Chapter 840: Advancing to Wangwu Mountain
The commander of the Nakajo Mountain Theater received information that more than 20,000 people from the Suzuki Division of the Japanese Army, together with infantry, cavalry, artillery, and special forces, were ordered to frantically attack and station at the Huling position of our 81st Division in Wangwushan.
In order to block the westward advance of the Japanese Suzuki Division, the commander ordered the 17th Division of the Western Route Army, which was holding on to the line of Gaoping in the southeast of Jinjin Province to block the Japanese attack, to rush to the Wangwushan Gate Sealing Line as quickly as possible, and to build fortifications to cooperate with the 81st Division to annihilate the attacking enemy.
Wangwu Mountain is one of the nine famous mountains in ancient China, and it is also the place where Xuanyuan Yellow Emperor sacrifices to heaven and earth here, and it is also the birthplace of the well-known Taoist 'the first cave in the world', and it is also the birthplace of our fable "Yugong Moves the Mountain".
Among the mountains with a total area of 272 and 47 square kilometers, the main peak, Tiantan Mountain, is 1,715 meters above sea level.
At that time, Xuanyuan Yellow Emperor personally climbed the Temple of Heaven Mountain to worship the heavens at the noon of the first month of the first year, burned incense and prayed, and then led the soldiers to attack Chiyou, after many years of hard fighting, finally defeated Chiyou and unified China, thus creating a 5000-year splendid civilization history in our country.
The Temple of Heaven has thus become a sacred place for the unification of the Chinese nation.
In the Tang Dynasty and the Jin Dynasty, the famous national teacher-level Taoist leaders Sima Chengjiao and Qiu Chuji successively carried out Taoist activities in Wangwu Mountain, with the deduction and development of the times, Wangwu Mountain eventually formed the holy land of Taoist activities in China.
There is a mountain range at 1500 meters under Wangwu Mountain, this ridge is not high, stretches for five miles, belongs to the continuous mountain range of Wangwu Mountain, looking at this ridge from a distance because its shape is very much like a tiger entrenched in the main peak of this ridge, I don't know which dynasty is called Tiger Ridge by the people or literati.
The commander of the Zhongtiao Mountain Theater gathered more than 20,000 troops from the Japanese army to attack the Xiyang River, and its main strategic purpose was to break through the defense line of the Western Route Army in one fell swoop, occupy Yongji and Fenglingdu, and thus force the Yellow River to enter Tongguan.
The commander of the 81st Division, He Bu, advanced to Huling as fast as possible, seized the time to build fortifications, and used strong military force to block the vanguard enemy attacking at the Xiyang River.
Ordered the 17th Division of the Western Route Army to be stationed in the area of the closed gate of Wangwu Mountain, echoing the 81st Division at the foot of Wangwu Mountain, and taking advantage of the geographical advantage occupied to eliminate the vanguard of the Japanese army breaking through the Yongji defensive line.
After careful consideration, the 81st and 17th Divisions of the Midian Division entered Wangwushan as quickly as possible and rushed to repair the fortifications, and the strategy was to form a pocket in the Xiyang River valley in Yuanqu to reunite and annihilate the attacking Japanese Suzuki Division.
After receiving a secret telegram from the commander of the theater of operations, Division Commander He of the 81st Division immediately led his troops to Huling.
Less than three hours after the 81st Division occupied Huling, the Japanese Suzuki Division rushed to the foot of Wangwu Mountain in a vigorous manner, and quickly dispatched a number of special reconnaissance teams to reconnoiter the forward position of the 81st Division in Huling.
The Japanese special reconnaissance team disguised itself as local civilians, some picked baskets, some pushed wheelbarrows, and some pretended to be small traders and hawkers to approach the villages around Huling, and through spying, they learned that the 81st Division had been stationed in Huling for less than five hours, and at this time it was stepping up the construction of fortifications to prepare to meet the invading enemy.
The commander of the Suzuki Division, based on the information secretly detected by the special reconnaissance detachment, immediately convened a military meeting of the brigade commanders, and he instructed the combat staff officer to mark the sand table of the defenders of the Shina unit near Wangwushan that had been temporarily set up, and ordered:
"Generals, the 81st Division of the National Revolutionary Army arrived at Huling five hours ahead of our army, this 81st Division is a miscellaneous unit in the National Revolutionary Army, with very simple weapons and equipment, but its combat effectiveness is very tenacious.
Once a powerful offensive against the 81st Division was launched, it was necessary to defeat the 81st Division stationed at Huling in the first round of the attack, and in order to achieve this goal, the 81st Division, which was stepping up the construction of field fortifications at this time, carried out a comprehensive attack tactic with heavy firepower from the air and ground. ”
The brigade commanders attending the military meeting received the order to immediately return to their units and, according to the military deployment of the commander of the Suzuki Division, quickly advanced their troops to the forward position of the 81st Division at Huling, and stationed them at the designated positions to stand by.
The commander of the Suzuki Division received that all brigades and infantry artillery special forces units had been deployed in place, and ordered all units to make combat preparations for attacking the 81st Division, which was defending the front line of Huling.
As soon as the Japanese bombers flew over the Wangwushan battlefield and bombed the Huling position held by the 81st Division, the units immediately launched the most ferocious attack.
The 81st Division's rapid march finally arrived at Huling five hours ahead of the Japanese army, and the troops did not have time to rest, so they immediately spread out the tense repair of the fortifications in Huling.
After two days and two nights of rapid marching, the officers and men of the 81st Division, who had not been given a rest, arrived at Huling at two o'clock in the morning.
According to the speed of the Japanese army's advance towards Wangwu Mountain, although Division Commander He could not bear to be tired of the officers and soldiers rushing around, he still hardened his heart and ordered the troops to step up the repair of the fortifications, and if they slackened, they would be killed.
Although the officers and men of the 81st Division were extremely tired, they did not have any major resistance to the order given by the division to repair the field fortifications, because they knew that they were about to start a life-and-death battle with the arrogant Japanese army on the front line of Huling.
Although the armament of the troops was far inferior to that of the Japanese army, and even the troops participating in the battle did not have an advantage, in order to minimize casualties in order for the troops to block the strong offensive of the attacking enemy on the front line of Huling, it was necessary to build the positions and fortifications as concealed and solid as possible.
As soon as dawn broke in the east, the Huling position was crowded with people, and the officers and men threw themselves into the intense preparations for building the fortifications despite fatigue.
Suddenly, there was a faint roar of airplanes from the direction of Yuncheng, and this inconspicuous roar of airplanes did not attract attention at all in the hustle and bustle of all the officers and men of Huling who were nervously building fortifications.
They would never have imagined that the Japanese Suzuki Division would soon attack the 81st Division of Huling, using the superiority of air fighters to wantonly and indiscriminately bomb the position, and that ground artillery and mortars of large and small calibers would launch a frenzied artillery attack on the Huling position.
Division Commander He of the 81st Division, who had never been rested, sent several search teams to the vicinity for the safety of the troops when the troops were stationed in Huling, but they did not obtain useful military information.
He would never have thought that just five hours after the 81st Division of the Japanese Suzuki Division arrived at Huling, the Suzuki Division rushed to the foot of Wangwu Mountain, and immediately dispatched a number of special reconnaissance detachments to covertly approach the front line of the 81st Division's position for reconnaissance.
Division Commander He would not have thought that as soon as the Japanese army arrived at the foot of Wangwu Mountain, they would launch a military deployment to attack the position of the 81st Division in Huling.
At this time, he stood on the main peak of Huling, taking advantage of the faint gray of dawn, and slowly moved with a telescope to scan the scene of the officers and soldiers of the Huling position rushing to repair the fortifications.
Chief of Staff Zhang, who was standing beside Division Commander He, suddenly shouted: "Division, did you hear the roar of the plane?" How do I feel that this roar is getting closer and louder the more I listen? ”
When Division Commander He heard Chief of Staff Zhang say this, he could hear the roar of planes in the distant sky without deliberately listening carefully.
Hearing the roar of such an astonishing plane at this time was not a good thing for the 81st Division, which had just been drawn to Huling and had not yet gained a firm foothold, and a battle of life and death was about to start in the Huling position, and the unimaginable cruelty would be remembered forever by future generations.