Rainstorms come and go as fast as they come. The next morning at the earliest, the red sun hung in the sky of North China.

It rained all night and was muddy!

At this time, the Japanese army had no choice but to sit and wait. Anyway, if the road is not dry, the Japanese tanks, armored vehicles, cars, and motorcycles will not be able to run.

Two days later, on the night of 12 June, the North China Front Army Headquarters issued operational orders to the Fifth Division, the 16th Division, the Third Independent Mixed Brigade, and the Third Railway Wing to besiege the Jilu border and eliminate the eastward advance detachment of the Eighth Route Army.

In accordance with the order of the North China Front Command, the 3rd Brigade of the Independent Mixed Brigade blocked the Jinpu Road and highway between Dezhou and Luokou, the 3rd Railway Wing blocked the railway and highway between Dezhou and Cangzhou and Qingxian, and the 16th Division went north along the Jinpu Road and then turned around and went west, from west to east, to the Jilu border area.

This posture is clearly intended to destroy the Jilu border base area in one fell swoop!

As a result, the 5th and 16th Divisions of the Japanese Army, the 3rd Brigade of the Independent Mixed Brigade, the 3rd Wing of the Railway, and the two cavalry divisions of the puppet Jidong Security Corps, the puppet Liu Peichen Division, and the puppet Mongolian Army under their command, all ate and went to bed early that night, and waited for the next morning to kill the Jilu border.

If they had fought against the Nationalist Army, a small search force of the Japanese army would have infiltrated the Jilu border area that night to find out the situation for tomorrow's siege by a large force. However, considering that Xiao Siming's department was good at ambushes and surprise attacks, Terauchi Shouichi strictly ordered all troops not to send small search teams to search and reconnoiter on the Jilu border to avoid unnecessary losses. As long as tomorrow morning, all the troops will march together and roll it down!

Terauchi Shouichi used the old trick of "one force to reduce ten meetings", and wanted to rely on a huge number of troops to force the Eighth Route Army out of the shadows and encircle and annihilate it!

In the early morning of 13 June, the Japanese puppet army from all walks of life dispatched, and the motors of motorcycles, tanks, armored vehicles, and automobiles shook the earth, and groups of Japanese puppet army cavalry and infantry rushed towards the base area along the Jilu border like a rising tide.

Xiao Hua, who had just arrived on the border of Hebei and Shandong, commanded the Fifth Detachment, the Jinpu Detachment, the Fourth Regiment of the Eastward Advance Detachment, the Wudi Independent Regiment, the Yanshan Independent Regiment, and the Deping Independent Regiment.

The Jilu border is the Great Plains, the east is the sea, the southeast is the Yellow River, and the Japanese army blocked the west and southwest with the Tianjin-Pudong Railway.

Leling, Ningjin, Qingyun, Wudi, Yanshan, Deping, Yangxin these seven counties because the Eighth Route Army captured a little earlier, the local government construction is fast, in accordance with the requirements of the Eighth Route Army to build tunnels, at this time it is easier to do, when the Japanese army attacked, the villagers can go down the tunnel, temporarily take refuge. Vertex M. update the fastest other places will not work, too late to repair the tunnel, the villagers can only go to the green gauze tent, low-lying land, can hide for a while is a while!

Suddenly, the beautiful Jilu border plain was drowned in the bloody rain.

In just one day's work, as soon as it was dark, Xiao Hua ordered the radio station to turn on and sent an urgent telegram to Xiao Siming and Wang Lushui: "One hundred thousand urgent!" The Japanese army adopted the method of Chiang Kai-shek * * stone roller warfare during the five anti-encirclement and suppression, and the border of Hebei and Lu was in great crisis! When will it start? ”

According to the agreement between Xiao Siming and Xiao Hua, when the eastward advance detachment was hidden, radio silence was practiced during the day, and it was only turned on at night.

Xiao Siming's call back was: "Attack tonight!" ”

On June 7, after discovering the Japanese army's attempt to flank Dezhou by the 5th Division, the 16th Division, and the 3rd Independent Mixed Brigade, Xiao Siming and Wang Lushui led the eastward advance detachment to evacuate Dezhou that night.

Xiao Siming's plan was to move covertly to the vicinity of Shijiazhuang on the Pinghan Road, and launch a surprise attack to attract the Japanese Fifth Division and the 16th Division to turn to Pinghan Road to urgently reinforce Shijiazhuang. Then he led the Japanese army by the nose and circled around the Pinghan Road, gradually making the battlefield difficult to move, and firmly attracted the elite 5th and 16th divisions of the Japanese army to North China, so that they could not participate in the Battle of Wuhan. The fastest update should at least allow the Japanese army to stop dreaming of capturing Zhengzhou and controlling the Pinghan Road south of Zhengzhou, as it has done in history, and move south along the Pinghan Road to attack Wuhan. Instead, as in history, they attacked Wuhan along the Yangtze River and the northern foothills of the Dabie Mountains.

Xiao Siming wanted to revise the trajectory of history, and on the premise of avoiding the tragedy of Huayuankou, let the Japanese army fight the Battle of Wuhan as it did in history.

As long as the Fifth and Sixteenth Divisions can be contained in North China, and no matter how long, by the end of July, the Japanese army will have to revise its battle plan as it has done in history, turning a three-way offensive into a two-way offensive.

Xiao Siming originally wanted the Japanese army to stay in Jilu for a few more days, but after receiving Xiao Hua's 100,000 urgent telegrams, he knew that it would not work, and he had to attack. Otherwise, the retaliatory Japanese army will definitely turn the Jilu border into a scorched earth!

At this time, Xiao Siming and Wang Lushui led the main force of the eastward advance detachment, and after a secret movement in the southern Hebei base area, they had arrived at the junction of Luancheng County, Zhao County, and Yuanshi County on the side of Zhengtai Road, and waited in concealment.

After the victory of the anti-Ninth Route siege in the southeast of Shanxi, in order to implement the development to the plains, the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army ordered the 129th Division to quickly divide its troops and carry out the strategy to southern Hebei, northern Henan and along the railway. According to this, the 129th Division organized the main force of the whole division into two columns, the left column was the "Ludong Column" (east of Pinghan Road), composed of the 769th Regiment of the 129th Division, the 689th Regiment of the 344th Brigade of the 115th Division and the Zeng Guohua Detachment, led by Deputy Commander Xu Xiangqian, and advanced to the South Hebei Plain; The right column is the "Luxi Column", composed of the main force of the 386th Brigade and led by Brigade Commander Chen Geng, to Xingtai and Shahe, and cooperate with the "Ludong Column" action. Vertices M. updates the fastest

Among them, Zeng Guohua's detachment, that is, the five detachments of the 115th Division, undertook the task of reinforcing Xiao Siming's eastward advance detachment.

On May 2, after Xu Xiangqian led the left column to Nangong, he began to command the troops to attack from all sides, and by this time, the Japanese puppet army in the hinterland of southern Hebei had been expelled.

The Wang Naigui detachment of the 129th Division was active in the vicinity of Zhaoxian, Gaocheng, and Luancheng at this time, attracting all the attention of the Japanese puppet army, just to cover the eastward advance detachment to hide and wait.

Xiao Siming has many cars and rubber cars, and it is easy to expose the target. Covered by Wang Naigui's detachment, and in the guerrilla zone, the Japanese puppet army was unaware of it!

It's ridiculous that Shouyi in the temple is still frantically besieging Jilubian and bent on eliminating Xiao Siming's department, but Xiao Siming and Wang Lushui have already led their troops into the belly of Princess Iron Fan, waiting to launch a thunderous blow!

After calling Xiao Hua back, Xiao Siming and Wang Lushui immediately issued a combat order.

Xiao Siming wrote in his combat order: "The Japanese Army's Fifth Division, the Sixteenth Division, the Independent Mixed Third Brigade, the Third Railway Wing, the puppet Jidong Security Corps, the puppet Liu Peichen Division, and the puppet Mongolian Army are killing the Jilu border and crushing the Jilu border base area created by our army. Everywhere the Japanese puppet army went, burned, killed, looted, and did all kinds of evil!

Our army is the people's soldiers of the Jilu border, and at this critical juncture, our army must strike a thunderous blow and transfer the Japanese army away from the Jilu border. To this end, all units were ordered to immediately launch an attack on the combat target in accordance with the battle plan! ”

Shijiazhuang is the transportation hub connecting Zhengtai Road to Pinghan Road, and it is also the location of the headquarters of the First Army of the Japanese Army. The attack on Shijiazhuang shook the Japanese army as you can imagine!

It's just that Xiao Siming has no intention of capturing Shijiazhuang, he just put on a posture to capture Shijiazhuang, attracting the Japanese Fifth Division and the Sixteenth Division to withdraw troops from the Jilu border and chase after Pinghan Road.

As for whether the Japanese army would pursue him, Xiao Siming was not worried at all. Because since the Central News Agency issued a press release, Xiao Siming knew that he and the eastward advance detachment led by him had become a thorn in the side and a thorn in the flesh of the Japanese army, and the little devil was eager to retaliate. For this reason, the Japanese army did not hesitate to stop attacking in the direction of Zhengzhou, and specially transferred two elite divisions back to North China, in order to eliminate the eastward advance detachment of the Eighth Route Army?

As long as the commander of the Japanese North China Front, Terauchi Shouichi, learned that the eastward advance detachment of the Eighth Route Army had arrived on Pinghan Road, he would definitely not hesitate to order the Fifth Division and the Sixteenth Division to reinforce Shijiazhuang.

Xiao Siming has never doubted this!

As soon as the battle order was issued, the units of the eastward advance detachment were divided into three battle clusters in accordance with the battle plan and rushed towards the predetermined combat target.

The cavalry battalion has a strong mobility capability, and compared with the armored battalion, it has the advantage of being easy to conceal. Therefore, they had already crossed the Shide Highway two days ago and arrived at the Hutuo River north of Shijiazhuang, ready to wait for the opportunity to blow up the Hutuo River Railway Bridge and the Hutuo River Highway Bridge!

The cavalry battalion strengthened three Type 92 infantry guns this time, disassembled and packed them on horseback, and quickly assembled them after arriving at the battlefield to deal with the Japanese pillboxes guarding the bridge!

After receiving Xiao Siming's combat order, Liu Zhaoming, the commander of the cavalry battalion, immediately ordered all companies to check the ammunition, assemble the team, and prepare to go!

Deputy battalion commander Wu Peng happily said to battalion commander Liu Zhaoming and instructor Ma Ming: "Lao Tzu is about to go crazy, and he is finally looking forward to the attack order!" I didn't say it, I took the third battalion to blow up the Hutuo River Railway Bridge! ”

Jinpu Road was completely paralyzed, and if the Hutuo River Railway Bridge and Highway Bridge were blown up again, it is estimated that the Minister of Railways of the North China Front Army, Shimoda Muro, would have the heart to die!

Wu Peng followed Xiao Siming to blow up the Ziya River Railway Bridge, and witnessed the blowing up of the Zhengtai Road Taohe Railway Bridge and the Yellow River Luokou Railway Bridge.

Under the cover of night, the cavalry battalion pulled out of the reeds by the hidden Hutuo River, the third company was in front, the first company and the second company followed, the war horses were stepping on broken steps, and the riders were all lying on horseback, along the bank of the Hutuo River, towards the railway bridge and highway bridge! (To be continued.) )