"If what Okamoto said is right, Shuocheng may be lost."

Nakamura Zhenxiong said with a gloomy face: "Once this happens, our back road will be lost." ”。

"And if the telegram sent by Okamoto Youichi urgently said that it is correct, the Eighth Route Army besieging them has more than 10,000 people, and it is possible that other Eighth Route Army troops assisted Li Yunlong's independent regiment in a sudden attack on Shuocheng."

"Then, Shuocheng is lost tonight, it is very likely."

Kita Taijiro's face changed drastically and said, "Shuocheng has been lost, and the enemy army besieging Shuocheng has suddenly increased so many people, and we will be in a situation of attacking from east to west."

"The consequences are unimaginable!"

Nakamura Zhenxiong gritted his teeth and said, "That's right. ”。

"Now it seems that no wonder Li Yunlong will defend Qingzhou City, it turns out that there is a new force to help!"

After a pause, Nakamura Zhenxiong said to Kita Taijiro: "Immediately order the 9th Brigade, the 7th Brigade and other units to quickly assemble, retreat east and return to Shuocheng, and quickly drop." ”。

"In addition, order the 9th Brigade to draw a brigade of troops, behind the rear hall, to cover the retreat of the troops."

Kido Taijiro said: "The division commander thinks that Li Yunlong in Qingzhou City will go out of the city to pursue us?"

"That's for sure! In addition, immediately call back to Okamoto Youichi, and our army immediately return to the east to help, and order Okamoto Youichi to concentrate my forces on me, rely on the buildings in the city, etc., to build a blocking position, and fight to the death to entangle the enemy besieging them! ”

Nakamura Zhenxiong said fiercely.

"Yes, division commander."

Kita Taijiro said heavily, and then immediately walked to the side of the military tent headquarters, and directly ordered the devil messenger to send a report to Okamoto Youichi, and then went out of the military tent headquarters to deploy the deployment of the army to the east.

And Nakamura Zhenxiong, his face was gloomy.

With a large number of enemy troops in Shuocheng in the rear, more than 10,000 people, it is impossible for Nakamura Zhenxiong to continue the siege of Qingzhou City.

Only, the main force of the 15th Brigade Regiment that withdrew its troops back to the division Dongyuan and fell into the siege.

Then, Nakamura Zhenxiong walked out of the military tent headquarters, climbed to the top of the hillside in front, raised his telescope to observe the east gate of Qingzhou City, and his face was gloomy, "Li Yunlong, let you go this time!" Eight grid tooth road! ”

Soon, outside the east gate of Qingzhou City, the movement of the temporary camp of the devil army was immediately learned by Li Yunlong in the temporary field headquarters on the eight-story roof of the east gate of Qingzhou City after receiving a report from the soldiers observing the situation outside the city.

Li Yunlong immediately walked to the edge of the roof wall with Wang Huaibao, the commander of the third battalion, and took a telescope to observe the general camp of the devils at night outside the East Gate.

"Commander, the little devil seems to be gathering! Are you going to storm Qingzhou City? ”

Wang Huaibao said with a smile.

"How is that possible?"

Li Yunlong shook his head and said with a smile: "It must be that the battle in the direction of Shuocheng has started until now, and Nakamura Zhenxiong should also know the situation in Shuocheng." ”。

"Most likely, it should be assembled and ready to withdraw to the east!"

Before Wang Huaibao could speak, a communications soldier from the headquarters walked quickly, "Report to the regiment commander, Zhang Dabiao is calling!"

"Oh, good news?"

Li Yunlong said with a smile.

"Yes, Commander! Commander, this is a telegram! ”

The communications soldier laughed in response.

Li Yunlong nodded, then took the telegram from the signal soldier and quickly began to read it.

In the moonlight, Zhang Dabiao's telegram was very detailed.

"Zhang Dabiao called, the first battalion has joined forces with Ding Wei's new regiment, the first battalion and the second battalion, to break through the north gate of Shuocheng, and is currently advancing along the main street of Shuocheng north city to attack in depth in the city."

Li Yunlong said: "The four battalions of the new second regiment commanded by Kong Jie also broke through the west gate and the south gate of Shuocheng successively, and the east gate was also broken by the third and fourth battalions of the new first regiment. ”。

"At present, Zhang Dabiao and the others have taken the four gates of Shuocheng, and all the departments have steadily besieged the depth of the city."

After a pause, Li Yunlong continued, "Zhang Dabiao reported that after more than ten minutes of fierce fighting, more than 2,000 enemies have probably been annihilated. ”

"Regiment commander, there are a lot of enemies!"

Wang Huaibao exclaimed.

"After all, the new first regiment and the new second regiment have sent a total of more than 10,000 troops, plus the main force of Zhang Dabiao's first battalion, there are already more than 11,000 people, and in terms of troops, compared with the 15th Brigade of the devil, they have an advantage, and it is not surprising that they fight like this!"

Li Yunlong said with a smile.

"Captain!"

At this time, Wang Huaibao pointed to the movement of the devil's camp outside the East Gate City, and said: "Nakamura Zhenxiong should also know the situation in Shuocheng at this time, this is to gather troops and run back to the division. ”。

"That's right!"

Li Yunlong nodded.

However, suddenly, the artillery position of the devils outside the East Gate City let out bursts of angry roars.

"Woo Woo !!"

Accompanied by the screeching of cannonballs in the night sky and the aftermath of the magic brakes caused by the air.

Countless shells smashed through the devil artillery position outside the East Gate in the night sky, and the tail flame of the shells was clearly visible.

"Boom, boom, boom!!"

Countless cannonballs, densely smashed, and suddenly smashed into the defenders' positions outside the east gate and at the head of the city, exploding a group of dazzling flames, which were very obvious in the night.

"Regiment Commander, the devil artillery group is bombarding!"

Wang Huaibao said loudly, his face solemn.

"Damn, this is artillery fire to cover the retreat of the army! Zheno Nakamura gave me back this hand! ”

Li Yunlong sneered, and countless loud explosions came, and Li Yunlong immediately knew what Nakamura Zhenxiong's sudden artillery bombardment meant.

"Commander, what are we going to do?"

Wang Huaibao, the commander of the third battalion, said.

"The devil's more than 30 artillery pieces will only bombard for a few minutes at most and then stop, and they need these artillery pieces to withdraw to the division under Shuocheng City with the east of the army."

Li Yunlong sneered: "But the devil should send infantry to block the attack, the main force of the three battalions of 1,500 people immediately assembled, and according to the previous discussion, the city left 500 people to defend the city, ready to follow me out of the city to pursue." ”。

"The political commissar has already commanded the four battalions to rush to Meow Fengfeng and set up a blocking position!"

Wang Huaibao said righteously: "Understood, regiment leader." ”。

Immediately, Wang Huaibao immediately went to organize the main force of the three battalions to assemble.

And Li Yunlong said to the communication soldiers: "Call Zhang Dabiao, let him, Ding Wei, and Kong Jie continue to attack the main force of the 15th Devil's Brigade in Shuocheng, and strive to completely annihilate the main force of the 15th Devil's Brigade in Shuocheng at about 12 o'clock at midnight." ”。

"In addition, we will also send a report to Zhang Dabiao and them to know about the situation here."

The signal soldier stood up and saluted and said, "Yes, regimental commander." Then the signal soldier immediately returned to the radio station and sat down and hurriedly sent a report to Zhang Dabiao.

Li Yunlong continued to walk to the edge of the roof wall, picked up a telescope and observed the situation outside the East Gate.

The devil's artillery continued to bombard the position outside the east gate of Qingzhou City, and soon Li Yunlong received a telephone report from the company commanders of the three battalions of the other three gates of Qingzhou City, and the devils outside the city all evacuated to the east gate in a roundabout way.

"Damn, I'm really assembling to go back to Shishuo City."

Li Yunlong muttered with a sneer.

However, at this time, the devil's artillery fire continued to bombard the positions outside the East Gate and the position at the head of the city, and Li Yunlong could not immediately order the three battalions to go out of the city to pursue.

What's more, if you rush out of the city to pursue, you will inevitably be blocked by the troops behind the Devil's Palace.

Therefore, Li Yunlong could only order the artillery inside the city to attack the devil artillery positions outside the city as much as possible.

Seven or eight minutes later, Nakamura Zhenxiong, who hastily assembled the 7th Brigade and the remaining units of the 9th Brigade, after leaving behind the strength of a brigade of the 9th Brigade to block the attack, the remaining 9,000 devils immediately returned to Shishuo City along the road under the command of Nakamura Zhenxiong.

And at this time, Shuocheng direction!

In Shuocheng City, the first battalion of the Independent Regiment of the Eighth Route Army, the main force of the New First Regiment, and the main force of the New Second Regiment, totaling more than 11,000 soldiers of the Eighth Route Army, carried out a fierce siege on the 15th Brigade of the Devils in Shuocheng City under the condition that they were good at night fighting and had superior troops.

The street fighting at night suddenly became very fierce.

The two sides go back and forth, engaged in a fierce battle at close range.

Inside the city, in the temporary brigade headquarters of the 15th Brigade.

"Report to the brigade commander that the enemy troops who broke through the city from the north gate are attacking and advancing all the way south along the main street of the north city, and the attack is now fierce. The 3rd Infantry Brigade of the 30th Infantry Wing to which our brigade belongs has suffered heavy casualties, and a squadron of the 2nd Infantry Brigade has been transferred to reinforce the direction of Beicheng. ”

Jiro Komori, who walked quickly to Okamoto's right one, reported the latest battle situation to the brigade commander Okamoto Youichi in a condensed voice.

"How many enemy troops are there who broke through the city at the north gate?"

Okamoto looked at the map with a frown, and asked after hearing this.

"According to the latest situation that has been observed so far, there are probably more than 3,000 enemy troops breaking through the city from the north gate."

Jiro Komori said in a deep voice.

"Damn!"

Okamoto slammed his fist on the map on the table one by one, gritted his teeth and said with a solemn face: "These Eighth Route Army troops are too good at night battles. ”。

"I didn't expect that at night, they would be able to fight so skillfully in street fighting."

Komori Jiro nodded, and said in a condensed voice: "The other party's infantry and artillery coordination in the night are very fast and skillful. ”。

"Once you encounter the machine gun fire point of our Imperial Army on the roofs on both sides of the street, immediately approach it with grenades, or at a long distance, use mortars to accurately shell and kill them."

After a pause, Jiro Komori said: "Our machine-gun fire points were pulled out by them one by one, and their infantry quickly approached our infantry blocking position, using grenades or other rifle shooters to suppress and kill. ”。

"Our blocking forces suffered heavy casualties, as did the rest of the directions."

Okamoto listened to the fierce gunfire that was getting closer and closer, and said with a solemn face: "General Nakamura Zhenxiong has commanded the army under Qingzhou City to withdraw to the east, but it will take an hour to march urgently. ”。

"But it didn't take an hour and a half to get back from Qingzhou City to Shuocheng, so it was impossible to get here."

After a pause, Okamoto Yokachi said in a condensed voice: "I'm afraid we will hold out until about half past eleven, and then we will be able to wait for General Nakamura Zhenxiong's army to come back." ”。

"And the opponent, the attack is very fierce, I'm afraid we're in trouble, Komori-kun!"

Jiro Komori said: "I can only send troops to fortify every street and room, fight close street battles with the enemy, entangle the enemy army, and hold on until the army under the command of General Nakamura Zhenxiong returns." ”。

"That's all there is to it."

Okamoto said with a solemn face: "Immediately follow this operational policy, give me orders to all units of the brigade and regiment to seize every building, room and street that can be fortified and blocked, and fight street battles between me and the enemy." ”。

"Yes, Brigade Commander!"

Jiro Komori paused heavily, and then immediately walked away to deploy.

But at this time, Okamoto's hope to use street fighting to delay time was doomed to fail.

On the main street in the north of Shuocheng, the guns and cannons of fierce battles continued.

Zhang Dabiao and Ding Wei each commanded their posts to carry out a fierce attack on the northern city, and advanced all the way to the south.

Because Shuocheng has been captured twice by Zhang Dabiao's troops, Zhang Dabiao is very clear about the situation in the city.

What's more, before Zhang Dabiao captured Shuocheng for the second time and evacuated Shuocheng, he carried out targeted destruction of the main locations in the city that could build fortifications.

Therefore, the main force of the 15th Brigade stationed in Shuocheng was temporarily constructed some fortifications in the city.

However, Okamoto Youichi did not expect that Ding Wei's new regiment and Kong Jie's new second regiment would send troops together to Shuocheng to participate in the battle.

Therefore, after being hastily surrounded by more than 10,000 soldiers of the Eighth Route Army in Shuocheng, it was too late to urgently build the street battle fortifications in the city.

At this time, the fighting in the North City neighborhood was fierce.

Zhang Dabiao and Ding Wei commanded their respective troops to storm and defeat the 30th Infantry Brigade of the 3rd Infantry Brigade of the Devil's Infantry Wing, which was defending Beicheng, and the Devil's soldiers retreated one after another, suffering heavy casualties.

"Boom, boom!"

"Da da da, bang!"

The sound of machine gun gunfire, the explosion of grenades and shells, and the sound of rifle gunfire were intertwined with each other, and it seemed very harsh in the night.

At night, the street battles are splashing in all directions!

"Brothers, hit me hard!"

It was Zhang Dabiao who spoke, and at this time he was also holding a submachine gun from the prince's guard that had been captured from Fushimi Palace Hirohiko, and he was shooting at the devil on the opposite side, shouting constantly.

"Da Biao, be careful, you kid!"

At this time, Ding Wei, who was on the other side of the street, laughed while directing the troops to attack.

"Don't worry, Lao Ding!"

Zhang Dabiao laughed and said: "The bullet that can kill Lao Tzu has not been made yet!" ”。

"Hahaha!"

Ding Wei also laughed out loud and laughed loudly: "You kid! ”。

Saying this, Zhang Dabiao and Ding Wei were still careful to avoid the ghost bullet rain on the opposite side, and commanded the troops to attack and advance steadily.

The independent regiment and the new 1st regiment and the new 2nd regiment are all veterans of night battles.

There was no need for Zhang Dabiao and others to give special orders, and the soldiers of the Eighth Route Army after breaking the city relied on their skillful street fighting skills to shoot fire after constantly approaching the devils on the opposite side.

The skillful skills of street fighting, and the devils who fought on defense were losing and retreating.

Due to the haste to meet the battle, the various units of the 15th Brigade of the Devil in the city had no time to build fortifications to block the attack.

And the fierce battle in Shuocheng was not yet a decisive victory.

The fierce battle continued, and when it was 11:56 p.m., Nakamura Zhenxiong, who urgently withdrew his troops from Qingzhou City and returned to the division, commanded more than 9,000 devils from the 9th Brigade and other units, and rushed to the east of the mountain pass in front of Meow Peak.

However, soon its vanguard encountered strong fire from the four battalions of the Independent Regiment, which had already established a blocking position at Meow Peak.

After receiving the report of the vanguard, Nakamura Zhenxiong was stunned!

(End of chapter)

Lewen