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Since the autumn harvest had just passed, there were still a lot of haystacks piled up on the farmland outside, giving the Eighth Route Army an opportunity to hide.

As the various troops were in place, the artillery also trained its firing units and were waiting for orders from Qian Yunxiang, commander of the 32nd Regiment, to launch the attack.

As time reached five o'clock in the afternoon, it was time for the attack ordered by Commander Xu.

Qian Yunxiang took a three-gun pistol from the guard beside him, aimed at the Japanese soldiers on the watchtower outside the train station, and pulled the trigger.

With two consecutive gunshots, the two Japanese soldiers on the watchtower fell to the ground.

At the same time, the artillery aimed at the train station, began loading shells and started firing.

As explosions continued to sound at the train station, a squadron of Japanese troops and a battalion of puppet troops inside Laiyuan Railway Station began to become chaotic.

Constantly looking for places to hide.

After six rounds of firing, Qian Yunxiang began to order the bugler beside him to blow the charge, and light and heavy machine guns began to cover the large force rushing towards the train station.

Because the incident happened suddenly and the attack distance was close.

When the Japanese and puppet troops who were looking for shelter heard the charge horn coming from outside, they hurried out, picked up their weapons and started to fight back.

But as soon as he got out of the way, he was knocked to the ground by the light and heavy machine guns of the 32nd Regiment.

The 32nd Regiment quickly rushed into the train station.

As the 32nd Regiment quickly attacked the train station and engaged in fierce hand-to-hand combat with the Japanese troops stationed there.

After previous lessons, the Eighth Route Army soldiers rarely engaged in hand-to-hand combat with the Japanese army. Even if they did, at least three people would act together and support each other.

The 32nd Regiment currently maintains a large regiment organization with a total number of more than 3,100 people. They started a group fight against the hundreds of Japanese and puppet troops in the train station.

In less than half an hour, we took over Laiyuan Railway Station.

As the 32nd Regiment began to attack Laiyuan Railway Station, Lieutenant Colonel Tsutsumi Tsutsumi, commander of the 4th Infantry Battalion of the 2nd Independent Mixed Brigade stationed in the city, felt something was wrong when he heard the explosion at the railway station outside the city.

Those damn Eighth Route Army soldiers are planning to attack Laiyuan Railway Station again.

When the locust army occupied Laiyuan, there was no railway station, so the commander-in-chief stationed in Mongolia ordered his troops to open up the Laiwei Highway to replenish supplies to several counties in the heart of the Beiyue area.

But the damn Eighth Route Army, I don’t know where they learned the tunnels, but the entire Laiwei Highway was often ambushed by the Eighth Route Army in the past six months.

The most serious incident almost cut off the locust army's supplies in Laiyuan County.

Finally, after much deliberation, they decided to build a railway connecting to the Tongpu Railway.

It just opened to traffic last month.

Di Zheng also understood that the Eighth Route Army had been planning to take over the train station next to Laiyuan for a long time.

However, due to the recent large-scale sweep by the locust army, Laiyuan Railway Station has not been attacked.

I thought these Eighth Route Army soldiers had fled to the mountains, but I didn't expect them to attack the train station today.

Thinking of this, Di Zheng immediately ordered the first squadron under him to take a battalion of puppet troops out of the city for support. After all, there was a squadron of locust troops and a battalion of security troops at the train station at this time, and they would definitely be able to hold out until the support of the locust troops arrived.

What Di Zheng did not expect was that the First Squadron and a battalion of the Security Forces were ambushed by a battalion of the 32nd Regiment not far from the county town.

In less than half an hour, there was no more gunfire at Laiyuan Railway Station. At the same time, the troops going out of the city to provide support were also attacked fiercely by the 32nd Regiment which had just taken control of the railway station.

For a time, the Japanese squadron and a battalion of puppet troops suffered heavy casualties. Seeing that the situation was not good, the squadron leader immediately ordered the security puppet army battalion to cover the retreat, and he led his troops to hastily retreat back to the city.