Shouichi Terauchi and Naosaburo Okabe are bent on using Shijiazhuang as bait to absorb the Eighth Route Army in Shijiazhuang and gather and annihilate it! Mitsu Mijiro also wanted to catch Xiao Siming for the bait, but he was afraid that the Eighth Route Army would really enter Shijiazhuang and capture him alive, so he was worried!

The Eighth Route Army didn't care what the old devils thought, according to their own battle plan, three battle groups were deployed, attacking and fighting, and the sharp knives stabbed straight into the vital points of the little devils!

Qiu Weixing, the commander of the first regiment, happily sent a report to Xiao Siming and Wang Lushui, requesting that the battle plan be revised and that the first regiment be allowed to attack Shijiazhuang and capture Mitsu Mijiro alive!

Qiu Wei said in the telegram that judging from the battle situation, the Japanese strongholds around Shijiazhuang were indeed empty, and the large strongholds were generally a Japanese army squad plus a company or platoon of the puppet army, and the small strongholds were all a detachment of the Japanese army and a platoon or squad of the puppet army, and there were even two little devils with a puppet army squad to garrison the stronghold. Vertex. Update the fastest So far, the Japanese army in Shijiazhuang has not gone out of the city to counterattack our army. Judging from this, the Japanese army in Shijiazhuang may really be extremely empty! It is recommended to take the opportunity to capture Shijiazhuang and capture alive the commander of the First Army, Mitsu Mijiro, so as to give the Japanese puppet army a great shock and a great excitement to the people of the whole country!

Cao Ming'an, the commander of the second regiment, and Wang Meng, the commander of the third regiment, also sent a report to ask for battle, first reporting the location and progress of the troops, and then asking for permission to enter Shijiazhuang and capture Mitsu Mijiro alive!

Since the Tibetan Mountain Temple began to meet the enemy, this heroic unit has won successive battles, and the results are so great that it is incredible. But after so many victories, the supreme commander of the Japanese army killed was only a big sa, the captain of the devil's unit Wing Ishida Kanazzo who was killed in the Nianzigou blockade battle.

The Japanese army used to posthumously award a higher rank to a general after he died in battle. Although after Ishida Jinzo was killed, the Japanese army posthumously awarded him the rank of major general, after all, he was only a big sa before his death, and he was not a real general. Now, the headquarters of the First Army of the Japanese Army is in Shijiazhuang, and the commander of the First Army, Mitsu Mijiro, is a standard Japanese Army lieutenant general, who has just been adjusted from the position of vice minister of the Ministry of War to the commander of the First Army, that is a standard general, and he is also a lieutenant general who has a major influence in the Japanese army.

Mitsu Mijiro suddenly became a sweet spot in the eyes of the cadres of the eastward advance detachment!

In the headquarters of the eastward advance detachment of the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army in Xinzhaidian, located between Zhao County and Luancheng, Hu Qingyun, chief of staff, and Zheng Xiuchuan, deputy chief of staff, led several staff officers of the staff office, were working on the map, marking the progress of each unit, and marking the situation of the enemy and us as clearly as possible for the commanders and political commissars to refer to.

The radio transceiver was ticking non-stop, constantly receiving reports from the units and at the same time conveying orders from the headquarters to the troops.

Xiao Siming sat in front of the map, his face was calm, staring at the map and thinking deeply!

Due to the smooth attack, Qiu Wei, Cao Ming'an, and Wang Meng, the three main commanders, were full of self-confidence, and wanted to attack Shijiazhuang and capture Mitsu Mijiro alive, and even took Wang Lushui, Hu Qingyun, Huo Cheng and others to be calm!

Wang Lushui reminded Xiao Siming that if the Japanese Fifth Division and the Sixteenth Division were to be transferred to Pinghan Road, it was necessary to beat the Japanese puppet army in Shijiazhuang a little harder and let them keep asking for help, so that the Fifth Division and the Sixteenth Division could be forced to speed up and rush to Shijiazhuang!

Hu Qingyun silently calculated the distance and time, and reminded Xiao Siming that the Fifth Division was a mechanized division with particularly strong mobility capabilities. Although the 16th Division had a lot fewer cars than the 5th Division, it was also more mobile. If they assemble their troops this evening and set off tomorrow morning, it will only be more than 200 kilometers away from the Jinpu roadside, and with the mobility of the Fifth Division, they will be able to reach the battlefield in about 10 hours at most. The 16th Division will take about two days to get to the battlefield.

Hu Qingyun was still unsatisfied, and cautiously expressed his opinion: "Commander, if our army attacks with all its strength and can attack Shijiazhuang before the Fifth Division arrives in Shijiazhuang, it is not impossible to capture or kill Mizu Mijiro alive!" Moreover, Shijiazhuang has a large amount of ammunition supply for the First Army in reserve, and after our army captures it, it can further expand the troops, and it can also provide supplements to our army departments in Shanxi, which is of extraordinary significance! ”

Xiao Siming didn't seem to hear it!

Xiao Siming has already reported to the Yan'an Headquarters and the Eighth Route Army Headquarters that our army has no possibility of capturing Shijiazhuang, and Hu Qingyun also said this, the reason is very simple, the ammunition supply of the Japanese army in Shijiazhuang is too tempting, and the idea of capturing or killing Lieutenant General Mitsu Mijiro alive is too tempting!

Huo Cheng, director of the Political Department, suggested: "Commander, political commissar: Do you want to report to the headquarters and ask the headquarters to order the troops in central Hebei and southern Hebei to attack the Deshi Highway to block the delayed Japanese army." In this way, we will gain time to attack Shijiazhuang! ”

This suggestion is not unreasonable, the problem is that now the Eighth Route Army in central Hebei is all newly formed troops, and our army in southern Hebei has the main force of the Eighth Route Army, and the troops that Xu Xiangqian brought to southern Hebei, that is, the Ludong Column of the 129th Division, do have the main force. However, they are now busy expanding their base areas, and when they reach the side of the Deshi Highway, not to mention the Fifth Division, even the 16th Division, which has a low degree of mechanization and slow marching speed, may also arrive at the battlefield.

It's not just that the water can't quench the thirst of the near, but more importantly, the fifth division of the Japanese army is a steel monster, and if the whole division concentrates its forces to pounce on Zhengtai Road, not to mention our army in southern Hebei and our army in central Hebei, even the main force of the eastward advance detachment led by Xiao Siming will have to retreat. If you venture into it and hit the block, the consequences can be imagined!

To put it bluntly, with the current equipment level and combat effectiveness of the Eighth Route Army, when encountering Japanese heavy army groups such as the Fifth Division and the Sixteenth Division, even if the order is to fight a small ambush and get a little cheap, it can only be transferred quickly, no matter how fast and how fast it runs, there is no other way!

Knowing that Shijiazhuang could not be captured, Xiao Siming would definitely not suggest to the headquarters to order the troops in southern Hebei and the troops in central Hebei to stop the delayed Japanese army, such a sacrifice was worthless!

Huo Cheng's suggestion is equivalent to not mentioning!

Xiao Siming didn't seem to hear the words of Wang Lushui, Hu Qingyun, and Huo Cheng, stood up, took out a cigarette, lit it, smoked, and paced slowly in the room.

After smoking a cigarette, he continued to smoke three cigarettes in a row, and Xiao Siming threw away the cigarette butt and said to Wang Lushui, Hu Qingyun, and Huo Cheng: "Political commissar, Lao Hu, Lao Huo, you say, did Shouichi in the temple hate our eastward advance detachment to the core of the bones, and he will want to annihilate it and then settle down?" ”

Hu Qingyun blurted out: "Then you still need to say? ”

Xiao Siming then asked: "In that case, won't Shouichi Terauchi learn the lesson of the failure to flank Texas?" ”

A few people were silent.

Xiao Siming said lightly: "Don't want to kill Shijiazhuang as soon as you see that the attack is going well, it's wishful thinking and blindness!" Qiu Wei, Cao Ming'an, and Wang Meng were all quickly promoted from platoon commanders to regiment-level posts, and they had not practiced enough, so it was normal to think like this. It would be dangerous for the detachment leader to also put forward such an idea! ”

Wang Lushui, Hu Qingyun, and Huo Cheng were all embarrassed and silent.

Xiao Siming said in a deep voice: "Zheng Xiuchuan, record the order: 1. Our army will not make arrangements to capture Shijiazhuang!" 2. All units quickly disengaged from contact with the enemy in accordance with the original operational plan and retreated to the target assembly area according to the route demarcated in the original plan. 3. The cavalry battalion quickly withdrew to the Pinghan Road south of Shijiazhuang, camouflaged the main force, and attacked north and defended south along the Pinghan Road. After dawn, turn to covert trimming, pay attention to air defense! Fourth, the Wang Naigui detachment, which cooperated with our army's operation, was responsible for attacking Shijiazhuang along the Deshi Highway and Shiliao Highway, and sent a small force to monitor the enemy situation on the east and southeast sides of the Deshi Highway and Shiliao Highway. ”

Deputy Chief of Staff Zheng Xiuchuan recorded the order and repeated it again, and then handed it to Xiao Siming to sign.

When Xiao Siming signed and handed it to Wang Lushui to sign, Wang Lushui sighed and muttered: "Shijiazhuang has so many weapons and ammunition, oil and medicine, grain and cloth, hey, it's a pity to miss it!" ”

Xiao Siming laughed out loud, saying that the political commissar was addicted to the seized materials, and he was obsessed with money, and he was thinking about the supplies of the little devil every day!

Wang Lushui said confidently: "Isn't this what you said? To fight a war is to capture more, and to fight the North China Front army is poor as pants! There are so many supplies for the Japanese army in Shijiazhuang, so let's let it go, wouldn't we have run in vain? ”

Hu Qingyun and Huo Cheng immediately echoed: "That's it, didn't you run for nothing?" ”

These people, who followed Xiao Siming all the way to win the battle, and they really regarded the little devils as muddy!

Xiao Siming smiled and said nothing!

After Wang Lushui sighed, he still signed his name on the order.

Xiao Siming explained: "Shijiazhuang does have a large number of weapons and ammunition for the First Army of the Japanese Army, and if we can capture Shijiazhuang, these weapons and ammunition may be able to make our Eighth Route Army pull up a few regiments." However, not to mention that it is impossible for Wang Meng's troops to capture Shijiazhuang, even if we pay heavy sacrifices and capture Shijiazhuang, what can we do? The 5th and 16th Divisions from the east are surrounding! To the west is the Taihang Mountains, where the Japanese army guards the Zhengtai Railway and Highway, and our tanks, cars, and armored vehicles have no way to pass! As for the southeast direction, if the judgment is good, the Fifth Division will definitely rely on its own mobility ability to intersperse detours to southern Hebei and draw an encirclement, and the Shiliao Highway should be cut off by the Japanese army; To the south, the Xingtai and Handan railways are all unblocked, and there are troops of the 108th Division of the Japanese Army, which can completely block us for a while if they hold on to the river. Not too much, even if we are blocked in one day, the Fifth Division will be able to arrive. When the time comes, guys, think about it, what is the situation! ”

Wang Lushui didn't hesitate anymore, and waved his hand: "Don't say it, implement it according to the original battle plan!" (To be continued.) )