This scene outside the city was clearly witnessed by the Japanese puppet army in Texas City, but none of the Japanese puppet army dared to go out of the city to rescue their companions.

Just watched them fall under the bullets and sharp sabers of the Dragontooth Cavalry.

In the Japanese headquarters in the city, a Japanese soldier said to a middle commander with a gloomy face: "Sir, my 8th squad and more than 200 imperial troops are being pursued by the Chinese cavalry, please agree to go out of the city to meet them, otherwise they will be wiped out." ”

The devil Zhongzuo was unmoved and said: "Xiao Chunjun, I hope you can understand that the order given to us by the front army headquarters is to hold Texas at any cost, the cavalry of the Chinese army is famous, if we rush out now for the sake of those remnants outside the city, once the Chinese army takes advantage of the weakness, the consequences will be unimaginable." ”

Shao Zuo, a devil named Xiaochun, roared with red eyes: "However, those are our subordinates, the soldiers of the empire, and the people of the emperor, can they just see death and not save them?" ”

Devil Zhongzuo said exceptionally calmly: "Xiao Chunjun, do you think that the tens of thousands of imperial warriors who died in Hengshui City, as well as the more than 2,000 imperial officers and soldiers in Dezhou City, are not imperial soldiers?" As a soldier of the Empire, you must always be ready to sacrifice for the Empire. Including you and me.

We have given up so many of the surrounding strongholds that we have worked so hard to manage, in order to be able to hold Texas, an important place north of the Yellow River, and how can we lose our efforts because of the very few imperial soldiers outside? Okay, don't say any more, carry out my orders, the whole city is on alert, and strictly prevent the sneak attack of the Chinese army"

Although Xiaochun Shaozuo was unwilling, he didn't dare to disobey Zhongzuo's order, so he had to snort and bow his head to leave.

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Poof! In the wilderness outside the city, Liu Jianhua's war horse under his crotch ran like flying, galloping past a ghost soldier, and the sharp saber in his hand flashed coldly, slashing across the neck of the ghost soldier.

The head of the devil soldier was separated from the body, and it was thrown high into the air, and after Liu Jianhua galloped on his horse, a scarlet blood shot out from the broken neck.

Liu Jianhua reined in his war horse and looked back, and there was no longer a standing devil or puppet army around.

"Deputy battalion commander, prepare artillery fire, bombard Texas City, and do a more realistic trick!" Liu Jianhua swung his blood-soaked sharp saber towards the Texas City in front of him and commanded sharply.

Zhao Tiezhu responded violently, quickly commanded the gunners, and set up the mortars carried by the army.

A few minutes later, four 60mm mortars began to bombard the walls of Texas in waves.

俅俅俅俅...... The sound of cannonballs breaking through the air sounded one after another, and explosions continued to rise on the city wall of the north gate of Texas, and in the scarlet firelight, from time to time, there were garrison devils and puppet soldiers who were killed and wounded, and some people were swept up by the shock wave of the explosion and fell hard outside the city.

"Sir, the abominable Chinese cavalry, who are carrying artillery, are now shelling the north gate, and it seems that they are planning to storm the city of Texas." Xiao Chun Shaozuo ran to the commander of the Japanese garrison in Texas with an unkind face and said.

That devil Nakazuo's face was solemn, he pondered for a moment, and said: "Send a telegram to the front army headquarters, ask them to send reinforcements to reinforce us as soon as possible, and order all the troops defending the city to strengthen their vigilance and defend with all their might!" ”

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Beiping City, the headquarters of the North China Front of the Japanese invasion of China.

Shozo Kawabe, chief of the general staff of the Japanese army in North China, received an urgent telegram from a communications staff officer, who said with a hasty expression: "Your Excellency, General, this is an urgent telegram for help just sent by the Texas Garrison Command. ”

Kawabe Shozo opened it and glanced at it, nodded his head and said, "Well, I know, go and report to His Excellency the Commander immediately, you go and get busy." ”

After saying that, Kawabe Shozo turned around and left, and the communications staff officer was also ordered to turn around and walk back to the confidential room not far away.

Kawabe Shozo hurriedly came to Sugiyama Moto's office, knocked on the door of the half-covered room, and Sugiyama Moto's voice came from inside: "Come in." ”

Kawabe Shozo pushed the door and walked in, Sugiyama Moto looked up and asked, "Kawabe-kun, what's wrong, is there something wrong?" ”

Kawabe Shozo nodded with a heavy face and said: "Well, Your Excellency General, the Texas garrison has sent an urgent telegram, saying that the Chinese Dragon's Tooth Column does intend to attack Texas, and its vanguard is already attacking the Texas city defense. ”

Hearing this, Sugiyama Yuan's brows suddenly twisted into two balls, and he said with a sad face: "Bagaya Road, Qiao Youhua is really not greedy enough, he really wants to counterattack Texas?" ”

Kawabe Shozo said helplessly: "Yes, but I have to admit that the timing chosen by this guy is very right, at least for them." At present, the strength of our North China Front has suffered a great loss, and most of the Imperial Allied Army has just surrendered and is unusable, and it is indeed a headache to carry out a counteroffensive when we are at our weakest! ”

Sugiyama Mototo snorted coldly: "Send aviation troops to carry out high-intensity air strikes on the Chinese army operating around Texas to support the Texas garrison in the battle!" The Texas garrison was fully defended and waited for reinforcements.

In addition, the telegram ordered Taishan, the reinforcements from Jinan to the north, accelerate their advance, and rush to Texas to support! ”

"Hay." Kawabe Shozo hurriedly bowed his head and took orders.

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While the Japanese devils thought that Qiao Youhua was going to capture Dezhou and launched a series of deployments, Qiao Youhua had already led the main force of the Dragon Tooth Column to take the opportunity to advance eastward and came to the area of Guangrao County.

Zheng Yunshan was ordered to lead a reinforced elite platoon of the guard battalion to serve as the vanguard of the whole army, for the purpose of reconnaissance of the spearhead, and was the first to arrive at a place called Qilipo, thirteen miles west of Guangrao.

Here is a large dirt slope, a road leading to Guangrao County surrounds the soil slope, the soil slope is overgrown with all kinds of trees and weeds, it can be regarded as a dangerous place.

The reinforced platoon led by Zheng Yunshan had more than 70 people, all equipped with German-style equipment, and as soon as they arrived at Qilipo, they were discovered by Japanese scouts lurking on the dirt slope.

Several Japanese scouts on the dirt slope suddenly opened fire, and a wave of bullets hit, and one of the leading spearhead squad leaders heard the sound and quickly rolled forward to dodge, and the bullets hit the place where he was standing just now, splashing a lot of smoke and dust.

Zheng Yunshan reacted quickly, raised the MP38 submachine gun in his hand and fired a quick shot in the direction of the source of the gunshot.

Three or five submachine gun bullets whizzed towards the hiding place of those devil scouts, hitting the grass and trees, and suddenly filled with puffs of green smoke.

Although the other fighters were a beat slower than Zheng Yunshan, they were also fast, and they followed closely and fired in that direction, and Qilipo suddenly burst into gunfire.

Dozens of the most advanced German-style submachine guns roared one after another, pouring a large number of bullets in the direction of the devil scout's hideout.

At the same time as the gunshots rang out, two screams of devil soldiers were heard on the smoke-filled dirt slope.

The squad leader of the spearhead who was first ambushed by the devil also reacted, and he rolled up, half-squatting on the ground, and fired with the submachine gun in his hand.

Da Da Da ...... The muzzle of the German submachine gun spewed hot and dazzling tongues of fire, and the dense bullets swept towards the devil scouts like a wind.

In less than a minute, Zheng Yunshan and the others completely relied on their firepower advantage to suppress the other party, and for a while, there was only the sound of MP38 submachine guns continuing to roar and roar in Qilipo.

There is no longer the gunfire of the devil's 38 big cover and the crooked light machine gun.

After several rounds of rapid long and short point shots, Zheng Yunshan took the lead and waved his hand: "Rush up, don't let one go!" The more than seventy dragon tooth elites around him suddenly moved according to the order, in groups of three or five, forming a group of themselves, alternately covering and rushing towards the direction where the devil was hiding.