Chapter 701 The Japanese Chief Folds His Wings

The 80,000 remnants of Taiyuan and Okamura Ningci were surrounded, Tang Qiuli commanded the troops to attack for two days, and after paying minor casualties, he stopped the attack, and the Kwantung Army went south from Tianjin, desperately attacking the blocking line of Tang Qiusheng's Sulu mobile corps, Tang Qiusheng's corps suffered heavy casualties, and the casualties reached as many as 7,000 in one day.

It was not that he did not think about putting the southward troops of the Kwantung Army into the Taihang Mountains to fight again, but the risk of doing so was too great, and with the strong combat effectiveness of the Kwantung Army's troops, it was easy to break through the second line of resistance of the Eighth Route Army and Yuan Jinghao's troops, and they could reach the city of Taiyuan within a few days.

It was really difficult for him to decide whether to deal with the Japanese army in Taiyuan first, or to transfer most of the troops from the periphery of Taiyuan, to the east of southern Hebei, and to join the Sulu Mobile Corps to kill the southbound troops of the Kwantung Army, and then, to meet the attack of the next wave of southbound troops of the Kwantung Army, he was really difficult to decide, and General Jiang Baili's priorities gave him determination.

The reason is very simple, Taiyuan can not be defeated in a few days, even if it is defeated, it will have to pay a heavy price, the troops are disabled, and the Sulu Mobile Corps alone, with the morale of the long-term lack of combat strength, is absolutely unable to stop the second wave, enter the pass to reinforce the Kwantung Army troops of the Okamura Ningji Japanese army, and if it is not good, it is possible that the Sulu Mobile Corps will be surrounded by the Japanese army in the Pingjin area.

However, the postponement of the attack on Taiyuan is different, Okamura Ningji and his 80,000 remnants of the army are already turtles in the urn, there is a shortage of food and grass inside, there is no rescue outside, besieging him for a few days, the morale of the Japanese army will inevitably be low, and it will be much easier to fight if he attacks again, so the main point of General Jiang Baili's construction is that Taiyuan can not fight for the time being, and the southbound troops of the Kwantung Army who fought a bloody battle with the Sulu Mobile Corps must be solved as much as possible, which can eliminate the worries of the Taiyuan frontline troops, and can also cut off Okamura Ningci's hope.

Therefore, Jiang Baili's finishing touches prompted Tang Qiuli to make up his mind to eat the southbound troops of the Kwantung Army first, and he immediately issued an order, Feng Jiwu's Niangziguan garrison corps, sent the main force of a brigade to cooperate with Tang Qiuquan's special operations detachment, sweep away the area of Shuozhou and Ningwu in northern Shanxi, and the small number of Japanese troops of the Jin army that originally pursued Yan Xishan and destroyed them on the spot.

Changfeng's Taihang Mountain Field Corps immediately marched east to Pingjin, and together with Tang Qiusheng's corps, completely annihilated the southbound troops of the Kwantung Army in the areas of Xiongxian, Renqiu, and Hejian, and then rested on the spot and prepared to meet the Kwantung Army troops that went south again.

Thinking about it, in order to end the battle around Pingjin and give the troops a little more time to rest, he ordered Feng Jiwu, in addition to attacking the four brigades in Jinzhong, the rest of the troops of the Niangziguan garrison corps, led by him personally, immediately joined the battle to encircle and annihilate the southbound troops of the Kwantung Army.

Tang Qiusheng, Feng Jiwu, and Chang Feng formed the campaign headquarters, with Tang Qiusheng as the commander-in-chief, Feng Jiwu and Chang Feng as the deputy commanders-in-chief, and commanded the troops to fight in a unified manner.

Tang Qiuli gathered nearly 280,000 troops from three corps around Pingjin, plus 300,000 troops of Liu Tie Handong who pinned down the Japanese army on the front line of Cangzhou, and almost all of the families of the independent division were in the Pingjin area

Although Chang Feng's troops were transferred, the troops surrounding Taiyuan still had nearly 180,000 troops, more than double the strength of the Japanese Taiyuan defenders, but the combat effectiveness was inferior to other troops, except for the four brigades of Feng Jiwu's corps that attacked Jinzhong, which was the main force of the old brand, Sun Zhenbang's Yellow River River Defense Corps, which was the second-line troops, Tang Qiuli commanded the newly formed six field brigades, and he was not worried that the morale of the troops alone could crush the 80,000 Japanese soldiers in the city.

Okamura Ninji didn't know this, he was infinitely desolate and cowered in Taiyuan City, what he saw was the independent division troops all over the mountains outside the city, waiting for the Kwantung Army troops to come to the rescue, one by one trenches, one by one Zun Muzzle, he was frightened, he didn't know how many days he could hold Taiyuan, more than 80,000 people, squeezed into Taiyuan City, plus the citizens in the city, everything was nervous, especially ammunition, could not be supplied, and even more shot was one less shot, all the soldiers, including himself, felt that life was counting down, morale was low, Yesterday, a few junior officers committed suicide by caesarean section, which made the morale of the army even more unstable.

As soon as the deployment was completed, the general attack on Taiyuan began again, Tang Qiuli adopted the tactics of peeling the skin layer by layer, first concentrated artillery, attacked the strongholds on the periphery of Taiyuan, fought fiercely for a day, first took Taigu, Qingxu, Yangqu and other peripheral defense points, and further narrowed the encirclement, except for Jinzhong, which had not yet been conquered, the battle achieved the expected goal.

The next day, Tang Qiuli commanded the troops, concentrated on the onslaught of Jinzhong, took Jinzhong, Taiyuan lost the last peripheral barrier, this battle is much better, the troops can choose the attack point at will, Tang Qiuli, who was concerned about the battlefield situation in the headquarters, suddenly heard the sound of the motor of the plane in the air, he frowned, was the Japanese army sent a plane to bomb our army's position, or to drop supplies and ammunition in Taiyuan City.

However, the Japanese rarely do this, he stepped out of the command headquarters, and sure enough, seven planes flew from due east, in the telescope, the dazzling plaster flag was painted under the wings of the plane, approaching, it can be seen that it is six fighters and a transport plane, hovering over Taiyuan, several guards hurriedly gathered around Tang Qiuli, vigilantly watching the movements of the Japanese army.

Tang Qiuli was a little confused, what the hell is the little devil doing, what do you want to say is to bomb, there are no bombers, what's the use of just a few fighters, if you want to say that you are here to drop ammunition and supplies, just a transport plane, what can you do, after the Japanese plane circled over Taiyuan for a few weeks, it landed at Taiyuan Airport, his heart moved, could it be that he wanted to pick up some important person? Or send a confidential text jiàn?

He immediately ordered to call Tongle Yiqin and personally issued the order: "Commander Le Yiqin, seven Japanese planes have landed in Taiyuan City, including six fighters and one transport plane, and the air force will immediately take off to intercept them, and shoot down all the Japanese planes in Shanxi.

Le Yiqin, who received the order from the division commander, was so excited that his face was full of red light, the independent divisional air force had no combat missions in the recent period, the Japanese planes in North China, after the last devastating strike, had nothing to fly in the sky, and the Japanese planes in the northeast, except for the occasional one or two, slipped to the sky over Pingjin to probe their brains, there was no major movement at all.

After the planes of the air force took off and intercepted, these Japanese planes ran faster than rabbits, and there was a strict order from the division commander not to pursue them into the airspace of the northeast, so they could only watch the Japanese planes slip away, and everyone was so angry that they scolded them, but the pilots were suffocated, and they looked at the continuous good news from various units, and panicked like grass in their hearts, Le Yiqin and Liu Cuigang had already drawn up an operational plan for the Kwantung Army Air Force, and they would implement it after it was reported to the division commander for approval.

Finally had a chance to do it, Le Yiqin and Liu Cuigang took it personally, personally put on the battle, and took twelve planes into the air, he also learned Tang Qiuli's tactics, concentrated superior forces, two to one, and did not let go of one, Tang Qiuli watched the Japanese plane fly away, turned around and returned to the headquarters, he didn't have to worry about the heavenly affairs, and handed it over to Le Yiqin and Liu Cuigang.

Ten minutes later, Le Yiqin came with the news that all the Japanese planes had been shot down, and the location was in the airspace around Liaoyang, Tang Qiuli nodded with satisfaction, and said to Shanhu: "Huzi, send someone to Liaoyang, see what Le Yiqin shot down, and focus on searching the transport plane," He had a hunch that this time, he might be able to catch a big fish.

In the evening, the person sent came back, and he really got a lot of things back, one of which was a gold-handled command knife, which caught his attention, this is a general's knife, the handle of the knife is inlaid with a golden chrysanthemum that symbolizes the Japanese imperial family, at least a major general, or a heavyweight who has received the emperor's imperial sword, it is worth the trip, put down the command knife, looked at a few half-burnt cowhide jiàn bags, and opened one casually.

Inside are some telegrams back and forth, nothing more than how Taiyuan is currently in crisis, asking for reinforcements and other telegrams, and open a few, all of them are some garbage things, Tang Qiuli is a little discouraged, open the last one, his eyes lit up, this is a Taiyuan city defense and troop deployment map, which is marked with troop allocation, firepower points, dark fort groups, minefields, artillery positions, etc., this is a generous gift, with this map, how many casualties can be reduced by hitting Taiyuan

Put down the picture, picked up a document on the table, opened it and looked at it, Tang Qiuli was shocked, although the photo on the document was a little blurry, he could still see it at a glance, this is the same as the photo of Okamura Ningji on the historical materials, and the name on the certificate is also Okamura Ningci, as well as the position, all of which explain that the owner of this document is the famous Japanese general, General Okamura Ningji, commander of the North China Dispatch Army.

Tang Qiuli was a little dumbfounded, God, Okamura Ningji was killed like this, he couldn't believe it, in history, this old devil was in North China, in order to eradicate the armed forces of the Eighth Route Army of the Communist Party of China and turn North China into a model security area, the stable rear base of the Japanese army, but he didn't take out a lot of vicious and ruthless ideas, and played a lot of new tricks, so he was killed by an accidental order of his own, isn't he dreaming?

(To be continued)