Commander Yang of the First Army Division, in order to make up for the passivity brought about by the leakage of secrets for the next military operation, redeployed, and reported to the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region for approval, ordering the first regiment of the division to attack Laiyuan City, and the only regiment of Lei Jian to conquer the Yuanshan stronghold southeast of Laiyuan City, five miles away.

The 2nd Regiment of the 3rd Division was ordered to attack Sanjia Village, the 3rd Regiment of the 1st Division to attack Dongtuanbao, and the Special Service Company of the Military Region to attack Liujiazui.

Commander Yang clearly pointed out at the military meeting: "I hope that the commanders of all units will find out the military deployment and terrain of the targets they are attacking, as well as the firepower configuration of the enemy's positions. ”

After receiving the order, the commanders of all units immediately convened a meeting of battalion and company cadres when they returned to their units, made the most detailed arrangements for their troops, and conducted on-the-spot reconnaissance of the targets they attacked again in order to better accomplish their tasks, and made sure that the tasks were completed from the beginning of the battle to the end, and that no major mistakes occurred during the period.

Commander Yang had led his troops to garrison Sanjia Village before, and had conducted reconnaissance of Dongtuanbao, Yuanshan stronghold, and Liujiazui, and had a clear understanding of the terrain of these places and the Japanese strongholds, but due to the leakage of secrets, he also lost the latest information on whether the enemy's troops were deployed and defended at these strongholds.

He was very satisfied with the fact that the commanders of various units had proposed to get close to the enemy and make all preparations before the battle, just to find out the latest situation of the enemy's troop deployment.

On 22 September, Lei Jian's only regiment entered the position ahead of schedule, repeatedly reconnoitred the target Yuanshan stronghold, and according to Commander Yang's instructions, at 3:27 a.m. on the 23rd, the campaign to attack the Japanese stronghold began.

Commander Yang's deployment was to ask the only regiment to fire the first shot of the battle along Laiyuan, Lingqiu, and Tongliao in the Yuanshan stronghold, and its purpose was to create a tense situation for the Japanese troops stationed in the county town and other strongholds.

At half past eight o'clock in the morning on the day the first shot was fired at the Yuanshan stronghold, Commander Yang took the combat organs to an ancient beacon tower with a height of more than three meters on the Inner Great Wall, which is very close to Sanjia Village, and set up the front-line command post here.

Commander Yang is very familiar with this area, and he does not need to check the coordinates of the map, he will command the operations of various troops in different battlefields, he stood on the ancient beacon tower, did not hold a telescope to check, but relied on familiar memory, and looked at Laiyuan, Sanjia Village, Yuanshan and Liujiazui, these battlefields that are about to unfold.

Originally planned to carry out a simultaneous attack on these targets on the 23rd, and after a fierce battle, the Lei Jian Regiment had successfully destroyed the Yuanshan stronghold and planted the red flag on the southeast turret of the stronghold.

Commander Yang did not want to give the enemy a chance, so he immediately issued an order to attack the strongholds in advance, and ordered the only regiment of Lei Jian, which had won the victory in the Battle of Yuanshan, to cooperate with the first regiment of the military region to attack Laiyuan County.

After several hours of fighting with the enemy, the only regiment of Lei Jian, which victoriously conquered the stronghold of Yuanshan, received an order to immediately clean up the battlefield, seize the weapons, ammunition and military supplies of the stronghold, quickly return to the army, and move closer to Laiyuan County along the Laiyuan (Yuan) Ling (Qiu) Highway.

At 20 o'clock on the 22nd, night had just fallen, the sky was bright and the moon was high, the stars were twinkling, and the barren mountains and mountains inside and outside the Great Wall under the stars and moon were gray and white.

At this time, Commander Yang, who was standing on the ancient beacon tower, ordered to the combat staff officer Jiang: Launch signal flares and order all units of the left column to launch a general attack on the target.

After receiving the signal of the attack order, the commander of the 2nd Regiment of the 3rd Division ordered the fighters hiding near the hilltop artillery tower southeast of Sanjia Village to prepare for the attack, and he ordered the artillery platoon to bombard the Sanjia Village artillery tower with the most intense artillery artillery.

The only two mortars bombarded the enemy's turret continuously, and when it was discovered that the enemy turret was on fire, and the thick smoke and flames coming out of the turret at night were expanding outward, the commander of the second regiment shouted to the troops: "Rush——。 ”

The brave soldiers of the 2nd Regiment, under the cover of artillery fire, braved the enemy's bullets and bullets, and fought indomitably towards the turret.

There were three barbed wire fences laid by the enemy outside the running building, and the soldiers were desperate. Holding a large guillotine knife that had been prepared long ago, he cut through the barbed wire fence and flew over the small outer trench to attack the enemy's turret.

In less than three hours, the 2nd Regiment of the 3rd Division, braving the enemy's dense bullets and fierce firepower, finally captured an artillery tower on the southeast hill of Sanjia Village.

The 11th Battalion of the 2nd Regiment launched a fierce fire attack on Zhongzhuang, and finally broke through the outlying positions of the village, entered the village, and occupied most of the village.

The devil commander ordered the remnants of the enemy to immediately abandon the turret, withdraw from the turret, and quickly enter the two bunkers on the ground to carry out a fire counterattack to repel the attacking Eighth Route Army.

At this time, the 1st battalion attacking Zhongzhuang, when capturing most of the village and encircling and suppressing the remnants of the enemy in the northwest corner, was counterattacked by the enemy's fierce firepower, and the troops suffered heavy casualties.

At this time, the first regiment of the first division of Laiyuan City was ordered to attack, and with the cooperation of the only regiment of Lei Jian, launched a strong offensive against the county seat, under the cover of artillery fire, the two troops, respectively from the county seat's Dongguan, Nanguan and Xiguan, launched a general attack, broke through the devil's city gate, advanced in depth, and launched a fierce battle with the enemy in the streets and alleys.

Under the ferocious attack of the two regiments, most of the county town was occupied, and the first regiment advanced to the northwest of the city, and engaged the enemy in a battle street by street.

At this time, the captain of the Japanese army who was guarding the Jinjiajing stronghold one kilometer north of the city heard the constant sound of gunfire everywhere, this cunning and timid guy, afraid that the fortified Jinjiajing stronghold fort would be attacked by the Eighth Route Army, so he gave up the stronghold and led a team of devils to quickly run towards Laiyuan City and escape into the city through the north gate.

When the leader of the devil squad heard the Nanguan, Dongguan and Xiguan, the guns rang out, and this treacherous guy rushed into the Japanese barracks in Beiguan with a small team of devils.

The 1st Regiment of the 1st Division, which was slaughtering the Japanese barracks in Beiguan in the northwest corner with the most fierce firepower, was suddenly reinforced by a small group of Japanese troops who fled back to the city, and the enemy and us launched a fierce stalemate battle.

The Japanese commander took advantage of the terrain and features, ordered the troops to use the cover of streets and alleys, and began to launch a frantic counterattack against the first regiment that had entered the city.

The only regiment that was leading the troops into the city, with the cooperation of the first regiment of the first division, advanced very smoothly into the city, and soon approached the enemy camp in Beiguan, and the two regiments attacked together, which would surely destroy the remaining enemy and occupy Laiyuan City.

Lei Jian did not expect a division and a regiment, under the enemy's frantic counterattack, in order to reduce the casualties of the troops, he took the initiative to withdraw from the battle and quickly withdrew from the city.

The crazy devil commander, repelling the attack of a division and a regiment, suddenly saw a Japanese squad retreating from the east, followed by the only regiment of Thunder Sword that pounced, this devil squad retreated while fighting, and gradually lost its support, and there was a great possibility that it would be wiped out in an instant.

Lei Jian ordered the troops to spread out their formation, and they must surround this devil squad and completely wipe it out.

The Devil Squad Leader ordered the soldiers to fight back on the spot and wait for reinforcements.

The commander of the Japanese army stationed in the north pass of the city, who had just divided a division and a regiment, with the most fierce firepower, with the help of the powerful terrain and terrain, blocked the retreat, at this time saw a squad of soldiers, who were fighting with the only regiment of Lei Jian, and the battle had become a rout, this crazy guy shouted violently: "Use the hidden fortifications in the streets and alleys to hedge against the Tuba Road, and kill the ——。 with the most fierce firepower ”

The battalions of the only regiment of Lei Jian have surrounded the fleeing devil squad and carried out the final strangulation, but they did not expect a large number of devils to suddenly come out from several streets and alleys, and the Japanese soldiers launched a fierce fire counterattack against the only regiment with the help of familiar and advanced fortifications in the city.

Lei Jian's only regiment was suddenly attacked by the enemy's frenzied counterattack, he did not know that the first division and one regiment had withdrawn from the battle, and ordered the troops to launch a counterattack against the counterattacking Japanese troops.

An offensive battle turned into a counterattack battle, and the only regiment was not familiar with the fortifications of the Japanese army in the county town, so it attacked in the counterattack, but every time it took a step, it would be blocked by the sudden firepower of the Japanese army, and the troops continued to suffer casualties.

Lei Jian has never fought such a battle, he can't do it all over, and he is passively beaten everywhere, seeing the devil's troops, from the streets of the county to the Beiguan where fierce battles are taking place, the only regiment is in a very critical situation.

(End of chapter)