Yan Wenzhong, the commander of the infantry battalion, found that the enemy was storming the Wangjiakou position, and Zhou Changnian's platoon was already in danger, so he hurriedly reinforced his guard platoon.

However, reinforcing a platoon did not block the determination of the little devil's impact, but only increased the impact force. At a time, two squadrons divided into four phalanxes to take turns attacking, which is known as the notorious "pig assault".

Zhou Changnian's platoon of 70 casualties suddenly increased greatly, and the number of people who could continue to fight naturally decreased sharply, and soon it became less than a squad!

The guard platoon filled in 48 people, but it only blocked the two rounds of impact of the little devils, and it became 12 people!

The test of blood and fire, the duel of spirit and will to fight, this is the most cruel moment.

Maybe God was scared to cry, so the light rain never stopped. The Wangjiakou position can no longer be called a position, and the soldiers are lying in the mud and fighting back.

As the Little Devil Field Artillery Wing crossed the Yongding River, Yan Wenzhong, the commander of the infantry battalion, knew that he could not stop it, so he sent a telegram to Dai Guangye, the deputy commander of the regiment, about the urgent situation.

It is also said that it is already a miracle that an infantry wing that blocks the little devils with an infantry battalion can hold on to the hard top face for half an hour.

Fortunately, the artillery company had withdrawn from the battle, and the deputy regiment commander Dai Guangye immediately gave Yan Wenzhong an order to retreat.

This time to help the friendly forces fight, not only lost 6 cannons, but also lost two anti-aircraft platoons, an infantry platoon and a guard platoon, and the number of direct casualties exceeded 200 people!

Yan Wenzhong, the commander of the infantry battalion, did not use the new battalion from beginning to end. After all, everyone came out of the recruits, and in the face of the enemy's ace troops, the new barracks went up purely to increase the number of casualties, and could not turn the tide of the battle at all.

As a result, the 200-man recruit company became a logistics team, and the transportation of the remains of the martyrs and the surviving wounded became their job.

As long as there is a glimmer of hope, Yan Wenzhong would rather send a telegram of "urgency" than let the recruits make senseless sacrifices.

Three heavy machine guns, only the Maxim is still intact. Now you have to retreat urgently, and naturally you can't take it away, so just blow it up.

Guarding like a rock, retreating like light smoke. When the little devil shouted and rushed to the position, he found nothing but the light and heavy machine guns that were blown up!

Even those damn Shina people who were still desperately fighting back just now, where they went, I can't figure out now!

Bai Shujie ordered Zhang Erxuan to join the battle, but the Nankou front line did not reverse the unfavorable situation in the end. Because Wei Lihuang's 14th Army was never able to get rid of the entanglement of Kawagishi Bunzaburo's 20th Division, it was impossible to directly reinforce the front line of Changyucheng.

It is not clear where the other reinforcements are still there, and the situation of the defending troops on the Great Wall is becoming more and more difficult.

On August 16, 1937, the 56th Regiment of the 94th Division and the 122nd Regiment of the 21st Division were combined into one detachment (detachment leader Wu Shaozhou) to occupy positions along the Great Wall line near Shixia.

But the little devil's pace is faster, and the 6th Division of the old devil Gu Shoufu has already completed the assembly in Tanggu, and it is already in sight to put it into the battlefield.

On the 17th, the 42nd Brigade of the 1st Wing of the Little Devil Infantry seized the 1390 heights, the highest peak on the defense line of the Great Wall. Subsequently, the main force of the 5th Division of the Little Devil Regiment was successively deployed between the 1390 Heights and the Zhenbian City, launching an attack on the defenders, and taking the vicinity of the 1050 Heights as the main assault direction.

On the 19th, Tang Enbo ordered the first-line positions of Deshengkou, Juyongguan, and Zhenbiancheng to be divided into three fortified areas. The area around Deshengkou, Juyongguan and Qinglongqiao is the 1st fortified area, which is defended by the 89th Division and the 121st and 124th Regiments of the 21st Division of the newly arrived 17th Army.

The area around Dongxidaling and Huanglouyuan is the 2nd fortified area, which is defended by the 1st Division of the 21st Division and the 10th Brigade of the 4th Division; The areas around Beishiling, Dongtai, Hengling City, and Zhenbian City are the 3rd fortified areas, which are defended by the 4th Division (owed to the 10th Brigade) and the 72nd Division.

Tang Enbo repeatedly ordered officials at all levels: "If there are officials above the battalion or regiment level who are afraid of death, I will honestly and unceremoniously tell you, and you should bring your own heads to see me!"

On the 20th, the new chief of staff of the Kwantung Army, Hideki Tojo, personally led four independent mixed brigades to Suiyuan, and then deployed troops on the Zhangbei line north of Zhangjiakou, directly threatening Zhangjiakou, the western gate of North China.

Fu led the 200th Brigade and the 211th Brigade back to Zhangjiakou, leaving the 72nd Division and the 7th Independent Brigade under the command of Tang Enbo to fight in the Nankou area.

However, Gu Shoufu, an old devil, couldn't wait, and immediately ordered the 36th Infantry Brigade of Major General Ushijima Man, who was hurrying over, to attack the right flank of Wei Lihuang's 14th Army, and the 83rd Division had to turn back to meet the enemy.

On the 22nd, without the heavy artillery support of Bai Shujie behind him, the little devils broke into the defenders' positions along the northern edge of Changyu City. The 416th Regiment of the 72nd Division reinforced the counterattack and recaptured the lost position.

After that, the little devil attacked the position of the 72nd Division of Gray Lingzi head-on, and made a detour to the border city of the town with one part, and broke through to the southern highlands of Hengling City with the other.

The battle in this kind of process has actually passed.

On the afternoon of the 26th, Towneberg ordered the defenders to break through. The little devils immediately launched a pursuit, and the 5th Division occupied Huailai on the same day.

On the 27th, Suzuki Shigeyasu's independent mixed 11th Brigade occupied Yanqing. By the time the 10th Division of Wei Lihuang's army reached the border city of Zhenbian, the battle was over. In the afternoon of the same day, Zhangjiakou was also occupied by the Kwantung Army led by Hideki Tojo.

The battle lasted 19 days, and the Chinese side invested more than 60,000 troops, and the little devils used about 70,000 troops before and after.

Because Bai Shujie is secretly making trouble, the only difference from history is that the Chinese army suffered more than 9,000 casualties, and the little devils suffered more than 3,000 casualties.

The short commentary published by Liberation, a publication of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, should be the best evaluation of the Nankou Campaign: "Regardless of the fact that the Nankou position was lost, this page of glorious war history will forever be on hand with the War of Resistance at the Great Wall and the two battles of Songhu, and will live in the hearts of every Chinese son and daughter for a long time." ”

Looking at the gains and losses in this battle, even if there were no problems with Chen Daqing's arrangement, when Hideki Tojo led reinforcements to Suiyuan and Gu Shoufu's 6th Division entered the battle, the "Nankou Campaign" would still inevitably fail.

This kind of "line defense" at the passes of the Great Wall cannot be defended in the face of the planes and heavy artillery of the little devils. Therefore, Zhangjiakou will definitely not be able to keep it, this is caused by the difference in strength between the enemy and us, and it is not a crime of war.

However, such a battle completely made the arrogance of the little devil "take Pingjin in three days" a laughing stock, which can greatly weaken the morale of the little devil, and the Pingsui line was opened as he wished, and the happiest person was naturally the old devil Kazuki Kiyoji. The General Staff Headquarters of the Pacific Dwarf was also celebrated, and after an order, the North China Front Army was formally formed with the Chinese garrison army as the backbone.

Commander of the North China Front, General Toshiichi Terauchi, Chief of Staff, Major General Naosaburo Okabe. Headquarters of the North China Front Army (stationed in Tianjin, moved to Beiping in January of the following year).

Commander of the 1st Army, Lieutenant General Kiyoji Kazuki, and Chief of Staff, Major General Hashimoto Qun.

Lieutenant General Toshio Tani, commander of the 6th Division: Major General Tokutaro Sakanami, commander of the 11th Infantry Brigade, and Major General Mitsuru Ushijima, commander of the 36th Infantry Brigade.

Lieutenant General Kenji Dohihara, commander of the 14th Division: Major General Koji, commander of the 27th Infantry Brigade, and Major General Takashi Sakai, commander of the 28th Infantry Brigade.

Lieutenant General Fumizaburo Kawagishi, commander of the 20th Division: Major General Yoshito Takagi, commander of the 39th Infantry Brigade, and Major General Yoshio Kamitsuki, commander of the 40th Infantry Brigade.

The 1st and 2nd Brigades of Field Heavy Artillery, the 1st Army Signal Corps.

Commander of the 2nd Army, Lieutenant General Toshizo Nishio, Chief of Staff, Major General Suzuki.

10th Division: Division Commander: Lieutenant General Ryosuke Isoya, Brigade Commander of the 8th Infantry Brigade, Major General Takehei Nagase, Brigade Commander of the 33rd Infantry Brigade, Major General Eijiro Tabu.

16th Division: Division Commander Lieutenant General Nakajima Imago Infantry 19th Brigade Brigade Commander Major General Kusaba Tatsuyo Kusaba 30th Infantry Brigade Brigade Commander Major General Sasaki Toichi.

108th Division: Division Commander: Lieutenant General Kuma Shimototo, Brigade Commander of the 25th Infantry Brigade, Major General Naozo Nakano, Brigade Commander of the 104th Infantry Brigade, Major General Tomamidi, 4th Floor.

The 6th Brigade of the Field Heavy Artillery and the Signal Corps of the 2nd Army are directly under the direct jurisdiction of the Front Army:

5th Division: Division Commander Lieutenant General Seishiro Sakagaki, Brigade Commander of the 9th Infantry Brigade, Major General Noboru Kunisaki, Commander of the 21st Infantry Brigade, Major General Shun Sakamoto.

109th Division: Division Commander: Lieutenant General Shigehou Yamaoka, Brigade Commander of the 31st Infantry Brigade, Major General Tanito Nagahide, Commander of the 118th Infantry Brigade, Major General Honkawa Province.

Major General Yamashita Fengfumi, commander of the Chinese Tun Mixed Brigade.

Provisional Aviation Corps: Commander Tokugawa Yoshitoshi So far, the total strength of the Japanese army in North China is about 370,000.

After the formation of the North China Front, it took Pingjin and Tianjin as the starting point for the attack, and the Pinghan Road as the direction of the assault. One was along the Jinpu Road, and the Chahar of the Kwantung Army sent a corps along the Pingsui Road, adopting the tactics of two flanks and launching a strategic offensive at the same time.

In order to break the wishful thinking of the little devils driving straight along the Pinghan line, Jiang personally took command and ordered all the armies to gather in North China. The first counterattack in North China finally kicked off as scheduled, and it is a pity that Jiang still can't change his illness at the moment of crisis when the national disaster is at the head. All day long, he was trying to "cut the feudal domain", and all the troops in the formation of the guide zhì implemented this principle, which laid an irreparable hidden danger for the first decisive battle in North China.

Bai Shujie was worried in the Chengde war room, but to no avail. If Jiang does not engage in any "miscellaneous divisions", it will never be possible, which is also the fundamental reason why Bai Shujie stayed away from the southern government in the first place.

Because Bai Shujie is neither from Huangpu nor from Ningbo, he can't fight with Zhejiang. Therefore, Bai Shujie knew in his heart that if he joined Jiang someone's group, no matter how hard he struggled, he would end up being a "miscellaneous" identity, and he would inevitably die in the end.

Just like now, Jiang appointed Liu Zhi, the "first pig in the world", as the commander-in-chief of the Second Group Army, and the governor of the war in North China.

The ancients have long said: Train the army and choose the generals first.

But Jiang did the opposite, and his guiding ideology was: "Victory and defeat are a common thing in soldiers, as long as you are loyal to me." The soldier is gone, and he can continue to catch. ”

As a result, Jiang's favorite general is the role of "the world's first pig" like Liu Zhi.

Defeat before a battle is a person like Jiang Mou, because he has never put the interests of the country and the nation first.

Throughout Jiang's life, he always thinks that he is superior in playing clever, but in fact, people with a discerning eye have long seen through him. He was still beaming all day long, not knowing where his self-confidence came from.

After all, what happens next, let's see how it will be broken down next time.