When it was learned that the Independent Division would arrive in northeastern Henan through northeastern Anhui and eastern Henan, the military headquarters of the New Fourth Army immediately drew a regiment from the Fourth Division and followed the independent division forward. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

At this time, after the independent division entered the northeastern part of Anhui, it immediately uprooted all the strongholds of the Japanese puppet army scattered in the countryside, and the troops of the Fourth Division, which was advancing immediately, immediately left behind a company of troops, and with the cooperation of the underground party and local guerrillas, began to vigorously mobilize the masses in this area, punish the traitors, and expand the anti-Japanese armed forces.

According to the plan discussed with the Independent Division, the Independent Division was responsible for conquering small and medium-sized strongholds along the way, and at the same time leaving most of the captured weapons, ammunition and supplies to the Fourth Division, the regiment.

Now, as soon as it entered the northeast of Anhui, the troops of the independent division approached the outside of Xuzhou and Suzhou, completely destroying the Jinpu Road. The Japanese army in Xuzhou sent a brigade to meet the 68th Regiment of the 22nd Brigade of the Independent Division, and it was beaten to the head and bled out.

As for the enemy of Suzhou, he simply acted as a turtle with a shrunken head, guarded in Suzhou County, and did not go out of the city at all, and let the independent division make a mess of the Jinpu Railway.

In fact, they also sent ironclad patrol cars to prepare for armed interception, but who knew that this originally powerful ironclad patrol car was not enough to see in front of the independent division, and before it reached the predetermined location, the railway was blown up, and then the ironclad patrol car became an iron lump, and in an artillery bombardment of the independent division of the New Fourth Army, it directly turned into a fireball, and the imperial soldiers on the car were either blown to pieces or burned into black charcoal.

After losing two ironclad patrol cars, the devil in charge of the defense of the railway had no choice but to retreat, watch the New Fourth Army destroy the railway, and then march west.

When Okamura Ningci rushed to Jinan with a division, he finally understood why the independent division of the New Fourth Army would cross the Yangtze River in the north smoothly, and dared to believe that it was intentional by the 13th Army.

Otherwise, how could such a large river-crossing operation as the Independent Division not be discovered by the Thirteenth Army, and how could there be no battle between the two, not even a single shot.

Thinking of this, Okamura Nintz was filled with an unspeakable irritation towards Fujita Susuru.

However, everything is just his own speculation, and there is no evidence to prove that the 13th Army allowed the independent division to cross to the north, besides, the proud Okamura Ningtz believes that the reason why the independent division continued to humiliate the Imperial Japanese Army in the south of the Yangtze River was that it did not meet an outstanding commander like himself, and if he was in charge of the Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions at that time, the independent division would not have developed to such a large size even if it was not eliminated by himself.

Now that the independent division has suddenly gone north and come to its own defense area, let yourself know this Liu Tianshu well.

After carefully studying the map, Okamura Nintz called in intelligence officers and learned all the information about the independent division in detail, even the officers above the brigade commander level of the independent division, and he also knew very little.

It's just that as he got to know better, he was still amazed.

He didn't expect that the division commander of the famous force in the New Fourth Army turned out to be a student in Beiping who only joined the Eighth Route Army after the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War. Although Jiang Jinyong had long joined the Communist Party, he had not served as a leader in the army. Among the leaders of the division headquarters, only Zhang Zhouhong, the deputy division commander, was a veteran of the Red Army. Xiang Luoquan was only an underground party member before the Anti-Japanese War.

Among several brigade commanders, Tong Guijie and Xie Pingcai, when the New Fourth Army was founded, were just company commanders who were registered with the Ministry of National Defense of the Nationalist Government, and as for Hao Mengxuan, he was pulled by Liu Tianshu to join the Eighth Route Army when he was in Taihang Mountain.

In just four or five years, I didn't expect these people to become outstanding generals.

It was these mud legs who had never even entered the gate of the military academy that humiliated the imperial army again and again.

Judging that the greatest possibility of the independent division was to Henan, Okamura Ningci decided to rush to Xuzhou's troops to prepare to block the independent division's entry into Shandong, and at the same time draw an independent mixed brigade and rush to Zhengzhou Kaifeng to ensure the safety of central Henan.

At the same time, he ordered the Japanese troops stationed in Jinan to prepare for battle, and once the independent division entered Luxi, he would send troops from Xuzhou, Jinan, and Zhengzhou Kaifeng to encircle it.

It's just that these troops are not yet in place, so they can only let the independent division turn eastern Henan and northeast Anhui upside down, but this is okay, northeast Anhui is the defense area of the Japanese army in central China, and its 166th division has rushed to the front line of Bengbu after learning that the independent division appeared in northeast Anhui.

As long as the Imperial forces reach the designated position, they can encircle and annihilate the independent divisions that are encircled by heavy forces.

The headquarters of the Eighth Route Army discovered that the 101st Division of the Japanese Army in North China was moving south along the Jinpu Road, and at the same time the 151st Independent Mixed Brigade rushed to the front line of Zhengzhou, and immediately understood that the Japanese army in North China wanted to encircle the independent divisions that were about to go north in Luxi and eastern Henan.

After the head of the Eighth Route Army Headquarters reported to Yan'an, he immediately ordered the Eighth Route Army in the Taihang Mountain base area to attack Zhengtai Road to contain the Japanese forces in North China, and at the same time, the Shandong Eighth Route Army also immediately launched a counterattack against the Japanese army.

All of a sudden, smoke rose everywhere in the entire land of North China, and even the troops of the Nationalist Government in North China were involved in this sudden war.

After Liu Tianshu received the telegram forwarded by the military headquarters of the New Fourth Army, several leaders of the division headquarters studied the situation and immediately ordered the New Seventh Brigade to advance to Dangshan through Xiao County, while the main force of the independent division quickly crossed the Jinpu Road.

The Japanese puppet stronghold south of Xuzhou was pulled out by the independent division in a few days, and as for the county town heavily defended by the Japanese army, because the independent division was busy going north, it did not attack.

When Okamura Ningci learned that the Independent Division had indeed entered eastern Henan, he immediately ordered the enemies in Xuzhou and Suzhou to immediately open up the Jinpu Road and repair the railway as soon as possible, and at the same time began to deploy heavy troops along the Jinpu Road to prevent the New Fourth Army in northern Jiangsu from reinforcing the Independent Division.

Knowing that the retreat route was cut off by the Japanese army, Liu Tianshu and Jiang Jinyong did not take it to heart, anyway, when they went north this time, they had to prepare to turn eastern Henan upside down first. Then settle in northeast Henan.

As a result, the New 7th Brigade was in charge of Luxi, the 21st Brigade was in charge of eastern Henan, and the 22nd Brigade was advancing north along the junction of Shandong and Henan.

In the area of Luxi and eastern Henan, the strength of the Japanese army is less than 5,000 people, and the puppet army is only 10,000 people, and this point of the army has to control several counties, and the original strength is somewhat insufficient, but fortunately, there is no main force of the New Fourth Army of the Eighth Route Army in this area for the time being, and they have no problem dealing with the anti-Japanese guerrillas, but now they are independent divisions, where can this force deal with.

As for Zhengzhou and Kaifeng, although there were more than 10,000 Japanese troops, they had to defend such a large area, and they also had to deal with the troops in the first theater of operations, so they naturally did not dare to pour out of the nest, and if they only sent a small group of troops to come, it would be simply to deliver food. In the end, some small counties simply gave up.

Suddenly, the independent division became famous in eastern Henan and Luxi, and with the help of the independent division, countless anti-Japanese armed forces were established.

By the time the main force of the Independent Division reached the area of Cao County, the Japanese troops in North China were in place one after another, and its 151st Independent Mixed Brigade was ready for battle east of Kaifeng, and the 142nd Division of the Japanese Army, which had arrived from Xuzhou, had arrived less than 100 kilometers away from the Independent Division, and at the same time, the 101st Division, which had arrived from the direction of Jinan, appeared in the northeast of the Independent Division.

All of a sudden, two divisions of the Japanese army and an independent mixed brigade appeared around the independent division, which not only surprised the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army, but also Yan'an began to worry about the independent division.

No, the Shandong Eighth Route Army began to move westward, posing to attack the Japanese army in Jinan, and at the same time, the Fourth Division of the New Fourth Army was also preparing to go north to northeast Anhui.

At the meeting, everyone carefully studied the enemy situation facing the independent division, and finally decided that the new 7th Brigade would be responsible for blocking the attack, concentrating the 21st and 22nd Brigades, and looking for an opportunity to eat the 151st Independent Mixed Brigade of the Japanese Army.

The total strength of the 151st Independent Mixed Brigade of the Japanese Army was only 7,000 men, and although it was supported by the enemy in Zhengzhou and Kaifeng, as long as it continued to advance eastward and distanced itself from the enemy in Zhengzhou, the independent division would have a chance to destroy it.

However, before attacking the 151st Independent Mixed Brigade, the 142nd Division must also be taught a painful lesson, so that it does not dare to boldly advance north.

Therefore, the four operational teams of Zhou Aiguo's reconnaissance brigade immediately turned around and headed south to conduct a close reconnaissance of the situation of the 142nd Division, while the 22nd Brigade immediately hid in situ, and the 21st Brigade and the 1st Regiment of the 21st Brigade continued to advance northward.

After the 22nd Brigade hid in the mountains at the junction of the two provinces, Liu Tianshu's attention naturally focused on the movements of the devils.

The 151st Independent Mixed Brigade of the Japanese Army has not yet opened up the distance between it and the Japanese army in Kaifeng, Zhengzhou, and its movements are still very cautious, and it has not been able to find fighters for a while.

The 142nd Division seemed to be the main force of the encirclement of the independent division this time, and undertook the task of driving the independent division northward.

When they were 50 kilometers away from the 22nd Brigade, the reconnaissance team found that the Japanese army was probably chasing all the way north without any blows, and its arrogance began to be exposed, and the Chunshan Wing on the left side unconsciously shifted westward, and opened a distance of 50 kilometers with the Guizuo Wing in the middle, and the Chunshan Wing seemed to be advancing extremely fast.

Liu Tianshu looked at the location of the Chunshan United on the map, his mind was spinning rapidly, and then he gave Xie Pingcai and Shi Qiang the combat order to ambush the Chunshan United.

Chunshan commanded the troops to chase all the way and was not attacked by the New Fourth Army, and besides, according to the information from the division, the New Fourth Army had fled northward, and he naturally did not expect that the 22nd Brigade of the Independent Division was hiding not far from the front. (To be continued.) )