When the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Cavalry Regiments crossed the river, the rearguard unit of the army had just received an order from Lieutenant General Maeda Toshiwei and hurried to the front line of the river to set up defenses. Only one squadron of the Engineer Wing had already established a position in Zhuliu Town and began to block the Eighth Route Army.

Cavalry warfare is highly mobile and relies on speed to win. Therefore, the three cavalry regiments all chose to bypass Zhuliu Town, and the first cavalry regiment killed the Eighth Field Artillery Wing of the devils, and the second and third cavalry regiments intercepted the rear guard troops of the army.

Lieutenant General Maeda Liwei, who was observing the battlefield on the roof of the Western-style house of the Zhuliu Railway Station, saw that the cavalry group of the Eighth Route Army had successfully crossed the Li River, closed his eyes and calmed down, and immediately judged that the cavalry of the Eighth Route Army would definitely attack the artillery wing, because the field artillery wing had only 541 guns among the 2,894 people, and as long as the cavalry of the Eighth Route Army was killed, it would inevitably be a collective jade crushing ending.

Opening his eyes, Lieutenant General Maeda Toshi immediately ordered the field artillery wing to quickly move closer to the retreating 4th Brigade and 16th Brigade; The right flank troops under the command of Major General Lin Maoqing were ordered to quickly retreat and rescue the 8th Field Artillery Wing.

Lieutenant General Maeda Toshiwei could not have imagined that this was no longer the time for the army to attack smoothly, and at that time the army could convey orders through radio, telephone, flags, and cavalry signal corps. But only God knows whether the retreating radio station can be turned on normally, and the most reliable thing is to rely on the cavalry communicator to convey orders, but there are so many cavalry in the Eighth Route Army, how can this cavalry communicator give orders to the field artillery wing!

Seeing that the war situation had developed to such an extent, the chief of staff of Oikaku suggested that Lieutenant General Maeda Toshiwei order the division headquarters to be withdrawn across the Li River, preferably quickly withdrawn to Changle, and a brigade commander should be appointed to take charge of the battlefield command.

Lieutenant General Maeda Toshiwei looked at the sky, and the sun was already a little westerly, so he told the chief of staff of the big horn that the division headquarters could not be withdrawn, and that it could only be withdrawn after it merged with the large army, and asked the chief of staff of the big horn to personally deploy the defense of Zhu Liu Town, and urge the aviation to quickly and massively reinforce the army, and it would be too late if it was too late.

It may be to verify Maeda Toshi's words as a lieutenant general, the chief of staff of Okaku was about to leave, and occasionally raised his head, and saw dust rising in the southeast direction, hurriedly raised the telescope to take a look, and exclaimed the division commander.

Lieutenant General Maeda Toshiwei raised his binoculars and looked in the southeast direction, but his mouth couldn't close in shock. In the telescope, a steel unit consisting of dozens of tanks, dozens of armored vehicles, and one or two hundred automobiles appeared, pressing towards the battlefield. On the two wings of the steel troops, there is a large scale of infantry.

Lieutenant General Maeda Toshiwei glanced to the north again, and a large force was faintly appearing in the north, and it was also rapidly pressing towards the battlefield.

Lieutenant General Maeda Toshiwei is completely desperate at this time, this is the main force and elite of the Eighth Route Army, Liu Yimin is going to advance north and south and completely eliminate his Eighth Division.

What a ruthless heart!

Lieutenant General Maeda Toshiwei was already cold at this time, but he still glanced at the defense line of the Eighth Route Army on the Daxu River in the east and the Li River in the west. The Eighth Route Army on the front line of the Daxu River in the east has already begun to cross the river in pursuit, and the troops of the Eighth Route Army that are building positions have appeared on the west bank of the Li River in the west.

By this time, the purpose and deployment of the Eighth Route Army had been fully exposed, and there were no more secrets to speak of. Lieutenant General Maeda Toshiwei didn't need to stay on the roof anymore, he went directly back to the division and regimental headquarters, and ordered all troops to give up their baggage, quickly move closer to Zhu Liu Town, rely on Zhu Liu Town to deploy defenses, and wait for rescue.

After giving the order, Lieutenant General Maeda Toshiwei sat down and directly drafted a telegram to the North China Front, the Second Army, the Kwantung Army, and the base camp, which read: "The Eighth Division has fallen into the encirclement of the Eighth Route Army, and the Eighth Route Army has concentrated on bombing our army with five artillery regiments. Now that the enemy's main force is surrounded on all sides, there is little hope of breaking through, and all troops have been ordered to concentrate on the front line of Zhuliu Town. Without strong reinforcements, the 8th Division would probably have to be permanently removed from the permanent division sequence of the Imperial Army. ”

After sending the telegram, Lieutenant General Maeda cheered up his spirits and ordered all the flag-speaking soldiers to be dispatched to contact the troops with the flag-language and ask them to move closer to Zhu Liuzhen.

When the 1st Cavalry Regiment met the 8th Wing of Field Artillery, it was the time when the devils shifted their positions.

Seeing the arrival of our cavalry, the artillery observers who were riding on a big tree and holding binoculars to observe the battlefield immediately reported to the artillery position, and the 1st Field Artillery Regiment and the Mountain Artillery Regiment immediately stopped attacking the Devil's Field Artillery Wing and continued to ravage the Devil's infantry.

When Song Xing saw that he had finally caught the Devil Field Artillery Wing, he pointed at his sword and roared, "Kill!" The commander pounced on the cavalry.

Although the whole wing has a large number of 2,894 people, most of the officers and men are not equipped with light weapons, and the whole wing has only more than 500 guns. Riding a regiment for this surprise attack, the devil artillerymen were stupid, and the artillery could not be used as gunmen, and they all became bare-handed lambs to the slaughter.

Because he wanted to capture the devil's cannons, cannonballs, and pack horses, Song Xing had to choose white-knuckle combat again. When the swords of war fell on the neck, these little devils were also stiff, and those with guns parried with bayonets; Those who didn't have guns were not idle, picked up grenades, and chose to die with the Eighth Route Army. Some of the soldiers were so empty-handed that they could not find their weapons, and they even used their horsewhips.

It's a pity that this is a cavalry battle, bloody, not a child's house. Except for a few devils who used grenades to inflict some casualties on the cavalry regiment, all other resistances were futile, but they made the cavalry soldiers more energetic.

Major General Mijin Suzuki sadly found that it was impossible for him to organize the troops at all, because the artillery group of the Eighth Route Army seemed to be specifically targeting the Fourth Brigade, and as soon as the troops were concentrated, a group of shells would be immediately recruited, and the casualties would be too great.

At this time, how much he hoped that the imperial army fighters could come to help and blow up the artillery positions of the Eighth Route Army, only in this way could his Fourth Brigade have a chance to breathe, it may be that Amaterasu heard the call of Major General Suzuki Mijin, and flew eight planes from the direction of Jinan, and directly pounced on the artillery positions of the Eighth Route Army.

Major General Suzuki Mijin was overjoyed, and absurdly thought that if he organized troops to counterattack at this time, would he be able to annihilate or defeat the Eighth Route Army that had left the defense line of the Daxu River and pursued the imperial army on the spot?

This idea was only a momentary idea, because Major General Suzuki Mijin soon saw that an anti-aircraft fire net suddenly opened behind the artillery position of the Eighth Route Army, netting the Imperial Army fighters, and eight ceremonial flowers were set off in the sky. Major General Mijin Suzuki knew that it was the result of a volley explosion in which the Imperial Army fighter plane was hit.

The disaster was still to come, Major General Suzuki Mijin suddenly noticed that the southeast direction was different, and the troops under the command of Major General Lin Maoqing were moving closer to his troops, and he raised his binoculars to take a closer look, only to find that a steel dragon was pressing from the southeast. Tongues of fire spouted from dozens of tanks, dozens of armored vehicles, and one or two hundred cars, like legendary man-eating monsters, devoured the lives of Imperial soldiers.

Major General Mijin Suzuki, who was heartbroken, could no longer muster up the courage, and ordered the troops to disperse and retreat westward in small units, and concentrate in Zhuliu Town to join the division headquarters.

After giving the order, Major General Mijin Suzuki ordered the brigade headquarters to retreat, and he himself mounted his war horse and prepared to move west.

Major General Mijin Suzuki didn't know that the marksmen of the Eighth Route Army's sniper brigade had already targeted him. As soon as he got on his horse, a bullet got into his back, knocking him straight from his horse to the ground.

As soon as Major General Mijin Suzuki died, the retreating army was even more chaotic, and the kind of fierce fighting spirit that was at the beginning of the attack was gone, and he only hated his grandmother for having two legs, throwing down the corpses of the dead and the wounded, and running west.

When Liu Yimin crossed the Li River in the cavalry brigade, he had already discovered that the Yue army on the battlefield was about to be defeated, and in the case of our army surrounded on all sides, the Yue army was likely to choose Zhu Liu Town as the final defensive fulcrum. Originally, Liu Yimin also wanted to besiege the remnants of the Yue army in Zhuliu Town and force the enemy to reinforce. But when I think about how big it is to eliminate the Eighth Division of the Yue Army, the Yue Army will never let the 10 Eighth Division come to die again, if that is the case, the generals of the Yue Army will be too two. Therefore, Liu Yimin ordered the Fourth Brigade of Jiao, which had built a position on the west bank of the Li River, to immediately seize Zhuliu Town and dispel the army's attempt to rely on Zhuliu Town to defend it.

After issuing the order to the Fourth Brigade, Liu Yimin drafted a propaganda draft entitled "The Final Blow to the Eighth Division" and ordered the political workers of all participating units to use loudspeakers to publicize the propaganda to the cadres and soldiers. The article reads: "The Eighth Division of the Invading Army is a veteran permanent division of the Yue Army, which was sent to northeast China after its establishment and has long served as the vanguard of the invasion of our country, from division commanders to ordinary soldiers, everyone bears the blood debt of the Chinese. The annihilation of the Eighth Division is not only the supreme glory of our instructors and soldiers, but also the greatest victory of the Chinese nation since the First Sino-Japanese Naval War, and even more so, the greatest defeat suffered by the Chinese army since the establishment of a modern military system. All troops, every commander, commander and fighter must carry forward the spirit of not being afraid of sacrifice, rush forward, tear apart the 8th Division, and wipe out the 8th Division! Long live the glorious Eighth Route Army! ”

This short and concise propaganda draft is tantamount to tightening the rope around the neck of the Eighth Division at once. The artillery of the Eighth Route Army fought more happily, chasing the devil team, scattering and scattering, which can be regarded as completely defeating the entire Eighth Division into a rout that scattered and fled.

Under the guidance of the 2nd Regiment, the 1st Brigade chased after the devils, and the machine guns on tanks, armored vehicles, and automobiles were like a wind, turning all the troops who tried to block them into a sieve. Major General Lin Maoqing, who was responsible for the right-flank attack, could not escape, was caught up by the tank, and was crushed to death. The Devil Cavalry Wing, who was not afraid of death, was unwilling to be defeated, and even launched a counterattack on the 1st Brigade, and the cavalry rushed up with a roar, trying to throw explosive bags and grenades on the tanks, armored vehicles and cars of the Eighth Route Army. Without exception, these devil cavalry were knocked to the ground and became ghosts under the guns of the first and second regiments.

After dealing with the devils on the right flank, the 1st Brigade of the 1st Brigade pressed all the remnants of the 4th Division, the motors roared, and the guns and cannons fired in unison.

Lieutenant General Maeda Toshiwei was already at a state of stillness at this time, because the engineer squadron he had deployed in Zhuliu Town had been overwhelmed by the tide of soldiers from the Eighth Route Army, and as soon as the rearguard troops sent to the front line of the Lihe River came into contact with the 2nd and 3rd Cavalry Regiments, they were trampled to ashes by the powerful impact of the cavalry. The cavalry of the Eighth Route Army had already rammed head-on with the troops concentrated in Zhuliu Town, and it was estimated that it was another massacre.

Now, the only thing that can become the position of the Eighth Division is the Zhuliuzhen Railway Station. Lieutenant General Maeda Toshiwei knew that without the 4th Brigade and the 16th Brigade, he would not be able to hold the railway station by relying solely on his division headquarters personnel and guard troops, and perhaps the artillery of the Eighth Route Army had already begun to aim here. You have to hurry up and leave a desperate telegram for your wife and children, otherwise it will be too late. As a result, Lieutenant General Maeda sent a desperate telegram asking the North China Front Army to transfer his family on his behalf, saying that he was loyal to the emperor and the Great Imperial Empire, and that he was conscientious and conscientious in his duties, whether it was in the campaign, praising the military aircraft at the General Staff Headquarters, or teaching and educating people at the Land University. Now he was ordered to rescue the third brigade of the Reading Force, and fell into the heavy siege of the Eighth Route Army, and there was no hope of breaking through, so he had to lead his troops to fight desperately, and the whole division was about to be shattered, so he sent a special telegram to say goodbye to his family, and hoped that his children would inherit the will and be loyal to the empire and His Majesty the Emperor.

Maeda Toshiwei's guess was really right, and after the Fourth Brigade captured Zhuliu Town, he immediately attacked the Zhuliu Town Railway Station, but was resolutely resisted by the Yue army. Hong Chaoyuan looked at the high-power antenna set up on the train station, and immediately understood that the devil's division headquarters was here. Thinking about the fact that the division commander had never been interested in the prisoners of the Yue Army, and there was no need to cause excessive casualties to the troops at this time, Hong Chaoyuan directly sent a report to Li Chang, saying that the headquarters of the Eighth Division was at the Zhuliuzhen Railway Station, and asked him to use an artillery regiment to give Zhuliuzhen Railway Station two salvos.

Li Chang was naturally happy to obey his orders, and immediately ordered the 1st Field Artillery Regiment to test-fire at the Zhuliu Railway Station, and the 4th Brigade was responsible for observing the impact point and helping the 1st Field Artillery Regiment revise the shelling parameters.

After the first field artillery regiment was tested three times, it began to saturate and strike at the Zhuliu railway station.

The small railway station was not a big place, there were not many houses, and after the field artillery fired two volleys of one regiment, the headquarters of the Eighth Division did not exist, and the guard units were also disabled. When the 4th Brigade entered the station, it met only weak resistance. In the end, the radio station and the bodies of Lieutenant General Maeda Toshinoi and Chief of Staff Okaku were removed from the collapsed bungalow.

There was nothing to write about in the next battle, the Eighth Division marched all the way east, and from the time the first troop carrier was bombed at Changle Station, it was beaten all the way, losing troops and losing troops. After being repeatedly shelled by the instructor's five artillery regiments, the main force had already suffered a great loss of troops, and the field artillery wing, baggage wing, health team, and field hospital were also wiped out.

(To be continued)