Chapter 285: Strange Clouds (Asking for Subscriptions, Asking for Monthly Passes, Asking for Various !! ）

Shimoto Kumanya could never have imagined that the Chinese army, which was more timid and cowardly than rabbits in his eyes, would transform into jackals and tigers after suffering a devastating blow, which shocked and angered Shimoto Kumanya.

The battle continued, and the extremely powerful Imperial Japanese Army of Shimoto Kumaya was repulsed again and again, and the Shina army would launch counter-charges from time to time. This was the craziest Chinese army he had seen since the 108th Division led by Xiongya Shimoto, and he couldn't imagine how many people would be left of the 60,000 army if it went on like this, and he was also worried about how many of his troops would be left after this battle.

At 10 o'clock in the morning of the 10th, the 38th Army finally broke through the Gaoshu Wing that was blocked between the remnants of the 38th Army and 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 equipped army, the army commander Li Jiayu was seriously injured, 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, 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.

Without saying a word, Sun Weiru ordered the remnants of the 47th Army to immediately withdraw to Luliang to rest and wait for the replenishment of the war zone. But all the officers and soldiers of the 47th who were not injured refused to retreat, they wanted to fight to the end with the little devils, Sun Weiru knew that these Sichuan babies were red-eyed, and it was useless to say anything, so he simply left them all, and just sent a guard company to escort the wounded officers and soldiers back to Luliang for treatment.

Seeing that the Chinese army fought to the death and did not retreat. Not at all by the powerful soldiers of the Japanese Imperial Army, but the more brave he became, thinking of the Taiyuan City in danger, Xia Yuan Xiong Mi was afraid, he was really worried about the irreparable consequences due to his recklessness, as a soldier he was not afraid of death, but he was afraid of not dying on the battlefield, but he was more afraid of dying in shame.

Thinking of the harshly worded telegram of His Excellency the Commander, Shimoto Kumaya finally couldn't hold it anymore and ordered the independent mixing of the 15th Brigade into His Royal Highness. The 108th Division played in the vanguard. Trying to return to Gujiao.

But how could Sun Weiru, who was already determined to entangle them, let them go easily, and immediately ordered Zhao Shoushan's 38th Army to press up desperately, and at the same time ordered Liu Enmao's 15th Army to resist in front, and if he couldn't stand it, he would raise his head to meet them. For Kumaya Shimoto. At this point, the situation is taking a sharp turn for the worse. The offensive and defensive postures of both sides have reversed. The Japanese army went from encirclement to breakout. The Chinese army, on the other hand, became the encirclement party.

Due to the superiority of the 15th Army in the field, and the aircraft of the 8th Theater of Operations have not been interrupted, the breakthrough of the Xia Yuan 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 the headquarters of the Xia Yuan Institute fell into a bitter battle, the 8th and 10th Wings of the Japanese Army at Yanmen Pass fell into an unprecedented crisis. From the morning of the 10th, the Chinese army transferred a large number of heavy artillery to bombard the city pass, and the gap that was not up to the city was widened again, and even the gate of Yanmen Pass completely collapsed at 11 o'clock at noon, what made the Japanese army even more frightened was that the Chinese army actually sent heavy chariots to participate in the battle, and with the assistance of those behemoths, the Chinese army finally attacked Yanmen Pass.

Even so, Sawada Shigeru did not allow the Japanese army to retreat, but ordered the two major wings to continue to hold on to Yanmen Pass, to engage in street battles with the Shina army, and told the Yanmen Pass guard general Yokoyama Taketaro Osa that they would hold out for an hour no matter what, and reinforcements would arrive in an hour.

The line from Ningwu Pass to Yanmen Pass is the most important line of defense blocking the eighth war zone in China, and once this line of defense collapses, then only the Xinkou line remains. But without the important pass of Yanmen Pass, can the thin defense line in the Xinkou area alone stop the frantic attack of the hundreds of thousands of troops?

The answer is obvious, without the protection of the natural barriers of the two important passes of Yanmen Pass and Ningwu Pass, Xinkou is just a woman who has been stripped naked, and the people of China can violate it as much as they want, so Sawada Shigeru can't let Yokoyama Taketaro retreat anyway, even if he wants to retreat, the order should not be given by him Sawada Shigeru, because this responsibility he can't afford as a lieutenant general.

Li Yifeng 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 Yanmen Pass 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, the general seat also said that the main force for the capture of Taiyuan this time was the troops of Commander Yan of the Second War Zone, and the troops of the Eighth War Zone were just going to respond to the scene, and their battlefield was in Hebei.

The battle at Yanmen Pass was very smooth, and the Japanese army was only at the end of its crossbows, and even if there were reinforcements, it would not be possible to hold on for long. Under the strong attack of the planes and heavy artillery and combat vehicles of the Eighth Theater, the Japanese troops guarding Ningwuguan suffered heavy casualties, and Li Wensheng's troops seized Chengguan many times.

Fortunately, Kawagishi Bunzaburo's 20th Division was 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, presumably it would not be a problem to defend the front line of Jinzhong with the combat effectiveness of the 20th Division.

Qingxu is also okay, Umezu Mijiro has withdrawn all the defenders of Taigu and Qingxu to Qingxu, and now the defenders of the Qingxu defense line also have more than 6,000 people, plus more than 3,000 imperial troops, the total strength has also reached a small number of 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 the 40th Brigade to withdraw to Taiyuan, and the third brigade of the independent mixed front army is already on the way to Shimen, five days is enough time for this army to arrive in Taiyuan from Shimen, if there are two more brigades of mobile troops, 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.

Just when Umezu Mijiro was glad that the 20th Division was stationed in Jinzhong County in time, there was extremely bad news from the direction of Yanmen Pass, the 8th and 10th Wings were routed by the Chinese army and surrounded by the Chinese on the way to retreat, and the remnants had surrendered to the Chinese at this time.

Then there was news from the direction of Ningwu Pass, a brigade of the Zhina people had set off from Yanmen Pass and rushed to Ningwu Pass, if the defenders of Ningwu Pass did not retreat, they would be attacked by the front and rear of the Zhina army at that time, and it would be too late to retreat. In desperation, Umezu Mijiro had no choice but to order the defenders of Ningwuguan and Daixian to immediately withdraw to Yuanping, and telegraphed to Sawada Shigeru, the commander of the Fourth Division of the Japanese Army, that if Yuanping could not be defended, the troops could also withdraw to Xinkou.

At the same time, General Umezu Mijiro authorized Sawada Shigeru to be in charge of the defensive operations on the front line of Xinkou, but General Umezu Mijiro also gave Lieutenant General Sawada Shigeru a death order, Xinkou is the rearmost defense line of the Fourth Division, if you can't resist the attack of the Shina people, then everyone including him Sawada Shigeru will leave their lives there.

Relying on iron-blooded means, Umezu Mijiro finally stabilized the battle line again, but he also knew that if he didn't find a way to fight back, his first army would probably be planted in the hands of the Shina people this time. For this reason, he had to pull down his subordinates and ask General Binshan Yuan for help, asking him to send a large army to help immediately.

Far away in Beiping, Binshan Yuan Zhilu said, simple reinforcements can not solve the problem of Shanxi at all, the people of China are determined to take back Taiyuan, and the lack of reinforcements is simply not enough to dispel this attention, so they must think of other ways.

Major General Naosaburo Gangbe, chief of staff of the North China Front, has been in the post of chief of staff of the Front Army for a year and a half, so he has a much clearer view of the situation in North China than Senior General Binshan Yuan. He analyzed that the reason why the Second Theater launched the Second Battle of Taiyuan at this time was not only to contain the imperial army in North China and create a favorable fighter plane for the government of China to concentrate on blocking the imperial army in China in Wuhan.

More importantly, the Second War Zone was supported by the Eighth War Zone, and if you want to prevent the Second War Zone from conquering Taiyuan, then you have to let the Eighth War Zone withdraw its troops. In this way, the second war zone in China, which has lost the cooperation of the eighth theater, will withdraw without a fight, so all the problems are still in the eighth war zone in China.

Major General Naosaburo of the Rear Gang Department proposed a countermeasure, that is, to open up another battlefield against the Eighth Theater of Operations in China and force it to immediately withdraw its troops from the Shanxi battlefield.

After the decision of the top brass of the Japanese North China Front, the Front Army immediately transferred the 10th Division in Shandong to the north, and together with the 32nd and 33rd Divisions and the Yamashita Division, which had recently been replenished from China, formed a large army of more than 100,000 troops, and with the assistance of the aircraft and artillery battlefields, launched an all-front attack on the Eighth Theater of China from the direction of Weixian, Yangyuan, Tianzhen, and Zhangjiakou, forcing the Eighth Theater of China to return to these places, and there was no time to take care of the Shanxi battlefield.

Once the Eighth Theater withdraws its troops, it will be difficult to support the Second Theater alone, and as long as the First Army comes back, it is still unknown who will destroy whom.

The Japanese moved extremely quickly, and as soon as the order was given, the 10th Division stationed in Texas began to assemble overnight. The 33rd Division of the Japanese Army stationed in Tianjin also began to hand over the defense area to the Tianjin Garrison Brigade and actively prepared to go north. In addition, the Japanese 32nd Division stationed in Handan also began to urgently shrink its forces and was ready to go north at any time. With the issuance of one order after another by the North China Front, the battle broke out again, and the situation became treacherous for a while. (To be continued......)