Chapter 35: An Unprecedented Victory

"Get on your knees!" With a broken drink, someone followed by a heavy kick on the bend of the leg, and Yamashita Yong knelt to the ground with a "poof". The kick made him grin, but the kid didn't have much anger in his heart. After all, he was much better than his dead companions, at least, he was still alive!

"Your name, your title." Hu Fei looked at the kneeling guy in front of him with his back hand. This product is wearing an ordinary people's gray cloth shirt, and a pair of eyes are wandering around, and at first glance it is not a good thing to keep to himself!

"Isamu Yamashita, Great Japan, uh, Captain of the 2nd Brigade of the 21st Brigade of the 5th Division of the Japanese Army. Rank of Junior Lieutenant. Chinese New Year's Eve is thirty-four years old and is from Hamada County. Yamashita answered the questions in great detail, almost one answer to ten, and he knew everything and said everything.

Of course, Hu Fei is satisfied with this kind of captive, no matter what he wants to ask, as long as Yamashita Yong knows, he will definitely answer to his satisfaction.

Hu Fei didn't know that the reason why Yamashita Yong became what he is now is because Yamashita Shaozo had an unforgettable painful experience before this! In order to no longer be subjected to that kind of inhuman torture, Yamashita Shaozo is now forced to choose cooperation helplessly.

When Hu Fei interrogated Yamashita Yong, Lieutenant General Seishiro Itagaki Seishiro, commander of the Fifth Division of the Japanese Army, received a farewell message from Junsa Shinjo, the leader of the automobile team of the Sixth Military Station, and Junmasa Hashimoto, the commander of the escort unit.

In their telegrams, both Honsa emphasized the ferocity of the Chinese offensive and the tragic casualties of the Imperial Army, and expressed strong disappointment at the delay in the arrival of the relief forces. Soon after the telegram was sent, the two Nakasa were killed on the battlefield of Heixingguan one after another, thus ending their criminal careers as invaders ahead of schedule.

The two farewell messages were sent to Lieutenant General Itagaki one after the other, and the old devil Seishiro Itagaki couldn't hold his breath!

Among the Japanese army, Nakasa is already a big officer, and if two Nakasa are killed at the same time in a battle, plus a hundred cars and supplies, it is a great loss! Although Lieutenant General Itagaki cannot be held accountable for this accident for the time being, isn't he losing face in front of his colleagues?

Annoyed and angry, Lieutenant General Itagaki called Toshiji Miura, the commander of the 21st Brigade under his command, over and sharply asked why the reinforcements were late.

Major General Miura didn't dare to refute in person, but in his heart he was extremely angry with the captain of the second brigade, Isamu Yamashita! As soon as the lieutenant general left, Toshishi Miura immediately sent a telegram to Yamashita Shaosa, asking Yamashita to reinforce the Pingxingguan battlefield at any cost! If you dare to grind again, you will directly apologize for your sins!

Major General Miura did not know that his second brigade had suffered a catastrophe, and after the telegram of reprimand was sent, it was like a stone in the sea. A reconnaissance plane was sent to conduct aerial reconnaissance, and the information fed back was that there was a battle in the Mantouling area.

It wasn't until the next day that Toshishi Miura saw the remnants of the Second Brigade who had escaped from Mantou Ridge defeated, and he knew that the Second Brigade, which had been scolded by him countless times, was over! Its captain, Isamu Yamashita, has also disappeared on the battlefield!

At this point, the classic work of the Kuomintang and the Communist Party in the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, the Battle of Pingxingguan, finally ushered in a long-lost victory! This victory is the first real victory since the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression in China!

On the afternoon of 27 September, after two days of fierce fighting, the ambush troops of the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army annihilated the Japanese convoy and its reinforcements advancing along the road in one fell swoop.

In this battle, all the officers and men of the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army fought bravely, destroying more than 1,000 enemy troops, blowing up more than 100 enemy cars and 200 carts, and capturing more than 1,000 rifles, more than 20 light and heavy machine guns, 53 war horses, and a large amount of military supplies such as clothing and clothing.

The victory at Pingxingguan was the first big victory after the start of the Chinese War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression! It shattered the myth that the "imperial army is invincible", lifted the spirit of all the people, inspired the enthusiasm of the military and people of the whole country for the war of resistance, and strengthened the confidence of the military and the people of our country in the long-term war of resistance in the future, and played a good start. This is a victory for the cooperation between the KMT and the Communist Party, and it is also a victory for hundreds of millions of soldiers and civilians in China!

When the news broke, the whole country celebrated. Commendation orders and congratulatory messages are like snowflakes.

Hu Fei breathed a sigh of relief after hearing the news of Pingxingguan's victory, this battle was finally won! As a member of the tens of thousands of Chinese troops participating in the battle, the cavalry brigade cooperated with the Eighth Route Army to successfully block and defeat the Japanese Yamashita Brigade in this Mantouling Blockade Battle, and made great achievements for the victory of Pingxingguan!

At the end of the battle, Hu Fei and Wang Dong, the political commissar of the Wugong team, met again. The relationship between the two people is one step closer to each other when they meet each other, which can be regarded as having the experience of sharing life and death with each other. The two sides divided the captured arms and materials equally, and Hu Fei and Wang Dong agreed that they would have the opportunity to cooperate again against the enemy in the future.

Wang Dong left with the martial arts team, and Hu Fei stationed the cavalry brigade in Mantouling. Here is, first of all, the place of their victory, the blessed land of the cavalry brigade; Secondly, Hu Fei has nothing important to do, Fu Zuoyi does not give him orders, and Hu Fei is equivalent to being in a state of laissez-faire. When there was a battle, he went to fight, and when he didn't fight, he camped wherever he wanted, and no one cared about him.

The cavalry brigade stayed in Mantou Ridge to sort out and digest the captured materials, treat the wounded, and recuperate and wait for the next big battle.

When our troops from all walks of life were concentrated near Pingxing Pass and engaged in a fierce battle with the Japanese Fifth Division, the Japanese Chahar Dispatch Corps, which had already entered Shanxi through Guò Tianzhen, broke through the Ruyue Pass at the junction of Hengshan and Yanmen Pass under the leadership of its commander Hideki Tojo, chief of staff of the Kwantung Army!

It was Yang Chengyuan's 34th Army that was responsible for the defense of Ruyuekou, and after the pass was lost, Yang Chengyuan led his troops to retreat into Fanzhi County.

In order to ensure the safety of the Pingxingguan battlefield, the commander of the 203rd Brigade Liang Jiantang personally led a battalion of men and horses to attack bravely, intending to recapture the mountain pass! However, due to the small number of troops, Ruyuekou could not be conquered, and Brigade Commander Liang and most of the officers and soldiers of the department died heroically.

Wang Jingguo, commander of the 19th Army, urgently ordered Brigade Commander Fang Keyou to counterattack Ruyuekou. The brigade was again crushed by the enemy. On the 29th, the Japanese army captured the county town of Fanzhi, which had already threatened the flank of the main battlefield of Pingxingguan.

Yan Xishan, commander of the Second Theater of Operations, convened a military meeting of all the high-ranking generals on the front line. At the meeting, it was decided that the armies participating in the battle at Pingxingguan would retreat to Xinkou. Commander Yan is preparing for another large-scale decisive battle with the Japanese army at Xinkou!

On the night of October 2, all the participating armies retreated, and the Battle of Pingxingguan, which had won a brilliant victory, came to an end.

Xinkou, right by Wutai Mountain, left to Yunzhong Mountain, the terrain is dangerous, is the gateway to Taiyuan in the north of Shanxi and the only way. The Battle of Xinkou prepared by Chief Yan was on this choke point. In order to support the Shanxi War of Resistance, the Military Committee of the Nationalist Government specially dispatched General Wei Lihuang to lead the elite 14th Group Army of the Central Army to Taiyuan to participate in the Battle of Xinkou.