The senior leaders of the Japanese North China Front did not know about the two battles fought by special forces in Yanqing and Wangjiawu until the next day. By that time, a big mistake had been made, which directly led to the death of Xiang Yue, the commander of the First Army. Kiyoshi’s class is over,
Although later history books, including historians, attributed the Japanese army's own incident to the ingenious calculation of the junior officer Ouyang Yun, Ouyang Yun himself never admitted it.
In fact, when Ouyang Yun originally asked Dadao to abolish the independent mixed first brigade command system and asked the Wangjiawei garrison to move to Bagua Pass, he really didn't think so much about it.
Also, how did he know that the remnants of the 9th Division and the 108th Division would launch a night attack on Wangjiawei? The Japanese are not good at night fighting, aren't they?
Not long after Dan Xiong left Wangjiawei with Sakai Hoji and the Major named Sanada Yuji, the 9th Division led by Yoshitsune Ryosuke attacked Wangjiawei from the northwest. At the same time, the Ninth Division led by Shimomoto Xiongmi The 108th Division also attacked from the southwest.
At this time, the mixed troops led by Gu Mingchang and Zhang Yantian had already fled far away, and the Japanese army naturally missed them. However, because Gu and Zhang had laid a lot of hidden positions on the front-facing position facing the mixed first brigade in Wangjiawei. Landmines, this directly became the trigger for the two-part Japanese army's own war.
As soon as the gunfire rang out from the Japanese position in Wangjiawei, the squadron that was mixed into the first brigade on forward combat duty immediately exploded, because when the squadron leader was looking for the headquarters captain to ask for instructions on combat missions, he found that the captain was actually Then, as some soldiers discovered the body of the regiment commander Nohyo Jiro, and then thought of the group of people who had appeared in the military camp before, whether they were soldiers or officers, they all thought that they had been attacked by the Chinese people for a long time. Therefore, low-level officers began to take matters into their own hands and organized a team to launch a counterattack.
Originally, due to the long distance between the two Japanese armies, it was very likely that the war would turn into friendship. However, the landmines left by Gu and Zhang ignited the "fighting spirit" of both sides. With the "rumbling" explosions, people thought they had discovered the enemy. The officers and soldiers of both sides caught up with the traces of the troops. As a result, the distance between the two sides became closer and closer, and they soon began to shoot at each other. This continued for nearly an hour, and no one noticed. The sound of guns and artillery from both sides of the war was so loud. Familiarity and sameness,
Originally, if the three warring parties stopped fighting at this time, there would not be too serious consequences. However, due to the close distance, when they discovered from the flash of fire from the explosion, the enemy was actually wearing the same military uniform and using the same weapon as himself. , the officers and soldiers of the First Mixed Brigade, who had already suffered losses in this regard, couldn't help but hate it. Not only did they not restrain themselves because of their opponent's "cowardly" performance, but they were unyielding and attacked more and more fiercely.
When the Japs from the Ninth Division and the 108th Division discovered that the enemy on the opposite side was wearing the same military uniforms and using the same weapons as themselves, many officers realized that there might be a misunderstanding, so some low-level officers They ordered their men to postpone the attack and wanted to report the situation to the superiors and wait for the decision from the superiors. However, their good behavior was met with more violent attacks, which made many Japanese soldiers realize that the people on the opposite side were probably Chinese. He was pretending to be someone else, so he began to fight back unscrupulously.
This unscrupulousness did not matter, as the officers and soldiers of the mixed first brigade bravely broke into the depths of the "Chinese" defense line, the officers and soldiers of the three parties began to get entangled with each other. In the end, the 9th Division and the 108th Division were all Japanese. No one can distinguish each other clearly,
So, with Wangjiawei as the center, a big melee began.
This melee lasted for a full two and a half hours. In the end, the more Xiongmi looked at it, the more he felt that something was wrong. With an idea, he ordered a large number of flares to be fired, so that the flags of the three warring parties were exposed to everyone's view. This ended the chaos, but at this time a big mistake had been made. Among them, the mixed First Brigade suffered the most serious casualties, with more than 60% battle losses. The Ninth Division and the 108th Division were two dozen at the beginning. First, the situation is much better, but they still lost nearly 1,500 troops. It can be said that from a military perspective, these three Japanese armies have been scrapped and can only wait for reorganization.
The result of this Japanese self-inflicted war in Wangjiawei was quite brilliant (of course, compared to China), which resulted in the resignation of three senior officials of the First Army (Commander Xiangyue Qingji, Ninth Division Division commander Yoshitsune Ryosuke, commander of the 108th Division Shimomoto Kumaya), a senior official was forced to die of illness (combined 1st brigade commander Sakai Hoji, and just like the Doihara incident, the Japanese base camp He refused to admit that Sakai was captured and used his illness and death to deceive the domestic people), and also left quite serious sequelae. After the war, the officers and soldiers of the 108th Division became the First Brigade and the Ninth Division. ,After that, fights between these three troops became common and became a big joke on the Chinese battlefield.
Turning our attention from Wangjiawei to Changping, Lijia Village, the large-scale showdown between the main force of the Xuebing Army and the main force of the First Army of the Japanese North China Front finally began.
Japanese troops equivalent to three full divisions were densely packed in the fields and woods centered on Lijia Village, and launched an attack in the direction of Changping, completely ignoring the surrounded 40th Brigade.
As for the Xuebing Army, after the tank regiment was dispatched, "Niwa" was finally captured. Then, they risked being surrounded by the main force of the Japanese army to encircle and annihilate the remnants of the 40th Brigade.
"Military seat, the main forward force of the Japanese army has approached Huangzhuang."
"Military seat, our army has been at war with the Japanese vanguard in Huangzhuang."
"Military seat, the main force of the Japanese army has all passed Jiutanzi and will arrive at Lijia Village in twenty minutes."
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One piece after another of the latest reconnaissance information was sent to Ouyang Yun. The young officer stood firm and said, "The 40th Brigade must die, and every Japanese must not be spared."
Tong Linge nodded: "Ouyang, I support you."
Behind a simple fortification in the southeast of "Niwa", Yamashita Fengwen sat on the ground, carefully wiping the command knife on his hand, turning a deaf ear to the sound of gunfire that filled his ears.
Several Japanese officers rushed over, all covered in blood. One of them advised: "General, we can't hold on any longer. Let us cover your retreat."
Yamashita Fengwen smiled, raised his head and looked at the bonfire in front of him in trance, and after a while he said: "You haven't realized it yet? In the eyes of the commander, we are already dead people. I have been thinking about a question now."
"What."
"We used mustard gas before. Is it right or wrong? What I mean is, you know the nature of Ouyang Yun, a Chinese, and he must retaliate. If our country is defeated in the future, what do you think he will do to our citizens? .”
"General, we will not be defeated."
"Really?" Yamashita Fengwen raised his head, then turned and bowed several times to the east, and said piously: "Your Majesty, please forgive me for not being able to serve you anymore. Please forgive your cowardice as a minister." After saying that, he raised his hands with both hands. With a strong force, the command knife wrapped in white cloth was cut from the stomach into the stomach, and then pulled to the left...