in2ebook Chapter 260
Chapter 260
After the Japanese squadron retreated to the county town, the puppet army battalion that followed the Japanese army to support them also gave the 32nd Regiment a surprise attack. The puppet army battalion was so scared that it dropped its weapons and ran away in panic. Only a few people were left.
On the city wall, Lieutenant Colonel Tsunetsu Tsune of the Fourth Battalion, who was watching all this, had a twitch in his mouth.
He kept cursing "Baka".
These security forces were very brave when they were fighting with the locust army before, but they showed their true colors when they fought alone.
Di Jiang was so angry that he looked at the security forces on the city wall who were helping the locust army to guard the city wall with a strange look in his eyes. He wondered whether he should withdraw these guys to guard the inner city.
If the Eighth Route Army really sets its sights on Laiyuan County, these idiots will be devastated if they escape.
But after thinking about it, a squadron outside the city had been completely destroyed, and he only had about a thousand people under his command. He had to rely on this bunch of rubbish to defend the city. Forget it.
Then, he shook his head.
He immediately began to command his troops to prepare to defend the county town.
After all, judging from the current situation of the Eighth Route Army, it seems that they are about to attack the county town.
After the 32nd Regiment drove the Japanese troops that had left the city to support back to the county town, it immediately began to build siege positions outside the east gate.
At the same time, after seeing that the 32nd Regiment had attacked the east gate, the commander of the 30th Regiment, Yu Zhenzhong, immediately ordered his troops to begin to encircle the north gate from the mountainous area in the south.
The 33rd Regiment also began to encircle the west gate.
Inside the city, when Di Qiang learned that a large number of Eighth Route Army troops had appeared on three sides of the county and had surrounded the entire Laiyuan County, and only the north was left without the Eighth Route Army, his face suddenly became serious.
This is a situation where one person is missing in the middle, Di Qiang thought.
Before Di Zheng could think about it.
Outside the city, the Eighth Route Army troops began to attack the city wall with the support of artillery from two artillery battalions.
The 75mm mountain cannon suppressed the firepower on the city wall, covering the soldiers who pushed the oil drums, set up the bunkers, loaded the explosive packs and threw them towards the city wall.
For a moment, the Japanese troops on the entire city wall were unable to raise their heads due to the violent explosions.
As the three regiments of the Eighth Route Army began a fierce attack, Di Zheng learned from the reports of the soldiers guarding the city tower that the number of Eighth Route Army troops attacking Laiyuan County was as high as more than 10,000.
In addition, a few days ago, the 110th Division and the 4th Independent Mixed Brigade surrounded the three main regiments of the Eighth Route Army in the Beiyue District. Di Zheng realized that they might have encountered the main force of the Eighth Route Army in the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei region.
And it is very likely that this was a revenge by the Eighth Route Army in the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei region. After all, the Eighth Route Army had lost "three regiments" of troops before.
Thinking of this, Di Zheng immediately realized that his situation might be dangerous, and there were no Eighth Route Army at the North Gate. It was very likely that the Eighth Route Army wanted to capture Laiyuan and did not want to confront the Locust Army head-on.
But then, Di Zheng suddenly thought of something and began to feel surprised.
This time, the Eighth Route Army attacked Laiyuan, and it seemed that all its main forces were dispatched. If he could delay this group of Eighth Route Army, and then let the other locust troops surround it from the outside and attack from the center to devour this group of Eighth Route Army, then he might be able to be promoted directly from lieutenant colonel to general.
Maybe the position of brigade commander is beckoning to him.
Thinking of this, Tsutsumi Tsune immediately reported the current situation to the brigade commander Hiroharu Tsuneoka, who was currently in Zhangjiakou, and at the same time reported his own combat ideas to Hiroharu Tsuneoka.
In Zhangjiakou, when Tsuchioka Kanji received the report from the Independent 4th Infantry Battalion, he was immediately overjoyed.
He immediately reported the situation to the commander of the North China Front Army, Sugiyama Hajime.
At the same time, he ordered the Third Independent Infantry Battalion stationed in Wei County to immediately move towards Laiyuan.
In the evening, when Sugiyama Gen received the telegram from the front line, he did not think much about it and excitedly began to issue orders to the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei mopping-up troops.