Age of Rebirth

Chapter 260 Battle of Xiaowutai Mountain ([-])

Badalhu looked at the large group of bandits dejectedly, rushing towards three directions like a tide, and seemed to be blocked by a hard rock, retreated back in pieces, and returned to the place where he set off just now.

In the two assaults, the bandits left more than 1000 corpses, and returned with success. Fortunately, Badalhu's Japanese army did not suffer any losses behind these bandits, but he knew very well that the destruction would be a matter of time.

No matter how hard they tried, they were still surrounded in this narrow valley. Judging from the sound of artillery fire from all around, the independent division used at least three artillery regiments of firepower. , unexpectedly under such a large capital.

Badalhu was completely desperate. The retreat turned into a breakout, which has already caused him chaos. He failed to break through, and there was no chance of survival. The main force of the independent division was found so quickly. It is simply a mystery. The soldiers of the two squads sent to the periphery to guard and reconnaissance have not heard of it so far. They should all be broken, and the murderer is none other than the main force of the independent division that surrounded them. [

The morning sunshine shrouded the small town of Dongnuanquan in a peaceful atmosphere. The chimneys of each household emitted curling smoke, and the town, which had been sleeping all night, woke up under the sunshine of spring. , started a normal daily life, and there was no chaotic scene where thousands of troops were stationed here.

Tang Qiuli just woke up from a sweet sleep, and he didn't rest until late last night. He didn't sleep in peace until the 29th Brigade of the [-]th Army received a telegram of weapons and medicines. Let Liu Tiehan deal with it.

A telegram was sent to him by the excited combat staff, dispelling the drowsiness. The content of the telegram explained in detail the situation on the Xiaowutai Mountain battlefield, especially the situation where the bandits broke through twice. Instead, it was the Japanese army, here Did not show, showing the usual combat effectiveness and desperate intention to break through.

At the end of the telegram, Liu Tiehan asked whether to start a full-scale attack immediately to deal with these bandits and Japanese troops as soon as possible. Looking at the telegram and comparing it with the map on the wall, Tang Qiuli had a new idea in his mind.

He ordered the combat staff to send a telegram to the deputy division commander immediately, with only eight words: "Surround without fighting, and wait and see what happens." It's easy to eat a plate of tofu, but the commander asked tens of thousands of troops to spend time there with bandits and little devils. I don't know what the commander thinks about it.

Liu Tiehan, who received the telegram, did not understand Tang Qiuli's intentions at first. He thought for a long time, vaguely grasped some clues, and ordered the brigades to immediately build fortifications on the spot. As long as the bandits did not break through, the troops would not attack. The bandits or Japanese soldiers who dare to break through will be killed and amnesty, and they will be resolutely surrounded here.

Afterwards, he asked Zhao Dengyu's brigade to withdraw its defensive position immediately, and the fourth regiment of the independent first brigade would take over the defense, escort weapons and medicines, and return to Peiping immediately without delay along the way. The units of the 29th Army quickly formed combat effectiveness to prepare for the provocation of the Japanese army.

Zhao Dengyu and the officers and soldiers of the whole brigade bid farewell to the comrades in the independent division very reluctantly. This battle left a deep impression on them. In terms of the ferocity of the firepower, the individual quality of the soldiers, and the strategy and tactics, they have never seen it before. Those who have been there, these soldiers of the 29th Army are very envious of everything about the Independent Division.

Tang Qiuli's thinking has jumped out of the battlefield of Xiaowutai Mountain, and considered the overall situation of the entire North China.

In Pingjin and Pingjin in North China, Tianjin is the location of the Japanese garrison in North China, with heavy troops stationed there, Beiping is surrounded on three sides and is on the absolute defensive, and the front line of Shanhaiguan is completely controlled by the Japanese army. Eastern Hebei is the site of the traitor Yin Rugeng, and the Kwantung Army can follow this A channel was opened to quickly increase troops to North China.

Whether to fight or not, when to fight, and on what scale to start the war, these initiatives are all in the hands of the Japanese. This kind of feeling of fear all the time is really uncomfortable. Picking up the war, in his own country, Tang Qiuli couldn't swallow this kind of uselessness.

When the Independent Division did not come to North China, the defense forces in North China, especially in the Pingjin area, were only the 29th Army. Without the support of the Nationalist Government, it was difficult to support them alone. They were forced to take a defensive position, which was also forced by the situation.

Now, the total strength of the Japanese army in North China is no more than 5, and they are scattered at various key points. The independent division plus the troops of the 29th Army have a total strength of more than 12, occupying an absolute advantage.

Regarding the thousands of Japanese troops surrounded by the Xiaowutai Mountain battlefield, Tashiro Wanichiro, the commander of the North China Garrison Army, will not sit idly by. He will definitely take action. The national government tore up its face and prepared to go to war with China. This was also the instruction of the Japanese army base.

It means that the full-scale war between China and Japan will come one year ahead of schedule. I just take advantage of this opportunity to concentrate two troops and use the absolute superiority to eat up the [-] Japanese troops in North China first. Even if the Kwantung Army quickly enters the border for reinforcements, it will be too late .

When the Japanese mobilize a large number of troops to enter North China, their own troops will entangle them in North China and use the vast strategic space in North China to deal with the Japanese and make them go south in time. It will arouse the national government's high vigilance against the Japanese ambitions, and it will also buy time for the national government to prepare for war.

If Kanichiro Tashiro stands still and would rather give up these thousands of Japanese troops and allow them to be wiped out by himself, it means that Japan is not yet ready for a full-scale war against China, or is unwilling to fight for this incident. Mess with your overall deployment.

The clever thing is that the surrounded Japanese army disguised themselves as bandits, did not show up in public, and pretended to be confused, so they took these little devils as hostages to see what the Japanese would do next.

If the Japanese feel fearful considering the current balance of military forces in North China, the Japanese army's northward strategy will gain the upper hand in Japan's domestic mainstream, and the strategic direction and goal of the attack will be aimed at the vast Siberia of the Soviet Union. area, that would be too dramatic. [

Just let Japan, a fat, strong, crazy little pit dog, fight with the giant Soviet polar bear and get bruised and bruised. If you are exhausted, you will not have the energy to realize the wild dream of invading the whole of China. Perhaps, the suffering Chinese nation , will be spared a war imposed on itself, and Japan may abandon Manchuria and withdraw from China because of the decline of its national power. Wouldn't it be a blessing for the people.

Of course, this is the best wish, and it is not impossible. In the Japanese military circles, there are two main streams of consciousness, which are divided into the army faction and the navy faction. The army advocates going north, attacking the Soviet Union, and Nazi Germany. The Soviet Union, Japan took the Asian part of the Soviet Union, and Nazi Germany took the European part of the Soviet Union.

When the German-Japanese-Italian fascist axis was established, it was a consensus between Germany and Japan. Japan’s ambition to occupy the Soviet Union has never stopped. Later, the Battle of Nomonhan and the Battle of Zhanggufeng that occurred on the Sino-Mongolian border were the result of the Japanese Army’s Offensive military probing against the Soviet Union.

The Soviet Union, on the other hand, never gave up its vigilance against Japan's northward ambitions. Otherwise, under the Soviet Union's Stalingrad and Moscow cities, the Soviet army and the Nazi German army were inseparable, with almost no support, and they would not dare to use it on the Sino-Soviet border. A million Kwantung Army confronted nearly a million troops from the Far East Military Region.

Of course, Tang Qiuli hopes that this ideal ending will happen according to his own wishes. He has other considerations in doing so, and he also uses this to verify the attitude of a local powerful faction in North China, especially the local emperor in Shanxi. .

Of course, where the chairman of the national government, the necessary procedures are indispensable, he immediately dictated a long dazzled telegram to the chairman, explaining that the independent division is suppressing bandits in North China, and now the war has fallen into a stalemate, and the troops are scattered in Every area in the Taihang Mountains is fighting bitterly, and the independent divisions will live up to the chairman's high expectations and fight bravely, striving to wipe out the bandits as soon as possible.

In the telegram, he didn't mention that there were more than 3000 Japanese soldiers surrounded by him. That's okay. Now, the last thing the chairman wants to provoke is the Japanese. The Red Army in northern Shaanxi is enough for his busy work and headaches That's right, Zhang Xueliang and Yang Hucheng Yang didn't try their best, and the chairman of the committee is making trouble!

If he knows that there are more than 3000 Japanese soldiers surrounded by him, and he is ready to eat them at any time, according to the old man's temper, he may fly to Peiping himself, order him to release them face to face, and maybe even curse a few words, mother Xipi, young people don't understand politics , Net trouble for me!

I have plenty of time, the initiative is in my hands, and I will wait and see the attitudes and actions of the various forces. The Japanese pretend to be dumb and play charades themselves.

The current position of the troops is extremely favorable. They can overlook the North China Plain, the key areas of Beijing and Tianjin, and they can rely on the dangerous terrain of the Taihang Mountains to deal with the Japanese for a long time.

He sent another telegram to Liu Tiehan, reminding the troops to pay attention to air defense. If the Japanese do not dispatch the army troops, they will definitely dispatch planes. At that time, if there is an accidental bombing, he will suffer a dumb loss. This is the logic of power. Decades later, the United States used this trick against the Chinese embassy on the territory of Yugoslavia.

Sometimes Tang Qiuli wondered that many of the practices of the United States in later generations were exactly the same as the practices of the Japanese today. They were all acts of Laiqiang bandits. The defeat of the Japanese taught the students of the United States. Sometimes, history Very good at joking.

The army mobilized some members of the Communist Party of China to lead a small army and form a capable work team. With Huangyadong as the center, the construction of the base area was carried out extensively. On July [-], [-], the fuse that will be ignited is still a year away from now.

The news that the independent division had surrounded [-] bandits in Xiaowutai Mountain quickly spread, and as expected by Tang Qiuli, all forces responded.