The father of the sword is Kong Jie

Chapter 993
It's just that the Commander-in-Chief, His Excellency Okamura's order is very clear, absolutely no one of the Eighth Route Army will be allowed to pass through the defense lines in Baoding and Shimen.

Although it is not uncommon for the Japanese army to fight against each other, it is natural that this should not be too ugly on the bright side.

The old devil originally thought about it. In Kaifeng, the Harada Division has been in a hurry, saying that the main force of the Eighth Route Army is attacking the city.

As for Zaozhuang, the guy from Gujing also stated in the communication that the main force of the Taihang Eighth Route Army is approaching the city.

He even said that he had a nose and an eye, but he was short of accurately describing the appearance of the former enemy commander-in-chief of the Eighth Route Army.

Thinking about it this way, he is not bad.

As for the safety of the general headquarters after the Eighth Route Army broke through its own defense line and advanced to Peiping, that was not the original concern.

If His Excellency the Commander-in-Chief hadn't even anticipated this and had prepared well in advance, he wouldn't be worthy of the position.

Yougang Village can sit firmly in the military tent and issue orders.

After all, aren't we blocking the gun for you in front?
"Yaoxi, contact the headquarters immediately and ask for help from Your Excellency Commander. He said that the main force of the Eighth Route Army coming from Jizhong, Jinanhui and Shanxi has at least one division... no, it is the strength of two divisions. The defense area advances.

Baoding and Shimen are in a hurry, and the Pinghan Line, Zhengtai Line, and Shide Line may be difficult to preserve, please ask for tactical guidance! "

Not long after the original communication was delivered, it became clear that the situation between China and Japan was evolving in the Baoding area of ​​Shimen.

The original division, which started as a shrinking tortoise, retained its main force, hiding in some large strongholds, towns, and county towns with strong fortifications, and did not show up at all.

In this regard, no matter how powerful the Eighth Route Army is, it has nothing to do with these devils.

Of course, the combined forces advancing towards Shimen, Baoding include the reinforced regiment led by Shen Quan, the troops sent by Commander Lv from the Central Hebei side, and the armored battalion sent by the 385th Brigade.

These commanders have already reached a consensus in communication:

Therefore, the formation of doubts, the attack on Baoding and Shimen, as well as the local Zhengtai Line, Shide Line and other railway lines, are just to knock the mountains and shake the tigers and scare the little devils.

In fact, everyone did not expect that with the help of this limited force, they would be able to overcome the easy-to-defend and difficult-to-attack important cities such as Baoding and Shimen in one fell swoop against the reinforcements that the Japanese army might deploy at any time.

After all, now is not the time for a decisive battle with the Japanese army.

When talking about this matter, the commanders of the Eighth Route Army were even worried.

If it is said that the victory of Datong has seriously weakened the military influence of the Japanese army and caused the Japanese army to suffer great humiliation.

Then continue to take down Licheng, break through Kaifeng, and even take down Zaozhuang, take down Baoding and Shimen.

Ok!

In case the little devil and the Eighth Route Army are forced to die.

This devil may even directly abandon the battles on the frontal battlefields, withdraw all the elites, and concentrate their forces to deal with the Eighth Route Army troops.

Even if the battlefield behind the enemy is developed into a frontal battlefield, the gain will outweigh the loss.

Do you think that Jiang's army would take the opportunity to attack the empty Japanese defense line at that time?
Don't even think about it, maybe people are watching the fire from the other side, and they are applauding!
and so……

"The surprise attack on Baoding and the Shimen area was only to contain the Japanese army's strength, and to weaken the Japanese army's external control over Baoding and the Shimen area.

We can't get rid of these heavy cities of the devils, and we can still remove some towns, villages, strongholds, and various lines of communication on the outer lines.

Leave a few isolated cities for the little devil. In the future, this little devil will have more than enough protection for himself. If he wants to wipe out our base, then he has to weigh it carefully. "

then……

It was only a day and a half before and after.

"Reporting to Your Excellency, Commander-in-Chief, according to the situation reported by the Division Headquarters, the outer defense zone around Baoding and Shimen has been completely paralyzed. The Eighth Route Army may have broken through the defense line and is advancing towards Peiping!"

Beiping, the headquarters of the Japanese Army's North China Expeditionary Army.

The Commander-in-Chief, Okamura, who heard the news, turned blue with anger.

If he still doesn't know what's going on by now, then he's really a stupid pig.

"Bastards, these damned bastards, they avoid war so passively, is there any hope for the jihad of my Great Japanese Empire?"

main force.

The main force of the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army is everywhere.

Is it possible that there are four, five, seven, eight 129 divisions in the eighth road?

First Licheng, then Kaifeng, then Zaozhuang, and then Baoding and Shimen.

Why, the main force of the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army is everywhere?

How many of them are greedy for life and afraid of death, deliberately shirk their guilt, and rely on the main force of the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army?

Okamura, who was burning with anger, had not had time to deploy the defense in Beiping area, and then someone who was not long-sighted directly hit the muzzle of the gun.

——That is a city in the border area between southeast Hebei and northwest Shandong, belonging to the northwest region of Shandong.

Texas.

Under the large-scale attack of the Eighth Route Army, after the original divisions that chose to avoid the battle passively retreated to the county towns and towns, the Japanese army's defense line in Shide County was quickly broken.

Without stopping, Shen Quan split into two groups again, all the way united with the local troops, and continued to harass the Japanese troops in Baoding and Shimen to ensure that the Japanese troops would not dare to leave the city at will.

The other way is to advance directly along the Shide line to Dezhou.

After arriving in Dezhou, under the leadership of Shen Quan, the elite members of the reinforced regiment belonging to the Iron Triangle launched an attack on the Japanese defense line along the way with a particularly powerful firepower configuration.

As soon as the Taihang Eighth Route made a move, the Japanese army trembled in fright.

The Japanese troops stationed in the Dezhou area immediately imitated the example, imitating the original division and reporting to the headquarters: The main force of the Eighth Route Army has completely broken through the blockade in the Shide County area and entered the Dezhou area. Dezhou is in a hurry and asks for tactical guidance!

It stands to reason that there is nothing wrong with this call for help!

Obviously it was the original division that first reported that the main force of the Eighth Route Army had reached the vicinity of Shimen in Baoding.

As a result, your division did not hold the line of defense, and the main force of the Eighth Route Army took the opportunity to attack the Dezhou area along the Shide line. Is there any problem with my report like this?

It's just that the devil commander who was stationed in Texas was really unlucky and hit Okamura's bullet hole.

His weight as a regiment leader is far less than that of a division commander.

Okamura, who was already furious because of the passive avoidance of the various ministries, decided to kill the chicken and respect the monkey. After angrily reprimanding the Japanese army chief, he was directly dismissed.

He also informed the three armies that His Majesty the Colonel knew that he was not effective in fighting, so he would commit suicide by caesarean section to apologize to the Emperor!

Under such thunderous tactics, the Japanese army, which had originally decided to do nothing, hastily stepped up its defensive operations against the Eighth Route Army.

At the same time, he was really worried that the Eighth Route Army would draw its salary from the bottom. Okamura, who really came to attack Beiping, couldn't sit still.

at this time.

With the evolution of the war situation, many places such as Luxi, Luzhong, and Northern Henan were in emergency.

The crisis in Licheng was completely resolved again. According to the news, the main forces of the Eighth Route continued to appear in Zaozhuang, Kaifeng, Hebei, and Baoding.

Central China and South China dispatched troops who originally sent reinforcements to Licheng also chose to evacuate and return to their original camps to guard against the infiltration of the Eighth Route Army troops.

The Kwantung Army that went south for reinforcements was a little unlucky because of poor information.

They were the last ones to retreat from Licheng, and in addition to the long distance back to the northeast, they fought with some harassing Eighth Route Army troops from time to time along the way.

As for Okamura, since he wanted to defend the base camp of Beiping, he had caused a mess, and he should have cleaned it up by himself.

It would be best for him to dispatch troops from North China to help.

It's just that at the moment, the Eighth Route Army seems to be present throughout North China, and there is a mess everywhere. If a large number of troops are hastily withdrawn to help Beiping, it may cause unpredictable loopholes.

After the Corps Garrison in Mongolia was changed to the Garrison in Mongolia, it was later subordinated to the North China Dispatch Army, and was dispatched by Okamura, the commander-in-chief of the North China Dispatch Army.

But in the end, people only care about the mess in northern Shanxi and Inner Mongolia, and they don't have the time to talk to him.

Not to mention that not long ago, during the battle against the Eighth Route Army troops in the Taihang base area, the 26th Division of the Mongolian Army sent more troops to the south, but fell into the ambush circle of the Iron Triangle of the Eighth Route Army.

The various units of the Japanese First Army slipped away very quickly.

As a result, the No.11 Wing of the Mongolian Army and two cavalry units were almost wiped out.

Regarding this, the headquarters of the Garrison Mongolian Army was very dissatisfied, and naturally attributed these grievances to the commander of the First Army, Yoshio Shinozuka, and the commander-in-chief Neiji Okamura.

It would be embarrassing for Okamura to ask for reinforcements at this time.

So right now, for Okamura, if he wants to defend Beiping, the best reinforcement along the way is the Kwantung Army, which is returning to the northeast region and is not far from Beiping!

The Kwantung Army has always been pampered and elite in the Northeast, and has never taken the Eighth Route Army seriously. It even won the final victory in the crusade against the Northeast Anti-Japanese Alliance.

With their reinforcements, the crisis will definitely be resolved.

In this way, after the communication between the two sides, the Kwantung Army, which was returning from the north, had about one brigade of field elites, and immediately moved closer to Peiping.

And actually.

Whether it was Ding Wei, Shen Quan, or Brigadier Chen of the 385th Brigade, or Commander Lu in Jizhong, everyone never had the idea of ​​fighting Beiping from the very beginning.

It's not time for a decisive battle yet.

Second, I don't want to completely anger the Japanese army.

Thirdly, to attack Beiping all the way, it is inevitable that the army will go deep alone, and the troops will be easily eaten.

Fourthly, right now the troops from all walks of life are still mainly engaged in mobile warfare, ambush warfare, and harassment warfare, and the battles seem to be fought piece by piece.

But in fact, not many important towns and cities of the Japanese army were breached.

The active force of the Japanese army did not suffer too much loss.

On the whole, if the two sides fight head-to-head in a decisive battle, the Eighth Route Army is still far from being an opponent.

Therefore, the troops in Jizhong and the troops of the 385th Brigade are only active in the areas outside Baoding and Shimen, while Shen Quan is leading a reinforced regiment to try to move closer to Dezhou.

But what everyone never expected was that at this juncture, hey, the Kwantung Army came, and it was so impartial, as if throwing itself into a trap, and actively jumped into the encirclement of the three parties.

At this time, the troops of Jizhong and the 385th Brigade were in the area north of this Kwantung Army brigade.

The reinforced regiment led by Shen Quan is in the area east of the Kwantung Army.

If the Eighth Route Army troops from the central and southern areas of Hebei take the opportunity to go north again, they will be in the area south of the Kwantung Army.

Good guy, this is surrounded by three sides!

If we take the opportunity to detour all the troops and completely seal off the area east of the Kwantung Army.

Then it will become a large-scale encirclement and annihilation battle of closing the door and beating dogs!
Looking into all directions of this Kwantung Army...

"Shimen, Baoding, Licheng, Xinxiang, Kaifeng Zaozhuang... the Japanese troops everywhere are now overwhelmed, and they are urgently asking for help everywhere. The Japanese reinforcements in South China have all withdrawn, and there is no spare force to reinforce the Kwantung Army. "

In the headquarters of the Jizhong Military Region, after analyzing the overall situation on the combat map, Commander Lu couldn't help but slapped hard, and said in surprise:
"Haha, from the looks of it, this Kwantung Army is really a long-lived old man who hanged himself and hit our gun!
A brigade of the Kwantung Army, according to our investigation, this little devil is eager to come to reinforcements, there are not many baggage belts, and the number of heavy weapons is also limited. The combat strength is about 6000 people.

The strength of our encirclement on all sides is at least twice that of the devils.

If you add the local army units conducting sabotage operations in the local area, I am afraid that they will not be able to fight four or five times.

This once-in-a-lifetime opportunity cannot be wasted.

Damn, notify the front-line combat troops to encircle the Kwantung Army, and immediately contact the 385th Brigade and the Third Independent Regiment Headquarters. We will fight with multiple parties. We will fight this battle! ! ! "

... "Reporting to Your Excellency, Brigade Commander, the marching direction has been adjusted and is advancing rapidly towards Beiping. It is expected to arrive in Beiping in eight hours!"

The temporary headquarters of the Hirano Brigade of the Kwantung Army going north.

Taiji Hirano, head of the devil brigade, nodded, his eyes mixed with anger and unwillingness.

As the absolute elite of the Kwantung Army, this time his Hirano Brigade went south to reinforce Licheng, but he wasted no time, and was ambushed by the Shanxi Iron Triangle Eighth Route Army along the way. The vanguard suffered a lot of casualties and suffered a big loss .

This made Hirano Taiji brood.

He has never suffered such an insult at the hands of the Chinese army.

However, the Eighth Route Army was really cunning. After the troops were broken up into pieces, there was no trace of them at all. The headquarters ordered them to return to the northeast immediately.

Although Hirano Taiji was full of unwillingness, he had no choice but to lead the troops back.

Unexpectedly, this happy event came so quickly.

While the team was still on the way, Hirano suddenly received an order from his superiors, asking him to lead the main force to quickly reinforce Beiping.

Realizing that there was an opportunity to confront the Eighth Route Army again, Hirano Taier was very excited, and without saying a word, he immediately led the troops to move closer to Beiping.

He thought that he represented the majesty of the Kwantung Army going south this time.

No matter what, we should fight two decent victories for the dispatched troops in Central China, North China, and South China to take a good look at it, and teach them who is the real elite of the empire.

The upcoming confrontation between the two sides was brewing so quickly.

"Is it the Hirano Brigade of the Kwantung Army?"

In the headquarters of the Third Independent Regiment, Shen Quan looked excited and couldn't help licking his chapped lips due to the long-term trek and battle. There was light in his eyes, calming the fierce light of the Japanese invaders.

"When we were in our base area, we let this bastard bastard run away. Hehe, I didn't expect this group of devils to come crashing into us again!
This time, I can't let the old devil Hirano slip away again! "

(End of this chapter)