In this protracted ambush battle organized by the Zhongtiao Mountain Theater at the Xiyang River, the troops suffered heavy casualties and were no longer able to launch an attack on the Japanese army because important military supplies such as weapons, ammunition, food, and medicine could not be replenished in time.

According to the current situation of the troops, the commander of the theater ordered the troops to continue to surround the Japanese army in order to prevent the Japanese from breaking through.

The Suzuki Division, which was ordered to advance westward through the Xiyang River Valley with the intention of seizing the Yongji and Fenglingdu ferries, was besieged in the Xiyang River Valley by an ambush battle organized by the Zhongtiao Mountain Theater.

After repeated counteroffensives, they attempted to break through the siege and continue to advance westward, but they were attacked by our army many times, and the bombs were exhausted.

The Suzuki Division and the Japanese troops that cooperated with the operation, in the predicament of running out of ammunition and food, the soldiers lay on the ground and looked up at the sky, waiting for the Japanese transport planes to deliver supplies in time.

Those devils who were lightly and seriously injured in the battle could not be treated in time with medicine, and their wounds began to fester, suppurate, and become inflamed, and they scratched their hearts and lungs in pain.

The enemy and us in the Xiyang River Valley were no longer able to engage in fierce battles, but small-scale battles continued to occur.

At the stage when the Japanese army and our army were in a stalemate, the supreme commander of the Zhongtiao Mountain Theater suddenly received a telegram from the special forces sent out to investigate.

The telegram said that the Japanese army had gathered more than 5,000 Japanese troops from Jiangxian County, broke through the defensive line of our army's position at Hengling Pass, and attacked eastward along Yuanqu in order to prepare for the Suzuki Division that was besieged in the Xiyang River Valley.

At the same time, they also received information that the 10,000 Japanese troops who had occupied Qinshui again and advanced westward in a vain attempt to encircle and annihilate all the troops of the seven divisions of the Suzuki Division in our theater.

Based on the current strength of the enemy and our side, as well as the supply of weapons, ammunition, food, medicine, and other important military supplies, the commander of the Zhongtiao Mountain Theater found that he was no longer able to start another large-scale battle with the Japanese army in the Xiyang River Valley.

In order to preserve its strength, the theater command ordered seven heroic units with more than one division to gradually withdraw from the battlefield in the Xiyang River Valley under cross-cover, and had to leave with hatred.

The troops participating in the Xiyang River Valley Campaign were transferred to the area of the southwest mountain of Yuanqu to deploy defenses, and the theater headquarters was transferred to Taizhai Village in Pinglu.

In order to preserve the combat strength of the troops, the theater command also ordered the troops to move again to the areas of Mengjiayu, Huangbeijiao, Henghe Town, and Wangjiabao, and to build fortifications to continue to do a good job of launching a strong counterattack against the Japanese army.

The Battle of Xiyanghe was called the 'Nanyang Round Campaign' by Japanese textbooks, and it was the most arduous and glorious major battle of the National Revolutionary Army in the anti-Japanese battle at Zhongtiao Mountain, after 18 days of bloody fighting with the Japanese army.

The Battle of the Xiyang River thus ended, and this long and narrow valley sacrificed thousands of officers and men of our army's front-line troops, and the Japanese Suzuki Division and the troops that cooperated with the battle suffered heavy losses and heavy casualties at the same time.

After the end of the war, the people living in some villages in the Xiyang River Valley went out of their homes to pick up the handles of grenades on the battlefield and took them back to be used as firewood for cooking, which, according to the people's own accounts, was enough for them to burn for three months.

Some young and strong men and half-grown children would find bullet casings by grabbing a handful of soil from various battlefields in the Xiyang River Valley, and for a while, children in the neighborhood often picked up bullet casings nearby, and some packed up and went home to fill a large stone altar.

Li Lianzhu, a half-grown child in Shuangmiao Village, took a few friends to find a lot of bullet holes in a tree, some of which were still embedded in it, and found sharp shrapnel to pull out the bullet inside, and finally counted it, just looking at the trunk from the ground, the bullet holes of this big tree reached more than 30.

The Battle of Xiyang River was a major battle in which our army launched an attack on the Japanese Suzuki Division and besieged it in the Xiyang River Valley.

The Battle of Xiyanghe, which took place in the south of Zhongtiao Mountain, played the prestige of our army and created the most beautiful battle of annihilation of the trapped enemy in the early days of the Anti-Japanese War.

The Zhongtiao Mountain Theater Command, which had always insisted on commanding the Xiyanghe Campaign in Xinzhuang Village, Yuanqu County, left Xinzhuang at this time and moved to Taizhai Village in Pinglu County.

The Xiyang River belongs to Yuanqu County, which is located at the northeast end of Zhongtiao Mountain.

After the end of this campaign, the theater command fully affirmed the encirclement and annihilation battle that took place in the Xiyang River Valley, and beat the enemy to the point of gritting his teeth, and as a way to tie up the pocket mouth of Shaoyuan and block the Suzuki Division and other troops into the Xiyang River Valley, the 17th Division of the West Route Army made the greatest contribution and paid the greatest price.

In his commentary on this campaign, the commander of the theater clearly pointed out that if the nearly 10,000 officers and men of the 17th Division had not resolutely blocked the Japanese army's westward advance at Shaoyuan, it would have been impossible to win the 14 th Army's successful arrival at the designated place to carry out defenses, and it would have been impossible to achieve such a proud result in this congratulatory encirclement and annihilation battle.

Just when the commander of the theater personally went to the front line to command more than seven divisions of the National Revolutionary Army and launched a life-and-death siege and annihilation battle against the Japanese troops besieged in the Xiyang River Valley, the troops directly under the command led by Commander Wei of the Northwest Army, who had just crossed the Yellow River. As well as small units below the regiment, excluding the 17th Division, which participated in the Battle of Xiyanghe, and the 177th Division, which fought in other theaters, engaged in many battles for positions with the enemy in Yongji.

At this time, Yongji is a strategic place for both sides to fight, because Yongji and Tongguan are only separated by the Yellow River, standing on the Yongji city wall, you can clearly see the Yellow River rolling down to the south.

Yongji is very close to the crossing of the Yellow River, and it is not long before you leave the city and walk to the banks of the rushing Yellow River.

The Northwest Army crossed the Yellow River and had a firm foothold, so it was garrisoned on the Yongji front line by the Zhongtiao Mountain Theater Command as the Western Route Army of the Western Front, and its main task was to hold Yongji City and defend the Fenglingdu ferry from being occupied by the Japanese army.

The Japanese 108th Division received an order to launch an attack on Yongji at full speed, and it was necessary to destroy the positional defense line of the Western Route Army and occupy Yongji City and Fenglingdu within two days.

This part of the Western Route Army led by Commander Wei held on to Yongji, a dead place where there was no room for maneuver, and if all the officers and soldiers were united in their efforts to die and survive, it would be difficult to judge whether they could hold Yongji City.

Throughout history, there are only a handful of capable generals who gallop on the battlefield and can win victory in this dead land.

The only one who was really put to death and survived was Xiang Yu, Han Xin fought against the water, and finally won the victory when the troops caused huge casualties.

For example, Zhao Kuo's back road was cut off by the Qin army, shouting 'put to death and then live', but as a result, no one survived the entire army.

Ma Tan was forced to go to the high post, and in the face of the encircled enemy, he also shouted 'put to death and then live', but was cut off from his horse and beheaded in the left and right rushes again and again.

There are still a lot of big people who think that they are decisive in killing and strategizing, in addition to Han Xin and Xiang Yu, who were 'put to death and then lived', how many people can survive trapped in the place of death and lead the troops to the final victory alive?

At this time, Commander Wei, who led the Northwest Army to deploy on the Yongji defensive line, could he finally 'put himself in the place of death and live afterward' in this dead place where the enemy and I must fight?