Rise from eight hundred.

Chapter 1099 Battle!
The mountain road is rough and difficult!

Don't look at Tang Dao and his party are one person and two horses, but the speed can't be that fast.

And it wasn't all that peaceful along the way.

It's not that there are Japanese, but that there are so many bandits that make people speechless.

This is different from Jindongnan.

After all, there are more than [-] regular troops stationed in the mountains in the southeast of Shanxi, and there is almost no room for bandits to survive.

As for Jindong, which already belonged to the Japanese-occupied area, the Japanese army occupied the county seat, and the management outside the city was completely out of control.

During the three-hour march, Tang Dao felt at least ten coveted eyes watching him and his comrades who marched in three groups through the bushes.

It's just that the bandits also have good eyesight. Looking at a dozen regular soldiers in military uniforms carrying guns and guns, no one dared to jump out to test the strength of Tang Dao's elite team.

The banditry is rampant, which is also a major feature of Jin Province, which is occupied by the Japanese army at this time. Most of them are poor people who can't survive.

Especially in the nearly one year since the Japanese invaded Jin Province, the number of bandits has increased sharply. In a small mountain town with a radius of only tens of miles, there are even no less than five bandits infested.

However, it is not the Chinese mountain people who are most troubled by these bandits, but the Japanese.

Because the bandits themselves were born in the mountains, they also knew that leeks should not dig their roots, so whenever they went down the mountain to rob the mountain people, they would do it leisurely, and basically they could leave some rations for the ordinary mountain people.

Even, if they rob a 'big household', they can share some with the mountain people, and if there is a situation, some mountain people will even tip them off.In just one year's time, bandits in many places have formed a deformed "symbiotic" relationship with the mountain people.

Of course, the vast majority of this rich family have the surname Ri.

In fact, in this area of ​​Jin Province, rich people have long been scared away by the flames of war. Besides the Japanese army's transport team, who else has so much white rice and flour?

Therefore, small-scale attacks encountered by the Japanese army in the mountains emerged one after another. In the first half of 1938, recorded losses accounted for one-third of the total transportation volume.

Of course, a considerable part of them are masterpieces of the [-]th Army Group. Their characteristic is that supplies are robbed and people are killed. They even pick up all the bullet casings for you. they did.

Bandits are different. They seldom aim to annihilate the enemy. As long as you lose your supplies and run away, the chance of surviving is greater than 80.00%.

But compared to the [-]th Army, which frequently launched raids, the bandits were actually more of a headache for the Japanese army. Their so-called bandit dens or hilltops were nothing more than straw huts. At most, it will make you burn out, wait for you to leave, hey!If I come back again, if you still come, then I will run again
The bandits are not like the regular army. There are no heavy weapons or luggage. They carry a bag of rice, a bow or a machete. Those who can have dozens of blunderbusses or more than ten rifles are all their belongings. They are all F4 among bandits!

What?Such bandits have no deterrent power?When you are walking on a mountain road, there are cliffs on one side and mountains on the other, let alone rifles and machine guns, just rolling down some rocks is enough for you to drink a scoop.

What's more, bandits can survive in such poor mountains and rough waters, they have good brains enough, any 'reconnaissance vanguard' can be sent dozens of miles away, maybe your transport team of dozens of people just left the city, People will be watching you, and then the bandit army will start looking for a suitable position to hit the sap.

In short, it is just one sentence: do what you can do, and hide what you can't do. Compared with life, face is not important at all.

Bandits are like rats living in the city's underground tunnels. Their living conditions are harsh, but they are unscrupulous. The Japanese are fierce or not. As long as they have supplies, they are a bowl of food.

Always in the border of Eastern Jin, apart from the rebels making the Japanese exhausted, bandits have become the second biggest headache for the Japanese.

Fortunately, these bandits who silently watched Tang Dao and his party leave had no intention of slaughtering the fat sheep. Otherwise, Tang Tuanzuo, who was inexplicably anxious, would not have the intention to show mercy because they belonged to the clan.

Tang Dao arrived at the frontline headquarters at the headquarters of the 2 Division at 921:[-] in the afternoon.

The frontline headquarters was set up in a small mountain village, and there were as many as five security guards, but this was considered normal. After all, this was a wartime, and Tang Dao didn't think much about it.

Until he saw Brigadier Cheng who greeted him out of the village, Tang Dao couldn't help but thump in his heart.

"Go in and say that Commander Zhao of the 17th Division also arrived half an hour ago, and Commander Li of the 104th Division is still on the way. Both Mr. Tang of the 12th Division and Mr. Dong of the 101st Division did not arrive because of the distance, but both of them sent messages stating that they accept All military orders from the frontline headquarters." Brigadier Cheng walked quickly to the headquarters with Tang Dao, while briefly introducing the situation.

Tang Dao's face was calm, but he knew in his heart that the situation of the battle might really change.

Sure enough, when he walked into the main room of the small courtyard in the mountain village, Master Liu, who was the commander-in-chief of the front line, leaned over to look at the map, and whispered something to Master Zhao beside him. The faces of the two famous generals were all solemn.

"Boss, Tang Dao, the head of the Four Elements Regiment, is here to report!" Tang Dao gave a military salute.

The two generals raised their heads together, trying to squeeze out a smile on their serious faces, and they both raised their hands to return the salute.

They are all old acquaintances, Mr. Zhao doesn't care at all whether Tang Dao calls him the officer or the chief.

Really thought that it was just a friendly army, and Tang Dao could sell support?Many of the reasons are self-evident.

"Tuan Zhang, you are finally here, sit down!" Master Liu stretched out his hand.

"Chief, what happened?" Tang Dao opened the chair and sat down, without beating around the bush, and asked directly.

"Japanese army, there is a change!" Commander Liu did not hide it.

"Three and a half hours ago, our intelligence personnel in Changzhi City urgently reported that more than 108 people from the 3000th Division of the Japanese Army stationed in the city suddenly dispatched on a large scale, and even used Type 89 tanks."

Tang Dao didn't express his opinion, and continued to sit and wait for Mr. Liu's introduction. According to his judgment, this information would never make this super general who has experienced hundreds of battlefields look so grim. There should be more updated information later. .

"At the beginning, I also thought that the Japanese army chose to use the 108th Division to either encircle Wei and rescue Zhao because of Shimen's threat, or send HD and other places to go north along the Ping-Han line to support Shimen. We have deduced this situation before the war. The 104th Division or The 17th Division can temporarily block it." Master Liu's face became more serious.

"However, an hour and a half ago, a senior intelligence officer who held an important position in the puppet army stationed in Shimen did not hesitate to expose it and sent an unfinished message through a secret radio station."

Tang Dao's eyes were serious.

The word "exposing" has already explained a situation. This information is extremely urgent. If it is not sent, many people will die. If it is not finished, it means that the intelligence officer has been exposed.

Yesterday, the soldiers of the Four Elements Regiment approached Niangziguan City, and the Japanese troops in Jingxing and Shimen were greatly threatened. Naturally, the whole city was under martial law, and vehicles searching for radio signals continued day and night.

Any fool knows that sending out radio waves at such a time is undoubtedly suicide, let alone a trained senior intelligence officer?
"Look for yourself!" Mr. Liu took out the telegram translation from his coat pocket, put it on the table and pushed it towards Tang Dao, his eyes hard to hide the pain.

"The Japanese army of the 20th Division of Shimen moved a lot, and gathered a large number of soldiers. Armored vehicles and artillery were also equipped with fuel for transportation. They didn't seem to be defending the city, but they were attacking! Goodbye!" Tang Dao finished reading softly, his face full of solemnity, Stand up involuntarily.

Not only the importance of this information to the entire attacking army, but also the spirit of this senior intelligence officer's willingness to sacrifice.

The last goodbye was apparently a code sent in haste as the Japanese army located his home and began to break down the door.

Soldiers, even if they die in battle, they still have a chance to shoot hot bullets at the enemy with their guns, but people like this unknown intelligence agent lurking in the enemy camp may die, and no one knows their names who.

When they were alive, they stood under the scornful eyes of their own people, and when they died, they had no glory that belonged to them.

Or, their greatest wish is to have the opportunity to engrave their deeds on the tombstone!
The information may not be detailed enough because it was written in a hurry, but it is enough, enough for the excellent Chinese commanders to judge the coming storm.

Because, no matter who it is, even if it is a guy like Shiro Itagaki, he will never give up the advantage of the city wall and run to fight some field battles in the face of tens of thousands of Chinese elites who are only 80 kilometers away.

Saburo Kawagishi, the head of the 20th Division, was not even a general. Otherwise, in the famous Niangziguan Guard Battle last year, the nearly 20 troops of the 3th Division would not have been able to advance an inch for half a month.

The adjustment made by the 20th Division only proves one thing. The main force of the Japanese army has come to support them, and they want to eat up the tens of thousands of Chinese troops on the plain in one fell swoop.

In just one night, they were able to get support, which also ruthlessly explained the fact to the several Chinese commanders present that the Japanese North China Front Army Command may have known the tactical intentions of their troops long ago.

Otherwise, even the Germanic Empire, which is fully moving towards mechanized troops, would not have sent tens of thousands of people and equipment hundreds of kilometers away in such a short period of time.

Needless to say, it was another damn information leak, and it came from their helpless high-level. Tang Dao and Brigadier Cheng looked at each other, and their eyes were full of anger.

"It's useless to talk about those things. Now, the blood of the martyrs cannot be shed in vain, and we must not disappoint the sacrifices of the martyrs. Commander Tang, you are the deputy director of the staff department. You have to make reasonable suggestions on how we should fight the next battle." "Master Liu put his hand on the simple combat table and cast his eyes on Tang Dao.

Although he couldn't see through his calm eyes behind the thick lenses, Tang Dao could feel his expectation.

Tang Dao understood that this information came too suddenly, and even this experienced veteran couldn't help being a little upset at this moment.

It's not to panic, the more battles are fought, the more I understand a truth, no matter how bad the situation is, the big deal is 'soldiers come to cover up the water and the earth'!
The famous general in front of Tang Dao even had the experience of being surrounded by more than ten times the enemy army several times. In the future, there will be a famous scene where the army cut off its own way and advanced thousands of miles under the siege and interception of hundreds of thousands of enemy troops. However, the scene of tens of thousands of Japanese troops attacking quietly is really not the most dangerous of them.

In fact, when this famous general talked about the battlefields he had experienced in the future, this battle was ranked in the top three. On the contrary, he kept silent about those grand battlefields where he commanded hundreds of thousands of troops to wipe out the enemy.

In the original words of the old man who was almost blind at that time: The most exciting battle in Yu's life was the battle against the Japanese pirates, let alone the others!

As for the Jindong counterattack, the old man dictated it for more than half an hour, and the secretary took ten pages to complete the recording, which shows the importance of the Jindong counterattack in the old man's heart. and deep memory.

Because, the Japanese army that attacked the Chinese army at this time was not tens of thousands as they think now, but close to [-].

According to post-war statistics, the 18th Division of the Japanese invaders was at full strength. Except for less than 2000 people left to confuse the Chinese army on the south bank of the Yellow River, the remaining 2.6 people killed all of them and rushed to the east of Shanxi!
Although the two infantry brigades of the 20th Division lost more than 3200 people in the previous battle, as a Type A division, they still have 2.6 troops. The strength to the east of Shanxi is also as high as 2.1!

The newly established 21st Division is a Division B division. Its main infantry regiment is not a quadruple regiment like a Division A division, but a triple regiment, which was relatively rare in the early days of the war. The troops, even when fully loaded, are as high as nearly 2!
What is even more terrible is the Sakamoto Detachment of the Fifth Division from Yangquan. Although its main force is only 2 infantry regiments, it is the most elite field force of the Japanese North China Front Army.

In the Battle of Xinkou a year ago, the leader of the Fifth Division, Itagaki Shiro, led his fifth division with 5 people plus two mixed brigades with a total of more than 7 people to kill and rush to Jin Province, and penetrated 20 The defense line laid down by more than ten thousand Chinese troops finally lost Yuancheng.

Don't think that the Chinese army at that time was incompetent. Among the more than 20 troops, in addition to the elite of the Jinsui Army, there were also the elites of the Central Army and the 511th Army that had crossed the Yellow River. Isn't the 1th Division of the 1th Army at the parallel pass almost [-] to [-] The battle damage killed a large supply team of the Fifth Division and became famous all over the world!
And the Sakamoto detachment, either in order to maintain the honor of its "steel army", or to add luster to the face of its iron-headed division commander, unexpectedly brought an entire artillery regiment, a chariot brigade and a cavalry With the wing, a supply wing, and other auxiliary arms, the army has a strength of up to 1.4, which is almost a new 21st division!

Being able to dispatch so many troops is also related to the special establishment of the Fifth Division. The permanent divisions of the Japanese army basically have a reserve division. For example, the reserve division of the First Guard Division is numbered 101 Division The 108th Division is actually the reserve division of the Eighth Division, and so on, the 109th Division is the reserve division of the 9th Division.

But the 105th Division rarely appeared alone, because from the day it entered North China, the 105th Division was under the command of the 5th Division, and its total strength of 5.5 was equivalent to an infantry with three infantry divisions in the Chinese army. military.

Therefore, the Fifth Division actually has two artillery regiments. Each artillery regiment has 48 artillery pieces, 12 105 howitzers and 36 75 mountain artillery or field artillery. The 18th Division and the 20th Division Although there is only one artillery wing each, the number of artillery is the same, so the 21st Division is still equipped with 36 75 mountain artillery or field artillery.

光是这些明面上出动的日军兵力就已经高达8万人，已经超过了此时在晋东的中国军队7.5万人将近6000人的兵力，这还不算积极调兵遣将随时可以投入支援的豫省第14师团一个步兵旅团以及正在集合兵力的108、109师团！

This is the first time since the war between China and Japan, the Japanese army encircled the Chinese army with superior forces, commonly known as making dumplings!
It can be said that under the active planning of Shanshan Moto and Okabe Saburo, who have seen Mingpai, Jindong has become a dead end!

Including two days later when the situation of the battle became clearer, the stingy old man who heard the news sat blankly in his small quiet courtyard and sighed, "I am an elite in the second war zone, and I have lost everything in this battle!"

But the battlefield is fought by people after all, not just based on the comparison of military strength. The previous Songhu Battle and Pengcheng Battle have already proved this point with bloody facts.

"Chief, can we withdraw immediately?" Tang Dao asked directly, meeting the expectations of the two division commanders.

Commander Liu was silent for a moment, then shook his head and said, "I'm afraid not! This time, it was a secret and strict order from the Ministry of Military and Political Affairs, ordering my second theater to contain the Japanese North China Front Army no matter what, so as to achieve the strategic goal of a battle between Central China and the Japanese Central China Dispatched Army. From a strategic point of view, I am afraid that tens of thousands of troops like me will all die, but it is worthwhile to meet the requirements of the high command."

The implication is that the lives of tens of thousands of soldiers can be sacrificed from a strategic perspective, which is cruel but realistic.

In the current Jiangxia battle, China has invested 14 army groups of about one million troops, and the Japanese army has also invested 37 troops. Compared with the huge troops invested by the two sides totaling 140 million, the lives of only 7 people are really not How conspicuous.

Even from this point of view, the Jindong counterattack really attracted the Japanese army. The strategic objective has been achieved.

Retreat, it is impossible to retreat!
If the other infantry divisions retreated, perhaps only division, brigade, and regiment level officers would be dealt with by military law, but the Eightieth Army Group Army would not be able to do so, and all the reputations won during the war of resistance in the past year would be wiped out because of this retreat!

Even if all the five main regiments of the 921 Division are wiped out, they will not be able to retreat!As the commander-in-chief of the Jindong counterattack, Master Liu is very aware of this.

"It is difficult to disobey the military order, and we cannot retreat! Moreover, the Japanese army has moved at this time, and the rear may be blocked. Even if we retreat at the risk of the chief's beheading, we can only retreat into the depths of the mountains, and many heavy equipment must be discarded. , That would undoubtedly cut off both arms and legs, what's the use of going back?" Tang Dao's eyes burst out, and he slapped the table decisively.

"Then there is only war!

If you want to fight, I will fight!
Turn offensive warfare into defensive warfare!

If he wants to eat our five divisions and one regiment, that little devil will exchange more lives for it! "

"I don't want to die, I can only fight to the death!"

Tang Dao's deafening voice lingered in the simple mountain village hut.

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ps: Yesterday was Mother's Day, so I took my parents and friends out for a trip. Just after returning home in the evening, I met a classmate who had something to treat me to. As a result, the poor Fengyue was drunk down with alcohol by a group of classmates who made friends carelessly. , He was as proud as Fengyue, but he drank at least three bottles of beer.
So, I didn't update yesterday, and I didn't even ask for leave, so I specially explain it today!
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