The three battalions of the 570th Regiment were all deployed in the eastern suburbs of Wencheng at this moment; When they were in Fengdian, they did not dare to exchange fire with the Japanese army because they had a strong city wall to rely on, and now that the whole regiment was exposed to the empty and open wilderness and was covered by the Japanese army, they were even more frightened.

Tian Mingda only grabbed the phone and asked the brigade commander in the city for help, and the regimental chief of staff urgently ordered the second battalion, which was closest to the front, to resist desperately.

Receiving a call from Tian Mingda, Zheng Yuan in the city was also startled.

Because he judged that the Japanese army occupying Fengdian was unlikely to attack Wencheng in the short term, although he was already preparing to retreat, at this time, the devil's army suddenly came to the city, and he was still taken by surprise.

Zheng Yuan asked Tian Mingda to immediately start a defense, stabilize his position, and at the same time reconnoiter the number of attacking Japanese troops as soon as possible, so as to report to the headquarters of the Second War Zone Governor in Linfen. In view of the rapid attack of the enemy, it is obviously not wise to withdraw from the city at this time, once Tian Mingda can't resist there, the devil will catch his footsteps in retreating south at the first time, and the retreat will turn into a massacre. Thinking of this, Zheng Yuan ordered a battalion of the 569th Regiment to quickly leave the south gate and make a detour to the battlefield in the eastern suburbs of the city, first, to prevent the Japanese army from cutting off the Tongpu railway line in the south, and second, to support Tian Mingda's regiment in combat. The other two battalions, one is responsible for monitoring the battlefield at Dongchengtou, and the other is on standby with the brigade headquarters.

The Japanese troops attacking and advancing towards Bunjo at this moment were none other than the Nara Brigade of the Otsuka Wing.

The Nara Brigade was originally left behind in the Junling, but due to the unfavorable division in the direction of Toyden, two of the squadrons were temporarily dispatched by the wing commander to rush to reinforcements, and only caught up with the end of the Battle of Toyoden. It was for this reason that during the two days of the holiday when Toyden was stationed, the Nara Brigade was arranged by the Wing Commander to guard the castle on all sides, and watched the other two brigades, as well as the artillery and cavalry, rob property and eat women day and night, and his heart was very unbalanced. (Of course, they also waited for an opportunity to plunder some women near the city walls, but in small numbers) Before setting out from Toyoden, Nara Takayoshi Shaosa approached the wing commander and strongly requested that when attacking Bunjo, his two squadrons would be the vanguard.

Kosuke Otsuka smiled and agreed. Of course, he knew what his men were really thinking, and that was exactly what he wanted to see.

In Nara Shaosa's view, the big station on the railway line, Wencheng, must be more attractive than the county town in the mountains: money will be more abundant, and women will be more charming. He said impassionedly to his infantry:

"Don't be depressed, just put the sun flag on the head of Wencheng, and everything you didn't get in Fengdian today will be doubled!"

As a result, this group of tiger and wolf soldiers started before the main force of the Otsuka United, and swarmed out along the railway line from Songjiagou to Wencheng; They soon encountered the mobile outposts arranged in this area by the 570th Regiment of the Jin Army, and the front team broke the resistance of dozens of people on the other side with a single charge; He chased forward for more than a mile before he came into contact with a battalion-sized Chinese army.

It was the second battalion of the 570th regiment that advanced into the position.

Tian Mingda was severely reprimanded by the brigade commander on the phone, asking him to absolutely not give up, otherwise military law would be involved. The brigade commander also told him that a battalion of the 569th Regiment would soon press over his flank, and before that, the 570th Regiment would desperately have to hold the position in the eastern suburbs to ensure that the city defense of Wencheng would not be directly attacked by the Japanese army.

Putting down the brigade commander's phone, Tian Mingda had no choice but to command the whole regiment to face the battle.

The two squadrons of the Nara Brigade were divided into one by one by the captain and advanced forward one after another. Nara Shaozo expected that the Jin army stationed in Wencheng would definitely be vulnerable. The goal of his first battle was to crush the outlying positions of the Chinese army, reach the city of Wencheng and set up camp, and then wait for the heavy artillery of the field artillery brigade to pull up.

Sure enough, more than 800 people from a battalion of the 570th Regiment collapsed in less than 15 minutes under the impact of more than 200 people from a squadron of the Nara Brigade. Tian Mingda, who had climbed a ladder to the roof of a private house to observe the battlefield, saw in despair that less than three miles away from his front, the follow-up troops of the Japanese army were coming in a steady stream and joining the attack formation, and the second battalion was only one step away from a complete rout.

And he had just ordered the third battalion to go forward from the left flank of the second battalion and carry out a flank attack on the Japanese army to relieve the pressure of the frontal defense, but in the telescope, although the third battalion appeared on the side of the Japanese army, it was nearly a mile away and cowered.

What really made the Japanese shrink their attack was a battalion of the 569th Regiment that appeared on their other side later, although this battalion did not launch an attack after it was in place, but in the face of the situation of enemy troops on the left, center and right, the Japanese still felt intimidated.

Nara Shaosa ordered a halt to the attack, he really did not know the number of Shina troops guarding Bunjo in advance, and at this moment there were almost two thousand people in a U-shape in front of him. This was much more than he had estimated before the attack, and he had thought that the defenders of China must have all retreated into the city, and that the outskirts were nothing more than symbolic fortifications and a small number of vigilant troops.

While armisticing to observe the battlefield situation, he used a walkie-talkie to inform Captain Otsuka: A large number of Shina troops appeared on the outskirts of Wencheng, and asked the squadron to send 92 infantry guns and mortars to the front-when the two squadrons of the Nara Brigade set out from Junling to aid Fengdian, they were lightly armed and rushed forward, and did not carry heavy weapons such as infantry guns, mortars, and heavy machine guns--Nara Shaosa decided to bombard the Shina Army on the left and right sides with powerful artillery fire, so that they did not dare to approach the flanking headquarters, and then take advantage of the situation to launch a charge against the frontal enemy, destroying its outer defenses in one fell swoop.

The main force of Kosuke Otsuka's wing did not go out of the mountains at this time, and Otsuka was also surprised after receiving the report: the Shina army actually set up a heavy army under the castle of Bunjo, did they have the courage to fight a field battle with the imperial army? Although he was dismissive of the combat strength of the 12th Brigade, but looking back on the lessons learned from the attack on Toyden, Otsuka decided to be on the safe side, and he sent an order to Nara: Temporarily confront the enemy, and the main force will arrive soon.

Tian Mingda, who was on the roof, saw that the Japanese forwards, who only had a few hundred people, had retracted their attack formation, and a battalion of the 569th Regiment sent by the brigade commander had also outflanked the devil's flank in time, and his panic was eased. He thought: After all, he is a large number of people, although the little devil is fierce, the evil tiger has to be afraid of the wolves; God forbid, I hope this battle can withstand the Japanese army or even force it back!

When the confrontation between the two armies was presented under the city of Wencheng, a group of Japanese soldiers in Taiyuan City, taking several cars, went out of the south gate of the city and went straight to the direction of Junling along the road.

The car fleet consisted of seven trucks, two in the front and three in the back, carrying a squadron of soldiers; Two sedans were sandwiched in the center of the convoy, one of which was Akira Hagiwara, the commander of the Hagiwara Brigade of the Sena Division, and Masao Kojima, the head of the Taiyuan secret service, and the other was their entourage.

The destination of their trip was the small station of Songjiagou that the Otsuka United had just occupied. In the evening, they arrived at Fengdian from Junling, and the Futian Brigade of the Otsuka Wing guarding Fengdian had already received an order, and Fukudaoka Shaozo personally welcomed the convoy into the county seat at the gate of the city.

Akira Hagiwara and Masao Kojima, of course, came for the planned secret camp for comfort women, and they were going to investigate the situation in Songjiagou on the spot. The convoy spent the night in Fengdian and prepared to leave for Songjiagou the next morning.

However, the tragic situation in Fengdian County shocked the brigade commander and the head of the secret service. Major General Hagiwara only knew in advance that the Otsuka Wing had rested in the prefecture for two days after breaking the city, but the county in front of him, even in the vast twilight, the traces of its looting were still visible. The bodies of ordinary people, which clearly belonged to ordinary people, were everywhere in the streets and alleys, and the bodies of some women were either half-naked or naked.

Due to the hasty start of the Otsuka United after the carnival, the main wounded soldiers left to defend the city were not able to clean up the mess. In the original county government, Hagiwara Akira asked Captain Fukuda what was going on, but in the face of the brigade commander's questioning, Fukudaoka was hesitant and unclear.

Masao Kojima, who has become the head of the secret service, is a China expert and can speak fluent Chinese. Seeing that Fukudaoka refused to tell the truth, he slipped into the street with two of his subordinates in civilian clothes, and found out the inside story of the massacre in less than half an hour.

Major General Hagiwara heard Masao Kojima's report, and looked up to the sky and sighed: This bastard Otsuka!

Out of secrecy, so far, neither the division headquarters nor the brigade headquarters have informed Otsuka Kosuke of the true purpose of capturing Fengdian, Songjiagou, and Wencheng. General Sena agreed with himself that after completely occupying and controlling the "three points and one line" of Fengdian, Songjiagou, and Wencheng, he would separately announce the contents of the "Wind Plan" to Otsuka Daisa, because his wing would be an important force in the secret camp of Gongwei comfort women in the future.

"The ultimate goal of establishing a secret camp for comfort women is to reduce the rape of soldiers in the occupied areas," Hagiwara said to Masao Kojima with a wry smile, "but there is another mass venting incident here!" It's just so embarrassing. ”

"And it lasted almost two days and two nights." The head of the secret service added dryly.

"It's a sensitive moment, Otsuka, a martial artist, just make trouble for us!" Hagiwara refers to the sensitive moment when he refers to the news of the rape incident in Nanjing at the end of last year, which is now being widely disseminated, and the international public opinion is in an uproar and shock: "We must block the news, so that this county town is located in the mountains, so that the troops stationed there can destroy the corpses as soon as possible." ”

"Is it necessary to inform the division commander, including the front army command?" Masao Kojima asked cautiously.

The brigade commander hesitated for a moment, then said with determination:

"Don't tell me yet, let the Otsuka United team clean up the aftermath as soon as possible! In particular, the bodies of the naked women of Shina should be removed and disposed of immediately! ”