After getting the reward, Qiao Youhua was obviously a little surprised, at this juncture, the devil actually took the initiative to retreat and gave up the Liaocheng area? In this way, there is only one explanation, and that is that the devil has made up his mind to shrink his forces.

Thinking of this, Qiao Youhua immediately took off the raincoat and hat on his head, turned his head to Zheng Yunshan, Li Yansan and others and commanded loudly: "Without further ado, pass on my order, all troops give up the covert march and advance to Liaocheng at full speed!" ”

Zheng Yunshan was a little worried: "Commander, could this be a little devil playing a trick on us, right?" ”

Qiao Youhua muttered: "It's not impossible, but right now, I hope that the devil is playing a trick on us, rather than really escaping!" Because with the Japanese army in Liaocheng and Jinan, if you do this, it is purely self-sufficient! ”

Qiao Youhua's subordinates now have more than 5,000 infantry and an anti-aircraft artillery battalion, even against 10,000 Japanese troops, they will not frown, and according to the current situation of the Japanese army in North China.

It is obviously impossible for the devils in Liaocheng and the south bank of the Yellow River to mobilize 10,000 Japanese troops to fight in such a short period of time.

As a matter of fact, the situation in Shandong was similar to that in Shanxi, and due to the continuous development and growth of the anti-Japanese armed forces led by all sides, the pressure on the Japanese army was increasing, and Jinan and other places could only send at most 3,000 Japanese troops north to cross the Yellow River for reinforcements.

And these troops, in the face of the dragon's tooth column that is now in full swing, is tantamount to a drop in the bucket.

Seeing that Qiao Youhua was so confident, Zheng Yunshan and the others no longer hesitated, and turned around one after another to take the order.

The various dragon tooth columns, which had been out day and night to hide the traces of the march as much as possible, immediately accelerated their march after receiving the order.

Without restraints, their marching speed was faster than the other, and in just a few hours, they rushed to the area twenty miles northwest of Liaocheng one after another.

In the middle of Liaocheng to Dezhou and more than a dozen large and small counties and towns, because of the withdrawal of the devils and the shrinking strength of the puppet army, they were easily recovered by the dragon tooth column one after another, without spending a single shot.

At this time, there were about five or six thousand puppet troops in Liaocheng City, and they had already received the news, and they all boarded the city wall and defensive positions outside the city, and made defensive arrangements.

The muddy road caused by the rainy day still had a great impact on the march of the Dragon's Tooth Column, not to mention the consumption of the body, and the soldiers were almost covered with all kinds of sludge and dirty.

When the vanguard of a dragon's tooth column led the way to a short distance outside the city, some puppet troops at the head of the city found a group of unkempt and muddy enemy troops outside the city. Why do they all look like flowers on Liaocheng Street? ”

Another small leader of the puppet army said: "It seems that the Japanese are also frightened, this group of people called Hanako-like Tubalu haven't even shown their faces, so they ran away one by one with their tails between their legs!" ”

"Just such a group of dirt roads, and they also want to capture Liaocheng, where thousands of our brothers are stationed? What a joke! Ha ha! The leader of the puppet army laughed out loud with disdain.

The other puppet soldiers also laughed arrogantly.

Soon, a dragon tooth captain and company commander who led the team outside the city and the soldiers around him vaguely heard the laughter coming from the city.

Angry and sneered: "Hmph, these deflated calves, they dare to laugh at Lao Tzu, they will break the city later, and they will understand the power of my dragon tooth column, see if you still laugh." ”

The soldiers around him were even more angry, and a platoon commander asked: "Company commander, if you don't give the order, the brothers charge, promise to take the city wall, and let the grandsons on the city head taste our strength!" ”

Although the captain and company commander had this impulse, he was still overwhelmed by reason, glared at the platoon commander under his command and said: "Don't be stunned, you kid, we are not crazy enough to shake the defense line of thousands of puppet armies with the strength of one company, and it is still this kind of battle!" The battle is not so big. ”

"Then let these grandsons laugh at us?" The platoon commander glanced at the direction of the city wall, and he was unwilling.

The captain and company commander said: "Let them be chattering again, and our follow-up main forces will arrive one after another, and then we will clean them up well, now, a platoon of guards, and all the others will immediately dig fortifications on the spot!" ”

Several platoon commanders and squad leaders were indignant, but they still responded in unison and each received the order.

It didn't take long for Qiao Youhua, Wu Ming and others to rush to the outside of Liaocheng City with the main force.

After asking about the situation of the vanguard troops, Qiao Youhua didn't care at all about the ridicule of the puppet army at the head of the city, and said with a smile: "The more the enemy looks down on us, the more beneficial it will be for us. ”

"However, this group of puppet soldiers is arrogant enough, their masters, the Japanese devils, are terrified of us, even if they dare to laugh at our army, they should give them some color and teach them how to behave!" Wu Ming put down the telescope that had been looking at the head of the city and said.

Qiao Youhua smiled slightly and nodded, "It's necessary." After a pause, he turned his head to Ma Yunlong and said: "Yunlong, it's up to you, let these arrogant two devils see the power of our anti-aircraft artillery group!" ”

Ma Yunlong immediately stepped forward and said: "Yes, don't worry, Commander, I promise to complete the task!" ”

Soon, fifteen anti-aircraft guns lined up outside Liaocheng, first carrying out a grenade bombardment of the fortified defensive positions of the two devils outside the city, and then replacing them with high-explosive armor-piercing shells, aiming at the city walls and city gates and began to shoot directly.

Tom tom ...... A volley of shells whizzed and bombarded the walls, shattering them and littering them with fire and raging splinters of masonry and shrapnel.

They were also shocked by the sky-high artillery fire and explosion generated by the shelling of the position outside the city just now, and the puppet soldiers who had not returned to their senses suddenly stood unsteadily and fell on the city wall.

The sudden and fierce shelling blew up the two devils, who were still laughing at the Dragon's Tooth Column just now, and they were killed and wounded all over the ground, and some of them were afraid until they died before they realized how terrible the opponent they ridiculed was.

Only then did I understand why the Japanese invading army, which had always been arrogant and domineering, would withdraw from Liaocheng in a wolf, leaving them here to resist.

However, it was already too late, and after the shelling lasted for a few minutes, before the surviving puppet soldiers could come to their senses, the Dragon's Tooth infantry, who had been holding back their anger for a long time, immediately launched an attack on them.

The puppet army outside the city has long been intimidated by the powerful artillery fire of the dragon's tooth column, and they have no courage to resist anymore with heavy casualties.

Thus, the Dragon's Tooth Column was able to easily break through the enemy's defenses outside the city, and immediately after that, submachine guns were launched directly at the city gates and walls.