The blow came so suddenly, the wind and clouds changed color, and the grass and trees whimpered.

At 7 o'clock in the afternoon, Lieutenant General Toshiyoshi Ando, commander of the Fifth Division, and Nishimura Toshiwin Daisa, chief of staff, had already had dinner and were preparing to lead the division headquarters and the remaining two brigades of the baggage wing and the remaining two brigades of the engineer wing to set off to enter the county seat of Guanxian!

As for the canal defense line, since the main force of the Fifth Division had already been killed in the hinterland of southern Hebei, Ando Toshiyoshi decided to leave the division and regiment to continue to garrison.

Ando Toshikichi thought it very carefully, he was worried that Xiao Siming's division of the Eighth Route Army, which was accustomed to sneak attacks, would get out of the cracks of the Japanese army and escape across the canal, so he deliberately left the division reserve with three infantry brigades in the canal defense line, the purpose was to completely smash the attempt of the Eighth Route Army's eastward advance detachment to flow eastward!

Three infantry brigades, equivalent to an infantry wing, are enough to defeat a regular division or army of the Chinese army, and it is absolutely no problem to defend the canal defense line!

As soon as the cannon of the Eighth Route Army rang out, the old devil Ando Rijiden fainted!

It turned out that the Eighth Route Army had already secretly crossed the canal and arrived behind its own Fifth Division!

Ando Toshikichi regretted it, so he almost pulled out the command knife and stabbed himself in the abdomen!

The situation was urgent, and Ando Toshikichi did not hesitate at all, and immediately ordered the baggage wing and the engineer wing to quickly cross the river and join the main force; ordered the supplementary team to rely on the fortifications and resolutely repel the attack of the Eighth Route Army; Order the main force that has penetrated deep into the hinterland of southern Hebei to quickly dispatch to reinforce the canal line and encircle and annihilate the sneak attack of the Eighth Route Army!

Nishimura Lewin, chief of staff of the Fifth Division, reacted quickly, and from the rumbling artillery of the Eighth Route Army, he knew that the supplementary team, which lacked heavy weapons, could not withstand the position and could not stop the attack of the Eighth Route Army. If the division headquarters does not retreat quickly, when the artillery shells of the Eighth Route Army blow up the canal bridge, they will not be able to run if they want to! In that case, Lieutenant General Toshiyoshi Ando may become the first lieutenant general of the Japanese Army to be captured or killed by the Eighth Route Army, and he will also become the first division chief of staff to be captured or killed by the Eighth Route Army!

Nishimura Toshiwin immediately reported to Lieutenant General Toshiyoshi Ando, asking His Excellency the division commander to order the division headquarters to quickly move in and join the main force of the division that was attacking southern Hebei.

Toshikichi Ando is definitely an old fox!

Chief of Staff Nishimura Riwen Daisa reminded Ando Toshiyoshi immediately to wake up, and immediately ordered the division headquarters to move in and go to the west bank of the canal to direct the battle.

After giving the order, Ando Toshiyoshi got into his car directly, and together with the chief of staff, Nishimura Riwen Daisa, led the division headquarters towards the canal bridge by the canal.

There were not a lot of Japanese troops left on the east bank of the canal, two brigades of the baggage wing, two brigades of the engineer wing, and three brigades of the supplementary team, with a total strength of more than 7,000 people!

It is said that with such a force, Ando Toshiyoshi will not have the slightest worry, and he will definitely not transfer in a hurry like a frightened bird. But the sound of the artillery of the Eighth Route Army woke him up, and he immediately understood that Xiao Siming's division was different from other Eighth Route Army units, different from other Chinese armies, Xiao Siming's troops captured too many Japanese artillery, tanks, armored vehicles, heavy machine guns, infantry guns, light machine guns, and grenadiers, and that firepower was powerful enough. And the troops he left on the east bank of the canal, the engineer wing and the baggage wing were all non-combat units, including the division and regimental supplementary teams, which were not equipped with heavy weapons, and they absolutely could not stop the attack of Xiao Siming's troops who used field artillery and mountain artillery to talk to them!

Moreover, the supplementary team of the Fifth Division is now all new recruits who have just been replenished, and although they are well-trained, there is a big gap in combat effectiveness compared with the field troops of the Fifth Division!

Therefore, Ando Toshiyoshi asked the chief of staff, Nishimura Toshion, to remind him, and immediately retreated in a hurry with the division headquarters.

In fact, without the order of Lieutenant General Ando Toshiyoshi, as soon as the artillery of the Eighth Route Army sounded, the two brigades of the Fifth Wing of the Japanese Army, which were preparing to move to the county seat of Guanxian County with the division headquarters, began to retreat in a hurry.

According to common sense in operations, the 5th Baggage Wing of the Japanese Army should set up military stations along the route to ensure the supply of troops. However, the Fifth Division was transferred from Bengbu to Jinan, and from Jinan to Qingdao, from Qingdao to Tanggu, from Tanggu to Dezhou, and from Dezhou to Shijiazhuang, from Shijiazhuang hurried south to the Yellow River in northern Henan, and then from northern Henan to the canal on the ground of Dongping Mansion in Luxi.

The Fifth Wing of the Fifth Division's baggage can only drive cars and rubber-tyred carts to travel with the main force of the division!

As soon as the cannon sounded, the officers of the Fifth Wing of the Japanese Army's Baggage Regiment on several parking lots temporarily fenced off with barbed wire became panicked, whistles sounded one after another, and the drivers of Japanese cars and rubber-tyred carts were all busy driving.

The little devil doesn't want to think about it, Xiao Siming fights, and likes to sneak attack the Japanese army's baggage troops the most, and use the captured Japanese army materials to supplement the war needs, where can the little devil's baggage Fifth Wing escape the canal!

The Fifth Wing of the Japanese Cavalry is heading for the hinterland of southern Hebei, and Xiao Siming will definitely not be able to catch them this time. If you let the little devil's baggage troops run away with supplies, Xiao Siming will not be Xiao Siming!

After the armored battalion commander Yuan Gang led the armored battalion to pounce, he pounced on the Japanese position.

In combat, armored forces should give full play to their advantages of strong mobility and fierce firepower, quickly intersperse, and divide the enemy.

Although the armored battalion of the Eighth Route Army was established late and its training was not as good as that of the Japanese army, it was much more advanced in terms of tactics and ideology than the Japanese army.

Yuan Gang, the commander of the armored battalion, led the troops to pounce, and kept yelling into the transmitter of the car radio: "Forward!" Forward! Forward! Target Canal Bridge! ”

This Yuan Gang, when Xiao Siming ordered him to serve as the commander of the armored battalion in Lianzhen, he was still unwilling, saying that he couldn't even drive a car and couldn't do it. Now, I'm afraid he won't do it anymore if he goes back to the main regiment to be a political commissar!

Driving a tank, roaring and crushing the devil's position, God blocking and killing God, Buddha blocking and killing Buddha, what a pleasure!

At the roar of Yuan Gang, the tanks of the armored battalion, leading the armored vehicles and cars, rumbled across the highway and through the fields, and quickly pressed towards the canal.

The movement of the Fifth Wing of the Japanese Heavy Infantry is not slow!

In order to seize the supplies of the Japanese army, the artillery group of the Eighth Route Army did not carry out artillery bombardment on several parking lots of the Fifth Wing of the baggage army, and the Japanese baggage troops themselves had already received the order to enter the county seat of Guanxian County, and were about to set off.

The little devil is really well-trained, and at this time, he can still maintain the formation of the baggage convoy when it retreats, and he can also control the pack horse!

Not only that, but the devil officers also ordered those soldiers equipped with weapons to organize resistance in brigades and squadrons to cover the retreat of heavy vehicles.

All in vain!

The parking lots of the 5th Wing of the Japanese Baggage Brigade were behind the Japanese lines. If the Eighth Route Army had been killed from the west of the canal, the baggage troops would have been the safest. However, the Eighth Route Army was killed from the east bank of the canal unconsciously, hitting the back of the Japanese army, and the Fifth Wing of the little devil's baggage was the closest to the Eighth Route Army that launched the attack. There are so many of them, and in a hurry, where can they all get out of the parking lot and onto the road?

As for the Eighth Route Army, the infantry had already moved to the position of engaging the enemy, and the armored battalion began to move 10 minutes before the start of the shelling. When the cannon sounded, the armored battalion, the 1st, 2nd, 3rd regiment, the engineer battalion, the guard battalion, and the cavalry battalion all began to attack. The vehicles of the Fifth Baggage Wing of the Japanese Army, which drove out of several parking lots, were directly stopped by tanks and armored vehicles of the armored battalion.

This time, Yuan Gang, as always, would not be polite to the little devil, and no longer considered the seizure of the devil's car, but ordered to fire at the Japanese car that was driving out of the parking lot and kill it directly!

The vehicle-mounted machine guns on the tanks, the vehicle-mounted machine guns on armored vehicles, and the heavy machine guns mounted on the cars opened fire with a bang, and the bullets swept towards the Japanese cars, as easily as tearing tissue paper, and the cars of the little devils caught fire and burned, and then exploded, becoming the wreckage that blocked the exit.

Without waiting for the Japanese army to push away the disabled car and continue to escape, the tanks and armored vehicles of the armored battalion of the Eighth Route Army continued to rush away with a bang, leaving the two brigades and vehicles of the Fifth Wing of the Japanese Baggage Brigade to the follow-up troops.

One parking lot after another, and soon, the parking lot where the vehicles of the two brigades of the Fifth Wing of the Japanese Army were parked was divided by the roaring armored battalion of the Eighth Route Army and the automobile team and infantry that followed closely!

The task of the armored battalion was to make a quick assault, quickly seize the canal bridge, and leave all the Japanese troops on the east bank of the river on the east bank, so that they could not escape the canal. Therefore, after blocking the parking lot of the Fifth Wing of the Japanese Army's Baggage, the roar of Yuan Gang, the commander of the armored battalion, "forward, forward, forward", sounded again, and the steel torrent composed of more than 20 tanks, 30 armored vehicles, and 100 cars continued to roll forward and crush towards the Japanese position!

The soldiers of the Japanese reinforcement team, who were guarding the three lines of defense along the canal, never imagined that field artillery shells, mountain artillery shells, and infantry artillery shells produced by the Great Japanese Empire would fall on their heads. When the cannon of the Eighth Route Army roared, a ghost soldier thought it was strange, thinking that it was their own artillery that had fired by mistake, and scolded a few times in his mouth, "Baga!" ”

This delusion is not only for one little devil, but also for many little devils in the supplementary team of the Fifth Division. It's just that an illusion is an illusion, and it can't last long.

By the time Lieutenant General Toshiyoshi Ando, commander of the Fifth Division, ordered the supplementary team to resolutely counterattack and repel the attack of the Eighth Route Army, the little devils on the position had already been stunned, hurriedly turned around, turned their guns, and shot at the tanks, armored vehicles, cars, and soldiers of the Eighth Route Army! (To be continued)). If you like this work, you are welcome to come to the starting point () to vote, your support is my biggest motivation. For mobile phone users, please go to read. )