Qin Zhongxiao decided to fight back against Fengdian. To this end, he pulled out all the 1st and 2nd battalions of the 391st Regiment.

Previously, after seizing the horses and weapons and equipment of a company of the puppet Mongolian army, the colonel of the Central Army had personally presided over the whole regiment's reorganization, and he first supplemented the majority of the strength of the three battalions to the first and second battalions, so that the two battalions re-completed the structure of three companies per battalion, and each company also reached a full quota of 120 people; Then he added the spy company to two platoons of sixty men; Next, using more than 100 captured Mongolian war horses, to recruit troops from many large and small villages in the Great Elm Mountain, each family can exchange a young and strong man for a Mongolian horse, which made him quickly recruit more than 80 people, all of them into three battalions, the weapon is the 38-type cavalry spear used by the cavalry of the puppet Mongolian army.

Today, the third battalion is tasked with training and guarding the regiment's defense zone in the mountains—more than half of them are Great Elm Mountain natives, familiar with the environment and willing to defend their homes—while the first and second battalions, including the special service company, are intensively used.

When the determination of this counteroffensive had been decided, Qin Zhongxiao was still worried about two things, one was that the special agent company of Mu had too few people to enter the county town and lurk, and there were only a few short guns, so it might be difficult to successfully complete the important task of capturing the Japanese headquarters; The second is the attack launched outside the city, how to quickly take a city gate and open the passage for the main force to enter the county seat.

The first plan drawn up by the chief of staff was to use the uniforms of the Itagaki Division, which had been captured during the attack on the Japanese military station during the Battle of Xinkou, to have a small unit disguised as Japanese troops, openly approach the city gate, and then occupy the city gate by surprise, and then take the large army to flood the city afterwards. But this plan is almost the same as the last counterattack on the north gate of the county, and the Japanese puppet defenders who have suffered losses must be wary, and it is uncertain whether they can succeed.

Whether it is the information obtained by the special service company or the information provided by the female major of the Shanxi Station of the military command, it shows that the Japanese garrison in Fengdian has just traveled in large numbers, and it is unknown whether and when they will return. A God-given opportunity must be seized.

For this reason, after several discussions, Qin Zhongxiao and the chief of staff, as well as several battalion commanders and deputy battalion commanders, reformulated the second plan to seize the city gate, and gave up the disguise of the Japanese army - because the military uniform of the Itagaki Division was different from the military uniform of the Sena Division currently garrisoning Fengdian, and it was okay to deceive the pseudo-Mongolian army, and the current guards at the city gate were all officers and soldiers of the Japanese Otsuka Wing, which was very easy to be recognized. In fact, there are soldiers of the special service company holding * in the carport, plus the coachman and followers, which can make this commando team reach the size of seven or eight people.

After reaching the city gate, the assault team should attack and occupy the city gate with lightning speed, and carry *, and if the follow-up troops could not arrive on time, they would blow up the city gate on the spot, so that the Japanese troops in the inner city could not close it; At this time, the follow-up main force launched a charge into the city.

The point of attack was finally chosen the South Gate.

In view of the garrison enemy army in Fengdian, only the north and south gates were opened every day, and the last time the 391st Regiment counterattacked Fengdian to attack the north gate, Qin Zhongxiao finally decided to change to the south gate this time. Considering that there is a road outside the south gate leading to the Little Elm Mountain Pass and then directly to Wencheng, the current position of the mountain pass has been stuck by the Japanese army, so the chief of staff has also made a plan to block the possible enemy reinforcements.

Just when the 391st Regiment of the Central Army in the Great Elm Mountain was waiting for the day, the Second Battalion of the Eighth Route Army Forest Division at the foot of Guanmen Mountain had also made full preparations to capture Fengdian. The commanders of the two Chinese armies did not know each other's movements and intentions, but their combat plans were almost surprisingly identical. At this time in the twenty-seventh year of the Republic of China (that is, in 1938), they were destined to join forces to start a shoulder to shoulder fight on the frozen yellow earth of Shanxi.

The morning sun shone brightly on the southern city of Fengdian, and at the open gate, four Japanese soldiers stood in the outer city, and six Japanese soldiers stood on both sides of the inner gate—they were responsible for checking the people entering and leaving.

In the gate tower above them, there was a detachment of thirteen Japanese soldiers, as well as a number of artillerymen and machine gunners guarding a Type 97 81-mm mortar, which the Japanese called an infantry curved gun, and a Type 92 heavy machine gun.

The remaining 20 or so members of this Japanese squad had gone to sleep after a night of closed-door duty. From the opening of the door at nine o'clock to the present, there are very few people entering and exiting this city gate, and the Japanese soldiers guarding the gate have shown some slackness.

At this moment, the sentries standing outside the gate, and the Japanese soldiers in charge of observing the city gate, noticed a two-horse carriage with a shed coming from a distance, and what attracted their attention was the fancy and colorful carriage driving the carriage, but they could not see who was sitting in the carriage.

It should be a woman in China, maybe it will be beautiful-The two Japanese soldiers on the tower of the city gate glanced at each other and smiled knowingly. Not long ago, they were all personally involved in the massacre and rape carried out in this county seat, and they have a lot of nostalgia for the young Shina woman.

The two handlebars of driving, one left and one right, sit in front of the carport; Behind the carriage was a man riding a donkey.

At the gate of the city, the Japanese soldiers stopped them unsuspectingly, and two of them went to the back of the carriage carport with bad intentions, and prepared to pick up the thick curtain of the carport to visit inside: the wing issued a new discipline to the brigade headquarters, and it was no longer possible to openly occupy the women in the city at will, but it was always permissible to take advantage of them.

However, at the moment when the curtain of the carport door was picked up by the bayonet covered by the 38 big cover, the young man riding on the back of the donkey quickly took out a shell gun from his bosom and shot two shots at the back of the heads of the two Japanese soldiers. The four sentinels guarding the gate were dealt with in the blink of an eye!

The sound of gunfire was still echoing in the clear sky, and the carriage had already rushed into the gate hole, and from the carport began to jump out of the men's hand, one by one, men holding Bergman*, and when the carriage was about to rush through the door hole and enter the inner city, two handlebars also jumped down, one of them stabbed a horse's buttocks with a short knife, and the horse was in pain, and the other horse galloped wildly, knocking the Japanese soldiers who were about to follow the gunfire into the gate hole to check out, scraping down a piece, and then galloping up the main street in the city.

The four branches of Bergman* immediately fired, and it was the men who jumped out of the carport, all of them soldiers of the 391st Regiment Special Service Company. The six Japanese sentries in the inner city were swept by bullets after being hit by horses and carts, and were quickly killed and wounded. The assault team of the special service company did not break into the city afterwards, but stayed in place in the dark doorway, ready to shoot the enemy who came to counterattack.

In the gate tower above the city gate, the Japanese soldiers had already blown up the pot, not only because of the battle that broke out under the gatehouse, but because they were even more frightened to see that hundreds of soldiers of the Shina Army were swarming in the distance. The Japanese squad leader in charge of the command hurriedly ordered the 92 heavy machine gun to open fire to block the attack, but the front team of the charging Chinese army, several light machine guns, took the lead in attacking.

At the forefront was a company of the first battalion of the 391st Regiment, Qin Zhongxiao reinforced six of the eleven Czech guns in the whole regiment, and at a distance of less than 30 zhang from the city wall, all six Czech light machine guns were mounted on the back of the soldiers, aiming at the Japanese figures on the city wall.

Under the cover of machine-gun fire, the soldiers of this company did not encounter too much resistance from above, and ran all the way into the inner city, and merged with the soldiers of the special service company and began to divide the troops into three routes: the left and right roads were attached to the inner city wall roots to attack the stairs leading to the city wall on both sides of the gate, preparing to completely solve the Japanese troops on the city wall, and the third road directly broke through to the inner city street and went straight to the county government.

Only a small squad of garrison troops, and not including those who stood at night to rest, this could not stop the 391st regiment's forward attack like a wolf, the 92 heavy machine gun on the head of the city finally barely opened fire at the last moment, but it was suppressed by three Czech light machine guns, and two Japanese heavy machine gun shooters were shot and killed one after another; And the so-called infantry curved artillery didn't even have time to adjust the firing range so close, and the stairs of the inner city burst into the * hand of the assault.

The forces used by Qin Zhongxiao to attack the south gate were one company of the entire first and second battalions, as well as the entire spy company; The remaining two companies of the 2nd Battalion, one of which launched a feint attack outside the East City Gate at this moment, in order to contain the defenders of the East City from moving towards the South Gate; The other was set up outside the south gate, demolishing telephone poles and telephone lines that had run from Wencheng, and monitoring for enemy reinforcements near the Little Elm Pass.

In the moments before the firefight broke out, two Japanese commanders in the Fengdian County Government were talking with great interest about their feelings at night. Captain Fukudaoka suggested to the deputy co-captain that he should not let the pair of sisters go home first, and that they could exchange and enjoy another night tonight; Aso happily accepted this. Of course, his captain Shao Zuo did not tell him that just this morning, the soldier who was in charge of guarding their mother at the sisters' house had returned to report that the soldier had stabbed her to death when he tried to resubdue her because Sister Hua's mother had been struggling desperately at night and had accidentally broken free from the ropes that bound her.

That's when gunshots rang out at the south gate. Soon the squad leader at the south gate called: a large number of Chinese troops attacked and attacked the city!

The two commanders, who were still in high spirits and talking and laughing just now, suddenly panicked. He was horrified that Aso's fears had actually come true; He hurriedly ordered Fukudaoka to lead two detachments of the squad that remained in the county government to rush to the south gate, and along the way gathered the soldiers who were patrolling the streets and alleys to rush to the south gate, making sure to block and seal the south gate. At the same time, the cavalry company of the Mongolian Xinjiang Army was notified to patrol the streets of the city to beware of spies in the city

Immediately, Aso called the captain of the north gate guard and asked him to close the city gate immediately and wait for the battle. At this moment, the squad leader at the east gate called to inform him that there was a branch army outside the city, and looking at the military uniform and the direction of attack, it seemed that it was the army that was expelled from the city by the wing, but the number was not large, and there was no siege and heavy weapons to cover the city.

Aso had to call the Wencheng Wing Headquarters again, and informed several staff officers who stayed at the Wing Headquarters about the battle in Fengdian, and asked them to report to the chief of staff of the brigade headquarters immediately. However, before he could reply, he found that the phone call to Wencheng was no longer available!

The deputy wing commander, who had a bad premonition, immediately ordered the use of the radio to communicate, and before his words fell, in the courtyard of the county government, there was a sudden explosion of ping-pong and smoke, and a military officer of the Fukudaoka Brigade Brigade shouted: The Chinese army has attacked!