In mid-May, the fierce fighting went further to the **, Sima Tai, the 87th Division broke through the front line and rotated to the left, directly into the rear of the left flank of the Gubeikou Army, and the Samura Wing relied on Long'eryu to desperately stretch the defensive line to the north to resist the wide frontal attack of the [***] team; On the other side, Song Xilian, commander of the 87th Division, personally came to the front line, and the Chinese soldiers braved the bombardment of the planes and resolutely attacked the Bakshi Battalion and Qingshiling in the direction of the Gubeikou rear.

In front of Gubeikou, Xu Tingyao personally went to the 83rd Division to supervise the battle, attacked the Nanguan of Gubeikou, and attacked Longwangyukou on the right flank with the remnants of the 2nd Division and the 25th Division. The sound of artillery throughout Gubeikou shook the sky, and the soldiers of the two countries fought this ancient battlefield.

Outside Fengning City, Fu Zuoyi commanded the 35th Army to abandon Monkey Mountain, retreat to Xiadianzi in the southwest, and stubbornly resist the attack of the Eighth Division with Li Fuying's class front in the shack of Toudao. In this battle, Fu Zuoyi's ability to defend righteousness was vividly played, Xiyi jumped like thunder, and repeatedly supervised the battle, but the Jin army fought to the death with the support of the 29th Army of Tong Lin Pavilion, and the position was repeatedly tug-of-war, and the blood flowed like a river.

Further north, Sun Dianying's rampant attack gradually stagnated with the arrival of new reinforcements from the Yue Army, and the two sides formed a confrontation in Tucheng Town north of Fengning, but at this time Sun Dianying's troops who occupied the paddock went south under the guidance of Liu Guitang to attack Longhua, and the Longhua defenders were only composed of more than 1,000 people of Li Shouxin and a squad of the Yue Army. This immediately threatened the rear of the Gubeikou army.

Further east, Feng Zhanhai's department bypassed Fengning and turned around and went south near the Zhujia shack, crossed the Dongchao River near the Sandao River Valley, and approached the mouth of the Black Mountain without a major battle, Feng Zhanhai's southward movement actually cut off the connection between Xiyiyi and Gubeikou through the north, and now the connection between Xiyiyi and Gubeikou is only the southern line, through the passage of Yunwu Mountain. The situation in Rexi suddenly changed dramatically.

"Attacking everywhere, weak everywhere." Jiuna felt bad in his heart, the combat strength of the [***] team was not strong, like Sun Dianying's department only used one wing to block his attack of nearly 20,000 people, but the number of the [***] team was large, and they adopted this kind of wide frontal attack, forcing the Eighth Division to divide its troops in four directions, and the originally powerful striking force was dispersed and disintegrated, so that a stalemate situation was formed everywhere. Guna felt that a net was gradually shrinking, but fortunately Samura had fought well at Gubeikou, otherwise the Eighth Division would have been surrounded.

"Commander, ask the headquarters for tactical guidance." Guna reluctantly suggested to Yoshiichi Nishi. Xiyiyi's face was gloomy, his heart was full of anger, the Eighth Division seemed to be invincible under his command, did not fight any major defeats, but now it is completely passive, and even in danger of being surrounded, the Chinese are too hateful, always do not concentrate their forces to confront the imperial army head-on, always sneak attack from the weak point of the imperial army, always hit the idea of the imperial army's transportation channel; The 700 shells that were sent so easily last time were almost exhausted, and without the support of artillery fire, the attack momentum of the Suzuki brigade was greatly reduced, and the brigade commander Suzuki had repeatedly asked for the shells to be sent up as soon as possible, but now...

Nishiichi's gloomy gaze turned around the headquarters, and he was disappointed to find that the eyes of all the officers were gloomy, including Takeyama Uchio, who had resolutely refused the support of the Sixth Division, and Nishiichi nodded bitterly.

But soon Muto Nobuyoshi's telegram returned, Muto Nobuyoshi clearly told him that the Eighth Division must change its strategy, from offensive to defended, and gradually shrink the defensive line to Gubeikou, and the Kwantung Army General Headquarters had a comprehensive plan to launch an offensive in Luandong, cooperate with the negotiations in Beiping City, and strive for troops who would not fight.

As soon as Xiyi read the telegram, he immediately ordered the withdrawal of troops from Xiadianzi and Tucheng towns, and established a position in Hou'er Mountain with the Nomura Brigade directly under the division, preparing to block the pursuing Fu Zuoyi and Sun Dianying. The main force of the division immediately turned to Gubeikou.

Muto Nobuyoshi's deployment was indeed helpless, after the counterattack of the [***] team began, he was also full of confidence, but then he found that the counterattack of the [***] team this time was completely different from the past, with a large scope, many attack points, and a large number of troops, and more importantly, they no longer fought separately as before, but cooperated with each other, so that the problem of insufficient troops of the Chinese army was exposed.

The Kwantung Army Headquarters had a difference of opinion on how to deal with the unfavorable changes on the front line of the Great Wall, and Koiso Kuniaki suggested that reinforcements be sent from the northeast to launch an attack in the direction of Luandong and Lengkou, and the strategy of besieging Wei to save Zhao. Deputy Chief of Staff Okamura Nintz suggested that the offensive be stopped temporarily, that the 6th Division advance westward with all its might, and that the 33rd Brigade defend the [***] squadron in the direction of Lengkou, and then re-attack after breaking the counteroffensive of the [***] squadron. Neither of them mentioned asking for help from home, knowing that Muto Nobuyoshi would never take such a suggestion.

Muto Nobuyoshi finally adopted Koiso Kuniaki's suggestion, mainly because he preferred this suggestion, so that he could seize the initiative on the battlefield. However, Koiso Kuniaki's suggestion of reinforcements made him hesitate for a while, and finally ordered a wing to be drawn from the Second Division in Heilongjiang and a wing from the Eighth Mixed Brigade that was suppressing bandits in South Manchuria to form a reinforcement corps and launch an attack in Luandong.

Although Muto Nobuyoshi is reluctant to ask Tokyo for help, Tokyo keeps an eye on him. As soon as his deployment was carried out, a telegram arrived from Tokyo, and the military headquarters reminded him to pay attention to the fact that the battle on the Great Wall was related to the prestige of the imperial army, and it was necessary to pay attention to the cooperation of all sides.

Although the words were said tactfully, Muto Nobuyoshi knew that this was asking him for diplomatic negotiation rights, and at the beginning of the Battle of Rehe, the military attache of the Shanghai Consulate Nemoto Hiroshi had negotiated with Huang Yin, but under Muto Nobuyoshi's strong request, he finally ended up without a problem. In his request, Muto made it clear that he did not want the bureaucrats of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to participate, and that the Kwantung Army itself could negotiate with the Chinese side. Muto Nobuyoshi's statement undoubtedly ripped off the last fig leaf of the civilian official system, and also embarrassed the Ministry of War. Now Tokyo is beginning to take advantage of the plight of the Kwantung Army to counterattack.

When the reinforcements of the Yue army were still assembled in Shenyang, the second phase of the counteroffensive of the Chinese [***] team began, and the Lengkou defenders, who had been unable to hold out in the battle for more than two months, suddenly came out under the command of Shang Zhen and Wei Lihuang, and seized the important support point of the Yue army in one fell swoop.

The cold counterattack angered the commander of the 6th Division, Sakamoto Masaemon, and he quickly mobilized the garrison of the Takada Brigade and Matsuda Brigade, the main forces of the 6th Division, to launch a counterattack on the Central [***] team. Shang Zhen threw his entire 141st Division into the battle for the high staff, and within a few days, both sides threw thousands of corpses on this desolate mountain beam.

Okamura Ningji looked at the battle map, from Gubeikou to Lengkou, from Chifeng to the Great Wall, hundreds of kilometers of battle, tens of thousands of square kilometers of land, there were fierce battles everywhere, except for one point - Xifengkou.

Xifengkou is quiet, even if the cold mouth and Gubeikou around him have been bleeding, the defenders here have made the Imperial Army lose face some time ago, and it is the 29th Army, one of the most brave and combative troops in the [***] team. Will they quietly watch the situation on the battlefield change? The army here has only one rice field wing, the whole army is less than 3,000 people, but the area defended is more than 70 miles long, and the troops are so weak, will the Chinese generals turn a blind eye? Absolutely not, cold sweat flowed down Okamura Ninji's back, and the commander must be reminded immediately, Okamura threw down his pen and ran towards Muto Nobuyoshi's office.

Luo Wenyu, an important pass southwest of Xifengkou, where Liu Ruming's division of the 143rd Division of the 29th Army was responsible for guarding it, has been very calm since the defeat of the Yue army's attack in mid-March, and now the peace here is about to be broken.

"Ziliang, you are our first cannon, this cannon must be fired, if you shoot a squib, the battle behind this will not be easy to fight." Song Zheyuan put down the binoculars and said to a tiger general beside him, after determining the counterattack, he rushed from Beiping to Zunhua to convene his subordinates to discuss, and decided to start from Luo Wenyu first, the reason is that the army opposite Luo Wenyu is the weakest, only a brigade, the deployment of troops has long been figured out by our army, and the certainty of launching from here to win victory is the greatest.

"Rest assured, commander, we will definitely complete the task." At this moment, Liu Ruming is still full of courage and is fully worthy of the title of the Five Tiger Generals of the Northwest Army.

"Well, how are you going to fight?" Song Zheyuan asked.

"The old way, night raids." Liu Ruming said without hesitation: "Starting tonight, I haven't touched him for more than two months, and my teeth are already itching." ”

Song Zheyuan nodded when he heard this: "The little devils have good weapons and fierce artillery fire, and night combat can weaken their advantage to the greatest extent." But last time they suffered a loss, is this method okay? ”

"There's no problem," Liu Ruming smiled faintly: "The little devil doesn't remember his surname, and he forgets everything without a war for two months." My scouts had climbed to the edge of their positions to observe, and the defense was lax. ”

Song Zheyuan was a little surprised, after the first battle of Xifengkou, the 29th Army was famous for its big blades and night battles, and the army on the opposite side was still so lax, it was really incomprehensible.

That night, the pistol team of the 1st Regiment of the 143rd Division quietly sneaked out of the position of our army in Luowenyu with a knife in one hand and a gun in the other, and went to Daankou, where the army was stationed. Another unit, also led by brigade commander Li Lantian, made a detour out of Shabaoyu in the dark of night and inserted itself into the rear of the army.

At four o'clock in the morning, a signal flare pierced the dark night sky, like a light in the dark, illuminating the mountains inside and outside the Great Wall.

(To be continued)