Xinpingbao, a small town in northern China that has experienced a baptism of war, is no longer as prosperous as it used to be. Although more than twenty days have passed since the last battle, the town is full of traces of war.

However, before the people who had just returned home could breathe a sigh of relief, and before they could dispose of the rubble and ruins in their homes, they were notified that the Japanese army was moving north, and all the people in the town were immediately evacuated.

At ten o'clock in the morning of September 25, an army in dark green uniforms suddenly appeared at Xinping Fort, and soon occupied all the high ground outside the town, while the construction of fortifications began.

Wang Zihan, commander of the first regiment and one battalion of the garrison brigade, is Chinese New Year's Eve years old today and graduated from the Northeast Lecture and Martial Arts Hall. Six years ago, Wang Zihan, who was the commander of the second company of the third battalion of the first regiment of the Fengtian Garrison Brigade of the Northeast Army, under the orders of his superiors, withdrew from the outside of the pass to the pass with the large army in one go, and surrendered the 3,000 miles of rivers and mountains outside the pass to the Japanese, leaving 30 million compatriots in dire straits.

As a soldier who was supposed to protect his home and defend the country, Wang Zihan was ashamed of his own inaction and that of the Northeast Army where he was located, so after withdrawing to Beiping, Wang Zihan left the Northeast Army with more than a dozen subordinates.

After leaving the Northeast Army, Wang Zihan came to Chahar with more than a dozen brothers, and set up a pole on Phoenix Mountain, became a bandit, and planned to accumulate strength to return to the Northeast.

Not to mention, in just a few years, Wang Zihan's bandit army has slowly grown from a dozen people at the beginning, to more than 1,600 people before the outbreak of the July 7 Incident.

After the first battle of Tianzhen, the Xinghe County Security Regiment defeated the Japanese army and created a military miracle, which made Wang Zihan, a former soldier, moved, and later after several twists and turns, Wang Zihan finally took his bandit soldiers to participate in Chen Feng's security regiment, and Wang Zihan himself was appointed by Chen Feng as the commander of the first regiment and one battalion of the garrison brigade.

The first regiment is the main regiment with the strongest combat effectiveness of the garrison brigade, and the first battalion is the fist of the regiment, with a total of 889 people, which is a standard German armament reinforced battalion. In view of the fact that the Japanese reinforcements this time will definitely attack at all costs, Xu Hu transferred a company from his guard battalion to supplement the first battalion.

Xu Hu's order to Wang Zihan was to nail Xinping Fort at all costs, no matter how many little devils came, at least eight hours.

As soon as they entered Xinping Fort, the reconnaissance unit came back and reported that the vanguard of the Japanese army had been found five kilometers south of Xinping Fort. The vanguard of the Japanese army was an infantry squad plus a puppet army company, about 200 people.

Wang Zihan frowned, and secretly said that the little devil came so quickly. The distance between the vanguard and the large army will not exceed five kilometers, which means that the distance between the large force of the Japanese army and Xinpingbao is less than ten kilometers, and it can be reached in half an hour at most at the marching speed of the Japanese army.

Time is so tight that even the simplest fortifications cannot be completed in half an hour. Fortunately, there were still some barely usable fortifications built by the last security regiment, and Wang Zihan immediately ordered the troops to hurry up the time to repair the fortifications and prepare for the attack of the Japanese troops going north.

Just when the 1st Regiment and 1st Battalion of the Garrison Brigade were about to collide with the Japanese reinforcements going north, the battle of the 222nd Division's encirclement and annihilation of Abe's Norihide Division also entered the most intense time.

A small hill five kilometers southeast of Xinghe County, no one paid attention to it before, and no one gave it a name. But now all eyes are on this place, because Lieutenant General Norihide Abe, who has the flower of the famous Japanese army, and his more than 5,000 subordinates are besieged here by the Chinese army.

Although the attack for many days has caused heavy losses to Abe's troops, Abe still controls more than 5,000 elite infantry, which is equivalent to the size of an infantry garrison brigade of the Japanese army, and it is really not a simple matter to eat this brigade in one fell swoop.

"Boom Boom" "Boom Boom"

Seeing that the Japanese troops in the encirclement were no longer ramming around like they had at the beginning, and were ready to break out of the encirclement, Chen Feng breathed a sigh of relief.

"It seems that Abe Norihide should have received an order to stay and wait for help, which is much better." Chen Feng said with a smile.

"Master, stick to it and wait for help, does the little devil still have reinforcements?" Chief of Staff Yang Yi said with a smile.

"Why not, don't underestimate the Japanese army. Isn't there nearly 30,000 little devils in the direction of Tianzhen, isn't there an infantry wing of the Japanese army in the direction of Huailai, isn't there still two brigades of defenders of the Japanese army in Zhangjiakou, and the most important thing is that we are only more than 500 kilometers away from Beiping, and the railway line controlled by the Japanese army can directly lead to the front line of Tianzhen, as long as the Japanese army is given more than 12 hours, their reinforcements can rush to the periphery of Xinghe. ”

Then Chen Feng said: "Besides, Tojo Hideki will not watch Abe's Norihide Department being eaten by us, even if he gives up the battle plan to capture Tianzhen, he will send the main force to reinforce him." ”

"Well, it seems that there is not much time left for us, and it seems to be a little difficult to completely annihilate an infantry brigade of the Japanese army in twelve hours." Yang Yi said with a frown.

"Is it difficult? Don't look at Abe Norihide, there are still more than 5,000 people, but now the little devils are at a disadvantage in all aspects, such as troops, firepower, and terrain conditions, and the most important thing is that the morale of the Japanese army has been knocked out by us, on the other hand, the morale of our army is high, and it is not difficult to eliminate this half-crippled infantry brigade. Now pass on my order: Regardless of the direction of the main attack, the 222nd, 223rd, garrison brigades, and units directly under the division headquarters will each send one regiment to participate in the frontal attack, and the artillery regiments directly under the division headquarters and the machine gun regiments of each brigade will all be pulled up to provide fire support. In addition, the air defense regiment was deployed on the spot to strictly prevent the Japanese aviation units from coming to reinforce them. It's up to you whether you can let the flower of Abe Norihide, a famous general, wither outside Xinghe Castle! Chen Feng shouted loudly.

Xinping Fort, 1st Battalion Command Post.

"Report to the battalion commander, the big army of the little devils is here and is organizing an attack!"

"Well, how many little devils are there?" Wang Zihan asked calmly.

"It looks like an infantry wing, and there are also a large number of puppet cavalry, I'm afraid there are no less than 8,000 people." The correspondent replied.

"Fortunately, there are only 8,000 people, and it should not be a problem to hold on for eight hours with the terrain, and order the forward positions to be strictly protected from Japanese shelling, and immediately distribute gas masks to everyone." In the northeast, Wang Zihan had seen the power of the Japanese army's poison gas bombs, so he specially applied for a thousand gas masks from Brigade Commander Xu before leaving.

The commander of the first batch of reinforcements from the Japanese army to the north was called Taro Murakami, with the rank of Osa, and was currently the chief of staff of the 1st Independent Mixed Brigade.

To be honest, Taro Murakami is still very grateful to this Chinese army, because it is because of their heroic resistance that he, who has just been promoted to the army lieutenant fire line, was promoted to the army chief, and also became the chief of staff of the first brigade of the independent mixed brigade.

Moreover, due to the heavy losses of the 1st Independent Mixed Brigade in the last battle, His Excellency Hideki Tojo ordered Brigade Commander Masatomi Yasuoka to stay in Huai to guard the logistics base and replenish the troops at the same time, so the affairs of the 1st Independent Mixed Brigade on the front line of Tianzhen were all decided by him, the chief of staff, and his power was far from being comparable to that of the chiefs of staff of several other brigades.

"Report: The 2nd Brigade is ready for battle and is ready for your orders!"

"Yo Xi, order Toyoda Shaozo to attack immediately, and at the same time order the 6th Artillery Brigade to give artillery support!" Taro Murakami gave the order to attack.

The Japanese army carried out artillery bombardment as usual, and more than a dozen mountain guns and dozens of mortars began to launch artillery shelling on the positions of the defenders of Xinpingbao, and suddenly the positions of the Chinese defenders turned into a sea of fire.

Since there were only a few anti-artillery holes that could be used, many soldiers could only crawl in the trenches and endure the shelling of the Japanese army. The first round of shelling caused a lot of losses to the first company, and even a company commander was seriously wounded.

The artillery bombardment was followed by the charge of the infantry, and due to the urgency of the military situation, Murakami Taro did not let the puppet army test the firepower of the Chinese defenders as before, but came up with an elite attack.

A sharp whistle sounded from the positions of the 1st battalion of the "Hurricane ......".

Hearing the whistle, the soldiers knew that the infantry of the little devils had come up, and hurriedly got up from the trenches and prepared for battle.

It was not the rifles that fired first, but the anti-aircraft machine guns that had been prepared for a long time, and although the Japanese infantry was still 500 meters away, the four twin anti-aircraft machine guns equipped with the first battalion opened fire.

The huge lethality brought by the flat fire of the "Bang Bang Bang" anti-aircraft machine gun suddenly interrupted the offensive of the Japanese army who had just launched a charge, and seeing the surrounding comrades constantly being knocked down by the terrifying bullets fired from the opposite side, even the Japanese soldiers who boasted of being armed with the spirit of bushido were afraid.

There is no way, maybe many Japanese soldiers are indeed not afraid of death as they say, but the lethality of the bullets fired from the opposite side is too strong, and it is a bloody hole in the body, and it is okay to die on the spot, if you can't die, you can only watch yourself bleed to death, and there is no way to save it.

What was even more terrifying was that the soldiers who were stopped and beaten in two could not die for a while, and half of their bodies crawled around on the ground, and the terrible howl made everyone tremble.

It is ridiculous that the first round of Japanese attacks has not yet entered the effective range of the rifles of the Chinese defenders, which makes Murakami Taro angry for a while.

However, in the battle just now, Murakami Taro could see clearly that the lethality of the weapon used by the people of China was indeed terrifying, and the firepower was extremely fierce.

"Order the artillery brigade to immediately destroy those terrifying weapons and equipment of the Chinese people, order the first regiment of the eighth division of the imperial alliance army to join the battlefield immediately, and order the third brigade to organize a second attack." Taro Murakami ordered loudly.

When an anti-aircraft machine gun was blown into a pile of scrap metal by several consecutive shells of the Japanese army, Wang Zihan finally realized the Japanese army's intention, and immediately ordered the anti-aircraft machine gun to do a good job of concealment, and later simply carried out a few heavy machine guns arranged in the only remaining pillboxes in the last battle, and let the anti-aircraft machine gun group be stationed in the pillbox group, so that although the anti-aircraft machine gun air defense role was lost, it ensured that the anti-aircraft machine gun was not destroyed by ground artillery fire.