Chapter 284: Zhanjing Cheng (Asking for subscriptions, monthly passes, and various !! ）

On the evening of December 9, it was quiet outside the city of Jingcheng County, only the searchlights of the Japanese military frame on the city closed flickered and flickered, piercing the night sky in the distance from time to time. Jingcheng County is located in the west of Hebei Province, at the eastern foot of Taihang Mountain, adjacent to Luquan, Yuanshi County and Zanhuang County in the east and southeast, Yuxian, Pingding and Xiyang counties in Shanxi Province in the west and southwest, and Pingshan County in the north. It is not only an important place for soldiers to fight for all times, but also the only way to pass through the east-west traffic, and has the reputation of "Yanjin thoroughfare".

After the Japanese army occupied the county seat, they stationed heavy troops here, but because the Japanese army transferred all the main forces of the 20th Division to the west, the number of defenders with the county town of Jingcheng was also sharply reduced. So far, there is a squadron of Japanese troops and a battalion of the puppet army. However, according to Xu Bao and others' investigation, the Japanese army here said that it was a squadron, but in fact there were only two infantry squads with less than 90 members.

And the infantry battalion of the puppet army is also an empty shell, one battalion is no more than two infantry companies that are not fully staffed, and the total strength is only more than 160 people. With the addition of more than 90 devil soldiers, the defenders of Jingcheng County are only more than 250 people.

However, Jingcheng County is a very important transit station on the Zhengtai Railway, so the Japanese army's railway station has placed a railway unit, although the number of people is only a squad of more than 50 people, but the weapons and equipment are much better than the ordinary field troops, and more importantly, there are two railway armored vehicles, when necessary, this railway force can also be converted into a field army, and it has to be guarded.

In addition, there is a huge mining area more than 30 kilometers away from the county seat of Jingcheng. It was originally the property of the Li family, a wealthy man in North China, but when the Japanese came, they forcibly took it away and handed it over to Mitsui Co., Ltd. and Mitsubishi Co., Ltd., famous Japanese heavy industry groups. At present, there are more than 120 large and small mines in the whole mining area, tens of thousands of miners, and more than 500 Japanese garrisons and supervisors.

Although this is only a mining area, if there is any movement in the county, they can come to reinforcements at any time. In addition, the mining area has to transport the plundered mineral resources to the county seat every once in a while, and transport them to all parts of North China through the station in Jingcheng County, and even back to the Japanese mainland through the port of Tianjin. In addition, the Jingcheng mining area has to go to the county seat to purchase daily necessities almost every day, so for the sake of insurance, Xu Bao decided to include this mining area as the target of the attack.

The one responsible for capturing the county seat of Jingcheng was Xu Bao's special operations division. The special operations division has always been a trump card in Chen Feng's hands. Rarely show people. Even some high-ranking officers at the division and brigade level in the Eighth Theater were unaware of the existence of the Ludao Special Operations Division, but only knew that the Ludao Theater Command had a special operations team directly under its jurisdiction, which had super combat effectiveness.

This time, in order to smoothly seize Shimen, Chen Feng specially transferred the first brigade with the strongest combat effectiveness from the four brigades of the special warfare division to participate in the battle.

With the expansion of the troops of the 8th Theater of Operations. There are also special operations divisions, and the original one brigade has become the current four brigades. In addition, a special operations course was established at the Military Academy. In addition, the elite of the special operations division was sent to the Sumushan campus to teach, and the teaching materials of the special operations department were compiled by Chen Feng himself, and it was less than a month before the graduation of the first batch of special operations scientists. It was expected that by the beginning of 1939 the special operations division would be expanded to 5,000 men.

The 800 special combat soldiers were divided into two routes, one to capture the county seat of Jingcheng and the other to capture the Jingcheng mining area. The capture of Jingcheng County was personally commanded by Xu Bao, and the troops attacking the Jingcheng mining area were led by Zhou Tiedan, the captain of the first brigade.

Taking advantage of the night, Xu Bao led 500 special combat personnel to lurk outside the city of Jingcheng County, where he was waiting for a signal from the city. Two days ago, a special operations squad had already lurked in the county town of Jingcheng, and according to the operational plan, the operation was scheduled for 11 o'clock in the evening, an hour before the Japanese changing of the guard. First, the special combat team members in the city quietly touched the sentry at the east gate, and then opened the city gate and put the disguised special combat team into the city.

As a matter of fact, there is no need to deal with a small county town with less than 300 defenders, and with the strong combat strength of the special combat team, even a strong attack will be decided in one fell swoop. However, Chen Feng asked the special operations division to seize the county seat of Jingcheng without alarming the Japanese army in Shimen and Baoding, and pretended to be a Japanese soldier to guard there.

This requirement has infinitely increased the difficulty of the task, and in desperation, Xu Bao had no choice but to order the special combat team to adopt Li Daitao's tactics, lurking + disguise.

Suddenly, the light of the searchlights on the county city wall dimmed, and then the entire east gate fell into darkness. Immediately afterwards, a small light source lit up on the city wall, and at a glance, it was clear that it was a flashlight or something.

"Master, there is movement, two long and one short, it is our people!" Zhu Yingyong, the leader of the second squadron of the first brigade, whispered.

Xu Bao looked at it carefully, the signal was correct, and then waved his hand and said: "Act according to the original plan!" ”

"Yes"

At 11:40 p.m., Chen Feng received telegrams from Xu Bao and Zhou Tiedan, saying that they had successfully occupied the county seat and the mining area of Jingcheng, and that Zhou Tiedan had rescued more than 20,000 Chinese miners and three foreign journalists.

After receiving the telegram, Chen Feng was overjoyed and immediately ordered Xu Bao and Zhou Tiedan to guard the county seat and mining area of Jingcheng. Especially Zhou Tiedan, in addition to guarding the mining area, he also has to organize the miners and be ready to transfer at any time.

After the special operations division occupied Jingcheng County, Yang Yi immediately ordered the Fuping Independent Brigade to transport the weapons and equipment to Jingcheng County, and at the same time notified the Nangong Independent Brigade and the Handan Independent Brigade to immediately send people to collect them. At the same time, the Fuping Independent Brigade also urgently rushed to the periphery of Shimen to assemble and stand by, ready to cooperate with the airborne troops in the theater at any time.

The Japanese were unaware of the occupation of the county seat and the mining area by the Chinese army, because the Japanese military top brass firmly believed that there was no large-scale presence of Chinese troops in the vicinity, and besides, the county seat of Jingcheng was defended by danger, and it was impossible to take it silently.

Before dawn on the 10th, the Japanese 108th Division, which had just rested for less than an hour, continued to attack the 47th Army in the encirclement, and after yesterday's half-day and one-night battle, the 47th Army now has less than 2,000 people left, and even the army commander Li Jiayu was seriously wounded, and the troops are now under the command of Deputy Army Commander Luo Zezhou.

However, due to the 47th Army's sworn counterattack, the Japanese army also suffered a lot of losses, losing more than 2,400 people in the attack of half a day and one night yesterday alone, and the chariot wing, which was pinned on by Xiongmi Shimoto, was completely reduced to a pile of scrap metal, and the losses were extremely heavy. More importantly, due to the decisive battle of Li Jiayu's department, the plan of the Xia Yuan Xiong Mi department to annihilate the 47th Army was in vain, and the protracted battle put the Xia Yuan Xiong Mi department in a dilemma.

At the same time, Sun Weiru commanded the 38th Army of the Fourth Army and the 15th Army of the Fifth Army to flank the Japanese army from the front and rear. After fighting all night yesterday, the Japanese 117th Wing, which was in charge of Zhankouzi, suffered extremely heavy losses, and now there were less than 1,500 people left in the entire reinforced wing, and the loss of more than 2,300 soldiers was as much as 2,300.

At this time, Xia Yuan Xiong Mi also sensed the danger, although he was not afraid of the army in front of him, after all, the 47th Army had been annihilated, with 90% of the soldiers killed and wounded, and the rest was just an empty shell. And after the battle of last night, the 38th Army and the 15th Army of Dangchina also suffered a lot of losses, and if he was given time, it would only be a day or two to defeat these two armies.

But as His Excellency Umezu said, two days is enough time for the people of China to capture Jinzhong and Qingxu, and before his troops return to Taiyuan, the people of China have already come to the city, not to mention that the hundreds of thousands of troops in the eighth theater of China are staring at them, if they do not get rid of these troops in front of them as soon as possible and return to Taiyuan, General Umezu will have no troops to defend Taiyuan, and the final result will be the loss of Taiyuan, and the more than 300,000 troops of the North Branch of the First Army will be encircled and annihilated in Shanxi, and he is definitely the culprit of the failure of this battle.

Therefore, today Xia Yuan Xiong Mi gave a death order to all the troops on the front line, half a day to destroy the 47th Army of China, defeat the 15th Army and the 38th Army of China, if it cannot be successful, the whole army will return to Gujiao, return to Taiyuan, and absolutely no longer spend time with the people of China in this ravine where birds do not.

However, the ideal is beautiful, but the reality is cruel. Before dawn, before the Japanese attacked, the 38th Army on the southern front took the lead in launching a fierce attack on the Takashu Wing. As soon as the battle began, the two sides entered a white-hot stage, and the Chinese army not only launched a large-scale group charge, but even brought in tanks and mountain artillery to help, causing great pressure on the defending Japanese army.

At the same time, the 15th Army on the northern front also took the initiative to launch an attack on the main force of the headquarters of the Yuansuo Division. Liu Enmao knew that although his troops were lucky enough to escape, Li Jiayu's 47th Army was shot for him. But his fifteenth army is still extremely dangerous, the Japanese 108th Division and the independent mixed fifteenth brigade is equivalent to cutting off the retreat of the fifteenth army, once these two Japanese troops turn around, then his fifteenth army is the end of the day, so taking advantage of Sun Weiru's hesitation to fight to the death, he also ordered the troops to fight back desperately, and if they don't die, they will die in battle, so the fifteenth army also burst out with huge energy.

The remnants of the 47th Army, which was surrounded by the Japanese army, were even more red-eyed, and they had already run out of ammunition and food, but at dusk yesterday evening, the transport planes of the Eighth Theater specially parachuted a large amount of supplies into their remnants. Although a large part of it was robbed by the little devils, some of it still fell into their hands, which was enough for their remnants to have the capital to continue fighting. (To be continued......)