Following Sugiyama Moto's order, the Japanese troops on all fronts suddenly increased the pace of action, and the troops scattered across the vast plains gradually converged into numbers and pounced on the triangle area surrounded by the Shahezi River and the Hutuo River, and all resistance along the way was crushed. \\。 The leaders of the Qβ (5) and com North China Front waited with bated breath for the arrival of the great victory, but two days later all the troops arrived at the predetermined position, and the expected main force of the Eighth Route disappeared without a trace.

When the Japanese troops were wandering, a sweeping force in Jiaojiazhuang, southwest of Xian County, was attacked by the Eighth Route Army, a squadron of Japanese troops was completely annihilated, and two battalions of puppet troops were routed. Subsequently, in the old camp between Shenxian and Raoyang, an Eighth Route Army suddenly appeared, besieged the garrison here, and then routed the main force of the Zhucun Brigade that rushed to the south, and then crossed the Cangshi Highway to the south, broke through the Japanese army in Xiwangzhuang, forcibly crossed the Gan River, and entered the southern Hebei base area under the response of the 115th Division.

"It seems that Sugiyama Yuan mobilized 100,000 troops, but only caught a single hair of the Eighth Route Army." Zhuang Jihua couldn't help but smile when he looked at the information that came, 100,000 Japanese troops rushed to Jizhong, to be honest, he was very worried, whether the Eighth Route Army in Jizhong could escape, but he didn't expect the answer handed over by the Eighth Route Army in Jizhong to be so beautiful.

"The combat effectiveness of the Eighth Route Army seems to be not to be underestimated," Xu Zuyi nodded, he felt a little strange in his heart, I don't know why, Zhuang Jihua suddenly became interested in the battle of the Eighth Route Army in Jizhong: "Sugiyama Yuan seems to be old. ”

Speaking of this, Xu Zuyi turned his head and asked Zhuang Jihua: "Since they have escaped, will we still move?" ”

"Move, of course we have to move," Zhuang Jihua said resolutely: "We can't sit back and watch Sugiyama Gen destroy the base behind the enemy, otherwise when the Japanese army attacks us next, their rear will be too quiet, which is absolutely not good." ”

When Sugiyama Yuan was preparing to encircle and suppress Jizhong, Zhuang Jihua drew up a ** plan, which was nominally to consume the Japanese army and disrupt the Japanese army's offensive preparations, but in fact he was preparing to support the Jizhong base area. To this end, he mobilized the 60th Army and the 59th Army to prepare for an attack on Yucheng between Dexian County, Jinan.

"Order Du Yuming and Zhang Zizhong to start acting, and tell them that they must fight hard, hit Yucheng City within two days, and cut off the Jinpu line."

After more than two months of rest, the 60th Army and the 59th Army are now strong and strong, after the Linyi War, Zhuang Jihua rewarded him with a reorganized division from Chiang Kai-shek, and at the same time expanded a heavy artillery brigade for the 59th Army under the jurisdiction of 24 105 howitzers, Zhang Zizhong was grateful for this, and also made Pang Bingxun, Sun Tongxuan, Sun Lianzhong and others jealous.

In order to cover this **, the 24th Group Army assembled in Yanzhou transferred the 45th Army, and went north with Sun Tongxuan's 3rd Army in Tai'an, and launched an attack on Jinan, attracting the Japanese troops gathered around Jinan, the original 109th, 10th, 21st Division, and 14th Division, a total of four divisions, in addition to replenishing new recruits in recent months, the 40th Division and the 38th Division have been added. During the Jizhong Campaign, the 38th Division was responsible for guarding the communication line from Yude County to Jinan.

** From Jinan, the attacks of the Twentieth Army and the Third Army were not violent, but steady, and the Japanese army fought in Changqing, on the outskirts of Jinan. The Third Army fought for Sow Ridge and Cao Dayu outside Changqing, while the Twentieth Army made a detour to Jinniu Mountain and interspersed with Changqing from the left flank.

The Japanese army's front-facing defensive units were the 21st Division and the 14th Division, and the commander of the 14th Division, Tu Feiyuan, was transferred to Central China in mid-October to take over as the head of the Shanghai Mei Organ, and was succeeded by Lieutenant General Jingguan Takachang; these two divisions were cutting-edge divisions and lacked combat experience against the troops in the Fifth Theater, especially against the Southwest Army, and still fought in the same way as they fought with the squadron in the past.

The commander of the 21st Division, Washizu Matsudaira, was shocked and hurriedly transferred a wing to plug the gap, and Nishio Shouzo also moved the 10th Division from the city to Yangtai to take over the first line of Phoenix Mountain and Qiushan, so that the 21st Division could go all out to compete with the 45th Army for Jinniu Mountain, so that the battle on the first line of Jinniu Mountain gradually became fierce for a hundred years.

At this moment, Du Yuming commanded the 60th Army and the 59th Army to cross the river from Pingyin and join the new 22nd Division on the north bank of the river.

The squadron's ** momentum was huge, the momentum was fierce, the commander of the 38th Division Fujii at first thought that the opportunity for meritorious service had come to command the troops to catch up, but then he was dumbfounded, Du Yuming on the left flank unfolded three divisions, Zhang Zizhong on the right flank took the new 22nd Division as the head of the vanguard, the main force of the 38th Division detoured from the flank, more than 30 planes in the sky covered, after two hours of fierce fighting, it broke through the front of the 38th Division, divided and surrounded the 228th Wing, and after fierce fighting all night, annihilated most of it.

When the news reached Xuzhou, not only Zhuang Jihua, but even Xu Zuyi was a little surprised: "Why has the combat effectiveness of the Japanese army become so poor, could it be that they made a mistake?" It's a puppet army. ”

Xu Zuyi took the telegram and looked at it over and over, and muttered suspiciously: "There are still more than 300 captives, Du Guangting and Zhang Xinchen won't also learn to lie, right?" ”

Zhuang Jihua couldn't help but smile when he heard this: "This is not easy to do, let them send the captives to Xuzhou, and you will find out when you ask." ”

To be honest, Zhuang Jihua also suspected in his heart that the Japanese army in Songhu, Nanjing, and Xuzhou, every battle was a sea of corpses and blood, and the victories won were all exchanged, one life for another, and the first person took his life in exchange, and the tenacity of the Japanese soldiers impressed all the senior generals, and the Japanese army of a wing, even if it was to be annihilated, would have to fight for at least two or three days, not to mention that there was an entire division around.

However, Zhuang Jihua still did not ask Du Yuming to send the prisoners to Xuzhou, but sent a harshly worded telegram, asking him to report the details of the battle and the strength of the Japanese army.

Soon the joint report of Du Yuming and Zhang Zizhong arrived, and Zhuang Jihua fell into deep thought when he saw it, and the content of the telegram was completely unexpected by him.

Du Yuming said in the telegram that the 38th Division was established in Nagoya, Japan, in early October, and that the division formed in Nagoya already had the 3rd Division, and that the 3rd Division suffered heavy losses during the Battle of Songhu, and that the entire division lost more than 16,000 people, and then lost more than 6,000 people in the southern section of the Jinpu Road, and that the supplementary troops in the Nagoya area first supplemented the 3rd Division, and the 38th Division was a new division, and in addition to the senior officers, the rest of the officers were either reserve officers or non-commissioned officers who had just graduated from the military academy. The soldiers are all recruits who have just joined the army for less than three months, and most of them are ten-year-old dolls.

"It seems that in the three battles of Songhu, Nanjing and Xuzhou, the Japanese army suffered heavy losses, and experienced soldiers and officers could not meet the needs, so they had to recruit some dolls to make up the numbers." Xu Zuyi smiled after reading it.

Zhuang Jihua nodded slowly, and sighed in his heart, in the three battles of Songhu, Nanjing and Xuzhou, more than 300,000 Japanese troops were wiped out, plus all over North China, since the Lugou Bridge Incident, the total losses of the Japanese army have exceeded 500,000, although the replenishment of troops has not reached the point of being overstretched, but experienced veterans and officers feel nervous.

"In that case, then what are we polite about?" Zhuang Jihua smiled and said to Xu Zuyi: "Tell Du Yuming and Zhang Zizhong to beat me hard and beat the Japanese army out of the real and the false." ”

After a pause, he said thoughtfully: "It seems that we were frightened by the Japanese, Lao Xu, do you think, expand twenty divisions and regiments, with the establishment of the Japanese army, this is more than 500,000 people, how many veterans are there?" How many experienced officers are there? The Japanese troops we have eliminated are the essence of the Japanese army, and can the combat effectiveness of the newly formed divisions and regiments be compared with those teachers' regiments? ”

Xu Zuyi nodded in agreement, he sighed, and said a little lucky: "I didn't expect it, I really didn't expect it, it's only been a year and a half, and Little Japan's confidence is insufficient." ”

Zhuang Jihua walked to the table, picked up the teacup, held it in his hand, felt the heat of the cup, and all kinds of complicated information rushed into his mind, he didn't understand, in his previous life, he fought against Japan for eight years, and he didn't know how many Japanese troops were eliminated, how could the Japanese army have the ability to start the Pacific War? But the news from Du Yuming is not false, what is the reason for this? Zhuang Jihua couldn't understand the difference between the experience of the previous life and the reality of the present life, which made him a little uncertain.

"Send them a telegram and tell them that no matter whether the combat effectiveness of the Japanese army declines or not, they must be cautious and not careless."

After suffering a big loss, the 38th Division hurriedly contracted, and at the same time reported to Nishio Shouzo in Jinan, asking for tactical guidance. Nishio Shouzo was so angry that he almost turned his back on the report and scolded the 38th Division for losing the face of the imperial army, but the chief of staff Suzuki sighed, the expansion of the army was too fast, the training of recruits was insufficient, and the officers with combat experience could not be replenished, and the combat effectiveness would inevitably decline, and when they went through the baptism of battle, the blood of the samurai would inevitably come back in them.

Nishio Shouzo lost his temper, but he understood in his heart that Suzuki was reasonable, and he expanded twenty divisions at a time, which had never been seen in the history of Japanese warfare. Nishio Shouzo had no choice but to send reinforcements to Nishio Shouzo and transfer a brigade from the 109th Division to reinforce the 38th Division.

Du Yuming fought well, but Zhuang Jihua was in trouble, and he received an order from Chiang Kai-shek ordering him to stop the offensive and withdraw his troops.

"Headmaster, what is this for? Why withdraw it? Zhuang Jihua was very dissatisfied and shouted from Xu Zuyi.

Xu Zuyi smiled bitterly, he didn't understand why Chiang Kai-shek gave such an order at this time. Seeing Zhuang Jihua scurrying back and forth in the house in anger, he was helpless.

"The chairman still doesn't understand that our actions have restrained the actions of the Japanese army in Jizhong, so we are asked to stop." Xu Zuyi said that although the telegram did not say it, he guessed the reason, the Japanese army besieged Jizhong, and the Eighth Route Army suffered heavy losses, which Chiang Kai-shek was happy to see, and the Fifth Theater sent troops to Jinan, although it was only a containment operation, but Chiang Kai-shek absolutely did not want to see it.

"He just can't forget the Communist C Party, is the Communist C Party so hateful?" Zhuang Jihua was even more angry, took off his hat and threw it on the table: "Call back to the chairman, the main force of the Japanese army is in Jizhong, we should take the opportunity to weaken the Japanese army in Jinan, we can't sit back and wait for the Japanese army to attack, our army is sure to win this battle, at least it will not suffer big losses, please agree to let us continue the offensive." ”

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