The commander-in-chief of the group army actually personally led a team to help, which surprised Ma Zhongying, and the little careful thought of greed in his heart suddenly disappeared, even if he didn't know Hu Weidong, he wouldn't think that a dignified commander-in-chief of a group army would compete with him for credit as a division commander, not to mention that he also knew that Hu Weidong was not that kind of person at all. After having more than 2,000 elite infantry, Ma Zhongying did not have to let the armored battalion look at the more than 1,000 stubborn devils, but could devote more troops to the pursuit, and at the same time, the jeep brought by Hu Weidong could also participate in the pursuit because of its excellent off-road performance, thus further expanding the results of the battle.

However, even if it was found that the enemy had received reinforcements, the more than 1,000 devils who had "drawn the ground into a prison" never surrendered, and even seized every bit of time to build fortifications and repair the ring anti-tank trenches one by one, even if the extremely effective guard regiment was supported by the fire support of the 105 mountain guns, which were far more powerful than the 75mm guns, they still could not quickly wipe them out, Hu Weidong couldn't help but sigh, "The quality of Japan's original more than 200,000 standing troops is indeed strong!" Even the gendarmes, which are not exclusively used for combat, have such combat effectiveness, but fortunately, these Japanese veterans have now consumed more than half of them, and in the general war between one country and another, the ability to mobilize is honestly far more important than the quality of the standing army."

As the 15th Army moved north, the countless devils who were driven by the armored cavalry division to the south had no way out, and the Japanese soldiers who had long lost their fighting spirit abandoned their weapons and surrendered, relatively speaking, the Japanese officers had a stronger will to resist, but now that the military spirit was broken, it was difficult for them to restrain their subordinates, but because they insisted on resisting, they were quickly eliminated by the soldiers of the 15th Army, during which there were even a few cases of Japanese soldiers who did not want to accompany the funeral and shot the commander's black gun. With the full cooperation of the 15th Army and the armored cavalry division, more than 70,000 of the 200,000 Japanese troops on the northern route were killed, and more than 100,000 surrendered or were captured. Combined with the number of enemy annihilation reported by guerrillas in various places during the post-war period, the number of Japanese troops surviving on this route was less than 10,000 (in fact, there were only more than 5,000), which was almost as good as the total annihilation of the Japanese army in a systematic manner

In these devils who are panicked like lost dogs. The arrogance of the Japanese army in the early days of the war can no longer be seen, but it is no wonder that even if the results of this battle are not counted, the total number of Japanese killed and captured so far has exceeded 1.1 million (of which the Kuomintang army won 200,000). It is also much stronger than the same period in history, but it is still incomparable with the 15th Group Army and other red party armies. And that's not counting the 120,000 Japanese troops who were exchanged for prisoners of war and put back. This is not inferior to the Pacific War, which suffered the largest casualties of the Japanese army during World War II in history (Note 1), a large number of veterans were killed and the Japanese army was greatly expanded, so that the quality of the Japanese army's soldiers dropped again and again, and the influence of the so-called "bushido spirit" was also rapidly weakened. He suffered from the "phobia of the 15th Army". In this case, with the exception of a unit composed mainly of veterans like the Japanese military police, it is difficult for the devils to recreate the invincibility of the first war

The large force of the 15th Army marched north and almost wiped out the Japanese troops fleeing south, which almost announced the end of the Japanese military police, but Hu Weidong suddenly received a telegram at this time. Hu Weidong, who knew very well that "soldiers are noble and fast," quickly made a decision, and he sent a telegram to the main force of the 15 th Army that he would lead the guard regiment and other troops from the north to return to the south, so that they did not have to go north to join him, but should quickly clean up the battlefield and repair on the spot, so as to prepare for the next big battle, and just wait for him to lead the army back.

It turned out that before the start of the war, Hu Weidong had deployed another strange army in addition to the armored cavalry division, that is, the day longitudinal who had repeatedly performed miraculous feats. Although the vigilance of the Japanese army has been greatly enhanced after suffering several heavy losses, but in the process of marching all the way, the Japanese column tried to avoid the lines of communication as much as possible, and if they really couldn't avoid it, they would only encounter a small group of Japanese troops anyway, they said that their army had an important task in their bodies, and then they directly slapped their mouths at others. You must know that since the establishment of the Japanese Column, except for the addition of political workers in units above the company level and the innovation of tactics to a certain extent, everything else has been the same.

Besides, with the current strength of the Japanese army, even if it is discovered by the devils after penetrating into the area south of the Huai River, where the Japanese army is now seriously underarmed, it is not easy for the enemy to eagerly want to eat it, and no matter how bad it is, he can escape into the area of He Changgong (after the main civilian armed forces in Shandong have been solved, his initial task of coming to the Central Plains border area has been completed, and he was ordered to go south to establish an anti-Japanese base behind the enemy. led the Jianghuai anti-Japanese base area, so this mission is actually not as dangerous as it seems. On the contrary, because they pretended to be too similar, they were accidentally attacked by a certain guerrilla force in the Jianghuai area, and after clarifying the misunderstanding, the head of the county brigade was naturally embarrassed, but Shiraishi Tomohisa was inspired by this, and let more than a dozen guerrillas who were accidentally injured but not seriously injured pretend to be tied up and follow them on the road, so that no one suspected that they were devils on the road

They can ambush the isolated troops of the Japanese army in the field to cooperate with the military and civilians in the Jianghuai anti-Japanese base area, and they can also attack all the Japanese pseudo-strongholds that they think are sure to take or have the opportunity to encircle the point to send reinforcements, among which Hu Weidong believes that the most valuable and difficult is to attack the transportation hub Bengbu, because as long as Bengbu is taken and the Bengbu railway bridge on the Jinpu line is cut off, then none of the 200,000 Japanese troops who cross the Huai River north can escape

Note 1: In the Pacific War, the Japanese army lost more than 1.5 million deaths, but the army only 1.1 million, and the number of surrenders and captures was very small, which is basically negligible, and it is about the same as the total record of the Chinese army in this time and space. With the support of the military-industrial system and advanced tactics, coupled with the fact that the foundation of the Red Army at the time of reorganization was more than 10 times stronger than in the same period in history (the strength of the army was 5 times, counting the advantage in weapons and ammunition, 10 times is undercounted. Compared with the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army in history, the strength of the people's army is simply a cloud of mud (to be continued. )