Rise from eight hundred.

The 108th Division ran very resolutely!
It's not that the rations are really insufficient, but that the 683rd Brigade, which belongs to the [-]th Army, has changed.

This conclusion was discovered at noon on the sixth day after the 16th Division stormed the Chinese army's 20-kilometer defense line in the mountains.

After a certain unit of the 16th Division finally took down a high ground in the area's defense line after paying huge casualties, after checking the armbands of the dead on the position, they were surprised to find that their opponents had changed.

The 16th Division, which has been fighting in Jin Province for a long time, can be regarded as an old opponent with the [-]th Army. It has long understood the habits of the regular army and militia under the [-]th Army. The regular army has armbands with the Eighth Route Army and its division, The brigade still has the year of joining the army, but the militia doesn't have such a thing.

A few days ago, the 16th Division determined that the enemy in front of them was the 921rd Brigade, the main force of the 683st Division, after inspecting the armbands on the remains of the Chinese army. department.

The 511th Division is another main division of the [-]th Army. It has been fighting against the [-]th Division in Northwest Shanxi for a long time. However, the [-]th Group is going to resist the imperial army this time. It is not unusual for them to appear here.

But when the news reached the ears of Nakano Xiaosan, the current supreme commander of the 108th Division, the major general brigade commander immediately broke out in white sweat.

The 683rd Brigade is not on the enemy's defense line, so where did they go?
After these seven days of combat, the Japanese army has found out that the 6th Army can now mobilize far more troops than before, at least 2 to [-] people, plus the Jinsui Army and the Central Army, they have completely set aside [-] Thousands of people came to be the reserve team.

It is difficult for an infantry brigade with a maximum of 108 people to pose a threat to the [-]th division, but what about the two infantry regiments and an unknown number of militiamen, and the four-row regiment that has never appeared?
Based on the current state of the 108th Division's lack of awareness, the consequences.
Thinking hard!
Thus, the most bizarre scene in the Battle of Southeast Shanxi appeared.

After obtaining the consent of Xiangyue Qingshi, the 108 troops of the [-]th Division, which had only withdrawn more than a dozen kilometers, began to run wildly with short legs.

In just one afternoon, 30 Japanese troops marched [-] kilometers.

It was in the mountains, not the plains, and it also brought all kinds of baggage and wounded. The retreat of the 108th Division definitely created a rare field march record in the history of the Sino-Japanese War.

At this speed, let alone the Japanese army themselves were dumbfounded, even a certain group was stunned.

The scouts he hid in the mountains almost failed to catch up with the Japanese army. Although the mountain roads in the mountains were rougher than the Japanese army's main road, they were single soldiers, and they were all trained mountain scouts. Er lost the whereabouts of the main force of the 108th Division.

That should also be the most peaceful night for the 108th Division to sleep. They were so fucking able to run away that the officers and soldiers of the two most elite reconnaissance squads sent by Tang Tuanzuo were almost exhausted. leg.

This time their main task was to track the movement of the Japanese army and observe the geographical environment in that area by the way. They continued to harass the Japanese army only when the conditions were right.

Therefore, the frenzied retreat of the 108th Division unexpectedly created a good rest period for itself.

On the following day, the 108th Division got up at 50:[-] in the morning to bury the pot for cooking, and officially set off at [-]:[-] in the morning. Until [-]:[-] in the afternoon, the whole army ran another [-] kilometers.

A total of 14 hours of marching, in a state of low morale, with a large amount of luggage, marched 80 kilometers in full armor, and the marching speed alone killed a group of permanent divisions.

If it is not a retreat, the cliff will be recorded in the history of the Japanese Army.

But this run really avoided a big defeat.

According to the declassified Chinese battle report after the war, the boss of the Chinese No.80 Group Army had designed a battle plan under the joint suggestion of the two deputy directors of the staff of the Shanxi Southeast Theater Command.

The most important part of this battle plan is to secretly transfer 3 people from the 2.8rd Army of the Central Army into the southeast of Shanxi, and the original defense area will be replaced by 1.8 guards of the Jinsui Army under the command of the Shanxi old man who has been unwilling to dispatch.This change of defense is top secret, and we know that there will be no more than five people. In addition, the Japanese army is pressing heavily on the border, and the Chinese troops on the defense line around Linfen are frequently mobilized. Besides, the Japanese army dispatched enough troops this time. The hasty withdrawal of the department gave the Japanese army a psychological guide. In this battle, the Chinese themselves showed signs of giving up.

As a result, the hidden Japanese spies missed this top-secret intelligence.

As a result, neither the North China Front Army Headquarters nor the East Route Army Headquarters in Lucheng realized that the Chinese army in southeastern Shanxi had a strength of 13, nearly twice that of the Japanese army.

Perhaps, the extra 2.8 people are still unable to stop the siege of the Japanese invaders with three divisions and a mixed brigade.

However, if the 2.8 troops are used at a critical moment, it is very likely to be fatal to the Japanese army caught off guard.

Of course, the 2.8 people transferred in secret, the boss of the 16th Army has always regarded it as his last trump card. In order to attack, an infantry corps remained on hold as its last reserve.

On the most dangerous position, all the ministries under the command of the [-]th Group Army have been fighting desperately.

That was the boss who was guarding against the 108 troops of the 3th Division that broke into his hinterland. If they turned around, the [-]rd Army would become the last shield of the tens of thousands of troops.

But the battle situation is changing so rapidly that the mighty 108th Division's 2 troops will be harassed and exhausted by a small reconnaissance company of Tang Dao, and choose to withdraw after a hard fight with two infantry regiments.

Even two days ago, he keenly felt that the Japanese army's weakest combat power this time was undoubtedly the 108th Division. The boss of the No.80 Army quickly threw himself into the last reserve team, replaced his 3st Infantry Brigade, and ordered the [-]th Division An infantry division under the [-]rd Army marched to Wuxiang at night.

The troops quietly encircling the 108th Division are not what Nakano Xiaosan thought, one brigade and one regiment plus some militias. The strength of the regular army alone is as high as 2.5. If you add the four-row regiment that has never shown up, it will exceed 3. Forced.

If the 108th Division didn't run so fast, causing the divisions and brigades who were determined not to hide their whereabouts to catch up with them, then the fate of the 108th Division, whose morale has been extremely low, is really hard to say.

After all, in the past time and space, the famous battle of Changle Village was not the 108th Infantry Regiment under the command of the 117th Division was caught up and surrounded by a division of the 921st Division on the way to retreat!After a day of fierce fighting, if it weren't for the Japanese reinforcements in Liao County, the final outcome of the 117th Infantry Regiment might not have only lost 2200 people in battle, but the entire army was wiped out.

But in this time and space, history has turned a small corner. The 108th Division has been chilled by the 683 Brigade and the Four Elements Regiment because of the last battle of Shentouling. When they heard that the 683 Brigade disappeared, the Four Elements Regiment is still hiding. Without getting out, he immediately stepped on his short legs and broke the limit of human potential, and escaped 80 kilometers in a day and a half.

This is a typical persecution paranoia, but Teliang's mistakenly typed it, which led to his escape.

Hearing that the 108th Division had crossed the Zhuozhang River, Brigadier Cheng scolded him for a long time during the march, but he had no choice but to order to stop the march.

He knew that the Zhuozhang River was the only way to block the Japanese army. Once the Japanese army crossed that river, there was no other suitable place to block the Japanese army's desperate charge.

After all, those were 2 heavily armed Japanese troops, not 6 pigs. If you really wanted to surround them to death, you would need at least 3 instead of the current [-].

In fact, including the boss of the 108th Army Group, the plan was to encircle Wei and save Zhao, encircle the weakest [-]th Division, and force the Japanese army to deploy troops to assist on other fronts, so that the reserve team can be used to deploy defenses along the way. Line of defense pressure.

By the fifth day of the Battle of Southeast Shanxi, the ministries on both the northern and southern fronts had already asked the headquarters for help.

The boss of the [-]th Army Group knew that this time, it was not that they feared and avoided the war. For the battle in the southeast of Shanxi, that officer Yan issued a death order to the troops of all factions: the commander who dared to speak out, the commander should be shot ; If the teacher says to quit, kill the teacher; if the brigade commander says to quit, kill the brigade leader!
One kill, one kill, one behead, three must kill orders, even if it may not become true in the end, but no one dares to touch this brow.

The second war zone has been fighting the Japanese army for half a year, and has been retreating from the still flowery Yuancheng to the majestic but barren Taihang Mountain and Zhongtiao Mountain. The two largest mountain ranges in Jin Province have become Shan Province. The last barrier has also become the last fig leaf for hundreds of thousands of officers and soldiers in the second theater.

If even this fig leaf is torn off by the Japanese, the old man from Shanxi who has exposed his ass to the people of the whole country is so heartbroken that he might be able to do anything.What's more, this old man's method of finding a scapegoat is very clever, and it's not like he hasn't done it before with the head of a lieutenant general as a substitute.

It was indeed a hard battle.

不说和第二混成旅团鏖战的川军104师以及还未恢复元气的西北军第17师，也不说和第16师团苦战的No.80集团军主力，单说和109师团这个二线师团作战的晋绥军和中央军三个师。

Nearly 4 people formed a huge defense line consisting of 18 highlands with a length of 56 kilometers, and 109 infantry regiments, a chariot brigade, an artillery regiment, a cavalry regiment and some engineering and transportation troops invested by the 4th division A total of 2.2 people fought.

The ratio of troops between the two sides is almost 2 to 1. Regardless of the advantages of the terrain, the two infantry divisions of the Shanxi-Sui Army are equipped with 36 Jin-made 75 mountain guns and 60 82 mortars. There are more than 160 heavy machine guns. The infantry division of the army is not bad, with 75 12 mountain guns, 28 mortars, and 70 heavy machine guns.

Calculated in this way, there are as many as 75 48 mountain cannons alone, which are not weaker than the Japanese army at all.

However, the 109th Division accepted the lesson of the last rescue encounter in the city. Regardless of the difficulty and danger of the road, they also brought a tank brigade. If the road was not wide enough, they blasted the road with engineers and forced 10 89 tanks to reach the front line.

With the addition of 30 Type 94 light tanks, the Japanese army deployed a steel army on the attack line that made the Chinese army desperate.

The mountain guns and mortars fired explosive shells, mainly to kill infantry, and the damage to Japanese tanks was too small. In mountain warfare, both the Jinsui Army and the Central Army abandoned the heavy 37mm anti-aircraft guns.

Therefore, I could only watch helplessly as the Japanese army used Type 89 tanks as movable turrets, and used short-barreled tank guns to clear the heavy firepower points on the defense line by name.

Losing the fire suppression of heavy machine guns, the Japanese army used infantry to charge repeatedly, and used artillery to focus on artillery fire coverage. In addition, the air supremacy was completely lost. The Japanese bomber formations in the sky could even dive-bomb the discovered artillery positions unscrupulously, causing many artillery positions to collapse. It was destroyed before a base number of shells was fired.

On the third day of the battle, nearly half of the 48 75 mountain artillery pieces were destroyed, and they did not show the strength that the artillery group should have at all.

In the first three days, the battle losses of the three infantry divisions exceeded 4000. Until the fifth day, the 109th Division still attacked like crazy, and the battle losses were close to [-].

The battle damage of 20.00% five, in normal times, would have already collapsed, but under the deterrence of the death order, no infantry division dared to take half a step back, and was still gritting its teeth.

But asking for help is already unavoidable.

However, as the Chinese commander-in-chief of the Southeast Shanxi Theater, the boss of the 16th Army is also helpless. The 2.8th Army under his command has already dispatched the main force to withstand the attack of the 3th Division. The [-]rd Army with [-] troops It is already the last reserve team in Southeast Shanxi.

If it is put into battle at this time, it means that the decisive battle in Southeast Shanxi will start early, which is not in line with the previous combat plan set by the theater staff.

This time the Japanese invaders launched a large-scale attack. Judging from the method of marching and fighting in ten groups, it is obvious that their intentions are obvious. It would be best if they could wipe out the Chinese army on a large scale. , objects and other methods to destroy the combat potential of the Taihang Mountains.

In other words, what the Japanese army wants this time is not necessarily the present, but definitely the future.

Shan Shanyuan is an extremely difficult opponent.

However, the Japanese army also had their shortcomings. Because of the special conditions of fighting in mountainous areas, their weak logistical support was even more difficult.

Therefore, all the Japanese troops participating in the war mainly carried it by themselves this time, and a large number of supplies followed the main force of the infantry, but this was not endless.

According to calculations, the longest duration of the Japanese army's operation in the southeast of Shanxi Province is half a month, and the shortest is ten days, provided that sufficient supplies can be maintained.

That is to say, if a decisive battle is to be fought, it is better to start the battle eight days later.

But now only 5 days later, the last force on hand is about to be put into the battlefield, and the Japanese army may have a camera reaction.

For example, the 108th Division that has already arrived in Yushe, Wuxiang and other places. If the [-] Japanese troops turn their guns and march in any direction, what troops will be used in the entire southeast of Shanxi to resist them?

"If you really can't fight against the enemy, the headquarters authorizes you to wait for the camera to evacuate, but within [-] kilometers behind the line of defense, fortify and intercept layer by layer, try your best to drag the enemy back, and contribute your strength to the final decisive battle in the entire southeast of Shanxi. Even if it’s the last drop of blood!” After thinking over and over again, the then commander-in-chief of Jindongnan issued such a military order to the three infantry divisions.

Although it is not a military order of a deadly battle, in the eyes of the three lieutenant generals who are already full of bitterness, it is actually no different from a military order of a deadly battle.

It's just that they are given some room for flexibility and maneuverability, and the depth of 20 kilometers is their limit.

At any rate, it gave them a chance to breathe, they didn't need to fight for every inch of land, they only needed to delay for another three to four days.

But compared to them, the other two directions have played real fire.

The No. 80 Army did not give up an inch of ground. If a high ground was lost, it would immediately gather all the artillery it could muster to aim at the high ground and bombard it, and immediately organized death squads to charge to regain the high ground.

It is quite normal for a highland to change hands seven or eight times.

In such a tragic battle, even if he is as arrogant as Lieutenant General Nakajima Kongore of the 16th Division, he can only vent his anger on the battlefield by killing a major army captain and an infantry captain with his own hands.

On the surface, Kongo Nakajima looks clear and handsome, with the style of a Confucian general, but as long as you know that the 16th Division under his command massacred Chinese soldiers and civilians in the Battle of Jinling and became the crown of the Seven Great Masters of Jinling City, you can know that he is How fierce and brutal.

But even if such a brutal person, such a brutal division, attacked the defense line for several days and still couldn't make an inch, you can know how brutal the two sides were fighting.

The 9400th Army reported [-] casualties to its side after the war, but in fact, this was a simplified and shrunk figure to avoid revealing its true strength.

However, the number of casualties as high as 16 in the 7000th Division after the battle is real. In one battle, one of the main divisions made its best efforts, and there were hundreds of fighter planes to help out. The strength of the two infantry regiments disappeared. It was a total failure.

Of course, everything is afraid of comparison.

It's like someone who only scored 30 points in an exam and felt very humiliated, but if someone else only scored a few points, wouldn't the feeling of humiliation be much better?You taste, you fine taste!

Anyway, Kongo Nakajima belongs to the kind of disgraced, but at least he can "return to the imperial court".

But some people are destined to not be able to see the beautiful cherry blossoms.

For example, they were still waiting for the 108th Division to rendezvous, but in the end they waited for a certain brigade from the 108th Division to run for a day and a half and successfully "jumped out of the encirclement of the Chinese army".

After fighting fiercely for six days and nights, they had already exhausted all their potential in the "Starfall War".

Guns and blood are more frightening than poison.

'The "War of Starfall" has successfully completed its mission. The Chinese people will never forget the great achievements of the brothers of the Sichuan Army and the Northwest Army. Tang Dao extended his highest salute to the two officers and the soldiers of the two divisions! '

On that starry night, Tang Dao sent a telegram to the two solemn-looking lieutenant generals.

The 'Starfall War' is over, and the 'Sunset War' is on!
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