The Japanese army successfully entered the Xiyang River Valley, and they didn't know that it was like a lamb waiting to be slaughtered into the slaughterhouse. Because there is the Yellow River in the south of the Xiyang River valley to block the retreat, and there is Zhongtiao Mountain in the north, which is called the danger of Puzhang water out of the kiln.

At this time, the 14th Army was stationed in the west of the Xiyang River Valley, and the 17th and 81st Divisions of the West Route Army were stationed in Shaoyuan in the east, trapping the enemy who had entered the ambush circle in the narrow Xiyang River Valley.

As long as the trapped enemy runs out of ammunition and food, and the urgently needed military supplies in the army are cut off, the result can only be to wait for reinforcements.

After careful planning, the supreme commander of the Nakajo Mountain Theater finally completed the encirclement of the Suzuki Division, and ordered all the troops participating in the battle to launch a general attack on the trapped enemy at dawn on the next day's 'cold day'.

The 17th and 81st Divisions stationed in Shaoyuan and the 14th Army of the Laohutou Defense Line received an order from the supreme commander of the theater to immediately mobilize their troops before the war.

Although the commander of the Suzuki Division of the Japanese Army had realized that it was possible to penetrate into the carefully arranged ambush circle in the Nakajo Mountain Theater, and its battlefield was set up on the front line of the Xiyang River Valley, this arrogant guy believed that the Imperial Japanese Army would never be able to defeat it, and as long as it continued to march westward, it would definitely break through the defense line of the Shina troops and occupy Yongji and Fenglingdu.

The 33rd Wing's Yuhe Chai Dazuo and the 77th Wing's Guanshan Feizhong Dazuo fought many bloody battles in Wangjiazhuang, Gumoling, and Dongyuan defense lines and the 54th Regiment and the 46th Brigade led by Lei Yunfeng, and the troops suffered heavy casualties.

The two wing commanders were invincible in other battlefields and did not encounter opponents, but they suffered many defeats in a row on the western front of Zhongtiaoshan, and they were not only sincerely uneasy about the Western Route Army operating on the western line of Zhongtiaoshan.

"Yuhe-kun, Guan Shan-kun, why don't you two speak, are you really frightened by the Zhi Na troops?"

"Your Excellency Division Commander, our wing launched more than a dozen attacks with the 46th Brigade of China on the Dongyuan Front, and after six days of life and death battles, it never broke through the Dongyuan Defense Line, and finally suddenly encountered a counteroffensive launched by the China Army, resulting in heavy casualties among the troops and had to withdraw from the battle and move closer to our army in Yaowangtai."

"Guan Shanjun, what do you want to say? Why? ”

"Your Excellency the commander of the reporting division, what I want to say is that the enemy facing our division is a formidable enemy on the western front of the Zhongtiao Mountain Theater of China, and at this time our division is in the danger zone of the Xiyang River Valley.......

"Bastard, you are alarmist and disturbing the morale of the army, do you understand?"

"Your Excellency Division Commander, I think the question raised by Guanshan Feizhong Dazuo just now should be taken seriously, our division is a lone army deep into the Xiyang River Valley, it seems that it is 20 miles long from north to south and 8 miles from east to west, it is a big battlefield, but it is ......."

"Yuhe Shiba Dasa, don't say it again, as the commander of the division, I have experienced a lot of large and small battles, and the small Xiyang River Valley wants to trap my Suzuki division here, I'm afraid that the Chinese army does not have such a big appetite."

Although the commander of the Suzuki Division said so, he already knew the current battle situation well in his heart, and at this time he hated himself for directing the troops deep into the Xiyang River Valley this time, and made a serious mistake of blindly optimistic going deep into the lone army.

Now that they have been besieged by the Chinese troops in the Xiyang River Valley, if they want to break through the ambush positions that the Chinese troops have set up their pockets, they must seize the weakest part of the ambush positions and launch the most ferocious attack.

As long as the defensive position of the Chinese troops was broken through and the results of the battle were rapidly expanded, the Great Japanese Imperial Army trapped in the Xiyang River Valley would fly out of the pocket formation, occupy favorable terrain and launch a counteroffensive, and destroy the Chinese troops who had laid down the pocket formation.

The other generals of the Suzuki Division swore that in their eyes the Imperial Japanese Army would never be invincible.

The Xiyang River Valley in the hazy night has entered midnight at this time, and the bloody battles carried out during the day, the shouts of killing are continuous, the explosion of cannonballs and the deafening bullets like flying locusts, and now everything is quiet.

If it weren't for the fact that the battlefield was still filled with unextinguished gunpowder smoke, no one would have thought that this was a slaughterhouse of life competition.

The narrow Xiyang River valley slowly fell asleep, and the farmers in the farmland who were not yet ripe and about to harvest made a 'bang' sound under the night breeze.

If you get close to the edge of the enemy's defensive position, you can hear the unbridled snoring of soldiers who have just experienced a battle of life and death during the day.

I don't know how long this kind of snoring will last until you fall asleep when you are so tired that you can fall asleep, because as soon as the morning dawns, a more fierce battle will start again.

The east finally brightened, and the sun broke through the darkness before dawn and resolutely rose from the east.

The Xiyang River Valley is very humid, and although the sun has risen, the visibility of the entire Xiyang River Valley is still shrouded in morning fog is not high.

As the organizer of this war competition, the Nakajo Mountain Theater Commander's Department ordered all the troops participating in this battle to take advantage of the Japanese army's unfamiliarity with the terrain and the cover of morning fog to concentrate superior forces and launch an attack on the Japanese army with the most ferocious firepower.

The Xiyang River Valley, which had been quiet for less than four hours, suddenly erupted again in the cold dawn when the morning fog had not yet dissipated.

The commander of the Suzuki Division heard the gunfire of the attack launched by the Chinese troops, and sarcastically ordered all brigades and wings to concentrate large forces and all heavy firepower to launch a fierce attack on the 14th Army's 85th Division, which was holding the Tiger Head Defense Line.

The commander of the 85th Division found that the main force of the Japanese army had launched a frantic attack on the Laotoutou defense line, and ordered the troops to hold their positions and block the Japanese troops surrounded in the Xiyang River Valley outside the Laotoutou position.

After more than five hours of bloody fighting, the enemy and us finally beat the Japanese troops who broke through to the Tiger Head position and retreated in panic.

The Japanese army launched a counteroffensive from Xiama Village to Kangjiashan and Nanyang Yuan, and after a fierce battle, it was repulsed by the defenders' 83rd Division.

The Suzuki Division's counterattack to break through in two ways not only failed to break through the Shina position and successfully escaped from the blockade line of the Xiyang River Valley, but was severely damaged, the troops suffered heavy casualties, and they were once again besieged in the narrow strip of the Xiyang River Valley.

In order to leave this valley of death as soon as possible, the Japanese army launched counterattacks on the defensive positions of the Chinese troops many times, but the results were all disastrous retreats, and they were forced to shrink quickly and helplessly.

Although the units of the National Revolutionary Army that participated in the Annihilation War in the Xiyang River Valley fought bravely to kill the enemy, because of the inferior weapons and equipment, the soldiers continued to engage in fierce battles with the Japanese army, and in addition, the logistical supplies could not keep up, and none of the units achieved the goal of completely annihilating the Japanese army, but only inflicted heavy losses on the enemy.

In order to destroy the enemy's vital forces, the various units carried out artillery strikes on the Japanese camps and clusters of little devils during the day, and used the green gauze tent as a cover to sneak attack the Japanese troops at night.

The Suzuki Division broke through the main force of the vanguard, the Yuhe Shiba Wing, and launched counterattacks on the forward positions of the 85th Division of the Tiger Head many times, but not only did not break through the Shina position and cover the retreat of the main force, but suffered heavy casualties from a strong counterattack.

(End of chapter)