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Chapter 156: Dog Bites Dog

Although he had to enter the mountain, at the last moment, Li Shouxin still played a trick. He used the Sixth Division, which was a direct descendant of King De and also the capital of his family, on the front line. The first three divisions to enter the mountain were

The only force he had was not his direct lineage, but the fourth division he had collected from the remnants of the so-called Han Rebel Army, one of the defeated Suiyuan puppet troops in the Shanghua Battle.

The Second Division, one of the main forces of his direct lineage, was placed at the end of the entire march, so that it could be quickly withdrawn in case of emergency. As for the First Division, which he started from, he placed it at the end of the entire march.

Protect his position. And his headquarters will not easily enter the mountain.

In other words, he is using the Sixth Division to help him. If there are gunshots after the Sixth Division enters the mountain, it means that there is really an ambush in the valley. The distance between the marches is 500 meters, which is enough for the others behind.

The troops have responded. As long as the other troops are saved, they will not be too passive and will still have the opportunity to counterattack. The most fundamental thing is that even if they suffer losses, they will not hurt their roots.

The opponent only has the strength of a reinforced battalion, and tanks are not used at all in this kind of terrain. Simply relying on infantry to set up an ambush, the most they can do is start at the break of the valley. Let the Sixth Division go to the road, if there is really an ambush

, your own troops behind can also quickly withdraw.

As for the last sentence, although Li Shouxin said it with murderous intent, his words were mostly addressed to Lieutenant Colonel Tokugawa and the division commanders of the Second Army present. As for his own direct lineage, he was

If he was asked to kill the two division commanders of Brother Baobao, he would find a way to exonerate them. As far as he was concerned, the worst he could do was to introduce one or two regiment commanders to take the blame.

His abacus was very good. He would kill his Taoist friends rather than his poor Taoists, and use other people's troops to help him. But the commander of the Sixth Division who was sent to lead the battle over there, and several other members of the Second Army who participated in the battle

But the division commander didn't do anything anymore. Are you kidding me? We're going to die while your troops are watching from behind. Is that such a good thing? If there really is an ambush, we will be the ones who die.

Regarding his arrangement, several division commanders of the Second Army, including Wang Zhenhua, who had just been transferred from the position of commander of the 3rd Division to the 4th Division just before departure from Li Shouxin's direct lineage, were firmly opposed to this arrangement. Li Shouxin's deployment

They knew the plan very well, which was to let the Second Army's divisions and his motley Fourth Division serve as scapegoats.

Li Shouxin was being cunning, but although several division commanders were not as smart as him, they were not stupid either. They were all firmly opposed to his plan to kill others. Especially the division commanders of the Second Army were extremely resolute in their opposition.

Several division commanders firmly disagreed with his arrangement, and the scene suddenly turned cold.

Speaking of Lieutenant Colonel Tokugawa, this pure Japanese soldier was more decisive. Seeing that the situation was at a stalemate, he simply made an even distribution. Since Li Shouxin had decided that the Sixth Division would lead the battle, it was not better to change his position. He, a Mongolian autonomous

The commander-in-chief of the army still has to give some face to him.

As for the next march, Lieutenant Colonel Tokugawa's deployment was very balanced. Behind the Sixth Division, the Fourth, Seventh, Second, Eighth, and First Divisions followed suit. As for the artillery and the general headquarters, they did not need to be protected by the Mongolian army.

The commander-in-chief and his own safety are all protected by the Imperial Japanese Army. Moreover, Lieutenant Colonel Tokugawa repeatedly emphasized that this plan is an order of the Imperial Japanese Army. Anyone who violates it will be violating the order of the Imperial Japanese Army.

It’s not that Lieutenant Colonel Tokugawa was a master of peacemaking, it’s just that he really didn’t have much patience with the Chinese people who were able to argue for a long time about anything. The question of whether to enter the mountain and when to enter the mountain,

I've been tearing my skin off for most of the day.

If I had been at fault for a long time because of the march sequence, I would probably have exhausted my patience by then, and I might have taken out my gun and killed all the guys here who had been fighting with each other all day long. Although I have always been cautious about this kind of situation.

He was deeply disgusted, but Lieutenant Colonel Tokugawa also knew that the initiator of this situation was none other than the Japanese army themselves.

The empire has always adopted a divide-and-conquer approach to the puppet regimes established in China to prevent these puppet regimes from becoming bigger and biting the empire in turn. This approach has also been adopted for the puppet armies. And it seems to be even more serious when it comes to the puppet armies.

.Almost every system of the army in China has its own puppet army.

Not counting the Manchukuo Army in the Northeast and the Peaceful Founding Army in Central China. In North China alone, there was the original Chinese garrison army, now the security force supported by the North China Front Army. The Xingya Allied Army supported by the First Army in Shanxi was first led by Tianjin spies.

agencies, and later the Mongolian Autonomous Army supported by the Mongolian garrison. Even the subordinates of each division, garrison brigade, and even each regiment also formed local puppet armies such as police corps.

When the Japanese army fought against the Chinese government forces, they seized mountains of weapons and equipment. To form these puppet armies, the empire did not need to provide weapons. In addition, the empire's military strength was limited, and China's territory was too vast. It was completely dependent on the Japanese army to occupy it themselves.

, then the Japanese army would have nothing to do, and just maintaining law and order in the occupied areas might not be enough. So the Japanese army in various systems within the pass formed their own puppet army systems to act as thugs for themselves.

Although after the establishment of the new Nanjing government, most of these puppet troops nominally belonged to the Nanjing government. In fact, most of these puppet troops still acted on their own, each taking orders from the original Japanese military system. What should the names of most of the troops be?

What's the name? Even the original flag and cap badge have not been replaced.

The army's doing so indeed saved the empire a lot of manpower, freeing up its hands to attack cities and defeat the Chinese government forces. However, it also resulted in many factions of these puppet armies, and when they cooperated, they were as scattered as their citizens. In addition, the empire's opposition to

The consistent divide-and-rule method adopted by these puppet armies has further intensified the internal fighting among these puppet armies.

If they were allowed to argue about things like today, they might continue to argue for a whole day. They were not in a hurry, but the development of the war situation could not be delayed indefinitely here. Lieutenant Colonel Tokugawa, who had really lost his patience,

Let's just make an even distribution. Don't compare with each other anymore. I'll do it for you.

Although the commander of the Fourth Division and the three division commanders of the Second Army were still quite dissatisfied with Lieutenant Colonel Tokugawa's evenly distributed deployment. But after Lieutenant Colonel Tokugawa said these words, the murderous expression on his face and the Japanese soldiers behind him

With the saber drawn out, no one dared to raise any objections.

As for Li Shouxin, although he was also dissatisfied with Lieutenant Colonel Tokugawa's deployment, he put his starting capital at the end and did not change the marching distance. This means that if there is an accident, the division can quickly

If you withdraw, you won't suffer much loss.

For him, as long as the First Division is preserved, even if the other divisions are lost, he still has the capital to make a comeback. Since the First Division, his starting point, can be guaranteed, for Lieutenant Colonel Tokugawa's deployment

, he had no objections.

After the combat meeting was over, he reciprocated Lieutenant Colonel Tokugawa's kindness and secretly gave Lieutenant Colonel Tokugawa a huge cat's-eye diamond to express his gratitude for taking care of him in the deployment. For the gift he handed over,

Lieutenant Colonel Tokugawa naturally understood this cat's eye diamond and accepted it without any hesitation.

It was just that the two people who tacitly understood each other did not expect that in this battle, which was not large in scale and did not last long, the one that suffered the most serious blow was the first division that was originally used to finish. In a dense battle,

During the bombardment, more than 2,000 people from the first division who were gathering suffered losses of more than 80%.

This loss was the largest loss among the several divisions that participated in the war, except for the Sixth Division, which took the lead and was almost completely wiped out. Li Shouxin's original attempt to keep his old capital not only failed, but also lost his wife and troops.

, along with all the artillery that was finally defrauded from the Japanese, was lost. Of course, this is a story for later, at least now he is barely satisfied with Lieutenant Colonel Tokugawa's deployment.

Although these puppet Mongolian troops were not completely obedient to the Japanese like the puppet Manchurian army, they were quite capable after years of training by the Japanese army. At eight o'clock in the morning, the participating divisions were assembled on time and lined up in the Huanggangliang Valley.

Outside the pass, looking at the somewhat chaotic formations of the divisions, Li Shouxin waved his hand. As the vanguard of the entire army, the Sixth Division, no matter how reluctant it was, had to move in on time under the guns of the Japanese supervising the battle.

Knowing that the Japanese and puppet troops outside the mountain had finally begun to take action, Yang Jicai, who had been waiting for them for a whole day and night, did not show anything on the surface, but he was somewhat happy in his heart: "This big fish that I have been missing for so long is finally here."

I took the bait. It seems that my judgment is still very accurate."

After the secret joy in his heart, he was still followed by calmness. Although it was his first time to command troops above a regiment in combat, the joy in Yang Jicai's heart was only short-lived. For him, he knew that he had to be calm now. After thinking about it,

Yang Jicai grabbed the walkie-talkie and ordered that no shots should be fired without orders.

Li Shouxin's judgment was correct. His troops were indeed insufficient to deploy along the entire valley. As for the mountain pass, except for a small number of security forces, he could not deploy too many troops. But his judgment was different from Li Shouxin's.

, Yang Jicai deployed his troops mainly in the second half of the valley, not in the middle of the valley. If he placed the main troops in the middle, how could he attract more Japanese and puppet troops into his fire ambush circle?

Yang Jicai deployed his four infantry companies in a cross pattern on the gentle slopes of the mountains on both sides of the ditch bottom. His plan for the fire ambush was also very simple. Within four hundred meters, automatic rifles and squad machine guns were handed over to the infantry.

Recoilless rifles and rocket launchers. Between 400 and 1,000 meters, hand over to general-purpose machine guns and 12mm anti-aircraft machine guns, 60mm mortars, and Soviet-made light and heavy machine guns. As for those beyond 1,000 meters, hand over to 14mm anti-aircraft machine guns.

and twin twenty-three millimeter anti-aircraft guns.

Four 75mm self-propelled artillery and 82 mortars are responsible for suppressing the mountain artillery and mortars of the puppet Mongolian army. As for the four 107 rocket launchers, they are responsible for suppressing the Japanese and puppet army’s marching columns and troop gathering areas.

Carry out fire coverage. As for the tank company, it is organized as a platoon. After receiving the order, it rushes into the valley and uses collision tactics and machine guns to counterattack the Japanese and puppet troops.


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