I was provoked by the bearded man's words. The captain of the puppet army immediately stood up and said decisively: "I have decided, immediately open the city gate, contact the Eighth Road, and surrender!" ”

Saying a, he hugged the ruins of the Australian threshold and punished the temple of Zhuo

The bearded man was overjoyed, and hurriedly responded: "Yes, captain, I'll go now." ”

Outside the city, Wu Ming and Zheng Yunshan were gathering together to rest, when suddenly, a soldier ran from outside and saluted the two: "Brigade commander, Regiment Commander Zheng, the defenders of the West Gate have raised a white flag." ”

Zheng Yunshan and Wu Ming were overjoyed when they heard this, and they stood up one after another, and Wu Ming preemptively asked, "What, are you sure?" ”

"To be sure, Simon's brethren saw it with their own eyes." The warrior replied.

Wu Ming and Zheng Yunshan glanced at each other, and couldn't help but say happily: "It seems that our tricks have taken effect." ”

"yes, send someone to receive it quickly." Zheng Yunshan nodded.

"Hmm!" Wu Ming immediately instructed the soldier: "You immediately go to the west gate to inform the siege troops, and immediately respond to the defenders with banners, and ask them to open the city gate and go out of the city on their own, and surrender to our army." Once the puppet army left the city, the siege troops immediately entered the city and forced the other puppet troops in the city.

If you encounter a stubborn person, you will be annihilated on the spot! ”

The soldier hurriedly saluted and gladly replied, "Yes." “

Turned around and sprinted all the way away.

On the wall of the West Gate, after receiving a response from the banner of the surrounding troops outside the city, the bearded man hurriedly reported to his captain: "Captain, the eight roads outside the city have responded to us." ”

The captain of the puppet army, who was nervous, hurriedly asked, "What do they say?" ”

"Balu said that he agreed to our request for surrender and asked us to immediately open the city gate and go out of the city and surrender to them." The bearded man replied.

"Go and call them back, and say that we are willing to go out of the city, and open the city gates at once, and ask them not to open fire, lest they be injured by mistake."

The bearded man answered, took the flag and turned to leave, and soon went back to his captain and said: "Captain, I have contacted the Eighth Road, they said, let us rest assured, we will never be injured by mistake, and they also said that we are the first puppet army to take the initiative to abandon the dark and turn to the light, and we have made meritorious contributions."

But keep in mind that as soon as you leave the city, move closer to both sides of the gates, and never block them. ”

When the captain of the puppet army heard this, he was overjoyed, and immediately ordered: "Go out of the city, and quickly follow the instructions of the Eighth Road." ”

Soon, more than 1,000 puppet soldiers near the head of the West Gate City quietly opened the city gate, held various weapons, and went out of the city under the leadership of several puppet army leaders.

On the blockade position outside the city, thousands of Longya officers and soldiers who had been preparing for a long time suddenly rushed up, some of them were responsible for collecting the puppet army prisoners who had left the city, and some of them took advantage of the situation to rush into the west gate.

The bearded man and his companions handed over their weapons to the Dragon's Tooth warriors who had come to collect them, and then they were quickly evacuated from Ximen by the heavily armed Dragon's Tooth warriors.

The first to attack the west gate were more than 1,000 soldiers of the first battalion of the third brigade and one regiment, and after they entered the city, two companies advanced along the streets of the city gate, and the two companies climbed the city wall on the left and right, and attacked along the city wall to the two flanks to expand the control area.

The puppet army on the city wall on both sides of the west gate was caught off guard, and was startled by the swarming dragon tooth officers and soldiers, and in the face of the black muzzle and the dragon tooth officers and soldiers with cold expressions, these puppet soldiers were directly reprimanded and surrendered with their guns raised and taken prisoner.

The main thing is that the psychological offensive of the Dragon's Tooth Column outside the city just now played a great role, and even though the puppet army on other sections of the city wall did not take the initiative to surrender, it was somewhat affected, and they had long lost the faith and courage to fight.

At this time, the dragon's tooth officers and soldiers rushed to the front, and they surrendered.

Therefore, by the time Zheng Yunshan commanded the more than 2,000 soldiers of the guard regiment, and the follow-up reinforcements entered the city from the west gate, the troops of the previous battalion had already broken through the city and attacked hundreds of meters away from the city.

The city wall also advanced almost to the north and south gates, and along the way, the puppet army was invincible and surrendered one after another, without encountering any resistance.

The large number of prisoners was about to make the first siege troops lose their ability to attack, but fortunately, the soldiers of the guard regiment arrived in time to relieve this pressure, and cooperated with the first batch of siege troops to advance to the north and south gates.

Although the puppet army here didn't know what was going on, they all thought that the main force of the Dragon's Tooth Column had entered the city, and they had no intention of resisting, so they also surrendered one after another, and few dared to resist.

In this way, the guard regiment opened the south gate and the north gate, and put all the main forces of the third brigade into the city, and then the puppet army at the east gate saw that the general trend was gone, and they also opened the city gate one after another, and welcomed the dragon's tooth troops outside the east gate.

The 30,000 puppet army barely resisted, and because of the surrender of the vast majority of the puppet army, the whole army was wiped out.

The Third Brigade and the Guard Regiment can be said to have taken Dongguang County without blood, and the biggest result was more than 30,000 more puppet army prisoners.

When the Dragon's Tooth Column took control of the entire county and raised the flag of the Eighth Route Army at the four gates, the people in the city all walked out of their homes and poured into the streets and intersections, cheering and celebrating.

One by one, the puppet soldiers were escorted out of the city and assembled by the officers and soldiers of the Dragon's Tooth Column.

Wu Ming and Zheng Yunshan came to the city wall of the south gate, looked at the puppet army captives that were constantly gathering outside the city, and said with a smile: "Now it's okay, we won't be short of soldiers." ”

Zheng Yunshan also smiled and said: "Yes, I have seen these 30,000 puppet soldiers, they are all young and middle-aged people with very good physical conditions, and they are quite a good source of new soldiers!" ”

"Winning people's hearts and using it for me, it's still the best thing the political commissar and our commander have done, just report to the commander, he will be very happy after hearing it." Wu Ming said with a smile.

Zheng Yunshan also nodded with a smile and said: "Yes, after solving these more than 30,000 puppet troops and recovering Dongguang County, our battle plan to close the door and fight the dog this time will be completed, and then we can go north to Cangzhou to fight the little devils." ”

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After Qiao Youhua learned of the situation in Dongguang County, he asked Wu Ming and Zheng Yunshan to leave 3,000 people to guard the prisoners and maintain order, while the main force immediately went north to reinforce the second brigade in Nanpi and Botou to prepare for the Battle of Cangzhou.

He immediately rushed to Dongguang with his guards, preparing to collect these more than 30,000 puppet troops and let them use them for their own use as quickly as possible.

And at this time, Beiping City, inside the headquarters of the Japanese army.

Tada Jun and Kawabe Shozo also received a report from their communications staff officers and learned that the attack of the 14th Division had been frustrated and Kawama had fallen into the hands of the Dragon's Tooth Column. 、

But I didn't know the news that Dongguang County had been lost and the 30,000 Imperial Allied Army had been wiped out, because when Dongguang County was lost, the leaders of the puppet army were busy fleeing for their lives or surrendering to the Eighth Route Army in order to curry favor with the siege troops.

Therefore, no one reported to the Japanese army.

Of course, this is also because not long after the loss of Dongguang County, the devils in Cangzhou and other places have not noticed the abnormality.

Tada Jun frowned, and said to Kawabe Shozo in a very bad mood: "Kawama still fell into the hands of the Zhina people, Kawabe-kun, I'm afraid we will be very passive next!" ”

Hebe Zhengsan also nodded solemnly and said: "Yes, general, the 14th Division also called to say that because it was constantly harassed by the tanks and cavalry of the Longya Column, the attack on Nanpi has failed repeatedly, and it seems that it is impossible to rescue the Imperial Alliance Army trapped in Dongguang County in time." ”

Tada Jun's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he suddenly raised his head and said, "By the way, how is the battle situation in Dongguang County?" ”|

Kawabe Shozo said: "Judging from the indirect report of the 14th Division, the situation should not be optimistic, because the 14th Division has raised more than once that the Dongguang defenders have repeatedly sent messages to them asking for help. ”

"Send a telegram to the defenders of Dongguang County to inquire and see how the situation is there." Tada Jun suddenly had an ominous premonition in his heart, and instructed Shozo Riverside.

Hebe Shozo hurriedly bowed his head and answered, and took the order to leave, but within five minutes, he walked back with a black face.

Looking at Kawabe Shozo's face was not right, the ominous premonition in Tadajun's heart became even stronger, and he immediately asked, "Kawabe-kun, how is it?" Have you been contacted? ”

Hebe Zhengsan shook his head and said: "No, it has lost contact with the radio station of the defenders of Dongguang County, so it seems that there are only two possibilities, one is that the county seat of Dongguang is lost, and the defenders are all wiped out, and the other is that the defenders have mutined and surrendered to the Dragon's Tooth Column."

If it was the first, it should not even be the last message, so it is quite possible that the second one. They betrayed the imperial army and went out of the city and surrendered. ”

After listening to Kawabe Shozo's analysis, Tada Jun's face couldn't help but turn blue with anger, and he wanted to scold his mother, but he still held back, and Kawabe Shozo said at this time: "General, please calm your anger, the people of China are already unreliable, and even more so at a critical juncture, let's quickly change the combat deployment."

No matter what happened in Dongguang County now, it would not make much sense to let the 14th Division and other units take the initiative to attack, so it would be better to let the 14th Division withdraw first, and wait for us to figure out what happened before making plans. ”

Secretly taking a few deep breaths to calm down his anger, Tada Jun nodded lightly and said, "Well, just do what you said the chief of staff, send a telegram to the 14th Division and let them withdraw to Cangzhou."

But send a telegram to the 8th Division and the 5th and 6th Mixed Brigades, asking them to continue to march towards Hejian, no matter what the cost, to snatch this county town back from the Dragon's Tooth Column! Hejian must not fall into the hands of the Dragon's Tooth Column. ”

The 30,000 Imperial Allied troops in Dongguang County could be lost, but Tada Jun clearly understood that Hejian County must be recaptured, otherwise, the defenders of Cangzhou would be in danger, unless they took the initiative to retreat to Pingjin to the north.

Otherwise, communication with Baoding and other places in the west will be cut off, and they will fall into the predicament of fighting alone. ”、

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In this way, the 14th Division, after receiving Tadajun's order, immediately ended this offensive battle that they were most reluctant to carry out, and scrambled to retreat to Cangzhou City.

Zheng Yunshan and Wu Ming also rushed to Nanpi and Botou with reinforcements of about 7,000 people, which greatly increased the strength of the dragon tooth column in these two places.

However, the county town of Hejian was caught in the two-sided attack of two mixed brigades and one division of the Japanese army.

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