The Fifth Division was attacking like a tide, and Hideki Tojo was not to be outdone, using more than 10,000 aircraft, tanks, artillery, armored vehicles, and infantry cavalry to start a frantic attack.

After Tojo Hideki captured the small position of the 402nd Regiment, he suddenly turned his gun and attacked the position of the 425th Regiment next to him, and at this time, the 425th Regiment was still planning to support the 402, but he was caught off guard, and the fortifications had no defense, and the casualties were heavy, and more than 100 were killed and wounded in one contact.

Li Fuying saw that the front line was fighting so passively, and he was so anxious that he was angry, and he knew in his heart that Li Zaixi, the commander of the 425th Regiment, was a little afraid of battle. He called Yang Weiheng, the commander of the 131st Brigade, and said, "Brigade Commander Yang, I am Li Fuying, I order you to personally go to the 402 position to command the defense, I tell you, if you lose the position within three days, you will not come back." ”

When Yang Weiheng heard Li Fuying say this, he knew that Li Fuying, who was called a good man in the army, was forced to do nothing, so he hurriedly replied, "Don't worry, military seat, I won't die, I can't lose the position!" ”

At this time, Hideki Tojo looked at the position in front of him that was overwhelmed by his own artillery fire and aircraft bombing, nodded and said, "Where is the Honda Brigade?" ”

The staff officer next to him replied, "There are still two days to reach the battlefield." ”

Hideki Tojo said with a smile, "Order the troops to cover with artillery fire, the chariot in front, the infantry in the back, fight slowly from a distance, don't worry." ”

But the 402nd regiment is only 1,700 people, even if the Japanese army deliberately released the water, three of the nine company commanders who were beaten in three days were killed, five were seriously wounded, only one was still on the position, and the whole regiment was beaten only more than 700 people.

September 7

When the 61st Army was fully reinforcing the 402nd Regiment, Hideki Tojo turned his guns again, and this time he put the main force on his real target - the 400th Regiment of the main peak of Panshan.

The commander of the 400 regiment was Li Shengrun. He had a very good personal relationship with Li Zaixi of the 425 regiment, and he couldn't help but be anxious when he saw the fire of bombing on the 425 position every day, and he took the initiative to ask himself to bring a battalion of troops to support, but Li Zaixi refused on the grounds that his position was more important, and he breathed a sigh of relief when he looked at the 425 position that had finally quieted down, knowing that his friend had survived another day.

What Li Shengrun didn't know was that at the foot of his mountain, countless cannon ports were adjusting their positions towards him, and thousands of Japanese troops were scattered. Using the cover of night to slowly climb towards the main peak position, many later film and television literary works say that the Japanese army is not good at night fighting, that is pure nonsense, the Japanese army does not like to launch night battles in China mainly because they cannot give full play to their firepower superiority, the Japanese army's night combat ability only needs to ask the souls of the American troops in the Pacific Ocean to understand.

Hideki Tojo sat drinking tea while playing Go with a staff officer, and asked, "What time is it?" ”

An officer next to him replied, "It's one o'clock in the morning." ”

Hideki Tojo nodded and said, "Let's start." ”

Li Shengrun was resting, and suddenly felt a shaking of the mountain, and then a thunderous explosion.

Li Shengrun woke up and shouted, "What's the matter? What's going on? ”

The guard next to him shouted, "Tuanza, the devil has attacked." A large number of devils have already rushed up to the position of the high battalion commander. ”

Li Shengrun looked up, but wasn't it, the position in front of him was already a sea of fire, and there were sounds of fighting everywhere.

Li Shengrun hurriedly shouted, "Quick." Hurry up and contact the military seat!! The devil has hit. ”

At this time, Li Fuying, who had been guarding for three days, had already made up his mind that Yan Xishan's order had been fulfilled no matter what, and then the signal soldier ran in again and said, "Report to the military seat, the headquarters is calling." ”

Li Fuying took a look. However, it was Yan Xishan who ordered to hold for another three days to buy time for the arrival of reinforcements. If you can't do anything, you can retreat with the camera.

Li Fuying sighed and looked at the battle map. Thinking about how to delay the time next, but hearing the sound of bombardment, Li Fuying scolded, "Damn little devil, it's starting shelling again, you know that there is no cannon to bully us." ”

Liu Tanfu, the brigade commander next to him, frowned and said, "Military seat, no, this voice doesn't seem to be the direction of the 425th Regiment, but a bit like the direction of Panshan." ”

When Li Fuying heard it, sure enough, the voice was wrong, and he was about to go out to check, when the communication soldier ran in and said, "Report to the military seat, the 400th regiment is urgent, the Japanese army suddenly attacked the main peak of Panshan at night, and now it has been killed." ”

Li Fuying was taken aback when he heard this, and then another signal soldier came and said, "Report to the military seat, the 400th regiment is urgent, and the commander of the first battalion, Gao Baoyong, is killed." ”

In the next two hours, 400 unfavorable news kept coming, Liu Tanfu looked at the map and said, "Devil, this is inevitable, military seat, send reinforcements quickly." ”

Li Fuying sighed, "I can't send it now, what if the Japanese army is attacking the west again?" Everything will wait until dawn, and how about staying all night. ”

Shinohara Seiichiro, the headquarters of the Japanese army, sighed when he heard the good news that kept coming: "Your Excellency the commander is really a clever plan, it seems that the Chinese army is almost unable to hold on." ”

Hideki Tojo pressed the Go in his hand and said, "It's not enough, order the cavalry to attack, and we must completely crush the defenders tonight." ”

Li Shengrun was already crying at this time, and there were gunshots from devils everywhere he could see, Li Shengrun shouted, "Ask below, how are the brothers?" ”

After a while, the signal corpsmen reported, "Regiment, we have lost more than 400 dead in battle, and the brothers can't hold on. ”

Li Shengrun shouted, "What about the reinforcements? What does the military seat say? ”

The signal corpsman replied, "The military seat called back, in order to prevent the Japanese army from attacking the east and west, we must hold out until tomorrow before there will be reinforcements." ”

Li Shengrun scolded, "Bastard, where do we insist on staying for one night." ”

At this time, Li Shengrun heard the sound of horses' hooves in front of him, only to see countless cavalry rushing up, Li Shengrun saw countless soldiers being killed by the cavalry, and then looked at the soldiers around him who were looking at him with a longing face, and shouted, "Damn it, don't fight, order the troops to retreat!" ”

Li Fuying was mad when he heard the 400th Regiment retreating without authorization, and shouted: "The 425th Regiment can hold out for three days, why can't he Li Shengrun hold out for one night?" ”

Liu Tanfu shook his head and said, "Now is not the time to hold you accountable, anyway, Chief Yan also said that we can retreat, let's find a way to organize the defense of Tianzhen." ”

At this time, the signal soldier came in and shouted, "Report, urgent telegram." ”

Li Fuying slapped the table and shouted, "If there's any bad news, let's talk about it." ”

The communication soldier sweated and said, "The 425th, 402nd, and 401st regiments are in an emergency, and the Japanese army is divided into troops from Panshan to attack. Seeing the retreat of the 400th regiment, the soldiers of all divisions had no intention of fighting, and now they have retreated on all fronts. ”

Li Fuying was dumbfounded, and he didn't know what to say.

Liu Tanfu hurriedly said, "How did they retreat?" ”

The communications soldier stammered, "The telegram didn't say anything. ”

Liu Tanfu sighed, "Junzuo, let's withdraw too." ”

Li Fu stomped his feet and sighed, "Withdraw!" ”

At this time, the 399th Regiment in Tianzhen did not know the news that the front line had collapsed, and the routs of the four regiments did not know whether they were agreed or afraid of fighting again, so they all walked around the city, until Li Fuying sent a telegram to the 399th Regiment to hold on until the 11th before allowing the retreat. Zhang Jingjun of the 399th Regiment knew that he had become a lone soldier. Zhang Jingjun's troops differed from several other regiments in that his troops were not from Shanxi, but from Hebei and Shandong. There was no foundation in the Jin Sui army, Zhang Jingjun did not dare to disobey the order and hated the ravages of the Japanese army in Hebei, and decided to defend it wholeheartedly.

After Hideki Tojo broke through Panshan, he looked at the Chinese defenders who had retreated with great satisfaction, and said, "Order the troops to rest and recuperate, and then continue to attack Tianzhen." ”

As a result, the Japanese army, who thought that the Chinese army had retreated in its entirety, was taken by surprise under the city of Tianzhen.

Tojo Hideki looked at the high castle and deep trenches of Tenjin, touched his beard, and said, "Order a division of the Mongolian army to surround here, and the other troops will bypass Tenjin to pursue the defeated army." Ordered the Honda troops behind to storm Celestial Town. ”

Li Fuying, who retreated all the way, found that the Japanese army was not blocked by Tianzhen at all, but pursued all the way, and could only order the remaining 414 regiment to defend Gaoyang. He himself was preparing to retreat to Datong with his troops.

When the 414th regiment arrived in Gaoyang and saw Gaoyang City, the head of the regiment, Bai Ruyong, couldn't believe his eyes, and only saw that the city wall of Yanggaocheng in front of him was in tatters. It's almost a pile of bricks and dirt. The highest part of the city wall is only one or two zhang, and a large amount of loess is accumulated under the city and the city wall forms a slope. Residents of Yanggao are moving from and outside the city through these slopes.

What's even more terrifying is that a few days ago, some fortifications were urgently built, trying to make a lot of gaps in the city wall. Pillboxes were then built to serve as firing points. But as soon as the city wall was opened, and before the pillbox could be built, the Japanese army arrived. The current wall has numerous gaps. It's just flaws everywhere.

Bai Ruyong swallowed his saliva, looked at the troops behind him, and sighed, "Military seat." I can only do my best and obey the fate of God. ”

Seiichiro Shinohara, looking at Koyo Castle in front of him, asked suspiciously, "Your Excellency Commander, have there already been troops attacking?" Why is this city in tatters? ”

Hideki Tojo shook his head and sighed, "The Shina army is so unbearable, the intelligence says that the defense of Gaoyang City is weak, I didn't expect it to be so weak, don't rest, let the chariot troops attack directly." ”

There were less than 1,000 defeated soldiers and such a city defense, where could the elite Kwantung Army stop it, only held out for one day, the 414th Regiment lost more than half of the casualties and fled the battlefield, and then Tojo Hideki returned to Tianzhen to prepare to encircle and annihilate the defenders, and he continued to pursue the 61st Army with most of his forces. Due to the fact that there were anti-aircraft guns and a large amount of supplies and ammunition left by the 61st Army in Tianzhen City, the Japanese troops of the Honda Brigade suffered hundreds of casualties and did not take Tianzhen. At this time, the military commander of Tianzhen was Honda Masasai of the follow-up troops.

Honda Masasai looked at the corpses of Japanese soldiers hanging on the walls of Tianzhen and shouted angrily, "Order the artillery to release special shells!" ”

Suddenly, bricks and tiles flew in Tianzhen City, fireworks erupted, and poisonous gases filled the city, and the whole city fell into chaos.

Zhang Jingjun found that the Japanese army would definitely take advantage of the chaos to attack, and hurriedly organized troops to prepare for defense, when the county magistrate of Tianzhen and the chief of the police department suddenly visited.

Zhang Jingjun asked curiously, "Now that the war is urgent, why are County Magistrate Wang and Director Li here?" ”

County Magistrate Wang and Director Li glanced at each other, pulled each other's sleeves, and finally Director Li couldn't stand it and said, "Commander Zhang, we have no objection to fighting devils, but look at Commander Li now that he has escaped, how long can you defend?" Look at the poisonous gas of devils everywhere in the city now, and if you continue to fight, the people of the whole city will be martyred. ”

Zhang Jingjun hurriedly said, "Do you want me to surrender?" The devil occupies my territory and kills my soldiers, do you want me to surrender and become a traitor? ”

When County Magistrate Wang heard this, he knelt down anxiously and said, "Commander Zhang, let's go, and then fight." It doesn't matter if our people die, what will happen to the people of this city? I beg you, go away. As he spoke, he began to kowtow.

When Director Li saw it, he also knelt down and said, "Commander Zhang, if you want to be a hero, go outside to be a hero, okay, the people of this town are innocent, I beg you, you go quickly." ”

Zhang Jingjun looked at the two kneeling and kowtowing, listening to the explosion outside, and suddenly laughed, and the two slowly raised their heads to look at Zhang Jingjun. I didn't know what to say, Zhang Jingjun smiled and smiled, tears came out, and he said without strength, "Our army is incompetent, implicating the people, let's go, let's go!!! ”

As he spoke, he shouted to the outside world, "Bian Puhe, I order you to withdraw with the troops!" ”

Bian Puhe is the deputy head of the regiment. When I heard this, I said urgently, "Lao Zhang, let's go, what should you do?" ”

Zhang Jingjun said with a smile, "I am a guard, how can there be a reason to live alone in the city?" You retreat with your brethren. I must live and die with the city. ”

Bian Puhe hurriedly said, "If you don't go, we won't go, we have to go together, we have to die together!" ”

Zhang Jingjun suddenly took out a pistol and pointed it at his head and said, "I can't hold it anyway." We have also lasted until the time given by the military seat, you take the brothers to leave some seeds for our group, or you don't leave. I will die before you. ”

Bian Puhe burst into tears angrily, looked at Zhang Jingjun, who was also crying, and looked at the two who were kneeling on the side and didn't dare to speak, stomped his feet and said, "Order the troops-we withdraw!" ”

Honda Masasai was discussing military affairs with several other high-ranking Japanese officers, when a staff officer came in and said, "Report, Tianzhen suddenly opened the city gate, and a white flag also flew at the head of the city. ”

Honda Masasai shook his head and sighed, "I was disappointed to think that this defender was a tough guy." ”

When he came to the city gate, Honda Masasai only saw two people in robes with a group of people at the city gate, who were the county magistrate Wang and others.

Seeing the Japanese army slowly approaching, some people said to County Magistrate Wang in fear, "Prince, the Japanese won't mess around." ”

County Magistrate Wang smiled and said, "The Japanese army is also a human being, and people's hearts are flesh and blood, if you give him a hot face, can he still give you a cold ass?" You respect him, can he not let you be ten feet? Just rest assured, everything is ready. ”

Director Li next to him nodded and said, "I have asked each family to cook tea and prepare rice, and I have also prepared Japanese flags to plant on the street, everything is ready." ”

County Magistrate Wang nodded and said, "That's good, wait a minute, smile better, don't give the imperial army any bad impression." ”

Honda Masasai shook his head and said to the officer next to him, "Shina, how like a dog." ”

At this time, Honda Masasai suddenly heard a shout, and then saw a person jump from the city, hit the ground and die, so frightened that the Japanese soldiers hurriedly took their guns and stood on guard.

Honda Masasai pushed away the guards in front of him and asked in surprise, "Who is this?" What did he just say? ”

The interpreter hurriedly dismounted and talked to the people at the city gate for a while, then came back and said, "Report to Your Excellency Commander, this person is the commander of the defenders, Zhang Jingjun, the commander of the 399th regiment, and what he just said is that China will win." ”

Honda Masaki sighed, "There is really the style of the ancients, so why did he surrender?" ”

The interpreter replied, "It was the county magistrate and the police chief of this city who wanted to surrender, and the regiment commander could not bear to let the people be involved in the war, so he ordered the troops to retreat." ”

Honda Masasai shook his head and said, "If it weren't for these people, we would have been able to annihilate the enemy army, and if they were able to betray their own people at this time, would they be loyal to us?" It happened that the army had worked hard all the way, and ordered the troops to disband the military discipline for three days. ”

When the Japanese soldiers behind them heard this, they couldn't wait to rush to the city with cheers, and Honda Masako shook his head and smiled, "These naughty guys, okay, let's go back and rest." ”

The squires who were waiting for the Japanese army with menstrual flags at the gate of the city were a little nervous when they saw a group of fierce Japanese soldiers with guns surrounding, but they still laughed, and the county magistrate Wang was about to step forward to speak, but was stabbed in the chest by a Japanese soldier.

Everyone was stunned and looked at the scene in front of them, and a squire reacted and shouted, "The devil has killed someone!" Everyone hurriedly tried to scatter and flee, but where was the time, only to see the machine guns already on the city wall "da-da-da" roaring, bullets raining down on the crowd, people in a desperate wail, planted in a pool of blood...... None of the more than 200 unarmed people survived.

Then the Japanese army, which was ignited by the blood, rushed to every house in a frenzy and began to massacre the city, which was the first collective massacre of the Japanese army since July 7. During the massacre, more than 3,000 civilians were killed, homes in the city were looted, and courtyards were killed. In the streets and alleys, pedestrians are extinct, corpses are everywhere, countless women have been defiled, and even a 15-year-old girl was gang-raped, and several Japanese soldiers pulled her limbs and dismembered her body alive, and there are at least two or three female corpses in each of the more than 20 wells in the city. The crimes of the Japanese invaders are too numerous to mention.

After the slaughter of the city, the Japanese army did not stop doing anything, simply set fire to the city, the raging fire and black smoke told the world about the tragedy, when the Jiang intermediary in Nanjing saw the report, gritted his teeth and sent a telegram to Yan Xishan to order him to be held accountable.

On the other side, Li Fuying retreated to Datong with his troops, but found that the city of Datong was empty, and the reinforcements he said had not been seen until now, so he hurriedly sent a telegram to Yan Xishan to inquire about the situation.

Only then did I know that the Fifth Division of the Japanese Army had approached Pingxing Pass, and the Battle of Datong was canceled, and Yan Xishan ordered it to retreat to Yanmen Pass to prepare for the Battle of Yanshan.

When Hideki Tojo led his troops to occupy Daishi, it was only six days before he broke the mountain. In just five days, the second war zone was lost for hundreds of miles, and the battle situation in northern Jin was dark. (To be continued......)