[Anti-Japanese Iron Blood King] Chapter 571: The Japanese Army Withdraws (Ask for a subscription, ask for a monthly pass, ask for everything!) ）

No one knows what Iida Shojiro thinks, and no one cares, whether it is Sun Weiru or Li Jiayu at this time, they are trying their best to drag down the Japanese army in front of them and create an opportunity for the recovery of Taiyuan in the Second War Zone. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

At 10 o'clock in the morning of the 10th, the **** finally broke through the Ito Wing that was blocked between the **** and the remnants of the 47th Army, and rescued the 47th Army, but what made Sun Weiru's heart ache was that there were less than 1,000 people left in a fully staffed army, and the army commander Li Jiayu was seriously injured, and the deputy army commander Luo Zezhou was shot twice in the arm, the chief of staff of the army was killed, two division commanders were seriously injured, two deputy division commanders were killed and one was wounded, and only 2 of the 8 main and deputy brigade commanders were left, and only 3 of the 22 chief and deputy regiment commanders were left. The 47th Army is considered to be crippled, and it can even be said that the entire army has been destroyed.

Such heavy casualties made Sun Weiru, an iron man in Shaanxi, couldn't help but redden, this is more than 20,000 lives! Yesterday, many of them were still alive, and even many of them even greeted him, but they didn't expect that today would be forever separated, and all this was caused by his command mistakes. If it weren't for his temporary division of troops, these soldiers would not have died.

However, Sun Weiru also knew that now was not the time to be sad, and they had more important things to do now. Without saying a word, Sun Weiru immediately ordered the remnants of the 47th Army to immediately withdraw to Luliang to rest and recuperate, waiting for the replenishment of the war zone.

But what people didn't expect was that all the officers and men of the 47th who were not wounded refused to retreat, and they had to fight the little devils to the end, even if they fought to the last man.

Sun Weiru knew that these Sichuan babies were red-eyed and useless to say anything, so he simply left them all, but still sent a company of guards to escort the wounded officers and soldiers back to Luliang for treatment, including Li Jiayu, the commander of the 47th Army.

Seeing that Sun Weiru's troops did not retreat, and were not photographed by the powerful soldiers of the Imperial Japanese Army, but became more and more courageous the more they fought, Iida Shojiro was shocked and angry.

Thinking of Taiyuan City, which was in danger, Iida Shojiro was afraid, he was really worried about the irreparable consequences due to his recklessness. As a soldier, he is not afraid of death, but he is afraid of not dying on the battlefield, but even more afraid of dying in shame.

Thinking of the harshly worded telegram of His Excellency Commander Umezu, Shojiro Iida finally couldn't hold it anymore and ordered the 25th Brigade to be the rear. The 117th Wing played the front, and the whole army immediately retreated in the direction of Gujiao.

But how could Sun Weiru, who was already determined to entangle them, let them go easily, and immediately ordered Zhao Shoushan's **** to press up desperately, and at the same time ordered Liu Enmao's fifteenth army to resist in front, and if he couldn't stand it, he would come to see him.

For Shojiro Iida, the situation at this time has taken a turn for the worse. The offensive and defensive postures of the two sides were reversed, and the Japanese army changed from encirclement to breakthrough, while Sun Weiru's department became the encircled side.

Because the 15th Army occupied the advantage of the ground, and the second war zone was bloody this time, Yan Laoxi even sent the originally small number of combat planes to participate in the battle, so the breakthrough of Iida's division was not smooth. By one o'clock in the afternoon, the army had advanced less than 15 kilometers, and was still 55 kilometers away from the Gujiao straight line.

At the same time that Iida's headquarters was in a bitter battle, the 79th and 80th 10th Wings of the Japanese Army in Harahira Town fell into an unprecedented crisis. From the morning of the 11th, Huang Sicheng transferred a large number of artillery to bombard the city pass, and the gap that had not yet been reached widened again, and by 11 o'clock at noon, even the main gate of Yuanping Town had completely collapsed.

What frightened the Japanese army even more was that the chariot unit that had not appeared in Ma Zheng's department suddenly appeared on the battlefield, and there were more than a dozen Type 97 medium chariots. With the help of those behemoths, the Shina army finally stormed the town of Yuanping.

Even so, Ushijima did not allow the Japanese to retreat, but instead ordered the two wings to continue to hold on to Haradaira Town, to engage in street battles with the Shina army, and told the Harahea town guards that they would hold out for an hour no matter what, and reinforcements would arrive after an hour.

Yuanping Town is the most important line of defense blocking the southward movement of the Suicha Military Region, and once this line of defense collapses, then only the Xinkou line remains. But having lost the important stronghold of Yuanping Town, can the thin defense line in the Xinkou area alone stop the frantic attack of tens of thousands of troops under Ma Zheng's department?

The answer is obvious, without the protection of Yuanping Town, Xinkou is just a woman who has been stripped naked, and the people of China can violate as much as they want, so Ushijima Minoru can't let Yuanping's defenders retreat anyway, even if they want to retreat, but this order should not be given by him Ushijima Minoru, because this responsibility he can't afford as a lieutenant general.

Lieutenant General Minoru Ushijima is not an easy person either, this person is not from an orthodox infantry background, but a relatively cold engineer from the infantry. Minoru Ushijima graduated from the 16th class of the Japanese Army Non-commissioned Officer School. Later, he was admitted to the Higher Department of the Army Artillery School and graduated from the 25th Army University in November 1913. He successively served as the squadron leader of the 1st Railway Wing, a land sergeant instructor, a staff officer of the Guards Division, a member of the General Staff Headquarters, a member of the Kwantung Metropolitan Governor's Office, a staff officer of the Kwantung Army Headquarters, a staff officer of the Field Transportation Department of the Siberian Dispatch Army, and an instructor of the Artillery School. In August 1932, he was promoted to major general, and in July 1938, he succeeded Kawagishi Fumizaburo as the commander of the 20th Division, stationed in the Yuncheng area in the southwest of Shanxi.

Although Ushijima Minoru himself has a limited combat level, he has two older brothers, the eldest brother is the former commander of the Kwantung Army, Hidetaro Hatata, and the second brother, the commander-in-chief of the Chinese Dispatch Army, Shunroku Hatata.

Let's not talk about Hidetaro Hatata, after all, this person died of illness in Shenyang 9 years ago, but I can't help but mention Shunroku Hatata. This person is one of the culprits of the Japanese fascist invasion of China and the absolute core figure of the Japanese army.

Although Shunroku Hata was only an army general at this time, only one level higher than Ushijima Minoru Shitsune, there were so many Japanese lieutenant generals, and the general infantry divisions and regiments should be equipped with army lieutenant generals to serve as the main posts, and some important or special infantry brigades should also be equipped with army lieutenant generals as brigade commanders, like Lieutenant General Abe Norihide, the flower of the Japanese Imperial Army, who was killed by Yang Chengwu's department in history, is the brigade commander of the Second Independent Infantry Brigade.

But once the military rank rises to the rank of general, it is relatively rare, take the Chinese battlefield as an example, now in China and these Japanese-controlled colonies near China, the Japanese governor of the Korean Peninsula is a lieutenant general, the commander of the Taiwan Army is a lieutenant general, the commander of the Kwantung Army stationed in the northeast is a general, the commander of the North China Front is a general, and the commander of the Central China Front is a general. In other words, in the entire East Asian theater, the Japanese army only placed three generals, which shows the small number of generals and the great power.

With these factors, Ushijima Minoru, the commander of the Japanese lieutenant general's division, also became very unusual. Once he retreats from Yuanping Town at this time, causing the Xinkou defense line to collapse, then it is likely that it will not be him who will be reprimanded at that time, and even his eldest brother may be implicated.

Huang Sicheng was slightly taken aback by the fact that the Japanese army did not retreat in a desperate battle, but that's all, no matter whether Yuanping Zhenguan can be defeated or not, he doesn't care, it is good to be able to fight, but if it can't be defeated, the army can still come to Taiyuan City. Moreover, Ma Zheng also said that the capture of Taiyuan this time was mainly based on the troops of Commander Yan in the Second War Zone, and their troops were just going to respond to the scene, and their battlefield was in Hebei.

The battle on the side of Yuanping Town was very smooth, and the Japanese army was only at the end of its crossbow, and even if there were reinforcements, it would not be possible to support it for long. The situation on the side of Ningwuguan is also very good, under the strong attack of the 120th Division, the Japanese troops guarding Ningwuguan suffered heavy casualties, and the headquarters of the 120th Division seized Chengguan many times.

Fortunately, the thousands of remnants of the 108th Division were fast enough, and finally occupied the county seat of Jinzhong before Wei Lihuang's troops arrived in Jinzhong, and arranged a defensive position on the front line of Niuguling.

Qingxu is also okay, Umezu Mijiro has withdrawn all the defenders of Taigu and Qingxu periphery to Qingxu, and now the defenders of the Qingxu defense line also have more than 3,000 people, plus more than 3,000 imperial troops, the total strength has also reached more than 6,000 people. Moreover, he had already inquired clearly, the Luzhi army commanded by Yang Aiyuan was a miscellaneous army, and its combat effectiveness was very limited, and it was impossible to break through the Qingxu defense line without three or five days.

Three or five days is enough for Iida to withdraw to Taiyuan, and the Fifth Division of the Front Army is already on the way to Shimen, and five days is enough time for this army to arrive in Taiyuan from Shandong, and with the reinforcement of the Fifth Division, the troops in his hands will exceed 100,000 people, and no matter how bad it is, Taiyuan City will not be lost. As long as Taiyuan City is not lost, it will be easy to do, as for other places to be lost, it will be lost, there is nothing to pity, and it will be taken back in the future. (To be continued.) )