In the end, the Eighth Route Army was still unable to completely annihilate the 27th Division.

On the night of the Double Tenth Festival, the Taixi Garrison Brigade of the Eighth Route Army made a big move and surrounded Tai'an City. The Tai'an detachment of the Eighth Route Army attacked Dawenkou Town, cutting off the connection between the Tai'an Japanese puppet army and the Japanese puppet army that hastily fled from Qufu and Yanzhou to Ciyao Town. As long as Liu and Luo arrived with the main force, the 27th Division would definitely not be lost.

This is the period of the Anti-Japanese War, the transportation is backward, Tengxian is so far away from Tai'an, 300 miles, the infantry can't run if they are tired for a day and a night, and the cavalry has to run for a whole day. The instructor was also only able to arrive in five or six hours with an armored group.

In order to delay the pursuit of the Eighth Route Army, the Japanese rearguard unit sent engineers to lay mines on the road between Yanzhou, Qufu and Ciyao, in an attempt to affect the speed of the advance of the armored aircraft group of the instructor.

This time, Liu Yimin personally led the operation of the armored group regiment, including the 50 cars of the Japanese army captured in Fei County, all of which were used; in addition to the Tanke, armored vehicles, and motorcycles, 600 trucks loaded with heavy machine gun brigades and the 1st Jiao Brigade marched along the highway from Tengxian to Tai'an, with their headlights on.

Speed and time, these two things are what Liu Yimin needs most now.

In order to rescue the 27th Division, the Japanese army could concentrate all the planes in North China, blow up a bloody road, and cover the withdrawal of the 27th Division from Tai'an and escape back to Jinan. In that case, it would be equivalent to recovering a large area of Lunan territory, but allowing the main force of the Japanese puppet army to escape. This kind of battle is particularly boring, and as soon as the heavy army group arrives, most areas of Lunan will have to fall, which is equivalent to our army and the Japanese puppet army tugging at each other, so the people of Lunan will suffer a great crime.

In order to ensure the speed of the march, Liu Yimin did not care about Surabaya, Buxian, Lincheng, Jining, Quzhuo, and Yanzhou, where the Japanese puppet army had fled, but only ordered the regiments of the cavalry brigade to divide their troops, and commanded the county brigades and guerrillas operating in these places to quickly occupy the county seat, control the county seat, and strictly prevent local ruffians and local bandits from taking advantage of the opportunity to loot. Let Luo Ronghuan and Cai Zhong command the new 1st Brigade, the new 4th Brigade, the new 8th Brigade, the artillery brigade, the air defense brigade, the engineer brigade, the baggage brigade and other divisional direct units to follow up and march to Tai'an. Liu Yimin himself took the deputy director of the advisory office, a few advisers, and a radio station, got into the car, and followed the first brigade to Tai'an.

Liu Yimin secretly hoped in his heart that the ghosts were a bit of a species, and they could hold on to the front line of Tai'an, and in just two days, the main force of the Eighth Route Army would all rush to the city of Tai'an to annihilate the 27th Division and the 16th Brigade of the Duli Brigade.

The night of October 10 was just after the cold lu, but there was no trace of the cold lu on the Lunan Plain. In addition to the old Baiyuan surnames in various counties, market towns and along the highways who knew that the Japanese puppet army had fled, the vast majority of the old Baiyuan surnames actually did not know that the Japanese puppet army had fled from Lunan and was still lifeless in the vast wilderness.

Looking at the vast night, Liu Yimin silently calculated in his heart, calculating the military strength that the Japanese army was about to take revenge on the sweeper, and the biggest variable was that the Japanese army transferred troops from the Kwantung Army into the customs. As long as the Kwantung Army is inferior to Guandong, even if the Fifth Division returns to Shandong, and the 114th Division returns to Xuzhou after resting and making up for it, it will not be able to change the current situation on the battlefield in Shandong. If we continue to grow like this, we will be able to fully recover Shandong in less than a year. Of course, this is only an assumption, the Japanese army will definitely not be willing to lose, and Shandong may have to go through another huge test of blood and fire. At present, the situation of our army is actually not good, the main force is separated into several pieces, and it cannot move when it encounters the heavy army group of the Japanese army. On the contrary, when the Japanese heavy army group arrived, it was easy to be copied by the ghosts and friends. In particular, the southeast base area of Shandong, near the sea, has a gentle terrain, which is most suitable for a sneak attack by the Japanese army. Maybe Tada Jun's old man is staring at this place!

In the night, Liu Yimin sat in the car, his eyes looking straight ahead, but he was silently thinking about his heart in his heart.

The Eighth Route Army did not expect that the Japanese army would also play mine warfare and plant mines on the road.

After receiving the report, Liu Yimin and Gao Yuan rushed to the new military queue of the second special operations squadron of Zhao Yonggang, which was at the forefront of the infantry team, to check on it, only to see that all three motorcycles had been blown up, and the soldiers in the cars were either scratched by shrapnel or were injured when the car overturned.

Zhao Yonggang was watching with a piece of mine fragment when he saw Liu Yimin arriving and was busy telling the situation.

Liu Yimin took the mine fragment in Zhao Yonggang's hand and looked at it, and saw that it was an ordinary mine, not an anti-Tankuk mine, so he ordered the armored regiment to drive up the heavy Tankuk battalion to open the way for the troops.

When the Eighth Route Army carried out the tactics of attacking from the south to the north, Fu Zhuting's new Sixth Brigade and Xu Shiyou's Luxi Garrison Brigade captured Cangxian and emptied the Japanese army's logistical supply base in Cangxian County, among which 20 heavy tanks and 30 Type 98 20mm antiaircraft guns were captured by the latest equipment units of the Japanese army, all of which were equipped with air defense brigades, and 30 antiaircraft guns were transferred from the air defense brigade to equip several newly formed brigades to be used against the Japanese tank. These 20 heavy tanks and captured gasoline were transported back to the southeastern base area from the Jilu border, and Liu Yimin led the southward troops to return north before they were equipped with an armored regiment, and a heavy tanker battalion was built in Lingding.

At this time, the Eighth Route Army wanted the speed of marching, and the heavy Tankuk could just play the role of a minesweeper.

Because the Japanese army laid mines, the speed of the march slowed down, and the motorcycles and armored vehicles of the Second Special Operations Squadron, which had opened the road in front, retreated to the rear, and the armored regiment commander Zhao Yahe and the political commissar Wang Ping commanded the armored regiment's Tankuke to line up one after another and open the way for the whole army on the road. In this way, the rumbling sound of the tanqu motor is interspersed with the explosion of mines from time to time.

At the beginning, Zhao Dahe and the others were afraid that the Japanese army's mines would blow up the Tanke, just like the instructor's troops used anti-Tankuk mines against the ghost Tanke. However, after checking the situation of several mine explosions, Zhao Dahe was relieved, got into the command car, and loudly ordered to move forward at full speed.

It was already two o'clock in the morning when the armored cluster of the Eighth Route Army turned on the headlights and roared in the area of Ciyao Town.

From Tengxian to Ciyao, the mechanized march of the Eighth Route Army took eight hours!

At this time, there was already a pot of porridge between Tai'an and the magnetic kiln.

The Japanese puppet army that fled from Yanzhou and Quzhuo to Ciyao Town originally planned to camp in Ciyao and rush to Tai'an under the cover of aircraft early tomorrow morning. Because they were running too fast, too fast, and too tired, they had to stop and rest. In addition, the magnetic kiln has a stronghold and a relatively complete fortification in the Japanese army's control system. The Japanese army that retreated north had a complete infantry wing, as well as some artillery, engineers, and heavy troops attached to it, plus the puppet army, the puppet police patrol, and the puppet self-defense regiment, and the puppet political power and armed equipment, and the military strength was also quite large. Relying on a position to hold on is much riskier than a night march.

There is no need for infantry from Feixian to Ciyao, even the cavalry of the Eighth Route Army will not be able to catch up overnight, unless they run all the horses to death. And the Eighth Route Army has just finished the battle of Feixian, so they can't catch up so quickly. Even if the Eighth Route Army, which had been operating around Tai'an, surrounded it, the Japanese army was not afraid, they did not have an artillery group, no chariots, and could not attack the town of Ciyao defended by a wing of the Japanese army.

In Tada, Iida Sadagu, and Honma Masaan want to come to the town of Magnetic Kiln tonight, it is safe.

The gunfire of the Tai'an detachment of the Eighth Route Army reoccupying Dawenkou woke up the commander of the Japanese puppet army in the area of Ciyao and the commander of the infantry of the 27th Division of the Japanese Army, Suzuki Keihisa, who immediately arrived at the Eighth Route Army because he wanted to cut off their connection with the main force of the division in Tai'an, and lost them in one bite.

Suzuki Keihisa did not dare to slack off, and immediately sent a report to the division commander Honma Masaka, explaining the situation, and requesting the main force of the division to quickly move south, flank the Eighth Route Army that captured Dawenkou, and take them north.

Honma Masaka called back, and there was also a situation around Tai'an that the main force of the Eighth Route Army Division could not move south at night. He ordered Keihisa Suzuki to occupy the position on the spot, resolutely defend it, and repel the attack of the Eighth Route Army. As long as they hold out until dawn, the aviation can cover the safe northward movement of Suzuki Keihisa's headquarters and join the main force of the division.

Honma Masayan also told Suzuki Keihisa that the capture of Daewenkou was the Dohachi Road, which had been operating around Tai'an, and it was also very well-equipped, but there was no artillery group, no combat vehicles, and no armored vehicles, so they could not attack the magnetic kiln. It's just that the delayed imperial army is blocked and the main force is moving north, so as to buy time for Liu Yimin's main force in Lunan to arrive. Sticker bar grip dedication. However, Fei County was too far away from the magnetic kiln, and there were aviation reconnaissance and bombing during the day, and the Eighth Route Army could not march. They can only go out for one night, and the main force of the Eighth Route Army will definitely not be able to catch up with the magnetic kiln.

Keihisa Suzuki believed Honma's nose and drove all his troops to the position, preparing to hold out until dawn and then continue north.

The ghost gang wants to defend it, and the Eighth Route Army has to cooperate!

The commander of the Tai'an detachment, Zhang Qihaitao, left his own compensation regiment and the new corps to set up a blocking position on the front line of Dawenkou to block the Japanese troops who might have Tai'an and Beijipo to reinforce from the south. The two sides opened the ping-pong.

The combat effectiveness of the 27th Division of the Japanese Army was indeed unambiguous, and Zhang Haitao commanded the troops to attack the town under the cover of night, but they could not attack it, so they had to calm down and copy from the north, west, and east. As for the south, Zhang Haitao was not afraid, he knew that the most elite armored aircraft group of the Eighth Route Army in the whole country was rushing towards the magnetic kiln, and if the ghosts retreated south and happened to collide, then they would die very miserably.

When the star river composed of the lights of the armored cluster of the Eighth Route Army poured into the vicinity of Ciyao Town, Zhang Qihaitao knew that his mission had been completed, and the next thing was to beware of the Japanese puppet army escaping in the night.

Zhang Haitao immediately sent his troops to join forces with the armored group regiment that had caught up, and guided the armored group to initiate the attack, and at the same time ordered his three regiments to propose an attack on the Japanese army, sticking to the Japanese puppet army, so that they could not escape if they wanted to.

At this time, if the Japanese puppet army who fled from Yanzhou and Quzhuo to Ciyao wanted to escape for their lives, it would be more difficult than ascending to the sky!

The town of magnetic kiln is named after the site of the ancient magnetic kiln in the Tang and Song dynasties. In the seventh year of Han Gaozu, Juping County was governed and belonged to Taishan County. During the Sui Dynasty, Juping County was merged into Ningyang County and still belonged to Taishan County. At the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, there were Taiping Town, Taiping Fort and Juping Town. At this time, the Ciyao Town Railway Station is still called East Taiping Station, and the history of the East Taiping Station was renamed the Ciyao Railway Station in 1949. Now, because Liu Yimin came through the country, many geographical terms he is called the name of later generations, and like the title of Ciyao Town Railway Station, it is very distinctive, not easy to be confused with other places, and the Eighth Route Army reconnaissance system is also accustomed to replacing East Taiping Station with Ciyao Station.

Ciyao Town has been a traffic artery since ancient times. In the Tang and Song dynasties, there was a north-south post road, and in the Song and Yuan dynasties, there were two official horse avenues. Especially in the middle of the Northern Song Dynasty, the business here was prosperous, and there were many shops, and it was an important post station on the Beijing tool road leading directly to Daming Mansion.

Because it is located at the midpoint from Beibijing to Nanjing, it is called Zhongjing. At this time, Ciyao Town is still a traffic artery, there are not only railway bridges and highway bridges on the Wen River, but also a stone bridge of the Ming Dynasty with a strange architectural style.

Wenshui sunset, Wenkou Gudu, avenue thoroughfare, merchants gathered, the four major landscapes of the ancient magnetic kiln have long become people's memories under the iron hooves of the Japanese invasion.

After the Japanese army captured the magnetic kiln, due to the important traffic location here, there has always been a stronghold here, which is stationed by a squadron of the Japanese army's Jinpu Road garrison in peacetime, and there are also pseudo police stations, self-defense regiments, security teams and other pseudo-armed equipment. After the Battle of Taixi of the Eighth Route Army, all the Japanese puppet garrisons of the original magnetic kiln disappeared. The current Japanese puppet army in Ciyao was re-stationed by the old brigade of the Japanese army after Liu Yimin led the army south.

Originally, if Suzuki Keihisa commanded the Japanese army to break through strongly, Zhang Haitao's Tai'an detachment might not be able to stay. Because Keihisa Suzuki has an elite infantry wing at hand, as well as an artillery brigade and several tanks and armored vehicles. However, the Japanese army was afraid that the Eighth Route Army would be ambushed in the field by breaking through at night, and lost the opportunity. Compared with the Eighth Route Army's armored clusters catching up, the chance of breaking through is completely gone.

No, after Liu Yimin and Gao Yuan led the armored regiment, the 1st Brigade and the Heavy Machinery Gun Regiment to arrive, they quickly used the armored vehicles of the armored regiment of the Tankuke, the 1st Regiment, and the 2nd Regiment of the Armored Regiment as the attack arrows, tore apart the Japanese puppet army's defensive ground, and began to divide and outflank the Japanese puppet army.

Keihisa Suzuki is not a fool, he has been in battle for a long time and knows how to fight. When he discovered the long river of lights in the armored cluster of the Eighth Route Army, Keihisa Suzuki knew that he was in trouble and immediately ordered the artillery brigade to start shelling to intercept the Eighth Route Army.

This is the plain, or the old battlefield of the Eighth Route Army, not to mention the Tai'an detachment sent people to guide, Zhao Yonggang's second special operations squadron, the reconnaissance company of the first brigade and the reconnaissance platoon of each regiment all played the task of leading the troops forward, and the huge Eighth Route Army convoy completed the formation of the troops near Ciyao Town, and attacked by separate routes.

The Japanese artillery shells were fast, and the tanks, armored vehicles, and cars of the Eighth Route Army were also fast. The headlights illuminated the four fields brightly, and the Japanese positions were clear. The tanker guns, the vehicle-mounted guns, and the infantry guns, mortars, and grenadiers mounted on the cars behind them all opened fire as they marched, and the iron stream rolled towards the position of the ghost, and soon began to interject and interject