On the morning of the 28th, in Shanxi, the Ming Army's Left Army Group took Dai County, passed through Beiyue Hengshan from Yanmen Pass as originally planned, and advanced to Shanyin County at noon, and Shanyin County surrendered to Cheng. In the evening, it advanced to Huairen County, and Huairen County surrendered to Cheng. By half-past six o'clock when it was dark and encamped, it was still 15 kilometers away from Datong.

Datong is also an important town outside the pass of the Qing army, but at this time the main force of the Qing army is in the pass, that is, east of Badaling. Shanxi and Inner Mongolia, west of Badaling, are both places where there is no military force. The standing army of the Qing army in Datong had only one brigade or so. In the afternoon, when the Ming army advanced north, the planes dropped leaflets over and over again over Datong. When it was time to camp in Huairen County in the evening, the Datong defenders took the initiative to send people to contact them to discuss the matter of surrendering tomorrow and inquire about the conditions.

The so-called conditions are the bonus standards set by the Ming army. The Qing army guards also knew that they did not have many soldiers in their hands, and Datong was not a dangerous pass, easy to defend and difficult to attack, and there was no bargaining capital. After confirming that the Ming army would cash in the bounty, he was satisfied.

The Qing army was not idle. On this day, the eight Eight Banner Divisions sent by the Qing Army's Beijing-Tianjin Corps to the south of Zhili took a train to the south and deployed along the railway line on the east side of Shanxi. On the one hand, he defended the Jingnan Railway, and on the other hand, he also tried to build a barrier, organizing the Ming army in Shanxi to march down the mountain, break into the Zhili Plain, and attack the Central Plains Corps from behind the buttocks.

In fact, the Qing army's forces in the north already felt overstretched. Originally, there were 19 divisions left in the Beijing-Tianjin Corps, and now only 8 divisions can be taken south. Further north, the Northern Corps, which was guarded against the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union has always had bad intentions in the Far East and has repeatedly wanted to send ground troops south to "help". Although Molotov kept saying that the Soviet Union's assistance to the Northern Qing Dynasty was also for his own considerations, and had no other meaning, Guangwu still felt that Stalin was not authentic and was quite uneasy about the Soviet Union. Before the negotiation was made, he did not dare to relax the Northern Army easily.

However, fortunately, the Northern Army has a large number of troops, about 1.2 million, and it is still possible to transfer more than 100,000 or 200,000 now. This is also the reason why Guangwu dared to send 8 Eight Banner Divisions south when the Ming army was approaching Zhangjiakou day by day. Because when the 8 Eight Banner Divisions were going south by train, the 5 Mongolian Eight Banner Divisions and 10 Han Army Divisions of the Northern Army had already taken the train south to reinforce the Beijing-Tianjin defensive circle.

The Qing army had limited forces in the south of Zhili and could not block the whole of Shanxi. The focus was on Shijiazhuang and Handan. Because Taihang Mountain has a relatively gentle pass area in both places, it is suitable for mechanized large corps to drive. If the Ming army moved east into and out of Shanxi, it was most likely to use troops in these two places.

The Jingnan Line is close to the Taihang Mountains and parallel to the Taihang Mountains. Before these eight Eight Banner Divisions came, the Taihang Mountain Column always went down the mountain to attack and harass along the Jingnan Railway. However, after the Eight Banners Division got off the car along the line and quickly deployed its defenses, it fought an encounter with the Taihang Mountain Column within a day. The Taihang Mountain Column had not yet received the news, so it still went down the mountain to attack and harass, but was caught by the Eight Banners Division who had just arrived. A battalion of the Taihang Mountain Column was surrounded by a regiment of the Eight Banners Division, and finally the whole army was annihilated.

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In the eastern Central Plains battlefield, the Ming army tossed the Qing army on the whole line last night, and in the morning, the Qing army on the front line was so sleepy that they couldn't open their eyes and were about to collapse. If the Ming army took advantage of the major change of defense, the poor coordination of various departments, and the chaos of the attack, then maybe the defense line would be lost. Therefore, the front-line Qing army had to hold on.

By almost noon, the sun was rising, and there was still no movement on the opposite side, and the reconnaissance forces sent out and the reaction of the reconnaissance planes seemed to be making some kind of major adjustment to the Ming army on the other side.

The headquarters of the Central Plains Corps finally breathed a sigh of relief and ordered the first-line clearing troops to quickly change guards with the second-line.

The Qing army reconnoitred the Ming army, and the Ming army was also reconnoitring the Qing army. After receiving an aerial reconnaissance report, Li Guoliang judged that the Qing army was changing its guard in general, and hurriedly dispatched a bomber formation according to the original plan.

More than 200 horizontal bombers and more than 300 dive bombers took off in formation and divided into four large aircraft groups, seizing the opportunity of the Qing army's major change of defense and many troops lining up to get out of the trenches. This bombing did not kill or injure too many Qing troops, because after all, the Qing army was ready to change its defenses and would not be too far away from the communication trenches. As soon as the Qing soldiers heard the air raid siren, they quickly hid in the trenches.

However, this bombing has made the already chaotic change of guard even more chaotic, and the structure of many units has been completely disrupted, and the soldiers cannot find the officers, and the officers cannot find the soldiers. The ground troops of the Ming army took the opportunity to organize an attack, and actually formed a breakthrough in the direction of Suqian, advancing more than 10 kilometers in an hour, and a tank regiment of the People's Guard drove until the edge of Luoma Lake before stopping.

When the news reached the Nanjing Command, the hall was ecstatic. According to the position reported by the front, now they have left Suqian County behind.

"Don't attack the county seat!" Li Gensheng didn't have to give instructions to Xiaoqiang, grabbed the phone and shouted in front of him, "Hurry up and expand the mouth and tear it apart!" ”

Xiang Xiaoqiang was also overjoyed, touched the sweat on his head, stood in front of the map with Zhang Zhaoxian and Tang Yunsheng, and said with a smile:

"Huh...... I didn't expect to break through here...... Our efforts last night paid off so quickly......"

At this time, Li Gensheng sent another telegram from the front. According to the report, during the firefight, it was found that many Qing troops on the opposite side were often very close and did not open fire. Also, the machine gun on the opposite side often suddenly mutes, and it takes a long time to be dumb. I was able to reach Suqian in just one hour, and to a large extent, this is also a reason.

Xiang Xiaoqiang took the telegram and became interested. He suddenly thought of the reason for the uprising of the Taihang Mountain column. Isn't it that the Qincha officer grabbed the corrupt pigtails of the leaders of the Baoding Arsenal and wantonly extorted them, and then the factory leaders wantonly extorted the workers and forced the workers to rebel? The quality of the weapons and ammunition of the Qing army was poor, and that was consistent. Presumably, this time will be no exception.

But why has it been fought for so long that it has only been exposed today?

"Roots!" He shouted, "Bring me the map of the Qing army's defense line and I'll take a look at it!" ”

took the map, touched Xiaoqiang's chin, and studied the approximate number of the Qing army's defense line on the opposite side. The so-called number map is to indicate on the military map which section of the defense line is which division and which army is stationed. These are all based on intelligence feedback, coupled with front-line reconnaissance, and are comprehensively determined, which may not be completely accurate, but the general deviation is not large.

Xiang Xiaoqiang's fingers slowly moved on the defense line of hundreds of kilometers, and there were words in his mouth:

"Eight Banners 2nd Division...... Baqi 5th Division...... Baqi 12th Division...... Eight Banners 8th Division...... Eight Banners 16th Division...... The front-line troops are all the Eight Banners Division...... Second-line troops...... Half of them are Han military divisions...... No wonder! So far, all the tough battles have been fought with the Eight Banners Division, and obviously, the quality of the weapons of the Eight Banners Division is fine. In the hands of the Han military division, it is some inferior products. Now it's exposed. ”

He nodded, looked up at the large map again, turned his head and ordered:

"Gensheng, let the armored division in front leave Suqian County alone, and don't advance to the left, focus on the right! To the east of Suqian, it is a relatively weak area, and it is easier to expand the mouth here! Pizhou and Xuzhou let go first and attack Haizhou to the east! ”