In the anxious waiting of Anda Twenty-three, the chief of staff of the Japanese 37th Division, Nagano Uichiro, hurriedly walked into the headquarters, but his face was very strange, which made Anda Twenty-three heart inexplicably tight, and said hurriedly: "Nagano-kun, how is it, hasn't the 225th Wing arrived yet?" ”

Uichiro Nagano sighed and said, "It's here, but before they arrived, Tsuchihachi had already fled." ”

"Yo Xi!" Anda Twenty-three finally showed a smile on his face, the imperial army was mighty, Tubalu fled in spite of the wind, Jinzhai originally had an independent 65 mixed brigade and a wing of his own thirty-seventh division, plus a wing just sent, the strength was close to a division, and there were nearly 10,000 imperial troops, even if the army pressed the border, relying on the unique terrain of Jinzhai that was easy to defend and difficult to attack, there was absolutely no problem in holding on for two days, and after two days, the army of the eleventh army should arrive, and the situation was completely under the control of the imperial army.

But Mr. Lin was too careful, and the Japanese army never thought that the squadron would attack Lu'an.

But the chief of staff, Uichiro Nagano, was obviously not so optimistic, and the expression on his face was gloomy like the weather in the middle of winter, "Anda-kun, don't you think there's something wrong with this?" Could this be a plan to divert the tiger from the mountain? ”

"A plan to divert the tiger from the mountain?" Anda Twenty-three was stunned for two seconds, shook his head and said: "No, no, Nagano-kun, Jinzhai will be the preferred target of the Zhina army, Jinzhai is in the hands of the imperial army, even if the Zhina army defeats Lu'an, how many troops will they have to use to defend it?" You know, Hefei is in the back, Jinzhai and Huoshan are in front, even if there are small forces infiltrated into the rear by that army, how can they face the three-way reinforcements of the imperial army? So, it's basically unlikely. ”

Nagano Youichiro still did not give up, and said: "Anda-kun, the army is cunning and cunning, Xinyang is lost, our outer defense line has frequent loopholes, and it is ironclad evidence that Tubalu can appear behind Jinzhai, and similarly, they may also come to fight Lu'an, our rear, Hefei is completely empty, and ahead, once Lu'an is lost, it will inevitably be chaotic, and Jinzhai will not last long, and Huoshan has only one brigade in total, and it is far water that can't save the near fire." ”

Although Nagano Youichiro was bitter, Anda Twenty-three was unmoved, if he was alert at this time, the 225 Wing that was transferred to Jinzhai would be urgently transferred back, and it may not be impossible to return to Lu'an in two or three hours with the rapid maneuver of the 225 Wing, although there was a regiment of the Eighth Route Army blocking it, but in the end it was a wing, how long could the Eighth Route Army stop them? Perhaps the tide of the battle could change, and it can be said that Anda Twenty-Three missed the only opportunity.

Although Anda 23 graduated from the non-commissioned officer school of the island country and the army university, and received a good military education, he only had theoretical knowledge and no actual combat experience, and although he had been in China for several years, he had been serving as a staff officer and chief of the transportation section in the Kwantung Army. Because of the large increase in the Japanese army last year, 50 divisions and regiments were put into the Chinese battlefield at one time, and a large number of division commanders were needed.

An hour later, fierce gunfire suddenly sounded in the northeast direction of Lu'an, and the attack of the Eighth Route Army started as scheduledAlthough they did not carry heavy artillery fire during long-distance attacks, light and heavy machine guns could bring a lot of young and old, so that the strength of a brigade was seen by the Japanese army as a division. Anda 23 urgently transferred troops from the front to reinforce the rear, and urgently ordered the 225th Wing to return immediately.

Fifteen minutes later, there was news that the blockhouse at the Weihe Bridgehead had been bombed and that the Eighth Route Army was frantically attacking from the front.

The Eighth Route Army never fought uncertain battles, as early as when it entered the Lu'an territory, all the forces in the rear had already received the news of cooperating with the main force to attack, and they had mixed into Lu'an City early in the morning.

The Japanese puppet army immediately became completely confused and panicked. The 37th Division of the Japanese Army was formed only last year, belonging to the three-wing C Division, the number of veterans is small, most of them are new recruits, and in the Chinese battlefield for more than a year, in addition to participating in the public security war, basically did not participate in any major battles, the soldiers' fighting will and quality were originally poor, coupled with a commander who did not enter the stream, for a time, the chaos in Lu'an City was simply indescribable, and many puppet troops even lost their weapons directly in the shouts of "The Eighth Route Army is coming in" in the city. I took off my military uniform and deserted.

Two hours later, the Eighth Route Army all poured into Lu'an City and carried out the final elimination of the remaining enemy, while the Japanese 225th Wing was ambushed by the Eighth Route Army thirty miles away from Jinzhai and forcibly broke through the defense line of the Independent Regiment of the Eighth Route Army at the cost of four or five hundred casualties.

The most bizarre thing is that the commander of the 37th Division of the Japanese Army, An Da 23, did not escape in time when the city was broken, and was blocked in the city by the Eighth Route Army, becoming the first supreme commander captured by the Eighth Route Army.

At the last moment, Anda 23 finally made a correct decision, so that the 225th Wing, which was only thirty or forty miles away from Lu'an, quickly withdrew to Jinzhai and gave up the rescue, thus preserving the 225th Wing, otherwise when the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army cleaned up the remnants of the Japanese army in Lu'an, and then turned back and attacked the Japanese 225th Wing back and forth, the 225th Wing would simply have no way to live.

Just when the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army captured Lu'an, Huoshan, which was less than 100 miles away from Lu'an, also suffered a fierce attack, and the opponent was the second detachment of the New Fourth Army, and the commander was General Su.

As early as ten days ago, Mr. Su took 2,000 soldiers to quietly cross the Yangtze River from the Yangtze River, quietly crossed the Dabie Mountain, and made a long-distance attack to Huoshan, which is also the most important part of Jiang Haoran's "thousands of troops and horses blocking Jinzhai".

Huoshan, Jinzhai, Lu'an, the three places are in a triangular position, the distance between the three places is about the same, in the forty or fifty highways, Huoshan and Jinzhai towards Wuhan, on the same parallel line, are the traffic arteries into Lu'an.