Received a telegram from Feng Jiwu, reinforcements from a division of the Jin army, rushed to the front line of Niangziguan this afternoon, joined the ranks of the defenders, for Yan Xishan's little trick, Tang Qiuli would not even give a sneer, he went to the telegram, and asked Feng Jiwu directly, "With the current strength of the Jin army, can we ensure that Niangziguan is not lost?" ”

Feng Jiwu's reply was very simple, "No, with all the current strength of the Jin army, there are only more than 60,000 people, and the combat effectiveness, tactics, weapons and equipment of the Jin army are far inferior to our army, and they are by no means the opponents of the Japanese army who are several times their face to face." ”

Obviously, Feng Jiwu still couldn't withdraw, and the work of making wedding clothes for Yan Xishan was done, and the matter had come to this point, so he had to let Feng Jiwu nail him to the front line of Niangziguan, but he couldn't cheap this iron abacus, he issued an order in the name of the Northern Army Branch and the highest military commander of the Yellow River Valley Theater.

With the Niangziguan Defense Force of the Independent Division, the Niangziguan Garrison Force of the Jin Army, the Niangziguan Garrison Corps of the Yellow River Basin Theater was formed, with Lieutenant General Feng Jiwu, deputy commander of the Independent Division, and Han Tie, commander of the Third Independent Brigade, as the chief of staff, the unified command of the garrison must resist the enemy in front of Niangziguan to ensure that the east gate of Shanxi is not lost.

At present, the great enemy is not strictly ordered by the army, and there is no condition for victory, Feng Jiwu, commander of the Niangziguan Garrison Corps, is hereby authorized to decide the course of the campaign on his own, and those who retreat from the battle, fear the enemy, flee from the battle, and refuse to carry out the commander's orders, regardless of the unit to which they belong, regardless of their position, or the size of their rank, are disposed of on the spot without having to report to the theater command.

This move is very powerful, with the combat style of the Jin army, if Feng Jiwu deliberately makes their lives difficult, they will have a good look, don't you Yan Xishan hold on to the troops and not let go, that's good, I'll have a mix, the troops belong to the theater command, it is said that after reading this order, Chief Yan beat his chest, his face was full of pain, he had five divisions before and after, more than 60,000 people, it was a meat bun and a dog, and he never returned.

As long as it is within the scope of the Northern Theater of Operations, it is normal to be transferred there, and if you leave the ground in Shanxi, can you still be regarded as your own soldiers?

Tang Qiuli, Tang Qiuli, your doll is really a good scheming, but it is not easy for him to jump out and oppose it, there is no reason to take a foothold, he thinks he is unlucky, and he is not willing, so Chief Yan is distressed and has a nest of fire, and he has closed his door for several days in a row, and he has lost his temper from time to time, and even his favorite five sisters have been scolded.

He didn't know that Tang Qiuli gave Feng Jiwu a secret mission, and on the premise of ensuring the safety of Niangzi Pass, he would look for an opportunity to get rid of the senior officers loyal to Yan Xishan, take the troops of the five divisions of the Jin Army into his own hands, and pay close attention to transformation, and then mix them into the various units of the independent division.

Yan Xishan uses my Tang Qiuli's troops as a meat shield, I will dig your heart from behind, take your time, your Yan Xishan's family background, sooner or later it will be mine, I don't know it, I will snatch it back from the hands of the Japanese, Tang Qiuli has already made a plan, Shanxi and Shandong, must be independent divisions to control the self-scoop area.

Tang Qiuli was not worried at all that Yan Xishan would openly turn to the Japanese, with the situation in North China for three or seven years, the appetite of the Japanese army was obviously not only a province of Shanxi, but also that the high-level Japanese army at this time, when the fighting spirit was strong and self-confidence was bursting, they were all mainly on the offensive, and they did not disdain to use the Huairou policy to divide and disintegrate the local forces and factions, and to attack the central army as the main strategy.

At this time, Tang Qiuli was already in the hinterland of the Taihang Mountains, and there were only more than 1,000 troops and more than 100,000 Japanese troops by his side, and after entering the Taihang Mountains, under the command of Yamaguchi, the new chief of staff of the North China Dispatch Army, he learned the lessons of the previous lone army, the fighters caught by the independent division, and the annihilation of the Wei formed troops.

Yamaguchi has enough confidence and patience, the troops of the independent division are pinned down in various battlefields, and no one can save the squadron of Taihang Mountain, he has an intuition that Tang Qiuli is in his net, but the scope of the net is relatively large at present, and he has not surfaced yet.

In this battle, there is no room for error, whether it can gain a foothold in the army, fill a gold star on the shoulder, in this move, Yamaguchi controls the troops, specific to the brigade level, every two hours, the communications department will ask each brigade one by one about the specific location, whether there is any trace of the independent division and Tang Qiuli, Yamaguchi is not too tired to panic, personally work in front of the map, Tang Qiuli is his primary target.

The deployment of the mountain pass did give Tang Qiuli great difficulties, on several occasions, fighters finally appeared, Ma Chaoyang's second brigade had already marched to the predetermined area, but found that this seemingly lonely Japanese army was the strength of a division behind it, not good, this Japanese army was not eaten, Ma Chaoyang's brigade would fall into the Japanese army's counter-encirclement, but there was no force to rescue, he had to revoke the combat order.

Several fighter planes were lost in this way, and after the two divisions of the Japanese army chasing Liu Chun and Tong Batu's cavalry troops joined the battle sequence of the Japanese army in Taihang Mountain, the large net of the mountain pass was woven more thickly, and the Japanese army gradually advanced from east to west, like a thick wall, pressing forward.

Everywhere they went, the villages were reduced to ruins, scorched earth everywhere, and the people in the base areas, before the arrival of the Japanese army, under the organization of the local government and local troops, gradually withdrew south in an orderly manner, and all the valuables that could not be taken away were buried on the spot, and the grain was only taken away for a few days, and the rest were hidden on the spot in the villages.

This was in accordance with the order of Tang Qiuli, special commissioner of the Taihang Mountain District Administrative Commissioner's Office, to clear the walls and fields in the whole base area, so as not to leave a grain of grain for the Japanese army.

Taihang Mountain Base Area, after several years of construction and recuperation, coupled with a large number of immigrants into the population, and the promotion of new planting methods, and the large-scale construction of farmland, is already a prosperous scene, the days of the common people, than the outside of the mountain is hundreds of times stronger, there is no landlord old wealth, scoundrels and hooligans oppression, there is no exploitation and oppression at the Yamen in the past, full stomach, is no longer a dream, many people, through guò their own hard work, thrifty housekeeping, has built a big house with bright windows, in the blood, has been integrated into the breath of this land.

After receiving the government's order to retreat, they were all reluctant, but thinking of who gave this good day, they couldn't help but pack up their things, and then, around their own houses, look at them over and over again, they also know that the government will not let themselves suffer, and the notice said that after the Japanese devils are repulsed, according to the actual losses, the government will pay for the construction of new houses for everyone.

Six or seven hundred thousand people, plus many government agencies, industrial and mining enterprises, formed a mighty army retreating south, leaving behind empty cities and villages, where the Japanese army could destroy cities and towns, but could not slaughter the Chinese people.

Feeling that the strength of the Taihang Mountains was weak and could not achieve the combat intention of destroying the enemy under the condition that the Japanese army was gathered, Tang Qiuli issued an order, and the Huangyadong Garrison Brigade was immediately upgraded to the main force of the independent division. Undertake the combat mission of the Japanese army invading the Taihang Mountain base area.

In this way, Tang Qiuli's hands had two infantry brigades and two cavalry brigades with more than 32,000 troops, and what was lacking was an artillery unit, which could fight a head-to-head battle with a division of Japanese troops, but Tang Qiuli was not prepared to do so, he was not facing a division of Japanese troops.

After the Japanese Guangyuan Division entered the Taihang Mountains from the direction of Maling Pass, its vanguard unit, the Seto Wing, was in a hurry to advance, and the distance between the main force of the division and the main force was much greater than that of other troops, and on November 21, the Seto Wing advanced to the area of Saiyuling, which is the hinterland of the Taihang Mountains, and the terrain is complex, which is a typical mountainous area.

The elevation of the main peak Yangqu Mountain is 2,000 and 58 meters, surrounded by countless mountain peaks, the pines and cypresses are verdant, the ditch is deep and dense, the caves abound, the terrain is extremely complex, and after the rain of the year, several dry ditches are washed across the period, look at each other across the mountains, come together for a day's time, the movement of the large corps, is extremely unfavorable.

After Tang Qiuli received the information, he immediately locked the Seji Wing as the target that must be annihilated in the first battle of the Taihang Mountain base area, and he ordered the intelligence chief Yu Deshui to bring the topographic map of Hanyuling, and looked at the map for a long time, feeling more and more that this is an ideal battlefield, as long as the several dry ditches entering Hanyuling are blocked, the Segu Wing inside can't get out, and the Guangyuan Division outside can't get in.

The key to this battle lies in whether the peripheral blocking troops can withstand the attack of the main force of the Guangyuan Division, as long as they can withstand the attack of the main force of the Guangyuan Division, as long as they can withstand the attack for six hours and attack the troops of the Segu Wing, they can cleanly and completely kill the Japanese army.

In Tang Qiuli's hands, there are only two infantry brigades that can be used, and the number of troops is a little less, there is no way, but the rice is in the pot, he is quite hesitant in which brigade to use to block the main force of the Guangyuan Division, and in the end, he decided to use Ma Chaoyang's independent second brigade to serve as the blocking task.

Jiang Yanming's Huangyadong Garrison Brigade is responsible for the task of attacking the Seto Wing, and he knows very well that in this battle, the troops who are responsible for the blocking task will be under pressure several times more than the troops who are responsible for the attack mission, and they will face several times the Japanese army, desperately attacking, and the Japanese troops have a tradition that if one unit is surrounded, the rest of the troops will desperately save each other, and will never care about the price they pay.

This point is much stronger than the ** troops that pay attention to preserving their own strength, and Yu Guanghan, chief of staff, quickly formulated the Hanyuling battle plan according to the intention of the division commander, and then issued it to the participating troops.

Ma Chaoyang Brigade and Jiang Yanming Brigade, who received the order, immediately set off from their concealed garrisons overnight and rushed to the predetermined location.