With Liao Fan's order, the vanguard marched mightily. It's easy to fight little devils, you don't need to find where their main force is to find them for a decisive battle, as long as you find a county town, there will definitely be little devils, so they don't need to find the main force of the Japanese army to have a decisive battle with the Japanese army.

Of course, the war can't be too improvised, you have to follow the plan, that is, there is a script, although the little devils are not willing to cooperate with the performance, but they always have to follow the first step of the plan.

Since Li Weimin and his troops entered the Beitaifeng Pass and then won several battles, the Japanese troops stationed in Fanzhi and Hunyuan withdrew one after another. That is to say, one of the five mountains, Beiyue Heng Mountain, has returned to the embrace of the Taihang Mountain Range.

And one began in the Spring and Autumn Period, and the other began in the Western Han Dynasty, and the two ancient county towns finally no longer had to suffer from the iron hooves of the Japanese.

The north of Beiyue Heng Mountain, is the land of the northeast of Jin, there are two places that have been very famous since ancient times - Datong and Shuozhou, these two places are China's border cities since ancient times, although the local people do not say that the people are strong, but since ancient times they have been harassed by the less said nation, and the local people put down their hoes and are soldiers.

Under the guidance of the guide, the troops chose the nearest road to pass through Beiyue Heng Mountain and come to Bear's Ears Mountain.

In the western part of Bear's Ears Mountain, there is a county seat called Ying County, which is located in the east of Shuozhou City and in the north of the Datong Basin.

Compared with Fanzhi and Hunyuan, Yingxian has a longer history, as early as the Neolithic Age, primitive tribes began to live in Yingxian. During the Warring States period, it was the land of Zhao, and Qin belonged to Yanmen County, and its geographical location has been very important since ancient times.

The Japanese army also hoarded heavy troops here to defend in case the New 33rd Army launched an attack on the corresponding county.

If you want to attack Ying County, you have to consider that his west neighbor is Shanyin County, which is backed by Hongtao Mountain, and Yingzhan is across the Sanggan River, which is also a historical city, and the Japanese army has also hoarded heavy troops in Shanyin County.

After all, after the loss of the two county towns of Shanyin and Yingxian, they could attack Datong all the way on their backs, and once Datong was lost, the Japanese army in the northeast of Jin Province would completely lose control.

According to Li Weimin's plan, he needs to attack two county towns at the same time!

Li Weimin ordered his two regiments to surround Ying County and Shanyin County respectively.

"Brother Liao also hopes that your artillery brigade will blow up all the artillery towers and pillboxes around these two county towns!"

Now that the battle has just begun, they must give full play to their firepower superiority, and they cannot let their troops fight hard, and their first stage of combat goal is to win Datong, which must have a lot of hard battles to fight, and at this time Li Weimin needs to preserve his strength.

The battle had already begun, and the two regiments under Li Weimin, with the cooperation of artillery, made rapid progress, and soon took the outlying strongholds of Yingxian and Shanyin counties, and attacked the foot of the county seat in half a day.

The commander of the Japanese garrison watched all this dumbfounded, his turret and pillbox were like paper paste in front of the Chinese army, which they had been operating with their hearts for more than two years, but they did not expect that all of them were destroyed by the artillery fire of the Chinese army in half a day.

If it weren't for the fact that there was a wall in front of them, I am afraid that the Chinese army would have entered the city by now.

Only then did the commander of the little devil who was defending the city realize the seriousness of the situation and immediately called for help from all sides.

However, when the first cannon sounded, Shanxi became vigilant, not only Datong, but even the little devil commander in Taiyuan received the news in an hour.

By the time the Japanese troops defending the city sent a telegram calling for help, reinforcements were already on their way.

However, the Japanese commanders in Shanxi knew very well that although they were still capable of sending reinforcements, their hope of breaking the siege was already very slim!

After many battles against the New 33rd Army, the Japanese army in Shanxi had won fewer victories and suffered more defeats, and Shanxi's troops were seriously insufficient. As the New 33rd Army won more and more victories in the war against the Japanese army, the prestige of the New 33rd Army also increased, and the number of local people joining the army also increased.

With the development of two years, the regular combat troops, the New 33rd Army, has reached nearly 80,000 people, and now the total strength of the Japanese army in Shanxi is only 100,000, and it has to defend various areas in Shanxi, and the most important thing is to guard against the New 33rd Army, but also to guard against the Eighth Route Army and the National Army in the west!

Therefore, Shanxi did not have many support troops, so the Japanese troops who went to support also received a strange order from the Japanese commander to do their best to support, and if they couldn't, do their best to protect themselves.

The commander of the little devil already knew very well that the new 33rd Army now had the ability to compete with him, but in order to protect the troops, he could only give such an order.

Obviously, this is a very stupid order, and the most taboo thing about the order is this ambiguous meaning, whether to save or not to save, if you don't save them, there is no loss, but the besieged troops have only one way to die, and if they do, they will probably violate the commander's order.

In fact, the meaning of the commander of the Japanese army in Shanxi is also very simple, that is, he wants to be the * and want to set up the archway, he hopes that the reinforcements will be able to take the Chinese troops off the road in a circle, and he will not have to lose any troops, but also to rescue the encircled troops.

However, his idea was very good, and it was shown to be cruel, and the Chinese army was not only not intimidated by the Japanese, but also surrounded the two county towns.

The troops of the Japanese army in all aspects were so distracted by the commander's orders that they did not dare to let go of support, but there was always a special circumstance, that is, the Japanese army starting from Datong was coming to support the front-line troops at full speed.

Because the Japanese commander in Datong knew that the loss of Shanyin County and Ying County was not only a matter of responsibility, it was very likely that the Chinese army would attack all the way north and take Datong, and then his life would be gone.

The two regiments that surrounded the two county towns did not launch an attack on the county town after clearing all the firing points on the periphery of the Japanese army.

The cost of the offensive is always greater than the cost of defense, so when formulating the general plan, Li Weimin's general policy was to encircle the point and send reinforcements.

Xinyuan is an insignificant small village in the northeast of Jin, in the territory of Datong City, this village is almost impossible to find on the map, but the new 33rd Army has locals as guides.

At the beginning, Li Weimin planned to find a suitable place to fight for all the reinforcements of the Japanese army, but there was really no suitable terrain in the Datong Basin to fight such a big ambush.

Therefore, Li Weimin only arranged defense, and the focus of defense was Xinyuan.

Xinyuan, a small village with a small name, is destined to be a quiet day today.

The large Japanese army received a death order and tried all their strength to support Sanyin County and Ying County, otherwise they would only have a dead end.

Of course, the only way to get from Datong to Sanyin and Yingxian is Xinyuan, but in order to support as soon as possible, the little devils must take Xinyuan for their cars. If they get off the bus and take a detour, the Japanese army will have to spend at least five hours more, and they will also have to lose their heavy equipment, which is enough time to decide the outcome of the war.

Xinyuan was originally a very inconspicuous village on the map, but now under heavy artillery fire, this inconspicuous village can no longer see a single above-ground building.

As with the New 33rd Army's attack on Yingxian, the Japanese army at first seemed to carve a way with their powerful weapons. However, the Japanese army forgot that in front of them was the New 33rd Army, and the artillery units in their hands were no weaker than the Japanese army in the slightest!

If the hit rate of a single round of mortars is higher, the artillery of the New 33rd Army is even better than the little devil's skills, so in this artillery fire, the little devil did not take the slightest advantage. On the contrary, the Japanese army arrived in a hurry, and the artillery positions were also arranged in a hurry, and half an hour after being put into the battlefield, the Japanese artillery lost more than half of it, and it was impossible to cover the Chinese positions in front of it.

However, the Japanese had air superiority, and the artillery fire of the New 33rd Army could not continue to bombard the Japanese army, and they needed to constantly change their positions in case the Japanese planes suddenly arrived and inflicted a devastating blow on the artillery.

After several changes of position, although the soldiers of the artillery brigade had good physical strength, they could not withstand such a few tosses, because the artillery was too heavy, and after the Japanese launched the third charge, they had to rest and recover their strength.

So there was an infantry-to-infantry battle on the front line, and the truth should be true, no matter how advanced science and technology are, it is still a human battle, because only human beings will fight to the death!

The attacking Japanese finally realized that the opponent they were facing was not an ordinary person, not an ordinary army. They not only have a powerful artillery unit, but also have a strong individual combat ability!

The commander of the Japanese army watched the repeated setbacks of the troops' attacks, and then they knew that their Imperial Japanese Army was not really invincible, at least not in the face of the New 33rd Army.

The commander of the little devil decided to change the route, because he had already proved that they could not break through the positions of the Chinese army, and even if they were to break through in the end, they and the Chinese army would lose in the end, and the final result would be not to mention support, and they would probably have little left.

However, the retreat is not a blind retreat, because once they retreat, let the Chinese army perceive it, and then the new 33rd Army will follow, then they will not retreat, it is likely to be a rout.

The commander of the little devil ordered a brigade of soldiers to stay, and the rest of the troops quietly withdrew from the battlefield.

In order to prevent the Chinese army from discovering that their large force had withdrawn, the Japanese captain had only a few staff officers and communication soldiers around him, and all of them were sent to the battlefield by him.

Although the battle on the front line was not tragic, it was extremely ferocious, and the little devils surged up like a tide, and were repelled by the New 33rd Army like a tide.

The brigade commander at the front did not notice in the slightest that the large forces of the Japanese army had withdrawn and detoured.

But the strength of the little devil's brigade under the continuous attack, the strength is getting smaller and smaller, and the vitality is getting weaker and weaker, and after a long time, the brigade commander who commands the battle finally finds the problem!

PS: For convenience, the next Great Wall in this book is the Outer Great Wall north of Datong, not the Inner Great Wall south of Datong. There are also Suiyuan and Chahar will be merged into one, collectively referred to as Suiyuan Province or Suiyuan Region!