In the early morning of December 14, 1930.

In the forward headquarters located on the top of Dabai Mountain in the southwest of Chaoyang County, Mao Bi and Chiang Kai-shek Zhang Xueliang were already in place at more than two o'clock in the morning. This hill is the commanding height of the western side of Chaoyang, and you can look down on the real battlefield. On the top of the mountain, the guards from the three armed factions all looked nervous, holding their submachine guns and stiffening their faces, and they did not look at the Japanese positions in the distance, but were wary of each other......... I don't know if they're here to fight devils or fire?

Maobi held the telescope and looked at it for a long time, and finally put it down helplessly, although he has an extraordinary talent in the overall strategic situation, but after all, he has not received a formal military education, so the battlefield feels bad. It was also dark, and the terrain was almost the same, with mountains and hills and a faintly visible county town to the east, and a flat 11 to the west.

As for where the terrain is conducive to the impact, where and how many troops can be deployed, and where the most critical battlefields are, he does not know.

But the great leader's shelf still has to hold on: "Well, that's good. The Japanese devils were pressed back by us, and this battle was nine out of ten. ”

Chiang Kai-shek next to him chuckled, and when Boss Mao Chi turned his head unhappily to look over, Lao Chiang had already put on a serious face, raised his binoculars and pretended to observe the battlefield: "President Mao, look at the 725 direction ahead, there should be the main line of defense of the Japanese army, the battlefield here is open, it is estimated that the strength of the Japanese army should be a brigade, 7,000 to 8,000 infantry, and it should be equipped with more than 20 10,000 mm mountain artillery and 12 70 mm infantry guns, and more machine guns and mortars...... However, there is absolutely no problem for the elite officers and men of the Fourth Route Army of your party to come, as long as they deal with it calmly. Combined with the powerful artillery of the Northeast Army and the air force of our National Revolutionary Army, we can break the Japanese defense line! Smash! Let the blood of the Japanese be shed here! Zhang Xueliang, Deng Yanda, and Feng Yuxiang, who were standing on the other side of Maobi, all raised their binoculars one after another and looked in the direction pointed by Chiang Kai-shek. They had all studied the terrain on the map countless times, and they all nodded in agreement. Mao held the telescope and looked at it for a long time before nodding slowly: "How does General Hanqing plan to invite these 7,000 to 8,000 Japanese soldiers back to his hometown?" "This" Hearing President Mao's question, Zhang Xueliang only felt his scalp tingle, how could he invite these Japanese soldiers back to his hometown? This question is not difficult, let the Kuomintang First Division hurry up, the plane exploded and the artillery bombarded, more than 100 tanks pressed over from the front, it is estimated that except for the devils on Phoenix Mountain and Qilin Mountain, they will not be able to drive away, and the other devils will have to escape every day! But this approach is clearly not going to work...... And it depends on the Fifth Route Army of the Northeast Army and the o who has already suffered heavy casualties. The Fourth Route Army wanted to drive out those Japanese soldiers, unless the sun came out from the west! Anyway, Zhang Xueliang couldn't figure it out, how could the Japanese give up their peripheral positions and retreat around Chaoyang County last night?

"What this and that! The best way to drive the Japanese away is to order the troops to cross the West Dabai Mountain, spread out in the relatively open western battlefield, and then assault the opponent's defense line head-on on the whole line, and defeat the Japanese devils with the dual advantages of firepower and troops! Seeing that Zhang Xueliang was hesitant and at a loss, Deng Yanda, who was anxious, couldn't help but interject. In fact, the plan he proposed was also the battle plan submitted by Li Jishen, Xu Xqian, and Liu Bcheng. Now the forces of the Fourth Route Army and the Fifth Route Army are also deployed in this way.

However, Zhang Xueliang was not very in favor of this hard-hitting combat deployment and wanted to speak up, but he didn't know how to speak, and when he was hesitating, Chiang Kai-shek's Fenghua official words rang out again: "General Choice, this plan... It's so adventurous! The Fourth Route Army of China and G has suffered more than 12,500 casualties in the past two days! According to my experience in leading troops for many years, ordinary troops will lose more than 70 percent of their combat effectiveness if they reach 30 percent casualties, but at present the Fourth Route Army has already suffered 2 percent and a half casualties, and at least 50 percent of its combat strength has been lost. And the Japanese army on the opposite side suffered at most one or two thousand casualties, and they should have taken the initiative to retreat and shrink their defense. After they shrank, the defense line became tighter, and it was more difficult to deal with than the previous two days. ”

"..............., we must not be impatient to fight such a defense against Lou, and we can only gnaw slowly with absolute superiority in strength and firepower. It is better to wait for the 1st Division to come up, and then transfer the 11th Artillery Regiment from Huludao, and as for the command to the staff officers of the 1st Division, they are all elites who have graduated from the Army University, and they have systematically studied the tactics of positional warfare in Europe, and they are very good at commanding such battles. "Really, Chiang Kai-shek's suggestion is very reasonable, and it sounds heartfelt.

However, the answer to Lao Jiang's heartfelt words was a room full of doubts, misunderstandings, ridicule and distrustful eyes! This Chiang Kai-shek must not have a good heart, no one will doubt this, so the suggestion he put forward must be to mislead everyone, and it must be a conspiracy to sabotage the unity of the War of Resistance!

What the so-called enemy approves of, we must oppose! If the enemy opposes it, we will approve it! Mao waved his hand angrily: "We should listen to the opinions of the former enemy commanders, and we should not casually interfere with their commands!" Moreover, under the onslaught of our elite Fourth Route Army, the casualties of the Japanese army are absolutely impossible to be one or two thousand! At least tens of thousands! If the combat effectiveness of our Fourth Route Army decreases, then they are no better! ”

In the joint headquarters of the Japanese 7th and 11th Divisions in Chaoyang County, at this time, they completely fell into remorse and self-blame. Well, of course, not remorse and blame for launching an unjust war of aggression, but remorse for discovering that you have been deceived! The two divisions with more than 50,000 people, and the more than 200 artillery pieces (including the Type 92 infantry guns), were actually "defeated" by the Fourth Route Army of the Central G, which was far inferior to itself in terms of number and firepower! And the reason for the defeat was actually because I was panicked when I saw the Gugu Party and the G7 Army fighting side by side! And after interrogating the prisoners, it was finally confirmed that the so-called Kuomintang officers and soldiers were all fake copycats! If such an absurd reason for "failure" had been known to the people and His Majesty the Emperor, Matsui Ishine and Watanabe Yodotaro would have probably been "seppuku..."

"Your Excellency! Give the order to attack! The soldiers of my loyal and brave imperial army will never endure the humiliation of retreating undefeated! Give the order to attack! A staff officer took a few steps forward and approached the two grim-faced lieutenant generals, and suggested in a loud voice.

Matsui Ishine and Watanabe Yodotaro both squinted and sat listlessly in their chairs, as if they hadn't heard the staff officer's return. In fact, the tactical contraction they adopted yesterday was carried out entirely in accordance with the order of the Kwantung Army Headquarters, which asked them to take the initiative to shrink to the core defensive positions on the front line of Chaoyang County, Phoenix Mountain, and Qilin Mountain after encountering the Kuomintang army...... Therefore, as soon as these two saw the "Kuomintang army" coming, they made up their minds to retreat, and even the sound of victory from the troops below did not discourage their determination to retreat.

So much so that at this time, the two of them almost became the laughing stock of the whole army.

The staff officer took another big step forward and almost stood in front of the two divisions, and his tone was earnest: "Your Excellency, two division commanders! According to reconnaissance, the enemy in front of him was nothing more than the Shina O, who had suffered heavy losses. The Fourth Route Army and the Northeast Army of China, which had extremely poor combat effectiveness! The number of people is at most 80,000 to 90,000, and there are more than 100 cannons, and this strength is definitely not the opponent of the 7th and 11th divisions of the imperial army! As soon as he finished speaking, the staff officers around him also echoed. No one can stand the angry battle just by being beaten, let alone being pressed and beaten by those troops whose strength is far inferior to their own! Now the first-line を. The army and the Northeast Army were in a hurry to prepare for the attack after dawn, and it seemed that they were not prepared for the sudden counterattack of the Japanese army at all, so it was the best time to counterattack! At the very least, you can also put the face of を. The army and the Northeast Army retreated for a period of time, recaptured the positions that were inexplicably lost yesterday, and at the same time saved face!

The voices of the crowd were extremely neat, Matsui Ishine and Watanabe Yodotaro raised their heads and looked at each other, and shook their heads at the same time, Matsui sighed and replied: "The proposal to counterattack is not allowed to order all the troops to hold on, and they must not take a step back!" "But Your Excellency" The staff officer in front of him was about to have sparks in his eyes, and he just wanted to open his mouth to persuade again, but Watanabe Yodotaro snorted: "Matsui-kun's order is also the suggestion of the Kwantung Army Command!" General Ling does not want us to be defeated by the Kuomintang after annihilating the Fourth Route Army of the GC Army and the Fifth Route Army of the Northeast Army! Then the Kuomintang will unify China, and the empire's continental dream will never come true! As soon as the order of the Kwantung Army Headquarters was raised, the staff officers below were immediately speechless, Matsui Shigen stood up and smiled at the staff officers below whose blood had already rushed to their heads: "Gentlemen, things on the battlefield can only be mastered by one, probably no one can not make mistakes, at least so far, the people of China have made far more mistakes than us, and they will continue to make mistakes today!" ”

Chiang Kai-shek's location is an observation post with an excellent line of sight, the old Chiang does not know where to find a tattered chair, and also set up a cannon mirror at the observation post's inner eight-figure lookout, from the beginning of the shelling, he sat there comfortably and watched the heroic officers and men of the Fourth Route Army and the Northeast Army die in vain, uh, almost bloodshed and sacrificed in vain! Although Lao Jiang's fighting skills have not made any progress in these years, his horizons have broadened a lot, and when he looks at the Japanese army's long-stretching defensive position, he knows that he will never be able to gnaw down without good teeth! It looks like I've been able to collect a lot of G7 failures today! Didn't know about the GC either. Will the Fourth Route Army run out?

If the Fourth Route Army fights and the Eighth Route Army is also annihilated, then China should be able to truly achieve peaceful reunification, right?

Rumble! Rumble! Rumble......

At this time, the scene that Chiang Kai-shek most expected to see had already appeared on the snow below, and several waves of stragglers formed by the officers and soldiers of the Fourth Route of China were suddenly killed and wounded by the intensive artillery fire of the Japanese army! Among them were also shells fired from a 150-millimeter cannon with a powerful explosion.

Lao Jiang looked up at the sky again, but fortunately it was empty, and there was no shadow of an A-1B bomber. Those planes were sent today to provide air reinforcements to the Eighth Route Army and the Seventeenth Route Army in Beipiao, and they were attacked by the Japanese last night and suffered three or four thousand casualties overnight, and the telegram was still in Lao Chiang's pocket!

This round of artillery bombardment by the Japanese army was undoubtedly crazy, and it is estimated that all howitzers, mountain artillery, field artillery, mortars, and infantry guns of all two divisions were used to fire together. The slightly dense skirmish line of the Fourth Route Army and the Jibei Army was suddenly overwhelmed by a jungle of smoke columns! Shrapnel representing death flew in all directions, the Northeast Army and the Central G

The infantry screamed and was swept down in a strange manner! It seems that after the Japanese army shrank, not only the density of troops on the defense line increased greatly, but also the density of firepower!

Of course, the ferocious shelling did not frighten the heroic GC. Person! Uh, but the Northeast Army has been intimidated. At this moment, Chiang Kai-shek could clearly see that the blue-gray figures were holding bright bayonets and gritting their teeth and charging forward, while the yellow-colored officers and men of the Northeast Army were prostrate on the ground with their heads in their hands, trying to avoid this round of deadly shelling. If you don't stand up and run away, you will definitely die faster, and it is estimated that this round of charge of the Northeast Army has ended.

Sure enough, as soon as the Japanese shelling ended, the surviving officers and soldiers of the Northeast got up, said nothing, turned around and fled, this speed was faster than when they were charging just now, I don't know how many times, and some of them even threw away their rifles in a hurry. The hand is that there are two streams of people on the battlefield, one is a blue-gray charging crowd, and the other is an earthy yellow rout! It's kind of funny.

However, none of the high-level officials of the three parties who witnessed this scene in the forward command could laugh, their faces were pale, their eyes were on fire, and they looked at Zhang Xueliang fiercely. Zhang Xueliang looked panicked and hesitated. Chiang Kai-shek, of course, did not dare to laugh, and he was a very small minority in this command. Over there, Feng Yuxiang and Deng Yanda, who are always full of faces, see Mao Z. 's face is already scolding.

"These shameful cowards! A bunch of bad seeds that can be eaten but not beaten! They should all be shot! "Who's in front of you in command?" Why not enforce military law? Why not shoot? Don't kill heads?

What are such soldiers left for? "That's right! Those who leave their allies to flee alone and delay their fighters should be killed! "The last sentence, I don't know who scolded it? It seemed to have a bit of a Hunan flavor, but Chiang Kai-shek just didn't hear it, and continued to lie in front of the artillery mirror to look at the dead. The attack of the 4th Route Army in front of it seems to have been defeated, but it is not repulsed! These GCs. People are really brave, and they all fight to the death! And the skill of fighting bayonets is not bad, and the Japanese can basically play a two-to-one exchange ratio, and they all look like backbone veterans!

Lao Jiang was thick-skinned and didn't care about people's cynicism, but Zhang Xueliang was ashamed, and ordered loudly with a red face: "Order!" Pull the regiment commander who retreated just now to the front of the position and shoot him! Today, whoever dares to retreat without an order will be killed! ”

With this strict order, the battle became more and more fierce, and the officers and men of the Northeast Army and the G7 Fourth Route Army gritted their teeth and braved the overwhelming firepower of the Japanese army to launch attacks round after round.

And the Japanese troops who held their positions also seemed to have fought a fire, and at the first opportunity, they would rush out of their positions and launch a counterattack. After the battle, the two sides often carried bright bayonets in the middle of the positions of the two sides, and the battle began at five or six o'clock in the morning and lasted until after dark. There were more than a dozen charges on both sides, and the corpses were placed almost from the front of the squadron to the front of the Japanese army.

"President, Chairman Chiang! I can't help you if you didn't fight this battle today. In a ruined temple south of Xidabai Mountain, Zhang Xueliang sat opposite Maobi and Chiang Kai-shek with his head downcast, and there with tears in his eyes to review, today's battle is another disaster! The Fourth Route Army suffered almost 7,000 casualties, the Northeast Army suffered more than 6,000 casualties, and the two armies combined were almost 13,000! The entire battlefield was littered with corpses, and there were ghost fires everywhere.

As for the Japanese position, of course, not an inch was captured!

"Don't blame Brother Han Qing, I didn't succeed in that battle plan a long time ago!" Chiang Kai-shek didn't look at Mao Bitieqing's face, and excused Zhang Xueliang and the Northeast Army by himself: "In fact, the brothers of the Northeast Army are also fighting very hard today, and the main responsibility for not breaking through the position of the Japanese invaders is not the Northeast Army, let alone Brother Han Qing." Rather, the Japanese defense was too tight, and the positions were too strong. It's better to wait for two more days, and wait for our first division to come up before starting the war. With a snap, Deng Yanda slapped the table heavily and said angrily: "No! I just received information that the Japanese also have a division of troops that are being transferred to Chaoyang, and if they wait for two days, they should have arrived! At that time, it will be even more difficult to break through the defense. Chairman Chiang! Can't we let our first division go a little faster? Saving soldiers is like fighting fire! Chiang Kai-shek shrugged helplessly and sighed: "Originally, the first division advanced at a speed of five kilometers per hour, and there were always forty or fifty kilometers a day, but according to the plan, it has now arrived.

But... For the past two days, the 1st Division has been giving way, almost standing still. So be sure to wait another two days. Let's just be patient and wait. ”

Chiang Kai-shek walked to the front of the map with a candlestick and pointed to the area around Chaoyang County on the map: "In the past two days, we might as well use it to strengthen the starting positions in various places, especially Yuantaizi Village and Lijiagou here, which are the choke points for tanks to enter the basin where Chaoyang County is located." Most of the area around Chaoyang County was flat, and the Japanese did not have a way to stop the offensive of more than a hundred tanks. As long as the tank arrives, Chaoyang County will be able to take it in a few days at most