In fact, Chu Yunfei understood Xie Baoqing's intention in writing that letter to him very well.

Xie Baoqing used Yangmou on him, giving him such a big cake as Pingyuan County, in fact, he wanted the 358 Regiment to help him protect the left flank.

He had to accept this big cake, even if it was just to compare with Li Yunlong, he had to win Pingyuan County.

There is Pingyuan County controlled by Chu Yunfei's 358th Regiment in the north, and Ping'an County controlled by Li Yunlong's Independent Regiment in the south.

This Xie Baoqing is really a fucking talent, and he has used both the national army and the communist army.

Not to mention that Chu Yunfei successfully took Pingyuan County here, and said that Li Yunlong left the brigade headquarters and hurried to the station.

I called Zhao Gang at the brigade headquarters just now, and the 1234th Battalion had already exchanged fierce fire with the Japanese army between Laohuling and Qigezhuang, and the casualties were very large.

Li Yunlong's prediction was quite accurate, but he thought that the 1234th Battalion was only facing reinforcements from the Sanyin Zuochuan Wing on the front line of Qigezhuang in Laohuling, but he did not expect that he was now facing the extremely vicious Japanese A troops, the Kwantung Army, the Nakano Division, the Abe Brigade, the Ishibashi Infantry Wing, and the Sato Artillery Wing, which was acting together with the Abe Brigade.

The establishment of a battalion of Li Yunlong's Independent Regiment is four to five companies, plus the team directly under the battalion headquarters, and the number of people is about 1,000; in particular, the battalion where Zhang Dabiao is the battalion commander has eight companies and more than 1,500 people in one battalion.

At present, Li Yunlong's four battalions on the front line of Qigezhuang in Laohuling have almost 4,500 troops.

This is the establishment of the rich Li Yunlong Independent Regiment, and all companies are basically in a state of overstaffing.

One battalion of the other Eighth Route Army field troops is three companies plus directly subordinate units, which is about 400 people, and a regiment is almost only more than 1,000 people, which is about the same as the number of Li Yunlong's battalion.

Li Yunlong's one regiment is worth the establishment of four or five regiments of other fraternal units, or the brigade commander said that this kid can be a division commander.

However, the strength of an infantry wing of the Devil's Category A unit is between 2,800 and 3,800 men, and the strength of an artillery wing is about 2,800 and it is equipped with 48 field infantry guns.

Li Yunlong's four battalions of more than 4,000 people fought against the five or six thousand men of the two wings of the Japanese army with heavy firepower, and the fierceness of the battle can be imagined.

Both sides received death orders, one was to rush to the aid of Zhangzhuang at all costs, and the other was to nail to the front line of Qigezhuang in Laohuling at all costs, and never let a devil go over.

They were all red-eyed, and in five hours, the devils organized seven charges, and the Tiger Ridge position changed hands several times, and the soil on the hill was bleeding out as soon as they stepped on it.

When Li Yunlong rushed to the Laohuling position with the guard company and reserve unit directly under the regiment headquarters, only two companies of the eight companies of the first battalion were defeated, and the second, third, and fourth battalions also lost most of them.

Zhang Dabiao, the commander of the first battalion, saw Li Yunlong arrive, and the man who was beaten with iron couldn't help but cry.

Li Yunlong understood the mood of Zhang Dabiao and the soldiers at the moment, and he was in tears, but he still kicked Zhang Dabiao to the ground like thunder, and scolded with his feet: "You fucking Zhang Dabiao, you are still stupid like a donkey after so many years with Lao Tzu." Lao Tzu ordered the 1234th Battalion to abandon its position and retreat in the direction of Nian Zhuang, and the reserve of the guard company was broken off with Lao Tzu. ”

"Commander?" Zhang Dabiao got up from the ground and looked at Li Yunlong with a confused expression.

Didn't you give an order not to let a devil go? Why did you give the order to retreat when you came?

Li Yunlong glared at Zhang Dabiao and the commander of the 234th Battalion in a daze, and roared: "Lao Tzu is ordering that no devil should be allowed to go over, not that you are ordered to fight a positional battle with the devil, let the devil in, first concentrate on killing his slow-moving artillery wing, and then wear down the devil's infantry wing all the way, Lao Tzu has already ordered the seventh battalion to lay a pocket for the devil in the village." Don't hurry up yet? ”

Another round of heavy artillery fire was fired, and the position of Tiger Ridge, which had been blown up several times, was turned over again.

After the artillery fire was prepared, the commander of the Ishibashi Wing, Ishibashi Yusansa, personally held the command knife and led the stormtroopers to charge, just now he sent a report to Yoshio Shinozuka to report the battle situation and ask for air support, but he was scolded by Yoshio Shinozuka.

Five hours in the Tiger Ridge Qigezhuang line did not advance an inch, if the reinforcements could not arrive in Zhangzhuang before dark, Zhangzhuang was in danger.

Zhangzhuang was lost, Pingyuan County was lost, the train sent by the Sanyin Zuochuan Wing to reinforce Zhangzhuang was shelled by an unknown enemy at Baitou Mountain, and suffered heavy casualties, the Qiaomu Brigade in the Datong direction was intercepted by the new first regiment of the 386th Brigade of the Eighth Route Army, and the advance of the Miyamoto Division and the Banheng Brigade in the direction of Yangquan in the direction of Wutai Mountain was also intercepted by the new second regiment of the 386th Brigade.

All parties are asking Yoshio Shinozuka for air support, and he only has more than 30 planes, and in the morning in Zhangzhuang, two planes were seriously injured and one was seriously injured.

Yoshio Shinozuka can basically be sure that this is a long-planned large-scale operation launched by the Chinese army, and there has never been any coordination between various departments.

Yoshio Shinozuka believed that the purpose of this campaign was to come at him, cut off the supply lines, besiege the Japanese troops stationed in Taiyuan, block the two divisions reinforced by the Kwantung Army in the northwestern periphery of Jin, and force the Japanese troops to withdraw from Shanxi and Suiyuan.

Yoshio Shinozuka even suspected that the battle was launched by the Chongqing government, and with his understanding of Yan Xishan, the commander of the Second Theater, Yan Xishan did not have such a big hand, and it was difficult to mobilize the 386 Brigade of the Eighth Route Army to directly participate in the battle.

Moreover, the strategic purpose of Shinozuka Yoshio's First Army to occupy Suiyuan, Shanxi Province was also to echo the South China Army and the Central China Army and form a huge encirclement of the Chongqing government.

If the Chongqing government wants to break the deadlock, the only way to break through is to go north or south.

Retreating further west would be tantamount to abandoning China, which is also the result that the Japanese military is most willing to see, but they know that this possibility basically does not exist.

It is not a good strategy to break through to the south, the Japanese South Asian Expeditionary Force has already conquered Vietnam, Cambodia, Singapore, Burma and other countries, and the Chongqing government is still in a large encirclement when it goes south.

The only way out is to break through to the north, and the Chongqing government can support each other back to back with the Soviet Union.

And to break through to the north, it is necessary to first recover Shanxi, Suiyuan and other places, and open up this channel.

Yoshio Shinozuka self-righteously made a plan for this battle that had not yet formed a battle scale, and he knew that the initiator of all this was actually caused by a small bandit who no one looked at him.