Chapter 874: If you don't defend it, we're going to attack! (below)

"General Peng, you're not mistaken, right?" Yan Xishan couldn't help but speak.

"Commander Yan, you don't think I'm coming here with those cannons for defense, do you?" Mr. Peng's confidence is also full now, although strictly speaking, to the current position, the Eighth Route Army has no experience in any positional warfare at all, and the only positional warfare it has fought has all lost, but it does not mean that Mr. Peng does not have any confidence now, it can be said that Mr. Peng's confidence is now full, you know, they are working out with the chairman The plan is to directly fight the enemy back on the Shanxi side, not to mention, cooperate with the five divisions that entered Suiyuan in the north, and directly attack Beiping and Tianjin!

In the end, it directly swept the entire Northeast and completely swept Japan from the Northeast to the Soviet Union! That's what the chairman of their plan! So of course, Mr. Peng can't defend here now, the time is very tight, because a little delay means that Japan will transport more troops to China, and now Japan is frantically transporting troops here, you must know that the current situation in Japan is also very different from history.

That is, in history, Japan opened up a second battlefield, landed near Shandong and Mingzhu City, and attacked Nanjing, where the Nanjing government is located, and finally caused the inhumane Nanjing Massacre, and the time was at the end of this year.

But now, first of all, Japan has no way to march into Southeast Asia, and there is now only one country in the whole of Southeast Asia, that is, the Chinese Empire, and secondly! Japan did not capture Taiwan, Taiwan is still under domestic rule, and in the end, the first fleet of the Chinese Empire is in Pearl City! Unless the Japanese Navy wants to die, they have no other choice, so now Japan is frantically transporting troops to the Northeast and Korea.

The idea is to start a crazy expansion from the northeast, so as to occupy the whole of China, because of the huge pressure of the First Fleet of the Chinese Empire in Pearl City, and now the Japanese navy is basically stepping up transportation, because they know that if they don't step up transportation now, it will be a lot of fun. Once the Navy fails, the consequences are unimaginable, will the Navy fail? No matter how arrogant the Japanese are, they don't have any confidence when they see those three behemoths, and even Britain and France are pretending to be grandsons, and the current Japanese Navy is not a Japanese Navy that will dare to take the initiative to attack the United States in the future.

Therefore, the pressure on Japan is also very great now, and now it depends on which of the spears on both sides is sharper! It's just that there is no change in Japan now than in history, the only change is that the number of people is a little more, because of the opening of the second battlefield, so in the northeast and north China, the number of Japanese troops is very large, for example, in the attack on Shanxi, there are three divisions in history, the fifth division, the 20th division and the 109th division.

The first of Japan's 6 first-class divisions is the 2nd Division, the 2nd Division, which has already killed 2,000 people, followed by the 6th Division, then the 9th Division, followed by the 5th Division, the 3rd Division, and the 1st Division. Among them, the Fifth Division is relatively famous, although it was cleaned up in Pingxingguan and other battles, but after being transferred to Nanyang in history, France and Britain were packed up very badly.

The 3rd Division has fought all the battles of the Chinese battlefield in history, and has participated in almost all the battles of the Chinese battlefield. These are all recognized first-class divisions in Japan, and the 16th, 19th, and 20th divisions are the next ones with strong combat effectiveness.

In history, the main participants in the Battle of Taiyuan were the 5th Division, the 20th Division, and the 109th Division, the 109th Division's combat effectiveness was weak, and it was a second-class division, but these three divisions had a total of less than 50,000 people, and in the end they were killed 30,000, but the number of casualties on the Nationalist Government's side was as high as 150,000! The combat effectiveness can be imagined! But this is history!

And now, because of the increase in troops, the 5th Division and the 2nd Division are attacking Taiyuan, while the 20th Division and the 109th Division are in the east, which is a full 2nd Division that ranks first in history!

Of course, their opponents are completely different from history, the total number of the Eighth Route Army alone has reached 250,000, although the army sent out is only 200,000, and the remaining 50,000 are deployed in the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningbo border area into the direction of Sichuan, but even these 200,000 To be honest, the combat effectiveness is not something that Japan can compete with.

"Commander Yan, in this way, how about handing over the direction of Niangzi Pass to us for defense?" Mr. Peng said very simply.

Yan Xishan narrowed his eyes, hesitated for a moment, thought for a moment, and then said decisively: "Okay! The direction of Niangzi Pass will be handed over to you, but General Peng, you tell me that I don't care if you attack or not, but can you tell me that if you can't attack, then at least ensure that Niangzi Pass is not lost. ”

"We still have follow-up troops, and when the follow-up troops come, I hope they can be handed over to us in the direction of Pingxingguan." Mr. Peng added.

Yan Xishan thought about it and simply agreed, the reason is very simple, originally here in the second war zone, Yan Xishan didn't expect the Eighth Route Army, the invitation was only because after the establishment of the anti-Japanese national united front, it was done for the people in the country, but now the strength of the Eighth Route Army has obviously exceeded expectations, and since the other party took the initiative to participate in the main defense, Yan Xishan is naturally happy to retain his strength.

The two sides quickly finalized, and Mr. Peng quickly followed the three divisions directly to the direction of Niangzi Pass to change the guard, Peng Lao always drove directly the next morning, and it would take about two days to arrive at Niangzi Pass. Although it is not as fast as these three divisions, after rigorous training and more than a year of high-nutrition supplementation, the nutritional level of the soldiers of the Eighth Route Army has also followed.

And the ability of people in this era to endure hardships is not comparable to modern times, so about a day later, the vanguard has already arrived too far. Mr. Peng did not send all three divisions to the direction of Niangzi Pass, first of all, it was completely unnecessary to send three divisions there. Although Mr. Peng doesn't know the strength of the Japanese elite army now, he is confident in his army, if he can't beat the Japanese with such weapons and training......& It is estimated that it will not take long for Japan to sweep through China.

So Mr. Peng left a division and went directly to the direction of Pingxingguan, of course, this was to greet Yan Xishan, and Yan Xishan naturally had no opinion. However, the weapons and equipment of the Eighth Route Army have been passed on to Nanjing for the first time, and when Lao Jiang got the news, he directly dropped everything on his desk, and he didn't have to think about it to know why, but at this time, no one cared about him, and at this time, everyone was concerned about the complete outbreak of the War of Resistance against Japan.

History is still a turning point here, the historical Battle of Taiyuan was from October to November, and now this time has been advanced to the end of July, and the battle broke out unexpectedly early! The main reason is that the 17th Division defending Niangzi Pass was negligent, although it received the order to hand over, but you have to wait for the troops of the Eighth Route Army to come, but Zhao Shoushan, the commander of the 17th Division, let the troops start to prepare for the withdrawal in advance.

In fact, Zhao Shoushan was also kind, because the Japanese army on the opposite side was obviously not ready, and he had no idea of attacking, and his idea was to prepare for evacuation in advance, so that when handing over to the other party, the handover time would be greatly shortened, so as to avoid the Japanese taking the opportunity to attack Niangzi Pass.

So after receiving the order, he immediately asked the troops behind him to start preparing to retreat, and a lot of weapons and equipment have begun to be packed up, but these are not too big problems, but what makes people speechless is that I don't know how to let the Japanese army know about this information. And after knowing this information, the 20th Division in this direction immediately received an order to attack! Immediately after receiving the order, Japan attacked!

Although the Japanese 20th Division was also poorly prepared, the quality of the other side was not comparable to that of the national army, and you must know that the army defending here in history was about 150,000 people, and the result was even 1. The 50,000-strong Japanese invaders couldn't defend it, and they still lost it.

And when the Twentieth Division began to attack, half of the garrison troops guarding Niangzi Pass had actually been withdrawn! This time I was caught off guard, but fortunately, although the 17th Division was careless, it did not continue to be careless, and these troops also had the determination to fight, and fought to the death with the enemy at Niangzi Pass. Because the attack was hasty, the Japanese army's preparations were also insufficient for a while, so the attack was not carried out for a while.

Mr. Peng, who received the information, almost scolded the commander of the 17th Division to death, but this time was not the time to say this, Mr. Peng immediately ordered the new first division of the army to speed up the pace! Burn the wind! Yan Xishan on this side of Shanxi has done a good thing, that is, the road is built well, although there is a railway, but Mr. Peng does not use the railway, mainly if the railway is used, a lot of weapons and equipment need to be unloaded, but it will waste more time.

Therefore, Mr. Peng directly ordered the troops to move forward directly, anyway, they were all by truck, and the speed would not be slow, or even faster, because the speed of trains in this era was even inferior to cars. At this time, the elite of the trained army is reflected.

When the Japanese attacked, Mr. Peng was still about half a day's way away from Niangzi Pass, and after accelerating, he could arrive in five hours at most, but the 17th Division located above Niangzi Pass could not resist.

"Sir! Let's withdraw! The brothers are almost finished! I can't hold it! "On the front-line position of Niangziguan, a regiment of the 17th Division, with hundreds of people in the whole regiment, now there are less than 100 people left, and their defense line is already crumbling, and at this time, although the enemy's artillery did not join the battle at the beginning, the number of enemy subordinate mortars and mountain artillery is also quite large. The strongest loser

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Chapter 880: If We Don't Defend We'll Attack (Part II)

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