[Anti-Japanese Iron Blood King] Chapter 729: Don't be a bastard (ask for subscription!) , ask for a monthly pass, ask for everything! ）

Kimura Hyotaro is a commander with a lot of combat experience, he knows very well that the battlefield can decide the outcome of the war in one minute, and this is what the soldiers are quick to say, so after occupying Yong'an County, he did not stop more, but only left an infantry squadron to defend Yong'an County, and after protecting the wounded soldiers and baggage ammunition left in Yong'an, the large army continued to chase along the traces of the retreat of the New Sixth Division. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

At three o'clock in the afternoon of January 17, the Japanese 32nd Division finally arrived at the outer defense line of Handan. With the support of the Eighth Route Army, Gao Shuxun had nearly 20,000 troops in his hands, and the 32nd Division's long journey and the attrition in the previous period of combat could only reach less than 12,000 people under the city of Handan.

Because of the relatively sufficient soldiers, Gao Shuxun was not hypocritical, and he was stunned to arrange four lines of defense between Xiaoyue Mountain, five kilometers outside Handan City, and Handan City, and he also built a lot of street fortifications in Handan City, ready to fight street battles with the Japanese army.

Gao Shuxun's intention was very simple, he wanted to take advantage of the geographical terrain to resist the Japanese army's attack, and when it was impossible to do anything and all the defense lines were broken by the Japanese army, he also used the city to fight street battles with the Japanese army. Do your best to stall for time and create conditions for the battle on Wu'an's side.

Gao Shuxun's performance was immediately reported to the former enemy headquarters in southern Hebei by Lei Zhenhua, the supreme commander of the Shandong Military Region who supported the defenders of Handan.

Kimura Hyotaro will not give Gao Shuxun time to prepare, because Kimura Hyotaro knows the preciousness of time better than Gao Shuxun, and every minute and second of his time in southern Hebei was won by the Japanese army in northern Henan, southern Lunan, and northern Jiangsu. Compared with Sun Liangcheng and Sun Dianying's troops in northern Henan, the Second Group Army is undoubtedly powerful, although the Second Group Army does not belong to the most elite troops of the Nationalist Government, but the Second Group Army has a kind of ruthlessness from the commander Sun Lianzhong to the soldiers.

Kimura Hyotaro had been stationed in Shandong before, so he knew this group army very well, and the ruthlessness of the men in the northwest had forged the military soul of this army. In the Battle of Taierzhuang, the 31st Division of Chichengfeng, the defender of Zhuangnai, was Sun Lianzhong's troops, and the Japanese who fought that battle had no soul, so Kimura Hyotaro remembered Sun Lianzhong's department.

Although the Second Army could not arrive as expected now, Sun Lianzhong understood that the more fierce the battle he and the Japanese army fought in northern Jiangsu and southern Lunan, the more it showed the necessity of support, so in the attack order to the troops, he gave the death order in a very stern tone, so the Japanese army in Lunan was under great pressure.

Moreover, the 21st Division, the largest strategic group of the Japanese army in southern Lunan, was ordered to go north to reinforce the battle in the direction of Zhangjiakou, and only a few thousand infantry were left behind, and the rest were all puppet troops under Ma Liang's department.

In addition, in order to contain the Japanese army in Shandong, Ma Zheng also made some ruthless moves in Shandong. On the evening of January 13, Xu Haifeng led more than 30 of his special combat team members to attack Liaocheng Railway Station, they hijacked a military train halfway, and secretly took this military train all the way to successfully break through the Japanese army's defense lines, and finally entered Liaocheng smoothly.

As the most important strategic point in Liaocheng, the Japanese army stationed a reinforced infantry squadron at the railway station, as well as a heavy machine gun squad. However, how could these troops stop the footsteps of the special combat team, and in just half an hour, the special combat team occupied the entire railway station, and then planted a large amount of explosives in the railway station, blowing up the Liaocheng railway station in one fell swoop.

Although the operation only blew up a railway station and a nearby storage warehouse, its strategic significance was extremely significant. The first is that the Japanese realized that there was still a resistance force in Shandong China that they did not know existed, and it seemed that the strength should be very strong, otherwise it would not be possible to take the heavily guarded railway station in just one night, and there was still time to plant explosives, and finally retreat calmly.

Although the 10th Mixed Brigade of the Japanese Army guarding Liaocheng is not considered elite, it is after all a regular unit of the Japanese army, and it is an armed force equipped with all Japanese-made equipment. Usually, such a brigade is already a force to be reckoned with in Shandong, but Lieutenant General Ren Iida Sadagu never thought that at this critical juncture, since there was still a powerful hidden force lurking in Shandong, he would suddenly stab him in the soft underbelly.

The Japanese army has long known that there is still a resistance force in the Liaocheng area, but neither Tada Jun nor Iida Zhengu paid attention to it, or in their opinion, although the resistance forces in Shandong have signs of resurgence, they are still not as threatening as Ma Zheng's troops, and they plan to deal with the resistance forces in Shandong after eliminating Ma Zheng's troops.

And some time ago, the 10th Mixed Brigade also sent a large force to encircle and suppress, but the result was that not even a single figure could be found, followed by the loss of Qingdao, and the Japanese high-level collective thought that the main force of the Eighth Route Army had been transferred to Ludong and Lunan, so they did not realize that the main force of the Eighth Route Army was still near Liaocheng.

But before Iida Sadagu came back to his senses, the news of Heze's loss came. On 15 January, Li Tie commanded a regiment of troops disguised as Japanese troops to attack Heze City with the cooperation of nearly 100 special combat members of a special operations squadron.

This sneak attack also went well, there were not many Japanese troops originally stationed in Heze, plus the special combat team members infiltrated the city in advance to sabotage, and cooperated with the troops to open the city gate on the night of the sneak attack, so Li Tiesuo's department only took an hour to capture Heze, and more than 600 Japanese puppet defenders were annihilated.

However, just when the Japanese army thought that the Eighth Route would occupy Heze for a long time, the Eighth Route Army actually withdrew from Heze in a very short period of time, which made the top level of the North China Front very puzzled.

In fact, the reason for this is probably only known to Li Tie himself, although they played very well this time, and he himself also wanted to occupy Heze for a long time, but the situation did not allow it!

Now that the main forces of the Shandong Military Region have all rushed to the southern Hebei front, he is the only one who remains in the base area with a dissatisfied infantry regiment, and in order to reduce the pressure on the southern Hebei side, he can only lead this regiment to keep attacking and pulling hatred everywhere.

No matter how badly the outside world blows him, but he knows the situation of his own family, he only has more than 2,000 troops in his hands now, and he is mainly recruited. Putting aside the more than 100 trump cards of the special combat team, the strength in his hands is only more than 2,500 people, and counting the more than 300 people lost in the capture of Heze, he now only has more than 2,200 combatable soldiers in his hands.

With this amount of strength, let alone working with an infantry wing of the Japanese army, even if the old devil Iida Zhengu only sent two reinforced brigades over, he Li Tie would not be able to eat and go around.

And the most important thing is that this time Li Tie took a big advantage, although Heze is not a military powerhouse, but it is also a famous city in Luxi, and it is the political and economic center of seven or eight nearby counties and districts, so it is also the material storage base of the Japanese army's Heze front-line defenders. Therefore, after conquering Heze, Li Tie was surprised to find that a large amount of grain and military supplies were stored in a large warehouse area in Heze City, including thousands of sets of cotton clothes and boots and a lot of weapons and equipment.

Seeing so many good things in the warehouse area, Li Tie knew that he had sent it, and at the same time, he also knew that he had stabbed a hornet's nest this time, and the Japanese army would definitely eliminate him as a "fly" at all costs.

However, if there is a bargain, he and his leaders are both dignified and upright cadres of the Eighth Route Army, how can they be bastards, hehe, then I'm embarrassed, in order not to be a bastard, he Li Tie had to reluctantly accept this batch of arms. (To be continued.) )