Tsukihiko of Higashijur Palace would not take himself seriously and that the rescue would not be effective, Sasaki Toichi even sent a telegram to his old commander, General Ueda Kenkichi, commander of the Kwantung Army, begging him to contact General Terauchi Shouichi and urge Lieutenant General Kushihiko of Higashijueriya to send troops to rescue.

Not to mention, this Senior General Ueda Kenkichi really cared about the old feelings, and directly sent a telegram to General Terauchi Shouichi, saying that Sasaki was the pride of the Imperial Army and had made outstanding contributions to the training of the Manchurian Defense Force and the maintenance of public order in Manchuria, and asked the North China Front Army to save him from danger.

Terauchi Shouichi had not yet received a report from the Second Army at this time, and after reading the telegram from General Kenyoshi Ueda, he was furious and directly sent a report to Lieutenant General Tsukihiko of Higashijueriya, saying that he had concealed the military situation and delayed the warplane.

Since taking office, Lieutenant General Tsukihiko of Higashijuer Palace has been scolded twice by General Terauchi Shouichi, and he is trembling with anger. But it's useless to be angry again, who called someone the commander of the front army and not himself? He still honestly reported the situation of the battle in Weixian to General Shouichi Terauchi, and said that after consulting with Lieutenant General Naosaburo Gangbe, it was judged that the Eighth Route Army must be part of Liu Yimin's instructor who attacked Weixian. In view of the fact that the unit recently confronted the 108th Division in Luxi, launched an attack on the 7th Brigade of the Dexian Reading Mixed Brigade, and also attacked the Yellow River crossing of the Imperial Army through Taiwan, and attacked and occupied the porcelain kiln station between Tai'an and Yanzhou, it shows that Liu Yimin's instructor has divided his troops and attacked in all directions. If it is Liu Yimin's main force, after breaking through the city defense, it should take advantage of the situation to take the reading force and mix it into the headquarters of the third brigade, instead of fighting the battle as it is now. Of course, there are also factors that the unit is afraid that a strong attack during the day will become the target of the imperial army's fighters, and it is not ruled out that Liu Yimin may use the attack on Weixian to attract reinforcements from the main force of the imperial army, and then ambush it. Now, the Second Army has ordered the 10th Eighth Division to avoid entanglement with the Luxi Eighth Route Army and quickly return to Jinan; ordered the 8th Division to gather and assemble troops; Ordered the 3rd Brigade Regiment to be stationed in various counties to return to Weixian. It is up to His Excellency the Commander to decide what to do.

After reading the telegram of Lieutenant General Tsukihiko King of Higashijur Palace, General Terauchi Shouichi laughed angrily, and scolded a few words of waste in his heart, and he would kick the ball!

After scolding, General Terauchi Shouichi directly sent a report to Lieutenant General Sasaki to the first lieutenant general, ordering him to report in detail on the situation of the breach of Weixian County's defense and the current battle situation.

Lieutenant General Sasaki received a telegram from General Terauchi Shouichi, and felt that he had finally caught a life-saving straw, and his mind was clear, so he took matters into his own hands and drafted a telegram to General Terauchi Shouichi, reporting in detail the situation of the loss of the castle defense, and reported that now Tsuchihachi was stepping up his attack on the core position of his headquarters, and only when the imperial army planes came, Tsuchihachi stopped the attack and became hidden. At the same time, they also organized the people to flee, carrying the materials and baggage stored by the imperial army, and all the banks and shops were controlled by Tubalu, and it seemed that Weixian County was empty.

General Shouichi Terauchi has figured out the situation this time. First, it must be Liu Yimin's elite troops who attacked Weixian, who were accustomed to sneak attacks, otherwise it would be impossible to successfully attack Weixian with searchlights and other facilities. You must know that under the strong walls of Weixian, a machine gun can block the attack of a company or even a battalion. can easily attack the Weixian city wall, except for Liu Yimin's troops, it is estimated that there is no second one in the [***] team. Second, Liu Yimin's unit had no anti-aircraft firepower and had to dodge the imperial army's fighters, which was in line with the reality that Liu Yimin's air defense brigade commander was killed in the Nangong air battle during the bombing of southern Hebei. Third, Liu Yimin's attack on Weixian County was because he fell in love with the wealth of Weixian, and the purpose of his sneak attack on Taiyuan and Tianjin was the same as that of his sneak attack on Tianjin, which was to solve the problem of troop supply.

Once things are clear, the decision is easy to make. Terauchi Shouichi sent a telegram to Lieutenant General Naosaburo Gangbe and Lieutenant General Tsukihiko of Dongjueriya, informing them of his analysis and judgment, and pointed out that Liu Yimin's troops had just attacked and occupied Guantai Ferry and Ciyao Town, and even if they could not fly to Weixian. In Weixian, it must be a part of its main force, with the purpose of sacking Weixian and raising military supplies. Therefore, the Second Army should be determined to quickly reinforce Weixian and gather Liu Yimin to attack the Weixian troops. The Eighth Division, the garrison stationed in Qingdao, and Zhang Zong's aid to the Shandong Autonomous Allied Army advanced from east to west, and it was necessary to encircle it under the city of Weixian County, and it was absolutely impossible to make it escape. As long as this part of the Eighth Route Army can be eliminated, even if it is just a regiment, it will be a great feat.

Considering the complex terrain in the mountainous area of Luzhong, it was easy to encounter an ambush from Tai'an along the Taylor Highway to the north, General Terauchi Shouichi ordered Lieutenant General Naosaburo Gangbe and Lieutenant General Tsukihiko Wang of Higashijueriya, and the Eighth Division must be transported to Jinan by car, and from Jinan directly to the east. The Second Army should send more search troops to search and advance to Weixian to clear the passage for the Eighth Division.

(To be continued)