[Anti-Japanese Iron Blood King] Chapter 550: The Shadow of Xia Yuan Xiong Mi (Ask for subscriptions, ask for monthly passes, ask for everything!) ）

The 108th Division boarded the train at Yangquan at 8 o'clock in the morning on August 31, preparing to go to Shimen along the Zhengtai Railway first, and then take a car to Handan City, which is expected to take three days and three nights. In order to assist the 108th Division www.biquge.info move south, the 26th Division of the Japanese Army in Baoding also specially dispatched 200 vehicles and 3,000 horses to Shimen to prepare for handing over to the 108th Division.

However, the plan could not catch up with the changes, and no one expected that the train taken by the 108th Division had just arrived at Jingcheng Pass, and after receiving the 108th Wing stationed at Jingcheng Pass, the army received a battle report from the front before the military train passed through Shang'an Town, and Tuba Road raided Shang'an Town and blew up the Shang'an Town Railway Bridge.

Located between a large rift valley in the Taihang Mountains, the 121-meter-long Shang'an Bridge is one of the most important bridges on the Zhengtai Railway. In order to prevent the destruction of the Eighth Route Army, the Japanese army specially built a stronghold at each end of the bridge and sent heavy troops to defend it.

The Eighth Route Army had never attacked the bridge, so the defenders were inevitably negligent, so when the Eighth Route Army suddenly launched a surprise attack on the Japanese stronghold east of the bridge, the defenders were completely stunned, and after holding out for less than 20 minutes, less than 100 Japanese troops were quickly annihilated.

Then the Eighth Route Army installed a large number of explosives on the bridge, and with a loud boom, this important bridge was blown up.

After receiving the telegram, Shimoto Kumami was completely dumbfounded, the destruction of the railway bridge was not a big deal, it was a common thing during the war years, and it was not enough to build it after it was destroyed. But the question is why it was destroyed at this critical moment, it was too exciting.

Now the train is no longer available, and the rest can only march on foot, so that the marching time will at least double.

Fortunately, Tokugawa Yasuichi in Handan City may have stabilized his mood, and even assured Shimoto Kuami that he could hold out until the arrival of reinforcements.

The 108th Division got off the bus, and then advanced on foot towards Shimen, embarking on a road of no return.

On September 2, 1939, after two days and three nights of arduous marching, the 108th Division arrived at Shimen. Along the way, Lieutenant General Xiong Mi and his 108th Division were tortured, and the journey from Jingcheng County to Shimen was just over 60 miles, and they had to walk for two days and three nights.

Along the way, there must be ambushes in the mountains, mines in the forests, and from time to time a few mortar shells will fall from the sky, or they will be violently attacked by the machine-gun positions set up on the high ground. But every time Xia Yuan Xiong Yazhong ordered someone to counterattack, the enemy seemed to disappear out of thin air, and he couldn't even find a shadow, and every time he spent a lot of time, he could pick up at most a few bullet shells, and nothing else was found.

Occasionally, the people sent by Lieutenant General Xiong Ya Xia Yuan acted quickly and fearlessly to death, and they were able to bite the Eighth Route Army in gray military uniforms, but they were quickly thrown off by the Eighth Route Army, which was familiar with the terrain.

Fortunately, in order to speed up the march this time, Xia Yuan Xiong Mi deliberately brought the only cavalry wing of the division headquarters over. With this cavalry wing here, Tubalu did not dare to get too close, otherwise the losses would be extremely serious. But even so, along the way, the Eighth Route Army was not wiped out, and its own troops suffered more than 800 casualties.

The casualties of 800 people are indeed distressing, but what worries Lieutenant General Xiong Ya the most is the impact of the sneak attack of the Eighth Route Army on morale, which is fatal in comparison.

Originally, the soldiers heard that they were going to deal with the eight roads of China, so everyone was murderous. But now, as soon as the gunshots are heard, the soldiers' first reaction is to quickly climb down.

Moreover, the troops did not even sleep well along the way, and always as soon as they fell asleep, gunshots rang out nearby. When I got up, I saw that either the sentry had been attacked or the patrol had been killed. In the end, everyone on duty wants a squadron of soldiers.

In addition, the first half of the road from Jingcheng to Shimen is a winding mountain road, and the Tuba Road, which occupies a favorable terrain, occupies an absolute advantage in this terrain, and their firepower is fierce and accurate, and the 108th Division is miserable.

Speaking of which, we have to mention Ma Zheng's telegram to the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army, according to Ma Zheng's tactical arrangement, for a completely complete infantry division like the 108th Division, a hard fight is undoubtedly the most stupid way to fight.

Since they were in a hurry to move south, the Eighth Route Army only needed to block them along the road, and use the mountains, rivers, and other favorable terrain to continuously attack the Japanese army, so that they would lose their troops and lose their morale.

After the Japanese army passed, the troops blocking the Japanese army quickly gathered behind the Japanese army, waiting for the opportunity to encircle and annihilate it.

Obviously, Ma Zheng's tactics were successful, and along the way, Yuan Xiong Mi's troops were simply marching in hell, and the casualties and attacks caused extremely serious damage to the morale of the troops. If the Japanese army was a tiger when it first set out, the current Japanese army is a sick cat.

After the Japanese arrived at Shimen, the situation was slightly better, after all, it was already in the plain area, and it was not easy to ambush on this kind of terrain. In addition, the Japanese army obtained a large number of cars and cavalry in Shimen, which also greatly limited the scope and ability of the Eighth Route Army.

Due to the urgency of Tokugawa Yasuichi's side, although the soldiers were already very tired, Shimoto Kumanya did not let them rest at Shimen, but continued to march, after all, Tokugawa Yasuichi and more than 4,000 Japanese troops were still waiting for them to save their lives.

This time, for the sake of safety and to speed up the march, the 108th Division took the main road.

However, the road was not safe, and the convoy had just left the stone gate not far before it heard a "boom", and a cavalry member of the cavalry wing that was opening the way in front stepped on a mine laid by the Eighth Route Army, and immediately even the men and horses fell to the ground. The war horse obviously couldn't survive, and although the soldier was not killed immediately, he was also seriously injured, and whether he could survive or not depended on his will to survive.

Lieutenant General Shimoto Kumaya calmed the anger in his heart a little and immediately sent sappers to clear the mines. It's a pity that the sappers just lined up a few mines, and they were killed and wounded by the snipers of the Eighth Route Army hiding in the shadows, and even the captain of the engineer company in charge of front-line demining, Fukuhara Ichiro Nakasa, was also injured by the snipers of the Eighth Route Army.

Although the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army is not as "rich" as Ma Zheng's department and has so many sniper rifles, its development speed is not slow, and now the division also has more than 100 sniper rifles. With these sniper rifles, the 129th Division formed a professional sniper unit, and this time it happened to be the debut of this unit, which happened to be met by the unlucky 108th Division.

The angry Xia Yuan Xiong Mi immediately ordered the troops to open fire and use mortars against the hateful Tubalu, and for a while the cannon rumbled, so it was not majestic.

However, the officers and men of the 129th Division had long expected the Japanese army to retaliate, so they quickly moved their positions after sniping the Japanese sappers, and the Japanese artillery did not pose the slightest threat to them at all.

In this way, the troops of the 108th Division and the 129th Division and the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region stopped and stopped, chased and ran, and at the end of the day, this army composed of 355 vehicles and 3,800 war horses only advanced 40 kilometers, while under the same conditions, the Japanese mechanized troops could march at a speed of 300 kilometers in a day.

After a hard day's march, the soldiers of the army were tired and demoralized, which cast a shadow on the heart of Lieutenant General Xiong Ya Shimoto.

As a veteran on the battlefield, Xiongmi's tactical level is still very high, and he knows very well how serious the consequences will be if he continues like this. Even if the 108th Division can successfully reach Handan by then, there will be a few more layers left in its combat capacity.

In the face of a powerful enemy, his more than 10,000 troops will not be said to be a fool to save Tokugawa Yasuichi at that time, I am afraid that even he may be able to get in.

He had the intention to withdraw to Shimon like this, but this thought only flashed in his mind, and the Tokugawa family pressed on his head like a mountain, and if he really did that, he was afraid that he would not receive an order to return to the General Staff Headquarters, but a military order to return to the Tokyo Military Tribunal for trial. Thinking of this, Xia Yuan Xiong Mi could only sigh helplessly. (To be continued.) )