Chapter 10: Anqing (25)

Mabu's Mo Enemy also received Su Zuxin's emergency report for the first time, spread out the map and looked at it, and couldn't help but gasp, this Japanese 9th Wing is really strong, and it can still divide troops to fight with one wing, fighting Ertang in the east and Gaofeng Pass in the north.

"Which unit is closest to the 135th Division?" Mo Di asked.

"200 divisions." Qin Guosheng replied: "It's just that they didn't have the advantage in the fierce battle with the Japanese army in Ertang, the commander of the 600th Regiment died in battle, and received a telegram from the division commander Li Xingshu to the camp in Guilin, and the brothers of the 170th Division went into battle again." This time, Division Commander Li was only afraid that his liver was on fire, and he said in the telegram that he picked up the guns of the 600th regiment of fallen brothers, loaded the bullets of the 600th regiment of fallen brothers, and fought to the last man. ”

"Which unit is closest to the 135th Division?" Bai Chongxi of Guilin asked.

"200 divisions." Liu Shiyi replied.

"Where are the other two divisions of the 31st Army?" Bai Chongxi asked again.

"The 131st Division can go to Jiutang tomorrow, and the 188th Division has not yet arrived in Guixian." Liu Shiyi said: "I'm afraid that far water can't quench the thirst of the near." Even if you barely arrive, it will be the end of the crossbow, and it will not be useful, this gang of bastards in the fourth theater of operations has moved our troops too far before,"

Bai Chongxi's face twitched obviously, Zhang Fakui's mobilization of Xia Wei's 16th Group Army and Cai Tingkai's 26th Group Army was with his consent, and in judging the Japanese landing, Guilin Xingying and the Fourth Theater had exactly the same mistakes and bore the same responsibility.

"Which unit is closest to the 135th Division?" Chairman Chiang of Chongqing asked.

"200 divisions." Wang Shihe replied cautiously, the principal has been a little anxious in the past two days, but he can't provoke him.

"What are they doing?" Chiang Kai-shek asked again.

"The 600th Regiment and the Supplementary Regiment fought the Japanese in Ertang, and the 598th and 599th Regiments were rushing to Ertang to support." Wang Shihe replied.

"Let the 598th Regiment and the 599th Regiment go to reinforce the peak pass, and the Japanese army must not be allowed to enter Wuming." After Chiang Kai-shek's order was given, he seemed to say to himself: "To the west of Wuming, there is the void, and until Yunnan, there is no army." Long Yun's troops, except for those who went out of Yunnan to fight in Hubei and Anhui, have all been sent to the Yunnan-Burma Highway. Tell Jiansheng that it is necessary to block the Japanese army in Guangxi, and that he would rather give up the eastern front than lose the northern front, otherwise, our rear will be in danger. ”

After the Japanese army in Ertang was repulsed, they could no longer organize an attack for a while, and the battle here stopped strangely, and everyone's eyes were on the peak pass.

The 135th Division was transferred back to Guangxi for reorganization, just in time for the Central Military Commission to adjust the establishment of troops across the country, and adopted the three-three system of one army in charge of three divisions, one division in charge of three regiments, and one regiment in charge of three battalions; therefore, the 135th Division was also reduced from the "Second Brigade and Four Regiment B Division" to the "Third Regiment C Division" and was subordinate to the 31st Army (Lieutenant General Commander: Wei Yunsong) of the 16th Group Army (General and Commander-in-Chief: Xia Wei). Division Commander Su Zuxin, Deputy Division Commander Li Shigu, Colonel Chief of Staff Xu Gaoyang, three regiments, 403 Regiment Commander Jiang Xiong, 404 Regiment Commander Ma Ming, and 405th Regiment Commander Wu Zongjun. In the battle of Yongjiang River defense, the 403rd Regiment and the 404th Regiment were almost disabled, only the 405th Regiment still had a few guns, and after retreating to Laohuling, the total number of the division was only more than 1,900 people.

However, in the face of the attack of more than 2,000 people from the two infantry brigades of the Japanese army, the sound of mortars shook the sky and grenadiers were scattered everywhere, and Jiang Xiong's counterattack was quickly covered by the Japanese attack. The 135th Division could only retreat to the peak pass, and when it reached the mountain, it was found that there was nothing left except what they were wearing, and some soldiers did not even bring guns. All the weapons and ammunition were gathered and guarded at the pass by the larger Wu Zongjun regiment. The peak pass, the terrain is dangerous, the road is rugged, in the top part, the high cliffs on both sides rise, and there is a small passage that is feasible, here, as long as a platoon guards, no matter how many people can only line up to pass. Although the Japanese army was superior in numbers, the terrain was not superior, the large artillery fire could not be turned, and the personnel could not organize a large-scale attack, and after repelling several attacks, the Japanese army stopped the attack in the evening.

At night, the 135th Division breathed a sigh of relief, and Peng Bisheng arrived at the peak pass with the 598th and 599th regiments.

Peng Bisheng's arrival not only relieved all the officers and men of the 135th Division, but also relieved the distant invincible, tonight, there should be a night without the sound of artillery.

"Boss, do you estimate that the 200th Division will be able to stop the pace of the Japanese army's northward advance?" Qin Guosheng asked.

Mo Di shook his head and said, "Why do you want to block it?" ”

Qin Guosheng was asked, smiled embarrassedly, and said: "I also confused the situation of the two days, I was originally the most staunch non-northward faction, but the performance of the Japanese in the past few days, I feel that I especially want to go north, and I have been put into my pocket." ”

Mo Di also smiled and said, "If I were the commander of the Guilin camp, I would let the Japanese army advance north." ”

"Why?" Qin Guosheng asked puzzled.

"If you don't enter, you won't die, and if you enter, you will definitely die." Mo Di said: "You once said that if the Japanese army landed three or five divisions, just like the landing in Guangzhou last ten years, there would still be a dozen with Yu Hanmou, but here, there is only one division, it is strange. I have also considered this question, originally there were about 40,000 Japanese troops who landed in Qinzhou Bay, and a Taiwanese mixed brigade was laid down in Qinzhou, which was less than 10,000 people, and if another one-man brigade of 8 or 9,000 people was put down in Nanning, how many would be left in Liuzhou? Excluding the 4,000 men of a wing sent to the Zuojiang area, the most 10,000 is remarkable, and the 10,000 people, not to mention that the central authorities have already sent three armies with 100,000 troops, even Guangxi's own troops, can wipe out the Japanese in a minute. ”

Qin Guosheng smiled, this is really the typical thinking of the invincible, he only looks at the results of the war, not politics, according to his style of play, let the Japanese army divide, and then divide and eat, it is really good, but he ignored one of the biggest factors, that is, political influence, if the Japanese army once took Nanning Liuzhou, what kind of impact will it have on the entire Anti-Japanese War, after the Japanese army occupied Wuhan, Guilin in Guangxi became the cultural center of China, if the Japanese army is close to Liuzhou, Guilin's cultural center can only move westward, this westward move, What kind of political negativity it will bring to the War of Resistance will not be considered. However, from a military point of view, it is correct to be invincible, the biggest weakness of the Japanese army is that it has few people, and dividing the Japanese army is the most effective means of attacking, and if the Ninth Brigade dares to divide its troops to attack, it should divide them more thoroughly; in the recent battle of Liantan, Zhao Jin's troops can still beat a Japanese squadron and lose its armor, not to mention that Guangxi has more than 100,000 national troops, and it is impossible not to take tens of thousands of Japanese troops. Exchanging time and space for living forces is the foundation of guerrilla.

Qin Guosheng was a little mistaken, Guangxi is not a guerrilla place demarcated by the Central Military Commission, not only the Central Military Commission will not let the Japanese army get involved in Guizhong, but even the Guilin camp cannot let the Japanese army enter Liuzhou, because for more than a year, Liuzhou has become the most concentrated industrial city in China, the arsenal moved west from Nanchang is in Liuzhou, and the arsenal moved west from Guangdong is also in Liuzhou, and the military materials produced in Liuzhou account for one-third of the national anti-Japanese war needs. This important area must be held to the end. This was the reason why Chairman Chiang was willing to send the Fifth Army, a national treasure unit.

There was no fighting overnight, the next day it was dawn, the battle suddenly began, the first to open the curtain of the battle was the peak pass, the attack on the peak pass was not the ninth brigade, but the plane from Qinzhou, the plane swept over the mountain pass, threw the shells on the mountain, suddenly, the sound was like thunder, the smoke and dust covered the sun, the explosion caused a forest fire, the 598 regiment that held the mountain pass burned away, and also burned the attacking Japanese army to dare not approach.

The fire burned for a long time before it spread to other places, and the head of the 598th regiment, Gao Jiren, came to the mountain pass, touched the land, and there was still residual warmth. The peak pass burned by the fire, there are no branches and green leaves that cover the sky, only some black and dark trunks are left, the sight is much better, and I can see the original appearance of the road, a very typical winding mountain road, the road surface is not wide, and there are a few sections that are still very steep.

As soon as the 598th Regiment was in formation, the Japanese planes arrived again! Without the cover of the woods, the national army was under the nose of the plane, and the plane began to shoot like cat and mouse, so that the 598th Regiment had nowhere to hide, and could only stick to the drainage ditch on the side of the highway, nesting on the side of the steep wall under the highway, and a drainage culvert was densely packed with people.

The Japanese troops came up, and it was not until the Japanese infantry entered a hundred meters from the pass that the planes flapped their wings and flew away.

Gao Ji dug the mud from his ears and shouted: "Enter the position, shoot!" ”

The Japanese infantry was stopped in the last 100 meters, pressed on the road by the dense fire of the 598th Regiment, and whoever dared to raise his head was sent to death, so he could only climb back backwards, and as long as he turned a corner 20 meters away, he was no longer the landing point of the bullets of the national army.

The battle in Ertang continued, and after receiving the order from Shangfeng, the 200th Division was covered by the supplementary regiment, and the rest of the 170th Division and the rest of the 600th Regiment retreated to Sitang, where they converged with the headquarters of the 200th Division and the 170th Division, bypassed the big peak from the Gumengdantou path, entered Wuming, and established a command headquarters in Tengxiang, and transferred General Zhou Zuhuang, senior staff officer of the 16th Group Army and deputy commander of the 46th Army, as the commander, responsible for coordinating the coordinated operations of the 135th Division, the 170th Division and the 200th Division, and must block the Japanese attack on the Fengfeng Pass. As for the enemy on the eastern front, the 131st Division was required to occupy Kunlun Pass and block the eastward route of the Japanese army, and the 188th Division of Weizhen worked day and night to reinforce He Weizhen's 131st Division, and the military headquarters of the 31st Army was located in Binyang Taishou, and the army commander Wei Yunsong was responsible for blocking the enemy on the eastern front.

The supplementary regiment fought very methodically, today's Japanese planes focused on the peak pass, there were only four tanks on the Ertang side to help the battle, Guo Qi had already dug a long straight wall in front of his position, the tank arrived in front of him, he could no longer advance, but exposed the infantry behind him, was condescending by the supplementary regiment, killed and wounded a lot, in the evening, when receiving a telegram from the 200th division and the 170th division in Gumeng into the mountain, Guo Qi took advantage of the space where the enemy's attack failed again, withdrew from the position, and under the leadership of the guide, quickly retreated to Sitang, From the ancient Montan head trail into Tengxiang to rebuild.

The 131st Division rushed for a day and rushed to Jietang, which was ten miles away from Kunlun Pass, and got accurate news that the Japanese army had occupied Kunlun Pass.

When the news came out, the whole country was shocked.