Chapter 289: The Panicked Japanese Army (Asking for Subscriptions, Asking for Monthly Tickets, Asking for Various !! ）

The Eighth War Zone conquered Shimen, and the news spread quickly, which made Lao Jiang in Wuhan and Yan Lao Han in Shanxi quite surprised and ecstatic at the same time. The importance of Shimen to the Japanese army is very clear to these two, if Shimen is lost, not only the Zhengtai Railway will be interrupted, but also the Pinghan Railway will stop at Shimen, this problem is no less than a disaster for the Japanese army.

Immediately, Lao Jiang personally sent a congratulatory telegram to the Eighth War Zone, and at the same time ordered the Eighth War Zone to hold the stone gate for one month. Chen Feng smiled disdainfully after reading the telegram, a month, he Jiang bald head can think of it. If he guards Shimen for a month and does not withdraw, then the main forces of the entire North China Front will all open fire on him, and it will not be a good thing for the Eighth Theater of Operations to continue to develop and practice.

Moreover, his own situation is well known, and the enemy he Chen has to face is not only Japanese. If Japan is a country, Chen Feng can deal with it calmly, and he will definitely be able to kill all these guys 45 years ago. But the problem is that he still has to recover from the Soviets, including Outer Mongolia, Sakhalin Island, and a large area east of Lake Balkhash, Hong Kong from the British, Macao from Portugal, and the major inland concessions from France and the United States.

Therefore, the stone gate must be defended, but it cannot be defended, and the troops will have to withdraw after subduing Taiyuan, if they are not withdrawn. The consequences are severe.

For Chen Feng's hand, Yan Laoxi also felt very amazing. Secretly said that this kid is really China's god of war, and this method of killing with one blow from east to west is skillful, and the Japanese have been unlucky for eight lifetimes when they meet him. At the same time, the old man is full of confidence in recovering Taiyuan again, without the Zhengtai Railway, the first army is equivalent to weaning, and it can't kill this group of bitches' beasts, and it can consume them all to death in a few more days. His old man was worried about whether Shimen's troops could hold that strategic place and how long they could do it, and even this old man personally sent a report to Chen Feng. Asked if he needed to send a corps to reinforce him.

Chen Feng really hoped that this old man would send a force to relieve the pressure on Yang Yi and the others. But the problem is that Shimen is now hoarding a large amount of materials and equipment, and these things can't fall into the hands of others, let alone let others get involved. So after thinking about it again and again, Chen Feng still rejected Yan Laoxi's kindness.

Although he rejected Yan Laoxi's kindness, Chen Feng still didn't dare to be careless about the defensive task in the Shimen area. In addition to ordering the entire army of the Fuping Independent Brigade to be stationed in Shimen. Build fortifications. At the same time, Chen Feng also ordered the Laiyuan Independent Brigade and the Yixian Independent Brigade to immediately stop harassing the Baoding area. The army immediately went south to Shimen, captured Luquan, Lingshou, Pingding and other counties, and cooperated with Fuping's independent travel.

The airborne brigade immediately escorted some of the valuable materials back to Datong. This carefully cultivated airborne elite is a treasure in Chen Feng's hand, and it is a last resort to conquer the city, but it is completely unnecessary to defend the city.

At the same time, Chen Feng ordered Li Wensheng and Li Yifeng to intensify their attacks, and must break through the Xinkou line within three days to give a strong deterrent to the enemy in Taiyuan.

After the Yanmen Pass and Ningwu Pass were broken through, General Umezu Mijiro knew that the Ludao fighter had been lost, and it was a great luck to be able to stick to the line from Xinkou to Taiyuan. But now that Shimen has been lost, especially after the batch of munitions transported from Beiping to Taiyuan fell into the hands of the Zhina, General Umezu Mijiro feels that death is approaching, and if the front army cannot quickly recover Shimen and open up the Zhengtai line, his first army will be eaten alive by hundreds of thousands of troops in China.

Knowing that there was nothing to be done, Umezu Mijiro was very knowledgeable and ordered the defenders in various places to immediately shrink their forces, and only keep the defenders of Yuanping and Jingle north of Xinkou, and form an iron triangle together with Xinkou, hoping to prevent the Shina army from moving south.

In the direction of Gujiao, General Umezu Mijiro ordered Motokumaya to break through the interception of the 15th Army in China at all costs, be sure to return to Gujiao before the 12th, and at least one division should be drawn back to defend Taiyuan. The same is true for the direction of Jinzhong and Qingxu, if the defenders can't hold on, they can immediately move closer to Taiyuan.

General Umezu Mijiro's thoughts Chen Feng and Yan Laoxi both saw it clearly, Yan Laoxi was not good at fighting against the wind, but he was still very good at beating water dogs, and he didn't dare to work too hard, but now when he saw that the First Army had become a toothless tiger, the old man was powerful. The 35th Army of Fu Zuoyi, which had the strongest combat effectiveness under his command, was transferred to the Gujiao front line and put into the siege of the 108th Division.

Xia Yuan Xiong Mi is also a wonder, knowing that the general trend of the road has gone, and the entire Shanxi battle situation will be dragged down by himself, the strong man broke his wrist, and ordered the independent mixed 15th Brigade and the first wing of the mountain artillery to block the Chinese army on the spot, and he personally led the main force of the 108th Division to launch a fierce attack on Liu Enmao's headquarters in the north.

Although the 15th Army also resisted desperately, it was finally torn open by the subordinate of Shimoto Kumaya, and the main force of the 108th Division was able to break through.

Although the 108th Division fled, the 15th Brigade Regiment of Major General Seiichiro Yuhara's independent mixed brigade was not so lucky, except for Major General Seiichiro Yuhara who was lucky enough to break through with a brigade, all the others were annihilated, so that the battle from Liushuyan to Gujiao finally came to an end temporarily.

In this battle, the three armies commanded by Sun Weiru suffered heavy losses, especially Li Jiayu's 47th Army, with less than 2,000 of the more than 20,000 people left, and more than 1,000 of them were seriously wounded who were carried off the battlefield, and the casualties reached 100%, and the entire army was finished. Zhao Shoushan's 38th Army also suffered considerable losses, with only more than 14,000 of the 23,000 remaining and more than 9,000 casualties. As for the lucky 15th Army, the result was also very miserable, with more than half of the casualties of each of the two divisions and more than 10,000 casualties. At the time of departure, the three armies of more than 60,000 troops were less than 25,000 soldiers at this time, and the casualty rate reached 66%.

Sun Weiru's troops suffered heavy losses, and the Japanese army was not comfortable, but before Xiong Mi came, there was a division, a brigade, plus an artillery wing and a tank wing. But after retreating to Gujiao, as soon as the number of people was counted, Xia Yuan Xiong was so angry that he almost vomited blood, except for his 108th division, the whole army was still complete, and the 2 brigades were still counted, but the strength of 20,000 people was less than 16,000, which had to count the 2,000 wounded, and the other 4,000 people were either killed or missing. In that case, once contact with the large forces is lost, there is little hope of survival.

As for the 15th Brigade Regiment of Independent Mixed Brigade, it would have been much more miserable, with less than 1,500 people left in a mixed brigade of more than 6,600 people, and the loss of soldiers had reached 70 percent.

And those two technical arms wings basically did not exist, less than 1,000 of the more than 5,000 troops returned, and the rest were all killed in battle. Therefore, the Japanese army also paid more than 13,000 losses in this battle, which was not expected by everyone before the war, and such huge losses made the first army, which was already overstretched, even worse.

Despite this, Sun Weiru still commanded the army to continue the attack in the direction of Gujiao, and he knew the importance of Taiyuan to Governor Yan. If you can't beat the Taiyuan Commander Yan, at most give him some money, maybe he will give some weapons and equipment, but it will definitely not be too much, the soldiers don't think about it, the casualties of the Jin Sui army in this battle are not small, with the degree of the old man's door, it is impossible to replenish his soldiers at all.

But if Taiyuan is captured, it will be a different matter, after the defeat of Taiyuan, all the troops participating in the battle will definitely be rewarded for their merits, and his Fourth Army has paid a huge price for this battle, even if Yan Laoxi buys people's hearts, he can't treat himself badly.

Therefore, even if you grit your teeth, you have to knock down Taiyuan, which is not only about the honor of the Second War Zone, but also about whether the army left by Yang Dashuai can survive. Dashuai trusts himself and handed over his family foundation to himself before going abroad, how can he live up to his trust.

On the afternoon of the 12th, the 40th Brigade Regiment that returned to Shimen was ambushed by the Chinese army not far from Jingcheng County, and the Zhina people had already planted explosives packs on the mountain wall, and also planted mines on the rugged mountain road, and used the telegraph machine in Jingcheng County to send a telegram to the 40th Brigade to lure them into being deceived.

When the 40th Brigade entered the ambush circle of the Chinese people, it was attacked by the Chinese people, and the sudden explosion of tens of thousands of explosives bags and mines caused the mountain cliff to collapse, and a complete infantry brigade was buried alive under the cliff road.

The sudden destruction of the 40th Brigade caused the Japanese army in Shanxi to fall into complete panic, and there were less than 60,000 remaining in the 100,000-strong army, and these 60,000 people would face the threat of lack of ammunition at any time, coupled with the heavy bombardment of their positions by the Chinese air force day and night, an atmosphere of unease permeated the entire First Army.

The Japanese army is like this, those puppet soldiers are even more miserable, with the lesson of Shimen, the first army has learned to be obedient this time. The puppet army only distributes weapons when they are forcibly driven into battle, and the ammunition is pitiful. In peacetime, all of them were imprisoned in the barracks by the Japanese army, and they were also guarded by heavy soldiers to prevent the puppet army from backing the water.

Even so, General Umezu Mijiro also knew that the First Army was really in danger, so he sent telegrams asking for help to Beiping one after another.

Umezu Yoshijiro was well aware of the significance of the First Army to the North China Front, and to His Excellency Commander Binyama Moto. General Terauchi Shouichi lost his official position because of a garrison in Mongolia, and if the First Army was annihilated by the Shina Army, I am afraid that His Excellency Binshan Moto's life would be better than that of His Excellency Terauchi Shouichi.

On the one hand, he ordered the 32nd Division to go north as soon as possible, and at the same time ordered the 10th Division to also turn around and drive to Shimen. In addition, Senior General Binshan Yuan also sent a telegram to Yan Junliu, commander of the Central China Front, to forcibly transfer back the two flying wings that had been transferred to the Central China Front.

Just in case, General Binshan Motodai called Umezu Yoshijiro and ordered him to immediately shrink and order, and prepare for the transfer to Hebei. At the same time, in order to appease the officers and men of the First Army, Binshan Moto ordered the commander of the Provisional Air Corps, Tokugawa Yoshitoshi, to airdrop supplies for the First Army at all costs. (To be continued......)