Chapter 922: The Decisive Battle Begins
At night, the little devil got lost in Taihang Mountain, which gave Liao Fan and them plenty of time! First of all, the scouts figured out the situation and location of the Japanese army, and the 100,000 Japanese troops stretched for dozens of miles in the narrow mountain road, and they could not take care of each other!
"Judging from what we have detected, I don't know what happened, it seems that the Japanese army no longer wants to hide their whereabouts, and their vanguard has formed a battle formation and is searching and advancing in the direction of our headquarters!"
The Japanese army had been in the mountains all night, and they were already in a daze, and the troops were in such a long formation in the mountains, which put the troops in a very dangerous situation!
In fact, the commander of the little devil can't take care of so much, the 100,000 army has been in the mountains for two days, there is no logistics and no supplies, if they can't find the target again, they will almost starve to death in this mountain!
"Where is the little devil now?" Li Lingfei asked.
Now the heavy responsibility of protecting Taihang Mountain is on Li Lingfei's shoulders, he only has the strength of a guard division in his hands, and he has no certainty of victory in the face of the Japanese army's 100,000 troops.
"It is estimated that in half an hour, the vanguard of the Japanese army will reach the cliff area!"
"Qibugou is the only way for the Japanese army! Let the commander of the regiment lead his troops to bury on the cliffs along the way*, and as long as the Japanese army passes here, it will be detonated*! ”
Li Lingfei knew very well that he couldn't lead his troops to resist the little devils, even if they had the advantage of terrain, after all, the Japanese army had 100,000 troops, and Li Lingfei had less than 10,000 in his hands! The disparity in strength is too great for the terrain to compensate.
But the lack of troops does not mean that the IQ balance is insufficient, on the contrary, the calmer you are in a desperate situation, the better the way to deal with it!
There are many cliffs in the Taihang Mountain, and the Chinese ancestors have often used the method since the war! It's too late to prepare the rolling wood, but there is no shortage of stones in Taihang Mountain, and they also have a large number of explosives, which are matched with stones, not to mention that they can lower 100,000 male soldiers, but they can also delay the Japanese army!
"Regiment commander, according to the marching speed of the Japanese army, it will only take twenty minutes to reach us!"
There is not much time left for them to prepare, but no matter what, they have to block the Japanese army, if the Japanese army drives all the way in, how can they soldiers talk about defending Taihang Mountain in the future.
"It's all good for me, the length of this canyon is about four miles away, and each squad is buried on the cliff at a distance of 100 meters*, let go of the vanguard of the Japanese army, we specifically bet on the troops behind the Japanese army, as long as I give the order, all the troops must be detonated at the same time*, and then retreat, no war!"
The Japanese army came in a hurry, and they have been wandering around the mountain for two days, and the surplus grain in their hands must be about to bottom out, as long as it drags on for two more days, the 100,000 army will be left with no food, and Li Lingfei will fight this battle as much as they want.
The march to the canyon, the Japanese marching army was very long, and their vanguard troops gathered two miles in front and behind! Needless to say, the large forces in the rear, which stretch for more than a dozen kilometers!
Although they did not fight the vanguard of the Japanese army, they had to bury it before the arrival of the Japanese line troops*, and they had to hide their tracks so that they could not be discovered by the vanguard of the Japanese army!
"Commander, it's all ready!" The signal corps reported to the regimental commander that they had planted the explosives.
"All troops are hidden!"
Not long after the troops were hidden, the vanguard of the Japanese army had already reached the mouth of the canyon! The Japanese army seemed to be in a hurry to wipe out the core of Taihang Mountain, and they didn't care if there was an ambush in the canyon, they only cared about burying their heads forward.
The Chinese soldiers who were hiding above the canyon made the situation clear, and they did not rush to make a move against the Japanese army, but waited for the large Japanese troops in the rear to pass!
Obviously, this canyon could not accommodate all the Japanese troops at all, but they did not intend to wipe out all the Japanese troops here, their purpose was very simple, delaying the Japanese army, and then delaying the Japanese army while preserving themselves as much as possible to kill the Japanese army.
In less than half an hour, the Japanese army really entered the canyon! With the order of the regiment commander, more than 20 explosion points exploded at the same time, and the flying stones in the sky fell on the head of the little devil! The little devils who entered the canyon suffered heavy casualties in this wave of explosions, and the wounded soldiers wailed all over the field!
"Boom Boom"
This was followed by a round of rain from above, killing and wounding half of the Japanese soldiers who had not yet recovered their strength!
"Retreat!"
Although they did not cause too large casualties to the Japanese army, presumably compared to the 100,000 Japanese army, these casualties were insignificant, but they successfully stopped the Japanese army's advance, and the canyon was blocked by boulders falling from the cliff, and it was difficult for the Japanese army to pass through the canyon for a while!
Just when the guard division was trying to find a way to delay the movement of the Japanese army entering the mountain, Tian Ziqi also led the troops to finally arrive on the battlefield!
Because the main forces of the Japanese army were concentrated in Baoding, there were not many troops left behind in the rear at all! Tian Ziqi took 50,000 veterans and successfully cut off the way back to the three county towns occupied by the Japanese army!
"Yaga! Where did they come from! Didn't the army of Taihang Mountain all leave by train? ”
Okamura Ninji was very shocked to learn that the back road of their 400,000 army had been cut off, according to their intelligence, the army of Taihang Mountain had already been sent to the Great Khing'an Mountains, but they actually appeared behind them overnight!
"Your Excellency, Commander, at this time, we should not find out why the Chinese army suddenly appeared, but should immediately order our troops to break through and retreat!"
Okamura Ningji was shocked, but judging from the intelligence, the Chinese army that cut off their back route was only 50,000 people, and the Chinese army on the entire battlefield was only 200,000, but they had 400,000 troops, Liao Fan wanted to eat them, isn't his appetite a little too big!
But Okamura Ninji also knew that if Liao Fan really wanted to eat them, he would definitely not just prepare 200,000 troops, there would definitely be troops they didn't notice rushing to the battlefield, and their only choice at the moment was to retreat!
"Order the troops on the front line to break through and let the 50,000 recruits left behind meet them!"
Just in case, Okamura Ninji didn't send the recruits he had scraped together to the battlefield, after all, these recruits were really too new, and he didn't dare to guarantee that the orders he gave would definitely be able to complete the task, so he simply let the 50,000 recruits stay! I didn't expect that these 50,000 recruits had really come to work, although their combat effectiveness was unbearable, but now they couldn't care so much.
"Your Excellency Commander-in-Chief, we still have four divisions in Taihang Mountain!"
In order to achieve the secrecy of such an operation, these four divisions have tried radio silence, and so far Okamura Ninji has not heard from them, and Okamura Ninji has no way to contact them, unless these four divisions take the initiative to contact them!
"I can't take care of that much, let's keep our 400,000 troops first!"
Although Okamura Ningji especially hoped that the four divisions he sent to Taihang Mountain would succeed, based on the current situation on the battlefield, I am afraid that these four divisions will be more auspicious, after all, Liao Fan can use 50,000 people to cut off the retreat of their 400,000 army, and there must be extra troops in his hands to besiege their four divisions in Taihang Mountain.
However, this time Okamura Ningji really expected it wrong, there was only one guard division in Taihang Mountain, and Tian Ziqi and they didn't know that the Japanese army had 100,000 troops entering Taihang Mountain, otherwise they would rather disobey the order and support Taihang Mountain first!
After receiving the order, the Japanese troops on the Baoding front line immediately retreated, and then it was too late, and before the news of the retreat reached the troops, Lu Liming's armored corps had already arrived at the battlefield!
According to the original plan, their purpose was to cut the Japanese troops, divide the large Japanese army into many units, and then rush to the battlefield to surround and destroy the Japanese army!
Tanks charge on the plains, it is really unimpeded, although the Japanese army has trenches, but these trenches do not work at all in the face of the steel monster of tanks! Tanks rush into enemy groups in the same way that a tightly organized cavalry group in antiquity rushes into a loose infantry group, and tanks are much more powerful than cavalry.
"Boom Boom" "Boom Boom"
The cannons on the tanks opened the way, the machine guns ended, and the Japanese troops tried to block the tank's advance with their bodies in a hurry, but the final result was that they turned into meat sludge, and the tanks galloped all the way, leaving behind one corpse after another by the Japanese soldiers without any preparation.
"Where did the Chinese army get tanks? Where did the tank come from? ”
The commander of a Japanese division could not believe that the Chinese army was equipped with tanks of such a scale, and when they launched an attack, they had no intention of preparing armored troops at all!
"Order our armored forces to meet the enemy! Hold off the tanks of the Chinese army! ”
Although the commander of the Japanese division was surprised, he was also battle-hardened, and in the face of the sudden appearance of the Chinese armored army, he immediately thought of his armored troops!
However, the Japanese tanks were as weak as a piece of paper in front of the tanks made by the Soviets and the French, even if only ordinary shells were used without armored shells, and if a shell hit the Japanese army's small beans, the Japanese army's small beans would lie down!
And the caliber of the Japanese tank artillery was too small, and in the face of the tanks with very thick diversion armor made by the Soviets and the French, there was not even a pit when the cannon went up!
In the armor-to-armor battle, there was a one-sided slaughter, and the battlefield was full of flaming Japanese peeweins!
It was precisely because of the obstruction of the Japanese army that the Japanese infantry was given time to assemble, but their other natural enemy arrived, and when the Japanese Douding was lying in groups, Cun Qi rushed to the battlefield with his troops!
"Rush!"
With the shouts of killing all over the mountains, the Japanese army fell into an embattled situation, and the Japanese army that had just been assembled became chaotic under the charge of the Chinese army!