People are shining their swords, secretly helping the Iron Triangle in Northwest Shanxi

The commander of the 47th Regiment, Masao Furukawa, looked gloomy when he saw the Jincheng artillery shelling continuously.

Immediately afterwards, Masao Furukawa issued an order to attack the city.

The Little Japanese artillery troops launched fierce shelling, the infantry launched successive charges, and the two sides started a fierce battle in Jincheng.

For a time, the battles in the northern Henan region and the southeastern Shanxi region continued, and the troops on both sides continued to suffer casualties.

At one o'clock in the morning on May 47, troops from the th Wing of the Little Devils had already entered the city for combat.

The overall strength of the First Guerrilla Brigade is not weak. The two remaining regiments were formerly field supplementary regiments and have rich combat experience.

But facing the 47th Wing, they still fell behind.

Brigadier Xu Chengpu kept in contact with Sun Yu and Lin Zhiqiang, asking them to stick to their positions.

The two regiment commanders had already come to the front line to take command, and they successively organized troops to carry out counterattacks.

At four o'clock in the morning, Chu Yu commanded the special agent team to arrive at the Jincheng battlefield.

As the special agents joined the war, the little Japanese troops who entered the city were expelled one after another.

The 47th Regiment temporarily stopped attacking to rest and recuperate, but the First Guerrilla Brigade had already suffered certain losses.

As for the northern Henan region, Chen Ziyun and Li Yunlong commanded troops to continue besieging the main force of the 52nd Division.

However, the 69th Regiment and the 107th Regiment received orders from the division headquarters, and they knew that the Jiangdao detachment was fully supporting them.

They even knew that the 47th Regiment was storming Jincheng, and these little devils were ready to hold on and contain nearby troops, so as to wait for reinforcements to come and cooperate inside and outside.

Each regiment continued to attack fiercely, but they were never able to break into the city to fight.

The fierce fighting between the two sides in Ziling Town was very fierce, and the casualties of each department were also increasing.

In the area east of the Qin River, the North Henan Detachment is currently reinforced by the New Third Regiment, an independent detachment, with a combat strength of more than 10,000.

However, the New Third Regiment, headed by Xing Zhiguo, had just been organized and had not experienced large-scale combat.

The 41st Regiment under the Jiangdao Detachment is very strong. With the cooperation of other units of the 52nd Division, the Regiment continues to launch fierce attacks.

It is still very difficult for Kong Jie to command his troops to intercept.

At this time, the Yubei detachment was fighting against the Jiangdao detachment, and nearly a thousand casualties had occurred.

Even the new third regiment that subsequently participated in the battle suffered more than 300 casualties.

Obviously, with their strength, it would be difficult for them to stop the little Japanese troops.

As time passed, the sky gradually became brighter, and early in the morning, the Little Japanese Air Force was dispatched.

Bombers came over the battlefield one after another, and aerial bombs fell on the battlefield.

The little Japanese troops received support from the aviation force and began to carry out offensive operations even harder.

The 47th Regiment continued its fierce attack on Jincheng, and the Jiangdao Detachment conducted encirclement and annihilation operations east of the Qinhe River.

The main force of the 52nd Division defended Ziling Town, and the morale of the Japs was high.

At ten o'clock in the evening on the 19th, the deputy chief of staff of the North China Front, Sadaki Nakanishi, who was on the front line, conveyed the combat order.

General Commander Okamura Neiji was very satisfied with the performance of each department and specially presented the commendation.

In particular, the combat performance of the 41st Regiment and the 47th Regiment greatly praised Okamura Neiji.

Okamura Neiji has begun to contact the base camp directly, specifically asking for credit for the two captains Eshima Torao and Furukawa Masao.

Now in the 43rd year of the division, with Prince Zai Ren stepping down as chief of staff, Okamura Neiji has become a popular figure in the base camp.

Subsequently, Okamura Neiji also sat on the throne of the commander-in-chief of the dispatch army. Everyone knows by now that Okamura Neji is the absolute favorite in front of Hirohito.

If you can gain his appreciation, your future will be no problem.

Especially for these Colonel Captains, if Neji Okamura asks for credit for them, the chances of being promoted to the rank of major general will be greater.

After Ejima Torao and Furukawa Masao got the message, they were very excited.

They immediately summoned their major commanders, and at midnight, the 41st Regiment and the 47th Regiment started fighting again.

The 41st Regiment directly attacked the North Henan Detachment, preparing to tear apart the North Henan Detachment's position and open a way to cross the river.

As for the 47th Regiment, they stormed Jincheng, hoping to fight fiercely all night long and enter the city to fight.

The deafening sound of gunfire continued, and there were shouts of death everywhere.

The little devils continued to fight until about nine o'clock in the morning on the 20th when they stopped.

The field regiments drawn from the two elite permanent divisions have been strengthened and have amazing combat effectiveness.

After continuous fighting, Furukawa Masao's 47th Regiment suddenly opened a gap and invaded Jincheng.

Edao Toraxiong's 41st Regiment also broke through the New Third Regiment's position and reached the area on the east bank of the Qin River.

In the following time, the little devil took a short rest and continued his fierce attack.

The Jiangdao detachment gathered its main force on the captured position on the east bank of the Qin River. With this as its core, they continued to attack both sides.

The 47th Regiment built a position in Jincheng to cover the subsequent main advance.

By May 22, after two days of fierce fighting, the little devils had made great progress.

The 47th Regiment already controls half of Jincheng. Here in Jincheng, the Regiment is directly invincible against the strength of four regiments!
The Jiangdao detachment had sufficient troops. They completely repelled the Henan detachment and controlled the area east of the Qin River.

Now these little Japanese troops can cross the Qin River easily.

Under such circumstances, the battle in Ziling Town seemed very passive.

By May 23, the North China Front held a special combat meeting based on the battlefield conditions.

Originally, as Chen Ziyun and other troops carried out counterattacks, the 52nd Infantry Division was hit and suffered casualties.

The little devils were unwilling to give up in the follow-up battle, but they didn't want to suffer too much loss, so they wanted to fight for a while and then give up the battle.

However, no one expected that with the 41st and 47th Regiments joining the war, the situation would turn around in an instant.

The Jiangdao detachment, organized as the main group of the 41st Regiment, actually repelled tens of thousands of troops east of the Qin River and was about to cross the Qin River to support Ziling Town.

The 47th Regiment has made great progress here. One of their regiments has already invaded Jincheng, which is defended by three infantry regiments and an artillery regiment.

And now, the 47th Wing controls half of Jincheng and is about to capture Jincheng!
Under such circumstances, the little devil was very surprised.

Okamura Neiji made a statement at the combat meeting, that is, to continue fighting.

The various ministries gradually advanced towards Ziling Town, thus cooperating with the main force of the 52nd Division to cooperate internally and externally, and completely annihilated the main forces such as Chen Ziyun and Li Yunlong in the Ziling Town area.

As the combat meeting ended, Anda Twenty-san, Chief of General Staff of the North China Front, began to come to the front line in person.

He wanted to award honors to Masao Furukawa and Torao Eshima successively to reward their achievements.

Anda Twenty-three personally went to the front line to award medals, which also boosted the morale of the little devils.

In the evening, Adachi 47 met Masao Furukawa, captain of the th Regiment, in the area north of Jincheng in southeastern Shanxi. (End of chapter)