Qiao Youhua's order was soon telephoned and transmitted to the positions outside the command post.

The artillerymen were the first to open fire, and the biggest movement was the 50 flying thunder guns that advanced 500 meters.

The unconscionable cannon, with a caliber of more than two hundred millimeters, roared one after another almost at the same time. In the darkness, bundles of explosives turned into shells, dragging scarlet flames, whistling towards the enemy positions opposite.

Behind the flying thunder cannons, the other artillerymen of the Dragon's Tooth unit also opened fire, and the artillery of various calibers successively turned a shell into a hot and dazzling fire ball, which suddenly shot out, piercing and illuminating the dark night sky, and smashed towards the enemy position.

The puppet Manchurian army that was guarding the forefront with heavy losses, and the puppet troops in the trenches were all alarmed by the sudden whistling, and they all looked up and got up, just in time to see the amazing scene.

Countless balls of fire flew rapidly in the night sky.

The next moment, it smashed down on their position like a meteor.

Suddenly, a series of violent explosions burst out in the position of the puppet army, and countless fires rose up with thick smoke, straight into the night sky.

Boom, boom! Boom Boom! The continuous explosions soon covered the positions of the devils and the puppet army, especially the bombardment of the fifty flying thunder cannons.

When a "cannonball" goes down, ordinary civil engineering fortifications cannot withstand its blast wave, and all of them are turned into powder.

After two volleys, the puppet army's position was already in a sea of fire, and there were corpses and severed limbs and severed arms of the puppet army that had been blown apart everywhere.

Near the headquarters of the Japanese army, Anda Twenty-three and Nakakurume had just gone their separate ways, and each returned to the military tent to rest, tossing and turning for most of the night, they were both physically and mentally exhausted.

Many devil soldiers are also like them, and it can be said that they are sleepy at this time.

But at this moment, the south suddenly burst into fire, and the sound shook the heavens and the earth.

A group of high-ranking Japanese officers, including the two of them, ran out of the military tent in surprise and looked south, only to see scarlet and dazzling fires rising from the night sky.

The entire forward position seems to be already a sea of fire.

The dense and violent explosion made them clearly feel the ground trembling under their feet from time to time, even three kilometers away.

"Bagaya Road, damn dragon tooth column, it's really going to pick a time to sneak attack!" Nakakurume was gritting his teeth and cursing, and Anda Twenty-Three led a group of high-ranking officers and hurriedly walked over.

"Zhongjiujun, it seems that the people of China plan to attack us at night, but the damnifying thing is that their artillery fire is so fierce, could it be that their reinforcements have arrived?" Anda Twenty-Three said with a frown as he walked over.

Nakakurume was angry with his whole family, and said secretly, how the do I know what to do? On the surface, he still tried his best to remain calm and said: "The top priority at the moment can only order all troops to immediately prepare for defense, first resist the enemy's possible attack, and wait until dawn tomorrow to make plans."

You can't retreat now, the enemy situation is unknown at night, and once you retreat, the army's morale will be unstable, and it is very likely to turn into a rout! ”

"Well, that makes sense, I'll arrange it." Anda Twenty-Three nodded and finished speaking, turned around and left.

It's just that before they could make specific arrangements, when most of the devil soldiers were still in a panic, the three salvos of the flying thunder cannon had ended, and the entire puppet army's position was blown to pieces, with extremely heavy casualties.

Nearly 10,000 officers and men of the Dragon's Tooth suddenly launched a large-scale charge from a position several hundred meters wide.

Come on! Kill! Under the light of the fire, tens of thousands of soldiers let out a roar like a tsunami, and groups of guns, jumped out of their trenches one after another, and rushed forward without hesitation.

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It has been blown up by heavy artillery fire, and the puppet army, which has more than half of the casualties, can withstand the fierce charge of the wolf-like dragon's tooth column.

As soon as the two sides made contact, the attacking Dragon's Tooth Column fired a volley of fire, and the puppet army, which had suffered heavy casualties, turned around and fled north along the scarred and fragmented position.

The puppet army collapsed so quickly that it didn't even have a chance for the main force of the Japanese army behind to make a timely response.

Tens of thousands of dragon's tooth infantry almost grabbed the butt of the puppet army and rushed directly to the position that the devil was responsible for.

Because of the impact of the puppet army and some of his own soldiers, the devil's resistance fell into a dilemma.

At this moment, Liu Jianhua and Zhao Tiezhu also led the tank battalion and the cavalry battalion to kill one after another.

Under the cover of the fire of the tank group and the cooperation of the cavalry charge, the main infantry took advantage of the chaos to break through the defense line of the devils and entered their positions.

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When the Battle of Dingzhou was in full swing, the North China Front Army Headquarters.

Sugiyama Yuan, who had already received an urgent report from the 1st Division, was furious at the moment, first Cangzhou was lost, and the headquarters of the Eastern Front Corps was wiped out, and now the commander of the Western Front Corps, the commander of the 1st Division, the imperial fierce general Isamu Yokoyama, was also attacked and killed.

In less than two days, such an astonishing change occurred in the originally good encirclement and suppression situation, which made Sugiyama Moto, who was full of ambition and thought that victory would come soon, as if he had fallen from the clouds to the bottom in an instant.

The huge contrast is simply unacceptable.

"Bastards, just a bunch of stupid pigs, so careless." Sugiyama Gen's anger is hard to quench and Ma Lianlian.

On the side of the river, Zhengsan had to persuade stubbornly: "General, when the top priority is not to say this, let's still think about how to rebuild the headquarters of the eastern and western corps, without a unified command, hundreds of thousands of imperial troops and imperial alliance troops will be leaderless and fall into chaos."

Sooner or later it will be defeated by the enemy. At that time, our encirclement and suppression operation, which has cost countless financial and material resources, will fall short again. ”、

Sugiyama Moto, then calmed down, but before the old devil issued a new order to rebuild the headquarters of the two major corps.

Another devil's senior communications staff officer, holding a telegram in his hand, ran in from outside with a panicked expression, and saluted Sugiyama Moto: "Your Excellency, the big thing is not good, General Nakakurume, chief of staff of the 1st Division of the Western Front Corps, has just sent an urgent telegram.

They were subjected to a large-scale night attack by the Chinese people, and the troops suffered very heavy losses, and now they have lost all their defensive positions in Dingzhou and are forced to withdraw to the area around Baoding.

The enemy is still in pursuit! ”、

"What? How so? Sugiyama Yuan was extremely shocked, he couldn't figure it out, the strength of the troops was at least ten times more than ten times that of the Dingzhou defenders, how could the Western Front Corps be defeated so lightly.

The senior staff officer of the devil lowered his head and said: "Because the Imperial Allied Army fled without a fight, but instead disrupted the imperial army's own defensive position, the people of China took the opportunity to charge with fierce firepower, tanks, and cavalry.

The imperial army was defeated and had to retreat backwards, which caused a chain reaction, although many imperial troops did not know what was going on in the dark night, and there was no unified command of the headquarters, so they turned around and retreated.

Therefore our army was defeated. ”、

Sugiyama's breathing was heavy, his face was pale, and he didn't speak for a long time.

It wasn't until Kawabe Shozo noticed that something was wrong and stepped forward to ask, "General, Your Excellency General, what's wrong with you?" ”

Sugiyama Moto didn't react, and the river was taken aback, and hurriedly stepped forward to find that Sugiyama Moto's breathing was unexpected.

It turned out that this old devil suffered blows one after another, and suddenly heard that the Western Front Corps was defeated, and he was in a hurry, and his old illness relapsed, and he died on the spot.

In the end, Kawabe Shozo was also a little confused, and sent a telegram to An Da 23, the commander of the 26th Division, asking him to temporarily serve as the commander of the Western Front Corps.

He was fully responsible for commanding the corps of the Western Front, and first temporarily returned to Baoding before making plans, and he urgently sent a telegram to the base camp in Tokyo, reporting the news of the battle in northern China and the unexpected death of Sugiyama Moto.

Not to mention the reaction of the devil's base camp for the time being, on the battlefield of Dingzhou, Anda 23 because the troops have been defeated, all divisions and the Imperial Association Army are scrambling to Baoding and retreat. 、

The Dragon's Tooth Column in the back pursued and killed, and in the chaos, it was impossible to effectively contact the 1st Division and other troops to organize an effective blockade.

Therefore, they had been chased by the Dragon's Tooth Column from 1 a.m. to 5 a.m., although Anda 23 and Nakakurume, who were at the forefront in the end, successfully escaped back to Baoding with their division headquarters and staff headquarters.

However, the two divisions plus 50,000 puppet troops and more than 100,000 troops, overnight, lost 40,000 or 50,000 people, the losses of the Japanese army were not much, mainly the puppet army, the dead and wounded, and more people were deserters in the chaos, or were captured by the dragon's tooth column.

In the end, the battle ended, and there were only more than 38,000 devils left who successfully returned to Baoding, and there were still seven or eight people left in the puppet army.

Although the devils did not lose much of their troops, they lost all the grain, grass, ammunition, baggage, military trucks and other vehicles, as well as various artillery and other heavy weapons.

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There was already no material reserves, coupled with the negative pessimism that the previous attack was not going well and the losses had accumulated heavily, all of a sudden broke out, and the morale of the Japanese army was extremely low.

It can be said that there is no fighting spirit at all.

On the side of the Dragon's Tooth Column, after a night of fierce pursuit and fierce fighting, although it was very tired, it captured a great deal, not only captured more than 20,000 puppet army prisoners, but also seized hundreds of thousands of weapons, equipment, ammunition, food, vehicles, and a large number of military supplies. 、

The First World War completely reversed the situation on the battlefield, and the Dragon Tooth Regiment, with the cooperation of the tank regiment, successfully regained the key point of Ranzhuang Town again.

The soldiers pointed directly at the important town of Baoding.

However, Qiao Youhua also understood that although he had won a big victory this time, he could not continue to attack Baoding north for the time being, and the strength of the Japanese army in Baoding City still existed was a reason.

The main reason is that the defenders of Dingzhou have been fighting for several days in a row, and after last night's night attack and pursuit battle, they are really sleepy and tired, and they urgently need to rest.

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