After listening to this, Qiao Youhua nodded with satisfaction and asked, "Is there any news from the three regiments?" ”

The signal soldier shook his head and said, "Not yet, if there is, I will definitely report it as soon as possible." ”

Qiao Youhua frowned and said, "Go, send a telegram to Wu Ming to ask, is there any trouble?" ”

"Yes." The signal soldier responded with a bang, saluted, and quickly turned to leave.

In Qiao Youhua's words, Wu Ming's third regiment did encounter some trouble, because Raoyang County was closer to the Japanese puppet army, so while sending troops to help Hengshui, the devil also divided his troops to strengthen the defense of Raoyang County.

Wu Ming led the third regiment to arrive one step late and failed to take the opportunity to capture Raoyang County.

However, in order to complete the task assigned to him by Qiao Youhua, Wu Ming was urging the command of the third regiment to launch a round of fierce attacks on Raoyang County, but the Japanese puppet army had more and more reinforcements, so it was delayed.

As the Japanese puppet army became more and more troops, took the initiative to attack, and divided the troops to counterattack in a roundabout way, the third regiment fell into a dangerous situation of being surrounded on all sides.

Before Qiao Youhua's telegram was sent, the communication office received an urgent message for help from the third regiment, and the communication soldier happened to take the telegram, went and returned, and ran to Qiao Youhua again.

The continuous running made him breathe a little short, and he saluted Qiao Youhua and said: "Commander, it's not good, the commander of the third regiment is in a hurry, they are surrounded by heavy troops of the Japanese puppet army, the situation is a little bad, ask the commander to send reinforcements." ”

Qiao Youhua knew about Wu Ming's character, if it weren't for the fact that the situation was dangerous, he wouldn't be embarrassed to ask him for help.

Therefore, after Qiao Youhua listened to the report of the signal soldier, he did not get angry and held him responsible, but immediately said to him: "Immediately send a telegram to Battalion Commander Liu, and order him to speed the cavalry battalion north to meet the three regiments to break through!" ”

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On the side of the Third Regiment, the situation is indeed a little critical, in fact, it is not that Wu Ming is not commanding properly, but that the Japanese puppet army reacts too quickly, mainly because Raoyang County is closer to the Japanese puppet army reinforcements.

When the Japanese learned that Hengshui had been lost, they took advantage of the situation to order the main force of the Japanese puppet army reinforcements that had already traveled to Xian County (another county town north of Wuqiang County) to change the route of travel.

Rushed to the aid of Raoyang County, and then the air force reconnaissance plane of the North China Front Aviation Regiment took the lead in discovering Wu Ming's Third Regiment and promptly fed back the news to the Japanese command.

Sugiyama Mototo and Kawabe Shozo immediately made a decision to encircle and annihilate this lone army of Longya Column in the north with superior forces, hoping to fight a partial victory and redeem the unfavorable decline of Shimen, Hengshui and other places that were lost one after another.

Therefore, he directly commanded more than 100,000 puppet reinforcements on the East Road, and stationed a part of his troops in Raoyang County to ensure that the county seat would not be captured by the three regiments of Longya.

The other main forces also bypassed Raoyang County and outflanked the rear of the Third Regiment of Longya, and by the time Wu Ming and Zhao Youde reacted, they were already in the strategic encirclement of the Japanese puppet army.

After Wu Ming and Zhao Youde noticed that something was wrong, they immediately ordered the troops to stop attacking the city, and the rear team changed to the front team to retreat to Anping County, which had been recovered before, but the Japanese puppet army in Raoyang City took the initiative to attack at this time and bit them to death, which made them unable to retreat with all their strength.

In the end, it was helplessly pursued and intercepted by the Japanese puppet army, and was heavily surrounded in Zhengjiazhuang Village, which was about 20 miles away from Raoyang County.

However, the fortifications were all built temporarily, and the Japanese puppet army finally surrounded a dragon tooth army, so under the supervision of the Japanese army officers and hardcore traitors, the puppet army was the mainstay, and a large number of troops were concentrated, and waves of onslaught were launched against the three dragon tooth regiments.

Fortunately, fortunately, the combat effectiveness and weapons and equipment of these puppet troops are very poor, and in front of the three regiments of Longya, which are equipped with German and British weapons, they have basically become a death stormtrooper.

This made those devil officers who supervised the war angry, and repeatedly scolded the puppet army for their waste and rice buckets, but they were helpless, their troops themselves were insufficient, and they were reluctant to let the Japanese army go until they had to.

In a temporary command post converted into a private house in the village, regiment commander Wu Ming, deputy regiment commander Zhao Youde, and others were gathering to discuss the military situation.

The gunfire outside had stopped, and another attack by the puppet army was repulsed, and the open space outside the village was full of craters, and the corpses of the puppet soldiers were everywhere, and the air was filled with the smell of gunsmoke and disgusting blood.

As the breeze blew into the command post of the three regiments, Wu Ming and Zhao Youde, veterans who were accustomed to smelling blood, couldn't help frowning.

Zhao Youde cleared his throat and said to Wu Ming: "Regiment commander, although the puppet army is not good at fighting, but it is better than the number of people, although our firepower is strong, but the ammunition consumption is also amazing, if it goes on like this, sooner or later the ammunition will run out, and then we can only fight with the little devils with bayonets."

I'm afraid this is also the wishful thinking of the devils, so they have been letting the puppet army attack us at any cost, the purpose is to let those two devils be cannon fodder and consume our ammunition. ”

Wu Ming's brows furrowed when he heard this, and said: "Sue the battalions, try to save ammunition, the puppet army is a group of rabble, you can get close and then fight, in this way, we have the opportunity to seize their weapons and ammunition for our use."

Zhao Youde nodded, the mood of the two was very solemn, this time they were ordered to attack at the same time as the second regiment, the second regiment had already captured Hengshui, but they had hit a nail here in Raoyang, and now they were still under siege by the Japanese puppet army.

How can the mood be good in the past?

At this moment, the communication soldier took off his headset, stood up, picked up a telegram that had just been translated and saluted the two: "The regiment commander, the deputy regiment commander, and the commander called back, and the commander said that he had ordered the cavalry battalion to rush to support, let us be sure to hold on and wait for help, and as soon as the cavalry battalion arrives, we will join them inside and outside and fight our way out of the encirclement!" ”

Wu Ming's expression moved, and he said, "The commander didn't say anything else?" ”

The communications man shook his head and said, "No." ”

Wu Ming nodded, waved his hand at him and said, "I know, you go and call the commander back, just say that we are doing our best to wait for help." ”

The communications soldier snapped into a salute, turned around and took the order back to the radio station, and continued to get busy.

Zhao Youde saw that Wu Ming's face was still a little heavy, and couldn't help asking: "Regiment commander, the commander has already sent reinforcements over, the cavalry battalion is well-equipped and has strong assault capabilities, with their cooperation, we will definitely be able to fight our way out of the encirclement, why are you still unhappy?" ”

Wu Ming, a little depressed, lit a cigarette and said: "This battle is like this, not only did we fail to complete the task assigned to us by the commander, but we also had the cavalry battalion take the risk to rescue and respond, although the commander didn't say anything, but how can you make me happy?" ”