The northern foot of Taihang Mountain, the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army.

Mr. Peng, Chief of Staff Zuo, and Division Commander Liu also stayed up all night and were intensively paying attention to the progress of the war.

After a hurried breakfast, everyone gathered in front of the battle map, Mr. Peng patted the map, and said thoughtfully: "Okamura Ningji, this old devil is fishing, he wants to use Shimen as bait to fish Yue Weihan's 39th Group Army, and at the same time he wants to use the strongholds and turrets along the Pinghan Railway as bait to fish our Eighth Route Army. ”

Master Liu smiled slightly, and then said: "However, Yue Weiguo, Yue Weihan brothers, and Wang Madman, a few of them obviously want to eat Okamura Ningci's bait for nothing, and now it depends on who moves faster, however, Okamura Ningji is estimated to suffer a big loss this time, and Yue Weihan, this kid, has been drumming up a lot of good things recently." ”

"Oh?" Mr. Peng said happily, "What kind of good thing did this kid come up with?" ”

Master Liu said: "One is a bazooka, which can easily penetrate a 100mm homogeneous steel plate within 100 meters!" The other is a cannon without conscience, with a range of about 1,000 meters, but the lethality of the 'shotgun' fired is amazing, and the human and animal targets within 100 meters of the center of the explosion are either killed or injured, and no one is spared! ”

"Oh my god?" Mr. Peng said awe-inspiringly, "So powerful!?" ”

"And that's not the scariest thing." Division Commander Liu shook his head and said solemnly, "The most terrifying thing is that these two weapons are very lightweight, the weight of the bazooka plus the shell is only a dozen catties, and a single soldier can carry it, and the total weight of the unconscionable cannon plus the bracket is only about 100 catties, and any soldier can carry it over the mountains and mountains!" ”

"What?" Mr. Peng said in disbelief, "So light!?" ”

"Yes." Division Commander Liu nodded, and said with some emotion, "Yue Weihan's Taihang Arsenal has gathered a large number of weapons experts, and the chief engineer is still a double doctor, so he designed these two extremely powerful and lightweight infantry support weapons, with these two weapons, the firepower of the 39th Group Army will be greatly strengthened." ”

"It's a pity." Mr. Peng suddenly said with some regret, "These good things are not ours." ”

"Boss." Division Commander Liu smiled and said, "Yue Weihan just supported the 129th Division and 50 bazookas of the Southern Hebei Military Region!" ”

"And this!?" Mr. Peng immediately grinned when he heard this, and then said with a wrenched face: "I said that Yue Weiguo, Wang Luozi, how did they become so tacit in cooperation with the 39th Group Army, dare to be religious, it is the benefit of Yue Weihan, no, this is absolutely not good, when the battle is over, these 50 bazookas must be handed over!" ”

"Boss, this is not a seizure." Staff Officer Zuo hurriedly said, "It's exempt if you turn it in, right?" ”

"That's not going to happen." Mr. Peng said unrelentingly, "Yue Weiguo, Wang Madman, these muddy boys, together with Yue Weihan, played my old Peng like a monkey for two nights, don't you have to give some compensation?" If you are not willing to hand it over, then let Yue Weihan support another 50 bazookas, and this ideological work will be done by you, Lao Liu. ”

"Okay." Senior Commander Liu smiled and said, "When this battle is over, I'll go tell Yue Weihan." ”

The chief of staff of the left next to him could only shake his head and smile bitterly, this battle has just begun, but the boss and division commander Liu seem to have already judged the army to lose, this is not an exercise, Okamura Ningji is not a good stubble, not to mention that the puppet coalition army has an absolute advantage in terms of strength and firepower, and the outcome is still difficult to predict.

………… Yucheng, General Staff of the Military Commission.

In the spacious and bright war room, a large group of combat staff officers were busy on the sand table.

Chairman Chiang stood gloomily on the edge of the simulated sand table, and beside Chairman Chiang, there were also senior party-state generals such as General Chief He, Deputy Chief Bai, and General Chen, and the atmosphere in the war room was very depressing, and the mood of the senior generals present was all affected by Chairman Chiang, which was depressed and heavy.

"Yue Weihan, this kid!" Deputy Chief Bai shook his head and said with a wry smile, "We were all tricked by him!" ”

"It's just us!" Chairman Jiang turned his head and glanced coldly at Director Dai, who was standing in the corner, and said angrily, "Even the Yan'an side and the Yueben side have been tricked by him." ”

"What does this kid Yue Weihan want to do?" Admiral Chen said gloomily, "The commission asked him to purge the communists, but this kid directed a good scene of mutiny, what does he mean by this?" Want to join forces with [***] to deal with the Yue Army? Didn't he draw the attention of the army to the national political axe? ”

Recently, the political axe has continued to strengthen the political propaganda of the national political axe.

He had proposed more than once that he would negotiate with the Kuomintang, but the preconditions had never changed, that is, Chairman Chiang must step down and Yue Weihan must go to a military court.

On the premise that the army was unable to continue to launch a frontal offensive, Chairman Chiang was even willing to cooperate with the Eighth Route Army himself to weaken the strength of the Eighth Route Army; for Chairman Chiang, both the Eighth Route Army and the Eighth Route Army and himself were threats, and sooner or later they must be resolved, and if the Eighth Route Army and Yue himself could be defeated, it would naturally be the best result.

However, Yue Weihan's actions undermined this tacit understanding.

Moreover, Chairman Jiang still has deeper worries in his heart, does Yue Weihan be able to cooperate with the Eighth Route Army so tacitly, does it mean that the relationship between the two is already very deep? Thinking that Yue Weihan's 39th Group Army might switch to the camp of [***], Chairman Jiang suddenly felt a shudder, such a result was really bad and terrible!

Admiral Chen seemed to see Chairman Jiang's worries, and said in a dark voice: "However, Yue Weihan was clever this time and put his troops out of Jingcheng Pass to attack Shimen, but he fell for Okamura Ningji's trick to lure the snake out of the hole, and Okamura Ningci obviously wanted to use Shimen as bait to stage a good show of 'encircling on all sides and blooming in the center', and the 39th Group Army will definitely be finished this time." ”

"And the Eighth Route Army." Deputy Chief Bai also said, "I'm afraid the Eighth Route Army will also suffer heavy losses this time." ”

"Not necessarily." Chairman Jiang is not so optimistic, Yue Weihan, this kid, has created fewer miracles since he was born in Baoshan County? Did he win fewer battles that seemed impossible to win? Whether it was the Battle of Jiangpu, the Battle of Xuzhou, or the Battle of Shimen, he was in danger that time, but every time he won!

This time, Okamura Ninji seems to have a chance to win, but it's hard to say what the outcome will be, so let's wait and see.

………… Eastern suburbs of Beiping, Cuimingzhuang.

At six o'clock in the morning, Okamura Ninji got up on time, ate hastily and went straight to the war room.

In the war room, Major General Hirata was already in a hurry, and when he saw Okamura Ningji, he quickly put his feet away.

Okamura Ninji waved his hand, took off his white gloves and handed them to the attendant adjutant behind him, and asked, "Hirata-kun, how was the battle last night?" No surprises, right? ”

"Hello." Hirata Masaki bowed his head abruptly and said, "The situation is basically normal. ”

After saying this, Hirata Masashi said: "At five o'clock in the morning, Yue Weihan's 39th Group Army launched a general attack on Shimen, but it was attacked head-on by the 112th Infantry Wing of the 28th Division, and the attack was seriously frustrated, however, the six patrols sent by the 3rd Brigade of Reading Power Mixed Group last night all lost contact!" ”

"All six patrols have lost contact!?" Okamura Ningji frowned and said, "That's weird, can the Eighth Route Army still eat our chariots and radios?" ”

Hirata could only shake his head silently, and he was also puzzled.

The equipment of the Tuba Road is extremely poor, and it is okay to use the terrain to fight ambushes, but the Pinghan Railway is all plain terrain, and the patrols sent out by the Yoshizawa Brigade are all motorized infantry squadrons, with combat vehicles and armored vehicles.

Okamura Ninji said: "Order the reconnaissance aircraft brigade at Shimen Airport to immediately take off for reconnaissance!" ”

Hirata said busily: "Your Excellency, the four flying groups at Shimen Airport have all been lifted into the air. ”

After saying this, Hirata Masashi said: "Before launching the general attack, a certain unit of the 39th Group Army first launched an attack on the Okhor Village Airport, but was repelled by the infantry brigade of the 28th Division to assist in the defense of the airport, and the Odor Village Airport was safe and sound, and the four flying groups stationed at the airport all took off safely after refueling and loading bombs......

Before the words fell, Major General Tokugawa Yoshitoshi, commander of the aviation regiment directly under the North China Front, suddenly walked in, and immediately retracted his feet and said to Okamura Ninji angrily: "Your Excellency Commander, the 28th Division is not well defended, allowing the Chinese Army to break through to the airport, and all the four flying groups of our regiment stationed in Shimen have been severely damaged......

"Huh?" Okamura Ninji said awe-inspiringly, "The four flying groups have all been hit hard!?" ”

"Tokugawa-kun, this can't be!" Hirata said urgently, "Except for two of the four flight groups stationed at the Dakoku Village Airport, which crashed due to mechanical problems, haven't the rest all been safely lifted into the air? ”

"It's a liftoff, but it's not safe!" Tokugawa Yoshitoshi said with great sadness, "Toshio Yauchi of the 4th Flying Regiment reported that the plane had actually been heavily damaged before it took off, but they didn't know it at the time, and they didn't realize that it was wrong until they carried out a dive-strafing and bombing on a ground target. ”

Okamura Ninji frowned and said, "What is the specific situation?" ”

Tokugawa Yoshitoshi said: "Yauchi-kun reported to me before the disintegration of the fighter plane that the body and wings of his landline plane were covered with dense bullet marks, although these bullet marks were small in area, but they were huge, which had seriously damaged the aerodynamic layout of the airplane and the structural strength of the airframe. ”

Okamura Ninji frowned and pondered for a moment, then suddenly asked, "Tokugawa-kun, have all the planes crashed?" ”

Tokugawa Yoshitoshi said miserably: "Only two reconnaissance planes survived, and now they have made a forced landing at Baoding Airport. ”

"Immediately send technicians to Baoding Airport to thoroughly investigate the exact cause of the plane crash!" Okamura Ninji said this, and then said to Tokugawa Yoshitoshi, "Order that the air forces stationed in Beiping, Tianjin, Baoding, and Jinan immediately take off to provide air support to the 28th Division in Shimen, and at the same time find out the latest situation along the Pinghan Railway!" ”

"Hello." Tokugawa Yoshitoshi bowed his head suddenly, and then turned around and walked away.

Seeing Tokugawa Yoshitoshi leave, Okamura Ninji suddenly became worried, and the progress of this contest seemed to have gradually deviated from his expectations!

(To be continued)