Chapter 631 Talking about fat

Tang Qiuli with the strength of two corps, after the Okamura Ningji sweeping troops penetrated deep into the hinterland of the Taihang Mountains, suddenly launched an attack on the gateway of Shijiazhuang, Jingcheng Pass, in the case of superiority in strength and firepower, it took only three and a half hours to compress the remnants of more than 20,000 Japanese troops in the core position, and the final general attack was about to be launched, but suddenly received an urgent order from the division commander, asking for a temporary annihilation of the remnants of the Japanese army at Jingcheng Pass, I don't know what medicine is sold in the gourd of the division commander, or take this opportunity to adjust the deployment, The final blow was bound to kill the Japanese army.

He gave orders to Tang Qiusheng and Feng Jiwu to use the remnants of the Japanese army at Jingcheng Pass to observe Okamura Ningji's response and plan the next battle plan according to the situation.

The information from the intelligence stations in Beiping and Tianjin showed that the Japanese troops in Pingjin and Tianjin were assembling and the specific purpose was being verified, and the Japanese troops in the direction of Datong came to reinforce in the direction of Jingcheng Pass, and swept away the six Japanese troops in the base area in the Taihang Mountains, and two of the roads near the direction of Jingcheng Pass also changed the direction of advance and assembled in the Liaoyang area.

Tang Qiuli left this hand, and basically disrupted the overall deployment of Okamura Ningci, half of the garrison troops in Pingjin and Tianjin were withdrawn, his troops were all on the outer line, and there was only one wing in Shijiazhuang on the garrison, under the attack of the superior forces of the independent division, Shijiazhuang was like an undefended city, and Okamura Ningci could not afford to lose Shijiazhuang.

Tang Qiuli mobilized the Japanese army and disrupted the purpose of Okamura Ningci's deployment, which was basically achieved, according to the latest enemy situation, he made a new deployment, the task of capturing Jingcheng Pass, which was completed by Feng Jiwu's Niangziguan garrison corps, and to block the Japanese army coming to the aid of Datong, after the corps completed the Jingcheng Pass combat mission, the main force immediately moved west to Yangquan, preparing to meet the Japanese troops who came to reinforce from two directions, and divided the strength of four brigades and transferred them to the command of Tang Qiusheng's corps to strengthen the strength of the operation in the plain area.

Tang Qiusheng's Sulu Mobile Corps immediately went to Shijiazhuang to block the Japanese army coming to aid from Pingjin, seize Shijiazhuang, and Liu Tiehandong in the direction of Cangzhou commanded the troops, and took an offensive against the Japanese army in Cangzhou, maintaining the corresponding pressure, so that it could not divide forces to reinforce Shijiazhuang, around the Battle of Jingcheng Pass, the entire North China region, the independent division and the Japanese army adjusted their deployment, in contrast, Okamura Ningji still suffered a big loss.

When he entered the Taihang Mountains, he did not capture the main force of the independent division, did not annihilate Tang Qiuli's living forces, but cut off more than 40,000 people in Jingcheng Pass, and whether he could achieve the goal of relieving the siege of Jingcheng Pass and attacking Taiyuan in the west, Tang Qiuli's hands also had five brigades directly under the division headquarters, as well as more than 28,000 troops of the first and second anti-Japanese brigades of the independent division workers who participated in the battle in advance. Tang Qiuli still had a strategic reserve of more than 90,000 troops that was not used.

At the same time, Tang Qiuli ordered Yan Xishan, the main force of the Jin army in the direction of Datong, when the Japanese army divided troops to reinforce Jingcheng Pass, launched a general attack on the Japanese army in front of it, and captured Zhangjiakou, which was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, the Japanese army in Datong only had two wings of only more than 6,000 troops, and the nearly 300,000 Jin army commanded by Zhao Chengshou could drown thousands of Japanese troops without much effort, and Zhangjiakou was almost empty.

This move was used, Okamura Ningci did not withdraw troops from the Taihang Mountains to reinforce, Tang Qiusheng's corps from Shijiazhuang in the east, Yan Xishan's Jin army from Zhangjiakou in the northwest, and attacked Beiping from two roads, Okamura Ningci's nest was really going to be hollowed out, if Okamura Ningci ordered more than 300,000 Japanese troops in the direction of Cangzhou to divide troops to rescue Shijiazhuang, Liu Tiehan's eastward troops could take the opportunity to besiege Cangzhou and coerce Tianjin, and Okamura Ningci's strategic layout in North China would be beaten to pieces in an instant.

What's more, Yuan Jinghao's corps in the direction of Anyang, Henan, can take the opportunity to take Handan directly, and the back road of Okamura Ningci has also been cut off, the key is whether Yan Xishan's Jin army can capture Zhangjiakou, Tang Qiuli gave Chief Yan such a big bargain, presumably Chief Yan, who is good at calculation, must be happy to accept it, right?

Yan Xishan quickly called back, seeing Yan Xishan's flickering and vague telegram, Tang Qiu's seven points of anger were smoking, in the telegram, Yan Xishan emphasized a lot of difficulties, his intelligence system detected that the Japanese army was attacking the north on a large scale, and there was a tendency to attack Taiyuan out of the Taihang Mountains, and the troops in the direction of Datong had been urgently transferred to the front line of Wuxiang to deploy defenses, and the troops were on the way.

This is tantamount to refusing to carry out Tang Qiuli's order, full of excuses, the Jin army moved south to Wuxiang, which is excusable, to prevent Okamura Ningci from sweeping troops out of Taihang Mountain, and it is reasonable to attack Taiyuan, killing Tang Qiuli does not believe it, Yan Xishan only has one division of troops left in Datong, this is not Yan Xishan's style.

Moreover, in the telegram, Yan Xishan also bargained, opened his mouth and cried that if Vice Chairman Tang's troops were responsible for the defense of the front line of Wuxiang and guaranteed that the Japanese army could not cross Wuxiang to attack Taiyuan, his troops could attack the Zhangjiakou area, but after many days of combat attrition, the supply of ammunition for the troops was insufficient, so he asked Vice Chairman Tang to properly replenish them.

After reading the telegram, Tang Qiuli didn't even feel angry, he only needed three or four divisions of troops, and the emptiness and Zhangjiakou were at his fingertips, and the war situation in North China would be completely improved, and the rich central and southern Hebei regions would fall into his own hands, which was a famous granary in North China, and Okamura Ningji only had the share of holding on to the big cities and along the railways and highways.

If it is the Eighth Route Army of the Communist Party of China, if there is such an opportunity, it will never let go, but it is a pity that the troops of the three divisions of the Eighth Route Army, together with Sun Zhenbang's corps, are entangled with the Japanese army in the Taihang Mountains, and they cannot be separated.

However, this time he miscalculated, taking Zhangjiakou, the northwest of Hebei and the northeast of Jin will be connected, his Yan Xishan's power will also expand to the northwest of Hebei, and there will be ample strategic buffer space in the direction of Datong, which he can't see, it can only prove that this person is short-sighted, accustomed to speculation, leaving him in North China, it is useless in the overall situation, Tang Qiuli is in his heart, for the first time, he has a complete murderous intention, and at the right time, his hands are not bloody, it is the moment when he makes a move.

After receiving the order of the division, Tang Qiusheng's corps quickly broke away from the Jingchengguan battlefield and deployed its troops on the front line of Dingzhou, Anguo, Raoyang, and Wuqiang, preparing to block the Japanese army in the direction of Pingjin to reinforce Shijiazhuang, and attacked Shijiazhuang with the strength of two brigades, and the Japanese army he faced had more than 160,000 people, exceeding the entire strength of his corps.

However, Tang Qiusheng knew in his heart that more than 50,000 people in the four brigades of Feng Jiwu's corps would soon reach the periphery of Shijiazhuang, and the troops he could command reached about 200,000 people, which was enough to deal a heavy blow to the reinforced Japanese army.

His order to Zhang Hansheng was that while blocking the Japanese army, he would seek an opportunity to inflict heavy damage on most of the Japanese army, and if he completely annihilated them, he would personally ask Zhang Hansheng for credit, and he had a reason to do so, with more than 80,000 troops, against more than 60,000 Japanese troops, the firepower would surpass that of the Japanese army, and if he could not achieve the results he deserved, he was really unwilling.

Feng Jiwu commanded the rest of the troops, launched the final general attack on the core position of the Japanese army at Jingcheng Pass, artillery shells rained down on the Japanese position, a radius of only a few square kilometers, gathered more than 20,000 frightened Japanese soldiers, no matter how strong the fortifications, could not withstand the fierce artillery fire, a shell fell, will always cost the lives of more than a dozen Japanese soldiers.

The commander of the Japanese division saw that the troops suffered heavy casualties, and under the fierce shelling, his underground command headquarters was like a small boat swaying in the wind and rain, and the experience of the soldiers exposed to the outside position can be imagined, if he held the core position of Jingcheng Pass again, tens of thousands of soldiers would have to be broken here, he begged Okamura Ningji to allow the troops to break through, and was severely reprimanded by Okamura Ningji, and told him that reinforcements from all walks of life were approaching the vicinity of Jingcheng Pass, as long as he held on for another five hours, and attacked the independent division troops of Jingcheng Pass, There is only the fate of being surrounded.

In fact, Okamura Ningji himself didn't believe it, the troops out of Pingjin were going to Shijiazhuang to set up defenses, and the two-way reinforcements in the Taihang Mountains were climbing on the rugged and difficult mountain roads, and the only thing that could be counted on was the reinforcements in the direction of Datong, but with the cunning of the devil Tang Qiuli, he would not think of this, I am afraid that the reinforcements of Datong would be stopped by the troops of the independent division before they arrived at Jingcheng Pass, and if they didn't do well, they would suffer a big loss.

Okamura Ningji did this completely to buy time for the troops in the Pingjin direction, and the longer Jingcheng Pass persisted, the longer Tang Qiuli's troops were held back, and the troops in the Pingjin direction would enter Shijiazhuang as soon as possible to deploy defenses, and if they lost Jingcheng Pass, they would never be able to lose Shijiazhuang again.

The commander of the Japanese division dropped the walkie-talkie, he didn't understand the intention of His Excellency the commander, he only knew that such an order was equivalent to burying more than 20,000 soldiers of the empire in this place of only a few square kilometers.

He asked everyone in the division headquarters to go out, pondered silently for a while, grabbed the phone, and gave the order for all the troops to break through in the direction of Shijiazhuang, a few shells fell on the concealed department, the dust that fell, covered the military map on the table, the phone fell to the ground, he looked at the portrait of the emperor on the wall, and a few muddy tears dripped down, the chief of staff and guards of the division and regiment came in, ready to protect the division commander to break through, a shell flew, and several guards fell in a pool of blood.

(To be continued)