Wan Ying'er nodded, saluted, and then turned around and left.

Qiao Youhua was still pleasantly surprised by this sudden event, and it wasn't until he took out a cigarette from his pocket and lit it that Qiao Youhua's excited mood finally calmed down.

Turning to the battle map, he began to think about how to change the battle plan and defeat the nearly 100,000 Japanese pseudo-reinforcements south of the train station.

Outside the west gate of Taiyuan, as Liu Yidao transferred the last infantry regiment in his hand, the devil was forced to send more than 2,000 people from the city to reinforcements, and the fierce battle between the two sides became more and more inspired.

However, the reconnaissance company of the 1st Regiment of the 1st Division, in the face of two or three thousand almost unarmed devil expatriates, was completely one-sided slaughter, and the battle went on very easily.

In the fierce battle, it was only ten minutes before the soldiers of the reconnaissance company shot hundreds of devils with ferocious firepower, and in the dark night, the devils did not know how many people were in the dragon tooth column that intercepted them.

Frightened, they fled in a hurry. In the panic, the devils trampled on each other again, killing and injuring thousands.

By about half past nine, the fierce battle between the two sides outside the West Gate had entered a white-hot stage, and the casualties exceeded five or six hundred.

And a reconnaissance company finally killed the two or three thousand devil expatriates who had gone out of the city before, and of course, there were a few little devils who escaped in the night.

The remaining devil expatriates were all frightened to death when they learned that there was a dragon's tooth column in front of them, and they all stayed in the area near the city gate of the West Gate.

The devil commander found that the expatriates were sluggish, and their lungs were about to explode, so he took his officers and soldiers to fight the veterans, and there were people who sacrificed and shed blood every moment, snatching a life passage for them, and buying time to evacuate, but they couldn't stop.

The devil Dazuo immediately sent the adjutant next to him to urge, and after the adjutant asked the reason, he immediately came back to report to him.

Knowing that there was a small force of the Dragon's Tooth Column in front to intercept and kill the expatriates who had already left the city, this devil Dazuo was even more angry and almost vomited blood, and immediately drew out two infantry squadrons from the city, plus more than 500 imperial troops.

An escort team was formed to cover the continued evacuation of the expatriates in the city.

A reconnaissance company of about 200 people was naturally no match for the more than 1,000 Japanese puppet troops, because the battle between the two sides was not an offensive and defensive battle in which there were strong positions to defend.

Rather, it was an almost unobstructed encounter, with both sides relying on superiority in numbers and firepower.

Just when this reconnaissance company was planning to temporarily avoid the Japanese army's edge, after all, their task was only reconnaissance, not interception, and they had killed more than 2,000 little devils just now, which was already considered to have exceeded the task.

An armed force with not very dense firepower, but with a high morale and extremely fast speed, suddenly rushed out from behind them.

With the help of the fire generated by the explosion and the flare light fired by the devils, this armed force that suddenly came out opened fire directly at the devils and the puppet army, and did not accidentally injure the small reconnaissance force of their own side that was almost repelled by the devils.

"Rush! Kill! The deafening shouts of killing, and the soldiers of the Eighth Route Army, who don't know how many specific numbers there are, surged like a tide at night.

The familiar sound of the trumpet of the charge and the same shouts of killing surprised the officers and men of a reconnaissance company.

"Company commander, it's our charge, it's our reinforcements from the Eighth Route Army who have arrived! Ha ha! ”

"Really, it's our reinforcements!"

"Great, reinforcements have arrived, comrades, keep killing devils!" Several key officers and men around the commander of the reconnaissance company spoke out excitedly.

This armed force is naturally the two infantry regiments led by General Zuo Quan, deputy chief of general staff of the Eighth Route Army, because the establishment of other units of the Eighth Route Army is different from that of the Dragon's Tooth Column.

Therefore, the total strength of these two regiments together is 3,000 people, although the number is only equivalent to a type A regiment of the Dragon's Tooth Column.

However, the rich combat experience and combat awareness possessed by this unit are by no means comparable to that of an ordinary Dragon's Tooth Infantry Regiment or other anti-Japanese armed forces.

At least one-tenth of them are the old Red Army, and the rest are all old Eighth Roads who have been in the army for more than two years, and they have followed the old Red Army from birth to death, and their combat effectiveness is not to be underestimated.

This kind of veterans, especially the commanders and fighters from the old Red Army, are simply the most scarce military talents in the Dragon's Tooth Column that has been expanded one after another.

Once they are scattered and incorporated into the divisions, regiments, and battalions of the Dragon's Tooth Column, the overall combat capability of the Dragon's Tooth Column will be greatly enhanced.

Veterans are veterans, especially since they are also a group of elite Eighth Route Army who are extremely good at night battles, close combat, and encounters.

Their firepower is not outstanding, and they fight in close combat in the dark, which is their forte, and it is definitely not something that the Japanese puppet army, most of which are more than a thousand people, can resist.

What's more, there are nearly two hundred dragon's tooth scouts armed with submachine guns to help out.

First, a few rows of guns hit over, and after knocking down a large part of the unprepared devils and puppet army, more than 3,000 elites of the Eighth Route Army roared and rushed towards the devils and puppet army.

On the way to charge, they quietly pulled out the bayonets on their bodies, loaded their Hanyang-made, 38-covered rifles, and then slaughtered into the crowd of Japanese puppet soldiers like a group of tigers.

The devils and puppet army, who were already frightened because of the appearance of enemy reinforcements, were at an absolute disadvantage in terms of strength, and after a few face-to-face battles between the two sides, dozens of devils and hundreds of puppet soldiers became the souls of these elite bayonets of the Eighth Route Army.

The remaining devils were all broken, and they could no longer take care of the more than 2,000 of their own expatriates who were guarding, and they turned around one after another.

"Chief, the devil has been beaten away by us! Whether to continue the pursuit! A regimental commander ran to General Zuo Quan and asked for instructions.

General Zuo Quan also took a pistol just now, and personally went to the front line to take the lead in directing the soldiers to fight, at this time he put away his matching gun, and said in a loud voice: "Continue the pursuit, fight until you reach the west gate, and meet the brother troops of the Dragon's Tooth Column who are fighting fiercely with the devils there!" Join forces to seal the west gate of Taiyuan and prevent the little devils from escaping! ”

General Zuo Quan had already received a reply from Qiao Youhua and had a preliminary understanding of the situation between the enemy and us in Taiyuan and its surroundings.

"Chief, what about these Japanese prisoners?" The regiment commander refers to the more than 2,000 expatriates and businessmen who were thrown up by the devils and the puppet army, and their combat troops were cannon, and these devil expatriates who couldn't run away naturally became prisoners of more than 3,000 Eighth Route Army.

At this time, the commander of the reconnaissance company of the regiment came over with a few soldiers and was about to salute General Zuo Quan.

General Zuo Quan saw them and pointed: "Give the prisoners to these comrades of the dragon tooth column, and you continue to pursue!" ”