Glorious Mission 1937

Chapter 280 Four: Occupying Jingxing (asking for subscription, asking for monthly ticket, asking for all kinds!!!)

On the evening of December 12th, Jingxing County was quiet outside the city, only the searchlights of the Japanese military frame behind the city gate flickered, piercing the distant night sky from time to time.Jingxing County is located in the west of Hebei Province, at the eastern foot of Taihang Mountain, adjacent to Luquan, Yuanshi County, and Zanhuang County in the east and southeast, bordering on Yu County, Pingding, and Xiyang County in Shanxi Province in the west and southwest, and Pingshan in the north The county is a neighbor.It is not only an important place that military strategists have always fought for, but also the only way for east-west communication, and has the reputation of "the thoroughfare of Yan and Jin".

After the Japanese army occupied Jingxing County, they stationed heavy troops here. However, because the Japanese army transferred all the main forces of the No.20 Division to the west, the number of defenders in Jingxing County also decreased sharply.So far, there is a Japanese squadron and a battalion of the puppet army stationed here.However, according to the investigation by Xu Bao and others, the Japanese army here is said to be a squadron, but in fact there are only two infantry squads that are not full, and the total strength is no more than 90 people.

And the infantry battalion of the puppet army is also an empty shell, a battalion is no more than two infantry companies that are not full, and the total strength is no more than 160 people.Including the more than 90 devil soldiers, there are no more than 250 defenders in Jingxing County.

However, Jingxing County is a very important transit station on the Zhengtai Railway, so the Japanese army stationed a special railway troop at the train station. Although there were only a team of more than fifty people, the weapons and equipment were better than ordinary field troops. More importantly, there are two railroad armored vehicles. When necessary, this railway force can also be converted into a field force and has to be defended.

In addition, there is a huge mining area more than 30 kilometers away from Jingxing County.It was originally the property of the Li family, a wealthy family in North China, but after the Japanese came, they forcibly took it away, and handed it over to Mitsui Co., Ltd. and Mitsubishi Co., Ltd., a well-known Japanese heavy industry group.Now the entire mining area has more than 120 large and small mines, tens of thousands of miners, and more than [-] Japanese garrisons and supervisors.

Although this is just a mining area, if there is any movement in the county, they can come to reinforce it at any time.Moreover, the mining area has to transport the plundered mineral resources to the county every once in a while, and transport them to all parts of North China through the station in Jingxing County, and even transport them back to Japan through the port of Tianjin.In addition, the Jingxing mining area went to Jingxing County to purchase daily necessities almost every day, so for the sake of insurance, Xu Bao decided to include this mining area as the target of the attack.

It was Xu Bao's special warfare division who was responsible for capturing Jingxing County.The Special Warfare Division has always been a trump card in Chen Feng's hands.Rarely show people.Even some senior officers at the division and brigade level in the Eighth Theater did not know the existence of the Special Operations Division. They only knew that the Theater Command had a special operations team directly under its command, with super combat effectiveness.

This time, in order to successfully capture Shimen, Chen Feng specially selected the first brigade with the strongest combat effectiveness from the four brigades of the Special Warfare Division to join the battle.

With the expansion of the eighth theater troops.The Special Operations Division has also changed from the original one brigade to the current four brigades.In addition, special warfare subjects were established at the Military Academy.And the elite of the Special Warfare Division was sent to the Sumu Mountain Campus to teach, and the textbooks of the Special Warfare Division were written by Chen Feng himself. At this time, it was less than a month before the first batch of Special Warfare Science students graduated.It is estimated that by the beginning of 4, the special warfare division will expand to 1939 people.

The 800 special forces soldiers were divided into two groups, one to capture Jingxing County, and the other to capture the Jingxing mining area.Xu Bao personally commanded the capture of Jingxing County, and the attack on the Jingxing mining area was led by Zhou Tiedan, the captain of the first brigade.

Taking advantage of the night, Xu Bao led 500 special forces members to lurk outside Jingxing County, where he was waiting for a signal from the city.Two days ago, a special operations team had lurked into Jingxing County. According to the combat plan, the operation was scheduled for eleven o'clock in the evening, one hour before the Japanese army changed guard.First, the special forces members in the city quietly knocked down the sentry post at the east gate, and then opened the city gate to let the disguised special forces team into the city.

In fact, it is not necessary to deal with a small county with less than 300 defenders. With the strong combat effectiveness of the special forces, even a strong attack will determine the world in one fell swoop.However, Chen Feng asked the special warfare division to capture Jingxing County without disturbing the Japanese troops in Shimen and Baoding, and pretended to be Japanese troops to guard there.

This request infinitely increased the difficulty of the task, so Xu Bao had no choice but to order the special forces to adopt Li Daitao's stiff tactics, lurking + disguise.

Suddenly the light of the searchlight on the wall of the county seat dimmed, and then the entire east gate fell into darkness.Immediately afterwards, a small light source lit up on the city wall, and at a glance, it was known to be a flashlight or something.

"Master, there's been some movement. Two long and one short are ours!" Zhu Yingyong, the leader of the second squadron of the first brigade, whispered.

Xu Bao took a closer look and found that the signal was correct, then waved his hand and said, "Accord to the original plan!"

"Yes"

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At 2:3 in the evening, Chen Feng received telegrams from Xu Bao and Zhou Tiedan one after another. They had successfully occupied Jingxing County and the Jingxing mining area. In addition, Zhou Tiedan reported that they had rescued more than [-] Chinese miners and [-] foreign miners. reporter.

After receiving the telegram, Chen Feng was overjoyed and immediately ordered Xu Bao and Zhou Tiedan to guard Jingxing County and the mining area.Especially Zhou Tiedan, in addition to guarding the mining area, he also needs to organize the miners and be ready to move at any time.

After the special warfare division occupied Jingxing County, Yang Yi immediately ordered the Fuping Independent Brigade to transport the batch of weapons and equipment to Jingxing County, and at the same time notified the Nangong Independent Brigade and the Handan Independent Brigade to send people to collect them immediately.At the same time, the Fuping Independent Brigade also rushed to the outskirts of Shimen to gather and stand by, ready to cooperate with the airborne troops in the theater at any time.

The Japanese were unaware of the fact that Jingxing County and the Jingxing mining area were occupied by the squadron, because the high-level Japanese army firmly believed that there were no large-scale infestation of the squadron in the vicinity, and Jingxing County was guarded by danger. , It is simply impossible to win there silently.

Before dawn on the 10th, the 108th Division of the Japanese Army, which had just rested for less than an hour, continued to attack the 47th Army in the encirclement. After half a day and a night of fighting yesterday, the 47th Army now has less than 2000 people left , Li Jiayu, the commander of the army, was also seriously injured. Now the army is under the command of the deputy commander Luo Zezhou.

However, due to the 47th Army's counterattack to the death, the Japanese army also lost a lot. Yesterday's half-day and one-night attack alone lost more than 47 people. Scrap iron, the loss is extremely heavy.More importantly, due to the desperate battle of Li Jiayu's troops, Xiayuan Xiongmi's department's plan to annihilate the [-]th Army failed, and the prolonged battle made Xiayuan Xiongmi's troops fall into a dilemma.

At the same time, Sun Weiru commanded the 38th Army of the Fourth Army and the 15th Army of the Fifth Army to attack the Japanese Xiayuan headquarters from the front and back.After a whole night of fighting yesterday, the 117th Regiment of the Japanese Army, which was in charge of the opening, suffered extremely heavy losses. There are now less than 500 people left in the entire strengthened regiment, and the loss of more than 15 soldiers is a last resort. Shimomoto Kumaya had no choice but to send the two infantry brigades of the independent mixed 15th brigade to reinforce the Takaki Regiment, and at the same time ordered Major General Yuhara Seiichiro, head of the independent mixed [-]th brigade, to go to the southern front to command operations.

At this time, Xiayuan Xiongya also sensed the danger. Although he was not afraid of the Chinese army in front of him, after all, the 47th Army had been wiped out, with 90% casualties, and the rest was just an empty shell .And after last night's fighting, Dangchina's 38th Army and 15th Army also lost a lot. If he was given time, it would only take a day or two to defeat these two armies.

But as His Excellency Meijin said, two days is enough for the Chinese to capture Jinzhong and Qingxu. Before his troops return to Taiyuan, the Chinese are already approaching the city, let alone the 10,000+ army of the Eighth War Zone of China. With them, if they don't get rid of the Chinese troops in front of them and return to Taiyuan as soon as possible, General Meijin will have no soldiers to defend Taiyuan. The final result will be that Taiyuan will fall. Yuan Xiongmi is definitely the culprit for the failure of this battle.

Therefore, today Xiayuan Xiongmi issued a death order to all the troops on the front line. It took half a day to destroy the 47th Army of China, defeat the 15th Army and the 38th Army of China. I will never spend time with the Chinese people in this ravine that doesn't shit anymore.

However, the ideal is beautiful, but the reality is cruel.Before dawn, before the Japanese army launched an offensive, the 38th Army on the southern front took the lead in launching a fierce attack on the Gaoshu Regiment.The two sides entered a fierce battle from the beginning of the battle. The squadron was uncharacteristically, not only launching a large-scale group charge, but even mobilizing tanks and mountain artillery to help out, which put huge pressure on the defending Japanese army.

At the same time, the 15th Army on the northern front also took the initiative to launch an attack on the main force of the headquarters of the Xiayuan Army.Liu Enmao knew that although his troops were lucky enough to escape, he let Li Jiayu's 47th Army get shot for him.But his No.15 Army is still extremely dangerous. The Japanese 108th Division and the independent mixed No.15 Brigade cut off the retreat of the No.15 Army. Once the two Japanese troops turn around, then his No.15 Army It was the end of the day, so taking advantage of Sun Weiru's willingness to fight to the death, he also ordered the troops to fight back desperately. If you don't fight to the death, you will die in the battle, so the No.15 army also exploded with huge energy.

The remnants of the 47th Army, which was surrounded by the Japanese army, were even more red-eyed. They were already out of ammunition and food, but at dusk yesterday evening, the transport plane of the Eighth War Zone deliberately dropped a large amount of supplies to their remnants.Although a large part was snatched by the little devils, a part still fell into their hands, enough to give their remnant soldiers the capital to continue fighting. (To be continued..)