The British are definitely not a good-for-nothing lamp. It is still difficult for them to make up their minds to make trouble. But for the time being, we will turn our attention and first look at the battle near Handan, where the main forces of the 115th Division and the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army were fighting fiercely with the Japanese.

Let's start over. At that time, Okamura Yasuji led the main force of the 27th, 37th and 110th Divisions, the independent mixed 7th Brigade and the 3rd Tank Division, and the 3rd Tank Division, from Zhengzhou and moved north along Xinxiang and Anyang. At this time, the main force of the Eighth Route Army was besieging the Japanese North China Front Army that tried to return to North China before. This part of the Japanese army was surrounded by a group of people in Cixian south of Handan. This group of Japanese troops included part of the 3rd Tank Division and part of the 5th Brigade of the 3rd Infantry Division, and now there are about 5,000 remaining troops.

At this time, Okamura's 12th Army had just broken away from contact with the Scrapers and was exhausted. However, in order to go north to rescue the Third Tank Division and the Fifth Brigade of the Third Infantry Division, and to find an opportunity to annihilate the main force of the Eighth Route Army, Okamura's 12th Army had no choice but to order the troops to go north quickly.

To be honest, compared to fatigue, what made the Japanese even more troubled was the poor traffic conditions along the way. At that time, the large area north of Zhengzhou was a yellow flood area. At that time, the floating soil was over the ruler. A little wind and grass were whispering, sand and dust were blocking the sky. It was not very good in sunny days. It was not as good as one step, and it was even more deadly when it was rainy. It was completely swampy. The roads in the yellow flood area were just hard soil that was not as thick as a ruler. The bottom was full of yellow mud. After a convoy crushed it for a few times, there was no road again. Moreover, there were sorghum, corn and other stem crops along the way, so the vision was quite bad and it was easy to be ambushed.

So has the Yellow Flood Zone been like this for thousands of years? The answer is no. The formation of the Yellow Flood Zone is closely related to the same person. This person is the Chairman Jiang mentioned above. The formation of the Yellow Flood Zone is completely his "trick". Speaking of which, when the scrambler was beaten by the Japanese in 1938, Jiang ordered the explosion of the Huayuankou embankment, hoping to block the Japanese army's advance. The turbid Yellow River water advanced rapidly to the southeast and raged randomly in the Huanghuai Plain, and finally formed the Yellow Flood Zone that spanned 44 counties in three provinces in Henan, Anhui and Jiangsu Province.

It is said that as many as 890,000 people drowned and starved to death at that time, causing a man-made disaster in history. After the Yellow River was discharged underwater, it flowed along the Ying River to the Huai River in the west, along the Wo River to Huaiyuan in the east, and into the Huai River in Anhui. Then, after the Huang and Huai River converged, they poured into Hongze Lake, Huai River, and the coast of Hongze Lake immediately turned into a vast ocean.

Please note that this operation has not been completed. After the Huayuankou embankment was dug, the lower reaches of the Yellow River had no fixed river channels, so they ran around between Henan, Jiangsu and Anhui provinces. In this way, a swamp area, which is the Yellow River Flood Zone, was formed between Henan, Jiangsu and Anhui provinces.

Of course, the fans will not admit that this is *, but instead try their best to write a false statement for the chairman. However, no matter how much the floor is washed, it is useless, because newspapers during the Republic of China recorded this tragedy in detail: On June 22, 1938, "Shenbao" and "Proceeding the Yellow Disaster Emergency" record: The Yellow River embankment was bombed in Zhaokou, Yangqiao and Huayuankou areas. The torrents crossed the Longhai Road south and entered Anhui along the Jialu River, and will merge with the Huai River. The south of Henan is the first to be hit, Zhongmu, Kaifeng, Chenliu, Tongxu, Weishi, Fugou, Yanling, Taikang, Xihua and Huaiyang counties, all of which are in Zeguo, and the disasters are severe. The Weihe River and Guangji River on the north bank of the Yellow River have also been blown up by the enemy. The Mengxian and Qinyang areas have been flooded again. The Henan Province has been flooding for many years, and has been caused by war disasters. Now there are unprecedented floods and disasters. As of now, there have been four or five million refugees...

How much loss has been caused? According to official statistics from the Saofu, from 1938 to 1946, a total of 20 counties in Henan formed a yellow zone, with more than 1.5 million casualties, of which more than 320,000 died, 1.17 million people became victims, and more than 1.46 million houses were lost.

However, some surviving villagers in Zhongmu, Yushi and other places in the Yellow River Flood Zone, even though they were old, still remembered the horror scenes at that time. Since there was no warning in advance when the army was shattering and blowing up the dike, many people were skeptical about the Gardenkou bursting. In addition, the wheat harvest was at that time, and the farmers who had worked hard for a season were reluctant to abandon the fruits of their labor, and were even more reluctant to take their families to leave their hometowns. As a result, many people suffered.

The flooding Yellow River water not only took its own life, but also brought about 10 billion tons of silt to the Huaihe River Basin. The area of ​​the Yellow River Flood is as high as 54,000 square kilometers, equivalent to more than half of the total area of ​​Jiangsu Province. After the flood was washed away, the thickest sand and stones and yellow mud were left behind several meters deep, which brought great difficulties to the reclamation of fields in the Yellow River Flood.

According to the archives of Kufu, by June 1946, 6.5 million mu of farmland in the Yellow River Flood in Henan Province were flooded. Although there are currently 2.66 million mu of arable land, it has no plowing oxen and seeds, and the fields have been covered with gravel for eight years, so it is very difficult to dig by manpower alone, and it is still deserted.

So how many Japanese invaders were annihilated in the Yellow River Flood? Li Xiaofeng often saw two data on the Internet in later generations of 7452 to 20,000 people, which seemed to be more than the Japanese who annihilated in one battle of the Scraper. However, both data were extremely unreliable. First of all, the data of 7452 was the overall loss after the Battle of Xuzhou recognized by the Japanese army, and it had nothing to do with the breaking of the Gardenkou dike. If this data is credible, the entire Xuzhou battle of Japanese only had less than 8,000 Japanese killed. How many could they die from the Yellow River water?

There may be fans who want to say that the Japanese army likes to tamper with data the most, and the data of the Japanese army is unreliable. Well, if you say it is unreliable, then it is unreliable. Let’s pinch your nose and believe your data of more than 7,000. The problem is that this can cause major damage to the Japanese? Look at the losses in China, not to mention the deaths of 100,000, just say the data of 300,000 approved by the Jade Mansion, which is completely disproportionate! If we count the economic losses caused, it is even more impossible to compare. Anyway, Li Xiaofeng cannot understand this matter.

Back to the topic, let’s continue to talk about the battle between the Turkish Republican devils. Okamura Yiji came very quickly. He gathered his troops in just one day and started heading north. At this time, the 115th Division and the 129th Division were still besieging the Japanese soldiers guarding Ci County.

Starting from July 19, the Eighth Route Army successively captured the villages and towns around Ci County. When the Japanese soldiers saw that the situation was not good, they quickly strengthened the defense of Ci County, simply blocked the south gate, and even placed several remaining tanks on the city wall as firepower points.

At the beginning, facing the reconnaissance attack of the Eighth Route Army, these tanks really showed their might. The tanks turned on the headlights and shone brightly in front of the position. Then guns and cannons were fired, and they quickly fought back to the "Tu Eighth Route Army". It seemed that the Japanese's strategy was successful. However, today's Eighth Route Army was no longer the "Tu Eighth Route Army" of the past. When the Eighth Route Army launched the general attack, the Japanese soldiers quickly couldn't laugh.

At 8 o'clock that night, I learned that Okamura Yanji had already headed north quickly General Chen, Marshal Nie, and Marshal Nie, and Marshal Liu, who had personally rushed to the front line to command Peng Shuai, who had personally rushed to the front line to command, decided to launch a general attack immediately before dawn!

At around 9 o'clock, after the Eighth Route Army artillery group launched an hour of fierce artillery bombardment on Ci County, the infantry immediately followed up and launched a full-scale attack. The 343rd Brigade attacked the South Gate, the 344th Brigade attacked the West Gate, the 386th Brigade attacked the East Gate, and the 385th Brigade acted as a reserve team.

The Eighth Route Army first swept through machine guns and wiped out all the headlights of the Japanese tanks, causing their tanks to blacken their hands and could only shoot blindly, which was simply a random shot. Then the three main combat brigades successively cleared the three Japanese Luzhai set up by blasting forward, exploded the walls of the village, and easily broke through the city defense. The tanks left by the Japanese army on the city wall became the trophy of the Eighth Route Army.

Of course, the Japanese army was not a dough, and could be kneaded at will. After breaking into the city, the Eighth Route Army was subjected to fierce resistance from the Japanese. At that time, the Japanese gathered dozens of flamethrowers to shoot sharp swords at the Eighth Route Army assault troops, causing huge casualties. However, this did not stop the assault troops. Taking advantage of the Japanese fire-breathing soldiers to replace fuel, these Japanese were killed in the attack of the rain of bullets of grenades and grenade launchers.

Seeing that the situation was not good, the Japanese in the city had to choose to break through. Seeing that the position was difficult to defend, Okamoto Shirokazu Sato ordered the soldiers to burn military flags and other telegram documents, and on the other hand, a tank was entered and a group of Japanese soldiers headed straight to the east gate, hoping to break through by luck.

But when Okamoto Nakasa arrived at the east gate, he remembered that according to his orders, the city gate had been blocked and the tank could not get out at all. At this time, the Japanese soldiers following him had been besieged by the Eighth Route Army, so he had to order the tank to slowly move south.

At this time, a platoon leader named Zhao Yongxin from the 386th Brigade of the Eighth Route Army was on the city wall, so he took advantage of the opportunity of the tank moving slowly and jumped up at once. The Japanese reacted quickly and immediately turned the turret to throw Zhao Yongxin down. However, Zhao Yongxin's reaction was not slow. He climbed up and climbed onto the tank again, then threw three grenades into the cabin door in one breath. With a loud bang, Shiro Okamoto was directly reimbursed.

The death of Okamoto Shiro also heralds the destruction of the Japanese. After a full night of fierce fighting, the 115th Division and the 129th Division, which had officially fought for the first time, finally eliminated the enemy who was struggling to resist.

Let's look back at Okamura's operations. On the morning of July 20, after a rushing march, his main battalion arrived in the Xinxiang area. He had been trying to contact Okamoto Shiro but failed to succeed, he realized that Okamoto Shiro might be in danger. However, he did not realize that a fierce battle would break out next. On the contrary, on the one hand, he was saddened by Okamoto Shiro's destruction, and on the other hand, he was worried that the Eighth Route Army would "disappear" again.

Yes, the Eighth Route Army did not only fight guerrilla warfare. When the time is right, the Eighth Route Army dared to invest its troops to fight against the Japanese head-on. However, this kind of war is usually a short-term ambush. Once the Eighth Route Army succeeds, it will quickly clean the battlefield and disappear quickly.

Okamura Yasuji, who had fought with the Eighth Route Army many times, naturally knew the characteristics of the Eighth Route Army. His main task this time was to find an opportunity to annihilate the main force of the Eighth Route Army. Before, Okamoto Shiro helped him drag the main force of the Eighth Route Army, this opportunity existed. Now Okamoto Shiro is finished, and the Eighth Route Army may have fled quickly, right?

At that time, Okamura Yanji was very anxious and wanted to fly to Handan immediately. He could only urge his troops to speed up the march over and over again, hoping to catch the tail of the Eighth Route Army!

At the same time, the Military Commission informed Peng Shuai and others to block the Japanese invaders in the Yellow River Flood south of Handan and refused to allow the Japanese invaders to step into Hebei again!

Based on the instructions of the Military Commission, Peng Shuai and others immediately made targeted arrangements, with the 129th Division head-on, the 115th Division rested first and then put the camera into the battle. If everything goes well, you can consider investing in the 120th Division to fight a small-scale annihilation war and strive to annihilate at least one brigade of the Japanese invaders.

Looking back at Okamura Yanji's reaction, he was ************* to catch up with the Eighth Route Army that was "escaped", so he ordered the main tank 6th Brigade of the Third Tank Division, the Third Mobile Infantry Regiment and the Third Mobile Artillery Regiment to head north quickly. By the way, he also strengthened the 4th Brigade of the Cavalry and handed it over to the command of Tanaka Kuichi, who had just been drawn from the battlefield in western Hunan.

This Tanaka Kuichi is not a good person, a real demon. No matter where he goes, he will indulge and even order his troops to slaughter civilians, destroy property, rape and loot, force the soldiers to fight, and commit abuses and torture, and do all kinds of evil.

But it is interesting that when this demon was arrested after the war, Zhang Fakui, a member of the Democratic Party, said that he was a good person and said: "Tanaka is not a cruel and unruly person, unlike Takashi Sakai ordered a massacre in Hong Kong. However, Tanaka must be responsible for the inhuman behavior of his subordinates, and he will die. The military affairs are hard to say. When commanding many officers and soldiers, you cannot guarantee that no one will violate military discipline. Tanaka commanded more than 100,000 people, including the Japanese troops stationed in Hong Kong, and he could not control his subordinates to kill and rape... He was sentenced to death because he was the leader of the Japanese army who occupied Guangdong. When he was executed, I was in Nanjing. Later I heard that before his execution, he was tied up and stood on a convertible truck and paraded in the street. For this reason, I scolded my chief of staff Gan Lichu. If I were in Guangzhou, I would definitely lock him in a confined prison car and take him to the execution ground..."

Didn't you see that the party member still sympathized with Hichichi Tanaka for some reason. Anyway, Li Xiaofeng had never seen such a strange soldier. Of course, Chairman Jiang took the lead and even Yasuji Okamura could be acquitted. What is a mere Hichichi Tanaka?

Tanaka Kuichi was not as innocent as Zhang Fakui said. This demon was quite arrogant. He led the "Tanaka Army" to head north quickly and followed Okamura Yanji's order to pursue the Eighth Route Army that was "escaped". On the way, he did not forget to harm the people around him. He forced a large number of livestock to help the "Imperial Army" carry supplies, and forced a large number of civilians to build roads for the "Imperial Army". Fortunately, his mission was urgent, otherwise, according to his usual personality, not to mention those livestock, these civilians would probably not be able to escape the evil hands.

Of course, there is no need to be so anxious at Tanaka Kuichi, because the Eighth Route Army did not leave at all. Instead, it built a solid position south of Handan, waiting for his mechanized troops!

So when Tanaka Hirohiro head-on-head-strike into the defense line of the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army, he was quite surprised because he understood the blocking action of the Eighth Route Army in this way: "The strong blocking of the Eighth Route Army means that its main force has not yet escaped..."

In Tanaka Kuichi's opinion, there are only two reasons for the main force of the Eighth Route Army to stay in place: either because Shiro Okamoto is still sticking to it, or because his main force is still cleaning the battlefield. Of course, no matter which reason, Tanaka Kuichi was very happy, so he immediately sent an urgent telegram to Okamura Neji, hoping that he would accelerate his way north because he had already caught the main force of the Eighth Route Army.

This news naturally made Okamura Nagaji overjoyed. In his opinion, as long as he could catch the main force of the Eighth Route Army, the next battle would be easy. Of course, he did not mean that he looked down on the combat effectiveness of the Eighth Route Army. He believed that the next battle would be a hard battle, but the result of the hard battle would be that he would win a great victory!

Also arrogant was Tanaka Kuichi. Without any hesitation, he ordered the 4th Cavalry Brigade to attack first and give the opposite Eighth Route Army a little color. Some comrades might have a problem. Didn’t Tanaka Kuichi have tanks? Why not use tanks first? The reason is very simple. The yellow-flooded area is a big test for mechanized troops. At this time, Tanaka Kuichi’s tank troops were still behind, so he could only let the cavalry go first.

The combat effectiveness of the Japanese cavalry 4th Brigade was quite strong. These Japanese cavalrymen rushed all the way and after leaving Anyang, they defeated the Eighth Route Army's small reconnaissance troops and guerrillas that were operating outside Anyang. These small victories made the brigade leader Colonel Takahashi Takahashi a little proud, thinking that the Eighth Route Army was just like this, so the brigade continued to enter the light cavalry and fight until the martial arts world before stopping for a rest.

Please note that the Takahashi Tsugen stopped not because he realized the danger, but because his horse was really unable to run. At this time, the Fourth Cavalry Brigade was tired and hungry, and it can be said that his combat power was reduced to the lowest point.

At this moment, General Chen ordered the 771st Regiment of the 386th Brigade to launch a sudden attack, catching the Takahashi Tsuki people off guard. At that time, under the command of General Chen, the 771st Regiment suddenly came out from all directions. For a moment, thousands of cannons fired like rain. During the rest, the Japanese army was beaten and overturned.

In the blink of an eye, the Fourth Cavalry Brigade was eaten up by a squadron. Fortunately, Takahashi Tsugi personally led the team to fight back to the death to stop the Eighth Route Army's offensive. Even so, the Japanese were in chaos, and a large number of troops and horses ran around in the chaos and did not know where to end.
Chapter completed!