The * was the Japanese Army's Type 97, and it should have been thrown in by Japanese soldiers less than 30 meters away, and at that time, the shopkeeper Wang was stumbling into the courtyard, and * almost exploded above his head.

Why did the shopkeeper suddenly return home at this time, the people in the regiment headquarters had no time to think about it, but as the male owner of this mansion, from the regiment commander to the guards, he was very familiar with him, so his death shocked everyone present.

Immediately afterward, another * smashed into the courtyard wall and exploded at the top of the wall. Qin Zhongxiao realized that the devil who was charging here from the south was already close at hand. He yelled at the guards around him:

"Get on the roof!"

Qin Zhongxiao's regimental headquarters was relatively streamlined, except for the chief of staff and a few operational and communications staff officers, and then there was a 15-person guard squad. Hearing the order of the regiment commander, the guard squad leader immediately took five or six of his subordinates to climb the windowsills and eaves of the wing room and climbed to the roof. Most of the guards were also equipped with the same Bergman* as the spy company, and at this moment these branches* had climbed to the heights, and they could see at a glance that in the streets and alleys outside the courtyard to the south, including on the avenues, there were patches of Japanese troops rushing towards them.

* of the guard squad condescendingly opened fire.

Regardless of the dissuasion of the chief of staff and others, Qin Zhongxiao also climbed onto the roof with difficulty, and he had to figure out how large the Japanese army appeared behind him. On the roof, his guard squad leader pulled him to hide behind a high ridge, Qin Zhongxiao glanced at it with a telescope, and couldn't help but be shocked.

The figure of the yellow devil flashing in the corner of the street and alley, there are almost a thousand people, which should be close to the size of a brigade! With so many devil soldiers, how could they get behind their own defense line all at once?

The 391st Regiment, which was attacked by the enemy on its back, had to divide its troops to fight against the enemy behind in a hurry, and the battle situation, which was originally close to being evenly matched, had become precarious in the blink of an eye.

A chill rose up in Qin Zhongxiao's backbone, and he made a judgment in a short time: although the south gate has been opened, the tide of refugees is clogged, and even if the devil attacks the south gate, it is impossible to reach here so quickly; There is only one possibility: the gates of the eastern or western city have been lost, and the Japanese have outflanked it from both flanks!

The colonel of the Central Army, who has experienced a hundred battles, understands that this battle can no longer be fought, and it is not yet known how many follow-up troops the Japanese army will enter the city, but only in terms of the current comparison of troops, the 391st Regiment has already lost the upper hand, not to mention that it is still attacked on both sides.

Withdraw!

Qin Zhongxiao made a painful decision. He originally wanted to block the devils who came from the north city and create time for the people to escape from the south city, but he was unexpectedly copied by the devils. There is no longer any need to fight this battle.

It has to be withdrawn, and it must be withdrawn.

Qin Zhongxiao got off the roof. Time was pressing, and he asked the chief of staff to immediately gather a company of the second battalion and attack Dongcheng with all his might. If the east gate has been occupied by the Japanese army, it is necessary to recapture it at all costs and defend it, so as to open the passage for the whole regiment to break through.

Qin Zhongxiao's choice to break through from Dongcheng has his reasons. During the days when Fengdian was stationed, the colonel of the Central Army, who was born in Huangpu, not only sent people to the Japanese-occupied areas in the north to investigate, but also made a thorough investigation of the situation in the east, west, and south of the county.

To the west of Fengdian is the big mountain, and the path through the mountain continues to the west, and out of the big mountain is the track of the Tongpu railway line that runs through Shanxi; To the south of Fengdian, there is an avenue that first goes south and then turns westward, which also reaches the Tongpu Railway Line, and is an important town on the Tongpu Line: Wencheng.

Qin Zhongxiao will not choose these two paths. Because he still has no way of knowing whether the Japanese army will send another force south along the Tongpu line at the same time as attacking Fengdian this time. At present, the men and horses of the 391st Regiment no longer have any heavy weapons, and if they are exposed to the open terrain around the Tongpu Railway Line, once attacked, it will be tantamount to slaughter. As for Wencheng, it was the brigade headquarters of the 12th Brigade of the Jin Army, the base camp of the fleeing Tian Mingda regiment, and Qin Zhongxiao had no sense of trust in them at this moment.

Only to the east.

To the east of Fengdian, it is the same mountain as the west, but through the path into the mountain, there are quite a few villages along the way, although it is not as solid as the city wall of Fengdian County, but the terrain is dangerous, easy to defend and difficult to attack.

Qin Zhongxiao's retreat order was issued by the regimental headquarters, and the personnel password was passed all the way to Xicheng, and the battalion over there was what Qin Zhongxiao was most worried about, because this time the layout was to stretch a battle line to block the Japanese army in the north city, so once the battle was withdrawn, the westernmost team was also the easiest to be blocked by the enemy.

This is a bloody battle that is even more fierce than the blocking battle just now, the forces of both sides are entangled together on a slender front, you have me, I have you, and there is even a white-knuckle battle in some areas. Qin Zhongxiao urgently set up a number of firepower squads, concentrated light machine guns and *, occupied more than ten commanding heights on the roof, and guided and covered the whole regiment to make a difficult move towards Dongcheng while strafing the Japanese army.

As it turned out later, it was precisely these dozen commanding heights that played a decisive role. The officers and men of the 391 Regiment had a strong tactical quality, and at the beginning of the retreat, they took the initiative to strike in the direction of the commanding heights closest to them, so that the long line of skirmishers gradually gathered into a group of dozens of people, and they relied on their familiarity with the terrain of the streets and alleys, and under the coordination and command of the commanding heights, they echoed each other from afar, turned each other into horns, and slowly but firmly fought and retreated from west to east.

The disadvantages of the Japanese fighting in the streets in unfamiliar areas were exposed.

Because the Aikawa Brigade was supported by the Futian Brigade, the Japanese troops in the north and south entered the defense line of the 391st Regiment without any scruples, and even the Aikawa Shaozo and the deputy captain of the Fukuda Brigade were personally involved in the street battle. When the Japanese discovered that the commanding heights of the firepower of the Chinese army from overhead were extremely threatening, they could no longer organize a large-scale grenadier detachment to clear and strike at them.

In this way, after paying the heavy price of more than 300 people killed (no one was captured, the Japanese army that broke the city did not intend to capture prisoners at all, and all wounded soldiers or surrendered were killed on the spot), the main force finally reached the east gate. Previously, the chief of staff had led people to fight desperately with the devils who attacked and occupied the east gate, and regained control of the city gate, and they were lucky enough to capture two 92 heavy machine guns - which were heavy weapons left here by the Futian Brigade in order to lightly intersperse the flanks and rear of the 391st Regiment.

At this moment, these two ninety-two heavy machines, respectively erected on the city wall and the city gate tower, swept downward. The officers and men of the 391st Regiment ran out of the city gate under the heavy machine-gun fire net and rushed into the mountains and mountains to the east.

Qin Zhongxiao was the last to retreat, Zhao Mutou's spy company and the regimental headquarters guard squad faithfully guarded the regimental seat, and the power of dozens of automatic firearms made the Japanese army dare not get too close.

Of course, just ten minutes ago, Aikawa Shaozo and the deputy captain of the Fukuda Brigade both received an order from the commander of the liaison outside the city: it is enough to properly disengage from the contact with the Shina Army and expel them from the county seat.

Kosuke Otsuka gave this order only after receiving a report from Aikawa Shaosa. He learned that the retreat of the Chinese army was very calm, and the formation contracted quickly, and the two imperial army brigades that had been scattered to carry out the attack had been dispersed, and it was difficult to organize a large-scale encirclement and annihilation for a while.

This is just right, let the Shina army run, they ran away, and Fengdian is my Otsuka United! A squadron of the Nara Brigade was at this time machine-gun fire outside the south gate, forcing the people who had fled from the city, especially the women, to retreat - a small number of Shina troops had opened fire on the tower of the city gate, but they quickly withdrew: the south gate had been declared closed.

The captain of the wing, who had completed the work, ordered the lieutenant staff officer next to him to give the order: the wing headquarters, as well as the artillery and engineers, enter the city!

When entering the North City Gate Cave, Otsuka got another report from Aikawa Shaosa: The Zhina Army at the East Gate ran away, and the Aikawa Brigade officially occupied the East City Gate!

Qin Zhongxiao saw this scene with his own eyes, when he ran out of the east city gate and approached the foot of the mountain, the colonel of the Central Army turned back to look at Fengdian, which had fallen behind him, and the Japanese soldiers appeared on the city one after another, and the sun flag on the bayonet was clearly visible; More than a dozen devils ran out of the east gate, and after checking it, they turned around and returned to the doorway.

They closed the two gates, which were heavy and solid, tightly!