After receiving the order sent back by the wing commander, Iwata Shaoza, the squadron leader of the cavalry squadron, was a little stunned for a while: Dazuo was furious at the suggestion to persuade the Fengdian Shina army to surrender, and even asked him to lead his subordinates to shoot at the head of the city of Fengdian, a few hundred meters away, not only shooting, but also peeing in the direction of the head of the city!

Iwata's family was ranchers, not samurai, and he had heard of Hokkaido's tradition of swordsmen urinating on their opponents as a sign of contempt and provocation; But at this moment, facing the tall and heavy masonry city wall not far away, his more than 100 cavalry can only look up, how can this bubble of urine be effective? After a moment's hesitation, he decided to discount the execution of the co-captain's order:

"All squads, lined up, loaded guns, shoot at the head of Fengdian City!"

The gun used by this Japanese cavalry squadron was a 38-type cavalry rifle, which was considered to be convenient for cavalry to carry and even possible one-handed guns, and its barrel was much shorter than that of the 38-type rifle used by the infantry, and the weight was also lighter, and the shooting accuracy was of course much worse than the latter. With Iwata Shaosa's order, more than 100 cavalry guns fired at the head of Fengdian Castle in the distance.

Of course, Iwata had no way of knowing the true intentions of this strange order from the Wing Commander. He saw that the masonry at the head of the city was beaten to smoke, and he could vaguely see the figure of the Shina soldiers dodging behind the battlement. No one should have been hit, but no one returned fire downwards either. Iwata found it boring and ordered a ceasefire.

Yesterday afternoon, when he led his squadron of cavalry along the road to the lonely city, he had already experienced the cowardice of the defenders, and he saw the soldiers hurrying to close the cumbersome gates, even ignoring the lives of some of the people who had not yet fled into the city. In the binoculars, he could see clearly the uniforms of those soldiers, which did not look like Yan Xishan's Jin army, but could be the Central Army. It's been a long time since I've fought with the soldiers of China, and it seems that the other party is now more like a frightened bird, and he has completely lost the courage to die at Niangzi Pass.

"Send a report to the wing commander immediately, saying that Iwata Squadron has arrived at the foot of Fengdian Castle and has not encountered resistance from the Chinese soldiers!"

It was at that moment that Iwata Shaosa had the idea of suggesting to the wing captain to persuade the defenders to surrender and enter Fengdian Castle without bloodshed. The cautious Iwata did not report it immediately, but only sent back his suggestion after arriving close for the second time this morning, but unexpectedly, he was soon reprimanded by the wing commander.

But Iwata still believed in his own judgment: the defenders of Toyoden did not have the courage to fight at all.

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The chaotic guns of the devil cavalry still brought panic to the defenders on the city, and the garrison on this wall was not Qin Zhongxiao's 391st Regiment, but the 570th Regiment of the 12th Independent Brigade of the Jin Army. In the sequence of the Jin army, the 12th Independent Brigade was far from being the main force of Yan Xishan, this local army that had been stationed in Fengdian for many years, had not fought any Japanese troops so far, and even on this morning, they saw the appearance of Japanese soldiers for the first time.

The panic at the head of the city quickly spread to the regiment headquarters, and Tian Mingda, the commander of the 570th Regiment, asked about the situation, and immediately called Qin Zhongxiao, the commander of the 391st Regiment of the Central Army. Yesterday afternoon, he was invited to observe an unexpected stream of Japanese cavalry on the north city wall with Qin Zhongxiao, according to Qin Zhongxiao's opinion, it was about the size of a squadron. However, from last night to now, outside the west and south cities where the 570th Regiment was responsible for defense, there has not been a large force of Japanese troops.

"Commander Qin, the devil cavalry has just appeared under the city on my brother's side, look, are they going to besiege the city?" Tian Mingda himself noticed that the words spoken into the microphone were a little trembling, and he wanted to control it, but he couldn't.

Qin Zhongxiao's voice from the earpiece was very calm: "Commander Tian, don't panic, the Japanese army in Junling City doesn't have so many cavalry, it's not good, the cavalry under your city is the scout yesterday afternoon." My subordinates said that the devils who arrived last night outside the northern city had artillery, and now they have begun to set up artillery, and it seems that they are ready to attack the city from my side! ”

Tian Mingda was taken aback: Artillery? Why is there so many classes of this devil? The cavalry hasn't seen it clearly, and the artillery has come up again, and Fengdian is afraid that it will be difficult to escape!

Last night, Tian Mingda had already called the brigade headquarters of the 12th Brigade stationed in Wencheng, which was fifty miles away, to report the information that the devils of Junling had gone out to Fengdian, and the brigade commander Zheng Yuan instructed him to observe the situation first, if the Japanese army attacked the city on a large scale, the 570th Regiment did not have to defend to the death, and the camera withdrew to Wencheng to join the main force of the brigade. At the same time, Zheng Yuan also immediately sent a communications squad carrying a radio station, escorted by a company of troops, to Fengdian overnight, at present, Fengdian and Wencheng can still communicate with the telephone, and once the war starts, the Japanese artillery fire may destroy the line, at that time, whether the battle or withdrawal, the 570th Regiment must rely on the radio to maintain contact with the brigade headquarters.

The brigade commander did not say it explicitly, but in fact asked Tian Mingda to put the burden of defending the city on the Central Army. Of course, Tian Mingda knew the brigade commander's thoughts, the 12th Brigade could only be regarded as a miscellaneous card in the Jin army, and if he lost his gun, it was difficult to expect Commander Yan to generously supplement them: Therefore, preserving strength is the most important thing. Since the entire Second War Zone has not been able to hold Datong and Taiyuan since the start of the war, it is normal for a small Fengdian county town to be abandoned.

Tian Mingda ordered his chief of staff to place the first and second battalions of the main force of the regiment at the south gate, and sent a company out of the south gate before dawn to pick up the communications squad sent by the brigade headquarters; Only two companies of the three battalions were left on the city wall in the west city to prevent the devils from climbing the city; Once Qin Zhongxiao's side couldn't stand it, he immediately led the main force of the regiment to retreat out of the south gate - thank God, this group of devils did not besiege the city, but chose the north city in front of the march as a breakthrough, and let the central army go and fight the Japanese!

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The communications squad sent out of Wencheng by the 12th Brigade was personally led by Xiao Junping, an intelligence staff officer of the brigade headquarters, and rushed out of the city to Fengdian overnight.

Half of the communications squad were women, who sat in a tarpaulin truck with radio equipment; The trucks were old, and they traveled at night on bumpy dirt roads, and they were not much faster than ox carts, so the infantry of the company that escorted them could finally keep up at a trot.

Xiao Junping took the initiative to ask Brigade Commander Zheng Yuan to come to Fengdian. Zheng Yuan has always admired this college student who came to Taiyuan from Beiping to join the army before the war in Shanxi. Xiao Junping once studied in Japan, is familiar with Japanese and Japanese conditions, and is a top student in the Department of Physics, good at radio technology, so a year ago Yan Xishan General Sun Chu's 33rd Army communications revenue dropped him. After the Battle of Xinkou, the 33rd Army was basically disabled, Xiao Junping followed the chaotic rout all the way south, and when he arrived in Wencheng, he was unwilling to flee anymore, so he found the headquarters of the 12th Brigade stationed in Wencheng; It was precisely at the time of employing people that Zheng Yuan immediately retained Xiao Junping at the brigade headquarters and promoted him from lieutenant to captain and became an intelligence staff officer: first, Xiao Junping knew Japanese, and second, he participated in the battle against the Japanese army. This was very valuable to the 12th Brigade of the Independence, which had never met the Japanese army.

At this moment, sitting in the bumpy truck compartment, Xiao Junping's mood was a little inexplicably excited: he finally returned to the front line, and the days and nights of the bloody battle in Xinkou were recalled by him from time to time in the past few months, he admired the high morale and determination of the national army (whether it was the local Jin Sui army or the guest army from other provinces to help the war), and also felt the weak military strength under the weak national strength; And the frenzy of defeat since the fall of Taiyuan made him feel humiliated. After more than two months of dreary confrontation, they are finally going to fight again; It's just a pity that it was not the Second World War Zone that took the initiative to launch a counteroffensive, but the Japanese continued to invade the south!

Therefore, he resolutely asked the brigade chief of staff for permission for him to go to Fengdian with the communications squad to find out first-hand information.

The night sky was cloudy, the moon was faint and faint, and the chill in the carriage was only added to the chill as the cold moonlight shone from behind the canopy into the bumpy carriage; Using the occasional moonlight, Xiao Junping could see the faces of several young female soldiers, one of them was very delicate, but her delicate face was full of nervousness, and several other female soldiers were also very worried: after all, they were all girls, and they were wearing military uniforms that were not foreign, and they had not experienced the war so far. Xiao Junping thought of his female classmates when he was studying in Beiping, and at the same time, he also imagined what it would be like for these female soldiers to encounter a battle in Fengdian.

After a long time, the young communications staff officer let out a sigh.

To Xiao Junping's surprise, the team rushing to Fengdian forked the road in the second half of the night, they left the road in the night, turned into the side of the mountain in the small road, until the next morning after eight o'clock, only difficult to turn out of the path, they saw the Fengdian city gate from a distance, but this is no longer the south gate that can be reached directly along the road, but the west gate of Fengdian County.

The cold and hungry team finally breathed a sigh of relief and stopped to rectify a little, but at this time, there was an exclamation from the driver in the cab of the truck: Devil!

The female signal soldiers, who had just jumped out of the carriage and were moving their limbs that were almost frozen, immediately let out a scream.

They met unexpectedly with the cavalry squadron of the Otsuka Wing of the Japanese Army, which was still cruising here!