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Volume 1 On the Songhua River Chapter 501 Taihang Mountain

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    Chapter 501 Taihang Mountain

    After receiving a telegram from Feng Jiwu, reinforcements from a division of the Jin Army rushed to the Niangziguan front line this afternoon to join the defenders. Tang Qiuli did not even sneer at Yan Xishan's little trick. He went to telegraph  , asked Feng Jiwu directly, "With the current strength of the Jin army, can we ensure that Niangzi Pass is not lost?"

    Feng Jiwu's reply was very simple, "No, the current strength of the Jin army is only more than 60,000. Moreover, the Jin army's combat effectiveness, tactics, weapons and equipment, etc. are far inferior to our army. It is by no means several times more powerful than our army in person.  Their rivals from the Japanese army.¡±

    Obviously, Feng Jiwu still couldn't withdraw. The job of making wedding clothes for Yan Xishan was decided. Now that the matter was over, Feng Jiwu had to stay on the front line of Niangziguan. However, he couldn't take advantage of this iron abacus.  An order was issued in the name of the military branch and the highest military commander of the Yellow River Basin War Zone.

    The Niangziguan Defense Force of the ** Division and the Niangziguan garrison force of the Jin Army were used to form the Niangziguan Garrison Corps of the Yellow River Basin Theater, with Lieutenant General Feng Jiwu, deputy commander of the ** Division, as the commander, and Han Tie, commander of the 3rd Brigade of the ** Army, as the staff officer.  The commander, unified command of all the troops, must resist the enemy in front of Niangzi Pass and ensure that the east gate of Shanxi is not lost.

    At present, there is no guarantee of victory without serious military orders. Feng Jiwu, the commander of the Niangziguan Garrison Corps, is hereby authorized to make decisions on the course of the battle on his own, and to deal with those who retreat from the battle, fear the enemy, escape from the battle, or refuse to carry out the commander's orders.  Regardless of the unit to which they belong, regardless of their position or military rank, they will be dealt with on the spot and do not need to be reported to the theater headquarters.

    This move is very powerful. With the fighting style of the Jin army, if Feng Jiwu deliberately makes their life difficult, it will make them look good. Isn't it Yan Xishan who is holding on to the troops and not letting go? Well, let me make a mixed team.  , the troops belong to the theater command. It is said that after reading this order, Commander Yan stamped his feet and beat his chest, his face full of pain. He has five divisions in front and behind, with more than 60,000 people. They are like meat buns beating dogs. They will never come back.  .

    As long as it is within the scope of the northern theater, it is normal to be transferred there. If they are away from the ground in Shanxi, are they still considered their own soldiers?  Tang Qiuli, Tang Qiuli, you are really a good scheming kid, but it¡¯s hard for you to stand up and object. You have no valid reason, so you consider yourself unlucky, and he is unwilling to accept it. Therefore, Chief Yan feels distressed and angry.  , thanked guests behind closed doors for several days, lost his temper from time to time, and even his favorite fifth sister was scolded.

    He didn't know yet that Tang Qiuli had given Feng Jiwu a secret mission. While ensuring the safety of Niangzi Pass, he would look for opportunities to get rid of senior officers loyal to Yan Xishan and take the troops of the five divisions of the Jin Army into his own hands.  Pay close attention to transformation, and then mix them into the various units of the ** division.

    Yan Xishan uses my Tang Qiuli's troops as human shields. I will dig out your heart from behind. Take your time. Sooner or later, your Yan Xishan's family will be mine. If you don't know how to do it, you can get it back from the hands of the Japanese.  To rob, Tang Qiuli had already made a plan. Shanxi and Shandong must be areas controlled by the army.

    Tang Qiuli was not worried at all that Yan Xishan would openly defect to the Japanese. Based on the situation in North China in 37 years, the Japanese army's appetite was obviously not just Shanxi Province. Moreover, at this time, the high-ranking Japanese army had a strong fighting spirit.  When their self-confidence was high, they focused on the offensive and did not bother to use soft policies to divide and disintegrate local factions and focus on attacking the Central Army.

    At this time, Tang Qiuli was already in the hinterland of the Taihang Mountains. There were only more than a thousand troops and hundreds of thousands of Japanese troops beside him. After entering the Taihang Mountains, under the command of Yamaguchi, the new chief of staff of the North China Expeditionary Army, he absorbed the former lone troops.  Outstanding, the fighter planes were caught by the ** division, and the lessons learned from the annihilation of the organized troops were made. With close contact and steady advancement, we worked step by step, spread a wide net, and gradually compressed towards the central area of ????the Taihang Mountains.

    Yamaguchi had enough confidence and patience. The troops of the Japanese Army were pinned down on various battlefields and were unable to do anything. No one could save the Chinese Army in Taihang Mountain. He had an intuition that Tang Qiuli was in his net.  However, the scope of the current network is relatively large, and he has not surfaced yet.

    There is absolutely no room for failure in this battle. Can we stand firm in the army and put a gold star on our shoulders? In one fell swoop, Yamaguchi takes control of the troops. Specific to the brigade level, every two hours, the communications department will ask each person one by one.  Regarding the specific location of the brigade, and whether there were traces of the ** division troops and Tang Qiuli, Yamaguchi was not too tired to panic and worked in front of the map himself. Tang Qiuli was his primary target.

    The deployment of Yamaguchi indeed caused great difficulties for Tang Qiuli. On several occasions, fighter planes finally appeared. Ma Chaoyang's second brigade had already marched to the predetermined area, only to find that this seemingly lone Japanese force was behind them.  It was the strength of a division. Maybe if the Japanese army didn't eat it, Ma Chaoyang's brigade would fall into a counter-encirclement by the Japanese army. But there were no troops to rescue him, so he had to cancel the combat order.

    Several fighter planes were lost like this, and the two divisions of Japanese troops chasing Liu Chun and Tong Batu's cavalry troops joined the battle to suppress the Japanese troops in the Taihang Mountains.After the series, the large net at the mountain pass was woven thicker. The Japanese army gradually advanced from east to west, pressing forward like a thick wall.

    Wherever they went, villages were reduced to ruins, with scorched earth and ruins everywhere. Before the arrival of the Japanese army, the people in the base area, organized by the local government and local troops, evacuated southward in an orderly and gradual manner, taking away all valuables.  , buried on the spot, only taking away a few days' worth of food, and the rest, on a village basis, was hidden on the spot.

    This is in accordance with the order of Tang Qiuli, the special commissioner of the Taihang Mountain Area Administrative Commissioner's Office, to carry out a clearing of the entire base area and not leave a grain of food for the Japanese army.

    After several years of construction and recuperation, as well as a large number of immigrants, the Taihang Mountain base area has promoted new planting methods and carried out extensive farmland infrastructure construction. It has become a prosperous scene. The lives of the people are hundreds of times better than those outside the mountains.  , there is no landlords and old wealth, no oppression by scoundrels, no exploitation and oppression in the past at the yamen gate. Having a full belly is no longer a dream. Many people, through their hard work and thrifty housekeeping, have built big houses with bright windows and tiles.  The breath of this land has been integrated into his blood.

    After receiving the government's order to retreat, they were all reluctant to leave. But thinking about who gave them this good life, they reluctantly packed up their things. Then, they surrounded their houses and looked at them over and over again. They also knew that the government would not let them go.  It is said on the notice that the government will pay for the losses based on the actual losses and build new houses for everyone after the Japanese invaders are defeated.

    The common people believe this. The government offices here are all good officials who work for the common people. Six to seven hundred thousand people, plus numerous government agencies, industrial and mining enterprises, have formed a mighty army retreating south.  What was left behind were empty cities and villages. The Japanese army could destroy the towns, but they could not massacre the Chinese people.

    Feeling that the troops in the Taihang Mountains were weak and unable to achieve the battle intention of annihilating the enemy's first unit when the Japanese troops were concentrated, Tang Qiuli issued an order. The Huangyadong Garrison Brigade was immediately upgraded to the main force of the *** Division. In addition to the remaining  There were a small number of troops defending the Huangyadong base area, and most of them immediately left Huangyadong and formed the Taihang Mountain Combat Corps with the Ma Chaoyang Department of the 2nd Cavalry Brigade, the Liu Chun Department of the 1st Cavalry Brigade, and the Tong Batu Department of the 2nd Cavalry Brigade.  Tang Qiuli, commander of the ** Division, served as the commander and was responsible for the combat mission against the Japanese troops who invaded the Taihang Mountain base area.

    The local garrison troops in the counties in the base area were immediately upgraded to the Huangyadong garrison brigade and assumed the original combat tasks. In this way, Tang Qiuli had two infantry brigades and two cavalry brigades with 32,000 people.  What a multi-person army lacks is artillery, which can fight head-on with a division of Japanese troops. However, Tang Qiuli is not prepared to do this. What he is facing is not a division of Japanese troops.

    After the Japanese Guangyuan Division entered the Taihang Mountains from the direction of Malingguan, its leading unit, the Seto Regiment, was eager to advance. The distance from the main force of the division was much greater than that of other units. On November 21, the Seto Regiment advanced  As for Hanyuling, this is the hinterland of the Taihang Mountains. The terrain is complex and it is a typical mountainous area.

    The main peak, Yangqu Mountain, is 2,058 meters above sea level. It is surrounded by countless peaks, with green pines and cypresses, deep ditches and dense forests, and caves everywhere. The terrain is extremely complex, and has been washed away by years of rain. Several dry ditches lie across the mountain, facing each other.  , it takes a day to get together, which is extremely detrimental to the movement of large corps.

    After Tang Qiuli received the information, he immediately targeted the Segu Alliance as the target that must be annihilated in the first battle of the Taihang Mountain Base. He ordered Yu Deshui, the director of the Intelligence Department, to bring the topographic map of Hanyuling and study it for a long time.  , I feel more and more that this is an ideal battlefield. As long as the several ditches entering Hanyu Ridge are blocked, the Seko regiment inside can't get out, and the Guangyuan division outside can't get in.

    The key to this battle is whether the peripheral blocking troops can withstand the attack of the main force of the Guangyuan Division. As long as they can withstand the attack of the Seko Regiment for six hours, they can cleanly and completely kill the Japanese army. Mountain combat  , the cavalry troops could not play a big role and stayed on the periphery to contain other Japanese troops.

    Tang Qiuli had only two infantry brigades to use. The strength was a little short, so he had no choice but to put the rice in the pot. He was quite hesitant about which brigade should be used to block the main force of the Guangyuan Division. In the end,  , he decided to use Ma Chaoyang's 2nd Brigade to serve as the blocking mission.

    Jiang Yanming's Huangyadong garrison brigade is responsible for the main task of attacking the Seto regiment. He knows very well that in this battle, the troops responsible for blocking tasks will bear several times more pressure than the troops responsible for attacking tasks. They will  Facing a desperate attack by a Japanese army several times their own, the Japanese army has a tradition that when one unit is surrounded, the rest will fight to the death to save them, regardless of the price they pay.

    This is much stronger than the ** troops who pay attention to preserving their own strength. Yu Guanghan, the chief of staff, quickly formulated the Hanyuling combat plan according to the division commander's intentions, and then issued it to the staff.? Troops.

    After receiving the order, Ma Chaoyang's brigade and Jiang Yanming's brigade immediately set off from their hidden positions overnight and rushed to the predetermined location. In the high mountains of the Taihang Mountains on a winter night, the two troops, like a vise, bit into the unconscious Segu regiment.  .

    (To be continued)
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