The traitor Li Daxiao is worthy of being born as a street gangster, and his eyes are very thief, and he can see at a glance that the fourth brigade of the independent mixed group suddenly drove south!

Major General Kawamura Dong, the commander of the Fourth Brigade of the Independent Mixed Brigade, is going crazy when he stays by the Wei River!

Since confirming the collective jade fragmentation of the 15th Independent Infantry Brigade, Major General Kawamura Dong made an urgent report to the headquarters of the First Army, and also reported his opinion that the troops of the 1st Theater of Operations of China had crossed the river and attacked Chenqiao. It's just that he never expected that his analysis conclusion, in the eyes of Lieutenant General Mizu Mijiro, commander of the First Army, and General Terauchi Toshiichi, commander of the North China Front, and Lieutenant General Okabe Naosaburo, chief of staff, would be tantamount to idiots!

After receiving his telegram, His Excellency the Commander of the First Army and His Excellency the Commander of the North China Front Army will immediately order the Fourth Brigade of the Independent Mixed Brigade to quickly withdraw from the front line of the Zhanghe River, return to the division to Fengqiu, destroy the troops of the First Theater that attacked and occupied Chenqiao, recapture the looted materials, and avenge the 15th Independent Infantry Brigade!

What Major General Kawamura Dong didn't expect was that the order given to him by the North China Front Army Headquarters was to withdraw to the Wei River and deploy defenses on the north bank of the Wei River!

Kawamura Dong was angry, his mustache was shaking, and he wanted to rush to Beiping to find out what was going on with the general in the temple!

Naturally, Kawamura Dong didn't have the courage to go to Beiping to question General Terauchi Shouichi face to face, if he dared to go, it is estimated that Terauchi Shouichi would reward him with a slap, and then drive him back to Japan to transfer to the reserve, completely ending his military career!

Don't talk about him, isn't the dignified commander of the First Army and the famous Lieutenant General Kiyoji Kazuki obediently driven back to Japan to become a vice minister of the Ministry of War because he was greedy for merit and disobeyed the military orders of General Terauchi Shouichi? That's not over, Xiangyue Qing Sima Shang is about to be transferred to the reserves, there is no drama at all, and he can no longer dream of being a cabinet minister, and his military career and political career will be completely over!

Major General Kawamura Dong, who wanted to go but didn't dare to go, could only go crazy by the Wei River!

It was not until this afternoon that the North China Front Army Headquarters issued an operational plan and operational order, and Major General Kawamura Dong also woke up from a dream; it turned out that it was the Eastward Advance Detachment of the Eighth Route Army that attacked and occupied Chenqiao, that is, Xiao Siming's Division, which was the target of attack when he led the Independent Mixed Fourth Brigade to follow the troops of the 16th Division to reinforce Shouyang, Shanxi. It's just that at that time, the North China Front Army Command and the First Army Command didn't know the number of the combat object!

It stands to reason that when Major General Kawamura Dong heard that Xiao Siming's troops had captured Chenqiao, he should remember the past when he reinforced Shouyang, and be cautious, but Major General Kawamura Dong's mind is different, what he thinks is that after this period of training, all units of the Fourth Brigade of the Independent Soul Chang have withstood the test of the battlefield and have become elite troops with reasonable light and heavy firepower, well-trained and strong combat effectiveness.

With this kind of thought, coupled with the eagerness to avenge the 15th Independent Infantry Brigade, after receiving the order from the North China Front Headquarters, without any delay, he immediately ordered the whole brigade to march to Puyang!

General Terauchi Shouichi thinks that the big net has been completed, and he must start to close the net, compress the encirclement, and encircle the eastward advance detachment of the Eighth Route Army into a heavy encirclement, encircle and annihilate it!

The North China Front's operational plan and operational order assigned the task of the 4th Independent Mixed Brigade was to advance to the Puyang line, and together with the Nara Detachment of the 16th Division, the 3rd Independent Mixed Brigade, and the 62nd and 82nd Infantry Wings of the 21st Division, establish a defensive line, block the passage for the main force of the Eighth Route Army's eastward advance detachment to withdraw to southern Hebei and western Luxi, and strictly prevent it from breaking through and escaping.

The headquarters of the North China Front Army was to let the main force of the Fifth Division and the Sixteenth Division, which had strong combat effectiveness, rely on the Pinghan Road to push from west to east, leaving no gaps, and combing Xiao Siming's eastward advance detachment of the Eighth Route Army with a grate, and annihilating it. The two wings of the 4th Brigade and the 3rd Brigade and the Nara Detachment of the 16th Division and the 21st Division were only pulling the blockade line and cooperating with the main forces of the 5th and 16th Divisions.

This intention is clearly stated in the command!

Major General Kawamura Dong will certainly resolutely carry out the orders of the North China Front Command. However, what he pondered in his heart was that with the strong combat effectiveness of the Fifth Division and the Sixteenth Division, Xiao Siming's Department was definitely not an opponent, maybe he had escaped from Chen Qiao by now! But where can Xiao Siming escape? The Yellow River could not be crossed, and Xiao Siming could only think of escaping back to southern Hebei or Luxi. And Puyang is the throat area where Xiao Siming's troops fled north, as long as his independent mixed fourth brigade enters Puyang and builds a strong defense line, it may directly block Xiao Siming's retreat and gather Xiao Siming's troops under Puyang City!

As for whether he can win the battle after really meeting Xiao Siming's department, Major General Kawamura Dong doesn't even think about it, it's not a problem in his heart! This is because today's independent mixed Fourth Brigade is no longer a new unit that went to Shouyang, Shanxi Province when it was first formed, but an elite unit that has been trained on the battlefield. Although an infantry brigade was lost, the main force of the brigade was still there, even if it met an army of the Central Army, Major General Kawamura Dong was also confident that he could win!

Besides, the independent mixed fourth brigade is not a lonely battle, his west side is the elite Nara detachment of the 16th Division, and the east side is the independent mixed third brigade and the two infantry wings of the 21st Division, as long as Xiao Siming's department appears, the imperial troops on the east and west sides will quickly close up, plus the mechanized fifth division that can be quickly reinforced and the main force of the 16th division with strong combat effectiveness, Xiao Siming will not be spared even if he is reborn as a god of war! Waiting for Xiao Siming's department, there is only one result: annihilation!

Eager for revenge and full of self-confidence, Hecun Dong led the independent mixed Fourth Brigade to take the lead and rushed to Puyang!

As for whether Xiao Siming's troops have now occupied Puyang, Hecun Dong is also very clear that he asks people to call and send telegrams to the Japanese army in Puyang and its surrounding counties every day, and he has already figured out that Puyang County and its surrounding Nanle, Qingfeng, Fanxian, Neihuang, Junxian, and Changyuan counties are all in the hands of the Japanese army, and only Fengqiu County was attacked and occupied by Xiao Siming.

In other words, Xiao Siming's department is now in Fengqiu County, and it is likely that it is in Fengqiu County to promote anti-Japanese propaganda and recruit troops!

Taking a step back, even if Xiao Siming's troops made a false shot, evacuated Fengqiu County, and fled to the vicinity of Puyang, it was only hidden in the countryside, and there was no time to capture Puyang for the time being.

From Tangyin in the south of Anyang on Pinghan Road to Puyang, it is a straight line, as long as the independent mixed fourth brigade rushes to Puyang and controls Puyang, the west is connected with the Nara detachment of the 16th Division, and the two wings of the independent mixed third brigade and the 21st division communicate in the east, and the Yellow River blocks the east and south, Xiao Siming's department is surrounded by the imperial army in a narrow rectangular area by the Yellow River, and it is impossible to escape!

What Major General Kawamura Dong is most worried about now is that Xiao Siming took the lead in controlling Puyang, relying on Puyang City to hold on, so that his independent mixed Fourth Brigade had to carry out siege operations. In that case, the battle will be very hard, and the losses will be great!

Therefore, Major General Kawamura Dong strictly ordered all units of the Independent Mixed Fourth Brigade to move south quickly, hurry up, hurry up, and be sure to arrive at the destination Puyang as soon as possible!

That's the difference in thinking. Terauchi Shouichi, Okabe Naosaburo, and Mitsu Mijiro wished that Xiao Siming would occupy Puyang and hold the city, so that the Japanese heavy army group could besiege it and completely annihilate it. However, Major General Kawamura Dong, the commander of the 4th Brigade of the Independent Mixed Brigade of the specific combat unit, was unwilling to fight siege warfare, he preferred to annihilate the enemy in the field! There is no way, although the Japanese army is a beast army armed with the spirit of bushido and militarism, and the military songs they sing are to fill the ravines with corpses and the like, but they are also afraid of too many casualties, and they all want to win the victory with small casualties!

Kawamura Dong is this idea, most of the commanders of the Japanese army's combat units are this idea, who wants to suffer heavy casualties?

The 4th Brigade of the Japanese Army, which was independently mixed, rolled south along the highway leading to Nanle, Qingfeng, and Puyang!

Kawamura Dong never dreamed that after he led his troops to cross the Wei River and go south, a ticking sound sounded in a dense reed bush on the east bank of the Wei River.

In a short time, a dozen Japanese soldiers walked out of the reeds, light machine guns, grenadiers, 38 large covers, from the military caps on their heads to the leather shoes on their feet, they were all dressed in Japanese military attire throughout, and judging by the number of people, it should be a Japanese infantry detachment.

The only difference was that there was a soldier in this Japanese squad who was carrying a suitcase and was closely following the Japanese lieutenant with a telescope on his chest, a leather bag and a command knife, and a Wang Ba box pinned to his waist.

Needless to say, this Japanese detachment was a reconnaissance squad led by Wang Quanyou, commander of the reconnaissance battalion of the eastward advance detachment of the Eighth Route Army. Later, it was moved to the east bank of the Wei River, where it covertly monitored the movements of the Japanese army's independent mixed 4th Brigade.

Although the reconnaissance battalion is a battalion-level number, it does not have many troops, that is, the number of a reinforced company.

In accordance with Xiao Siming's order, Wang Quanyou scattered all the reconnaissance battalions and set up observation points along the main road from Handan to Daming to Shen County, Yanggu, and Taiqian in a squad unit to closely monitor the movements of the Japanese army.

Since the Fourth Brigade of the Independent Mixed Brigade guarded the convenient passage for the eastward advance detachment to go north and south, Wang Quanyou personally led a reconnaissance squad to hide here and specially monitor the movements of the Fourth Brigade of the Independent Mixed Brigade.

Now, the Japanese Army's Independent Mixed Fourth Brigade is marching southward, and after Wang Quanyou sent a report to the detachment headquarters, he also set off with the reconnaissance squad, hanging far behind the Japanese Army's Independent Mixed Fourth Brigade, and can report to the detachment headquarters at any time the marching route and location of the independent mixed Fourth Brigade!

This is tantamount to making Xiao Siming grow a pair of clairvoyance!