…… The Japanese 13th Field Division prepared to withdraw from the Jizhong base area of the Eighth Route Army.

At first, it was just propaganda under the deliberate explanation of the old devil Bun Taiichiro, who would have wanted to publicize more, this idea was irrepressible and grew from the bottom of Bun Taiichiro's heart.

Lieutenant General Buntaiichiro's heart is bitter!

In this Shanxi battlefield, the Sixth Division was lured deep by the so-called secret aviation base of the Eighth Route Army, fell into the encirclement, and finally broke out of the encirclement, but it took off an unknown number of layers of skin, and the casualties of the troops were unprecedented.

Then he went to Niujimaman, and was defeated in the Yellow Cliff Cave.

Then Taiyuan was besieged.

When the Shanxi battlefield changed overnight, in the Mengxi area, the Japanese troops occupying the oil fields of the Eighth Route Army were suddenly surrounded by the 35th Route Army, which ostensibly fought together with the Eighth Route Army and the Japanese army, but in fact they exchanged positions with a tacit understanding, and the Eighth Route Army went to cut off the logistics of the devils.

At the same time, the field group composed of the First Army and the Third Division of the Shandong Battlefield swept away with the assistance of the remaining troops of the 12th Army.

As a result, overnight, a large number of the main forces of the Eighth Route Army emerged from the rear to cut off the logistics lines and communication lines, and the solid fortifications of the Eighth Route Army were everywhere, and the firepower was also very fierce.

He, Buntaiichiro, is quite cautious and calm.

As a result, they fell for the tricks of the Eighth Route Army, and in the process of advancing to the Jizhong base area of the Eighth Route Army, a large amount of coarse grain was captured, which caused a lot of health problems for the soldiers under long-term consumption.

For this reason, Buntaiichiro was almost depressed.

After the center blossomed, he cooperated with the mobile troops of the First Army to march north from Luxi through southern Hebei to central Hebei, and the Zhangjiakou troops broke the Jinchaji base area and went south, and the mobile forces of the 12th Army in Taihang, Shanxi Province broke the main force of the Taihang Eighth Route Army and marched eastward, encircling on all sides.

It turned out well.

Except for his own troops, the troops on the other three sides were nowhere to be seen.

His Excellency Commander Okamura didn't even know how to command.

The said May Day sweep went straight to the Jizhong Military Region and destroyed the military station of the Eighth Route Army, but it turned out that this was the aviation base of the Iron Triangle, the arsenal of Huangyadong, and the large oil field in the Mengxi area.

Feelings make fun of me Bun Taiichiro, what about joking?

In the end, only his 13th Division went deep alone.

After the Eighth Route Army's Tianhua operation was launched, under the all-round counterattack, the troops that originally cooperated with the 13th Division to encircle the Jizhong Military Region according to the plan did not come at all.

Jing Cheng was lost, the SJZ troops went back, and the Baoding troops went to reinforce Shanxi, leaving him Wen Taiichiro alone.

As a cautious and steady veteran of the battlefield, Buntaiichiro can settle accounts better than anyone else.

He knew very well that without the support of these field groups that were familiar with the Chinese battlefield, it would have been impossible to complete the sweep of such a large area in central Hebei by relying only on the main force of his 13th Division, plus the security division that brought almost all of them from China as new recruits and veterans of the second enlistment.

In the past few days of confrontation, he also gradually felt the strength of the Eighth Route Army in Hebei.

Maybe......

"At the moment, for us, how to evacuate safely is the first priority!"

As for Okamura's sweeping order.

"Let him go and see Amaterasu!" Buntaiichiro scolded fiercely.

Of course, that's what he said when he complained, but in fact, Buntaiichiro didn't dare to disobey the orders of the General Headquarters at will.

This old devil is also unwilling.

Unwilling to be in the Eighth Route Army in central Hebei, tortured by coarse grain, and after being humiliated like this, he could only stop and choose to retreat.

He began to prepare with both hands.

On the one hand, this old boy was not ambiguous, he first asked the local security forces, the garrison, and the traitor armed forces to prepare for the withdrawal, and spread news everywhere that the imperial army would retreat immediately.

Then let the troops of the public security division and regiment from the country begin to concentrate, pretend to evacuate, and secretly let the troops of the 13th Division seize the key points of retreat, build fortifications, and first attack head-on when the troops of the Eighth Route Army and Jizhong come to pursue.

You have to teach these damned Eighth Route Army some bloody lessons.

Another victory before the evacuation can also show the strength of his 13th Division and the cleverness of his command under the command of Buntaiichiro.

When the 3rd Division, the 6th Division, and the Ushijima Manchu Division were all defeated, only his 13th Division calmly withdrew after penetrating the outer line of the Jizhong base area and seizing a large amount of supplies, grain and grass, and also used the pretense to evacuate and severely damaged the Eighth Road.

Regardless of the final outcome of the May Day Sweep, the empire will be defeated.

His 13th division is always a victorious division, and his Wen Taiichiro always has a bright face.

After using this trap to defeat the pursuing troops of the Eighth Route Army in Jizhong, and then evacuating under alternate cover, Buntaiichiro believed that this could avoid the sacrifice of his own troops to the greatest extent and calmly end the battle.

On the other hand, Buntaiichiro got in touch with the General Headquarters of Okamura and made it clear in the communication:

"The 13th Division's sweep of the Jizhong base area has been going smoothly, and it has now been pushed to the center line, and has achieved a lot of results in continuous confrontations.

However, more and more of the main forces of the Eighth Route are constantly gathering towards the Jizhong Military Region, but the imperial reinforcements have never been seen.

If this continues, our 13th Division will be unable to support itself, and there will be many evils and few auspicious ones, so please ask Your Excellency the Commander-in-Chief for tactical guidance! ”

To put it bluntly, what Buntaiichiro means is that if the reinforcements promised by Your Excellency the Commander-in-Chief don't come again, I'm going to run away!

Okamura, who was sitting in Beiping, panicked when he heard this, and this time he set off a May Day sweep, and the fundamental goal was to destroy the Jizhong Military Region, the military station of the Eighth Route Army.

As a result, the battle gradually evolved to this point.

The Japanese army has already lost many battles in a row, and if the May Day sweep of unprecedented scale ends like this, the face of his North China Front will be lost.

Okamura was not reconciled, he felt that he could still save it.

This was his last stubbornness as the commander-in-chief of the Japanese army in North China!

At the moment, he can't care about the Huangyadong Arsenal of the Eighth Route Army, and he can't care about destroying the Iron Triangle base area that he hates the most.

Okamura's order is only one:

According to the original plan, reinforcements will be sent to Jizhong, and the Jizhong Military Region of the Eighth Route Army must be leveled in one fell swoop!

The order was quickly conveyed to all parties, including the Ushijima Manchu Command Headquarters that had just led some of the elite of the Ushijima Manchu Division, which had broken through from the Huangyadong area in embarrassment.

and the headquarters of the 6th Division, which was blocked all the way and was heavily damaged in the Iron Triangle base area, retreated and broke through.

There are also units of the 12th Army in Shanxi and troops of the 1st Army in Shandong.

According to the old devil Okamura's assumption, he has decided to give up all other goals, just concentrate his forces, and finally point to Jizhong.

This goal of destroying the Jizhong Military Region can finally be achieved!

Unfortunately, it was too late.

If Okamura had been able to clear his strength from the beginning of the May Day Sweep.

The Ushijima Manchu Division did not suffer heavy losses in the Huangyadong area, the Sixth Division was not nearly wiped out in the Iron Triangle base area, and the troops of the 11th and 12th armies did not lose their troops in the process of sweeping.

He may still have a chance to stud.

A wonderful showdown was set off in the Jizhong Military Region.

It is a pity that the Japanese army has been defeated one after another, and so far, Okamura has already lost most of his capital.

When his order was given quickly.

After all, it was the order of the commander-in-chief, and the sweeping troops from all directions immediately switched their forces and tried to advance in the direction of Jizhong.

However, he was soon blocked by the troops of the Eighth Route Army along the way.

In the face of this unprecedented sweep by the Japanese army, the officers and men of the various base areas of the Eighth Route Army were united in the same hatred of the enemy.

What you think is dazzling is the Iron Triangle on the stage, the main force of the 129th Division, and the main force of the 120th Division.

What you think is wonderful is that the Iron Triangle armored troops in the Mengxi area defeated the Japanese armored forces, the 120th Division besieged Taiyuan, and the 129th Division collapsed in the sky, destroying the 6th Division and the Ushijima Manchu Division.

But in fact, what constitutes the stage of the confrontation between China and Japan are more of those revolutionary heroes and anti-Japanese martyrs who are unknown at the grassroots level, but all of them fight to the death.

The troops of the Eighth Route Army are also crazy this time, attacking in multiple ways, as long as the devil passes by the base area, he will greet the little devil with any move, and use all the family funds that have been hoarded for many years.

There was even an abnormal situation in which the main force of the Eighth Route Army was fighting more and more reinforcements, and the supplies were more and more abundant.

Many local main force regiments, county brigades, and guerrillas, after clearing out the devils in their defense areas, all came to help, carrying the seized materials from the destroyed strongholds, and there were even puppet troops escorting logistics materials to turn to Chengcheng.

The people who are interested in the Eighth Route Army are also secretly helping, engaging in transportation, and intelligence transmission, and they are very busy.

Although the strength of the Japanese army was strong, how could it be that the number of soldiers and civilians of the Eighth Route Army in all the base areas was large.

Just as Kong Jie put forward the idea back then, it is necessary to build all base areas to the extent that all the people are soldiers.

Now it's really happening.

The little devil soon fell into an ocean-like people's war, and it was simply impossible to move an inch.

Not only that, thanks to the efforts of the comrades of the camouflage bureau of the detachment, since the Japanese troops entered the base area of the Eighth Route Army, even the communication signals have been constantly interfered with by the Eighth Route Army.

Sometimes it was blocked, and sometimes it was a lot of junk information, which made the Japanese army dizzy and unable to communicate normally.

So much so that once the Japanese sweeping forces were dispersed, they could not communicate in time and reinforce each other.

The troops of the Eighth Route Army took the opportunity to carry out a division and outflanking operation.

In this way, the various reinforcements that Okamura had been waiting for did not arrive on time, but only a very small part of them.

The reasons given are largely the same:

Along the way, it was blocked by the main combat force of the Eighth Route Army, and the reinforcements suffered heavy casualties, so they could only be forced to withdraw to the county seat, and could not reinforce in time to the direction of central Hebei!

Actually, some of them do.

There are also some shrewd devil officers, who have seen the situation clearly for a long time, and they are not as persistent as the commander-in-chief, Okamura.

It would be good to be able to smoothly avoid the crisis and escape from the encirclement and interception of the Eighth Route Army.

For example, the escape expert, the brigade commander of the 3rd Mixed Brigade of the Japanese Army, Major General Ishikawa.

Ishikawa used to always be caricatured as an escape expert.

But how about this time?

The Kwantung Army's Ushijima Manchu Division suffered heavy losses from the Eighth Route Army in the Huangyadong area, and under the leadership of the old devil Ushijima Man, it rushed out in embarrassment, leaving less than thirty percent of the team.

Facing the troops of the Eighth Route Army that followed the pursuit, Ushijima was full of six gods and no masters, and he didn't know where to flee to this great earth.

At this time, Ishikawa, who happened to meet with Ushijima Man, saw that he was also an Imperial officer and graduated from the Imperial Army University, and for the sake of being an alumnus, he pulled Ushijima Mitsuru.

He took Ushijima to the field group directly under the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army, the field group directly under the 129th Division, the 385 and 386 field groups, and the Iron Triangle Mobile Field Group.

In this way, every time he was caught up by the pursuit troops of the Eighth Route Army, this old devil could always skillfully use various means to get rid of the pursuit.

Every time he was surrounded by the Eighth Route Army, he could always skillfully lead the troops to jump out of the encirclement.

Commanding the troops to escape and evacuate all the way is exquisite, and the Ushijima is full of speechlessness.

In the end, the two roads converged with the troops, bypassed Licheng all the way, grabbed Lucheng, and successfully withdrew to the old nest in the Changzhi area.

Under the command of Major General Ishikawa, the Japanese troops along the route withdrew quickly, and they were decisive in choosing the evacuation route, as well as accurate judgment.

Operate it down.

Even Ushijima, a mountain warfare expert, was dazzled and even more impressed!

If he hadn't escaped all the way with Ishikawa this time, he wouldn't know what the situation would have been!

Of course, Ushijima Man, who Okamura was looking forward to, reinforces all the way, and ran back to the rear steadily.

Don't ask, the question is that there are too many blocking troops along the Eighth Road, and in order to avoid greater sacrifices, our Ushijima Manchu Division can only be forced to withdraw, and I ask Your Excellency the Commander-in-Chief to understand.

Not to mention the Sixth Division, which had already been frightened by the Eighth Route Army.

Even the division commander, Lieutenant General Sekimura, would not have been able to lead the headquarters to break through if it weren't for the chief of staff and brigade commanders under his command who fought to the death.

The reinforcements from all walks of life almost did not save the Sixth Division, and they all ran to rescue Taiyuan City.

Now that the crisis in Taiyuan has been lifted, Linggang Village remembered to ask my Sixth Division to continue to reinforce Jizhong and cooperate in the battle?

As for the Japanese troops in the Taiyuan area, they were busy cleaning up the mess left after the Taiyuan City was attacked by the 120th Division.

In addition, the communication lines along the way to Jizhong have basically been destroyed by the 120th Division when it besieged Taiyuan.

It was simply impossible to send reinforcements to Jizhong in time.

In the end, when the news reached the headquarters, there were not many reinforcements in sight.

Provisional Headquarters of the 13th Division.

The head of the Devil Division, Bun Taiichiro, completely understands that it is impossible to have any bullshit reinforcements.

In such a big place as Jizhong, it is even more impossible to expect his troops to destroy it all the way.

At present, what he should consider is how to evacuate the troops of his entire division from the Jizhong base area.

The false news of the evacuation deliberately released a few days ago seems to have played a role, and the early evacuation of the Imperial Cooperative Army, the garrison, the traitor army, and the division of the public security army really lured the attention of the Eighth Route Army in central Hebei.

The Eighth Route Army sent a large number of main forces to pursue all the way, attempting to attack the evacuated Imperial Allied Army and the divisions of the Public Security Army.

Now I fell into the trap of Buntaiichiro.

Buntaiichiro took the opportunity to attack the pursuing Eighth Route Army troops with the help of combat troops lurking in the fortifications built along the way......

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