Before dawn the next day, Kaifeng two points, Heze and Juye a total of four points began to rush to cross the Yellow River. The river was full of boats, the trumpet of the captain shook the sky, the soldiers also took planks to help row, and the trucks also got on the large ferries and cannons, and they also got on the boats in the midst of the people pushing the horses, and sailed towards the opposite shore in the wind and waves.

The voice of China has been sounding for a day, and the advance army, the national army, the Eighth Route Army, and the Third Route Army marched north together to recover the land that had been invaded by the Japanese invaders.

Countless young people poured into the streets, countless young people who hid in the mountains and wilderness, and returned home after learning the news of the Japanese army's escape, also looking for a way to join the army, to join the team, fight devils together, and avenge their relatives.

Lao Jiang's troops followed behind Dong Ku, and the recruitment office had no chance to be placed. In addition, Lao Jiang needed food and salary to recruit troops, Xie Jinyuan did not make any recruitment moves in the past two days of crossing the Yellow River, and Zhang Zizhong and Gu Zhutong only followed in the rear, paying close attention to the movements of the advance army.

Lao Zhao, who occupies the position of the supply line, recruited troops with Sun Tao, while crossing the river, while cleaning up the bullies who fled to the countryside, while training simply.

Dong Ku's side has taken a big step. He adopted Zuo Boyang's suggestion to recruit troops, and the more the merrier. At the same time, Liu Rongcheng also called, so that Dong Ku opened up the recruitment of troops and the people who recruited reinforcements.

Dong Ku somewhat understood their intentions in his heart, that is, to collect the population in disguise, bring in the sparsely populated Mongolia and Heilongjiang, and avoid a big war, and there was no source of soldiers.

It's just that he doesn't know the true intentions of Lu Daoliu and Zuo Boyang. But it doesn't matter anymore, Liu Rongcheng said that the grain, Heilongjiang has a bumper harvest, enough to feed a million army. And that's not even counting the original reserves.

Lao Jiang was also fully supported by the advance army on the northern crossing, and after learning that Dong Ku had given a large number of weapons and equipment to Zhang Zizhong and Xie Jinyuan, he was in the area above Zhengzhou. Including Luoyang and other places, a large number of ferries were allocated to assist the army in crossing the river.

The army, in the morning, the vanguard had already met the requirements for a breakthrough, and then. The respective ferries left the responsible persons, the troops, and rushed forward.

At this time, all the Japanese troops in Xinxiang had been evacuated, and Nakajima Imago in Shangqiu also felt Jincheng during a night of rapid marching, and then, the road to Jincheng was closed, leaving a mess outside.

Dong Ku had already been angry with Lao Jiang before. Zhang Zhizhong crossed the river in Zhengzhou, directly drove the army to the direction of Jincheng Pass, and the other army marched to Xinxiang, waiting for the advance army to pass, and then stationed in Handan and advanced to Shijiazhuang.

The East Road took the lead, all the way straight to Shijiazhuang, and it was no longer possible to care whether there were Japanese troops along the way. The convoy of the brigade was under the path of self-propelled artillery, and smoke and dust billowed from it. No stops.

In Shijiazhuang, the Japanese army had already received the news that the advance army had begun to cross the river, and they had accelerated the evacuation action, without the slightest intention of garlic blocking Dong Ku.

At the same time, Sun Tao asked the follow-up troops to wait for Heze to cross the river, and ordered Qu's army to advance to Texas first. Occupy the train track and see if you can intercept the train.

Along the way, it was learned that the advance army had crossed the Yellow River, and the common people were welcome by the road, and the gongs and drums were noisy. It's not lively. It's a pity that Qu Jun was in a hurry to catch up with the Japanese army, and he didn't even have the time to stop drinking saliva, and the convoy went straight to Texas along the road.

The defenders of Dezhou had all withdrawn into Jinan, and the banks of the Yellow River were heavily armed at this time, and they put on a resolute defensive posture.

Less than 300 kilometers, although the road is only thirty or forty kilometers an hour, but there is no hindrance, when it is dark, Qu Jungang still rushed to Texas.

Although he arrived in Texas, what made Qu Jungang depressed was that he didn't even see a shadow of the Japanese army along the way. He was not worried about the Japanese army coming to surround him, two divisions, four or five hundred self-propelled artillery, hundreds of anti-aircraft machine guns, five or six hundred heavy machine guns, the Japanese army encircled, and it was difficult for them to get close to the army within 500 meters without paying a heavy price.

And Dong Ku also crossed Handan, went straight to Shijiazhuang, and after dark, entered the messy Shijiazhuang.

At this time, Shijiazhuang did not have much population, and the Japanese army was only a transit station, and the people, when the Japanese army evacuated, were all taken away as people, old people, children, and those who escaped the disaster did not dare to move forward when they saw the flashing headlights.

The Japanese army did not know that the evacuation of Dongku had arrived in Shijiazhuang, Tianjin, and Beijing had not yet been completed, especially in Tianjin, where the factories in the concession were protected by the concession, and the Japanese army did not take care of these expatriates, but stepped up the evacuation of troops.

Dong Ku rested in Shijiazhuang for an hour, overhauled the vehicles, added water, and had a hot meal for the personnel, and he was going to attack Tianjin overnight. At this time, according to Guo Weiquan's report, in Tianjin, there were at least two divisions waiting for the ships to evacuate, and in the concession, the expatriates basically did not move, and the factories remained as they were, and they were not demolished as expected.

Dong Ku didn't go to care about the Japanese troops there at Niangziguan, he said that it was all left to Zhang Zizhong and Gu Zhutong, and after his follow-up troops followed, they would all march in the direction of Zhangjiakou and enter Mongolia.

Qu Jungang also received Sun Tao's order, marched overnight, drove to Tianjin, and strived to take Tianjin, Langfang, Tangshan, etc. tomorrow, and recapture Beiping, open the road to Mongolia, and block Shanhaiguan.

Qu Jungang is relatively close, only about 200 kilometers, and Dong Ku is a little farther away, 300 kilometers, but it is also the front and rear feet.

Qu Jun was in a hurry to kill the enemy, afraid that it would be too late for all the Japanese troops in Tianjin to evacuate, and to capture some expatriates was at most to collect some wealth. Based on this, he was already close, and after receiving Sun Tao's order, he canceled the treatment of resting for one hour, and set off directly, without even leaving the personnel who stayed behind, and the convoy rushed to Tianjin.

Along the way, there was not the slightest obstacle. The Japanese army retreated very cleanly, and those puppet troops did not abandon it, and all of them withdrew.

Although there were no trains, the road was much better than the one below, and the speed of the journey reached 40 kilometers away, and it took only five hours to reach the outskirts of Tianjin.

After passing Qingxian, he divided his troops into two routes, all the way to the vicinity of the port, intercepted the Japanese warships, and went straight to the front of Tianjin, without taking the Japanese troops who had not completely withdrawn seriously.

The Japanese did not expect the advance army to be so fast, and they were still boarding the ship overnight to speed up the withdrawal.

At this time, in Tianjin, there was not even a single division of troops, and most of them boarded the ships and sailed away from the port.

Liu Haisong followed, and in three hours at most, he could catch up with Qu Jungang. And at this time, Dong Ku can also arrive.

This is also the reason why Qu Jun just dared to attack, and the reinforcements are behind him, what is there to fear?

The Japanese troops stationed on the outskirts of Tianjin, covering the evacuation, saw the convoy stretching in the distance and saw the string of headlights, and they did not hesitate to report the situation.

The Japanese army was taken aback when they learned that the advance army had arrived in Tianjin, and did not expect that the whole army would be so fast. According to their calculations, the advance army will arrive tomorrow afternoon, which is already considered fast, after all, there is no train. And the highway, apparently they left behind to blow up the bridge failed to complete the task, otherwise, they would not have arrived so quickly.

"Shelling the road! Hurry up the evacuation!! ”

The remaining major general, Yuta Iijima, did not panic and ordered loudly.

At this time, Qu Jungang's self-propelled artillery had all moved forward, set up a position, and followed the road to attack Tianjin in the coming year.

The truck, on the other hand, turned off its headlights and waited in the rear for its self-propelled artillery to fire.

The Japanese troops, who were evacuating in a panic, suddenly heard the sound of bombardment, and without waiting for inquiries, the order arrived, so that the pace of evacuation should be accelerated.

But there are only a few ships, at best, they can carry another one or two thousand people, and these small freighters are still temporarily requisitioned, how can they send all the Japanese troops at the dock away?

What they didn't know was that not far away, a group of trucks with their lights out, following the walking artillery, rushed towards the port.

The shells, whizzing and falling in front of and behind the self-propelled guns, lit up everything around them with a loud bang.

The sound of artillery made the Japanese troops and expatriates in Tianjin even more panicked, knowing that the enemy was close at hand, and those who could not board the ship rushed to their defensive positions, in order to be able to wait for the ship and make the last fight.

The soldiers who infiltrated the vicinity of the harbor already looked down on the fact that there were no large ships in the harbor except for small sampans, that is, small steamers, so they reported the coordinates of the four small freighters that were slowly leaving the port to the artillery behind.

In the roar of artillery on the other side of the road, the artillery on this side opened fire first.

The Japanese troops in the harbor only saw a sudden flash of fire in the distance, and a few seconds later, they heard the screeching of shells.

"Not good! There's an enemy attack here!! ”

The Japanese soldiers in the harbor shouted in panic and rushed to the edge of the harbor with their weapons.

The warships cruising outside the harbor also heard the scream of the shells, and at the moment when the loud noise rose and the two small freighters were directly blown to pieces, the two destroyers did not hesitate to increase their horsepower, and in the thick smoke, they fled to the deep sea.

The shelling of Shanghai has made them already timid, where do they dare to stay within the range of the enemy's shelling? As everyone knows, the range of self-propelled artillery is far from reaching their range, only eight kilometers, but they do not dare to stop.

The four small cargo ships did not even leave the port, and in the shelling, they turned into fragments, and the corpses of the Japanese soldiers and the debris on the ship immediately floated all over the port.

Before the Japanese troops who rushed to the edge of the harbor could shoot, the approaching trucks erupted in flames.

The dense rain of bullets tore apart the running Japanese troops, and the facilities on the harbor where the bullets hit were shattered, and debris and blood mist shot everywhere in the dark night.

On the front, the self-propelled artillery had been reloaded, and after obtaining the accurate coordinates of the Japanese position, more than 300 artillery pieces roared.

In the firelight, a reddish projectile pierced the night sky and hit the Japanese artillery positions and front lines. Trucks, at the moment when the self-propelled artillery roared, also turned on their headlights one after another, roared, and rushed towards Tianjin. (To be continued......)