Everything was as the brigade commander expected.
Kong Jie's trick of using the cavalry company to surprise Qu County was so brilliant that for the Japanese army, it was like draining fuel from the bottom of the cauldron.
The commotion surrounding Xiaoan Town seemed to be a laughing stock now.
Qu County is to Xiaoan Town what Xiaoan Town is to Pingxiang. If you can't have it both ways, if you choose one of Pingxiang or Xiaoan Town, the Japanese army will choose Xiaoan Town without hesitation.
When choosing between Xiao'an Town and Qu County, the Japanese would also choose Qu County without hesitation.
This is more related to the Japanese army’s face problem.
Originally, the main part of the Eighth Route Army's counterattack was focused on the raids along the Zhengtai-Taiwan Railway. In front of them, even Qu County, the transportation hub of the Japanese army, was captured. Isn't this a blatant slap in the face of the Japanese army?
The spectators who did not participate in this battle were also in an uproar.
As for those compromising and capitulating factions, many people suddenly realized because of the Qu County incident that the originally seemingly powerful Japanese army was a bit like a paper tiger under the counterattack of the Eighth Route Army.
Perhaps the Japanese army is not as scary and powerful as everyone thinks.
In the direction of Taiyuan City, after Yoshio Shinozuka's order came out.
The Japanese reinforcements surrounding Xiao'an Town began to retreat and turned to the direction of the curve for support.
As for Xiao'an Town, Qu County has been lost anyway. I don't care if I lose another Xiao'an Town. It's more important to save Qu County first and save some face.
As the Japanese reinforcements retreated, the Eighth Route Army breathed a sigh of relief. The situation surrounding Xiao'an Town became increasingly anxious. As time went by, the two sides even had the momentum to start a decisive battle. This was not a good sign.
Fortunately, an unexpected situation occurred in Youqu County and the disaster was finally resolved.
After the Japanese reinforcements withdrew, the Eighth Route Army's reinforcements also withdrew separately. Taking advantage of the Japs' attention being drawn back to Qu County, they continued and further expanded their raids along the Zhengtai-Taiwan Railway.
Xiaoan Town.
The strength of the defensive Xiaoan Town garrison and the attacking Li Yunlong did not seem to have changed much, but their momentum was already far behind.
Not long ago, Li Yunlong also received news that Qu County was successfully captured by a cavalry company.
While Lao Li applauded loudly, he also realized that he had an opportunity to capture Xiao'an Town. He immediately ordered: "With the withdrawal of the Japanese reinforcements, the Japanese and puppet troops in Xiao'an Town have completely lost hope. This is the old man in the jar."
Turtle, let us capture him. Zhang Dabiao immediately led people to shout and tell the puppet troops in Xiao'an Town that their reinforcements have been repulsed by our Eighth Route Army. If you want to survive, you should aim your guns at the little Japs. Our independent regiment will not kill them.
If the Chinese are not short-sighted, I will leave no one behind after Xiao'an Town is conquered by me."
"Yes!"
Zhang Dabiao responded and immediately led someone with a loudspeaker to shout.
This time is different from that time. Xiaoan Town has suffered from the fierce attack by Li Yunlong's troops for a long time and is already exhausted. The Japanese troops stationed in the city are no longer ten, but the puppet troops account for the majority.
Don't expect the puppet soldiers to be very tenacious in their fighting will. The reason why they didn't surrender before was because they saw the Japanese reinforcements gathering from all directions towards Xiao'an Town. The puppet soldiers had illusions, but now their illusions were shattered, and their psychological defenses collapsed.
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As soon as Zhang Dabiao shouted, many puppet troops defected in response.
The remaining Japs in Xiao'an Town at this time were stretched thin in terms of military strength. Seeing the puppet soldiers' hearts turbulent, they were helpless. Even if they could prevent the puppet troops around them from rebelling, they could not help the puppet troops secretly surrender.
There were even puppet troops who coordinated Zhang Dabiao's Saber Team from the side door, so that the Saber Team broke into Xiao'an Town without any effort.
Around eight o'clock in the morning.
After nearly two hours of attack, Li Yunlong finally broke through the gate of Xiaoan Town in one fell swoop, and combined with the swordsmen at the side gate and the puppet troops who defected before the battle, launched a final fight against the Japanese troops inside the town.
By around 8:10 in the morning, the battle in Xiaoan Town was completely over.
Looking at Xiao'an Town, which was finally in his hands, Li Yunlong was elated and immediately ordered the arrangements: "Zhang Dabiao, immediately lead people to take control of the Japanese material warehouse and arms warehouse in Xiao'an Town, and then arrange for the brothers to move all the things back to me.
, I can take as much as I can, but transportation is inconvenient, so I asked the people in the town to buy some pallets for use."
"Yes!" Zhang Dabiao responded, his eyes couldn't help but shine. After fighting for so long, it's finally time for a good harvest.
Qu County.
It has to be said that the cavalry company commander Sun Desheng meticulously completed Kong Jie's instructions. He led the Dongyang Horse Cavalry Company to set off first, arrived in Qu County at 6:47, and launched a surprise attack.
It was half-past five when the cavalry company set off. It was still bright at that time, and I could barely see.
Counting this way, it only took one hour and seventeen minutes for Sun Desheng to lead the first cavalry company to Qu County and launch a surprise attack.
Thirteen minutes later, the second cavalry company arrived and broke in through the side door.
"Company Commander Sun, Instructor Chen, it's done. Your cavalry company did a great job this time. They traveled more than fifty kilometers and came over in the blink of an eye. This battle was so sudden that the little devil didn't expect it.
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When the cavalry company and the commando team met, Ye Min, the deputy captain of the commando team, said with emotion.
Sun Desheng said: "Thanks to your commando team for supporting us, otherwise it would not be that easy for our cavalry company to break into the city gate.
Speaking of which, our team leader is very powerful. When we simulated the confrontation on the sand table, I knew that we would definitely win this battle.
It was the regimental commander who gave our cavalry company a chance to prove itself and gave us a place to use it."
Chen Dalian said happily: "Old Sun, you should go back and tell the regiment commander these words! Our regiment commander is really good at this. It is not suitable to stay here for a long time. The military value of Qu County is too important. The reinforcements of the little devil are afraid at this moment.
It’s like crazy. Support is coming from all directions towards the curve! We have to hurry up.”
Sun Desheng said: "Yes, yes, the regiment leader said that after conquering Qu County, he would seize the Japs' supplies and arms warehouses as soon as possible. By the way, there would also be power generation equipment and the like in the Japs' barracks, and take them all back.
After thirty minutes, we must all evacuate."
"Then do it quickly!"
The three reached an agreement. On the one hand, they sent troops to station in the direction of the city gate and side gate to guard against Japanese reinforcements arriving in advance. On the other hand, they arranged the troops to quickly occupy and loot the Japanese supplies and arms warehouses.
Everything goes according to the original plan.
Qu County was captured. After the battle, many brave people came out one after another. When they saw it was the Eighth Route Army, they clapped their hands and cheered.
Instructor Chen Dalian directly asked the soldiers to send a message to the people. As long as they were willing to come and help, those who pulled things, and the food and supplies that could not be taken away, would be distributed to the people who helped.
The common people originally had their hearts set on the Eighth Route Army, and with something to gain before them, they rushed over to help like swarms of swarms.
Many people also sent pallets, and as Gaqu County is an important transportation hub for the Japanese, there are quite a few transport trucks parked inside, as many as a dozen.
While driving trucks to collect supplies and munitions, the commando team members all lamented the foresight of regiment leader Kong Jie.
Not long ago, several trucks were seized during a sneak attack on the Japanese prisoner-of-war camp and mine. After bringing them back to the base, Kong Jie forced the commando members to learn how to drive until all the gasoline in the spare fuel tanks of several trucks was used.