Stimulated by Liu Yimin's conversation and telegram, the war in North China became more and more intense.

Needless to say, the army has 700,000 troops, not to mention devils armed to the teeth, even 700,000 wolves, if they wreak havoc in North China together, it will be very terrifying.

On the side of our army, the Eighth Route Army in Shanxi kept attacking the devils, and the units of the 115th Division, the 120th Division, and the Reading Division seized the opportunity of the devils to attack Shandong and began to attack on all fronts, compressing the devils, and trying to restore the original base areas. The various units of the 129th Division continued to press the devils in the direction of Pinghan Road, uprooted the devils' strongholds, and tried their best to expand the base area in the west of the road.

The [***] on both sides of the Yangtze River have been resting for a while. Due to the beautiful battle of the defense of Nanjing, the strength of the [***] is still there, and it has not suffered heavy losses from the Yue army as in history. After the army transferred troops to North China, [***] on both sides of the Yangtze River began to actively attack. But it was all a small force operation. Now the command has issued an order to counterattack, although the scale of the attack is limited, as long as it makes an appearance and makes the attack more powerful. However, the generals and soldiers of the participating units did not think so. The Eighth Route Army has won so many battles, and the chairman of the committee has already rewarded the instructors of the Eighth Route Army twice, but there are pictures in the newspapers, voices on the radio, and a lot of silver dollars, which one is not envious! Under this mentality, the troops participating in the battle were very active and brave, which shocked the commander of the Central China Front Army, Shunroku Hatata, who could not imagine that the squadron, which had lost even the capital, would fight so desperately. In a hurry, he sent several telegrams a day, asking Terauchi Shouichi to end the war as soon as possible and let the main division of the Central China Front return to the army as soon as possible.

In eastern Henan, Chiang Kai-shek made up his mind, and Cheng Qian, the commander of the First Theater of Operations, naturally moved when he heard the news, they were all people who led the troops to fight, who wanted to be chased by devils every day? Now that there is an opportunity to fight back against the devil, Cheng Qian naturally has to seize it tightly. However, Chiang Kai-shek's order to him was very clear, the momentum should be great, but the main force could not go up, seize the time to complete the position, replenish the troops, and prepare to deal with the next attack of the devils. Kaifeng is now a dangerous city, and when the army counterattacks in the future, it must not be able to hold it, and it is necessary to seize the time to retreat and transfer Kaifeng's materials and personnel. But we must hold Zhengzhou. The western Henan region must be heavily garrisoned to be a strong backing for the Zhongtiao Mountain defense line.

Although this order made Cheng Qianqian slanderous, strategically speaking, Chiang Kai-shek's order did make sense. Therefore, Cheng Qian strictly implemented Chiang Kai-shek's orders and organized troops to cooperate with the troops commanded by Li Zongren to counterattack on all fronts.

Of course, Cheng Qian also learned well this time, because the last time Liu Jianli commanded the troops to cross the Longhai Road, the scene of the Xu detachment and the Chen detachment attacking the Yue army between the Yue army and the [***] defense line was reported by the front-line troops layer by layer, and Cheng Qian naturally immediately thought that it was the Eighth Route Army fighting. He didn't think that it was the large army of the Eighth Route Army crossing the Longhai Road, what he thought was that Liu Yimin was forced by the Yue Army, and regardless of his opinions, he sent a small force to attack the Yue Army, with the purpose of instigating the Yue Army to fight with [***] in eastern Henan, so as to reduce the pressure on the Eighth Route Army.

Cheng Qian felt that Liu Yimin's method was not very bright at the beginning, but after thinking about it, they were all devils, and when the battlefield situation was critical, the Eighth Route Army had no hesitation, especially Liu Yimin's instructor, every punch hit the key point of the little devil. Now Liu Yimin's troops are fighting with the devils, and [***] the various departments have a chance to breathe, but it is a bit like sitting on a mountain and watching the tiger fight. I'm afraid this will chill the Eighth Route Army, and Liu Yimin has no choice but to do this. This incident also shows that the siege of the Eighth Route Army by the Yue Army was very cruel, and Liu Yimin was so brave and good at fighting that he actually resorted to this method, which shows that he realized that he was going to face the test of life and death.

Cheng Qian's qualifications are very old, he was admitted to the Hunan Wubei School with the first place, and later studied in this book, and Huang Xing, Song Jiaoren, Li Liejun befriended, and then met Sun Yat-sen, determined to revolution. He was an important figure in the Republic of China period.

Cheng Qian said that he studied artillery and knew a lot about the tactics of the army. He knew that the reason why the 14th Division of Tufeiyuan was not eliminated in the last battle of Lanfeng was mainly because the firepower of the army was strong, and the casualties in the [***] frontal attack were too large. Now, although the army has been replaced by a garrison division, their artillery fire is still strong, and if they counterattack head-on, I am afraid that they will suffer heavy casualties.

Thinking that Liu Yimin's small army could boldly penetrate into the middle of the defense line of the Yue Army and the troops of the First War Zone, Cheng Qian's brain was also alive, and he remembered the past of his secret attack on Nanchang during the Northern Expedition, and a smile appeared on his unsmiling face.

As a result, the counteroffensive organized by the First Theater this time changed the tactics of the past, and no longer stared at the heavily fortified county towns such as Lanfeng and Shangqiu, but directed all the sharp points of the counterattack at the small strongholds of the army. In this way, the results of the battle are not big when you look at them individually, but the results are not small when you calculate them carefully. Because although the number of devils eliminated was small, the momentum was so great that the 27th Division sitting in eastern Henan was shocked every day, and became a frightened bird, thinking that the troops that counterattacked Shangqiu last time had returned, and kept sending telegrams to the North China Front for help.

Unlike Cheng Qian, the troops of the Fifth Theater commanded by Li Zongren were originally based on the Gui Army, but now the Eastern Henan Army has become a soft persimmon, and Li Zongren directly released the Seventh Army of the Seventh Army of Liao Lei's 21st Group Army and began to actively counterattack.

Since the Seventh Army went north to resist the war, it has participated in several vicious battles, and the results have been outstanding. This time he was ordered to attack, and the army commander Zhou Zuhuang was very clear about Li Zongren's operational intentions, that is, to compress the devils to the Shangqiu line and expand the strategic space for the defense of Wuhan.

Before the expedition, the Seventh Army of Steel carried out combat mobilization, and Li Zongren personally went to the Seventh Army to mobilize and took the lead in singing the battle song of the Seventh Army:

The man is bold enough to participate in the death squad!

Fight the battlefield, and see death as home!

Ning Yu is broken, Beiwa is complete! The revolutionary soldiers are fearless!

Annihilate the enemy, build up meritorious deeds, and watch our invincible steel army death squad!

The Seventh Army of Steel fought to the battlefield in eastern Henan in the dauntless singing.

The various departments of the Jin Sui Army also woke up this time, the army in Shanxi was on the defensive, wouldn't it really become a coward if they didn't fight devils at this time?

Yan Xishan, with the dignity of the commander of the second theater, got into the car, took Wuxian'er, and ran to see Wei Lihuang in person. The two of them discussed and discussed, and felt that what Liu Yimin said made sense, if the battlefields supported each other, no matter how strong the little devil was, I am afraid he would be exhausted from running around.

This time, Yan Xishan came to see Wei Lihuang and made up his mind. Because before coming, he received representatives of the new commander of the First Army, Umezu Mijiro. The guy brought a letter from Umezu Mijiro, in which he said that Mr. Yan Baichuan had studied in Japan in his early years, and he should make more contributions to the goodwill of the middle school. If Mr. Yan Baichuan can cooperate with the Great Empire, the Imperial Army will help Mr. Yan expel the Eighth Route Army and the Central Army Wei Lihuang from Shanxi, and completely restore law and order in Shanxi. It can also help Mr. Yan Baichuan to form the North China Autonomous Government and manage the entire North China region.

Umezu Mijiro's letter is very long, describing the style of the book and talking about the support and help that the book can provide to Yan Xishan. It's a pity that Umezu Mijiro was clever and misunderstood, he miscalculated the situation of China's War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, and also miscalculated Yan Xishan.

Yan Xishan is old and refined, and he has never seen any formation. Although he studied in Yueben and knew that the gap in strength between China and China was too large, but since he joined forces with the Eighth Route Army, he has understood one thing, this dog said that he wanted to fully occupy China, not to mention anything else, I am afraid that he will not be able to pass the pass between [***] and the Eighth Route Army. Not to mention anything else, the fact that the chief and deputy commander-in-chief of the Eighth Route Army did not have any private property made Yan Xishan know that there was really a group of selfless people in this world. There are also those little soldiers of the Eighth Route Army, as soon as the military horn sounds, they don't want their lives, and they rush up in the rain of bullets. With this kind of commander and this kind of soldier, Xiao Yueben's dream may be shattered.

Therefore, after reading Umezu Mijiro's letter, Yan Xishan scoffed, this little devil who said that he occupied Taiyuan, not to mention, but also let the old man be a Han annihilation. You can't do this openly when Han Zhan is killed! That's a shameless thing to see the ancestors, and Xiao Yueben is too insidious!

Of course, Yan Xishan is not Liu Yimin, nor is he Wei Lihuang, Xue Yue, Zhang Zizhong and other people, if these people are people, I am afraid that the representative of Umezu Mijiro will be cut directly. Yan Xishan danced on three eggs to do everything for others, so it was impossible for him to kill the representative of the army, so he just politely refused and sent him out of the country. The representative of the little devil thought that as long as he came a few more times and the conditions were more favorable, Yan Laoxi might still be able to cooperate with the imperial army.

On the way up Zhongtiao Mountain, Yan Xishan was in distress twice, once when he was targeted by a military plane, which blew up two vehicles and killed more than 20 guards and soldiers. As a result, after checking, there was a small army around him, and Yan Xishan, in anger, pulled out his gun and personally killed this Wutai fellow whom he trusted very much.

A wave of unsettled waves, on the way, I actually encountered a reconnaissance force of only a dozen people. This little devil is really strong, he actually attacked Yan Xishan's convoy, needless to say, what is Yan Xishan doing, if he can let the little devil succeed, his guards will be equipped with so many submachine guns in vain, not to mention the troops sent by Wei Lihuang to respond!

Yan Xishan has completely figured it out now, the devil is sending people to contact and negotiate, and the plane is intensively investigating, and it is a small force infiltrating and harassing, it turns out that he wants to scare my old man, and if the scare fails, maybe he wants to get rid of my old man! This little devil is still here!

After Wei Lihuang retreated from Taiyuan, because Liu Yimin led his instructor to join the battlefield, eliminated the main force of the Fifth Division, and annihilated the Chahar Corps, the army did not pursue Jinnan as in history, and he gained a firm foothold in Zhongtiao Mountain. In order to stabilize the defense line of Zhongtiao Mountain, Chiang Kai-shek sent him a large number of additional reinforcements, and even Yang Hucheng's troops in Ankang were all transferred. Wei Lihuang led the troops to build fortifications and train soldiers, and he has been busy in Zhongtiao Mountain for so long.

After Liu Yimin's telegraph was published, Wei Lihuang was on pins and needles. He knew that Liu Yimin asked him to send troops to attack in the direction of Handan, which stimulated him. It is likely that many people think that his training and preparation for war in Zhongtiao Mountain is a passive avoidance of war. Is he Wei Lihuang like that? Liu Yimin, a stinky boy, actually underestimated me Wei Junru so much!

Therefore, as soon as Yan Xishan came to him, the two hit it off, and sent a telegram to Mr. Zhu, determined to help the Eighth Route Army, otherwise he would not be able to meet Zhu Peng and the others in the future.

At this moment, the Eighth Route Army, the Central Army, and the Jin Sui Army on the Shanxi battlefield began to join forces again, and the commander of the First Army, Umezu Mijiro, immediately felt the pressure, and repeatedly ordered the troops to defend it strictly, but the city could be defended, and those garrison strongholds on the communication line could be defended? Umezu Mijiro had to send a series of reports to Terauchi Shou, saying that the Tongpu Line and the Shota Line had been attacked by the squadron in many places and asked for reinforcements. As a result, Terauchi Shouichi sent a telegram back, scolding Umezu Mijiro, saying that he had three divisions and two Yomitsu mixed brigades, and he couldn't hold the line of communication, so he might as well go fishing in Hokkaido.

Umezu Mijiro, who was humiliated by Shouichi Terauchi, poured all his anger on the middle [***] team, and ordered the 10th and 9th Divisions, the 25th Division, and the 8th and 9th Brigades to serve as the inner line guards, and ordered the 20th Division, the main division, to serve as a reserve force and rush to help in several aspects of the operation at any time.

This Umezu Mijiro is the chief graduate of the twenty-third class of the Army University, that is, the first place. This old devil is a pedantic soldier, calm and cautious in considering problems, and humble and polite on the outside, but in fact he is a guy with a beast's heart.

Now he has limited troops at hand and is in a passive situation, but Umezu Yoshijiro is not an idle person, and he has begun to study how to transfer troops to carry out the Shanxi Suzheng Campaign.

In the face of the urgent situation everywhere, Terauchi Shouichi was unmoved, and strictly ordered Tada Jun, King Tsuruhiko of Dongjueriya, and Naosaburo Gangbe to lead the troops to speed up the pace of attack, and it was necessary to eliminate the main force of Liu Yimin's instructor in one battle and completely solve the Shandong problem.

However, Terauchi Shou 10,000 never expected that the tactics of the Eighth Route Army instructor had changed.

At the beginning of the Devil's Sweep, wherever the army went, the Eighth Route Army basically resolutely avoided the enemy's edge, quickly transferred, broke through and entered the tunnel, and the army basically could not catch the shadow of the main force of the Eighth Route Army. Even the Eighth Route Army has been operating for a long time in Hebei and Luxi, southern Hebei, and central Hebei, and it is difficult for the army to find the shadow of the Eighth Route Army. The Eighth Route Army eliminated the 10th Division on the Jilu border and achieved such a great record, but when the heavy army group pressed on the Jilu border, it did not find the main force of the Eighth Route Army, and Liu Yimin fled with his troops to work again.

But now it is different, after the heavy army group of the Yue Army pounced on Lunan and Luzhong and Taiyi mountains, the Eighth Route Army in Jizhong, southern Hebei, Luxi, and Hebei and Lubian began to move again, and they seized the opportunity to do a job, and the target was the puppet army.

The Shandong Eighth Route Army was now fighting on two fronts, north and south, and began to rely on tunnels and mountainous areas to resolutely resist, and every time the army captured a town, it had to pay a great price to succeed. Although the army was violent, the Eighth Route Army was not afraid and fought to the death with the devils.

(To be continued)