Soon after, all the Japanese army retreated into the county town. Except for the southwest corner controlled by the Taohua Mountain guerrillas, the Japanese army controlled most of the county town.

Not long after, Wang Shuanzi rushed over with the Eighth Route Army troops. Under Gao Jiu's command, he surrounded the county town of Cangxian with Taohua Mountain guerrillas, Peace Army and the 7th Division.

In this way, within a few hours in the morning, the situation reversed, and the Japanese army surrounded the enemy, but instead surrounded the county town.

In order to make the Japanese army confused, Gao Jiu ordered all artillery to bombard the Japanese army violently.

The 132nd Japanese Division who came to Cang County this time had a total of 10,400 people. More than 4,000 people have been lost in the battles these days, and now less than 6,000 people are trapped in the city.

The Japanese corps commander still couldn't figure out what was going on. Based on the destruction of the division headquarters and the fierce artillery scale of the anti-Japanese army, he judged that a large number of main forces of the anti-Japanese army surrounded the county town. Therefore, they did not dare to launch a rash breakthrough.

In fact, if they knew the real situation outside and with the combat effectiveness of the Japanese, thousands of Japanese troops launched an attack, even if there were Gao Jiu-class Taohuashan guerrillas, plus the power of the Peace Army, they would not be able to stop the Japanese from breaking through in the wild.

Fortunately, the Japanese made a wrong judgment and they decided to stick to the waiting time for help.

Gao Jiu and others seized the time to build fortifications to prevent the Japanese army from breaking through.

Cui Zhenshan received a telegram from Wang Shuanzi. He did not expect that he would surround the main force of the Japanese. The anti-Japanese troops he escorted had already lifted the danger. He simply brought the more than 10,000 anti-Japanese soldiers and civilians they had responded to and drove towards the county town of Cangxian.

They were originally not too far from Cangxian County, and they also arrived at Cangxian County at 11:00 a.m.

Gao Jiu saw that so many reinforcements came, he had the idea of ​​annihilation of the Japanese army. He immediately sent people to supplement weapons and ammunition for these anti-Japanese soldiers and civilians, and allowed them to join the ranks of encircling the enemy.

Gao Jiu and others did not launch an attack on the Japanese army for the time being, but they used artillery fire to bomb continuously. The Japanese army also used artillery fire to fight back, but the number of artillery they brought into the city was limited, all of which were small-caliber artillery, and the counterattack was also very limited.
Chapter completed!