From the above-mentioned actions of the Dragon's Tooth Column, it can be seen that the battle plan formulated by Qiao Youhua and his colleagues was aimed at destroying the 30,000 or 40,000 puppet troops in Botou, south of Nanpi, and north of Dezhou and Hengshui.

First take Suning with elite partial divisions, seize Hejian, and then send a main force to storm Botou Nanpi two places, as long as these two county towns are taken, then strategically, the puppet army of Fucheng, Jingxian, and Wuqiao counties has formed a strategic encirclement.

In the end, there was only one way for them to retreat, and that was the sea to the east, and it was obvious that the Japanese devils would not mobilize their naval fleet to meet them on the beach.

And it is impossible for the Dragon's Tooth Column to give them a chance to flee to the seashore hundreds of miles away.

Therefore, the key to this battle lies in whether the main force of Ma Biao's Second Brigade can take Botou and Nanpi in time.

Since these two county towns are the nearest and most important gateways to the south of Cangzhou, the Japanese have deployed nearly 20,000 imperial troops in the two cities.

Even if it was attacking one by one, Ma Biao's second brigade did not have an advantage in terms of strength.

Liu Jianhua's tank regiment and anti-aircraft artillery units of the air defense regiment had their own tasks at this time, and they could not provide fire support for Ma Biao's subordinates.

Qiao Youhua's order to the tank regiment was to immediately march straight to Cangxian in the northeast after capturing Xianxian County, and make a gesture of threatening Cangzhou, so as to force the Japanese army not to dare to go south lightly and support Botou and Nanpi.

The air defense regiment had to cooperate with Wu Ming's 3rd Brigade to launch an attack on the puppet troops in Wuqiao, Fucheng, Jingxian and other places, and contain and blockade them, so as to prevent them from sensing the danger and fleeing north to Botou, Nanpi and other places regardless of a single qiē.

In this way, the task of capturing Botou and Nanpi as quickly as possible can only be completed by the Second Brigade itself.

On the eve of the attack, the brigade commander Ma Biao summoned more than 1,000 elite infantry who would be responsible for the first batch of siege to give them pre-battle encouragement and lectures.

Ma Biao stood on the hood of a military truck, his eyes swept over the more than 1,000 subordinates present, and he saw that they all had cold and resolute faces, loaded guns, and looked at him silently.

Ma Biao said in a deep voice: "Brothers, before the attack begins, I have a few words to give to you, I hope you can all remember it for me.

This battle is a key battle in the Battle of Cangzhou, and the reason why we sent our second brigade to attack Botou and Nanpi is that the commander believes in us and values us.

We must not let the commander down, and we must not let the other fraternal troops look down on us! Therefore, before I set off, I made a military order to the commander, and within one day, I would take Botou and Nanpi, and if not, I would be shot on the spot, and the military law would be corrected! ”

As soon as Ma Biao's words came out, the hearts of the more than 1,000 officers and men of the attacking unit could not help but feel a pang in their hearts.

After a pause, Ma Biao continued to say loudly: "Therefore, today's attack, I hope you can go all out, do not break the Botou, and vow not to stop!" ”

"Please rest assured, brigade commander, we will do our best to attack, do not break the Botou, and never stop attacking! Even if you fight to the last soldier! A battalion commander took the lead.

The brigade commanders have made military orders, and as subordinates, they have nothing to say, only to fight to the death.

"Don't break the head, swear not to retreat!" Led by the lieutenant colonel battalion commander, more than 1,000 infantry officers and soldiers began to roar one after another, echoing in unison.

"Don't break the head, swear not to retreat!"

"Don't break the head, swear not to retreat!"

"Don't break the head, swear not to retreat!"

The soldiers roared in unison, and the waves gathered together, soaring into the sky, and the vibrations were clearly audible within a radius of several miles.

Naturally, it also includes the head of Botou City, which is only outside the range of heavy machine guns, and on the head of the city, those two devil defenders who are like a great enemy, don't be frightened, they all face pale, trembling, looking left and right, and they have already deflated before the battle has started.

Subsequently, with the support of an artillery battalion and more than 20 75MM Krupp guns, more than 1,000 dragon tooth infantry took advantage of the situation to launch an attack on the west gate of Botou.

At the same time, there were also several small units at the company level, which were responsible for feints in other directions, pinning down the scattered defenders, and countering the attack of the West Gate.

Although there are nearly 10,000 puppet troops in the city, the previous two division headquarters were terminated, and Cangzhou was also captured by the Dragon's Tooth Column, and a series of great changes have caused them great fear.

For these puppet troops who entered the customs to fight, the Dragon's Tooth Column was even more powerful and terrifying than the Japanese Imperial Army that they surrendered.

Many puppet army officers are greedy for life and afraid of death, otherwise they would not have betrayed the country and joined the enemy to become traitors, plus this fear of cowardice before fighting.

Therefore, he didn't have the heart to organize and command the soldiers below to resist at all, and all he thought about was to escape.

Therefore, when the sound of artillery stopped, and thousands of officers and soldiers of the Dragon's Tooth Column had just launched an attack on their city defenses, the puppet army officers in the city began to flee one after another, and the grassroots puppet army could not get an effective and unified command.

The morale was very low, and naturally it was not the opponent of the Dragon's Tooth Column, and it was soon broken into the city by the first batch of siege troops, and the puppet army with the advantage of troops was defeated and retreated, and the progress of the battle was extremely smooth for the Dragon's Tooth Column.

Shun Lì exceeded the expectations of the brigade commander Ma Biao, and before the war, he never thought that the two devils would be so vulnerable. Therefore, he said that he had set up a military order, in order to inspire his subordinates to fight bravely and fight to the end.

Looking at it now, he was too cautious.

In fact, when one army is afraid of another army to a certain extent, it will really be frightened and flee in fear.

For example, in the original history, when the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression had just begun, many Chinese anti-Japanese troops had a fear of Japan, and sometimes fought against the Japanese army, and before the devils really appeared or attacked, the defenders were so frightened that they threw away their armor and fled.

This kind of example abounds, not to mention, in the Rehe War of Resistance in 1933, the reason why the 8th Division of the Japanese Army was able to capture Chengde, the provincial capital at that time, with 128 cavalry search members, was because the defenders had been frightened and fled when they heard the wind of the Japanese army.

Now the Dragon's Tooth Column is a terrifying opponent for the devils, not to mention their dog-legged puppet army.

The fear of the Dragon's Tooth Column is greater than the fear of the anti-Japanese troops of the devil.

Therefore, seeing that the west gate was breached by the light, Ma Biao immediately invested in the reserve troops, rushed into the city, and cooperated with the forward troops to expand the results.

Soon, after about an hour of fierce fighting, more than 10,000 puppet troops in the city all collapsed, and fled out of the city from several other directions.

It was fully blocked by Ma Biao's roundabout feint troops arranged in advance, and the losses were very heavy.

In the end, less than 2,000 puppet troops managed to break through, and the remaining 6,000 or 7,000 people were either killed, wounded and captured, or surrendered voluntarily.

This is still the result of Ma Biao transferring one and a half regiments to Nanpi County, otherwise, he would definitely be able to annihilate all the puppet troops in the city and not let one of them slip through the net.