With the loss of two fighters, the remaining devil pilots no longer dared to carry out ultra-low-altitude dive strafing, and could only carry out a symbolic retaliatory strafing of Cheng'an Town, which had become blurred, at an altitude of several hundred meters or more.

A lot of ammunition was wasted, and he reluctantly began to return home.

The only thing that made the devil pilots happy was that their bombers also successfully carried out air raids on the unsuspecting Shahe Bridge at the same time, blowing up the bridge in one fell swoop.

In Cheng'an Town, Qiao Youhua was overjoyed to learn that his soldiers had shot down two enemy planes, and personally walked out of the temporary command post to encourage and reward the meritorious soldiers.

It didn't take long for scouts sent out to report that the Shahe Bridge had been blown up.

Qiao Youhua's brows furrowed when he heard this, he immediately thought of the possible consequences after the Shahe Bridge was destroyed, this time he really didn't expect it, it was a small mistake.

However, the devils thought that they had achieved their strategic goal and cut off the back route for the tank troops of the Dragon's Tooth Column to withdraw from Dingzhou to the base area, which was a big mistake.

Because Qiao Youhua has mastered a shallow place in the Shahe River, people and horses can wade through the water, not to mention the No. 4 tank, which can wade more than one meter deep.

Even if the riverbed is soft, the tanks will sink up, so it would take a hundred or so soldiers to get some sandbags and dirt, and in a day or two at most, you can fill in a makeshift road on top of the shallow riverbed for your tanks and military trucks.

Therefore, when Qiao Youhua formulated the battle plan before, he did not consider this aspect, so he sent the anti-aircraft artillery to Anguo County to support the cavalry battalion, otherwise the anti-aircraft artillery would definitely stay in Cheng'an Town to prevent the devils from attacking and cutting off his own rear road.

Thinking of this, Qiao Youhua was relieved again, in fact, the Shahe River is not a big river like the Yangtze River and the Yellow River, which has been meandering into the vast sea, even if there is no suitable bridge in Dingzhou for his No. 4 tank to pass through.

As long as they ordered people to bring more fuel from the south bank of the Shahe River, so that the No. 4 tanks had sufficient fuel, they could completely march eastward with the cavalry battalion, bypassing Anguo and Dingzhou, and retreating to the base area from the Shimen area. Therefore, in the generation of the Zhengtai Line, unless the devil has absolute strength, it is impossible to really block the way for the mobile troops of the Dragon's Tooth Column to retreat.

However, the devil's air raid to bomb the Shahe Bridge also reminded Qiao Youhua of one thing, that is, the tank armored unit should pay special attention to air defense, because with the defensive capability and firepower of the No. 4 tank, there are few opponents on land in today's Asian region.

However, for threats from the air, it can be fatal, and the weakest roof defense armor is one thing, but the power of bombers and aerial bombs is not comparable to ordinary army infantry artillery.

Thinking of this, Qiao Youhua immediately summoned Li Yansan and instructed him: "Send a telegram to the tank detachment and remind them to pay special attention to guarding against the enemy's air raids and bombing. ”

No matter if the devils at this time have thought of using air power to deal with ground armored forces, it is always good to be prepared.

At present, the tank armored unit of the Dragon's Tooth Column is still very weak, and the air defense regiment has not been formally formed, so it can only avoid its edge for the time being.

Although the tank is also equipped with a general-purpose machine gun against the air, it is only for emergency use, and it is used to deal with enemy aircraft flying at ultra-low altitudes, even if it can achieve a one-to-one exchange ratio with the enemy.

That's more than worth the loss, because there are only four tanks in the fourth tank now, and they can't afford to fight hard.

With these four tanks, the cavalry battalion, the guard battalion and other directly subordinate units will be able to exert great power and form a powerful mobile assault force, which will cause unimaginable losses to the Japanese puppet army.

After instructing the tank detachment, Qiao Youhua sent a telegram to Guo Meng, the political commissar who stayed in the base camp of the base area, asking her to prepare a batch of oil to be transported in case of emergency.

That's when I was relieved.

……

At the same time as the Zhengtai Line was on fire, Tokyo City, the capital of Toying Country.

The high-level leaders of the Japanese army base camp are discussing the request of the North China Front Headquarters, and the meeting is attended by the land minister (supreme commander of the army) of the Japanese base camp War Department, the director of the General Staff Department, the deputy chief, and other senior military and political personnel.

(The general staff here originated from the army and navy staff headquarters, which was equivalent to the political headquarters of later generations.) Govern? Bureau? Often? The committee, in the base camp of the Japanese army invading China, is the most important department with real power.

Ishihara, who had participated in the planning of the famous Manchurian Incident, also known as the September 18 Incident, which allowed Japan to easily occupy the four northeastern provinces and connect the Korean Peninsula with each other, is now serving as deputy chief of the General Staff Headquarters.

This is a very powerful position, although the rank rank is inferior to that of the Prime Minister of the War Department, and even to the commander of the Dispatch Army, the Front.

However, it has great power, especially for the Imperial Japanese Army, which is now mainly involved in the war against China, and has great rights to appoint, dismiss, and transfer.

Ishihara Waner because of the perfect planning of the 918 Incident, together with Itagaki Seishiro, became a national hero in the eyes of the Japanese, and now Itagaki Seishiro suffered a big loss from Qiao Youhua in the North China battlefield, Ishihara Waner can be described as a standout.

In the conference room, Ishihara was in charge of the meeting, so he sat in the first place.

He held a copy of the document in his hand, dressed in a straight military uniform, looking extremely energetic, his eyes looked around at the participants, and said in a deep voice: "Colleagues, the meeting we held today is related to the North China Front Command's request for the base camp to dispatch the Kwantung Army to reinforce them in the battle.

Today, the Chinese Dragon's Tooth Column headed by Qiao Youhua has developed rapidly, and has successively defeated many encirclements and suppressions organized by the North China Front.

Therefore, I hope that you will discuss the pros and cons together today and decide whether you can agree to the request of the North China Front Command. ”

As soon as Ishihara's words fell, a senior officer of the War Department spoke: "We want to hear it, what do you think about this?" After all, Ishihara-kun, you are a hero of the empire, and the Manchurian Incident was a perfect plan. ”

The Prime Minister of the Army, the Chief of Staff and other old devils who hold real power all nodded one after another.

Ishihara was not polite, and immediately stated his opinion: "First of all, according to the detailed military intelligence report submitted by the North China Front, it can be seen that the strength of the Longya Column has grown extremely rapidly, and in less than two years from 1937 to the present, it has developed to the point where it can resist the attack of the North China Front of the Empire head-on.

Now the imperial national strength is in a period of recovery, and the North China Front has gone through several battles of encirclement and suppression, and its strength has been greatly damaged and it is unable to encircle and suppress it again.

However, they took the opportunity to continue to grow and develop, and in the long run, as Commander Sugiyama Moto said, they would definitely become the biggest henchmen of the empire in North China!

Therefore, I agreed to the request of General Sugiyama Moto, and transferred the elite of the Kwantung Army into the customs to assist the North China Front Army, completely exterminated the dragon's tooth column in one fell swoop, and strangled the danger in the cradle. ”

After speaking, Ishihara looked at everyone and said, "That's my opinion. ”

The chief of staff pondered for a moment and said: "Ishihara-kun, what you said is indeed reasonable, but from the perspective of the overall strategic situation, you should not forget that the Kwantung Army is still shouldering the heavy responsibility of guarding against the Soviets, and the importance of Manchuria is even more important than that of North China."

If we transfer the elite of the Kwantung Army into the customs, will it affect the stability of Manchuria and even the Goryeo Peninsula? This must be evaluated and must not be decided lightly. ”

The chief of staff's remarks also resonated with other people present, and those who can sit in their current positions can be said to be well-educated people with considerable strategic vision.

Therefore, the concerns of the chief of staff, they all deeply share.

So in this way, the high-level leaders of the Japanese base camp had a heated discussion on this, and for two consecutive days, they could not discuss the results and make a decision.

And in the past two days, Qiao Youhua's dragon tooth column has not been idle.

In accordance with Qiao Youhua's instructions and arrangements, all regiments and battalions attacked from all sides, and with the cooperation of the guerrillas in various localities, inflicted heavy losses on the enemy in front of them; while receiving the withdrawal of the guerrillas to the base areas, they also carried out a large-scale attack and destruction of the communication arteries, bridges, and fortresses in the enemy-occupied areas in the combat area.

The defense area of the devil and the puppet army was paralyzed, and it was difficult to take care of it.

The guerrillas in various localities and some of the people who supported them took the opportunity to pass through the enemy-occupied areas, rendezvous with the receiving troops, and successfully withdrew to the base areas one after another.

After another day, the troops had basically begun to retreat from the enemy-occupied areas to their base areas.

On the side of the North China Front Headquarters, Sugiyama Mototo and Kawabe Shozo were distressed that they had not yet waited for the reply of the base camp, but they were attacked from all sides by the Dragon's Tooth Column, and together with the small guerrillas of the Eighth Route Army that were originally active in the area controlled by the Imperial Army, they launched a large number of attacks and sabotage battles against all parts of the Zhengtai Line.

At this time, the two old devils finally judged the true intentions of the dragon's tooth column based on all aspects, and the embarrassed Sugiyama Yuan immediately dispatched Japanese puppet army reinforcements from Cangzhou and Baoding, and went to the front line of Hengshui, Dezhou, and Dingzhou, preparing to rush to the Japanese puppet army in the above areas to fight.

However, it takes time for troops to move, and the receiving units and guerrillas of the Dragon's Tooth Column are active in remote mountainous areas and within the limits of towns and cities far from these large and medium-sized cities.

By the time the devil's reinforcements arrived, the daylilies were cold.

During this period, although Sugiyama also sent land-based aviation support, he did not care about it, and it was completely a situation where there were too many monks and too little porridge, and fighters, bombers, and even reconnaissance planes were all sent, but to no avail, after all, this time the battlefield spanned a range of hundreds of kilometers.

However, the fighters of the North China Front Army had to be stationed in the vast areas of the nine provinces of North China, and with the remaining guards in Pingjin and Tianjin, only one-third of them could be used on the Zhengtai line, and they were absolutely exhausted.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Qiao Youhua's recovery plan was basically successfully completed, and the number of dozens of guerrillas and the young people they brought was tens of thousands.

Coupled with the existing more than 20,000 people in the Dragon Tooth Column, the total strength has exceeded more than 30,000 people, and the time is ripe for formal reorganization and expansion!

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