Lieutenant General Mitsu Mijiro, commander of the First Army, did not expect the reply from the North China Front Headquarters to come so quickly, and he very definitely pointed out that the Eighth Route Army attacking Shijiazhuang was Xiao Siming, the eastward advance detachment of the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army, which had captured Dezhou. Vertex. Fastest updates

The North China Front Command ordered Lieutenant General Mitsu Mijiro to immediately carry out emergency mobilization in Shijiazhuang, gather troops, use all the forces that can be used, stick to Shijiazhuang, and use Shijiazhuang as a bait to firmly absorb Xiao Siming's troops, so that he will not be able to attack and stop. After the 5th Division and the 16th Division arrived, they surrounded and annihilated!

After reading the telegram, Mitsu Mijiro suddenly realized that it was Xiao Siming's secret movement to Shijiazhuang who had captured Dezhou, and as soon as he made a move, he blew up the Hutuo River railway bridge and highway bridge, cutting off Shijiazhuang and the east, south, and north side of the road. It seems that Xiao Siming is going to engage in military adventures again, and he wants to capture Shijiazhuang with a sudden attack!

Mitsu Mijiro did not dare to slack off, and immediately together with the chief of staff Iida Shojiro, he dispatched troops and mobilized the Japanese overseas Chinese and puppet troops in Shijiazhuang overnight, and drove them all to repair fortifications and put up positions to assist the troops in defending the city.

As for the Japanese puppet army strongholds around Shijiazhuang that have not yet been occupied by the Eighth Route Army, the smaller ones, because they are not equipped with radios, and the telephone lines have been cut off, and they can no longer be contacted, so they can only be left to fend for themselves; The larger strongholds, equipped with radio stations, Umezu Yoshijiro strictly ordered them to hold on, fight their own battles, and resolutely fight back against the attack of the Eighth Route Army!

Terauchi Shouichi, Okabe Naosaburo, and Umezu Mijiro, these three notorious old devils, teamed up to set up a big trap in Shijiazhuang, wanting to trap the eastward advance detachment of the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army led by Xiao Siming into the net and catch them all!

Shijiazhuang has a large number of weapons, ammunition, food, oil, and medicine supplies stored by the First Army, and the headquarters of the First Army of the Japanese Army, which is a large enough and sweet bait. Moreover, from the perspective of the deployment of the Japanese army's troops, Shijiazhuang is extremely empty, not to mention the Japanese army's field divisions, brigades, and wings, and there is not even an infantry brigade with a regular number, which is very suitable for Xiao Siming to carry out a surprise attack!

Whether it's Shouichi Terauchi, Naosaburo Okabe, or Mijiro Mizu, where can I know that Xiao Siming is a soul traveler, and a soul traveler who has studied military history, and the Japanese army is almost transparent in front of him!

Terauchi Shouichi and Okabe Naosaburo still thought that Xiao Siming didn't know the Japanese army's replenishment system, and they didn't know that Shijiazhuang had a supplementary team of the First Army and a supplementary team of the 16th Division stationed in Zhengding County, thinking of attracting Shijiazhuang as a bait to attract Xiao Siming to attack the city, and when the Fifth Division and the Sixteenth Division arrived, Xiao Siming's troops would be annihilated in one go!

This is really feng shui in turns, if you want to put it in the past, or meet other squadrons, not to mention other troops, it is the supplementary team of the First Army, the strength of the four infantry brigades, not to mention the brigade-level detachment led by Xiao Siming, it is a division of the ** regular army, I am afraid that the Japanese army will soon outflank and plan to annihilate the enemy. It's good now, when encountering the eastward advance detachment of the Eighth Route Army, the gap between the two sides is not big, plus the puppet army, the Japanese puppet army still has an advantage in terms of strength, just this, Terauchi Shouichi, Okabe Naosaburo, Mizu Mijiro, the three fierce old devils, did not want to order the First Army to replenish the team to eliminate the Eighth Route Army that was trying to attack the city, but just to ask them to be bait!

The shadow of the famous tree, Xiao Siming and the prestige of the eastward advance detachment of the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army, have now resounded in the minds of the Japanese puppet army like thunder, making the Japanese puppet army cowardly before fighting!

The Japanese army is shrinking urgently, and the Eighth Route Army is chasing after it!

After Wang Meng, the commander of the third regiment, led his troops to bypass Luancheng County and capture the Yehe stronghold, according to Xiao Siming's order, he sent a company to carry out a reconnaissance attack in the direction of Shijiazhuang, and the main force advanced from the Yehe stronghold to the direction of Luancheng, and arranged ambush positions along the road. After the Japanese puppet army in Luancheng to reinforce Yehe enters the ambush circle, wipe it out cleanly and completely! After that, Wang Meng used the battle group composed of three regiments as the main group, all of which were used for the attack on Shijiazhuang, and only sent a reconnaissance squad to monitor the enemy in Luancheng.

Wang Meng's character is there, his combat style is fierce and sharp, and the troops he brought out are also like tigers, tigers and tigers!

No, Wang Meng said murderously at the pre-war mobilization meeting: "Commander Xiao and Political Commissar Wang asked the three regiments to capture the Yehe stronghold, and put the three regiments in the closest place to Shijiazhuang, that is, let the three regiments be the main attack regiment and sharp knife regiment to attack Shijiazhuang!" Tanks, we have them! Armored vehicles, we have them! Anti-aircraft guns, we have them! Anti-aircraft machine guns, we have them! Infantry guns, grenadiers, Type 92 heavy machine guns, crutches, we have them! Lao Tzu is afraid of the little devil and a bird! Not to mention the garrison of the little devils, it is the strongest 2nd Division, 5th Division, 6th Division, and 16th Division of the Japanese Army, and Lao Tzu still cut off their heads as urinals! Which battalion or company attacked quickly, attacked strongly, and achieved great results, report to the detachment headquarters and receive awards for meritorious service! If anyone is like a small-footed woman, slow and slow, Lao Tzu will take your battalion commander, instructor, company commander, and instructor captive on the spot, and change those who dare to fight and can fight! Did you hear it all? ”

Naturally, the cadres shouted like thunder, "Hear me clearly!" ”

This is mobilization, and what we want is a murderous effect. But specifically commanding the battle, Wang Meng's heart is thinner than the heart of the eldest girl, and he pondered the map repeatedly to make the geography of this area clear! When the Yehe stronghold was captured, the distribution of the strongholds of the Japanese puppet army was captured, and the villagers who were willing to lead the way for the Eighth Route Army were found to be guides, the enemy situation was completely clear.

Wang Meng's method of play was to condense the entire battle group into a sharp knife, with the tanks, armored vehicles, and artillery regiments of the armored battalion equipped with high-level dual-purpose guns and infantry guns in front to guide the sharp knife company to attack, and the entire battle group followed closely behind to attack.

This kind of formation is to hold a sharp knife and stab at the Japanese army on the periphery of Shijiazhuang!

When they set up strongholds, first, to guard key points of railways and highways, and secondly, to facilitate the control of the occupied areas, they were all scattered, and a stronghold was often filled with a detachment, at most a small team, plus some puppet troops. Such a small stronghold with scattered troops, when encountering Wang Meng's style of play, it can only be crushed!

The three regiments rolled forward, and the Japanese puppet troops in the small strongholds along the way were like small waves in the tide, and they were drowned in the tide in an instant.

The three regiments battle cluster attacked the periphery of Shijiazhuang city in one go!

Wang Meng fought like this, as did Qiu Wei of the First Regiment and Cao Ming'an of the Second Regiment, waving their troops and advancing rapidly until they reached the edge of Shijiazhuang City.

This posture is clearly to enter Shijiazhuang in one go!

Not only that, but the political workers of all units of the Eighth Route Army all went into battle, holding iron horns in their hands, went to the forefront of the attack, and shouted at the Japanese puppet army under the cover of trees and houses, so as to break the morale of the Japanese puppet army!

"Little devil, listen, we are the eastward advance detachment of the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army, and it is us who killed Ishida Jinzang, destroyed Taiyuan Airport, annihilated the 20th Cavalry Wing of the 16th Division, and captured Texas! You have been surrounded, Shijiazhuang is about to be broken by our army, I advise you, lay down your arms, the Eighth Route Army will not kill prisoners! ”

"Little devil, listen, Japanese militarism launched a war of aggression against China in order to invade and enslave the Chinese people. The Chinese people are not willing to be humiliated, rise up to resist, and the War of Resistance against Japan will be won! ”

"Little devils, listen, you are also the children of ordinary Japanese laborers, you are working for the Japanese warlords and chaebols in the front, and your parents, brothers and sisters are being exploited by the Japanese warlords and chaebols at home, stop working for the Japanese warlords and chaebols!"

"Little devils, listen, you are killing people, setting fires, **** kidnapping, heinous crimes, and you can't return to Japan if you die, you will become a lonely ghost!"

"Listen, little devil, your parents, wives and children are looking forward to your return to Japan alive! If you die in battle, your property will become someone else's, your wife will become someone else's wife, your children will become orphans, and your sisters will become flower girls in the comfort station! ”

This is shouted in Japanese!

The Japanese training course run by Zhao Changshou, a special commissioner and Japanese instructor of the Arsenal of the Eastward Advance Detachment, has finally come in handy, and he can shout in simple Japanese!

The shouts to the puppet army are even more direct, all the voices are asking the puppet army to lay down their arms, surrender their guns and not kill, and also encourage the puppet army to revolt in front of the formation and shoot the Japanese army!

Xu Yan, director of the Political Department of the Third Regiment, was the chief of the Fourth Section during the independent battalion, that is, the chief of the Political Education Section. When the unit was expanded into the eastward advance detachment, he was transferred to the director of the political office of the third regiment.

Xu Yan knew that it was impossible for our army to attack the urban area of Shijiazhuang, and the impact of the shouting before the battle was limited, so he pondered and pondered, thinking that the troops were carrying propaganda leaflets printed in Dezhou, so he went to Zhao Fufu, deputy commander of the artillery regiment who cooperated with the three regiments in the operation.

Zhao Fu was reluctant when he heard it, saying that Xu Yan was whimsical, the shells were so precious, and a single shell could knock out a Japanese pillbox or a tank, how could it be so bad? What's the use of scattering those leaflets?

Xu Yan said that Zhao Fu was an elm pimple head and did not open his mind. The Japanese army boasted every day about how brave the imperial army was and how it won the battle, which made many people in the occupied areas think that the squadron was not the opponent of the Japanese army, and there was no future in the War of Resistance. Including those Japanese soldiers, who listened to the propaganda of the Japanese army every day, only knew how many battles they had won, and they didn't know how many people they had been annihilated at all. If we could use artillery shells to scatter our leaflets in Shijiazhuang City, so that the citizens of Shijiazhuang, including the Japanese puppet army, could know the truth, would the effect be comparable to knocking out a few Japanese puppet army pillboxes?

Zhao Fufu thought about this reason, so he stopped talking about it, and after fiddling with Xu Yan for a while, he actually came up with a way, that is, to pour out the explosives in the shells of the Gaoping dual-purpose cannon with the longest range, stuff them into leaflets, fire at Shijiazhuang City, and use cannonballs to distribute leaflets.

This is an unprecedented practice, and Liu Yunhai, the political commissar of the Third Regiment, was very excited when he heard it, and immediately approved it!

Xu Yan and Zhao Fu personally went to the artillery position to lead the soldiers to tinker, and it was really done. As a result, the muzzles of several high-level dual-purpose guns were raised high and pointed obliquely over Shijiazhuang.

With Zhao Fufu's order, several Gaoping dual-purpose cannons opened fire at the same time, and the shells flew out of the barrels, swept across the night sky, and fell downward over Shijiazhuang, more than ten miles away.

Shijiazhuang, for the first time since it was occupied by the Japanese army, received a leaflet of artillery shells from the squadron! (To be continued.) )