More than 200 people repelled the enemy attack of more than 2,000 people, this kind of battle is rare but not uncommon, but with more than 200 guerrillas defeating more than 2,000 enemy attackers, this kind of battle is rare. The guerrillas who were lying in ambush on both sides of the road had already rushed onto the road, and after most of the Japanese were deprived of mines, the remaining Japanese soldiers were either injured or had their ears broken by the explosion, and they could no longer resist the guerrillas' attack.

"Lay down your arms and surrender, the Chinese do not kill the Chinese." Zhuo Yan's voice came from the iron speaker, and as soon as he shouted in a loud voice, the Imperial Allied troops who were slightly injured by mines behind the Japanese army immediately lost the mind to continue to resist, some chose to surrender on the spot, and some fled with weapons, and the Imperial Allied Army that resisted to the end was less than a hundred people. Most of the Imperial Allied Army chose to surrender, but before the battle was over, Zhuo Fei and some members of the guerrilla troops were lining up in formation and shooting the Japanese soldiers who had not yet died in the corpse pile one by one.

Replenishing the corpse with guns, this is the practice of the umbrella mercenaries, even with the members of the guerrilla force trained by the mercenaries, the Wuyi County Brigade originally wanted to stop Zhuo Fei from their actions, but found that Zhuo Fei and their movements were too fast, and they had already combed the entire section of the road like a comb. "Don't look at it, let's just have this manpower, besides, most of these Japanese soldiers have been injured, is it possible that you still want to use the medicine we captured to treat them?" Zhuo Fei's answer to Li Daguang was a bit blunt, but it definitely left the other party speechless.

From the mouth of the surrendered Imperial Army, it was learned that the defensive force in Hengshui City was already very weak, and some people in the guerrilla troops suggested that they immediately attack Hengshui City, but this suggestion was rejected by Zhuo Fei. "Guys, don't think about that good thing, take a closer look, we'll have this manpower now. There are now more than 500 Japanese puppet troops in Hengshui City, not to mention that we are exhausted, even if we can rush to Hengshui City, we also lack heavy weapons and equipment to attack the city. ”

A day later, Zhuo Fei waited for the forward troops of the New Second Army, and a day later, a vanguard regiment of the New Second Army successfully entered Hengshui City with the help of the underground party in Hengshui City. The loss of Hengshui is indeed bad news for Okamura Ningci, who is sitting in Shijiazhuang, but for the armored forces of the New First Army that appeared outside Shijiazhuang, Okamura Ningji has to focus all his attention on how to deal with this armored force.

When did the Chinese army have armored forces of such a size? Okamura Ninji was no longer entangled in this question at this time, because he knew that even if he found the answer to the question, he would not be able to stop the attack of the opponent's armored forces. Under the guidance of local guerrilla forces, his armored troops will first carry out a concentration attack on the Japanese defense line or position, and then go around the two flanks from this point that has been broken by themselves, and eat up the strongholds and positions of the Japanese puppet army little by little.

Dai Anlan played very conservatively, but it was his conservative tactics that made Okamura Ningji feel like he couldn't start. Dai Anlan's armored troops have cleared most of the puppet army strongholds and control areas outside Shijiazhuang, and a large number of follow-up New Army and Eighth Route Army troops have taken advantage of the situation to launch, for the time being, Shijiazhuang held by the Japanese army has been attacked on three sides, if the New Army troops bypass Shijiazhuang and attack Baoding directly, then the Shijiazhuang defenders under the command of Okamura Ningji can only become a lone army.

To be a lone army means that you will face a ruthless blow from your opponent, and if the situation changes, you may even become the target of the military department's abandonment, and Okamura Ninji naturally cannot allow this to happen. "Okamura Ninji, this old bastard, has something wrong with his brain, right? At this time, a meeting was also proposed. What does he want to do? Do you want to buy us or do you want to play other tricks? Receiving the telegram from the front line in Shijiazhuang, Zhuo Fei couldn't help laughing.

The anxious Okamura Ningji actually found an intermediary who knew Dai Anlan, and asked the intermediary to send a letter to Dai Anlan, asking the new army besieging Shijiazhuang to suspend its march, and he wanted to have a meeting with the commander of the new army. Knowing that Zhuo Fei was in Hengshui at the moment, while sending Okamura Ningji's letter to Chongqing, Dai Anlan also sent a telegram to Zhuo Fei. The Nationalist Army suffered the same loss during the Battle of Songhu, and it was also the Japanese army that proposed to suspend the war, but when the Nationalist Army ceased fighting, the Japanese army took the opportunity to mobilize heavy troops from the mainland to Shanghai.

Dai Anlan naturally would not be fooled, and at the same time as receiving a letter from Okamura Ninji, the armored forces of the new army did not have the slightest intention of suspending the offensive. The arrival of the New Second Army heralded the escalation of the war, and the vanguard of the New Second Army successfully took Hengshui, and then with the help of local guerrilla troops, they divided their troops and went straight to Xingtai. At the same time that Okamura Ninji had drawn troops from Baoding, the New Second Army had successively conquered Xingtai and Handan, and by this point, the Chinese troops assembled in Shanxi had been able to freely enter and leave Hebei.

The Japanese army immediately dispatched a large number of troops, fighters, and tanks to support the Shijiazhuang battlefield, but they did not expect that this gave many guerrilla forces in North China an opportunity to rise. Chiang Kai-shek's earlier definition of the battle had evolved into a massive melee, in which the Japanese puppet army in North China had been in a passive position of being beaten.

In order to cope with the offensive of the new army, Zhuo Fei, who was not too troublesome, took Zhuo Yan to fight on various battlefields, using his advantages to help the new army secretly clean up the heavy weapons and logistics supplies of the Japanese puppet army. The melee in North China lasted until July, and during the melee for a whole month and a half, the New Army seized a large area controlled by the Japanese army, killed and wounded more than 40,000 Japanese puppet troops, and the Imperial Allied Army surrendered to more than 10,000 people, making Okamura Ninji, who commanded the North China operation, miserable.

Shijiazhuang has always been in the hands of the Japanese army, this is not that the new army cannot break through Shijiazhuang, but the new army wants Shijiazhuang to become a chess piece to attract the Japanese puppet army, because as long as Shijiazhuang is still in the hands of the Japanese army, Okamura Ningji will continue to transfer Japanese puppet army troops to fortify Shijiazhuang. Throughout July, the sound of gunfire had been resounding incessantly in Shijiazhuang and its surrounding areas, except that it did not occupy air superiority, and the new army, which was attacking like a rainbow, had completely suppressed the momentum of the Japanese puppet army.

The war in North China was going well, the New First Army and the New Second Army had already combined their respective defense areas, and with the cooperation of a large number of Eighth Route Army and Jingjin Sui Army, Zhuo Fei, who had returned to Hengshui from the Japanese rear line, felt that it was time for him to leave. The rainy season in Myanmar is only from May to October every year, and now it is the end of July, and I have to rest for a while when I return to Ruili, and when I wait until October, it is the time for the independence army to move south, and in any case, I will go back to participate in the war.

After two and a half months, Zhuo Fei returned to Ruili again, and Ruili at this time had some changes, and under the leadership of Angela, the Jews who settled here showed amazing creativity and efficiency. "Our ordnance base has undergone a new round of expansion, and the steel mill has also been put into operation, and the current daily production capacity of the ordnance base has been able to ensure the consumption of a 10,000-strong army." Angela's account made Zhuo Fei very happy, if you count the new arsenal built by the coalition government, the ammunition needed by the new army troops can already be guaranteed.

"That's not all, ammunition production is just a project of the arsenal base, and during your absence, the newly built heavy weapons factory has successfully produced front-loading individual rocket launcher weapons based on the blueprints you have gotten. Although the current production is not large, we have conducted field tests and have been audited by weapons laboratories. The next step is to expand the production of this weapon, and maybe in two months, we will be able to guarantee the production of 200 units per day. ”

The front-loading bazooka weapon that Angela is talking about at this moment is the famous Type 56 40mm rocket launcher in later generations, which is commonly known as the 40 fire. Zhuo Fei got the design drawings of this weapon also from the roulette lottery, the weapon laboratory has successfully developed a long-range rocket, Zhuo Fei handed over this drawing to the weapon laboratory, hoping that they can improve the range and power of 40 fires, but I didn't expect that in just over two months, the ordnance base not only solved the problem, but also built a new 40 fire production factory, which Zhuo Fei did not expect.

Compared with the bazooka equipped by the U.S. military, the pre-loading mode of the 40 fire is much simpler, and unlike the bazooka, which requires two people to cooperate, the 40 fire only needs one person to complete the entire firing process. Moreover, after the modification of the weapons laboratory, the newly produced 40 fire is similar to the Type 56 40mm rocket launcher in appearance, and its performance and power have been greatly improved. The original maximum range of 40 fires and 150 meters has been increased to 230 meters, and the power has also increased a lot, and the weapons laboratory has also developed armor-piercing and high-explosive shells to be used with this weapon.

High-explosive shells can be used against fixed targets, such as Japanese forts or heavy fire points, while armor-piercing shells can be used against Japanese armored targets. For three days in a row, Zhuo Fei was accompanied by Angela to get acquainted with various changes in Ruili, and before he knew it, the umbrella company had established a solid rear base in Ruili.

"Make a plan, as soon as the rainy season is over, it will be the time for the Independence Army to move south." After reading the information compiled by the staff group, Zhuo Fei did not show much reaction, but just asked the staff of the Independent Army to immediately formulate a battle plan for going south. Ruili has produced so many new weapons, Zhuo Fei can't control his emotions anymore, he can't wait to go south to fight the Japanese army, it's time to show his fangs to the whole of South Asia.