Chapter 652: Siege from all sides

In the battle of Huangya Cave, the stone broke the earth, Okamura Ningji looked at hundreds of remnants of the Sixth Mixed Brigade who were ragged and covered in blood, obviously lost half their lives, and lost all their courage, they could barely stand, their hands were on the table, they bowed their heads and were speechless, he rarely miscalculated, the small Huangya Cave, who originally thought it was a lamb to be slaughtered, did not expect that it turned out to be a tiger with a mouth full of sharp teeth, and swallowed a soldier of one of my brigades in one bite.

This was the biggest loss since Okamura Ninji took over as the supreme commander of the North China Dispatch Army, and of course, there were more than 300 planes of the air force, which were severely damaged twice in succession, and Okamura Ninji's mood was extremely bad, and he was by no means the kind of high-spirited when he first arrived in North China.

On the map, the Huangya Cave, which has been clearly marked by the staff officers, seems to be flashing with a mocking luster against the backdrop of the miserable white light of the gas lamp, Okamura Ningji sits in front of the map like a stone, and the staff officers and staff members who enter and leave are all trying their best to slow down, and even the sound of panting is lightened, from the iron blue face of His Excellency the commander, it is not difficult to see that he wants to kill people now, and it is the choice of a smart person not to be an unlucky ghost.

Okamura Ningci's thinking has been firmly attracted by the name of this place in the depths of the Taihang Mountains, and his eyes suddenly flashed with a wolf-like light, that's it, the loss of a brigade and the depth of the Yellow Cliff Cave can make a brigade of the imperial army in less than a day, almost all the jade is broken, where did the devil Tang Qiuli put how many troops?

A brigade or three brigades, according to the calculation of the combat effectiveness of the soldiers of the Imperial Japanese Army, a soldier of the Imperial Army can withstand the combat effectiveness of five soldiers, no less than five brigades of 50,000 people, Okamura Ningji came to his own judgment, this is a big fish, Huangya Cave is not only Tang Qiuli's logistics supply base, but also his reserve soldier replenishment base, an unexpected gain.

Okamura Ningci's mood opened up, and the big fish hidden in the deepest finally surfaced, but the price was a little bigger, Okamura Ningci didn't care, as long as he could complete his established strategic goals, even if he used the blood of the soldiers to flood the Yellow Cliff Cave, he did not hesitate to destroy Tang Qiuli's logistics supply base and eliminate the independent division troops hidden there, but tens of thousands of people hit and two gains, diluting Okamura Ningci's frustration.

All the troops sweeping the Taihang Mountains must carry out combat operations around the Huangya Cave, and a whole set of plans was formed in the head of Okamura Ningji, and the Japanese command issued orders one after another, except for the troops attacking the flank of Niangzi Pass, all the troops in the Taihang Mountains should immediately assemble around the Huangya Cave to form a huge encirclement.

Around the Yellow Cliff Cave, which is currently inconspicuous, will eventually be famous in the world, all the Japanese troops in the Taihang Mountains, rushed over from all directions, more than 300,000 Japanese troops, like an impermeable net, wrapped the Yellow Cliff Cave tightly inside, in the periphery of the Japanese army, is the independent division Sun Zhenbang troops, and the troops of the three divisions of the Eighth Route Army.

Three days later, the first batch of Japanese troops to reach the periphery of Huangyadong had reached three divisions and nearly 80,000 people, Okamura Ningji did not order to start the attack immediately, but ordered the Japanese troops to deploy on the spot, seize the commanding heights around Huangyadong, and establish several cordons.

The special operations detachments that have been operating in the Taihang Mountains do not know what kind of medicine is sold in Okamura Ningci's gourd, but they only truthfully report the actual situation of the Japanese army to the division commanders, and they are not clear about the reason, according to the convention, the Japanese army should launch an attack, and Okamura Ningci's deployment has been completed, and now, even if it is a bird, do not plan to fly out of the Japanese blockade area within more than ten kilometers around Huangya Cave.

Five days later, the second batch of Japanese troops arrived, Okamura Ningji still did not move, seven days later, the last group of Japanese troops, also arrived in the area around Huangya Cave, Okamura Ningji around the small Huangya Cave, gathered nearly 240,000 troops, with Huangya Cave as the center, radiating more than 50 kilometers, everywhere are all kinds of checkpoints and blockade lines established by the Japanese army, and the communication lines from Changzhi to the vicinity of Huangya Cave have also been established.

Chang Feng, who observes the movements of the Japanese army from a high place every day, has always wondered in his heart, the little devil is very busy, and in the long-range lens, the figures of Japanese soldiers wearing khaki military uniforms are all over the mountains, and you can even see the artillery positions set up by the Japanese army on the hillside, and after waiting for seven days, the Japanese army has no intention of launching an attack at all, which is abnormal, which is Chang Feng's first judgment.

Tang Qiuli connected to Chang Feng's several telegrams, and the Japanese army had reinforcements arriving, but they still didn't attack, to be honest, he couldn't guess the true intentions of the old fox Okamura Ningji, besieged but not attacked? So why did he put so much effort into it? Time is not in his favor, he is fighting in my Taihang Mountains, but I am fighting his lifeline, the big city and transportation hub in the surrounding area of Pingjin, the strategic point.

Among them, Okamura Ningci's sinister intentions and true intentions must be hidden, Tang Qiuli almost searched all the examples related to the Anti-Japanese War in his mind, and he couldn't find any examples similar to the Yellow Cliff Cave-shaped shì in front of him, he was so angry that he almost scolded Okamura Ningci, an old fox, what kind of fame? More than 200,000 people are consuming in the mountains, and you don't bother me

He had no choice but to order Sun Zhenbang's troops, the detachments of the special operations detachment, and the troops of the Eighth Route Army to be transferred to the Taihang Mountains, to be sure to annihilate the scattered enemy, looking for advantageous fighters, and the three troops could cooperate with each other to strive to annihilate the weaker Japanese army.

At the same time, he sent an order to Chang Feng in Huangya Cave, be sure to deal with it calmly, not be impetuous, stay away from the isolated and scattered defense points of the core position, and selectively give up and concentrate on the core defense system, so as not to be pulled out point by point by the Japanese heavy army group, bringing unnecessary losses, this order is absolutely necessary, and the subsequent battle development process shows that Tang Qiuli's subconscious decision saved the lives of many soldiers of the troops guarding Huangya Cave.

The Japanese troops around Huangya Cave, besieged but not attacked, the situation was strange, the Japanese troops who attacked the flank in the direction of Niangzi Pass in the north, after many days of arduous mountain marching, finally climbed to the vicinity of Guanshan, and the Japanese army was exhausted by the rugged mountain road and continuous mountain ranges, with a strength of about 60,000 people, and on the day after Okamura Ningji completed the encirclement of the Huangyadong base, its vanguard appeared near Jiedu and Leping south of Guanshan.

All the way from Licheng, this Japanese army that carried out Okamura Ningci went east to Niangzi Pass, attacked the flank of Tang Qiusheng's Sulu Mobile Corps, went west to Taiyuan, and seized the strategic plan of Shanxi Province.

In the worst days, tens of thousands of Japanese soldiers, together with their commanders, drank two meals of gruel that could see the shadow of a person, and it was not the senior generals of the Japanese army who shared weal and woe with the soldiers, but the cooking soldiers wanted to please the commander, and there was no food to cook, at first they wanted to make some game, and the people who went out, one or two of the ten who could come back, were also empty-handed, and the rest were either swallowed up by the mountains or became the prey of the ghost-like soldiers of China.

The four-legged beasts along the way, in front of the two-legged beasts, had long been frightened and fled, as well as mines that exploded anytime and anywhere, grenades and explosives that fell with white smoke, deadly bullets that shot from the corner or behind the cliff, and large stones that fell from high in the air, all of them, so that at the time of this outing, there were more than 70,000 Japanese troops, and there were thousands of non-combat attrition alone, plus those who were killed and blown up, there were only more than 60,000 soldiers left.

Such a tired division, in the face of Feng Jiwu's unified command of more than 80,000 troops who were waiting for work and screaming, is there still a cheap way to take advantage of it, where did Huangyadong not start, the battle of Guanshan started first, this is a frontal battle, the vanguard of the Japanese army is about two wings, the troops are divided into two routes, first attack Jiedu, Leping, Feng Jiwu's defensive positions.

Seeing the Japanese soldiers approaching in battle formation, Feng Jiwu only issued an order: "The artillery is not allowed to open artillery, the forward troops, leave all the little devils behind, and do not let go of one" Feng Jiwu also had a feeling of being despised, whether the Japanese commander was brain-dead and idiotic, in the face of his own several fortifications in depth, he sent two wings to attack, whether he was looking for death or arrogance, and it was impossible to guess the thoughts of the Japanese commander.

I just knew that Major General Feng Jiwu, deputy commander of the Independent Division and commander of the Niangziguan Garrison Corps, was extremely angry, and if it weren't for the division commander's repeated strict orders, the Japanese troops would not have taken the initiative to attack until they were heavily killed, and Feng Jiwu might have issued an order to attack on all fronts, and the more than 60,000 little devils who had come from afar and tossed only half their lives would be driven back to their Japanese hometowns in one go, or they would be driven into the Yellow Sea to feed the sharks.

As a result of the battle, as Feng Jiwu said, the Japanese soldiers of the two wings, as soon as they entered the range of fire of the independent division, were immediately enveloped by a rain of bullets like a volcanic eruption, and they were covered in blood, motionless, and the alive were suppressed in place, and they did not dare to move a single bit.

The Japanese troops of the two wings did not flee too far, they were surrounded by the soldiers who were closely chasing on a high ground, and then the main force of the Japanese army that arrived immediately all entered the battle, Feng Jiwu ordered the troops to attack on all fronts, he saw that the combat effectiveness of the Japanese soldiers had dropped sharply, and the artillery was also a few, taking advantage of the fact that the little devils were not firmly established, they simply beat them back, and also lifted the threat in the direction of Niangzi Pass.

(To be continued)