On the highway from Anhua County to Heyuan County.

About 3,000 troops were marching along the road in the direction of Heyuan County.

The Japanese 94 reconnaissance plane that had just fired at the cornfield had its engine roaring and skimming from a low altitude.

Looking in the direction of the departure of the reconnaissance plane, Atsuji Sato, who was wearing a puppet army uniform, put down his binoculars.

Soon.

At the back of the line, a puppet soldier put down the headset of the radio station and ran over to report to Atsuji Sato:

"Report to the Wing Commander, the reconnaissance plane has just sent news that no traces of the eight-way ambush have been found."

Both the division headquarters and the headquarters of the First Army sent a telegram to Atsuji Sato, ordering him to lead his troops to reinforce Heyuan County after dawn, but he must be careful of the ambush on the Eighth Road.

Atsuji Sato is also cautious enough, or chicken thief.

This time, he led his troops to reinforce Heyuan County, leaving a Japanese squadron and a puppet military camp in Anhua County.

Then he led the main force of about 3,000 people to reinforce Heyuan County, of which half of the puppet army and half of the Japanese soldiers.

So, Atsuji Sato ordered the military uniforms and equipment of the puppet army and the Japanese soldiers to be exchanged, and even the shoes were replaced.

The Japanese soldiers walked in front in the military uniforms of the puppet army, and the puppet soldiers walked behind in the military uniforms of the Japanese army, and the two sides were separated by half a mile.

However, because the average height of the puppet army is higher than that of the Japanese army, the puppet army is a little tight in the military uniform of the devil, and the devil is a little fluffy in the military uniform of the puppet army.

Atsuji Sato did this, naturally because he was afraid of being ambushed by the Eighth Route Army.

If there is an ambush by the Eighth Route Army, it will definitely let go of the puppet army in front first and focus on the Japanese army behind.

In this way, the puppet army can suffer the firepower of the Eighth Route Army first, and the Japanese fishermen will benefit.

Atsuji Sato shook his head, and his tone was affirmative: "Li Yunlong has made such a big move in Heyuan County, and he will definitely send troops to stop us." ”

"Then why didn't the reconnaissance plane find anything?"

A staff officer next to him asked suspiciously, if there is an ambush on the eighth road, it will definitely show the horse's feet.

"Aviation pilots are a bunch of rubbish." Atsuji Sato snorted coldly and said, "There must be eight roads waiting for us ahead, order the scouts to be careful." ”

"Then should we take a detour and go to Heyuan County from the small road?" The Japanese staff officer asked again.

"It's easier to be ambushed by taking a small path." Atsuji Sato said, "What's more, it takes four more hours to walk on the path, and His Excellency the division commander is still waiting for us to go to reinforcements." ”

"Order the troops to pick up the speed!"

Atsuji Sato glanced at the puppet army unit wearing Japanese military uniforms in the rear, and said in a fierce tone: "If anyone dares to fall behind, break his leg!" ”

"Hey!" The devil's counselor paused.

……

Heyuan County, Japanese Army Command Post.

"Your Excellency, Division Commander, the breakout troops have been prepared." Ishikawa reported to Izuki.

In last night's artillery bombardment and battle of attrition on the city wall, the puppet army's cannon fodder has basically been fully reimbursed.

And coupled with today's daytime street fighting, the Japanese casualties have also exceeded 1500, and most of the machine gunners and light and heavy machine guns have been lost.

At present, there are still more than 5,000 Japanese troops in the city, but half of them are engineers and artillery, and other troops with weak combat effectiveness.

An operational staff officer of the division and regiment calculated that according to the current speed of street fighting, in two days at most, these more than 5,000 people would be eaten by the new regiment of the Eighth Route Army.

"How did you deploy it?"

Iseki was holding a saber and was closing his eyes to recuperate, slowly opened his eyes, looked at Ishikawa and asked.

Ishikawa Zhishui said: "Engineer Wing Captain Hosoya Riji Daisa led nearly 2,000 people from the Engineer Wing and the Ninth Infantry Brigade to break through from the East City Gate, and more than 2,000 people from the division headquarters, division headquarters, artillery wing, and tank team broke through from the West City Gate, and more than 1,000 other combat soldiers are fighting street battles with the Eighth Road, entangled with the Eighth Road, and they can't retreat. ”

Jing Guan Yan nodded, and there was no objection to this deployment: "Ishikawa-kun, start the breakthrough operation immediately!" ”

Long before dawn, Jing Guanqian ordered the logistics team to issue the division's spare weapons to the soldiers of the engineer wing and the artillery unit.

Compared with the soldiers of the engineer wing, the artillery of the mountain artillery wing is more valuable, and it is obviously appropriate to break through with the regimental headquarters of the 36th division.

"Your Excellency, Division Commander." Ishikawa persuaded him, "I don't feel that the success rate of breaking through from the West Gate is not very large, so it is better to wait for the 222nd Wing and the 223rd Wing to arrive together, and the two wings will take care of it to ensure that nothing goes wrong." ”

Jing Guan Yan didn't want to wait for a moment, and said: "The 222nd Wing and the 223rd Wing will definitely be blocked by the Eighth Road, whether they can come or not is a matter of two words, late will change, the longer it drags on, the more the Imperial Army soldiers will die, we have to act quickly!" ”

Ishikawa Zhishui secretly slandered himself, now that he is so afraid of death, why did he go earlier?

He had no choice but to say: "Your Excellency Division Commander, I have already applied to Commander Yoshio Iwamatsu for aviation reinforcements, and the commander of the North China Front, General Okamura, has already sent fighters and bombers, and there is still about 1 hour to arrive, and the aviation will cover the division headquarters to break through!" ”

Jing Guanqian thought about it carefully, nodded and said, "Okay, when the military aviation arrives, we will break through." ”

The 36th Division also had a tank squadron with a total of 12 tanks, including 7 Type 95 light tanks and 5 Type 97 medium tanks.

However, the Eighth Route Army is equipped with sophisticated anti-tank weapons, and when 12 tanks break through, they may not be able to play a role.

If there is air support, the certainty of a successful breakthrough will be much greater.

Jing Guan Yan said again: "Ishikawa-kun, before breaking through, we must arrange soldiers, and after breaking through, the grain depot, ammunition depot and artillery will be blown up, and not a single bullet or grain of grain can be left for the Eighth Road." ”

"Hey!" Ishikawa bowed his head and turned to leave.

Looking at the back of Ishikawa's control of the water, Izuki's eyes narrowed.

There is an old Chinese saying that the tiger falls in Pingyang and is bullied by dogs, and the dehaired phoenix is not as good as a chicken.

It's enough to think about it, the dignified second-line division of the Japanese Empire was actually defeated by a regiment of the Eighth Route Army and in the hands of the tattered Hanako army.

However, there is an ancient Chinese saying called Wei Junjie, who is a Western object, if he can break through successfully this time.

The shame of today's defeat, he will definitely return it to Li Yunlong and the new regiment in the future!

About 50 minutes later.

The fighting in the city became more and more intense, and all kinds of gunshots and explosions crackled like firecrackers.

Ishikawa Zhishui walked in again, and immediately said to Jingguan with both feet: "Your Excellency the division commander, the aviation unit will arrive in 5 minutes." ”

Jing Guan Yan suddenly opened his eyes and ordered coldly: "The breakthrough begins!" ”

"Hey!" Ishikawa turned and left.

With the order of the regimental headquarters of the 36th Division, the battle began first in the direction of Dongcheng.

The east gate of the city was wide open, and the devils poured out of the city gate in a swarm, frantically attacking the position of the new regiment and the second division under the cover of the mountain artillery in the artillery emplacements of the city wall.

The battalion commander of the 2nd Division was Wei Dayong.

He was grumbling in the command post because the 1st Division and the four main infantry battalions had entered the city to fight street fighting.

Only the troops of the 2nd Division dug trenches outside the East City, and no artillery units came to bombard the city wall, opening the gap in the wall for the 2nd Division.

However, Wei Dayong only dared to say a few words in private, but he didn't dare to complain in front of Li Yunlong.

At present, I saw the devils rushing out frantically from the east city gate, there were at least a thousand people, and there were a large army of devils continuing to pour out from behind, and the corners of my mouth suddenly grinned:

"Little devils, your Uncle Wei is here!"

"Pass my orders and get ready to fight!"

The fighters of the 2nd Division jumped into the half-dug trenches and set up their guys.

Then, Wei Dayong picked up the high-power walkie-talkie and reported the situation at the East City Gate to the regiment headquarters.

After receiving permission from the regimental headquarters to call for artillery fire, he was originally a special soldier, and quickly calculated the firing parameters of the artillery bombardment on precise drawings, and asked the guards to convey them to the 1st Artillery Battalion and the 2nd Artillery Battalion.

Although the 1st Artillery Battalion and the 2nd Artillery Battalion were hidden, Heyuan County was still within range, and the artillerymen could set up their guns to bombard the devils at any time as long as they called in a walkie-talkie.

At the command post of the new regiment, Wang Dehou reported the situation at the East City Gate to Li Yunlong.

When Li Yunlong heard this, he immediately said in a disdainful tone: "Jing Guancheng, this old devil is really boring, he is not a man, so he just handed it over, and before he had a good time, he was ready to run away with oil on the soles of his feet." ”

Zhao Gang smiled and teased: "Lao Li, how did I find out that there is no one among the devils that you can look down on, it is normal for the devils to be unable to fight and escape, according to what you say, no one in the Japanese army can enter your eyes." ”

"Kazuki Yamamoto is barely the number one person." Li Yunlong said, "Dozens of people dare to go deep into the hinterland of our base to carry out a sneak attack. ”

Xing Zhiguo said worriedly: "Regiment commander, political commissar, there can be a force from the second division at the east gate, in case Jingguan gathers the main force to break through from the east gate, I'm afraid the second division will not be able to stop it, do you send the third division to reinforce the second division and push the devil back into the county seat?" ”

"There's no hurry." Li Yunlong waved his hand and said calmly, "Even if Jingguan gathers all the troops, the second division will block the devils from breaking through for a few hours, and there will be no problem at all." ”

Li Yunlong is very confident in Wei Dayong.

Among the seven divisions, the combat effectiveness of the second division was second only to Lu Yingjun's first division.

And it is equipped with all American-style equipment, machine guns, M2 large-caliber heavy machine guns, Bazooka and mortars, plus fire support from 2 artillery battalions.

If the little devil breaks through from the east gate, it will be enough for the little devil to drink a pot.

After about 5 minutes, a series of violent explosions were heard from behind the western city wall, and the smoke of gunpowder filled the air.

In the continuous explosion like a landslide, more than a dozen devil tanks came out from the west city gate, followed by a large army of devils.

After these dozen tanks left the city gate, they immediately lined up and came in the direction of the headquarters of the new regiment, followed by devil soldiers as dense as locusts.

"The devil is playing around?" Xing Zhiguo said fearfully, if he couldn't hold his breath just now and sent the troops from the third division to reinforce the East City Gate, then the headquarters of the new regiment would be in danger now.

"Coming to our command post!" Li Yunlong put down the binoculars, and calmly ordered with his eyes: "Pass my order to prepare for battle, put all the anti-aircraft guns and machine guns flat, aim at the devil and give me a hard beating, order the first battalion to continue the street fighting, and the second battalion to return to occupy the western city wall, since the devil came out to look for death, then don't want to go back alive!" ”

Looking at the devil tanks and infantry surging towards the command post, Grand Master Li did not panic at all, and even looked forward to it, worrying that he would not have the opportunity to shoot the devil's infantry with 37-mm anti-aircraft guns to test the power of the anti-aircraft guns.

The devil took the initiative to come to the door now, so don't blame the labor and management for being polite!

(End of chapter)