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Chapter 33 annexation

After killing all the Japanese who drove and escorted the car, and successfully robbed the Japanese transport convoy, Hu Fei and his troops were considered to have received the first official supplement after leaving Jinsui.

The Japanese transport team had a total of twelve large trucks, seven of which were loaded with guns and ammunition. Although these seven trucks of ammunition were not too many, they were enough to add a base ammunition to every soldier in Hu Fei's army. If the seized grenade launchers and light machine guns were added, this battle would have strengthened the firepower of the cavalry brigade for the first time in several months.

Two big cars were running away due to a collision while running, and the remaining ten cars were basically still useful. Especially those pack horses, they were a little tired, so they could drink some water and eat some ingredients to rest. After resting, they could still continue to be competent for the work of pulling a cart, which is not too technically high.

I got the urgently needed guns and ammunition, and I got a bunch of food and bedding, plus ten sturdy and durable carriages. The robbery was a great reward!

Some people are happy and some are worried. Hu Fei robbed the Japanese convoy and obtained the ammunition and weapons supplies that he needed in urgent need, but the Japanese, the owner of these large vehicles and supplies, were not happy. A convoy transporting weapons and supplies was completely wiped out halfway. Can the Japanese be happy?

At this time, China and Japan mobilized large troops to carry out the massive battle in Xuzhou!

The Fifth War Zone of China mobilized 64 divisions and three brigades, and about 600,000 people participated in the Battle of Xuzhou. On the other hand, the Japanese army, Central China and North China, mobilized eight divisions, three brigades, plus two detachments, and a total of about 240,000 people attacked our strategic key Xuzhou from both sides from both north and south.

The two countries were gathered in large armies, and nearly one million soldiers on both sides fought to death on the battlefield with hundreds of kilometers of radius centered on Xuzhou. At this time, it was the time to move the whole body. Any small accident may become the fuse to change the entire battlefield pattern! This small carjacking incident on the side of the Beijing-Hankou Railway has aroused various suspicions among the top Japanese troops.

General Soichi Teraunuchi, the commander of the North China Front Army, secretly ordered the Japanese secret service to investigate the matter urgently, and ordered the 14th Division, which was preparing to cross the Yellow River south near Puyang, to urgently draw at least one elite infantry brigade to participate in the investigation.

The commander of the 14th Division was the infamous Japanese spy Kenji Doihara! After receiving the order from the commander of the front army, Soichi Teruchi, he immediately transferred a reinforced infantry brigade from his troops and rushed to the site of the incident overnight. Before leaving, the old Japanese repeatedly reminded the Japanese brigade who was ordered to attack: Be careful and report problems in time if there are any problems! The old Japanese are afraid that the Chinese will set up a trap for him!

Isn't that the battle of Taierzhuang in front of him? That fool from Setani Kei of the 10th Division has a most advanced mechanized brigade in Japan. He has all the heavy equipment he deserves. A brigade-level detachment has even more heavy firepower than his own division! It is this fool who actually led a group of poorly equipped Chinese people into Taierzhuang with their noses, and almost wiped out it!

Of course, Lieutenant General Dohihara was not the stupid Kei Setani. Even a small convoy was robbed by the railway was enough to make him more vigilant. Not long after the infantry brigade he sent set off, Dohihara applied for aviation support from the Front Army. China is so large and there is no high-altitude reconnaissance and cooperative combat with aviation, how could he be assured to let his infantry brigade go deep alone?

The Japanese were very efficient. Hu Fei led his troops to leave for less than two hours before the infantry brigade of the 14th Division arrived at the scene. The scene was so miserable, with the dead bodies of the Imperial Army everywhere, and the packaging boxes containing supplies were randomly thrown on the side of the road.

The Japanese captain sent troops to search the surrounding area carefully, but did not even find an enemy! The Japanese master who was missing from the enemy had to take his subordinates to deal with the corpses on the spot. At that time, all the Japanese who died in China usually had to bring their ashes back to their country.

There were more than 100 people escorted the carriage, the driver and the porter. It was a very difficult task to burn all the Japanese to ashes according to their names! Black smoke rolled, and the infantry brigade cremated all the bodies they found one by one. The cremation process lasted for two days.

The Japanese aviation army conducted repeated aerial reconnaissance on this area and found traces of the activities of many Chinese military forces. After analyzing the Japanese intelligence department one by one, they found that all these Chinese troops were troops participating in the Battle of Xuzhou. They could not tell which unit was attacking the Japanese transport team.

Although Kenji Doihara, who received the report, was seriously skeptical of the result, he was particularly pleased that the brigade he sent out did not encounter any accidents. So, the infantry brigade of the 14th Division, who was ordered to rescue, successfully completed the task after collecting enough ashes, returned successfully and returned to the division with the main force of the division.

Hu Fei and his cavalry brigade evacuated in time and fled quickly, avoided the search of the Japanese infantry brigade and the Japanese aviation brigade in the sky, and continued to march towards the junction of Henan and Hubei provinces.

At this time, the Battle of Xuzhou was over. Xuzhou was lost, and the troops participating in the Battle of Xuzhou retreated separately. At this time, the troops that our army withdrew from the Xuzhou battlefield were in action in southern Shandong, eastern Henan, northern Jiangsu, Huaibei and other places.

After Hu Fei took his cavalry brigade to rob the Japanese transport convoy, he planned to go to the Dabie Mountains, but the direction of action just overlapped with the retreat route of several national troops. These troops retreated from the Xuzhou battlefield invisibly provided cover to the cavalry brigade, thus concealing the eyes of the Japanese aerial reconnaissance.

Everything has its advantages and disadvantages. The National Army troops who exited the battlefield covered the cavalry brigade and also brought another threat to Hu Fei's troops, that is, annexation!

Many national troops at that time had this phenomenon. From local troops to elite central troops, many troops had the experience of annexing other troops. When Hu Fei defeated bandits and recruited bandit troops, he was actually annexing.

Hu Fei not only understood the annexation of the army, but also he was prepared for it. Hu Fei was not afraid of being annexed by other troops, and even hoped that there would be troops to annex him. But he was not willing to annex any unit to annex him. He also wanted to find a powerful, famous, and best of the direct line of the Central Army. In that way, he was annexed by others, and he also joined the Central Army and joined the organization.
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