Beiping City, the headquarters of the North China Front of the Japanese invasion of China.

Sugiyama Gen was working in the headquarters office, and suddenly, there was a rush of footsteps outside, and when he heard the sound and looked up, the chief of staff, Shozo Kawabe, had already walked in in a hurry.

"Riverside-kun, what's the matter?" Sugiyama asked.

Hebian Zhengsan said: "Your Excellency General, something is wrong, I just got the news that the main force of Shimen's Zhina Dragon's Tooth Column suddenly advanced eastward, and successively captured Luancheng, Jincheng, Xinji, and Hengshui!" ”

Sugiyama Moto's face changed dramatically when he heard this, and he stood up on the spot and asked in surprise, "What?" Has even Hengshui City been captured? ”

Kawabe Shozo nodded with a sad face and said: "Yes, Your Excellency General, not only Hengshui City was captured, but Sakai Risan was also surrounded by the Shina Army to help, including Sakai Rizo, nearly 10,000 imperial army warriors were all shattered, and none of them were spared!" Now in the entire Hengshui, Anping, Raoyang and its surrounding areas, the strength of the imperial army has been weakened to the extreme.

It could fall into the hands of the Dragon's Tooth Column at any time. ”

The corners of Sugiyama Yuan's mouth couldn't help twitching a few times, and he said with an ugly face: "What is the purpose of Qiao Youhua's dragon tooth column?" What are they going to do? ”

Kawabe Shozo said with some uncertainty: "General, they don't want to attack Texas, right?" ”

Sugiyama Yuan was shocked when he heard this, and hurriedly walked around the desk and took the lead towards the war room.

Several devil staff officers who were busy in the war room saw the two of them coming together, and they all stood up and saluted, Sugiyama Mototo nodded and walked straight to the battle map with Kawabe Shozo.

The two glanced at the map, Sugiyama Yuan's face changed drastically, and Kawabe Shozo said in a deep voice: "General, judging from the map, the next target of the Chinese army is likely to be Texas, because the imperial army does not have many troops in Texas, after the loss of Hengshui, the main force of the Chinese dragon tooth column can already be withdrawn, once they move south, Texas will be really dangerous." ”：

Sugiyama Yuan snorted coldly and said: "Baga, immediately send a telegram to the Texas garrison, asking them to take precautions, and there must be no mistakes, and then shrink all the troops in the strongholds around Texas back to the city, and concentrate on holding Texas City first."

In addition, the telegram ordered the front-line garrison troops of Mount Tai and Jinan to quickly dispatch troops to cross the Yellow River north and rush to the aid of Dezhou, and must not let the counterattack of the Longya Column in China form a prairie fire. ”

"Hay!" Hebian Zhengsan bowed his head sharply in response, and then turned around and took the order to leave.

After he left, Sugiyama slammed the desk angrily, gritting his teeth at Qiao Youhua with hatred, but there was a sense of helplessness and helplessness.

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Twenty kilometers north of Texas, Wuqiao Town.

There were originally more than 100 puppet soldiers and dozens of devils stationed in the town, but now they received an order from the headquarters of the Japanese garrison in Texas and took the initiative to evacuate here.

Dozens of devils and more than a hundred puppet soldiers, carrying all kinds of supplies, hurriedly left the turret and pillbox they had painstakingly managed.

As they passed through the town, the people of the town were so frightened that they closed their doors and hid for shelter, they didn't know what was going on, and they inevitably jumped for a while.

However, the Japanese puppet army withdrew quickly, and there was no harassment of them at all, and it was not until after the Japanese puppet army withdrew that some people had the courage to walk on the streets in front of their homes.

It wasn't long before the sound of neat footsteps came from the west side of the town.

The more daring people stretched out their heads to follow the prestige, only to see a group of soldiers of the Eighth Route Army in gray-blue military uniforms, fully armed, pouring in along the streets of the town with neat steps.

A man about forty years old brightened up and said, "It seems to be the Eighth Route Army!" ”

"It's really, it's really the Eighth Route Army." Another man in his thirties nodded.

"Folks, it's the Eighth Route Army, don't be afraid, the Eighth Route Army is coming, no wonder the little devils and dog traitors have run away." The forty-year-old man turned his head around with some excitement, and shouted at the frightened neighbors.

The prestige of the Eighth Route Army has long spread throughout the land of Hebei, Wuqiao Town is not far from Hengshui, and the people here have naturally heard more or less about the heroic deeds of the Eighth Route Army.

Therefore, as soon as they heard that the Eighth Route Army was coming, they were relieved, and every man, woman, and child poured out of their homes, standing on both sides of the street, and spontaneously welcomed this heroic anti-Japanese team into the town.

The officer headed by him was none other than Zhao Youde, deputy head of the Third Regiment of Longya, who was originally a guerrilla and had a natural affinity for the people at the grassroots level.

While commanding the troops to seize the fortifications such as turrets and pillboxes left by the devils and the puppet army, he came to the crowd of people and greeted the people cordially.

After learning the whereabouts of the devil and the puppet army from the mouths of the people, he immediately reported the situation to Qiao Youhua and Wu Ming, who commanded the main force to follow up.

"Commander, it seems that the little devils in Texas have been fooled, and the Japanese army has misjudged that we are going to attack Texas, and is shrinking its forces and planning to focus on defense." After receiving the news from Zhao Youde and others, Wu Ming rode a war horse and caught up with Qiao Youhua to report.

According to Qiao Youhua's instructions, he ordered all the troops under him to send vanguard troops to march quickly to seize the key points on the important communication line of the generation north of Texas, such as Wuqiao Town.

to ensure that the line for the next withdrawal to the base area is unblocked.

Qiao Youhua rode on a brown and red Oriental war horse, nodded after listening to it and said: "Very good, let them be stationed on the spot, once the devils react, maybe they will counterattack, and they must definitely block the counterattack of the Japanese puppet army, and ensure that the equipment and materials we receive can be withdrawn to the base area." ”

Wu Ming nodded, beat his horse and left, and went to make arrangements.

Qiao Youhua called Liu Ruhan, who was with the army, and instructed: "Ruhan, you can send a telegram to Adru, and say that we can reach the beach in twenty-four hours and let his ship dock as far as possible." ”

"Yes!" Liu Ruhan straightened his chest, happily agreed, turned around and left.

Qiao Youhua instructed Zheng Yunshan, the commander of the guard battalion accompanying him: "Yunshan, pass on my order, the troops will speed up, they will rush to Bincheng before twelve o'clock tonight, and capture Guangrao County at twelve o'clock tomorrow at noon, and open up the sea mouth!" (Guangrao refers to the area of today's Dongying City.) ）

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In the north of Dezhou, Liu Jianhua and Zhao Tiezhu led hundreds of soldiers in the cavalry battalion, and they had already killed the city, and they happened to encounter a Japanese puppet army that had been ordered to shrink and withdraw from the northeast of Dezhou in the field.

The strength of this Japanese puppet army was about 300 people, the puppet army accounted for the majority, and the equipment was average, Liu Jianhua and the others did not hesitate at all, and led the cavalry to attack them.

On the flat wilderness, five or six hundred heavily armed cavalry met more than 300 days of puppet army infantry, like a tiger entering a flock of sheep, first with a submachine gun signature strafing strike, the devil and the puppet army were killed and wounded more than half, and the rest collapsed and turned around and fled.

The dragon tooth cavalry immediately swung their swords and horses to launch a one-sided slaughtering pursuit, and the remaining Japanese puppet soldiers who were killed cried and cried for their fathers and mothers, and the blood flowed like a river.

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