Chapter 252: Commander Who Makes Mistakes
"A total of 60,000 people from the 29th Army of the Chinese Army are stationed at Xifengkou, which is a little troublesome." Muto Nobuyoshi frowned slightly when he saw this chapter of information, and said to himself.
But it's just a little troublesome, there are a lot of people in China, and Muto Nobuyoshi, who is used to having a few divisions of his opponent, actually doesn't take the 60,000 people of the 29th Army into his eyes, an army that was absorbed by the Northeast Army that was even worse because of the failure of the warlords in China, will it enter the eyes of General Muto?
The 60,000 people of the 29th Army are not in the eyes of General Muto, let alone the small independent regiment, even if there are three words of the Central Army in front of it, when the 2,000 people of the independent regiment are stationed on the flank of Xifengkou for 80 miles, General Muto directly ignored this information.
The reason why Muto Nobuyoshi didn't take this information to heart at all is very simple, first of all, he didn't plan to attack Luo Wenyu at all, the Xifengkou attack area is wider, suitable for armored vehicles and tanks deployment, Muto Nobuyoshi feels that that is his main attack point, otherwise the people of China will not send 60,000 people to garrison; Secondly, with a mere 2,000 men defending, the Imperial Japanese Army sent a brigade to defeat them with a single charge.
It has only taken a week to defeat the opponent's army of more than 100,000 with 40,000 troops, and Muto Nobuyoshi, who is still building all kinds of fortifications and defending the danger, even if he is serious and cautious, at this time he has a sense of invincibility that the Shina people are really vulnerable.
Master Jin's lonely pursuit of defeat is invincible and lonely, and Muto Nobuyoshi also has a sense of loneliness at this time that he can't find an opponent all over the world.
The invincible and lonely General Muto didn't know that his neglect would cause tens of thousands of elite and invincible Imperial Japanese troops in his eyes to shed blood on this ancient Great Wall of China, which not only broke the head of the invincible Imperial Japanese Army in Asia, but also made the marshal throne that he had originally won in exchange for victory in the former time and space also leave him.
Liu Lang didn't know that the fake information he handed out seemed to be fake and really didn't get the attention of the commander of the Kwantung Army at all. To put it bluntly, it is ignored.
The result of ignoring was that Liu Lang had another 3 days of time, and the Japanese army should have marched to Luo Wenyu on the 2nd day of the setback at Xifengkou, but it was dragged to the 5th day, and it was these extra 3 days that gave the independent regiment a huge help.
Hundreds of mules and horses, nearly 100 carts, and a baggage company and strong men of up to 700 people used all their strength, spent 38 days, ran 3,300 miles, and arrived.
The average daily march of nearly 90 miles of high-intensity troops, although there are mules, horses, camels, and carts to ride, but this is also a huge test for the soldiers, and all the large equipment and ammunition reserves of the independent regiment can be in the baggage company.
In order to build fortifications before the Japanese attack on the Great Wall, Liu Lang lost almost all the large equipment and ammunition, and if the Japanese attacked three days in advance, it is really difficult to say whether the independent regiment with only a small number of machine gun bullets and only one base rifle bullet could withstand a day.
But the lonely Muto General left Liu Lang for another 3 days, in 3 days, Liu Lang used the steel plate that crossed almost half of China to reinforce the fortifications of many important places, at the same time, the tunnel that has been connected was remodeled by Liu Lang, and the exits around the entire mountain are as high as more than 30 places, and Liu Lang, who has an extra 700 laborers, even has the spare strength to build trench fortifications under the anticline, which is the worst plan Liu Lang has made, if the Japanese invaders go crazy and mobilize heavy troops to surround the entire Luo Wenyu Pass. Such a reserve position can also give flowers to the Japanese army who dares to outflank it behind.
If Liu Lang was afraid of being copied from the back road before, now Liu Lang is not afraid, the nearly seven-kilometer mountain range is actually like a missing bottom horizontal "mouth" word, facing the north, and there is a wide entrance on the back, but if it is said that if you copy the back road and enter from the "mouth", you can explode the chrysanthemums of the independent group, then Rikou Ke thinks a little too much. The MG42 machine guns in the tunnels and trenches on the hills on both sides were able to beat the Imperial Japanese troops who bravely rushed into the semi-encirclement into dogs.
In other words, it took more than 20 days for Liu Lang to almost turn Luo Wenyu Pass into a small fortress, which could launch attacks both internally and externally, and even two Bofors mountain guns and more than 20 Type 82 mortars of the artillery company were put into the special artillery tunnel by Liu Lang.
Liu Lang also installed his regimental headquarters in an underground tunnel behind the front position mountain, which was dug more than four meters deep and covered with steel plates, logs and a thick layer of soil, not to mention explosives.
Here, it is definitely much stronger than the greenhouse regimental headquarters hiding in the so-called safe area a few miles away, and the Japanese cannons can't blow up the anti-slope tunnel, and it's no problem to cross the mountains and blow up to the plains a few miles away, and that place has no other use except to be able to quickly run away.
What's more, for a fat man from Southern Sichuan Province, the cold in the north is really poisonous, and the feeling of being afraid of the cold is simply something buried in the genes, even if Liu Lang's nerves are still tempered by the blade of the future republic, he also feels that the sleep these days is really terrible.
It has to be said that since the underground tunnels, no one among the soldiers wants to live in wooden huts on the ground anymore, and the temperature in the well-established underground tunnels is much higher than the low temperatures on the surface of the earth, which often drips into ice. At the very least, spread the rain cloth on the hay and wrap it in a fluffy bedding, and there is no more biting cold wind blowing through the cracks in the wood, so you can get a good night's sleep.
Of course, the most important thing was not the construction of a better system of fortifications, but the fact that all the ammunition reserves of the independent regiment plus two months' worth of rations were added.
Without these, the combat effectiveness of the independent regiment dropped by more than half.
Decades later, whenever Chinese and Japanese military historians mention the first major battle after the independent regiment became an army, they will invariably pull out Muto Nobuyoshi and criticize it, believing that if he did not despise the existence of the independent regiment, the intensity of the Japanese artillery fire and the far exceeded number of people were enough to capture Luo Wenyu when the independent regiment was not fully prepared and the ammunition was insufficient.
However, Muto Nobuyoshi not only ignored it, but also continued to attack in anger after encountering the stubborn resistance of the 29th Route Army at Xifengkou and suffering heavy losses, and only three days later did he think that he should trouble Luo Wenyu, who had a weak defender.
What is even more surprising is that Muto Nobuyoshi made another stupid move, vetoed the proposal of the commander of the 8th Division, Nishi Yoshiichi, and issued a telegram order at the Kwantung Army Field Command 150 miles away, believing that Luo Wenyu was only garrisoned by a regiment of 2,000 people, and that the main force should continue to attack Xifengkou to contain the main force of the 29th Army, and sending a brigade of more than 7,000 people with two artillery brigades would be enough to take Luo Wenyu.
As a result, the poor 4th Brigade became a victim of a seemingly reasonable military order from Commander Muto Nobuyoshi, and became one of the countless glittering achievements of the fully prepared Independent Regiment.
Of course, military historians did not put Liu Lang on the highest podium in history, and they also criticized Liu Lang, believing that it was also extremely stupid for Liu Lang to go alone and leave all his heavy equipment and ammunition far behind.
If, if the Japanese commander had not been carried away by the continuous victories, he had only to send more than 10,000 elite Japanese troops, supplemented by heavy artillery such as tank brigades, heavy artillery brigades and artillery wings, it would be difficult for an independent regiment lacking ammunition to hold out for more than a day, even if their fortifications were so well constructed that even the most demanding military experts could not find any fault.
If the baggage company of the independent regiment does not arrive as scheduled due to an accident on the way, even if the Japanese army only sends the 4th brigade, the independent regiment will inevitably suffer heavy losses, and the independent regiment, which has suffered heavy losses in personnel, will no longer be able to resist the heavy encirclement of the Japanese army even if it welcomes its baggage back in the future.
Unfortunately, there are no ifs.
The arrival of Liu Lang's little butterfly finally changed a trace of history, and the information deliberately released was even better than the Japanese army's detection that Luo Wenyu's defenders were only one battalion in historical time and space.
Both sides made enough mistakes, but taking advantage of the time difference, Liu Lang had time to make up for his mistakes, but the Japanese side was still immersed in the dream of being able to continue to march and take the rich Pingjin into their arms. [.]