Qiao Youhua turned his head when he heard this, waved his hand at the communication soldier and said, "Don't worry, the specific battle situation, take your time and listen to it!" ”

The communication soldier nodded, and hurriedly said: "Brigade Commander Wu and Brigade Commander Ma each led two regiments to set up an ambush in the northwest line of Wuqiang County, and successfully annihilated more than 5,000 puppet troops. Won the first battle on the Eastern Front! ”

Qiao Youhua nodded and said: "Very good, call Ma Biao and them back, tell them that their headquarters is very pleased and happy with their heroic expression, and they must make persistent efforts to repel the strong enemy as soon as possible, and they need to fight together and keep in touch at any time!" ”

"Yes!" The Signal Soldier immediately saluted, turned and led the way away.

Zheng Yunshan came up and said to Qiao Youhua: "Commander, Brigade Commander Jiang, they fought a good battle!" ”

Qiao Youhua looked at the fierce battle outside the city, nodded and said, "Yes, the better they fight, the more beneficial it will be to the war on our side." ”

While the two were talking, the Japanese puppet army outside the city suddenly stopped attacking and retreated.

"Commander, the devil seems to have stopped attacking." Zheng Yunshan found that the sound of guns outside the city gradually thinned out, glanced out of the city, and said.

Qiao Youhua also hurriedly raised his binoculars, and sure enough, he saw that the Japanese puppet army was retreating towards his own attack position, Qiao Youhua had been paying attention to the battle just now, although the attack of the devil and the puppet army failed to break through the defensive position of the Dragon's Tooth Table column, but it was far from the time of defeat and retreat.

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With such a sudden retreat, something must have happened.

Qiao Youhua frowned and thought for a while, and said, "No matter what the devil does, let the defending troops raise my vigilance, just in case!" ”

"Yes!" Zheng Yunshan nodded, and immediately led the order to go down to the city.

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Cangzhou City, in the joint headquarters of the 8th Division and the 14th Division.

Knowing that the attacking force dominated by the 8th Division was ambushed on the front line of Wuqiang County, and in one shot, it lost more than 5,000 elite Imperial Cooperative troops.

It's like being by someone. frightened some of the senior staff officers of the Japanese army in the joint command headquarters, all of them were silent, walking on thin ice!

Tsukada gritted his teeth with a black face and said, "Damn, cunning Shina man! We've got to give them some color. ”

Although Kenji Dohihara was not so angry in his heart, he had to show his hatred for the enemy on the surface, so he nodded very approvingly: "Yo Xi, General Tsukada is reasonable, we must speed up the attack and give the people of China some color!" ”

In the end, these two angry old devils directly sent a telegram to the commanders of the 8th and 14th divisions on the front line, asking them to immediately storm the first line of heaven and seize Wuqiang County and Raoyang and other places.

Clear the way for the march into Hengshui!

In the wilderness east of the line, the 8th Division and more than 20,000 puppet troops outside the pass sent another group of attack troops to attack the first-line sky again.

Ma Biao led two regiments to stay behind to block the attack, while Wu Ming led the other two regiments to leave the first-line battlefield after the battle, and rushed to the Raoyang area, preparing to cooperate with the 1st Brigade garrison there to meet the 14th Division.

The two acted in accordance with the battle plan they had made with Jiang Haidong before.

Ma Biao led his troops to continue to block the Japanese army on the first line of heaven until Wu Ming led Yuan Jiagang to Raoyang and joined the Raoyang defenders.

The terrain was steep, and the Japanese puppet army of the 8th Division attacked for half a day, paying thousands of casualties, but failed to attack the canyon again and break through the resistance of the dragon's tooth column.

In the end, the front commander of the devils decided to send a cavalry unit to make a detour, and for the cavalry, a distance of more than a hundred miles was nothing.

It only takes two or three hours to arrive, which Jiang Haidong had already expected, so he asked Ma Biao to guard the cavalry, and the devil cavalry was discovered as soon as he reached the halfway point.

Ma Biao, who learned the news, commanded the troops to repel an attack by the Japanese puppet army again, and then led the blocking troops to carefully retreat from the first-line heavenly canyon and retreated all the way to Wuqiang County.

By the time the devils and the puppet army discovered the abnormality and sent troops into the canyon, Ma Biao's two regiments had already withdrawn to Wuqiang County.

At this time, in Wuqiang County, the people of the nearby villages and market towns inside and outside the city were under the propaganda and drive of the Longya Column as early as half a month ago.

The family moved and moved south into the safety of the base area of the Dragon's Tooth Column south of Hengshui. Therefore, it is already an empty city.

This move is nothing else, it is to clear the wilderness and better fight against the Japanese invaders.

After Ma Biao withdrew with his troops into Wuqiang County, he left an infantry regiment to defend in the city, and he took another regiment around the city and soon disappeared without a trace.

On the Raoyang side, after Wu Ming's two regiments joined up with the defenders of about two companies in Raoyang, they took the initiative to retreat to Raoyang County after a few tentative skirmishes with the approaching Japanese puppet army such as the 14th Division.

The 14th Division and other Japanese puppet army of more than 60,000 people, and then advanced in a big way, surrounded the Raoyang County City, fiercely attacked, Wu Ming led his troops to resist desperately, with the assistance of the local militia, and the Japanese puppet army launched a bloody battle to the death, and the battle situation was stalemate for a while.

The news was transmitted back to the joint command of the Eastern Front Corps of the Japanese Army in Cangzhou.

After listening to the report, Tsukada Tsukashi and Kenji Dohihara were overjoyed, and the former nodded directly and said: "Yo Xi, damn the people of China don't give them some color to see, they don't know the power of my Imperial Japanese Army!" ”

The old god of Tu Fei Yuan nodded and said: "Now my 14th Division has led more than 30,000 imperial troops, and has surrounded Raoyang County, constantly attacking fiercely, and the defenders in the city are already turtles in the urn!" Your 8th Division also managed to break through the first line of heaven and encircle the county seat of Wuqiang.

As long as the defenders in these two places are completely annihilated, they will definitely be able to inflict heavy damage on the main force of the Dragon's Tooth Column on the battlefield on the Eastern Front, and then attack Hengshui, Dezhou, and even Shimen and other places with half the effort! ”

In order to take the first line of heaven, the 8th Division of the Tsukada Attack suffered casualties of two or three thousand Japanese puppet troops, plus the 23rd Independent Infantry Brigade that was encircled and annihilated before, the casualties exceeded 8,000 people, and the total strength was sharply reduced to more than 50,000 people, and I was holding back my anger.

Immediately gritted his teeth and said: "The hateful Chinese pigs, this time they finally can't escape, and after breaking through the city defense, they must kill the people in the city, and the chickens and dogs will not be left!" to vent the hatred of my heart! ”

Kenji Dohihara smiled a little proudly: "Tsukada-kun, you don't have to be too angry, this is not good for your health, we have an absolute advantage in strength, as long as we fight steadily and steadily, there will be no mistakes like the 23rd Brigade, defeating the Dragon's Tooth Column and achieving victory is only a matter of time!" ”

Tsukada nodded lightly and said, "Well, General Tufeiyuan, you are reasonable, but I am a little in a hurry." ”