If the "stubborn resistance" of the Eighth Route Army had not yet made Okamura Ningji realize its true combat intentions, with Anyang being conquered by General Chen, Okamura Ningji was sluggish and realized what the Eighth Route Army wanted to do!

"Isn't the taste of the Eighth Road too big, encircling and annihilating nearly five divisions of our army, and the Eighth Road has such a ability?" Kuichi Tanaka was still a little unconvinced.

But Okamura Ningji is very sure: "If the Eighth Route doesn't want to fight a war of annihilation, why capture Anyang?" ”

Kuichi Tanaka seemed to want to argue a few words, but Okamura Ninji had already made up his mind: "The 27th Division and the 110th Division will immediately go south and recapture Anyang!" ”

Although Okamura Ninji only said the arrangements for the 27th Division and the 110th Division, and it was also a correct choice to recapture Anyang in order to ensure the safety of the rear road. But Kuichi Tanaka understood the subtext of this arrangement, which was to temporarily abandon the rescue of the Chrysanthemum Corps and the 17th Tank Wing. Of course, this kind of temporary decision is likely to become a permanent decision, because at this time the 120th Division is storming the Ju Corps and the 17th Tank Wing in the encirclement, and it is really difficult to say how long these two troops can hold out, after all, the 4th Cavalry Brigade is there to learn from the past.

The destruction of the 4th Cavalry Brigade has proved that the Eighth Route Army can destroy the "Imperial Army" in a structured way, and if the Chrysanthemum Corps and the 17th Tank Wing are left alone, the result is likely to be another disaster.

"We can't control the Chrysanthemum Regiment and the 17th Chariot Wing now," Okamura Ninji said lightly, "If we continue to maintain the established policy, the entire Legion will be destroyed!" ”

Tanaka Kuichi nodded very reluctantly with a bitter face, and then asked cautiously, "I'm afraid it's a little tricky for Massa-kun Tsuji to know!" ”

Indeed, the previous performance of Masanobu Tsuji proved that he was a-stirring stick who had more than enough success and more than failure, and if he wanted to make him, a senior staff member, agree to give up the Chrysanthemum Corps and the 17th Wing of the Chariot, then maybe what kind of moth this thing will make. The ability of this thing to accomplish things is not good, but the ability to do bad things is second to none.

Okamura Ningji pondered for a moment and then resolutely ordered: "Let him go to Zhengzhou on a business trip and supervise the heavy work!" ”

Of course, the business trip is fake, but Masanobu Tsuji is real. But with Masanobu Tsuji's IQ, can he not see Okamura Ninji's true intentions? Hey, this thing's cleverness is a lot, he knows very well what Okamura Ningji wants to do, but what's more interesting is that he gladly accepted this arrangement, and patted his chest and promised to do a good job in logistics.

So what exactly does Masanobu Tsuji think? Actually, he's smart! He also saw that the posture was wrong this time, and Balu was probably going to play a big one. If it was before, he would naturally have been unable to fight a decisive battle with the Eighth Route Army, but after these days of fighting, he began to have a more sober understanding of the combat effectiveness of the Eighth Route Army. As for the current war situation, he believes that unless reinforcements can be drawn from Henan, Hubei, Anhui, and Shandong, it is very likely that the Eighth Route Army will not be able to defeat it. The question is, can these places send troops to reinforce Okamura Ninji at this time?

Masanobu Tsuji was very pessimistic about this, so he had the same opinion as Okamura Ninji, and he had to quickly abandon the Chrysanthemum Corps and the 17th Tank Wing, and concentrate the remaining troops to fight out of Anyang in one go, so that there would be a way to survive.

It's just that there is a drawback to doing this, that is, it is destined to be a big defeat, and there is no way to explain this to the base camp. It is very likely that the high-ranking generals involved in this battle will all be blamed together.

Masanobu Tsuji is a person who cherishes his reputation a lot, how could he be willing to carry this pot. But as the chief of staff of Okamura Ninji, once he really wants to give up the Chrysanthemum Corps and the 17th Tank Wing, he will definitely not be able to run away. Masanobu Tsuji was in a hurry to get angry for this before, and he was trying to find a way to get rid of his responsibility. Anyway, he has already made up his mind, if Okamura Ninji is determined to do so, then he will oppose it at all costs, even if he puts all the remaining divisions into it, anyway, he will not carry this pot.

And now, Okamura Ninji has given him a reason to evade responsibility in the bright light, will Masanobu Tsuji agree? He is not a fool, so as soon as he received Okamura Ningji's order, this senior staff member didn't even pack up, and chose to run away as soon as possible, for fear that Okamura Ningji would change his mind.

And when Okamura Ninji and Tanaka Kuichi obtained the ugliness of Masanobu Tsuji, the two couldn't help but sigh, the new generation of model soldiers and senior staff officers of the Nima Empire is this bird virtue, how can they be undefeated!

Of course, Okamura Ninji and Tanaka Kuichi couldn't care about Masanobu Tsuji, who vomited his eggs, at this time, because the situation they had to face was really quite bad. The 27th Division, the 110th Division, and the rest of the 7th Independent Mixed Brigade launched a fierce attack on General Chen's headquarters in Anyang, but no matter how the Japanese bombarded indiscriminately, the 386th Brigade remained immovable. On the other hand, after the lack of cooperation of the 110th Division, the 62nd Division has no way to block the troops of the 120th Division, and what is even worse is that the Chrysanthemum Corps and the 17th Wing of the Chariot in the encirclement are almost a day A distress telegram, its tone is more and more encouraging day by day, and it is simply burning eyebrows, okay!

Finally, on August 15, Okamura Ninji made a final decision, and he categorically ordered the 62nd Division to also withdraw from the battle and move in the direction of Anyang, as well as order the Kikucorps and the 17th Tank Wing to hold to the end. Obviously, Okamura Ninji is preparing to run away ********, and he won't even do symbolic rescue.

"The devil wants to run!"

The changes in the Japanese army actually made Peng Shuai exclaim, you must know that more than a year ago, he didn't dare to imagine that the Eighth Route Army would defeat the devils in such a frontal battle. And now that all this has happened, how can you say that he is not surprised, and how is he not happy!

At this moment, the Eighth Route Army finally had full courage and confidence, and it was necessary to fight a vigorous war of annihilation. In an instant, the 115th Division and the 129th Division, which were still retained before, went all out and launched wave after wave of tidal onslaught against the 37th Division of the Devil, which was responsible for blocking the palace.

However, the 37th Division of the devil is also quite tenacious, and it will not work if it is not tenacious, because Okamura Ningji has already given it a death order, and it must hold on until the main force of the army retreats, otherwise military law will be engaged. The so-called military law of the Japanese army naturally has only one way to die, and for a devil whose tendon has been brainwashed, there is no other way but to commit suicide if he dies in battle.

In order to be able to hold the position, the 37th Division was to strengthen the position at all costs, and even built three lines of defense inside and outside in a very short period of time, and the innermost line of defense was also arranged quite carefully, using the beams removed from the surrounding villages and the logs cut down to build a large pillbox, in order to make these civil fortifications stronger, the devil also laid a layer of 50 centimeters thick gravel on top of the logs, and then built more than three meters thick loess, although it is not as good as those reinforced concrete permanent fortifications in the northeast, But it was still possible to barely resist the attack of 300 kg of aerial bombs.

Three 105-mm mountain guns and six 75-mm mountain guns were placed in these three large earthen forts, and the machine-gun fire around the earthen forts was as dense as a spider's web, which was simply a fire hedgehog.

This earthen fortress was not easy to deal with, and the Eighth Route Army tried three strong attacks, but they were all pressed back by the enemy's ferocious firepower. After that, the Soviet Red Army carried out several bombings, although they removed several layers of scalps of this earthen fortress, but the devils frantically repaired them regardless of the threat of firepower, and they were not as fast as others repaired.

After the Air Force did not work, **** used tanks to carry out assaults, and the T-34-76 of the Red Army armored corps was still insufficient in power and defense, and it was difficult to move an inch in the face of the crazy **** tactics of the devil soldiers regardless of losses. So much so that after the Soviet adviser Kulikov personally looked at the positions of the Japanese troops with a telescope, he couldn't help but shake his head: "This must be done with heavy artillery, preferably with heavy mortars!" ”

The Soviet Red Army, of course, had heavy mortars, and for the sake of attacking fortifications, almost every army group was issued with 160-mm heavy mortars of the MT-13 type, 240-mm heavy mortars of the M-240 type, and 356-mm heavy mortars of the M-356 type. The latter, in particular, can shoot 700 kg of semi-armor-piercing at a target 7 kilometers away, and is the most professional demolition professional.

It's just that the Soviet Red Army only supported a small amount of MT-13 to ****, and the destructive power of the 160 mm projectile is still too small, and even a 300-kilogram aerial bomb can't handle the Japanese army's earthen fortress, I'm afraid that the M-240 has little hope, and it is best to use M-356, but the M-356 in the Red Army is a sought-after commodity, and it is impossible to support ****.

That is to say, it is basically no fun to use the air force and artillery, and after discussion, **** believes that there is only one way to go, that is, to dig a tunnel under this earthen fortress and blow it up. It may seem like a turtle, but in fact it is quite high-tech, don't think that playing explosives is an easy task, it is very high-tech, and only experienced sappers can master this skill.

So what did you want to do if you wanted the Japanese army to take a Turkish plane? First of all, of course, it is to dig a tunnel that leads directly to the bottom of the devil's fortress. Is it simple? It's not simple at all, first of all, when digging a tunnel, you can't be detected by the devils, otherwise the devils can take targeted defensive measures; Secondly, the tunnel cannot be dug off yet, which also needs to be level, after all, the sappers working in the tunnel have no reference at all; Finally, after digging the tunnel, it is necessary to calculate the amount of explosives needed to blow up the fortress, which is a purely calculating work, and must not be less.

In order to achieve the goal, **** took targeted measures, such as starting a 24-hour uninterrupted shelling of the Japanese fortress and covering the tunnel operation with the sound of shelling. As for the question of the location of the tunnels, this was given to the experienced old sappers of the Soviet Red Army, who guided them.

According to the recollection of Li Keshen, a meritorious engineer who participated in the trench operation: "Since the trench operation began on August 17, our front-line position was about 200 meters away from the enemy, and we first advanced four trenches with the end operation, each two meters deep and one meter wide. Because the terminal operation cannot accommodate too many people, it can only be worked day and night. Because the soil is good, the intensity of the work is quite large. By 22 August, the trenches had advanced about 150 metres. When the head of the operation is 50 meters away from the enemy, the final tunnel operation begins, each tunnel is 1.2 meters high and 1 meter wide, equipped with wooden frame reinforcement, and then advances day and night. By the afternoon of the 24th, all the trenches were completed. ”

"It is expected that after reaching the lower part of the enemy's fortress, the final step will begin, that is, to dig the chamber where the explosives are placed, the first chamber is about 50 boxes, the second chamber is about 40 boxes, the third chamber is about 70 boxes because of the thick blasting surface, and the fourth chamber is about 40 boxes."

"By the morning of the 25th, the charge work was completed, and then the earthwork was backfilled, and three layers of hemp packaging soil were backfilled, and then the soil was filled. Every five meters, three layers of sacks were built, and about 30 meters were filled along the tunnel, and the reason why it was backfilled was to concentrate the power of the explosion on the top of the chamber and prevent the power of the explosives from leaking out along the tunnel. ”

So how much explosives are used, here is a simple formula you can calculate: N=(L3×Z)(1+X%). where N is the number of explosive packages required, L is the blasting surface, that is, the radius of the explosive power circle (in feet), Z is a variable, according to the quality of the blasted soil and the size of the expected blasting crater, and the explosion requires an overcharge, here we can tell you that the coefficient of the overcharge is 0.162. X% is also a variable, and it can also be told here that the data for more than 500 packs of charges is 10%.

So what is the predetermined explosive power radius? It's about 50 feet, so the formula is N=(503×0.162)(1+10%), and finally N=22275. At that time, the Soviet Union had four packs of explosives for one kilogram, which meant that a total of 5,568.75 kilograms were needed. That is, a total of five and a half tons of N-ladder explosives are needed.

The above calculations were all completed by the sappers of the Soviet Red Army, because the general culture of the Tubalu is not high, and this kind of "profound" technical work is really not playable. According to Li Keshen's recollection, during their construction, the sappers of the Soviet Red Army had to climb into the tunnel together to measure section by section. The sappers of the Eighth Route Army were divided into two groups, one left and one right, digging diagonally upwards in a Y-shape. Until the Red Army sappers said yes. At this time, they had already dug under the devil's feet, and then they began to dig four cross-shaped tunnels as medicine rooms, each the size of a house!

During this period, the most nervous and worrying thing was the attack of the Japanese army, because according to the scouts, the enemy seemed to be aware of it, and they also dug tunnels down to intercept it. Therefore, the soldiers of the Eighth Route Army carried explosives into the tunnel overnight, and they did not even dare to get out of the atmosphere, for fear that the enemy would take the lead and cause the previous achievements to be wasted, according to the Eighth Route Army war reporter: "...... The closer the enemy became, the more difficult the work became, and by the end of the operation when the lower part of the enemy's fortress was reached, the enemy had already discovered it and was anxious to build a tunnel, trying to break our plan...... According to the investigation after the fact, if it is delayed for another day, the enemy will be able to cut off my tunnel, and I will fall short. ”

In the middle of the night on August 25, five and a half tons of explosives were filled into the feet of the Japanese soldiers, and then the commander of the Soviet Red Army engineer company, Captain Boris, personally fused the explosives, connected the wires, and then carefully pulled the wires out of the tunnel.

Throughout the day, the artillery of the Eighth Route Army opened heavy fire, doing their best to distract the enemy's attention and cover the work of the engineers. And the last blasting time was located at 0:00 on the 26th. According to the history of the Eighth Route Army, at 11 o'clock that night, Peng Shuai personally ordered the officers and soldiers of the 115th and 129th Divisions participating in the attack to withdraw from the power radius of the blasting circle. At this time, the devil also sensed that the last moment was coming, and began to probe around the earthen fortress to find out the situation.

The ignition device was placed at the headquarters of the 688th Regiment of the 344th Brigade of the 115th Division, about 500 meters away from the enemy's fortress, and the regiment commander General Han accompanied the Soviet adviser Lieutenant General Kulikov and the brigade commander General Xu and the division political commissar Nie Shuai to arrive at the scene to watch.

Not only did the ignition device prepare four parts, but in order to be sure, a set of conventional fuse index detonation devices was backed up, which was ignited by Li Keshen himself, and he still remembered many years later: "This is a two-meter-long slow-burning fuse, burning one centimeter per second, that is, after ignition, I have enough time to leave the ignition point." So I didn't panic at all. Behind me is Camp Commander Wang, he and Nie Shuai have crossed the table together, every second is not bad! At that time, he was holding a field phone in one hand, and he was always on call for me to light a fire. And I squatted in the pit, holding the fuse in one hand and pressing the match head on the fuse......"

Some comrades may be more strange, why do you have to press the match head on the fuse? Strike a match and light the fire soon! For the sake of safety, pyrotechnics are safe, for example, the fuse is not ignited by an open flame, and can only be ignited with the help of the energy of the instant deflagration of the match head. For example, ladder N ladder explosives, most people think that explosives are very dangerous, and they will explode when they touch it. In fact, almost all military explosives have to be passivated, and they will not explode if they are bumped or even burned with an open flame, and they must be used as a primer for special detonators.

At 0:00, with Nie Shuai's order, Li Keshen hurriedly lit the fuse, and then followed the battalion commander to run out of the explosion range quickly, and when they arrived at a safe position, the four generals and marshals in the command post pressed the detonator together.

There was no movement at first, but after a few seconds, the earth shook a little, and then it shook violently, much like an earthquake, and the wooden stands in the command post creaked and shook. Li Keshen, who was standing outside, saw a flame rising into the sky, tearing off the devil's civil fortress and even the roof. Soon, a thick smoke jumped up from the broken "Heavenly Spirit Cover", and the corpses of devils, guns and other military equipment could be seen spewing out of the thick smoke, which was more than 200 meters high, and would not dissipate for a long time after staying in the air...... (To be continued.) )