The speed advantage and strength of the cavalry made Yan Xingwang's cavalry regiment take a great advantage in front of the Japanese army, but Yan Xingwang knew that the cavalry was only suitable for field warfare, and for siege cities, especially for a city with a strong city wall like Dingzhou, the little devil set up a machine gun on the city wall, condescendingly, and an hour was enough to wipe out his cavalry regiment.

After taking advantage of the situation and running, Yan Xingwang decisively ordered the troops to retreat after capturing the position outside the city of Dingzhou, according to Li Weimin's order, they were not the troops besieging the city.

The life of the cavalry is expensive, and it can't be lost under the city of Dingzhou like this.

The Japanese troops in Dingzhou were still in panic, thinking that these cavalry would rush to Dingzhou City, but when they set up their machine guns and prepared to give the cavalry outside the city a head-on attack. Yan Xingwang and the others rode war horses outside the city to show off their might, and ran away without even cleaning the battlefield.

The little devil looked at the smoke and dust left by the war horses, couldn't believe them, was attacked by a sneak attack, and when the Japanese troops in the city asked for help, they hung up after half of the call for help.

And Li Weimin, who was defending west of Xingtang, did not make any progress, at least they successfully blocked the Japanese attack, and the Japanese army who attacked for a day was tired and tired, and their situation was not much better than Li Weimin's.

The two sides fought for a day, not only Li Weimin was looking forward to the dark, but the little devils were also looking forward to the dark, hoping to have a good rest, otherwise they would be exhausted to death if they were not wiped out by the Chinese army.

It was getting dark, and the soldiers on both sides were eating and looking at the stars in the sky. After Li Weimin sent the communications soldiers of the military department away, he didn't have a little appetite, and Liao Fan at this time would definitely not understand his thoughts, and he was worried that there would be some estrangement between him and Liao Fan because of this incident.

It was getting darker and darker, and there were still stars just now, and there were some thick clouds in the sky, blocking the starlight, and I don't know when, the wind became stronger and stronger, rolling leaves and dead grass, blowing across the field......

"The wind is blowing?"

A warrior plucked the leaves of dead grass from his head and looked up at the sky, where the originally bright starry sky disappeared without a trace.

"It's going to rain, everyone pack up what needs to be packed!" A company commander told his soldiers on the position to prepare for rain, when a cold rain fell, and there were no dry clothes on the battlefield for the soldiers to replace when they soaked their clothes, and once they caught a cold, it was easy to cause non-combat attrition.

The little devils are also dragging their tired bodies and starting to do rain prevention work, if the ammunition is drenched by the rain, they can only hold their bodies tomorrow to resist the Chinese's bullets.

However, they are not destined to see the sun tomorrow morning, and perhaps the sun will not rise tomorrow morning, and then the clouds will probably last for a while.

"Quick, let the troops behind speed up!"

Yan Xingwang looked at the starlight in the sky, knowing that God was about to change his face, and the combat effectiveness of the war horse in the muddy and rainy day was going to be reduced, and he had to lead the troops to end this battle before this rain drenched the earth.

After a day of fighting, the quiet between the forward positions of the two armies was terrible at this time, and now the new 33rd Army has a great business, and there is no need to find a position in the dark to collect ammunition from the corpse of a little devil.

The wind was getting stronger and stronger, and only the sound of the wind was left between the fields.

"Damn weather!"

The little devil began to complain that some of their newly set up tents were blown by the wind, and the little devil had to step up the fixing of the tents in the dark night, which was already tiring enough after a day's fighting, because of the sudden change in weather, they had to be busy in the dark night.

However, the little devil didn't know that a team of cavalry was moving forward against the wind, the cold wind was blowing, the war horses were constantly neighing, and the soldiers were constantly urging the war horses to run against the wind.

"Commander, there is a fire three miles ahead!" The cavalry's rangers were responsible for finding out what was going on in front of the cavalry.

"Order the troops, stop advancing, and stand by!" Yan Xingwang said to a communications soldier beside him, "You two come with me!" ”

There are lights in front, which means that there are people, but someone is not necessarily the camp of the Japanese army, even if it is the camp of the Japanese army, they are not sure if it is the target of this attack, so Yan Xingwang has to go to investigate in person.

The little devil's camp was not brightly lit, with such a strong wind, only a few special tents had lights flickering.

"Regiment leader, a few of us have scouted just now, from here to the north are the military tents of the little devils, and it is estimated that this camp can accommodate more than 5,000 people!" A scout reported to Yan Xingwang.

"More than five thousand?"

Yan Xingwang frowned, he was not worried about the number of Japanese troops, the only thing he was worried about was attacking the wrong target, and he would not be able to cooperate with Li Weimin, and he would not be able to solve Li Weimin's problem at that time.

"Regiment commander, why don't I take two soldiers around and contact the division commander to confirm if this is our goal?" A scout saw Yan Xingwang's difficulties and suggested.

Yan Xingwang shook his head and told the soldiers to retreat, ready to attack. Regardless of whether this was their target or not, Yan Xingwang decided to attack this group of Japanese troops, and it would be best if it was their target. If not, then a lot of time will be wasted if you go around it. This detour is far away, and it is not certain whether you can reach the destination before dawn.

Since there is such a good opportunity now, Yan Xingwang is of course unwilling to let it go, and two thousand cavalry has a great chance of winning against five thousand infantry who are camping.

Yan Xingwang, who had withdrawn, gave the order, and he attacked from the front with five hundred cavalry, and the remaining one thousand cavalry attacked from the north.

The sound of "rumbling" iron hooves crashing far along the wind, more than two thousand cavalrymen rushed out of the darkness, this time they did not use sabers, the warriors used grenades bundled together.

The cavalry rushed into the camp of the little devil as fast as they could, and threw the grenade in their hand into the little devil's tent.

"Boom Boom"

The grenade explosion produced a huge fire, and the tent was quickly set on fire, and the Japanese camp was in chaos, and some quick reflexes sprang out of the tent with guns, but they were greeted by cavalry sabers.

"Defense! Defense! Defense! ”

The commander of the little devil drove the soldiers who wanted to retreat back to the fortifications, but the defeated troops were like a mountain, and the retreating Japanese troops in front scattered the Japanese troops who had just organized for defense. This is the most terrible thing, as long as there is a small wave of rout, it can disperse a large wave of soldiers who have just been organized.

The cavalry quickly expanded the results of the battle, Yan Xingwang led five hundred cavalry and the large army to unite, and the speed of the cavalry combined with the impact force gave the little devil who organized the defense another devastating impact.

The commander of the little devil also died tragically under the saber, and the originally chaotic Japanese army suddenly lost its commander and became even more chaotic, but Yan Xingwang did not order to continue the attack on the little devil, but quickly passed through the camp of the little devil and evacuated the battlefield.

It had been more than half an hour since the attack, Yan Xingwang and they had already determined that this was not the target they were going to attack, and more than half an hour was enough time for Li Weimin to feel the battlefield with the soldiers, but Li Weimin and they did not show up for a long time.

The important thing is that although the Japanese army has lost its commander, they are not without the ability to fight a war, the commanders at all levels of the little devils have organized their remnants of the army, divided into several defensive positions, if Yan Xingwang is greedy to eliminate these little devils, their cavalry will be exhausted everywhere, this style of play is not good for the cavalry, and now they have enough advantages, this raid is enough for the little devils to lose nearly a thousand troops.

Yan Xingwang continued to ride westward with his troops, he didn't know that the Japanese army they had just attacked was a Japanese reinforcement from Shijiazhuang, and their main purpose was to detour behind Li Weimin's division, and cooperate with the troops attacking in front of him, eliminate Li Weimin's part in one fell swoop, and then break the current predicament.

As long as the little devils gain an advantage on the northern front, then they will have extra troops to recapture the Jingcheng mining area, and then the new 33rd Army's battle plan will be completely ruined.

However, the commander of the little devil did not expect that their reinforcements encountered the Yan Xingwang cavalry regiment that attacked Dingzhou and retreated on the way to support, although the main force of the Japanese reinforcements suffered a small loss, but the commander's loss did make them suffer a lot of blows.

However, the news of the attack on the reinforcements, the Japanese troops on the Xingtang front soon received the news, and the Japanese commanders who learned the news knew very well that these cavalry were coming at them, although they had excellent mechanized troops, but if they were attacked by the cavalry, they would definitely fall into a situation of annihilation in cooperation with the troops who were fighting them head-on.

"Order all troops to withdraw to Xingtang!" The commander of the little devils immediately decided, now they still have time, they must retreat.

The commander of the little devil successfully kept his troops, and when Yan Xingwang arrived with his troops, the camp of the little devil was already empty.

The heavy rain finally fell, and soon the rain fell to the ground and soon merged into a small stream.

"It's dawn in two hours, let your warriors go and rest first!"

Li Weimin did not blame Yan Xingwang for startling the snake and disrupting his battle plan, after all, the situation on the battlefield was changing rapidly, and their means of communication were poor, so they lost the opportunity to encircle and annihilate this group of Japanese troops.

"Signal Soldiers!" Li Weimin shouted loudly, "Tell Regiment Commander Qi that before noon tomorrow, you must take Pingshan County for me!" ”

The battle plan failed, Li Weimin sat on the chair a little disappointed, the method of encircling the point to send reinforcements has failed, and he now has only one way left, that is, to attack, and the county town of Pingding has lost its final meaning, and he can only go all out to take the county seat of Pingding.

"Commander, are you okay?" A staff officer at the division headquarters looked at Li Weimin holding his head and asked with concern.

"I'm fine," Li Weimin raised his head, "Tell all the troops to start retreating tomorrow morning and build fortifications thirty miles away from the upper three levels to prevent the little devils from counterattacking!" ”

According to the news sent back by Yan Xingwang, the little devil's reinforcements still have a large number of living forces, if Li Weimin continues to attack, there is no certainty of victory, and now they can only retreat to defend so as not to be surrounded by the little devil.

Moreover, according to the battle plan arranged by Liao Fan at the beginning of the period, as long as they take Pingshan County and hold all the areas east of the upper third level, they can be regarded as having completed the task, and as for the plan to consume the living force of the Japanese army, they can only let Ma Wanzhong deal with it.

Now Ma Wanzhong and the others have also encountered the same situation as Li Weimin, that is, they have encountered fierce resistance from the Japanese army in the direction of Xia'an, and his troops have charged several times, but there is no way to capture Xia'an, and there are more and more reinforcements from the Japanese army on the periphery.

"Division commander, the attacking troops have retreated again, what should we do now?" A regiment commander ran into the headquarters and reported to Ma Wanzhong, "Tell the brothers of the artillery brigade to blow up Xia'an to ruins for me, and you must take Xia'an down before dawn!" ”

Judging from the current situation, it is impossible for Hu Guoshan's troops to attack Luquan, and the best way at the moment is to take Xia'an, and then hold Xia'an.