I don't know what Guo Qixun is doing.

The telegram was sent for a long time, but the western Sichuan Brigade Headquarters in Yuanshi County could not find Major General Guo for a long time.

It wasn't until Liu Yun was already on fire that the secret telegram of the brigade headquarters sent a message: as early as seven or eight o'clock last night, Brigade Commander Guo went to Gaocheng County with a group of people, so he couldn't be contacted at all now.

"Gaocheng?" Liu Yun was also surprised.

He was also surprised in his heart, and even a little nonsense, could it be that Guo Qixun thought of the Jedi counterattack last night, otherwise he couldn't think of any other explanation, well, it is not difficult to verify this situation, and immediately contact the special operations branch of Gaocheng County.

The number of special operations troops on this expedition is only about 200.

Under the leadership of the black wolf, the special operations teams secretly sprinkled to more than a dozen counties near Shijiazhuang.

They not only recorded the terrain and topography one by one, but also secretly cleared out all kinds of suspicious enemy agents, and at the same time acted as the eyes and ears of the regular army.

Gaocheng soon returned the news that Guo Qixun had indeed been to Gaocheng.

In the early morning of October 21, before the Japanese army attacked Zhengding County in an all-out way, Brigade Commander Guo secretly left Gaocheng with a group of men and horses, and the direction he went was Xinle County.

It really made Major General Liu surprised, and at the same time a little secretly lost, it seems that fighting a war does require talent, look at Brigade Commander Guo's keen sense of smell on the battlefield, it is basically a catch and a quasi, it is not at all that any military academy can cultivate, and regular military cadets meet them, it is bad luck.

Brigade Commander Guo may have watched too much of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", and likes inter-channel attacks the most, and has also summed up a complete set of rushing experience, such as using the night as a cover, and then letting the elite scouts take the lead, occupying the roads and bridges along the way in advance, and immediately evacuating the pedestrians who may be encountered, etc.

However, Guo Qixun is not Zhuge Liang, and he did not predict in advance that the Japanese army would be defeated in Zhengding, but relied on the equipment advantage of his own troops to have a hard time with the Japanese army.

What's more, this guy came prepared, and the invading Japanese army had no home advantage, and the main energy of the Japanese army was placed in Zhengding County, which was on the front.

Due to the sudden counterattack of the 122nd Division, nearly 3,000 Japanese troops collapsed on the entire front, but unfortunately it was too close to Zhengding County, and the Japanese army didn't know how to run if they wanted to.

Within the effective range of the G34, how can a person's legs outrun the bullets, the theoretical rate of fire of the G34 is more than 900 rounds per minute, specially to clean up the Japanese army's "pig burst tactics", and the recoil is small, the sound is also small, the Japanese army wants to use a grenadier to knock it out, they don't know where the enemy is, under such a dense barrage, they often look up, they will be beaten into a sieve by machine guns.

The so-called elite devil soldiers, also suddenly found that something was wrong, and all kinds of tactics that were invincible before were all ineffective here, such as wanting to lie on the ground and wait for the enemy's machine gun to stop, while the G34 machine gun just didn't stop, but there was a tendency to fight more and more.

Well, then lie on the ground and see how many bullets the Huaxia army can hit, but there are still seventy or eighty mortars in Zhengding County, and if you see something wrong, it will be a rapid artillery fire.

Anyway, then find a bunker, but it is another tragedy that the makeshift bunker meets the M2 machine gun.

The M2 Browning heavy machine gun was actually available in World War I, but the U.S. military felt that this thing was not exciting enough, so the caliber of the machine gun was enlarged, from 7.62 mm to 12.7 mm, and the effect was ferocious.

Even if it encounters a low-flying aircraft, the M2 machine gun is accurate by a dozen, which is why the US military can use it from World War I to the 90s of the 20th century, and there is still some reluctance.

Therefore, the general temporary bunker, it is useless to meet M2, it is directly beaten to translucent, this time the old devil soldiers no longer have the confidence, or escape from the battlefield as soon as possible is the best policy, it is easy to come, but it is difficult to run when you want to, nearly 3,000 devil soldiers, only more than 1,000 people escaped.

The 122nd Division is not easy to mess with, they still have cavalry regiments available.

These cavalry were all swordsmen and horse thieves recruited by Deng Xihou at the invitation of the Ma family army when he sent troops to Longnan in Gansu, so it may be a little difficult for them to fight positional warfare.

When the more than 1,000 defeated Japanese troops had just crossed the Ci River, there were only five or six hundred people left by the river's side.

Looking back at the shining Chinese cavalry, the Japanese army was a little chilled.

Seeing that the cavalry regiment was not moving forward by the Ci River, and Xinle County was in front of him, the major general of the river was also relieved, knowing that the Chinese army was afraid of the ambush of the Chinese and Japanese troops, so he had to follow from a distance, and did not dare to cross the Ci River to pursue, but fortunately, everyone picked up a life and came back.

However, he himself was a little puzzled, isn't there an Eighth Mountain Artillery Wing in Xinle City, why don't you open fire immediately, and you must kill this group of evil Chinese cavalry.

The answer was not long in coming.

A rumbling sound of heavy objects pressing the ground came from the Xinle City, and the riverside Zhengsan couldn't help but secretly rejoice, yo Xi, it turned out that the tank troops of the Great Japanese Empire had arrived, and this guy hurriedly ordered the surrounding Japanese troops to turn around and prepare to cooperate with the tank troops to counterattack the Chinese cavalry.

The number of tanks is not much, just over a dozen.

Hmph, it is more than enough to deal with a few hundred cavalry, by the way, there seem to be dozens of armored cars behind the tank, and the major general by the river simply laughed upside down, haha, the death of the Chinese cavalry has finally arrived, and he has no intention of looking back, and he always feels that something is wrong.

The tank seems to be a bit oversized and a little wrong in size.

No, it's the flag is wrong, it's not the rising sun flag of the Imperial Japanese Army at all, but the red flag of the blue sky and white sun, it is the tank of the Chinese army, Hebian Zhengsan suddenly shivered, and a cold air went straight to the soles of his feet, and he let out a terrible cry, "The tank ——, is the tank of the Chinese people."

It's a pity that everything is late.

More than a dozen tanks opened fire while running, and the M2 machine guns on the armored cars behind them also opened fire, beating the five or six hundred Japanese troops into despair, and they were knocked down one after another like broken sacks.

At this point, the entire Zhengding Battle officially ended.

Xinle County was also recovered by the Chinese army, not only the temporary advance detachment was wiped out, the commander of the commander Kawabe Shozo, was also captured alive by the Chinese army, the total casualties of the Japanese army were more than 5,000 people, and the first army of the Japanese army in North China lost almost all the mobile troops, so that the Japanese base camp was speechless.

Tufeiyuan's Shijiazhuang strategy plan also had to be temporarily shelved.

On the evening of October 21, 1937, the Nanjing Nationalist Government immediately announced the results of the war, and in the defense of Zhengding, Hebei, it completely annihilated the riverside brigade of the Japanese army in North China, wounded, killed and captured more than 10,000 Japanese soldiers, which was another breakthrough in the myth of the invincibility of the Japanese army after the victory of Pingxingguan.

Chiang also expressed his views in a timely manner, holding that as long as the Chinese army and people are united, there will be more and more such victories, and China will win the final victory in the War of Resistance Against Japan.

Not only was the battlefield of the northern section of the Tianjin-Pudong Railway (the Sixth Theater) shocked, but even the Xinkou battlefield and the Songhu battlefield were also encouraged, and they planned to follow the example of the Zhengding defense battle and give the Japanese army a few resounding slaps.

However, in view of the Nanjing government's past character problems, especially its penchant for lying about military information, foreign reporters interviewed the Japanese army headquarters in North China one after another, asking whether the victory was true or false, and General Terauchi Shouichi had no face to see people, so he had to ask Chief of Staff Okabe Naosaburo to be the news publisher of the war report.

At the press conference, Okabe gave a serious and detailed explanation of the Battle of Zhengding, and he announced the numbers of the Japanese army in North China one by one, and finally only emphasized one point, the Japanese army has never had any "riverside brigades", by the way, the only riverside general is still his deputy in the general staff, that is, the third deputy chief of staff of the riverside, and asked the "riverside major general" to meet with reporters, saying that he has been working in Beiping for the past few days.

As a matter of fact, the headquarters of Japan's North China Dispatch Army has long blown up the pot on this matter.

Because the total annihilation of the riverside detachment was not a secret in the upper echelons of the entire Japanese army, and the fact that the major general was captured alive by the riverside made all the Japanese generals lose face, and in desperation, they had to pin their only hope on the secret collusion, and they contacted Lao Jiang through the "naval hotline", wanting to spend "heavy money" to redeem Major General Hebian Zhengsan.

However, the person was arrested by the western Sichuan army, and Lao Jiang had to ask Liu Yun's opinion.

Major General Liu's idea is very simple, Hebian Zhengsan is a defeated general, and he is not a good idea at all, he thinks that through this fight, he can exchange for some of the hostages stranded in the Pingjin area, such as Wu Peifu's subordinates and family members, so that Mr. Wu can work hard.

As for the other quid pro quo, it was completely left to Nanjing to deal with.

So how many casualties did the Japanese army suffer in this Zhengding battle? Fortunately, the First Army of the Japanese Army was not stupid enough to expose its shortcomings and engage in "requesting operational guidance," but on the contrary, it "celebrated" the troops participating in the battle.

On October 22, the Sixth Division, which had been stationed in Dingxian, had already returned to Pingjin triumphantly to publicize the brilliant achievements of this "heroic army" to the world, such as how to break through Baoding and how to occupy Wangdu and Dingxian, but not to mention the question of the battle of Zhengding.

When the "heroes of the empire" were asked in a hurry, they began to talk nonsense, such as poor Inoki Jindasa, who lost more than 300 cavalry, so miserable.

The 122nd Division of the Sichuan Army was designated as the first meritorious service by Nanjing because of its insistence on holding Zhengding and annihilating the main force of the riverside detachment, and Division Commander Wang was promoted to lieutenant general, and the division was officially included in the first-class integrated division, and in the future it will have three brigades, which will gradually realize the all-German mechanized equipment, and be ranked with the Teaching Corps, the 87th Division, and the 88th Division.

At the same time, the 22nd Group Army received a collective commendation, so that the name of the Sichuan army for good fighting was powerful all over the world, and generals such as Deng Xihou, Sun Zhen, Wang Mingzhang, and Li Jiayu became famous overnight, and all kinds of heroic deeds were familiar to the world, which greatly encouraged other fraternal troops who were about to leave Sichuan.

However, it also made the Japanese army in North China feel a little better, and the riverside detachment that rushed into the light army was ambushed by a group army, which was really weak enough.

However, the luckiest person in this battle was Brigadier Guo Qixun, who dared to take risks.

This attack on Xinle County was simply a stroke of genius, not only conquered Xinle County for the first time, but also beat rabbits with grass, and by the way, eliminated the Eighth Wing of the Japanese Army's independent mountain artillery, as well as the field hospital that had just been set up in Xinle, and also captured Major General Zhengsan by the river alive.

At the same time, they also inflicted heavy losses on the cavalry wing that came to reinforce them, and if they were not busy destroying the remnants of the riverside detachment at that time, I am afraid that none of the more than 1,000 cavalry of Inoki Jintai would have been able to escape.

However, what really hurt the Japanese army in North China was the loss of the railway engineering team.

Although this unit is not a combat unit, it has a large number of engineering and technical personnel, as well as machinery and equipment for road and bridge maintenance, before Brigade Commander Guo attacked Xinle County, they just arrived at Xinle Railway Station, just caught in a net, and there is no need to say thank you.

As the Sixth Division moved to Pingjin and engaged in a tour, the 14th Division of Tufeiyuan, with the first and second heavy artillery brigades, as well as the temporary flying regiment of the First Army, and other elite units, were stationed in Wangdu and Dingxian one by one, preparing for a decisive battle with the 22nd Group Army of the Sichuan Army.

In order to be cautious, he secretly mobilized the 20th Division, and the first and second brigades of the chariot as their backup troops, and once the battlefield situation was not good, they would immediately enter the Shijiazhuang battlefield.

He didn't believe that the Sichuan army, which had always been known for its poverty and weakness, was really successful.