Chapter 1221: The Last Stone Gate (3)
As if he knew that Langtuanza wanted to beat people at this time, the red general with a "sunflower" face was happy, but he hurriedly said the seizure.
"I didn't have time to count, so I didn't rush to tell you the good news! I didn't even have time to personally go to the warehouses to inspect the field, but according to the confessions of the captured Japanese soldiers, Shimen was not only the base camp of the 20th Division, but also the 108th Division and the 109th Infantry Brigade that were attacking south along the Pinghan Railway. Haha, Deputy Commander-in-Chief, this time, we're going to make a fortune. ”
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The news that the red general said, even local tyrants such as Liu Tuanzuo almost suffocated. He didn't expect that he would make such a huge profit by laying down a stone gate. Where is the baggage of one and a half divisions, plus the baggage of the 20th division, is it the baggage of two and a half divisions? What is it called beating a rabbit with grass? Here it is.
If they could empty the Japanese baggage base in Shimen, the two Japanese divisions that were preparing to attack Jindong in a roundabout way south would be hungry in a few days. If the courage of the Chinese armies, who were frantically retreating southward along the Pinghan Line, had been slightly magnified and had a hard fight with the Japanese army for four or five days, the two sides would have to reverse the way of chasing and fleeing.
More than 30,000 Japanese troops ran back frantically on their short legs, and tens of thousands of Chinese troops chased them and beat them on the buttocks. If the commander of the Jindong Theater was a little more bold and sent a few divisions to block their back road from Jingcheng, would he have made dumplings for these tens of thousands of little devils?
Of course, Liu Lang knew that this was just a fantasy. Although the 108th and 109th divisions were not supplied, their one-and-a-half-hour ammunition base and food were also stronger than the tens of thousands of Chinese troops who lost their armor and disarmed, and the Japanese army also had an army and air force far more powerful than the Chinese army, which could not only provide fire support at any time but also airdrop supplies. Even if General Huang is bold enough, I am afraid that those army commanders who have been defeated in successive battles in the North China Plain will not have the confidence to fight this battle again, and their supplies will not be enough to support them to fight this battle again.
Without their help, even if Liu Lang could still unite the 129th Division and the 17th Division, if he wanted to fight against these little devils who were already empty-stomached on the plain, the losses would inevitably be heavy. Because, there is no air support.
The bald guy can transfer a plane for Liu Xiang to use once, but he won't say that he will transfer the air force to help every time. Compared with the fierce battle of hundreds of thousands of troops in the southeast, the Jindong side was just a small-scale battle, and the 20th Division could be wiped out in one battle, relieving the pressure on Taiyuan, and the leader was already very satisfied.
His gaze is destined not to stay in the northern battlefield for too long, and he is now probably worried about the erosive southeast war situation, thinking about how to finish that battle without losing face!
"No wonder the Xiyuan Temple Gongyi will say that the prisoner of war camp is temporarily guarded by the baggage wing team of the 109th Division, it turns out that their baggage warehouse is here, haha! Come to think of it, the baggage warehouse was so easily captured, and it was also because Kawagishi Bunzaburo, an old devil, rushed to the hospital and sent the baggage teams of these two divisions to the battlefield! It is estimated that His Excellency Lieutenant General Kawagishi Fumisaburo never thought that the stone gate would fall so quickly, otherwise, he would have ordered the baggage to be blown up as soon as possible, which would have made us pick up the bargain. Liu Lang, who figured out all the crux of the matter, laughed.
"That's the reason, when we attacked the baggage warehouse, the defending Japanese army was only more than 300 people, and the combat effectiveness was completely incomparable with the previous Japanese army, we only used machine guns to sweep first, and the infantry guns fired a few shots at their fortifications, and they collapsed. Nor did we bomb the warehouses as we had imagined, leaving us with nothing to lose, and at least half of those who dropped their weapons surrendered. In order to keep the supplies, I accepted their surrender, deputy commander-in-chief, I don't count this as a violation of military orders! The red general laughed.
"How can it? No military order is dead, it can be decided randomly depending on the battle situation, and Big Brother is naturally much stronger than me in this regard. Liu Lang spoke at this time, but he spoke without leaking.
For this red general with a hard temperament and a somewhat miserable final ending, Liu Lang showed enough respect. There is no conclusion as to why this man will go to the future, but few people question his tactical command ability, an absolute general. On this point, he is worthy of Liu Lang's admiration.
Sure enough, Liu Lang's mellow answer made this one quite satisfied, nodded emphatically, and said, "Deputy commander-in-chief, you give the order!" What should my whole army do next? ”
"If you don't have time to count, you won't count, so I will order all the commanders and fighters of the 343 Brigade to change into Japanese uniforms, do everything and carry supplies with all their might, and I will lead the bayonet battalion to complete all the rest of the battles." Liu Lang quickly made a decision.
"All in the car? I'm afraid, the car can't fit either! There was a hint of distress on the red general's face.
What is the trouble of happiness, this is. Rows of baggage warehouses and mountains of materials stacked in the open air, not to mention 130 trucks, even if it doubles, it is estimated that it will be very difficult.
"I remember that the Japanese army transported supplies to Jingcheng County, and there was a train!" Liu Lang was very sure, "There are definitely Chinese people at the railway station who will drive the train, find them, and tell them that as long as they can help our army transport supplies, as long as they are willing, he and his family can board the train and withdraw to Shanxi with us and give them a generous settlement fee." Also, those porters are the same, as long as they think they are still Chinese, they will move to Lao Tzu, empty the Japanese warehouse, and don't even give Lao Tzu a single piece of rice. Afraid that the Japanese will come back for revenge? It doesn't matter, if you want to go, come with us. Even if you don't want to leave, it doesn't matter, Lao Tzu has thousands of Japanese prisoners of war here, as long as they dare to attack our people, Lao Tzu will dare to hang ten times the number of Japanese army heads on Taihang Mountain the next day. ”
It's no wonder that just hearing the name scared the eldest prince of Xiyuan Temple to come to the exchange, this murderous intent is really heavy! Liu Lang's murderous words made the red generals who had experienced a hundred battles couldn't help but stand on end. As long as the Japanese army dared to carry out a retaliatory massacre in Shimen, he had no doubt at all that this person really dared to slaughter the Japanese prisoners of war. The Battle of the Great Wall is not just a legend that thousands of Japanese soldiers were wounded and froze to death in the wilderness. Even the Japanese Kwantung Army still has the name of "Colonel Beast"!
Comrade Lin Xiaoshun was very good at this time, and soon simulated the tone of Kawagishi Bunzaburo to send a message to the Beiping Command to report safety, saying that after nearly 40 minutes of hard fighting, the sneak attack of the two Chinese infantry regiments had been repulsed, and the enemy had now fled to the mountainous area, and asked the Beiping side to dispatch army aviation to bomb and pursue its rout, and annihilate all these bold Chinese.
Beiping is waiting for the anxious general Terauchi Shouichi, isn't that very relieved? Uncharacteristically, instead of angrily reprimanding Kawagishi Bunzaburo for causing Shimen to be attacked by the Chinese army so heavily, he encouraged the finished Kawagishi Bunzaburo to continue to intensify the operation in the Niangzi Pass area, and strive to break through the defense line of the Chinese army in the Niangzi Pass area as soon as possible and enter Taiyuan, the capital of Shanxi Province, in order to solve the dilemma of the Itagaki Division.
It's not that Kawagishi Bunzaburo, a lieutenant general in the army, has face, but that the Battle of Jindong is too important. As the No. 1 boss of the Japanese Army's North China Dispatch Army, the army general, who had been carried away by the extremely smooth fighting in North China for two months, was too inflated and ordered the Itagaki Fifth Division, known as the "Steel Army," to attack Xinkou in the northwestern part of Shanxi all the way.
He thought that the Fifth Division, with nearly two divisions, would be as powerful as it was in North China, capturing Shanxi, the most important province in northern China, and then approaching Shaanxi and then reaching southwest China. While taking the legendary oil fields, it can also cut off all the retreats of the Chinese government.
It has to be said that the army general Terauchi Toshinichi drew up the grand strategy of the Japanese army's North China dispatch army by drawing arrows on the map is very imaginative, and if the Itagaki Fifth Division can really be as powerful as he thought, and let him capture Shanxi in one fell swoop and then enter Shaanxi to threaten China's last barrier southwest, then the army general is very likely to become a field marshal.
In fact, the combat effectiveness of the Itagaki Division is not weak. For example, the reserve division of the 6th Division is called the 106th Division, and the reserve division of the 8th Division is called the 108th Division, but the Fifth Division is different.
In other words, the total strength of the Fifth Division is equivalent to that of two divisions and regiments, with a total of more than 50,000 troops, which is equivalent to the strength of the two Chinese armies in terms of numbers alone, and if we talk about combat strength, it is at least equivalent to the strength of five Chinese armies and ten divisions.
However, such a powerful Fifth Division encountered a head-on attack from more than 100,000 Chinese troops at Xinkou, and the proud artillery also encountered a strong opponent.
Even in the past time and space, the 300 mountain artillery of the old man in Shanxi also made the Itagaki Division suffer enough, if it were not for the fall of Niangzi Pass, the Jindong defense line was broken through by the 20th Division, and the Itagaki Division did not know how much it would cost to attack Shanxi. Not to mention, the ten mountain artillery regiments and the five heavy artillery regiments exchanged by the Shanxi old man with all his strength were twice as high as those of time and space.
Therefore, the anxious Japanese army general can only comfort the lieutenant general under his command, and he is still counting on this to help him realize his dream of being a marshal!
However, for this request to send the army to bomb, he can only euphemistically say: I'm sorry, this person is powerless. At most, only one reconnaissance plane can be sent to walk around here to show that the Imperial Army is still there.
It turned out that the morning in the Shimen and Niangziguan areas was just a little hazy, but the Beiping area was full of fog, and Lu Hang, who had been beaten by the aviation volunteers with an uppercut and spewed out old blood, was still licking his wounds, so what bomber formation would he dare to send to bomb in such weather? Don't hit your head on a mountain in the fog, and that became an international joke.
Being able to send a light reconnaissance plane around the vicinity of Shimen is already a great face-saving task for His Excellency the Lieutenant General of the Army.
After receiving this "sincere" call from the army general of the Japanese army headquarters in Beiping, Liu Lang completely put his heart in his stomach, God is so helpful, if he doesn't move the Japanese army's warehouse to the point that even the rats are starving to death, he will be too sorry for the care of the gods and Buddhas.
For the sake of his compatriots, the Xiyuansi Gongyi not only fooled the army generals who were far away in Beiping, but also went to the field hospital in person, and demanded that the recalcitrant Japanese troops lay down their arms as the highest-ranking officer in Shimen City, and at the same time personally called the prisoner of war camp outside the city, ordering them to surrender and not harm the Chinese prisoners of war.
The identity of the Japanese army may not be very good, but the appeal of the surname Xiyuansi is very good.