The Battle of Niangzi Pass had begun, and the troops of a Japanese division had begun to attack the west of the mountain, but the march was met with resistance on the periphery of Niangzi Pass, and the army stopped. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Yan Xishan learned the method of sealing the heavens, and spent several years building a large number of hidden fortresses in the east of the west of the mountain, effectively blocking the rapid advance of the Japanese army.

Yan Xishan, the emperor of the soil, attaches great importance to the territory west of the mountain, and losing the west of the mountain is almost like losing his life.

A few years ago, after Fengtian was greatly exaggerated, the Japanese army was going to march to the north of the river, and then threatened the west of the mountain, which made Yan Xishan very nervous.

This gave Yan Xishan time to lay out the defense of the west of the mountain in advance, and build the eastern Shanxi fortress into a fortress.

As one of the important passes to enter the west of the mountain, Niangzi Pass is dangerous, easy to defend and difficult to attack, it is the most convenient main passage to enter and exit the west of the mountain from the north of the river, and it has been a place for soldiers to fight for in the past dynasties.

In 1937, the Japanese war of aggression against China broke out in an all-round way, and the enemy was ready to "take Shanxi in one month", and finally "settle North China and destroy China".

The Japanese army on the North Road entered Datong from Zhangjiakou to the west, and went south to Taiyuan along the Tongpu Road, where they encountered stubborn resistance from our army near Xinkou and could not advance.

In order to respond to the southward movement of the Japanese army, the Japanese side sent elite troops to the 20th Division of the First Army of the North China Front, the 108th Division of the Second Army, and the 31st Brigade of the 109th Division directly under the jurisdiction of the Front Army to form the Westward Advance Corps, which was under the unified command of Kawagishi Bunzaburo.

On October 12, the Zhaoshou Mountain Division of our army stationed in Xuehua Mountain engaged the Japanese army, and the battle was extremely fierce. On the 13th, Xuehua Mountain was lost, and Zhao Shoushan withdrew to Donkey Ridge to continue to resist. On the 19th, the defenders withdrew to Donkey Bridge Ridge near Niangzi Pass.

The Japanese army could not capture Niangzi Pass and Jiuguan for a long time, so they sent another Japanese army to continue southward and enter Qigan and Mashan in the southeast of Pingding.

The enemy passed through Qiqian Village, entered Mashan in the west and returned to the east.

The officers and men of the 41st Army of Sun Zhen's division of the Sichuan Army fought bloodily, but suffered heavy casualties and failed to stop the advance of the Japanese army.

On the 26th, the Japanese army that entered the hinterland of Pingding counterattacked Niangzi Pass, and the national army suffered from the enemy on its back, and the defenders who had been fighting hard for days retreated one after another except for the Eighth Route Army, and the Japanese army followed.

On the 29th, Binh Dinh was occupied, on the 30th Yangquan was occupied, and on November 2, Shouyang was occupied. At this point, the Battle of Niangzi Pass ended with the defeat of the Chinese defenders. The failure of the Battle of Niangziguan made the east gate of the west of the mountain suddenly open to the Japanese army, and Taiyuan was in danger!

The reason why later generations caused the rapid loss of Niangziguan was due to many reasons.

First of all, Yan Xishan, the commander of the Second Theater of Operations, attached importance to the defense of Xinkou and despised Niangzi Pass.

Yan Xishan believed that the terrain of Niangzi Pass was dangerous, easy to defend and difficult to attack, and even if the defenders on the Pinghan Line failed, they should organize resistance in the Shijiazhuang area, and the war would not soon burn to Niangzi Pass.

Yan Xishan ignored Niangzi Pass, shirked the defense here, and relied on Liu Zhi's troops in Hebei.

As a result, Liu Zhibu in the north of the river only put up a slight resistance in Shijiazhuang and retreated to Anyang, Henan.

In this way, the periphery of Niangzi Pass, which was guarded empty, was soon exposed to the enemy, and the defenders of Niangzi Pass hurriedly met the battle.

Secondly, there are too many holes in the front.

At that time, there were four main troops stationed at Niangzi Pass: two divisions of Feng Qinya's 27th Route Army were stationed in the area of Longquan Temple north of Niangzi Pass; The 17th Division of the 38th Army, of which Zhao Shoushan was the division commander, was stationed near Jingcheng on the front periphery of Niangzi Pass; Zeng Wanzhong's 3rd Army was in the area of Maling Pass, south of Niangzi Pass; Sun Lianzhong's 30th Army served as a reserve and fought in the rear.

The armies of all walks of life defended their own important places, but no one paid attention to them at the junction of the two armies.

In this way, Jiuguan was at the junction of the 17th Division and the 3rd Army, and the garrison was empty and became a loophole.

In addition to fighting head-on, the Japanese army also sent an army to take a detour on the south side of the road on October 13, passing through Changshengkou, Xiaodalong's Nest, and Walnut Garden, and lightly took the old pass, which was taken by the Japanese army.

In this life, under the guidance of Fengtian, Yan Xishan prepared in advance, and the main roads in the eastern mountains were full of defensive fortress fortifications, and the Japanese army wanted to capture the key road into Shanxi, but I am afraid that it would be difficult to achieve their wishes without filling up the corpses.

More importantly, Yan Xishan has no threat from the north, and the sealing of the sky has already ensured the security of the north.

In addition, the weapons and equipment of the Yamanoshi army have been greatly improved, and the equipment of the Japanese army is only stronger than that of the Japanese army, and with the help of the concealment of the fortress offensive, it can kill and injure a large number of Japanese Japanese troops.

Compared with this, what kind of equipment did the Chinese soldiers in the previous life have?

The equipment of the army in the west of the mountain is better, and the other warlords dare not compliment, take the Sichuan army as an example, the equipment of the Sichuan army that came to resist the war after a long journey is unimaginably backward.

When the Sichuan army left Sichuan, it was widely regarded as the worst army in China at the time: under-equipped, lacking ammunition, provisions, and medical equipment.

In the late autumn season, the Sichuan army still wears straw hats, single clothes, and straw sandals.

The weapon is a Sichuan-made rifle, the firing range is very close, the accuracy is extremely poor, the firing can not pull the bolt after firing more than ten shots in a row, or can not withdraw the cartridge case, and the rifle that can be loaded with a bayonet is less than one-tenth.

The entire regiment of the Sichuan army had only two light machine guns, and each person was given a machete as the main weapon. The soldiers could only use their flesh and blood to resist the Japanese invaders.

In addition, none of our military units have heavy weapons, let alone air supremacy. The enemy was constantly bombarded indiscriminately by aircraft and artillery, but we had no power to fight back.

At the beginning, the artillery regiment of the Jin Sui Army stationed at Niangzi Pass, although there were artillery fortifications, but there was no cannon.

In the Battle of Xuehua Mountain, the 17th Division of Zhao Shoushan resisted the Japanese attack more than ten times, the position changed hands five times, the enemy sent more than 30 planes to bomb in turn, artillery bombardment, incendiary bombs, poison gas bombs fired at Xuehua Mountain, and seized the commanding heights.

Secondly, the fortifications in various important places were rudimentary, or even impossible to construct at all. Donkey Ridge and Xuehua Mountain are both stone mountains, and it is difficult to construct fortifications, so they can only use sacks of soil as bunkers.

After the loss of Xuehua Mountain, Zhao Shoushan's troops retreated to the Lack of Donkey Ridge, and the ridge was bare in the face of the Japanese bombardment, helpless.

After the two battles of Xuehua Mountain and Donkey Ridge, only more than 3,000 people remained of the original 13,000 people of the 17th Division of Zhao Shoushan.

The same is true in several other places, after the Battle of Guangou, when Li Zhenxi, the commander of the 38th Army's teaching regiment, went to inspect the fortifications on the old pass that had just been recovered, he found that the so-called pass was only a gap more than ten meters wide, not only did it not have strong fortifications, but it did not even have a trench to cover the operation.

Sun Lianzhong believes that "such a hard stone on the mountain cannot be dug into it with the tools carried by the troops." ”

Therefore, there is no use value in having good terrain.

Of course, this situation will not occur in this life, first of all, the weapons and equipment have been improved, and then the large amount of cement provided by the Northland Volunteers has built solid reinforced concrete fortifications, and there is no need to worry about the artillery bombardment and aerial bombardment of the Japanese army.

If it's not very strong, how can it be called a fortress nickname?

The important thing is that Yan Xishan is equipped with a large number of air forces, and he is not worried that there will be a situation in which he will only be beaten and unable to fight back in terms of air supremacy.

In the face of such a lady's pass, the Japanese people gnaw slowly...... (To be continued.) )