[Anti-Japanese Iron Blood King] Chapter 931: Tangled Okamura (Ask for subscription!) , ask for a monthly pass, ask for everything! ）

The situation in North China took a sharp turn for the worse, and from the 29th, the Second War Zone, which was dormant in the southwest of Shanxi, successively dispatched nearly 100,000 troops from three group armies to attack the Japanese army in the hinterland of Shanxi from Lüliang and Yuncheng. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

At the same time, Wei Lihuang's department, which was beaten some time ago and could not find the north, also joined the war group, and nearly 100,000 troops in the first war zone left Luoyang, launched a fierce attack on Zhongtiao Mountain, and advanced towards the hinterland of Henan, with a posture of recovering Henan.

In addition to these two large armies, the Eighth Route Army units were not far behind, under the dispatch of the Eighth Route Army Headquarters, the 129th Division, two brigades and 7 columns made a big fuss in the southeast of Jinjin, and the main force of the 115th Division also followed the coaxing, and the fight in southern Hebei was in full swing.

The most important thing is that Ma Zheng's army in northern Jin also began to exert its strength, with nearly 80,000 troops mainly reorganized as the first division going south to Xinkou and Jingle, and united with the main force of the 120th Division and 4 brigades, all the way to Taiyuan.

For a time, the whole of Shanxi was a pot of porridge, there were gunshots everywhere, and there were wars everywhere, so it was not lively.

At this time, North China was like a big stage, the Suicha Military Region set up the stage, the First War Zone, the Second War Zone and the Eighth Route Army Headquarters took the stage to sing, and almost everyone could see that the Japanese army at this time had been beaten by Ma Zheng's troops and could not take care of each other, and it was simply a water dog.

If this mad dog is fine, others will not dare to do anything to him, after all, it will still hurt to bite it, and it may even kill him. But there is no concern about beating the big guy of the water dog, and if you don't do it, I'm afraid it won't be their turn.

At present, the Japanese army still has three divisions and two mixed brigades in Shanxi, plus the puppet army under Cai Xiongfei, the total strength is about 90,000, including 60,000 Japanese troops and 30,000 puppet troops. It stands to reason that such a large force should still have the power to protect itself, even if the Chinese defense force attacking Shanxi reached a terrifying 300,000.

But the bad thing is that Ma Zheng's trick is desperate, and he suddenly sent people to end Shimen, the logistics base of the First Army stationed in Shanxi, Shimen, as an important node of the Zhengtai Railway, once it falls, the logistics materials of the First Army will be completely cut off.

New materials can't be shipped in, so they rely on the money they have accumulated before, and even the experienced Lieutenant General Yoshio Shinozuka does not dare to fight to the death with hundreds of thousands of Chinese troops. Once there is no ammunition at the critical moment, the guns in the hands of the soldiers are not as good as burning sticks. If it is surrounded by Chinese troops in the hinterland of Shanxi, the consequences will be even more serious, and it may even be completely annihilated.

The situation became more and more severe, and in desperation, Yoshio Shinozuka had to explain the situation to Okamura Ninji and ask for combat guidance.

Receiving a telegram from Yoshio Shinozuka, Okamura Ninji fell into deep thought. Now there are two roads in front of him, one is to defend Shanxi, let the first army and the Chinese army in Shanxi stumble, and then concentrate the main force of the front army for reinforcements, as long as the first army is destroyed before the destruction of Shimen, then everything still has a chance to be saved.

The second way is to break through before the Chinese army in Shanxi is not encircled, or retreat to Yangquan and other places as before, and then flank Ma Zheng's headquarters with the main force of the front army, and recapture the military town of Shimen, in order to have a follow-up effect. Or attack directly from Taiyuan to the south, and the army withdrew to Henan.

Once they entered Henan, then the Second War Zone and the Eighth Route Army would lose their role, after all, Shanxi was their territory, and the people of China wanted to compete with the Imperial Japanese Army in the Henan region.

Okamura Ninji is very entangled, these two paths have their own pros and cons. If he can defend Shanxi and still be able to hold it, it would be the best, after all, he just lost Shanxi when he took office, and even if he just captured Zhangjiakou, it is difficult to explain to the base camp.

However, the problem is that the basic condition for holding Shanxi is to ensure the material supply of the First Army. According to Shinozuka Yoshio's estimate, the materials of the First Army can still last for half a month, and if the front army is unable to open up the Zhengtai Railway after half a month, then nearly 100,000 troops, including him Shinozuka Yoshio, will be swallowed by the people of Shinozuka, and there will be no scum left.

To be honest, taking Shimen within half a month, Okamura Ninji was not sure at all. Not to mention that it is Ma Zheng's department that is guarding the stone gate now, even if it encounters the elite of the national government, the Japanese army is not sure that it will be killed within half a month.

In 1937, after occupying Pingjin, the most elite Itagaki Division, marched westward along the Pingsui Railway, attempting to attack Shanxi, Chahar and Suiyuan, and then control the whole of North China. At this time, Lao Chiang had seen that there was no hope of compromise with Japan, so he decided to resist the war, and made corresponding combat arrangements for the three-way attack of the Japanese invaders, and organized the famous Nankou Battle in Pingsui Road.

Nankou, located at the intersection of Yanshan Yumai and Taihang Mountain at 45 kilometers northwest of Beiping City, is the Great Wall pass on the south side of Juyong Pass, and is the gateway of Beiping to the northwest.

The terrain in this area is complex, with steep mountains and overlapping passes. From the south mouth through Juyong Pass west to Xuanhua, Zhangjiakou, is a long and narrow basin from east to west, the north and south are mountainous, the center is concave, the Pingsui Railway traverses it, and there are highways to complement each other, forming a traffic artery connecting the northwest, north China and northeast.

The north and south sides of the south entrance are the inner and outer Great Wall built on the back of the high mountain ridge again, there is only the sheep intestine trail passing through the mountain, so the south entrance is worthy of the name of "one husband is the pass, ten thousand people are invincible" of the natural danger place, people call it "the front door of Suicha, the back door of Pingjin, the throat of North China, the henchman of western Hebei." "Defending Nankou can prevent the Japanese from occupying Chahar Province, and then divide the troops into the Jin and Sui Zhi schemes, so as to defend the three provinces of Cha, Jin and Sui, which shows that Nankou has always been a military important place for soldiers to fight.

On August 7, the 5th Division of the Japanese Army and the 11th Brigade of the Independent Mixed Brigade launched an attack on Nankou and the key passes of the Great Wall along it, and the Battle of Nankou began. Under the calm and firm command of General Tang Enbo, the Chinese defenders fought fiercely with the Japanese army in various positions, repeatedly charging and killing, and even suffered more than 1,200 casualties in one day, and the battle was extremely fierce.

However, under the coordinated attack of the superior Japanese army with aircraft, tanks, and artillery, the Chinese army was in a disadvantageous situation.

At the same time as the Battle of Nankou, the Japanese Chahar sent a corps to attack Zhangjiakou, an important town in the northwest, and the Chinese defenders rushed to the aid of Zhangjiakou. In addition, the Chinese reinforcement army was blocked by the Japanese army, so the Chinese army retreated south on August 26, and on the 27th, the 5th Division of the Japanese left flank and the 11th Brigade of the right flank independently occupied Huailai and Yanqing, which were important towns near Nankou, respectively, and the Battle of Nankou ended.

In this battle, which lasted 19 days, the Chinese side invested more than 60,000 troops, the Japanese army used about 70,000 troops, the Chinese side suffered 29,376 casualties, and the Japanese casualties were according to Japanese statistics: the 5th Division lost 1,431 people, plus the losses of the 11th Brigade and other troops of the independent mixed group, the Japanese army died about 2,000 people. With a casualty ratio of 1:4, the Japanese suffered about 10,000 casualties.

A small south entrance can block the elite Fifth Division for 19 days, and only more than 60,000 Kuomintang troops participated in the battle, of which only more than 30,000 people under Tang Enbo's department can really be called elite, and the rest are all miscellaneous armies in the north. In view of this, it was extremely difficult for Okamura Ninji to recapture Shimen from Ma Zheng's subordinates in just half a month.

However, the problem now is that if Shimen can't be taken within half a month, it won't be good for Shinozuka Yoshio in Shanxi. At that time, the First Army, which had held out for half a month, ran out of ammunition and food, but the reinforcements did not arrive for a long time, coupled with the Chinese gradually plugging the loopholes, the final result was obvious, and eventually this First Army, which once spanned most of North China, will become history, just like the Mongolian army that was previously erased by Ma Zheng's troops.

If it is said that it is a breakthrough now, the success rate is very high, but Okamura Ningji thinks that once the troops are withdrawn from Shanxi like this, then the entire Shanxi will really be finished. Judging from the current situation, trying to recover Shanxi is comparable to ascending to the sky.

In addition to the military defeat, once Shanxi was recovered by the Shina people, then the great Japanese Empire would be politically passive, and the consequences would be equally serious.

Although Okamura Ninji was not worried that he would be dealt with by the base camp because of this, after all, the crisis in North China was the bane planted by the dead ghost Tada Jun and the previous two commanders of the front army, and it had little to do with him Okamura. He's just here to clean up the mess, and there's no reason to take responsibility. This is the case with the stand-alone version, Okamura Ningji still doesn't want to lose Shanxi in his office, which is definitely a stain on himself. (To be continued.) )