Zhao Mutou's spy company has an establishment of about 150 people, but since he entered Shanxi last year, especially after several bloody battles during the Battle of Xinkou, the number of special agents has been drastically reduced to about 80.

The spy company originally did not belong to the 391 regiment, but was directly under the jurisdiction of the division headquarters, in a battle of the Xinkou battle, the division headquarters with overstretched troops, the spy company was temporarily assigned to the 391 regiment to fight an important battle, after which the national army repeatedly failed in Xinkou, and the spy company has been following the 391 regiment to move in, until the Xinkou defenders were completely defeated, the whole division was scattered, and the spy company never had a chance to return to the building, so it followed the 391 regiment until it went to the field outside Taiyuan City to cooperate with the defense of the city, until it retreated to today's Fengdian County.

The division where the 391st Regiment is located belongs to the A division after the reorganization of the army, and its equipment can be called excellent in the national army. Since 1934, the Military Commission of the Nationalist Government has unified the division-level weapon system, with rifles and heavy machine guns copied from Germany, and light machine guns copied from the Czech Republic, with a caliber of 7.92 mm and universal bullets.

Bergman*, known in China as a hand-held machine gun or flower machine gun, like the shell gun, was originally introduced in large quantities during the warlord melee years (many of which were smuggled), but after the reorganization of the military commission of the Nationalist Government, the caliber of the firearm did not conform to the 7.92 mm stipulated by the whole army, so it basically faded out of the first division. However, both the Bergman* and the Barge Gun have their own irreplaceable advantages, and the bullets of the two are common, so they can often be seen in the army of the Nationalist Government; Zhao Mutou's spy company, the whole company is equipped with two guns: each person has a Bergman* and a barge gun!

Zhao Mutou, then twenty-six years old, with the rank of captain, tall and slender, a martial arts family, alert and aggressive, and accurate marksmanship; It is very loved by Qin Zhongxiao, the head of the 391st regiment. Although Zhao Mutou is not directly under the 391st Regiment, since he followed Qin Zhongxiao to fight a few battles, he has quite admired this colonel from Huangpu, and it can be said that he obeys his words. And Qin Zhongxiao also saw the true colors of a young hot-blooded soldier from Zhao Mutou, compared with the chief of staff and some battalion company commanders under his subordinates, Qin Zhongxiao is obviously more interested in this "outsider".

Therefore, in tonight's night attack, Qin Zhongxiao also handed over the winner of this desperate fight to Zhao Mutou.

The focus of the night attack was to try to destroy the field artillery that the Japanese had placed outside the city.

Qin Zhongxiao judged from the Japanese army's combat sequence that this should be an independent field artillery brigade, except for the front-line gunners, loaders, and starters, if you count the transported men and horses, the total number of them is probably around four or five hundred.

After two thwarted attacks during the day, it was clear that the Japanese commanders had no intention of launching another offensive for the rest of the day; But until dark, the field artillery at the forefront of the Japanese army queue was not withdrawn, and was still hanging alone in place. This is a great fighter!

Through the offensive and defensive battles during the day, Qin Zhongxiao already knew that the charging firepower of the Japanese infantry was not strong, especially when its forward hit the gap in the city wall, and could not get the support of the heavy machine guns and grenadiers behind for fear of accidental injury.

This made the field heavy artillery the only killer weapon for the Japanese army to break the city. Therefore, as long as its heavy artillery is removed, the pressure on the defenders will naturally be greatly reduced.

391 Regiment Headquarters, 11 a.m.

The soldiers of the special service company who had changed the guard had already been mobilized to the east gate to assemble and rest, and in the regiment headquarters, only the commander of the special service company, the deputy company commander and the two platoon commanders were making the final deduction with Qin Zhongxiao, and in front of them was a sand table that was hurriedly gathered.

The suddenness of the attack was not a problem, and in the evening the sky was overcast, the clouds were thick, and the moonlight was barely visible at night. As long as you march and hide, it is not difficult to touch the devil's artillery position under the lonely hanging city.

The key is the retreat route after the attack.

Since the field artillery position was hundreds of meters long, Qin Zhongxiao advocated that after the night attack was successful, the spy company could retreat in two ways, and those close to the east could return to the Dongcheng gate along the original route of the sortie; Those who are close to the west can run to the north gate, and then the north city will temporarily open the city gate to respond-after nightfall, manpower has been organized to repair a city gate that was blown up, and now it can barely be closed - this is also out of the greatest protection for the special service company, otherwise, a considerable number of officers and soldiers may be intercepted and killed by the rescuing Japanese army because the retreat route is too long.

The chief of staff resolutely disagreed with the opening of the northern city gates.

"The Japanese army once carried out a strong attack on the north gate during the day, and the first battalion relied on the heavy machine gun in the door hole to hold it." The chief of staff, who had always disagreed with this risky night raid plan, seemed angry at the moment: "It is difficult to say whether the door that has just been repaired can withstand the next impact. Now let the spy company retreat from the north gate, in case the Japanese pursuers swarm in, take advantage of the chaos to occupy the north gate, or even flood the city from there, Fengdian will be finished! ”

Qin Zhongxiao looked at the red-faced chief of staff and groaned.

"Tuanzao," Zhao Mutou's stubborn temper came up again: "Don't worry, if you don't go through the north gate, we can come back too!" ”

The air in the hall became almost solid.

"The plan remains the same, it's decided!" Qin Zhongxiao finally slapped the board with some annoyance.

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The Otsuka Wing's camping arrangement outside the northern castle of Toyoden was based on the daytime attack queue. At the rear, there were the engineer squadrons and the transports of the field artillery brigade that came with the wing, and in front of them was the Futian brigade, then the wing headquarters and the Xiangchuan brigade, and the closest to the Fengdian city wall was the field artillery brigade position. In addition, the cavalry squadron and the Fukuda Brigade were sent by Captain Otsuka to a place close to the west of the city to guard against the Eighth Route Army that might appear in that direction.

Otsuka did not consider the possibility that the camp would be attacked by night. He was only worried about the "thousands of Eighth Route Army" as the cavalry squadron leader said, but from the morning when Iwata Shaozo came back to report the news, until it was dark, he did not see any Eighth Route Army coming out from that direction.

As for the fortress of Fengdian, the defenders of Shina had already suffered heavy losses during the day, and it was impossible to have the strength and courage to fight back at night. Therefore, the wing commander only warned the departments to make a simple sentry, and the field artillery position at the forefront was only guarded by the field artillery brigade itself.

This allowed Zhao Mutou's spy company to successfully touch it at three o'clock in the middle of the night.

At first, cold weapons were used.

A platoon commander and a soldier of the special service company silently solved the two frozen sentries on the position with daggers, but the next action alarmed the other Japanese soldiers, and the gunfire rang out instantly.

The bullets of the spy company Bergman* began a frenzied strafing, and they opened fire on all the hazy figures on the gun emplacement, and the midnight silence of the night sky, except for the roar of *, was the shouting and cursing of Japanese soldiers.

Zhao Mutou's two platoons performed their own duties, one platoon was responsible for firing, and the other platoon was in groups of three, finding the gun position of the field artillery, and quickly tying the bundle* prepared in advance to the gun mechanism and igniting it*.

They sneaked out of the open door of the eastern city, so the operation was also launched from east to west, close to a few field guns on the east side, and they were tied to * not long after the attack began, but at the same time, the rest of the group was still under the cover of *, desperately running towards the gun positions along the line.

The Japanese camp, which had woken up, had already rushed over several squads one after another, trying to recapture the artillery position.

Soon, the easternmost field guns were tied to the * explosion, and the dazzling fire almost illuminated most of the artillery positions, which made the soldiers of the special service company who had not yet completed the blasting completely exposed, and the Japanese troops on the gun positions had understood the purpose of the attackers, and they resisted desperately, while the Japanese troops who rescued them charged frantically to this side. The spy company responsible for covering the demolition was knocked down one after another by the rain of bullets from the approaching 38 big cover, and many of the demomen were unable to complete the task of binding or even detonating at all.

The Japanese recaptured the field artillery position, and when the soldiers of several spy companies were desperate, they pulled the * at hand.

No one retreated to the north gate. They simply didn't have time to retreat.

As a result of this night attack, three Japanese field guns were damaged and one was slightly damaged. Zhao Mutou and 35 soldiers of the special service company were able to withdraw, and the remaining 52 people were all killed or captured!

The Japanese army, whose camp was in turmoil, did not retaliate immediately, and after the fire, their camp returned to order, and it became dark and dead silent again. They're waiting for dawn.

At the head of the northern city of Fengdian, Qin Zhongxiao and his chief of staff, as well as the officers and soldiers of the third battalion, witnessed this short but tragic night attack under the city.

They are also waiting for the dawn.