Age of Conquest Reborn

Chapter 630: Conquering Jingxing Pass

On April 2, Okamura Ningji divided his 320,000-strong troop group into six groups, with Changzhi in southern Shanxi as the base, and swept the base areas in the Taihang Mountains from south to north. The Japanese army advanced very fast, and in one day and night, they had penetrated deep into the hinterland of the Taihang Mountains.

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As soon as Tang Qiuli saw that the time had come, he issued a battle order to attack Jingxing Pass in the early morning of April 3. Tang Qiusheng's regiment and Feng Jiwu's regiment, which had already been prepared, used two brigades to pretend to attack Jingxing Pass from the front.

The main force divided into two groups from Jiuguan on the right and Chakou on the left, adopted a pincer-shaped offensive, and pounced on the left and right wings of Jingxing Pass.

260,000 troops poured into the Japanese army like a tide. At this time, the Japanese garrison at Jingxing Pass was almost empty. At the beginning, Xiangyue Qingsi mobilized 210,000 troops and personally directed the storming of Niangzi Pass, intending to open the way to Taiyuan.

Unexpectedly, the east gate was blocked by Feng Jiwu's reinforcements and stopped in front of Niangzi Pass.

After several fierce battles, the Japanese army was unable to break through the Niangziguan defensive position, and Feng Jiwu was unable to repel the Japanese army. The two sides formed a confrontation, but Feng Jiwu was advantaged, and he successively digested the troops of five divisions of Yan Xishan's Jin army, and finally defeated the Japanese army.

The original five brigades were used as the backbone to form the Niangziguan Garrison Corps with more than 120,000 troops. Today, they can finally take the initiative to attack.

The Japanese troops attacking Niangziguan were repeatedly transferred to support other places. One division was transferred today, and one brigade was transferred tomorrow. The strength of the troops was reduced again and again. Up to now, there is only one division and one brigade.

With less than 40,000 troops, under the attack of the two main regiments of the ** Division with 260,000 troops divided into two directions, the force was simply not enough. The ** Division had to deal with the frontal attack and was stretched thin.

Trapped in a miserable state of support.

Tang Qiusheng's Corps and Feng Jiwu's Corps are the two main regiments of the Army Division. Their firepower is so powerful that only a few field brigades directly under Tang Qiuli slightly surpass him. Although Feng Jiwu's Corps was established later, under Feng Jiwu's

Jiwu's spirit

Under careful training, the Japanese troops at Jingxing Pass were used as sparring partners, and they developed good skills. The Niangziguan Garrison Corps, which belongs to the ** division sequence, can be compared with Liu Tiehan's East Point Force and Tang Qiusheng's Sulu Mobile Corps as the main force.

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For the battle of Jingxing Pass, Tang Qiusheng and Feng Jiwu had been planning for a long time. Since receiving the battle order from the division commander, they had not stopped conducting reconnaissance of Jingxing Pass for a day.

The locations of the forts and bunkers were clearly known. Each artillery commander had a detailed map of the deployment of Japanese fortifications. Before the war, the coordinates of the Japanese bunkers, bunkers and fortifications had been marked on the map.

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In fighting such a battle, Tang Qiusheng and Feng Jiwu had the same view. They used absolutely superior firepower to destroy the Japanese fortresses and fortifications. In a word, they used artillery to blast them hard. The two corps and the heavy artillery alone had five brigades.

Too much, not counting

In the artillery regiments directly under each brigade, thousands of artillery pieces were lined up in a row, with flames spitting out from the muzzles and earth-shattering sound. According to the coordinates determined in advance, they were divided into responsibilities. Countless artillery shells, with screams, hit the ground hard.

On the Japanese army's position.

Zheng Yong, commander of the 1st Artillery Brigade of the ** Division, who temporarily served as the commander-in-chief of the artillery, when assigning tasks to the artillery brigades and regimental commanders, he just said, "cover all directions". The artillerymen thoroughly implemented the commander's orders. The Japanese army

The fortifications, bunkers, and bunkers that were built, under the cannonballs that came like locusts, the bricks and stones flew randomly and collapsed, and the Japanese soldiers inside followed them and flew into the sky.

The Japanese position at Jingxingguan was a sea of ​​fire, shrapnel was flying, smoke was billowing, and plumes of smoke obscured the rising sun. Under such artillery fire, the shadow of the infantry of the ** Division was not seen. The Japanese troops guarding Jingxingguan were

More than one-fifth of it has been lost.

Two hours, thousands of artillery bombardments, hundreds of thousands of artillery shells, and tons of steel fell on the Japanese positions. Barbed wire, deer wood, trenches, fortifications, fortifications, and bunkers were all gone, leaving only a pile of them.

With the newly turned soil piled up, and under the cover of artillery fire, the infantry of the ** Division moved to the front of the Japanese position.

When the bombardment stopped, the Japanese soldiers emerged from the soil, with buzzing in their ears and dizziness, and climbed up to the position tremblingly. This ferocious artillery fire made the Japanese army, from officers to soldiers, frightened and even endured the shells.

, I have never suffered so many shells, and the Chinese are going crazy.

The charge horn of the Chinese *** team sounded, and the Japanese soldiers clenched their weapons and stared ahead. At this time, the artillery fire that had stopped started roaring again, and the Japanese soldiers exposed in the fortifications were bombed.

They were all in pieces, with stumps and broken arms flying around in the mud. After thirty minutes of shelling, the Japanese soldiers on the front line were almost wiped out. The Japanese commander took out his reserve troops and replenished them to the front line positions.

The charge of the Chinese ** team sounded again. The Japanese soldiers were looking forward to the sight of Chinese soldiers in the crosshairs of their guns. As long as they were no longer bombarded by artillery shells, dying in battle would be a blessing. This was after the Battle of Jingxingguan.

, the hundreds of Japanese officers and soldiers who had the chance to escape, after going through untold hardships, escaped back to Peiping, when Okamura Neiji personally summoned them, what they said to the commander, that shelling, left a deep impression on the hearts of these Japanese soldiers.

Leaving a permanent shadow.

The expected figure of the Chinese soldier did not appear. Instead, what was waiting was mortar shells flying in like meteors. The Japanese soldier closed his eyes in pain and came again. Amaterasu, where did the Chinese get the artillery? They are in the army.

Is Lippe popular? This tactic was the idea of ​​temporary artillery commander Zheng Yong. He wanted to give full play to his firepower advantage and eliminate as many of the Japanese troops' effective forces as possible before the infantry launched an attack and reduce troop casualties.

Two **-caliber artillery covered the bombardment in all directions, and the mortars moved in front of the Japanese positions. This tactic was very effective. The Japanese commanders invested the reserve troops in the front-line positions and suffered heavy casualties. This time, the infantry of the ** Division really launched

During the charge, there were only a few Japanese soldiers who could shoot, and they would often receive raindrops of bullets from light and heavy machine guns as soon as they fired.

The Japanese army collapsed across the board, and the speed of collapse exceeded their own expectations. The troops on the position were almost wiped out by the despicable methods of the Chinese. They fled the trenches one after another and retreated in depth. It only took three

In half an hour, the first and second lines of Jingxingguan fell into the hands of the Japanese division. There were more than 40,000 Japanese troops and more than 15,000 corpses left here.

The Japanese division commander who retreated to the core position reported to Okamura Neiji in a hoarse voice, "Your Majesty Commander, at dawn today, our Jingxingguan defense line was suddenly violently attacked by the main force of the Japanese division. The battle lasted for three and a half hours.

The first and second line positions have all been lost. Please send reinforcements quickly, otherwise, the Jingxingguan position will be difficult to protect."

In front of the map, Okamura Neiji, who was examining the Taihang Mountains, shuddered suddenly and the pencil in his hand was broken into two pieces. He asked suspiciously, "Are you sure it is the main force of the Japanese division?" The Japanese division commander

I almost cried, "Si

Your Excellency, the commander, is definitely the main force of the ** Division, with a strength of no less than 200,000. Hundreds of thousands of artillery shells fell on my head." Needless to say, the fierce sound of gunfire was clearly transmitted to the audience through the earphones.

In the ears of Neji Okamura.

Okamura Neiji was pacing back and forth in Changji's headquarters, his eyes were gleaming. His staff and staff were afraid to look at the commander who was like a donkey. Okamura Neiji was now trapped in

In a dilemma, Tang Qiuli's main force, which was hard to find, suddenly appeared in the direction of Jingxingguan and launched an attack. This China devil chose a good time.

Okamura Neiji secretly lamented that his troops were scattered throughout the Taihang Mountains and could not be gathered back in two or three days. It was too late to rescue Jingxing Pass. Jingxing Pass was lost, the door of Shijiazhuang was opened, and Shijiazhuang was lost.

The important Jinnan region will fall into Tang Qiuli's hands, and the Pingjin region with weak military strength will be threatened.

Abandoning the plan to raid Tang Qiuli's lair in the Taihang Mountains and quickly returning to Pingjin. The strategic intention he had planned for many days would come to naught. The plan to eliminate Tang Qiuli's logistics base and drain the firepower would not be realized at all. Tang Qiuli took it easy.

Come on, if you don't kill a tiger, you will suffer from it. The Taihang Mountains are still a poisonous thorn in North China, making it difficult for you to sleep and eat well.

Okamura Neiji sighed deeply, the empire's military strength in North China is still small. If he had another 1.5 million troops, why would he be like this now? Compared to China, which has a population of hundreds of millions, the Empire of Japan

Human resources cannot be said to be lacking. In fact, it is not just human resources. That bullshit island country lacks everything except bestiality, lust, and aggression and greed in its core.

When Okamura Neiji sighed, he didn't know that the troops Tang Qiuli could use were still less than the Japanese army. However, the Japanese had a huge appetite and wanted to swallow up North China in one go. They occupied so many places and big cities.

, are not afraid of holding on to death, guarding each place separately, and cannot give up any key points, so the mobile force is relatively insufficient.

Okamura Neji's current mood can be described as "difficult". The sweep of the Taihang Mountain base area is about to be completed, but Tang Qiuli is fighting in his own backyard. Jingxingguan and Shijiazhuang cannot be lost. The sweep of the Taihang Mountains

The district's plan cannot be changed. This is the conclusion Okamura Neiji came to after painful thinking.

"Order, the 11th Division and the 7th Division on the Datong front line should each leave a regiment of troops and continue to monitor the Jin army on the opposite side. The main force will immediately rush to support the two-way mopping up troops in the directions of Jingxingguan, Hongjing and Shiyao.

, passed through Liaoyang, Heshun, and Yangquan, and rushed to Niangziguan, starting from the back

After the siege of Jingxing Pass was lifted, they immediately raided the garrison forces of Taiyuan, Beiping, and Tianjin, each sending half of their troops, and rushed to Shijiazhuang to set up defenses. The troops at Jingxing Pass were waiting for reinforcements. This order was immediately executed." Neji Okamura gritted his teeth.

Issue a series of orders.

This is a typical emergency method of demolishing the east wall to repair the west wall. Moreover, Okamura Neiji also had the idea of ​​Taiyuan. However, when Okamura Neiji dispatched troops and generals, the battle at Jingxing Pass was nearing its end.

, the remaining more than 25,000 Japanese troops were compressed in the core position, like a small fire in the strong wind, which could be extinguished at any time.

(To be continued)