[Anti-Japanese Iron Blood King] Chapter 576: The 108th Division is completely destroyed (ask for subscriptions, ask for monthly passes, ask for everything!) ）

At this time, China and Japan have reached the last moment of the decisive battle, whether it is the North China Front Army or the Eighth Route Army, they will use their strength, in Ma Zheng's words, it depends on the last trembling. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

At the same time as dispatching troops, Ma Zheng ordered Tie Niu and others to immediately escort all the tens of thousands of miners rescued from the Jingcheng Coal Mine to Shimen, and let these miners help escort the materials seized from Shimen to Handan as the capital for the future development of Shandong's independence.

At the same time, Ma Zheng ordered Huang Sicheng's troops on the Xinkou front line to intensify their offensive and be sure to break through the Xinkou line within three days to give a strong deterrent to the enemy in Taiyuan.

After Ningwuguan and Yuanpingzhen were broken through one after another, General Umezu Mijiro knew that the fighter plane had been lost, and it was a great luck to be able to stick to the line from Xinkou to Taiyuan. But now that Shimen is lost, especially after the batch of munitions transported from Beiping to Taiyuan fell into the hands of the Zhina, General Umezu Mijiro feels that defeat is imminent, and if the front army cannot quickly recover Shimen and open up the Zhengtai line, his first army will be eaten alive by hundreds of thousands of troops in China.

Knowing that nothing could be done, Umezu Yoshijiro was very knowledgeable and ordered the defenders in various places to immediately shrink their forces and leave no one north of Xinkou. The 20th Division and the 109th Division, together with the original defenders of Xinkou, all retreated to the vicinity of Xinkou City, hoping to prevent Ma Zheng's troops from moving south.

In the direction of Gujiao, General Umezu Yoshijiro ordered Shojiro Iida to break through the interception of the 15th Army in China at all costs, be sure to return to Gujiao before the 12th, and draw at least one division to return to support the defense of Taiyuan. The same is true for the direction of Jinzhong and Qingxu, if the defenders can't hold on, they can immediately move closer to Taiyuan.

General Umezu Mijiro's movements Ma Zheng and Yan Laoxi can see it clearly, and Yan Laoxi is not good at fighting against the wind. But he was still very good at beating the water dogs, and he didn't dare to work too hard, but now when he saw that the first army had become a toothless tiger, the old man was powerful. The main force of the 14th Army, which had the strongest combat effectiveness under his command, was transferred to the front line of Gujiao and thrown into the siege of Iida's department.

Iida Shojiro is also a wonder, knowing that the general trend has gone, and the entire Shanxi war situation will be dragged down by himself, the strong man broke his wrist, and ordered the first brigade of the 25th brigade and the first squadron of the first wing of the mountain artillery to block the army in the second war zone on the spot, and he personally led the main force to launch a fierce attack on Liu Enmao's headquarters in the north.

Iida Shojiro was ready to fight hard, and even planned to annihilate the whole army, and this time the attack was unsuccessful.

Although the 15th Army also resisted desperately, it was finally torn open by Iida Shojiro's department, and the main Japanese army was able to break through.

The main force fled, but the more than 1,000 Japanese troops who stayed behind to block the attack were not so lucky, except for a few Japanese soldiers who were lucky to break through, the others were all annihilated, so far the battle from Liushuyan to the ancient line finally came to an end temporarily.

In this battle, the three armies commanded by Sun Weiru suffered heavy losses, especially Li Jiayu's 47th Army, with less than 2,000 of the more than 20,000 people left, and more than 1,000 of them were seriously wounded who were carried off the battlefield, and the casualties reached 100%, and the entire army was finished.

Zhao Shoushan's **** also suffered a lot of losses, with only more than 14,000 left of more than 23,000 people, and more than 9,000 casualties. As for the lucky 15th Army, the result was also very miserable, with more than half of the casualties of each of the two divisions and more than 10,000 casualties. At the time of departure, the three armies of more than 60,000 troops were less than 25,000 soldiers at this time, and the casualty rate reached 66%.

Before Iida Shojiro came, there was 1 brigade plus 1 artillery wing and 1 tank wing, plus the puppet army that cooperated with the operation, with a total strength of more than 13,000 people. However, after withdrawing to Gujiao, as soon as the number of people was counted, Iida Shojiro was so angry that he almost vomited blood, except for the 25th Brigade, which was still complete, the rest of the troops were all gone, and there were less than 6,000 soldiers left, which had to count 2,000 wounded, and the other 7,000 were either killed or missing.

And in that case, once contact with the large forces is lost, there is little hope of survival.

The First Army suffered such heavy casualties in this battle, which no one had expected before the war, and such huge losses made the already overstretched First Army even worse.

Despite this, Sun Weiru still commanded the army to continue the attack in the direction of Gujiao, and he knew the importance of Taiyuan to Governor Yan. If you can't beat Taiyuan Yan, at most give him some money, maybe he will give some weapons and equipment, but it will definitely not be too much, so the soldiers don't think about it. After all, the casualties of the Jin Sui army in this battle were not small, and with the degree of the old man's slashing, it was impossible to replenish his troops.

But if Taiyuan is captured, it will be a different matter, after the defeat of Taiyuan, all the troops participating in the battle will definitely be rewarded for their merits, and his Fourth Army has paid a huge price for this battle, even if Yan Laoxi buys people's hearts, he can't treat himself badly.

Therefore, even if you grit your teeth, you have to knock down Taiyuan, which is not only about the honor of the Second War Zone, but also about whether the army left by Yang Dashuai can survive. The handsome trusted himself and handed over his family foundation to himself before going abroad, how could he live up to his trust?

Therefore, for the Japanese army, the disaster has not yet passed, and the fighting continues.

Let's start with the more than 4,000 remnants of the 108th Division that came back, this unit withdrew from Jingcheng County quickly, and the speed of return was fast enough. But what they didn't know was that at this time, Jingcheng County had been captured by Ma Zheng's department, and more importantly, Tie Niu learned that the Japanese army wanted to regain Shimen with more than 4,000 people, so after obtaining Ma Zheng's consent, he decided to teach this Japanese army a hard lesson.

After inspecting the terrain along the line from Jingcheng to Yangquan, Tie Niu decided to ambush the Japanese troops in a valley more than forty kilometers west of Jingcheng Pass. Because the topography of this valley is too similar to the topography of the Wuzhi Mountain in eastern Hebei, there are cliffs on both sides, steep and there is no room for maneuver. More importantly, there was only one road nearby, and the Japanese army had to pass through this valley if they wanted to return to Shimen.

Therefore, Tie Niu immediately ordered the troops to bring a large number of explosives bags and ****, and then arranged them on the mountain wall, and he wanted to bury the Japanese soldiers alive.

In fact, after the Eighth Route Army captured Shimen, the remnants of the 108th Division also became alert, so before they arrived in this valley, they deliberately sent a cavalry into the valley to conduct a careful search, and then sent an infantry squad to cross the valley on foot, and built a position at the exit of the valley to prevent people from being killed in this valley.

In addition, the Japanese army also brought in reconnaissance planes to conduct a careful search of the nearby hills, lest they be ambushed, and the degree of caution was shocking.

However, the Japanese army obviously did not expect that Tie Niu and others did not station troops near the valley at all, nor did they think of relying on a few hundred special forces against more than 4,000 field infantry. What Tie Niu wanted was to use the steep terrain of the valley to bury this Japanese army alive, although it could not completely annihilate the enemy, but as long as some of them were eliminated, the rest would never go to Shimen alone.

When they learned that there was no Dohachi Road near the valley, the Japanese troops were finally relieved and began to cross the valley under the command of Ichiro Koyama, the commander of the 108th Wing.

Because the First Army Headquarters was urging too tightly, and it had been confirmed that there was no Eighth Route Army near the valley, Koyama Ichiro, in order to save time, ordered more than 4,000 people in the headquarters to line up in a long snake formation to speed up this deep valley of nearly 500 meters.

But just as all the small hills had entered the valley, Tie Niu immediately ordered several special forces lurking on the top of the mountain to pull off the explosives packets. Suddenly, hundreds of explosive packs exploded at the same time, and the violent explosion caused the cliff to collapse, and a reinforced company of more than 4,000 people was buried alive under the ancient cliff road.

The smoke cleared, and the remnants of the entire 108th Division were only more than 50 infantry and less than 100 cavalry in the valley mouth, and the rest were all buried in the valley. (To be continued.) )