"Master! Division! The devils outside the city have retreated! At the headquarters of the Third Division, a captain officer walked in happily and loudly reported to Li Jupeng in the division headquarters.

Li Jupeng was a little surprised when he heard this, and glanced at Chief of Staff Wu Dingwen, and asked, "Are you sure that the devil really withdrew?" ”

"It's OK, the 114th Division in the east of the city has already retreated across the Huaihe Bridge, and the Sixth Division is also slowly retreating, and now the Huaihe Bridge is already crowded with devils!" The captain nodded in reply.

"Chief of Staff, what do you think?" Li Jupeng turned his head and asked.

Wu Dingwen pondered for a moment and said, "In my opinion, the reason why the devils retreated is probably because they noticed the actions of our army's reinforcements!" Of course, it is also possible that they were forced to retreat because of lack of ammunition, but the latter may be smaller, and the Sixth Division will never lose its offensive capability so quickly, even if it is undersupplied. ”

"Do you think we should pursue it?" Li Jupeng asked.

"If you pursue, it cannot be ruled out that this is the devil's trick to lure the enemy, but if the devil really wants to retreat, we will sit idly by and let them retreat smoothly, then we will lose a rare fighter!" Wu Dingwen analyzed.

Li Jupeng was also a little uncertain about paying attention, and immediately raised his head and instructed the captain officer: "You immediately send a telegram to the military seat in the name of the division headquarters, report the situation, and ask the military seat to decide whether we should pursue or not!" ”

"Yes!" The captain gladly answered, turned and walked out quickly.

…………………… Yingzhou, within the headquarters of the Fourth Division, has now become the temporary headquarters of Qiao Anbang.

"Military seat, the third division is in an emergency." Qiao Anbang had just returned from his tour of the city gate when a communications soldier greeted him with a telegram.

Qiao Anbang stretched out his hand to take the telegram and read it hurriedly, his face instantly became extremely heavy.

"Throne, what's wrong?" Yali on the side saw Qiao Anbang suddenly frowning, looking preoccupied, and asked with concern.

Qiao Anbang did not answer Yali, but walked straight to the house, and came to the map, Qiao Anbang frowned and stared at the map, at this time, the red arrow representing the Yue army and the blue arrow representing the tiger army on the map crossed vertically and horizontally, and the entire battlefield situation was clear on the map.

After pondering for a long time, Qiao Anbang muttered: "Fighting snakes does not die but suffers from them, since the Sixth Division takes the initiative to retreat, it is really a golden opportunity for the Tiger Army, as long as the Third Division can take the opportunity to defeat the Sixth Division and the 114th Division, it can threaten the flank of the main force of the Central China Army!" ”

After paying attention, Qiao Anbang Huo Ran raised his head and said in a solemn voice: "Correspondent, immediately call back to Li Jupeng and Wu Dingwen, and order them to immediately go out of the city to pursue, take advantage of the chaotic retreat of the army, strive to defeat them in one fell swoop, and I will send the air force to support them in the battle!" In addition, he sent a telegram to the commander of the Chu Division, asking him to speed up the march, and then sent a telegram to the third division and a regiment, and ordered Jiang Wei to rush to Huaiyuan, meet with the main force of the third division, and pursue together! ”

"Yes!" The signal soldier roared forward, saluted, and quickly turned to leave.

………………………… After receiving Qiao Anbang's order, Li Jupeng immediately ordered a pursuit, and for a while, thousands of soldiers of the Third Division in the city rushed out of the city with a roar and pursued in the direction of the devil's retreat.

"General, the people of China have gone out of the city to pursue!" Shimono Kazuho, who had already crossed the Huai River, hurriedly reported to the division commander Gu Shoufu.

"Blow up the Huai River Bridge immediately!" Gu Shoufu ordered in a cold voice.

"However, there are still two brigades of soldiers in our division that have not withdrawn!" Shimono Kazuho said with an embarrassed face.

"Baga, why haven't you withdrawn yet? Hurry up and urge the troops to cross the river as soon as possible! Gu Shoufu scolded urgently.

"Hay!" Shimono Yihuo bowed his head solemnly in response, and then hurriedly left, eagerly, wanting to withdraw nearly two thousand imperial troops, how could it be so easy, especially now, the [***] team on the other side has begun to pursue.

........................ "Brothers, rush! It's time for revenge, catch up and avenge your dead brother! "Outside Huaiyuan County, Li Jupeng has already rushed out of the city with the guard battalion, reconnaissance battalion and other troops directly under the division headquarters, and is making the final mobilization for his subordinates.

"Rush, kill, ............!!!" Thousands of Tiger Ben soldiers echoed in unison, and the next moment they turned around one after another, chasing towards the Huai River with the momentum of a tiger descending the mountain.

On the dirt road leading to the Huaihe Bridge in Huaiyuan County, nearly 2,000 devils are scrambling to retreat in a hurry, they are the troops left behind by Gu Shoufu, responsible for covering the retreat of the main force of the division.

Originally, retreating was a very demoralizing thing for the troops, especially when it was found that all the companions had withdrawn, Rao is well-trained devils must have panicked when they were being pursued, because they were also human beings, and they didn't want to die if they were human beings.

The most important thing is that the geographical location in front of them is relatively special, in front of them is the surging Huai River, if they can't retreat to the opposite bank as soon as possible, once their friendly forces blow up the Huai River bridge, then their palace troops will fall into the heavy encirclement of the [***] team.

Therefore, when the Tiger Ben Army launched a full-scale pursuit, all the devils hated their parents for having two legs less, and they rushed to leave their feet aside and desperately flee for their lives.

Soon, these more than 1,000 devils ran out of formation, and gradually retreated from retreat to rout.

When the devil soldiers withdrew to the north bank of the Huai River, everyone scrambled to cross the river first, but it was crowded because of the confusion and the mixing of people.

At this critical juncture, the crowding of the devils seriously slowed down their crossing of the river, and before nearly 2,000 devils had passed halfway, the pursuing troops of the third division followed.

Shimono Kazuho on the south bank was shocked when he saw this, and hurriedly ordered the engineer troops to blow up the bridge, but at this moment, a large number of Chinese fighters with blue sky and white emblems painted on their fuselages suddenly appeared in the sky.

When these planes arrived at the battlefield, they saw that the ground troops on the north bank were already engaged with the devils, and they resolutely swooped down towards the troops on the south bank.

Dozens of fighters and dive bombers violently strafed and dropped bombs, and the devil sappers on the bridge were immediately shot and fell to the ground in pieces.

Seeing that the bombing of the bridge could no longer be carried out, Shimono Kazuho immediately fled south with his guards.

After the retreat of Shimono Yihuo, the devil soldiers on the south bank also retreated, only more than 1,000 devils on the bridge were bitten by the tiger army, after a fierce battle, the third division easily annihilated it, and then under the cover of the air force, the heroes crossed the Huai River bridge with high spirits, and continued to pursue to the south.

………………………… In Fengyang County, Gu Shoufu led the main force of the Sixth Division to Fengyang County, at this time, the 114th Division had already arrived first, and took over the defense of Fengyang County, and Gu Shoufu's Sixth Division had to be stationed outside the city.

Outside the city, inside the temporary command post of the 6th Division.

Gu Shoufu was pacing back and forth with one hand, when suddenly, there was a chaotic sound of footsteps outside. Suddenly, the chief of staff, Shimono Yihuo, hurriedly walked in, and without waiting for Gu Shoufu to ask, he said with a ashamed face: "Your Excellency General, it's not good, the humble duty failed to prevent the Chinese Tiger Army from crossing the river, and now they have crossed the Huai River and are chasing this side." ”

"What? Why don't you destroy the bridge? Gu Shoufu was furious when he heard this, and shouted in confusion.

"Our engineering units were bombed and strafed at low altitudes by the air forces of the China, suffered heavy losses, and had no chance to blow up the bridge at all." Shimono Kazuho bowed his head and explained.

"Bagaya Road, immediately notify the 114th Division and prepare to block it!" Gu Shoufu roared angrily.

"Hay!" Shimono Yihuo bowed his head in response, and immediately turned to leave.

…………………………………… On the south bank of Huainan, the garrison of the division led by Li Jupeng also successfully passed the Huaihe Bridge and came to the south bank, and the main forces of its two infantry regiments had already pursued along the highway towards Fengyang County.

Looking at the familiar position on the south bank, Li Jupeng laughed excitedly and said: "Haha, Lao Tzu has finally returned to the south bank!" Ha ha! Command the troops, immediately advance to Fengyang! ”

At the same time, in the northwest direction of Huaiyuan, on the highway from Mengcheng to Huaiyuan, Jiang Wei led a regiment of 3,000 officers and soldiers to march rapidly along the highway.

Since receiving Qiao Anbang's order, Jiang Wei quickly gathered his troops and quickly marched towards Huaiyuan.

Not far behind Jiang Wei's regiment, Chu Jingming led the fourth division and the first regiment and the reconnaissance battalion to march towards Huaiyuan along the road, and he also received a telegram from Qiao Anbang.

Fortunately, Jiang Wei's troops and Chu Jingming's troops were equipped with military trucks, and the marching speed was much faster than on foot.

About two hours later, Jiang Wei's regiment had also crossed the Huai River and successfully joined the main force of the Third Division, and at the same time, Chu Jingming also rushed to Huaiyuan County with his troops.

Under Fengyang City, the third division encountered a strong resistance from the devils, and the two sides launched a tragic fight to the death.

Fortunately, the Third Division had the strong air fire support of the Air Force, and with the addition of Jiang Wei's regiment, a new force, the offensive became more and more fierce.

When Chu Jingming also led his troops to cross the Huai River and join the Third Division, Gu Shoufu took the initiative to issue an order to retreat in order to prevent the back road from being cut off.

The 3rd and 4th Divisions took advantage of the situation to launch a pursuit, and from Fengyang to Mingguang, the Yue army was chased and killed for dozens of kilometers like a duck by the Tiger Ben Army, with countless casualties.

In the end, the 3rd Division of the Tiger Ben and other units were forced to terminate the pursuit because of the exhaustion of ammunition, fuel, and the physical strength of the soldiers.

Although they failed to completely annihilate the 6th Division and other units, they inflicted heavy casualties on them, and the 6th Division and the 114th Division almost lost their baggage, completely losing the ability to attack.

(To be continued)