"Yes." Soon, the guard company, which had retreated from the position, handed over the wounded to the reconnaissance company after two platoons remained. Embark on the journey again. A platoon of the reconnaissance company acted as the pioneer, and the guard company, the artillery company followed up and advanced to the next target.

"Brigade commander, our next target is Xie Cun Township, twenty miles away, where there is also a squad of devils, but they don't have a strong artillery tower to rely on, so it should be easy to solve." The platoon leader of the scout said, pointing to a small town on the map.

"Well, don't underestimate the enemy, what I want is to annihilate this gang of devils. Ordered, the guard company immediately outflanked the past and did not let them escape to the county seat. Let's still do the old way, under the cover of mortars, and wipe out this gang of devils. The brigade commander commanded loudly.

As a result, the guard company, which had already reduced its strength by one squad, immediately dispatched to outflank the devils on the way back to the county seat. There is no doubt that under the cover of 12 mortars, the guard company wiped them all out at the cost of only a few fighters going online. However, the one brought by this is that Dio is also very popular, that is, the troops have basically not been captured. In the entire battlefield that was blown to ruins, only a few rifles were captured, and the remaining weapons were all blown into ruins by shells.

In this way, the Seven-Way Army, under the cover of heavy fire mortars. The momentum is like a bamboo, annihilating the living power of the devil little by little. Finally, at five o'clock in the afternoon, the Seven Route Army had already converged on the five routes to the city of Yuanping County. The entire county has been surrounded by a regiment of troops.

"Communicator, inform the battalion commanders to come to the temporary headquarters for a meeting immediately, chief of staff, you go and count the casualties of each battalion." Looking at the impassable Yuanping County, which had been surrounded, the brigade commander Gao Yuan calmly ordered.

At this time, the captain of the devil brigade who served as Yuanping County was really anxious, and kept pacing back and forth in his headquarters. "Well, haven't you contacted the garrison teams of the surrounding strongholds?" The captain kept asking the chief of staff next to him.

Because since the first Eighth Route Army unit appeared outside the city, the brigade ordered the defending troops to close the city gates, and sent the only squadron to the city wall to guard. Originally, I thought that this army was just passing through the county seat of Yuanping, but it didn't take long for another similar force to converge under the city. At this time, the captain really panicked, because he only had a squadron of troops in his hands, and it was impossible to hold the county seat when the enemy had artillery fire.

As a result, the captain began to ask for help from the surrounding strongholds, asking them to abandon their strongholds and defend the city with the troops in the city. Two hours passed, and the troops outside the city gathered more and more, but there was no news from the strongholds outside the city.

"Your Excellency, there is still no news outside the city, and I suspect that the imperial army outside the city has been shattered." The chief of staff replied with his head bowed.

"Baga, how can this be, where did the Eighth Route Army come from, isn't Your Excellency the Commander launching another encirclement and suppression operation against the Eighth Route Army? Quick, order the defending troops to get ready for battle! The captain asked in disbelief.

"Hey, I'm going to deliver the order." The chief of staff bent down and replied.

"Also, order all the expatriates in the city to be armed, and the police force in the city, all of them will catch up with the city wall and let them defend the city." After saying that, the captain sat on the stool.

"Hey." With that, the chief of staff turned and left the command.

And in a dilapidated house outside the city, all the cadres above the battalion level of the Second Brigade of Reading Force were gathering together.

"Comrades, now we have completed half of the task since the dispatch of the troops, that is, to occupy the vast rural areas of Yuanping with lightning speed. Now the army of encirclement and suppression has approached the base area. So, our task now is to tell the devils that they have been fooled. If they don't come back to Yuanping County, then the entire Yuanping County will be our Eighth Route Army. Brigade Commander Gao Yuan said, standing in the middle of them.

"Brigade commander, information from comrades in the city." The chief of staff handed Gao Yuan a piece of paper.

"Haha, comrades, our comrades in the city have sent information: the devils in the city are very inadequate, and now they are already arming the bridge name, and they have also pulled hundreds of policemen up the city wall." After reading the information in his hand, the brigade commander said happily.

"Well, the intelligence is very accurate, according to our intelligence. The devil has only one squadron of defenders in Yuanping County, so this is a good opportunity for us. The commissar also nodded and said.

"Yes, the commissar is right, the devil has only one squadron of troops. As for those hundreds of police officers and expatriates, although with guns. However, when the time comes, when our artillery bombards, they will only add chaos to the army defending the city. Therefore, now is our best chance to attack the county seat, and we are going to take advantage of his chaos and ask for his life. Takahara slammed the table and said.

"Chief of Staff, you would like you to report on the losses of the troops in one day." Looking at the chief of staff who walked in, Gao Yuan nodded and said.

"Brigade commanders, political commissars, comrades, after a day of fighting, we lost a total of 342 people, of which 65 comrades were sacrificed, 45 were seriously wounded, and 232 were lightly wounded. Therefore, it does not affect the overall combat effectiveness of the troops. ”

"However, our ammunition consumption is very huge. The various bullets were not consumed due to the replenishment of captured bullets. However, half of the shells we brought have already been consumed, and now the remaining shells of each artillery battery can only average to 5 rounds per shell. The chief of staff replied.

"Well, Chief of Staff, this is our loss, and now I will inform you of our results." After hearing the loss, Gao Yuan was also sad for a while, not to mention the comrades below? So I thought of using the results to inspire everyone.

"Although our losses in one day were very large, the results of the comrades' battles were also very huge, and we eliminated a total of 8 squads of the Japanese army in a systematic manner. In addition, we have sporadically eliminated at least two squads of the Japanese army. That is to say, in one day, our Second Brigade of Reading Force eliminated a total of more than 500 little devils. The chief of staff said excitedly.

Sure enough, after listening to the results of the chief of staff, everyone showed an excited look on their faces.

"Okay, comrades, now there are only more than 200 devils left in the county town in the entire Yuanping area, do you have the confidence to break through it in the shortest possible time and completely annihilate the army inside." The political commissar looked at everyone's excited looks and said immediately.

"Yes." Everyone replied with a flushed face.

"Okay, now I ask the brigade commander to assign specific tasks to everyone, and at the same time, you can also put forward any good suggestions.

Half an hour later. All the cadres returned to their combat positions with excited faces, waiting for the time for the general attack.

As for why the attack was chosen at night. On the one hand, it is because the army is afraid of night battles. On the other hand, the plane that was afraid of the devil came to help in the battle, because in the battle of Changle Village in front, the plane of the devil left a deep impression on every commander. So, except for the necessary circumstances, everyone will try to choose the attack at night.

"Bang Bang Bang" three flares burst into the sky with more than three gorgeous flowers. At the same time, three artillery batteries, which were arranged around the county town of Yuanping, also opened fire. Dense shells rained down on the walls, which were only a few meters wide. As the shells exploded, the defensive forces that joined the police expatriate immediately became chaotic.

Looking at the living people, they were still good just now, but when a shell came down, they were immediately blown to pieces. Those policemen who have not gone through battles and can only scare people with guns in normal times can no longer withstand this kind of blow. One by one, they dropped their rifles and lay on the ground. Some people even rushed down the city wall and rushed to a place where they thought they were safe, regardless of the bayonets around them.

Seeing that one of his companions had fled to a safe place, the remaining policemen couldn't stand it anymore and stood up one after another and fled into the city, although the leaders of the army squad had cut down several fleeing policemen in a row, but still had no effect, and in the end, even those expatriates who had just been armed joined the sequence of fleeing.

"Haha, the man on the city wall is in chaos, order the troops, and start charging. It's still the old saying, take advantage of your chaos and kill you. Be sure to storm the walls at once. The brigade commander looked at the chaotic situation on the city wall and said excitedly.

There was no charge, no shouts of killing. The soldier followed his squad leader closely, and the squad leader followed the company commander to bend over, slowly approaching the exploding city wall. Because the shelling did not stop at this time, and there was no sound of the charge horn unique to the Eighth Route Army's charge, the chaotic devils on the city wall did not find anything at all, and the troops were slowly approaching the city wall.

"Ah, the Eighth Route Army, the Eighth Route Army rushed up" A devil who was an observer suddenly spotted the Eighth Route Army under the city wall and immediately exclaimed.

The quick-reacting devil immediately lay on the wall and began to return fire with limited rifle fire. "Baga, machine gun, shoot now," the squad leader shouted anxiously. But in the chaos of the crowd, the Heavy had long since lost sight of which corner he had been squeezed into.

In the face of the fire network composed of dozens of rifles, it really could not play much role against the attacking Eighth Route Army. Soon, several companies of the attacking army had rushed to the foot of the city wall, began to plant explosive packs, and an earth-shattering explosion sounded, and the entire city wall, along with dozens of devils born on the city wall, was shrouded in the smoke of the explosion. When the smoke cleared, a gap more than ten meters wide appeared in front of the soldiers.

"Tick tock" At this time, the trumpet of the charge finally sounded, and the soldiers no longer had to charge dullly with their heads down. One by one, they held their heads high, shouted slogans, and rushed towards the gap with guns that constantly spewed tongues of fire.

"Brigade commander, the fighters have already rushed into the county seat." The political commissar said with a smile.

"Well, well played, played with the majesty of our readers. Political commissar, we can report to the division commander and the political commissar, and the entire Yuanping county is under our control. Gao Yuan said excitedly.

(To be continued)