Chapter 1509: Confusing

The progress of the war in Shanxi has affected everyone's hearts.

The Japanese army has sufficient troops and sufficient reserves on all fronts. Therefore, the attack launched this time is not prioritized. The three fronts of the Chinese *** team are under tremendous pressure.

This time Tojo Hideki made a desperate move and sent out all his main troops. The division-organized troops included the 9th Division, the 15th Division, the 34th Division, and the 39th Division.

division, the 105th Division, the 106th Division, the 110th Division, and the 118th Division, except for the 9th Division, which is the main division compiled by the two brigades.

Except for the three regiments, the rest are all three divisions.

In addition, a large number of mixed brigades and independent mixed brigades composed of two regiments or three brigades, as well as puppet troops from Northeast and Jidong, also gave Tojo Hideki great confidence. In his eyes,

Here, the Chinese *** team is vulnerable. Previous failures were all caused by the commander's incompetence.

Not to be outdone, Yan Xishan responded tit-for-tat and quickly strengthened the front-line defenses in northern Shanxi. According to the direction of the Japanese attack, he divided the army into three groups: left, middle and right to meet the enemy.

Wei Lihuang, commander-in-chief of the left wing.

Under its jurisdiction are the 14th Group Army, the 34th Group Army upgraded from Xu Yuanquan's 10th Army, and the 32nd Group Army of Shang Zhenbu. Different from history, since Wan Fulin suffered little losses in the North China battle,

Therefore, he still firmly controlled the 53rd Army and cooperated well with Shang Zhen, who had formed a friendship in Tianjin. As a result, the combat power of the 32nd Army doubled.

The middle route is basically composed of troops directly from Yan Xishan, with commander-in-chief Fu Zuoyi, deputy commander-in-chief Wang Jingguo, and former enemy commander-in-chief Chen Changjie.

Under the jurisdiction of the Seventh Group Army, commanded by Fu Zuoyi, Wang Jingguo's 43rd Group Army and Chen Changjie's 40th Group Army, because at this time the Taiyuan Arsenal was still firmly in the hands of Yan Xishan, and it received supplies from the Anyi Group

Part of the military industry technology can now be manufactured in the Taiyuan factory in a formal series of rifles, mortars, grenades, mines and small-caliber infantry guns. The strength of the Jinsui Army has been greatly strengthened compared to history.

Liu Maoen, commander-in-chief of the right wing.

It has the 42nd Army under the command of Liu Mao'en, the 35th Army of Liu Jianxu of the Sichuan Army, and the 39th Army of Wang Lingji. The 42nd Army, like Wang Jingguo's 43rd Army, was strengthened by the central government at the beginning of this year.

Shanxi's combat strength was specially organized. The 42nd Army included the 15th Army of which Liu Mao'en also served as commander, Gao Guizi's New 17th Army and Zhu Huaibing's 97th Army.

The three armies on the left, center and right totaled 580,000 troops, plus Yang Aiyuan's Sixth Army stationed in southeastern Shanxi, Lu Yixuan's 30th Army and Deng Xihou's 22nd Army guarding Niangziguan and Jingxing in eastern Shanxi.

The Eighteenth Group Army, which operates guerrilla operations behind enemy lines, has a total of more than 800,000 troops in the theater. It has a slight advantage over the Japanese army in terms of numbers, but it is far behind in terms of the quality of its individual soldiers.

On the morning of March 5th, the Japanese army took the lead in launching on the right. A regiment set out from Lingqiu, defeated the defense of the two regiments of the 32nd Division of Zhu Huaibing's 97th Army in Caijiayu, and occupied the main traffic intersection entering Shanxi.

Thunderous momentum rushed towards Pingxing Pass. At Pingxing Pass

In front of the position, a fierce battle broke out between the Japanese army and a brigade of defenders. There was a stalemate. Unwilling to retreat, the Japanese army stormed the high ground on the north and south sides of the east and west running pool. The two battalions of the defenders held their position and fought tenaciously with the Japanese army. In the end, they ran out of ammunition.

With no food supplies, the Japanese army was defeated after several hand-to-hand fights.

The Japanese troops followed up one after another, and a coalition joined the offensive against Pingxing Pass. At this time, the *** team also strengthened the defense.

I have an advantageous troops and returned without merit.

Seeing that it is difficult to get the hard bone of the Pingxing, the fifteenth divorce head of the road for the road troops, and the leader of the 15th Division of the road army, and mobilized the independence to mix into the 32nd brigade, and transferred to the Caijiayu to attack the group. Responsible for guarding.

The Sichuan Army, who has just entered the position, was led by the division leader Chen Liangji, and used the advantageous terrain to hit the Japanese army and crack down on the arrogance of the Japanese army.

The Japanese offensive was repeatedly frustrated, and then a federation rounded the east with a coalition, the north -south highland of the west, and the two camps of the 32nd divisions of Zhu Huaibing's 97th Army were all defended here. The highlands were occupied by the Japanese army.

Wang Lingji, the commander of the 399th Army, who is blocking the opponent on the front, saw that the situation was not good, and urgently ordered the Sichuan Army's New Fifteenth Division Deng Guozhang to help and launched a counterattack to the enemy.

The enemy strikes retreat, regains East, West Run Pond and its nearby highlands.

When the fierce battle was launched on the front line of Pingxingguan, the Japanese army also suddenly made great efforts to attack Yun Zhongshan's defensive position along the railway line of Ningwu to Yuanping, which had been opened to traffic.

Because this line is close to the belly of Shanxi, once the fall, Linyi and Taiyuan will be directly exposed to the threat of the Japanese army, so the defense is tightly divided.

The left -wing commander Wei Lihuang's soldiers are sufficient, ammunition, and ammunition, and at the same time, Yunzhongshan Guanjing builds a solid reinforced concrete work. The railway rails in the valley are also demolished after the war.

In the season when Ice and Snow was not melted in early March, it was undoubtedly a stupid thing to launch an offense with the defenders with geographical interests. In the artillery fire and high shooting of the Ministry of Wei Lizhuang, the Japanese corpse across the wild.

However, Dongjo British aircraft has already expected this situation. When the war is unfavorable, it quickly mobilizes the aircraft and armored vehicles to help the war. Originally, the Japanese army on the left was expected to make breakthroughs with the underground three -dimensional offense of the sky.

This airline brigade entered Taiyuan Airport, Jinzhong Airport and Yangquan Airport. After hearing that the front line encountered a Japanese fighter air attack, the two teams of the two brigades took the lead in taking off.

The racket fighter is not a opponent of the A27 fighter with a powerful firepower. It is only five minutes when the melee starts. There are two fighter fighters fall or disintegrate.

Racked running away, and a fighter jet was shot down in the middle.

When the Japanese fighter jet escaped, the Southwest Air Force mosquito bomber and AB26 bomber group came slowly, and the Japanese who were in an offensive state launched a crazy bombardment.

The target, the death and injury were exhausted, and finally had to be embarrassed to return to Ningwu County.

The main direction of the Japanese army's main attack, unexpectedly did not choose Yanmen Pass, but attacked Ru Yuekou from Yingxian.

To personally serve as the coach of the Central Road Army, the Tonjo British machine was ordered to mix into the 2nd Twelfth Brigade and the 57th Brigade of the 57th Brigade to quickly break through the face -to -face army.

Open the road.

The 35th army of the 35th Army of the local army, the twenty -fifth tour brigade stubbornly resisted, the fierce battle all day, the enemy's attack was unsuccessful. In order to enhance the local defense, the Central Road Army Commander ordered the local defense.

The thirteenth division moved to Tiejiao Ridge on one side of Ruyuekou.

Tonjo British machine was transferred to the two divisions of the puppet army. Under the leadership of the Japanese army of a coal, it continued to enhance the tackling force of Ruyuekou's front line.

return.

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On March 6, Taiyuan north Yangqu County.

When South China has recovered all things, birds are fragrant, and spring is full of spring, the entire Jinbei region is still ice and snow. Last winter, it was late in the snow. The footsteps of today's spring are later than in previous years.

Rotating the scream. Huang Cancan's sun pierced the dark clouds, and then shown it on the snow through the dry branches. The flowers were a little bit in the ravine.

On the road leading to Jinbei, the motor of the car was roaring. A military military for four tons, six tons of trucks, pulled various caliber artillery and high -firing guns, driving forward.

The off -road vehicles and armored chariots, on both sides of the team, the officers and soldiers in camouflage uniforms, war horses and artillery and animals, facing the north wind that is better than a knife, march forward.

Due to the emergency in the north, some soldiers chewed a few sips of single soldiers to dry food, bent down and picked up the snow to fill their mouths. Some soldiers seemed to feel that eating snow was not addicted.

Then quickly followed the team, so that the popsicles sucked in their mouths. They came all the way. Their camouflage cotton jackets were frozen and frozen, and they also clicked up.

Five days and nights, the guns do not shoulder, the horse does not leave the saddle, the soldiers of the Thirty Army, all the way to the army, in order to rush to Jinbei as soon as possible to crack down on the aggressive Japanese devils.

On a big leopard off -road vehicle in the march, Lu Yixuan, commander of the group army, Chief of Staff Qu Muchen, and Luo Xianrong, director of the combat office, had nothing to say.

The long -term marching makes people mentally burnout, and it seems that even the brain is not so sensitive.

"Dongjo Yingji, this dog day, the weather can't wait to choose to do it. What kind of medicine do you say he sells in his gourd? Let's take a lot of hardships!

We are so bad now, and Little Japan is definitely not good. This climate and environment cannot even play even half of the combat effectiveness.

Luo Xianrong, who was sitting on the co -pilot seat, saw a war horse beside the road slipping down in the snow. He fell to the ground together with the immediately of the officer.

Yi Xuan and Qu Mochen asked.

Qu Mochen said: "The situation is very clear, and the small Japanese is not united. According to the information of the General Staff, Japan will launch an attack on the Far East in April.

When fighting, the Japanese army will be reduced from the protagonist to a supporting role. This is unwilling to see the arrogant North China Japanese army, so I want to do something before the incident occurs.

Whether to reverse the overall situation. "

Lu Yixuan smiled: "The internal struggle among the Japanese was more intense than we imagined. Did you see yesterday's battle report? The Japanese dispatched more than 20 fighter jets and more than 40 bombers, but we were defeated

We cried for father and mother, and in the end we beat the Japanese troops around Ningwu, but no Japanese fighter planes were sent to attack, which shows that the aviation power in the hands of the Japanese army in North China is seriously insufficient!"

Luo Xianrong couldn't help but suddenly realized: "I always felt that something was wrong after seeing the battle report. It turns out that the problem lies here. In the past few months, when we were stationed at Niangziguan and Jingxing, every time the Japanese came to drop bombs, they were overwhelming and escorted by fighter jets.

At least one

With more than a hundred aircraft, the air force of the Shanxi-Sui Army will always suffer a lot of losses when fighting with them... After more than half a year of development, Little Japan has accumulated at least thousands of fighter aircraft, and now it only dispatches this few.

I guess the rest have been transferred to the north!"

Lu Yixuan shook his head: "Don't be careless! It's possible that this is a arrogant trick of the Japanese. I have already informed the radar unit to monitor the movements of Japanese fighter planes around the clock. We must not let them sneak attack us for half a year.

Established airport.”

At this time, a war horse quickly caught up with the off-road vehicle from behind. Qu Muchen saw that it was Ding Ming, the director of the intelligence department, and quickly asked the driver to pull the car aside and stop.

Ding Ming dismounted from his horse, opened the car door, and reported loudly: "Report to the commander and chief of staff: The Japanese army used the cover of wind and snow last night to successfully attack Yanmen Pass guarded by General Liu Ruming's 68th Army. Now, Dai County County, south of Yanmen Pass,

Already occupied by the Japanese army, subsequent Japanese troops came one after another

Continuously passing through the inner Great Wall pass and entering the hinterland of Shanxi Province. Commander Fu Zuoyi of the Central Route Army has ordered the 40th Group Army and the 43rd Group Army to recapture Dai County. General Liu Ruming must make a meritorious deed and regain Yanmen Pass, otherwise military law will be imposed. Commander Yan asked our army to speed up the northward march.

Lift the siege of Dai County."

Facing the biting cold wind that poured into the car, the three people in the car took a deep breath.

This news is so shocking. Yesterday, the war situation was still very good. Yan Xishan even called the 30th Group Army to seek advice to see if he could make a fuss about the three invading Japanese troops. As long as he waited for an opportunity to eliminate one of them, the Japanese offensive would be

will be disrupted, Shanxi will turn the corner.

Based on the unique topography of Shanxi, Yan Xishan pointed out that the Lingqiu area outside Pingxingguan Pass is surrounded by mountains, and it is inconvenient for enemy reinforcements to come and go. If it is arranged properly, we can completely use our left and center troops to block the enemy's opportunity to assemble.

several times

The enemy's superior strength gave it a fatal blow. By the time Tojo Hideki came to his senses, defeat was inevitable. But now, with the loss of Dai County, the Japanese army suddenly cut our army in northern Shanxi into segments that could not be connected from end to end.

In two parts, the situation suddenly turned bad.

Lu Yixuan looked at the darkening sky outside. The sun had retreated into the clouds at some point. A heavy snowfall was very likely to come again. He frowned and asked, "How far is our army from Dai County?"

How long is the distance and how long does it take to get there?"
To be continued...