Xiao Siming was arrogant, hoping that the little devil would hurry up and hurry up, and hurry up to serve the food, but he didn't know that the commander of the Japanese North China Front, Terauchi Shouichi, and the chief of staff, Okabe Naosaburo, also hoped that the attack speed of the Fifth Division and the Sixteenth Division could be faster, faster and faster, and quickly form an encirclement of Dezhou, and the Eighth Route Army could not be allowed to escape!

The 5th Division of the Japanese Army suffered a big loss at Luokou and basically buried the elite 21st Wing. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoIt's just that each division of the Japanese army has a supplementary team, which can be replenished in time. In addition, Emperor Hirohito was most concerned about how the international community viewed Japan, which led to the Japanese army's habit of concealing defeats from top to bottom. The Eighth Route Army did not capture the wing flag of the 21st Wing, and the Japanese army would not announce that the elite 21st Wing was almost completely annihilated.

But the facts are the facts after all, and the new 21st Wing, which was supplemented by the supplementary team, will definitely not be as effective as the original 21st Wing for a while!

Lieutenant General Toshiyoshi Anto, commander of the Fifth Division, could only knock out his teeth and swallow tears, and had no choice but to change the habit of the Fifth Division to use the 21st Wing as the vanguard, and in accordance with the operational plan of the North China Front, the Fifth Cavalry Wing, the Fifth Field Artillery Wing, and the Fifth Engineer Wing were assigned to the four infantry wings of the two brigades and regiments, and the divisional and armored convoys were also assigned to the four infantry wings, and the two wings of the Ninth Infantry Brigade were deployed to the east of Jinpu Road. The two wings of the 21st Infantry Brigade were deployed on the west side of the Jinpu Road, advancing in unison, pushing forward flat, and the iron flow was rolling and pressing southward.

Lieutenant General Toshiyoshi Ando, on the other hand, led the division and regiment headquarters to join the 5th Wing, closely following the main force and responding in the center.

Allowing all units of the Fifth Division to advance in unison and push forward to the south can be said to be the tactics adopted by General Terauchi Toshiichi and Chief of Staff Lieutenant General Okabe Naosaburo of the North China Front after drawing lessons from the Battle of Luokou. This tactic is definitely not the Fifth Division's arrogant and bold tactics that are accustomed to roundabout sneak attacks, it seems a bit clumsy, but it is very practical, it can not only avoid being sneak attacked and ambushed by the Eighth Route Army, but also sweep and crush with a thunderous momentum, and the end is powerful!

Once bitten by a snake for ten years and afraid of the well rope, this is the mentality of the commander of the North China Front Army, Terauchi Shouichi, and the chief of staff, Naosaburo Okabe, at this time after the Battle of Luokou!

This mentality, summed up in two words, is "seek stability!" ”

Terauchi Shouichi and Okabe Naosaburo sat in the headquarters of the North China Front Army in Tieshi Hutong in Beiping, hoping that the elite Fifth Division would be able to make a bold detour and encircle the eastward advance detachment of the Eighth Route Army that captured Dezhou into the encirclement and completely wipe it out, but considering that the eastward advance detachment of the Eighth Route Army was too strong and unpredictable, for fear that if he was not careful, he would lose a single unit, and he would not be able to explain to Emperor Hirohito. Let the two brigades and four wings of the Fifth Division advance in unison and roll forward.

This is a helpless thing, whether it is Terauchi Shouichi, Okabe Naosaburo, including Lieutenant General Ando Toshiyoshi, the commander of the Fifth Division, no one wants to be ambushed by the Eighth Route Army again. Not to mention the loss of another wing, that is, the loss of an infantry brigade, they all feel that they cannot afford it!

This is the most elite Fifth Division of the Japanese Army, and it is the Fifth Division of Seishiro Itagaki who dared to launch the Battle of Taiyuan with only half a division, and it cannot fight a battle or lose a battle in their hands. If the establishment is annihilated again, they will really be ashamed of His Majesty the Emperor!

Xiao Siming was able to beat the bold Fifth Division to seek stability, which was enough to be proud!

Not only that, the North China Front also transferred 5,000 troops from the puppet Hebei East Security Corps, and three cavalry divisions with a total of more than 3,000 troops from the puppet Mongolian Army, and also secretly transferred to the Pingjin area to cooperate with the Fifth Division to attack south.

Including the Third Wing of the Railway and the puppet army Liu Peichen, who were guarding the Cangzhou-Wuqiao section of the Jinpu Road, they all received orders to cooperate with the Fifth Division in combat, followed behind the butt of the Fifth Division, and launched a brutal sweep against the Jilu border area and the central Hebei region.

The battle plan drawn up in a hurry by Lieutenant General Naosaburo Okabe, chief of staff of the North China Front, was quite vicious, and they wanted to take the opportunity of the Fifth Division to crush the southward to squeeze the Eighth Route Army and the miscellaneous armed forces in the Jilu border region and the central Hebei region near both sides of the Jinpu Road to the south and force them to withdraw to the direction of Dezhou. There, the elite 16th Division is advancing from south to north, just as a chopping block, which can completely annihilate these earthy Eighth Route and miscellaneous armed forces and the eastward advance detachment of the Eighth Route Army that captured Texas!

To achieve this purpose, Jinpu Road will be completely safe!

If the Eighth Route Army and the miscellaneous armed forces on both sides of the Jinpu Road fled to the hinterland of central Hebei and the hinterland of the Jilu border under the heavy attack of the Japanese army, it would be nothing. Okabe's battle plan itself was a three-step process. The first step was to seize Dezhou, regain control of Jinpu Road, and eliminate the eastward advance detachment of the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army that occupied Dezhou; The second step is to concentrate forces and carry out a heavy siege of the Hebei-Shandong border area. The third step is to wait for the border of Hebei and Shandong to be cleared, and then concentrate forces to carry out a heavy siege of central Hebei, southern Hebei, and northwest Shandong, so as to completely restore the Japanese army's control over the North China Plain.

For a time, the guerrilla areas on both sides of the Jinpu Road were full of smoke, and everywhere there were gunshots, the howls of the Japanese puppet army, and the fleeing crowd.

Lieutenant General Nakajima, the commander of the 16th Division who smuggled the Yellow River from Pingyin County, is even more arrogant!

Since the Lugou Bridge Incident, only one wing of the Japanese army has been annihilated by the Chinese army in formation. This wing is the 20th Cavalry Wing of the 16th Division of the Japanese Army!

Although the 20th Cavalry Wing is not a large number of troops, only a few hundred people, it is indeed a wing, and the rank of wing commander is also the rank of lieutenant.

This made Nakajima, who was once one of the main culprits of the Nanjing Massacre, indignant, and dreamed of finding the Eighth Route Army that annihilated the 20th Cavalry Wing, tearing it apart, destroying it, and disgrace!

Therefore, after the 16th Division smuggled across the Yellow River, it immediately divided its troops into two brigades, four wings, and twelve infantry brigades, like twelve sharp arrows, shot at the northwestern plain of Shandong!

Nakajima himself took the division headquarters and the 22nd Wing of Field Artillery, the 16th Wing of Engineers, and the 16th Wing of Heavy Troops, and followed up.

In the battle plan of the North China Front, after the 16th Division crossed the river, it divided its troops to quickly cut off the connection between Liaocheng and Dezhou, control the canal, and attack and advance northward between the Yellow River and the canal, with the aim of destroying the anti-Japanese forces behind enemy lines in the vast area between the canal and the Yellow River.

Originally, the North China Front also wanted the 16th Division to take advantage of the situation to seize Liaocheng, because Liaocheng was the headquarters of Fan Zhuxian, the banner of the Anti-Japanese War in northwest Shandong. However, considering the speed of the soldiers, the North China Front Army could not take care of capturing Liaocheng for the time being, and their main goal was the eastward advance detachment of the Eighth Route Army, and they could not let the eastward advance detachment of the Eighth Route Army escape!

The Luokou Bridge was blown up, and I was not afraid that the Eighth Route Army would cross the Yellow River again to attack Jinan and Tai'an. In order to strengthen the attack power of the 16th Division, the North China Front Command transferred the 3rd Independent Mixed Brigade, which had planned to return to Jinan and assume the defense of Jinan, to the Dezhou battlefield, and crossed the Yellow River on a pontoon bridge behind the butt of the 16th Division.

The commander of the 16th Division, Nakajima Imasago used the 3rd Brigade as a local garrison. The 16th Division attacked in the front, and the 3rd Brigade was divided into independent mixed brigades to garrison key points in the rear to ensure the safety of the rear of the 16th Division.

These two devil troops are working well together!

In the North China Plain in early June, it is the summer harvest season. Under normal circumstances, the fields are filled with a strong fragrance, and the farmers are waving their sickles to cut wheat and beat wheat to share the joy of the harvest. It's a pity that this is not a normal situation, the 5th Division of the Japanese Army is rolling in iron, pressing from north to south, and the 16th Division of the Japanese Army is advancing from south to north, and the two hammers are raised high and smashed down to Texas!

The 16th Division is a standard beast army, very evil, as long as you see Chinese along the way, you will shoot and kill them directly. When you meet a young woman, you will always be raped first and then killed!

This was the case when Nanjing was captured, when the Yellow River was smuggled to participate in the Battle of Xuzhou, when the main force of the Fifth War Zone was pursued along the Longhai Road, and even more so now! This 16th Division, everyone really deserves to die!

The first to meet the 16th Division of the Japanese Army was the first battalion and company of the Wudi Independent Regiment led by Chen Qicai, political commissar of the Wudi Independent Regiment, which was reconnoitring along the Yellow River.

After Chen Qicai led a company to complete the reconnaissance mission, he retreated overnight, planning to return to Luokou to join the Wudi Independent Regiment. Unexpectedly, after dawn, Japanese planes pounced and flew around in the sky, constantly bombing and strafing suspicious targets. They had to dodge the Japanese while marching, and their speed naturally slowed down.

Seeing that the Japanese army was so rampant, the first company commander Han Baohu and instructor Sun Zhiyuan asked Chen Qicai to fight, asking for a battle to frustrate the Japanese army's spirit!

The equipment of the Wudi Independent Regiment has been Japanese-styled, well-armed, and there is plenty of ammunition, and each soldier carries three bullet boxes with 150 rounds of ammunition. Not to mention fighting a single battle, you can't use it up in a few battles. Moreover, they were not afraid that the ammunition supply would not be enough, and the main force of the eastward advance detachment captured Texas and captured so much ammunition, which could fully meet the combat needs of the troops.

Chen Qicai did not agree to Han Baohu and Sun Zhiyuan's request. The reason is very simple, their task now is to rush back to make peace with the main force of the regiment as soon as possible, carry out the next combat mission, and not fight with the little devils in broad daylight!

Chen Qicai did not approve, and the troops could only continue to advance.

By noon, the troops arrived at a small village called Doucun on the edge of the Yellow River.

The villagers had already heard the rumbling of the cannon and hid, and the village was empty.

Seeing that the troops were too tired, Chen Qicai ordered to rest on the spot, let the soldiers eat some dry food and sleep for an hour.

A company followed Chen Qicai from Luokou to the south of the Yellow River to reconnoitre, marching for days, and was already exhausted. In this camp, the soldiers ate some dry food indiscriminately, drank a sip of water from the kettle, and you leaned on me, and I leaned on you, snoring and falling asleep.

In just this hour, the little devil touched it! (To be continued.) )