It's just that the commander-in-chief, His Excellency Okamura, ordered very clearly that no Eighth Route Army could be allowed to pass through the defense line around Baoding and Shimen.

Although it is not uncommon for the Japanese army to be defeated, it is natural that this should not be too ugly on the surface.

The old devil pondered for a while, in this Kaifeng, the Harada Division has been in a hurry, saying that the main force of the Eighth Route Army is attacking the city.

In Zaozhuang, the guy from Gujing also said in the communication that the main force of the Taihang Eighth Route Army was coming to the city.

even said that he had a nose and eyes, and he almost accurately described the appearance of the former enemy commander-in-chief of the Eighth Route Army.

It's not bad for him to think about it.

As for the safety of the General Headquarters after these Eighth Route Army broke through their own defense line and advanced to Beiping, it was not a genuine concern.

If His Excellency the Commander-in-Chief had not even anticipated this, and had prepared well in advance, he would not have been worthy of that position.

You can sit firmly in the military tent and give orders.

After all, didn't we block your gun in front?

"Roar West, immediately contact the headquarters and ask His Excellency the Commander for help, just say that the main forces of the Eighth Route Army in Jizhong, Southern Hebei and Shanxi will have at least one division...... No, it's the strength of two divisions, which is advancing towards our defense area.

Baoding, Shimen is in an emergency, Pinghan Line, Zhengtai Line and Shide Line may be difficult to preserve, please ask for tactical guidance! ”

Soon after the original communication was transmitted, the situation between China and Japan in the Baoding area of Shimen gradually became clear in the course of evolution.

The main division, which started as a shrunken turtle, preserved its main force, and nested in some large strongholds, towns, and county towns with strong fortifications, and did not show its head at all.

In this regard, no matter how powerful the Eighth Route Army is, it is helpless to take these devils.

Of course, the various troops that advanced to the Shimen area of Baoding this time included the reinforced regiment led by Shen Quan, the troops sent by Commander Lu in central Hebei, and the armored battalion sent by the 385th Brigade.

These commanders had already reached an agreement in communication:

Therefore, the suspicious array, the sound of the east and the west, the attack on Baoding and Shimen, as well as the local Zhengtai line, Shide line and other railway lines, is just to knock on the mountain and shock the tiger, scare and scare the little devils.

In fact, everyone did not expect that with the help of this limited force, they would be able to resist the reinforcements that could be drawn from all sides of the Japanese army at any time, and break through Baoding, Shimen and other important cities that are easy to defend and difficult to attack.

After all, it is not the time for a decisive battle with the Japanese army.

When talking about this matter, the commanders of the Eighth Route Army were even worried.

If it is said that the defeat of Datong has seriously weakened the military influence of the Japanese army, it has caused the Japanese army to suffer great humiliation.

and then continue to take Licheng, break Kaifeng, and even take Zaozhuang, Baoding and Shimen.

Okay!

In case the little devil and the Eighth Route Army are forced to die.

It is even possible for this devil to directly abandon the frontal battlefield operations, transfer all the elites back, and concentrate his forces against the troops of the Eighth Route Army.

Even if the battlefield behind enemy lines is developed into a frontal battlefield, the gains outweigh the losses.

Do you think that at that time Chiang's troops would take the opportunity to attack the Japanese defense line with empty troops?

Don't even think about it, maybe people are watching the fire from the other side and clapping their hands!

So......

"This sneak attack on Baoding, the Shimen area is just to contain the Japanese army's strength, and in addition, to weaken the Japanese army's control over the outside line of Baoding and Shimen.

We can't defeat these important cities of the devils, and we can still do it by uprooting some towns, villages, strongholds, and various communication lines on the outer line.

Leave a few lonely cities for the little devils, in the future, this little devil has more than enough to protect himself, and if he wants to sweep our base, then he has to weigh it carefully. ”

Thereupon......

It was only a day and a half.

"Report to Your Excellency the Commander-in-Chief, according to the situation reported by the headquarters of the main division, the outer defense areas in Baoding and Shimen have been completely paralyzed, and the Eighth Route Army may have broken through the defense line and is advancing in the direction of Beiping!"

Beiping, the headquarters of the Japanese army in North China.

Commander-in-Chief Okamura, who heard the news, turned blue with anger.

If he still doesn't know what's going on, he's really a stupid pig.

"Bastards, these damn bastards, so passively avoiding war, is there any hope for my Great Japanese Empire's holy war?"

Main.

Everywhere was the main force of the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army.

Could it be that there are four, five, seven, or eight 129 divisions on the Eighth Road?

First Licheng, then Kaifeng, then Zaozhuang, and then Baoding and Shimen.

Why, this is the main force of the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army?

How many of them are greedy for life and afraid of death, deliberately shirk responsibility, and rely on the main force of the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army?

Okamura, who was in a rage, didn't have time to deploy the defense around Beiping, and then he hit the muzzle of the gun directly.

——It is a city in the border area of southeast Hebei and northwest Shandong, which belongs to the northwest region of Shandong.

Texas.

Under the large-scale attack of the Eighth Route Army, after the Zhengben Division, which chose to passively avoid the battle, retreated to the county town and township, the Japanese defense line in the area of Shide County was quickly broken.

Shenquan once again divided into two routes, united with local troops all the way, and continued to harass the Japanese troops in Baoding and Shimen to ensure that the Japanese troops did not dare to leave the city at will.

The other way is to advance directly along the Shide line in the direction of Dezhou.

After arriving in Texas, under the leadership of Shen Quan, the elite of the reinforced regiment belonging to the Iron Triangle launched an attack on the Japanese defense line along the way with particularly strong firepower allocation.

As soon as this Taihang Eight Roads was shot, the Japanese army trembled with fright.

The Japanese troops stationed in the Dezhou area immediately followed the example and reported to the direction of the headquarters in the direction of the original division: The main force of the Eighth Route Army has completely broken through the blockade line in the area of Shide County and entered the area of Dezhou.

It stands to reason that there is nothing wrong with this call for help!

Obviously, it was the main division that took the lead in reporting that the main force of the Eighth Route Army had attacked near Baoding Shimen.

As a result, your main division did not hold the defensive line, and these main forces of the Eighth Route Army took the opportunity to hit the Dezhou area along the Shide line, is there any problem with me reporting this?

It's just that this devil Dazuo stationed in Texas was really unlucky and hit Okamura's gunhole.

The weight of a wing commander is far less than that of a division commander.

Okamura, who was already furious because of the passive avoidance of the war by various units, decided to kill the chicken and honor the monkey, and after angrily reprimanding the Japanese army leader, he was directly dismissed.

And inform the three armies that His Excellency Dazuo knew that he was not effective in battle, and he would commit suicide by disembowelment in order to apologize to the emperor!

Under such a thunderous method, the Japanese army, which had originally decided to put it in order, hurriedly stepped up the defensive operation against the Eighth Route Army.

At the same time, he was indeed worried that the Eighth Route Army would draw salaries from the bottom of the kettle, and if Okamura, who had really come to attack Beiping, could not sit still, and the defending troops on the front line could not be counted on, he could only draw troops from all sides to help.

At this time.

With the evolution of the war situation, Luxi, Luzhong and northern Henan and other places were in an emergency.

The crisis in Licheng has been completely lifted, and according to the news, the main force of the Eighth Route has continued to appear in Kaifeng Zaozhuang, Hebei, and Baoding.

Central China, which had originally reinforced, and the Japanese troops from South China also chose to evacuate and return to their original garrisons to guard against the infiltration of the Eighth Route Army.

The Kwantung Army, which went south to reinforce it, was somewhat unlucky, due to poor information.

They were the last to retreat from Licheng, and in addition to the long journey back to the northeast, and from time to time they fought with some harassing troops of the Eighth Route Army along the way, and when Beiping was in an emergency, they had only walked less than half the distance.

And for Okamura, since he wants to defend the base camp of Beiping, he has caused a mess by himself, and he should have cleaned it up by himself.

It would be better for him to send troops from North China to help him back.

It's just that at the moment, there seem to be troops of the Eighth Route Army in the whole of North China, and they have become a pot of porridge everywhere, and rashly withdraw a large number of troops to return to Beiping to aid Beiping, which is very likely to cause unpredictable loopholes.

After the Corps Garrison in Mongolia was changed to the Army Garrison in Mongolia, it was later subordinated to the North China Dispatch Army, and was unified by Okamura, the commander-in-chief of the North China Dispatch Army.

But in the final analysis, people only care about the mess in northern Shanxi and Inner Mongolia, and they don't have the time to take care of him.

Not to mention that not long ago, in the operation against the troops of the Eighth Route Army in the Taihang base area, the 26th Division of the Mongolian Army increased its troops to the south, and as a result, it fell into the ambush circle of the Iron Triangle of the Eighth Route Army.

The various units of the Japanese First Army were very fast.

As a result, the 11th Wing of the Mongolian Army, as well as two cavalry units, were almost completely annihilated.

In this regard, the headquarters of the army stationed in Mongolia was very dissatisfied, and naturally attributed these grievances to the heads of Yoshio Shinozuka, commander of the First Army, and Okamura Ninji, commander-in-chief.

If Okamura asked for reinforcements at this time, it would be a bit embarrassing.

So at the moment, for Okamura, if he wants to defend Beiping, the best reinforcement is not the Kwantung Army that is returning to the northeast region and is not far from Beiping!

The Kwantung Army has always been pampered and self-sustaining in the Northeast, and has never taken the Eighth Route Army in its eyes, and has achieved the final victory in the crusade against the Northeast Anti-Japanese Alliance.

With their reinforcements, the crisis can definitely be resolved.

In this way, after the communication between the two sides, the Kwantung Army, which was originally returning from the north, had about one brigade of field elites, and immediately moved closer to the direction of Beiping.

And actually.

Whether it was Ding Wei, Shen Quan, or Brigade Commander Chen of the 385th Brigade, or Commander Lu in Jizhong, everyone had no idea of fighting Beiping from the beginning.

First, it was not yet time for a decisive battle.

Second, I didn't want to completely anger the Japanese army.

Third, all the way to attack Beiping, it was inevitable that the lone army would go deeper, and the troops would be easily eaten.

Fourth, at present, the troops of all walks of life are still mainly engaged in movement warfare, ambush warfare, and raid warfare, and the battles seem to be fought one after another.

However, in fact, there were not many important towns of the Japanese army that were breached.

The living forces of the Japanese army did not suffer excessive losses.

On the whole, if the two sides start a decisive battle, the Eighth Route Army is still far from being an opponent.

Therefore, the troops in Jizhong, as well as the troops of the 385 Brigade, were only active in the areas outside Baoding and Shimen, while Shenquan led the reinforced regiment to try to move closer to the direction of Dezhou.

But what everyone never expected was that at this juncture, hey, the Kwantung Army came, and it was so impartial, as if it had thrown itself into a net, and took the initiative to jump into the encirclement of the three parties.

At this time, the troops of Jizhong and the 385 Brigade were in the area north of this Kwantung Army brigade.

The reinforced regiment led by Shen Quan was in the area east of the Kwantung Army.

If the Eighth Route Army in central and southern Hebei took the opportunity to go north, it would be in the area south of the Kwantung Army.

Good guys, this is a three-sided siege!

If we take the opportunity to make a detour of the troops along the way, the area east of this Kwantung Army will also be completely blocked.

That will become a large-scale encirclement and annihilation battle surrounded on all sides, closing the door and beating dogs!

In the past to the Kwantung Army, which is probing in all directions......

"Shimen, Baoding, Licheng, Xinxiang, Kaifeng Zaozhuang...... The Japanese troops in various places are now too busy to take care of themselves, and they are urgently asking for help everywhere, and all the Japanese reinforcements from Central and South China have been withdrawn, and there are no extra troops to reinforce this Kwantung Army. ”

At the headquarters of the Jizhong Military Region, after analyzing the overall situation on the operational map, Commander Lu couldn't help but slap him hard and said in surprise:

"Haha, it looks like this, this Kwantung Army is really a birthday boy who hanged himself for a long time, and he bumped into our muzzle!

The Kwantung Army of a brigade, according to our investigation, this little devil is in a hurry to come over for reinforcements, there are not many baggage belts, and the number of heavy weapons is also limited, and the combat strength is about 6,000 people.

The strength of our troops on all sides is at least more than twice that of the devils.

If we add the local army units that are carrying out sabotage operations in the locality, I am afraid that it will not be able to defeat four or five times as many times.

This once-in-a-lifetime opportunity cannot be in vain.

Damn, notify the front-line combat troops to prepare to encircle this Kwantung Army, and immediately contact the 385 Brigade and the headquarters of the 3rd Independent Regiment, let's fight together in many ways, this battle, we will fight!

！ ”

...... "Report to Your Excellency the Brigade Commander, the direction of the march has been adjusted, and it is advancing rapidly in the direction of Beiping, and it is expected to arrive in Beiping in eight hours!" ”

The temporary headquarters of the Hirano Brigade of the Kwantung Army, which is heading north.

Taiji Hirano, the commander of the Devil Brigade, nodded, his eyes mixed with anger and unwillingness.

As the absolute elite of the Kwantung Army, this time his Pingye Brigade went south to reinforce Licheng, but he was not to mention that he was ambushed by the troops of the Eighth Route Army of the West Iron Triangle along the way, and the vanguard troops suffered a lot of casualties and suffered a big loss.

This made Taiji Hirano angry.

He had never been so insulted at the hands of the Chinese army.

However, the Eighth Route Army was really cunning, and after the troops were reduced to zero, there was no trace at all, and the headquarters ordered its troops to return to the northeast immediately.

Although Taiji Hirano was unwilling, he had to lead his troops back.

Who would have thought that this happy event would come so quickly.

While the team was still on the way, Hirano suddenly received an order from his superiors to lead the main force and quickly reinforce Beiping.

Realizing that the opportunity to clash with the Eighth Route Army again had come, Taiji Hirano was very excited, and without saying a word, he immediately led his troops to move closer to Beiping.

He thought that this time he represented the majesty of the Kwantung Army to the south.

In any case, we should also fight two decent victories to the dispatched troops of Central China, North China, and South China to take a good look, and teach them to know who is the real elite of the empire.

The upcoming confrontation between the two sides is brewing so quickly.

"The Kwantung Army Hirano Brigade?"

The headquarters of the Third Independent Regiment, Shen Quan looked excited, and couldn't help licking his lips that were a little chapped because of the long trek and fighting, and there was light in his eyes, and he was fierce in his eyes.

"When we were based in the area, let this little devil raised by a son of a bitch run away. Hehe, I really didn't expect this devil to bump into it again!

This time, we can't let this old devil Hirano get out of the way! ”