Kong Jie has always been meticulous in his work, his troops and horses have not moved, intelligence first, infiltration troops first, and military preparations and blockade in all aspects first.

After deciding to divide the troops from the troops in the northern Henan base area.

Kong Jie led the combat troops that were advancing eastward from the northern Henan region and attempting to advance from the junction of Henan and Shandong to the southwest of Shandong, and again divided into two routes.

One is a rapid reaction force composed of a large number of mechanized combat vehicles, which is directly pushed horizontally, and in the middle of the way, it is divided into multiple mechanized combat units, and then converge in the designated area, or disperse again.

In this way, the area of operation was expanded, the results of the battle were expanded, and at the same time, the Japanese air fire was guarded against concentrated strikes.

There was a lot of commotion, and the Japanese troops in the southwest of Lu had repeatedly asked for help from the outside world.

Lu Southwest is constantly in a hurry!

attracted the attention of many Japanese puppet armies.

On the other hand, in the direction of northern Henan, the activities of the Eighth Route Army troops were still hot.

A few days ago.

When Kong Jie led the rapid reaction force all the way south, he first united with the Eighth Route Army in the Shanxi-Hebei-Shandong-Henan border region and defeated the Japanese Fourth Cavalry Brigade.

and smoothly took advantage of the collapse of the Japanese army's defense in Xinxiang, and the convoy disguised as the Japanese army captured Xinxiang in one fell swoop.

After that, the commander of the Kong detachment decisively ordered to take advantage of the victory to pursue, and at the same time united some surrounding local army units, and even militia units, to increase the momentum, and the bluffing Japanese army did not dare to counterattack.

In this way, the troops from all walks of life arrived smoothly outside Kaifeng City.

And the defenders of Kaifeng, as well as the remnants of the Japanese Harada Division who finally retreated into Kaifeng, were completely trapped in the city.

When the forward observation post reported back, the news said that a large number of armored vehicles and tank units of the Eighth Route Army were moving back and forth outside Kaifeng City.

Feel the tremendous pressure of these torrents of steel.

The old devil Harada had no doubt that even if he still had three or five thousand troops under his hands, as long as he dared to go out of the city, he would definitely be crushed into mud by the other party.

After relying on the armored troops to successfully bluff the little devils.

Kong Jie repeated his old tricks, learned the means of transporting troops in Datong at the beginning, and used all kinds of transport vehicles to continuously transport the troops of the Eighth Route Army in northern Henan to the outside of Kaifeng City.

These troops then succeeded Kong Jie's team and continued to encircle the defenders of the Japanese puppet army in Kaifeng.

Time is moving fast......

The old devil Harada learned that there were more and more Eighth Route Army outside the city, and even various numbers were played, and he was even more panicked in his heart.

In particular, the mechanized units of the Eighth Route Army also continued to cooperate with the local troops in the northern Henan base area to carry out sabotage warfare against the communication lines and strongholds outside the county towns, and the momentum was huge.

The whole line in northern Henan is in an emergency!

！

The telegrams asking for help were almost full of Harada's headquarters.

The Fourth Cavalry Brigade, the largest mobile force of the Japanese army in northern Henan, was almost completely annihilated, shrinking and holding on to the county seat.

There was no mobile reinforcements in various places, and the defense lines were quickly paralyzed.

The Eighth Route Army also carried out a sabotage war on the Longhai Line near Kaifeng, and only needed to pay a part of the grain, and the victims could be asked to carry food and other materials.

On the land of northern Henan, almost everywhere is the transport team of the Eighth Route Army, and the victims who were transferred with the transport team, and the devils in the county towns along the way can only watch, and they dare not even go out.

Before leaving, Kong Jie also used the massive amount of daily tickets he had seized to buy a brigade of weapons and ammunition from the Central Army in central Henan and food for three divisions for a year.

Including trucks, fuel and other military supplies.

What makes Captain Kong really admire is that these national army troops really have how much money you have, how dare people have, as long as the price is right enough, you can sell it as such!

At this point, the commander of the Harada Division was really panicked.

Outside the city, the Eighth Route Army was about to advance to the Kaifeng City Gate, the peripheral advance stronghold was gone, the production base was gone, Kaifeng, which was located in the plain, was almost unsafe, and the city wall was bombarded by the artillery fire of the Eighth Route Army.

At this time, he remembered that he had done a lot of bad things in northern Henan.

If the city is broken, will he be like the newspaper published in the previous Eighth Road propaganda, and the captain of the Suzuki Wing of the Mongolian Army, Suzuki Daizuo, will be tried by the public.

Shot by the Eighth Route Army in humiliation?

As soon as he thought of this, Harada's heart trembled.

This Yoshio Shinozuka is too incompetent, how did he let the main force of the Shanxi Eighth Route Army come here?

The chief of staff and a group of officers beside him looked at their division commanders, all of whom were all six gods and no masters, and they were flustered.

"Your Excellency, Division Commander, this fortress city has been lost.

Looking at the posture of the Eighth Road, it is clear that it is to storm Kaifeng, can we defend the defeated soldiers? ”

Harada's face was also dead for a while, he was silent for a long time, and suddenly thought about it, and quickly asked the intelligence department to check the number of the Eighth Route Army in the battle reports that appeared in the battlefields of northern Henan, southern Hebei, central Hebei, and Shanxi.

After a quick investigation, Harada immediately ordered:

"From now on, call me every half hour to the headquarters of the various dispatch forces.

Let's just say that the main force of the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army, the 386th and 385th Brigades and other main forces have broken through the Shanxi defense line and moved south, arrived in Kaifeng, and besieged our Kaifeng in groups.

The Eighth Route has set up a temporary command post outside the city, and is fully commanding the Eighth Route Chen Department in southern Hebei and the Yang Department in northern Henan, frantically attacking the city.

Our ministry is willing to defend Kaifeng and serve the emperor!

Please send troops to reinforce quickly, request air fire reinforcements, and request airdrop material reinforcements! ”

"Hey!"

The same grasshopper tied to a rope, the other devil officers quickly took action.

That's it.

On the side of the troops in the northern Henan base area, after Kong Jie led the mechanized combat troops to leave, they launched a fierce attack on Kaifeng City, which was originally to cover the northward movement of Kong Jie's troops, but the final effect was far beyond Kong Jie's expectations.

When Haradabe's emergency news was conveyed to the headquarters of the various Japanese dispatch armies.

Not to mention the whole of North China, even the troops sent by Central and South China, including the Northeast Army, were also taken aback after learning the news.

The Japanese did not understand what was going on.

Just a day ago, the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army, including the main forces of the Eighth Route Army in central and southern Hebei, was still near Licheng, and put on a posture of fighting a decisive battle against Licheng.

After the Japanese troops from Central China and South China and the reinforcements of the Northeast Army arrived near Licheng, those cunning Eighth Route Army scattered in a hurry, leaving the Japanese reinforcements empty.

Then, the Eighth Route Army took advantage of the chaos to attack the Japanese defense line in various places, interspersed with infiltration operations.

The Japanese army was busy and went around dismantling and repairing the defense.

Although it was a little embarrassing, it could barely cope with it.

But then the news came that the main force of the Eighth Route Army of the 129th Division, including the main force of the Eighth Route Army in southern Hebei and northern Henan, suddenly appeared under the city of Kaifeng and formed a joint siege offensive against Kaifeng.

The Japanese army was completely stunned.

The destruction of Datong City is already a shame, and it took a lot of effort to save Licheng, and it did not cause Licheng to repeat the mistakes of Datong and lose the last fig leaf.

At present, the Eighth Road is besieging Kaifeng again.

Could it be that this shameful history has to be repeated again?

In terms of importance, this Kaifeng is not much smaller than Licheng Datong.

The Japanese command was originally very suspicious, how could the main force of the Eighth Route appear in northern Henan from Licheng in one day?

Even if the whole army is Scud, it won't be so exaggerated!

What's more, in the direction of Zhongtiao Mountain, the Japanese army's defense line is still there, and the devil command said that it has not found a large number of Eighth Route Army moving south.

The main force of tens of thousands of troops on these eight routes can't first go around from Licheng to southern Hebei, and then from southern Li to Kaifeng, right?

It is impossible to judge the veracity of the information at the moment.

However, the Sonoda command swore by this, and the Japanese army naturally could not sit idly by and watch Kaifeng City be breached, so they had to hurriedly issue an order to let the reinforcements from all sides try to converge in the direction of Kaifeng.

At this moment, the attention of all parties of the Japanese puppet army was firmly attracted to the direction of Kaifeng.

……

The advance assault force sent by Kong Jie successfully took some railway stations in northern Henan and destroyed the communication stations of the devils as soon as possible, causing the local communication system of the Japanese army to be paralyzed.

Under the cover of the big commotion from all sides.

The soldiers got on the train to Zaozhuang, and there were troops disguised as Japanese soldiers, and when they passed through some stations, they easily passed through the customs.

The little devils even watched over the smooth movement of the train along the entire railway line.

Thereupon......

In the eyes of all directions, the attack of the main force of the Eighth Route Army on Kaifeng was still in full swing, and the Japanese reinforcements from all sides rushed to the direction of Kaifeng.

The mechanized combat vehicles led by Kong Jie are even more rampant and have advanced all the way to the southwest of Shandong.

Then, more than 2,000 main combat units of the Eighth Route Army, carrying quite exaggerated firepower configurations, appeared outside Zaozhuang City like divine soldiers descending from heaven.

Then without hesitation, the siege began.

The devil officers guarding the city looked at the large number of main forces of the Eighth Route Army who suddenly came to the city, and their souls were almost frightened.

Even if he killed him, he would never have thought that the Eighth Route Army, which suddenly appeared under the city, would take his train from the Great Japanese Empire and rush all the way from northern Henan with such a swagger.

The siege of Zaozhuang officially began.

The devil puppet army defending the city hurriedly defended, however, the firepower configuration of this ghost-like Eighth Route Army unit far exceeded the imagination of the Japanese army.

There were even heavy artillery pieces of 105 mm caliber, which were transported by train by these Eighth Route Army troops, and then dragged all the way to the outside of Zaozhuang City by tractor to bombard.

Kong Jie specially attached some heavy rocket artillery to this combat unit, and after a round of shelling, the devil was just a wooden and stone turret stronghold, and it was directly blown to pieces.

Even some concrete bunkers were directly collapsed.

Zaozhuang is in a hurry!

！

The news spread quickly.

The Japanese army in the southwest of Shandong hurriedly reinforced in the direction of Zaozhuang, but in the middle of the way, it was directly defeated by the mechanized combat troops led by Kong Jie who were approaching the direction of Zaozhuang with a unilateral crushing formation.

When the armored vehicles and tank units belonging to the Eighth Route Army appeared outside Zaozhuang City with a roar.

The officers of the Japanese garrison, whose faces had changed drastically after being bluffed, hurriedly conveyed a call for help to the headquarters of the various dispatch troops, and expressed the same expression in the communication.

The main combat force of the Taihang Eighth Route Army appeared under the city of Zaozhuang and was frantically attacking the city.

"Which main force?"

"Your Excellency Commander, they have a large number of mechanized combat vehicles, and they are wearing uniform uniforms, even steel helmets, and field military boots on their feet, they should be the combat troops of the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army in Shanxi!"

……

"General Shinozuka, what the hell is going on?"

"Your Excellency, Commander, can you give a suitable explanation?"

The telegrams that almost filled the headquarters of the First Army almost burst the telephones of the First Army.

has already been in the turmoil of the Eighth Route Army, he has not closed his eyes for several nights, his eyeballs are bloodshot, and the whole person describes the withered Yoshio Shinozuka, hysterically roaring filial piety:

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"Baga, this is absolutely impossible, how could the main force of the Eighth Road appear in Licheng for a while, and then appear in Kaifeng for a while, and then run to Zaozhuang again?

How can you conclude that they must be the Eighth Road in my Shanxi?

Are they all ghosts? ”

……

In the roar of the commander of the First Army of the devil, Yoshio Shinozuka.

However, there are many brave generals on the side of the Eighth Route Army, and they decided to add another fire to the little devils.

First, the news of the siege of Kaifeng came.

Immediately afterwards, the Japanese army in the direction of Zaozhuang was also completely besieged in the city!

385 Brigade.

Brigade Commander Chen couldn't sit still, and scolded at the regiment commanders: "Look at the 386th Brigade, look at the people Kong Jie and Li Yunlong, the rear of the little devils is about to be penetrated by others!"

I can't count on you.

If you want to fight for our 385 brigade, I can't say that I, the brigade commander, have to play in person! ”

Brigade Commander Chen, who did what he said, did not know anything about the lake, and he sent the armored battalion composed of some armored vehicles he had accumulated over the past year to the direction of Jizhong.

Then they converged with the troops in Jizhong and tried to advance in the direction of Baoding.

In the words of Brigade Commander Chen: "If you want to fight us, you will fight his mother's big one, which can be compared with the cities of Datong, Licheng, Kaifeng, and Zaozhuang, and is the most suitable as our offensive target, that is, this Baoding!" ”

And that's not all, after the start of the military offensive.

The propaganda offensive immediately followed.

Since it is a propaganda offensive, there is no need to pay taxes for bragging.

From Taihang area to Datong, from Datong to Licheng, from Licheng to Kaifeng, from Kaifeng to Zaozhuang......

Under this almost irregular fireworks-like offensive.

——The Eighth Route Army is preparing to launch a full-scale counteroffensive, first go down to Datong, then take Kaifeng, enter Zaozhuang, take Luzhong in the north, push Baoding in the east, gather the three armies, push directly to Beiping, and capture Gangcun alive!

This was enough to shake the entire North China, and even the entire Sino-Japanese battlefield, and even the winter propaganda offensive of the Eighth Route Army, which attracted global attention, spread rapidly at an exaggerated speed like the spread of the plague.

That......

Peiping.

The Supreme Commander of the Japanese Army's North China Dispatch Army, Supreme Commander Okamura Ninji, picked up the report published by the Eighth Route Army in his hand, and after reading this content, he was first furious, and then felt full of shame.

In the end, there was also a cool breath from the bottom of my heart.

At present, the battlefield on all sides is becoming more and more intense, and it has completely turned into a situation of porridge.

Just the fact that he sent troops to North China has even been unable to control the situation.

Soldiers don't get tired of deceit.

Could it be that the Eighth Route Army's unusually fierce counteroffensive was really coming to the base camp of his North China dispatch army as the propaganda said......