The next battle is Pingxing Pass. Both junior high school and high school students tried their best to show off that the victory of Pingxing Pass was commanded by the Communist Party. Therefore, Zhang Minghui did not put much thought into the persistence of Pingxing Pass. Instead, he focused on Xinkou.

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On September 21, the 21st Brigade of the Japanese 5th Division first crossed the mountains from Hunyuan with two infantry brigades to the south, attacked the flank of the defending 17th Army, and occupied the Tuancheng entrance on the 23rd;

Then the 21st Brigade advanced south from Lingqiu and attacked Pingxingguan from the front. It was resisted by the 73rd Division of the 33rd Army of the Kuomintang Army. On the 24th, additional troops were added to attack.

Under Zhang Minghui's prior arrangement, the commander of the 35th Army, Fu Zuoyi, personally led two divisions of the reserve army for reinforcements. The Japanese attack was thwarted. The 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army, led by the division commander ** and deputy division commander Nie Rongzhen,

We were ordered to attack Lingqiu and Laiyuan behind enemy lines with one unit, and use the main force, the 685th, 686th, and 687th regiments, to ambush the Japanese troops in the favorable mountainous terrain on both sides of the Pingxingguan Northeast Highway in Donghenan Town, Lingqiu County.

On September 25, a unit of the 42nd Regiment of the 21st Brigade of the 5th Division and a large number of baggage vehicles advanced from Lingqiu to Pingxingguan. More than a thousand people were wiped out in the pre-ambush area, and more than a hundred vehicles were destroyed.

Chahar dispatched its troops to respond with the mixed 15th and 2nd Brigade heading eastward, and attacked Ruyuekou on the 27th. The 203rd Brigade of the 34th Army of the defenders resisted resolutely. The brigade commander Liang Jiantang was killed, and Ruyuekou fell the next day. Chahar

You sent troops to occupy Fanzhi, threatening the flanks of Pingxingguan.

When the news reached Zhang Minghui's ears, Zhang Minghui was simply shocked. Since the Japanese army had annihilated the Japs' baggage brigade at Pingxingguan, how could the Japs organize troops to capture it so quickly? Is there something fishy here?

While asking Chen Nuo and Jiu'er to investigate the matter on the side, they organized the military defense of Xinkou!

Chen Nuo and Jiu'er are such smart people. Chen Nuo himself is a member of the gcd, but he only told Zhang Minghui about this matter. Zhang Minghui is not unaware of this matter, but there are some exaggerations in history. Fu Zuoyi is

The ** were assigned to cooperate with the other four armies from the flanks and rear to encircle and annihilate the four large groups of Japanese troops that had rushed to Tuanchengkou on September 23; the ** were not assigned to block (or ambush) the reinforcements of the Japanese army.

Not to mention ***, even the then Jinsui Army High Command did not have information about the Japanese army's overnight increase in troops. If the Jinsui Army High Command at that time had received information about the overnight increase of more than a thousand Japanese troops, the entire encirclement and annihilation plan would have been destroyed.

Modify, but Fu Zuo

The U.S. Army did not modify the battle plan and clearly stated that there was no intelligence indicating that the Japanese reinforcements would pass through the so-called "ambush circle" on the morning of September 25, 1937. Under such circumstances, how could this happen?

Is there an ambush battle?

For him, the annihilation of ten thousand enemies, the annihilation of four thousand enemies, and the annihilation of more than a thousand enemies were all written by Mo Shou, and the scholars who compiled these figures also

I don’t know what the concept of more than a thousand Japanese troops is?

But for the top commanders of the Jinsui Army, they are "in their position" and must "plan their political affairs." For them, more than a thousand Japanese troops are a major event that makes them uneasy.

The Eighth Route Army fought a bloody battle at Guanjianao with 20,000 people and the Japanese Okazaki Battalion of 500 people. At that time, Peng Dehuai’s attitude towards the Guanjianao battle was completely different from his attitude towards the Pingxingguan battle. The Japanese Okazaki Battalion occupied Peng Dehuai’s Eighth Route Army headquarters.

and the Huangyadong Arsenal, known as the "Pearl in the Palm" of the Eighth Route Army. This made Peng Dehuai furious.

, ordered the 129th Division to resolutely destroy the Okazaki Brigade. Not even a single Japanese devil could let him escape. Anyone who let the enemy go would be punished according to military law. He also killed a company commander who did not fight well to "demonstrate" to others. Peng Dehuai also told Liu Bocheng

He shouted angrily: "If you don't take Guan Jianao for me, I will withdraw your rank from the 129th Division and behead you, no matter how big or small."

After talking on the phone with Peng Dehuai, Liu Bocheng had no choice but to adjust his deployment and reorganize the attack. The 772nd Regiment, the 769th Regiment, the 38th Regiment, and the 25th Regiment each used a battalion to coordinate with the First Department of the 385th Brigade to attack the enemy on Guanjianao.

Eighteen consecutive attacks and many hand-to-hand fights. After two days and nights of fighting, more than 2,000 people were sacrificed, but Guanjianao was not captured, while only about 200 people from the Okazaki brigade were killed. Eight

The road army sacrificed too much and had to withdraw from the Guanjianao battle. Under such strict supervision, the Communists were still unable to annihilate a single brigade of the Japanese army. Peng Dehuai had a completely different attitude towards the Pingxingguan battle. The Japanese were not allowed to fight head-on, so they could only

To "attack sideways", you also need to "protect yourself", which means that the government is prompted to "cope with it". In the atmosphere of "coping with it", naturally it cannot defeat more enemies than Liu Bocheng, who wanted to withdraw his number and behead his head.

If they had received information that the Japanese army had increased its troops by more than a thousand troops overnight, they would have been shocked and would have revised their battle plan. But they did not, which means they had not received the information that the Japanese army had increased their troops overnight.

Information about the Japanese army increasing its troops overnight. Why did they set up an ambush?

As we all know, ambush warfare cannot be achieved by wishful thinking. It is necessary to know in advance the (approximate) time when the enemy will pass by the ambush site, so as to be able to set up an ambush in advance. Therefore, a successful ambush warfare, or "encircling a point for reinforcements"; or a very good understanding of the enemy's activity patterns

Know that the enemy "comes out early" and "comes back late"

The only way to go; or to receive intelligence that the enemy has set out from a certain place and passed here to go to a certain place. But they did not have these. They just drove from northern Shaanxi to the front line of Shanxi. As they themselves said, during the march,

When I heard the sound of artillery fire between the Jinsui Army and the Japanese army, all information about the Japanese army came from the liaison staff of the Jinsui Army.

How did they know that on the morning of September 25, 1937, the Japanese army passed through the so-called ambush site and set up an ambush here in the rain on the night of the 24th? As smart as a **, they would not "just wait for the rabbit", right?

Zhu De and Peng Dehuai sent a secret telegram to Chiang Kai-shek, saying: "About four or five hundred enemy people were wiped out." **On September 25, the telegram reported to the Nanjing Central Government said: "One battalion of the enemy was wiped out." From a military perspective

, with the communist equipment at that time, it could only wipe out one enemy battalion at most. That is,

** At Pingxing Pass, we can only wipe out one enemy battalion at best, which is the highest limit. Soldiers like Zhu De, Peng Dehuai, and ** knew this very well, and they did not dare to brag beyond the limit. Ren Bishi, a scholar, did not care about this, and dared to brag to the limit.

More than 10,000 people far beyond the limit

.You could tell it was bragging at first glance, so it was refuted by Shanghai neutral newspapers as early as that time. This was the reason why the Communist Party later changed the plan to an ambush battle. It was also the reason why the Communist Party later said that the Pingxingguan battle was the one Ren Bishi wanted to fight. Ren Bishi

A literary man, what rights does he have?

Decided to fight. **The meaning of this passage is: The battle of Pingxingguan, which wiped out more than 10,000 enemies, was said by Ren Bishi, not me. I only talked about the "coping" battle of Pingxingguan, which wiped out hundreds of enemies;

There is no mention of the "desperate" Pingxingguan battle in which more than 10,000 enemies were wiped out.

In order to make others believe that the Communist Party had indeed used inferior weapons to annihilate so many powerful enemies and "defeated all the attacking enemies with more than 10,000 men", the positional battle was changed to an ambush battle. This was just a lie.

This is the reason why Ru Yuekou was lost so quickly. The Japs themselves did not suffer serious damage, but the Kuomintang troops relaxed their vigilance and suffered such a blow! How could Pingxing Pass be a great victory?

This made Zhang Minghui very angry. He was as smart as a **. Sure enough, he had not won any battles here. This made Zhang Minghui very unhappy. After thinking about it, he knew the reason. He had been passively defending and the troops were attacking the little devil.
Chapter completed!