Without waiting for the forty-eight hours left by Yang Zhen to run out, Du Kaishan's side had already ended the battle cleanly. Moreover, with very few casualties, the remnants of the 64th Division were completely resolved. The entire battlefield, from the river bank to the Hutuo River, was littered with the corpses of dead Japanese soldiers and damaged weapons and equipment.

This battle can hardly be called a battle, but a one-sided slaughter. Du Kaishan did what he originally envisioned, and he also completely followed Yang Zhen's requirements to end the battle within the specified time. It's just that the amount of ammunition consumed is a bit large, mainly artillery shells.

The tactics of the sea of fire that he developed made the commander of the Bohai Military Region and the two commanders of the Chahar Military Region, who were assigned by the boss to watch the battle and study at the same time, as well as the acting commander and political commissar of the reorganized Jizhong Military Region, these fraternal units were stunned, but also looked at each other and shook their heads.

Several commanders thought that in the face of more than 2,000 remnants of the Japanese army, such a way of fighting was really too wasteful? If all the battles were based on Du Kaishan's style of play, the ammunition consumed in this battle would probably be astronomical.

Not counting other shells, these are just a dozen 150-mm howitzers, and they come up with a few salvos. In just a few minutes, hundreds of shells were fired. The shells of such a 150-mm howitzer, one shell caught up with the annual income of five or six small landowners.

And what kind of rocket shells, a salvo of dozens of shells will be gone. Coupled with mountain artillery, medium-caliber howitzers, flat-firing anti-aircraft guns, and mortars of various calibers, this was at best a battle at the regimental level, and tens of thousands of shells were fired out in this way. All the families of these military regions together cannot afford to fight this kind of war of attrition with ammunition.

The leaders of several brother troops who were ordered to watch the battle not only found that Du Kaishan's way of fighting through this battle made them really feel pain. Moreover, they also found that the troops of the Anti-Japanese Union are particularly fond of using anti-aircraft weapons for flat fire when fighting on the ground. In particular, the power of the double 23-mm anti-aircraft guns, which is fired horizontally, even surpasses the power of ordinary artillery in this kind of combat. A dozen is a big string, and the power is extremely amazing.

However, the power of this kind of anti-aircraft artillery is indeed very large, and all civil fortifications can be easily penetrated, but the rate of fire and ammunition consumption are also amazing. They also have this kind of anti-aircraft artillery in their troops, but they have never used it in this way. Good fellow, this hit the button, and this cannonball shot out like running water. Those that shot out were shells, not machine-gun bullets.

Since joining the Red Army, I have never known what ammunition can be fought openly. Every bullet fired in a battle must be counted. After a battle, if the captured ammunition is not as good as the ammunition consumed, it will be considered a loss-making battle. Several commanders who have been accustomed to suffering all these years are very distressed about the ammunition that was fought out in this battle.

Several commanders of the military region, who were still envious of the sophisticated weapons in Du Kaishan's hands, all closed their mouths after watching this battle. But in the report report, Du Kaishan's command was a little dismissive. It is believed that his mode of operational command and victory are built up by ammunition.

Although the military and political chiefs of these fraternal units are very appreciative of the efficient logistics system of the United Nations. But in their minds, it doesn't mean that there is anything too desirable about this tactic. They all believe that the battlefield situation is complicated, and it is difficult for the logistics to completely guarantee this ammunition consumption rate in wartime. Once the ammunition supply is not available, it will be a fatal blow to this tactic that relies too much on firepower.

Regarding the sigh in the hearts of the leaders of several brother troops, Du Kaishan did not have that time to ponder. While finally settling the 64th Division, he also had to take into account the 22nd Division on the Cangzhou battlefield not far away. He doesn't have that much time to focus on a certain battlefield.

However, compared with the 64th Division, which was completely wiped out, Lieutenant General Saburo Isata, the commander of the 22nd Division in the Cangzhou battlefield, was far more cunning than his colleagues in the 64th Division. When Du Kaishan was about to complete the encirclement of him, he slipped away. All the equipment and supplies that you can't bring with you, everything you can throw away. Even the heavy machine guns were all left behind.

Send out all the ammunition you have left in your hand that you can send. If you can't send it, you will be thrown directly on the position. The treatment of the wounded is to follow those who can run, and those who can walk and climb to stay and resist and help contain the pursuers. As for the seriously wounded, one grenade per person.

Although Du Kaishan discovered that the 22nd Division had slipped away, he immediately organized his troops to quickly turn into pursuit, and constantly intercepted them with long-range artillery fire and aviation. However, the 22nd Division was like a slippery fish, dividing all the remaining forces of the division into five routes to the east and south.

And in the choice of retreat routes, it is all about where it is difficult to walk and where to run. Wherever there is saline ground that is not suitable for tank movement, drill into it. In short, it is a sentence, specifically avoid all roads on flat terrain and only take ditches and bumps. Except for the breakout route and the abandonment of everything, the divisional headquarters did not stipulate anything.

In addition to resolutely blocking the anti-union that rushed up around with a force, to ensure that the main force can be safely dispersed and evacuated. The actions of each unit to break through the encirclement were all actions on the spot and on their own, and the regimental headquarters of the 22nd Division did not organize the actions in a unified manner. The division and regiment headquarters has only one requirement for each unit under its control, and it can run as fast as it can.

Isoda Saburo's quick action and violation of the Japanese army's usual tactical style were indeed quite unexpected by Du Kaishan. Although his reaction speed was not slow, Saburo Isoda scattered and broke through before the encirclement was completed. Moreover, Isoda Saburo put the key direction of the breakthrough in the southeast direction, which also caught him off guard.

Although Du Kaishan, who reacted just as quickly, was not slow, Saburo Isoda completely surprised everyone, violating the tactical arrangement of the Japanese army, which always attached importance to cooperation, so that he only caught part of the Japanese army. In addition, around the entire Cangzhou battlefield, except for the Ziya River in the west, there is no large river as a natural interception line.

In the end, Lieutenant General Saburo Isoda was allowed to take his division headquarters and nearly half of the Japanese army. Taking advantage of the large amount of saline-alkali land on the Cangzhou battlefield, which is not frozen in winter and is quite muddy, the tank mechanized group of the Anti-Japanese Federation cannot move quickly, and it is impossible to implement the battlefield environment of multi-way interspersed and outflanked in the river-intertwined battlefield.

Although two squadrons were intercepted by Du Kaishan's cavalry brigade and all of them were killed in Dong Village, southeast of Nanpi. One unit was pursued by the anti-coalition armored group, and was scattered or surrounded and annihilated. However, a considerable part of the troops, mainly the Japanese troops who had penetrated into the saline-alkali land, ran back to Shandong in a puff of smoke.

Although the three wings of the 22nd Division participated in the battle, as well as other supporting units, only a third of the total strength ran back. However, part of the troops of the 22nd Division actually slipped out under their own multi-way siege. This is undoubtedly a very humiliating thing for Du Kaishan.

Du Kaishan, who felt very faceless, sprinkled his anger on the Japanese soldiers in Cangzhou City. After the 22nd Division withdrew across the Maji River, it was practically impossible to pursue Shanghou. From among the troops pursuing the 22nd Division, he transferred the strength of one division to the Cangzhou battlefield and joined forces with the troops of the Bohai Naval Region to launch a general attack on Cangzhou, which had been besieged for more than half a month.

After 16 hours of fierce fighting, the remnants of the 32nd Division of the Japanese Army in Cangzhou City were completely annihilated. Except for the commander of the division and the chief of staff of the division, who were picked up by an aircraft sent by Okamura Ningji before the 22nd Division retreated, the remnants of the 32nd Division trapped in Cangzhou were all annihilated. But the battle of Du Kaishan also turned the entire Cangzhou City into ruins.

At the same time, the main force of Du Kaishan crossed the Hutuo River and Ziya River at Raoyang Yin Village and Shahe Bridge in Xian County. The whole army advanced rapidly to the south, successively capturing Nanpi, Dongguang, Ningjin, Jingxian, and Wuqiao on the eastern front, and Jixian, Xinhe, Wuyi, and Nangong on the middle road, as well as Hengshui, which was originally the location of Uchiyama Eitaro's latest headquarters, and the first forward had reached the periphery of Dezhou.

In southern Hebei, the new Hebei-Shandong-Henan Military Region recovered Guantao, Guangping, Qiuxian, and Yongnian. By this time, it can be said that the entire Jizhong has been completely restored. The areas under the Hebei-Shandong-Henan Military Region have basically completed all control, except for the Henan-Shandong border area and some areas in the southern Hebei region.

But after receiving Du Kaishan's battle report, Yang Zhen was quite annoyed. He was angry not that part of the 22nd Division had slipped away, but that Du Kaishan had certain problems in the deployment of strategy and tactics in this battle. He repeatedly told Du Kaishan that the mobilization of troops should be too rapid and that there should be no delay in the deployment of strategy and tactics.

At critical moments, we must dare to break the boat. The remnants of the 64th Division were only more than 2,000 people, and he left behind a force of one and a half divisions, did he not believe in his own troops, or did he take the enemy army too seriously? As a result, the troops outflanked on the Cangzhou battlefield were insufficient, allowing the 22nd Division to escape partially. There was a big mistake in his entire strategic deployment.

When he Du Kaishan dealt with the remnants of the 64th Division, he used the method of killing chickens with knives. But in the advance of the Eastern Front and the Central Front, he only used one force to pin down the enemy in Texas. In the southern Hebei and Hebei-Shandong-Henan regions, those towns that basically have no strategic value can be completely handed over to the troops of the Hebei-Shandong-Henan Military Region to recover?

Judging from the current overall strategic pattern, he should focus on increasing the remnants of the 22nd Division after the end of the Hejian and Renqiu battlefields, and now the Japanese army around the entire Jizhong battlefield has the largest number of troops. Its own strategic position is also quite important for Texas. Instead of being placed in the southern Hebei and Hebei-Shandong-Henan border areas, those counties that have no strategic value and have not had many troops after the start of the battle have basically been drained.

The puppet army and a small number of military police in these counties, the tens of thousands of main forces of the Hebei-Shandong-Henan Military Region, and a large number of local armed forces can completely deal with them. Use his tank cluster to waste gasoline to capture those county towns that basically have no strategic value?

The headquarters really did not give him the order to attack and seize Texas. But no matter what aspect it is, the enemies of Texas must be taken seriously. Dezhou is strategically located in the northwest of Shandong, which is the key to the future defensive operations of the entire central Hebei Province, but he only sent one division of troops.

Du Kaishan made a mistake in the direction of the follow-up strategic focus, which made Yang Zhen the most angry. Yang Zhen did not give Du Kaishan a special order before, because he thought that with Du Kaishan's ability, after the end of the first phase of the battle, he would not be unable to see the key direction of the second step, which should be there.

Where the entire Hebei-Shandong-Henan border region could become the base of the Japanese army's counteroffensive, and where it would become the starting point for the Japanese army to launch a counterattack, with his ability to open the mountain, it would definitely not be impossible to see. As a result, this guy finally had problems in judging the enemy situation in the next step, especially in terms of strategic vision.