A few days later, the plan to clear and suppress the Eighth Route Army in Hebei Province, with Beiping as the center, could not be carried out, and not only could not be transported with grain, but also with no oil. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 info Several other cities quickly ran out of reserves.

The Japanese army was halfway through the purging and could not be stopped, and some Japanese troops had no choice but to feed the war and rely on grabbing food to maintain the fighting on the front line. A part of the Japanese troops in Jizhong retreated to Beiping to protect Beiping from greater losses.

The local Japanese puppet army and spies in Beiping acted together and began to search the city and around the city. The headquarters had already judged that this was a sabotage carried out by the spies of the Eighth Route Army and a small group of troops of the Eighth Route Army. After two days of searching, not only did they find almost nothing of value at the scene, but they also found no small units in the city and countryside.

The countryside near Beiping was a model area for the Japanese army, and there were very few Eighth Route Army haunts, so I didn't want such a big mess this time.

With the return of some Japanese troops to Beiping, the pressure on central Hebei, eastern Pingxi, and even Rehe was suddenly reduced.

Xiaolu issued an order for the special combat team to continue to lurk and wait for the limelight of the Japanese search to pass before withdrawing to Rehe.

Now, the war in Shanxi has gradually stopped, the big war is gone, and the small battles are still going on one after another. According to the inertia of history, the Japanese army will launch the next retaliatory sweep, but the effect of the second campaign is much better than in history. The Eighth Route Army won a battle of annihilation, and several newly built strongholds were pulled out again. Several sections of the railway were sabotaged again, this time blown up.

In this campaign, because the battle was no longer fortified, guerrilla warfare and positional warfare were the mainstay, and a well-equipped unit was added, the casualties of the Eighth Route Army were not particularly large.

January 20, 1941. Zhangjiakou.

The Japanese army also began a retaliatory purge at Rehe. The losses of the people of Rehe were great, as were the losses of the troops.

In addition, after the Japanese army in Chahar reoccupied Zhangjiakou, they immediately sent troops to reoccupy the railway line and occupy various county seats.

After the occupation, the Japanese army found that all the grain depots had been removed, all the supplies were gone, and all the barracks had been burned or destroyed. Some yamen had no time to be destroyed, and the doors and windows were destroyed.

Rebuild, I have to rebuild, but in the winter, how to rebuild? Let's find a common man's house to live in first. The whole city of Chahar is full of chickens and dogs. In the past, many good citizens of the imperial army began to curse the Eighth Route Army for not messing with the Japanese, and most of them cursed that the Japanese were not things.

After occupying the railway line, the first thing the Japanese army did was to repair the railway, and every time a section of the railway was repaired, pillboxes and outposts were built along the railway. The makeshift outpost was only a shield from the cold wind, and it had to be done again in the summer.

The number of Japanese garrisons in several counties also increased. Due to the lack of troops, there were almost no Japanese garrisons along the railroad lines and outside the cities.

Despite being constrained, the Japanese army in Zhangjiakou was still looking for a large force of the Eighth Route Army.

The remaining Japanese troops searched for the large forces of the Jinzhou Column in the mountains near Zhangjiakou, and the troops found only a few small units, and there were a few sporadic battles.

Today, there is finally news that in the north of Zhangjiakou, not far from Zhangbei, a large army of the Eighth Route Army was found on the main road, and more than 500 people were seen. However, the Japanese felt that they had found a large force of the Eighth Route Army, because they found traces of a large army camp of at least 2,000 people.

The Japanese army in Zhangjiakou immediately sent 3,000 Japanese puppet troops to pursue this Eighth Route Army unit.

Although the Japanese army had 3,000 men, its ranks were very long and there were many horses. In addition, there was a transport brigade of 30 cars, which transported grain from Datong to supply the Japanese army three days after the Japanese army had set out.

The automobile team caught up with the Japanese army in Zhangbei, replenished the supplies, and went back empty to Jining to pull food supplies.

The Japanese repaired for a day and continued the pursuit. At this time, the latest aircraft reconnaissance results showed that the troops in front had 2,000 men, half on horseback and half on foot, and the speed of movement was not very fast, the ranks were scattered, and they were fifty or sixty miles away from Zhangbei, and they quickly caught up.

The Japanese army continued the pursuit. After three days of pursuit, a battle was fought, and the other side was obviously a small force blocking the attack, and after the fight, they got on their horses and ran.

In this way, after ten days of pursuit, the Japanese army had entered the depths of the grassland, and the distance from Xilin Gol, Zhangjiakou, and even Jining was almost the same.

There were four sporadic small blocking battles, all of which were quick escapes after a surprise attack on the Japanese army. The car convoy returned to Jiningla's supplies, and the second time it caught up with the large army was in the steppe. From a distance, he saw a small Japanese army in front of him and waved to them incessantly.

The car team saw a sign on the road, which read in Japanese: "Ambush on the eight roads ahead, road destruction, detour." ”

The small Japanese troops in front saw the convoy and understood the meaning and walked forward.

The convoy had a small troop escort car, and because it was all cars, the small troop sat in the car.

The convoy followed the arrow, descended the main road, and entered the path in the grassland. Fortunately, the grassland is flat, so it's no problem to drive a car. After walking for a long time, I saw a street sign again. A street sign directs the convoy to the northeast grassland.

After walking for a few hours, it was dark, and the signs on the road began to instruct them to go northwest, but the road was very poor and they did not dare to drive at night, so the convoy had to find an open area, stop and camp, cook and rest. This is the grassland, and I can't even find a house, so I have to set up a tent.

After resting in the cold wind all night, the next day at dawn, everyone got up early, and before they could eat, the gunshots rang out. Then, a large force of the Eighth Route Army rushed up and launched a charge near the convoy.

The Japanese army didn't know when the Eighth Route came, and they didn't expect that there were so many people on the other side, 1,000 people, 100 submachine guns, so many people fought 200 Japanese troops, and these 200 Japanese troops still had half of the convoy personnel, and there was no suspense about victory or defeat at all.

The leader of the Eighth Route Army was Wang Wenbin, who urged everyone to clean up the battlefield. In addition, he also sent a telegram to the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army, informing him that the Japanese supply convoy had been taken, and in addition, telling Du Xigang that our unit had annihilated the Japanese convoy, and the Japanese army would soon decline in combat effectiveness due to lack of food.

In front luring the Japanese into the depths of the steppe was Du Xigang's cavalry unit.

Soon, the pursuing Japanese army ran out of food. At first, the Japanese thought that the car team might be lost, but soon realized that the car team seemed to have disappeared, and something might have happened.

The Japanese army asked to send planes to reconnoitre, but unfortunately all the planes near Beiping were finished, so they had to go to other areas to find planes.

The planes from Tianjin came to reconnoitre, but there was no trace of the car convoy at all. The pursuing force was found, and when it moved forward, it was discovered that the so-called large force of the Rehe Column pursued by a large force of 3,000 men was nothing more than a small cavalry unit of more than 100 people. This small force had more than four hundred horses, was well supplied and moved quickly.