Zheng Yunshan led his elite soldiers, with sophisticated weapons and equipment, and rapid assault firepower, all the way to the ground, and soon all broke into the town.

A large number of devils and remnants of the puppet army on the fortifications outside the town tried to stop them, but they were met with frantic machine-gun fire from the tank troops that followed up.

Under the dense raindrops of on-board machine gun fire, the devils and puppet soldiers fell screaming in pieces.

Qiao Youhua stood by a forest outside the battlefield, holding a telescope and observing the progress of the battle, seeing that his infantry had rushed into the town, Qiao Youhua immediately put down the telescope and instructed Li Yansan, who was on standby behind him: "Yansan, immediately order the tank commandos to divide into two ways, detour from both sides of the town, and work together with the guard regiment to annihilate the defenders of Ranzhuang Town!" ”

Qiao Youhua still has absolute confidence in the combat effectiveness of the guard regiment, with all the automatic weapons they are equipped with, in terms of firepower, even the devils and puppet troops in Ranzhuang Town have more than 20,000 people, and they are by no means their opponents.

Especially in this kind of close-range street fighting, the combat power of the Dragon's Tooth Guard Regiment will be able to be brought into full play.

Originally, the fortifications of the devils and the puppet army could not be built in time, and the existing fortifications could not accommodate more than 20,000 days of puppet troops stationed at the same time.

Therefore, there were also a large number of puppet troops, who were on both sides of the town and even in the rear at that time, rushing to repair fortifications to strengthen their defensive depth in Ranzhuang Town.

At this moment, Qiao Youhua led the assault troops to suddenly kill, and the devils and the puppet army couldn't help but be in chaos.

Especially when the town of Ranzhuang was heavily shelled, and the field fortifications outside the town were broken through by the Longya Guard Regiment, the morale of the Japanese army and the devils suddenly dropped sharply, and it was on the verge of collapse.

Subsequently, Qiao Youhua seized the opportunity and ordered eighteen No. 4 tank soldiers to break through from both sides of the town in two ways to outflank.

The Japanese puppet army hovering around both sides of the town was hit by fierce assault fire from tank and combat vehicles, and then turned and retreated in panic, and eighteen tank fighting vehicles opened fire fiercely while following the pursuit.

The devil and the puppet army quickly retreated from the beginning, and gradually evolved into a rout, the defeat was like a mountain, out of control, and their rout not only provided the dragon tooth tank soldiers with an excellent opportunity to practice their guns, but also easily shot them one by one.

What's more, he directly guided the north of the town, that is, a large number of follow-up troops of the Japanese puppet army in the rear, who did not know the enemy's situation, and also turned around and fled one after another.

Without the continuous reinforcements of troops from outside and around the town, the devils and the remnants of the puppet army in the town not only failed to drive out the attacking guard regiment, but were defeated and retreated by the well-equipped and powerful guard regiment, and the casualties became more and more serious, and soon, two-thirds of the area of Ranzhuang Town was lost.

Twenty-eight 88 anti-aircraft guns stopped shelling one after another, Qiao Youhua began to instruct them to pack up immediately, and prepare to continue the march, the battle of Ranzhuang Town was about to end victoriously, and the next thing was Baoding.

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When Qiao Youhua commanded the troops to storm Ranzhuang Town, the last barrier south of Baoding, the brigades and regiments of Longya, which had received Qiao Youhua's order, dispatched from their garrison defense areas one after another, and took the initiative to suddenly launch another attack on the enemy in front of them.

In addition to the cavalry and infantry left behind by the joint air defense regiment and tank regiment of the first brigade and the first regiment, along the railway line, followed the assault team led by Qiao Youhua to the north, preparing to support Qiao Youhua and them to capture Baoding.

The 2nd Regiment and the 3rd Regiment of the 1st Brigade of Longya and the troops directly under them launched attacks on Quyang and Anguo respectively, of which the main force of the brigade was responsible for attacking the county town of Anguo, and a partial division of 500 people went to attack Quyang, which had the weakest troops.

The main force of the First Brigade was personally commanded by Jiang Haidong, and after capturing Anguo, it planned to continue to march to the northeast, and join forces with the adjacent Second Brigade of Longya to attack Anping, Wuji, Shenze and other counties, and eventually it would attack Raoyang County with Ma Biao's Second Brigade.

Ma Biao's Second Brigade was also divided into two routes, sending about one regiment of troops, as a partial division, mainly starting from the area of Zhengding County, attacking and advancing towards Wuji, Shenze, and Raoyang, as a joint combat force with the First Brigade.

Its main force directly bypassed Shimen from Zhengding, and together with Wu Ming's Third Brigade, it attacked and advanced to Jinzhou, Xinji, Shenzhou and other counties, and after attacking the above areas, it would finally attack Hengshui Town.

Wu Ming personally led the main force of the 3rd Brigade to march southeast from Shimen and Luquan, attacking Zhaoxian, Ningjin, Yuanshi, Xinhe and other counties, with the ultimate goal of attacking Dezhou and even Xingtai in the south.

These combat objectives were all rehearsed countless times by them with imaginary enemies on weekdays, so as soon as Qiao Youhua gave the order, they immediately put the exercises on weekdays into action.

An army of nearly 30,000 men attacked from an area where the battle line stretched for nearly 200 miles, launching simultaneous attacks on counties, towns, and towns in the surrounding enemy-occupied areas.

The news soon spread to the headquarters of the North China Front Army, the invading Japanese army in Beiping.

Since Sugiyama Yuan left the conference room two hours ago, his anger has just subsided slightly, and he was about to have lunch, when the room prepared him a table of fairly sumptuous and delicious meals, and the old devil had not yet had time to take a seat.

The chief of staff, Kawabe Shozo, hurriedly walked over with a solemn face.

Seeing him acting in such a hurry, Sugiyama Moto's heart sank suddenly, and he immediately asked, "Riverside-kun, is something wrong?" ”

Hebian Zhengsan looked three meters away from him with a heavy expression, stopped and nodded: "That's right, Your Excellency General, I just received a telegram that the Eighth Route Army in Shimen, Zhengding, Xinle, Luquan and other places suddenly attacked on all fronts and launched a large-scale active attack on the counties and towns bordering the defense districts and towns with which we are.

At present, the entire northern part of the Zhengtai Line is full of flames, and the morale of the Chinese army is like a rainbow, and the offensive is rapid!

And according to the intelligence sent from the front, they seem to have more troops than before, and their combat power is also stronger.

And our garrisons and fortifications in the border area have suffered great losses because of the sabotage and attack of the small guerrillas of the Eighth Route some time ago.

In the light of the opposition, it was now even more powerless to resist the enemy's attack, and within minutes of my receipt of the telegram, two towns and a county town near the forefront had already been captured by the Chinese army. ”

When Sugiyama Yuan heard that it was really bad news, he immediately lost his appetite, and he snorted coldly: "Damn, Qiao Youhua's dragon tooth column is so cunning, knowing that we are going to encircle and suppress them, they took the initiative to attack us.

What's even more infuriating is that their strength has grown so fast, it's incredible! Hebian-kun, I think this should be your and my Yan zhòng dereliction of duty! ”

Hebe Zhengzo hurriedly bowed his head and said: "Your Excellency the general has taught you a lesson, but I think that the reason why the Eighth Road in Qiao Youhua's hands can develop so quickly must be related to the strong support of the Germans."

We should ask the base camp to put diplomatic pressure on the Germans to suspend their aid to the Dragon's Tooth Column! ”

Although Sugiyama was a little moved, he also understood that this already involved the political relations between the two countries, and it was not something that he, the commander of the dispatch army, could control.

Immediately crossed over to this topic and said: "Riverside-kun, put aside the affairs of the Germans for now, and now the top priority is that we must quickly find a way to contain the situation in a direction that is unfavorable to the imperial army."

If even Baoding, Hengshui, and Dezhou are occupied by them, then our next encirclement and suppression will be even more difficult, which is absolutely not allowed! ”

Obviously, Sugiyama Gen also sensed Qiao Youhua's intention to suddenly order his troops to attack on all fronts, once he really let him achieve his wish.

Then the next 100,000 elites of the Kwantung Army and 100,000 Manchukuo? When all the troops arrived, the battle they fought was not a battle of encirclement and suppression, but a battle with the Dragon's Tooth Column for the occupied area they had just lost.

By the time the above-mentioned captured areas are recaptured from the Dragon's Tooth Column, the Kwantung Army and the puppet Manchurian **** should also be exhausted, and if they want to capture the real base of the Dragon's Tooth Column, the difficulties can be imagined.

If that were the case, in the end, the encirclement and suppression operation plan, which took the strategic risk and brought in more than 200,000 troops from outside the customs, would end in failure.

As the commander-in-chief of this campaign, he Sugiyama Gen has absolutely no way to explain to the high-level leaders of the base camp, and when the time comes, I am afraid that he will only be like his predecessor Terauchi Shouichi, take the blame and resign, and end his military and political career.

Sugiyama didn't want to do this, so his face became extremely ugly.

Kawabe Shozo also understood this, and in the face of Sugiyama Yuan's irresistible gaze, he lowered his head and muttered for a while: "Sir, for today's plan, the only way to shrink the force is to shrink the troops as much as possible to the three important towns of Hengshui, Dezhou, and Baoding."

The other unimportant counties in the surrounding areas should be given up for the time being, and when the main forces of the Kwantung Army are all assembled, we can turn defense into attack and recapture those lost occupied areas in one fell swoop. ”

Although it was a shame for the Imperial Japanese Army, which had always claimed to be invincible and invincible, Sugiyama Moto, who had no good way to do it, still chose to agree.

However, just as the old devil was about to nod his head in agreement, a rush of footsteps attracted his attention.

Turning around with Kawabe Shozo, he saw a communication boy running over with a panicked expression, which was no worse than Kawabe Shozo just now.

This made Sugiyama Moto's and Kawabe Shozo's mood sink suddenly.

As if to confirm the ominous premonitions and speculations of the two people's psychology, the communication Shaozuo trotted all the way to Sugiyama Yuan and Kawabe Shozo, and hurriedly saluted: "Two chiefs, something is wrong, Major General Yamamura Kiichi, the commander of the Baoding garrison, sent an urgent message, ten minutes ago, Ranzhuang Town was broken through again by the Dragon's Tooth Column, more than 3,000 imperial troops were killed and wounded, and the commander Yamamura Iji Dazuo was killed in battle.

A large number of imperial troops were defeated and fled, and now the assault team of this dragon tooth column is continuing to go north along the railway line, directly attacking Baoding, there is only less than one squadron of imperial troops left in Baoding City and thousands of imperial troops from some counties in the north of Baoding, the combat strength is insufficient, the morale is low, and the situation is very critical! ”

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