Chapter 1 New Battle of Xifengkou??
Outside the Iron Gate, after the Jewish Independent Brigade completely tore apart the defense line built by the Kuta Direct Wing, it did not stop long and went straight to the main shoji. Behind them, after about three hours of fierce fighting, the officers and men of the 3rd Division and the Teaching Corps withdrew from the battlefield and retreated to Tiemen Pass after the 2nd Mixed Brigade arrived.
During the campaign, the 3rd Division, the Independent Brigade, and the 29th Army Teaching Corps killed more than 3,000 Japanese soldiers and wounded more than 5,000 people. The Cadet Army itself also paid the price of more than 3,000 casualties, of which more than 1,000 were killed in battle, which was the largest casualty since the Cadet Army was established.
The war report was sent to Ouyang Yun, and to everyone's surprise, he did not report and reward his troops, but instead gave Stern and Li Ganjiang a major demerit, and only commended Tong Linge. The reason for this was that they were extremely dissatisfied with the proportion of casualties on both sides, believing that it was a great shame that the Japanese army lacked heavy firepower to support it and that there were already tank troops on the other side. In his original words: "What do they think our Weiqing-style assault step is? Is it the same burning stick as the 38 big cover? A modern unit with a 'light machine gun' in its hands fights a group of devils with only single-shot rifles, and they are embarrassed to ask for credit. Li Ganjiang or Stern? Everything they learned in military schools was thrown into Java? ”
To outsiders, it is remarkable that the Cadet Army can achieve such a brilliant victory, at least, as many newspapers in the country describe it. Of course, it is not without newspapers that have raised doubts, the Chinese army has been weak for too long, and now there is a contingent that has won all the battles in the face of the Japanese invaders, but this contingent has nothing to do with Nanjing, and as the mouthpiece of the Nanjing government, these newspapers will inevitably play the role of public supervision. Every day will win, why don't you see it to take back the three northeastern provinces? Didn't its commander clamored at every turn to fight to the end and restore the rivers and mountains? The Japanese are now looking at North China, but North China is someone's territory, so he can only actively resist the war. As for the so-called restoration of rivers and mountains, before Jicha and Pingjin were all central territories, but now? It seems to be no different from the Cantonese and Gui systems. And the most hateful thing is that someone obviously wants to be a warlord, but he wants to shout slogans loudly......
Ren Qiu advocates freedom of speech, and as long as it does not involve military and scientific and technical secrets, any newspaper in China can set up a pavilion to sell newspapers here. For example, this central newspaper, although it has not been selling well, the existence of the newspaper has its own function, so even if it loses money and makes money, there are people who insist on publishing it in Renqiu.
As soon as this issue of the newspaper came out, the student army government headed by Ouyang Yun had not yet reacted, but the mouthpieces of the student army such as "Renqiu Daily" and "Renqiu Times" could not hold their breath. Among them, Mei Lanshu, who had already arrived at Renqiu Radio Station, couldn't help but publish a signed editorial, which ruthlessly exposed and criticized the power of the newspaper and its representatives. And after her, Lu Xun, who was in Shanghai, also published an editorial titled "Warlords who dare to resist the war are also good warlords", clearly supporting the student army, and calling Ouyang Yun a little friend, saying that in his lifetime, he should go to Renqiu and Pingjin and his party, and take a good look at the student soldiers and the 57th army who are fighting along the Great Wall, and bow to them and their families.
Just when the domestic newspapers were quarreling because of a successful news from Renqiu Daily, Ouyang Yun in the front finger of Xifeng fell into a huge panic.
His opponent, Kiyoji Kazuki, was not a fuel-efficient lamp, and while the Cadet Army was spreading out heavy troops along the line of the Great Wall, the First Army of the Japanese North China Front began a long march. The Japanese army was obviously the attacker, but Kazuki Kiyoji asked the 9th Division to dig fortifications and build bunkers outside the Xifeng Pass, as if it was going to be defended for a long time. At the same time, the rest of the troops began to rush north along the Great Wall, first to Luo Wenyu, where they had a fierce exchange of fire with the defenders of the Xuebing Army for several hours, just when Ouyang Yun thought that the little devil wanted to use Luo Wenyu as the main direction of attack, Xiangyue Qingji turned around with a large army and continued to go north, running towards Heiyu Pass. There is only one regiment-sized Self-Defense Force responsible for guarding Heiyu Pass, and then there are two regiments of Dadao that have made a detour to the past. At this time, Dadao had already left Heiyu Pass and had an encounter with the 10th Division of the Japanese army. At the cost of more than ten dead and wounded, Broadsword completely annihilated a squadron of the Japanese army. After that, the broadsword escaped into the mountains and forests near Heiyu Pass, and the Japanese army did not pursue, but directly skipped Heiyu Pass and turned to Gubeikou.
"What do the Japanese want to do?" Facing the passes of the Great Wall of Ji Realm, which suddenly fell silent, Ouyang Yun fell into thought. After a day and a night of rapid marching, the chariot regiment of the Jewish Independent Brigade had reached the Great Shosho, and after clearing out several small enemy forces on the periphery, it would soon form an encirclement and breakthrough of the Great Shoshoi. At this time, the 3rd Division and the Teaching Corps once again launched an attack on the Japanese troops outside the Iron Gate Pass, and had already gained a local battlefield advantage. However, what puzzled all the senior officers of the Cadet Army was that in the face of the possible loss of the big shoji, the Japanese army did not send troops to rescue the emergency, and not only that, but the remnants of the second brigade and the first brigade of the mixed brigade suddenly retreated in the direction of Xifengkou after resisting for a long time, and they took the initiative to withdraw from the battlefield near Tiemen Pass.
On the same day, a division of the 57th Army launched a tentative attack on the Japanese garrison outside Shanhaiguan, and sure enough, it was not the 108th Division stationed there, but a mixed force composed of the puppet army, the puppet Korean army, and the Japanese army. The division also resisted for only a few hours before abandoning its position and retreating towards Suizhong.
The Japanese 108th Division's raid on Luo Wenyu was a clever move by Kazuki Kiyoji, but the fact that its large army passed Luo Wenyu and did not enter made everyone feel that this move was a bit inexplicable. Moreover, the Great Shoji is indeed the logistics base of the Japanese army, and once the Great Shoji is lost, the logistics support of the Japanese army will definitely become a problem.
Just when Ouyang Yun and Zhang Zizhong exchanged views on the phone, the intentions of the Japanese army were finally clearly revealed. That night, the Japanese defenders of Oshoko began to retreat to the rear after setting fire to the remaining supplies. The Jewish Independence Brigade pounced, feeling like a punch in the air. At about two o'clock in the morning that night, the Japanese army, which had been in a state of rapid march, began to launch an offensive towards Nantianmen.
The defenders of Nantianmen had only one battalion of the garrison of the 29th Army, and under the heavy artillery fire of the Japanese army, they were completely unable to organize a resistance to the fortifications and were blown up, and then, after holding out for half an hour and suffering nearly fifty percent of the casualties, they began to rout towards the territory of Bao County.