Hu Guoshan's strange behavior made the little devil commander completely confused, since Hu Guoshan did not focus on their main force, then he would definitely put the focus of the attack elsewhere.

The Japanese commander thought of the reconnaissance of the Chinese soldiers two days ago, and the place where they reconnoitred was the defensive position of their armored troops, and all kinds of bad premonitions came to their heads, and the commander of the little devil judged that Hu Guoshan would definitely concentrate his forces on their armored forces.

But now their main forces are pinned down by the New 33rd Army, and there is no way to support the positions of the armored forces, which can make the command of the little devil feel afraid.

Armored troops are not only able to provide strong fire support to their frontal troops, but also a guarantee for their retreat and breakthrough, if their armored forces are hit, they will not be able to run.

"What now?"

The Japanese commanders were under tremendous pressure, not to mention the problem of armored troops, if they lost more than half of them now, even if they could escape back to Taiyuan, if Hu Guoshan followed with his troops, Taiyuan City would be in danger.

For a moment, the command of the little devil suddenly became nervous.

"Send a telegram to Your Excellency the Commander, the Chinese army is already detouring to our two flanks, we may fall into a situation of being surrounded, the enemy is victorious, as the warriors of the Japanese Imperial Army, we can be loyal to the Emperor, but after our whole army is shattered, Taiyuan will also be in danger, so I request a retreat to protect the overall situation!"

As a last resort, the Japanese commander sent a telegram to Taiyuan requesting a retreat. This telegram not only showed the bravery and fearlessness of their Imperial Japanese Army, but also showed that the Japanese commanders were concerned about the safety of Taiyuan, and in fact they couldn't beat it and wanted to escape, but they couldn't say it clearly, so they naturally had to exaggerate it, and they couldn't lose the dignity of their Imperial Japanese Army's escape.

At this time, the Japanese commander was busy with the affairs of the Hebei troops, and all their main forces in Shanxi were surrounded by the periphery of Luoyang, and according to intelligence, the national troops surrounding them were at least three times their strength, and a large part of these troops were equipped with Soviet-style weapons, and their individual firepower was far superior to theirs.

The national army came from afar, and the soldiers were tired, but the Japanese army had been fighting hard in Luoyang for a long time, and the physical strength of the soldiers was also consumed.

Although Luoyang was captured by the Japanese army, the Japanese army had no intention of defending Luoyang, and the peripheral reinforcements had no food, grass and ammunition inside, and their only way out was to withdraw to Shanxi from Zhongtiao Mountain.

The Japanese commander in Shanxi gave them the final military order, to break through the siege at all costs, withdraw to Zhongtiao Mountain, and then return part of the troops to defend Taiyuan. If it weren't for the friction between the national army and the Eighth Route Army, and no one on either side trusted anyone, as long as each side sent two elite troops, they would definitely be under the city of Taiyuan now, and they would not be able to use the new 33rd Army to support it.

The Japanese troops in Henan already knew about their situation, on the contrary, the morale of the Japanese army did not suffer much damage. Under the leadership of the front-line commanders, the Japanese began to burn the corpses of the soldiers, and the burning of the corpses on the battlefield was an honor for the Japanese soldiers, but also a morale boost, which showed that they would not leave the battle alive, either burned to ashes by their own people, or they would defeat the enemy in front of them.

The tens of thousands of troops of the little devils divided into three ways and launched a frantic attack on the national army in front of them, and the Japanese army poured shells on the national army positions regardless of the cost of casualties.

"Da Da Da" "Bang Bang Bang"

Wave after wave of Japanese charging troops attacked, and then wave after wave withdrew. Guarding the road that the Japanese army must pass through was Wu Huawen's army, and after repelling the two Japanese attacks, the army commander Wu Huawen's heart became more and more frightened.

"Commander, if we continue to fight like this, the family funds we have saved in the past two years will be exhausted!" Wu Huawen's chief of staff is Wu Huawen's confidant.

Although they accept Chongqing's military salary, they have always been the last to be supplied with materials and equipment, so Wu Huawen has always had opinions on Chongqing.

As the commander of the army, Wu Huawen knew very well what Chairman Jiang did, borrowing the hands of the enemy to eliminate dissidents, which was a common trick used by Chairman Jiang, and the strength of their army was all Wu Huawen's hard-earned family foundation.

"What else can we do?"

It's not the first time Wu Huawen has fought with the Japanese army, when the Japanese army launched the Battle of Guangzhou, he once led his troops to fight with little devils, but he has never seen such crazy little devils.

The Japanese army is already a trapped beast, but this trapped beast has a strong strength, although the national army has three times the strength of the Japanese army, but it does not dare to make a decision and dare to eat all the Japanese troops.

Facing this trapped beast that had gone crazy, Wu Huawen felt the horror of the Japanese army for the first time. If he continued to fight like this, the strength of his army would not be enough for the Japanese army to consume.

"Commander, if the soldiers in our hands are gone, will Chongqing and Chairman Chiang still attach so much importance to us? What happens to the troops in other places is what happens to us! ”

As the chief of staff of the army, what he considered was not the strategy of resisting the enemy, but how to preserve his strength, regardless of the weapons and equipment and the combat quality of the soldiers, that is, the morale fell by three points.

was reminded by his own henchmen like this, Wu Huawen was like sitting on pins and needles, like a thorn in his back. Chongqing also paid them military salaries because he still had an army in his hands, and if he didn't have any soldiers in his hands, those people in Chongqing would try their best to kill him.

Wu Huawen was unable to choose for a while: "But we let go of the little devil, and Chongqing will not let us go either!" ”

"Commander, we didn't let go of the little devil, we were invincible, so the Japanese army escaped from the ascension, the descendants around us are all Soviet-style equipment, and all we have in our hands are burning sticks, and we have no ability to stop the little devil!"

Wu Huawen's chief of staff seems to have already thought of a reason.

Wu Huawen frowned, looking at his chief of staff suspiciously, he trusted his chief of staff very much, after all, he had been following him for many years, not to say that he was like a brother, but it could be regarded as sharing weal and evil, he didn't dare to think about his chief of staff to the side of collaborating with the enemy, after all, he doubted his friend without evidence, this is not his style.

"Commander, hurry up and give an order, otherwise our troops will really be defeated!"

The chief of staff saw that Wu Huawen was silent, and thought that Wu Huawen was hesitating, so he hurriedly filled the fire and urged Wu Huawen to make a decision as soon as possible.

Wu Huawen was obviously also moved by the words of the chief of staff, not to mention anything else, the losses of the troops were completely replenished by themselves, and if there were fewer soldiers, he would have to recruit a soldier by himself, which was indeed unfair to them.

Before Wu Huawen could make a decision, a communications soldier ran to the military headquarters to report to Wu Huawen that their right flank position had been broken through by the Japanese army, and more than eighty percent of the soldiers of one battalion holding the defensive line had been killed, and the rest had become deserters.

"Commander! Hurry up and give the order! ”

"Let the two regiments holding the right flank retreat!"

After hearing the report of the signal troops, Wu Huawen finally made up his mind to make way with the Japanese army. After two days of hard fighting, the encircled Japanese finally escaped and ascended to heaven.

At the meeting, he sharply reprimanded Wu Huawen for letting the Japanese soldiers go, and threatened to severely punish him. But everyone understood that in the end, this matter would not be resolved, and Chairman Chiang was just angry.

After receiving a telegram from Yangquan, the commander of the Japanese army in Shanxi immediately sent a telegram to the Japanese commander, asking him to immediately organize the retreat of his troops.

Although the Japanese commander did not understand Hu Guoshan's true intentions, he knew that no matter what Hu Guoshan did, the ultimate goal was to destroy them, so they needed to arrange for their troops to retreat immediately during the interval between Hu Guoshan's attacks.

Retreat is a technical job, especially retreating under the nose of the other side, if you retreat in a hurry, the enemy pursues you, their troops will inevitably be in chaos, and in the end it will not retreat but retreat.

"Did anyone volunteer to take cover?"

Their retreat must have someone to resist the Chinese troops rushing up, otherwise they simply simply do not have enough time to retreat. However, the commander of the little devil was completely overly concerned about this, after Hu Guoshan commanded the last attack of the troops, this time left enough time for the little devil to retreat, obviously the commander of the little devil was too nervous to arrange the retreat, and he was not aware that the Chinese army had not launched an attack on them for a long time.

In the temporary headquarters of the little devils, officers at all levels, you look at me, I look at you, they know very well that staying is death, and they must hold on to their positions until they all die.

Of course, they also knew that after retreating to Taiyuan, they had a great chance of surviving, and why they should go to death by themselves if they could live.

Obviously, the little devils are also afraid of death, because this war has gradually lost them, except for seeing the constant loss of comrades around them, and then constantly replacing them with people they don't know, they can't see that this war has any meaning.

The commander of the little devil was disappointed, he didn't expect that none of his subordinates would dare to stand up and make sacrifices voluntarily.

"Okay, since there is no one, then I will personally name it!"

Someone had to stay and hold the position, and the Japanese commander personally named and left a large group of troops to hold the position, and at the same time the little devil commander gave them the right to retreat on their own after five hours without waiting for any orders.

The Japanese army began to be busy with the retreat in an orderly manner, of course, the Japanese commander did not forget his armored forces, in order to withdraw to Taiyuan as soon as possible, the Japanese commander decided to take the lead with armored forces.

However, all this happened to fall into the trap arranged by Hu Guoshan, and everything Hu Guoshan had done before was to wait for the Japanese army to retreat.