…… The Eighth Route probably didn't expect that the so-called main forces that evacuated in advance were fundamentally second-rate troops such as the Imperial Cooperative Army, the traitor team, and the division of the Public Security Army.

The elite troops of the 13th Division changed into the uniforms of the Imperial Allied Army and the Public Security Army Division, and took the opportunity to attack when the Jizhong troops of the Eighth Route Army came to pursue.

In this way, Balu suffered a "big loss".

After the battle, Bun Taiichiro, who was in charge of the headquarters, received the news in a fit of ambition that on the position of the decisive battle opposite, the Eighth Route Army left behind the corpses all over the mountains and fields, and withdrew in embarrassment.

In the following days, the Eighth Route Army took the initiative to avoid the main forces of the Japanese army, and only carried out some sabotage operations on the lines of communication.

"Roar!"

"In this way, the main force of the Eighth Route in Jizhong has been severely damaged by our army, so there is no need to worry, and the next step is to calmly carry out a strategic transfer!"

Buntaiichiro officially gave the order to retreat.

The arrogance of the past resurfaced on his face, and it seemed that since entering the Jizhong base area, it was not his 13th Division that had suffered.

After all, compared with the Ushishima Manchu Division in the Huangyadong area, the Sixth Division in the Iron Triangle area, and the troops of the 12th Army and the 11th Army in Shanxi and Shandong suffered heavy casualties.

His 13th Division's record this time is dazzling.

Jizhong Military Region Headquarters.

Knowing that the elite of the Japanese army of the 13th Division had finally begun to evacuate, Commander Lu was overjoyed, and after waiting for so long, it was finally time for a counteroffensive.

Speaking of which, the 6th Division, the 13th Division, the Ushijima Manchu Division, and the 3rd Field Division of the North China Front Army were all stronger, better equipped, and larger in scale than the 13th Division.

But only if you really fight with the old devil Bun Taiichiro of the 13th Division, you will realize that this old devil is actually the most difficult to deal with.

This old guy is too cautious, even if Commander Lu has set a lot of traps, in the end, he only relies on the coarse grain planted on the outer line of the Jizhong base area, which makes this old devil suffer a little loss.

But after all, it could not inflict too much damage on the 13th Division.

In the process of sweeping towards the Jizhong base area, Wen Taiichiro, an old devil, has been fighting steadily, no matter what the battle situation is in the Taihang base area, the Huangyadong area and the Mengxi area, even when Taiyuan City is besieged and Ushijima Man and the Sixth Division are hit hard, this guy does not have any distractions.

Neither will recklessly go deep alone, nor will they retreat in embarrassment when they hear a little movement.

Facing such an old guy who doesn't eat oil and salt, Commander Lu actually has a headache.

In particular, in the past two years, the combat mode of the central Hebei campaign, which has mainly focused on tunnel warfare, has emphasized attacking in defense.

If the devil does not take the initiative to attack, a large number of tunnel fortifications and traps prepared in advance will not be useful at all.

If the 13th Division did not choose to evacuate and continue to garrison the inherent fortifications, even Commander Lu could not think of a good countermeasure.

Until now, Bun Taiichiro decided to lead the army to evacuate, and the opportunity for the Jizhong troops finally came.

It turned out that the communication lines in the rear of the 13th Division's evacuation, as well as the transportation lines, had already been destroyed by the troops of the Eighth Route Army in Jizhong by using the extended tunnels.

If the little devils of the 13th Division want to retreat from the outer line of the Jizhong base area to the stable security area, they must pass through these uncontrollable areas where the communication line has been destroyed.

And this is the cemetery that Commander Lu built for the little devils.

Buntaiichiro probably never dreamed that he would stay in the middle line area of the Jizhong base area for a few more days according to the request of the commander-in-chief, Okamura, and was originally waiting for reinforcements from the Shandong and Shanxi battlefields.

As a result, less than 30% of the reinforcements came, and they were basically stopped halfway by the reinforcements of the Eighth Route Army, and some of them suffered heavy casualties on the way to reinforcements, and were forced to withdraw to the occupied area and act as a turtle with a shrunken head.

On the contrary, the mobile units of the Eighth Route Army, taking advantage of the fact that the Japanese army's field troops had shrunk back to the gaps in the security areas and urban areas, secretly moved in the direction of the Jizhong Military Region.

What for?

Cooperate with the troops of Commander Lu of the Jizhong Military Region to form a two-sided attack on the retreating Japanese 13th Division.

Almost at the same time, the troops of the Eighth Route Army in southern Hebei, central Hebei, including northern Hebei, launched a counterattack at the same time.

Much of Hebei was caught in the middle of a scuffle.

The Eighth Route Army in various parts of Shandong also began to counterattack, and Mengxi also took the opportunity to launch a counterattack.

In the face of the all-out counteroffensive of the Eighth Route Army, pressure from all sides was coming.

The evacuation of the 13th Division of the Japanese Army from the Jizhong Military Region suddenly became less eye-catching.

The Japanese troops from all walks of life are too busy to take care of themselves, so what else is there to help cover the evacuation of the 13th Division.

The decisive battle between the two sides officially kicked off.

The commanders of the regiments of the Jizhong Military Region, who had long been holding back their anger, led their troops to actively engage in combat and launched layers of blockades along the route of the devils' evacuation, completely turning the entire base area into a quagmire, making it difficult for the little devils to move an inch.

The commander of the 28th regiment, Lu Dayou, finally got his wish.

Due to the rapid development of the 28th Regiment in the past two years, the regiment has all kinds of mechanized combat units and artillery units, and this time it is the vanguard mobile unit in pursuit of the 13th Division.

All the way, they pursued relentlessly, and launched a fierce confrontation with the rear guard troops of the 13th Division.

At this time, with the withdrawal, the absolutely powerful fortifications that the 13th Division had originally occupied ceased to exist.

In this field combat environment, the Eighth Route Army's familiarity with the surrounding terrain and topography, as well as its proficiency in mobile warfare, ambush warfare, and guerrilla warfare, gave full play to its advantages.

The Japanese army was greatly resisted, and the pace of withdrawal was greatly slowed down.

Lieutenant General Buntaiichiro also finally realized that he was too careless before, and the main force of the Jizhong Military Region did not seem to be destroyed by his tricks.

Right now, these damn eight roads are really showing their killer features.

According to the original plan of the Japanese army, it would not take three days for the 13th Division, as well as the Imperial Allied Army and the Public Security Army Division, to withdraw from the Jizhong base area and return to the stable security area.

As a result, under the continuous resistance of the main forces of the Eighth Route Army and the local army troops along the way, the Japanese army walked for nearly a week before barely breaking away from the central line defense area of the Jizhong Military Region.

The tunnel warfare offensive launched by the troops of the Eighth Route Army in central Hebei was dizzy.

The people's war like a vast ocean made it impossible for the evacuated Japanese troops to deal with it.

Almost every evacuation route was riddled with traps from the Eighth Route Army.

Landmines, ambushes, sneak attacks, harassment, it's just annoying.

At this time, Bun Taiichiro, who was sitting in the temporary headquarters, still had the pride he had before, and the whole person was a little discouraged, and even his headquarters was almost attacked by the enemy's artillery several times in the past few days.

He ordered the whole army to speed up the pace and quickly withdraw from the base area of the Eighth Route Army.

However, two days later, he learned that the main retreat routes of the main force of the division had been cut off by the Eighth Route Army, and a large number of reinforcements from the Eighth Route Army had surrounded him from the back of his 13th Division.

Buntaiichiro was completely dumbfounded, and then scolded Okamura.

The rainy season has already arrived.

These days, the continuous heavy rain has been non-stop, and the road surface, which was originally quite strong, has gradually been soaked and softened under the heavy rain, and it is muddy.

If it weren't for Okamura's order, the steady Buntaiichiro would have led the main force of the 13th Division and withdrew from the Jizhong base area in an orderly formation.

It is the delay of these few days, the rain is getting more and more, and the road surface is getting worse and worse.

As a result, the reinforcements did not wait, but the rear of his Japanese army was cut off by the reinforcements of the Eighth Route Army.

"The hemp rope is broken in detail, and bad luck is looking for miserable people!"

This sentence is apt for Buntaiichiro.

There were no reinforcements, but they were surrounded by reinforcements from the Eighth Route Army.

It was also the continuous rainy season, and the mountain roads were muddy, and mechanized combat vehicles could not be deployed at all.

Even the tracks of tanks and armored vehicles like a torrent of steel can only sink into the big mud pit that cannot be touched at all, constantly overhauling along the way, stopping and stopping, stopping and walking.

The ghost of the pursuing Eighth Route Army lingers.

The rain seemed to cover their attack, and the sneak attack came more and more suddenly.

At the time of the initial evacuation, the elite troops of the 13th Division could barely maintain a defensive formation, including the Imperial Allied Army that coordinated the evacuation, as well as the divisional troops of the Public Security Army, which also barely maintained communication and contact with each other.

Over time.

Like the Imperial Cooperative Army and the two divisions of the Public Security Army, which were mostly composed of new recruits, the situation of good and auxiliary was uneven, and it soon became a flaw.

The team that had been evacuated in an orderly manner gradually collapsed under the interference of the Eighth Route Army's surprise attacks from time to time and the continuous rain.

As the ranks dispersed, the pace of retreat was no longer uniform.

The Eighth Route Army took the opportunity to divide the enemy piece by piece, outflank, and then annihilate it.

This is the skillful skill of the soldiers.

At this point, during the May Day Sweep of unprecedented scale, the Japanese army held out until the end, sacrificing the casualties of the 13th Field Division of the Japanese Army, which was also the smallest at the beginning, began to spread rapidly, and the defeat was a foregone conclusion.

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But it is said that these two sides are on the battlefield.

On one side was the confrontation between the North China Front and the Eighth Route Army set off by the Japanese army in the occupied area.

On the other hand, in the Zhejiang-Jiangxi region, the bombing of Tokyo by Doolittle and his entourage was the fuse, which triggered a large-scale battle between the National Revolutionary Army and the Japanese army.

On the battlefield in North China, the confrontation between the Japanese army and the Eighth Route Army has gradually come to an end.

From the Mengxi area the Japanese tank units suffered heavy defeats.

to the defeat of the 6th Field Division of the Japanese Army in the Iron Triangle base area.

Then to the rampant and invincible Ushijima Manchu Regiment in the Yellow Cliff Cave area, which was almost destroyed.

The Third Field Division, which was active in Shandong, did not make an inch's contribution after all.

The Japanese 1st Army in Shanxi and the 12th Army in Shandong also fell into a bitter battle.

In the end, the 13th Field Division, which swept towards the Jizhong base area, retreated.

Although the Japanese newspapers covered up the operation in North China in an attempt to find the last fig leaf and restore morale and military prestige.

But in the eyes of the discerning person, it is just trying to cover up.

The defeat of the North China Front was already a foregone conclusion.

The news came from the headquarters of the 13th Division, and the original plan to encircle and sweep the Jizhong Military Region and eradicate the Eighth Route Army Station in one fell swoop was declared bankrupt.

Okamura, a stumbling old devil, sat down in his chair, looking at the pistol that he had pulled out from his waist and placed on the table at some point, and was silent for a long time, not knowing what he was thinking......

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Compared with the tragic confrontation between the Japanese army and the Eighth Route Army in North China, the Battle of Zhejiang, Jiangxi and Jiangxi, which should have attracted much attention, was not so conspicuous.

On the North China front, the Japanese army launched the May Day Sweep on the 14th day.

The Japanese army sent additional troops from the 14th Army, the 11th Army and North China, totaling more than 100,000 troops, to attack from the Fenghua and Yuhang areas.

On the 24th, the Japanese army arrived in Wuyi, Jinhua, Xiaoshun, Lanxi, Jiande and other areas.

Since the defenders of the Nationalist army in the Jinlan area retreated one after another and had no attempt to resist, the Japanese military headquarters immediately issued an order to continue the fierce pursuit of Quzhou, forcing the Nationalist army to fight a decisive battle.

At the beginning of June, according to the original battle plan of the Commander's Department of the Third Theater of the National Revolutionary Army, the Japanese army was gradually lured to the Quzhou area, and with the help of the layers of defense outside Quzhou, it launched a layer of blockade, and when the Japanese army's vigor was exhausted and casualties spread, a decisive battle was finally launched in the Quzhou area and the Japanese army was defeated in one fell swoop.

To achieve this.

Many patriotic officers and men in the ranks of the national army fought to the death and swore not to retreat.

Zhang Lingzong, the commander of the major general division who had a relationship with Kong Jie and Li Yunlong in the Yan'an area and had a conversation, led the 58th Division to fight the Japanese army in the outskirts of Quzhou for three days.

The fierce battle between the two sides was fierce, and the blood flowed for a while, and the Japanese army paid a heavy price for it.

Why, four days.

Just when Zhang Lingzong made up his mind to lead all the officers and soldiers to fight the Japanese army to the death in the Quzhou area and swore to defend Quzhou to the death.

The commander's headquarters of the third theater suddenly came with a death order:

All combat units immediately retreated, temporarily avoiding the Japanese army's edge, and avoiding the decisive battle of Quzhou!

When the order came, Zhang Lingzong, who was in charge of the temporary front-line headquarters, was stunned.

However, there is no room for protest.

Even if he Zhang Lingzong did not withdraw, he could lead the 58th Division to hold on, but the rest of the combat troops had all chosen to evacuate, and he could only fight alone and bring about his own destruction.

Zhang Lingzong, who was helpless, could only give the order to retreat in an angry roar.

In a trance, Zhang Lingzong's ears seemed to sound Kong Jie's words that day: "I'm afraid that I will fail in my eyes!" ”

This made Zhang Lingzong couldn't help but sigh: Kong Jie really has a seven-trick exquisite heart, and he has already predicted the situation in front of him?

What a horrible guy!

…… It is precisely because of the capriciousness of the top level of the national army that the order changes every day.

Although the National Revolutionary Army invested nearly 300,000 large-scale troops, it lacked unified command after all, so the command was chaotic and the people's hearts were uneven, which eventually led to a major defeat.

The Japanese army pursued the victory and encountered almost no resistance in the battle to completely defeat Quzhou.

After taking Quzhou, the Japanese army did not shrink its forces as judged by the high-level of the Nationalist army, but pursued the victory and continued to expand the results of the battle, causing incalculable losses to the vast number of soldiers and civilians in Zhejiang and Jiangxi.

At this point, the Japanese army completely destroyed Quzhou Airport, completely eliminating the possibility of Britain and the United States and other countries using various airports in Quzhou as a springboard for air strikes on the Japanese mainland.

At the same time, the Japanese army basically achieved the goal of "confiscating and destroying railway facilities and equipment, as well as various military, political, and economic facilities and materials for cultivating combat effectiveness," plundering materials, and abducting young and middle-aged people.

From this point of view.

In the Battle of Zhejiang and Jiangxi, the Japanese army can be said to have achieved the final victory.

Compared with the fiasco of the Japanese army's May Day sweep on the battlefield in North China.

The battle of Zhejiang-Jiangxi seems to have made the Japanese army barely win back a game......