The Shimomura Division was suddenly ambushed by the elite of the Eighth Route Army.

As a result, Tanaka and his entourage directly sold their teammates, and as soon as the signal gun specially prompted by the Eighth Route Army was fired, it collapsed directly and escaped ahead of schedule.

The little devils of the Kwantung Army were caught off guard, and Lieutenant General Shimomura first scolded Tanaka and the others for damning, and then scolded the head of the devil's secret service as usual, Tu Feiyuan, a bastard, and the information sent was simply a piece of shit.

Doesn't it mean that the main force of the Eighth Route Army in the eastern Hebei region has already been transferred to other regions, and it is the emptiness of troops at the moment?

So where did the main force of the Eighth Route Army come from?

Judging from the opponent's firepower configuration and equipment level, it is definitely the main elite of the Eighth Route Army.

The Eight Roads were clearly deliberately releasing false information to the outside world to lure the enemy deep into the depths and deliberately luring his subordinate village division into a trap.

The unsuspecting Shimomura Division immediately fell into a bitter battle.

The news reached the General Headquarters of the Chinese Dispatch Army.

Commander-in-Chief Okamura was also a little dumbfounded, he couldn't help but hesitate about his previous inference, could it be that he was too worried?

The main force of the Eighth Route is clearly still in the base area.

Even the elite of the Kwantung Army such as the Shimomura Division fell into the trap circle of the Eighth Road.

Could it be that from the very beginning, the Eighth Route Army deliberately lured the imperial army into the base area and then set up an ambush to eliminate it?

From this point of view, it seems to explain why the Eighth Route Army's August Storm Operation was a bit thunderous and rainy.

didn't have time to think too much, Okamura immediately dispatched troops to reinforce the Shimomura Division.

Commander Lu, who is sitting in the headquarters of the Jizhong Military Region, is also a ruthless character, the little devils have fallen into the trap, and they have to be skinned if they don't die.

I have to make the little devil completely believe that the main elite of my Jizhong base area is still there.

"There's nothing to say, hit, hit me hard!"

Commander Lu immediately ordered the deployment: "Pull out all our main forces, don't be reluctant to give up all the artillery equipment, give me all the firepower, the field brigade left behind and our armored detachment, including the heavy artillery detachment, are full of firepower."

Demand, a brigade has to give me the firepower of an army! ”

On the other hand, Commander Lu mobilized reinforcements against the devils:

"Although our main force is not there, there are still many local army units, including our militia comrades, all of whom are involved.

Send me all the military uniforms of the regular army accumulated in our warehouse, including the guns and ammunition accumulated by the logistics department, and do everything possible to disguise our local army units and militia units as our main force.

Show the number of our main force to the outside world.

Blockades were launched along the way to hold back the pace of the devil's reinforcements.

Even if you bluff, you have to bluff the little devil! ”

After the orderly order was given, the soldiers quickly moved.

The old devil in the headquarters of the Chinese army listened to the news from the front line that made him a little frightened, he took the binoculars and watched the past from a distance, marveling at the strength of the elite artillery fire of the main force of the Eighth Route Army.

In just half an hour's effort, the other side displayed dozens of large-caliber artillery.

There were even mechanized armored units on these eight routes, with tanks and armored vehicles constantly detouring on the flanks of the main forces of his division.

As a result, the main force of the Shimomura Division was simply unable to get rid of the entanglement and pursuit of the Eighth Route Army in a short period of time.

There are even reinforcements from the air on the 8th route.

On the contrary, the air firepower reinforcements of his empire were intercepted by the fighters of the Eighth Route Army halfway and could not be reached at all.

Under such a battle, the battle had just begun, and the little devils of the Kwantung Army, who were still arrogant in the entire Shimomura Division, directly dropped a few points in terms of combat momentum.

Lieutenant General Shimomura didn't care about the glory of the Kwantung Army anymore, and hurriedly conveyed a communication requesting tactical guidance to the rest of the major Kwantung Army divisions, including the First Army of the Devils, the Twelfth Army Headquarters, and even the General Headquarters of the Chinese Dispatch Army in Nanjing.

At the headquarters of the Yamada Division of the Kwantung Army, in the confrontation around Julu County, this old devil Yamada suffered a big loss at the hands of the Eighth Route Army.

Hearing that the Shimomura Division was advancing to the east of Hebei, Yamada originally thought that he could win a big victory to show the military might of the Kwantung Army.

He Chengxiang then received a call for help from the Shimomura Division.

Yamada was also stunned, and at the same time he felt that the combat effectiveness of the Eighth Route Army was terrifying, and at the same time, he was suddenly a little lucky, glad that the troops dispatched when he fought against Julu County before were not many, and it was only a brigade.

If you really press all the main forces up, you will be in a predicament like the Shimomura Division, and you can only ask for help from all sides.

And such an act was undoubtedly a shame for the officers of the Kwantung Army.

- In the battle with the Chinese army, you even have to ask for urgent reinforcements!

The two sides fought fiercely in the eastern Hebei region.

All the multi-party reinforcements mobilized by Lao Guizigang Village were blocked by the troops of the Eighth Route Army along the way, and the news from the headquarters of the reinforcements from all sides said.

It seems that the reinforcements are the main force of the Eighth Route Army, they are wearing standard military uniforms, the firepower configuration is quite strong, and there are many artillery pieces of various calibers and machine guns.

This is definitely the main force of the Eighth Route Army in the cognition of the little devil.

Okamura, who was analyzing the battle situation at the headquarters, was completely confused by the situation.

——With such a large battle in the Eighth Route, it must be the main elite of the Eighth Route Army that is ambushing the Xiacun Division, and the reinforcements in these places seem to be the main force of the Eighth Route Army.

In this way, the main force of the Eighth Route Army in the eastern Hebei region is really still there.

Okamura was even a little worried at this time, could it be that the Eighth Road was ready to repeat his old tricks and use the time gained by reinforcements to kill the Shimomura Division?

If Okamura would never have thought like this a few years ago, Hachiro would never have such strength.

A Kwantung Army division was enough to go sideways in the core base of the Eighth Route Army.

But now it's different, after a series of fiascos, not to mention a Shimomura division, even an army of the army he sent, if it really falls into the encirclement of the main forces of the Eighth Route Army, I am afraid that there is also a danger of annihilation.

This made Okamura a little speechless, and he just wanted to test it.

Who would have thought that such a big bait would have to be lost.

The two sides fought fiercely until the third day.

The Japanese army advancing to the eastern Hebei region fell into an ocean-like war, in addition to being constantly blocked by the main force suspected to be the Eighth Route Army, and fell into various traps set by the Eighth Route along the way.

All kinds of mine tactics, tunnel tactics, dazzling.

Even walking on the road may be ambushed by roadside bombs, and the little devils who hit them are unable to move an inch and complain.

Fortunately, under Okamura's orders, reinforcements from all sides did not dare to retreat.

Even Tanaka, who had sold his teammates and withdrawn in advance, had to lead his troops back to reinforce.

Only then did he successfully rescue the Shimomura Division that was encircled by the main force of the Eighth Route Army.

When the main force of the village division rushed out of the ambush circle of the Eighth Route Army, how could there be the original arrogance and self-confidence, the whole team was embarrassed and suffered heavy losses, and the baggage troops were directly defeated.

If it weren't for the timely arrival of reinforcements, he might have been eaten by the Eighth Road.

For this, Lieutenant General Shimomura was shocked.

He suddenly felt that Manchuria was a good place, where even the most rampant anti-coalition forces were not so exaggerated!

At this point, the little devils of the entire Shimomura Division have been completely beaten without self-confidence.

And with the Kwantung Army in Texas, the Shimomura Division was hit hard.

Shimen's Yamada Division lost the forward elite brigade again.

The two elite Kwantung Army divisions suffered heavy losses at the hands of the Eighth Route Army.

The remaining Cangzhou Shitian Division, Baoding's Fushan Division, and Tianjin's Okada Division, how dare they act rashly?

The five armies went south to reinforce, and the ordinary soldiers from the division commander to the bottom were full of arrogant so-called imperial army flowers, and now they were completely honest, so they followed the North China Front Army and worked as traffic policemen on the Pinghan Line, Shide Line, and Jingpu Line in the central Hebei area, and no longer dared to take the initiative to launch a provocation against the base area of the Eighth Route Army.

Once again, the home of Operation August Storm was in the hands of the Eighth Route Army.

…… The rest of the shareholders are also blowing more and more as time goes by.

On the side of northern Henan, Commander Tang and Commander Hu secretly held a meeting with Commander Yang and Commander Han of Zhongtiao Mountain, and under the witness of General Zhang Zhizhong, who was specially appointed to the throne, the two sides reached an agreement that the troops of the Eighth Route Army in the northern Henan base area and Commander Tang's troops would besiege Puyang again to attract the attention of the Japanese army, and then the Lao Wei mobile troops operating in the Handan area launched a surprise attack on Hebi, changing the situation in northern Henan in one fell swoop.

At the same time, the Zhongtiao Mountain troops moved south to launch an attack on the northwest of Henan.

At that time, Commander Hu's troops marched eastward to cooperate with the flanking attack, and the two sides approached Luoyang after the division.

Lao Wei's mobile troops and Commander Tang and Commander Yang's troops approached Xinxiang after the division.

The two sides joined forces to drive the devils in northern and eastern Henan back to Luoyang, Xinxiang, and Zhengzhou.

The Shandong Military Region secretly went south to assemble in Linyi and Binhai after capturing Weifang and opening up contact with Jizhong, preparing to fight jointly with the main force of the New Fourth Army and secretly break the Huai River blockade line of the devils.

In addition, the Wendeng Yongbei Airport in Jiaodong, which had been repaired and reinforced for almost three months, was successfully completed, and the airport has eight reinforced concrete runways and four spare runways, just waiting for the strategic bomber air squadrons of the Soviet, British, American, French, and Eighth Route Army to transfer over after the completion of joint training in the Hetao area to launch a large-scale joint bombing campaign on the Xiaori mainland.

By the 7th, the joint strategic bomber units were stationed one after another.

This time, the P38 Lightning long-distance escort fighter, the P47 Thunderbolt long-distance escort fighter (eight 12.7 heavy machine guns were changed to four 23 mm cannons, four 12.7 mm heavy machine guns, and auxiliary fuel tanks), and the Mosquito night improved fighter (radar leader aircraft) were all in place.

Flight formations that stepped on the spot in advance even appeared one after another around the sea area of the day.

Fighter jets from all countries are available.

A devastating aura enveloped the entire island of the day.

Because of this, the local people were in turmoil, and the military and civilians across the country were panicked.

Even Okamura, an old devil who sits in the headquarters of China's dispatch army, has been disturbed by the constant condemnation and pressure of the domestic high-level command.

The anti-sweeping operations of the New Fourth Army in the south have also made a breakthrough in phases:

The troops of the New Fourth Army led the noses of the little devils who came to sweep in Central China in the Lianghuai area, tossing back and forth.

As a result, after the devil's formation was disrupted, the main force of the Shandong Military Region suddenly broke through the defense line in southern Shandong and merged with the New Fourth Army in northern Jiangsu, and the devil's encirclement was even more stabbed.

The newly built mobile units of the New Fourth Army showed great might, and won six battles and six victories in the Soviet and Anhui regions, causing the devils to lose their armor and abandon their armor.

For a time, the major occupied areas of the devils were completely turned into a pot of porridge.

The sound of gunfire resounded throughout North China and Central China.

After the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army units were fully mobilized, devils were required to listen to the sound everywhere, and there were units of the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army equipped with steel helmets and artillery operating everywhere.

All kinds of bad reports followed, and snowflakes flew towards Okamura's headquarters.

Even the Central Army troops on the frontal battlefield, which were originally quite honest, began to move.

Who knows when it will take the opportunity to launch a counteroffensive, take advantage of the fact that the offensive of the Eighth Route Army is progressing smoothly, and come to get a piece of the pie.

The Japanese troops stationed on the frontal battlefield did not dare to move easily.

Admiral Okamura suddenly felt that this summer had passed very slowly.

Where is there any mind to pay attention to whether the Eighth Route Army will launch an attack in Mengdong.

In this middle of Hebei, the chaotic battles in northern Jiangsu, northern Anhui, and northern Henan have almost turned his head into a pulp.

There are also some devil officers who are not worried at all.

For example, Tanaka, Rintaro and others were sitting in the headquarters looking at the dark clouds outside the window.

The more fierce the fighting, the more valuable the weapons and ammunition in their production base, and the bloody battle of the Xiacun Division in front of them also successfully wiped out the evidence of reselling materials during this time.

The slightest handle will not be left to the extra-high class.

"Anyway, the front of the holy war has already driven to a fork in the road that has deviated from the main road, who has the ability to turn the tide? The silverfish in the domestic base camp are even more so, not only did they not step on the brakes, but instead increased the accelerator on this wrong road, which has long been irreparable...... As for us, we're just following the trend.

As soon as the guns rang out, the gold was ten thousand taels.

When it is completely messed up, there will be more opportunities to make a fortune. ”

Amid the sighs of these devils, the situation in North and Central China has become more and more intense, and it has gradually deviated from the expectations of China and Japan.

There were even many cannon fodder units of the National Army that were originally sent to areas behind enemy lines that began to break away from the camp of the National Army and join the Eighth Route Army as a formation.

The monstrous fire has become a complete momentum.

For a time, even the Eighth Route Army could not stop just saying stop.

On a simulated sand table of the military command of the Special Experimental Zone.

Flags representing the beginning of war were planted everywhere.

"It's a beacon fire everywhere!"

"The enemy and the enemy are completely intertwined, and the fight is inextricably linked."

Kong Jie's words were loud, and in the calm, there was also a bit of anticipation and excitement that could not be concealed: "The time is finally ripe.

Lao Li, Lao Ding, it seems that it's time for us to take the stage! ”

Li Yunlongle's eyes were gone: "Our old Li has been waiting for this day in our dreams!" I haven't killed the little devil for so long, Lao Tzu's big knife has long been hungry and thirsty, and this time I have to kill his mother! ”

At the military meeting held immediately, Kong Jie, Li Yunlong, Ding Wei, Zhao Gang and other cadres formally decided on the candidates for the initial transfer of the command members to the eastern Mengdong region after discussion:

Including military commanders Kong Jie, Li Yunlong, Ding Wei, and Chu Yunfei.

The staff selected Xu Guoan and others.

The members of the Political Department are mainly Li Wenjie, Zhao Gang and other cadres.

Ding Wei's partner, Political Commissar Cui, and the deputy political commissars of various ministries stayed in the special experimental area this time to continue to stabilize the development and construction of the base area, and provide corresponding material support for the follow-up of the northward advance operation.

As for the main force of the Iron Triangle Army, it has been transferred in batches many times during this time, and it has already been successfully lurking in the area of Mengdong, just waiting for the final order.

Eleventh.

Kong Jie took the headquarters of the Iron Triangle Group Army to officially go to the Mengdong Defense Line, and together with the headquarters of the 35th Route Army, the headquarters of the 129th Division, and the headquarters of the 120th Division, to make final preparations for war.

(End of chapter)