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At the same time, the Japanese troops on the other two fronts also began to become chaotic.

As the Eighth Route Army soldiers continued to pour in from the gap in the city wall, the soldiers at the front, upon seeing the sniper machine gun positions set up by the Japanese army, directly ordered the rocket launcher squad to carry the rocket launcher and fire a 40mm rocket to directly destroy the Japanese firepower point, and then continued to attack the next place.

The Japanese army was quickly forced to retreat by this offensive.

When the 15th Regiment Commander Morita Norimasa saw this scene, he immediately realized that he could no longer defend.

He began to retreat towards the south gate with the remaining troops of less than a thousand men.

However, soon after they withdrew from the South Gate, they encountered soldiers from the 761st Regiment who had been ambushed outside the city.

The four regiments in front and behind immediately surrounded the remaining Japanese troops.

Soon, the remaining Japanese troops of the 15th Regiment were gradually eliminated by the four regiments of the Eighth Route Army.

The commander of the 15th Regiment, Morita Norimasa, was killed by a rocket launcher on the way of retreat.

At 23 p.m., the battle in Anyang was over. Wu Huanxian began to organize people to confiscate the supplies of the Japanese and puppet troops in Anyang City, and sent the news to the command post where Wu Lin was located in the rear of southern Hebei.

At the same time, Chief of Staff Wang Yimin led his troops to investigate the terrain from Ci County to Anyang in preparation for setting up blocking positions.

When Wu Lin learned that Anyang had been occupied, and saw that the Japanese 2nd Regiment, which was reinforcing Ci County, began to set up camp opposite Ci County.

He immediately ordered the remaining troops of the 3rd Column and the two regiments blocking the area in Ci County to take down the 2nd Regiment at night.

2 a.m. the next day.

At this time, the remaining two regiments of the 2nd Column also rushed to Ci County and moved around to the rear of the 2nd Regiment.

The 3rd Battalion of the 2nd Regiment was still in Gaoyu. It was already evening when the 2nd Regiment received the news from the division, so Ishiguro Sadanzo asked the 3rd Battalion to move closer to the regiment headquarters the next morning.

This undoubtedly gave the Third Column the opportunity to split and encircle the Second Regiment.

Realizing this opportunity, Xia Wenkai immediately ordered the 124th Regiment to detour behind the 1st and 2nd Battalions of the 2nd Regiment to block the 2nd Regiment's retreat route.

At the same time, the 125th Regiment bypassed the 3rd Battalion of the 2nd Regiment.

First, they surrounded and annihilated the third battalion of the Japanese army, and then the two regiments quickly moved towards Guanglu to encircle and annihilate the remaining two battalions.

2:20.

After the 3rd Battalion of the 2nd Regiment failed in its exploratory attack on Gaoyu in the evening, the 3rd Battalion received an order from the regiment commander and began to camp not far from the position of the 81st Regiment in Gaoyu, waiting to return to the regiment the next morning.

At this time, the two battalions of the reassembled 181st Artillery Regiment had also gathered at the positions on both sides, waiting for orders.

The 81st Regiment Commander Lu Guanying and Political Commissar Wang Yifu were at the front-line command center, looking at the time on their watches.

"Old Lu, the time has come, let's start!" Political Commissar Wang Yifu said seriously to Lu Guanying.

"Well, okay!" Lu Guanying nodded.

Then he turned to look at the communicator and said seriously.

"Communicator, order the firing of signal flares, and all frontline troops prepare to attack!"

After receiving the order, the signalman immediately passed it on to the battalions, companies and platoons below.

2:30.

As the flare rose into the sky, everyone, whether it was the artillery positions in the rear or the 81st and 125th Regiments in front and behind the 2nd Regiment, saw a red flare rising in the night sky.

After seeing the signal flares launched into the air, the artillery battalion's artillerymen, under the order of the battalion commander, began loading and firing 12 75mm mountain guns towards the Third Battalion's base.

At the same time, the vanguard of the 81st Regiment began to quietly approach the forward base of the Japanese brigade.

As the 12 mountain cannons began to fire continuously at the Japanese Third Battalion, explosions began to be heard throughout the entire Japanese Third Battalion, and the entire garrison began to become chaotic.