There was not a single living mouth left, and the devil law enforcement team used machine guns and grenades to deal with these 80 or so of their own people, and they were worried about leaving a living mouth, so they sent people down to the mountain depression, and picked them one by one with bayonets, and confirmed that they were all dead thoroughly.

According to the battle report, the squadron of the Third Brigade, under the leadership of the adjutant general, fought bravely from the western section of the defense line, broke through the three blocking lines of the Eighth Road, and in the battle of attacking the mountain behind the Tangjia Garden, more than 160 officers and soldiers below the squadron leader fought with the Eighth Route, which was several times its own, and finally took the commanding height on the top of the mountain with the heroic actions of all the dead and ensured the breakthrough operation of the wing headquarters.

Qing Shui also sent a telegram to the General Staff Headquarters in Beiping, asking for merit for the combat personnel of this squadron and for the adjutant general, but after the adjutant chief led the law enforcement team down the mountain to join the joint team headquarters, he heard that he had been asked for merit, but he resolutely did not agree, and Shimizu had to delete the words of asking the adjutant general for merit from the telegram.

The fighters flying from Beiping carried out an intermittent bombardment of the areas controlled by the Eighth Route Army on the north and south fronts early in the morning, especially on several key points on the northern front, and Qing Shui said to the pilots in the air: Don't let go of an inch of all the positions and villages and hills in the north! This guy is angry with the northern front! I wish I could blow up the Eight Roads and the defectors and the propaganda that made the Akiyama Yokoyama!

Taking advantage of the air strike, Qing Shui ordered the 1st and 2nd Brigades to immediately withdraw from their positions on the southern front, turn west along the valley of the Tang River, move the artillery units forward, march with the infantry brigade, and as soon as they encountered the resistance of the Eighth Route, they immediately launched on the spot and bombarded the positions of the Eighth Route with artillery fire.

The personnel of the third brigade was seriously reduced, so it waited at the rear with the baggage team and was responsible for the breakout of the entire wing's breakthrough operation. After meeting up with the adjutant, Shimizu sent the adjutant and the more than 100 law enforcement teams to the end of the team to be with the third brigade.

The breakout action should be based on being fast, running as fast as possible, and moving forward lightly. It is the best policy to jump out of the opponent's encirclement as soon as possible, but Shimizu Dazuo is unusual, and ordered the more than 2,000 people of the entire team to form a large gyro-shaped marching formation, with two pointed ends, a drum in the middle, and a slow march.

The marching order given to the troops was slow. It is required that no more than fifty miles of mountain road per day, and the two wings send a small number of troops along the mountain beams on both sides of the river valley to do flank protection, and the whole team is ready to go so steadily for more than 170 miles before reaching Shuibao Township, which is very strange, isn't Qing Shui worried about which valley the main force of the Eighth Road occupies desperately blocking them?

How can you not be worried? But Shimizu figured it out. Anyway, you can't get a bite out of me, even if you fight for a day yesterday and lose both, the Eighth Road still doesn't have that good tooth to eat my small wing with a fairly complete formation, not to mention that my artillery is all there, ammunition is sufficient, food is enough for at least half a month, and there are planes in the sky to support at any time. In this relatively gentle valley of the Tang River, one or two regiments of the Eighth Route did not need my infantry to go up, and only aircraft and artillery could solve them.

So Qing Shui compared his own team to a turtle with a hard shell and sharp claws, and he still wanted to kill calmly and generously, so that Balu could suffer a little on him, the iron turtle, so that he could repay more military merits!

It's different from the rushing stance when you came. Qing Shui was not a fool or an arrogant ordinary Japanese officer, he had studied in depth the history of the Eighth Route and the two armies, and he found that many Japanese troops were retreating, emphasizing running faster and quickly breaking away from the Eighth Route. However, the feet wearing cloth shoes often can't run the Eighth Road, because the retreat speed is fast, the formation is scattered, and the physical strength of the soldiers is large.

For example, in the battle of Changle Village, a wing retreated in a hurry, but the Eighth Road, which was pursued in parallel, suddenly cut off the formation of several kilometers long wing marching into more than ten sections, and was divided and surrounded by the Eighth Route for each battle, and ate one by one, and more than 2,000 people were so lost.

He Qing Shui doesn't want to compete with the Eighth Road, he knows that he can't compare to the Eighth Road, so he wants to simply be a turtle, when encountering the resistance of the Eighth Road, my marching army is stable, the distance between the front and rear is short, and the front and rear teams can support each other at any time, and will not be surrounded by the division of the Eight Roads, this formation can also give full play to the power of the artillery carried by the Wing at any time, so as not to be like the annihilated Wing in Changle Village, the artillery can't fire, and my own people and the Eighth Road are mixed together.

From the air, the distance between the front and rear teams of more than 2,000 devils in the Tang River valley is really less than a kilometer, and there are also small groups of troops flanking cover on the left and right mountain beams, and the artillery mule and horse brigade is in the middle of this diamond-shaped queue, with infantry units on all sides, really like a big turtle with sharp claws and thick skin slowly advancing northwest in the river valley!

Yang Bangzi's teaching brigade withdrew the main forces to the sheepfold ditch in accordance with the prior deployment, and after joining up with the 17th Regiment, waiting for Yang Bangzi's order, leaving only some small troops and local armed forces, in front of the devil's marching formation, shooting cold guns, releasing earthen cannons or something, attacking and disturbing the devils, and preventing them from worrying about the march.

The comrades of the original Sixth Division were working neatly and arranged the task of getting telephone lines, and it didn't take long for the telephone lines of the devils cut from the enemy-occupied areas to be sent to Chuankou Town one after another, and several cadres sent from the Military Region worked hard for several days with communications and set up several important telephone lines, one of which was to go from Qinglonggou to Yinfang Town, and then connect the line of the headquarters of the First Division.

If this line is not called, Yang Bangzi will immediately call Commander Yang of the first division to discuss things. The first division is in the Jin-Cha-Ji battle plan against the enemy in the spring of 44, but now they are still in the process of resting and rectifying the army, and the first division has not fought less in 43 years, and the counteroffensive in 44 years is the opening of the big drama, so Commander Yang attaches great importance to the winter rest and reorganization.

Yang Bangzi didn't talk nonsense, and directly asked Commander Yang of the First Division on the phone if he knew the information on the transfer of troops from Dalonghua, Bauhinia Pass and other places to Laiyuan County, and Commander Yang on the other end of the phone smiled, saying that he had just received information that more than 2,000 devils gathered in Laiyuan County had crossed the Juma River and moved to the Xianrenyu area.

"Brother, then there is no need to say more, you also know what Lao Tzu's troops want to do, Fugang, Da Longhua, Bauhinia Pass, my troops will not go, your brother is about to celebrate the New Year, go there to receive a big gift."

Commander Yang also laughed twice on the other end of the phone, there is no need to say much, he understands each other, and he understands each other, and he can understand it at a glance!

This highway line from Yixian to Laiyuan and then to Lingqiu is an important passage between the devil and Shanxi and Hebei, so to speak, the first division of Jinchaji has been to this land since 37 years, and it has been competing with this highway line for nearly seven years! And which of the devils' sweep of a division did not focus on this highway line? Laiyuan, Bauhinia Pass, Dalonghua and other places are all places where the enemy and me have repeatedly fought for many times!

This time, due to the dispatch of field troops to support the operational plan of opening up the mainland's lines of communication, to support the Qingshui Wing's breakthrough, it was only possible to draw troops from some garrison units to carry out the task, and of course, the garrison troops closest to the direction of the Qingshui Wing's breakthrough were given priority, and the garrison troops in Dalonghua, Bauhinia Pass, Laiyuan, Lingqiu, and other places were drawn out one after another to concentrate in Lingqiu and Laiyuan to form two fast troops in the east and west, so that the garrison points on the highway line were empty.

For example, Da Longhua is usually a big stronghold garrisoned by more than 500 devils and hundreds of puppet soldiers, but this time more than 300 devils were transferred, leaving more than 100 devils and more than 200 puppet troops.

And the Bauhinia Pass, which was once the location of the wing headquarters, usually has a garrison of at least seven or eight hundred people, and now there is only one squadron of devils left. Yang Bangzi sold this favor to the first division, that is, you don't have to send troops to help Lao Tzu fight the Qingshui United, take the opportunity of Lao Tzu to fight the Qingshui United, and get down the Bauhinia Pass you dream of!