By the time Yokoyama's air support arrived, it was already afternoon, and more than a dozen devil fighters covered a few bombers and dropped some bombs symbolically at a high altitude towards the Dingzhou area, and then they began to return one after another.

Due to the high altitude, the aerial bombs basically did not fall on the position of the Dragon's Tooth Regiment outside the city, and the damage was extremely limited.

It's really not that the devil bombers don't want to lower the altitude and improve the accuracy of their bombing, but that they have been frightened by the anti-aircraft fire in Dingzhou.

For the appearance of the aviation troops, Yokoyama Yong was naturally very dissatisfied, and let his own artillery bombard, and when this qiē was over, the time would be almost evening.

Another attack was organized, but it was repelled by the prepared Dragon's Tooth defenders, and the day's battle came to an end, the Japanese army and the puppet army paid huge casualties, but they still did not advance an inch of land, and Yokoyama was brave enough to not even eat dinner.

At the same time, on the battlefield on the Eastern Front.

After two nights and a day of rapid marching, the more than 100,000 Japanese puppet army of the devil's Eastern Front Corps had passed Cangzhou and continued to advance towards Hengshui and Anguo. The commander of the 14th Division, Kenji Dohihara, and the commander of the 8th Division, Tsukada Tsukasa, set up their headquarters in Cangzhou.

Jiang Haidong and others sent reconnaissance troops to closely monitor the movements of the Japanese army, and they got the news as soon as the devils passed through Cangzhou.

Ma Biao and Wu Ming left their deputies to sit in Dezhou, and they had already rushed to Hengshui in advance to meet Jiang Haidong, the commander of the First Infantry Brigade.

The commander-in-chief of the battlefield defense of the Eastern Front this time was Qiao Youhua, Ma Biao and Wu Ming as deputy commanders.

The headquarters is located in Hengshui, and at this moment, in addition to the three of them, there are also Zhao Youde, deputy commander of the Third Brigade, and others.

They stood around a huge combat map, Jiang Haidong pointed to the map and said to everyone: "According to the information we currently have, the Japanese army corps on the Eastern Front is two devil divisions, namely the 8th and 14th divisions, and more than 70,000 puppet Manchukuo infantry, with a total strength of between 120,000 and 130,000.

The reason is very simple, the composition of the puppet army in the customs is very mixed, bandits and ruffians, and traitorous warlords are uneven, and a considerable part of the puppet army outside the customs is the original Northeast Army, and the rebellion of the whole system has become a puppet army, and the rest are also recruited by the Japanese puppet army in various parts of the Northeast later.

They have been systematically trained by the devils, and their equipment is relatively uniform, so their combat power is much stronger than that of the puppet army in the pass.

Now, the 120,000-day puppet army has passed Cangzhou, and in Cangzhou there are two devil divisions, plus 70,000 puppet troops divided into two, respectively towards Anguo, Anping, and Hengshui.

At present, the closest to us is the 8th Division, which is about to arrive in the area of Wuqiang County, and is about to exchange fire with our front-line alert troops. ”

Ma Biao looked at the map and asked, "What are your plans?" ”

Wu Ming, Zhao Youde and others also set their sights on Jiang Haidong.

Jiang Haidong pondered for a moment and said: "I mean, we don't have an advantage in terms of troops, and we can't passively defend, but we should take the initiative to attack while the devils haven't come to the city yet, and strive to fight a few beautiful ambush battles and sports wars."

You must know that the Anguo to Hengshui defense line we are responsible for has been connected with Dingzhou, which the Dragon King is responsible for, and any mistake may be in danger of the whole line.

If we really let the devils of the 14th and 8th divisions approach, then we can only passively defend the city. In that case, we will lose flexibility, and we will not have tank regiments, air defense regiments, and other elite regiments directly under them, which will provide strong fire support.

As a last resort, it is better not to engage in this kind of positional offensive and defensive battle with the little devils, in a word, we have few soldiers and cannot afford to spend it. ”

After hearing this, Ma Biao, Wu Ming and the others couldn't help but nod and said, "Well, it makes sense, tell me your specific battle plan, and we'll see how to implement it!" ”

Jiang Haidong immediately came out of the tray of his long-brewing battle plan, and after Ma Biao and Wu Ming listened to it, they supplemented and improved it, and then a bold ambush battle plan quietly took shape.

Jiang Haidong stayed behind, Ma Biao and Wu Ming divided the troops of about two regiments, set off from Hengshui and Anguo at the same time, and went to Wuqiang and Raoyang, ready to meet the enemy! ”

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On a dirt road northeast of Wuqiang County, the 8th Division and more than 35,000 puppet troops, a total of more than 60,000 people, were winding along the road and advancing towards Wuqiang County.

Since the division headquarters was located in Cangzhou, the 60,000-day puppet army marched with brigades and regiments as units.

The troops stretched for more than 10 kilometers in total, and each brigade was about a few miles apart, and at the front was a puppet army formed as the Third Independent Infantry Brigade of Manchukuo.

The total strength of this third brigade is about 5,000 people, and it was originally the Northeast Army, but later the September 18 Incident broke out, and the Japanese swept the entire three provinces outside the Guanwai within three months, so they took refuge in the Japanese and became a puppet army.

These puppet armies are all equipped with Japanese-style weapons such as the 38 big cover, and these weapons are all produced after the improvement of the former Northeast Army Shenyang Arsenal that was delivered after the devils invaded the Northeast.

Today, the Shenyang Arsenal has become Japan's largest military industrial base in China, which can not only produce and supply most of the weapons and ammunition needed by the Kwantung Army and the Imperial Allied Army. 、

There was also surplus equipment that could be used to support the Japanese Army in other areas.

The commander of this independent 3rd Infantry Brigade is named Zhang Haipeng, who was born in the green forests of Northeast China in his early years, was a big bandit leader, and did many bad things, and later joined the Feng warlords, and now he has become a puppet Manchukuo? Jun is a typical wall-to-wall grass or something like that. 、

This time he was sent out as a pioneer by the devils of the 8th Division, which made him very depressed, although his own troops had an absolute advantage, but the Dragon Tooth Column was not a good stubble, not to mention, the 1st Division had just suffered their big loss.

With this worry, Zhang Haipeng was extra cautious when he led his troops to march.

About twenty miles away from Wuqiang County, there is a steep place, called a line of sky, on both sides are steep cliffs tens of meters high, and the road leading to Wuqiang County leads to Guò from under the canyon.

Zhang Haipeng led people to the vicinity of the first-line sky, and the top soldiers in front reported: "The brigade commander is in front of the first-line sky, there may be an ambush, are we going to make a detour?"

Zhang Haipeng asked the adjutant beside him to take out the combat map, read it again, and said, "How far do you have to go on a detour?" ”

"More than a hundred miles!" The adjutant replied.

"******, if you want to go around so far, Lao Tzu is willing, and the Japanese behind us can't be willing, immediately let the commander of the first battalion take a few companies, take the lead, and test whether there is an ambush in the next line!" Zhang Haipeng said.

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