When Zhao Mutou ran up the Beicheng city wall, there were only a few minutes left before 10 a.m. He first saw the people in the third platoon of the spy company, and now his subordinates have transformed into the Overseer team. The commander of the first battalion in charge of the defense of Beicheng led Zhao Mutou to a battlement in the city wall, and they looked out of the city together.

Zhao Mutou threw away the telescope and said to the battalion commander: "Grandma, our cannons have been lost outside Taiyuan City, otherwise, we will set up them on the city now and bombard him first!" ”

The battalion commander looked at the artillerymen squatting around the field artillery, and his heart suddenly moved: "Wood, we have a lot of three or eight big covers here, look at this distance, is it enough to knock out the little devil artillery?" ”

The marksmanship of the special agent company commander is well-known in the 391st regiment, during the battle of Xinkou, Zhao Mutou once in front of the regiment commander and chief of staff, separated by a distance of nearly a thousand meters, and knocked down a Japanese officer wearing a yellow tweed coat on the opposite side of the position.

But at the moment, Zhao Mutou shook his head helplessly: According to visual inspection, the devil artillery is indeed within the firing range of the three or eight guns, but the artillery gathered around the dozen field guns in a group adds up to several hundred, and it is useless to knock them out one by two at this time.

"It's definitely going to be bombed, let's hide it first." Zhao Mutou threw a sentence angrily.

Before the words fell, a sharp whistling sound suddenly sounded in the sky, and before the defenders on the city wall could react, the Japanese field artillery shells smashed into the city one after another. Suddenly, the smoke of gunpowder was filled, flesh and blood were flying, and the defenders were in chaos. Zhao Mutou pulled out the shell gun and shouted:

"Don't panic, squat under the wall, don't run around! Qin Tuanzao has an order, and those who dare to take a step back will be killed! ”

While shouting, he grabbed a soldier who was stunned by the bomb and kicked him towards the city wall: "Go back, squat for me!" ”

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Before the attack began, Kosuke Otsuka had already dismounted and entered the field tent that had just been set up in the morning. Inside the tent, a high-power radio station was busy working, one end of which was in contact with the troops he was currently staying behind in Junling, and the other end maintained direct communication with the brigade headquarters in Taiyuan. Kosuke Otsuka didn't know at this time that he led the main force of the wing to attack Fengdian, which was not only directly controlled by Major General Hagiwara, the commander of the brigade, and Lieutenant General Sena, the commander of the division, but even the headquarters of the North China Front Army in Beiping was also paying close attention.

"Dazuo, the brigade headquarters is calling!"

Without waiting for Kosuke Otsuka to sit firmly on the chair in the tent, the second lieutenant of the telegraph handed over a telegram, and Otsuka only glanced at it, and his expression became solemn: The telegram said that the head of the Taiyuan secret service reported that the Eighth Route Army of China had sent a number of troops to the southwest of Shanxi in the previous stage, and the motive was unknown, including one of the 115th Division, and I hope that your department will pay attention to vigilance.

The wing commander of the Japanese army couldn't help but squint his eyes: 115 division, 115 division! The Miura Brigade suffered a heavy loss from the 115th Division at Pingxingguan last year! (Author's note: The Miura Toshishi Brigade under the Itagaki Division of the North China Front of the Japanese Invasion of China, the 1st Wing of its 21st Wing was annihilated by the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army at Pingxingguan.) This feud has not yet snowed, and the blood of the Imperial Army will never be shed in vain!

Otsuka threw the message back onto the table where the radio station was placed, and suddenly, he remembered something, and walked quickly to a lieutenant in charge of liaison:

"Iwata's cavalry squadron, no news yet?"

The lieutenant was taken aback by Otsuka's sudden words and actions, and he stammered a little and replied, "No, no, as of now, not yet." ”

Dazuo was silent for a moment: "Order the field artillery brigade and open fire!" ”

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Almost at the same moment when the shells of the field artillery of the Otsuka Wing smashed into the head of Fengdian City, in Dawangyu, five miles away, the Second Battalion of the Eighth Route Army also launched a white-knives battle with the cavalry squadron of the Otsuka Wing, which had fallen behind.

The second battalion is completely established by the national army, with four companies and more than 200 people in each company. In addition to the 8th Company, which was on standby at the temporary residence with heavy firearms, a total of 3 companies were brought up in this ambush. Because the situation of the friendly troops who were being chased and killed at the foot of the mountain was critical, after Feng Changzhi and Wu Zijian urgently adjusted their deployment, the signal flare was fired on the spot, and at that moment, except for the machine gunners, the 5th, 6th, and 7th companies all jumped up and rushed down with the battalion commander and deputy battalion commander; Because Liu Shu was ordered to lead the 7th Company to stay on the mountain beam to monitor the battlefield, he ran desperately to the position of the 7th Company in the distance, trying to prevent the 7th Company from rushing down, but he hurried and hurried, and only had time to drag back less than a platoon of troops.

The Japanese Iwata Cavalry Squadron consisted of three squads with a total of less than 150 men.

Therefore, in this sudden outbreak of Sino-Japanese infantry and cavalry duel, the ratio of Chinese soldiers (plus the remnants of a company of the Jin army) to the Japanese army was close to a one-sided 5 to 1.

However, the situation did not show a one-sided situation.

If Iwata's cavalry had been able to quickly break away from the battlefield while the Eighth Route Army's ambush had not yet rushed up the mountain beam, the encounter might have ended soon; However, the rout of the Jin army, which had just been brutally killed by the Japanese sabre, suddenly launched a counterattack under the stimulus of reinforcements, resulting in a part of the cavalry of the Iwata squadron being entangled to death, and in order to rescue this part of the cavalry, the entire squadron delayed the retreat; This gave the second battalion precious time, and Wu Zijian and Li Tianlin, two fierce generals, wielded broadswords, leading more than 500 infantry, like a tide flooding the reef, into the array of Japanese cavalry.

The sound of machetes, bayonets, and swords fighting filled the entire valley in an instant.

The Japanese cavalry experienced the initial panic and casualties, and gradually stabilized the position with the strength of the war horses. On the mountain beam, Liu Shu and the others condescended to see it very clearly: the officers and soldiers of the Eighth Route often surrounded one or two devil cavalry with four or five people to fight, but they just couldn't effectively stab the opponent down, and some couldn't even get close at all, just shouted around the horses.

Once the Japanese cavalry recovered their state, they began to skillfully perform riding and sword skills, and the number of ways they controlled and slashed was very strange, first they rushed forward with the enemy, and then the sabers in their hands were just held still, until they swept past the enemy, and then they leaned sideways and swung their knives to the diagonal direction to kill! Many soldiers of the Eighth Route Army and the Jin Army, when they had already dodged the impact of the opponent's war horses, were suddenly hit by a saber again, and blood splattered on their faces, necks or heads, and some died on the spot.

Wu Zijian was red-eyed, the big knife in his hand danced like a windmill, although it was difficult to cut the devil cavalry, but he cut down two horses one after another, but out of his love for war horses, he wanted to capture them completely, so he no longer stabbed the horses, which also restricted his lethality.

Li Tianlin inadvertently saved the life of Xiao Junping, a staff officer of the Jin Army.

The saber of the Japanese cavalry that Xiao Junping picked up was not used well, and this student-born officer had shot and killed people, and it was the first time he had danced a knife on the battlefield. When the officers and soldiers of the second battalion rushed up, he saw the word "eight roads" on their armbands, and only then did he realize the identity of the rescuers. Wrapped in the chaos of the army and rushed to kill for a while, Xiao Junping did not gain anything, but his physical strength had been overdrawn to the limit, he retreated to a low stone, stepped on the stone with one foot, held the handle of the saber with both hands and held the stone face, and gasped for breath.

Maybe it was his captain's uniform, or maybe he had a Japanese saber in his hand, a cavalryman noticed Xiao Junping, and rushed towards him from behind with a knife raised.

This scene was seen by Li Tianlin not far away, but it was too late to come to the rescue, the commander of the Eighth Route Army was in a hurry, threw down the broadsword and subconsciously pulled out the shell gun, raised his hand is a shot, the bullet hit the ribs of the devil cavalry, his body was crooked in the saddle, the saber in his hand fell to the ground, but the war horse finally hit the body of Xiao Junping, who was unaware, and took the Jin army staff officer with him.

It turned out later that Li Tianlin's shot not only saved the lives of friendly officers, but also completely changed the course of this white-knuckle bloody battle!