Bright Sword's Bloody War of Resistance

Changzhi is an important town in the hinterland of Shangdang. It was turned into an iron barrel by Fan Hanjie. Before the siege, the Japanese army attacked from the west and north, and emptied the east and south. One of the reasons was that the [-]th Army abandoned the city and fled. , The Japanese army hoped to defeat the national army troops in the Changzhi area from the front through field battles.

Unexpectedly, Fan Hanjie made up his mind to stick to Changzhi. As a result, both parties involved in the war suffered a lot of casualties.

Under the darkness of night, several scattered small units of the Japanese army were distributed in the eastern suburbs of Changzhi. First, they kept an eye on the movement of the national army in the city, and at the same time searched for the young men. .

In the eastern suburbs of Changzhi, Liujiahe Village.

A small-scale battle had just taken place here, and the corpses of more than a dozen little devils were left in the village.

"Company commander, the villagers have been evacuated, let's evacuate too!" A soldier of the reconnaissance company reported.

After the main force arrived in Pingshun, the reconnaissance company was sent by Zhou Weihan to the suburbs of Changzhi to investigate the movements of the Japanese army.

Although the common people around the battlefield were ordered to evacuate in advance by Fan Hanjie, the little devil still sent people to arrest the strong men from a distance in order to fill up the huge trench outside the city.

Despite the early warning of the reconnaissance company, more than [-] strong men were arrested in several nearby villages.

Dong Jiang nodded when he heard the words. The little devil also realized that there is a capable armed force active in the eastern suburbs, but he has not yet determined which side it belongs to. However, the little devil has sent more troops to this place in the past two days.

The reconnaissance company this time was not for fighting the Japanese army. Dong Jiang didn't want to take the initiative to touch this spearhead. Just when Dong Jiang wanted to give an order, a radio station hidden in the dark was ticking in a corner not far from the side.

Not long after, the telegraph operator stood up and strode towards Dong Jiang: "Company commander, the second team is urgent!"

After Dong Jiang read the telegram, a smile appeared on his face: "Sure enough, the detachment leader guessed right, the little devil in Changzhi still moved!"

The reconnaissance company was divided into three teams. Each team carried a radio station and was active in the eastern suburbs in a triangle shape. The small team led by Dong Jiang happened to be on the easternmost side.

The partial division of the Japanese army first interspersed from the middle unit of the third team on the north side and the second team on the south side, and it would not be long before passing through the middle unit of the second team and the small team led by Dong Jiang, and then arrived at the border area between the southeastern suburbs of Changzhi and Huguan.

"Immediately send power to the headquarters, saying that the Japanese army in Changzhi dispatched at least one brigade of troops without heavy artillery. My reconnaissance company decided to take the lead in reconnaissance!"

"At the same time, send a report to the second team. Do not participate in the battle during the investigation. The third team will continue to investigate the movements of the Japanese army in Changzhi!" Dong Jiang said to the telegraph operator.

After Dong Jiang finished speaking, he turned his head to look at the soldiers who had assembled, and saw that the soldiers were still holding the captured weapons and equipment in their hands: "What are you doing with these burdens, add ammunition, and throw away the rest!"

If it weren't for thinking about taking the captured weapons and equipment to the logistics department to exchange supplies, the first thing to be thrown away would be the two crooked handles and three grenade grenades used by the little devils. Mortars, I really don't like the little devil's equipment.

The words are divided into two parts.

After Zhou Weihan received the telegram from the reconnaissance company, he immediately ordered the troops to quickly assemble in the south of the city, and at the same time sent a warning telegram to Fan Hanjie and Xu Dali.

The artillery battalion is stationed inside the city, and the first, third, fifth, and 29th regiments are stationed outside the city. All commanders and fighters have always maintained a state of combat readiness, and the assembly speed is very fast.

Before departure, the reconnaissance company sent another telegram: The Japanese army had arrived at the border between Huguan and Changzhi.

After reading the telegram, Zhao Gang couldn't help but said: "This partial division of the Japanese army is moving very fast. It seems that it will pass through the defense area of ​​the new division of the [-]th Army soon. Let's have time!"

Zhou Weihan was also a little uncertain at this time. In his prediction, the best battlefield would be in the Lingchuan area. Once a battle broke out, the Japanese army in the Changzhi area would not be given a chance to reinforce.

"The Japanese army marched southwest of Huguan, we are heading south in the central part of Huguan, we should speed up our footwork, and we will be able to reach the outside of Lingchuan County in about time!" Zhou Weihan said.

That night, the Japanese army passed through the junction of the defense area of ​​the [-]th Army of the Sichuan Army and the defense area of ​​the New Division of the [-]th Army of Huguan in the southern suburbs of Changzhi.

Because it had long been expected that a Japanese army would reinforce Lingchuan, and Zhou Weihan sent an early warning telegram in advance.

The two units of the national army involved both deliberately reduced their strength, and more than 1500 Japanese troops passed through the junction of the two armies quietly.

Along the way, the little devil commander also mocked the national army as a group of wine bags and rice bags, but he didn't know that shortly after it passed, the two armies immediately began to encircle and organize their forces to advance towards Lingchuan.

Judging from the situation of the entire battle situation, the battlefield centered on Lingchuan County has concentrated eight regiments of the Thirteenth Army, two regiments of the Ninety-Fourth Division, and an independent regiment of the New Fifth Army. At the same time, a lone army of the Japanese army who did not know the depth came to reinforce them.

On the periphery, the three regiments of the 178th Division of the Forty-seventh Army advanced from the west to the east, and the two regiments of the New First Division were in the middle, pursuing silently from north to south. Zhou Weihan led four regiments to the east, forming a three-sided encircled.

From the point of view of strength analysis, the Central Army is the most powerful, with ten regiments of direct line, the Eighth Route Army is in the middle, with seven regiments, and the Sichuan Army has only three regiments, with the lowest strength.

There are more than 6000 Japanese and puppet troops in the Japanese army city, plus the Kwantung Army with more than 1500 reinforcements.

The above is just strength on paper, and both parties in the Lingchuan area suffered battle losses.

Outside Lingchuan City, even in the middle of the night, in order to put pressure on the Japanese army, the fighting still did not stop.

In the city, the Japanese Army Command.

Ichiro Kawamoto stood before the map, thinking about the battlefield situation in front of him.

"Mr. Zhang, Changzhi's Imperial Army reinforcements will arrive outside Lingchuan City at dawn today without any accidents. The enemy troops outside the city should not know about it. Give the soldiers an extra meal. The reinforcements should join forces inside and outside, and defeat the enemy army outside the city in one fell swoop!" Kawamoto Ichiro said in a deep voice.

"Mr. Heben, which direction should our troops leave the city?" Zhang Lanfeng asked.

"West of the city, in the direction of the 89th Division, first fight the 89th Division, and then sweep the 110th Division eastward, as well as the Eighth Route Army troops in the east of the city!"

"Hey, I'm going to get ready!"

Choosing to stick to Lingchuan was not a wrong decision in the eyes of Ichiro Kawamoto, although compared with the previous style of the Japanese army, it was slightly conservative.

Kawamoto Ichiro's troops did not even have the strength to break through the siege. The siege troops even adopted a strategy of encircling the city and leaving the south of the city, but the Japanese army was huddled inside the city.

In the final analysis, Ichiro Kawamoto was unwilling to contribute to the achievements of Yukio Imada, but what Ichiro Hemoto did not expect was that the National Army and the Eighth Route Army troops besieging the city were uncharacteristically launching an attack regardless of casualties.

Although there was no heavy artillery to cooperate in the battle, after a few days, even the Japanese and puppet troops defending the city suffered nearly a thousand casualties, not to mention the siege troops.