Chapter 653: Okamura Ninji's Secret Weapon

Okamura Ningji tightly surrounded the Yellow Cliff Cave, but did not do it for a long time, the battle of Guanshan began, this road of the Japanese army in Okamura Ningji's strict order, regardless of fatigue and the combat effectiveness and body of the soldiers, forcibly launched an attack on the Guanshan position of Feng Jiwu's troops, I don't know whether it was out of arrogance, or the Japanese army composed of the Kwantung Army as the main body, did not take the Chinese army in their eyes at all, and even used only two wings, under the cover of no artillery fire, to launch an attack on Feng Jiwu's corps with 80,000 people.

The attack of the stone with the egg doomed the fate of the Japanese army, Feng Jiwu's troops did not blink an eye, swallowed the fat sent to the mouth, after giving the Japanese vanguard a heavy blow, Feng Jiwu ordered the whole line to attack, this is a risk, but the success of the decision is great, the strength is superior, the firepower is superior, and the rest is waiting for work, plus the new victory, the Japanese follow-up troops will have time to expand in the future, all the favorable conditions are on Feng Jiwu's side, if the Japanese army is allowed to gain a firm foothold, 80,000 against 60,000, can only be a confrontation, He didn't want to be in a protracted positional war.

The order was issued, more than 80,000 soldiers, swept away like a wild wave, collided head-on with more than 60,000 Japanese troops, splashed the sky with blood, more than 100,000 people, in the boundary capital to Leping, more than 40 kilometers wide frontal fighting, the guns shook the sky, the cannon rumbled, the smoke of gunpowder covered the sun, the shouts of killing were endless, the fierce battle was fierce, the Japanese army threw thousands of corpses, was repelled more than 30 kilometers, withdrew from the boundary capital to Leping line, and defended Heshun.

Heshun is a larger town between Licheng and Yangquan, about a few thousand households, the ancient city wall, surrounded by all around, the moat riverbed that has long dried up, overgrown with artemisia grass, full of desolation and depression, but at this time it is already a person to go to the city, like a ghost domain, only one hundred and ten homeless wild dogs, screaming to welcome the tired and almost vomiting blood of the Japanese soldiers, seeing the arrival of these kinds, hungry green eyes of the wild dogs, grinning at the Japanese soldiers, greeted the wild dogs are dense bullets, Instead, it brought long-lost meat to the Japanese soldiers.

The Japanese army, with a strength of less than 60,000, retreated into Heshun in one go, and they did not dare to retreat again, Commander Okamura Ninji's order was to attack, and it was already a big shame to be repelled by the Shina army, and the famous Kwantung Army troops, when had they suffered such a big loss, and before the battle began, they lost two field wings in the whole formation, and lost thousands of people piecemeal, and used Heshun as a base for attacking again.

Feng Jiwu commanded the troops, almost in front of the feet and behind the feet to the city of Heshun, and the thousands of Japanese guards who had time to enter the city, were swept away by the vanguard of Feng Jiwu's troops, lost more than half of the men and horses, and fled into the city without armor.

Feng Jiwu immediately ordered the troops, stop the siege, surround Heshun from all sides, fight this kind of battle, there is no complete certainty, Feng Jiwu will not make such a low-level mistake, he has enough patience and the little devil to consume, Heshun surrounded a large pile of Japanese troops, Okamura Ningji could not be indifferent, as long as he mobilized troops to rescue, it was to reduce the pressure in the direction of Huangya Cave, and made due contributions.

He was secretly glad that the Japanese army did not confront him in the field, in that case, the next battle would not be easy to fight, and the Japanese commander was also secretly glad that the troops did not suffer too much losses and could hold on to the favorable geographical location of Heshun, but he would soon regret his decision and want to hit the wall.

Heshun City is extremely spacious, countless empty houses, can be arbitrarily chosen, in more than tens of thousands of people can also be accommodated, the well has been re-dug out, the soldiers can already drink cool well water, heating is not a problem, the Imperial Army soldiers have played their ingenuity, everything that can be burned, are used, the camping house, warm as spring, the most important thing is food, the entire Japanese army, before the start of the attack on Guanshan, only prepared enough for the five days.

A huge empty city, more than 50,000 mouths, five days of food, outside the city is a blind side of the Chinese army, the Japanese commander has a splitting headache, and keeps scolding "stupid pigs, stupid eggs and Baga", and I don't know whether to scold his staff or himself, however, he will never admit that he made a mistake in command, did not establish a blocking position outside the city, and has become now trapped in a lonely city, and never admit that he was frightened and confused at that time, just seeing the thick city wall, he did not think of the food in his hand.

He had no choice but to bite the bullet, with the fragile heart of being insulted, to send a telegram asking for help to Commander Okamura Ningji in Huangyadong, in the hinterland of the Taihang Mountains, and truthfully reported the predicament faced by the troops, and there was no problem in holding on to peace for as many days, as long as there was enough food and provisions, he believed in the bravery of the soldiers of the Imperial Japanese Army.

However, what is lacking now is food and provisions, he did not think of breaking through, the order of His Excellency the commander is to attack Niangziguan and Taiyuan, the breakthrough is another way of attacking, in the face of the encirclement of the superior strength of the Chinese army, without foreign aid, it is tantamount to suicide, he telegraphed only one request, send reinforcements or send supplies, the soldiers of the Chinese army outside the city, in a short period of time, have built a large number of positions, I am afraid that as soon as the city gate is opened, it is the intensive firepower of the Chinese army.

Okamura Ninji replied by telegram, ordering him to hold on to Heshun for at least five days, within five days, the situation will definitely change in favor of the imperial army, the Japanese commander held his head, no matter what, he couldn't guess what kind of medicine was sold in the gourd of His Excellency the commander, five days, five days later, he had to drink the northwest wind, no need to fight, the soldiers of China came into the city to collect the corpses.

Not only did the Japanese commander who retreated to Heshun not understand, but the entire North China Dispatch Army did not understand why His Excellency the commander concentrated all the main assault forces in the barren land of the Taihang Mountains, allowing the troops of the devil Tang Qiuli to suppress more than 100,000 imperial troops in Shijiazhuang, and there was also a vague tendency to threaten Beiping and Tianjin.

All the senior generals of the Japanese army, there are quite a few whispers in their hearts, Taihang Mountain fascinates His Excellency the Commander, and the smaller Huangya Cave area makes His Excellency the Commander crazy, and the place where the palm is big, more than 200,000 troops have been gathered, just for an insignificant cave, the new commander's way of using troops, it is really confusing, let Shijiazhuang and Heshun go to the rescue, what does he want to do? To say that His Excellency the Commander is unfathomable is rather a paranoid, and for the sake of Huangyadong, he even disregarded the interests of the Japanese Empire in North China.

All the senior commanders of the Japanese army do not understand Okamura Ningji's good intentions, Huangya Cave must be taken, this must not be changed, using so many troops, just for a small Huangya Cave, it is inevitable that he will underestimate him Okamura Ningji, 240,000 troops, really used to attack Huangya Cave, only 60,000 people, the rest of the troops, Okamura Ningji has long been arranged to enter the Huangya Cave area on the various necessary roads, spread a big net, just waiting for Tang Qiuli's reinforcements to arrive.

Okamura Ningji didn't believe it, Tang Qiuli didn't worry when he saw his supply base, he was surrounded by heavy troops, he made a move, and the fate of tens of thousands of soldiers was enough to make the devil Tang Qiuli turn all his attention here.

Okamura Ningji didn't make a move for a long time, just to observe Tang Qiuli's reaction, give him time to deploy troops, and also, from the failure of the Ryuichi Brigade in the near mountain, Okamura Ningji understood a truth, Huangya Cave relied on the dangerous terrain, strong fortifications, and his own troops, no matter how many troops he went up, it was impossible to smash the defense system of the independent division, he was waiting for a secret weapon, with him, no matter how hard the fortifications were, it would be difficult to escape the fate of being destroyed, which was another main reason why he was slow to act.

Now, the secret armed forces have finally been transported to the front line of Huangyadong, and the installation is completed, just waiting to overdrink the blood of the soldiers of China, today is a good weather, you can attack, there is no wind in the early morning, the bright morning sun, climb up to the eastern sky, the breeze sends the breath of early spring, the willows on the sunny slope, the dark red branches, bulging spores, among the dead grass, a few patches of new green, quietly poke out of the head, in the middle of April in the Taihang Mountains, the attractive spring color has been faintly visible.

This is an ordinary good weather, but the soldiers who have experienced the first day of the defense of Huangya Cave, many years later, recalled the scene at that time, and said with palpitations that "the sky is falling", just this sentence, a muffled sound, the earth trembled, and in the distant sky, there was a scream of objects cutting through the air, and the soldiers almost wondered that it was spring thunder, but spring thunder was not so dull.

There was an explosion, a huge cloud of gunsmoke, mixed with countless pieces of dirt and rocks, flew up in the air, and the entire core area of Huangya Cave trembled violently in this explosion, and before the soldiers could react, the explosions sounded one after another, the rocks flew, the trees fell, the mountain peaks trembled, and the earth shook.

Chang Feng slept late last night, feeling that he had just closed his eyes, and was woken up by the violent shaking of the marching bed, and on the wall of the cave above his head, a ball of dirt fell, Chang Feng got up, and his first reaction was that the Japanese army began to attack, and he grabbed the phone to ask about the situation at the front. There was only the rustle of electricity in the headphones, and there was no echo at all.

Grabbed a submachine gun and rushed out, and collided head-on with a staff officer, who was covered in mud and dust, as if he was a soldier who had just crawled out of the trench, "Report to the commander-in-chief, the Japanese army carried out a large-scale artillery bombardment of our defensive positions outside Huangyadong at 6:30 this morning, and all wired communication to the front line was completely cut off. The voice of the report, while clear, was tinged with alarm.

Chang Feng looked at his watch, at 6:45, the Japanese army had been shelling for fifteen minutes, and it was in the outer position, this staff officer had been at the command headquarters, and he had not gone to the front line, how did it look like a vicious battle, Chang Feng couldn't help but wonder in his heart.

(To be continued)