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The battle in Shilipu started at around 7 o'clock in the morning and ended at 10:30, lasting more than three hours.
And the results of the battle were also very gratifying. Of the more than 4,000 puppet troops at the rear, except for the more than 1,200 puppet troops who surrendered voluntarily, the rest were all annihilated.
A total of more than 2,700 Japanese troops were annihilated in this battle, including more than 130 Japanese officers, including two Army major generals.
In addition, a large amount of weapons, equipment and ammunition were also seized in this battle. After all, the main task of the Japanese army at the rear was to escort various supplies, the most important of which were ammunition and food. However, due to time constraints, the troops did not have time to count the loot. They only roughly counted how many vehicles there were.
The biggest achievement of this battle was the rescue of more than 300 captured women, and the interception of thousands of livestock that the little devils had snatched from various villages in Guantao County.
Therefore, both the number of enemies killed and the loot in this battle were beyond imagination. It can be said that it far exceeded Li Guoyao's expectations!
Of course, if you kill 10,000 enemies, you will lose 8,000. The losses in this battle are not small!
However, Li Guoyao had long been used to it. After the battle was over and the bodies of the dead were buried on the spot, Li Guoyao ordered Guo Haiyu to return to Daming County with all the loot. He took Xu Ziyu and others away from the large army. Missing.
It was already 12 noon when the news that the rear troops had been wiped out reached the headquarters of the 36th Division. After Maideno received the telegram from Colonel Ogasawara, he immediately ordered them to ensure the safety of the field observation group.
However, shortly after the telegram was sent, they lost contact with the Ogasawara headquarters. In shock, Madeno immediately ordered the troops in Guangping County to search along the highway in the direction of Guantao.
When the searchers arrived at Shilipu and discovered the battlefield where the Japanese observation group had been annihilated, they first sent the news that the battlefield observation group had been annihilated to the 36th Division headquarters, and then they searched three kilometers in front of Shilipu. Another battlefield was discovered, and finally the last battlefield was found in Longzhuang, five kilometers away.
It took more than two hours of back and forth to find all three battlefields, and finally it was confirmed that the rear troops had been wiped out!
After receiving the news from the Guangping garrison, Lieutenant General Wu Chuannan vomited blood and fainted on the spot!
Fortunately, the field hospital followed the division headquarters, and soon the military doctor gave Wu Chuannan emergency treatment!
After Wu Chuannan woke up, he was silent for a while, and then ordered the chief of staff to send a report to the front army headquarters on his behalf to report the matter.
At the same time, Wu Chuannan sent a message to the captain of the 222nd Wing who had arrived outside Handan City, ordering them to attack Handan immediately and capture Handan City at all costs!
At this time, the troops remaining in Handan City were a regiment of the New Fifth Army. The rest of the troops had withdrawn half a day ago. Both Zhu Huaibing and Sun Dianying knew that Handan City was the site of the Fourth War and could not be defended at all. After the battle report was sent to the theater commander's department and the Military Commission, they were thinking about when to withdraw.
But in order to prevent others from saying that they were fleeing without fighting, Sun Dianying deliberately left a regiment to garrison Handan.
Of course, neither Zhu Huaibing nor Sun Dianying thought about using this regiment to defend Handan City. Their idea was just to let the people in Handan City listen to the sounds of capture by the national army and the Japanese army. This was enough.
As for the outcome of Handan City, they have already thought of it. Once the main force of the Japanese army arrives and the two sides exchange fire, the defenders will withdraw from Handan City according to the original plan.
At 1:30 in the afternoon on July 5, the Japanese army once again recaptured Handan City from the Chinese army. The whole process was very smooth, and even the Japanese 222nd Regiment responsible for the attack only lost one person and was slightly injured.
Although Handan City was captured, both Maideno and other Japanese officers on the front line looked ugly. They had attacked from Handan City a few days ago and returned to Handan City. During this period, they were beaten and rushed, and almost nothing was accomplished.
As a result, Handan City was captured during this period, and all the troops behind the palace were wiped out. Five to six thousand troops were lost within one mile and one mile, not counting the Imperial Alliance Army. Counting these, they lost at least one soldier in this battle. More than five thousand.
In addition to soldiers, the loss of materials and equipment was also very shocking. The equipment hoarded in Handan City alone was enough to form an infantry brigade, and the food was enough to feed 10,000 people for a year and still make them rich.
And these are now all the trophies of that person!
Not to mention a blow to the morale and prestige of the Imperial Japanese Army. Those hateful rebels came so suddenly that none of the pro-Japanese businessmen and politicians in Handan City had time to escape.After that, these people were suppressed by the army.
So when the Japanese army reoccupied Handan City, no one organized the people to welcome them into the city!
It is conceivable that they cannot even protect pro-Japanese officials and businessmen. Who will work for them in the future?
What worries Wu Chuannan and others the most is how the front army and the dispatched army headquarters will deal with them after the field observation group is annihilated!
There are more than a hundred officers of the Imperial Army, including two major generals, and they are all in high positions.
Now that all these people are in pieces, it¡¯s impossible for the higher-ups to pretend that nothing happened!
Peiping. North China Front Army Headquarters!
After Jun Tada received the telegram from Maideno, he almost fainted!
After coming back to his senses, the furious Tada Shun immediately pulled out his command knife and swept all the items on the desk to the ground. He even cut the pear wood table into two pieces with one knife.
After venting their anger, the First Army immediately ordered Major General Hirota, the person in charge of the Special High-Tech Department, to come!
Seeing the messy office, Major General Hirota knew that the commander was angry again!
While feeling a little worried in his heart, Major General Hirota was also secretly thinking that the rumors were indeed not credible. It is said that Lord Shun Tada is the most merciful general, but now it seems that is not the case at all. Such a tyrannical commander has nothing to do with kindness.
"Hirota-kun, you should know the situation, right? Something happened to the field observation group in southern Hebei, and the entire army was wiped out!" Tada Jun said in a deep voice.
Major General Hirota nodded and said: "I already know about this, and I have also investigated that it is related to the government army!"
"Do you know which army did it?" Jun Tada asked coldly.
¡°I don¡¯t know yet, but it must be related to Li Guoyao¡¯s department!¡±
"Li Guoyao's subordinate?"
"Hai!"
Then Major General Hirota continued: "According to our previous investigation, Li Guoyao's troops should have withdrawn south before the imperial army encircled Guantao, and its final destination was Daimyo. At the same time, Li Guoyao's main force was also Cooperating with the 97th Army and the New Fifth Army, they conquered Handan City, so currently only this unit has strong mobility and is most likely to appear on the Guangping front line!"
"Bagaya Road, it's Li Guoyao again, he's just haunting us!" Tada Shun roared angrily.
"Commander, please calm down, the matter has come to this, anger can no longer solve the problem. But for the imperial army, this is not necessarily a bad thing!"
"Oh, can this still be a good thing?"
"Your Excellency, Commander, even though the imperial army in southern Hebei was defeated, one thing has been confirmed!"
"what's up?"
"The main force of Li Guoyao's unit is in southern Hebei!"
"Well, keep talking!"
"Your Excellency, when I received the message from Shi Sang, I still didn't believe it. After all, southwestern Shandong and Lunan are the territories that Li Guoyao has been operating for a year and a half. Even with orders from Chongqing, Li Guoyao's character would not give up easily, so at the beginning, I felt that the main force of Li Guoyao's unit should still be in Lunan."
Then Major General Hirota continued: "However, after this battle, Li Guoyao's troops not only had to attract the main force of our army, but also divided their forces to attack Daming and Handan and other places, and achieved the results of annihilating the imperial army. This requires a large amount of troops. Elite troops, so it can be concluded that Li Guoyao's troops have really arrived in southern Hebei."
"Youxi, if it weren't for the elite troops under Li Guoyao, those armies in southern Hebei would not have such combat effectiveness!" Jun Tada also nodded and said.
"Your Majesty Commander, if our inference is correct, this is an opportunity for the Imperial Army!"
"What opportunity?" Jun Tada asked anxiously. (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com