Yes, even if Kenji Suzuki faced such a predicament, he did not doubt that the 40th Infantry Brigade would be able to hold out here for more than three days.

And even if he can't get in touch with the division headquarters at the moment, when the 38th Air Wing's stupid guys escape back, it doesn't take much, as long as there are one or two, the division headquarters will definitely know the predicament they are facing and will send reinforcements.

The county seat of Jingcheng has a baggage wing of more than 3,400 people and a complete infantry brigade of more than 1,100 people, and 4,500 people only need to dispatch 3,000 to relieve the siege in front of them.

Although according to the calculation of the firepower value of the Chinese besieging them, as well as the habits of the Chinese, the strength of the Chinese should be more than 15,000, Kenji Suzuki still does not want to admit that they will still be hanged. Now it is just that the Chinese occupy the advantage of the terrain, and if a new force comes from the county town of Jingxi, the Chinese who are under attack can only retreat.

Kenji Suzuki didn't know that the so-called firepower value he calculated and the number of enemy troops estimated by the so-called habit were really different from reality.

So far, they have been besieged by only three infantry battalions, with a total strength of only 1,500 men. The weakness of the defensive line makes the future generals tremble.

Once the Japanese had recovered and mobilized all their forces to break through the siege, they would be able to penetrate the extremely weak defensive line and escape into the mountains if they were willing to pay enough casualties. Although the pocket battle arranged by the Independent Regiment and the 386th Brigade in half a month will achieve an unprecedented victory, it is obviously only a dream to completely annihilate this infantry brigade with a number of more than 6,000 people.

However, as long as the Japanese army chooses to hold on and wait for reinforcements, then, with the passage of time, the two infantry battalions located on the mountain beam will arrive, and the Panshi Battalion of the Independent Regiment located at the mouth of the valley of Qiqian Village will also arrive, plus the artillery unit, the engineer unit, and the baggage unit, at that time, the number of people participating in the division and encirclement will reach more than 4,000 people.

At that time, the encirclement can be considered to be truly thick. However, this is not enough, there are still more than 1,000 people in the guard platoon of the Independent Regiment, the guard company of the 386th Brigade and the Zhuangding Battalion, which were arranged by Liu Lang 3 kilometers away to hold the last pass for the fleeing Japanese invaders.

The strength of the Fourth Infantry Brigade that really participated in the encirclement and annihilation of the infantry will be as high as more than 5,000 people, which will never be much less than the Japanese army that has been divided and surrounded.

At that time, it was the end of the Japanese army in the encirclement.

With a sufficiently thick defensive line and completely advantageous terrain, coupled with far superior firepower of the Japanese army, the Japanese army without the help of aircraft and artillery will be worn to death little by little, until the final defense line completely collapses.

As for the possible reinforcements that the Japanese army would send from Jingcheng County, a special forces team led by Niu Er paid close attention to the mountains around Jingcheng County, and reported the size of its troops, the marching route, and the speed of the march to the Qiqian Village Front Headquarters at any time.

The mountain road from Jingcheng County to this place for nearly 80 miles is not a big road, and even if it is a rapid march with the highest intensity, it is not possible to reach the battlefield in six hours. The Japanese army was not a red army, and they could march 280 miles on mountain roads in one day and one night, with an average speed of 12 miles per hour.

Because they did not dare to advance lightly, did not dare to roar like the commander of the red army, and threw away all their burdens and marched at full speed except for guns and bullets. Without heavy machine guns, infantry artillery, and mountain artillery, why did the Japanese dare to claim the title of the first army in Asia? Just by virtue of the bushido spirit with which they dared to pledge allegiance to the emperor? This kind of spirit that is close to martyrdom Chinese also exists, but it is not for one person, for many people, for the future of many people.

In Liu Lang's mind, the real first army in Asia in this era was the army that wore straw sandals and carried the old sleeve on the muddy mountain road for a day and night, rushed to the battlefield more than 200 miles away and defeated the enemy in one fell swoop.

They used facts to explain that what is the victory of man and what is talent is the first factor that determines war, not equipment.

Even in the future, cruise missiles from thousands of kilometers away will blow up resistance into flying ashes, even if the "world police" is so strong that you can see the brand on the cigarette butt in your hand at a height of thousands of miles, as long as you do not give in, there is no war in this world that can be won by high technology alone.

Whether it was the bitter battle with the so-called Allied forces in the ice and snow of the north in the early days of the founding of the Republic, the American GIs who were defeated in the jungles of the southwest, or the red polar bears who had to retreat tragically after ten years of hard fighting in the mountains of West Asia, they all illustrated this truth with facts.

The key to winning a war is always people, not the so-called aircraft artillery.

The Great Wall of China can be blown up, but as long as people's hearts do not fall, thousands of flesh and blood can build a new Great Wall.

What's more, the Japanese army has reinforcements, but doesn't China have any?

In addition to the 385th Brigade and Brigade Headquarters, the 770th Regiment, the Special Service Battalion, the Engineer Battalion, the Artillery Battalion, and the Baggage Battalion of the 129th Division, the three main divisions of the 18th Group Army, led the 386th Brigade, the 769th Regiment, the Teaching Regiment, and the Cavalry Battalion, a total of more than 9,100 people, to Jindong, plus more than 4,000 people from the 343 Brigade temporarily assigned to the command of the 115th Division, and the total strength still reached more than 13,000.

The main force of 9,000 people had not yet been put into battle, and the 769th Regiment, the Teaching Regiment, and the 343rd Brigade, a total of four infantry regiments, had already set out from their garrison more than 100 miles away at one o'clock in the morning before the battle for Qigan Village began.

At the moment when the Jindong Theater lost the Donkey Ridge, it issued a military order to the 129th Division to assist in the defense of the rear flank of Niangzi Pass, and their march had already been notified to the defense areas, and even Kawagishi Bunzaburo's desk was available, but he guessed the beginning correctly but did not think about the end.

Those who participated in the siege of the 40th Infantry Brigade were not the main force of more than 10,000 people of the 129th Division of the "Tubalu" in his eyes, but the independent regiment and the 386th Brigade, the real main force of the red troops, set off overnight for the reinforcements from Jingcheng County.

The direction of their march was to the town of Fish.

Encirclement and reinforcement, the red army has used the old routine for many years, but it has been tried and tested. Even the old devil Kawagishi Bunzaburo, who has studied the battle routines of the red army, will still be tricked again, mainly because he guessed Liu Lang's troop deployment wrong.

However, it is still too early to say that the ground battle is still too early, and the duel in the sky is what the tens of thousands of Chinese and Japanese infantry in the Seven Villages are most concerned about.

In fact, now not only all the Chinese troops deployed in Qiqian Village or the red troops still advancing at full speed in the mountains and fields are paying attention to this battle, but the entire Chinese army on the front line of Niangzi Pass has already been aware of this battle that they did not know beforehand.

For the ground troops, it takes half a day or a day to walk on a mountain road of tens of miles, but for an endless blue sky, the distance of dozens of miles cannot block the line of sight. What's more, the fighters that have increased their speed to the highest can run wildly for nearly twenty miles in one minute, especially for the fighters of the two sides who have already begun to chase and fight, the sky within a radius of tens of kilometers is their battlefield.

And the front line of Niangziguan is also under the battlefield that belongs to them.

The movement of dozens of fighters roaring and fighting in the sky has already alarmed the tens of thousands of Chinese and Japanese troops on the front line of Niangziguan, they just can't see which side the fallen plane belongs to, but the fierce air battle that is not above the main battlefield reminds this group of experienced soldiers that there is definitely a more fierce battle on the ground under the sky than in the sky.

This was the first time that the Chinese soldiers in Shanxi had seen their planes appear in their airspace, and they were extremely looking forward to the victory of the Chinese fighters in this air battle.

The distance and some vagueness of the first ten minutes were actually a great torment for the Chinese officers and soldiers on the front line of Niangziguan.

One fighter after another fell, but no one knew which side it belonged to. But no matter which side it belongs to, there are definitely Chinese fighters. Just like on the battlefield, no one thinks that their opponent will win unscathed.

Even if the arrogant Japanese army thought that their air force would win the final victory, they would not think that they would win the air battle without losing one.

Their artillery fire on the ground is so bullish, haven't they been killed by the stubborn Chinese and screamed bitterly? Especially for Nakasa, who has lost his command and is completely desperate on the front line of the old pass.

If you want to win with 0 battle losses, the generals of the Chinese and Japanese armies, including the small soldiers, who have enough combat experience, are just a beautiful fairy tale.

However, tens of thousands of Chinese officers and soldiers who were tormented in their hearts did not know that fairy tales were really about to come true.

However, there is still work to be done.

Although the "Aviation Volunteers" had an absolute advantage in the duel in the sky, with a score of 16 to 7, it did not mean that they won the battle completely.

Any slight mistake may make the trapped Japanese army air force break the humiliating record of 17 to 0, and what Zhou Dapeng has to do now is not to shoot down all the Japanese planes, but to end the battle within 5 minutes and bring back the fighters with only half of the fuel left.

The Merlin aero engines of the Magic P40, which had lost their auxiliary fuel tanks before reaching the battlefield, were powerful enough, but they also consumed a lot of fuel, and they could fight for up to five minutes before they had to return.

Therefore, when the chase began, Zhou Dapeng gave an order in the intercom, once the enemy plane was shot down or the enemy plane fled away from the battlefield in embarrassment, all fighters must not fall in love with the battle, accelerate out of the battlefield and return to the direction of Yan'an Airport, if the fighter plane is damaged and cannot fly back to the airport with certainty, it is not allowed to parachute over the battlefield to prevent the wind from changing the direction of the parachute to the Japanese position.

The Japanese pilots also knew that this was their last resort, and that this was their last chance to wash away the shame of the entire North China Dispatch Army. Almost all of them drove the afterburner to the maximum, charged at the Chinese fighter formation, then turned around, and then charged and struggled.

There is a tragedy like the hedging of ancient cavalry, and at the same time, there is also the tenacity and wisdom of chasing each other up and down in an advantageous attack position.

From an altitude of three or four thousand meters to a low altitude of six or seven hundred meters, from directly above the village of Qigan, to the sky more than a dozen kilometers or even twenty kilometers away from here, the heart-rending roar of the aircraft engine and the sound of machine guns resounded everywhere.

The roar of air currents from the high-speed flights of both sides even drowned out the sound of gunfire restarting on the ground.

Everyone knows that although the Chinese Air Force has undoubtedly won, the final contest in the air battle has just begun.