Perhaps they were too eager to see victory, and when the Eighth Route Army captured Dezhou, the newspapers and radio stations in Wuhan called the Battle of Dezhou the "Great Victory of Dezhou" and merged the Second Brigade of the Second Wing of the Mixed Brigade of the North China Garrison Army, the Fourth Brigade of the Railway Independence, and the baggage troops of the Japanese army's individual military station in the city of Dezhou, and called it a wing of the total annihilation of the Japanese army. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Some newspapers collectively referred to the Battle of Dezhou as killing 3,523 Japanese soldiers, capturing 126 people, and eliminating 3,700 puppet troops, and reported that the Battle of Dezhou annihilated more than 7,300 Japanese puppet troops.

Newspapers and radio stations in Wuhan even said that the Central Military Commission had ordered the 115th Division of the 18th Group Army to advance eastward to the advance detachment and escort the 126 captured Japanese soldiers to Luoyang and Wuhan, where the trial meeting would be held for the people to visit.

Some reporters were careful and calculated the achievements of the Eighth Route Army since it went north to resist Japan, from the Pingxingguan ambush, the Guangyang ambush, the overlapping ambush of Qiqian Village, and the Jin-Cha-Ji anti-Eighth Route siege, to the battle of destroying Taiyuan Airport, the battle of recapturing Shouyang, the battle of Mafang, the ambush of Shentouling, the battle of Wuchengjinggou, the battle of Changle Village, the battle of Lianzhen, and the battle of Dezhou, and the conclusion was very astonishing: The number of Japanese troops killed under the guns of the Eighth Route Army has exceeded 20,000, which is equivalent to the strength of a division!

What excites the reporters the most is that the Eighth Route Army is fighting guerrilla warfare behind enemy lines, using ambush and attack tactics, with great results and small losses!

Some reporters were even more attentive and specially counted the achievements of the advance detachment of the Eighth Route Army's eastward advance. It's just that they didn't know that the eastward advance detachment was not the 343rd Brigade, and the records of the 343rd Brigade and the 344th Brigade, the main force of the 115th Division, were also recorded on the head of the eastward advance detachment, and they came to the conclusion that there was only one eastward advance detachment, and the number of enemies destroyed was already very considerable!

While publicizing and reporting on the achievements of the Eighth Route Army and the results of the Battle of Texas, these reporters believed the statement of the Central News Agency's news release, and mistakenly regarded Xiao Siming as the acting brigade commander of the 343 Brigade.

As a matter of fact, the commanders of all divisions, brigades, and regiments of the Eighth Route Army had already reported to the Nationalist Government for the record at the time of the reorganization, and they had also taken up their posts by telephone. As long as the reporters check the newspaper information, they will know that Xiao Siming is not the acting brigade commander of the 343 Brigade of the Eighth Route Army at all, and there is no information about him in the newspaper before. It's just that this is a life-and-death war era, as long as you win the battle, you are a hero, since the news release of the Central News Agency said that Xiao Siming's acting brigade commander of the 343rd Brigade of the Eighth Route Army and the commander of the eastward advance detachment, those reporters are too lazy to seriously check whether Xiao Siming is the acting brigade commander of the 343rd Brigade of the Eighth Route Army!

In fact, since the commander of the 115th Division, Lin was wounded, and the former commander of the 343rd Brigade, Chen, acted as the division commander, the 343rd Brigade has been operating with the division headquarters, and there is no new brigade commander for the time being. Historically, in June, Li Tianyou, commander of the 686th Regiment, was appointed deputy brigade commander and acting brigade commander of the 343 Brigade.

Due to the appearance of Xiao Siming, history has been markedly different. For example, the 685th Regiment of the 343rd Brigade received an order from the headquarters in October this year to set off from western Shanxi and advance into the western area of Shandong. But now it is different, when Mr. Peng went to Xuzhou to attend the meeting, the 685 regiment stayed in Huxi as Mr. Peng's guard unit in the Huxi area, and it was expanded in Huxi, and now it has been expanded to a Sulu-Yu detachment of more than 7,000 people. Only the 343rd Brigade and the 686th Regiment of the 115th Division remained in Jinxi.

The position of acting brigade commander of the 343 Brigade is not something that 18-year-old Xiao Siming can hold. In order to reduce the pressure on the battlefield in eastern Henan, achieve the purpose of mobilizing the Japanese army, and stimulating the Japanese army to return to Dezhou, Chairman Jiang, Cheng Qian, Yan Xunfu and others deliberately exaggerated the strength of the eastward advance detachment, and even pressed the hat of the acting brigade commander of the 343 Brigade on Xiao Siming's head. It's not good, let Xiao Siming know, and I have to send a telegram to clarify!

Not only did the newspapers and radio stations in Wuhan publicize the achievements of the Eighth Route Army and the results of the Battle of Dezhou on a large scale, but some veterans and celebrities gathered in Wuhan also called Yan'an and the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army one after another to congratulate the Eighth Route Army on its victory in Dezhou! The great calligraphers and painters in China also held a charity exhibition of calligraphy and painting in Wuhan, stating that they would donate all the proceeds from the sale to the anti-Japanese army to support the anti-Japanese war.

After seeing the press release, Lin Sen, chairman of the Nationalist Government, immediately wrote Yue Fei's "Man Jianghong" and sent it to the office of the Eighth Route Army in Wuhan, specifying that he would give it to General Xiao Siming, who commanded the troops to seize Texas.

The old man Lin Sen took the lead, and those great calligraphers and painters followed suit, and they all gave away calligraphy and painting works, encouraging Xiao Siming to lead his troops to win more battles!

After these famous calligraphy and painting works are transferred to Xiao Siming in the future, they will definitely become a huge wealth in the future. If Xiao Siming knew, he would probably wake up laughing in his dreams!

Originally, with the wisdom of the leaders of the Yan'an Headquarters and the Eighth Route Army Headquarters, they would definitely be able to see the deep meaning behind this large-scale propaganda of the achievements of the Eighth Route Army, but at this time, the national crisis was at hand, and once the Japanese army quickly captured Kaifeng and Zhengzhou, the consequences would be unimaginable. Considering the battle situation, we must think of ways to stop the crazy pace of the Japanese army! Therefore, neither the Yan'an General Headquarters nor the Eighth Route Army General Headquarters proposed corrections to some mistakes in the propaganda of the Wuhan newspapers and radio stations.

With such large-scale propaganda by the Central News Agency and the radio and newspapers in Wuhan, the intelligence organs of the Japanese army must have known about it immediately!

After Lieutenant General Okabe Naosaburo found out that the Second Brigade of the Second Wing of the Mixed Brigade of the North China Garrison Army and the Fourth Independent Brigade of the Railway were completely annihilated, he was shocked and immediately reported to General Terauchi Shouichi, commander of the North China Front, and immediately made a decision to order the Third Wing of the Railway to suspend the task of attacking Dezhou in the south, and all units withdrew to their original defensive positions, and guarded in the direction of Dezhou to strictly prevent a sneak attack by the Eighth Route Army.

As for the Fifth Independent Railway Brigade stationed between the Yellow River and the Luokou Railway Bridge on the Yellow River, Lieutenant General Okabe Naosaburo also ordered them to hold on to the spot to prevent a sneak attack by the Eighth Route Army.

Lieutenant General Okabe Naosaburo thought of letting the Third Railway Wing and the Fifth Independent Railway Brigade stick to the strongholds and fortifications on the railway line, block the delayed Eighth Route Army, and buy time for the North China Front to mobilize troops to recapture Dezhou.

By this time, Lieutenant General Naosaburo Okabe had already sobered up, and he no longer expected to recapture Texas with the strength of the Third Railway Wing and the Fifth Independent Brigade of the Railway! Don't dare to risk these two troops again, and send them to the wolf's mouth again!

The matter is obvious, the Eighth Route Army that attacked and occupied Texas is definitely a force that is good at ambushes and attacks, and its firepower is particularly powerful, otherwise, even if they are ambushes, it is impossible for them to let the elite North China Garrison Army Mixed Brigade Second Brigade and Second Brigade not even have time to send a telegram before the collective jade is shattered!

Okabe Naosaburo was the chief of staff of the North China Front, and he was very familiar with the combat situation of various units of the Japanese army, and knew that the Kuomintang and the Kuomintang troops were tactically rigid and good at positional warfare with stubborn resistance, and only the Eighth Route Army was good at ambushes and raids. The Japanese troops of the brigade size could only be collectively shattered when they were ambushed by the most elite troops of the Eighth Route Army. Under normal circumstances, when the firepower of the Eighth Route Army is insufficient, or the strength of the troops is insufficient, even if it is an ambush, the Japanese army has a chance to turn defeat into victory, at least a part of it can always escape, and it is impossible to die so cleanly!

At this time, Lieutenant General Okabe Naosaburo, the commander of the North China Front, General Terauchi Shouichi, including the North China Front Special Minister Kita Seiichi, did not know which unit of the Eighth Route Army captured Dezhou, and even which unit of the Eighth Route Army attacked and occupied the Lianzhen Railway Station and the blown up Ziya River Railway Bridge, including which unit of the Eighth Route Army killed Ishida Jinzo Daisa, destroyed Taiyuan Airport, recovered Yuxian and Shouyang two county towns, and completely annihilated the 20th Cavalry Wing of the 16th Division. The Japanese army is not clear!

If the Japanese army knew which unit of the Eighth Route Army was fighting these battles that made them painful to the marrow, with the revenge of the little devils, they would have mobilized a large army to chase after them!

In the evening, the battle of Lanfeng on Longhai Road entered a white heat, and the 71st Army of the Eastern Henan Corps launched a fierce attack on Lanfeng City, which was defended by a wing of the Japanese army! The 74th Army, the 64th Army, the 27th Army and other troops, taking advantage of the cover of night, also launched a fierce attack on the enemy in front of them, and the two sides launched a fierce battle.

At this time, the Japanese intelligence agency reported the information of the Central News Agency, the radio station in Wuhan, and the newspapers that publicized the achievements of the Eighth Route Army and the results of the Battle of Dezhou on a large scale.

The Japanese military secret service even translated all the news releases of the Central News Agency and reported them to Terauchi Shouichi and Okabe Naosaburo respectively.

Only then did Terauchi Shouichi and Okabe Naosaburo understand that it was the 343rd Brigade of the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army that captured the county seat of Yuxian County and Shouyang County, killed Ishida Jinzo, destroyed Taiyuan Airport, and completely annihilated the 20th Cavalry Wing of the 16th Division.

In the minds of the Japanese army, Xiao Siming and the eastward advance detachment of the Eighth Route Army have become the wrongdoers, creditors, and targets of revenge that they are eager to take revenge!

After reading the Central News Agency's press release, Lieutenant General Okabe Naosaburo, chief of staff of the North China Front, scolded "Baga," and then ordered Deputy Chief of Staff Kawabe Shozo to sit in Jinan, drive to Jinan Airport by himself, board a small transport plane, and fly to Beiping.

Lieutenant General Naosaburo Okabe was going to plot with Commander Terauchi Shouichi how to eliminate the advance detachment of the Eighth Route Army's eastward advance.

That night, after a short rest in Lingxian County, Xiao Siming mixed the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd regiments, the artillery regiment, the armored battalion, the cavalry battalion, the Wudi Independent Regiment, and the Deping Independent Regiment into three assault groups, and attacked the section from the Yellow River to the Luokou Bridge on the Jinpu Road, which was guarded by the Fifth Independent Brigade of the Japanese Railway.

Xiao Siming expected that after the Japanese army learned that the Second Brigade of the Second Wing of the North China Garrison Army and the Fourth Brigade of the Railway Independence had been annihilated, they would not be able to figure out the reality of the eastward advance detachment, and they would definitely not let the Third Railway Wing of the Japanese Army, which was guarding Wuqiao to Cangzhou, venture south to attack Dezhou again, and they would definitely shrink to the railway line as soon as possible and wait for reinforcements!

Based on this judgment, Xiao Siming ignored the 3rd Wing of the Japanese Railway in the north of Dezhou, and devoted his main force to attack the section from the Yellow River to the Luokou Bridge on the Jinpu Road.

In doing so, Xiao Siming made up his mind to stop the footsteps of the 10th Division, the 16th Division, the 3rd Brigade and the 4th Brigade of the Japanese Army, which were frantically rushing towards Shangqiu, so that they had to return to the Lubei Plain, so as to create conditions for the Nationalist Army's Yudong Corps and the 17th Army Corps to completely annihilate the 14th Division of the Japanese Army, and avoid the great tragedy that the Nationalist Army had to open the garden mouth and block the enemy with water, causing the death of nearly one million people in the Yellow Flood Area and the displacement of tens of millions of people! (To be continued.) )