And Ding Wei had taken this into account before, although he deployed the main forces to the front, but also deployed four heavy machine guns in the back, just to prevent the devils from escaping.

When the devil retreated, four heavy machine guns immediately opened fire, and the sudden firepower stunned the devil captain at once.

"Baga, quick, resist, resist. Grenadiers, grenadiers, quick, knock out the enemy's fire points for me. Seeing such ferocious firepower from the enemy, the captain of the devil decisively gave an order to let the grenadiers end the opponent's machine gun point, otherwise it would be even more difficult for them to withdraw if they were blocked by fire from four machine guns.

Hearing the words of the captain, the devil's grenadiers immediately set up the grenadiers and began to aim at the enemy's firing points.

But the devil's actions have been noticed by the soldiers of the new second regiment, and when they saw that the devil was about to set up a grenadier, they immediately beckoned to this side. Before the grenades could be put into the grenades, several of the devil's grenadiers were hit by bullets and fell sideways.

Ding Wei also understood at this time that the devil wanted to escape from behind, so he immediately ordered the trumpeter to blow the trumpet.

The fighters heard the trumpet, took out their bayonets and stuck them in their rifles, then got up and rushed down at the devils.

Seeing this situation, the captain of the devil brigade also knew that no matter what he did at this time, he was powerless, so he did not prepare to run away, but organized the soldiers.

"The time has come to serve His Majesty the Emperor, show courage and fight the enemy." As he spoke, the captain drew his command knife from his waist and rushed towards the soldiers of the new second regiment.

Seeing this, the other devils also withdrew the bullets in their rifles, and rushed towards the Eighth Route Army with the rifle with the bayonet on it.

But the soldiers of the new second regiment did not do this, and saw that the devil was still going to carry out a counter-charge, so the machine gunners fired at the devil with machine guns one after another.

Soon, the devils who were charging forward were shot and fell to the ground, and the captain of the devil couldn't help but curse angrily when he saw this situation.

"Yaga Yalu, there is no samurai spirit at all." But before the devil captain could finish speaking, he was hit in the center of the eyebrow by a bullet. His head fell to the ground, ending his life of sin.

But the battle did not end with the death of the devil captain, and the soldiers of the new second regiment who soon rushed down got mixed with the devil.

Half an hour later, the battle ended.

Ding Wei immediately shouted to the guards beside him:

"Quick, let the soldiers quickly clean up the battlefield and then withdraw to the station. In addition, send someone to inform Li Yunlong, just say that we have finished the work, let's go. ”

"Yes, Commander, I'll go now." Hearing Ding Wei's words, the guards immediately ran towards the rear.

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At this time, the headquarters of the First Military Region of Taiyuan.

"Report to Your Excellency Commander, there is an emergency."

Hideyoshi Kusuyama and Yoshio Shinozuka were watching the sand table and studying the form of the battlefield when they heard the voice of an intelligence officer outside the door.

"Come in." Yoshio Shinozuka said without raising his head.

"Report to Your Excellency Commander, the troops reinforcing Ping'an County have been blocked by unknown armed men, and now there is no news." The informant came in, gave a military salute, and then reported.

"Nani."

Yoshio Shinozuka frowned when he heard the intelligence officer's words, and he had a bad premonition in his heart, thinking that the reason why the enemy besieged the county seat of Heian was not to ambush their reinforcements. Thinking of this, he hurriedly asked: "How is Ping'an County now, has Muto-kun sent a telegram back?" ”

"Report to Your Excellency Commander, everything is fine in Ping'an County, Muto-kun called and said that the Eighth Road had bluffed twice before, and then began to hold its troops still, but it did not retreat."

Hearing the words of the intelligence officer, Yoshio Shinozuka already understood that the enemy's target was not Ping'an County at all, and they never wanted to take down Ping'an County, and the reason why they did this was to consume their own side's forces and ambush reinforcements.

This made Yoshio Shinozuka a little difficult to accept, feeling that he was being calculated, and he was suddenly angry in his heart.

"Your Excellency Commander, don't worry too much, the gains and losses of one city and one place are nothing, as long as the final victorious side is us, then it is all worth it." Kusuyama Hideyoshi saw that Yoshio Shinozuka was not in a very good mood, so he opened his mouth to persuade him.

"Nanshan-kun, I know this, you can step back if there is nothing to do, I want to be alone and quiet." Yoshio Shinozuka's face was not very good, and he said to the two.

After the two of them went out, they heard a "crackling" sound of smashing bottles from the office.

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And Muto Mibi, in the county seat of Hei'an, also received a telegram.

"Your Excellency, Division Commander, it's not good. The two brigades that reinforced us were blocked by unknown armed men, and it was preliminarily concluded that it should be the Eighth Road. The telegraph operator shouted at him from the office of Muto Mikuto, who was panicked with cannonballs.

"Nani." Hearing the telegraph operator's words, Muto Midou was directly stunned, you know, he still counted on the strength of these two brigades to relieve him, he never expected things to turn out like this.

"And these two brigades can't be contacted now, I'm afraid it's .........." The telegraph operator did not dare to continue, and without troops coming to support, they were afraid that they would be more than lucky today, after all, there were still more than 10,000 enemies besieging the city outside.

Although there was no siege for a long time, as long as this army did not leave and made a stop outside the city, it could create a sense of oppression for them.

"How so, how so?" Muto Mishi heard the telegraph operator's words and sat down in his chair in a panic, his face full of disbelief.

He was now disheartened, and felt that he might die here today.

Just when Muto was three times stunned, a devil officer hurriedly ran in from outside.

"Division commander, division commander, the Eighth Route Army outside has withdrawn."

"Nani, has the Eighth Route Army withdrawn?" Hearing the words of the visitor, Muto stood up from his chair three times, feeling a little incredible, after all, now the Eighth Route Army has an absolute advantage, even if he wants to knock down Ping'an County, it is an easy matter, under such an absolute advantage, how can the Eighth Route Army retreat.

He suspected that the Eighth Route Army must have blown up this move, maybe there was some kind of pit dug by the advantage, waiting for him to jump down.

"Ha Yi, Your Excellency the Division Commander, it is true, I can see clearly on the city wall, the troops besieging us have been withdrawn, and now there is not a single enemy outside the city." The devil officer continued.

"Are you sure the Eighth Route has retreated?" Muto Mibe was still a little puzzled, so he asked the devil officer.

Because he was afraid, what if this was the enemy's plan, what if he suddenly went out and fell into an ambush by the Eighth Route Army. You must know that after this battle, although their 69th Division did not exist in name only, it also lost most of its strength.

If something happens on his side, the 69th Division may be removed from the Japanese army.

"It's true, Your Excellency the Division Commander, I saw them withdraw with my own eyes, if you don't believe it, you can go up to the city wall with me to take a look."

Hearing this, Muto thought for a while and said: "In this way, you send a few teams out to test it, if there is a situation, let them play signal flares, and if there is no situation, come back, anyway, during this time, our only policy is to stick to it." Let's see, what tricks the Eighth Route Army plays. ”

"By the way, report our information here to Your Excellency the Commander." Muto said with three times thought of something.

"Hayi." Hearing Muto's words, the devil officer said yes and withdrew to deliver the order.

After a while, the team that went out of the city to reconnoiter emitted a red signal flare. The color of the flare for the enemy to really retreat.

"Yo Xi, it seems that we are really safe now." Muto Sanbei looked at the color of the signal flare in the sky, and let out a deep breath, although the 69th Division suffered heavy losses in this operation, it was not bad to hold the county seat of Ping'an.

It's that the future may not be too easy, after all, now that the strength of the enemy and us has been reversed, if you still go out to sweep around from time to time like before, it will definitely not work.

Not only can it not be swept away, but even the troops sent out to garrison the stronghold before must be withdrawn, otherwise it is likely to be swallowed up by the Eighth Route Army one by one.

Originally, his own strength was damaged, and if he lost this group of troops, he would definitely vomit blood.

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Li Yunlong was very satisfied with this battle, not only weakened the strength of the Japanese army in the garrison, but also captured a lot of it on his own side, as long as the grain was collected after a few days, after the autumn harvest, the strength of the new regiment could be further expanded.

Although the weapons and equipment of the new regiment are not bad now, even if it is expanding by a few thousand people, it is enough. But the logistics can't keep up.

After all, the defense area of the new regiment is so large and its output is limited, it is impossible to maintain so many troops.

Even if we wait for the autumn harvest to expand our troops, we must disperse our forces and expand our defense area.

After all, although Ping'an County is a large county, its population is only about 100,000, and after subtracting those old, weak, sick and disabled and women, the remaining young and strong are only 20,000 or 30,000, which cannot support the expansion of the new regiment at all.

"Go, call the commissar to me." Li Yunlong sat cross-legged on the kang and looked at the map while drinking, studied for a while, raised his head and shouted to the tiger at the door.

"Yes, Captain." Hearing Li Yunlong's words, Huzi agreed, then turned around and ran outside.

After a while, Zhao Gang was brought over by Huzi.

"Lao Li, are you looking for me?" After Zhao Gang came in, he was not polite, and directly took off his shoes and sat on the kang, and while talking, he picked up the wine on the kang table and poured it into his mouth.

"Hey, hey, you're a good old Zhao, you dare to drink Lao Tzu's wine secretly." Li Yunlong couldn't help but joke when he saw Zhao Gang's appearance. I can't imagine what Zhao Gang looked like when he first came to the new group, at that time, Zhao Gang not only didn't know how to drink, but he also spoke in a literate manner, and he was the head of the Li regiment.

It's only been a long time since I was brought bad by myself, and now I not only smoke and drink, but also occasionally bring a few dirty words when I speak.

"Don't talk to me about those useless things, what the hell are you calling me, I'll go back if it's okay, I still have a lot of official business to deal with." Hearing Li Yunlong's words, Zhao Gang was not angry, put down the wine glass, looked at Li Yunlong and asked.

And Li Yunlong was not giggling, and said: "Lao Zhao, can the casualties in this battle be counted?" ”

Hearing Li Yunlong ask about the casualty figure, Zhao Gang was stunned for a moment and felt a little uncomfortable, although this battle ended with the victory of their new regiment, but the new regiment also sacrificed the precious lives of hundreds of soldiers for this.

A large part of them are recruits who have not been in for a long time, and they were still alive a few days ago, but now they have been buried in the soil, which makes Zhao Gang feel good.

But things have to be resolved eventually. So he was silent for a while, and said with some sadness: "In this battle, our regiment suffered a total of 2,392 casualties. Of these, 832 were killed, 1,188 were slightly wounded, and 362 were seriously wounded. The seriously wounded have been sent to the headquarters hospital by the Logistics Department. ”

"What about the seized materials, have you counted them?" Hearing Zhao Gang's words, Li Yunlong continued to ask.

"During the whole battle, our new regiment captured a total of 2,757 Type 38 rifles, 36 light and heavy machine guns, 8 mortars, 12 grenadiers, and four Type 92 infantry guns. There were countless bullets and shells, and there were also more than 3,000 sets of military uniforms, more than 2,000 boxes of military rations and various military cans taken from the devils, in addition to some first-aid kits and some commonly used medicines. ”

After talking about the statistics, Zhao Gang continued: "Lao Li, I can tell you that our regiment can't expand its troops now. Although there is no shortage of weapons and ammunition, the logistics are really unable to keep up, and even if the current scale is maintained, it is a bit of pressure. ”

The reason why he said this was that Zhao Gang was afraid that Li Yunlong's brain would be hot, and then he would expand his troops regardless of it.

Although the troops are easy to expand, weapons and ammunition are also available, and there are more than four spare guns in the warehouse alone, but the logistics can't keep up. Although some of them are militia units, it is also a large expense to eat and drink Lazar every day, and the new regiment is not a regular army, and without supplies from above, everything can only be relied on itself.

Although the strength of the new regiment will increase, Zhao Gang is really a little unbearable, and during this period of time, Zhao Gang is already worried about the cost of maintaining the existing troops.

Fortunately, there is also Li Yunlong in the new regiment, he is a good hand in the war, and he has not been captured during this time, otherwise this family is really not good.

"Don't worry, Lao Zhao, our new regiment will not recruit troops in the next period of time."

"Then you called me over today ......." Zhao Gang was a little puzzled, could it be that Li Yunlong called himself over just to ask about the casualties and the number of seizures.

"After this battle, the devils in our defense area have been hit hard, and there will definitely be no action in the future, we must make good use of this time to build the base area." In fact, Li Yunlong already had an idea in his heart, that is, to take the road of encircling the city from the countryside, and use this time when the devils will not come out to do things, and occupy all the vast rural areas of Ping'an County.