At 7 o'clock, when the afterglow of the sunset gradually dissipates and the twilight slowly rises, the tired birds return to the forest, and there is no need to worry about the Japanese planes coming to bomb them!

Without air superiority, without the artillery of the artillery wing, without the tanks and armored vehicles of the tank brigade, and without the infantry artillery, mortars, and rapid-fire guns of the field wing and brigade, the Japanese army's fifth division and regiment replenishment team, the fifth engineer wing, and the fifth baggage regiment are like a flock of lambs to the slaughter!

The Japanese army is indeed well-trained, accurate in shooting, and has a high level of assassination, but the problem is that the Eighth Route Army will not give them the opportunity to show their housekeeping skills!

The little devils never dreamed that the eastward advance detachment of the Eighth Route Army they were going to pursue and annihilate was fighting like this!

The artillery group of the Eighth Route Army, which is composed of Japanese 75 field artillery, 75 mountain artillery, anti-aircraft artillery, and infantry artillery, has very simple tactics, even very dull and stupid, but on the battlefield at this time, it is very effective!

The tactic of the artillery group of the Eighth Route Army was to let the observers divide the Japanese positions into small squares, report the shelling parameters of each small square to the artillery positions, and then all the artillery fire was shelled next to a small square according to the shelling parameters provided by the observers. Vertices M. updates the fastest

This method was devised by Xiao Siming after he brought Zhao Xiuchuan, Li Hubao, Liu Li, and Zhao Fu to study and discuss the artillery regiment in view of the short time it was established and the training was insufficient. To put it bluntly, it was taught to the artillery regiment by Xiao Siming.

It's a stupid way to say, compared to the Japanese artillery who pay attention to accurate shooting, this method is simply childish, wasting precious shells!

But in actual combat, this stupid method is, to put it bluntly, to concentrate artillery fire and carry out indiscriminate saturation strikes on a certain area!

Clusters of shells are concentrated in a small area, and the effect is really good!

The first to be ravaged by the artillery group of the Eighth Route Army must have been the Fifth Division Replenishment Team on the Japanese defense line.

The current Fifth Division Replenishment Team is said to be the strength of three infantry brigades, but most of them are newly recruited recruits.

The Fifth Division is a first-class division of the Japanese army, which is composed of Hiroshima, Japan, and their supplementary troops are all from Hiroshima, and all of them have undergone 11 months of recruit training. Once there are several major battles, these reinforcements will become elite soldiers!

It's just that these Japanese reinforcements from Hiroshima may never have a chance to become elite soldiers again!

When the artillery of the Eighth Route Army opened fire, it was when the Japanese army had just had dinner, and the little devils on the position ushered in the most leisurely time of the day, some hid in the trenches to write letters home, some climbed on the trenches to enjoy the beautiful canal scenery, and some were in a bunch of three or five, chatting about the feelings of the battlefield in North China, and even talking about the flower girl.

The main force of the Fifth Division has already killed in the hinterland of southern Hebei, and the canal line is quiet, not to mention the Eighth Route Army, and it is difficult for even passers-by to see it. Moreover, behind the Japanese defense line was Liaocheng, the county seat of Dongpingfu, which was easily occupied by the 21st Division, and has now become the rear of the Japanese army; The line from Linqing to Dezhou in the north is garrisoned by the 83rd Wing of the 21st Division, and the main force of the 21st Division and the 3rd Independent Mixed Brigade are stationed in the south, which is very safe. As a result, the little devils on the battlefield can hide and be idle, and they are not defenseless at all!

At this time, the shells of the Eighth Route Army fell, and the Japanese soldiers who were locked in small squares by the artillery group of the Eighth Route Army were immediately overwhelmed and swallowed by the artillery fire.

Moments later, a terrible whistle sounded on the Japanese line, and it was the officers who were calling their soldiers into positions and preparing for battle.

As soon as the artillery group of the Eighth Route Army began to shell, it did not stop, shelling one small square after another, firing five salvos and three salvos at a time, which was equivalent to plowing the Japanese position with artillery shells!

Because of the advanced tactical thinking, the observers of the artillery regiment are all young people with a junior high school education level or above recruited from the Yuxian, Shouyang, and Jilu border areas of the eastward advance detachment along the way, and follow the main attacking troops to the front line to conduct covert arrival and observation of the Japanese positions, and can accurately calculate the distance between the artillery positions and the Japanese positions, and the artillery coordinate parameters, which makes up for the shortcomings of the artillery regiment's insufficient training, so that the artillery has eyes, and the shells are really aimed at the heads of the little devils.

One piece after another, the artillery group of the Eighth Route Army was wantonly ravaging the Japanese positions!

Under this kind of fierce saturation artillery fire, not to mention people, even earthworms in the soil will not survive!

The nightmare of the Japanese Fifth Division on the canal defense line had just begun, and after the artillery fire was extended, the tanks and armored vehicles of the armored battalion of the Eighth Route Army and the automobile team that followed closely behind rushed over, and the infantry following the tanks and armored vehicles rushed over like a tide.

Artillery fire is ravaging the Japanese positions, tanks, armored vehicles, and automobiles are ravaging the Japanese army, and the light and heavy machine guns, infantry guns, grenadiers, rifles, and grenades of the infantry of the Eighth Route Army are ravaging the Japanese army, and the Japanese defense line has been ravaged and shattered!

The Fifth Division, which only had light weapons, could not organize effective resistance at all, and could only be one defense line after another was overwhelmed by the firepower of the Eighth Route Army, broken through, and annihilated!

Lieutenant General Toshiyoshi Ando, commander of the Fifth Division, and Chief of Staff Nishimura Riwen Daisa, only moved so much faster, rushing before the armored battalion of the Eighth Route Army rushed to the bridgehead of the canal, and led the division headquarters to escape the canal!

The 5th Engineer Wing of the 5th Division of the Japanese Army, which was already preparing to be stationed in the county seat of Guanxian County with the division headquarters, was stationed near the canal bridge, and when the order to retreat was received, the commander of the Japanese Wing immediately ordered the troops to cross the river immediately.

Not bad, the two brigades of the engineer wing that crossed the river did not desperately escape, but quickly deployed on the west bank of the canal bridge, wanting to meet the retreat of the two brigades of the baggage wing that were still on the east bank of the river, and cross the river at any time to support the supplementary team in the operation.

Not only that, the Japanese sappers quickly planted explosives on the canal bridge, ready to blow up the bridge at any time and block the pursuit of the Eighth Route Army!

This canal bridge is not a reinforced concrete bridge, but an arch bridge built with stones at an unknown time, barely able to pass tanks and cars, and cannot withstand the high explosives of the Japanese army!

Toshiyoshi Ando and Riwin Nishimura, who were sitting in a car and escaped the canal bridge, saw the scene of the Eighth Route Army's artillery group ravaging the canal defense line of the Fifth Division's supplementary team through the rear windshield of the small bridge, and saw the tanks, armored vehicles, and cars of the Eighth Route Army rushing everywhere, and they were immediately stunned and couldn't say a word!

Only then did Ando Toshiyoshi know why the eastward advance detachment of the Eighth Route Army was able to capture Texas and annihilate the main force of the independent mixed fourth brigade!

Toshiyoshi Ando originally thought that the 21st Infantry Wing of the 5th Division was heavily damaged at the east end of the Luokou Bridge, and that it was the Eighth Route Army that was too despicable and used special cigarettes produced by the Empire of Japan, which caused the 21st Wing, which was not the slightest defense, to be severely damaged. Seeing that the firepower of the Eighth Route Army was so powerful today, Ando Toshiyoshi realized that he had underestimated the combat effectiveness of the Eighth Route Army.

Fortunately, Ando Toshiyoshi did not forget that he was the commander of the Fifth Division, and after crossing the canal, he felt safe, so he immediately ordered the driver to stop, got out of the car, lay on the ground, and held a telescope to observe the opposite bank.

In Ando's telescope, the artillery fire of the Eighth Route Army raised smoke from the positions of the Japanese reinforcement team, one after another, rendering into patches and clouds of smoke, and together with the gradually rising twilight, the Japanese positions on the east bank of the canal were completely enveloped.

Ando Toshiyoshi immediately understood that his division and regiment replenishment team was over, and the two brigades of the baggage wing were also finished, all of them were left on the east bank of the canal, and it was no longer possible to follow the main force of the Fifth Division to attack the city and plunder the land!

Toshikichi Ando involuntarily rolled down two lines of cloudy old tears!

Seeing that the tanks and armored vehicles of the Eighth Route Army roared towards the canal bridge, if they hesitated any longer, the division headquarters might be caught up, and the two engineer brigades of the engineer wing that withdrew from the canal might repeat the mistake of the supplementary team and the baggage wing, Ando Toshiyoshi did not hesitate and ordered the engineers to blow up the bridge!

Toshikichi Ando is indeed ruthless!

By the time the armored battalion reached the head of the canal bridge, the Japanese sappers had already detonated explosives and blown up the ancient canal bridge!

Yuan Gang, who was sitting in the command car, immediately understood that the big fish was gone! Otherwise, the Japanese army would not have blown up the bridge at this time!

Yuan Gang, who was full of regret in his heart, suddenly increased his murderous spirit a little more, and commanded the armored battalion to gallop across the Japanese position, cooperating with the infantry to exterminate the remnants of the enemy!

There was no suspense in this battle, the elite of the eastward advance detachment of the Eighth Route Army did its best, and all the killing moves were sacrificed, the artillery group was bombarded, the armor was crushed, and the infantry assaulted.

After the elimination of the Japanese replenishment team, the main force of the eastward advance detachment turned around and dealt with the two brigades of the Japanese Fifth Wing that were blocked in several parking lots.

The scene of the goshawk fighting the rabbit and the tiger pounced on the flock of sheep is used to describe the main force of the eastward advance detachment of the Eighth Route Army to encircle and suppress the two brigades of the Fifth Wing of the Japanese Army, which could not be more appropriate.

During the Pingxingguan ambush war, the main force of the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army, which was born in the old Red Army, although the division sent 100 rounds of ammunition to each soldier in advance and emptied their families, the soldiers were accustomed to saving bullets, and after rushing onto the highway, they fought hand-to-hand with the little devils, and suffered heavy casualties.

The soldiers of the eastward advance detachment, since the time of the independent battalion, because of the abundant seizures and sufficient ammunition, Xiao Siming deliberately taught the soldiers to use bullets to talk to the little devils, and never skimped on ammunition when they started a battle. Especially those light and heavy machine gun shooters, it is not enjoyable not to shoot the barrel red, and the bullets are splashing, like the Japanese army. No matter how accurate the little devils are and how powerful the bayonets are, they will not be able to play to their strengths!

The fate of these little devils was already doomed from the moment the cannon of the Eighth Route Army sounded! (To be continued.) )