For a person who is not afraid of death, death is not terrible. The most terrible thing is that when he knows he will die but does not know when he will die, the brigade commander who is advancing does not have enough troops to attack Chaoyang. , he was not willing to pay a high price to attack by force, but he was not willing to just wait outside Chaoyang City.
This move may be called a demonstration, a bluff, or even an intimidation, but no matter what his thoughts were, it actually made the Japanese troops in the city, especially Lieutenant General Shizuo Yokoyama, facing outside the city. There were not many enemy troops, and they were completely determined to break through the encirclement or leave the city for a decisive battle.
Who knows that there are so few enemy troops outside the city who dare to provoke so arrogantly outside the city? Where do they get their confidence? Is their main force hiding in the mountains outside the city, waiting for them to find them outside the city? They have a decisive battle, or they have some other conspiracy.
Whatever you want, anyway, if the reinforcements don’t come, I won’t go out even if I’m beaten to death. As long as you don’t leave the city, you won’t be able to use any of your conspiracies. Chaoyang City is not Beipiao. There are city walls and complete permanent fortifications here. I Although it's a bit embarrassing to be a coward, and it may lose some of the majesty and ambition of the Imperial Japanese Army, it's still better than being sent to your doorstep.
Of course, the crazy brigade commander of the advancing army didn't know that his actions not only made Lieutenant General Yokoyama Shizuo in the city close the city gate tightly and did not dare to take a step out of the way, but also almost killed the commander of the Japanese Eighth Division. He was crazy, and he didn't know that his direct attack on the Beipiao South Gate gave the Japanese troops on the Chaoyang and Beipiao lines a feeling of panic and chaos.
Especially Beipiao City, a town that prospered because of coal, has only a short history of more than ten years. The urban area is a mining area, and there is not even a city wall. Now it is not only the location of the Kwantung Army's Mingmen, but also because it is in western Liaoning. The location on the battlefield is where the headquarters of the Fourth Army of the Kwantung Army is located.
There is not only a military headquarters here, but also a lieutenant general commander. The most important thing is that the defensive forces here are not many. Compared with Chaoyang City, Beipiao is now more like the Japanese army on the entire Western Liaoning battlefield. He stabbed the seven inches, and in cooperation with the troops on the northern front, he stabbed the sky.
It successfully attracted the attention of the reinforcements that the Japanese army might mobilize from the Jianping battlefield to the direction of Beipiao. It also bought a lot of time for the Jianping battlefield in the rear to finally deal with the Japanese troops in front of them, and ensured that the Jianping battlefield was safe in the entire combat operation. In the final stage, there were no external factors that affected the development of the war situation.
At the same time, the battle for the large slab at the important railway pass in the south of Beipiao City, and the subsequent blocking battle that lasted for more than six hours, prepared the troops for the troops who were currently sweeping through several coal mines in Beipiao City in the north of Beipiao City, killing all the laborers and The local people were able to transport them away safely and gain a lot of time.
Daban is only more than ten kilometers away from Beipiao City, and it only takes ten minutes by train. If these two Japanese squadrons, which are just the vanguard, are allowed to enter Beipiao City, plus the two Japanese squadrons sent by Yokoyama Shizuo first, In the infantry squadron, Lieutenant General Washizu Seppei, who feels much stronger, will definitely send troops to fight this daring force.
After all, for Lieutenant General Washijin Jinhei, a dignified lieutenant general commander, it would definitely not be a good feeling to be locked up like this. He just suffered from the obvious lack of troops in his hands after the reinforcement of Ye Baishou, and he could barely even protect himself. It was enough that he had no energy left to leave the city for a decisive battle and stayed behind closed doors. However, if he received support, I am afraid that the more confident Lieutenant General Washitsu Jinhei would not be as honest as he is now.
Although the Japanese army could not defeat these two battalions of anti-alliance troops even if they concentrated all the troops in Beipiao City, the unit's rush operation would inevitably be disrupted. In addition, the family members and the surrounding people would be disrupted. In the rush of the war, a large-scale retreat of tens of thousands of people, not just dozens or hundreds of people, requires a lot of time to organize and implement.
Beipiao is a new town born from coal. Originally there was only one coal mine, Guanshan Coal Mine. The Guanshan Coal Mine area is also the so-called urban area. After the September 18th Incident, after the Kwantung Army occupied Beipiao, in order to speed up the plunder of coal, they successively Two more mines, Taiji and Sanbao, were developed, and the so-called urban area expanded.
But the main area of the city is still dominated by the original Guanshan Mine, which is also the main residential area of Japanese people and shops in Beipiao City. Taiji and Sanbao Mines are both distributed around Beipiao City, and one is in Beipiao City. To the east and one to the west of Beipiao City, the main mines are outside the city.
In particular, the Taiji Mine extends from Taiji to Xinglonggou. It is spread over a vast area and has the largest number of workers. Although the Guanshan Mining Area is where the Fourth Army Headquarters is located and where the main Japanese troops are stationed in Beipiao, the labor force there Unless we forcefully attack the city, we have no choice but to give up.
The Taiji Mine and the Sanbao Mine, these two mining areas on the outskirts of Beipiao, became the main areas where the Anti-Japanese Alliance snatched labor. And these two mining areas are not far from the urban area of Beipiao, that is, the Guanshan Mine. Taiji Mine The main mining areas of the Ji mine, except for the Xinglonggou line, were right under the noses of the Japanese army. Although the Sanbao mine was a little far away, it was connected to Beipiao City by a mining railway.
Once the Japanese troops leave the city to counterattack, they will have to stop less than half of their rush operations in order to concentrate their forces on facing the enemy. If Jiujin Chunhei makes a desperate move and destroys all the people in Beipiao City when there is no enemy situation in other directions, If all the troops are mobilized out of the city, the next rush operation can only be terminated.
But now the unit suddenly appeared at Daban in the south of Beipiao City, cutting off the railway transportation from Yixian to Beipiao, and surrounded the two squadrons of the Japanese reinforcements' vanguard troops in Daban Station, allowing Lieutenant General Jiujin Qianping in the city to They were all at war, and at least until new reinforcements arrived, they did not dare to take a step out of Beipiao City.
It can be said that in terms of the overall battle situation, he coordinated the actions of the anti-alliance forces in the north of Chengdu quite effectively, allowing the troops in the north of the city to calmly retreat the workers from Taiji and Sanbao mines. With his restraint, Chengbei freed up some of his forces. The troops even concentrated a battalion, forced their way into several mines of the Guanshan Mine in the north of the city, and snatched out hundreds of workers.
Li Mingfeng, who was at the rear, received the report from the front. Not only did he continuously take pictures of his thighs, he also praised this guy for his unique vision. However, Li Mingfeng was not an honest person. If he failed to seize such a God-given opportunity, then he would not be Li Mingfeng. Facing the battle situation In response to the changes, Li Mingfeng immediately issued two consecutive orders to the troops north of Beipiao.
The first is to speed up the transfer and strive to transfer all the workers and their families away in the shortest possible time. If they really can’t leave, they will be forcibly relocated. In a word, it is possible to temporarily violate mass discipline, and everything will be done as quickly as possible. The main task is to complete the mission so that the unit can be freed up to cooperate with the advancing army.
Second, mobilize a force to launch a feint attack on the Guanshan mining area, which is now the main city of Beipiao. This is not only to prevent the Japanese troops in the city from leaving the city to block evacuation operations, but also to coordinate the front-line advance of Daban. The focus is on the city of Beipiao. The armored train must be destroyed at all costs.
After the labor transfer was completed, the feint attack was immediately converted into a strong attack. However, this strong attack was limited. It must not only hurt the Japanese troops in the city, but also not cause too many casualties to itself. The most important thing was to ensure that the south of the city was on the big board. The advancing troops are fighting fiercely, and there is safety behind them.
At the same time, he blew up all the mines in Taiji and Sanbao, which were now under his control. No one could be left for the Japanese army. Considering the development of the war situation, Li Mingfeng gave the anti-alliance forces in the north of Beipiao City the final rush. The time is set to be completed within four hours.
However, although the entire war situation in western Liaoning is currently sliding in his favor, Li Mingfeng knows very well that no matter how many Japanese troops can be attracted to the Beipiao and Chaoyang battlefields, this is a temporary phenomenon, and the real solution to the problem is still On the Jianping battlefield.
The Japanese army on the Jianping battlefield is the main force of the Eighth Division, and it is also the main force of the entire western Liaoning battlefield. As long as the Japanese army here is eliminated, the fundamental solution to the problem is only when the main force on the Jianping battlefield is freed up, this battle Only then will the initiative in the battle truly be firmly in your own hands.
Just as Lieutenant General Jiujin Qianping was nervously mobilizing troops and advancing to the big block in the south of Beipiao, he repeatedly fought fiercely with the Japanese reinforcements in Yixian County. At the same time, the Japanese troops in the entire Western Liaoning Corridor were desperately gathering to prepare for reinforcements going north. , the Japanese troops fighting hard in the northeast battlefield of Jianping, although they are still struggling to support themselves, are under increasing pressure from the offensive of the surrounding anti-alliance and advance forces.
Although they concentrated their forces on the front line of Luofu Valley at all costs and made desperate repeated attacks, they still failed to open a passage to the east and get closer to the main force of the Japanese Army's 31st Regiment behind Luofu Valley. The number of casualties is rising rapidly almost every hour due to repeated failed attacks and repeated attacks by other surrounding troops.
The only ravine in the northeast of Luofu Valley that was not covered by anti-Japanese artillery fire was filled with wounded soldiers who had been withdrawn by the Japanese army. Because they did not carry enough medicine and bandages, they could only be used by officers. These wounded soldiers were put in leggings. After being hastily bandaged, they were thrown aside. Whether they could survive or not depended entirely on whether their own platelet concentration was sufficient.
The entire valley was filled with the screams of wounded soldiers. The corpses of Japanese soldiers who died in the battle were hastily thrown at the other end of the valley like piles of miscellaneous trees. The huge number of casualties made Luofugou The morale of the Japanese army on the battlefield was declining rapidly, which led to its offensive on Luofugou. In fact, it was in a state of weakness and difficulty in sustaining the offensive.
What makes Colonel Shigetoshi Okajima, captain of the 5th Infantry Regiment of the 8th Division, who commands the entire battlefield east of Luofugou, even more worried is that the overall battle situation is constantly deteriorating. As Li Mingfeng continues to invest troops and arrives, he gradually falls into trouble. , and has even reached a situation where it is difficult to protect itself.
In particular, the two battalions of the Anti-Japanese Alliance that were outflanking from behind had successively broken through their defensive positions in Deli Hutong, Fengshengdian, Dashuangjianzi Mountain, and Hotwater Tang. They had penetrated diagonally from behind, cutting off the division from the enemy. The Daqingshan line was the route where the original Sidaoyingzi Dashan garrison met in fierce battle with the enemy, and had threatened the safety of its flanks.
The loss of the front line of the Great Shuangjianzi Mountains means that the entire flank of the Japanese army on the battlefield east of Luofugou is exposed. From the Great Shuangjianzi Mountains to behind the battlefield of Luofugou, there is actually no danger to defend, but now they are really
No troops could be sent to retake the commanding heights of the Luofugou battlefield, Da Shuangjianzi Mountain.
At the same time, in the direction of the Wei family shack, although the two regiments of the advancing army failed to break the deadlock and completely defeat the Japanese resistance, they had seized the Wei family shack from the Japanese army and sealed off the Japanese army regardless of the number of casualties.
The south retreat channel and cut off its retreat route to Jianping County.
After the Wei family's shack was lost, it meant that the Japanese army's retreat route to Chaoyang east of Luofugou was completely cut off. That is to say, after the Wei family's shack was lost, the Japanese army on the Luofugou battlefield actually faced