This is an extremely ordinary small courtyard, which is inconspicuous anywhere in Shijiazhuang, and if it were not for the sign "Headquarters of the North China Independent Division of the National Revolutionary Army" hanging at the door, it would not have attracted anyone's attention.

Xiangyue Qingji stared at this sign, the devil Tang Qiuli, it was in this ordinary small courtyard that he commanded the troops to fight with his own army of 400,000 for six days, and he didn't know the casualties of the independent division, anyway, the soldiers didn't catch a single prisoner, they didn't find a single corpse of a Chinese soldier, their own casualties were put in their hearts, and almost two divisions lost their combat effectiveness.

A guard rushed over, raised the butt of his gun, and was about to smash the sign, but was stopped by Xiangyue Qingji, keeping it, it was also a symbol of victory, and he took a photo in front of the sign, and he occupied the headquarters of Tang Qiuli, the supreme governor of North China, and also gave an explanation to the base camp.

Pushing open the courtyard door, on the closed door, it was written in Japanese:

"A warm welcome to the Japanese invaders to the command of the contemptible people! It's your honor to wait for the Wakos."

Entering the house, it was very clean, clean, spotless, obviously, the owner was in a very calm situation, did not hurry to leave, all the furniture in the city is lame, only here, a desk is placed in the middle of the room, on the table is placed a rub jiàn, the chair is written "Please sit!" ”

Where did Kazuki Kiyoji dare to do it, waved his hand and asked a staff officer to bring the text on the table, the content of the text was an independent division and brigade, the number of annihilated Japanese troops reported, and how to deal with the prisoners, nothing else, the more Kazuki Kiyoji looked at it, the more panicked his heart became, however, his attention was quickly attracted by a military map on the wall and a cartoon glued to a thin wooden board.

On the map, the positions of the defense of the independent division, the time, route and area of the evacuation, as well as the firepower equipment, etc., if this map was obtained before the war, the independent division would have been taken away by Xiangyue Qingji, but now, the rest is just a mockery of him, however, he doesn't think that when Tang Qiuli retreated, he was so flustered that he even forgot to take the map, there must be a trick in this.

And that cartoon made Kazuki Kiyoji even more angry, a tiger-headed little Chinese boy was skimming urine into the steel helmet covered with the Japanese flag and the Japanese military flag, a large group of Japanese officers and soldiers, kneeling aside and smirking, seemed to be waiting to take turns drinking urine, and what was even more infuriating was that the creator of the cartoon drew the Japanese army into pigs' heads.

The more Kazuki Kiyoji looked, the more he felt, the pig-headed officer headed by him was very much like their most honorable Emperor Hirohito, not only that, but all the Japanese officers and soldiers had the same feeling, the more they looked at it, the more they looked like it, it was not that kind of realism, it was a kind of god-like, a young Shaozuo, couldn't bear it, and scolded angrily "Yaga!" Inferior people, dead and dead! Furious, he rushed over and ripped off the planks and caricatures.

There was a loud "boom", like a match, thrown into the gasoline barrel, and the mines buried in the reserve of the house exploded violently, the house collapsed, and the huge explosion force lifted the roof, the dirt flew, the dust was everywhere, the broken wood and bricks flew in the air, and it was also mixed with the broken limbs of the Japanese army.

After the explosion, the smoke of gunpowder was filled, and the Japanese officers who rushed over after hearing the news looked at the explosion scene in amazement, and learned that His Excellency the Supreme Commander was also in the house, and they were immediately shocked.

In the ruins, there was a sudden intermittent moaning, "Quick, there are still people alive!" A group of Japanese soldiers rushed up, picking and digging picks, digging potatoes and dragging out a person from the soil, his face was covered with dust, and he couldn't see the appearance clearly, if it wasn't for the rank of general on his shoulder, no one would recognize it, this is the commander of the million-strong army in North China, His Excellency Kiyoji Kazuki.

His Excellency, the awakened commander, looked blankly at the officers around him, his eyes were scattered, and the hearts of the Japanese generals sank, bad, Your Excellency wouldn't be blown up into an idiot, right? Hurriedly called the military doctor, and after a while of busy work, Kazuki Kiyoji finally came to his senses, and let out a moan with palpitations.

He should not die, when the explosion occurred, those die-hard guards around him immediately pounced on him, and made a meat shield with his body, and the bodies of the guards were inserted like hedgehogs by shrapnel.

The Japanese soldiers, who were encouraged, then dug through the ruins, and dug out a few more senior officers, but they were not as fortunate as His Excellency the Commander, either missing arms or legs, and then their faces were full of pockmarks, and the mud on their bodies became beggars' clothes, and as for the other officers, they did not even have the slightest luck, and turned into minced meat, mixed with dust.

This trick dragged the knife and almost wiped out the command of the North China Dispatch Army's Middle Route Army, such a big move is the masterpiece of Shen Jun, director of the investigation department of the division headquarters, and Fu Gang, the captain of the sniper brigade of the special operations detachment.

Kazuki Kiyoji, who came to his senses, did not forget the sign outside, and ordered the soldiers to take it off and transport it back to Beiping, this time, the Japanese soldiers had experience, and those generals who returned to dust and dust and earth were examples, and they were extra careful, tied with ropes, and then retreated far away, and His Excellency the commander, who was full of discord, was just about to scold these cowards.

There was a loud bang, sawdust flew all over the sky, there was an ambush behind the sign, looking at the sign that turned into a pile of broken wood, the Japanese officers and soldiers, looking at each other, all felt a cool breeze coming from the back of their heads, the methods of the people were really despicable and vicious, Kazuki Kiyoji didn't even have the heart to be angry, and Tang Qiuli didn't leave him any face-saving things.

Tang Qiuli, who withdrew to the edge of Taihang Mountain, did not feel much more relaxed in his heart for being able to retreat with his whole body, and the six-day bloody battle, with a strength of less than 90,000 troops, withstood the frantic attack of the Japanese army of 400,000 people, and the difficulties can be imagined.

In the past six days, the casualties of the troops were close to more than 10,000 people, especially the first, second, and third independent brigades that served as the main force of defense, and the casualties were more than one-third.

According to the original plan, the six brigades of the independent division left in North China adopted a flexible blocking method to delay the Japanese attack momentum as much as possible at the minimum cost, and only blocked it for three days, and then retreated into the Taihang Mountains to attract the Japanese army with a part of the troops, and the main force suddenly appeared behind the Japanese army all the way, taking him by surprise.

However, Tang Qiuli learned that in the area of Niangzi Pass, Yan Xishan only sent two second-class divisions, with a total strength of less than 23,000 people, and there were no heavy weapons such as heavy artillery.

Although there was a plan to put the Japanese army into Taihang Mountain and Shanxi, and after thinning its forces, it would seek an opportunity to annihilate one or several of its routes, and send the Japanese army back to the North China Plain, but that was under the premise that Taiyuan had enough time to prepare to evacuate the citizens and equipment, and now, Yan Xishan had no intention of giving up Taiyuan at all.

With the weak brigade of the two divisions of the Jin Army, can they withstand a charge of hundreds of thousands of Japanese troops? The answer is obvious, it will be drowned by the tide of Japanese troops, previously, his plan to Yan Xishan was that the main force of the Jin army would defend the two directions of Datong and Niangzi Pass separately, and after the independent division put the Japanese army into the Taihang Mountains, relying on the base area, it would adopt a mobile and flexible combat mode to drag the Japanese army in the mountains.

Then, most of the independent division, rendezvous with the Jin army, encircled and annihilated the Japanese army attacking Shanxi, in this way, Taiyuan can be recovered quickly, and the Japanese army will also withdraw from Shanxi, and it will not dare to attack for a long time, and it will also buy time for Yan Xishan to reorganize the army, but this qiē has been messed up by the treacherous and cunning Yan Xishan.

After learning that Yan Xishan was not in Niangzi Pass, and there were heavy troops stationed in the news, Tang Qiuli was extremely angry, he saw through Yan Xishan's selfishness and small abacus, and used the troops of the independent division to withstand the attack of the Japanese army in Shijiazhuang, and he could save the province.

But reason told him that the consequence of this could only be to let the Japanese army occupy the entire territory of Shanxi along the way, and the troops would point directly to the south bank of the Yellow River, and the hinterland of the Central Plains would be threatened by the strict, once the millions of Japanese troops in North China went south, they would have to suffer from the enemy on their backs, and the Yellow River defense line that had been painstakingly managed would collapse on the whole line, and the Japanese troops in the Songhu area of the southern front who were temporarily repulsed would make a comeback and try their best to seek to join the Japanese army going south on the northern front.

In a fit of rage, he sent a sternly worded telegram to Yan Xishan, "Chairman Yan Xishan, previously, the strategic plan of the Northern Army Branch and the General Headquarters of the Yellow River Valley, you must have fully known that with the main force of the Jin Army, the two strategic points of defending Datong in the northeast of Jin and Niangzi Pass in the east of Jin, the troops of the Independent Division were in the center, looking for an opportunity to annihilate the Japanese army invading Shanxi on one road, and then attacking the Japanese army on the other road with all their might. "But how do you do it? With two divisions and weak brigades, defending such an important point, you have led the troops for many years, and you don't know that Niangzi Pass is the eastern gate and barrier of Taiyuan, once the Japanese army breaks through Niangzi Pass, within two days, you can come to Taiyuan City, at that time, your Chairman Yan's family background, I'm afraid they are all from the day of the tiger and wolf, Shanxi is your Chairman Yan's Shanxi, not my Tang someone's Shanxi, what does it have to do with me? ”