The battle on the front line in Zhangjiakou was in full swing, and the attack for a whole morning had consumed most of the energy of both sides, and both the Fifth Division and the Sixth Field Division were about to reach the limit of what they could bear, and due to the large number of unconscionable artillery used by the Sixth Field Division, the Japanese army was destroyed more than 30 combat vehicles in just one morning, and the troops also suffered more than 3,000 casualties, which was equivalent to a reorganized infantry wing losing its combat effectiveness, which made Lieutenant General Toshiyoshi Ando very faceless.

However, the Japanese attack was still very sharp, and the 6th Field Division also suffered a lot of losses, losing more than 1,000 people in just one morning and one brigade and one regiment, and also losing more than a dozen guns without conscience, after all, the guns without conscience still cannot be compared with the Japanese army's field heavy artillery. Therefore, the two fronts at the forefront were already in danger of partial collapse, so Yang Shilang had no choice but to order the troops to retreat to the third trench to resist.

Although he broke through the two trenches of the Chinese army in one morning, Okamura Ninji, who was watching the battle at the front headquarters, was very dissatisfied with the attack of the North China Front, thinking that his Eleventh Army and those imperial troops in Central China would be in this situation even if they dealt with the most elite Central Army in China, and now it was the most prestigious Fifth Division of the empire that was attacking head-on, which was the descendant of General Seishiro Itagaki who became famous. And the opposing branch army is just a little-known miscellaneous army, I heard that it is not the most powerful and effective unit under Han Yunhua's command, just such a ragtag army in the branch army is on par with the empire's most elite fifth division, Okamura Ningji felt not only sadness, but also lingering fear.

As a commander and a commander with extremely rich combat experience, Okamura Ninji knew very well how lethal this three-dimensional and three-dimensional offensive method was. However, even if the Imperial forces were so well prepared, the opposing Shina troops were not afraid, using extremely advanced fortifications designed and relying on a large number of pillboxes to block the attack. For the time being, the results of the Chinese army are brilliant, and an infantry wing of the Fifth Division has lost its combat effectiveness in one morning.

Obviously, Okamura still underestimated the appetite of Xu Shiyou and others, and at the same time underestimated the realm of the Chinese commander. After receiving the casualty statistics from the 1st and 2nd Brigades of the 6th Field Division and the 2nd and 3rd Brigades of the 7th Field Division, Xu Shiyou not only did not feel the slightest joy, but scolded his mother loudly at the underground headquarters.

"His grandmother's, how did Shangguan Qing do that dog day, how did he lose more than a thousand people in one morning, and he also lost more than a dozen cannons, is it easy for Lao Tzu and the commander to ask for this bit of belongings, they are all a group of fucking losers"

"The second brigade is not a fucking good thing, the commander of the second brigade is even more of a bastard, is the little devil easy to mess with, and he can't figure out the situation with his mother, and he actually let the troops fight back and charge, and a battalion of people directly destroyed one of his battalions with an indiscriminate attack, and a battalion of dog days was exchanged for a squadron, and he also did this kind of loss-making business, which is really fucking stupid."

He Guangyu, the commander of the Seventh Field Division, saw Xu Shiyou scolding like this, although he knew that Xu Shiyou was in a bad mood now, but after all, the little devil was still attacking, and he had lost so many troops in one morning, and if it continued like this in the afternoon, the battle would really not be able to be fought. So He Guangyu opened his mouth to persuade and explained: "Lao Xu, don't scold your mother, you also know that the little devil we are facing is not an ordinary devil, it is the most elite fifth division of the Japanese army, and everyone is equipped with aircraft, artillery and tanks, and what do we have, even a few unconscionable guns are just a few iron buckets, but they are not as good as the devil's field heavy artillery, Shangguan Qing can fight like this is already very commendable." You see that my brigades are fighting even worse, you still have Shangguan Qing to support you with a façade, and you will lose less than 3,000 troops in one morning to deal with the two-sided attack of the Fifth Division, as for this? I think we should think about how to deal with the next attack of the Japanese army, otherwise our two divisions will be empty shelves in a week at most? ”…,

"Lao He, you fucking just stand and talk without back pain, you only lost a few people, your two brigades should deal with the attack of a few remnants of the 38th Division, it must be easy to fight, why don't we try to change positions?" Xu Shiyou said dissatisfiedly.

Of course, He Guangyu knew what Xu Shiyou meant, when formulating the combat mission, because the strength of the Sixth Field Division was relatively strong, so the Liangliang of the Zhangjiakou Offensive and Defensive Battle or the Zhangjiakou Defense Battle should be selected by Xu Shiyou's department, as for the Seventh Field Division, because the strength of the army was only eight layers of the required full number, and several infantry battalions had not been replenished so far, the Japanese army attacked Xu Shiyou's headquarters on three sides and resisted both sides. The change of position that Xu Shiyou said just now was not that he, the former deputy commander-in-chief, and Xu Shiyou, the commander-in-chief, had changed positions, but that the Sixth Field Division and the Seventh Field Division had adjusted their defenses with each other, and He Guangyu was not stupid, so how could he agree to him.

"Hehe, Lao Xu can work harder, your sixth division is much richer than my seventh division, you see that you have eight infantry regiments alone, as well as an artillery regiment, now it should be called an artillery brigade, any cavalry regiment, engineer regiment is not bad, a division with an approved full strength of 21,000 people is now bigger than the integrated 300th division, no wonder the commander wants your sixth division to take the lead. If you look at our division, it is not even the approved full number, and it is 10,000 or thousands less than you, and you guy is embarrassed to say it. He Guangyu originally planned to comfort Xu Shiyou, but as soon as he said it, he couldn't help but get angry. Originally, according to the reorganization plan of the military region, his Seventh Field Division and Xu Shiyou's Sixth Field Division should be reorganized into a full-fledged A division, but because He Guangyu has relatively high requirements for the quality of the troops, the Seventh Field Division only accepts those children of white families or veterans from the Long March, but the Inner Mongolia Military Region lacks such soldiers, and more than half of the troops in a military region of Nuoda are formed by puppet soldiers and rescued prisoners. It was really not a simple matter to pick 20,000 such soldiers alone, so until the reorganization was completed, the Seventh Field Division recruited more than 19,000 people.

But Xu Shiyou is different, in addition to the more than 21,000 people allocated to him by the military region, he also ignored the ban of the military region, and privately incorporated more than a dozen bandit armies, and even the captured puppet army was directly incorporated into the army, and the sixth field division was expanded by half in just a few months, and the commander was even more generous to Xu Shiyou, giving whatever he wanted, and how much he wanted, so He Guangyu looked very greedy.

Being said by He Guangyu, Xu Shiyou was also a little embarrassed, his sixth division is indeed much more than that of other troops, and it should be a little more burdensome, if it causes He Guangyu's dissatisfaction, it will be worth the loss, you must know that this guy still has more than a dozen jars of aged immortal brew, and he can't afford to offend

"Hahaha, Lao He, it's okay, I'm not allowed to admit defeat, isn't it just a fifth division? Lao Xu I hooked and hooked my fingers to destroy him, what about the elite, the commander said, our Inner Mongolia Military Region is the elite, although those little bastards didn't fight well today, the casualties are a little bigger, but the results are not small, the first brigade and the second brigade together probably reimbursed five or six thousand devils and more than fifty tanks, and now Ando Toshikichi that old devil is afraid that he is going to feel distressed to drip blood, hehe, rest assured, we have twelve more lines of defense, and now we are only losing two, your seventh division only needs to take care of the 38th division, Everything else has to be done by my old man.,How about it.,Brother, I'm interesting enough.,If it's interesting enough.,Shouldn't the old wine jar you hide be taken out and treat me"...,

Originally, He Guangyu was about to say a sentence that was interesting enough, but Xu Shiyou's next suffix really made him speechless, it turned out that the jars of old wine he had hidden had long been remembered by this guy, hey, these years I am not afraid of thieves stealing, I am afraid of thieves, it seems that these jars of old wine can't be saved.

Not to mention that Xu Shiyou and He Guangyu were arguing here, after only resting for less than an hour at noon, the Japanese attack began again, and the third line of defense was generally repaired, because of the terrain, so this line of defense here was just a disguise, on the one hand, it was to give the Japanese army a little confidence, and on the other hand, of course, it was to consume the Japanese army's ammunition.

"Boom Boom"

The Japanese artillery fire was extending, and the fighters of the 1st Brigade, 1st Regiment, and 2nd Battalion of the 6th Field Division were nervously waiting for the signal in the air-raid shelter of the third line of defense. In the past few days, they have become accustomed to such shelling, and they would not have been accustomed to it if the Japanese had not carried out shelling before that attack.

"Battalion commander, can we get out of Zhangjiakou alive?" A relatively young soldier asked Xu Dashan, the commander of the second battalion.

Xu Dashan smiled and took out a handkerchief embroidered with mandarin ducks playing in the water and said: "Yes, sure, this is a token of love given to me by your sister-in-law, if I don't go back, his landlord father really doesn't know how to marry her to that bastard, so I will definitely go back, if I can go back alive, you can also go back alive, believe in yourself"

"Believe in yourself," said the little warrior, his eyes slightly distracted.

Half a century later, Li Wanyun, a generation of generals, said with deep emotion in an interview: "My whole life was to truly integrate into the big family of the army in the defense of Zhangjiakou, and that tragic battle and my battalion commander, the late General Xu Dashan, told me a motto that influenced my life - "believe in yourself", yes, as long as a soldier believes in himself, he can leave the battlefield alive. ”

When the reporter asked him about the battle that changed his life, Li Wanyun only said one sentence: "We fought very hard in that battle, but the devils fought very badly, and in the end we lost Zhangjiakou, and the Japanese army lost the whole of North China." ”……，