Three days passed in the blink of an eye.
The clarion call for the expedition had already sounded. Chu Yunfei said goodbye to his newlywed wife and embarked on the journey in high spirits.
The Battle of Pingxingguan is related to the overall situation and can effectively relieve the pressure on the 51st Army in the Niangziguan Battle and buy time for the 49th Army to attack Yangquan.
Just like the situation during the Battle of Qikou, Qikou was the main battlefield and Niangziguan was the flank.
However, now the offensive and defensive postures of the Chinese army and the Japanese army have completely changed. Back then, the Japanese army was the main offensive, and Yan Xishan commanded the Chinese army to defend. Now it is Xie Tian's 10th Theater Command, the Japanese Nakamura Division, the 20th Division and Yangquan Palace. This division is in charge of defense.
When Okamura Neiji withdrew from Shanxi, he left the Ishikawa brigade responsible for Taiyuan city defense to the Miyamoto division to strengthen the defense force of Yangquan, an important coal-producing base.
At the same time, Gangcun Ningci dispatched a brigade from Baoding and Laiyuan to support the Pingxing Guanzhong Village Division.
Okamura Neiji was really afraid of Xie Tian, and he wanted to use heavy troops to block Xie Tian in Shanxi.
You'd better be like Yan Xishan and stay peacefully as your local emperor in Shanxi, and I won't provoke your head office, right?
Okamura Neji was afraid of Xie Tian, this guy was simply a guy with no martial ethics and never played his cards according to the routine.
In fact, what Neji Okamura is most afraid of is the type-1 cyanide grenade in Xie Tian's hand. So far, he doesn't know how many such weapons Xie Tian has in his hand. The core personnel involved in the production and development of top-secret weapons such as type-1 cyanide grenade are all Xie Tian solved it all at once in Zhangzhuang. According to the feedback from the 731 water supply unit headquarters, the original budget supported by Matsumoto Mountain was to prepare 50 pieces in advance.
One or two can kill a city, fifty would be too scary.
The most helpless thing is that the project to develop a type of cyanide grenade was supported and responsible for Matsumotoyama, and the 731 unit could not copy it. Okamura Neji did not have the corresponding weapons to counter Xie Tian.
Even Neji Okamura no longer dares to continue to implement his three-korean policy. If all the Chinese are killed, wouldn't it mean that we have lost our protective umbrella, and Xie Baoqing can throw cyanide grenades at us without any scruples?
Neji Okamura, who has always regarded the Chinese as pigs and dogs, now relies on the Chinese people as his protective umbrella. Why doesn't he just kill him by himself?
The biggest test of a large-scale battle is the army's logistical supply capabilities. The last time the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army blocked the Zhongcun Division at Pingxingguan, it suffered from insufficient logistical supplies. After seventeen days of bloody fighting, bullets and food could not be transported. You How can the soldiers persist?
Only if the Japanese fight hand-to-hand with you can you fight hand-to-hand. If the Japanese don’t fight hand-to-hand with you, can you rush in front of the Japanese with your bare hands?
What's more, the soldiers were still hungry.
However, the Eighth Route Army soldiers were also tenacious. Even under such severe shortage of logistical supplies, they delayed the Nakamura Division for seventeen days and even disabled a brigade of the Nakamura Division.
Otherwise, why would Li Yunlong drag the Zhongcun Division from Pingxingguan into the ancient town with less than one regiment of troops?
Of course, Li Yunlong's independent regiment has good combat effectiveness. It has deployed tunnel fortifications in the ancient town in advance. In addition, the Nakamura division has been exhausted by this point and has insufficient motivation to continue fighting. This is why Li Yunlong and his brother troops are deployed at the brigade headquarters. A big face appeared in front of him.
We, Lao Li, held back an entire Japanese division with less than one regiment of troops. Isn't that impressive?
Li Yunlong is such a piss-poor, and he won't give up until he blows off his bullshit in front of his brothers.
But this time Li Yunlong didn't dare to brag.
This time we faced Niangzi Pass, which was easy to defend but difficult to attack.
Li Yunlong also participated in the Battle of Niangziguan. At that time, he was the commander of the 1st Regiment of the 386 Brigade. He was ordered to lead the 1st Regiment to block the Japanese army at the Mianhe line.
He and his regiment only participated in the twenty-two-day battle for two and a half days. In two and a half days, his regiment was the only one who survived, but he was dug out from the pile of dead by reinforcements and carried to the rear. of.
An entire regiment was wiped out, and more than a thousand brothers fell one by one in front of Li Yunlong. In his dreams, he could see those brothers holding on to stones and sticks and fighting the Japanese with all their strength.
Li Yunlong lay in the rear hospital for two full months, his whole body was wilted.
It was Brigadier Chen who angrily ran to the hospital and used a belt to pull Li Yunlong out of the hospital bed. After he got up, Li Yunlong hugged the big tree in the courtyard and cried loudly. The cry alerted the head of the headquarters not far away.
The head of the headquarters was irritated when he heard Li Yunlong crying. The chief of staff ran across the courtyard and saw that Li Yunlong was crying. He sighed and returned to the headquarters to report to the head. The head's eyes were also red.
The first regiment was gone, and a new regiment was established. Li Yunlong served as the first leader of the new regiment.
The battle at Niangziguan has always been a scar in Li Yunlong's heart that cannot be healed. He dare not touch it and it will hurt him whenever he touches it.
It was time to fight the enemy again. Li Yunlong slapped the table in the military headquarters and scolded the mother before snatching the main attack mission from Ding Wei and Kong Jie, but he also knew that this battle was not easy to fight.
Li Yunlong today is no longer the Li Yunlong he was then, and the troops led by Li Yunlong today are not the same regiment he was then.
At that time, there were only more than 1,100 soldiers in a regiment. On average, two soldiers had one gun, each had three to five rounds of ammunition, and on average, three soldiers had one grenade.
The bullets in the hands of the soldiers are also of various types, with various calibers. They need to be exchanged before the battle. The soldiers without weapons have to keep an eye on the weapons that can be used with the bullets in their hands, and wait for the soldier with the weapons. After running out of bullets, he quickly took the weapon.
At that time, Li Yunlong's group was so poor.
Now Li Yunlong is leading a division of troops, at least the 301st Division of the 51st Army. There are more than 7,000 soldiers. Every soldier has a gun in his hand. Regardless of whether the grenades were made in the border area, Jin Dynasty or captured by the Japanese, each soldier Soldiers can also be issued two bullets, and the number of bullets has reached fifty rounds that Li Yunlong never dared to think of.
Otherwise, why would Li Yunlong dare to slam the table and scold his mother to seize this main attack task?
But Niangziguan has been built into a war fortress after several years of management by the Japanese army.
The terrain of Niangziguan is difficult to defend and difficult to attack. The Japanese have built a large number of permanent fortifications with reinforced concrete at the important pass. Bunkers and bunkers are densely packed with turrets. Even the traffic trenches are made of reinforced concrete with shooting holes, which can target enemies coming from any direction. Form a three-dimensional cross fire network to suppress.
If you want to lay down such a war fortress, even if you shed rivers of blood, it will probably be in vain.
After seizing the main offensive task from the military headquarters, Li Yunlong began to have a headache when he returned to the division headquarters.
How to fight this battle?
A strong attack will definitely not work.
