Age of Rebirth

Chapter 650 Siege from Eight Sides

The battle at Huangyadong was shocking. Neji Okamura looked at hundreds of remnants of the Sixth Mixed Brigade who were ragged and covered in blood. They had obviously lost half their lives and lost all their courage. They could hardly stand. Putting his hands on the table, he bowed his head and spoke for a while. He made a rare miscalculation. The small Huangya Cave, which was originally thought to be a lamb to be slaughtered, turned out to be a tiger full of sharp teeth and swallowed it in one gulp. I am a soldier in a brigade.

This is the biggest loss since Okamura Neiji took over as the supreme commander of the North China Expeditionary Force. Of course, the air force has more than 300 aircraft, which were hit hard twice in a row. Okamura Neiji's mood is extremely bad. He definitely didn't have the high-spirited and self-seeking momentum when he first arrived in North China. The entire headquarters seemed gloomy because almost all of the Sixth Brigade was broken.

On the map, Huangya Cave, which had been clearly marked by the staff, seemed to be gleaming with mockery against the pale light of the gas lamps. Neji Okamura sat in front of the map like a stone, and the staff and staff who came in and out tried their best to Slow down your pace, and even lower your panting voice. From the ashen complexion of His Excellency the Commander, it is not hard to see that he wants to kill people now, and it is a wise choice not to be an unlucky ghost.

Okamura Ningji's thinking has been firmly attracted by the place name deep in the Taihang Mountains. Suddenly, a wolf-like light flashed in his eyes. The depth of the Huangya Cave is such that a brigade of the imperial army can destroy almost all the jade pieces in less than a day. How many troops did the Chinese demon Tang Qiuli put there? [

One brigade or three brigades, according to the calculation of the combat effectiveness of the soldiers of the Imperial Army, one soldier of the Imperial Army can match the combat effectiveness of five Chinese soldiers, no less than four brigades with 5 people, Okamura Ning I came to my own judgment for the first time, this is a big fish, Huangya Cave is not only Tang Qiuli's logistics supply base, but also his reserve base, an unexpected harvest.

Okamura Neiji's mood widened, and the deepest hidden fish finally surfaced, but the price was a bit high, Okamura Neiji didn't care, as long as he could accomplish his established strategic goals, he would use the blood of soldiers , Submerge Huangya Cave, and do not hesitate to destroy Tang Qiuli's logistics supply base, and eliminate the independent division troops hidden there, but tens of thousands of people!Two gains in one blow, diluting Okamura Ningji's sense of frustration.

All the troops sweeping the Taihang Mountains must carry out combat operations around Huangyadong. A whole set of plans was formed in Okamura Ningji's head. The Japanese command issued a series of orders. In addition to attacking the troops on the flank of Niangziguan, All the troops in various places in the Taihang Mountains immediately gathered around Huangya Cave, forming a huge encirclement circle.

Surrounding Huangya Cave, which is currently inconspicuous but will eventually become famous in the world, all the Japanese troops in the Taihang Mountains came from all directions. More than 30 Japanese troops, like an impenetrable net, surrounded Huangya Cave. Wrapped tightly inside, on the periphery of the Japanese army are the troops of the independent division Sun Zhenbang and the three divisions of the Eighth Route Army.

In the face of the heavy concentration of Japanese troops, the troops had no good strategy and could only carry out continuous harassment on the periphery. Three days later, the first batch of Japanese troops to reach the periphery of Huangya Cave had reached three divisions, nearly [-] people However, Ningji Okamura did not order the attack to start immediately, but ordered the Japanese troops to deploy on the spot, seize the commanding heights around Huangyadong, and establish several cordons.

The various special warfare units that have been active in the Taihang Mountains did not know what medicine was sold in Okamura Ningji's gourd. They just reported the actual situation of the Japanese army to the teacher. As a rule, the Japanese army should launch an offensive. Neiji Okamura's deployment has been completed. Now, even if it is a bird, don't plan to fly out of the Japanese army's attack area within a dozen kilometers around Huangyadong.

Five days later, the second batch of Japanese troops arrived, but Ningji Okamura still did not act. Seven days later, the last batch of Japanese troops also arrived in the area around Huangyadong. Ningji Okamura was around the small Huangyadong, Nearly 24 troops have been assembled, with Huangyadong as the center, and within a radius of more than 50 kilometers, there are various checkpoints and military lines established by the Japanese army everywhere, and the traffic lines from Changzhi to Huangyadong. also built up.

Chang Feng, who observes the movement of the Japanese army from a high place every day, has been wondering. The little devil is busy with his work. Through the lens of the telescope, there are Japanese soldiers in khaki uniforms all over the mountains and plains. After waiting for seven days, the Japanese army had no intention of launching an attack, which is abnormal!This is Chang Feng's first judgment.

As soon as Tang Qiuli connected to Changfeng's telegrams, the Japanese army arrived with reinforcements, but they still did not launch an attack. To be honest, he couldn't figure out the real intention of this old fox, Ningji Okamura, to encircle and not attack?Then why is he putting in so much effort?Time was against him, he was hitting me in the Taihang Mountains, and I was hitting his wife, the big cities and transportation hubs in the surrounding areas of Pingjin, strategic points.

Neji Okamura's sinister intentions and true intentions must be hidden in it. Tang Qiuli almost searched for all the battle cases during the Anti-Japanese War in his mind, and he couldn't find any battle cases similar to the situation in Huangyadong before him. He was almost angry Cursing Okamura Ningji, an old fox, what is he doing? More than 20 people live in the mountains, if you don’t bother me, I will still annoy you!

He had no choice but to order Sun Zhenbang's troops who moved to the Taihang Mountains, the units of the special warfare detachment, and the Eighth Route Army to annihilate the scattered enemies and find favorable fighters. It was only after the pain from the beating that I knew what he was going to do. In a word, I typed out the true intentions of this old devil, Neiji Okamura.

At the same time, he sent an order to Chang Feng in Huangyadong, he must respond calmly, not to be impetuous, stay away from the isolated and scattered defense points of the core position, and give up selectively, concentrate his forces on the core defense system, so as not to be attacked. The Japanese army's heavy troops were eradicated point by point, which brought unnecessary losses. This order was absolutely necessary. The subsequent development of the battle showed that Tang Qiuli's subconscious decision saved the lives of many soldiers defending Huangyadong.

The Japanese army around Huangya Cave surrounded but did not attack. The situation was strange. The Japanese army went north to attack the flank of Niangziguan. After many days of hard marching in the mountains, they finally climbed to the vicinity of Guanshan. The exhausted Japanese army, with a force of more than [-] troops, completed the encirclement of the Huangyadong base on the day after Neiji Okamura, and its vanguard appeared near Jiedu and Leping, south of Guanshan Mountain.

Walking all the way from Licheng, this Japanese army who carried out the strategic plan of Ningji Okamura to go east to Niangziguan, attack Tang Qiusheng's Sulu mobile corps, go west to Taiyuan, and seize the provincial capital of Shanxi, had a hard time. The mountain roads and the endless mountains are their natural enemies. What makes the Japanese soldiers miserable is that there is no one to see along the way, and the villages are empty. Even the wells are polluted and buried. The supply of all the supplies depends on transportation along the way from Changzhi.

They couldn't find water to drink, and their supplies couldn't keep up. In the worst days, tens of thousands of Japanese soldiers, together with their commanders, drank two meals of gruel that could be seen. We share weal and woe with the soldiers, but the cook soldiers want to please the chief, and they have no food to put into the pot. At first, they want to buy some game. Of the ten people who go out, one or two come back empty-handed. The rest are either swallowed by the mountains or Became the prey of ghostly Chinese soldiers.

The four-legged beasts along the way, in front of the two-legged beasts, have long been frightened and fled. There are also landmines that explode anytime and anywhere, grenades and explosives that fall with white smoke. I don’t know which corner or the deadly shot is shot from behind the cliff. , falling boulders rolling from the sky, and all of these, when the gun was launched, there were more than 6 Japanese troops, and the number of non-combat attrition alone was as many as several thousand. Yes, there are only more than [-] soldiers left.

Such a tired army, facing Feng Jiwu's unified command of more than 8 troops waiting for work and screaming, is there any advantage to take advantage of? Where did Huangyadong not start? The battle of Guanshan started first. In a head-on battle, the vanguard of the Japanese army consisted of about two regiments, split into two groups, and first attacked the defensive positions of Jiedu, Leping, and Feng Jiwu's troops.

Seeing the Japanese soldiers approaching in battle formation, Feng Jiwu only issued one order: "The artillerymen are not allowed to fire, and the frontline troops, leave all the little devils behind, and don't let one go!" Feng Jiwu had another feeling of being slighted. Is the commander a brain-dead and an idiot? Facing his several fortifications in depth, he sent two regiments to attack. Whether he was looking for death or being arrogant, it is impossible to guess the mind of the Japanese commander.

I just know that Major General Feng Jiwu, the deputy commander of the Independent Division and the commander of the Niangziguan Garrison Corps, was extremely angry. If the division commander hadn't repeatedly ordered that the Japanese troops not take the initiative to attack until they suffered major casualties, Feng Jiwu might have ordered an all-out attack According to the order of the Communist Party of China, more than 6 little devils who came from afar and had tossed only half their lives were driven back to the hometown of Mao Zedong, or into the Yellow Sea to feed the sharks. [

As a result of the battle, as Feng Jiwu said, the Japanese soldiers of the two regiments had just entered the fire range of the independent division and were immediately shrouded in rain like a volcanic eruption. The dead were covered in blood, motionless, and alive. Being suppressed in place, they didn't dare to move an inch. The light and heavy machine guns hit the rocks with sparks, and the troops attacked.

The Japanese troops of the two regiments did not escape too far, and were surrounded by soldiers chasing closely on a high ground. Then the main force of the Japanese army rushed to the battle, and Feng Jiwu ordered the troops to attack across the board. He could see that the combat effectiveness of the Japanese soldiers had dropped sharply, and there were not many artillerymen. Taking advantage of the unsteady foothold of the little devils, he simply beat them back and relieved the threat from the direction of Niangziguan.

(To be continued)