"Captain, once Zhang Bei is lost. The enemy will follow us into the pass, and it is now impossible to contact the headquarters of the 52nd Infantry Brigade of the Imperial Army stationed in Zhangjiakou. We went south so suddenly, and we can't afford the responsibility for the loss of Zhangbei! Captain Keita exclaimed, retreating without a fight, this is not Kenichiro Yamaguchi's style!

Kenichiro Yamaguchi frowned, and said in a condensed voice: "The enemy army has too many troops attacking Zhangbei at night, and there are many artillery. Listen to it! The Eighth Route Army that attacked at night was very strong, with light and heavy machine guns, mortars, grenadiers, and artillery in large numbers. The north gate has been lost, and with the troops and firepower in our hands, I am afraid that we will not be able to hold Zhangbei for long. Only by concentrating the existing forces that can still be used in a concentrated manner can we break through the encirclement in one go, and only then can we have a glimmer of hope for entering the customs in the south. Needless to say, carry out the order. ”。

Seeing that Kenichiro Yamaguchi made a decision so quickly, Keita Transcript persuaded a few words, but Kenichiro Yamaguchi was indifferent and insisted on withdrawing from Zhangbei.

At this time, the shouts of a new group of soldiers from the north direction had approached the Japanese headquarters in the city, and the sound of guns and cannons followed.

When he heard the sound of gunfire and shouts of killing, he was horrified, but he didn't expect that the troops of the Eighth Route Army who came in from the north gate were so strong that they didn't take much time to reach the vicinity of the Japanese army headquarters in the city.

"Hay, Captain." Keita Transcription quickly paused in a hurry, and then immediately ordered the Japanese troops to break out in the direction of the south gate in accordance with Kenichiro Yamaguchi's order.

Fortunately, the Japanese telephone line in the city had not been cut off by Duan Peng's special combat team, so Kenichiro Yamaguchi called the Japanese defenders at the other gates by telephone from the location of his brigade headquarters and ordered to assemble at the south gate.

With Kenichiro Yamaguchi's order, all the Japanese defenders in Zhangbei County gathered in the direction of the south gate for a while.

And the movements of the devil were quickly detected by Zhang Dabiao's department, which entered the city from the north gate!

"Battalion commander, the roundabout troops report, we report from the companies that detoured from the east and west flanks, and there are Japanese troops who detoured from the east and west gates to the south gate. And there are a lot of them, this devil won't be gathering at the south gate and preparing to run away, right? Zhang Dabiao, the commander of the first battalion who was directing the battle, received an emergency report from the soldiers sent back by the roundabout detachment.

When Zhang Dabiao heard this, he immediately asked the guards around him to take out the map and spread it out, illuminating it with a flashlight and looking at the map and pondering.

"Made, the little devil is definitely going to run away. Hurry up, send someone to contact the third battalion and the cavalry battalion responsible for containing the two flanks, and launch a strong attack! Contain the enemy forces on the east and west flanks and assemble at the south gate. By the way, contact the second battalion that attacked the south gate and let them resist it. In addition, someone was sent to report the situation to the regiment commander. ”

After thinking about it, Zhang Dabiao ordered a few heralds in an orderly manner.

Several heralds said in unison: "Understood, battalion commander. He then galloped away.

And soon, Li Yunlong, who was in command outside the north of the city, received Zhang Dabiao's battlefield report!

At night, Zhangbei County was already red by the light of the explosion, and the sound of guns and shouts of killing resounded throughout Zhangbei County.

In the county, in the dead county, there were some ordinary people who came out of the street at night before, and they also returned home with a smoke, closed the door and hid in their homes. On the battlefield, bullets don't recognize people!

Listening to the report of the herald rushing back, Li Yunlong sneered, "You still want to break through? Order Shen Qun to block the south gate and beat it hard! The devils are going to break through from them and go south. Let Sun Desheng command the first cavalry battalion to reinforce the second battalion in the direction of the south gate, and stop the devils who are preparing to break through for me. ”

"Yes, Captain." The herald departed. Write a book

Picking up the binoculars, Li Yunlong saw from the binoculars that the north gate had completely fallen into his hands. The three battalions and the first cavalry battalion responsible for the attack at the east and west gates also reported that they had entered the city one after another, and were chasing and killing the Japanese defenders defending the two gates.

Under the crushing of powerful forces, Kenichiro Yamaguchi was not arrogant enough to defend Zhangbei County with a large group of devils. If communication could contact the outside world, Kenichiro Yamaguchi certainly did not want to withdraw from Zhangbei County without a fight. You must know that there is Kangbao in the north of Zhangbei, Zhangjiakou in the south of the pass, and the Japanese army in Xuanhua and other places can go north to quickly reinforce them.

Kenichiro Yamaguchi, who only learned that the communications had been cut off by the Eighth Route Army attacking at night, did not hesitate to order all the Japanese defenders in the city to assemble in the direction of the south gate to break through and enter the pass south.

Once you can go south and enter the pass, you can at least quickly enter the pass to contact the Japanese defenders in Zhangjiakou and all directions!

Therefore, at this time, after Kenichiro Yamaguchi hurriedly issued an order, he immediately led the garrison directly under the brigade headquarters to withdraw from the brigade headquarters and rush towards the south gate.

At this time, the devil defenders of the East and West Gates, who had been ordered by Kenichiro Yamaguchi, also abandoned the defenses of the East Gate and the West Gate and made a detour in the direction of the South Gate. After several Japanese troops reconciled, after some inventory, Keita Transcript was a little anxious to report to Kenichiro Yamaguchi without tears.

"Captain, the defenders of the West Gate and the East Gate encountered a detour from the direction of the North Gate to the direction of the East Gate and the West Gate on the detour of the Eighth Route Army, and there were many casualties. At present, we have gathered about five hundred imperial troops around us! The defenders of the south gate came to report that they encountered a fierce attack by the enemy outside the city, and the defenders at the head of the city were killed and wounded by artillery fire at the first time, and they also suffered heavy casualties. At present, there are less than 200 defenders left in the south gate. ”

Kenichiro Yamaguchi looked around, although a large number of Japanese troops had gathered around the place where he was standing, and he felt a little comforted, but when he heard the report of Keita Transcript, his heart darkened!

"Isn't it that we are still able to gather the strength to break through the siege, and there are only about seven hundred imperial soldiers left?" Kenichiro Yamaguchi said with his brows furrowed even more in the night.

Transcription Keita said, "Yes, Captain. ”。

"No matter, break through immediately and kill the twitter!" Drawing out the samurai saber, Kenichiro Yamaguchi has no choice, the enemy offensive is too strong, and if he stays in Zhangbei County, he will inevitably be wiped out.

The attacking Eighth Route Army must be a regular army, and it is likely to be the main force of the Eighth Route Army.

"Hay, Captain." Transcription Keita said heavily, and then ordered the assembled Japanese troops to continue to rush in the direction of the south gate.

Soon, after this assembled devil club and the devil defenders at the south gate, the total strength was still about 700 people. At this time, outside the South Gate, the second battalion of Shen Qun's headquarters, which was under rapid artillery attack, had been reinforced by the cavalry battalion and the reserve directly under Li Yunlong's control, blocking the Japanese army's breakthrough to the death.

"Boom, boom!!"

More than 700 Japanese soldiers who were killed from the south gate broke out of the city in several waves.

"Machine guns, machine guns, open the way, kill!" Kenichiro Yamaguchi, who commanded the breakout at the back of the team, saw that the Japanese team that broke through in front of him was swept to the ground by a shuttle bullet fired by the soldiers of the new regiment who intercepted outside the city, and his eyes were blood-red and he roared.

It's just that the Japanese troops who broke through with all of them were strangled by the fire of the new regiment of fighters who were outflanked in a roundabout way, and after Kenichiro Yamaguchi was finally beaten into a sieve, he still did not command Zhangbei's devil defenders to fight their way out of the encirclement.

And Li Yunlong commanded Shen Qun and others to strangled the defenders of the Japanese army in Zhangbei who broke through, and finally breathed a sigh of relief.