Chapter 61 The troops are approaching the city!

Author: Lonely Jungle

Chapter 61 The troops are approaching the city!

"Captain, what do you mean?"

Dokno Taro said with a solemn expression.

"The brigade commander mobilized troops to reinforce our troops, which is enough to support an infantry brigade."

Pointing at the map, Sakata Nobori's eyes flashed with cunning, and he said: "Xu Rui's troops will most likely arrive at the city before 1:30 in the morning."

"And when the time comes, they will definitely attack our imperial army defending the city!"

After a pause, he continued: "Heyuan County is not considered big or small."

"With our current strength, if we all go to the top of the city to defend the city, it will be extremely dispersed. Therefore, after the enemy troops came to the city, we abandoned the defense of the city head and the city gate, and put the enemy troops commanded by Xu Rui into the city.

, fight with them in street fights, and hold them back."

Having said this, Dokno Taro, the chief of staff, immediately guessed what Sakata Nobori's plan was.

"What the commander of the regiment means is that when the reinforcements arrive, they will attack the enemy from both inside and outside?"

Dokno Taro clapped his hands and said.

"Yo Xi, Du Yejun, you guessed it right!"

Sakata Nobori sneered with a sly look in his eyes: "When we drag the main enemy force into the city and the reinforcements arrive, we will attack at the best time to attack, and we will be able to catch Xu Rui by surprise."

"Xu Rui didn't expect that I, Nobuori Sakata, would take the initiative to request reinforcements from the brigade headquarters!"

Taro Duye nodded and flattered him: "This is a great plan, captain. If it succeeds, it may be able to eat up the siege troops commanded by Xu Rui."

"Perhaps, we can capture Xu Rui alive next!"

Sakata Nobuzuki was not 100% sure, but said: "Of course I hope so, but it's hard to say."

"Co-captain!"

At this moment, a Japanese staff officer hurriedly walked up to Sakata Nobuori and Dokno Taro, paused and saluted: "Chief of Staff, there are soldiers in Wanjia Town who have escaped."

"Wanjia Town has been lost. The enemy battalion attacking Wanjia Town has detoured from Wanjia Town overnight and surrounded Heyuan County."

Hearing this, Sakata Nobori and Dokno Taro looked at each other.

Afterwards, the two old devils stared at the map at the same time.

"Captain, the enemy is very fast!"

Taro Duye pointed at the map on the table, his expression suddenly became serious, and said: "It seems that Xu Rui is really going to attack our Heyuan County."

"The soldiers are coming to cover up the water and the earth. Let's see if Xu Rui can seize Heyuan County and eat us before the imperial army's reinforcements arrive!"

Sakata Nobori said with a sneer.

"That's what the captain said!"

Dokno Taro nodded, his expression straightened, and then he said seriously.

After Sakata Nobori received a telegram from the Fourth Brigade Headquarters to send troops for reinforcements, he was confident enough to continue to pay attention to a large number of city defenses in Heyuan County, and prepared to have a good fight with the attacking troops commanded by Xu Rui in Heyuan County.

Time is also constantly passing away.

When the time came to less than eight minutes after one o'clock in the morning, the Japanese defenders in Heyuan County who were waiting in full formation, and soon the Japanese defenders at the east gate city heard the constant sound of horse hooves outside the city.

Moreover, there were massive sounds of horse hooves, indicating that a large-scale cavalry force had already arrived outside Dongmen City.

Soon, Nobuori Sakata, who received the news in the command room of the wing headquarters, and the chief of staff, Major Dokno Taro, plus several Japs officers, rushed to the top of the east gate of Heyuan County.

It was early in the morning at night. Sakata Nobori and several Japanese officers who were standing at the head of the East Gate City were constantly chilled by the night wind, and their bodies were shivering from time to time due to the cold night wind.

"Captain, at night, the cavalry troops outside the city must have captured the 303rd regiment of the Jinsui Army, which has more than 500 horses in the hands of He Qiyue, commander of the cavalry battalion of the Wanjia Zhenhuang Association Army."

After listening to the sound of horse hooves coming from outside the city for a while, Major Dokno Taro, the chief of staff of the Sakata Regiment, said to Sakata Nobori: "It seems that it should be the newly formed 303rd Regiment of the Jinsui Army that participated in the ambush of the Miyafuji Brigade.

The cavalry unit."

"This should be the cavalry unit that Xu Rui sent first to enter Heyuan County! Captain, the enemy's infantry should still be behind, and they will not appear outside the city until at least 1:30."

After a pause, Dokno Taro continued to say to Sakata Nobori: "Captain, do you want to send troops out of the city to attack the enemy's cavalry who arrived outside the east gate city first?".

"Mr. Du Ye, it is too difficult and risky to go out of the city to fight the enemy's cavalry at night."

Sakata Nobori thought for a while, shook his head and said: "Even if they leave the city, if the enemy cavalry doesn't want to fight our infantry, they can just ride away at any time."

"What's more, the opponent is a four-legged cavalry. The ones we sent to attack the city are all infantry and cannot fight against them."

Hearing this, Dokno Taro also laughed at himself and said with a wry smile: "What the captain said is that I forgot about this situation."

"What should we do now?"

Under the darkness of night, Sakata Nobuzuki could not see the enemy cavalry less than a hundred meters outside the city. After thinking about it, he said: "Xu Rui should not be underestimated. He sent cavalry to Heyuan County first to delay us.

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"Fortunately, we are here to hold back the enemy's main force. We order the defenders at each gate to wait for the enemy infantry to appear. Once they attack the city, they abandon the gates at the top of the city and shrink back to the pre-constructed positions in the city.

To block."

After a pause, Sakata Nobori then continued to speak to Dokno Taro: "Use the latest secret code we used to contact the brigade and regiment headquarters to contact the 1st Infantry Battalion of the Chongteng Regiment to reinforce us, and ask them to go north as soon as possible and rush to Heyuan County.

outside.".

"Yes, Captain."

Taro Duye paused heavily and said.

"Um!!"

Sakata Nobu hummed, and then stared at the invisible enemy cavalry position outside the East Gate City in the night for a while. After he really couldn't see the enemy cavalry unit, he returned to the temporary coalition headquarters in the city in depression.

inside.

At this time, Zhu Ming, commander of the newly formed 15th Cavalry Battalion of the 303rd Regiment of the Shanxi-Sui Army, arrived outside the East Gate of Heyuan County ahead of the infantry. After commanding the cavalry battalion to arrive outside the East Gate of Heyuan County, under the night

I looked at the east gate city head for a while.

"Mader, the little devil has closed the city gate. There don't seem to be many defenders at the top of the city!"

Zhu Ming disappeared into the night, observed for a while and then said.

"Batalion Commander, what should we do now?"

He Chuan, deputy commander of the cavalry battalion, asked in a low voice.

"Let each company divide its troops and guard the four gates of Heyuan County."

Ju Ming said directly, "We will wait until the main infantry force arrives under the command of the regiment, and then attack the city. Otherwise, even if we dismount as infantry and attack the city, with more than 500 brothers in one battalion, we will not be able to attack Heyuan County!"

"clear!"

He Chuan, the deputy commander of the cavalry battalion, also felt that what Zhu Ming said was right, and immediately went down to arrange for the companies under the cavalry battalion to be separated and guard the four gates of Heyuan County to prevent the Japanese in the city from retreating out of the city.

It was not until 1:37 in the morning that Xu Rui commanded the third battalion to rush outside the east gate of Heyuan County and meet up with the first battalion that had arrived in Heyuan County and the cavalry battalion of Ju Ming who arrived first.

Of course, there was Liu Shuoming of the Second Battalion. After the First Battalion arrived outside the east gate of Heyuan County, the third battalion rushed to the outside of Heyuan County.

At this point, the 1st, 2nd and 3rd battalions of the 303rd Regiment under Xu Rui's command post, the newly formed 15th Cavalry Battalion, the artillery company and other units, with a total of more than 2,100 troops, arrived outside Heyuan County.

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