The more he pondered it, the more Harada felt that this plan was very good, and immediately expressed his thoughts to his immediate boss, the commander of the First Army, Iwamatsu Yoshio.

Iwamatsu also expressed his support for this, and specially applied for Harada to apply for the Mashiko Air Advance Team, which landed on the railway line outside the east gate of Yanggao after dark and launched a feint.

At that time, the main force of the 35th Division, which has been disguished, can directly take the Ximen freight yard, and then occupy Yanggao County, completely cut off the rear road of the Eighth Route Army, and teach the Eighth Route a good lesson!

At this time, the battle around Datong had already reached the fourth day.

For the encirclement of the 14th Division, the Japanese command at all levels reacted differently.

Harada conspired with the Ito Division to feint west of Yangyuan, and Harada dispatched at night, put on the uniform of the National Army, disguised as reinforcements of the 35th Army, and secretly detoured from the east of Datong to Yanggao.

The night bombers and fighters of the North China Dispatch Army, as well as the airborne troops, cooperated to cut off the rear route and logistics base of the siege troops of the Eighth Route Army.

"In China's Art of War, it is called encircling Wei and saving Zhao, it will definitely not work for us to directly reinforce the 14th Division, it is better to cut off the back road of the Eighth Road and indirectly respond to the 14th Division!"

The old devil Harada swears by this.

In addition, in the direction of Baoding, the main force of the Japanese army moved forward to the outer defense line of the Jin-Cha-Ji base area and launched a tentative attack.

In the direction of Yi County, the Devil Niudao Manchu troops successfully captured Laiyuan County and are attacking Wei County.

At the same time, the 13th Division, which followed the 14th Division to the west, was making every effort to fill the vacancy in the defense line with the Huaxiao Battalion, and after filling the defense line, it would be expanded, and some troops were sent to attack Wei County - because most of the mechanized vehicles were transferred to the 14th Division, the 13th Division became a camel and horse division, leaving only a small number of transport trucks to tow artillery and transport logistics materials, and only one forward reinforcement brigade equipped with tanks, armored vehicles, and armored personnel carrier trucks.

Therefore, the marching speed of the main force in the ice and snow was extremely slow.

In the direction of Zhangjiakou, the old devil of Qitian and the old devil of Nakazawa, the commander of the first division, are also conspiring.

Nanata believes: "The 14th Division successfully attracted the main force of the 35th Army, and then it can use the dark passage left in Zhangjiakou to carry out a surprise attack.

During the day, the 1st Division launched an assault in the direction of the front of Zhangjiakou.

At night, the Type 95 and Type 98 light tanks, which could be specially dispatched from the south, took advantage of the secret roads in the mountains to bypass the southern defense line of Datong and launch a surprise attack from the north of Datong, flanking from the front and rear. ”

- Although the devil's light tank is small and light, it also has the advantage of being more mobile, faster, and more suitable for various complex and steep environments, and can still come in handy in swamps, mountains, and jungles, if the Eighth Route Army does not have a solid anti-tank position, it is difficult to withstand the attack of the Japanese tank troops, even if it is only some light tanks.

Besides, there is no swamp near Zhangjiakou, so there is no need for special transformation, just follow the secret passage.

The parties are not in the same place.

Although the 14th Division of the Kwantung Army was besieged in the Yangyuan area, due to the fierce blows of the Eighth Route Army, under the urgency of 100,000 people, the old devil Inoue had to pull down his face and face in all directions to continue to ask for help.

But in the final analysis, as the elite Kwantung Army unit of the Japanese army, Inoue, an old devil, still wants to save some face for himself after all.

In the communication transmitted to all sides of the Japanese army, on the one hand, he urgently said that the 14th Division was facing a crisis, was surrounded by a large number of eight routes, and was in a bitter battle.

But on the one hand, he changed his mind, hoping that reinforcements could arrive quickly, and cooperate with the 14th Division's mid-flowering tactics to eliminate the main force of the Eighth Route Army outside the encirclement in one fell swoop.

As a fully staffed field division of the Kwantung Army, the size of the force is tens of thousands, and in addition, when the 14 th division went south to reinforce the North China front, it specially strengthened a considerable number of mechanized combat vehicles and various types of field artillery.

Such a powerful field elite of the Japanese army all the way.

Not to mention that all units of the Japanese army would never believe that these 14 divisions would be defeated or even wiped out by the Eighth Route Army in a short period of time.

Even when the main force of the initial forward was attacked by artillery fire, plus the troops led by Li Yunlong and Ding Wei quickly interspersed with assaults.

Although the old devil Inoue felt stunned and angry, he didn't think that with the strength of his 14th Division, he would be treated to the enemy.

He even wanted to find out this group of enemies and destroy them all to relieve the hatred in his heart.

So, even the old devil Inoue thinks so, let alone reinforcements from all walks of life.

Most of the Japanese officers probably thought the same way as Harada.

"Your Kwantung Army is so powerful, you have always been known as the elite of the imperial army, and you even look down on us imperial troops in North China, then you must be capable, what is the 35th Route Army and the Eighth Route Army? Isn't it just surrounded by enemy troops? With the strength of your 14th Division, it is not easy to even destroy all the enemy forces surrounded by it? ”

Besides, Inoue-kun said it very clearly in the communication.

"It's not that they're surrounded, they're deliberately attracting enemy troops, and they're going to make a move to blossom in the middle!"

Therefore, although the reinforcements from all walks of life fought a lot of trouble on the surface, once they encountered the resistance of the reinforcements of the Eighth Route Army, the original speed of advance immediately slowed down, and even unhurriedly started a tug-of-war with the Eighth Route Army.

The Japanese troops reinforced on all sides seem to be waiting for his 14th Division to take the lead in opening up the situation and respond to reinforcements from all walks of life with the tactics of flowering in the middle!

At this time, what was the evolution of the combat situation of the 14th Division and the 35th Route Army of the National Army disguised as the 35th Route Army of the National Army in the Yangyuan area?

——After the 14th Division was raided, the forward troops suffered heavy losses directly, and then under the blows of various interspersed troops led by Li Yunlong and Ding Wei, they were roughly divided into four parts.

One for the forward troops, one for the Chinese army, one for the rear guard, and one for the Yangyuan East Gate Reserve.

The devils in these four places pulled out a long snake formation of dozens of kilometers before and after.

Originally, he wanted to completely get rid of the enemy's encirclement, and with the help of his long-tongued and flexible body, he could form a counter-encirclement of the enemy's interspersed troops in the local battle situation at any time.

In this regard, the old devil Inoue was originally very confident, and he could use a large number of mechanized equipment to go on a rampage and directly break the blockade of the enemy troops along the way.

As a result, the main armored forces of the devils could not defeat the armored forces of the Eighth Route Army.

After a large-scale exchange of chariots between the two sides, the battle situation turned out to be one-sided.

A large number of armored vehicles and tanks attached to the 14th Division were quickly destroyed and suffered heavy casualties.

It's funny.

The long snake without sharp teeth has become a big spicy strip that can be slaughtered, and the long snake formation has become a one-word death array.

The forward troops fought hard for a morning, unable to defeat the main force of Kong Jie's 1st guerrilla force, nor penetrating the defensive troops at the junction, and could not join the Chinese army.

The Chinese army was fiercely interspersed with the main force of Li Yunlong's second guerrilla force, and was forced to retreat to isolated hills on both sides of the road.

The rearguard troops were fully attacked by Ding Wei's Third Guerrilla Army, and their formations were completely disrupted, and they were forced to distribute on both sides of the road for chaotic fighting.

Ding Wei's troops are the troops that the Eighth Route Army is currently best at interspersing, and after disrupting the formation of the enemy's large forces, they can directly engage in chaotic battles, and they can divide the main forces into formations and divide them into company-level tactical groups for intersperse, and ensure that they are not chaotic while disrupting the opponent's formation, and all parties tacitly cooperate in combat.

This is a topic that Ding Wei has been studying for more than a year.

Ding Wei believes: "The strength of the Japanese army lies in the defense of the outer line, and in fact, once this layer of external defense is broken, this devil is like a king who has been shelled, and the interior is much more vulnerable."

So I've been wondering, can we change the traditional way of playing, even if it is a large-scale confrontation of the main forces, while containing the enemy head-on, should there be a tactical force that is extremely good at interspersing to directly break through the outer defense of the Japanese army and completely disrupt the opponent within the Japanese formation? ”

In this operation, Ding Wei put his theory into practice.

The rear army of the devil is basically composed of ammunition and oil transport teams, mechanized infantry, one-gun fighting vehicles, and heavy artillery units of divisions and regiments, which are responsible for supporting logistics.

When encountering the ferocity of an opponent like Ding Wei, he had no strength but couldn't use it, and he had to protect materials and artillery, and he was afraid to fight.

Where can it withstand the red-eyed team led by Ding Wei like a wild wolf?

As for the reserve of the 14th Division to attack outside the east gate of Yangyuan, it was originally a feint, with only a small number of armored troops, most of which were baggage troops, as well as a siege heavy artillery brigade, as well as a transport team with a large amount of food and weapon parts, and a mechanized wing responsible for protection.

On the whole, it does not have too strong field combat capabilities.

It can be said that the offense is insufficient, and self-protection is barely enough.

After the battle to encircle and annihilate the 14th Division began, the reserve of the 14th Division was like a piece of big fat that was directly targeted by Lao Pi and the main force of the northward detachment that had been reinforced.

Lao Pi also made a special declaration of sovereignty and said: "This piece of fat is what I am eyeing first, and if you want to fight in the north, you can only rank the battle sequence behind us."

I don't have a problem with drinking some soup, but if anyone grabs meat from me, then don't blame me for not recognizing my old comrades-in-arms! ”

After the battle began rapidly, the four divisions of the 14th Division, the first to be eaten was this reserve.

In order to surround the battle between Datong and Zhangjiakou this time, the Japanese army deliberately strengthened the heavy firepower of the 14th Division.

The Chinese army has Type 91 105mm howitzers and Type 92 105mm cannons with relatively good mobility.

The rear army was a field heavy artillery wing composed of a relatively slow towed Type 96 cannon brigade, a Type 96 150mm howitzer, and a Type 96 150mm mortar brigade.

The reserve has a siege heavy artillery wing composed of Taisho 14 type 270 mm mortars, Type 45 240 mm howitzers, and Type 96 240 mm howitzers.

The remaining 75-caliber mountain artillery and field artillery were all distributed to various mechanized wings, and the firepower intensity attached to them was quite amazing.

As a result, the reserves were directly eaten by the mobile units of the Lao Pi and BJ detachments, and the large-caliber artillery of the devils, which had almost reached the strategic level, was completely strangled before they had time to open their fangs.

As for the main force of the Chinese army in these 14 divisions, it was originally the most difficult to deal with.

It's a pity that Inoue's old devil's Chinese army turned into a state of maintenance when it was marching, and was suddenly attacked by the field troops led by Li Yunlong, and the troops hurriedly responded, and in the face of the fierce attack of Li Yunlong's troops, they had to retreat in a hurry.

But this little devil was able to run, but those slow-moving tractors and heavy artillery did not have time to evacuate, and Li Yunlong opened fire, and under the first attack of artillery fire, many Japanese-style tractors that originally towed heavy artillery were directly blown up.

This is precisely the disadvantage of these heavy guns, once they are attacked by the enemy at close range, there is no time to show their power, and once the towing vehicle is destroyed, this very heavy artillery immediately becomes a chicken rib.

It became very difficult to even transfer, let alone resist the attack of the pursuing troops of the Eighth Route Army, and as the Japanese troops ascended the mountain, they held on to the danger.

Not to mention the rear army.

Those large-caliber heavy artillery tractors moved very slowly, and they were caught off guard and were impacted, and some of those technical units even abandoned their vehicles and fled.

As for the siege heavy artillery troops outside the east gate of Yanggao, they were still in a state of transportation, and they were completely crushed before they could be assembled.

At this point, under the attacks of the Iron Triangle Army, the heavy firepower of the 14th Division was basically lost, and only some one-year 75-mm anti-tank gun fighting vehicles and 2-type 105-mm artillery fighting vehicles remained.

The towed artillery was the Type 99 mountain gun, and there were also 75 caliber mountain guns, which were relatively light in weight and easier to transfer.

The others are basically lost!

The old devil Inoue was depressed and wanted to vomit blood, without these heavy artillery as a background, his 14th Division would become an empty shell, with a powerful appearance, but it was already a strong outsider.

The divided troops could only hold on to some terrain along the way.

At this time, Inoue suddenly realized that the battle had reached this point, let alone continuing to carry out any intermediate flowering tactics, and if the reinforcements did not arrive in time, his 14th Division would not be able to escape the fate of being annihilated.

So in the communication sent to the Japanese reinforcements from all walks of life again, Inoue said urgently: Our department has been hit hard and is facing the crisis of annihilation, and it is urgent to hope that all armies will be reinforced!

Regarding the middle flowering tactic, Inoue didn't mention it this time.

But what happened after this communication reached the headquarters of the Japanese reinforcements?

A day or two ago, you Inoue swore that you could use the middle flowering tactics to cooperate with reinforcements to eliminate the main force of the Eighth Route Army in one fell swoop.

How could the situation be reversed in the blink of an eye, and it was about to be wiped out by the whole army?

Can that be believed?

I can't believe it!

Lieutenant General Harada, for example, expressed deep doubts about this.

"Inoue-kun is really joking!"

Harada, who was carrying out his great Black Tiger Digging Out His Heart and Drawing Salary from the Bottom of the Cauldron to cut off the rear route of the Eighth Route Army, said so, and then continued to busy with his battle plan.

As for the Japanese army on the Baoding side.

and Nanata, who is trying to attack Zhangjiakou.

Everyone is also thinking about using the exposure of the 14th Division in Yangyuan to attract the main force of the Eighth Route Army to the past, and take the opportunity to take Datong and Zhangjiakou to complete the campaign goal!

In Nanata's words: "The focus of the Eighth Road is mostly on the defense of the two important cities of Datong and Zhangjiakou, and it is speculated from the information we have found before.

What did they spend so much effort to besiege the 14th Division?

Could it be that we can really eat the 14th Division in front of our two major group armies?

How is this possible? ”

It was at this juncture that the Eighth Route Army launched a fatal blow against the 14th Division of the Kwantung Army, the strength of the aviation unit was fully mobilized, and more than 100 fighters roared over Yangyuan.

For the little devils of the 14th Division of the Kwantung Army on this day.

It seemed to rain in the sky, and the power of the raindrops was so great that they fell one after another, and they watched as their companions died one after another, the kind with no bones left, and not even a trace of ash could be found.

I don't know when it's going to be my turn......