"It should be Lao Hu with three regiments attacking the stone gate!" Li Lingfei guessed.

"I hope this is what Li Weimin took someone to do!" Liao Fan didn't know why he especially hoped that the telegram sent to him by Li Zongren at this time was true, although they didn't get any news.

Li Lingfei didn't understand what Liao Fan meant, because Li Lingfei didn't know the content of the telegram sent by Li Zongren.

Liao Fan didn't continue to explain: "You go back early tonight to rest, I'll be on duty, tomorrow is our most difficult day." ”

Although the combat effectiveness of the 33rd Independent Division is still very strong, but in the face of a crazy full-line attack by little devils like today, they can only barely support it, if the Japanese army continues to launch such a large-scale attack tomorrow, there will definitely be some places on the defensive line that will be breached, although the second line of defense will not collapse on the whole line, but the next situation will not be easy.

Gangcun Ningji also heard the sound of gunfire coming from the Shimen area, and he understood that there must have been a mutation at the Shimenkou Gate, so he immediately sent a telegram to inquire, but there was no reply, so Gangcun Ningji ordered a wing of Japanese troops to reinforce Shimen.

But the battle at the stone gate began and ended quickly, and the supporting wing commander ran into the retreating soldiers halfway, and he ordered all the soldiers to assemble and take the stone gate back. Because the stone gate is the main road for them to retreat, if the stone gate is blocked, they will have to detour for dozens of miles before they can withdraw from Taihang Mountain.

Flares were lit in the sky, and without artillery support, the Japanese launched a counterattack towards Shimen. After all, on a rainy night, no matter how many flares there are, it is impossible to illuminate the entire Taihang Mountain, and after more than three hours of attacking, the Japanese wing commander finally ordered to stop the attack, because the ammunition they carried with them had almost been consumed.

Gangcun Ningci could never have imagined that his 100,000 army was surrounded in Taihang Mountain, although this was not an encirclement in the strict sense, but their retreat was indeed blocked. The 100,000-strong army is now facing the risk of running out of ammunition and food, and the most important thing is that it is raining in the damn weather of Taihang Mountain.

"Is there really only one way to retreat?"

Tonight, Gangcun Ningji didn't know how many times he asked himself in his heart, although they had transported all the supplies in the Shimen area to the mountains, but no amount of supplies could not hold back the consumption of 100,000 troops, and during the day, they launched an attack on the second line of defense of the 33rd Independent Division at all costs, and the ammunition and materials in their hands could not last long.

Now Shimen and Heshun County are occupied by the Chinese army, Shanxi is in chaos, and the war in the Fifth War Zone is getting worse, everything is developing towards the worst, and then Gangcun Ningci doesn't know that a force is playing the idea of Gangcun Ningci's plane, and this force is the special combat team led by Huang Changsheng.

The rainy night is indeed the best time to act, and all the fighters of the special combat team have also been assembled and lurked on the periphery of the little devil Taiyuan Airport.

"Captain, which one of these planes is the old devil of Gangcun Ningci!" A small team leader asked Huang Changsheng.

Huang Changsheng gave him a blank look, and several other detachment leaders around him also looked at him with strange eyes. The squad leader who had just spoken felt that he was being despised, but he did not continue to ask.

"It's not the first time we've bombed the little devil's plane, according to our pre-planned operation, once it succeeds, there is no need to assemble, each detachment will evacuate separately, and then we will assemble at the assembly point!" Huang Changsheng admonished the captains.

The Taiyuan airfield, where a large group of Japanese troops was stationed, was attacked by a force of only a few hundred people, and twenty-four planes parked at the airfield were blown up, and in the end they found only eight enemy corpses at the scene, and all the little devils knew that something was wrong.

When Gangmura Ninji learned that the plane had been bombed, his face was expressionless and he behaved very calmly, as if he knew about it.

The 300,000 army was busy for more than a month, and did not take advantage of anything, and under the counterattack of the Fifth Theater and the counterattack of the 33rd Independent Division, the little devils suffered 150,000 casualties.

Gangmura Ningji looked at the rain in the dark night, he felt what it meant to be sad for the first time, but he was only sad for himself, because this battle would ruin his future, and he would not be sad for the 150,000 soldiers who were killed and wounded under him, because these people were just pawns in his hands.

The rain became heavier and heavier, and Gangcun Ningji finally gave the order to retreat, and the direction of their retreat was near Yangquan and a mountain pass in Yuxian. In order not to be harassed during the retreat, Gangmura Ninji left a Japanese brigade in the camp to camouflage and cover the withdrawal of the large army.

There was no trace of the Japanese retreat, and when leaving Taihang Mountain, Gangcun Ningci counted the number of troops, and there were only 50,000 left, at least 30,000 Japanese soldiers died in Taihang Mountain, and most of the remaining Japanese troops were wounded and sick.

The next morning, the rain had stopped, the sun was rising in the east, and the warm sunlight shone on the people very comfortably, and the soldiers on the second line of defense still got up very early, preparing for today's battle.

However, a soldier on the battlefield found that today seemed to be a little abnormal, in addition to the fresh air after the rain, there were larks flying in the sky, looking at the birds flying into the distance, the soldier suddenly felt that today was the most comfortable morning in this month, and involuntarily hummed a mountain song.

The mountain song sounded on the quiet position, which seemed to be out of place with the tense environment for dozens of minutes before the battle, and many soldiers who could sing this mountain song gradually sang along with it.

After one song, another unknown mountain song was followed......

A warrior staggered to the position, no one knew whether he was tired or excited, and under the cover of the song, only a few warriors around could hear what he was saying.

Gradually, the singing faded away, and the position fell silent again, no one cheered, only the silence in the sunlight, and even the beautiful chirping of larks could be heard in the distance. Gradually, some people began to sob, and maybe some people didn't understand why they were sobbing, and it was clear that they had won the battle.

The people who fought in this battle knew why they were sobbing, and only they could understand.

In the early morning, Liao Fan learned that the little devil had retreated ten minutes earlier than the soldiers, and at dawn in the headquarters, Chu Pengtian and Li Lingfei cheered, only he sat quietly on the cold stone steps in the early morning against the door frame of the headquarters and then fell asleep.

The three people in the command stopped cheering when they saw Liao Fan's appearance, Lu Liming took a blanket and put it on Liao Fan, and then glanced at Li Lingfei.

Li Lingfei knew that although the big army of the little devils had withdrawn from Taihang Mountain, they still had a lot of follow-up work to do, and Li Lingfei had to take on all this.

The news of the retreat of the Japanese army from Taihang Mountain reached Li Zongren of the Fifth War Zone at the first time, after all, there was a soldier in the communications squad who had an innate advantage. Li Zongren had just received a telegram this morning that their front-line troops had restored their defensive line to its pre-war state.

Commanders at all levels of the Fifth Theater front sent telegrams to Li Zongren asking whether they would continue to push the defensive line forward. Gangcun Ningji only sent a few words, and the commanders handled it at their discretion.

When he saw the telegram of the Japanese army's retreat from Taihang Mountain, Li Zongren immediately informed Chongqing of the situation.

"It seems that the rise of the independent 33rd Division is a matter of time!"

After sending the telegram to Chongqing, Li Zongren only said an inconsequential word and put the telegram away.

The news of the retreat of the Japanese army from Taihang Mountain immediately spread to the combat units of the 33rd Independent Division, but the matter was not over, the soldiers of the 33rd Independent Division surrounded a large group of Japanese troops who were finally responsible for covering, but did not attack them, and Ma Wanzhong was fully responsible for the encirclement of the little devils.

Hu Guoshan has returned to Heshun County with three regiments of soldiers, although the little devil has retreated, but the 50,000 army still has strong combat effectiveness, Hu Guoshan does not want to let them go south easily, now there are nearly 10,000 combat strength in Heshun County, how can it be top for three or five days.

Only a part of the Second Regiment was guarding the stone gate, and they were all waiting for Liao Fan's final order.

Although the Japanese army retreated, the terrible situation faced by Shanxi, Gangcun Ningci could not ignore it. For the sake of Shanxi's stability, he left 30,000 troops in Shanxi again, and the remaining 20,000 troops were taken back to Wuhan by Gangcun Ningci from the Suiyuan area.

Obviously, Gangcun Ningci no longer has any confidence in this battle, and his most important thing now is to protect Wuhan, and then ensure the smooth flow of the Pinghan Railway.

When the forces of all sides learned that the Japanese army had withdrawn from Taihang Mountain, they couldn't help but be surprised in their hearts, and of course, the most shocked tripartite forces should be the Jingsui army of Chongqing, Yan'an and Yan Laoxi.

As soon as Chen Cheng, the official residence of Chairman Chiang of Huangshan in Chongqing, received the news of the Japanese army's evacuation from Taihang Mountain, he drove there.

"I didn't expect that! One is the strength of the division, which can withstand the attack of 100,000 Japanese troops! Chairman Chiang couldn't help but sigh in his heart, of course he didn't know that the strength of one division of the 33rd Independent Division was about to catch up with the strength of one of his armies.

"The combat situation of the 33rd Independent Division will soon spread throughout China through various means, and the prestige of the 33rd Independent Division will be in full swing at that time, should we do this in advance and give Liao Fan a favor?"

It has become a fact that the 33rd Independent Division defeated 100,000 Japanese troops in Taihang Mountain, and this fact cannot be concealed.

"Now that the wood is in the boat, let's push the boat down the river!" Commander Jiang Wei said slowly, "But you have to hurry up and do what we are discussing, I don't want the independent 33rd Division to end up on the side I don't want to see!" ”

"Understood, but ......" Chen Cheng glanced at Chairman Jiang.

"If there's anything to talk about, it's just the two of us here!"