On July 2, the Japanese army occupied Shijiazhuang, took a little rest, approached Niangzi Pass all the way, and went straight to Dezhou, marching quickly along the railway, preparing to seize the Yellow River and encircle Jinan.

The Japanese army that advanced into Niangzi Pass was met with stubborn resistance from the national army, where the troops were a little more complicated, but the unyielding officers and soldiers still relied on miscellaneous weapons and fought a bloody battle with the well-equipped Japanese army, and they were stunned by the bombardment of artillery and withstood it.

At the same time, Yan Laoxi was not a vegetarian, he had a batch of new Mogan rifles and a few tanks, as well as artillery, and the Japanese army was inextricably fought, although the casualties were large, but he did not retreat, and stubbornly blocked the Japanese army's flood of attacks, so that the Japanese army stopped outside Shanxi and could not advance an inch.

The Japanese troops who advanced into Texas also failed to advance quickly, and they suddenly lost planes, and with the assistance of a small number of planes, they launched a battle for the Kuomintang troops on the bank of the Yellow River block by block, and the battle was extremely fierce.

On July 3, when all Lao Zhao's troops were withdrawn, Dong Ku launched a two-point attack on the Japanese position.

The battle was still fought with the effectiveness of a dozen guns to clear the position, the infantry to make a feint in a platoon, using the old soldiers, and the new soldiers did not move out on the defensive line.

After the Japanese army was attacked, all the artillery that had been in place launched a bombardment on the front, and the Type 94 mountain guns and all the 75mm field guns hidden in the bunkers all roared, so that Dong Ku's attack could not get too close, but it also exposed their defensive cards, so that the 75 caliber anti-aircraft guns that were secretly carried to the concealed bunkers in advance bombarded more than a dozen firing ports in a row, killing a large number of Japanese troops inside, and also making the Japanese army frightened and did not dare to relax a little, shells rained down, and all the troops moved, Surrounded behind the position, ready to fill the position at any time.

Fierce fighting lasted a day. At the cost of more than 600 people, Dong Ku let all the Japanese artillery be activated, and in addition to losing a large number of shells to cover the front attack, the personnel were even more shocked to death, or more than one wing was killed by the anti-aircraft artillery. There were more than two or three thousand people.

When night fell, Dong Ku collected his troops and returned to the camp, arranged for the wounded soldiers to recuperate, and the new soldiers continued to train.

He didn't mean anything else by doing this, that is, to let the Japanese know that the main forces on both sides were still there, and that they should not try to rush out of the position to attack.

In fact, this has a fight with the empty city plan, if the Japanese army concentrates its forces to attack a little now. The new fighters did not have the will to fight, and in addition to the fact that they were about to fight for the first time, it was difficult to ensure the safety of the position. Even if he holds on, he has no place to replenish the damage of the fighters now, and after several battles in a row, the ammunition can be held, but what about the personnel?

In this way, there is a buffer period of a few months. When the recruit grows up, he doesn't have to worry about the defensive line.

July 4th. Lao Zhao's army left Qiqihar, leaving only Liu Canghao, who Dong Ku did not return, with the previous political cadres and the old Anti-Japanese Union fighters that Dong Ku asked to stay.

These people want to follow Liu Zhong into the customs.

Dong Ku's troops will not be easily expanded, and the elite line he takes will not go to the battlefield without strict training, plus the formation of troops behind enemy lines. Liu Zhong and the others have no experience, but they are the old foundations of those anti-Japanese alliances, not only do political work in place, but also are good at organizing troops behind enemy lines.

Dong Ku kept them to follow Liu Zhong's team to clean up the battlefield and establish a base behind enemy lines. After all, Liu Zhong and they also want to rest, and what they are good at is sneaking into surprise attacks, but they have no energy or experience to tinker with the base. Besides, it's a pity that those weapons were thrown away, and they blew up the losers, so someone has to clean them up, right? They only need bullets and a small number of grenades, food and the like, so they need such a logistics team to follow.

When Liu Canghao received this order, he asked Lao Zhao, and with Lao Zhao smiling on his face, he happily accepted the task.

With bodyguards watching, it's not easy to form a base area? He knows very well how strong Dong Ku's old foundation is, don't dream of encircling and suppressing them with one hundred and ten people, it will be annihilated, just by sniping, you can kill all the Japanese troops who are encircled and suppressed.

There is another point here, when Dong Ku took over Heilongjiang, he used iron-fisted methods, killing all those who had anything to do with the Japanese, even if they were not hardcore traitors, in order to avoid lurking, and at the same time warn those who were wavering, so that they did not dare to have the idea of defecting to the enemy. And those puppet Manchurian troops are not all hardcore traitors, there are still ordinary soldiers who have no choice but to do it, and these people are also Chinese, doing political work, and can completely plot rebellion, forming a force behind enemy lines or directly going into battle.

On July 5th, Dong Ku's new AK54 was released, which was finalized as AK54-1. This batch of guns quickly entered Liu Zhong's Huya unit, and when the last batch of guns came out of the inspection base tomorrow, he could complete the reloading.

For a whole day, Liu Zhong was ordered to take the troops to adapt to the new guns, and everyone took turns to use the new guns, and in one day, they fired more than several times more bullets than they usually spent in training, making the gunfire at the airport dense like a big battle.

At the same time, Dong Ku stubbornly recruited 100,000 reservists, and let those young people and students who came to join the army officially join the ranks, although it was only a part, but it was also to avoid the shortage of troops caused by the Japanese army's attack on all fronts.

On the 6th of July, after Liu Zhong's army had completed all the preparations, they quietly left Harbin and went straight to Mongolia, where to drill out of the ground, infiltrate from Zhangjiakou and Shanxi, and enter the hinterland of the battlefield.

And just when Liu Zhong and the others had just left Harbin, the speed of the Japanese attack suddenly accelerated, and a large number of artillery and tanks poured into the battlefield, and then, on the evening of the 6th, Yan Laoxi's troop defense line was torn apart, so that Yan Laoxi had to retreat to Taiyuan. In order to avoid the army falling into a stalemate and not maneuvering, he let the baggage go straight to Gansu, he went straight to Taiyuan with 70,000 people, bypassed the Japanese army's defense area, and joined Yan Laoxi.

Because it was a battle sequence of the same national army, Yan Laoxi didn't know that the army of Lu Dao came from Heilongjiang, but thought that it was supported by Gansu, so he opened the button and let Lao Zhao pass.

On the 7th of July, when a brigade of Lao Zhao's army rushed to Yangquan, it was the moment when Niangzi Pass was tight.

Subsequently, after holding on for five or six hours, Lao Zhao's army rushed to Niangzi Pass, replacing the friendly troops who were responsible for holding on and had been disabled, so that Niangzi Pass fell firmly into Lao Zhao's hands.

The Japanese attack was heavily damaged, and it was difficult to attack Niangzi Pass, so they built a position, postponed the attack, and formed a confrontation situation with Lao Zhao's troops at Niangzi Pass.

In the past few days, the Yellow River, the Japanese army dispatched only a few dozen planes, took turns to bomb the Yellow River Bridge, and more than 200 artillery pieces were also placed, in the bombardment of artillery fire, 32 97 chariots broke through the bridge, occupied the opposite bank, and then, the army advanced by leaps and bounds, encircling Jinan at the same time, advancing to Xuzhou, intending to tear open the gateway into the hinterland of the Central Plains.

But at this time, the army mobilized by Lao Jiang also completed the assembly, and more than 300,000 troops gathered in the area of Bengbu and Xuzhou, so that the pace of Terauchi Shouichi's progress had to be stopped, and it was difficult to move forward in a stalemate battle with Lao Chiang's troops.

The offensive was blocked, and the Japanese army, which had been arrogantly occupying all of China for three months, but later changed to eight months, had to stop under the stubborn resistance.

They were unable to attack at this time, because the troops that the Kwantung Army had planned to draw could no longer be mobilized, and they were tied up by the attacks of Harbin and Qiqihar.

Terauchi Shouichi was like thunder, but there were not enough planes to bomb, only with the flamingos carrying two sixty-kilogram bombs and strafing at a time, there was no way to tear apart the opponent's position, and the tank, the opponent's anti-tank guns were quite threatening, in a few days, he had lost more than 40 tanks, and the attack became weak.

Enraged, he ordered his troops to halt their advance, and instead quickly occupied the entire territory of Shandong.

On the 8th of July, that is, the day after the Niangzi Pass was blocked, the temple captured Jinan, and the troops quickly divided their troops to attack various large towns, intending to occupy the entire territory of Shandong in two or three days.

These news were quickly gathered to Dong Ku through the dark hall, and Dong Ku couldn't help but be surprised that the Japanese army was moving much faster than in the previous historical period.

It is no wonder that in the last historical period, when the Japanese army attacked Beijing, the total strength of the puppet Manchurian and the puppet Mongolian added up to only 360,000, but this time, the army of more than 150,000 was directly assembled, so it had an absolute advantage in terms of troops, which made the speed of the attack so fast.

However, Dong Ku saw the drawbacks of the rapid attack of the Japanese army, although the entire territory of Hebei fell, but the Japanese army did not wipe out all the armed forces in the entire Hebei territory, and even some of them did not have time to jump out of the army to block the national army, but also marched and fought in their stomachs, which involved a lot of energy of the Japanese army.

It seems that Hebei and Shandong will be the main battlefields for Liu Zhong to deal with the Japanese army.

Dong Ku put down the last telegram, lit it, and pondered it.

At this point, the footsteps of the Japanese army were blocked to the north of Xuzhou and the east of Shanxi, and the battle situation was suddenly stalemate.

At this time, Liu Zhong's army had already begun to diverge, quickly shuttling through the fields, mountains and forests, without contact with any team, and went straight to their respective destinations.

Liu Zhong personally took thousands of people and went straight to Niangzi Pass. He wanted to assist Lao Zhao to stabilize the place and help Lao Zhao establish a base in the Taihang Mountains, and at the same time, his strategic goal was directly aimed at Shijiazhuang.

During this period, Sun Tao tossed on the sea for two days, and arrived at Hainan Island in the early morning of the third day, and then went to the island, occupied the whole island as quickly as possible, and built a permanent coastal defense artillery fortress while unloading ships. The island's only 15-watt radio station was seized before it could be reported, and Hainan Island became a springboard for the advance army to enter the interior, and the army could go ashore directly at any time and enter Guangdong or Guangxi. (To be continued......)