Liu Yimin did not expect that Feng Dafei's first aviation brigade would achieve such brilliant results as soon as it made a move, and it actually blew up the 33rd Division that was on the march, completely shattering the dream of Gansu Jutaro to withdraw to Pingdu and stick to waiting for help.

Take advantage of your illness to kill you!

After receiving Luo Yan's report that the aviation team had disabled the 33rd Division, Liu Yimin immediately ordered the 1st Brigade and the Cavalry Brigade, which had just finished the battle at the 20-mile fort airport, to quickly attack, seize the opportunity of the 33rd Division being severely damaged by the 1st Aviation Brigade of the Eighth Route Army, and annihilate the remnants of the 33rd Division in one fell swoop.

In view of the fact that the 33rd Division had become a frightened bird, had lost many heavy weapons, and its combat effectiveness had been greatly reduced, Liu Yimin revised the original plan of outflanking the 1st Brigade and the 1st Cavalry Brigade in a roundabout way, and ordered Gao Yuan to use the 2nd Regiment as the attack arrow, concentrate all tanks, armored vehicles, and automobiles, and carry out a rapid pursuit along the main road. Ordered Hu Laohu to lead the cavalry brigade to carry out a roundabout battle plan, go around to the east of the Jiaolai River, and intercept the little devils.

Considering that in order to save the fate of the 33rd Division, the little devil will inevitably dispatch planes to provide air fire support, and if it is a large-scale air group, it will also carry out crazy retaliation, Liu Yimin ordered Feng Dafei, all bombers into storage or camouflage protection, fighter formations take off, and go to the sky over Weixian to meet the planes. Tactically, it is necessary to fight an ambush in the air, concentrate all fighters, and implement high-altitude concealed standby, so that when the devil fighters are ambushed and fleeing by our ground fire, they will suddenly kill and intercept the enemy planes. It is only allowed to fight once, retreat after the battle, and return to the airport to hide, and absolutely cannot be caught up by devil fighters to discover the airport. The 1st Brigade and the Cavalry Brigade, which were tasked with the pursuit mission, were ordered to bring enough smoke canisters and smoke grenades to organize anti-aircraft shooting. The Air Defense Command was ordered to prepare for battle, and the units of the Air Defense Brigade quickly took up positions and prepared to meet the devil planes and cover the battlefield. The Eighth Brigade was ordered to stop making a detour in the direction of Pingdu County and to wait in concealment on the spot. After the 6th Brigade seized Pingdu County, it was ordered to quickly evacuate the masses and prevent air raids by enemy planes, in addition to completing the task of blocking the retreat of the 33rd Division. All units of the Eighth Route Army in Shandong were ordered to mobilize, and soldiers and fellow villagers were organized to smoke and shroud the base areas in smoke. Linzi, Yidu, Changle, Weixian, Fangzi, Boshan, Linqu, Changle, Anqiu, Gaomi, Jiaoxian, and all the newly occupied county towns and market towns of our army must urgently mobilize the masses to make kites, fly kites, fly balloons, and lay aerial mine arrays over the base areas to cover the battlefields and towns.

Liu Yimin's battle slogan for the 1st Brigade and the Cavalry Brigade was: Catch up with the little devils, capture Ganji Jutaro alive, and create a miracle of capturing lieutenant generals in a row!

This slogan is so exciting!

Gao Yuan put down the phone and immediately ordered the order of the division commander to be conveyed to every soldier of the 1st Brigade, mobilize the whole brigade, catch up, and capture Ganji Jutaro alive!

After giving the order, Gao Yuan and Cheng Cuilin each asked for an August 1 automatic rifle from the guards, and both strode out of the division headquarters, got into a truck, and chased the 1st Brigade to the east.

After receiving the order, Hu Laohu, the commander of the cavalry brigade, said to the political commissar Bao Wen: "I will lead the first cavalry regiment to go first, and you will lead the second cavalry regiment, the third cavalry regiment, the cavalry artillery regiment and the brigade direct troops to follow." This time, Lao Tzu is going to personally sneak the dog's Ganji Jutaro to the division commander! ”

After speaking, without waiting for Bowen to answer, he went out and turned on his horse, leading the guard battalion towards the cavalry.

Zhou Yi, chief of staff of the First Brigade, watched the brigade commander and political commissar leave with a blank eye, and angrily raised his foot to shine on a birdcage.

Liu Jinping, the commander of the guard battalion of the 1st Brigade, was about to go crazy when he wanted to arrest Ganji Jutaro, and when he saw that the chief of staff was also in this situation, he said: "Chief of staff, I will leave the second and third battalions to you to wait for birds and kites to fly near Weicheng." I'll take a battalion to the battle, do you think it's okay? ”

Zhou Yi's mind immediately turned in circles, if this little devil plane was coming, it would definitely not be ten or eight, because all the planes at Xuzhou Airport were taken away by Li Lingfeng and Feng Dafei, and the fighters and bombers at Jinan Airport and Qingdao Airport basically let their birds be knocked out. Despite this, the little devil will still find a way to mobilize the plane to retaliate. The reason is very simple, one is that the Eighth Route Army captured Odaka Kamizo, and the army can't afford to lose that face. The second is that the army must have known that the Eighth Route Army had eliminated the 108th Division and was pursuing the 33rd Division. In order to save the 33rd Division, they would also send planes desperately to bomb and strafe to cover the 33rd Division's breakthrough. Third, the army has never been able to find the position of the main force of the instructor, and now that the goal is clear, they will definitely do their best to bomb and retaliate. If this is the case, the little devils will definitely dispatch a large-scale aircraft group, and the battlefield of the 33rd Division, the anti-aircraft fire positions of the air defense brigade, and Weicheng and Fangzi will be the key bombing targets of the devil's planes. Other counties are just targets of retaliation for the second wave of bombardments by the little devils.

After figuring it out, Zhou Yi immediately called Liu Yimin's phone, reported his thoughts to him, and then asked for approval to send the special air defense team to the air defense brigade position and the battlefield of the first brigade and cavalry brigade to assist the troops in air defense operations.

Of course, this idea was approved immediately, and Zhou Yi also happily set off with his air defense special operations team and the guard battalion of the 1st Brigade.

As soon as Liu Yimin gave the order to pursue and annihilate the 33rd Division, Li Qing reported and requested to take advantage of the situation to capture Zhoucun, Zhangdian, and Zhangqiu, and point the attack arrow directly at Jinan. Immediately afterwards, Zeng Zhongsheng led the Seventh Brigade to join Li Qing and put forward a battle plan to advance to Jinan and capture Jinan before the reinforcements of the Yue army entered Jinan.

Liu Yimin considered that although the little devils knew that the Eighth Route Army was attacking and occupying Weicheng and that the 108th Division might be annihilated, they still had illusions about the 33rd Division retreating eastward, and under normal circumstances, they would think that the main force of the Eighth Route Army was destroying the 104th Brigade and the 25th Brigade, or was deploying to eliminate the 33rd Division, and it was too late to attack Jinan. You must know that the Luxi Group established by Liu is not far from Jinan, and as long as it maneuvers quickly tonight, it can launch a surprise attack early tomorrow morning. With the combat effectiveness of the Jinan garrison, it is impossible to stop the attack of the Second Brigade of the Hundred Battles Elite Sect, and it is very likely that street battles will be fought in Jinan. When Zeng Zhongsheng and Li Qing commanded the 3rd, 4th, and 7th Brigades to arrive, Jinan City was captured. When the time comes, even if the little devils are ordered to mobilize troops to attack Jinan, it will be too late. Based on this consideration, Liu Yimin approved Zeng Zhongsheng's battle plan.

As soon as Zeng Zhongsheng's battle plan was approved, Lei Ming reported that the Fourth Brigade had eliminated the Devil Guard Brigade. In this way, it would be impossible for the little devils in Zhou Village to reinforce the 25th Brigade Guard Brigade, and Liu Yimin's plan to let the Fourth Brigade transfer the little devils stationed in Zhou Village out of the city to annihilate them fell through.

On the morning of November 8, the Eighth Route Army and the Yue Army fought non-stop, and every battle could be said to be fought at a pinching point in time. The two brigades of the 1st 08th Division were almost destroyed one after another after a short period of time. Naturally, the first battle to start was the battle of the Twenty-Lipu Airport of the 1st Brigade, the Cavalry Brigade, and the Artillery Brigade, followed by the battle of the 3rd Brigade to eliminate the advance guard brigade of the 25th Division of the Yue Army, and then the battle of the main force of the 3rd Brigade to destroy the main force of the 25th Brigade and the battle of the 4th Brigade to attack and occupy Linzi and eliminate the automobile transport unit of the Yue Army. By the time the 4th Brigade had eliminated the rear guard brigade of the 25th Brigade of the Japanese Army, the 1st Brigade and the Cavalry Brigade had already begun to carry out the pursuit order.

Later, the deputy chief of the General Staff [***] Feng calculated that the entire Jiaoji Road Campaign to eliminate the battle of the 10th and 8th Divisions of the Yue Army, except for the 1st Regiment of the Jiaoyi Regiment to eliminate the enemy defending Weicheng, the other battles were almost started at the same time, the time interval was extremely short, and each battle was almost the end of the battle within half an hour, except for the 25th Brigade Guard Brigade barely resisted for a while, and the little devils in other battles did not even have a chance to shoot. The reason for this situation is that, in the words of [***] Feng, the 104th Brigade was buried under the cluster artillery fire at the Twenty-Lipu Airport, and the units of the 25th Brigade were divided into brigades by the Eighth Route Army, and they were wiped out one by one. After blowing up the military column, the little devil not only suffered heavy casualties, but also lost its combat effectiveness in a short period of time, and was easily annihilated by our army.

At this time, the troops of the 1st Brigade and the Cavalry Brigade that had set out from Fangzi rolled away to the east like water bursting the embankment.

Although the 108th Division is an ad hoc division, it is the first batch of ad hoc divisions and regiments to go to the battlefield, and it is also a four-unit system, and its equipment is on par with that of permanent divisions and regiments. There is a tank brigade, an armored vehicle brigade. In peacetime, they are subordinate to the command of combat units, and the division and regiment only retain one tank squadron and one armored vehicle squadron for use as a reserve assault force. There are also more cars, 50 in each of the two brigades. The divisional baggage wing is composed of a truck brigade with a load of one and a half tons and a rubber truck brigade. Among them, there are three squadrons of the truck brigade with a total of 150 vehicles. Not to mention the tanks, armored vehicles, and cars of the two brigades, except for the tank squadron of the 25th brigade, which was completely captured, the others were destroyed by artillery fire. The tank squadron, armored vehicle squadron and 150 vehicles left at the regimental headquarters of the 10th and 8th Divisions in Weicheng were all captured by the 1st Regiment.

The First Regiment was originally the first regiment of the instructor, but after the capture of Tianjin, Liu Yimin ordered all the tanks, armored vehicles, and automobiles captured by the Yue army to be given to the Second Regiment, and the Second Regiment was turned into an armored regiment. In this way, during the battle, the Second Regiment became the backbone assault regiment, and the status of the First Regiment tended to be weakened.

Well, so many tanks, armored vehicles, and cars were captured at once, Wang Dahu didn't even report to Liu Yimin, and directly ordered to equip the first regiment. Anyway, the study of teaching the first regiment is the most important thing for the whole division, and there are more fighters who can drive tanks, armored vehicles, and automobiles, and they usually covet the mechanization of the second regiment, but this time it is also the turn of the first regiment, and the soldiers can't take care of fatigue, so they quickly compile a camouflage net, protect the vehicles, and then start to get on the car and practice.

During the battle of Twenty Mile Fort just now, after the artillery bombardment, the two mechanized teams of the 1st and 2nd Regiments appeared, but when Hu Laohu led the cavalry brigade to pounce, he could only sigh behind the car.

Gao Yuan knew that Liu Yimin was going to set up an armored regiment as the assault force of the whole division, so he waited for the approval of the central authorities, and originally wanted to order Wang Dahu to seal up the tanks, armored vehicles, and automobiles, but considering that the 33rd Division was about to be wiped out, the armored force could make the combat effectiveness of the 1st Regiment rise to a higher level, so he acquiesced to Wang Dahu's decision.

In fact, in the heart of Gao Yuan, he can't wait to mechanize all the first brigade. In this way, when encountering the little devil's heavy army group, you can launch a frontal attack and completely crush the little devil's attack. However, he also knew that it was impossible for the time being, because the road conditions were so poor, and the air power of the Yue army was so strong, when the 1st Brigade really had to be fully mechanized, I was afraid that it would affect the 1st Brigade's mobility ability.

No, as soon as he received the order to pursue and annihilate the 33rd Division, Wang Dahu took the lead, led the 1st Regiment onto the highway, and chased it in the direction of Pingdu. As for the soldiers who could not fit in the car, Wang Dahu ordered them to all ride horses, keep up with the main force, and pursue quickly.

Behind the 1st Regiment was the 2nd Regiment's larger armored team.

After the troops set off, Wang Dahu, who was sitting in the car, looked at the Second Teaching Regiment following them, and said to Political Commissar Wang Xinyun excitedly: "What's the matter, Teaching a regiment is teaching a regiment, and it will always charge ahead and retreat behind." Lao Tzu has been holding his breath for so long, and today he finally got this breath back! ”

Wang Xinyun knew that the first and second regiments would eventually hand over tanks and armored vehicles, and the division commander would set up an armored unit to undertake the task of assault on the battlefield. The division commander will not let the regiment leave behind the tanks and armored vehicles, which will affect the all-round and all-weather operations of the regiment. Not to mention anything else, if these iron guys are useless in mountain battles, will the division commander let the first regiment stay honestly in tanks and armored vehicles and let other troops go? That's impossible. Of course, the division commander is likely to concentrate the cars and use them as a means of transport for the 1st Regiment, just as the 1st Regiment has already been packed, which can improve the mobility of the troops. However, Wang Xinyun didn't want to sweep Wang Dahu's prosperity at this time, so he followed his tone and said: "Of course, the old battalion will always be the old battalion, and the first regiment will always be the first regiment." ”

It was only more than 20 miles from Twenty Mile Fort to Qingchi, and the first group of the Church arrived in half an hour.

At this time, the remnants of the 213th Wing of the 33rd Division of the Yue Army had just rushed to Qingchi from Kaiyuan and joined the brigade of the 214th Wing that remained in Qingchi.

At this time, the little devil had not yet woken up from the nightmare of being attacked by the air attack of the Eighth Route Army Aviation Brigade, and he was all panicked, and as soon as the two troops met, they immediately retreated in the direction of Pingdu. The captain of the 213th Wing told the captain of the 214th Wing, Akita, that his wing had suffered more than half of the casualties and retreated first.

Akita's rank is not as high as that of a wing commander, plus the 213 wing is indeed a heavy casualty, the 2,900-strong wing has only 1,500 or 600 people left, and there are many wounded. The search team of the division and regiment that followed the operation of the 213th Wing was even worse, perhaps they were on horseback, the target was large, and they did not have time to hide in the village, and the search team of 319 people was now only 50 or 60 people, and all of them became infantry.

Akita agreed and was willing to act as a rearguard to cover the concentration of troops in Hancun, where the division commander was located. The captain of the devil wing was overjoyed, and even saved polite words, and led the team to retreat east along the road.

Akita was not stupid, knowing that it was very dangerous to leave the palace behind at this time, he hurriedly urged the troops to move, followed the 213 Wing out of the town, and fled eastward.

As soon as he left the town, Akita heard a booming sound and looked back and almost fell to the ground. At the west end of the town, a river of the same color as the grass and leaves of the late autumn and early winter appeared, rolling from west to east.

Akita, a battle-hardened soldier, knew that it was not a river, but a camouflaged steel army of chariots, armored vehicles, and automobiles.

Akita immediately ordered the entire brigade to halt its advance and immediately set up positions and set up machine guns, grenadiers, and infantry guns to prepare for a blockade.

Akita's reaction should be said to be fast enough, but it didn't work at all, it was a torrent of steel, how could he resist the infantry brigade of a garrison division? This is the Great Plains, there is no terrain suitable for blocking the attack of combat vehicles, there is no time to dig anti-tank trenches, and they have no anti-tank guns, so they can only become ants crushed under the rolling torrent.

The machine guns on the chariots and armored vehicles opened fire, and the bullets were so dense that they were really like flowing water, and the soldiers of the autumn brigade tumbled and rolled on the ground like dumplings falling into a boiling pot.

After Wang Dahu led the 1st Regiment to catch up with the Autumn Brigade, he did not further intercept and kill, but continued to advance. At this time, what is needed is the speed of pursuit, and it should be constantly impacting and impacting. This tactic has been taught many times by the division commander, and the cadres of the first regiment will teach it. The Second Regiment behind him was different, dozens of tanks drove off the road, lined up, followed by dozens of armored vehicles and hundreds of cars, and launched an encirclement and interception of the autumn brigade.

Akita had forgotten what fear was at this time, his mind had become a blank, it turned out that chariots, armored vehicles and automobiles could be used in such a concentrated way! Amaterasu! Amaterasu!

The tanks of the 2nd Regiment did not open fire, but all of them used vehicle-mounted machine guns to strafe, and the little devils who were blocking the front were bounced up and fell, and finally became ants under the tires of tanks, armored vehicles, and cars.

The Second Regiment slaughtered the Akita Brigade cleanly, and pursued it forward like the First Regiment.

(To be continued)