Most of the troops marched towards the goal. Moreover, the movement of which unit will be carried to where and where it will adopt and what kind of posture it will adopt are all planned in advance. There is a reliable basis for investigation, including whether there is a water source on the marching route of the troops and whether the assembly site can meet the needs of the troops for concealment and standby.

From southwestern Shandong to southern Hebei, Liu Yimin led the headquarters and guard regiment to walk last, and the 1st Brigade, the New 1st Brigade, the New 4th Brigade, the New 8th Brigade, the Engineer Brigade, the Artillery Brigade, the Air Defense Brigade, and the Baggage Brigade all advanced along their respective marching routes. Otherwise, don't look at Zhao County, which is only forty kilometers away from Shimen, and let the infantry run, it will take seven or eight hours.

This is the land of the Central People's Republic of China, and southern Hebei is also the base area of our army, and it is also the base area that the instructor took the lead in opening up, including the depth of which river and how many people can be supplied with drinking water by the well of which village. The reason why military maps are precious and secret is that they are detailed and reliable. Every time a tutor goes to a region, the first thing to do is to reconnoiter the enemy's situation, survey the geography, and draw a map, and their military map is much more detailed and reliable than the best map.

This is the Great Plains, in the original time, in order to deal with the ghost broom "dang", the military and civilians in southern Hebei vigorously transformed the traffic, and turned the road into a trench, which can not only delay the movement of the ghost mechanized troops, but also cover the soldiers to fight. However, for the first-class main force of our army in Shandong, the first brigade also limited the speed of movement. Coincidentally, in order to facilitate their own transportation, the Japanese army drove all the 300,000 workers on the Pinghan Road to southern Hebei, filled in the traffic trenches, leveled the roads, and helped the 1st Brigade of Jiao. In this way, the movement speed of the 1st Brigade was still much slower than that in the hinterland of Shandong.

Since Liu Yimin ordered the movement to Shimen, the southern Hebei Plain under the cover of night suddenly became vivid and vivid, advancing towards the county seat of Zhaoxian and Luancheng, advancing towards the county seat of Gaocheng and Jinxian, and advancing in the direction of Shimen. In front of the Eighth Route Army, there are local military outfits in Zhaoxian, Ningjin, Luancheng, and Gaocheng that lead the team; Behind the Eighth Route Army were the previous teams mobilized in the southern Hebei region, driving mule, horse, carts, ox carts, and wheelbarrows, following the teams to various targets. It is a pity that the Eighth Route Army is not allowed to use torches and flashlights, and even the Tanyak, armored vehicles, and cars of the 1st Brigade are not allowed to turn on their lights, so they can only slowly advance on the main road one after another. Otherwise, between Zhao County, Luancheng and Gaocheng, a magnificent landscape of bright torches and flowing Milky Way will be formed.

With such a big movement, it was impossible not to alarm the little ghost. However, the southern Hebei region has just passed through the broom of the Japanese army's heavy army group and has become the rear of the Japanese army, and the vigilance of the Japanese puppet army is not particularly high. Moreover, the tunnel network in southern Hebei has long been formed, except for the artillery, cavalry, and mechanized units that cannot move through the tunnels, the infantry can completely conceal the tunnels and move in the tunnels. The county brigades, district squads, independent battalions, armed engineering teams, and militia teams all took action, and they all launched small-scale attacks and disturbances against the Japanese puppet strongholds on both sides of the main force passage route during the day, beating the Japanese puppet army so that they hid in the strongholds and did not dare to move, and eliminated the hidden dangers in the direction of the main force's advance.

This is how the miracle happened, most of the troops that could not have been concealed moved to the designated place in concealment.

After Liu Yimin, Luo Ronghuan, and Cai Zhong rushed to the outskirts of Shimen City, set up a command center, and set up a radio station, all the units were already in place, and they reported one after another, requesting an attack.

After receiving Wang Laohu's telegram, Liu Yimin was overjoyed and said to Luo Ronghuan and Cai Zhong: "One of the goals of the Battle of Shimen has been achieved. sent a report to Feng Dafei and Chang Qiankun, ordering them to prepare to take off and transport bombs, "medicine" and gasoline to Daguozhuang Airport. Bullets for letters; Wang Laohu was ordered to activate the airport's night navigation facilities and use radio to guide the 1st and 2nd Aviation Brigades to Daguozhuang Airport for night landing. Order the artillery to open fire, and all units prepare for a full-line assault! ”

The battle for the stone gate has begun!

Li Yanchang is a person, he is addicted to commanding an artillery group to fight a big battle!

When Liu Yimin gave the order to open fire, his artillery positions had just been set up, and commanders at all levels were holding city defense maps and calculating distances and measuring the artillery bombardment!

There is a power plant in Shimen, there are street lights in the city, and the turrets on the defense line of the small ghost also have searchlights, which is equivalent to pointing out the target of the artillery shelling. Coupled with the coordinate data provided by the investigators and observers, the artillery of the Eighth Route Army was also equipped with eyes at night.

Liu Yimin gave the order, and Li Yuchang immediately ordered the shelling to begin.

The artillery group attacking Yunpanshan on the northern front, the artillery group attacking the Guiyunzi defense line on Pinghan Road on the southern front, and the artillery group directly attacking the Japanese defense line at Shimen under the command of Li Yuchang roared at the same time, and the shells flew across the night sky and fell on the head of the little ghost.

The rumbling sound of artillery woke up Shimen, and also woke up the commander of the Shijiazhuang garrison, Major General Kokurihara.

Early this morning, Major General Kokurihara received a telegram from the headquarters of the North China Front, ordering him to prepare a telegram to welcome the 11 th Division and the Fifth Brigade of the Duli Mixed Brigade to Pinghan Road. The telegram also reported that the headquarters of the Front Army had judged that the main force of the Eighth Route Army had fled from southwest Shandong to the southern Hebei region, and ordered the 22nd Division, the Pinghan Road Garrison, the Shijiazhuang Garrison, and the North China Public Security Army stationed on the Pinghan Road to heighten their vigilance and strictly prevent Liu Yimin from breaking through the Pinghan Road and rushing to Shanxi.

Major General Kokurihara was a professional soldier, and in addition to burning, killing and looting, he also had high military attainments. After receiving the order, he immediately ordered all units to strengthen their combat readiness and send search teams to search and reconnoitre. As a result, by the end of dark, the major brigades of the Shijiazhuang garrison guarding the strongholds around Shijiazhuang reported that there was no situation, and the search teams also reported that no trace of the Eighth Route Army had been found within a radius of 40 miles.

The imperial army is "swinging" in the broom, the earth is "swinging" in the anti-broom, and the guns and cannons are being fired every day on the Great Plains, which is a normal thing.

Major General Kokurihara analyzed that the attack and harassment of the strongholds of Zhaoxian, Luancheng, and Gaocheng by Tubalu was that the Tubalu thought that the heavy army group had left southern Hebei and came out of the tunnel to retaliate. However, relying on the Tuba Road in southern Hebei, it is like capturing the towns defended by the imperial army, which is wishful thinking. If a small group of Imperial soldiers held their positions, it was normal to repel the attack of a battalion of the Eighth Route Army. You must know that those who stayed in the counties and towns in southern Hebei were all the left-behind units of the elite divisions of the Kwantung Army, and although their numbers were small, their combat effectiveness was first-class, and the soldiers' "shooting" and shooting were very high, and they had guns. Tubalu is not afraid of death, just go.

Major General Kokurihara personally telegraphed to the Front Army Headquarters to report the situation and informed the Headquarters of the 22nd Division in Handan and the puppet Hebei Provincial Government in Baoding. At this point, Major General Kokurihara was still not at ease, and strictly ordered all units to enter the position and be ready to prevent a sneak attack by the Eighth Route Army.

At 1 o'clock in the evening, Major General Kurihara, who was sleeping soundly, was awakened by the sound of artillery. As soon as he got up, the chief of staff ran in a panic to report that the main force of the Eighth Route Army had begun to attack Shimen.

Kokurihara looked at the panicked appearance of the chief of staff, disdainful in his heart, scolded Baga, stretched out his hand and slapped him, and drank: "What are you panicking about?" Isn't it your soldier's, and a burst of artillery can scare you like this? ”

The chief of staff covered his spicy face and reported in horror: "Your Excellency Commander, go and take a look, there are a lot of heavy artillery on Tuba Road!" ”

Since the Shijiazhuang garrison was organized into Shimen, it has not encountered the attack of the main force of the Eighth Route Army, and whether it is Kokuribara, or his chief of staff, they are still accustomed to calling the Eighth Route Army Chengtu Eighth Road.

Major General Kokurihara's office and bedroom are on the second floor, and you can see a little bit of the shelling of the Eighth Route Army through the window.

At this time, the headquarters of the Japanese garrison in Shijiazhuang was already making a lot of telephony, and Kokurihara knew that it was the major teams that had reported that they had been attacked and asked for tactical guidance.

Kokurihara was not in a hurry, put on his military uniform, brought a pistol and a command knife, took off the binoculars hanging on the wall, and led the chief of staff to the roof of the building to observe carefully. At this sight, Major General Kokurihara gasped: I saw that the sky above the cloud disk in the north was reflected red by the artillery fire of the Eighth Route Army, the sky in the south was also red, and the east side of Shimen was even more amazing, as if there were two or three hundred cannons of various kinds roaring, and groups of cannonballs, clusters, and strings of shells swept across the night sky, as brilliant as a meteor shower, and smashed into the defenders' positions.

Kokurihara and the chief of staff no longer had the intention of observing, so they crawled downstairs and went to the office to grab the words "Moxie" and "Moxi" and shouted out.

At the same time as the large-scale artillery bombardment of the artillery group began, the assault group of the Eighth Route Army began to attack. At this time, there was no longer any problem of concealment, and the Tanyak, armored vehicles, automobiles, and motorcycles of the 1st Brigade all turned on their headlights and galloped towards Shimen from the starting position five or six miles away.

The earth is shaking, and the Milky Way of headlights is flowing happily!

Zhao Dahe, the commander of the armored regiment of the Eighth Route Army, wore a steel helmet, and his half-body body was "exposed" outside the turret, his eyes looked straight ahead, and he kept issuing orders through the car radio to command the assault of the command.

The medium-sized Tanyak battalion and the two light Tanyak battalions formed a fan-shaped attack formation and pushed towards the Japanese defensive line. Behind Tanyak were armored vehicles of the Armored Regiment, the First Regiment, and the Second Regiment, and behind them were cars equipped with protective steel plates, forming a torrent of steel and spilling towards the outlying positions of the Japanese army.

How could such an attack wave be blocked by the Shijiazhuang garrison that was on a garrison mission?

Major General Kokurihara's heart is like a lead block, and it keeps sinking and sinking!

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