What Wang Laohu said makes sense, the little devil did play a big game this time, and the cannons on the plane in the sky and on the ground turned the originally beautiful Baitabu into a sea of fire. However, the 1st Special Operations Squadron of the Eighth Route Army and the 3rd Battalion of the 1st Cavalry Regiment are themselves units tempered in blood and fire, and no matter how fierce the little devil's artillery fire is, the soldiers just don't fight back, so that the little devils can't figure out whether there is an Eighth Route Army in the town.

When the Japanese tanks covered the infantry and rumbled towards the east gate of the town, the anti-tank mines and anti-infantry mines planted by the No. 1 Special Operations Squadron took effect.

At this time, it was a good opportunity for special operations hunting, and the soldiers of the 1st Special Operations Squadron began a silent hunt from the hiding point with Bayi automatic rifles with silencers.

By the time the little devils started the second round of shelling, the 1st Special Operations Squadron and the 3rd Battalion of the 1st Cavalry Regiment had already withdrawn from the entrance of the town, leaving only two engineer fighters ready to detonate the electric explosives.

After another burst of shelling, the little devils blew up the walls of Baitabu town to the point that there were gaps everywhere, and the houses in the town had already collapsed and turned into a sea of fire under the double blow of the Japanese aircraft group and ground artillery fire.

The rest of the little devil's tanks pushed away the damaged tanks and led the infantry to rush into the east gate of Baitabu Town, and some devil infantry poured into the town from the gaps in the north and south. At this time, the two sappers who stayed at the east gate pressed the detonator, and a loud bang shocked the little devils who were rushing to the town, and the dust at the east gate rose more than 100 meters high, throwing the chariot and the Yamato warriors into the old high, and fell down heavily. It's just that what was thrown were devil tanks and soldiers who sat on dirt planes, and what fell was scrap metal and broken limbs.

The two Eighth Route Army sappers were not interested in observing the surprised eyes of the little ghost jac, they were too far away, and they couldn't observe clearly, so they ran away and went to chase the troops.

Taking advantage of your illness and asking for your life is the consistent style of teaching instructors to fight. Just when the little devils were so shocked that their jaws dropped, the fire support company of the 3rd battalion of the 1st Cavalry Regiment and the support fire of the 1st Special Operations Squadron all opened fire. Infantry guns, mortars, grenadiers, and Type 92 heavy machine guns were aimed at the little devils to the north and south of the town of Baitabu. Wang Laohu took the lead in leading the soldiers to counterattack the devil infantry who attacked the town as a company, platoon, and small unit.

In the face of the counterattack of the 1st Special Operations Squadron of the 8th Route Army and the 3rd Battalion of the 1st Cavalry Regiment, the devils did not retreat, and they were able to concentrate their firepower to block the Eighth Route Army's attack channel, occupy one destroyed courtyard after another, and began to fight with the Eighth Route Army from house to house. Wang Laohu could not have imagined that he would be able to meet such an opponent, so he could fight and raise up the three small men who commanded the 1st Special Warfare Squadron and thought that the 1st Cavalry Regiment and 3rd Battalion would open the way and launch a counterattack against the devils from several directions.

No matter how strong the combat effectiveness of the 6th Division is, it is no stronger than the 1st Special Operations Squadron, which is fully equipped with 1 August automatic rifles. Under the muzzle of the Bayi automatic rifle fired by the soldiers, the little devil suffered heavy casualties. However, this is a large army of devils, no matter how strong Wang Laohu and their combat effectiveness is, they can't stop the devils from having a lot of people, and if they hesitate for a while, they may be surrounded by the Japanese army. Wang Laohu had to order alternate cover to retreat in the direction of Niushan Town.

The sound of artillery rumbled, the smoke of gunpowder was filled, and the Eighth Route Army and the Japanese army fought to the death as far as Hongzhuang in the west and Baitabu in the east, from the sky to the ground.

Time flew by and the sky finally got dark, and the Japanese aircraft group and the fighter formation of the Eighth Route Army Air Group had to withdraw from the battle one after another. At this time, the 2nd Cavalry Regiment, which served as the rearguard, had already exchanged fire with the Japanese devils who detoured to the Rose River and Dasha River. Since the 2nd Guards Brigade was in the east and west of the two units where the little devils were on a roundabout mission, the battle was extremely fierce from the beginning.

As soon as Liu Yimin saw that it was dark, he immediately ordered the artillery wind to command the logistics * heavy troops to advance, and ordered Hong Yuan to command the three artillery regiments to move eastward, covering the armored group on the plateau, to launch a surprise attack on the enemy east of Niushan Town, resolutely defeat it, delay the encirclement of the devils, and reduce the pressure on the first regiment and the first cavalry regiment.

The artillery regiment of the 1st Brigade, the artillery regiment of the cavalry brigade, and the artillery regiment of the 5th brigade of the Jiao 5th Brigade, which crossed the Longhai Road, had been waiting for the aircraft to wait for the plane under the condition of the crazy bombing of the devil's aircraft group, and watched the little devil's aircraft and artillery rage, and the soldiers' eyes were already red. Now that I finally stayed up until it was dark and the devil group retreated, it was time for the artillery of the Eighth Route Army to be mighty!

The commander of the 6th Division of the Japanese Army, Shiro Inaba, and the commander of the 9th Division, Jiichiro Kou, knew that they were going to flank the main force of the Eighth Route Army, but they did not know that it was the 1st Brigade, the New 1st Brigade and the Cavalry Brigade of the 8th Route Army. Because there is only one number used by the southward troops of the Eighth Route Army when they are hidden in northeast Anhui, that is, the Northern Jiangsu Detachment of the Eighth Route Army. Although the traitors who reported intelligence to the Japanese army saw that the Eighth Route Army had a large number of cavalry and convoys, they also did not know the number of the Eighth Route Army. In this way, although Shiro Inaba and Keiichiro Ueguchi were preparing for the armored forces of the Eighth Route Army to enter the battlefield, none of them had ever seen what the armored group blitzkrieg looked like, and they did not have that concept in their minds.

It's a pity that now it's dark, covering the Eighth Route Army and the Japanese army. The targets of the three artillery regiments of the Eighth Route Army could only be those Japanese artillery positions that were firing artillery and attacking advancing vehicles with their headlights on, and it was impossible to inflict a devastating blow on the infantry that was attacking from multiple directions with brigades and units in the middle of the army, which affected the effectiveness of the artillery bombardment.

Moreover, the shelling time could not have been long, because the enemy situation was already clear, and the enemy west of Hongzhuang was equipped with a heavy artillery brigade, and those guns had a large caliber and a long range. Once they were targeted, the artillery positions of the Eighth Route Army would be dangerous. At this moment, when the three artillery regiments opened fire, the earth was shaken, and groups of shells streaked across the night sky and fell towards the various artillery positions of the Japanese army on the eastern front, which soon enveloped the Japanese artillery positions.

It was only by this time that Shiro Inaba and Jiichiro Koukou realized how terrible their opponents were. However, they were all battle-hardened for a long time, panicked, and on the one hand ordered the artillery to shift their positions, and on the other hand, strictly ordered the attacking troops to be ready to counterattack the counterattack of the Eighth Route Army.

A bigger blow came, under the cover of artillery fire, the armored aircraft group of the Eighth Route Army was dispatched, the armored regiment took the lead, the armored vehicles of the first and second regiments and the cars with guards were in the rear, and the motors roared and pressed towards the little devils on the eastern front.

The first unlucky one was the 6th Division of the Japanese Army, which was on the flank attack mission in the north of Longhai Road. This unit took tanks and armored vehicles as a cover, and the offensive posture was active, and it had already attacked the area around Wudun to the east of Niushan Town, and began to exchange fire with the troops of the Fifth Brigade.

As soon as he saw the Eighth Route Army's armored group dispatched, the 35th Jing Misuo Dazuo was not very panicked because he had made preparations to prevent the counter-assault of the armored troops of the Eighth Route Army in accordance with the requirements of the division commander *Kou Jiichiro before the war, and on the one hand, he ordered the troops to go on the defensive, and on the other hand, he ordered the Japanese tanks under the command of the 35th Wing to meet them and start an artillery battle with the tanks of the Eighth Route Army.

This little devil's permanent division is different" If they are allowed to deploy their troops, whether it is attack or defense, they will indeed have a clear vision. No, the little devil tank and the tank of the Eighth Route Army were fighting, and the devil infantry were also screaming, holding explosive bags and holding Molotov cocktails to pounce on the tanks of the Eighth Route Army, hoping to blow up the tank or die with the tank. In particular, Jiichiro assigned the only artillery squadron of the 9th Division to the commander of the 35th Wing, "Don't look at the artillery, there are not many", but it is really the nemesis of tanks.

Zhao Dahe, the commander of the armored regiment, saw that the little devil had destroyed his three tanks one after another with a cannon, and even the devil tank team dared to come up and entangle, and he immediately ordered the armored vehicles and cars that followed the tanks to destroy the Japanese infantry who tried to blow up the tanks through the on-board radio, and ordered to concentrate artillery fire to destroy the Japanese artillery positions and quickly destroy the Japanese tanks.

There were also a lot of tanks in the two permanent divisions of the Japanese army, but the problem was that the Japanese army did not have the habit of using tanks intensively, and it was clearly written in the textbooks of the 6 Army Non-commissioned Officer School and the 6 Army University that the role of combat vehicles was to cover the infantry attack. Throughout the day, only Okamura Ninji took the initiative to use tanks once during the Battle of Nanchang, and achieved results. However, even Okamura Ninji, he only used tanks as an assault force intensively, and was far from being an armored group operation in the true sense. The last time the Japanese armored brigade went out from Qingdao to participate in the war, it could have been used as a separate armored group, "It's a pity that Shanshan Yuan is a stupid marshal, and he doesn't have the combat concept of armored forces in the modern sense, but only uses the armored brigade as a pioneer." No, the Ninth Division originally had a tank brigade, and in order to strengthen the offensive of the troops, Jiichiro and Shiro Inaba assigned the tank brigade of the Ninth Division to the attacking units, and there was only one squadron, porridge chariots and 12 armored vehicles assigned to the 35th Wing.

It should be said that the gap between the Japanese army and the instructors is not a gap in equipment, but a gap in tactical thinking.

With Zhao Dahe's order, the two tank battalions of the armored regiment were divided into two, and one battalion concentrated artillery fire to cover the Japanese artillery position. One battalion concentrated against Japanese tanks.

There are only four guns in a squadron of little devils, although the number is small, but it is used to deal with tanks, and it shoots high. Although the tanks of the Eighth Route Army opened fire while making evasive maneuvers, four more were hit by Japanese artillery. This angered the soldiers of the armored regiment of the Eighth Route Army, not only the tank artillery was bombarded, but even the infantry guns on the cars participated in the battle. At this point, the tankmen of the Eighth Route Army were still angry, so they drove the tanks onto the Japanese artillery positions and crushed the devil artillery who were lucky enough to be alive into minced meat.

Solving the Japanese artillery, the two tank battalions of the armored regiment surrounded the Japanese tank, rushed to the front and opened fire, according to Zhao Dahe, it was called a bayonet on the tank.

The destruction of the chariot unit and the artillery squadron completely woke up the commander of the 35th Wing, Fujii Suekichi Osa, who hurriedly reported to the division commander Keiichichiro and asked for urgent tactical guidance. But his call for help was useless at this moment, because the various artillery positions of the Japanese army were either destroyed by the Eighth Route Army or were in the process of being transferred, only the artillery on the train was not lost, but they were too far away for the artillery of the Eighth Route Army to hit them, and they naturally could not hit the Eighth Route Army.

Seeing the ferocity of the Eighth Route Army's armored group, Fujii Sueyoshi Osa had no choice but to order the troops to withdraw into the village and wait for reinforcements.

His withdrawal is in Zhao Dahe's heart. Zhao Dahe, a good one, leaned out from the turret of his command vehicle, commanded the troops to attack while observing the battlefield, and launched a campaign against the 35th Wing of the Japanese Army.

Fuji Sueyoshi Osawang was the captain of the wing when he participated in the war, and he should have been promoted to major general at this time, but he was unlucky and was injured in the battle to attack Nanjing, and returned to China for treatment. When he returns to his old unit, he can only continue to be the captain of his Dazuo wing. Now, the armored group of the Eighth Route Army regarded his 35th Wing as an attack target, which made him how he could resist, and in desperation, he had to take his troops to fight and retreat to join the main force of the division.

On summer nights, the Japanese soldiers were like frightened rabbits under the light of the lights of the armored group of the Eighth Route Army, and their short lap legs looked a little clumsy, and in the eyes of the machine gun shooters on the tanks, armored vehicles, and automobiles of the Eighth Route Army, it was simply more convenient than hitting rabbits.

The counter-assault of the armored group of the Eighth Route Army completely crippled the 36th Wing. By the time Fuji Suekichi Osa and the remnants of the defeated army finally converged with the main forces of the Ninth Division and the Sixth Division, there were only two squadrons left in his 35th Wing, which made the old devil sit on the ground and cry at Shiro Inaba and Jiichiro *kou. That look, it's like the little ladies of Kyushu who have been bullied by others, how pitiful and pitiful it is. Shiro Inaba and Jiichiro knew in their hearts that it was the many puddles and ditches in this area that restricted the mobility of the armored troops of the Eighth Route Army and saved them. If it is to be rested on the North China Plain, I am afraid that the fate of the Sixth Division and the Ninth Division will be rewritten.

Although the surprise attack of the armored group did not achieve the expected results and lost seven tanks, it finally temporarily contained the Japanese offensive on the Eastern Front, consolidated the defense line of the 1st Regiment, the 1st Cavalry Regiment, and the 5th Brigade on the Eastern Front, and eased the tension on the battlefield a little.

After temporarily curbing the Japanese offensive on the Eastern Front, Liu Yimin ordered three artillery regiments to transfer their positions, preparing to surprise them again when the Japanese pounced.

The fierce battle lasted until half past 1o in the evening, and the logistics * heavy convoy finally crossed Longhai Road and rushed to Linmu. The blocking troops on the eastern and western fronts also withdrew their positions one after another and crossed the railway to join up with the 5th Brigade. Liu Yimin led the 2nd Cavalry Regiment to the rear of the whole army, and retreated to Niushan Town while fighting.

What Liu Yimin didn't expect was that Niushan Town became a sad place that he would never forget: Jingjing had an accident.