According to Okamura's special confessional order.

Although he asked the independent 1st Mixed Brigade to hold HD City and defend Seongnam Airport at all costs, Okamura also said that when it was really unstoppable, all the fuel and fighters at Seongnam Airport must be destroyed in time, and it could not be left to the Eighth Road.

The combat effectiveness of the aviation units displayed by the Eighth Route Army in the air battle of Licheng was too terrifying.

Their pilots were highly skilled and tactically daring, and even dared to follow the returning Imperial Flying Forces to carry out long-range air strikes on the Empire's large military airfield in Shanghai.

Once the Eighth Route was allowed to quickly grow its aviation force with the help of warplanes captured from the Empire.

Wouldn't the Eight Roads become more and more rampant?

Maybe even his headquarters in Okamura will be threatened by the Eighth Route Army's aviation units at all times.

Therefore, before leading the troops to retreat to the Chengbei Freight Yard, Major General Suzuki also made some special arrangements and arranged several blasting units in advance to be responsible for destroying all the ammunition, fuel and fighters stored at the airport before the Eighth Route Army took the Chengnan Airport.

In this way, although the Japanese army will suffer heavy losses as a result, at least these fighters will not fall into the hands of the Eighth Road.

What a pity!

Commander Chen would not have expected these tricks of the little devils.

As early as when he issued the order to raid the Japanese airfield in Chengnan, Commander Chen repeatedly said that he must infiltrate the Japanese airfield in advance before the attacking troops hit him, so as to ensure that after the battle begins, the devils will not have time to destroy the planes.

To this end, Commander Chen specially transferred an action team composed of experienced veterans from the Southern Hebei Military Region.

In addition, Kong Jie also arranged for Duan Peng to rush over with the assault team to help.

After the defeat of the old devil Suzuki, the demolition team he arranged saw that the situation was inviolable, and the little devils immediately decided to blast the Seongnam Airport, destroying all the ammunition, fuel and warplanes.

Duan Peng and his entourage, who had already infiltrated the airport, took the opportunity to take action and killed the devil's demolition force in advance.

The old devil Suzuki's abacus finally fell short.

But if you really want to talk about it, the old devil Suzuki has made so much money in his own jurisdiction, and he has also installed a lot of eyeliner in the HD area.

It's just that the speed of the Eighth Route Army is very fast, and the intelligence blockade is very good.

Suzuki received the message when he arrived.

His subordinates hurriedly reported that the field troops and main forces of the Eighth Route Army in southern Hebei had been dispatched one after another, and a large number of local county brigades, district squads, guerrillas, and militiamen had also been dispatched to attack the outlying strongholds and communication arteries of HD.

As soon as he heard that the steel helmets of the Eighth Route Army and the mechanized troops were coming, he did not concentrate on guarding the airport and the county seat at the first time.

He took the lead in arranging the mobile brigade and the automobile brigade, pulling the finances and materials he had collected for so many years, and quickly evacuated in the direction of SJZ.

He wants to protect his own interests, and besides, he has almost lost what a soldier should look like!

As a result, the Japanese defenders of HD City missed the best time to defend, and under the tactics of the Eighth Route Army encircling on all sides, they could only be forced to retreat to the freight yard north of the city for defense.

What the poor old Suzuki devil doesn't know is.

Because of the surrender of a highway bridge puppet army stronghold 40 miles outside the HD city, the newly formed armored company and mechanized infantry battalion of the Southern Hebei Military Region, as well as some field troops, have already successfully taken this stronghold, and paralyzed the reconnaissance of the Japanese army, quietly ambushed here, waiting for the devil to come!

Captain Du is also a good businessman.

"Let's defend this bridge and cut off the devil's only way of retreat. I estimate that after the battle starts, the little devil will definitely try his best to transfer some good things, as long as we guard this retreat, maybe we will get rich! ”

The final result proved that the poor old devil Suzuki had worked hard for so many years, and after all, he made a wedding dress for the soldiers of the Southern Hebei Military Region.

Cartload after cart of silver dollars, antiques, banknotes, supplies.

When they opened the back compartment of the vehicle escorted by the little devil, the soldiers were almost stunned, everyone had never seen so much wealth in their lives!

The commander of the mechanized infantry battalion who led the team shouted excitedly: "Comrades, everyone carefully send all the captured back to the military region, this time we have made a fortune, maybe we can eat meat in the future!" ”

The soldiers immediately cheered.

……

Beiping, the General Headquarters of the Japanese North China Front.

Major General Suzuki completely lost control of HD City, and even the telephone calls to the General Headquarters were completely cut off, and he could only use the radio to communicate with the General Headquarters.

In the communication, although Okamura could not hear Suzuki's voice, he could feel the crying and despair in that words:

"General, the steel helmets of the Eighth Route Army reinforced from the Taihang area outside the southern Hebei Eighth Route Army joined forces to attack HD, and I led the troops to fight to the death, but they were outnumbered and suffered heavy casualties, and they were currently forced to retreat to the freight yard in the north of the city.

Reinforcements were nowhere to be seen.

HD City and Seongnam Airport, I'm afraid they won't be able to keep it.

But rest assured, general, I have arranged the demolition force in advance according to your order, and I will completely destroy the airfield before the Eighth Route takes the Seongnam Airport, and I will never leave it to the enemy! ”

Inside the headquarters.

Okamura slumped into his chair with some weakness.

He didn't know if he was angry or desperate.

Angry at what?

Angry that those damned officers didn't follow his orders to send reinforcements to HD in time?

But what could he do?

At this point, I'm afraid that the position of Okamura, the commander-in-chief, will also be handed over.

The breach of Seongnam Airport is a sure fact.

The only thing to be thankful for is probably that Suzuki arranged a demolition unit in advance and blew up the airfield in advance, but it will not be cheap for those eight-way.

Okamura was naturally unwilling, and he also wanted to struggle again.

At least not to let the Eighth Route Army be so rampant, after conquering HD City and capturing the airport in the south of the city, it can still calmly transport the supplies away.

He gave the order, pretending not to know that Harada and other officers were disobedient to his orders, and did not reinforce HD City in time, resulting in the loss of HD.

"The 1st Mixed Brigade has now been forced to retreat to the area of the freight yard in the north of the city. After the Eighth Route captures HD City, it is inevitable that the captured materials will be quickly transferred to the Southern Hebei Military Region, and your various units will quickly launch a blockade in the field, so be sure to intercept these materials! ”

The implication is that you are guilty of not reinforcing HD City in time, and I, Okamura, can temporarily dismiss you, but you can't go too far.

It's understandable that I'm afraid that the Eighth Road has a trap around HD City and doesn't dare to reinforce it.

The Eighth Road has looted supplies at the moment, but some transport troops have withdrawn in the direction of the Southern Hebei Military Region, so you can always block it in the field, right?

After the order is delivered.

The head of the Harada division understood what Okamura meant in seconds.

He also knew that he couldn't play with fire too much, so after consulting with reinforcements from all sides, he immediately decided to launch a blockade in the field and reconnoiter everywhere to ensure that the materials stolen by the Eighth Route from HD were snatched back.

How could this little devil have expected it.

This HD Chengnan Airport has been completely occupied by the Eighth Route Army.

Not only that, but a large number of aviation materials and armaments seized from the airport, including HD City, were not transported by the Eighth Route Army this time.

Rather, it is directly taken by air.

In the ground-air integrated command center, Zhang Dabiao and Shen Quan were very busy, directing one air transport plane after another to temporarily transport a large number of materials captured in HD City back to the aviation base of the first team.

There is no way, who let the Southern Hebei Military Region not have a decent airfield so far!

That can only be the same as Commander Lu in Jizhong, first park all the fighters in one team.

These included a large number of captured air supplies at the Japanese airfield in Seongnam, including some damaged fighters and bombers that the Japanese were forced to land at Seongnam airfield during the air battle of Laicheng.

In order to capture these fighters that previously belonged to the little devils and belonged to the Eighth Route Army in the future.

Kong Jie and Commander Chen also specially arranged for a group of elite aviation maintenance units to follow the officers and men of the Southern Hebei Military Region to the Chengnan Airport and then carry out emergency repairs at night.

Regardless of anything else, first make sure that the fighters can take off, and directly drive the fighters and bombers of the little devils from the Chengnan Airport back to the aviation base of the detachment in one go.

For this reason, long before, political commissar Li Wenjie and chief of staff Xu Guoan were busy with the expansion of a secret aviation base of a detachment.

Busy and busy, but with a full smile on his face.

When he wanted to secretly build an aviation base, Xu Guoan still felt that Kong Jie had built the airport too big, "I said Lao Kong, you built the airport so big, do we have so many planes?" ”

Now, Xu Guoan knows how short-sighted his gaze is compared with Lao Kong.

There are really too many fighters to stop, and the airport, which was originally thought to be too big, is a little insufficient.

"Or someone else is the captain of the detachment!" Lao Xu sighed.

It's been a busy night.

The old devil Suzuki led the troops to retreat in the freight yard in the north of the city, and he didn't dare to move.

The gunfire around is intensive, coupled with the darkness of the night, who knows if he will fall for the trick of the Eighth Route if he rashly leaves the fortifications and breaks out?

Until the next day, when the sun is in full bloom.

The old devil Harada, the Japanese SJZ Division, the Ishikawa Brigade and other reinforcements, according to Okamura's orders, had already set up an ambush at the predetermined location, waiting for the transport troops of the Eighth Route Army to appear.

But I waited all night, but I didn't see any movement.

After dawn, there were several lines of the Eighth Route Army, but it looked like a transport unit, the troops were fully armed and well-equipped, and there were no convoys or other burdens in the team.

And guess what?

Harada all the way, Lieutenant General Harada rolled his eyes, and immediately issued an order, all the ambush troops did not move, absolutely not exposed, and directly let the Eighth Route Army go.

Harada isn't stupid.

These eight roads are very shrewd, and in the process of transferring, they are also very vigilant, and the ranks of the troops are very long, and it is impossible for them all to fall into his ambush circle.

There are even some steel helmets mixed in it, which are the elite of the eight roads, once the ambush battle starts, it is not good that the eight roads in the ambush circle cannot be killed, but they will be destroyed by these eight ways.

Lieutenant General Harada is very principled.

His Excellency the Commander's order was to intercept as much material as possible from HD City, but the Eighth Route Army I saw did not carry any supplies.

Then there is no need to fight.

In several other directions, there were Japanese troops stupidly launching ambushes.

For example, Lin Taro, who came from Luxi, mixed into a brigade, this old devil is probably a stunned young man, and he has not seen the power of the Eighth Route Army in Shanxi.

Seeing that the vanguard of the Eighth Route had entered his ambush circle, he immediately ordered an attack.

As everyone knows, when it comes to half-way robbery and ambush, Balu can be regarded as the ancestor of the little devil.

After all, the Eighth Route Army relied on this tactic to make its fortune.

When the troops were evacuated from the HD area, the soldiers were already on the lookout for possible ambushes along the way.

After the two sides clashed.

The vanguard of the soldiers quickly withdrew from the devil's ambush circle, and the follow-up main force did not say a word, but divided into two roads and quickly detoured to the flanks of the Japanese army.

By the time the old devil Lin Taro noticed it, his original ambush force was vaguely surrounded by the Eighth Route Army.

From a farther position, the devil even sensed that the mobile units and armored units of the Eighth Route Army were rapidly intercepting.

But this old devil was frightened a lot, and he hurriedly retreated, and suffered a lot of losses in the fierce battle along the way.

If he hadn't run fast enough, he would have almost been wiped out in this ambush.

At the end of the day, it's still young.

How can someone be the shrewdness of the old devil Harada?

Lieutenant General Harada let go of the retreating troops of the Eighth Route Army in front of his eyes, and then estimated that the Eighth Route Army had also withdrawn, and the materials in the city should have been almost moved.

In order to be safe, he contacted several other reinforcements, and quickly advanced, arriving in HD in no particular order, and then sent several reconnaissance troops to investigate the situation.

If the main force of the Eighth Route is still there, we will withdraw first and continue to wander outside the city.

If the main force of the eight roads has been evacuated, we will take the opportunity to regain HD.

In this way, they regained an empty city without much effort!

"After the fierce battle, repel the eight roads and reconquer HD City!"

Listen, what a gimmick!

And after rushing to HD Castle and reinforcing all the way to the North of the City Freight Yard where the First Mixed City Brigade is located, Harada found out with a stunned face.

Outside the yard was a pile of used oil drums, full of firecracker scraps, and the camp was surrounded by the smell of gunsmoke from the explosion of fireworks.

What are these for?

When Lieutenant General Harada found Suzuki, who was still a little noisy, in the air-raid shelter in the north of the city, he suddenly lost his breath.

"Damn it, you idiot! Suzuki, do you know what you're doing? Confronting the enemy outside the fortifications, are they the firecrackers in those waste oil drums? Bastard! ”

Poor Major General Suzuki was almost slipped out of the bomb shelter by an angry Harada.

When he looked clearly outside the fortifications, he was dumbfounded.

The enemy who was so frightened by his feelings that he didn't dare to leave the fortifications for half a step turned out to be fireworks and firecrackers in one place, and a dozen or so dilapidated oil drums were disguised and pretended!

A great sense of shame invaded him in an instant.

(End of chapter)