After seizing Yanmen Pass, Li Yunlong and Zhao Tiezhu immediately shrank their forces and defended the pass, and while sending a telegram to Qiao Youhua to report the battle situation, they also sent cavalry scouts to the southeast of Yanmen Pass to reconnoiter and explore the traces of the Japanese troops of the 108th Division who had fled into the deep mountains and old forests.

After Qiao Youhua learned the news, he left a regiment of troops to garrison Xinzhou, Yuanping, and Daixian respectively, and personally led the main force of the column to continue to march to the northwest.

In the evening of the same day, they arrived at Yanmen Pass.

After arriving at Yanmen Pass, Qiao Youhua sent additional scouts to closely monitor the roads where the Japanese army might be infested, and the troops temporarily rested at Yanmen Pass, and after the 108th Division was eliminated, they immediately marched out of the pass to Datong.

"Commander, you only leave a regiment of troops in Xinzhou, Daixian and other places to garrison, will it be too weak." When they had dinner together in the evening, Li Yunlong took the rice bowl and expressed his worries.

Qiao Youhua glanced at the head of the regiment named Li Yunlong, and said with an approving smile: "Daixian, Yuanping, Xinzhou and even Taiyuan, the distance between these places is only less than fifty or sixty miles.

At such a close distance, if any city was attacked, the rest of the city would quickly get the news and send reinforcements.

The enemy's 108th Division has already been routed and scattered by us, and even if it can get out of the deep mountains and old forests, it is impossible to assemble on a large scale again, let alone have much combat effectiveness.

Not to mention the fact that our cavalry and tank truck mechanized units will be able to rush back for reinforcements in less than two hours.

Moreover, in my judgment, the devils will not go to the Xinzhou area again, where it is too close to Taiyuan, they are most likely to come to Yanmen Pass, or even Bianguan and Ningwu Pass. ”

When Li Yunlong heard this, he said, "Then chief, should we send troops to Biguan and Ningwu Pass?" ”

Qiao Youhua shook his head and said: "No, I have already sent out all the cavalry reconnaissance battalions, if the devil wants to go to the Biguan and Ningwu Pass, he will never be able to escape our eyes, besides, if you want to go to these two passes, it is much farther than going to Yanmen Pass and leaving the fortress."

The devils will definitely not take that route lightly. ”

Li Yunlong nodded, buried his head and continued to eat, not saying anything, obviously Qiao Youhua had already analyzed the route that the enemy might take, and arranged scouts in the places where they haunted, and now the top priority was to let the troops seize the time to rest at Yanmen Pass and restore their spirits.

Wait for the Japanese army to appear.

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Located in a primeval forest in the Luliang Mountains, Shimoto Kumaya, Suzuki Toshiyuki, and Yamaoka Shigema, who had been leading their subordinates to drill in the deep mountain old forest for a day and a night, were sitting under a big tree surrounded by several people to rest.

Around them was a group of mentally exhausted but still holding on.

However, whether it was the two lieutenant generals Shimoto Kumaya and Yamaoka Shigetsu, or the two division chiefs of staff Suzuki Toshiyuki and Ochiai Shikuro, or the guards around them, they were all without exception, and their military uniforms became tattered.

It is best to describe them as unkempt and wolf-bèi.

Taking a sip of the water in the water bag handed over by the adjutant, Shimoto Kumanya frowned and asked his chief of staff, Suzuki Toshiyuki, "Suzuki-kun, where are we now?" How long will it take to get out of this damn mountain forest and reach Yanmen Pass? ”

If there was a choice, Xia Yuan Xiong Mi would have been willing to fight head-on with the Dragon Tooth Column, and would not have chosen to drill into this deep mountain and old forest.

It was rugged and difficult, there were no roads at all, and in some places, even radio waves could not be transmitted, and communication with other scattered troops and the outside world was cut off several times.

This also led to the fact that Xiong Mi had now lost contact with many of his troops, and even missed the telegrams for help from the garrisons in Daixian, Xinzhou and other places, so he did not know that Yanmen Pass had fallen into the hands of the Longya Column.

Suzuki Toshiyuki hurriedly opened a set of marching maps that he had been carrying, and after reading it, he looked up and replied with sweaty eyes: "General, if we are not mistaken, we should be less than a hundred miles away from Yanmen Pass by now, and then we can get out of the mountains and forests after crossing the two mountains in front." ”

When they heard that there were still more than fifty kilometers left, Kumaya Shimoto and Shigemu Yamaoka were a little annoyed, but they also knew that it was not Toshiyuki Suzuki's fault.

Or Ochiai Shikuro opened his mouth to encourage: "More than fifty kilometers, we are holding on, we can get out of this uninhabited primeval forest, as long as we get to Yanmen Pass, we will be safe."

So, two chiefs, please insist on it again. ”

"Ochi-kun is right, the two generals hold on a little longer, as long as we reach Yanmen Pass safely, we can return to Datong, and we will be safe." Toshiyuki Suzuki also nodded hurriedly and agreed.

With the persuasion and relief of the two chiefs of staff, Shimoto Kumaya and Yamaoka Shigehou were in a slightly better mood, and after resting in place for more than half an hour, they continued to embark on a difficult march with the guard units directly under the division.

More than 50 kilometers, it took Xiong Mi and his fellow soldiers more than seven hours to see how difficult it was to march in the mountains and forests.

However, the only thing that made them feel relieved was that when they were about to walk out of the mountains and forests, they ran into an infantry brigade of the 105th Infantry Wing, which belonged to the 104th Infantry Brigade.

Although this infantry brigade suffered a lot of losses in the previous battle, with only six or seven hundred people left, it was also a rare new force for them.

After the merger, it was already dark, and Shimoto Kumami and Yamaoka Shigehou and others discussed and decided to march towards Yanmen Pass at night, so that they could conceal their whereabouts and avoid being discovered by the troops that might appear in the Dragon's Tooth Column.

It's just that these two old devils don't know that Yanmen Pass has already gathered tens of thousands of dragon tooth columns, and they are waiting for them to send them to the door.

Xia Yuan Xiong Mi and Yamaoka Chonghou with more than 1,000 subordinates, before they arrived at Yanmen Pass, they were discovered by the Dragon Tooth Scout Cavalry who were on duty overnight, and the cavalry immediately reported the news to Qiao Youhua at Yanmen Pass.

Qiao Youhua didn't expect that this Japanese army that suddenly appeared was the division headquarters of the 108th Division, but more than a thousand devils were sent to the door, and of course Qiao Youhua couldn't let them go lightly.

At that moment, Qiao Youhua ordered Zhou Dasheng to lead two regiments of the Second Division out of Yanmen Pass, to ambush on both flanks, and the tank company also quietly came out of the pass, preparing to join forces with the cavalry reconnaissance battalion to cut off the back road for the devils to escape.

The other main forces stayed in the pass, waiting for the devils to arrive, and then killed them in one fell swoop to encircle and annihilate this Japanese army.

At about nine o'clock in the evening, the extremely tired and exhausted Xia Yuan Xiongmi, Yamaoka Chonghou and more than a thousand devil soldiers under them finally rushed to the front of Yanmen Pass.

Before the devil stepped forward to call the door, the left and right sides of the originally silent Yanmen Pass and inside the closed door suddenly shouted and killed, followed by dense gunshots, and countless bullets rained down on them from all directions.