Chapter 348: Solving the Root of the Problem

Death is not terrible for a person who is not afraid of death. The most terrifying thing is to be in this kind of time when you know you will die, but you don't know when you will die. The brigade commander who advanced into the army, when the troops were not enough to storm Chaoyang, he was not willing to pay too much price to attack, but he was unwilling to wait for him outside Chaoyang City.

It doesn't matter if it's a demonstration, a bluff, or even a threat. But no matter what his thoughts were, the Japanese troops in the city, especially Lieutenant General Shizuo Yokoyama, faced the small number of enemy troops outside the city, and completely lost their determination to break through or go out of the city for a decisive battle.

The devil knows that such a small enemy army outside the city dares to provoke outside the city so arrogantly, where does their confidence come from. Could it be that their main force is hidden in the mountains outside the city, waiting for themselves to go out of the city to find them in a decisive battle? Or is there some other conspiracy?

Love what's the matter, anyway, if the reinforcements don't come, Lao Tzu won't go out even if he is killed. As long as you don't go out of the city, you won't be able to carry out any schemes. Chaoyang City is not a northern ticket, there are city walls and complete permanent fortifications. Although Lao Tzu is a little embarrassed to be a shrinking turtle, and has some of the prestige and ambition of the Japanese Imperial Army, it is much better than sending it to your door.

The mad brigade commander who marched forward naturally didn't know now, and his hands not only made Lieutenant General Shizuo Yokoyama in the city close the city gates, and did not dare to take a step beyond Lei Chi, but also made the commander of the 8th Division of the Japanese army crazy. I don't know that he directly inserted his hand into the South Board of the North Ticket, which gave the Japanese army on the front line of Chaoyang and the North Ticket a kind of rumor, plus the feeling that the grass and trees were all soldiers.

In particular, Beipiao City, a town that thrived because of coal, has a history of only a short decade. The city is a mining area, a place where there is not even a city wall. Now it is not only where the Kwantung Army is located, but also because of its position on the battlefield in western Liaoning, it is also where the headquarters of the Fourth Army of the Kwantung Army is located.

Here there is not only an army headquarters, but also a lieutenant general commander. The most important thing is that the defense here is not very strong. Compared with Chaoyang City, the current Beipiao is more like the seven inches of the Japanese army on the entire battlefield in western Liaoning. He stabbed this one, and in cooperation with the troops on the northern front, it can be said that he broke the sky.

It drew the attention of the reinforcements that the Japanese army might have mobilized, and successfully attracted it from the Jianping battlefield to the direction of Beipiao. It also gave the rear Jianping battlefield a final solution to the Japanese army in front of it, and bought quite a lot of time. It was ensured that the Jianping battlefield did not have any external factors that affected the development of the war situation in the final stage of the entire combat operation.

At the same time, it fought for the big plate of the important railway pass in the south of Beipiao City, and the subsequent battle of more than six hours. At present, the troops in the north of Beipiao City are sweeping through several coal mines in Beipiao, and all the laborers and local people are safely transported away, and a considerable amount of time has been gained.

Daban is only more than ten kilometers away from Beipiao City, and it takes more than ten minutes to take the train. If these two Japanese squadrons, which were just the vanguard, were allowed to enter Kitapiao Castle, plus the two infantry squadrons sent by Shizuo Yokoyama first, Lieutenant General Washizu Leadpei, who felt much stronger at the waist, would inevitably send troops to fight this bold and reckless force.

After all, for Lieutenant General Washitsu Leadhei, a dignified lieutenant general commander is locked up like this, and the taste is definitely not good. It's just that the troops in his hands are obviously insufficient after reinforcing Ye Baishou, and he can't even protect himself, so he can't go out of the city for a decisive battle. But if he gets support, I'm afraid that Lieutenant General Washizsu, who is a little more confident, will not be as honest as he is now.

Although even if the Japanese army concentrated all the forces in Beipiao City, it would not be able to eat the two battalions of anti-coalition troops. However, the ministry's rush is bound to be disrupted. In addition, the family members and the surrounding people, and the retreat of tens of thousands of people in the rush of the war, is not dozens or hundreds, and it takes a lot of time to organize and implement.

Beipiao is a new town born of coal, and the coal mine originally had only one Guanshan Coal Mine, which is also known as the urban area. After the 918 Incident, after the Kwantung Army occupied Beipiao, in order to speed up the plundering of coal, it successively developed two mines, Taiji and Sanbao, and the area of the so-called urban area was expanded.

However, the main area of the city is still dominated by the original Guanshan mine, which is also the main settlement area of Japanese and shops in Beipiao Castle. Taiji and Sanbao Mine are all distributed around Beipiao City. One is to the east of the city and the other is to the west of the city, and the main mines are outside the city.

In particular, the Taiji mine extends from Taiji to Xinglonggou, with an extremely large distribution area and the largest number of laborers. Although the Guanshan mining area was the location of the headquarters of the Fourth Army and the main garrison of the Japanese army in Beipiao, the laborers there had to give up unless they forcibly attacked the city.

Taiji Mine and Sanbao Mine, two mining areas on the outskirts of Beipiao, became the main areas for the Anti-Union to rob labor. These two mining areas are not far from the straight-line distance of Beipiao City, that is, Guanshan Mine. Several major mining areas of the Taiji mine, except for the line of Xinglonggou, were under the noses of the Japanese army. Although the Sanbao Mine is a little farther away, it is connected to the Beipiao City by mine railway.

Once the Japanese army left the city to counterattack, less than half of the rush was bound to stop, so that they could concentrate their forces on meeting the enemy. And if Washizu Leadhei makes a desperate attempt to transfer all the troops in Beipiao Castle out of the city in the absence of enemy situations in other directions, then the next rush can only be terminated.

But at present, the unit suddenly appeared in Daban, south of Beipiao City, cutting off the railway transportation from Yixian to Beipiao, and encircling the two squadrons of the vanguard of the Japanese reinforcements in Daban Station. Let the lieutenant general of the city be a soldier. At least until new reinforcements arrived, they didn't dare to take a step towards Beipiao City at all.

It can be said that in the overall battle situation, it has quite effectively responded to the actions of the anti-coalition forces in the north of the city. Let the troops in the north of the city calmly retreat the laborers of Taiji and Sanbao Mine. With his containment, the troops in the north of the city who freed up some of their hands even concentrated a battalion and forcibly broke into several mines in the north of the city of Guanshan Mine, rushing out hundreds of laborers.

Li Mingfeng, who was in the rear, received a report from the front, not only patted his thighs continuously, but also praised this guy for his unique vision. However, Li Mingfeng is not an honest person, such a God-given opportunity can't be seized, then it won't be him Li Mingfeng. Faced with the change in the battle situation, Li Mingfeng immediately issued two orders in a row to the troops north of Beipiao.

The first is to speed up the transfer and strive to transfer all the laborers and their families together in the shortest possible time. If you really don't leave, you will forcibly move away. In a word, it is possible to temporarily violate the discipline of the masses. Everything is based on the fastest speed and the completion of the task. So that the department can free up its hands and cooperate with the advancing troops of the big board to fight.

Second, a force was dispatched to launch a feint attack on the Guanshan mining area, which is now the main urban area of Beipiao. It is necessary not only to contain the Japanese troops in the city from going out of the city to block the evacuation operation, but also to plan for the advance of the front line of the big board. The point is that the armored train in Beipiao City will destroy it at all costs.

Immediately after the transfer of labor, the feint was turned into a strong attack. However, this strong attack had its limits, as it had to hurt the Japanese troops in the city without causing too many casualties to itself. The most important thing is to ensure the safety behind the advancing troops in the south of the city, who are fighting fiercely in Daban.

At the same time, he blew up all the mines of Taiji and Sanbao, which were now under his control, and could not leave any of them to the Japanese army. Considering the development of the war situation, Li Mingfeng gave the final rush to the anti-coalition troops in the north of Beipiao City, which must be completed within four hours.

However, although the current situation in the entire Liaoxi is sliding in its favor. But Li Mingfeng knew very well that no matter how many Japanese troops could be attracted to the Beipiao and Chaoyang battlefields, this was a temporary phenomenon. The real solution to the problem is still on the battlefield of Jianping.

The Japanese army on the Jianping battlefield was the main force of the Eighth Division, and it was also the main force of its entire Liaoxi battlefield. As long as the Japanese army here is solved, the root of the problem is solved. Only when the main forces on the Jianping battlefield are freed up at present, will the initiative in this battle really be firmly in their own hands.

Just as Lieutenant General Washizu was nervously dispatching troops, he advanced to a large board in the south of Beipiao, and fought repeatedly and fiercely with the Japanese army reinforced by Yixian. The entire Liaoning West Corridor Japanese army units are desperately assembling and preparing to go north for reinforcements. Although the Japanese army was still struggling to support the Japanese army in the northeast battlefield of Jianping, it was under increasing pressure under the offensive of the surrounding anti-union and the advance army.

Although the concentration of troops is almost at all costs, they are desperately attacking the front line of Luofugou. However, it has never been able to open a passage to the east to move closer to the main force of the 31st Wing of the Japanese Army behind Luofugou. And the number of its own casualties, under the repeated failures of the attack and the repeated attacks of other surrounding troops, is rising rapidly almost every hour.

In the entire Luofu Gully, the only ravine in the northeast that was not covered by anti-Japanese artillery fire, there were wounded soldiers withdrawn by the Japanese army everywhere. Because the medicines and bandages they carried were insufficient, they could only be used by the officers, and the wounded soldiers were hastily bandaged with leggings and thrown aside. Whether they can survive or not depends on whether their own platelet concentration is sufficient.

The whole valley was filled with the groans of wounded soldiers. The corpses of the Japanese soldiers killed in the battle were also hastily thrown on the other side of the valley like piles of miscellaneous trees. The huge number of casualties made the morale of the Japanese troops on the Luofugou battlefield drop rapidly. It also led to its offensive against Luofugou, which was actually in a state of lack of follow-up and difficult to maintain.

What made the commander of the 5th Infantry Wing of the 8th Division, Okajima Shigetoshi, who commanded the entire battlefield east of Luofugou, worried that the overall situation was also deteriorating. With Li Mingfeng's continuous investment of troops, he gradually fell into a predicament, and even reached a situation where he could not protect himself.

In particular, the two battalions of the Anti-Japanese Alliance, which had outflanked them from behind, had successively broken through their defensive positions on the front line of Deli Hutong, Fengshengdian, Dashuangjianzi Mountain, and Hot Water Tang, and had already penetrated diagonally from behind. Cut off the route of the division from the line of Daqingshan, and the route of convergence with the defenders of the former Sidao Yingzi Dashan, who were fighting fiercely with the enemy, and already threatened the security of its flanks.

The loss of the first line of Dashuangjianzi Mountain meant that the entire flank of the Japanese army on the battlefield east of Luofugou was exposed. From Dashuangjianzi Mountain to Luofugou Battlefield, there is actually no danger to defend. But at present, he really can't send troops to recapture the commanding heights of the Luofugou battlefield in Dashuangjianzi Mountain.

At the same time, in the direction of the Wei family's shack, although the two regiments of the advance army failed to break the stalemate, they failed to completely defeat the resistance of the Japanese army in front of them. However, regardless of the casualty figures, he had already seized the Wei family's shack from the Japanese troops in front of him, closed the passage for the Japanese troops to retreat south, and cut off their retreat route to Jianping County.

After the loss of the Wei family's shack, it also meant that the Japanese army in the battlefield east of Luofugou had completely cut off the route of retreat to Chaoyang. That is, after the loss of the Wei family's shack, the Japanese army on the Luofugou battlefield was actually facing the situation of being surrounded by enemies on all sides.