Qin Zhongxiao personally commanded this ambush, dispatched his most elite battalion, they set up an ambush in this valley in advance, and a company commander of the first battalion led people to disguise themselves as Japanese soldiers, and led a cavalry company of the Mongolian Xinjiang Army into the ambush circle, and completely wrapped dumplings.

Of course, the major of the Central Army and the chief of staff under him did not expect to complete this decoy and annihilation operation without firing a single shot or bullet in advance, after all, the other side also had 100 men and horses. But the process was unexpectedly smooth, this path sandwiched between the mountain beams, only a few zhang wide, and the mountain beams on both sides were five or six zhang high, and on such a narrow valley path, they were held up by hundreds of guns on their heads, and anyone with a little military common sense understood that once they resisted, they would face one-sided killing.

The officers and men of the first battalion, half of whom continued to condescendingly aim their rifles and machine guns at the cavalry of the Mongolian army, had completely stood up from the ridge of the hill, in order to give the surrenderers a clearer view of the muzzles, including eight Czech light machine guns; The other half rushed down the hill and into the ranks of the cavalry, picking up the knives and guns they had thrown on the ground.

King De's Mongolian army was reorganized and trained by the Japanese Kwantung Army, and most of the weapons and equipment were supplied by the Kwantung Army. This is mostly related to the original knife habits of these cavalrymen.

Qin Zhongxiao was very satisfied, in Xinkou, he led his troops not only to fight with the Itagaki Division, but also encountered the independent mixed brigade of the Kwantung Army that rushed from outside the pass to assist Itagaki Seishiro in the battle, so the group of Mongolian Xinjiang Army in front of him imitated the military uniform of the Kwantung Army, which easily reminded him of the Kwantung Army in the fierce battle of Xinkou.

Damn, if the Kwantung Army in Xinkou had become an independent mixed brigade, and they couldn't help but scare like this group of grandsons under the mountain beams, their 391st Regiment would not have suffered heavy losses in terms of strength and firepower! - Watching his subordinates seize the opponent's weapons while driving them down from their horses and standing in line, Qin Zhongxiao was full of emotion.

When the 391st Regiment was subordinate to the A Division after the reorganization of the Military Commission, when it first arrived in Shanxi, the whole regiment was fully composed of 2,100 people, divided into three infantry battalions, each battalion had three infantry companies, one heavy machine gun company, and the heavy machine gun company was equipped with six Makqin heavy machine guns; Each infantry company is armed with 9 Czech light machine guns. In addition, Qin Zhongxiao's regimental headquarters also directly administered a mortar company, equipped with 6 domestically produced Type 82 mortars; A battle defense artillery battery, equipped with 6 German-made Type 37 vehicle defense guns. Such a powerful and neat firepower was absolutely first-class in the battle sequence of the national army that went to Shanxi to participate in the war at that time.

However, all the way from Xinkou to Taiyuan, the 391st Regiment continued to lose troops and lost all its artillery; By the time he was expelled from Toyoden by the Otsuka Wing, there were no heavy machine guns left.

Zhao Mutou's spy company was originally under the direct jurisdiction of the division headquarters, but it was temporarily strengthened to the 391st Regiment in a battle, but it was never rebuilt. The weapons of the spy company are one German-made Bergman* and one barge gun per person, which are also very powerful. But now, the spy company with a strength of 150 people has only left Zhao Mutou and 21 people.

"Commander, these traitors, what to do with them? Is it dead? ”

The report of the deputy commander of the first battalion made the colonel of the Central Army retract his thoughts. He first glanced at the Mongolian cavalry who had been disarmed and stripped of his overcoat, and then glared at the deputy battalion commander with reproachful eyes:

"Nonsense! These cavalry are prisoners who surrendered on their own initiative, if we also kill the prisoners, what difference will it be from the Japanese army brutes! ”

The deputy commander of the first battalion was reprimanded and did not dare to speak again.

"Let's take it up and watch it first," Qin Zhongxiao ordered: "Those who want to enter the city to raid, hurry up and change their clothes!" ”

The officers and men of the whole regiment who can ride horses are gathered here at this moment, and there are a total of 73 people, which is about the same as the 100-person structure of the cavalry company of the Mongolian Xinjiang Army. At this time, they had all changed into each other's military coats and cotton hats, and rode each other's war horses.

"The people of the spy company, have you returned to the city?"

Qin Zhongxiao asked. The spy company had already lurked into Fengdian before, and this morning they sent a person out to wait for the news of the ambush of the first battalion here, and then returned to the city to inform Zhao Mutou that he should join forces with the outside.

"Report to the group, he has been walking for more than ten minutes, and he should be almost in the city."

"Very well, cavalry departure!"

Under the order of the colonel of the Central Army, the company commander of the first battalion and the second company assumed the command, and led more than 70 "cavalry companies of the Mongolian Xinjiang Army" to Fengdian along the road from which they came.

Guarding the north gate of Fengdian is a squad of the second squadron of the Futian Brigade; The dozen or so Japanese soldiers at the head of the city had become accustomed to the entry and exit of the Mongolian cavalry in the past two days, and they knew that it was a patrol mission assigned by the wing commander to the Mongolian cavalry. Just now, they condescendingly watched the cavalry of that company routinely leave the city, and in less than half an hour, the Japanese soldiers at the head of the city saw their return again.

It's just that the Japanese soldiers couldn't know that it was no longer the Mongolian Xinjiang Army that was pacing towards the city gate at an almost walking speed on horseback, but their old opponent, the 391st Regiment of the Central Army.

In the gate hole below the city head, there are also more than a dozen infantry standing guard. The rest of the 30 or so members of this Japanese squad rested in two houses inside the gate of the North City, waiting for the night to change guards with the soldiers on duty.

All of this has been explored clearly by the people of Zhao Mutou's spy company who have infiltrated the county seat a long time ago. At this time, Zhao Mutou and his subordinates were scattered near the city gate hole, half of them were monitoring the two houses, and the other half were looking at the city gate hole. None of them had weapons in their hands.

The cavalry had entered the city, their hooves rattling on the hard frozen ground. More than 20 horses from the advanced city, as soon as they came out of the city gate, they rushed to Zhao Mutou's people, and soon, these cavalrymen in the uniform of the Mongolian army dismounted, and they took out a branch * and * from the jacket of the war horse - that is the unique equipment of the 391st Regiment Special Service Company Bergman * and * - and handed it to Zhao Mutou and his men in civilian clothes, and then handed over one by one*.

The three or four Japanese sentries standing at the entrance of the inner cave of the city gate noticed this extremely unusual scene, but before they could react, the cavalry who continued to rush in launched an attack on them, and their sharp sabers slashed and stabbed at them with lightning speed! Several Japanese sentries screamed and collapsed in pools of blood.

The same scene also happened at the outer entrance of the city gate cave, more than a dozen Japanese soldiers with 38 big covers, did not expect that the group of Mongolian soldiers riding past them on horseback suddenly slashed at them, in the panicked angry scolding and wailing, these dozen or so sentries only resisted for less than a minute, and were cut down.

The shouts of fighting outside the city gate finally alarmed the Japanese troops on the city, and some people leaned out from the damaged battlements of the city gate and looked down, so they saw this thrilling scene; But almost at the same time, a volley of bullets was fired at the city gate, and the Japanese soldiers who were looking at the city were shot one after another, and one of them fell from the battlement.

As soon as the gunshots rang out, the attack of the cold weapons was over, Zhao Mutou and the soldiers of the special service company quickly kicked open the doors of the two civilian houses occupied by the Japanese soldiers, and threw * in, and the dull explosion sound accompanied the dust and smoke rising, and Bergman* immediately let out an angry roar.

After the cavalry entering the city dismounted, the soldiers charged the city wall in two ways along the stairs on both sides of the city gate; Many of them were members of the 1st and 3rd Battalions of the 391st Regiment, and they were all too familiar with this city wall that had been guarded in the past.

Although the Japanese soldiers on the city wall were still shocked at why these cavalry of the Mongolian army suddenly turned their faces and attacked the imperial army, they had already seen the situation clearly, and began to pounce on the battlements of the city wall facing the city, and fired at the enemy who was running up. It's just that their numbers are too small after all, and the enemy's dense bullet rain killed most of them, and then the soldiers of the 391st Regiment who attacked the city swarmed to hunt down the remnants of the Japanese soldiers.

The effect of camouflage surprise attacks is obviously enormous. In just five or six minutes, a small group of Japanese soldiers was killed by the 391st Regiment, a hundred surprise attackers! And they themselves suffered less than ten casualties. The officers and men, including the commander of the special service company, were almost stunned by this result.

The purpose of this camouflage counterattack was not to occupy, but to declare, to declare to the Otsuka Wing the existence of the Chinese army. Therefore, as soon as the battle was over, the raiders of the 391st Regiment began to retreat; A few of the war horses that rode into the city gate were scattered in the firefight just now, and the people of the special service company did not have horses in the first place, so many soldiers rode together and rushed out from the north gate.

This thrilling melee battle disappeared in a way that was quick and decisive.

Aso Nakasa, deputy wing commander of the Japanese army, and Fukuda Shaosa, the captain of the Japanese army, who were sitting in the county government, thought of Dongcheng when they first heard the sound of gunfire and explosions. In their minds, the remnants of the Zhina Army in the Great Elm Mountain to the east of the county were always the biggest and only threat to the city's defenses. When the senior soldiers patrolling the streets came to report that the gunfire was coming from the direction of Beicheng, both men were alarmed. Aso Nakasa immediately asked Fukudaoka to lead a squadron at hand and run to Kitajo.

However, Fukudaoka and his subordinates, like the street patrol detachment that arrived in advance, only saw the battlefield where the smoke of gunpowder had not yet dissipated, and the corpses of their own officers and soldiers. He immediately ordered an attack on the city, and the Japanese soldiers who cautiously touched the city still saw only corpses and bloodstains - all of them were his own.

Two of the soldiers lying down at the entrance of the gate, visibly covered with knife wounds rather than gunshot wounds, miraculously woke up. Fukudaoka, who was full of anger, asked what happened to the two dying people in this area just now, and the answer turned out to be: The cavalry of the Mongolian army mutinied and suddenly attacked the imperial army guarding the city gate!

Fukudaoka couldn't help but be furious - from the arrival of this so-called Mongolian cavalry regiment, he looked at them unpleasantly, and now, these Mongols dared to rebel! - He drew his saber from the ground and shouted to those around him:

"Quickly go and report to Zhongzuo, the first and fourth squadrons urgently assemble and surround the headquarters of the cavalry regiment of the Mongolian Army!"