However, it was always impossible to grasp the specific situation of each cavalry unit, which also gave Okamura Ninji an ominous premonition, and always felt that the cavalry would encounter any danger if the troops were roundabout.

After all, their opponent was Qiao Youhua, who was known for his cunning and bravery, and in just over three years, he created an anti-Japanese iron army that shook North China and shook the entire Japanese Empire.

In the past few days of playing, Okamura Ningji can be said to have personally understood the soldiers of the Dragon's Tooth Column, and Qiao Youhua's veteran way of using soldiers.

has a clearer understanding of Qiao Youhua, and understands that it is no accident that this person can be born in just three years and become a big trouble for the empire.

In his heart, Okamura Ninji even regarded Qiao Youhua as the most powerful opponent in his life.

After thinking about it, Okamura still sent a group of reconnaissance planes to the airspace where the Japanese cavalry of the Longya Column base area might be active, and went to reconnoitre.

However, when the reconnaissance planes of this era were used to find some cavalry units with a size of less than 1,000 people, they had to always be on guard against the anti-aircraft fire network that might appear on the ground, and they did not dare to lower their flight altitudes.

Sure enough, two days later, Okamura Ninji finally got the bad news that he didn't expect and was very surprised, it was from a cavalry brigade equipped with a radio among the 20,000 roundabout cavalry.

They were surrounded by tanks, armored vehicles, and mechanized infantry of the Dragon's Tooth Column, and requested urgent tactical guidance and air support.

Okamura Ninji hurriedly sent the air force to support, but it was still to no avail, and on the plains, once the cavalry was surrounded by tank armored clusters and mechanized infantry groups, there was only one result, that is, the total army was annihilated.

Because the two sides are not opponents at the same level at all, in the face of the assault cluster composed of steel torrents and dense bullet rain, after all, they are just flesh and blood devil cavalry, and even men and horses have been beaten into blood sieves.

By the time the air force fighter group sent by Okamura Ninji arrived, the Japanese cavalry had been completely wiped out on the spot by the tank armored group, mechanized infantry, and other ground troops of the Dragon's Tooth and Dragon's Tooth Column, and not a single person survived and fled.

During this period of time, the people in the base areas who were deeply poisoned by the devils began to clean up the battlefield after the battle ended and the Japanese fighters returned.

The dead horses were cleaned up and brought home by the soldiers and civilians in the base area as meat.

When Okamura Ninji learned that the air force had returned to support the fighter group and said that he could not find his ground targets, this old devil was not willing to give up such a cavalry unit of his own side, so he sent reconnaissance planes to that airspace to conduct low-altitude reconnaissance.

When the devil reconnaissance plane flew to the battlefield, it naturally found a striking font on the ground with the corpse of the devil who had been stripped naked.

The scouts were shocked and immediately reported the situation back to the North China Front Headquarters via guò.

After Okamura Ninji learned the news, Rao is strength was not bad, and he couldn't help but be angry, his face was pale, and his body was secretly trembling, however, Okamura Ninji and Iizawa Mamoru and others didn't know that this was just the beginning.

In the following three days, they received several urgent telegrams for help from the roundabout cavalry units, without exception, and by the time the Devil Air Force fighter group arrived, the battle on the ground was basically over.

As a result, all the Japanese troops were annihilated, and the men and horses were lost.

On 18 September, the Dragon's Tooth Column had suspended its offensive on the front-line battlefields of Bazhou and Zhuozhou, because Qiao Youhua learned that in the past week, the soldiers and civilians in the base area had continuously annihilated nearly 20,000 Japanese cavalry, and had won a lot.

Now in the base area of the Dragon's Tooth Column, only a few remnants of the devil's defeated army are left to flee for their lives everywhere, hiding from the search and suppression of the Dragon's Tooth army and civilians.

In view of this, Qiao Youhua had already ordered the tank armored brigade and guard regiment to immediately go north and return to the front line in Bazhou, leaving only the tank regiments of the 2nd Division and the 1st Division to continue to encircle and suppress the remnants of the devil cavalry in the base area with the assistance of the militia, civilians and other garrison troops in the base area.

After the continuous onslaught of the past week, although it caused a lot of casualties and material consumption to the devil's defending troops, the dragon's tooth column itself suffered quite a lot of casualties, and the soldiers were very tired physically and mentally.

There was an urgent need to rest, so Qiao Youhua ordered the troops to suspend the attack, wait for the tank armored brigade and the guard regiment to be rebuilt, and then concentrate all their forces to launch the final onslaught on Bazhou City with full spirit and body.

Strive to take the Bazhou in one fell swoop.

…………

Beiping City, the headquarters of the North China Front of the Japanese invasion of China.

Okamura Ninji had already understood that the 20,000 cavalry of the Kwantung Army he sent out had probably been wiped out, because all the cavalry units carrying the radio were currently uncontactable.

The people who carried the radio were still the elite main forces of each wing, and they were still discovered and annihilated by the Dragon's Tooth Column, not to mention the other roundabout cavalry units that were not equipped with radio stations?

"Our roundabout troops have suffered such heavy losses, and the next branch of the army may take advantage of the victory to launch a final onslaught on our forward defense, and the situation is worrying." Iizawa Mamoru said to Okamura Ninji.

He was originally very optimistic about Okamura Ningji's plan, but he didn't expect that the first two steps were heavily defeated, first Zhuozhou, and the night raid organized by the Bazhou garrison failed miserably, losing thousands of valuable imperial elites.

Immediately afterwards, the 20,000 cavalry of the Kwantung Army went deep behind the enemy and carried out tactical roundabout mobile operations, which were also easily broken by the Dragon's Tooth Column, and the 20,000 cavalry were lost.

Today, Bashu is already in jeopardy, and Mamoru Iizawa has begun to have some confidence in Okamura Ninji's strategic roundabout raid plan, and he is a little less confident and has a skeptical attitude.

Therefore, after the communications staff officer reported the results of the battle, he immediately added the above paragraph.

Okamura Ninji looked up at Mamoru Iizawa with a gloomy face and asked, "Have the local reinforcements arrived?" ”

"I have already departed by boat from Kyushu Island, and I can reach Tianjin Port in three days at most, and I can reach the front line in Bazhou on five days." Mamoru Iizawa replied.

"It's too late, it's too late." Okamura Ninji muttered to himself when he heard this, and began to pace back and forth with his hands behind his back, and suddenly, he stopped, turned around and said to Mamoru Iizawa in a fierce voice: "Now that our cavalry roundabout troops have been completely annihilated, the tank armor and mechanized infantry groups transferred south by the Shina Army can go north again and participate in the attack.

The Chinese army in Bazhou and Zhuozhou suddenly stopped attacking today, I think they should be waiting for their arrival, and by the way, they can recharge their strength so that they can deal a fatal blow to the imperial army.

At the latest, tomorrow, Bazhou will definitely be attacked by the fierce general attack of the Chinese army, and for now, we can only implement the strategic surprise plan in advance. ”