If you want to catch the fish, the only thing you need is that the net is strong enough. The fishing net carefully woven by the Japanese army was not strong enough because there were units such as the 22nd Brigade and the 22nd Brigade to take on the task of frontal blocking.

The Japanese army had been planning for a long time to break through the battle of Longhai Road, including the depth of the river, the location of the well, the road, the country road, etc., they all reconnoitred clearly, but the Japanese army did not expect that the independent mixed 22nd Brigade would be so unbeaten, and it would be cleaned up by the Eighth Route Army in a short period of time. In this way, the passage for the Eighth Route Army to return north was completely opened, and what the Japanese army had to do now was to carry out an east-west attack and flank the passing troops of the Eighth Route Army. As long as most of the Eighth Route Army can be eliminated in a flanking attack or the Eighth Route Army can be completely defeated, the Japanese army will have achieved the purpose of the campaign.

The Eighth Route Army discovered the conspiracy of the Japanese army at the critical moment, and then went all out to break through the Longhai Road and return north quickly. The current situation is that the passage to the north has been completely opened, and the main force can break away from contact with the enemy at any time and quickly move north. However, the baggage convoy is slower and will take some time. This time difference became a disaster for the Japanese army's road army.

After the high-power radio station of Liu Yimin's temporary headquarters was turned on, he quickly established contact with various units, grasped the dynamics of the battlefield, and learned that Zhao Yonggang led the Second Special Operations Squadron to ambush the vanguard of the Japanese army's eastward advance in the area west of Hongzhuang, destroying three armored patrol cars and a military column, and also knowing that after the armored group of the Teaching Brigade eliminated the 22nd Independent Mixed Brigade, all of them crossed the Longhai Road and joined up with the receiving troops of the Fifth Brigade.

Liu Yimin did not expect that the Japanese army would invest such a large amount of money, and the armored patrol cars, trains, tanks, and armored vehicles used alone could only be completed after a period of planning. At this time, Liu Yimin regretted a little, because he did not pay enough attention to the hidden front struggle, resulting in the instructor could not obtain the core secrets from the core department of the Japanese puppet army, otherwise there would not be the kind of Japanese army that has already laid a trap, and he also led a huge baggage convoy to drill into the pockets of the Japanese army.

There is no regret medicine in the world, and this time is not the time to regret it, every minute and every second there are soldiers who are bleeding and sacrificing, and we must gather strength to repel the attack of the Japanese puppet army and gain time to ensure that the logistics baggage convoy can safely pass through Longhai Road.

Liu Yimin called a staff officer and asked him to convey the order to Bao Wen and Zhang Linfeng, who were in charge of directing the baggage convoy to pass through Longhai Road, that once it was dark and the Japanese plane retreated, it was necessary to organize the convoy to pass through Longhai Road as quickly as possible, and if necessary, he could turn up his headlights and raise torches to speed up the passage. Then, Liu Yimin sent a telegram to Gao Yuan, asking him to move the armored group of the 1st Brigade to the northeast of Niushan Town, and prepare to launch an earth-shattering flank attack on Niushan Town when the Japanese army advanced westward and the heavy army group attacked Niushan Town, and must defeat the 71st Brigade to ensure the safety of the flanks of the 1st Regiment and the 1st Cavalry Regiment. Hong Chaoyuan was ordered to command the 1st Field Artillery Regiment, the 1st Brigade Artillery Regiment, and the Cavalry Brigade Artillery Regiment in a unified manner, and to strike preemptively, and strive to destroy the Japanese heavy artillery positions after they opened fire, covering the eastern and western fronts to block the troops. Cheng Cuilin was ordered to deploy the new 1st Brigade and the 1st Regiment on both flanks of the 1st Regiment, and also adopted the method of multi-echelon deployment of small units to cooperate with the 1st Regiment to complete the task of blocking the attack on the Western Front. The new 1st Brigade, the 2nd Regiment, and the 3rd Regiment were ordered to join the ranks of the baggage transport and help the baggage convoy quickly pass through the Longhai Road. After ordering Hu Laohu to lead a regiment to complete the task of dredging the road to the north, he was ready to prepare to support the regiment to block the Japanese army to the east.

Just when Liu Yimin gave the order, the Japanese troops on the Eastern Front had already exchanged fire with the 1st Special Operations Squadron of the Eighth Route Army and the 1st Regiment of the Jiao Regiment.

The 6th and 9th Divisions of the Japanese Army, the 1st Division of the Guards Division, and the 2nd Guards Infantry Brigade of the 1st Division of the Guards Division, were tasked with carrying out the task of pincerizing the Eighth Route Army from east to west. Lieutenant General Shiro Inaba, commander of the 6th Division, was appointed commander-in-chief of the former enemy.

The Japanese base camp adopted Shanshanyuan's suggestion, divided the Guards Division into two, and one brigade supplemented the reserve officers and soldiers to form the First Guards Division, which had jurisdiction over the First Guards Infantry Brigade and the Second Guards Infantry Brigade, and sent them to fight in North China. A brigade retained the number of the Guards Division after replenishing the recruits, and stayed behind.

After Lieutenant General Shiro Inaba led the 6th and 9th Divisions to the sea east of Lianyungang, they joined up with the 2nd Guards Infantry Brigade of the Guards Division, which had already arrived. In order to conceal their operational intentions, the Japanese army actually drifted on the sea of Lianyungang for a day, and then landed covertly at night, and quickly gathered near Lianyungang with news and covertly.

Inaba Shiro is one of the most famous generals in the Japanese army. Compared with his predecessor, Gu Shoufu, the operational command style is slightly less bold and sharp, but it is also relatively rigorous. This time, because the commander of the Ninth Division, Yoshizumi Ryosuke, was demobilized and returned to China, the new division commander, Lieutenant General Koujiichiro, was obviously not as qualified as Inaba Shiro, and Inaba Shiro naturally became the former enemy commander who commanded two and a half elite divisions of the Japanese army, and he was addicted.

Koujiichiro also learned all the way from the Japanese Army's Infant School, the Army Non-commissioned Officer School, and the Army University. This person is a Russian expert, and Ishihara Waner and Anan are iron buddies, who visited Ukraine when he was a military attache in Poland, and was the first officer of the Japanese army to visit the Soviet Union after the revolution.

This mouth Jiichiro, because there were nine children in the family when he was a child, he was the eldest, his parents divorced and lived with his mother, and he experienced the difficulties of the lower class of civilians since he was a child, and at the age of 18, he became the adopted son of the mouth family in Ogaki City, Gifu Prefecture, and the living environment improved slightly. This experience made him an alternative in the Japanese army. In March 1937, as deputy of the General Staff Headquarters, Ichiro Kuchiji accompanied a military delegation to Berlin, while others were busy experiencing the strength of the German economy and military, and reveling in how to join forces with Germany to carve up the world, but he set his eyes on Germany's anti-Jewish policy.

At this time, the Army, from top to bottom, was deceived by German fascist propaganda, believing that the Jews were plotting to rule the world with money. Coupled with the fact that Marx was a Jew, out of consciousness, the Japanese army's impression of the Jews can be imagined.

After returning to China, Ichiro Kuchichi sent a member of the Japanese army, who was a member of the Jewish army, to attend the first Far Eastern Jewish Conference held on December 26, 1937. After the meeting, Koujiichiro developed a plan for Fugu, proposing the establishment of a Jewish settlement in Harbin to revitalize the Manchukuo economy and improve relations with the United States.

As soon as this proposal was put forward, it was protested by the German ambassador to Japan, but Ichiro Kuchiji was unmoved, and with the support of Hideki Tojo, then chief of staff of the Kwantung Army, and Yoyo Matsuoka, president of the Manchu Railway, he went so far as to attend a five-phase meeting, and it was approved, provided that relations with Germany were not affected. With this Shang Fang sword, Koujiichiro took in 500,020,000 Jewish refugees who came along the Trans-Siberian Railway in Harbin, providing them with food and lodging. As a result, he enjoyed great prestige among the Jews. If he hadn't been transferred to the second head of the General Staff Headquarters in October last year, maybe his puffer fish plan would have saved a group of Jews!

Ichiro Kuchiji's sympathy for the Jews was largely due to his early and adolescent life. When I was young, because of the large number of people in my family, life was difficult, so I just had rice dumplings to eat. Now seeing the Jews being ostracized by the German fascists, I unconsciously feel sympathy. Of course, on a deeper level, Ichiro Kuchiki also took a fancy to the funds and technology of the Jews, and wanted to prosper the economy of the Northeast with the ability of the Jews. If it weren't for this, not to mention Koujiichiro, the Five Phases would not have risked affecting relations with Germany and agreed to take in Jews.

With such a strategic vision, Ichiro Kuchiji will naturally not be far off when he fights. No, after he was transferred to the post of commander of the Ninth Division, he hurried to Lianyungang to take up his post, and as soon as he met with the Ninth Division, he inspected the troops, especially inspecting the chariot units of the Ninth Division and the rapid-fire artillery squadron of the artillery. Because he knew that the instructor of the Eighth Route Army had a chariot unit captured from the Japanese army, and he would launch a counterattack on his attacking troops anytime and anywhere, and it was likely that a single blow would make him hurt to the bone and lose everything.

That's not all, because Kouji Ichiro was the head of the second department of the General Staff Headquarters before leaving, he knew the battle situation on the Nomenkan front, and he was obviously very interested in the effect of the soldiers of the 23rd Division using Molotov cocktails against the tanks of the Soviet Red Army.

This mouth Ji Ichiro is really unusual!

Speaking of which, the commander of the 114th Division, Lieutenant General Shigeharu Suematsu, was far less hateful than Shiro Inaba. Because Inaba Shiro's predecessor and commander of the Twelfth Army, Gu Shoufu, was tried by the instructor of the Eighth Route Army in Jinan and sentenced to death, which was equivalent to peeling off the face of the entire Sixth Division in front of the whole world. Not to mention, his tricks really worked, and the combat effectiveness of the Sixth Division was quickly restored.

This time, Inaba Shiro was ruthless, he wanted Liu Yimin to know the strength of the Sixth Division and avenge Gu Shoufu. Therefore, he ordered the 2nd Brigade of the fully mechanized Guards Division to take on the task of rapid detour, joining forces with the detour troops from Xuzhou and Pixian. Cut off the southward passage of the Eighth Route Army, and then press the Eighth Route Army from the front, and quickly attack Longhai Road with mechanized superiority. The Sixth Division, as the main attacking force, took the brigade and wing as the unit, and attacked quickly in many directions, the Ninth Division acted as the right flank attack, and advanced with one wing to attack quickly in the north of Longhai Road, and the rest of the troops in the combat field reserve followed the Sixth Division.

Inaba Shiro is already ruthless enough, and when he comes to Ichiro, he is even more ruthless, and as soon as the two of them are combined, they simply concentrate on the two artillery wings of the Sixth Division and the Ninth Division to provide strong firepower support for the attacking troops. At the same time, the chariots and armored vehicles of the two divisions were concentrated, and the three infantry brigades of the Sixth Division and the Ninth Division were assigned to flank the attack of that wing, and the infantry was guided to attack rapidly in multiple directions, striving to break through the blocking position of the Eighth Route Army and divide the Eighth Route Army in one fell swoop.

These two old devils want to turn the battle of the Eighth Route Army into a sea of corpses and blood, and use the blood of the soldiers of the Eighth Route Army to stain the generals on their epaulettes!

If they encounter other squadrons, the plot of these two old devils will definitely succeed, and the battlefield is likely to be one-sided. Now they are encountering the most elite Jiaoyi Brigade under Liu Yimin, that is, knife to knife, mang to mang, it depends on whose knife is faster.

The fight was fierce from the start!

After Wang Laohu led the No. 1 Special Operations Squadron to take control of Niushan Town, he pursued the remnants of the defense line east of Niushan Town of the 22nd Brigade Regiment, which was independently mixed, and pursued it all the way to Baitabu.

When I arrived at Baitabu Town, I saw that this was a large market town, with Japanese fortifications and strongholds, and there were many surrounding villages and puddles, which were easy to defend and difficult to attack, so I hurriedly reported to Hu Laohu and asked to send troops to this area to deploy defenses.

On the one hand, Wang Laohu commanded the soldiers of the No. 1 Squadron to seize the time to lay electric explosives, anti-tank mines, and anti-infantry mines, and on the other hand, he mobilized the villagers in the town to move quickly.

Since the Eighth Route Army captured Lianyungang twice, the common people have a lot of experience in running the old days. As soon as I saw the Eighth Route Army attacking the town and the Japanese puppet army running away, I knew that I was going to fight a big battle, and under the command of the Eighth Route Army, I quickly closed the door and locked the house, and moved to the puddle area around the Nanbeitang, where it was a good place for lush reeds to hide.

There is an old man who may be old and reluctant to go, thinking that the Japanese army is just like that, and when he lives in Baitabu, at most he eats and eats watermelon without paying money, which is not a big deal. Therefore, when Wang Dongqiang, the captain of the second squad of the No. 1 Special Warfare Squadron, went to mobilize him, he instead took Wang Dongqiang's hand and said that there was no market in this Baitabu originally, and although the transportation was convenient and the people were thriving, there was no money, while Ma Xiaobu inside and outside the city had a prosperous business and a lot of money, and the people in Dabu were very anxious, so they wanted to fake Ma Xiaobu's "set." On the first day of the Lunar New Year, Master Feng of Dabuzi, who is his third uncle, found the director surnamed Fu of Ma Xiaobu and discussed whether he could lend Ma Xiaobu's collection to Dabuzi for a day. Director Feng's mind didn't turn around, and he didn't know the consequences of this "borrowing set", so he readily agreed, and also mentioned a prank to trick Master Feng, saying that it was okay to borrow the set, but he had to let Master Feng kowtow from Dabuzi to Ma Xiaobuzi step by step, so that he could borrow it, and he had to invite the monk "Ju Hong" from Chenghou City to testify. Master Feng said okay. Ma Xiaobuzi gathers on the second and seventh days of the lunar calendar, so the two agreed that on the second day of the Lunar New Year, Master Feng began to kowtow on the fifth watch, and as soon as the head kowtowed to Ma Xiaobuzi, he immediately announced that he would borrow the set. Speaking is a matter of the morning of the first day of the Lunar New Year, in the evening, Master Feng specially set up a table at home, and invited the two directors of Ma Xiaobu, as well as the witness and Shang "Ju Hong" and other cadres. The monk "Ju Hong" accepted the red envelope and closed his eyes. There are more than 2 miles of road from Dabuzi to Ma Xiaobu, and there are 2 small bridges to cross, in fact, on the second day of the Lunar New Year, on the fifth watch, Master Feng did not kowtow at all step by step, but walked directly to the second bridge, and was still twenty or thirty meters away from Ma Xiaobu, so he pretended to kowtow. The two directors were dizzy, thinking that they had really kowtowed all the way, and when they saw that Master Feng had arrived at Zhuangtou, they let the gong and shout, and let all the people who did business go to Dabuzi. Dabuzi has a day of gathering, those who do business see that Dabuzi has a wide street, convenient transportation, green trees, and people are also enthusiastic and kind, so they connect in tandem privately, and say that it is better to move the set to Dabuzi Fengcai. On the seventh day of the first month, most of the people have come to Dabuzi, and the sticks on Ma Xiaobu Street can't hit people. After a few episodes, the set of Dabuzi was fixed. Since then, Baitabu Street has prospered day by day.

Wang Dongqiang is in the mood to listen to this old man's ramblings, he is used to seeing the ferocity of the little devil, and knows that if the Eighth Route Army fights here, the little devil will definitely retaliate in the future, and the old man who stays in the town and does not leave will not be able to live. With a wave of his hand, he let the two warriors carry the old man out of town.

After blowing up two armored vehicles and a train from the direction of Lianyungang, Wang Laohu found that the little devils were desperate, not only did the heavenly group of planes pounce up, but also the ground was full of devil attack teams, one team and one strand of troops, densely packed like ants. Investigators even reported that the devil's motorboat was coming along the Dasha River.

Some seem to have been born specifically for war, and the more dangerous they are, the more excited they are. Wang Laohu, the special operations hero of the Eighth Route Army, is like this, seeing that the little devil is powerful, Wang Laohu actually gave birth to the idea of fishing in troubled waters. He led the third, fourth, and fifth squads and squadrons to support the firepower and retreat to Baitabu Town, and ordered the first and second squads to change into the uniforms of the 22nd Brigade of the Japanese Army, go to the reeds in the puddles in the north and south ponds around Baitabu to hide, turn behind enemy lines, destroy the Japanese army's logistics and supply system, and withdraw to Dadian to assemble after completing the task.

The three battalions of the 1st Cavalry Regiment were assigned the task of garrisoning Baitabu, and they attacked Baitabu with the 1st Special Operations Squadron before the Japanese planes arrived at the battlefield. If you wait for the Japanese aircraft group to arrive at the battlefield, a target as large as the cavalry will not be able to reach.

The devils came up and began shelling 500 meters from the east gate of Baitabu Town. Soon, the Japanese aircraft group also began to bomb the town of Baitabu fiercely.

The Japanese troops were dispatched in large groups, and at every turn, a dozen or dozens of planes pounced down, and the bombs fell like birds, blowing up the walls of those brick houses and thatched-roof houses. Immediately afterwards, the Japanese army began to throw white phosphorus bombs, and one by one white phosphorus bombs fell from the air, burning a sea of fire on the ground.

Wang Laohu shook off the sparks on his body, glanced at the Japanese tanks and armored vehicles that were getting closer and closer, and a sentence popped out from between his teeth: ", it's bigger than Lao Tzu!" ”

Dear book friends: The mountain man finally went home, and unfortunately, while swimming in Hainan, he lost his cashmere sweater. Crying, wearing a snow-white shirt after getting off the plane in Zhengzhou, shivering from the cold, crying! Thank you friends for your support, thank you! ro！ ~！ wW