On the side of the Huting stronghold, Li Yunlong's troops quickly resolved the battle, killing and wounding more than 500 Japanese puppet soldiers, capturing 303 puppet soldiers, and 39 Japanese soldiers.

In the past, according to Li Yunlong's character, maybe people would sneak up on these devils, but the problem was that Chu Yunfei was still watching not far away, so he could only pinch his nose and let people send these devils to Yang Village, and they were all lost to Zhao Gang.

It's just that compared with the quick resolution of the battle on Li Yunlong's side, the 772nd Regiment, which was on alert in the direction of Heyuan County, encountered a lot of trouble.

According to the pre-war estimate, as long as the 772 Regiment is in formation, Hirata Ichiro Nakasa in Heyuan County will definitely not dare to attack easily, you must know that this is the main force of the Eighth Route Army, 2,000 people and horses, although you have a little more devil garrison in Heyuan County, but together there are more than 200 and less than 300 people, and there are a lot of Imperial Cooperative Army, but the problem is that that thing has no combat effectiveness.

But the accident happened, the military intelligence personnel missed the Japanese hospital in Heyuan County, and the more than 300 wounded soldiers of the former Sakata Wing who were about to return to the team, and found that the main force of the Eighth Route Army appeared around the county, Hirata Ichiro Nakasa immediately recruited these wounded soldiers, expanded the troops in his hands into a brigade, leaving a team to defend the city, and then, he actually took the brigade of devils and puppet troops out of the city to meet the 772 regiment.

The 772nd Regiment also built a position in a decent manner, the morale of the troops was high, the equipment was neat, and there were even four 75mm guns reinforced by the headquarters, so it was said that even if the Japanese could not be defeated, they could hold the position.

But Ichiro Hirata didn't fight with you at all, and directly used chemical weapons when he came up, and shot out all the special bombs in his hand in one go, with hundreds of rounds of mustard gas and phosgene, and then, before the poisonous fog dispersed, hundreds of devils killed them with bayonets and gas masks.

The first battalion of the 772nd regiment, which suffered heavy casualties, put up a resolute resistance, but their casualties were too heavy, and the defense line was already shattered under the bayonets of the devils, and the first battalion could not hold it at all.

In this way, in the roar of Commander Cheng's eyes, the first battalion of the 772nd Regiment collapsed in only one round, and the entire 600-strong battalion withdrew more than 100 people.

You think that the gas bombs on Ichiro Hirata's side will run out of moves, no, just when the 772nd Regiment stabilized the battle line and wanted to carry out a counter-assault, the devil plane appeared, and the army aviation, which had been swishing all the time, took off two Kawasaki Type 87 heavy bomb planes from Taiyuan, and the two planes flew over the battlefield and bombed the positions of the Eighth Route Army, and for a while, the raindrops of bombs smashed on the second line of defense of the Eighth Route Army.

Kawasaki Type 87 Heavy Explosion Machine, the origin of this thing can be traced back to 1924, as early as 1936 has been decommissioned, but after the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, the devils found that they had no opponent in any kind of aircraft on the battlefield in China, so they successively unsealed some well-preserved Kawasaki Type 87 heavy bombs, just like that, the devil also changed the plane, which could have carried two 600 kg bombs, to hang 20 50 kg bombs, just like that, The army aviation still feels that the firepower output is somewhat redundant, and it is said that it is already working on the melon seed 25 kg bomb.

Two planes and forty bombs plowed the position of the 772nd Regiment, and the improvised field fortifications could not be stopped at all, and the defense line was torn to pieces in an instant.

Seeing that the devil was about to press up, Regiment Commander Cheng had to order the artillery company of the headquarters to intercept and shoot, but he never thought that the devil plane caught the trace of the artillery position, one of the Kawasaki 87 heavy explosive aircraft ventured to reduce the altitude and pounced on the artillery position, the vigilance unit of the Eighth Route Army was not ambiguous, and immediately launched air defense shooting, according to past experience, the devil pilot who spared his life would dodge nine times out of ten, but today this devil pilot seemed to react a little slower, and was actually hit by the anti-aircraft firepower of the sparse Lala, The huge fuselage of the Kawasaki Type 87 heavy explosion plane plunged headlong into the artillery position.

The bomb of the Kawasaki Type 87 heavy explosion plane has been emptied, but at this time, there is at least one ton of aviation fuel in the fuel tank, the plane crashed and caused a huge explosion, and the explosion ignited the shells on the position, and the entire position was swept away at once, and the artillery support was lost, and the attacking troops of the devils soon killed the position of the 772nd Regiment, to say that hundreds of Japanese devils would not make the Eighth Route Army afraid, the main force, white-knuckle warfare is our housekeeping skill, just fight, and it is inevitable that the casualties will be larger.

But at this time, the devil's "rapid reaction force" appeared, in fact, hundreds of armed expatriates riding bicycles, even if there were a few devil gendarmes with them, the combat effectiveness was estimated to be about the same as that of the Imperial Cooperative Army, and the 772 Regiment could deal with it casually, but it was good to die, and the special service company of the 772 Regiment in charge of vigilance actually left its guard without permission at this time to rescue the wounded in the artillery position, which was equivalent to giving the back of the defense line directly to the devils, and was pressed up by this group of armed expatriates.

The defense line of the 772 regiment was shaken all of a sudden, it is said that at this time, the capital in the hands of the head of the regiment is still much larger than that of Ichiro Hirata, even if the battle situation is unfavorable, there is no problem at all in leading the troops to break through, according to the battle report of the headquarters, the devil's black island cavalry wing is advancing in the direction of Heyuan, once the commander of the regiment Cheng leads the troops to break through, it is equivalent to making way for the road to the stronghold of Huting.

In desperation, Commander Cheng had to lead the troops to retreat to Laojun Mountain in the east of Heyuan City, but at this time, the 772nd Regiment had lost almost one-third of its troops, and almost all of its artillery was lost.

The situation of the 772 Regiment is not optimistic, and the situation of Ichiro Hirata over there is not optimistic, before, relying on the advantages of poison gas bombs and aviation, he can press the Eighth Route Army to fight, with hundreds of old devils in his hands, concentrate forces, and break through the defense line of the Eighth Route Army There is no problem, from beginning to end, he did not think that he could completely annihilate the 772 Regiment, the only extravagant hope is to be able to defeat the Eighth Route Army, force the other party to retreat, and resolve the crisis in Heyuan County.

However, the Eighth Route Army did not play cards according to the routine, not only did not break through, but withdrew to Laojun Mountain, posing a posture of wanting to stick to Laojun Mountain and waiting for support, looking at the steep Laojun Mountain, Hirata Ichiro can be regarded as sitting on wax, there are still more than 400 old devils left in his hands, plus the Imperial Army, armed expatriates, ronins, and plainclothes teams, these messy ones, there are no more than 1,600 people.

It is obviously unrealistic to rely on this army to surround Laojun Mountain, as for attacking the mountain? Don't be kidding, relying on the two infantry in your own hands is not those brainless staff officers of the military department.

Yes, you go up the mountain to defend it, and I will defend it, so Hirata Ichiro also withdrew with his troops to a small high ground near the highway not far away, and began to build a defensive position, the purpose is very simple, that is, to block the road for the Eighth Route Army to attack Heyuan County, as for whether the Eighth Route Army will break through, it is not his problem.

This time it was Commander Cheng's turn to be dumbfounded, I was ready to defend and fight hard, why didn't you fight again, you said it earlier, you said it earlier, I would have made way for the traffic arteries to be guarded nearby, I didn't have to lose so many troops, and I didn't have to be scolded by the boss.

The 772 regiment and the devil separated a few kilometers, also began to build fortifications, got the news of the Heyuan County Party Committee also organized a group of more than 500 armed personnel to come to support, to help them build positions, with the passage of time, began to have local armed forces continue to come, "rescue" the besieged Eighth Route Army, not only our party's local armed forces, the landlord armed forces near Heyuan County, the Jin Sui Army advanced team, the military commander of the National Salvation Army, and even the bandits of Heiyunzhai have come.

Looking at the more and more armed people gathered, Commander Cheng couldn't cry or laugh, how much waste am I, I want everyone to carry earthen guns and spears to rescue Lao Tzu? But no matter what, these people are all from the bottom of their hearts to rescue themselves and rescue the 772nd Regiment, although it is likely that there will be no return, but they still came, and they came without hesitation.

Fortunately, Regiment Commander Cheng also commanded a large corps during the Red Army period, otherwise, the more than 5,000 troops of Huhula would really be difficult to master. The troops on the side of the Eighth Route Army kept gathering, but they frightened Ichiro Hirata on the other side, Brother Eight Routes, I just want you not to attack Heyuan County, if you are blocked by me, you just retreat, what are you going to do like this, I'm afraid you don't have more than 5,000 troops over there, right? Is this a strategic showdown?

At this time, the army aviation also sent a report that on the flanks of Ichiro Hirata, two regimental units of the Eighth Route Army were making a detour to his flank, and not only himself, but even the Kuroshima Cavalry Wing seemed to be the target of the other side.

One of the regiments was still a cavalry regiment, and in the face of this situation, even the always arrogant Black Island Cavalry Wing did not dare to confront the other party, but accelerated its advance towards Heyuan County, wanting to join forces with him. In the periphery, Yangquan, Ping'an, and Luyang also appeared in the regimental scale of the Eighth Route Army, with Heyuan County as the center, the Eighth Route Army has mobilized almost 15,000 troops, and it is said that there are several thousand reserves of the Eighth Route Army in the direction of the Huting stronghold.

It's too bullying, the Eighth Route Army Taiji is bullying people, for the sake of a Heyuan county, do you really need to be so brutal? You told me that this was the case, and I would have set myself on fire directly in the Heyuan gendarmerie, so as not to be humiliated by you.