After this pause, Yang Chen continued: "I reckon, we wiped out the devil's reinforcements, and their defenders in Zhoukou are less than 2000 people.

In addition, we intercepted their heavy artillery.

With our strength, if we attack with all our strength, we can take back Zhoukou within an hour at most.

This time, I will capture the two old devils, Susumu Fujita and Ryosuke Yoshika, skin them and cram them up, in memory of the thousands of loyal souls who died in Zhoukou in the battle of my Huben Regiment!"

Immediately afterwards, Yang Chen turned his head to look at Li Jiufu and said, "Li Jiufu, you kid hurry up and bring some brothers to pave the roads that were blown up!"

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Talking two ends.

Just when the Huben Regiment defeated the 9th Division of the Japanese Army in Hongyunling, and then divided into two groups, swept the Japanese army in Yangcheng with a crushing force, and ambushed the Japanese reinforcements and heavy artillery brigade in Sanlipo.

Two days ago, the 5000 partial divisions sent out by Fujita Jin also arrived outside Luohe City smoothly.

In Luohe City, there is only one local security team with less than 2000 people.

At that time, the national government had not yet arrived with reinforcements dispatched from other places.

When the 5000 devil soldiers arrived suddenly with lightning speed.

These 2000 local miscellaneous defenders with low combat effectiveness were not their opponents at all. After fighting for less than two hours, they were defeated by the Japanese army, and Luohe fell.

After the capture of Luohe, the Japanese army had actually cut off the Ping-Han Railway.

The devil commander allocated part of his troops to bomb the railway.

The main force moved north along the Ping-Han Railway and continued to invade Xuchang.

Fortunately, when Zhoukou fell, the 74th Army, which had retreated from the Xuzhou battlefield, received orders from the superior to gallop all the way from eastern Henan to Xuchang.

And rushed to Xuchang ahead of the Japanese army.

As soon as the 74th Army entered the city, the vanguard of the Japanese army also appeared at Xuchang Railway Station.

Xuchang originally had only one brigade, with about 5000 local troops stationed there. After General Wang Yaowu led the 74th Army to take over Xuchang's defense, he immediately ordered the 5000 local troops to strengthen the defense.

Especially the garrison of the train station.

Therefore, when the vanguard of the devils tried to raid the Xuchang Railway Station, they were hit head-on by the local army.

Although the equipment of the local army is not very good, and the combat effectiveness of individual soldiers is far from being comparable to that of the central army, the advantage lies in the large number of people.

After a fierce battle, the devils just failed to capture Xuchang Station.

At this time, the main force of the 74th Army arrived.

Immediately afterwards, the devil's follow-up main force also rushed outside Xuchang City.

Although these 5000 devils captured Luohe very easily, but because of the strong attack, the battle of Luohe still caused 400 casualties.

In addition to the hundreds of troops left to bomb the railway and guard Luohe, only about 4000 people went north to attack Xuchang at this time.

As a result, the enemy and us started a battle, and a fierce battle began.

The 74th Army is known as the first of the five main forces of the national army.Not only is it well-equipped, but its combat effectiveness is second to none among the entire country and army!

Since the end of the Nanjing Defense War, the 74th Army has received a relatively complete supplement and rest.

During the battle of Xuzhou, when they arrived at the battlefield, the battle was basically over.

Although later, in the Battle of Eastern Henan, they blocked the Japanese army going north from Huainan.

But the loss is not large, it can be said that the strength still exists.

If the devils came from a reorganized division, they might not be opponents.

However, in the face of a mere 4000 Japanese invaders, the 20000th Army with a strength of more than 74 troops is more than enough to cope.

Therefore, although the offensive of this Japanese partial division was fierce, it was completely unable to capture Xuchang, which was guarded by the 74th Army.

Moreover, the defenders in Xuchang fought more and more.

Because not long after the two sides started the war, two Sichuan army divisions also arrived in time for reinforcements.

As a result, the pressure on the little devil suddenly increased.

Coupled with the fact that the Huben Regiment had won consecutive battles in the Yangcheng area, this group of devils received orders from the Zhoukou Headquarters to try to withdraw.

However, how could General Wang Yaowu be willing to let them leave easily, and the Minister's Department asked them to find a way to recover Luohe and reopen the Ping-Han Railway.

As a result, the national army, whose strength was nearly 10 times that of the Japanese army, attacked from Xuchang, followed by the devils and launched a pursuit.

After several battles, of the 4000 Japanese troops, only more than 1000 remained and fled back to Luohe smoothly.

General Wang Yaowu then led his troops to encircle Luohe and surrounded these little devils in Luohe.

An army of [-] to [-] troops attacked day and night.

The Japanese army had no food and grass inside and no reinforcements outside, and suffered heavy casualties for a while.

When Yang Chen led his troops to defeat and wipe out the Devils Heavy Artillery Brigade, and was about to recapture Zhoukou.

Luohe had already been retaken by the 74th Army and other departments first, and this 5000-strong Japanese army was wiped out.

So far, the total strength of the Japanese army in the entire Zhoukou area is less than 15000.

Nearly 12000 of them headed west because they were lured by the Huben Cavalry Battalion.

At this time, they were still rushing to rush back to Zhoukou.

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The screen zooms to Zhoukou.

Zhoukou County, the Japanese Joint Command.

The bad news came one after another. First, the Luohe defenders were wiped out.

Immediately afterwards, the ambushed troops of Sanlipo and the Yangcheng defenders were wiped out, and then the heavy artillery brigade was completely wiped out.

A series of bad news has almost driven the two old devils, Susumu Fujita and Yoshika Ryosuke, mad.

Lixiong Tian, ​​Chief of Staff of the 3rd Division, and Nakagawa Hiroshi, Chief of Staff of the 9th Division, were also so frightened by the vicious expressions of their respective division chiefs that they dared not even breathe a mouthful.

The atmosphere in the entire headquarters was momentarily suppressed to the extreme.

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