Zhao Zhi has already come to North China, and he has also brought more than a thousand elite mercenary squads, coupled with more than 10,000 armed forces after the rapid expansion of the Spark Force, the situation in the entire North China has begun to change subtly, and this is just the beginning. In the two days after that day, not only were dozens of Japanese puppet army strongholds in Hebei attacked by premeditated destruction, but hundreds of puppet officials who had been forced to work for the Japanese army suddenly announced their defection to the Nationalist Government, and all of these people without exception took away a lot of intelligence and materials related to the Japanese army.

The first shot had been fired, and it was fought beautifully, and the Japanese army in North China had to divert their attention and focus on the Tubalu guerrillas. But what happened next made the Japanese army in Hebei very puzzled, because Tubalu, which had been using guerrilla tactics to fight, suddenly went south to gather heavy troops to besiege Xingtai, and there was a great momentum to take Xingtai in one fell swoop.

Xingtai was besieged, and the worst thing was the headquarters of the Japanese army in North China, and the headquarters of the front army had already issued more than a dozen orders within two days, the content of which was nothing more than accusations of the low ability of the Japanese army in North China. Okamura Ninji, commander of the Japanese army in North China, was also criticized from the mainland, and if it were not for the remarkable effect of his implementation of the "three noes" policy in the early stage of the North China Theater, I am afraid that even the Japanese emperor in the imperial palace would have sent an order.

Okamura Ninji disdained the accountability sent by the front army headquarters, and the siege of Xingtai was obviously the usual encirclement point of the Shina people to send reinforcements, as long as several Japanese assembly points around Shijiazhuang and Xingtai sent reinforcements, then these places that sent reinforcements and appeared to be relatively empty of troops would definitely be attacked by the Shina troops. Okamura Ningji, who had been fighting with the Eighth Route Army in North China, was very familiar with this set of tricks of the Chinese army, and he would not make such a low-level mistake for the sake of losing Xingtai, which was destined to be lost.

The special high class has found out that Zhao Zhi, the commander of Thunder, has secretly infiltrated Hebei, and since he knows that Zhao Zhi has come to Hebei, there is no need for Okamura Ningji to send reinforcements to support Xingtai, because it is very likely that Zhao Zhi is the one who commanded the siege of Xingtai. Zhao Zhi is a scheming man, several elite permanent divisions of the empire have suffered defeats under him, Okamura Ninji is arrogant, but he is not arrogant enough to think that the troops under his command can defeat the Fifth Division or Yamashita Fengfumi's 25th Army. After careful consideration, Okamura Ningji ordered the troops, but the direction of the troops was not Xingtai but Yangquan, Okamura Ningji planned to play a trick with Zhao Zhi to encircle Wei and save Zhao, and he wanted to lead Zhao Zhi's nose.

"Sir, the Japanese army has moved, but it's not Xingtai, it's Yangquan." Shijiazhuang has always been the place of Zhao Zhi and Liu Yi, and all the information about Shijiazhuang must be sent to Zhao Zhi as soon as possible, but this time the direction of the Japanese army's action even Zhao Zhi was a little confused. Yangquan belongs to Shanxi, and it is the closest place to Hebei, and the Japanese puppet army in Shijiazhuang did not come to support Xingtai but went to Yangquan, what is the old devil Okamura Ningci doing?

After pacing back and forth a few times, Zhao Zhile, who had figured it out, saw that the old guy Okamura Ningji was surrounded by a trap at all, and people wanted to lead their noses and stop playing trap games with themselves. Since you are not coming, there is no need for Xingtai to continue to stay, "Fight, order the troops to attack the city, and bring Xingtai down to me." "Zhao Zhi is never polite, especially to the Japanese army, the Japanese army does not want Xingtai, then he will take it over and hand it over to the national government, and the captured weapons, ammunition and materials are better used to supplement his troops.

After several days of siege and non-fighting, the besieging troops had already held back the fire in their stomachs, and the order to attack on Zhao Zhi's side was transmitted to the front enemy headquarters, and the artillery positions that had long been unable to wait opened fire. Although Zhao Zhi took most of the long-range firepower in his hands to deal with the Japanese reinforcements, no less than 20 infantry guns and mortars of various calibers were left outside Xingtai City, and in less than ten minutes, Zhao Zhi's artillery smashed more than 100 shells into the defense line of the Japanese puppet army in Xingtai.

The artillery under Zhao Zhi is not elite artillery in the real sense, they can just shoot shells and hit the positions of the Japanese puppet army in Xingtai, but this is enough, Zhao Zhi doesn't need them to be more accurate, what he needs is to use artillery bombardment to suppress the Japanese puppet army. The hundreds of mercenary snipers under Ye Kong had already quietly entered the firing position, and they were sure that half of the heavy firepower weapons of the Xingtai Japanese puppet army would be out of control at the first time.

Don't face the enemy's strong firepower to intercept the charge, this is the lesson that Zhao Zhi taught to the Tinder troops in the Geyue Mountain training camp, leaving a useful body to kill the enemy to the greatest extent, stupidly for a certain Japanese position to launch an attack regardless of casualties, Zhao Zhi naturally would not do such a stupid thing. The Japanese troops in Xingtai, who were waiting for the battle, did not know when the reinforcements would come, but they were ready to fight to the death, and even the weak Imperial Allied Army was driven to the forward position by the Japanese army, and if the position was lost, these Imperial Allied troops would die in the hands of the Japanese if they did not die in the hands of the guerrillas.

The snipers under Ye Kong really did not disappoint Zhao Zhi, and when the attacking troops attacked less than 100 meters away from the Japanese defense line in Xingtai, at least more than half of the heavy fire weapons on the Japanese puppet defense line were dumb. In this battle, there was no armored force commanded by Joey, and there was no steel fortress that the Thunder mercenaries loved, but the guerrillas of the Eighth Route Army brought their home-created weapons "Earth Tank" and "Unconscionable Cannon" to help in the battle, and the weapon demonstration before the battle opened Zhao Zhi's eyes.

Not to mention Ye Kong, even Zhao Zhi didn't expect that a few layers of quilts splashed with water could block the shooting of Japanese-style firearms, and this kind of "soil tank" created by the Eighth Route Army can be made of local materials, and it is not necessary to use the Eight Immortals Table in the people's homes as a carrier. Ye Kong, who is very interested in novelties, even found a lot of people who can strike iron, and made a square iron frame with a small wheel at the bottom for the "earth tank".

The guerrillas of the Eighth Route Army were very satisfied with Ye Kong's newly made "earthen tank", but their family business was small, so they did not dare to spend so much iron to make iron frames. Ye Kong, who was only a whim of the "earth tank", simply gave the iron frame he made to the guerrillas of the Eighth Route Army who came to help in the battle, and Ye Kong was watching the "earth tank" of the Eighth Route Army slowly move towards the position of the Japanese puppet army.

"The eight-grid tooth road is the work of the dirt eight roads." Obviously, the Japanese commander was no stranger to the "earthen tanks" of the guerrillas of the Eighth Route Army, and when he looked at the "earthen tanks" that were slowly moving towards his side, the Japanese commanders who commanded the stubborn resistance of the Japanese puppet army in Xingtai scolded them. It doesn't matter if he encounters the regular troops of China, but now it is the Tubalu that is attacking them, once upon a time he led the troops to chase the Tubalu and has no way to retreat, but now he is surrounded by a group of Tubalu, which is simply a shame for him as an imperial officer.

However, he didn't sigh much, the Eighth Route Army's "conscienceless cannon" made of oil drums bombarded over, and the locust-like explosive bag was thrown high by the "conscienceless cannon" and smashed into the position of the Japanese puppet army, and the continuous explosion made the entire open field tremble, and the smoke rising from the position of the Japanese puppet army was as dense as a mushroom emerging after the rain. "This thing looks pretty powerful, it's the same as our rocket launchers, but the range is too short." The salvo of the conscienceless cannon made Ye Kong a little dumbfounded, this kind of thing made by the Eighth Route Army doesn't look good, but the actual combat effect of using it is not bad.

"Don't underestimate the guerrillas of the Eighth Route Army, they can survive the countless encirclement and suppression of the Japanese army, they must have their ability" The Eighth Route Army only relied on simple equipment to operate and struggle behind enemy lines, Zhao Zhi's operational staff officers had different opinions, some said that the Eighth Route Army only dared to fight guerrillas everywhere, and never dared to engage the Japanese army head-on, while others said that the guerrilla tactics of the Eighth Route Army were precisely the correct solution to the Japanese army, and if they blindly fought head-on with the Japanese army, I am afraid that they would not be able to wait for the Japanese army to be driven out of China, and the domestic anti-Japanese armed forces would be completely lost.

The Eighth Route Army is also an anti-Japanese armed force, and all anti-Japanese armed forces can become a cooperative relationship with Thunder, so Zhao Zhi has always responded to the needs of the Eighth Route Army. After all, there are officers from the former Nationalist Army, and since the era of the Red Army of the Chinese Communists, the Central Army of the Nationalist Government has been inseparable from them, although it is now a period of cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party to resist Japan, but the people of the Nationalist Army still do not deal with the Eighth Route Army very well.

The attack on the Japanese puppet army in Xingtai went very smoothly, at least in Zhao Zhi's opinion, at the suggestion of Ye Kong, the unconscionable artillery bombardment brought by the guerrillas of the Eighth Route Army continuously bombarded a position about 200 meters long, and before the Japanese army covered them with firepower, the opponent's 200-meter position had been bombarded and dilapidated. "Let's start" The former enemy commander gave the order for the infantry to attack, and the guerrillas who had been hiding in the trench lifted the cover weeds at the top of the trench like a tide and rushed up along the 200-meter-long position, Zhao Zhi was very helpless about the chaotic formation of the attacking troops, whether the troops participating in the attack were guerrillas belonging to the Eighth Route Army or the guerrillas belonging to the Xinghuo Army, they had always been small-scale guerrilla operations behind enemy lines. It was the first time that thousands of people had been concentrated to attack an area occupied by a Japanese puppet army of this size in Xingtai like today, and it was impossible for Zhao Zhi to ask them to pull a straggler line to attack the enemy like a thunderous regular army. Being able to kill the enemy and disrupt the deployment of the Japanese army in North China was the only requirement that Zhao Zhi had for many guerrillas to come and participate in the battle, so no matter what tactics these guys used to attack the enemy, Zhao Zhi would not be surprised.