Lei Yunfeng settled the Cheetah Commando and brought Shang Shichao and Su Xiaoyan to the 54th Regiment first, this force can be said to be the 5th elite division re-established by Lei Yunfeng on the basis of being crippled and incomplete.

Therefore, he did not take much time to make a fuss to the enemy, and induced the enemy to continue to advance westward and drill into the ambush circle of the 14th Army.

When he came to the brigades of the 17th Division and the units below the regimental level, he explained his intentions and did not go deeper, but he was scolded by those officers and men who were extremely dissatisfied with the military command, and even wanted to arrest and shoot them with knives and guns.

Fang Shichao felt aggrieved and said to Lei Yunfeng: "Boss, we are important officials sent by the Military Command Department to supervise military affairs in the Western Route Army, why did you send us to take care of these thankless things, not to mention that they will be caught and shot by these impulsive soldiers, just don't meddle in their military affairs, find a place to ...... well." ”

"That's right, boss, for the sake of your and our personal safety, it's best to hide far away, don't be persecuted if you don't do your job, please think about it again."

"Ah Chao, Ah Yan, now in order to eliminate the enemy advancing westward in the Xiyang River Valley, the supreme commander of the theater personally came to the front line to command, and after careful deployment, took the initiative to make a dead end for the Suzuki Division.

If the officers and men of the 17th and 81st Divisions surrendered their positions to the enemy with their lives and blood, if they did not understand and resisted, if they could not do their ideological work and cause a mutiny in the army, what serious consequences would it bring to the entire Zhongtiao Mountain Theater? ”

"That's the internal affairs of the Western Route Army and the National Revolutionary Army, and it's not our turn to put out fires everywhere and roast ourselves on the fire?"

"Ah Chao, that's what I said, but we are staunch anti-Japanese soldiers, and we shoulder the heavy responsibility of supervising the military affairs of the Western Route Army, and now there is dissatisfaction among the officers and soldiers in the army, we should come forward to do their guidance work."

Lei Yunfeng stood up as he spoke, walked outside the house and looked at the gloomy weather, and then said: "The 17th and 81st divisions will soon participate in the decisive battle in the Xiyang River Valley, and I don't know how many enthusiastic officers and soldiers will be alive to participate in the next battle after this battle."

Therefore, before starting the battle of the Xiyang River Valley, we must do the ideological work of these officers and soldiers, even if they die in the Xiyang River Valley, the underground knows that they are doing this to destroy the enemy's main force, and they will not complain after the battle, so that they can also look at themselves without shame, do you think what I said is reasonable? ”

"Boss, everything makes sense after your analysis, since what you recognize must not be wrong, my Ah Chao and Ah Yan listen to you in everything."

Lei Yunfeng did the ideological work of Ah Chao and Ah Yan, and took the two of them into the brigades and regiments of the 17th Division again, and after patient and meticulous explanation, although those dissatisfied soldiers were still angry, they could only dissipate their anger in order to kill more enemies and prepare for a bigger battle.

Lei Yunfeng, who returned to the headquarters of the 17th Division, made a brief report on the situation that he had penetrated into the various brigades and regiments, as well as the thoughts and emotions of the officers and men of the troops.

Division Commander Zhao didn't expect Lei Yunfeng to be so young and do ideological work in the army so well, and he couldn't help but have more trust in him.

In accordance with the order of the theater, the 14th Army arrived at the designated combat position in a timely manner, completed the deployment of the westward advance Suzuki Division, and the whole army entered the highly intense preparatory work before the war.

The 17th and 81st Divisions were ordered to reoccupy Shaoyuan Town as quickly as possible, deploy superior forces to tie up pockets in key positions, and encircle the Suzuki Division in the narrow Xiyang River Valley, which is 20 miles wide from north to south and 8 miles long from east to west.

Xiyang River Valley is located in a mountain col dozens of kilometers away from Wangwu Mountain, the so-called river valley, that is, the Xiyang River is a hilly area on both sides of the high hills, the middle is low and the two sides are high, and the entrance and exit are only front and back.

Once the pockets were tightened at the entrances and exits at both ends of the Xiyang River Valley, the Suzuki Division that got into the ambush circle was like a rat that got into the bellows, asking the sky and the earth, and becoming a desperate army waiting for death, which could only sit and wait for death without a way out.

The vanguard of the Suzuki Division smoothly entered the Xiyang River Valley, and the cunning commander of the Suzuki Division ordered the vanguard to search and advance, and not to go deep alone in case of accidents.

In order to clear the National Revolutionary Army of the Zhongtiao Mountain Theater at the entrance of the Xiyang River Valley, the commander of the Suzuki Division ordered the follow-up troops to carry out a clearing battle with the 14th Army that appeared in the surrounding areas on the line of Hedong, Zhifangtou, Xiyang River Valley, and Xiamazhuang.

Its purpose is to prevent the troops from entering the Xiyang River Valley, being tied to the pockets behind the Chinese troops, and attacking back and forth, causing an unfavorable battle situation.

The 10th, 83rd, and 85th divisions of the 14th Army, as well as their subordinate units, were attacked by the Japanese army's frenzied artillery fire.

Under the fierce attack, the Japanese army sent more than a dozen bombers to cover it, believing that the westward advance was unstoppable, and quickly advanced in the direction of Xiyang River Valley and Puzhang.

The Supreme Commander of the Nakajo Mountain Theater ordered the 83rd Division of the 14th Army to block the Suzuki Division's advance to the set target with the most ferocious firepower, and it was necessary to deal a heavy head-on blow to the enemy advancing westward.

The westward advancing troops of the Japanese army were attacked by the most fierce artillery fire of the 83rd Division, as well as the positions of the brigades and regiments holding their positions.

The 17th Division, which was ordered to recover Shaoyuan, launched an attack on the Japanese troops entrenched in Shaoyuan under the favorable situation in which the 14th Army dragged [1 Chinese Net] to hold the main force of the Japanese army, successfully reoccupied Shaoyuan, and immediately rushed to repair the fortifications and prepare to tighten their pockets and trap the enemy.

Under the cover of aircraft and artillery, the Japanese Suzuki Division successfully entered the Xiyang River Valley and set up the base camp of the division at the head of the paper mill.

When the supreme commander of the Nakajo Mountain Theater learned that the Japanese Suzuki Division and other units that were cooperating with the operation had entered the Xiyang River Valley, he immediately ordered the troops to tighten the east-west entrance and exit bags in and out of the Xiyang River Valley, and to divide and encircle the trapped enemy and hunt them.

The Li Division of the 14th Army, which received the order to divide and encircle and hunt the Suzuki Division into the Xiyang River Valley, immediately issued an order.

The 10th, 83rd, and 85th Divisions, as well as the 17th and 81st Divisions participating in the Xiyang River operation, were ordered to divide and surround the trapped enemy from this time on, and launch the most ferocious attack on the enemy by means of harassment, sneak attacks, and hunting.

The commander of the Suzuki Division received a report from the brigades and regiments stationed in the narrow Xiyang River Valley, reporting that the Chinese troops of the National Revolutionary Army's Zhongtiao Mountain Theater had surrounded them in the Xiyang River Valley, and that the east-west entrance and exit had been pocketed at this time.

After receiving such information that made the division commander General Suzuki tremble, he not only secretly cursed himself for being tricked by the cunning commander of the China Army, but blindly led the troops into the pocket formation that the China Army had deliberately laid out.

In order to successfully break through the troops from the Xiyang River Valley, the commander of the Suzuki Division ordered the troops to quickly break through in the direction of Shaoyuan and abandon the operational deployment of continuing to advance westward to occupy Yongji and Fenglingdu.

The Japanese commander thought that he had successfully broken through the defense line of the Chinese troops and entered the Xiyang River Valley, but he would never have imagined that this was a pocket trap carefully arranged by the senior commander of China.

As long as the large Japanese army enters the Xiyang River Valley, a situation will be formed in which the door is closed and the dogs are beaten, and if you want to easily highlight the pocket formation, I am afraid that you will have to pay an extremely heavy price.