In April, the Japanese army again organized a large-scale attack on the defense line of the Great Wall. The 29th Army at Xifengkou let the Japanese see the history of the Northwest Army, so in this attack, the Japanese army only feinted at Xifengkou. Their real point of attack is the area around Lengkou and Gubeikou.

At this time, the squadron stationed in Lengkou was the 32nd Army of the Jin Sui Army and Shang Zhen, and the Central Army stationed in Gubeikou was the 17th Army of Xu Tingyao.

Shang Zhen is the first fierce general of the Jin Sui Army, and the strength of the whole army is more than a quarter of that of the Jin Sui Army, and these Shanxi soldiers are generally hard-working. That is, there is the carefulness of Shanxi people and the courage of soldiers.

As soon as the 32nd Army led by Shang Zhen entered the Lengkou defense line, on the basis of the original defense, it spontaneously built a second line of defense.

Moreover, he was well aware of the damage caused by Japanese planes and artillery, so he rebuilt countless pillboxes and machine gun positions on the basis of the original position.

When it came to building so many positions, General Shang Zhen's Shanxi merchant nature was exhausted.

"I'm just going to have such a little capital, and you won't let me keep a little more back? If you lose it all, you'll have to give me a chance to turn it over, right? ”

"Is this the general? What kind of general is this? Why not put the heavy fire forward? Hello, hide all the light and heavy machine guns, and aim at your position.

If little Japan really rushes up, when the time comes, the enemy and us will be entangled, will you still be able to use your light and heavy machine gun? This was the common idea of the generals of the Central Army defending Gubeikou after hearing about Shang Zhen's arrangement.

And Shang Zhencai doesn't care about what others say, I am the master of my position, and he transforms the entire position beyond recognition, the consequence is not to mention that the recruits who change guards often can't find their holes, and even the veterans who don't move around often are sometimes easy to lose themselves if they are not careful.

However, the Japanese commanders, who originally wanted to focus on attacking Gubeikou, saw that Lengkou's defensive strength was so weak, and immediately set the focus of the attack on the first day of Lengkou.

On April 3, the Japanese army, which had been repaired for more than half a month, restarted a full-scale attack on the Great Wall defense line under the order of Commander-in-Chief Wu Teng Xinyi.

This time, the Japanese attack was more fierce and the firepower was more sufficient, especially in Lengkou and Gubeikou as the focus of the attack.

These two places were called fierce battles in the fierce battles by the Japanese army, but the treatment of the Japanese troops attacking in these two places was really ice and fire.

The attack was a force of more than 3,000 men of a wing of the 8th Division. Their wing commander found that Lengkou's defenses were very small and immediately sent a squadron for a tentative attack.

That is, from now on, the Japanese commander found that the Chinese defenders on the opposite side were different from any Chinese defenders he had encountered in the past, because he found that the defenders on the opposite side may be short of ammunition, they are very economical in ammunition, and almost the Japanese do not fire without entering the firing range.

The Japanese soldiers who entered the firing range did not show most of their bodies and did not shoot, and even some soldiers attacked the position, and they did not see the light and heavy machine guns of the ** squadron on the opposite side firing.

Great, the judgment was correct, the Chinese defenders on the opposite side had no heavy weapons, and there was a serious shortage of ammunition, and then something surprising happened in front of this wing commander.

I saw that when most of the soldiers of a squadron were almost about to occupy the trenches, countless light and heavy firepower suddenly appeared in the cols, stone crevices, and even holes not far from the position.

A burst of machine guns swept by, and in just a few shots, a squadron of Japanese soldiers all fell to the ground. Only a few Japanese soldiers reacted quickly and lay down and hid in the trenches of their positions.

I thought that I would be able to avoid the threat of death in this way, but suddenly the grenade that fell from the sky was thrown at the place where several soldiers were hiding.

There was a loud bang, and the few Japanese soldiers who had not yet entered the position turned around and ran, where is this position? This is the trap prepared for them by the ** people.

What else did the squadron have insufficient ammunition, and just now in order to kill a few Japanese soldiers hiding in the trenches, the squadron threw no less than dozens of grenades.

Is this a sign of insufficient ammunition? Even the Japanese army, which claims to have plenty of ammunition, has never been so extravagant.

The light and heavy machine guns, which were not easily revealed, began to fire continuously while the Japanese soldiers were fleeing. And these Shanxi soldiers who smashed the door, whether they were recruits or veterans, fired three shots in a row.

This frightened the Japanese soldiers who were fleeing down the mountain, and they scolded as they ran: "What kind of unit is this?" It's all veterans who can shoot, and the ** people on the opposite side are too terrible. ”

It was only in the first battle that the attacking Japanese wing commander felt the difficulty of the opponent, and in the following days, their wing organized many attacks on the cold mouth, all of which allowed the Chinese defenders to ambush on the position.

And the method of ambush is different every time, almost every day there are new tricks, the most exaggerated is once when a squadron of soldiers occupies the first position again, and finds that there is not a single defender on the position.

When all the soldiers were searching behind the position a little bit back to back, the entire position suddenly sounded a series of explosions, and another squadron of soldiers shattered.

And what made this wing commander most angry was that the squadron ** on the opposite side was very unsophisticated, and they competed to loot the belongings of the dead soldiers.

You say you can search it, which victorious warrior hasn't done this? But these Shanxi soldiers, who claim to be the most careful in China, really live up to their reputation.

They almost didn't want anything but the pocketcloth of the Japanese soldiers, and they didn't let go of anything else, even socks that had been blown to pieces.

This made the wing commander of the Eighth Division strongly doubt, is it really the Chinese army on the other side? It's not called Hanako to pretend, right?

The angry wing commander finally began to face up to the Hanako troops in front of him, and immediately telegraphed for aircraft and heavy artillery support, and as the focus of this attack, the heavy artillery unit and aviation brigade of the Japanese Kwantung Army gave him the greatest support.

After a whole day of bombardment, Lengkou Mountain was bombed up and down the mountain, and this is not counting, the planes even bombed the firepower points that had appeared in the 32nd Army in the past, even if there were once rats' holes.

After a whole day of bombardment, this time the Japanese finally rushed safely to the first line of defense of the Chinese defenders, and then the two sides began to fight for the traditional war in the second line of defense.

At this time, the squadron's poor equipment and poor firepower showed its shortcomings, because of the support of various mountain artillery of the Japanese army, as long as the unbreakable pillboxes were found, the hidden fortress was bombarded by artillery.

And Shang Zhen, who is a soldier in Shanxi, is not afraid of death, and the red-eyed Shanxi businessmen are even more terrifying, and they have exerted stronger combat effectiveness than before.

During the day, the battlefield was captured, and at night death squads were sent to recapture it. The daredevils were all carrying box cannons, bags of explosives in their hands, and grenades strapped to their waists.

As soon as they met the Japanese army, they were first bombarded by box artillery, and then greeted by explosives bags, all of which were thrown away, and the last grenade that directly pounced on the Japanese army and pulled out the last grenade on the body was killed with the Japanese army.

The Japanese army was stunned by the 32nd Army's desperate fighting style, occupied it during the day for several days, and was driven out at night in embarrassment.

In this way, the Japanese army opened artillery during the day, occupied it again, and was driven down the mountain again at night, and the captain of the Japanese army who attacked finally simply sent people to come to talk.

"It's all for the country, and it's not easy for everyone, so let's go to us during the day and you at night, let's stop fighting and dying, and live together peacefully for a few days, okay?"

And Shang Zhen's defenders are worthy of being merchants, and the generals on both sides are combined, "Okay, don't be you during the day and mine at night, just one and a half, and no one is allowed to attack." ”

In this way, after more than a week of fierce fighting, the defenders of Lengkou also suffered a large number of casualties, and they were stationed in a position with the attacking Japanese troops without incident.

And just when the defenders of Lengkou were engaged in a dramatic battle with the Japanese army, the Central Army defending at Gubeikou was also attacked by the Japanese army.

The Central Army is the trump card force of the Nationalist Government, and it is Xu Tingyao's Seventeenth Army stationed here, but because the main force of the Nationalist Army has just been redressed, even if they are the Central Army, not all troops are the best equipment.

For example, the defenders at Gubeikou were divided into Guan Linzheng's 25th Division, Huang Jie's 2nd Division, and Liu Huan's 83rd Division, of which the 25th Division was a unit that had just been withdrawn from the southern part of the country.

The soldiers of this division were no different from those miscellaneous troops, they also wore rags and rotten straw sandals, and the only thing that was better than the miscellaneous army was that they were more ordnance.

Moreover, because the 25th Division has been suppressing bandits in the south all the year round, it is all veterans of a hundred battles, and its combat effectiveness is extremely strong.

This made the attacking Japanese army think that China's so-called Central Army was not much stronger than those called Huazi Army.

But in this way, they were the first defenders to reach Gubeikou, and they were also the first to join the team to fight against the Japanese army.

In the same way, the 25th Division also suffered heavy casualties due to its poor equipment, and from the beginning of the Japanese attack on 3 April to 9 April, the 25th Division was almost disabled in just one week.

The division was full of more than 7,000 people, and suffered more than 3,000 casualties in the first three days, and then after several additions, the actual total casualties reached more than 7,000 on the ninth day.

If it had not been supplemented by 5,000 recruits, the current 25th Division would have been completely wiped out, and in this battle, 90% of the officers below the brigade level of the 25th Division were killed or wounded, and the division commander Guan Linzheng personally went to the battlefield to fight with the Japanese army with bayonets.

Fighting to the last person, he was seriously wounded and still died and did not retreat, if it weren't for the reinforcement of Huang Jie, the second division of the all-German armament, he would have died heroically.

However, even if the all-German armor division of the Central Army went to the battlefield in person, it still did not reverse the decline of the entire battlefield. The German armourer, who did not have air supremacy, was a target in front of the Japanese army.

The most important thing is that the tactics of the German armor division are not suitable for this kind of mountain guard warfare at all, and the 25th Division, a veteran of a hundred battles just replaced by the 2nd Division, also disabled the Japanese army in a week.

Then there was Liu Huan's 83rd Division, these main forces of the Central Army also fought the blood of the Chinese people, but they were also disabled by the Japanese army in less than a week.

All the remaining units of the last few divisions were mixed together, and thanks to the help of the veterans of the 25th Division, the German division finally stopped the frantic attack of the Japanese army. But thousands of casualties a day are no better than a ragtag army.

Soon the huge casualties of the German armor division made Commander Chiang, who was far away in Nanchang, feel distressed, and the war continued, so he secretly sent an envoy to Shenyang to negotiate with Wu Teng Xinyi about the boycott of the troops on both sides.

Commander Chiang's envoy said that Commander Chiang could acquiesce in the actual occupation of the four northern Chinese provinces by the Japanese army, as long as the Japanese army stopped the offensive and immediately withdrew all Japanese troops who had entered the Great Wall Pass from the Great Wall.

At the same time, Commander Chiang also privately agreed to erect a boundary monument with Manchukuo north of the Great Wall.

Wu Teng Xinyi did not immediately agree to the conditions of Commander Chiang's special envoy, but left the envoy in Shenyang, where he had good food and drink, and dragged on for five days on the grounds that the conditions for the peace talks needed to be reported to His Majesty the Emperor.

In these five days, Wuteng Xinyi once again transferred elite soldiers and strong generals from all over the country, and even mobilized countless military supplies and transported them to a huge valley outside Chengde, and also sent half a brigade of soldiers to garrison.

Just as Wuteng Xinyiman's troops in the northeast were preparing to give the defenders of the Great Wall the final blow, the dense mountains and forests outside the valley outside Chengde where the Japanese army had hoarded military supplies.

A black crowd was quietly marching towards this valley, if there was an old man from the northeast here, he could recognize it at a glance, this black crowd was full of bandits.