Rise From Eight Hundred Chapter 1099

Chapter 1099 Battle!

The mountain road is rugged and difficult to navigate!

Even though Tang Dao and his team are one person and two horses, they can't be very fast.

And the journey was not so peaceful either.

It's not that there are any Japanese, but the number of bandits is staggering.

This is different from Southeast Shanxi.

After all, there are more than 100,000 regular troops stationed in the mountains in southeastern Shanxi, leaving little room for bandits to survive.

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

During the three-hour march, Tang Dao felt at least more than ten coveted eyes looking at him and his comrades who were marching in three groups through the bushes.

It's just that the bandits are also very discerning. Looking at the dozen or so regular soldiers in military uniforms carrying guns and cannons, no one dared to jump out and test the strength of Tang Dao's elite team.

Bandits are rampant, which can be regarded as a major feature of Jin Province, which was occupied by the Japanese army at this time. Most of them were poor people who couldn't survive, so they simply went up to the mountains to become bandits, robbing homes and houses.

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 a few dozen miles, there are even no fewer than five bandits.

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

Since the bandits themselves were mountain people, they also knew that you couldn't dig up the roots of leeks, so whenever they went down the mountain to rob the mountain people, they did so casually and basically left some food for the ordinary mountain people.

Even if they rob a 'big house', they can give some money to the mountain people. If there is a situation, some mountain people will even tip them off. In just this year, bandits in many places have formed a deformed 'symbiotic' relationship with the mountain people.

Of course, most of these wealthy households have the surname Ri.

In fact, in this area of Shanxi Province, the wealthy people have long been scared away by the war. Apart from the Japanese transport team, who else has so much white rice and flour?

Therefore, the Japanese army encountered numerous small-scale attacks in the mountains. In the first half of 1938, the recorded losses accounted for one-third of the entire transport volume.

Of course, a large part of them are the work of the 80th Army. Their characteristic is that they have to rob supplies and kill people. They even pick up all the bullet casings for you. Just by checking the scene where there are corpses everywhere, you can know that it is They did it.

Bandits are different. They rarely aim to annihilate the enemy. As long as you lose your supplies and run away, your chance of survival is greater than 80%.

But compared to the 80th Army, which launched frequent attacks, bandits actually caused more headaches for the Japanese army. Their so-called bandit dens or hilltops were just straw sheds. If you want to gather heavy troops to encircle and suppress me, I will leave it to you. At most, it will make you angry and vent your anger. When you leave, hey! If I come back again, if you come again, then I will run away again

Bandits are not like the regular army. They don't have any heavy weapons or baggage. They only have a bag of rice on their back, a bow on their back, or a machete on their back. They can have dozens of blunderbuss or more than ten rifles. They are all F4 among bandits!

What? Are such bandits not a deterrent? When you are walking on a mountain road, there are cliffs on one side and mountains on the other. Not to mention rifles and machine guns, just rolling down some rocks will be enough for you to drink.

Moreover, if bandits can survive in such poor mountains and harsh waters, they must have good brains. They can send out "reconnaissance troops" for dozens of miles. Maybe your transport team of dozens of people has just left the city. People will be keeping an eye on you, and then the bandit army will start looking for a suitable location to knock out sap.

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

Bandits are like rats living in urban underground tunnels. Their living conditions are harsh, but they are not shy. No matter how ferocious the Japanese are, as long as they have supplies, they are just a meal.

In the border area of eastern Shanxi, in addition to the resistance forces that the Japanese struggled to deal with, bandits became the second most troublesome force for the Japanese.

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

Tang Dao arrived at the frontline headquarters at the 921st Division headquarters at 2:30 pm.

The frontline headquarters was located in a small mountain village with as many as five security lines, but this was considered normal. After all, this was wartime, so Tang Dao didn't think much about it.

Until he saw Brigadier Cheng coming out of the village, his cheerful smile was gone but his face was full of seriousness. Tang Dao couldn't help but feel a little 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. Commander Tang of the 12th Division and Commander Dong of the 101st Division did not arrive because of the distance, but both of them sent messages to express their acceptance. 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 war might have really changed.

Sure enough, walking into the main room of the mountain village courtyard, Commander Liu, the commander-in-chief of the front line, bent over the map and whispered something to Commander Zhao next to him. The faces of the two famous generals were solemn.

"Chief, Tang Dao, the leader of the Fourth Army Regiment, is here to report!" Tang Dao gave a military salute.

The two generals raised their heads together, trying hard to smile with their serious faces, and raised their hands in return.

They are all old acquaintances. Whether Tang Dao calls him "sirer" or "chief", Master Zhao won't care at all.

　　Do you really think that Tang Dao can be a seller of support just for friendly forces? Many of the reasons are unexplained.

“Commander Tang, you are finally here, sit down!” Commander Liu pointed.

"Chief, what happened?" Tang Dao opened his chair and sat down, and asked directly without mincing words.

“Japanese troops, there's something strange happening!” Commander Liu didn't hide it either.

“Three and a half hours ago, our intelligence personnel in Changzhi City urgently reported that more than 3,000 people from the Japanese 108th Division stationed in the city suddenly mobilized on a large scale, and even used Type 89 tanks.”

Tang Dao did not express an opinion and continued to sit upright and wait for Master Liu's introduction. According to his judgment, this information would not make this super general who has experienced no less than hundreds of battlefields large and small look so grim. There should be more updated information later. .

"At the beginning, I also thought that because Shimen was threatened, the Japanese army chose to call the 108th Division to either encircle Wei and rescue Zhao, or to move north along the Ping-Han Line from HD and other places to support Shimen. We had deduced this situation before the war, and the 104th Division might The 17th Division can temporarily block it." Commander Liu's face became more solemn.

"But an hour and a half ago, one of our senior intelligence officers stationed in Shimen who held an important position in the puppet army did not hesitate to expose himself and sent an unfinished message via a secret radio."

Tang Dao's eyes were solemn.

The word "expose" already illustrates a situation. This information is extremely urgent. If it is not sent out, countless people will die. And before it is sent out, it means that the intelligence agent has been exposed.

　　Yesterday, the four regiments arrived at Niangziguan City. The Japanese troops in Jingxing and Shimen were under great threat. Naturally, the whole city was under martial law, and vehicles searching for radio signals kept going day and night.

　　Every fool knows that sending out radio waves at this time is undoubtedly suicide, let alone a trained senior intelligence agent?

“See for yourself!” Mr. Liu took out the translated message from his jacket pocket and put it on the table and pushed it towards Tang Dao, unable to hide the pain in his eyes.

"The Japanese troops of the Shimen 20th Division made a sudden move and gathered a large number of soldiers. Armored vehicles and artillery began to be equipped with oil for transportation. Instead of defending the city, they were in an offensive state! Goodbye!" Tang Dao finished reading softly, with a solemn expression on his face. He stood up involuntarily. Not only was this piece of information important to the entire attacking army, it was also the spirit of this senior intelligence officer who was willing to sacrifice.

The last goodbye was obviously a hastily sent telegram after the Japanese army had located their home and was beginning to break down the door.

Even if a soldier dies in battle, he still has the opportunity to shoot hot bullets at the enemy with his gun, but people like this unknown intelligence agent lurking in the enemy camp may die without anyone knowing their names. who.

　　When they were alive, they stood in the eyes of their own people who looked down upon them. When they died, they had no glory that belonged to them.

Perhaps their greatest wish is to have their deeds engraved on their tombstones!

The intelligence may not be detailed enough because it was written in a hurry, but it is enough for China's extremely excellent commanders to judge the oncoming storm.

Because, no matter who it is, even a guy as strong-minded as Shiro Itagaki, facing tens of thousands of Chinese elites rushing towards them with a fierce momentum of only more than 80 kilometers away, they will never give up the advantage of the city wall to fight in the field.

Saburo Kawagishi, the commander of the 20th Division, is not even a general-level player. Otherwise, in the famous Niangziguan defense battle last year, the nearly 30,000 troops of the 20th Division could not advance for half a month.

The 20th Division made such an adjustment, which only proves one thing. The main force of the Japanese army has come to support them. They want to eat these tens of thousands of Chinese troops on the plains in one fell swoop.

In just one night, they were able to get support, which ruthlessly explained to the Chinese commanders present the fact that the Japanese North China Front Army Headquarters might have known the tactical intentions of their unit.

Otherwise, even the German Empire, which was moving towards a fully mechanized army, would not have been able to send tens of thousands of people and equipment hundreds of kilometers away in such a short period of time.

Needless to say, it was another **** intelligence leak, and it came from their incompetent senior management. Tang Dao and Brigadier Cheng looked at each other, with anger bursting out of their eyes. They were those guys who failed to achieve anything but failed.

"It is useless to talk about those things. Now, the blood of the martyrs cannot be shed in vain, and we cannot live up to the sacrifices of the martyrs. Commander Tang, you are the deputy director of the staff department. How should we fight this battle next? You must make reasonable suggestions ." Master Liu put his hand on the simple combat table and turned his eyes to Tang Dao.

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

Tang Dao understood that this information came too suddenly, and even this veteran general couldn't help but feel a little confused at this time.

It's not that I'm panicking. The more I fight in battles, the more I understand the truth. No matter how bad the situation is, the worst that can happen is that 'soldiers will cover up the water and the earth will cover it up'!

The famous general in front of Tang Dao even had the experience of being surrounded by ten times more enemy troops several times. In the future, there was a famous scene where he cut off his own retreat and advanced thousands of miles while being chased and intercepted by hundreds of thousands of enemy troops. In comparison, , the scene of tens of thousands of Japanese troops sneaking in was not really the most dangerous one.

In fact, when the 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 hundreds of thousands of troops were commanded to annihilate the enemy at every turn.

In the original words of an octogenarian who was almost blind at that time: The most exciting battle in the rest of my life is the battle against the Japanese pirates, let alone the others!

As for the Jindong Counterattack, the old man kept dictating it for more than half an hour, and the secretary took ten pages to record it. This shows the importance of the Jindong Counterattack in the old man's heart. and deep memories.

Because the Japanese army attacking the Chinese army at this time was not tens of thousands as they think now, but close to one hundred thousand.

According to post-war statistics, the Japanese 18th Division was at full strength. Except for less than 2,000 people left on the south bank of the Yellow River to confuse the Chinese army, the remaining 26,000 people all rushed to the east of Shanxi!

Although the two infantry brigades of the 20th Division lost more than 3,200 people in the previous battle, as a Category A division, they still had 26,000 troops. In addition to leaving a certain amount of troops to defend the city, Saburo Kawagishi sent his troops to The number of troops in Shanxi Province was as high as 21,000!

The newly formed 21st Division was a Category B Division. Its main infantry regiment was not like the four regiments of the Category A Division. Instead, it was a three-armed regiment that was relatively rare in the early stages of the war, but with the addition of cavalry and artillery supplies and other auxiliary units. The troops, at full strength, amounted to nearly 20,000!

Even more fatal is the Sakamoto detachment of the Fifth Division from Yangquan. Even though its main core is only two infantry regiments, it is the most elite field force of the Japanese North China Front.

In the Battle of Xinkou a year ago, the commander of the Fifth Division, Shiro Itagaki, led his fifth division of 50,000 people plus two mixed brigades, a total of more than 70,000 people to kill Jin Province and penetrated 20 The defense line set up by more than ten thousand Chinese troops eventually lost the original city.

Don't think that the Chinese army at that time was incompetent. Among the more than 200,000-strong army, in addition to the elite of the Shanxi-Sui Army, there were also elites of the Central Army and the 80th Group Army that had crossed the Yellow River. Didn't the 511th Division of the 80th Group Army use almost 1:1 at Parallel Pass? He killed a large baggage detachment of the Fifth Division with huge battle losses 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, actually brought an entire artillery regiment, a tank brigade and a cavalry. Regiment, a baggage regiment, and other auxiliary arms, the total strength of the army is as high as 14,000, which is nearly as strong as a newly formed 21st division!

The ability to mobilize so many troops is also related to the special organization of the Fifth Division. The Japanese permanent divisions basically have a reserve division. For example, the reserve division of the 1st Guards Division is designated as the 101st Division. The 108th Division is actually the reserve division of the 8th Division, and by analogy, the 109th Division is the reserve division of the 9th Division.

But the 105th Division rarely appears alone, because from the day it entered North China, the 105th Division was under the command of the 5th Division. Its total strength of 55,000 troops is equivalent to an infantry division of the Chinese army with three infantry divisions. military.

Therefore, the Fifth Division actually has two artillery regiments. Each artillery regiment has 48 artillery pieces, 12 105 howitzers and 36 75 mountain guns or field artillery. The 18th Division and the 20th Division Although there is only one artillery regiment each, the number of artillery is the same. That is to say, a B division like the 21st Division is still equipped with 36 75mm mountain guns or field guns.

The number of Japanese troops dispatched on the surface alone is as high as 80,000, which has exceeded the 75,000 Chinese troops in eastern Shanxi at this time and nearly 6,000 troops. This does not include the active deployment of troops and generals who can be deployed at any time for support. An infantry brigade of the 14th Division of Henan Province and the 108th and 109th Divisions are gathering strength!

This is the first time since the war between China and Japan that the Japanese army encircled the Chinese army with superior force, commonly known as making dumplings!

It can be said that under the active planning of Yuan Shanshan and Saburo Okabe, who have seen the bright cards, Jindong has become a dead end!

Even after the war situation became clear two days later, the stingy old man who learned the news also sat blankly in his secluded courtyard, looking up to the sky and sighing: "All the elites in our second theater will be lost in this battle!"

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

"Chief, can we withdraw our troops immediately?" Tang Dao asked directly in response to the expectations of the two division commander-level generals.

Commander Liu was silent for a moment, shook his head and said: "I'm afraid not! This time is a secret and strict order from the Ministry of Military Affairs, ordering our Second Theater Zone to contain the Japanese North China Front Army at all costs in order to achieve the strategic goal of fighting in Central China and the Japanese Central China Expeditionary Force. From a strategic perspective, I am afraid that tens of thousands of our troops will be sacrificed, but it is worth it if we can meet the requirements of the headquarters."

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

In the current battle of Jiangxia, China has invested 14 army groups with about one million troops, and the Japanese army has also invested 370,000 troops. Compared with the huge troops invested by both sides, which totaled 1.4 million, a mere 70,000 lives were lost. It's really not that conspicuous.

Even from this perspective, the Jindong counterattack really attracted the Japanese army, which is what the Chinese command would rather see. Regardless of the final fate of the five divisions and one regiment of more than 70,000 Chinese officers and soldiers, this counterattack The strategic goal has been achieved.

It is impossible to retreat!

If other infantry divisions retreat, perhaps only officers at the division, brigade, and regiment level will be dealt with by military law, but not the 80th Army. It is possible that all the reputation gained during the war of resistance in the past year will be in vain 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 frontline commander of the Jindong counterattack, Commander Liu knew this very well.

"It is difficult to disobey military orders and we cannot retreat! Moreover, the Japanese army has already moved at this time, and the retreat may be blocked. Even if we risk the commander's beheading to retreat, we can only retreat deep into the mountains, and many heavy equipment must be abandoned. , It will undoubtedly break his arms and legs, what's the use of retreating?" Tang Dao's eyes flashed, and he slapped the table decisively.

“Then there is only war!

If you want to fight, I will fight!

Change the offensive battle into a defensive battle!

If you want to eat up our fifth division, that little devil will give you more lives in exchange! "

“If you don't want to die, you can only fight to the death!”

The deafening sound of Tang Dao lingered in the simple mountain village hut.

ps: Yesterday was Mother's Day, so I took my parents and their friends out for a trip. Just after returning home in the evening, I encountered a classmate who wanted to treat me to a treat. As a result, poor Fengyue was knocked down by a group of classmates who made careless friends and drank alcohol with malicious intent. , He was as heroic as Fengyue but he drank at least three bottles of beer.

Therefore, there was no update yesterday, and I didn't even ask for leave. I'd like to explain it today!

(End of this chapter)

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