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Text Chapter 290: We can only fight on the inside

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    After Guo Bingxun quickly recorded Yang Zhen's order, he immediately began to mobilize troops to the battlefield in northern Shanxi. According to Yang Zhen's request, the headquarters of the 10th Division was prioritized to be airlifted to northern Shanxi, and the remaining troops newly incorporated into the 10th Division were flown from  The 13th Engineering Regiment, the most complete organization, and the two battalions of the Headquarters Guard Regiment began airlifting.

    The other troops were quickly concentrated using Harbin and Qiqihar as bases. When two battalions were reached, they were airlifted to northern Shanxi. Considering the overall situation of the battlefield in northern Shanxi, all the tenth divisions were transferred to northern Shanxi by air this time.  Decentralized transportation, and centralized training after arriving in northern Shanxi.

    The two railway corps that were withdrawn from the Tongliao-Kailu railway construction site immediately boarded the nearest train and were directly transported to Harbin for training and replacement of weapons and equipment. The original reason why railway corps were not used nearby was because these railway corps needed to be retrained.  It took a long time. Although the regiments to which these two railway corps columns belonged were closest to Tongliao, they were not combat troops after all.

    Just as Guo Bingxun was racing against time to mobilize reinforcements to reinforce the battlefield in northern Shanxi, the entire Shanxi battlefield was already underway. The main force of the Shanxi-Sui Military Region going south had been intensively deployed. With the target already determined, the enemy was hiding in the battlefield.  The Zuojian detachment in the mountainous area north of Jingle and Lanxian roads launched a siege on all sides.

    However, the Zuojian detachment relied on the mountainous terrain and the accompanying artillery fire cover to hold on. It relied on the abundant grain and ammunition stored before the war, and through continuous tactical counterattacks, it repeatedly fought with the main forces of the Jinsui Military Region participating in the war.  In response to Chen Hanzhang's original worries, the battle became a stalemate from the beginning.

    Repeated tug-of-war hindered the troops of the Jinsui Military Region. On the second day of the battle, in a ravine in the area controlled by the Japanese army, the troops of the Jinsui Military Region who participated in the battle discovered thousands of Chinese who had been massacred by the Japanese army.  The remains are obviously the people who were plundered before the war and massacred by the Japanese army after building fortifications for the Japanese army.

    In northeastern Shanxi, Du Kaishan, who had already arrived at the northern Shanxi battlefield, took over the command of the entire northeastern Shanxi battlefield. Without any delay, he turned most of his troops to the west, focusing on Guangling County and the surrounding Japanese troops.  offensive, and with the strength of a regiment, and with the cooperation of a battalion from the first division of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region, they seized Feihukou and cut off the connection between Yu County and Laiyuan.

    His main force cut off the roads between Guangling and Yuxian, and between Guangling and Lingqiu, and launched a diversionary attack with the troops from the front. He completed the encirclement of the Japanese troops in Guangling and Lingqiu, and moved one part towards Pingxingguan.  A bluff attack was launched. Although the Japanese army's inverted triangle formation in northeastern Shanxi was not disrupted, one of its arms was surrounded.

    At the same time that Northeastern Shanxi was fighting, the 21st Division of the Japanese Army suddenly left Wutai Mountain and entered Dai County, concentrating its forces to launch a fierce attack on the line from Yanmen Pass to Guangwu. After an encounter with Su Yingqi, the 21st Division  The speed of their actions was significantly accelerated. On the second day after the encounter with Su Yingqi, their vanguard troops entered Dai County.

    In fact, the 21st Division that Su Yingqi encountered was just one of its fragments. The main force had already entered the Wutai Mountains between Nao County and Dai County on the day Su Yingqi set out. If he really wanted to fight with the main force of the 21st Division,  After the encounter, I'm afraid it would not have been so easy for Su Yingqi to escape in the first place.

    On the day when the 21st Division launched an attack on the Yanmen Pass line, the 32nd Division in Taiyuan neither invested in northwestern Shanxi nor participated in the mopping up of the Taihang Military Region. Instead, it concentrated all its forces and took trucks.  Passing through Dingxiang and Wutai, it quickly goes straight to the north bank of Hutuo River.

    The leading troops, without waiting for the follow-up main force to arrive, immediately launched an attack on the Ruyuekou line after arriving at Fanzhi, and seized the two commanding heights in Ruyuekou, Tiejia Ridge and Wudou Mountain, and set up artillery on Tiejia Ridge.  Continuously carried out artillery strikes in depth.

    At this time, the entire Shanxi battlefield, from southeastern Shanxi to northeastern Shanxi, was filled with dense gunfire, flames of war, and smoke, almost covering the entire land of Shanxi except southwestern Shanxi. The Japanese invaders almost mobilized all the troops that could be mobilized in North China.  All troops launched a full-scale counterattack to northern Shanxi and southern Chanan.

    Facing the direction of action of the Japanese Thirty-Second Division that was beyond everyone's expectations, Chen Hanzhang did not panic. Instead, he dispatched two battalions from the battlefield in northeastern Shanxi and left his boss to the Thirteenth Column of the Sixth Column of Shanxi-Sui.  The brigade was also mobilized in this direction, taking advantage of the terrain and adopting tactics of constant resistance to delay the actions of the 32nd Division.

    However, the commanding heights of the Ruyue Pass, Tiejia Ridge and Wudou Mountain, were lost and occupied by the Japanese before the blocking troops arrived. Chen Hanzhang was somewhat caught off guard. Tiejia Ridge is located within the Ruyue Pass, with an altitude of more than 2,000 meters, and is the center of the entire Ruyue Pass.  The commanding heights inside and outside.

    Once the Japanese army occupied this place, they would have an unobstructed view within a radius of dozens of kilometers inside and outside Ruyuekou. Their artillery fire could completely suppress the mountains on both sides of Ruyuekou with an altitude of less than a thousand meters, such as Tiejia Ridge and Wudou Mountain.?The Japanese army succeeded first, so the blocking troops could only retreat to the north of Ruyuekou to block the attack.

    In this way, he is too close to the ambush circle he left for the 21st Division. Once the 32nd Division moves west, not only will his entire tactical intention be exposed, but also the entire behind the encircling troops will be exposed.  When the time comes, not only will he not be able to complete the encirclement and annihilation of the 21st Division, but he will be faced with being attacked from both sides.

    Moreover, after the loss of Tiejia Ridge, all troop movements outside Ruyue Pass were almost unsecret to the Japanese army. The artillery fire deployed on Tiejia Ridge also posed a strong threat to the mobilization of troops in depth, but counterattack against Tiejia Ridge  Ridge, with the follow-up troops of the 32nd Division arriving one after another, unless Chen Hanzhang mobilizes a large number of troops, there is no hope of retaking it by relying on the blocking troops.

    Facing the 21st Division getting closer and closer, it was already too late to adjust the deployment. Chen Hanzhang gritted his teeth and determined to remain unchanged in response to changes. He would not make any adjustments to the deployment for the time being. The main combat goal was still to use the Second Division.  The 11th Division is the main force, and the main attack will be on this main Japanese division that has never received any blow since it entered the Shanxi battlefield.

    Order the original blocking force on the front line of Ruyuekou to immediately cooperate with a regiment from Beiyue District originally deployed here to use the mountains on both sides of Ruyuekou to fight at all costs and win at least three points for the middle line battlefield.  Even if all the troops are exhausted, they still have to hold on for three days.

    Considering that the 32nd Division deployed troops in the direction of Ruyuekou, there were roughly two and a half regiments. At the insistence of his boss, Chen Hanzhang quickly transported the only 14th Brigade of the Jinsui Sixth Column to Yingxian County by car.  , along the Ruyuekou to Yingxian line, and immediately went into defensive operations as a second-line force.

    On the middle road, the regiment in Beiyue District that was originally guarding Yanmenguan was used to adopt the tactics of constant resistance to lead the 21st Division in the direction of Guangwu. However, to the great surprise of Chen Hanzhang and all the participating troops, the Japanese army  After the 21st Division occupied Yanmen Pass, it suddenly stopped its entire offensive.

    The entire division leisurely and leisurely began to build fortifications inside and outside Yanmen Pass, assuming a posture of defending according to the natural dangers of Yanmen Pass. The 21st Division stopped the offensive and directly built the fortifications set up by Chen Hanzhang inside Yanmen Pass.  The ambush circle was put aside.

    At the same time, on the front line of Ruyuekou, the offensive of the 32nd Division became more and more fierce. Although the blocking troops relied on the terrain to continuously delay the Japanese offensive, under the fierce attack of Japanese artillery fire, the number of casualties increased every day.  It was rising every hour. The Japanese army's tactics of attacking from the east and defending from the west made Chen Hanzhang immediately feel considerable pressure.

    In order to reduce the pressure on the front line of Ruyuekou, Chen Hanzhang took the risk of withdrawing all the security troops on the front line of Loubeikou to the second line, leaving the gate of Loubeikou open and allowing the 32nd Division to divide troops at Loubeikou, which is located in the Hengshan Mountains.  , very close to Hunyuan County.

    Once the Japanese army chooses to split their forces and attack together from Loubeikou, Chen Hanzhang can only give up the offensive against the Japanese army in Hunyuan County. At the same time, the 32nd Division will also be integrated with the Hunyuan Japanese army, which will be extremely unfavorable for the next war.  The entire battlefield in northeastern Shanxi will also be turbulent across the board, but with no choice, Chen Hanzhang can only take this risk.

    But no matter what method Chen Hanzhang took, the 32nd Division was like a muscle, staring at the Ruyuekou line and concentrating its forces to attack the Ruyuekou line, which was a direct distance away from Ruyuekou.  It's not far away. The north entrance of the building is now wide open, as if you haven't seen it.

    The 21st Division on the central line from Yanmenguan is also like this. Yang Wankou, who is very close at hand, seems to have nothing to do. He puts the entire division on the line from Yanmenguan to Yangmingbao. The two divisions  The group of hedgehogs gathered together and formed a complementary posture, which gave Chen Hanzhang an unusual headache.

    Even if they mobilized troops and went south to counterattack across the board, the troops on hand are not enough to deal with the two Japanese divisions at the same time. If you attack the 21st Division in Yanmen Pass, the 32nd Division can quickly rescue, and once the attack is  The focus is on the 32nd Division, while the attacking troops will be attacked from both sides by the 21st Division and the enemies of Hunyuan.

    Although the Japanese army adopted a series of confusing postures, Chen Hanzhang knew very well that the 21st Division of the Japanese Army did not really stay at the Yanmen Pass line. The posture it put in was just to confuse himself. If he transferred his troops first  If the 32nd Division is attacked, the 21st Division will march in without any hesitation.

    But Chen Hanzhang, who knew the true intention of the Japanese army to adopt such tactics, but used his troops to the extreme, was at his wits' end when faced with this situation. He did not want to adopt a purely defensive posture, because in his opinion, this would allow him to maneuver.  The highly capable troops were helpless in combat.

      But if the ambush force is concentrated and the whole army goes south to encircle and annihilate the 21st Division around Yanmen Pass, there will be two headaches. First, there will not be enough troops to cover the flanks to deal with the inevitable rescue of the 32nd Division;  It is the complex terrain in Yanmen Pass that also limits the movement of our tank troops.

    Third, and the most critical problem cannot be solved. Once he moves south, the entire battlefield will no longer have mobile troops. Once a new enemy situation appears, he will be unable to deal with it, unless he gives up the protection of the main flank of the Jinsui Military Region and deploys Mu  The two regiments commanded by Changqiu crossed the Tongpu Railway and attacked northeastward. Otherwise, once the war reached a stalemate, things would be easily delayed.

    Once Ying County is gained and lost, the entire battlefield in northern Shanxi will be divided into two parts. If the 32nd Division attacks Shanyin to the west after capturing Ying County, then its troops heading south to Yanmen Pass will be destroyed by the Japanese.  In turn, it surrounded the battlefield within Yanmen Pass.

    With a Japanese division right behind him, no one could turn a blind eye, especially now that his troops had been used to the extreme, he was deep in the void and had almost no defensive force to stop the 32nd Division.  The troops were in such an aggressive situation that the battle was destined to be resolved on the inside and could not be extended to the outside.
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