Otsuka Kosuke didn't send troops immediately, through the battle just now, he already knew how low the combat effectiveness of this Jin army was, and he was originally inspired to enter outside Wencheng, but it was really boring to eliminate such an opponent.

Then just scare them away! The wing can also avoid casualties, and the strength saved by the soldiers may as well continue to be used on the women in the city. During the two days and two nights in Toyden, Otsuka did not let his subordinates choose a woman for him because he was stationed with a mysterious engineer squadron. This time, entering the more densely populated Wencheng, he has to pick a few beautiful flower girls and enjoy them.

He said this idea of his own, and the mood of the captains increased.

The co-captain is as follows:

The three squadrons of the Xiangchuan Infantry Brigade took the lead in setting off, detouring to the north of Wencheng City, stepping on the track line of the Tongpu Railway, and attacking and advancing in the direction of Wencheng Railway Station.

The two squadrons of the Nara Infantry Brigade, half an hour after the departure of the Aikawa Brigade, made a detour to the south of Bunjo City, but did not approach the railway, and put on a posture to cut off the Tongpu Road;

The field artillery brigade transferred a squadron and four field guns to come up, waiting for orders, and bombarded the east city wall and city gate of Wencheng at any time.

The above actions were all feints in nature, the purpose of which was to create panic among the defenders of the city and force them to abandon the city and flee, so as to achieve the goal of the whole army to win the city without a fight. Otsuka and the three squadrons of the Fukuda Infantry Brigade stayed in place.

At three o'clock in the afternoon, the operation officially began.

The 12th Brigade in Wencheng City, as the Japanese commander judged, was ready to completely abandon the city and flee after the outer defense line collapsed.

Brigade commander Zheng Yuan could no longer contact the 570th Regiment in the eastern suburbs outside the city, and it was obvious that Tian Mingda was showing his ability and speed of retreat; Zheng Yuan also decided to ignore them, and long before the battle broke out, he made a plan for the 570th Regiment to retreat, which was to retreat south along the highway to Pingquan County, seventy miles away.

Zheng Yuan took the battalion guarding the eastern city and hurriedly set off to the railway station; He didn't even leave a single soldier behind to cover at the head of the city and at the gates.

In order to prevent some panicked people from rushing for trains when they fled, the chief of staff of the 12th Brigade arranged a company of troops to block the entire station and the two freight yards in the north and south. On the tracks, the only two trains have already been filled with water and coal, one after the other, ready to escape.

Tongpu Railway, is the 21st year of the Republic of China (author's note: that is, 1932) after Yan Xishan took office as the director of the Taiyuan Pacification Office, presided over the major project, which lasted 4 years, until the Lugou Bridge Incident in North China was opened to traffic. It starts from Datong, an important town in the north of Shanxi Province, and spreads to the south until Fenglingdu, Puzhou Town, at the junction of Shanxi and Henan, which can be described as the main traffic artery running through the north and south of Shanxi.

At present, the Japanese army occupies the northern Jin Dynasty and the central part of the Jin, and the railway train from Taiyuan to Junling is open to traffic, but between Junling and Wencheng in the south, it has become a blank. These two trains at Wencheng Railway Station are already the last two trains in this area.

Zheng Yuan took a battalion and arrived at the railway station through the commotion of the city center. The brigade headquarters and its subordinate units had already boarded the first train, and the carriages were packed.

Because the first railway in Shanxi that year: Zhengtai Railway (Zhengding, Hebei - Taiyuan, Shanxi) was designed to use narrow gauge, so the construction of Tongpu Road also followed the narrow gauge. It is said that Yan Laoxi claimed that this could save a lot of cost and money, and because most of the railways in other provinces were broad-gauge, once Shanxi started a war with a foreign country, the broad-gauge trains of foreign enemies could not directly drive to Shanxi's narrow gauges! It's just that the track is narrow, and the carriages of the train are naturally narrow, and the number of people that can be carried in each carriage has shrunk a lot.

Zheng Yuan ordered that he should take the brigade headquarters and the troops directly under him and immediately set off south to Lingshi County; Fifteen minutes later, the second train, led by the chief of staff, took two companies of a battalion (which could not be squeezed any more) and followed the brigade headquarters south. The commander and deputy commander of the 569th Regiment respectively commanded the rest of the regiment to defend the railway station and the southern suburbs of the city.

The railroad worker at the station recorded the time when the second train departed: 1:15 p.m. As the train roared away from the station, the Jin army guarding the station also hurriedly gathered and ran away along the railway line in the direction of the train leaving. And the people who gathered outside the station platform, with a hint of illusion to catch the train, rushed up, cursed the 12th Brigade of the Independent Army, which retreated without a fight, and rushed into the station one after another, fleeing south or west. At this time, although there were no soldiers of the 12th Brigade in the city to defend the city, because the three city gates were still closed, people who wanted to escape could only choose to leave the city from the direction of the railway station in the west of the city.

After more than two hours, on the railway line north of the railway station, a large group of Japanese soldiers in yellow coats appeared, and no guns rang out, because there was no resistance from the defenders; However, the Japanese soldiers still cautiously marched forward in search formation.

They rushed into the train station without any hindrance, and then quickly sent a branch into the city to search for the east gate.

They opened the East Gate.

The main force of the Otsuka Wing of the Japanese Army, which was waiting there, swaggered into the city. Just after four o'clock in the afternoon, the sun flag was proudly planted on the heads of various cities, and the Wencheng of Tongpulu Station fell.

It is certain that the Shina soldiers in the city have fled without a trace, and Kosuke Otsuka, who has achieved the goal without bloodshed, is very satisfied, and the feeling of riding through the center of the city on a military horse makes the Japanese wing captain unforgettable. Prior to this, although he had moved to Pingjin in North China, he had never led a victorious army into a bustling metropolis, including Taiyuan. He noticed that the commercial shops in the market were mostly closed, and there were hardly any people on the roads, and occasionally the brave people cowered behind the buildings, watching the mighty imperial army marching into the city.

There are no women.

Otsuka couldn't help but smile slightly—it was just an illusion. Thousands of women are hiding in various hidden corners at the moment. It doesn't matter, the warriors under their own command will pull them out one by one. These ronins have a hyena-like sense of smell when it comes to finding women.

The two-storey building of Baoyuan Restaurant, located in the downtown area of Wencheng, also has closed doors and windows. The shopkeeper, Bai Baoyuan, stood in a box facing the street on the second floor, looking through the gap in the window, scanning the movement on the street below.

He saw the group of devils passing by, not in a neat formation, with rifles with or without bayonets on their shoulders. That rifle, Bai Baoyuan knew, was the 38 big cover, which was very sought-after in the underground arms black market, the standard gun of the Japanese Army.

The second leader of the Guanmen Mountain Bandit Gang was still shocked by the rapid escape of the Jin army. At first, hearing the roaring gunfire outside the city, Bai Baoyuan once felt that the 12th Brigade might have a few bloody battles with the devils who were in the city. He was still a little worried about the big boss who had just left the city, and worried about whether they would have a meeting with the devils.

However, before he could inquire about the progress of the fighting outside the city, he witnessed in the streets the retreat of the 12th Brigade of the Independence Brigade, apparently heading in the direction of the railway station. He recognized one of the battalion deputies of the 569th Regiment, who had once patronized the Baoyuan Restaurant with his subordinates, and he called the name of the battalion lieutenant, but the other party might not hear it at all in the chaotic streets.

In less than half a day, Bunjo became Japanese. Bai Baoyuan sighed.

He ordered the men to close immediately and close the doors and windows. It is said that the little Japanese are not a special thing, and they should beware of their soldiers coming to loot and harass.

The big boss and the master have taken away all the cash they have recently earned. Bai Baoyuan was worried about a few guns, in addition to himself and the short guns under the two gunmen, in the basement of the restaurant, there were also two black market guns waiting to be traded, one formal and one foreign*. It is better to hide more than usual, in the past, he had a good relationship with the police station and the garrison, and there was still room for maneuver if something happened, but the Japanese obviously would not give him any leeway.

Suddenly, Wangzi, the bodyguard who followed the big boss into the city together, hurriedly went upstairs, saying that he had found the gang of ruffians who were entangled with the big boss in Dongcheng Chengguan in the morning.

After the bodyguard Wangzi was sent back to the city by the angry Liu Wumei, he first sneaked to the place where the morning was fighting, and learned from the guys in the nearby shop that the body of the ruffian who had just been shot in the head by Liu Wumei had been taken away by the police station. He also inquired a little about the background of the ruffians, so he hurriedly ran to the restaurant of the second master to report. Bai Baoyuan asked him to describe the appearance and characteristics of the ruffians more clearly, but the bodyguards only cared about fighting in the melee at that time and didn't see it too clearly. Bai Baoyuan had already made up his mind, and turned around to find out the identity of those bastards through the eyeliner in the police station. They dared to break ground on Tai Sui's head and tease the big bosses, and they were really innocent.

At this time, Wangzi suddenly saw the gang of ruffians, and they gathered on the side of the road opposite the restaurant, and the bodyguard recognized the leader at a glance. Bai Baoyuan followed his pointing and looked fixedly, and blurted out:

"Damn, it's Meng's head!"

Meng's big head is the nickname of Meng Longsheng, the leader of the gang of puffy ruffians. Bai Baoyuan, as an active figure in Wencheng who has been acquainted with all three sects and nine streams, of course he also knows this guy. However, the Japanese army is swarming in, what is this Meng head doing on the streets with this gang of scoundrels at this time? They have just been killed by one of the big bosses, aren't they afraid of being broken by the guns of the Japanese again?

"The second master, look!"

The bodyguard Wangzi said anxiously. Bai Baoyuan followed the prestige, and saw Meng Longsheng with more than a dozen subordinates, unexpectedly picking up a bamboo pole and red firecrackers, standing under an eaves. It was the first month of the lunar calendar, and the year was not over, and firecrackers were common, but Meng Longsheng and his subordinates were obviously not for the New Year's celebration, so they saw that this Meng head suddenly walked to the center of the street and slapped vigorously into the distance.

Bai Baoyuan and his bodyguard Wangzi saw clearly this time that a small group of Japanese soldiers with loaded guns and ammunition were walking in that direction.

As soon as Meng Longsheng waved his hand, one of the ruffians ignited the big red firecrackers on the bamboo pole. The crackling, crisp and translucent sound of firecrackers suddenly resounded through the streets.