…… Knowing that the Japanese armored troops were back again, Li Yunlong's face was full of surprise, followed by ecstasy, at this moment where could he care about winning or losing the bet with Kong Jie.

"Haha, damn it, I'm worried that I haven't been addicted to killing, this little devil is really back!"

Kong Jie analyzed: "In the direction of Zhangjiakou, according to the news sent back by the Yanbei detachment, that old devil in Nanzhi was frightened by us, and he didn't dare to go out of the city at all.

The mobile unit of the Japanese army that suddenly appeared in front of him seemed to be the team of the old devil of Kuroki.

I think it's strange, the news of the withdrawal of the Kuroki chariot troops in the direction of Mengdong has made a lot of fanfare, and the old devil of Heimu will still play tricks! ”

As for why the old devil Heimu led the troops to kill back, Kong Jie and Li Yunlong guessed the reason after pondering.

"Eighty percent of this old devil is unwilling, just like this, he will definitely be punished by his superiors!"

Li Yunlong thought so.

According to the feedback from the front-line reconnaissance troops, after the appearance of this mobile unit of the devils, they occupied many towns and towns along the way that the soldiers took the initiative to abandon.

Kong Jie smiled: "Interesting, Lao Li, I think we might as well put it up with an empty city plan and annihilate this devil mobile force." ”

Li Yunlong nodded, he and Kong Jie thought together: "I think this is a good idea, Heimu, this old devil dares to lead the troops to kill back, and eighty percent think that our main force has been evacuated."

We might as well send a small number of troops to the front line to block the attack, paralyze the judgment of the Japanese army, and make the devils think that we really don't have the main force here.

Then lure this little devil step by step to our preset city.

In the end, this little devil will be wiped out! ”

The two quickly came to an agreement, and decided that eliminating Kuroki's defeated subordinates would not require the use of the main armored force at all.

This time, let the soldiers get out of the car and fight, and annihilate the Japanese army in the form of infantry combat.

to prevent the exposure of the main forces of the armored corps.

In the end, the process of luring the enemy went quite smoothly.

Kuroki led the mobile forces all the way forward, but was weakly blocked by the side of the Eighth Route Army along the way.

This made Kuroki, who was still a little cautious and worried at first, become more and more bold, and he ordered a rapid advance and took over the positions, towns, and county towns occupied along the way.

Not only that, in order to show his military exploits, every time he occupied a position or a township, Kuroki would ask the Ministry of Communications to send a special report to the headquarters.

This was indeed a slight surprise to the Japanese command.

The Kwantung Army even believed that Major General Kuroki's courage was commendable, and despite the defeat, he was still heroic, saving the military prestige and dignity of the Kwantung Army.

Until Kuroki led the remnants of the army and advanced all the way to Wood Town.

On the outer defensive line of Muzhen, Kuroki and his party were blocked by what appeared to be the guerrilla forces of the Eighth Route Army.

In the end, Major General Kuroki easily defeated the guerrilla force of the Eighth Route Army and successfully took the enemy's position.

This made the old devil Kuroki feel a little emotional, this is what he thinks the Eighth Route Army should look like, which is like those armored troops of the Eighth Route Army, it is simply strong.

"General, our army has successfully taken the enemy's position, and the Eighth Route has fled to the town in all directions!"

Heimu nodded, "Yanxi, march immediately and occupy Muzhen, in addition, find some Diao people who have fornicated with the Eighth Road, and shoot them all, I think they must be civilians disguised in the Eighth Road."

After killing these eight-way, you can report the results to your superiors! ”

"Hey!"

The whole team, led by Kuroki, was mixed with the roar of chariots, and it seemed that the prestige of this Kwantung Army chariot brigade when it first came to Mengxi had been restored.

Along the way, there were only a few panicked people, and there was nothing unusual about it.

Until the entire Japanese army entered the town completely.

The four sides are no longer as open and flat as the original terrain, but are gradually obscured by buildings.

After Kuroki gave the order, he sent several teams to forcibly gather the people of the town, but shortly after the team left, gunshots were heard.

At first, Kuroki thought it was the scattered guerrillas of the Eighth Route Army who had fled into the town.

Then the gunfire intensified, and the troops he sent out did not see the soldiers return.

Kuroki realized that something was wrong.

Then the sound of artillery bombardment sounded, and a large number of shells fell directly on the area where Kuroki and his team were located.

At this point, Kuroki finally sensed the scheme.

When the shells landed on the armor of the tank, and even directly destroyed the tank, the Japanese soldiers were shocked to realize that the enemy was using anti-tank artillery.

But how could the guerrillas of the Eighth Route Army have anti-tank artillery in their hands?

"Baga, cunning Balu, immediately make a strategic transfer!"

Kuroki, who knew the plan, did not dare to hesitate in the slightest, and in the hands of the armored troops of the Eighth Route Army, he seemed to have learned how to escape.

However, when the vehicles turned around and tried to evacuate from the main entrance, they were blocked again.

Li Yunlong had already arranged several bazooka groups to block the retreat of the Japanese tanks.

At this time, if it is in an open flat area, with the help of the defensive and mobile nature of the tank, the entire Blackwood Chariot force may still have the power to counterattack.

However, at this time, it was in the lanes of the town, and the combat vehicle was already heavy and inflexible, and it was attacked by the anti-tank fire of the Eighth Route Army in advance.

In this battle, the old devil Kuroki lost even more miserably.

Vaguely, Major General Kuroki even heard the enemy's Eighth Route Army troops shouting: "Annihilate the Japanese army and capture Kuroki alive!" ”

When they saw the soldiers of the Eighth Route Army fighting against the enemy, and looked at the steel helmets on the heads of those soldiers, the Japanese soldiers who fought against them were all shocked.

It's the Eight-Way Steel Helmet again!

These elites of the Eighth Route Army are simply haunted, and they can bump into them anywhere.

There isn't much suspense in the final battle.

When Kuroki temporarily hid in a hidden corner under the escort of several guards, he looked back and saw that there were not many soldiers left, and most of the chariots had been destroyed.

Kuroki, whose heart was like ashes for a while, completely fell into despair.

Li Yunlong, who was holding a telescope from a distance to observe the situation, realized that he seemed to have caught a big fish, and he said to Kong Jie:

"Lao Kong, it's really you, this fishing is really catching a big fish, I think the rank of that devil just now, it seems that he is still a general, could it be the old devil of Heimu?"

Kong Jie smiled: "Is it Heimu, don't you know when you catch it?" ”

"That's a good point!"

Li Yunlong immediately asked Zhang Dabiao to arrange for a soldier who could speak Japanese to shout to the little devil.

Persuade Kuroki to surrender.

Poor Major General Kuroki Wise I, who was also invincible on the battlefield, is now in a desperate situation and has no way to escape.

After a long sigh, Kuroki said to the guards beside him:

"I heard that the Eighth Route Army troops pay attention to humanitarianism, they will not abuse prisoners, if you want to live, surrender, the emperor will not blame you!"

"Your Excellency, Brigade Commander, what about you?" A young man asked anxiously.

Kuroki sighed bitterly, "I should be loyal to the Emperor, and today is my death!" ”

"Sir, let's die with you!"

"Stupid, your death has no meaning, you might as well think more about your family, children, and parents in China, they are still waiting for you to go back! This war has no practical meaning for you personally, so why should you give up everything for it?

None of this is your fault! ”

At Kuroki's persuasion, the remaining soldiers fell silent.

Kuroki, who was resolute, then pulled out his command knife and rushed out directly from behind the cover, roaring angrily and rushing towards the camp of the Eighth Route Army.

After a few gunshots, the old devil clutched the general's command knife and fell straight to the ground.

When cleaning the battlefield, I learned from the mouths of several captured devils that this old devil with the rank of major general was Kuroki.

Li Yunlong commented seriously: "Yes, although this old devil is a little stupid, he is a little bloody, he would rather die than surrender, Lao Tzu likes this kind of soldier, although he is an enemy, I still appreciate him!" ”

The reporters accompanying the army are taking pictures, and the fall of another major general of the Japanese army, and he is also the brigade commander of the tank brigade of the Kwantung Army, which is not small news.

While the soldiers were cleaning the battlefield, Kong Jie and Li Yunlong discussed the follow-up evacuation plan.

In this wave, the two of them led the armored troops of the Eighth Route Army to defeat the Japanese mechanized troops from Baotou and the reinforcements from Datong.

It also successively defeated the Japanese army's Nanji and Kuroki chariot units.

It's time to run!

"If you run slowly, you can't figure out the little devil who came back to your senses, and the heavy bomber unit will drive over!"

In the end, according to the deployment of Kong Jie and Li Yunlong.

After being dispersed, some of the mechanized combat units of the Eighth Route Army were transferred to the Daqingshan area with spare parts, fuel, and maintenance equipment to take root, and as an armored test unit, an armored training base was set up to assist the Yanbei detachment operating in the Daqingshan area.

Some of the captured devil tanks swaggered through the Hetao area and retreated back to Yan'an, and these tanks were basically to be repaired or need to be transformed, with a large number of towing vehicles and trailers.

As for the main force of the armored corps, it was secretly transferred in batches, returned to the Shanxi battlefield, divided into armored vehicle tactical squads, and cooperated with the 120th and 129th divisions and other brother units to break the devil's blockade line and expand the results of the battle.

In addition, some of them remained in the Baotou area to be stationed for maintenance and recuperation, helping the Eighth Route Army and the 35th Army to hold the Baotou area.

"After this battle, for at least a year in the next year, our mechanized troops are not recommended to carry out large-scale military operations.

All of them are company-level tactical groups, mainly launching small-scale operations. Kong Jie said.

Li Yunlong said: "Damn, I still feel a little unwilling."

Wait, the little devil raised by the son of a bitch, we will come back with the mobile force one day! ”

At this point, Kong Jie and Li Yunlong led the mobile troops directly under Taihang, as well as the most elite armored troops of the Eighth Route Army, to enter the operation in the Mengxi area and officially withdrew from the stage.

However, the withdrawal of the main force of the armored corps did not mean that the Eighth Route Army abandoned the defense of the Mengxi area.

After opening up the situation with the help of armored troops, although the main armored forces withdrew in batches, in the Mengxi area, the troops of the Eighth Route Army in the northern area of Shanxi, including the Yanbei detachment in the Daqingshan area, still opened up the situation here, leaving behind a lot of revolutionary fire, trying to carry out guerrilla operations in the area and open up an anti-Japanese revolutionary base area.

……

At the same time.

The base of the first independent detachment of the Eighth Route Army in the northwest of Shanxi.

A secret aviation base hidden deep in the mountains.

Early in the morning, the roar of aircraft engines came from above, but what puzzled Doolittle and his party was that they did not hear the air defense siren.

"Lieutenant Colonel, is it a Japanese reconnaissance plane?"

During this period of time, it is true that from time to time Japanese reconnaissance planes have gone to the airspace above the base areas of a detachment to conduct reconnaissance, and this is nothing new.

Doolittle shook his head, he didn't know the situation either.

While the US pilots were talking, Li Wenjie, the political commissar of the team, and Xu Guoan, the chief of staff, rushed over with an excited smile on their faces.

Still far away, Xu Guoan shouted: "Lao Du, good news, the gift that Lao Kong promised to give you has been sent back!" ”

"Gifts?" Doolittle was visibly confused.

Xu Guoan and Li Wenjie looked mysterious, and then rushed to the secret aviation base of a detachment with the US pilots.

When he saw the fighters stationed at the base from a distance, Li Wenjie noticed that the eyes of these Yankees were straight.

Although most of them are some classic machines that cannot be put on the table.

For pilots like Doolittle, who have been dealing with airplanes all year round and regard planes as their lives, they are always excited and excited to say goodbye to their beloved planes for a long time.

They are still very clear about what the military industrial basis and conditions of the Eighth Route Army are.

It is much more difficult to see a single plane in this place than it is to see dozens of bombers on the American side.

"Oh my god, and a couple of dive medium bombers, and two Helen heavy bombers!"

That is, the Ki-49 Swallowing Dragon heavy bomber of the Japanese army.

The bomber was proposed by Japan in 1938 as a successor to the Mitsubishi Type 97 heavy bomber, which was developed and produced by Nakajima Aircraft.

In addition, Tachikawa Aircraft Co., Ltd., as well as the Manzhou Aircraft Plant in northeastern China, also produce it.

A major improvement was the addition of a 20 mm Ho-5 cannon as defensive firepower.

In addition, the Ki-49 aircraft was equipped with an intermediate wing and a cantilever monoplane of all-metal construction, and was the first Japanese aircraft to be equipped with a retractable tail wheel.

Compared with the excitement of the rest of the pilots who couldn't wait to touch the fuselage immediately, Doolittle asked in surprise: "Li, Xu, what ......is this?" How did you do it, and where did you get these Japanese fighters? ”

In Doolittle's opinion, this is simply incredible, these Chinese troops are really amazing and amazing, can they actually get planes by means of infantry?

When I first came to the base of the first team, I first visited the research room of the aviation base of the first team, and then visited the aviation base secretly built by the team.

Although Doolittle and his entourage were shocked, they couldn't help but have some doubts in their hearts.

In addition to the military level of the Eighth Route Army, coupled with the severe environment against the enemy, even these preparatory stages are in place.

Without airplanes, everything is empty talk after all!

Doolittle even laughed at himself: "As the father of your Chinese aerospace, I can't even touch a plane, right?" ”

In the face of the shock of these Yankees, Li Wenjie and Xu Guoan were very useful.

Lao Xu secretly sighed in his heart.

In front of these old American allies, their waists have straightened a lot.

"Haha, Lao Du, you don't care how we got these planes, you just say, after you have these planes, can you help our Eighth Route Army form its own aviation unit!"

Doolittle didn't hesitate and nodded heavily, "Of course, I promise!" ”

(End of chapter)