While Li Wensheng's headquarters was gearing up in Daqinggou, the 223 Brigade of Daheisheng, the garrison brigade of Daqingshan, and another part of the 222 Brigade in the Ertaizi area all received telegrams from the division headquarters.

The division headquarters ordered the garrison brigade to immediately dispatch a battalion to Xinpingbao to establish a blocking position, strictly preventing the main Japanese force on the front line of Tianzhen from coming to reinforce, if the main force of the Japanese army attacked, this battalion should hold the position for eight hours, and after eight hours, if the reinforcements did not arrive, they could retreat on their own.

In addition, all units immediately marched to Xinghe County, and they must rush to the predetermined place within two hours and wait for the final order from the division headquarters.

The battle outside the county was still going on, and since the number of troops used for the attack had been reduced to 11,000, Abe Norihide abandoned the tactic of focusing on all sides of the main attack direction and changed to the tactic of encircling three and missing one main force to attack the east gate. Abe Norihide placed half a brigade in the north and south directions of the county, and all the puppet troops were also transferred to these two gates, which seemed to be quite a lot of people, but in fact, the real Japanese army was less than a thousand. However, the Japanese army placed three brigades at the east gate, all of which were real Japanese soldiers, and at the west gate, not a single soldier was released.

The two directions in the north and south were only feints, and the intensity of the Japanese puppet army's attack was not very violent. However, at the east gate, the Japanese army used all light and heavy weapons, and the attack was extremely fierce. Abe's idea is very simple, since the breakthrough of the whole line cannot be achieved, then he plans to hit all the strength of the force to attack a little, and achieve the effect of collapsing the defenders on the whole line with points and areas.

On the road to Zhangbei County, Okubo Taro Nakasa sat irritably on the chariot, and it can be said that today is the most unlucky day for him in decades. Yesterday's attack cost his mixed brigade more than twenty tanks and more than nine hundred soldiers, and in just one day, about half of his troops were lost.

This morning, he planned to lead the rest of the troops to a disgrace, but he received news that his backyard was on fire, and the hateful Chinese troops had attacked his station, and the county town of Zhangbei was in danger.

"Order, speed up, be sure to return to Zhangbei within three hours." Taro Okubo commanded loudly.

"Hay!"

"Brother, there is a long and narrow rocky ditch ahead, so I think you should send a group of soldiers to conduct a fire reconnaissance." Seeing his brother's emotions so violent, Jiro Okubo, who was sitting next to him, couldn't help but remind.

"Jiro, are you familiar with the terrain here?" Taro Okubo asked with a smile.

"In the eighth year of Showa, I once went on a mission here with General Itagaki on a mission, and that time on the surface it was to accompany General Itagaki to visit his old classmate Yan Xishan, in fact, to find out the actual combat effectiveness of the Jin Sui Army, and at the same time to inspect some military important places in Shanxi, Suiyuan, and Chahar provinces, we have walked this road no less than three times, so the memory is relatively deep." Jiro Okubo replied.

"Dead (I see)! Jiro, do you think the abominable Shina will ambush us at the front? Okubo Taro asked in a deep voice.

"It's very likely that since the people of China can unknowingly divide their forces to attack your station, this means that the information collected by the intelligence department is nine times out of ten wrong, and I am afraid that only they themselves know how many troops the people actually have. If the troops are sufficient, it is very likely that the Shina will plant an ambush here, and even if they cannot inflict heavy damage on the imperial army, they will be able to achieve the purpose of delaying the movement of reinforcements. ”

"Hehehe, that's right, Jiro, in the past few years, the Imperial Army University has not been in vain, and you have lived up to your father's expectations of you. How could a brother in such a dangerous place be so careless, to tell you the truth, the spearhead soldiers have already been dispatched, and the warning range is five kilometers, if there is really an ambush in the valley in front, I am afraid that the battle will already start in front. Taro Okubo said proudly.

"Yo Xi, my brother is worthy of being a top student of the Imperial Army University, Jiro has been taught!" Jiro Okubo said admiringly.

However, the two brothers didn't expect that the actual target of the 222 Brigade was their large force, and they didn't pay any attention to the 222 Brigade of the 100th Japanese Puppet Army in front of them, and let it go directly.

Watching the convoy of the Japanese army and the horse team of the puppet army walk into the ambush circle one by one, Li Wensheng's mood was extremely excited, and when the last two devils walked into the ambush circle, Li Wensheng turned around and shouted to the messenger next to him: "Send a signal flare immediately and fire!" ”

With a bang, a flare with a dark green tail rose into the sky, followed by a loud explosion.

After seeing the signal, the Chinese troops lying in ambush on both sides of the cliff quickly opened fire, and for a time the valley was filled with gunfire, artillery and mines, people, horses, and explosions.

The grenades that fell from the sky blew up the Japanese cars one by one, blocking the entire mountain road, and the entrance to the valley was blocked by the Chinese army at the first time, and the Japanese army was in a dilemma for a while.

However, the combat quality of the Japanese army was really good, and despite the surprise attack, the Japanese army only fell into a short panic and then launched a counterattack under the command of several front-line officers. On the other hand, the more than 2,000 puppet troops next to them were far behind, and one by one the puppet soldiers hurriedly rolled down from their horses, lying on the ground and shooting indiscriminately, without the slightest formation.

"Don't panic, don't panic, order the chariot troops to open the way in front, quickly!" Taro Okubo ordered loudly.

"Boom" "Boom" More than a dozen tanks appeared at the front of the line past the infantry, and the main guns and vehicle-mounted machine guns also fired non-stop, rushing towards the valley exit in front.

"Anti-aircraft machine guns, ready! Fire! "A force suddenly poured out from the cliffs on both sides, this force was not many in number, the two sides together were only about a hundred people, and the armament was only a dozen machine guns.

But it was this unit that held the mouth of the valley like a grim reaper, and more than a dozen anti-aircraft machine guns opened fire at the same time. Condescendingly, the 12mm armor on the upper part of the Japanese tank could not withstand the blow of the Type 75 anti-aircraft machine gun at all, and in less than ten minutes, all the tanks were lying on their stomachs, and even two of them had violent explosions, which should have been hit by the anti-aircraft machine gun in the ammunition depot in the car, which caused the explosion of the ammunition.

Seeing that the soldiers around him continued to fall, losing thousands of people in just ten minutes, and the imperial army behind him was lying on the ground without fighting spirit, Okubo Taro knew that he was in big trouble today.

"Immediately send a report to His Excellency Norihide Abe, saying that our department has been ambushed by the main force of China, has suffered heavy losses, and is in urgent need of reinforcements! The same telegram will be sent to His Excellency Hideki Tojo again! ”

Before the second lieutenant Sasaki could finish speaking, a bullet knocked off his skull, and the corpse with half of his head on top of it fell to the ground with a bang, and his bloodshot brain was mixed with blood and flowed all over the ground. Then two more bullets hit Sasaki's body, and the radio station on Sasaki's back was directly torn apart.

Okubo Taro didn't care about looking at the dead Second Lieutenant Sasaki, but hurriedly rolled on the spot and hid behind a car, Okubo Taro had just left the hiding place just now, and two bullets hit there, and Okubo Taro was scared into a cold sweat.

The operator was killed, the radio station was destroyed, and the Okubo headquarters completely lost the opportunity to contact the Chahar Dispatch Corps and the Abe Norihide Division, and in this closed valley, in the face of the strong attack of the 222 Brigade, it was only a matter of time before the Okubo Division, which had only more than 2,000 real Japanese troops, was destroyed.

When the Daqinggou ambush began, Abe's department was also in trouble. I have just received a telegram from the headquarters of the Chahar Corps, saying that the reconnaissance plane has just discovered that a large number of troops have marched around Xinghe County, one in the east, one in the east, one in the south, and the number is extremely large.

Don't think about it, this must be the Chinese army, because there is only one Japanese army sent by Chahar in the entire Saibei region, and the one that appears around Xinghe County now must not be the Great Japanese Imperial Army, so the only thing left is those hateful Chinese army.

After receiving the telegram from the headquarters, Abe Norihide and a group of generals deduced on the sand table, and suddenly broke out in white sweat. The appetite of the people of China is really not small, and they actually plan to eat the more than 10,000 imperial troops outside Xinghe City in one bite.

However, according to the results of the sand table deduction, the odds of the Shina people were around the sixth layer, and they couldn't be taken seriously by Abe Norihide and others.

Now it's not just Norihide Abe and others who feel that their heads are big, but even Hideki Tojo feels a headache. Where did the people of China come from so many troops, and they appeared in such a critical place at such a critical juncture. Originally, after four days of attack, the defenders of Tianzhen County were already at the end of their strength, and this morning the Imperial Army had already rushed into the county three times, although the last was still a failure, but anyone could see that it was only a matter of time before the Imperial Japanese Army captured Tianzhen.

Compared with the temptation to capture Tianzhen, the more than 10,000 puppet army outside Xinghe City is more important, the first battle of Tianzhen Tojo Hideki has caused the Chahar Dispatch Corps to lose more than 10,000 people, if the nearly 20,000 troops are lost, then he will be greeted by the summons of the imperial military court.

After thinking about it repeatedly, Hideki Tojo finally gave Abe Norihide an order to break through to the south, and at the same time sent the 1st Independent Mixed Brigade to the 8th and 7th Divisions of the puppet Mongolian Army to the north to meet Abe's Norihide Division.