On the night of August 21, 1941, Beiping, the headquarters of the North China Dispatch Army

The battle of Zhangjiakou was very fierce, under the bombardment of Type 98 320mm heavy mortars and 600mm heavy mortars, the Japanese army's fortification system had long been fragmented, the technical equipment was lost, and the formation of the garrison was also lost, and only a few adjutants were left to command the troops there, and half of the people involved in the defense of the city were some expatriates, including the elderly and children.

In this case, there was no point in continuing to fight, so General Yoshio Shinozuka contacted Commander Nie and asked for a 12-hour truce, to put it bluntly, as long as the Eighth Route Army let the disarmed Japanese troops and expatriates evacuate, they would not fight.

Considering that there were still many civilians in the city, Commander Nie finally gave up the idea of completely annihilating the Japanese army in Zhangjiakou, after all, there was still a chance to completely annihilate the Japanese army, and the safety of the people's lives and property was the first place, and only with the support of the people could the Eighth Route Army always be invincible.

In response to the Japanese army's failure to destroy weapons and cities, the Eighth Route Army vacated a train and helped the Japanese collect the remains of the wounded and some of the dead soldiers, and finally recovered this important town on the Jingsui line before dawn, blocking the possibility of the Japanese army sending troops from North China to support Guisui.

On August 21, 1941, after the liberation of Zhangjiakou, an important town in western Hebei, the reinforcements of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region took a train to Guisui under the first rays of sunlight in the early morning to support the troops who were fighting fiercely under the city of Guisui and the Mongolian army.

The battle of Guisui City also entered a white heat, and the Japanese defense line had long been shattered under the absolutely strong offensive of the Eighth Route Army, but the problem was that the Japanese army not only did not surrender and prepared for street fighting, but also relied on the dense houses in the city to fight street battles with the Eighth Route Army.

As the largest city in Suiyuan, Guisui City has at least 200,000 civilians gathered in the city, not counting those puppet Mongolian troops. In such a situation, any shell may accidentally injure civilians, even grenadiers and high-powered grenades, in this case, the Eighth Route Army and the Jin Sui Army can only send elite troops to break into the city and fight with the Japanese puppet army house by house.

In the street battles, the Japanese army's home advantage and well-trained are very important, these days, the Chinese army almost every day to lose more than 5,000 troops, and the Japanese army's losses are estimated to be less than one-third of the Chinese army, forcing the Eighth Route Army and the Jin Sui Army to send valuable armored troops into the city to fight street battles.

However, General Yoshio Shinozuka had no time to care about the life or death of Gui Suicheng, because almost at the same time that the Japanese army withdrew from Zhangjiakou, the troops of the Jiaodong Army Division of the Eighth Route Army broke into Qindao Port again under the double cover of night and fog.

A full 30,000-strong army was able to bypass the mines, anti-submarine nets, and sonar alerts set up by the Japanese army outside the harbor, and came out directly under the noses of the Japanese Navy's special base team on Kotoshima.

Then, relying on the guidance of the underground party and the agents of the Military Command Bureau, they quickly surrounded and approached the various tactical points of the port of Qindao from the inside out, and a major battle was about to break out.

In the end, the Japanese army offered no resistance, no blowing up of ammunition depots, no destruction of technical weapons, and no destruction of warships in exchange for the Eighth Route Army troops to let them leave Qindao Port on a transport ship.

Well, the powerful Combined Fleet has long regarded the Yellow and Bohai Seas as an inland sea, and only two small-tonnage gunboats are deployed here, the Shuri Maru and the Japanese Kaimaru, and the poor combat effectiveness is really not good, and there is no need to besiege with torpedo boats, and the 1125 gunboats of the Eighth Route Army are enough.

In this way, the former first fortress in the Far East was actually completely captured, and it cannot be said to be captured, because there was no exchange of fire between the two sides from beginning to end, not to mention the dead, not even a single shot, the whole process was quiet, so that many sleeping citizens realized that the city had been recovered only when they saw the Eighth Route Army all over the street in the morning.

However, when the Japanese Navy withdrew, it finally figured out how the Eighth Route Army accurately entered the port of Qindao, and it turned out that early in the morning, the frogmen of the Eighth Route Army used nylon cables to mark the route of march under the water, and the fleet of the Eighth Route Army could accurately bypass the Japanese defense network along the cables.

As for sonar? In fact, it is not difficult, before the battle started, the Eighth Route Army went to destroy those sonar networks from time to time, and sometimes used floating bombs to toss a few times, which made those devils' sonar officers numb when they saw the headphones, where did they dare to pay close attention to what bullshit sonar warning network?

The Japanese Navy withdrew from the port of Kotoshima in this way, but neither the Japanese Navy's Special Base Unit nor the Naval Command Department of Kotoshima informed Yoshio Shinozuka, so His Excellency our Admiral only found out about this matter when he listened to the Central News Agency radio in the morning.

Your Excellency the General is going crazy, didn't he just transfer a brigade on the periphery of Qindao to the direction of Quancheng? It's not going to make your navy do that, is it? Fortresses, airports, military ports, ammunition depots, repair factories and so on were all completely lost to others, not to mention even the wounded soldiers of the army in the hospital.

And then there are the materials, Qindao is a naval base and a fortress city, but it is also an important port, the North China Dispatch Army has hoarded more than 100,000 tons of materials in Qindao Port to prepare for shipment back to China, and now it is all cheap.

In addition, the weapons and ammunition that the North China Dispatch Army easily asked for, enough to organize a division of weapons and enough ammunition for the entire North China Dispatch Army to fight a small-scale battle, which is equivalent to the losses of the Eighth Route Army during this period of time were replenished at once, no wonder that Commander Xu also sent people at the dock to distribute rice balls and canned food to the devils on the ship when the Japanese Navy retreated.

Just when Admiral Shinozuka was responding to domestic inquiries and naval criticism, the Wuhua Ministry of Culture of the Sulu Wing broke into Weihai and fought fiercely with the Japanese troops stationed in danger, although the Weihaiwei Administration was still under the control of the Japanese army, but everyone knew that it was only a matter of time, because there was only a small team of Japanese troops and more than 100 puppet soldiers stationed in the Weihaiwei Administration.

Sure enough, in less than an hour, Weihaiwei was recovered by the Ministry of Culture and Culture of Wuhua, which did not stop, but continued to advance westward along the coastal road and advanced towards Yantai, and at the same time, the Military Committee of Wuhan issued a clear telegram order, urging the Eighth Route Army and the Sulu Coalition Army to recover Lu Province and fire the first shot of the major counteroffensive.

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