Chapter 254: Guinan Wind and Rain (10)

Chongshan is a city in the middle of Nanning to the border of Longzhou, Guangxi, he is much larger than Longzhou, Shangjin, Pingxiang, and is also an important location of the Seventh Administrative Police District, because of the topography of Guangxi, most of the area is not developed, the backward economy of ethnic minority areas and there is no industrial base, and the traffic is blocked, so it is the only official road leading from Nanning to Longzhou, Pingxiang and Zhennanguan.

During Xue Ru's management of Nanning, because he knew the importance of this highway and planned to keep this foreign aid channel, he used migrant workers to increase the construction of the road, so that the originally not very good road became a very good road.

Xue Ru, who deeply understands the relationship between roads and economy, pays more attention to not simply building roads, but linking roads with the economy along both sides of the road, so although this road has invested manpower and material resources, the villages and towns along the way have not been damaged, on the contrary, they have become more prosperous than before, which is also the reason why the surrounding people praise Xue Ru and she has a good reputation in Guangxi for such a short time.

After Nanning was occupied by the Japanese army, the Nationalist troops retreated to the northern part of Guangxi and the surrounding areas of Nanning to continue their resistance. Most of the troops in the Fourth Theater were concentrated in the direction of Wuming and Kunlun Pass, which was the direction leading to Hunan and Guizhou in the interior.

Lieutenant General Kichiri Ando, commanding his Taiwanese Brigade and 5th Division, is engaged in fierce battles with the 2nd Army of the Chinese Revolutionary Army. The Kunlun regiment was lost for a time, but it was recaptured, and at this time it was already a change of hands.

According to information from the Vietnamese side, a large number of Chinese supplies have entered Haiphong Port and are being transported to the Chinese side via the Lang Son Highway. The Japanese side protested to the French ambassador and asked France to restrict the transportation of supplies to China, but it had little effect.

The commander of the Chinese Dispatch Army, General Nishio Shouzo, ordered the 21st Army to capture Longzhou and Zhennan Pass, and the Imperial Army could not attack Vietnam, but as long as the Chinese side was blocked, those supplies could not be brought in. According to this order, Ando Jiri sent Sakamoto Shun's 21st Brigade and transferred four brigades to him to form a Sakamoto detachment to attack southward, intending to capture Nanguan, the town of Longzhou, blocking the road from the Chinese side, and at the same time sending planes to bomb the railway from Laojie to Kunming in the Nanping area, so as to ensure that China could not get foreign aid and could not enter strategic materials. As for China's imports from other sources, because it had to go ashore from Yangon in Burma, transport it by railway from Yangon to Myitkyina, and then transport it to Kunming via the Yunnan-Burma Highway, which was a long way away, and it was not as close as the distance from Haiphong in Vietnam to Nanning, so the Japanese army wanted to block this passage.

Ando Jili is the Southern Army, he and the 5th Division have not dealt with the Snow Fox, in Longzhou is the New Ninth Army of the National Revolutionary Army, not the original Snow Fox Corps, the commander is also Guo Jingchu of the former 71st Army, Ando Jili ignored that this unit is the Snow Fox Army that makes the Japanese army headache and cold.

He only sent a brigade to occupy Longzhou, so it wasn't a great battle for the Snow Fox's people. When Xue Ru announced the battle plan, in the eyes of all the generals, the Japanese army was already dead, and they didn't think about whether they could hold Longzhou at all.

At this time, Li Xingshu, the commander of the 170th Division in Chongshan City, and Deng Junshan, the chief of staff, had a very bad face. Deng Junshan said very dissatisfied: "It's been three days, why hasn't the New Ninth Army reinforced, this is just the vanguard of the Japanese army, and the main force of the 21st Brigade of Sakamoto Shun's other troops has arrived, and we can't hold it at all." ”

Li Xing sighed angrily: "Forget it, I have also heard of them, they are the troops of the Central Army, from the first war zone, the third war zone to the fifth war zone, they never listen to orders. Outstanding achievements, say what to say has its own set of playing style, not to see a good situation, to hide, there is danger. The Japanese army is determined to win Longzhou, the 5th Brigade of the 9th Division is attacking Kunlun Pass, the commander wants to eliminate the main force of the devils, and asks us to block it at any cost. ”

Deng Junshan was also helpless, the New Ninth Army did not contact with other troops in the Fourth Theater, they were stationed in Liuzhou, and it seemed that it was not an order from the theater to come to Longzhou, and even the camp and the theater headquarters did not speak, what did their small division commander say.

The two men commanded the troops to block the attack for three days, and the Japanese arrived only at the vanguard of the 42nd Wing, but the Japanese had planes. Sakamoto Shun also knew that if he wanted to capture Longzhou, he had to take Chongshan and Zuoxian, otherwise it would be impossible.

After two or three years of the war with China, the armies of both sides also had a basic understanding, and Sakamoto Shun did not know much about the New Ninth Army stationed in Longzhou, but he only knew that they were a very special army. After entering Guangxi, he did not have any military exploits, and he did not participate in the battle of Nanning this time.

The 5th Division, known as the Steel Army by the Japanese, is an elite division with amazing combat effectiveness, and has been fighting from major battlefields, except for being blocked by Wei Lihuang from Xinkou, Shanxi, and being defeated by Zhang Zizhong in Linyi, with huge losses, other battlefields are really invincible, and there has never been an opponent. Sometimes the attack of a brigade can break through the defensive line held by a division of the Chinese army.

This time Chongshan only had one division, and Longzhou had two divisions, and Sakamoto Shun didn't care much. The Imperial Army had planes, so the commander of the 42nd Wing, Mudai Sakata, the vanguard of the attack, attacked the perimeter of Chongshan with the cooperation of the planes. Defeated the defenders, sent a brigade to attack Zuoxian, the main force attacked Chongshan, the outer positions outside the city were lost one after another, under the bombardment of Japanese artillery, the positions that were not permanent fortifications could not stop the Japanese attack.

Li Xingshu ordered all the troops to retreat to the city and block the Japanese army with a walled position. Sakata Monichi was obviously angry, but he was helpless, after all, he only had infantry and artillery, and he couldn't take the county seat for a while.

The officers and men of the 170th Division were Yunnan troops, and they were also very tenacious in fighting, and if it weren't for the fierce Japanese artillery fire, they really couldn't have taken it. However, Li Xingshu received a report that the main force of the 21st Brigade had arrived, accompanied by a tank brigade, a heavy artillery brigade, and a heavy machine gun brigade.

On the Japanese position outside the city, Sakamoto Shun held a telescope and looked at Chongshan Castle in the twilight, the corners of his mouth were contemptuous smiles, he believed that Chongshan would be captured early tomorrow morning, and he was not worried about here. But the New Ninth Army behind the 170th Division did not make any movement, which made him a little uncertain. It was adapted from the Snow Fox Army, and although Sakamoto Shun didn't know much about the Snow Fox Army that shocked the anti-Japanese battlefield, he also believed that it was not groundless, and the Imperial Army was defeated under them not by two units of one army, sometimes by a whole division.

The loss of Chongshan is not good for Longzhou, but why doesn't Snow Fox reinforce it? Is there some kind of trickery, you can't be unguarded. Without looking back, he said to the brigade deputy commander Akii Ishikawa Nakasa: "Send a search team to conduct a large-scale search on the left and right to prevent a sneak attack by the Chinese army." ”

Akii Ishikawa didn't understand what the brigade commander was worried about, did the Chinese army have the guts to sneak attack the Great Japanese Imperial Army of a brigade? But this was the order of the brigade commander, and he immediately sent an order: "Hey" to send a search team to the left and right to search to prevent a sneak attack by any troops.

When it got dark, in Chongshan City, Wei Ming personally came to the headquarters of the 170th Division, and when he came in, Li Xingshu and Deng Junshan did not rest, and were still studying problems in front of the map. After receiving the report that the people of the New Ninth Army asked to see him, he was a little dissatisfied, and Li Xingshu let someone in.

Wei Ming rarely wore a military uniform after he took charge of the intelligence department, and appeared in civilian clothes and raised his hand to salute: "Wei Ming, director of the intelligence department of the New Ninth Army, met with Division Commander Li and Chief of Staff Deng. ”

Li Xingshu looked at Wei Ming, Chongshan had been fighting for three days, and the New Ninth Army in Longzhou did not move, and there was no reinforcement for a single soldier, which made the two people very dissatisfied. Seeing death and not saving is the consistent style of the Central Army, but what good is it for them to lose Chongshan, can the New Ninth Army hold Longzhou?

Deng Junshan proposed to report to Xingying, but Li Xingshu didn't let him, what could Chief Bai do, if he could do it, he would have issued an order a long time ago, would he still have to wait for the report? So he was not very enthusiastic about Wei Ming's coming, and symbolically raised his hand: "Director Wei came overnight to give me any advice." ”

Of course, Wei Ming understood that Li Xingshu was not satisfied, Snow Fox would not fight this kind of positional warfare, although the young lady said that she would fight head-on with the Japanese army, but frontal combat was not against him. Sky planes, ground combat vehicles, artillery and heavy machine guns are not something that the Snow Fox army, which has a majority of light weapons, can take advantage of.

With 30,000 Snow Fox troops, I am really not afraid of more than 10,000 Japanese troops, and two to one don't care about the Japanese army, not to mention that now it is two to one with Snow Fox in the majority. But exchanging casualties for victory, no Snow Fox officer would agree.

Wei Ming said: "Senior Commander Li, Miss Xue, Commander of the Snow Fox Army, let me come and hope that Senior Commander Li can hold on for another day, I don't know if it's okay?" ”

Li Xingshu was stunned for a moment, a day? Since they insisted on it for a day, why didn't Snow Fox send people to reinforce it, they had two divisions and more than 20,000 troops, why did they insist on it by themselves? Said coldly: "Why? ”

Wei Ming was a little unhappy because of Li Xingshu's attitude, so he said: "Our commander said that it is not to stop the devil, but to eliminate the devil, Sakamoto Shun's 21st Brigade, it is impossible to let him go back, and the Snow Fox Army needs time to prepare." ”

Li Xingshu was taken aback, Wei Ming proposed the Snow Fox Army twice in a row, it was not the New Ninth Army, Xue Ru was not the army commander, but Wei Ming said Miss Commander, what does Snow Fox mean? Besides, it was a brigade of the Japanese army with more than 13,000 people, and the snow fox actually said that it was eliminated, and the tone was too big, right?

But he didn't say anything, but said: "I have no right to ask what the New Ninth Army is doing, the 170th Division will not retreat, there is no doubt about the heart of the War of Resistance, even if there is no reinforcement, we will fight to the end." ”

Wei Ming didn't know why Miss wanted him to say this, with Sakamoto Shun's troops, even if Snow Fox acted openly, he was not afraid of them, why did he work so hard, he had to insist on a day. He was an intelligence officer, and he didn't know the battle plan, so he said: "Our young commander ordered that the 170th Division should withdraw from Chongshan when it was dark in the evening, and before that, no matter what the situation, it must be held, if Division Commander Li can hold out until the evening, the credit for destroying the Japanese army will be the 170th Division." ”

Li Xingshu was noncommittal, although he knew that his casualties would not be small in the face of a brigade attack, but he did not necessarily not necessarily be unable to hold out for even a day. He also heard that Xue Ru's tactics were cunning, and it seemed that she had some tricks. He also nodded and said: "Please report to General Xue, the order that the 170th Division received is to stick to Chongshan, no matter what the situation, it will persist to the end, whether to withdraw from Chongshan or not is the order of the war zone, and Li will not listen to Xuehu." ”

Wei Ming's arrogance to Li Xingshu made Wei Ming dissatisfied, according to Miss Niang's explanation, no matter what, the 170th Division must be allowed to hold on for a day, otherwise Snow Fox will not be able to complete the preparations, mainly because of the delay in the reorganization of the troops, as well as the weapons and ammunition delivered from Vietnam to Longzhou, and the troops must also be familiar with and distributed.

When night fell, Wei Ming went to the Chongshan 170th Division, and the four brigades of the Snow Fox began to move, originally wanting to fight a frontal battle, but Xue Ru really didn't want to be killed or injured under the artillery of the Japanese aircraft, so she decided to have a Snow Fox-style battle. This is because Taylor John's second batch of weapons has not yet arrived, and Snow Fox is not capable of fighting cars and planes head-on.

The four brigade commanders respectively commanded their troops to leave Longzhou and move in the direction of Chongshan, launching a concealed and rapid march, and the troops were silently divided into four routes, the two brigades of the first division marched directly to Chongshan, while the two brigades of the second division, one left and one right, moved to the left and right flanks of the Japanese army from a distance.

Xue Ru also did this because he couldn't appear around the Japanese army in advance, so that once they were discovered by the Japanese army, they might escape. There are 100 days to catch thieves, but they can't defend against thieves for 1,000 days, and if they can't inflict heavy losses on the Japanese army, they can threaten this road at any time. This is a transportation channel, how can it be exposed to threats for a long time, so this time it will hurt the Japanese army, so that they will no longer dare to covet this road. How to fight? Of course, it was to eliminate Sakamoto Shun's 21st Brigade, so it was necessary for Li Xingshu's 170th Division to hold on for a day to buy time for Snow Fox's troop transfer.

Dai Zong commanded two brigades of the First Division to move frontally, preparing to take over Chongshan, and the two brigades commanded by Lai Changwen outflanked the Japanese army from the left and right, and this movement also had to avoid aircraft, so the speed could not be too fast, and the deployment of troops was quickly completed, and the troops of weapons distribution were dispatched from the nest, leaving no room for any leeway. After Ouyang Sari's regiment left, Xue Ru only had one guard battalion by his side at this time, and there was no more troops in Longzhou.

In Xue Ru's office, Bai Wuyu sat opposite her, and the bruises on his face had not disappeared at this time. was caught by the snow fox, injured Xue Ru, killed Fan Tiezhu, think about how the snow fox's people treated him, although there was an order not to kill him, but let him suffer and teach him that he couldn't run.

When he was released, he didn't believe that Xue Ru could let him go. But after hearing his father say that he was using the cottage people in exchange and giving money and food, Xue Ru let him go.

Bai Qingshan's cunning and cunning made him the commander of the militia group, didn't this send him to Xue Ru's hands again? But he also understands that his accident has affected everyone. Because of him, Snow Fox retaliated and killed, the cottages around Longzhou were cleaned up, thousands of people were killed, and the clansmen were full of hatred for him, this was his only chance to atone for his sins, otherwise he would be sorry for those clansmen. Although he hated Xue Ru to the core, he couldn't help but give in now, after all, the New Ninth Army was tens of thousands of troops, and it was not something they could fight against. This woman known as the devil really dared to do anything, so she didn't recuperate from her injuries, and immediately came to Xue Ru, looking at Xue Ru with a pale face hanging an arm, I don't know how she will deal with herself, and looked at Xue Ru with some worry.

Xue Ru didn't want to talk about anything with Bai Wuyu, she didn't have a good impression of these people, but this was related to the stability of Longzhou and the stability of this passage, so there had to be an arrangement.