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"It's really impossible to change someone else, but Li Yunlong, everything is possible! Li Yunlong, this kid, has always been good at fighting immortal battles!" Kong Jie said decisively, "Pass my order, and each battalion and company will be arranged in stages to prevent the enemy from dying. , At all costs, we must block the devils who come to aid from Taiyuan to the south of Xinkou!"

……

Wang Yan led the Spike Squad and took the lead.

After a whole day of forced marching, the Spike team drove more than 100 kilometers, crossed the Yanmen Pass and came to the Yanbei Plain.

In addition to the county seat and dozens of strongholds on both sides of the Tongpu Railway in Yan County, the vast countryside has long been controlled by the militiamen of the Eighth Route Army.

After the destruction of the Yihei detachment, Inoue Zhenwei immediately withdrew the gendarmerie brigade in Yan County and the garrison teams at dozens of strongholds on both sides of the Tongpu Railway Line, and firmly defended Ping'an County.

So now, the dozens of strongholds on both sides of Yanxian County and Tongpu Railway are only guarded by puppet troops.

After the county brigade and a dozen district teams in Yan County discovered this, they began to organize a sabotage campaign against the Tongpu Railway, and even launched tentative attacks on several outer strongholds.

Therefore, it is purely slanderous to say that the Eighth Route Army swam behind enemy lines without fighting.

The Eighth Route Army, regardless of the regular army or the militia, has never stopped harassing and attacking the little devils.

The scale of these harassments or attacks is very small, there may be only a dozen or even a few people participating in the battle, and the results of each battle are so small that they can almost be ignored, but the accumulation is very impressive.

In just one day, when Wang Yan led the Spike team to arrive, the county team of Yan County had not only destroyed several kilometers of railways, but also pulled out two strongholds.

Hearing that the main force was coming, the Yanxian County Brigade, which was pulling the rails on the railway line, immediately became a sensation.

Soon, Zhang Manyian, the captain of the Yanxian County Brigade, came to Wang Yan excitedly and said, "Chief Wang, I hope you have the main force coming."

After finishing speaking, Zhang Manyian said again: "Has the main force of the regiment arrived yet? Is there going to be a major combat operation?"

"Captain Zhang, the main force will be here soon." Wang Yan said, "This time your task is to cooperate with the main force to stop the devils who are coming south from Datong for reinforcements!"

"Now please tell me, how many troops are there in your county brigade plus the district squad?"

Zhang Manyian said excitedly: "Chief of Staff, our county brigade has been expanded recently, and now there are more than 1000 people, plus a dozen district teams, the strength is 2000!"

"And our equipment has also changed."

"Hardly anyone uses spears and spears now."

"Even the children's regiment has two shells."

"Our county brigade even has two heavy machine guns and an earthen cannon!"

"Okay!" Wang Yan nodded and said, "Captain Zhang, gather your team immediately, and then lead the team to Yanmen Pass to meet with Company Commander Liu. After arriving at Yanmen Pass, you will be temporarily under the command of Company Commander Liu."

"Yes!" Zhang Manyian snapped to attention, then turned around and shouted, "Give me an order, gather urgently!"

When the Yanxian County Brigade and more than a dozen district teams assembled, Wang Yan led the Spike Team to continue to rush north along the Tongpu Railway, preparing to conduct battlefield reconnaissance against the enemies of Datong going south.

After walking north for about twenty miles, I came to a small village called Quanzigou.

While marching forward, Nosaka Hirosumi suddenly stopped, and then fell down on the rails.

After listening for a while, Nosaka Hirosumi stood up and growled, "Captain, there are devils, and there are devils' patrol car!"

Wang Yan's heart trembled, he looked around and found a small hill on the right side of the railway, so he shouted: "Go up the mountain!"

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Not long after the Spike team reached the top of the hill, a patrol car came along the railway.

What drove over was not the open hand-cranked patrol car, but an armored patrol car driven by a steam engine. This kind of patrol car had a strong independent combat capability.

Unless there is a tank defense gun with 37 caliber or above, it will be difficult to destroy it.

The devil's road patrol car drove over the hill and then drove forward for a short distance, and there was no way to go any further.

Because the railway track a few kilometers ahead has been destroyed, and a bridge was also blown up.

So the patrol car stopped, and a dozen devil infantrymen got out of the car, standing guard on the spot.

Wang Xikui calibrated the scope of the water sniper rifle in his hand, and whispered: "The distance is 600 meters, within the effective range, captain, give him a vote?"

"Don't worry." Wang Yan shook his head, "The main task this time is reconnaissance."

Wang Xikui then put down the rifle again, you bastards, let you live a little longer.

After another half an hour or so, a military column slowly came rattling.

Due to the report from the patrol vehicle in advance, the army had already slowed down in advance, so there was no derailment accident.

When the train stopped, teams of devil infantry drove down from the train, and cannons and even tanks were unloaded from the train.

Because the Tongpu Railway runs parallel to the highway, it is convenient for the devils.

At this time, the sky had already darkened, and the devils also lit torches. Under the night, the devils' torches pulled a long dragon along the railway line for several kilometers.

Sun Ming put down the binoculars and said, "Old Wang, judging by the devil's posture, there must be at least one infantry brigade!"

"Almost." Wang Yan said while holding up the binoculars and continued to observe, "In addition, there is a search team composed of cavalry and tanks, and an artillery wing."

"The total strength is at least tens of thousands!"

"Ten thousand people?!" Sun Ming's heart trembled when he heard this.

There are more than 1000 people in the secret service company, and the county brigade in Yan County and more than a dozen district teams are less than 4000!Even if all the brigades from Fanxian, Wuxian, and Shuoxian counties arrived later, there would only be 6000 to [-] people, less than half the strength of the devils.

As for the technical and tactical literacy of the officers and soldiers of the two sides, the gap is even greater, and they are not at the same level at all.

So the difficulty of this battle can be imagined, but fortunately, they will stick to it until tomorrow evening at most.

At this time, the Devil's forward search team had already started to search along the road towards Yanmen Pass.

Wang Yandang stood up and said in a deep voice, "Go, go back!"

……

The reconnaissance results of the Spike Team are basically correct.

The 26th Division went south for reinforcements, dispatching all of the 11th Independent Infantry Regiment, two independent infantry brigades of the 13th Independent Infantry Regiment, plus the 26th Independent Artillery Regiment and the 26th Independent Infantry Regiment.

In addition, there are a small number of auxiliary troops such as engineers, heavy soldiers, and medical soldiers.

The total strength of the army is more than 8000 people, which is not much different from what Wang Yan and the others estimated.

The commander of the reinforcements was Fumiro Saeki, commander of the 26th Infantry Regiment, with the rank of lieutenant general.

As a rule, the commanders of the infantry regiments of the Japanese Type B divisions are all major generals, and there are very few lieutenant generals.