"Then in your opinion, if this counterattack of the Chinese army is a secret conspiracy, what kind of conspiracy will it be?" Sugiyama asked.

Hebe Zhengsan frowned, and said: "I can't judge this humble position for the time being, so I can only sit and watch the development of the situation." ”】

Sugiyama Gen is a little dissatisfied, sitting and watching the development of events? Isn't this nonsense? Wait until the dragon tooth column has knocked down Hengshui City, and then you can judge that there is still a fart.

However, no matter how he said that Kawabe Shozo was his chief of staff and partner, and there were some things that he couldn't say directly, so he muttered for a while and said: "No matter what, Sakai Rizo's department can't just break the battle damage like this, find a way, protect them first, and then make countermeasures according to the movements of the Shina army." ”

Kawabe Shozo had to bow his head and say, "Hai, the general is wise, and he thinks so about his humble position." ”

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In the end, Kawabe Shozo sent a telegram to Sakai Tatsuzo, asking Sakai Tatsuzo to transfer the garrisons of Anping and Raoyang two counties out, and take him and his subordinate city defense troops to break through from Hengshui and temporarily abandon Hengshui.

However, neither Sakai Ritsuzo, nor Kawabe Shozo, nor Sugiyama Moto, could have imagined that Qiao Youhua was already waiting in Hengshui City, waiting for Sakai Ritsu to transfer the Japanese reinforcements from Anping and Raoyang.

Otherwise, with the dragon tooth guard battalion, cavalry battalion, and artillery battalion being well-equipped, how could they not be able to capture Hengshui City for a long time when they had already entered the city and tens of thousands of troops surrounded Hengshui City?

In order to attract reinforcements from Japanese troops in other counties, encircle the points and send reinforcements, and complete their efforts in one battle, annihilating all the Japanese troops in the Hengshui area.

Only in this way can Qiao Youhua wave his army eastward without any worries and fight all the way to the beach!

"Commander, the guard battalion has already reached the crossroads in the center of the city, why did it stop advancing?" Zheng Yunshan, the commander of the guard battalion with a lot of black ash on his face, came to Qiao Youhua and asked, carrying an MP38 submachine gun in confusion.

He was originally directing the troops to attack in the city, but suddenly received an order from Qiao Youhua to hand over the attack to a battalion of the Second Regiment, but the guard battalion was temporarily withdrawn to rest.

Qiao Youhua looked at the dusty face of his tiger general, and smiled: "Don't rush to capture Hengshui first, then your guard battalion has more important things to do!" ”

"More important things?" Zheng Yunshan was confused and said, "Please make it clear to the commander." ”

"The cavalry battalion has just received news that the Japanese troops in Anping and Raoyang counties have poured out of their nests and are rushing to Hengshui for reinforcements! I decided to defeat the two reinforcements of the devil first, and then go back to clean up the remaining defenders in Hengshui City! Your guard battalion is the strongest and the best equipped, so bring you out of the city and ambush you! Qiao Youhua said.

Zheng Yunshan nodded and said, "Oh, I see, then you will give the order, commander, where shall we ambush?" ”

Qiao Youhua waved his hand at him, turned around and took out a combat map, pointed to Shenzhou City on the map, and said: "Whether it is the devils of Anping or Raoyang, they must rush to reinforce Hengshui as quickly as possible, and Shenzhou City is the only way for them, according to the intelligence detected by the cavalry battalion."

Shenzhou City is now in the hands of a small group of Japanese troops, there are not many troops, you take the guard battalion to set off immediately, quietly kill the defenders in the city, and then disguise yourself as the Japanese army to spread a net in the city, and the cavalry battalion will set up an ambush on the periphery. ”

Zheng Yunshan happily received the order and saluted: "Yes, the humble post will leave immediately, please rest assured, commander!" ”

Qiao Youhua smiled and nodded, this task was handed over to the guard battalion, he was a hundred relieved, Shenzhou is just a small city around Hengshui, slightly larger than the town, but not enough for the county level.

Since the Japanese army retreated to Hengshui for a short time, it had not had time to operate and strengthen such surrounding towns, and there were not many troops, so the defense was naturally not very strong.

The first elite battalion under his command wiped them out and captured this city, which was absolutely hand-to-hand, as simple as digging for something.

Zheng Yunshan was ordered to set off with the guard battalion, and before leaving, Qiao Youhua asked them to bring two 37mm anti-aircraft guns, because they were not sure whether the Japanese troops in Anping and Raoyang had armored forces such as tanks and armored vehicles.

Two 37mm anti-aircraft guns are not too much of a burden for a guard battalion with a strength of nearly 1,000 troops, and it will not affect their marching speed.

But he was prepared.

Subsequently, Qiao Youhua ordered Ma Biao's second regiment to move all the captured soldiers to Shimen, and handed them over to the militia left behind under the command of Guo Meng, as well as the arsenal garrison brigade that had just arrived from the direction of Lingshou to guard and detain.

After the second regiment divided its troops to guard the three cities of Luancheng, Jinzhou and Xinji, the main force immediately marched eastward, joined up with the third regiment, and encircled Hengshui to ensure that the reinforcements were foolproof this time.

The so-called encirclement point reinforcement, the most important thing is, of course, the encirclement, in case Sakai Tatsuzo in the city is lucky to break through, then the bait is not there, and there will be no reinforcement.

After Ma Biao led the main force of the Second Regiment to arrive, the strength of the Dragon's Tooth Column outside Hengshui City had exceeded 15,000 people, almost surrounding Hengshui like an iron bucket, without leakage.

Sakai was shocked when he learned of this situation, and while shrinking his defense and preserving his vital strength, he sent several telegrams in succession, urging Anping and Raoyang reinforcements to speed up their advance, and rushed to reinforcements as soon as possible.

Shenzhou City is located in the middle of Hengshui, Anping and Raoyang, which are about fifty or sixty miles away from these three places.

The Longya Cavalry Battalion had been ordered to spread the scouts to Anping and Raoyang, in order to monitor the movements of the Japanese troops in these two places.

Qiao Youhua knew that there was no further ado, so he immediately transferred the guard battalion out of the city, and then let Zheng Yunshan set off non-stop, so there was not much difference between the two sides in terms of marching time.

All the members of the guard battalion are the strongest elite selected by the entire dragon tooth column, and the body is the crown of the whole army.

Knowing that it was no further ado, Zheng Yunshan led the soldiers of the whole battalion to throw away all the baggage except for weapons and ammunition, and ran wildly all the way, marching as fast as possible.

In addition, Liu Jianhua was worried that the guard battalion would not be able to rush to Shenzhou City before the Japanese army, so he ordered the cavalry scouts under his command to constantly harass the Japanese army along the way, which greatly slowed down the Japanese army's marching speed.

Therefore, Zheng Yunshan's guard battalion finally rushed to Shenzhou City before the Japanese reinforcements.

Zheng Yunshan asked the soldiers to hurry up and rest, and he took two guards with binoculars to personally observe the situation in Shenzhou City.

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