Chapter 651: The Battle of Huangya Cave

Okamura Ninji mobilized 360,000 troops to carefully comb every inch of land in the Taihang Mountains, and it was necessary to find the logistics supply base of Tang Qiuli's Independent Division, and the Huangya Cave inevitably surfaced, attracting the attention of all the senior commanders of the Japanese army in North China, including Okamura Ninji.

A brigade of Japanese troops, as the closest to the Huangya Cave sweeping troops, preemptively launched an attack on the Yellow Cliff Cave, the number of this Japanese army is the independent sixth mixed brigade, the brigade commander is Major General Ryuichi near the mountain, with a brigade of cavalry, a field artillery wing, the firepower is extremely powerful, since entering the Taihang Mountains, in addition to being constantly harassed by a small group of troops, has not experienced large-scale battles, so that the commander of the Near Mountain Brigade is quite depressed.

In his opinion, the comb tactics of His Excellency the Commander are more like armed marches and demonstrations, and the armed forces of the China have long been frightened and run away, and the Near Mountain Brigade was added to North China after North Korea, and it has not tasted the power of an independent division.

All kinds of legends, fabricated and exaggerated, in the eyes of the Kinsama, are all to cover up the incompetence of the North China Dispatch Army, the Kinyama Brigade in Korea, is a strong force in the hands of His Excellency the Commander of the Korean Garrison of the Japanese Empire, a brigade can sweep across the Korean Peninsula and kill half of the Korean resistance groups, for this meaningless endless mountain march, he is extremely tired.

After receiving Okamura Ningji's order, he casually ordered two infantry brigades with a cavalry squadron and an artillery squadron as the vanguard of the brigade and regiment to immediately start attacking.

When the Japanese army entered the vicinity of the Yellow Cliff Cave, all the actions fell in the eyes of the dense concealed observation posts, the Japanese army got into the pocket, Chang Feng gave an order, the cliff at the exit of the canyon suddenly burst open, a large pile of gravel blocked the exit, first a fierce artillery attack, while the Japanese soldiers had not yet reacted, the dead and wounded everywhere, more than 5,000 soldiers of the two regiments, suddenly killed, the battle ended in less than an hour.

At this time, thousands of soldiers of the second echelon of the Japanese army who heard the sound of guns and artillery arrived were struggling to clear the road ahead, as high as a mountain of dirt and gravel, and the guns and cannons were ringing inside, and the Japanese soldiers outside secretly prayed for their partners, tossed until dark, and finally cleared a passage, looking at the dark and secluded canyon mouth, the Japanese commander was timid, and did not order the infantry to charge, but just let the artillery continue to bombard.

When it was dawn, the brigade commander Ryuichi Konyama also arrived, commanded the troops to rush into the canyon, the scene in front of him, so that this guy who didn't know what fear was, couldn't help but have a cold war, the corpses of more than 2,000 soldiers, neatly placed on the ground, all the military uniforms were stripped off, and the roads paved with rows of corpses were white and dazzling, just like he usually inspected the troops, but the soldiers he had reviewed were already cold or incomplete corpses.

After the death of so many soldiers, Konyama did not feel fear, what made him afraid was that the people of China made more than 2,000 imperial soldiers jade in one fell swoop, and there was still time to fiddle with the corpses here to make shapes, and the imperial army of a brigade was not taken into account at all, this is the complex psychology of demonstration, fear and being insulted, which dominates Konyama, and he gives the order to attack all

In the dark fort of the headquarters, Chang Feng, who observed the movement of the Japanese army, shook his head, the little devil is too arrogant, a brigade of men and horses, all squeezed into this canyon that is only two kilometers wide, isn't that looking for a beating, he grabbed the phone and ordered: "The Third Independent Brigade, the Huangyadong Garrison Brigade, immediately open fire, give the Japanese army a lot of damage, pay attention, do not leave the fortifications"

The overwhelming cannonballs and grenades, under the hood, there are no dead ends at all, Tang Qiuli at the beginning of the design of the Huangya Cave defense system, he took into account the problem of cross-equipped firepower, the cliffs on both sides of the canyon were almost hollowed out, and they were used as dark fire points and cantonment caves, and the fire of the explosion flashed, and the loud noise continued to reverberate in the canyon.

The density of shrapnel from the explosion was so great that the bodies of the Japanese soldiers were torn into pieces, and the shrapnel that hit the rocks screamed and swirled, which made the lethality even greater, and the Japanese soldiers of the brigade, under such a one-sided blow, had no power to fight back at all, and only saw raindrops of shells and grenades, falling from the sky, trying to fight back, and even a figure could not be found.

Ryuichi Konyama knew that he had been ambushed and ordered to retreat, the Japanese soldiers frantically withdrew to the mouth of the canyon, I don't know how many light and heavy machine guns joined the ranks of the shooting, the crossfire network was so dense that even a mouse could not drill through, the corpses of the Japanese soldiers were piled up at the mouth of the canyon layer by layer, and the Japanese soldiers behind were still desperately stepping on the corpses of their companions to rush out.

The Japanese soldiers who were able to escape, but only more than 2,000 people, more than 7,000 people remained in the canyon, became a bloody corpse, the Near Mountain Brigade was completely disabled, the brigade commander Major General Near Yama Ryuichi, unfortunately was hit by several shells at the same time, the world can no longer see this figure, once swept across the Korean Peninsula The figure of the Japanese general, even if it proves that he has saved the corpse, only the command knife with a gold wire wrapped around the handle, lying dimly in a pile of minced meat.

Hidden in a safe place, the soldiers who fought happily rushed out of their respective bunkers to kill, chasing the remnants of the defeated soldiers of the Near Mountain Brigade that had been scattered, and the figures of the soldiers had just rushed out of the mouth of the canyon, and fierce gunfire rang out in front, which was a reinforced regiment placed outside by Chang Feng, intercepting the fleeing Japanese army.

The 9th Mixed Brigade of the Japanese Army, which had been hit one after another, was able to escape back and report to its commander, His Excellency Okamura Ninji, only three or four hundred people, the gunfire was far away, and nearly 10,000 people rushed out from nowhere, and only a very small number of them were wearing military uniforms, and they were busy for a while, and everything left behind by the Japanese soldiers, including the military uniforms that had been covered with bullet marks, were cleaned up, and even nearly 10,000 corpses were thrown under a mountain stream in the distance.

In addition to the accumulation of craters, blood everywhere, and the thick smell of gunpowder and blood in the air, we can no longer see the scene of the fierce battle; if we look closely, among the busy crowd, there is a half-old man of about 50 years old, who still wears the epaulettes of the major general, commanding back and forth, and constantly shouting: "Be careful" Those who are familiar with him know that this is Major General Zhang Quan, the chief butler of the independent division, the director of the logistics department of the independent division known as the "Jiahu," and the commander of the joint logistics command of the Yellow River Valley Theater.

These people who clean up the battlefield are all his subordinates, Zhang Quan has taken the advantages of careful planning and living to the extreme, as soon as the guns sound here, he immediately ordered the logistics system to gather and prepare to clean up the battlefield.

If it weren't for Chang Feng's resolute stopping, he would have ordered the people in the logistics department to sieve the loose soil, and the steel the size of sesame mung beans in it was also recovered, seeing that Chang Feng kept sending out signals to withdraw to the base, Zhang Quan muttered in his heart, he didn't know that firewood and rice were expensive, and he couldn't get in and out every day, and the Huangyadong base would sit and eat empty mountains sooner or later.

A qiē are calm, the mountain wind blows away the smoke of gunpowder, under the afternoon sun, the sunny slope faintly reveals the breath of spring, watching Zhang Quanxin return to the base with satisfaction, shouting and commanding the subordinates, sorting out the spoils cleaned back, Chang Feng is full of admiration for this veteran who started from the northeast and followed the division commander to become an independent division, in all fairness, he can't do this himself, perhaps, he can interpret the profession of a soldier in another way.

Chang Feng commanded the troops, with a record of almost zero casualties, in half a day and one night, almost completely annihilated an elite field brigade of the Japanese army, killed the brigade commander, Major General Ryuichi Konyama, and occupied the convenient geographical position, of course, Chang Feng's tactics are also commendable, guarding the largest arms supply base of the independent division, and the ammunition that could not be used up, he adopted the method of relying on fortifications, killing and wounding the Japanese army with firepower, and avoiding a head-on confrontation with the Japanese army, which was extremely correct.

The results of the battle of Huangyadong, reported to the division commander Tang Qiuli in Jinan, the results obtained, so that Tang Qiuli also felt surprised, repelled the attack of the Japanese army, as expected, if even this can not be done, Huangyadong will be in vain for a few years, but, almost completely annihilated a brigade of the Japanese army, his own record of no death, or made him extremely excited, Chang Feng after the baptism of the Songhu battlefield, the art of commanding the battle is becoming more and more mature, should have the ability to take charge of the army, this is a member of the independent division of the rising generals, Tang Qiuli was happy for Chang Feng's growth.

And Chang Feng did not have a sense of excitement for today's results, the Japanese army was arrogant, the enemy was rash, and he relied on a solid defense system to achieve such results, which was normal, and then, there was not so much to take advantage of, it was just the beginning, the test of the Huangyadong base was still ahead, and he repeatedly pondered the telegram sent by the division commander.

"Huangya Cave Changfeng Chief of Staff and all the commanders and soldiers, the Japanese army suffered this loss, Huangya Cave will definitely become the focus of Okamura Ningci's offensive, there is no large corps of our army in the Taihang Mountains, you belong to the lone army, you must uniformly deploy combat personnel and various materials, and make long-term preparations, the longer you attract Okamura Ningci's heavy army group, the greater the support for several corps fighting on the outside line, remember, you must not leave the defense system and carry out a surprise attack on the Japanese army"

The division commander finally emphasized this point, which coincided with Chang Feng's thoughts, his basic tactic was that no matter how the Japanese army tossed outside, he would not show his head, and he would be able to drain Okamura Ningji's hard work, and when the time came, the Japanese army would have to take the initiative to withdraw its troops, and there was another point, how to better attract the attention of the Japanese army, which was a problem worth studying.

(To be continued)