The support troops of the Japanese army were ordered to recapture Pingding County at all costs, but the Japanese troops in Yangquan had to consider the situation on the battlefield, at least Yangquan could not do it at all costs, according to the information sent back, Yuxian County had been attacked by the squadron, once the Yuxian Division was lost, Yangquan would fall into the embarrassing situation of being attacked from the north and south, not to mention supporting Pingding County, and even the Japanese troops from Taiyuan were very likely to be blocked out of Yangquan. Ω 』Δ Ｅ＊．』

Therefore, the Japanese commander in Yangquan only arranged an armored car squadron and an infantry brigade to recapture the county town of Binh Ding, saying that it was an armored car squadron, but in fact there was only one tank car and three armored vehicles, and the tank car was attacked by the guerrillas on the road and damaged the tracks, so the supporting troops could only rely on the cover of armored vehicles to attack a group.

On the city tower, Ma Wanzhong looked at the arrogance of the Japanese army, and he was angry, they had about 7,000 men and horses in a regiment, even if they were now scattered everywhere to prevent the attack of the little devils, but why did the more than 1,000 Japanese troops come to fight them so unscrupulously.

"Defense has never been Lao Tzu's style, order the fifth battalion commander to lead the troops to attack the right flank of the little devil, the sixth battalion commander to attack the left flank of the little devil, the seventh battalion commander to take the troops back to the rear of the little devil, an hour later all the troops arrived at the designated position, and then the forward troops immediately counterattacked, so that the little devil has no return!" Ma Wanzhong quickly gave the order to fight.

More than a thousand people dared to attack his 7,000-strong troops, and the little devil was simply impatient, at least Ma Wanzhong thought so. Before dawn, he decided to beat the little devils first, so that the little devils knew that they were not easy to mess with.

However, there is always a time of dawn, at about five o'clock, the battle in front of Ma Wanzhong is still going on, knowing that I am afraid that it will be enough to take down more than 1,000 little devils, the time is urgent, they can't stay for a long time in the field outside the city without fortifications, what they need is to hold the county seat of Pingding, and then block the Japanese army from moving south.

An hour later the troops alternated cover, three battalions retreated to the fortifications on the outskirts of the county, and then some troops withdrew into the county. A brigade of the surrounded Japanese army saw that the squadron had withdrawn, and their hearts relaxed, they lost two-thirds of their men, and of course there was no more attack, because the squadron was so crazy, so crazy that the little devils didn't know who was fighting whom, and who was holding the initiative.

When the day dawned, the two sides died down, of course, this does not mean that the little devils just forget it, because their order is to recapture the lost county town at all costs. The smoke of gunpowder on the battlefield did not dissipate because of the arrival of dawn, on the contrary, everyone knew that the little devils were preparing, preparing to deal a fatal blow to the 33rd Independent Division.

The roar of airplanes was heard in the sky, and the Japanese bombers were finally able to break through the dark clouds and come to the battlefield. The bombers focused on the county seat of Pingding, because as long as the county seat of Pingding was recaptured, their troops could drive straight down.

"Boom Boom"

One bomb after another fell on the defensive position outside the city, fortunately, last night, Ma Wanzhong not only cared about fighting, but also built fortifications, otherwise the soldiers would definitely suffer a big loss at this time. The rain of bullets fell from the sky, it would be nonsense to say that soldiers were brave and fearless and not afraid at all, in the face of death, everyone would be afraid, but they knew that it was useless to be afraid, because they were warriors, warriors who defended their homes and countries.

After the bombers bombed, they circled in the sky before withdrawing, and Ma Wanzhong strictly ordered that the troops should not shoot at the planes in the sky, because this would only waste ammunition, and they might be able to try their luck to kill the next one, but that was just luck.

The little devil's reinforcements have also arrived, no! Now it was supposed to be the offensive force, the Japanese had twelve tanks and an artillery brigade to support. The bombs in the sky had just been dropped, and the bombs in the ground were whistling, and the soldiers on the battlefield were blown up to the dust, and they couldn't see what the original soldiers looked like at all, at this time they only had one appearance, that is, clay people, clay people who could move.

Ma Wanzhong sat in the headquarters and frowned as he listened to the fierce shelling of the Japanese army, he did not expect that the Japanese artillery bombardment would be so fierce, and the fortifications outside the city were rudimentary, so the fierce shelling would blow up these simple fortifications.

"We can't go on like this, it's too many casualties to go on like this!" Although this battle would not knock them back to their original shape, such casualties were unacceptable to Ma Wanzhong.

"Signal troops, order the reserve team to go up and start digging underground passages to the forward positions from outside the city, give them a day to complete the task!"

The underground passage can also become an underground tunnel, which Liao Fan learned according to the fortifications of the volunteers entering the DPRK to fight, in the first large-scale attack of the little devil on Taihang Mountain, Liao Fan used the medium method to resist the steel torrent of the little devil, and this time Ma Wanzhong also wanted to use this method.

This method requires a lot of engineering drawings, and Ma Wanzhong certainly doesn't have time to plan how to dig in the urgency of the war. But outside the county of Pingding, they didn't need such a large amount of engineering, he only needed a few or even a dozen strong tunnels to prevent a large number of unnecessary casualties caused by the artillery fire of the little devils.

Therefore, there is a very strange picture on the front of Pingding County, the front troops are fighting hotly, but the rear troops are digging holes, of course, from Pingding County to part of the periphery there is no need to go underground at all, as long as the surface of the traffic trench is built, and then when it is close to the forward position, it is digging tunnels.

Although the troops attacking the little devils were fierce, there were not many troops they gathered to attack, so the battle seemed to be in a white-hot state from the beginning, but there was no short-handed contact on the position, and the little devils charged again and again, and the soldiers repelled them again and again.

In Heshun County and Xiyang County, after the control of the three regiments, in addition to the expanded occupation area, the rest of the thing was to destroy the roads and railways, and the local masses were completely passive, some actively joined the army, and some helped to move materials, of course, the 33rd Independent Division has long been famous, and the common people also recognize the brand of the 33rd Independent Division.

The Third Regiment did not encounter a large-scale counterattack by the little devils, and there were not many Japanese troops stationed in Liao County, they only hoped that Hu Guoshan would not come to fight them, and of course they did not dare to take the initiative to provoke the 33rd Independent Division, which was already crazy. At this time, the gate of Liao County was closed, and it was strictly forbidden for anyone to enter or exit.

Hu Guoshan is not interested in Liao County, after all, they have a lot of tasks to complete at the moment, and the first regiment is still struggling to support the county seat in Pingding, and they need to hurry up and act to complete the task and retreat.

Everything went smoothly ahead, but some things were not always smooth sailing, after all, there were also spies infiltrated in the team, and at this time, the role of spies was waved, and they quickly revealed the purpose of the 33rd Independent Division to the little devils.

Looking at the information transmitted by the intelligence officer, the supreme commander of the Japanese army in Taiyuan finally understood what the 33rd Independent Division was going to do.

"Order the planes to stop bombing the county town of Pingding, immediately reconnoiter the railway and highway lines in Jindong, and then stop the Chinese from destroying the road surface." The Japanese commander commanded the signal corps.

When the bomber was about to take off, the bomber had to accept the order, so the ground crew was busy unloading the bomb. Their purpose is to protect railways and highways, of course, it is impossible to use bombs, and a bomb can go down much faster than the Chinese can destroy it.

The plane roared again, this time not at the squadron, but at the people who were sabotaging the railway, and the machine guns on the plane were unscrupulously sweeping the people who were destroying the railway. The officers of the 33rd Independent Division, who were responsible for maintaining order, knew that things were not going well, and hurriedly called on the people to find a place to hide, so that the destruction of the road was much slower.

Hu Guoshan and Zhao Caizhu stood on the city walls of two different counties, but they were doing the same thing, that is, looking at the arrogant planes of the Japanese army in the sky, they could only hate the root of their teeth, in order to prevent the people from being slaughtered by the little devils, the two had to give an order, the people and the troops withdrew, and waited for the night to act.

The daytime in the county town is scorching hotter than the daytime in the Taihang Mountains, and the sweaty Hu Guoshan walks back and forth in the headquarters, although the attack of the various troops is smooth, but their plan of action has to be delayed, because of the little devil's plane, so that they have no way to let them act during the day.

"Let the people and soldiers rest during the day, we will take care of the meal, and the people who participated in this operation will give them another five buckets of rice after the operation is over!" The only way Hu Guoshan can think of now is to act at night.

Just when Hu Guoshan was depressed, only Huang Changsheng was left in the headquarters of the 33rd Independent Division of Taihang Mountain, and Liao Fan was gone. Because he learned that the little devil was going to attack the troops near Beitai Peak, Liao Fan rode a war horse and took Lu Liming and them all the way to Beitai Peak.

Of course, when passing by Feihu Ridge, Liao Fan secretly transferred 300 people from Flying Fox Ridge to the direction of Beitai Peak with him.

The exit of Taihang Mountain is at least more than 30 miles away from Beitai Peak, the mountain pass is in the shape of an inverted "eight", easy to defend and difficult to attack, even if the little devil can capture the mountain pass, it is difficult to occupy Beitai Peak, all the way to the hinterland of Taihang Mountain. The reason why Liao Fan came to the mountain pass was that he was worried that the spies would wait for an opportunity to act, and more than 800 soldiers could not die under the guns of the little devils for no reason.

At the forward position of the mountain pass, Liao Fan stood at the highest place, looking at the Japanese troops facing outside the mountain pass with a telescope, the Japanese army was not many in number, and the equipment was similar to that of the soldiers guarding the mountain pass, but Liao Fan also had to be cautious, in case of a spy riot, even if it was a strong defense, it could not block the internal and external attacks.