"Order, the mission of the ambush troops in Lincheng and Neiqiu remains unchanged, and the Xinghuo troops east of Xingtai and south of Hengshui can move in the direction of Hengshui and make a siege of Hengshui." Zhao Zhi's voice paused slightly, and then continued, "The Pingding around Yangquan and the front line of Xiyang must be strictly guarded against the puppet army when Shijiazhuang is coming, but the pursuit can only be held. The Japanese puppet army troops who marched west from Shijiazhuang ignored Xingtai, which was in full swing, and went straight to Yangquan by themselves, this is a big fish, Zhao Zhi can't watch it slip away.

"Contact the mercenary troops going north and ask them to cooperate with the airborne troops to set up an ambush in Meng County, if my guess is correct, this old guy Okamura Ningji wants to go to Taiyuan." The large map on the table had already been marked with dense red dots and arrows by Zhao Zhi, and no one could understand the key marks he made on the map except Zhao Zhi himself.

The battle of Xingtai was over, and Zhao Zhi did not wait for the arrival of the national army troops who rushed to take over the defense, so he left only a 300-strong army to garrison, and he himself continued to march east to Hengshui with the remaining troops. Okamura Ningji saw that Xingtai was just a trap set by Zhao Zhi, and tried to use the same trick to attract the troops besieging Xingtai to go north to rescue Yangquan, but unfortunately Zhao Zhi was also not fooled, after defeating Xingtai, Zhao Zhi used Hengshui as another bait to lure the Japanese puppet army in Shijiazhuang.

The geographical location of Hengshui is much more mysterious than that of Xingtai, once Zhao Zhi led people to take Hengshui and continue to cut off the connection between Baoding and Shijiazhuang, the Japanese puppet army in Shijiazhuang will be in Xingtai, Hengshui, Yangquan three places in the encirclement. If Okamura Ningji still continues not to confront Zhao Zhi head-on or go out to attack, then he only has one way to go north, Zhao Zhi has two airborne troops in his hands, as long as he sets up an ambush in Quyang or Xingtang, then the speed of Okamura Ningji going north can only be calculated at turtle speed, and before Okamura Ningji goes north to get out of trouble, the pursuing troops that follow him will be entangled, and finally Okamura Ningji will face the siege of 5 national legions and more than 10,000 guerrilla squads.

"Nani? They went to Hengshui? "Okamura Ningci, who was pacing in a meeting in the headquarters, felt the insidiousness of the opponent for the first time, Xingtai was a bait, he was not fooled, but now his opponent has shifted his attention to Hengshui, if nothing else, the opponent is likely to turn Hengshui into the same bait as Xingtai, as long as he still does not send reinforcements to Hengshui to help the war, then the opponent can form an encirclement of Shijiazhuang, isn't this forcing himself to jump into the trap set by the opponent?

It's not that Okamura Ninji didn't think about using superior forces to fight against Zhao Zhi, but Zhao Zhi was famous for his penchant for fighting big with small, and the number of Tubalu guerrillas in Hebei was suddenly everywhere like fertilized weeds. It seems that the Tuba Road, which was still being chased by the imperial army overnight, has become stronger, and no less than 100 strongholds in the entire Hebei territory have been attacked in the past three days, and more than 1,000 imperial soldiers who are stationed in the strongholds have become ghosts in a foreign land.

"Whether you come or not, I'll wait for you here." Looking at Zhao Zhi's intentions in the past few days, it is not difficult for Okamura Ningji to guess the meaning, Zhao Zhi is forcing himself to take the initiative to jump out and be beaten, regardless of whether Zhao Zhi's ragtag army can withstand the attack of the imperial troops under his command, Zhao Zhi's naked coercion is an extreme contempt for Okamura Ningji. The special high school has already sent the latest information from Yangquan, and the national government has deployed no less than 5 national legion-level troops in Yangquan, and the special high school has not yet figured out the weapons and personnel information of these national army troops, but Okamura Ninji understands that these national army troops are waiting for him to crash headlong.

"Order, immediately transfer troops from Baoding south to support Hengshui, before the large army does not come back, the troops can only hold on and not pursue the battle." Okamura Ningji thought that he had seen Zhao Zhi's arrangement, as long as he clung to Yangquan, he believed that Zhao Zhi, who had been unable to attack Hengshui for a long time, could only return in vain or support Yangquan, because the five regiment-level troops arranged by the Nationalist Government in Yangquan were definitely not the opponents of more than 10,000 imperial soldiers under his command.

"The old boy is going to gamble all his money, so let's see who moves faster." The intelligence officer of the military commander lurking in Shijiazhuang sent a telegram, and Zhao Zhi, who read the telegram, laughed and threw the telegram in his hand into the trash. Okamura Ningji wanted to transfer troops from Baoding to Hengshui south, didn't he know that the guerrillas were best at destroying railways and highways, no matter what kind of church road the Baoding Japanese puppet army used, according to Zhao Zhi's order, the dozen or so guerrillas lurking around Baoding early could ask them to spend a lot of time on the road.

The guerrillas active in Hebei, whether they belong to the National Army or the Eighth Route Army, are all very familiar with the terrain here, and they have rich experience in surviving behind enemy lines and the mass base, and I believe that there will be many ordinary people to help the guerrillas pass on information, and Zhao Zhi believes that his ant tactics will definitely make Okamura Ningji, an old turtle egg, suffer a big loss.

"Report, the Hengshui defenders sent a telegram, in the early hours of the morning, 15 strongholds outside Hengshui City were attacked, the Imperial Association Army defected before the battle, and the Hengshui defenders suffered heavy casualties, and they asked for tactical guidance." As soon as the sky was bright, Okamura Ninji received bad news from him in the past four days, Hengshui was besieged. Tactical guidance in the Japanese army is generally issued only when a large number of officers are killed in the troops, and the defenders of Hengshui have only then contacted Zhao Zhi to issue a request for tactical guidance, which shows that a large number of officers in the Japanese army in Hengshui have been killed, and it is possible that the officers have lost their effective command of the troops.

"Baga" Okamura Ningji, who had a cold face, raised his foot and kicked over the basin in front of him that had just been filled with water, "Didn't you order Baoding to transfer troops to the south?" Why is there no mention of Baoding reinforcements in the war report? Okamura Ningji saw the abnormality from the battle report sent by Shishui, Baoding is not very far from Hengshui, it has been almost 20 hours since he ordered the troops to go south to support Hengshui, if the Baoding reinforcements arrive in Hengshui, the matter of the Hengshui defenders asking for tactical guidance will never happen.

"Your Excellency, we have just received the news that the Baoding reinforcements have indeed set off south to Hengshui on the street order, but all the communication lines leading to Hengshui have been destroyed by the Tuba Road. After rushing to repair the road to no avail, the Baoding reinforcements immediately went south on foot, but there were guerrillas on the Tuba Road all the way to ambush and harass, and they did not receive any news of the Baoding reinforcements from four o'clock in the morning, I think they were on the way to Hengshui. The personal adjutant with a calm face took the towel and handed it to Okamura Ninji, who was covered with water stains on his front, while explaining to Okamura Ninji.

Although the personal adjutant made persuasion, Okamura Ningji still felt that something was wrong, and what he ordered to be transferred from Baoding was not as simple as one brigade or two brigades, and it was a whole infantry wing to go south from Baoding to support Hengshui. Even if the Tubalu in Hebei is extremely excited, it is impossible for them to intercept an imperial infantry wing in the middle of the road, and Okamura Ningji, who has fought with the Eighth Route Army, really knows too much about the rudimentary weapons and equipment of the so-called Tubalu, and such a simple patchwork of armament is by no means the opponent of the regular infantry wing of the empire, unless they still have hidden regular troops to participate in the battle.

"Map, quick, I want map." Okamura Ninji shouted and threw the towel in his hand on the ground, he seemed to have found a clue, the Baoding reinforcements who were ordered to go south must be in trouble, or they would not have lost contact since four o'clock in the morning, and the silence on the radio would never be like this. "What a trick to hide from the world, Zhao Zhi, yours is too cunning and insidious." The whole person crouched on the large map and looked at it carefully, and Okamura Ninji finally found the answer he wanted.

From the beginning of the siege of Xingtai, Zhao Zhi did not think that the Japanese puppet army in Shijiazhuang would go south to support Xingtai, and the troops he arranged in Lincheng and Neiqiu were only presented to Okamura Ningji. At the beginning of the fight, Zhao Zhi's real purpose was not Xingtai or Hengshui, and his appearance of encircling the point to send reinforcements was just an illusion thrown to Okamura Ningji. His real purpose was to drizzle Okamura Ningci's attention, so as to achieve the purpose of covering the Burmese mercenary troops to sneak north, and it was the Burmese mercenary army under the command of Xiao Ziyun himself who surrounded and annihilated the Baoding reinforcements between Baoding and Hengshui.

At the beginning, Zhao Zhi put on the surface those Tubalu guerrillas, and even for the attention of Drizzle Okamura Ningci, he did not hesitate to reveal his information on the periphery of Xingtai to the special high school. Okamura Ningji didn't expect that Zhao Zhi would use himself as bait to drizzle his attention, and at this moment, Xiao Ziyun, who was out of the day and night, had already commanded the First Army of the Burmese mercenary army to quietly lurk on the front line of Dingzhou, Anguo and Suning. The Baoding Japanese puppet army, which was embarrassed by the guerrillas' destructive ability, could not imagine that the 50,000 Burmese mercenaries under Xiao Ziyun were waiting for them, and from the moment they chose to go south on foot, the Baoding Japanese puppet army was already destined to be completely annihilated.

Okamura Ningji found the answer he wanted, but unfortunately the reinforcements of Hengshui City and Baoding had fallen into the hands of Zhao Zhi at this time, and the encirclement of Shijiazhuang had already formed. If Okamura Ninji did not return in time, Xiao Ziyun, who continued to go north, would command his Burmese mercenary First Army Corps to attack Baoding, and by that time, the tens of thousands of elite Japanese troops commanded by Okamura Ninji would be completely surrounded. The iron bucket that was once used to deal with the Eighth Route Army will be used by Zhao Zhi to deal with himself, and it has been the entire western part of Hebei, and the troops commanded by Zhao Zhi have far surpassed Okamura Ningji, and in terms of the strength of both sides, Okamura Ningji has no chance of winning a decisive battle.