Du Kaishan, who had already rushed to the frontal command of the river, the intention of the entire deployment was obvious. Since he did not complete the encirclement in the first place, he took advantage of his tank advantage and took advantage of the arrival of new reinforcements from the Japanese army. Adopt his favorite wolf pack tactics and peel the skin of the 64th Division layer by layer. Until the flesh and blood of this sixty-fourth division was exhausted by its own tank offensive.

Du Kaishan still believes that the armored cluster in his hands is his greatest advantage. Tanks and infantry are absolutely invincible against the Japanese army, which lacks anti-tank weapons. Although there is no preset blocking position, the mobility advantage of the tank is its biggest capital. No matter how fast the two legs of the Japanese army ran, they could not outrun the tracks of the tank.

What's more, there is a group of attack aircraft in the sky, plus the long-range artillery fire in their own hands can also cooperate with their own interception. As long as the 64th Division is blocked on the banks of the Hutuo River, the losses will be much smaller than if they were encircled together and fought. Du Kaishan believed that although the combat effectiveness and equipment of the Japanese North China Front Army were inferior to those of the Kwantung Army, the stubborn will to fight was still there.

This wolf pack tactic of using tank clusters as sharp knives will reduce casualties and reduce resistance to final settlement. Therefore, Du Kaishan took all the armored clusters in his hands and took the battalion and company as the formation to take turns to attack in multiple ways and bite from all sides. Although the progress was a little slower, the tactical use was quite successful.

Although the main force of the 64th Division on the frontal battlefield of Hejian desperately retreated, the goal of the first round of outflanking and encirclement could not be achieved. At the same time, because of the unusually fierce resistance of the division, Du Kaishan failed to complete the division of it in the first time. However, when the division retreated, it was rushed by the surrounding anti-Japanese forces in turn, and the wolf-like armored infantry clusters continued to bite and bite, and the losses became bigger and bigger.

The main force of the 64th Division, which was desperate to retreat south, lost all the wounded and heavy equipment, and reluctantly struggled to withdraw to the confluence of the Hutuo River and the Hulu River. Facing the Hutuo River, which had been blocked by long-range artillery fire and attack planes behind them, they found that they could no longer continue to retreat south.

Although the Hutuo River is still as calm as ever, the volume of water in winter is not very large. For the current Japanese army, it is like a death line, choking the last retreat of the division. The second line of defense that Uchiyama Eitaro had given to the 64th Division became their life and death line.

The ice on the frozen river was completely blown up by the long-range artillery fire and aviation of the Anti-Japanese Union, and the remnants of the 64th Division were defeated and had no way to retreat. Every attempt of the 64th Division to build a bridge, or even to wade across the river in spite of the cold weather, was intercepted by the anti-United Nations aviation and long-range firepower, and the entire river was covered with dense Japanese corpses.

As early as the Japanese army began to retreat in the frontal battlefield of Hejian, Yang Zhen mobilized a group of bombers and used high-explosive bombs to blow up all the ice on the Hutuo River, Ziya River, and Hulu River. Aircraft were also dispatched to patrol the section of the Hutuo River below Anping.

As soon as the Japanese army was found trying to erect a pontoon bridge over the Hutuo River, they immediately launched their destruction. At the same time, the refrozen ice was bombed again. While the troops pursued the retreating Japanese troops, long-range artillery fire was also added to it, turning the entire Hutuo River into a natural barrier blocking the retreat of the Japanese army.

In the absence of pontoon bridges, the Japanese army's idea of retreating from the frozen river was no longer realized. In the upper reaches of the Hejian battlefield, the anti-coalition troops that had completed the Gaoyang battlefield had already completed the river crossing operation west of Anping and were rapidly advancing towards Xian County. As long as the division seized Xianxian, it would indicate the completion of the complete encirclement of the main force of the Japanese army in the Hejian battlefield.

Faced with the critical situation of the battle, the 22nd Division of Cangzhou desperately tried to get closer to the Hejian battlefield and tried to rescue its friendly troops. However, the Anti-Japanese Federation of Resistance was like a barrier, stuck in the battlefield between Cangzhou and Hejian, cutting off the connection between the 22nd Division of Cangzhou and the Hejian battlefield.

Moreover, on the left flank of the Cangzhou battlefield, the first force of the Anti-Japanese Union has been deployed and is outflanking the 22nd Division. It has never been able to get through to contact with the remnants of the 32nd Division in Cangzhou County, and a cavalry brigade behind it has been infiltrated by the Anti-Japanese Federation, tearing apart.

The entire supply line is in fact semi-paralyzed. Since arriving at the Cangzhou battlefield, although it is close to the Dezhou Japanese control area, the supply is still intermittent. The 22nd Division, which had not even been supplied with a grain of grain for several days, was already in a state of difficulty at the moment.

If it weren't for the persistence of the 64th Division, as soon as the 22nd Division withdrew, not only would the remnants of the 32nd Division in Cangzhou County become completely alone, but the 64th Division itself would also have no support. The reason why Uchiyama Eitaro had not yet made up his mind to withdraw the 22nd Division was that he was worried that the 64th Division would lose its strategy.

But now, it has also been fighting hard for several days, and its own losses are not so light that the 22nd Division will be put into the pot if it does not withdraw without the cooperation of follow-up troops. After the appearance of the anti-union outflanking forces on the left flank of the Cangzhou battlefield, this time Eitaro Uchiyama, who knew that this determination was difficult, also made up his mind.

The order is in Cangzhou City at the moment, there is no food, grass, ammunition, and it is impossible to communicate with the reinforcements outside. During the many breakouts, the 32nd Division, which suffered heavy losses, chose its own direction to break through. The 22nd Division was ordered to immediately disengage from contact with the surrounding anti-Japanese alliances and withdraw to Texas at full speed.

As for the 64th Division, which was still struggling on the north bank of the Hutuo River, Uchiyama Eitaro couldn't take care of it at this time. He can't get more people in for the sake of a division. As for the 66th Independent Brigade, which was far away in Lügongbao, which had long lost contact, Uchiyama Eitaro gave up even more simply. Directly from the deployment map of the participating troops, the number of this brigade was erased.

It's not that he Uchiyama Eitaro can't save him when he sees death, it's because he has no troops now, and he doesn't have the ability to rescue this 66th Brigade and Regiment that is trapped alone in the depth of the entire Jizhong Battlefield Anti-Alliance. Rather than risk needlessly losing too many more troops, it is better to simply abandon the brigade, which has been lost for several days.

In fact, Uchiyama Eitaro chose to give up the 66th Brigade, which can be regarded as a wise choice. Several newly formed units on the battlefield of Lugongbao took turns to go into battle, and under the situation that the First Division of the Anti-Japanese Federation was pressing the formation behind them, they continued to practice with the remnants of the enemy. Although the battle dragged on somewhat, it did not last too long as there were few remnants of the 66th Brigade.

On the New Year's Day of the 44th year, the final settlement of the battlefield of Lügongbao was completed. The gunfire of the entire Lugongbao battlefield came to a complete end with the arrival of the New Year. With no contact and no longer even knowing whether the 66th Brigade was still resisting, Uchiyama Eitaro really had no need to go to the rescue.

At the same time that Uchiyama Eitaro made up his mind, with the battle of Lügongbao coming to an end, the boss had already ordered the two brigades of the participating troops. The two regiments drawn from the reserve with Yang Zhen immediately went south to reinforce Chen Hanzhang's department. But before the reinforcements arrived, Chen Hanzhang could only temporarily stay on the front line of Zhengding to repair.

Chen Hanzhang's headquarters was no longer able to continue to move south, and turned to rectification and defense on the Zhengding line, preparing for the possible counterattack of the Japanese army in the future. However, the first section of the Anti-Japanese Federation, which had already entered Zhengding, was also frightened by Uchiyama Eitaro, who was sitting in Shimen City with empty troops, and withdrew his headquarters from Shimen to Hengshui overnight before stopping.

At present, southern Hebei is already a sea of red, and where to retreat is no longer safe for Uchiyama Eitaro. He didn't want to sleep, and a few grenades flew in outside the door. Therefore, I simply avoided the Hebei-Shandong-Henan border area in the south and retreated directly to Hengshui, which is very close to Shandong, before I felt safe.

Uchiyama Eitaro tried his best to evacuate safely. But this guy still soaked Chen Hanzhang when he left. By the time Chen Hanzhang was in Zhengding's section and found that Shimen was abnormal and immediately went south to seize Shimen, Shimen had become an empty city.

However, Eitaro Uchiyama, who knew that things were not good, may not want to do too much, lest the enemy army bite him in retaliation. Or in order to cover up his retreating actions, he didn't want to expose his actions because of the massacre, so he didn't attack the Japanese prisoner of war camp in Shimen. The prisoners of war in the Shimen prisoner of war camp basically waited safely for the anti-union rescue force.

Uchiyama Eitaro was withdrawn, but almost all of his troops were still in Jizhong. It has either been annihilated or is in a semi-encircled state. has lost contact on the battlefield in Baoding, and Uchiyama Eitaro, who knows that the situation over there is probably not good, is also doing a good job.

He directly ordered the reinforcements that had already entered southern Hebei to immediately turn to the direction of Jincheng. At the same time, with a force, it responded to the retreat of the troops on the frontal battlefield between the rivers. However, the number of reinforcements in this unit was insufficient, and the progress was unusually slow under the continuous attacks of the anti-coalition air force.

The troops of the anti-union forces crossing the Hutuo River had already seized Xian County, and the unit had not yet reached Jincheng. That is to say, Du Kaishan has completed the actual encirclement of the 64 th Division, and the reinforcement of one division has not yet reached the combat area even though the air force that has completed the operation on the Baoding battlefield and has all been transferred to the south to attack with all its might.

As the Baoding battlefield began to come to an end, the anti-coalition air force in the central Hebei battlefield focused its operations on the southern front. A large number of reconnaissance planes were deployed along the southern bank of the Hutuo River. With the cooperation of the troops left behind in the former Hebei Central Army, strict monitoring was carried out on all possible routes of Japanese reinforcements.

Regardless of which route there are Japanese troops, they will immediately notify the group of planes on duty in the sky to attack. In order to adopt this tactic, the Il-2 attack aircraft had short legs and a short combat range. The Air Force specially mobilized some British-made Blenheim light bombers, as well as all the converted gunboat aircraft.

As soon as the newly recruited division entered southern Hebei, it was targeted by the attack aircraft group of the Anti-Japanese Federation. Although the method of multi-way march and assembly at designated places was adopted. However, the attack aircraft group, which was still being attacked by the Anti-United Nations in turn, used the tactics of high-explosive bombs and napalm to coordinate the bombing, not to mention the extremely slow progress of the bombing, and also carried heavy casualties.

In particular, those modified gunboats and planes caused extremely heavy losses to the Japanese army's marching columns. The Japanese troops of this unit, which were advancing in many directions, had a considerable part of their troops before they arrived in Ji County, and they were bombed and lost their combat effectiveness. According to this situation, Uchiyama Eitaro didn't know whether to save people or need to be saved when this division arrived at the battlefield.

The two divisions that were already being reinforced, but they were cut off halfway, and Uchiyama Eitaro, who was very dissatisfied, looked at the base camp telegram transferred by the front army. I can't help but look up to the sky and sigh, this kind of refueling tactic in the base camp is the biggest taboo in the use of troops that fools know. You'll either have enough reinforcements at once, or no reinforcements at all.

At the moment, Lieutenant General Uchiyama Eitaro really doesn't know what the base camp and the dispatch army came up with. To say that the Chinese battlefield is not important, but the base camp is cobbling together reinforcements everywhere. But you have to say that it is important, the speed and intensity of this reinforcement are not proportional to the actual needs.