Age of Conquest Reborn

Chapter 487: Murderous Comics

This is a very ordinary small courtyard. It is inconspicuous anywhere in Shijiazhuang. If it were not for the sign "North China First Division Headquarters of the Nationalist Army" hanging on the door, it would not attract anyone's attention. (Baidu search

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Xiangyue Qingsi stared at this sign. It was in this ordinary small courtyard that the Chinese devil Tang Qiuli commanded his troops to fight with his 400,000 troops for six days. He did not know the casualties of the ** divisions. Anyway, the soldiers

They did not capture a single prisoner, did not find a single corpse of a Chinese soldier, and kept their own casualties in mind. Almost two divisions lost their combat effectiveness.

A guard rushed over, raised the butt of his gun, and was about to smash the sign, but Xiangyue Qingji sternly stopped him. Keep it, it is also a symbol of victory. He left a shadow in front of the sign and occupied the highest official position in North China.

Tang Qiuli's headquarters also had an explanation for the base camp.

When I opened the courtyard door, there was a message written in Japanese on the closed door: "Warmly welcome the Japanese aggressors to my headquarters. It is your honor to wait for the Japanese pirates."

Entering the house, it was very clean and spotless. Obviously, the owner left in an extremely calm manner. All the furniture in the city was lame and faceless, but here, there was a desk.

Placed in the middle of the room, there is a stack of documents on the table and "Please sit down" written on the chair

Xiangyue Qingsi dared not do anything. He waved his hand and asked a staff officer to bring the documents on the table. The content of the document was the number of Japanese troops annihilated reported by each brigade of the ** division, and the request for instructions on how to deal with the prisoners. There was nothing else. Xiangyue Qingsi Yue

He was getting more and more panicked, but his attention was quickly attracted by a military map on the wall and a cartoon stuck on a thin wooden board.

Marked on the map are the defensive positions of various units of the ** Division, evacuation time, routes and areas, and firepower equipment, etc. If this map had been obtained before the war started, the ** Division would have been swallowed up by Xiang Yue Qingji.

, but now, all that is left is just ridicule to him. However, he does not think that when Tang Qiuli retreated, he was so panicked that he even forgot to take away the map. There must be a trick in this.

And that cartoon made Xiangzuki Seiji even more furious. A Chinese little boy with a tiger-like head was peeing into a helmet covered with the Japanese flag and the Japanese military flag. A large group of Japanese officers and soldiers were kneeling aside and laughing, as if they were waiting.

They took turns drinking urine, and what was even more annoying was that the creator of the comic drew all the Japanese soldiers into pig heads.

The more Xiangzuki Seiji looked at it, the more he felt that the pig-headed officer at the head looked very much like their most noble Emperor Hirohito. Not only him, but all the Japanese officers and soldiers had the same feeling. The more he looked at it, the more they looked like it.

Realism is a kind of spiritual resemblance. A young major couldn't bear it and cursed angrily, "Baga, inferior Chinese people, dead for their work." He rushed over angrily and tore off the wooden board with the comics.

There was a loud "boom", like a match thrown into a gasoline barrel. The mines buried all over the house exploded violently, causing the house to collapse. The huge explosion force lifted the roof, flying soil and dust.

In all directions, broken wood and bricks flew across the air, mixed with the broken limbs of Japanese soldiers.

After the explosion, gunpowder smoke filled the air. The Japanese officers who rushed over after hearing the news looked at the scene of the explosion in stunned silence. When they learned that the Supreme Commander was also in the room, they were shocked. With such a violent explosion, the Commander might not be able to save his life.

Unless Amaterasu protects his body, it may not even be possible to find a complete body.

In the ruins, intermittent groans suddenly came, "Hurry, there are still people alive." A group of Japanese soldiers rushed up, digging with pickaxes, and pulled out a person from the soil like potatoes. His face was covered with dust and he could no longer see.

Qing's appearance, if it weren't for the rank of general on his shoulders, no one would have recognized him. This is the commander in charge of millions of troops in North China, His Excellency Xiang Yue Qingji.

The awakened Commander looked blankly at the officers surrounding him, his eyes unfocused. The Japanese generals' hearts sank. Damn it, your Excellency was blown into an idiot, right? He quickly called the military doctor, and they were busy for a while.

Xiangyue Qingji finally woke up and groaned with lingering fear.

He deserved to die. When the explosion occurred, the die-hard guards around him immediately jumped on him and used their bodies as human shields. The bodies of the guards were pierced by shrapnel like hedgehogs.

, his head came into heavy contact with the ground, and the shock wave shook his ears like thousands of gongs beating, but not a single hair was injured. It was really lucky.

The inspired Japanese soldiers then dug through the ruins and dug out a few more senior officers. However, they were not as lucky as the Commander. They were either missing arms or legs, and their faces were pockmarked and their bodies were covered in mud.

The general's uniform turned into a beggar's uniform. As for the other officers, they didn't even have this luck and turned into minced meat and mixed with the dust.

This trick almost wiped out the Central Route Army Headquarters of the North China Expeditionary Force. Such a generous move was the work of Shen Jun, Director of the Investigation Division of the Division, and Fu Gang, Captain of the Sniper Brigade of the Special War Detachment. The other was a veteran spy.

, one is a special operations elite. When he was about to retreat, he always felt that nothing had been done. They looked at each other and had the same idea. They came and received miraculous results.

After waking up, Xiangyue Qingji still did not forget the sign outside, and ordered the soldiers to take it off and transport it back to Peiping. This time, the Japanese soldiers had experience. Those generals who returned from dust to dust are examples of this, and they were extra careful.

, tied with a rope, and then retreated far away. His Excellency, the commander, who was full of dissatisfaction, was about to scold these cowards.

There was a loud noise, sawdust flying all over the sky, and there was an ambush behind the sign. Looking at the sign turned into a pile of broken wood, the Japanese officers and soldiers looked at each other and felt a cold wind on the back of their heads. The Chinese people's methods were really despicable and more vicious.

Xiangyue Qingsi didn't even have the desire to be angry, and Tang Qiuli didn't leave him anything to show his face.

Tang Qiuli, who retreated to the edge of the Taihang Mountains, did not feel much relieved because he was able to escape unscathed. After six days of bloody battle, with less than 90,000 troops, he withstood the crazy attack of 400,000 Japanese troops. The difficulties can be imagined.

And know.

Although various flexible tactics were adopted, coupled with powerful artillery firepower, this was a head-to-head positional defense battle after all. After six days, the troops suffered nearly 10,000 casualties, especially the first and second troops who acted as the main defense force.

The second and third brigades suffered more than one-third casualties. This is the old basic unit of the ** division. If it were not forced by the situation, Tang Qiuli would not use such troops to fight against the superior Japanese army. The wounded

Moving the muscles and bones will weaken the vitality of the troops.

This situation of forced attrition is at Niangziguan, an important transportation road at the junction of Hebei and Shanxi. According to the original plan, the six brigades of the *** Division remaining in North China adopted flexible blocking methods to delay the Japanese army as much as possible at the minimum cost.

The attack momentum was blocked for only three days, and then it retreated into the Taihang Mountains and used part of its force to attract the Japanese army. The main force suddenly appeared behind the Japanese army, catching them off guard.

However, Tang Qiuli learned that Yan Xishan had only sent two second-class divisions in the Niangziguan area, with a total strength of less than 23,000 people, and no heavy weapons such as heavy artillery. He knew very well that his troops would retreat.

After entering the Taihang Mountains, it can only attract some Japanese troops to pursue them. Judging from the Japanese offensive situation, most of the Japanese troops will attack Jingxing Pass and Niangzi Pass, because these are the closest passages from Hebei to Taiyuan.

Although there is a plan to put the Japanese army into the Taihang Mountains and Shanxi, thin its troops, and then look for opportunities to annihilate one or more of them and push the Japanese army back to the North China Plain, this is a prerequisite for having enough time in Taiyuan to prepare to evacuate citizens and machinery and equipment.

Under the conditions, and now, Yan Xishan has no intention of giving up Taiyuan.

Can the two weak divisions of the Jin army withstand a charge of hundreds of thousands of Japanese troops? The answer is obvious, they will be overwhelmed by the tide of Japanese troops. Previously, the plan he gave Yan Xishan was that the main force of the Jin army should be divided into two groups to defend.

In the directions of Datong and Niangziguan, after the Japanese troops were released into the Taihang Mountains, the Japanese Army relied on the base area and adopted a mobile and flexible combat method to drag the Japanese troops in the mountainous areas.

Then, most of the Japanese Army will join the Jin army to encircle and annihilate the Japanese army attacking Shanxi. In this way, Taiyuan can be recovered quickly, and the Japanese army will withdraw from Shanxi. They will not dare to invade for a long time, and it will also provide Yan Xishan with the opportunity to reorganize his army and prepare for war.

Time, but all of this was ruined by the cunning Yan Xishan.

After learning that Yan Xishan did not have heavy troops stationed at Niangziguan, Tang Qiuli was extremely angry. He saw through Yan Xishan's selfishness and calculations, and used the troops of the Japanese Army to withstand the Japanese attack in Shijiazhuang.

Save what you can. If that's the case, let the Japanese troops enter Shanxi and beat Yan Xishan's pots and jars to pieces. It's best to confiscate all his old stuff.

But his rationality told him that the consequence of this would be to allow the Japanese army to successfully occupy the entire territory of Shanxi, with their troops pointing directly at the south bank of the Yellow River. The hinterland of the Central Plains would be seriously threatened. Once the millions of Japanese troops in North China moved south, he would be attacked from both sides.

The painstakingly constructed Yellow River defense line collapsed. The Japanese troops that had been temporarily repelled in the Songhu area on the southern front would come back and try their best to join the Japanese troops on the northern front. Tang Qiuli could not imagine how corrupt the entire war situation would be.

In anger, he sent a stern telegram to Yan Xishan, "Chairman Yan Xishan, I believe you are fully aware of the strategic plans of the Northern Army Branch and the Yellow River Basin General Headquarters. With the main force of the Jin Army,

Defending the two strategic points of Datong in northeastern Shanxi and Niangziguan in eastern Shanxi, the ** Division troops were in the center to provide support, looking for opportunities to annihilate one group of Japanese troops invading Shanxi, and then attack the other group of Japanese troops with all their strength. Only in this way, Shanxi can be protected."

"But, how did you do it? With two weak divisions, you defended such an important point. You have led the army for many years. You didn't know that Niangzi Pass is the gate and barrier to the east of Taiyuan. Once the Japanese army breaks through Niangzi Pass, it will take less than two days.

We can attack the city of Taiyuan. By then, your Chairman Yan’s family fortune will probably all belong to people from the Tiger and Wolf Period. Shanxi is your Chairman Yan’s Shanxi, not my Tang Dynasty’s Shanxi, so what does it have to do with me if it’s lost?”

(To be continued)