The independent battalion was withdrawn, but the little devils didn't know about it!

After Ishida Jinzo and the captain of the 3rd Brigade attached to the Wing were killed, the soldiers of the 119th Wing finally arrived at the battlefield with Japanese planes that had been waiting for a long time, and 12 planes bombed and strafed the mountain beams northwest of Nianzigou again and again, putting on a posture of not giving up until the Eighth Route Army was blown up and destroyed!

After a company of bombers retreated, the Japanese troops on the mountain beam southeast of Nianzigou stopped shelling on their heads and became alive. The flag language soldiers began to play the flag language and contact the captains of the first and second brigades of the Japanese army in Nianzigou, and the radio also reported to the brigade headquarters the news of the death of His Excellency the Wing Commander, Your Excellency the Wing Attached, and Your Excellency the Captain of the Third Brigade!

Only a small number of officers and soldiers had time to take out their gas masks and put them on, and most of them had no concept that the Eighth Route Army would carry out gas bomb attacks, and they had already inhaled poison gas before taking out their gas masks, and their faces turned black, their whole body convulsed, and they fell to the ground crookedly. Including the captain of the first brigade and the captain of the second brigade, they have all fallen into a coma.

A few Japanese health soldiers who were lucky not to be poisoned, wearing gas masks, bent over, shuttled through Nianzigou Village, and commanded the soldiers who were not poisoned to drag the poisoned people out of the ruins and ditches one by one, and placed them in relatively open places in the prefecture and city, and began to treat them.

In this way, although the Japanese troops on the mountain beam were already in contact with each other in the flag, the Japanese troops who were lucky enough to be fine in the Nianzigou did not dare to go out of the village and return to the mountain beam to report the casualties of the troops, they were afraid of the bullets or shells that suddenly flew on the mountain beam.

The Japanese squad that went to capture the commanding heights on the other side of the Xiushui River came back, but it was a squad when it went, and when it came back, it became a detachment of more than a dozen people.

This devil squad was blocked by the second and third platoons led by Chen Minghui, the instructor of the third company, who had already been ambushed at the commanding heights on the west bank of the Xiushui River, and left a piece of corpse and fled back in embarrassment!

These dozen little devils were lucky, they dodged the attack of poison gas bombs!

Under such circumstances, the Japanese army had no choice but to send a report to the brigade headquarters again, reporting that His Excellency the Captain of the First Brigade and His Excellency the Captain of the Second Brigade had been poisoned and unconscious, and that the 119th Wing had lost its command.

The 119th Wing was an elite wing full of personnel before this battle, but now it has been disabled, and there is no wing-level or brigade-level officer in the whole wing who can take over the command of the battlefield! What if the Eighth Route Army launched a night attack after dark? Isn't the 119th Wing going to be wiped out?

The commander of the 118th Brigade, Benchuan Province, did not believe the report of the radio station of the 139th Wing, for fear that the Eighth Route Army had seized their radio station and used the radio to engage in conspiracy and trickery, so he wanted to send a telegram to the captains of the 139th Wing for them to translate and verify, but considering that it might be true that the three captains had returned to the East, he could only send a report to the aviation troops at Taiyuan Airport and ask them to report the true situation of the 139th Wing!

The air force reported that the corpses of the brave men of the Imperial Japanese Army were everywhere on the ridges, slopes, and ravines in the area of Nianzigou, and the guns and ammunition were discarded everywhere, and the scene was terrible!

Honchuan Province did not hesitate again and again, and directly sent a report to the commander of the division, Yamagang Shigehou, and the commander of the First Army, Lieutenant General Kazuki Kiyoji, saying that the 119th Infantry Wing of the 118th Brigade was despicably besieged by the main force of the China Army at Nianzigou at the junction of southern Yuxian and Pingding and Shouyang, and suffered heavy casualties. Wing Captain Ishida Jinzo Daisa died in battle, the captain of the Wing and the Third Brigade died in battle, the captain of the First Brigade and the Captain of the Second Brigade were poisoned and unconscious, and their lives and deaths are unknown! The 119th Wing has a whole jade shattering crisis! I beg your Excellency the division commander and your Excellency the commander to provide urgent tactical guidance!

The First Army of the Japanese Army was shaken!

After the Lugou Bridge Incident, in order to unify the command of the invading Japanese army, the Japanese army base camp announced the formation of the North China Front Army at the same time, and ordered the establishment of the First Army and the Second Army on August 31, 1937, which were under the command of the North China Front. At this time, the headquarters of the First Army was stationed in Shijiazhuang, and the commander was Lieutenant General Kazuki Kiyoji, the former commander of the North China Garrison Army, who provoked the Battle of Pingjin, and the chief of staff was Major General Hashimoto Qun, the chief of staff of the Lugou Bridge Incident and the former chief of staff of the North China Garrison Army. Major General Hashimoto was transferred to the head of the First Department of the Japanese Army General Staff Headquarters the day before yesterday, that is, on January 18, and was replaced by Major General Iida Shojiro.

Kiyoji Kazuki, Hashimoto Group, and Shojiro Iida are all one of the culprits of the Japanese invasion of China, and they are very arrogant! After receiving a telegram for help from the commander of the 118th Infantry Brigade of the 109th Division, Kiyoshi Kazuki and Shojiro Iida, the first thought of Kiyoji Kazuki and Shojiro Iida was to mobilize a large army to encircle and annihilate the Eighth Route Army, which had severely damaged the 119th Wing!

As a result, the Japanese planes that took off urgently from Shijiazhuang Airport rushed to Nianzigou and airdropped 100 officers from the First Army Headquarters with hanging baskets.

As soon as these officers arrived, they took over the command of the 119th Wing, and under the cover of the aircraft, they withdrew the remnants of the 1st Brigade and the 2nd Brigade that had entered Nianzigou Village, including those who were slightly poisoned, to the mountain beam southeast of Nianzigou where the Wing Headquarters and the 3rd Brigade were keeping, and built fortifications on the spot to prepare for reinforcements!

As for the corpses of the soldiers who died in battle on the northwest slope of Nianzigou and in the ditch and the corpses of the officers and soldiers who died of poisoning in Nianzigou Village, the 119th Wing has no care to deal with it now, and their first task is to collect the remnants, hold on and wait for reinforcements, and guard against the night attack of the Eighth Route Army!

The Japanese army did not take advantage of the good opportunity of aircraft cover to seize the mountain beam northwest of Nianzigou, they have become frightened birds, thinking that the Eighth Route Army is still hiding in the cave behind the mountain beam, waiting for them to surprise when they capture the mountain beam!

The 119th Wing believed that the top priority was to build fortifications and defend on the spot, rather than to capture the mountain beams held by the Eighth Route Army or pursue the small units of the Eighth Route Army that destroyed the artillery positions. Because they didn't know which unit the Eighth Route Army was fighting with them and how many troops it was, but they knew that this Eighth Route Army had Type 92 infantry guns, Type 92 heavy machine guns, Type 96 light machine guns, Type 89 grenadiers, and poison gas bombs made by the Japanese Empire. Therefore, the remnants of the 119 Wing, who have suffered a big loss, will definitely not be fooled again!

The 136th Wing of the Japanese Army, which captured the county seat of Yuxian, also received strict orders from the 118th Brigade Headquarters and the 109th Division Headquarters, ordering them to immediately reinforce the 119th Wing.

It may be that he was afraid of being beaten, and the commander of the 118th Brigade, the third major general of Benchuan Province, strictly ordered the 136th Wing, except for leaving a brigade to stick to the county seat of Yuxian County, and the main force was concentrated together, forming an attack formation, and advancing towards the Nianzigou attack, so as to strictly prevent being ambushed and sneak attacked by the Eighth Route Army. Especially at night, when camping, it is necessary to build positions, send additional sentry posts, and the troops are on duty in shifts and rest in shifts, so that the Eighth Route Army cannot be given a chance to sneak attack!

Xiao Siming's guess was very right, the Japanese troops from Shouyang and the Japanese troops from Pingding were indeed rushing to the county seat of Yuxian County to snatch the credit of who captured the county seat first, and they didn't have time to divide their troops to attack Nianzigou and copy the back road of the independent battalion!

In a telegram order, the third major general of Honchuan Province sprayed the blood of the 136th Wing Commander Matsui Setsu Daisa, accusing him of disobeying military orders and failing to rescue the 119th Wing, and threatened that if he acted slowly and caused all the 119th Wing to shatter, he would report to the North China Front and send Matsui to the military court!

Matsui Setsudasa, who received the telegram, greeted the daughter and daughter-in-law of the third major general of Motochuan Province in his heart, but he still had to resolutely carry out the order, he was afraid that if he went late, the 119th Wing would really be wiped out by the Eighth Route Army, and the joke would be big. Not to mention him, including the three major generals of Benchuan Province, I'm afraid they all have to apologize!

The Japanese army that had just rushed into Yu County rushed out of Yu County with a roar and slaughtered towards the Nianzigou in the south of the county seat!

Not only did the 136th Wing kill Nianzigou, because the enemy situation was unknown, the commander of the Japanese First Army, Kazuki Kiyoji, was unexpectedly brainstormed, and judged that it was the main force of the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army that severely damaged the 119th Wing in Lianzigou! Therefore, Kazuki Kiyoji strictly ordered the commander of the 109th Division, Lieutenant General Yamaoka Chonghou, to mobilize the main force of the division and quickly rush to the battlefield to encircle and annihilate the main force of the 115th Division between Yuxian, Pingding, and Yangshou!

After the main force of the 115th Division finished the Pingxingguan ambush, it took a period of concealment and recuperation in Wutai, and then went south to reinforce the Niangziguan operation, and after the Guangyang ambush, it was ordered to withdraw to Hongdong near Linfen. Originally, the 343rd Brigade, the main force of the 115th Division, was going to the Luliang Mountains in western Shanxi to create a base area, but it was blocked by the Jin Sui Army, and Yan Xishan did not agree to the 115th Division going to the Luliang area. The headquarters of the 115th Division could only lead the 343rd Brigade to deploy in Hongdong.

The 115th Brigade, another brigade of the 344th Division, was indeed in Jin-Cha-Ji at this time, assisting in the creation of the Jin-Cha-Ji Border Region. It's just that the main force of the 344th Brigade is in Pingshan County, Hebei Province at this time, and it is temporarily under the command of the headquarters.

The Japanese army didn't know that the main force of the 115th Division that fought at the Pingxing Pass was no longer in this area, or they didn't believe that it was only a battalion of the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army that severely damaged the 119th Wing, and they preferred to believe that this battle was fought by the main force of the 115th Division, so they had to open up a big battle!

Not only that, the First Army also transferred troops from Shijiazhuang to the Shishi Railway Station to join the battle.

Now it was lively, and the Japanese troops who came out of Taiyuan and Shijiazhuang rushed to the direction of Nianzigou in Yuxian County. On the railway, the Japanese army's ironclad cars and trains were galloping, on the highway were Japanese tanks, armored vehicles, and cars advancing with their lights on, and the Japanese cavalry ran in front of the cars with flashlights and torches, acting as search teams, and the targets were all pointed to Nianzigou!

The Japanese army fought in a rage and with great fanfare to the Nianzigou area, causing dust and smoke to rise on the highway and on the main road.

The next morning, the Japanese troops from all walks of life entered Nianzigou, climbed the mountain beam northwest of Nianzigou guarded by the Eighth Route Army, searched up and down, and repeatedly searched several times, but they didn't even see the shadow of the Eighth Route Army!

The third major general of Benchuan Province, who had rushed to the front line of Nianzigou and was in charge of the command of the former enemy, was so angry that he sprinkled all his anger on the commander of the 136th Wing, Matsui Setsudasa, grabbed him and slapped him in the face, and scolded "Baga!" ”

After the fight, the third major general of Benchuan Province took off the white gloves on his hand and threw them in the face of Matsui Setsudasa, and then looked at the undulating mountains with a confused expression, muttering to himself: "Where did the Eighth Route Army go?" Is it really like the ancient poem of China, like a yellow crane? ”