Zhang Zizhong is in danger this time, the battle has come to this point, ten days have arrived, danger has also been encountered, and his life has almost been hit, if he wants to change someone else, he is really benevolent and righteous to Hu Zongnan, and he should have withdrawn a long time ago. Zhang Zizhong said, isn't it safe for me to break through the siege, isn't Huangchuan still in our hands, our 59th Army fights devils for the country, not for him Hu Zongnan, and the 59th Army has no other way of fighting, only "one more day of fighting is counted as one day, and killing one more (Little Japan) is counted as one!"

After a day, the Japanese army besieged Huangchuan City on three roads, the big knife outside the city flew and the bayonet saw the red poisonous gas filled with tragic abnormality, both sides suffered extremely casualties (generally our side is more miserable), the next day, Huangchuan City was broken, the commander of the 180th Division Liu Zhensan was poisoned and unconscious, Zhang Zizhong personally commanded the troops with a pistol to continue the fierce street battle with the devils, and that night, the situation was too dangerous, so he had to lead his troops out of the city to break through and go south to Dabie Mountain.

That night, more than 300 soldiers were blocked in the north of the city and had no time to withdraw, and after the bullets ran out, they picked up their broadswords and continued to rush and slash, and finally basically all of them were martyred, and the survivors recalled that they did not suffer a loss, and there must have been more than 400 devils killed. Since General Zhang Zizhong arrived at Hu Nationality, Zhang Zizhong has been blocking the devils in Huangchuan County for 12 days, and these days, Hu Zongnan's 17th Army Corps (mainly the First Army) has deployed and built a 40-kilometer intermittent defense line in front of the Pinghan Line north and south of Xinyang.

And between Xinyang and Huangchuan, there is a Luoshan County in the middle, this county has no mountains and no big river, but it is as hilly and dense as Huangchuan Gushi, although it is not very easy to defend, but it is a pity to give up and not to defend, Hu Zongnan has no decent army behind him, of course, it is impossible to leave the Xinyang defense line of the Pinghan Line to come to Luoshan, Zhang Zizhong fought too hard in Huangchuan and it was difficult to defend Luoshan, so it was only the 45th Army of Chen Dingxun of the Sichuan Army who came to Luoshan.

The Sichuan army was considered to be at the lower level of the various armies in the Anti-Japanese War, and readers who knew the battle of Niangziguan and the battle of Tengxian knew that this Sichuan army was the weakest in the Sichuan army, although the courage of the 45th Army has always been commendable, the combat effectiveness can only be evaluated by the word "alas", in the face of the devil Shinozuka division regiment that is already at the end of the strong crossbow, the Sichuan army is still in two days, and the 50 kilometers of rivers and mountains from Huangchuan to Luoshan are lost, including Luoshan County.

Then the three divisions of Hu Zongnan's First Army prepared enough ammunition to polish their bayonets, and waited for a fierce fight with the Shinozuka division, but unexpectedly, Xiao Hu waited left and right, day after day, and the devils just didn't come. It turned out that after more than 10 days of fierce fighting, the Shinozuka Division and Zhang Zizhong's unit defeated Lao Zhang, and although they were seriously injured and incurable, "the 39th Wing of the Eighth Brigade Regiment was an example: when the wing set out from Hefei, there were more than 2,800 people, and because of continuous fighting, although it was replenished in the middle, there were only more than 800 people left at this time. (The 51st Army and the 71st Army should have suffered some casualties to the 10th Division, but most of them were killed or wounded by the 59th Army.) ）”

The casualties are already so heavy, and the front is Hu Zongnan's first army, as soon as he hears the number, he knows that it is not a good stubble, and it will probably not be easier to deal with than Zhang Zizhong, and the devil will not suffer from the losses in front of him, so Shinozuka doesn't want to continue to suffer for himself, so it's better to stop and wait for reinforcement and backup. In these days when Zhang Zizhong and Shinozuka devils were hedging and slashing, on the other hand, the devils up and down Fujin Mountain did not stop, although the Japanese Third Division suffered heavy casualties and it was difficult to replenish and recover for a while, but the other 16th Division that had just arrived was full of soldiers and full of energy.

Originally, the 16 th Division of the Japanese Army had only one brigade to reinforce the Third Division at Fujin Mountain, but he did not expect that the Third Division would fight so badly at Fujin Mountain, and there were only more than 10,000 people left in a fully manned division. In the end, the third division could only be restocked, and the sixteenth division was all transferred to the direction of the mall for the attack in the direction of the mall.

After the 3rd Division captured Fujin Mountain, after a short period of rest, the two divisions immediately continued to sweep westward along the northern foot of Dabie Mountain, and Song Xilian's other three divisions {the 36th Division suffered too much loss and retreated to rest} and Sun Lianzhong, who came out from Dabie Mountain to assist, fought and withdrew, withdrew and fought, and abandoned the mall five days later. After occupying the mall, the Japanese army continued to advance westward and occupied the White Bird Garden. Song Xilian's 71st Army, and Sun Lianzhong's 2nd Army's Tian Zhennan 30th Army, Feng Anbang's 43rd Army, and the three armies all retreated into the Dabie Mountains near the south.

There are a total of 7 north-south passages on the mountain range in the north of Dabie Mountain, the easternmost one, that is, from the south of the mountain to the north of Macheng straight line, through Qiujia River, Futian River, Xiaojieling, Shawo and other small villages and towns in the mountains, out of Dabie Mountain, it is the White Bird Garden. And this mountain road is Y-shaped, in the middle of the Futian River in Xiaojieling, there is a fork to the east to the north, through the long bamboo garden, the boat shop, the maple tree, out of the Dabie Mountain, it is the county seat of the mall.

The devils came to the mall and the White Bird Garden, which means that the thick and vast Dabie Mountain, the main vein mountain, has been left behind them, and they are now facing the western mountain range of Dabie Mountain, which is relatively much thinner, if they plan to climb over Dabie Mountain, they can prepare to enter the mountain here. And once the devils pass through this passage, the two divisions will be killed in Macheng, and there is no danger to defend the Jianghan Plain 100 kilometers from Macheng to Hankou, then it can basically be declared that Wuhan is not guaranteed, and all the other Dabie Mountain passages, the north bank of the Yangtze River, the south bank of the Yangtze River, the Mufu Mountain Passage, etc., all have no meaning to guard.

The so-called boundary ridge, as the name suggests, is the boundary between the two places. The three provinces of Hubei, Henan and Anhui, there is no specific demarcation, the reckless Dabie Mountain is the boundary of the three provinces, with human activities going deep into the mountains, the inter-provincial passage through the mountains is poked out, the government follows up, and the provincial boundary is divided by a certain mountain range on the road. The real boundary ridge of Hubei, Henan and Anhui provinces is connected, it should be in the Kangwangzhai of 1300 meters, there is definitely no road to pass here, in the mountain road at the foot of the south mountain in the east and south, there are many places called the boundary ridge, and it is mostly on the mountain road from Macheng to Jinzhai Huoshan in the two provinces of Hubei and Anhui (so many dynasties, the same mountain road, can also draw a lot of boundaries). And the place guarded by Sun Lianzhong and Song Xilian, although it is also the boundary of the two provinces (Hubei and Henan), it is a pity that the word "boundary ridge" is occupied by those tall mountains in the southeast of Kangwangzhai, and the mountains here are relatively low, so they can only be wronged, called "small boundary ridge".

After resting for a few days, a large number of replenishment troops and supplies were in place, the Japanese 16th Division began to attack Shawo, and the next day, the 3rd Division attacked Fengxiangshu, Song Xilian's 71st Army and the 30th Army in the south of Tian Town, guarding the main road of Xiaojieling in the Y-shaped passage, and Feng Anbang's 42nd Army guarding the eastern fork of the Y-line passage. According to General Song Xilian's arrangement, Tian Zhennan's 30th Army took into account the two branches of the Y-shaped passage at the same time, but he and General Song Xilian's headquarters were located in one place, and the main force was on the road of Shawo Xiaojieling.

The "small" of the small boundary ridge is relative, compared to the Fujin Mountain, it is high and big, the mountains on both sides of the small boundary ridge are four or five hundred meters, and the mountains on both sides are five or six hundred, six or seven hundred meters on both sides are not uncommon, these mountain devils must be captured, otherwise how can they rest assured that they can march and supply in the narrow road at the foot of the mountain?

The Xiaojieling channel, from Shawo to Qiujiahe, is more than 40 kilometers long, and the devil has come over, which is equivalent to hitting ten Fujin Mountains. In front of Fujin Mountain, the terrain is open, and the devil artillery can line up and bomb, and the infantry can launch an attack on the entire fan and the whole line, and can also make a surprise attack on a certain key point; but once they enter the narrow mountain road of Dabie Mountain, the devils will not be able to exert it at all, the artillery will not be easy to place, and the infantry can only line up in a line, and it is difficult for those who are fighting at the forefront to exceed one brigade.

After more than two years of war, Sun Lianzhong's army really became more and more able to fight, and the more they fought, the more they fought, the more they could fight, and the defenders took advantage of the steep terrain of Dabie Mountain to build overlapping multi-layered and large-depth fortifications, and constantly organized counterattacks, and at the same time often attacked behind enemy lines, attacked strongholds, destroyed communications, and carried out ambushes. Of course, Song Xilian, who fought with Sun Group's army, was also stronger than his teammates in the previous two times, and his cooperation was very good.

This time, Tian Zhennan's 30th Army and Song Xilian's 71st Army, the military headquarters of the two armies simply got together under a white fruit tree, and Lao Tian and Xiao Song fiddled with the sand table together, discussed the enemy situation together, ate and drank together, this may be the most tacit and intimate time for the two armies of different factions of the National Revolutionary Army to cooperate in combat. Later, Sun Lianzhong, who was a senior official, didn't know if he was envious of the harmony and happiness under the Baiguo tree, and he also moved his headquarters of the Third Corps to the Baiguo tree to join in the fun.

From this point of view, Sun Lianzhong, Song Xiliantian, Zhennan, Feng Anbang, and others nested in the Dabie Mountains to block the devils one after another, and slowly rubbed against the two divisions of the Japanese army with the help of the steep terrain, and the battle situation seemed to be far less tense and dangerous than in other battles. The quality of tanks and soldiers is obviously higher than that of the soldiers of the national army, so it is impossible to stop the crazy attack of the Japanese army without paying the price of blood.

In more than a month since the Japanese army captured the mall, from Shawo to Xiaojieling, from Fengxiangshu to Xindian, in these two long and narrow mountain roads, as well as on the steep mountains on both sides of the mountain road, the two divisions of the Japanese army organized infantry, artillery, tank and aviation joint attacks many times, but they failed to break through the defenders' defense line and suffered heavy casualties.

The specific process does not need to be described too much, anyway, the devils are along the mountain road, bombarding the peaks on both sides, and the national army is fighting with their lives, stubbornly defending the rotten guards, and they really can't hold it, so they retreat to the next mountain to repair the position and continue to fight. In this way, the repeated contention of mountain ranges and mountain ranges never allowed the two divisions of the Japanese army to cross the line of Xiaojieling and Xindian.

The Battle of Xiaojieling was basically the same as in history, the Nationalist Army mobilized eight divisions of troops to withstand the ferocious attack of the two divisions of the Japanese army for 40 days on the Dabie Mountain Pass, and the Nationalist Army killed and wounded more than 21,000 Japanese soldiers {including 4,500 Sheren} at the cost of more than 20,000 people. The two divisions of the Japanese army were basically wiped out by their infantry.