The 72nd Wing fell into a bitter battle, not to mention that Lou Jing was shocked, and General Okamura Ningji, who had just arrived in Baoding from Beiping, was even more unbelievable. According to the analysis of the battle situation jointly submitted by the Intelligence Department and the Operations Department specially set up by the North China Dispatch Army for the six-way siege of the mountainous areas in western Hebei, there are currently no combat units above the regimental level in the base areas of the Communist Army.

However, the report of the reconnaissance planes sent to the south of Laiyuan in the early morning said that a large number of communist troops had been found in the mountains of that generation, numbering tens of thousands, and that they were surrounded by horse posts from all sides, and that no less than 10,000 enemy troops had also been found on both sides of the road leading to Laiyuan and Lingqiu.

It's impossible! Okamura Ninji's thin cheeks trembled slightly, how could he not judge which of the two reports in front of him with very different contents was true? And what is the connection between what happened to the 72nd Wing and the earlier activities of the enemy forces? This made Okamura Ninji fall into deep thought.

After nearly half a month of siege, the communist army's base area has been greatly reduced, and according to intelligence, the main force of the Eighth Route has already broken out of the encirclement by different routes, and only some local armed forces and small units of the Eighth Route have remained in the base area.

This has been confirmed by Shimizu Daisa and several other troops who stayed in the local area and carried out repeated clean-up tasks, but on the night of September 4, the Eighth Road, which already seemed to be at the end of the road, attacked from all sides on the entire North China Plain like a beast that suddenly jumped up!

The garrison strongholds of Luanxian, Leting, and Qianxi in eastern Hebei were the first to be attacked, and mines, stations, highways, and railways were the most violently attacked, and the railway leading to Shanhaiguan was also destroyed for dozens of kilometers, and the rails and sleepers were missing.

At the same time that Pingbei and Pingxi were also attacked on a large scale in eastern Hebei, almost every county town was attacked by thousands of Eight Routes, some strongholds and artillery towers built in villages and towns were destroyed, and the village armor protection system and maintenance associations that had been established and began to play a role were simply vulnerable under the impact of the Eighth Road, and it is said that hundreds of Chinese who served the imperial army were beheaded.

If the eastern Hebei and western Hebei provinces are still petty and the local garrisons can still cope with it, then the operation of the Eighth Route in the southwest of Hebei is simply an intolerable arrogant behavior!

The headquarters of the 129th Division of the Communist Army unexpectedly gathered a large number of troops, and captured the two county towns of Xingtai and Nangong in two hours, and the defenders of Handan were also lost more than half.

The biggest headache for Okamura was that it took more than half a year to use cages and other methods to severely damage the troops in the Jizhong base area of the Eighth Road, and the entire area was divided into small pieces of Liutun District by road network, barbed wire, and trenches, and as a result, it was completely destroyed in the attack that began on September 4.

That is to say, behind the imperial army of the first and second lines to encircle and suppress the mountainous areas of western North China, there were attacks launched by the Eighth Route everywhere, and many of the counties and towns that were empty because of the deployment of troops to participate in the sweep were captured, and those that were not captured also suffered heavy losses.

From the 4th to the 8th, the all-out offensive of the Eighth Road, which lasted for five days, did not mean to stop, but became more fierce in some areas. The scheming Okamura Ninji judged that compared with the besieged Eighth Route of Western Hebei, the Eighth Route of the outer line wanted to use a counter-shock to rescue the troops and organs in the encirclement.

Therefore, Okamura Ningji went south from Beiping to Baoding, where he came to personally deploy to carry out a clean-up operation against the communist army in the central Hebei region, and at the same time he also ordered the Manchu and Mongolian cavalry troops rushing to the northwest of Shanxi Province to turn to the Pingbei area and recover the lost garrisons and towns.

On the eastern Hebei side, there is no big problem with the cooperation of the eastern army, and when the problems in these places are solved, we will clean up the mess in southern Hebei.

At present, the primary problem facing Okamura Ninji is the destruction of several railway and highway arteries, the most serious of which are the major lifelines of railways and highways, such as Jinghan Road, Shitai Road, and Tongpu Road.

In fact, this time Okamura Ninji ordered to launch the North China Sweep, there is a deeper intention. After more than 10 years of operation, the three northeastern provinces have become a solid and stable base of the empire, and grain, coal, etc. continue to nourish the empire's body.

At present, Inner Mongolia, North China, Shandong and other places have also been occupied by the empire for many years as the rear of China's main battlefield, but because of the wedge of the communist army, they have been unable to establish a stable and long-term puppet regime, and the manpower and material resources have never been able to serve the imperial army, which is a big problem.

The imminent southward campaign urgently needed to establish a base between the three eastern provinces and the southern coast of China, and if the North China Plain could not be completely conquered, the empire's southward advance would be greatly hindered.

Okamura Ninji, who was the most important army supporter of the Southern Advance faction, was well aware of the importance of the stability of North China to the China and Nanyang operations, so he mobilized heavy troops to solve the North China problem that had plagued the Imperial Army for a long time.

Okamura Ninji thought it was quite haode, but this self-proclaimed China expert still ignored two problems, one is that he misunderstood the Chinese. The second is that he chose the wrong opponent.

Chinese are one of the most difficult species to be fathomed on the blue planet, with several characteristics and strong survival! Extremely fecundly! Extremely assimilative! Extremely enduring! These are things that no other nation can match!

There is also a place that Okamura Ninji does not understand, the Chinese are very good at fighting in the nest, nothing to the guy to roll up his sleeves, his own people can change tricks with their own people, can stumble for decades and hundreds of years, can knock from grandparents to great-grandchildren, can fight for a well and two villages for several generations, this perseverance, no one on the earth is comparable.

But once there is a foreign race on this land, no matter if you have sugar or a gun, as long as you kid says that you want to occupy this land, then okay! The red-faced and white-toothed Chinese who just rolled up their arms and sleeves to beat them, regardless of the north and the south, the old and the young, will work with you as a foreigner!

Even if it is defeated and occupied, the resistance will never stop, and on the contrary, the alien race will find itself a host entwined by parasitic vines, slowly sucking the flesh and blood, and completely assimilating into the body of the Chinese.

It's not that Okamura Ninji himself didn't understand this, there are more aliens who suffered this kind of loss earlier than him! You see the Huns, most of them were assimilated and disappeared, and a small part of them ran all the way west wisely, beating the Europeans with blue noses and swollen faces, and by the way, establishing a large Hungarian population.

The later aliens were not so wise, and as a result, they were sucked by the parasitic vines in waves, and there was not even a bit of scum left.

There are less than 1 million Han people in the Central Plains killed by Wuhu Chaohua, and in not many years, according to the statistics of the first Tang Dynasty, there are more than 10 million! What about those awesome Wuhu? The shadows are gone!

Is it ruthless that the Manchu Qing Dynasty does not keep his hair without a head? Vicious! From the beginning of the entry of the Qing army to 1911, the slogan of expelling the Tartars has never disappeared, what's the matter? What about the Manchu royal family? What about horse racing? It's not left in the history of Chinese characters!

Therefore, saying that the devil wants to use artillery to conquer the Chinese, the most awesome nation, is basically as ridiculous as the idea of drinking too much and saying that he wants to go to the United Nations General Assembly to pee!

Isn't Okamura still superstitious about his cage policy and his six-way siege? Did the devil on the reconnaissance plane see the eight roads? Yes and no! Yes, the Eight Roads and the common people have always been one! No, that's the tens of thousands of fellow villagers who Yang Bangzi and they have gathered!

What is called Chinese, this is Chinese! You devil is here, you say that the fellow eats sugar, the fellow takes it and eats it without saying anything, you say the fellow eats meat, the villager takes it over and eats it, you say that the fellow and I believe in an emperor, an ancestor, there is meat to eat and sugar every day! That fellow still didn't say anything, and as soon as he turned around, he kicked you in the face!

You little devil was kicked, angry, and pulled out a knife to kill! Good kill! Immediately, someone shouted, "him, grandma!" The little devil has killed someone! Dog beating day! "It's useless to use any tricks, I have to kick you out of China anyway! When Nima and your ancestors were still playing with monkeys with their bare butts, we who couldn't get along with the monks would lead a few hundred people to be your emperor!

These are all things that devils can't understand, and they will never understand, devils are devils, if they don't be reincarnated as human beings without their heads cut off, how can they understand human thoughts?

So Okamura Ninji was distressed for a long time, but Zuihou still made a decision according to the devil's way of thinking, and in order to ensure the smooth execution of Dongyue's southward advance Jihua, he ordered the front-line troops participating in the sweep to retreat to the starting point and maintain the main line of communication. All divisions and regiments dispatched their main wings, and after resting and recuperating, with the cooperation of the Air Force, they then carried out marching search and suppression in the base areas of the Eighth Road, killing them, burning them all, and looting them all.

The second-line troops regained the lost territory occupied by the Eighth Route Attack a few days ago, and ordered the 110th Division and other units to take a short break and then station in the central Hebei area, preparing to sweep on a large scale again.

At the same time, the 33rd Division was ordered to rescue the trapped 72nd Wing and abandon the road from the horse post to Mancheng.

This decision was not only incomprehensible to many of the devil's officers, but even the comrades of the intelligence department of the Eighth Route Army Headquarters, who were listening to the devil's radio contact, did not believe that the devils could retreat on all fronts when the encirclement and sweep were at their most rampant.

In particular, the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army did not know anything about the siege of the 72nd Wing of the Horse Post mentioned in the telegram, as well as the road raid battle in the west of the city.

After Mr. Zhu and Mr. Peng inquired about the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region, they reported that they did not know what was going on in that area, and the sub-district also inquired about several military sub-districts at various levels, and they all said that there were no troops operating in that generation, let alone organizing such a large-scale battle.

Judging from the map, the devils in the direction of Lingqiu and Laiyuan happened to be the strongest of the six roads involved in the siege of the base area, a full division regiment plus an independent mixed brigade and a cavalry wing, plus a large number of puppet troops, which once caused great difficulties to my Langya Mountain base area.

Several main regiments of the first division jumped to the area east of Pinghan Road to cooperate with the Jizhong Division to launch a campaign to break the cage, and the organs, ordinary people and devils who stayed in the hinterland of the base area fought in circles, and the losses were not small.

The Eighth Route Army and local armed forces on the North China Plain were indeed set by the command of the former enemy, and in order to reduce the pressure of the two sub-divisions in western Hebei to counterattack and take the initiative to force the devils to come back to help.

Judging from the effect, it is still good, the rear troops of the devils are empty, the troops guarding the communication line are also insufficient, and the entire anti-sweeping operation has received very good results, but this time the devils are very persistent and want to rely on it, and several bosses of the Eighth Route Army have studied all night, and they have not yet figured out how to break the encirclement of the devils on the inner line like an iron bucket.

Seeing that the autumn harvest is imminent, if we do not drive away the devils who are relying in the hinterland of the base areas, the food problem will become severe.

But at this juncture, there was such haode news that the devil's inner line troops were about to withdraw, and the iron bucket was first broken from the northwest direction! The six-way devil went all the way, and the northwest of Jin and the west of Hebei were connected again!

Mr. Peng spoke! Examine! Be sure to check! Which character is making a fuss at the post!