Wucheng, the headquarters of the 21st Mixed Brigade of the Japanese Army's Independence, after getting the news from the Xuanhua side, the chief of staff, Kobayashi Cunichi, rushed to the brigade commander Masaki Akizo and said, "Your Excellency General, the Xuanhua garrison has contacted the defenders of Shaling Town, asking them to be ready to respond, and will send an infantry brigade to meet our retreat." ”

Masaki Mingzo was overjoyed when he heard this, and nodded happily: "Great, it seems that we can get out of this bad place tonight." ”

Xiao Lin Cun nodded and said, "Yes, general, there is nothing else, I will go down and prepare first." ”

"Go, remember not to leak the news, we can't all leave when we break through, and we have to rely on the Imperial Association to stay behind as our palace." Masaki Akizo instructed.

"Hay, I understand." Kobayashi Koeichi bowed his head and left.

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The attack of the Guards Regiment and the 1st Regiment of the 1st Division in the southeast and west directions of the city continued until the evening. Although the attack for most of the day failed to break through the Japanese position, it also caused a lot of casualties to the Japanese puppet army.

On the side of the Dragon's Tooth Column, because of the superiority in equipment and troops, as well as the fire cover of the artillery group, the casualties were not large.

Approaching evening, the sun gradually set in the west, Zheng Yunshan, Scarface and others all came to Qiao Youhua's headquarters.

Qiao Youhua said to them: "Wait for dinner, you all go back to your posts, there is news from the cavalry battalion, the devils in the city are likely to break through tonight, and it is to go to Shaling Town, you must try your best to intercept it, give the enemy a lot of casualties, and then let them break through, remember, don't die to stop it, once the resistance is too strong, there is no hope of breaking through, and the devils will retreat back into the city, but it will not be good."

Compared with urban siege battles, or field ambush battles, it is more possible to win quickly and at a lower cost. ”

Zheng Yunshan, Scarface and others stepped forward one after another and said, "Yes!" ”

Subsequently, Qiao Youhua instructed Liu Yidao again: "Yidao, you immediately take the other two infantry regiments and tank troops, rush to the outside of Shaling Town to set up an ambush, and prepare to ambush the Japanese breakthrough force together with the cavalry battalion." ”

"Yes, guaranteed to complete the mission." Liu Yidao, who had been waiting for a long time, happily accepted the order and left.

There were only Qiao Youhua and adjutant Li Yansan left in the headquarters, and suddenly, Wan Ying'er flashed in from the confidential room next to him and said to Qiao Youhua: "Commander, the chief of staff of the left called and said that he had been ordered to return to our base from Taiyuan, saying that the headquarters had an order to let his arsenal allocate the resources of our arsenal and help the arsenal of our Eighth Route Army headquarters expand as much as possible, so as to expand the production capacity of weapons and equipment of our entire Eighth Route Army."

to meet the increasing demand for weapons of our Eighth Route Army. The chief of staff also said that let the commander go back one last time, after all, this matter is very important, and he hopes that you can be present and discuss it with him. ”

When Qiao Youhua heard this, he fell into deep thought, the development of the Longya Anti-Japanese Base Arsenal he created had indeed surpassed the arsenal of the Eighth Route Army Headquarters.

Now the Dragon's Tooth Column has been uniformly equipped with German-style weapons, and the workers are working at full power on the production line of German-style weapons and equipment, and the original British 77 rifle and other British weapons and equipment production lines are basically idle.

Qiao Youhua originally planned to transfer them to the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army, and assist the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army to expand their original production lines of Japanese-style and Hanyang-made domestic weapons.

The Eighth Route Army's arsenal in Huangyandong could not only produce Hanyang-made rifles, but also repair Japanese-style, domestically produced and other weapons, but all kinds of machines and parts were very scarce, and a unified production line could not be formed.

Therefore, the weapons and equipment of the various departments of the Eighth Route Army are very mixed, and there are all kinds of weapons such as the 38 big covers, the old sleeves made in Hanyang, and the official ones.

At present, all units of the Eighth Route Army are still in a state of guerrilla warfare in their own battles, and they are all fine, but with the continuous recovery of Shanxi, Chahar, Hebei and other provinces, the base areas in various places have been connected.

In the future, large-scale corps will certainly be indispensable for mass battles, and the weapons and equipment will still be the same as before, and it is obvious that they will not be able to meet the needs of the combat units by simply capturing them from the Japanese puppet army.

And if we want to set up our own arsenal production line and supply the troops with weapons and ammunition, it is imperative to unify the caliber and model of weapons and ammunition, otherwise the logistical pressure alone will make people desperate.

After thinking about it for a while, Qiao Youhua decided to hand over the command to Liu Yidao, and he took a team of guards to return to the base area first, although the battle on the side of Wucheng has not yet been decided, but he has already formulated a battle plan, as long as they follow their orders, winning victory is not a problem.

Moreover, as the commander of a force of more than 100,000 people, it is impossible for Qiao Youhua to be on the front line in every battle and personally command, and it is time to give his senior officers some opportunities to fight alone, and temper them well.

In the future, there will be more battles for them, and they must grow up as much as possible, grasp more command opportunities, and improve their strategic and tactical command capabilities.

After the decision, Qiao Youhua sent someone to inform Liu Yidao and asked him to come back to sit in the command headquarters and hand over the ambush troops to the two regiment commanders to lead the team to command the deployment.

Then, with Wan Ying'er, Li Yansan and a group of communication soldiers, the guards left the front line of Wucheng and rushed all the way to the south.

Qiao Youhua took Li Yansan and them, walked to Huai'an County, rested for a while, and then took the foothill path from Huai'an to Wei County and Luanyuan County.

After arriving in Luanyuan County, Qiao Youhua and others rested here for a day, continued on the road, rushed all the way to the southeast, and finally arrived in Baoding three days later.

Jiang Haidong, the defender of Baoding, had already received the news and took a cavalry company out of the city ten miles to greet him. Of course, this is all an afterthought, not a few hours after Qiao Youhua left, the main force of the devils in Wucheng City suddenly launched an attack from the east gate to break through.

According to Qiao Youhua's prior arrangement, Scarface led his troops to resist for a while, and after inflicting a large number of casualties on the enemy, he let them break through.

Subsequently, the guard regiment took the opportunity to storm the west of the city, easily captured the Japanese position in the west of the city, which had been emptily defended, and then took advantage of the situation to attack the west gate of the city.

Scarface led his troops to immediately pursue after the breakthrough Japanese army, and the 21st Independent Mixed Brigade of the Japanese Army rushed to the direction of Shaling Town in the dark night.

After the devil evacuated, the puppet army behind the abandoned palace naturally had no intention of fighting again, plus the guard regiment was well-equipped and had strong firepower, after a few charges, the puppet army was defeated, and the dragon tooth guards swarmed into the city.

Everywhere they went, the puppet army surrendered one after another, and the dragon tooth guards were invincible, and soon recovered the entire city of Wucheng.