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Volume 1: On the Songhua River Chapter 670: Big Gambling

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    Chapter 670: Big Gambling

    When Neji Okamura walked out of the tent with the plan he had figured out after a night of hard thinking, the worried looks of his subordinates outside made him feel something in his heart. He was not so moved, but he felt deeply that he had a heavy responsibility on his shoulders. The Japanese army  There is an unwritten rule. If the top commander of a unit is killed in battle, but the other senior generals are safe and sound, even if they return alive, there will be no good fruits to eat. The subordinates who cannot even protect their commanders are not incompetent, but  Committed a great crime.  (_-< Registered members of Piaotian Literature recommend this work >-)

    After Okamura Neiji slightly apologized, just when the senior generals did not have to worry about their own unlucky consequences, the Commander-in-Chief looked serious and said in a hoarse voice: "Order, the front-line troops in Xian County and Suning in Heilongjiang and Tianjin will be dispatched immediately.  Leaving the battlefield, regardless of the entanglement of the ** Division troops, they immediately retreated to the Cangzhou area, and together with the Cangzhou defenders, they used the favorable fortifications to wait for reinforcements, and after the Kwantung Army troops moved south, they jointly recovered Tianjin. "

    After Okamura Neiji finished speaking, the Japanese generals were surprised, but they also understood the commander's approach. If the Xianxian and Suning troops did not get closer to the Cangzhou troops, they would be in danger of being eaten by the Chinese troops.  The troops were combined into one place, and the strength reached more than 360,000. Even if Tang Qiuli had a huge appetite, he would not be able to swallow so many imperial troops in one go. This was the safest plan, but it was a bit distasteful.  It was a little late. Whether the troops could successfully escape from the battlefield was unpredictable. If it had been three days ago, the effect would have been much better. Tang Qiuli's main force was still preparing to attack Tianjin.

    Next, it was time to withdraw the order from Peking and Tianjin. The Japanese generals felt relieved to have escaped from the sea of ??suffering. They wandered around in these rolling mountains for a month. In addition to marching every day, they dealt with the ubiquitous small groups of Chinese troops.  In a sneak attack, there are a large number of elite soldiers, but no opponent can be found. There is nowhere to use their strength. The opponent is right next to them, which is enough to drive these senior Japanese officers crazy.

    Especially in the recent period, your Excellency, Commander, I don¡¯t know where the wrong path has been taken. More than 200,000 troops are competing against a broken cave. They attack every day, are repelled, attack again, and are repelled again. It¡¯s a boring road.  In addition to the rising number of casualties and the consumption of ammunition, nothing has been obtained. Several generals have made suggestions to evacuate Huangyadong, but they have all been severely reprimanded by the Commander.

    Now, the Commander has finally woken up. In addition to being happy, these senior Japanese officers probably have no other thoughts in their hearts at this time. "Order to sweep the troops in the Taihang Mountains, immediately move towards Wuxiang, and attack Taiyuan."  , the troops in the Heshun direction broke away from the entanglement with the Chinese army, immediately passed through Mafang to Jinzhong, and attacked Taiyuan. All orders were immediately issued to all troops for execution."

    The senior Japanese generals who stood at attention did not react for a moment. Your Excellency the Commander went crazy and instead of attacking Huangya Cave, he attacked Taiyuan instead. The hundreds of thousands of troops at Yamaguchi met Yan Xishan just below Wuxiang City.  The Jin army resisted tenaciously but could not advance, and stayed in the Taihang Mountains for more than twenty days. In the end, they all ended up in pieces. The shadow of failure has not been completely eliminated from the heart, but your Excellency, Commander, wants to make the same mistake again?  I also chose the direction of Wuxiang as my attack point. That¡¯s crazy.

    When Okamura Neiji saw that the generals had no reaction, his face immediately turned ugly, and he asked in a cold voice: "Why, didn't you hear my order clearly?" He heard it clearly, word for word, don't go back to Pingjin to attack Taiyuan.  , then facing the Jin army whose strength is greater than that of the imperial army, and the more than 80,000 Japanese division troops fighting the imperial army in Heshun, what are the chances of winning?  From Changzhi to Taiyuan, the logistics supply line extends several times more. Have you considered it, Commander?

    Seeing Okamura Nei's attitude of wanting to eat people, and his attitude of drawing a knife to kill people when he hears the word "no", the Japanese generals who dared to talk more shouted with all their strength: "Hai"  "trotted off to carry out the orders they couldn't understand and were unwilling to do. It's no wonder that the Japanese generals were stunned. Only a madman could make Okamura Neji's plan. Perhaps, on the Chinese battlefield in World War II, they didn't have Okamura.  Neji was famous, but what he lacked was his ruthlessness and gambler character.

    As for Huangya Cave, they had to temporarily abandon the key siege. This was not the result of a few days. Okamura Neji was full of regrets that he could not completely destroy Tang Qiuli's logistics supply base. He considered it a major failure in his military career.  However, we cannot let go of this abominable cave that has swallowed the lives of more than 20,000 imperial soldiers so easily.

    Okamura Neiji ordered all the artillery units to bomb wildly and pour the artillery shells on all the land around Huangyadong, leaving a division of troops to continue the siege of Huangyadong. He believed that after more than ten days,  The price paid by the Chinese army guarding Huangyadong through non-stop bombardment and attack should be more than that of the imperial army. One division is enough. It will slowly consume their strength and morale until they can capture Taiyuan and occupy Shanxi.  Finally, go back and deal with this abominable person.???square.

    Okamura Neiji made a fatal mistake. He only noticed the guard strength inside Huangya Cave, but ignored the Japanese troops attacking the Japanese army with small groups of troops outside Huangya Cave and in every corner of the Taihang Mountains.  Sun Zhenbang's regiment had more than 50,000 troops, and the three divisions of the Eighth Route Army had more than 30,000 troops. The division he left behind immediately became a lonely army after the main force of the Japanese army withdrew, and its collapse was inevitable.

    Tang Qiuli was busy eating fat in Pingjin, Okamura Neji was planning a huge gamble in the Taihang Mountains, and the commanders of China and Japan in North China were all busy dispatching troops and generals according to their own ideas and fighting styles.  Lehu, Yan Xishan, who is located in Taiyuan, sitting on the mountain and watching the tigers fight, is naturally not idle either. Maybe it is profitable, or he thinks he has the pulse of the situation, and Commander Yan's abacus starts to play again.  stand up.

    Tang Qiuli's series of victories around Pingjin made Commander Yan dazzled and salivated. He didn't expect that this young man would succeed so smoothly, winning Shijiazhuang, Baoding, and Tianjin one after another. They were all oily pieces of meat.  Ah, there was so much oil and water, it all fell into the hands of that kid, and it made my eyes hot just looking at it.

    Unexpectedly, the Japanese couldn't help but fight. Okamura Neiji's army of hundreds of thousands was wandering around the Taihang Mountains again. For a while, he couldn't think of moving north. The Huangya Cave was enough for him to take advantage of for half a year. He couldn't leave all the bargains behind.  In the hands of the young man named Tang, Chief Yan paced and weighed carefully. His eyes were fixed on Zhangjiakou. It was time to take advantage. There were only about 60,000 Japanese in Zhangjiakou. Where could there be Tang Qiu?  Two infantry brigades and one cavalry brigade were separated.

    The Japanese in Zhangjiakou had already frightened Tang Qiuli's troops. Sixty thousand people did not dare to go out. They sent troops to capture Zhangjiakou. The entire northwest Hebei region fell under their own sphere of influence and was connected with northeastern Shanxi.  It is a rich product in the Bashang area, which is a huge windfall. The more Yan Xishan calculated, the more he felt that it was worth sending troops to attack Zhangjiakou, and he would make a lot of profits.

    Commander Yan began to mobilize troops intensively. The troops originally on the front line of Datong were transferred to most of Wuxiang and immediately returned to their original places. Not to mention, for the sake of safety, he increased the number of troops attacking Zhangjiakou to 28  With tens of thousands of people, he didn't have the courage of Tang Qiuli to dare to challenge the Japanese in a one-on-one fight, four against one, to maximize the chance of winning. The old man didn't do anything he wasn't sure of.

    As a result, there were only about 80,000 Jin troops left on the Wuxiang defense line. When they raised their troops, they did not inform Tang Qiuli. The old man thought cunningly that Tang Qiuli would definitely stop him, and Zhangjiakou would be his next target.  , raw rice is cooked, when the time comes, the young man named Tang will not snatch it from his hands, right?

    Tang Qiuli was kept in the dark about all Yan Xishan's military operations. He commanded the troops to encircle hundreds of thousands of Japanese troops. He seemed to have smelled the scent of meat, but he received reports that the Japanese troops in Xianxian and Suning were  , suddenly took the initiative to withdraw from the battlefield and retreated to the direction of Cangzhou. The Japanese troops who were fighting Liu Tiehan's east command troops in the direction of Cangzhou, regardless of the oppression they faced, detached part of their troops and headed west out of Botou, seemingly intending to meet the retreating Japanese troops.

    Our frontline troops are catching up. Due to limited strength, they cannot completely delay the Japanese army's retreat to Cangzhou. The division commander asked for instructions on specific combat strategies. After Tang Qiuli received the telegram, he slapped himself on the head with regret. It was only half a day away.  , less than six hours away, the mouth of the pocket was tightened, and 180,000 troops surrounded the 120,000 Japanese army. Even if they could not swallow one bite, they could still tear off a large piece of meat and bones. What does it mean to fall short of the target?  that is.

    With no other option, Tang Qiuli immediately issued an order. The vanguard troops heading south from Tianjin and approaching Xianxian and Suning immediately targeted Botou, trying to intercept the Japanese troops retreating to Cangzhou in the Botou area. The remaining troops immediately launched  Chase in parallel, settle for the next best thing, and eat as many as you can catch.

    Tang Qiuli felt very regretful for losing this most favorable opportunity to annihilate the enemy. It was a complete and perfect plan, but these hundreds of thousands of Japanese troops were already meat in the pot. Who could have imagined that the cooked duck would fly away?  Okay, what went wrong?  Was it the troops moving south from Tianjin who exposed their intentions prematurely and the Japanese army took countermeasures for fear of being encircled?

    He immediately overturned his own conclusion. The troops moving south moved quickly and took action on the same day they occupied Tianjin. It was impossible for the Japanese army to detect it so early. Furthermore, attacking Peiping was much more convenient and easier than going south.  Tang Qiuli vaguely felt that the situation was a bit complicated, but he had not yet figured out where the complexity lay.

    Just after handling the matter of chasing and retreating the Japanese troops in Cangzhou, Feng Jiwu on the Heshun front line sent an urgent telegram. Today, the Japanese reinforcements on the Heshun front line have arrived at the outskirts of Heshun. According to the division's deployment, our unit did not conduct an all-out interception, and its leading troops  , successfully entered Heshun City. After the Japanese troops joined together, their strength was more than 80,000, which was equal to the strength of our troops.

    &nbsp; The Japanese army did not continue to advance north to attack Guanshan, but instead turned westward toward Mafang and marched west toward Jinzhong. According to my preliminary judgment, this Japanese army has the intention to attack Taiyuan. Our army is fighting with the Japanese army along the line from Mafang to Jinzhong.  Fighting, please tell the division commander the next course of action for our unit.

    (To be continued)
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