Even in the battle of Xinglong Town in the later stages of the campaign, the 26th Army of the Chinese Army successfully surrounded more than 3,000 people of the Japanese 31st Regiment. After several days of fierce fighting, the encirclement was continuously narrowed and the Japanese army was divided into two parts to prepare for the final attack. General He, the top commander of the Peking Military Commission, suddenly issued an order asking the 26th Army to lift the encirclement and let the Japanese 31st Regiment go. The team leaves.
The reason turned out to be very ridiculous, because at this time, the Deputy Minister of the Military and Government Department of the Nanjing Republic of China Government was discussing the armistice in North China with the Japanese representatives, and one of the truce demands made by the Japanese representatives was to ask the national army in Xinglong Town to lift the siege.
Because Nanjing was afraid of the Japanese army and eager to make peace, it actually ordered the army to send the bandits who had been surrounded and were ready to be captured out of the country. This is such a ridiculous and sad thing.
Secondly, the tactics are rigid and can only be defended passively.
During the entire campaign, as the Military Commission repeatedly requested that the 17th Army not expand the trouble without authorization, the 17th Army, as a direct line of the Central Military Forces, could only bow its head and obey orders, and did not dare to take a step beyond the bounds. The initiative was always in the hands of the Japanese army. It was the Japanese army that had the final say when to attack and when to rest. The 17th Army basically had no examples of proactive attacks or roundabout attacks like the 32nd Army and the 29th Army.
During the two-month-long battle for Gubeikou, the Japanese army ran out of ammunition and logistical supplies several times due to the long supply line. However, they were able to use the armistice negotiations as an excuse to make repairs and repairs, and then launched another attack. The three divisions of the 17th Army sat back and watched the Japanese army reorganize. No general dared to lead the troops to take the initiative to directly destroy and cut off the Japanese army's long supply line.
This is what the Japanese army is most worried about, and it is also the Japanese army's biggest weakness.
Therefore, the bloody battle of the 17th Army at Gubeikou in history was called "the most tragic sacrifice" by historians.
As for the current principal, he was no longer thinking about the military issues of the battle itself, so he didn't show much excitement after hearing the victory report of the 29th Army.
And his first order, which he hurried from his official residence to the Military Commission's office, was to put the preservation of Xifengkou as the top priority, not to attack lightly, and to stop the 29th Army from pursuing the Japanese army.
General He, who received the telegram instructions at the Peking Military Commission, felt like he had found a treasure. In just three hours, he sent three urgent telegrams to the 29th Army, ordering them to stop pursuing the Japanese army and retreat to Xifengkou for defense.
At this time, General Song Mingyuan, who was in command of Santunying Town, took off his general hat, slapped it on the table, and cursed: "How can we fight like this? The remaining troops of the little devil are only more than a thousand people. Now, It also loses the advantage of artillery. I have lost so many people, and now I am just short of the last tremor, but this Granny He keeps asking me to withdraw my troops. Isn't this indulging in the enemy?"
You must know that after several hours of fierce night attacks last night, most of the main force of the Japanese 13th Regiment had been basically annihilated and defeated. Now only more than a thousand Japanese troops who were divided and surrounded were trapped on several highlands and resisted.
At dawn, General Song sent a large number of follow-up troops to join the battle. Now these remaining Japanese soldiers have been surrounded by tens of thousands of troops and are unable to fly.
At this point, I have to say how powerful the little devil is.
Although the Japanese joint captain and most of the group captains were killed or missing, the remaining troops they assembled still established temporary positions in several dangerous highlands under the leadership of grassroots officers.
After the 29th Army lost its advantages in night attacks and melee combat with broadswords, its shortcomings in its ability to attack difficult targets were exposed.
The frontline commander of the 29th Army organized several strong attacks in a row in the morning, but they were all repelled by the Japanese army with their condescending terrain, precise shooting and machine gun advantages. They are now in a stalemate.
After receiving the casualty report, General Song immediately ordered the frontline troops to suspend the attack.
As a veteran who has been on the battlefield for a long time, he knows that a strong attack means killing the enemy by a thousand and damaging himself by eight hundred. It is completely using his own shortcomings to compete with the strengths of the little devil. This kind of deal cannot be done.
What's more, the little devil has no reinforcements and no supplies. I will trap you first.
Admiral Song still has two cards left to play. One is the Japanese artillery captured on Heizui Mountain. He is currently organizing personnel to move it down. When the artillery is in place, I will directly use the artillery to blow up your high ground.
Another course is to wait until dark. The dark and windy night is the time to kill.
By midnight, these tired little devils will usher in their doom. Admiral Song is very confident about this. This time he will completely wipe the arrogant Japanese 13th Regiment from the face of the earth.
However, all the arrangements and plans now were completely destroyed by the three urgent telegrams in front of him.
At this moment, the words of the chief of staff who hurriedly walked in almost made General Song Mingyuan, who was still thinking that "he would do something wrong in foreign military orders", almost spit out a mouthful of blood.
"Military seat, the liaison office in Jixian County reported that the transport convoy from Peiping stopped in Jixian County, saying that it was waiting for the order of the Military Commission."
"I am ****ing your mother-in-law He's family. When the country is at stake, how dare you use this to blackmail me? How dare you..."
After scolding, General Song sat down on the chair slumped and said with a wry smile: "Brother Jieren, you said that when Yue Wumu was preparing to go straight to Huanglong Mansion and have a drink with everyone, he received a message from the emperor. 12 gold medals, will you feel the same as I do today?"
The Chief of Staff didn't dare to accept this. Not to mention that you, a small army commander, compared yourself to Yue Wumu, and you also compared the principal to Zhao Gou who was afraid of foreign enemies and killed loyal people. Who the hell dares to accept this? ?
You must know that the 29th Army relied on the support of the Northeast Army occupying the Pingjin area and the Jin Army in Shanxi to barely make ends meet. In such a life of being dependent on others, having no military funds, and living in poverty, how could there be any logistical reserves and savings in normal times?
This time he went to the front line of the Great Wall because the Peking Military Commission had promised to bear all military expenses and logistics, so General Song Mingyuan dared to fight the Japanese army with all his strength.
And after knowing that the transport convoy from Peiping was on the road, he dared to shoot out most of the limited ammunition in the first two days of the battle.
But I didn't expect that Granny He in Peiping was so despicable. At the critical moment when the soldiers on the front line were fighting bloody battles, she made a fuss about the supply of military supplies, which immediately choked the throats of more than 30,000 soldiers of the 29th Army.
If the convoy transporting logistics supplies cannot arrive in time, even if the 29th Army spends all its resources to annihilate all the Japanese 13th Regiment, it will soon fall into a situation of running out of ammunition and food. How can it resist the main force of the Japanese army that follows?
Half an hour later, the order to retreat reached Heizui Mountain.
