After the Japanese 11O Division arrived in North China, in time, the little devil's Pinghan Road defense line would be consolidated. When the Battle of Wuhan is over and the Japanese army returns to North China, the little devils will build the Deshi Railway and begin to implement the blockade and division of the Eighth Route Army's base areas behind enemy lines with railways and highways as the pillars.

This is where history is headed.

At this time, the units of the Eighth Route Army were in a period of development and strength, and they were carrying out the policy of dispersing the masses and creating and expanding base areas behind enemy lines, and the mode of operation was mainly ambushes and attacks, and it was impossible and did not have the strength to carry out large-scale campaign operations like those during the War of Liberation.

There is no way, when to say something, how much strength to fight what battle. At this time, the Eighth Route Army was still very weak on the whole, and it did not have the strength to fight hard with the little devils!

Even the eastward advance detachment with the most outstanding record in the Eighth Route Army could only ambush and attack at this time, and could not resist the Japanese army. The reason is very simple, the strength is still too weak!

Don't look at Xiao Siming's troops have captured so many weapons and ammunition, but no matter what you say, this force is a newly formed force after all, and the strength is insufficient. If it is really a frontal field division of the anti-Japanese army, the consequences can be imagined.

A hundred cannons that can't be accurately hit are not as good as a cannon that can be accurate, that's the reason.

Xiao Siming and Wang Lushui, who were well aware of the advantages and disadvantages of the troops they had single-handedly pulled, would never go to fight the Japanese army to the death, but would use guerrilla warfare methods to deal with the Japanese army!

The true meaning of guerrilla warfare is to accumulate a lot, fight more quickly, kill one devil today, kill two devils tomorrow, the knife is sharp, the knife is bloody, after a long time, the little devil will appear, the guerrilla warfare of the Eighth Route Army will hurt them no less than the losses caused to them by the general battle, and they will even pass the general battle!

The reason for this is very simple: Engaging in a general battle is conducive to the Japanese army to exploit its superiority in air superiority, firepower, high quality of individual soldiers, and precise tactical command, and the results of the battle basically ended in victory for the Japanese army. It can be said that the Japanese army can occupy wherever they want, so that they can conquer the city and conquer the city!

With the existing firepower intensity of Xiao Siming's department, in guerrilla warfare, concentrating troops and ambushing the Japanese army with firepower will form a local superiority and win every battle!

What Xiao Siming didn't know was that he led the army to rest for a day in the north of Zhanghebei to recuperate, but the Japanese army was busy.

Due to Admiral Kantaro Suzuki's remark that "can you close the gap?" Admiral Terauchi Shoichi and Vice Admiral Naosaburo Okabe urgently ordered the 3rd Brigade and the Nara Detachment of the 16th Division to stop the east-west march to block the Weihe Bridge, so as to prevent the two Japanese armies from being attacked again. However, General Terauchi Shouichi's determination to resolutely destroy the eastward advance detachment of the Eighth Route Army has not changed, and he will definitely find another way.

An important mission of Admiral Kantaro Suzuki, the emperor's chamberlain, when he inspected the North China Front, was to persuade and urge General Terauchi to mobilize the main forces south as soon as possible to participate in the Battle of Wuhan. As a result, as soon as he arrived in North China, he encountered the unfortunate incident of the annihilation of the main force of the Fourth Brigade of the Independent Mixed Brigade. There is no need for General Terauchi Shouichi to be verbose, Admiral Suzuki Kantaro knows that it is not that General Terauchi Shouichi is unwilling or does not take the initiative to participate in the Battle of Wuhan, but that the previous detachment of the Eighth Route Army in the eastward advance was greatly powerful. Without the elimination of this force, it will be impossible for the North China Front to concentrate its forces to the south!

Admiral Kantaro Suzuki, who understood this, didn't bother to go back to bed to taste the delicacy of the White Russian courtesan, and actually stood by the map with Admiral Terauchi Shouichi, Lieutenant General Okabe Naosaburo, and Major General Machijiri Liangki, pointing and pointing, and studying how to eliminate the eastward advance detachment of the Eighth Route Army!

Two Japanese generals, a lieutenant general, and a major general, arched in front of the map, studying and dealing with a brigade-level detachment of the Eighth Route Army, which sounds funny! Because Xiao Siming and Wang Lushui have no military ranks, they are not even second lieutenants in the national army sequence!

General Terauchi Shouichi, Admiral Kantaro Suzuki, Vice Admiral Naosaburo Okabe, and Rear Admiral Machijiri Ryaki stayed awake all night, repeatedly calculated and planned, and finally adjusted the battle plan, with the 1O8th Division and the 11th O's Division defending the Pinghan Road; The 16th Division was transported from Anyang to Shijiazhuang, and deployed along the Shide Highway from Shijiazhuang to Dezhou, completely dividing the Eighth Route Army in central Hebei, southern Hebei, and Hebei-Shandong; The 21st Division and the 3rd Brigade of the Independent Mixed Brigade were deployed from the Canal in the east to Wei County in the west, and strong fortifications were built to strictly prevent the eastward advance detachment of the Eighth Route Army from moving south again; The Fifth Division was transferred to the north, deployed along the canal, and blocked the passage for the Eighth Route Army to flee eastward. After the large net is combined, all units will attack the southern Hebei and western Hebei regions by different routes, and completely wipe out the Eighth Route Army in these two areas!

Admiral Kantaro Suzuki finally said that it would take one week to wipe out the Eighth Route Army and all anti-Japanese forces in southern Hebei and Luxi. After that, the North China Front will be able to send its main forces south to participate in the Battle of Wuhan by July 1 at the latest!

This plan is to cast a wide net, and in order to tighten the net, the Japanese army is equipped with heavy defense in all four directions, southeast, northwest, and northwest, and no matter which direction the eastward advance detachment breaks through, it will hit the steel plate headlong!

In particular, the Deshi Highway, which the eastward advance detachment had to pass through to return to the Jilu border base area, was deployed by the elite 16th Division of the Japanese army, and it was impossible for the Eighth Route Army to pass through it!

And the possible passage of the Eighth Route Army to the north along the canal will also be closed because the mechanized Fifth Division is about to arrive!

As for whether the Fifth Division was far away in northern Henan and whether the Eighth Route Army would cross the canal first, several old devils also discussed it repeatedly, and finally decided that there was such a possibility. Still, they are not afraid. Because if the advance detachment of the Eighth Route Army marched eastward crossed the canal, it would once again form a situation in which the Yellow River was dangerous to intercept the Eighth Route Army. In that case, it would be more beneficial to the Japanese army!

The Eighth Route Army of the Luokou Bridge, the only vehicle on the Yellow River in Shandong, was blown up, and its repair was far away. Although the Railway Department of the North China Front of the Japanese Army transferred several steamers from Qingdao to undertake the task of ferrying the Yellow River, it would return to the Luokou ferry port on the east bank of the Yellow River every day before dark, so there was no need to worry about the Eighth Route Army controlling the ferry crossing of the river. It is the pontoon bridge built by the former 16th Division retained by the Ministry of Railways of the North China Front, which is garrisoned by the Japanese army in peacetime, and once the situation is critical, the Eighth Route Army now has signs of crossing the river and advancing eastward, and it can be urgently dismantled or even blown up.

Judging from the fact that the advance detachment of the Eighth Route Army did not cross the river and march eastward after occupying Chenqiao, but went north to Puyang in concealment, it can basically be concluded that the Eighth Route Army did not have the equipment and technical means to build a pontoon bridge capable of passing tanks and automobiles. They can't cross the Yellow River!

Moreover, in terms of military common sense, each unit has its own area of operation, and it cannot fight across regions at will. Especially the squadron, there are many factions, each with its own territory. If the Eighth Route Army wants to fight in the hinterland of Shandong in the east, it must first ask Chiang Kai-shek if he agrees or not!

The last time Xiao Siming's troops attacked and occupied the Luokou Bridge, they severely damaged the first brigade of the second infantry wing of the mixed brigade of the North China garrison army, which was ordered to urgently reinforce Luokou, and they had already crossed the Yellow River. However, Xiao Siming did not take advantage of the empty strength of the Japanese army in Jinan to cross the Jiaoji Railway and flow to the mountainous area of central and southern Shandong, which shows that they did not have the authorization to enter the hinterland of Shandong for guerrilla warfare! Didn't Xiao Siming obediently withdraw to the west bank of the Yellow River?

In fact, when Terauchi Shouichi, Kantaro Suzuki, and Naosaburo Okabe were discussing, they all regretted that Xiao Simingbu did not wander into the mountainous area of central and southern Lu at that time. If Xiao Siming's troops had entered the mountainous area of central and southern Shandong, or returned to the Taihang Mountains when attacking Shijiazhuang, there would have been no such thing as the later Chen Bridge being attacked and occupied, and the main force of the Independent Mixed Fourth Brigade being annihilated. It's a pity that things don't make assumptions!

Shouichi Terauchi, Kantaro Suzuki, Naosaburo Okabe, and Machijiri Liangji are all old devils, although they know that once the Eighth Route Army enters the mountainous area, it will let the tiger return to the mountain, but they also know that one acre of hillside land can only fight dozens of catties, 100 catties of grain in the mountainous area, very poor, there is not so much grain to feed the Eighth Route Army. As long as the Japanese army blockades, starvation can starve the Eighth Route Army to death!

The reason why the Eighth Route Army is expanding to the plains, to put it bluntly, is to solve the problem of food and soldiers!

This point, for the Japanese army giants Terauchi Shouichi and Suzuki Kantaro, it can be seen clearly at a glance!

If you can really force Xiao Siming, who has chariots, armored vehicles, and automobiles, into the Taihang Mountain, or the mountainous area of central and southern Lu, it will also be a kind of result! As long as the Japanese army blocked the transportation to the mountains and trapped Xiao Siming's troops, who were extremely active and constantly inflicted heavy losses on the Japanese army, the North China Front could also move south to participate in the Battle of Wuhan.

Because of the inconvenient transportation in the mountains, Xiao Siming's tanks, armored vehicles, and cars entered the mountains, and they all became decorations!

As a result, the Fifth Division and the 16th Division, which were far away in northern Henan, received an urgent order: the Fifth Division went north along the canal from east to west, the 16th Division went north along the Pinghan Road by train and car from Anyang, and the 21st Division and the 3rd Independent Mixed Brigade controlled the road from Handan to Daimyo to Yanggu County.

As for the remnants of the 13th Independent Infantry Brigade of the Japanese Army's Independent Mixed Fourth Brigade that retreated to Wei County, the North China Front directly ordered them to accept the command of the Independent Mixed Third Brigade!

Lieutenant General Michiichi Sasaki, the commander of the 3rd Independent Mixed Brigade Regiment, was really high-spirited this time, because the North China Front Command considered that the 21st Division was a newly built unit, and when he first arrived in North China, he was not familiar with the environment and the combat style of the Eighth Route Army, and ordered Lieutenant General Michiichi Sasaki to command the 3rd Brigade and the 21st Division of the Independent Mixed Brigade to fight in a unified manner, including the 13th Independent Infantry Brigade remaining in the 4th Brigade of the Independent Mixed Brigade, and to defend the defense line of the southern front!

The brigade commander commanded the division commander, for the first time in the history of the Japanese army; In the history of ancient and modern Chinese and foreign wars, I am afraid that there are few precedents!

Lieutenant General Sasaki, the father of the puppet Manchurian Army and the culprit of the Nanjing Massacre, must be excited to fly!

Lieutenant General Michiichi Sasaki, who received a telegram from the North China Front Headquarters, immediately reported to Lieutenant General Washizu Matsudaira, commander of the 21st Division, with very modest words, but the tone of the order was unquestionable, and asked the 60th Infantry Wing and the 82nd Wing of the 21st Division to move north quickly and block the road between Shen County and the canal.

As for the 3rd Brigade of the Independent Mixed Formation, it was personally led by Lieutenant General Michiichi Sasaki and drove to the Daimyo to deploy defenses!