Chapter 262: The Battle of Xiaowutai Mountain (8)

Badarhu looked at the large group of bandits in a dejected manner, surging in three directions like a tide, and as if blocked by a hard rocky reef, he retreated back to the place where he had just set out.

In two assaults, the bandits left behind more than a thousand corpses, and returned in vain, but fortunately, the Japanese army in Badarhu, behind these bandits, did not suffer any losses, but he knew very well that it was a matter of time before they were destroyed.

Judging from the sound of artillery fire from all around, the independent division used at least three artillery wings of firepower, Tang Qiuli was ruthless enough, and he actually invested so much money for the sake of thousands of Japanese imperial troops.

Badarhu is completely desperate, the retreat has turned into a breakthrough, which has made him chaotic, the breakthrough is not successful, and there is no chance of life, the main force of the independent division, so quickly touched, it is simply a mystery, how did it be done, the soldiers of the two squads sent to the perimeter to guard and reconnoitre, there is no news so far, it should be all the jade shattered, and the murderer is none other than the main force of the independent division that surrounded it.

The morning sunshine shrouded the small town of Winter Warm Spring in a quiet atmosphere, and the chimneys of each family emitted curling smoke, and the town that slept all night woke up under the spring sunshine and began to live a normal life every day.

Tang Qiuli had just woken up from a sweet sleep, and he didn't rest until the 113th Brigade of the 29th Army received a telegram from weapons and ammunition, so he slept with peace of mind, and the rest was handed over to Liu Tiehan to deal with.

A telegram, which was sent to him by the operational staff officer who was rushing to him, dispelled the drowsiness, and the content of the telegram explained in detail the situation on the battlefield of Xiaowutai Mountain, especially the situation of the bandits breaking through twice.

At the end of the telegram, Liu Tiehan asked if he would immediately launch a full-line attack to deal with these bandits and the Japanese army, looking at the telegram and comparing it with the map on the wall, Tang Qiuli had a new idea in his mind.

He ordered the operational staff officer to immediately send a telegram back to the deputy division commander, just eight words: "Surround but not fight, wait and see what happens," the combat staff officer did not understand his meaning, just that little bandit, a cannon can be completely solved, it is easier than eating a plate of tofu, but the division commander let tens of thousands of troops, accompany the bandits and little devils to spend there, I don't know what the division commander thinks.

Liu Tiehan, who received the telegram, did not understand Tang Qiuli's intention at first, he thought for a long time, vaguely felt some context, and ordered all brigades and troops to immediately build fortifications on the spot, as long as the bandits do not break through, the troops will not attack, and there will be no forgiveness for the bandits or Japanese soldiers who dare to break through, and resolutely surround these guys here.

Subsequently, he asked Zhao Dengyu's brigade to immediately withdraw its defensive position, and the 4th Regiment of the 1st Independent Brigade to take over the defense, escort weapons and ammunition, and immediately return to Beiping, without delay along the way, to distribute this batch of equipment to the units of the 29th Army as quickly as possible, so as to quickly form combat effectiveness and prepare for the provocation of the Japanese army.

Zhao Dengyu and the officers and men of the whole brigade, the comrades-in-arms of the independent division who were very reluctant to say goodbye, this battle left a deep impression on them, no matter the ferocity of the firepower, the individual soldiers of the soldiers, the strategy and tactics, they had never seen before, these soldiers of the 29th Army were very envious of the independent division.

Tang Qiuli's thinking has jumped out of the battlefield of Xiaowutai Mountain and considered it in the overall situation of the entire North China.

In North China, Pingjin and Tianjin, Tianjin is the location of the Japanese garrison army in North China, stationed with heavy troops, Beiping is surrounded on three sides, in an absolute defensive position, and the Shanhaiguan line, completely controlled by the Japanese army, Jidong is the territory of the traitor Yin Rugeng, the Kwantung Army can follow this channel, quickly increase troops to North China.

Whether to fight or not, when to start, and on what scale the war will be, these initiatives are all controlled in the hands of the Japanese, this kind of feeling of being scared all the time is really uncomfortable, and I don't know when these madmen will provoke the war on a whim, and in their own land, they will suffer from this kind of wretched gas, Tang Qiu can't swallow this breath.

When the Independent Division did not come to North China, the defense force in North China, especially in the Pingjin area, was only the 29th Army, and the Nationalist Government was forced to take a defensive position without support.

At present, the total strength of the Japanese army in the whole of North China is no more than 50,000 people, and they are scattered at various key points, and the independent division plus the troops of the 29th Army has a total strength of more than 120,000, which has an absolute advantage.

For the thousands of Japanese troops surrounded on the battlefield of Xiaowutai Mountain, the commander of the North China Garrison Army, Tashiro Wanichiro, will not sit idly by, he will definitely take action, if he openly sends the Japanese army into an organized system to relieve the siege, that is to tear the skin with the Nationalist Government and prepare for a full-scale war with China, which is also the instruction of the Japanese army base camp.

It means that the full-scale war between China and Japan came a year ahead of schedule, and he just took advantage of this opportunity to concentrate two troops and eat the 50,000 Japanese troops in North China first with absolute superiority.

When the Japanese mobilize a large number of troops into North China, their own troops will entangle them in North China and take advantage of the vast strategic space in North China to maneuver with the Japanese, so that they will have no time to go south; even if all the troops are exhausted, it will certainly arouse the Nationalist Government to be highly vigilant against the Japanese ambitions, and will also gain time for the Nationalist Government to prepare for war.

If Tashiro Wanichiro does not move his troops and prefers to abandon these thousands of Japanese troops and let them be wiped out by himself, it means that the Japanese side is not ready for an all-out war against China, or it is unwilling to disrupt its overall deployment for this extraneous incident.

The ingenious thing is that the surrounded Japanese army, disguised as bandits, did not show up in public, and pretended to be confused, so they took these little devils as * hostages to see what the Japanese would do next.

It would have been too dramatic if the Japanese had taken into account the current military balance in North China and were afraid that the Japanese Army's strategy of advancing northward had prevailed in the mainstream of Japan, and that the strategic direction and goal of the offensive had been aimed at the vast Siberian region of the Soviet Union.

Let Japan, a fat and strong little fighting dog in a state of madness, go to fight with the behemoth of the Soviet polar bear, bruised and exhausted, and will not have the energy to realize the arrogant dream of invading the whole of China; perhaps, the Chinese nation, which has suffered a lot, will survive a war imposed on itself, and it is not a blessing for the people that Japan may abandon Manchuria and withdraw from China because of the decline of its national strength.

Of course, this is the best wish, and it is not impossible, in Japanese military circles, there are two mainstream consciousnesses, divided into the army faction and the navy faction, the army advocates the northward advance, attack the Soviet Union, and Nazi Germany, meet in Europe, divide the Soviet Union, Japan to obtain the Asian part of the Soviet Union, Nazi Germany to obtain the European part of the Soviet Union.

When the German-Japanese-Italian fascist Axis was established, it was the consensus of Germany and Japan, and Japan's ambition to occupy the Soviet Union never stopped.

The Soviet Union, on the other hand, has never given up its vigilance against Japan's northward ambitions, otherwise, under the Soviet Union's cities of Stalingrad and Moscow, the Soviet army and the Nazi German army were inextricably separated, and they hardly supported or dared to use nearly one million troops of the Far Eastern Military District on the Sino-Soviet border to confront the million Kwantung Army.

Of course, Tang Qiuli hoped that this ideal ending would happen according to his own hopes, and he did this because he had other considerations, which was also to verify the attitude of the local powerful faction in North China, especially the local emperor in Shanxi.

He immediately dictated a long and dazzling telegram to Chairman Chiang, explaining that the independent division was suppressing bandits in North China, and that the war had now fallen into a state of stalemate, and that the troops were scattered in various areas of the Taihang Mountains to fight hard battles, and that all units of the independent division would certainly live up to the high expectations of the chairman and fight bravely to exterminate the bandits at an early date.

In the telegram, he did not mention the fact that there were more than 3,000 Japanese soldiers and were surrounded by himself, so it was worth paying it back; now, the last thing Chairman Chiang wanted to provoke was the Japanese, and the Red Army of Zhu Mao in northern Shaanxi was enough for him to be busy and have a headache, Zhang Xueliang and Yang Hucheng Yang did not go all out, and Chairman Chiang was troubled

If you knew that there were more than 3,000 Japanese soldiers surrounded by you, and they were ready to eat them at any time, according to the old man's temper, he might fly to Beiping in person, and order himself to release them in person, maybe he would scold a few words

What they have is time, the initiative is in their own hands, and they are quietly watching the attitudes and actions of the forces of all sides, and the Japanese pretend to be dumb and play dumb riddles themselves, and it is best for the Japanese to blatantly use the military force of North China, and they also have an excuse to fight in a big way.

The current position of the troops is extremely favorable, and they can overlook the North China Plain and the important areas of Beijing and Tianjin, and they can rely on the dangerous terrain of the Taihang Mountains to make long-term maneuvers with the Japanese.

He sent another telegram to Liu Tiehan, reminding the troops to pay attention to air defense, the Japanese will definitely dispatch planes if they do not send out army units, and when the time comes, if they bomb by mistake, they will suffer a dumb loss, this is the logic of power, and several decades later, the United States used this hand on the territory of Yugoslavia and the Chinese embassy.

Tang Qiuli sometimes felt strange that many of the practices of the United States in later generations were exactly the same as the Japanese methods of the Japanese now, and they were all acts of scoundrels to strengthen piracy, and the defeat of the Japanese taught the students of the United States, and sometimes, history is very good at making jokes.

If the trend of history has not changed, the fuse that will be lit on July 7, 1937 will still be one year away from now.

The news that the independent division had surrounded 20,000 bandits in Xiaowutai Mountain quickly spread, and as Tang Qiuli expected, all forces reacted.

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