Age of Conquest Reborn

Chapter 653 Okamura Neji’s secret weapon

Okamura Neiji tightly surrounded Huangyadong, but he was still reluctant to take action. The Battle of Guanshan began. Under the strict orders of Okamura Neiji, the Japanese army forced Feng Jiwu to attack Feng Jiwu, regardless of fatigue and the combat effectiveness and physical strength of the soldiers.

The troops launched an attack on their Guanshan position.

Whether it was out of arrogance or because the Japanese army, which was mainly composed of the Kwantung Army, did not pay attention to the Chinese Army at all, they actually used only two regiments to attack 80,000 soldiers without the cover of artillery fire.

The massive Feng Jiwu Corps launched an attack.

The egg-on-stone attack sealed the fate of the Japanese army. Feng Jiwu's troops did not blink an eye and swallowed the fat in one gulp. After inflicting heavy losses on the Japanese vanguard, Feng Jiwu ordered an all-out attack. This was a risk.

But the most successful decision, military strength

Dominate, have superior firepower, wait for work, and with new victories, the Japanese follow-up troops will have time to deploy in the future. All the favorable conditions are on Feng Jiwu's side. If the Japanese army is allowed to gain a firm foothold, 80,000 vs. 60,000, it can only be

The confrontation did not want to turn into a protracted positional battle.

The order was issued, and more than 80,000 soldiers swept away like a violent wave, hitting more than 60,000 Japanese troops head-on, splashing blood all over the sky.

Fighting started in the front, with loud gunshots, booming artillery, gunpowder smoke covering the sun, shouts of killing, and fierce fighting that lasted all day long. The Japanese troops abandoned thousands of corpses and were pushed back for more than 30 kilometers. They withdrew from the border capital and reached the Leping line, where they defended Heshun.

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Heshun is a larger town between Licheng and Yangquan, with about a few thousand residents. It is surrounded by ancient city walls. The bed of the long-dried moat is covered with luxuriant wormwood, and it is full of desolation and desolation.

But at this time, the city was empty of people, and it seemed like a ghost land, with only

Hundreds of homeless wild dogs barked wildly to welcome the tired Japanese soldiers who were almost vomiting blood. Seeing the arrival of these same kind, the hungry wild dogs with green eyes flashed towards the Japanese soldiers with bared teeth and faced the wild dogs.

The bullets were densely packed, but they brought long-lost meat to the Japanese soldiers.

The Japanese army, with less than 60,000 troops, retreated into Heshun. They did not dare to retreat anymore. Commander Okamura Neiji's order was to attack, but being repelled by the Chinese army was already a huge loss of face. It was so prestigious.

When did the Kwantung Army suffer such heavy losses? Before the battle even started, they lost two field regiments in their entirety and thousands of people in pieces. They used Heshun as a base for another attack.

Feng Jiwu commanded the troops and almost drove them to the gate of Heshun City. Thousands of Japanese rearguards who had not yet had time to enter the city were swept away by the vanguard of Feng Jiwu's troops. More than half of them were lost and fled in without their armor.

In the city, light and heavy machine guns, mortars, and 38-meter guns started firing wildly, forming an airtight web of fire.

Feng Jiwu immediately ordered the troops to stop the siege and surrounded Heshun from all sides. In such a tough battle, there was no certainty that Feng Jiwu would not make such a stupid mistake. He had enough patience to fight the little devils and surrounded Heshun.

With a large number of Japanese troops, Okamura Neiji could not remain indifferent. As long as he mobilized troops for rescue, he would have made a due contribution to alleviating the pressure in the direction of Huangyadong.

He was secretly glad that the Japanese army did not confront him in the wild. In that case, the next battle would be difficult to fight. The Japanese commander was also secretly glad that the troops did not suffer too much losses and could rely on the peaceful and favorable geographical location.

Persistence, however, he will soon regret his decision and want to hit the wall.

Heshun City is extremely spacious. There are countless empty houses for you to choose from. It can accommodate tens of thousands of people. The wells have been re-excavated. The soldiers can drink cool well water. Heating is not a problem. The emperor

The soldiers used their ingenuity and used everything that could burn. The camping room was as warm as spring. The most important thing was food. The entire Japanese army only had enough food for five days before starting to attack Guanshan.

of giving.

A huge empty city with more than 50,000 mouths and five days of food. Outside the city was the Chinese army as far as the eye could see. The Japanese commander had a splitting headache and kept cursing "stupid pigs, idiots and Baga".

He didn't know whether he was scolding his staff or himself, but he would never admit that he made a mistake in command. He did not establish a blocking position outside the city, and now he was trapped in the isolated city. He also never admitted that he was frightened and confused at the time. He only saw the thick

The city wall did not think about the food in hand.

He had no choice but to bite the bullet, with an insulted fragile heart, and sent a request for help telegram to Commander Okamura Neiji who was far away in Huangyadong in the hinterland of the Taihang Mountains. He truthfully reported the difficulties faced by the troops and remained peaceful for many days.

There was no problem, as long as there was enough food and supplies, he believed in the bravery of the soldiers of the Imperial Japanese Army.

However, what is lacking now is food and supplies. It's not that he has never thought of breaking out. The commander's order is to attack Niangziguan and Taiyuan. Breaking out is another way of attack. Faced with the encirclement of the superior strength of the Chinese army, there is no external support.

In the case of no

Different from committing suicide, he had only one request in the telegram, to send reinforcements or give him food. The soldiers of the Chinese army outside the city had built a large number of positions in a short period of time. They were afraid that as soon as the city gate was opened, the oncoming troops would be thrown at them.

, is the intensive firepower of the Chinese army.

Okamura Neiji sent a telegram back, ordering him to stay in Heshun for at least five days. Within five days, the situation will definitely change in favor of the imperial army. The Japanese commander held his head in his hands, and he could not guess the calabash of the commander.

What kind of medicine is being sold here? Five days. After five days, I have to drink the northwest wind. No need to fight. The Chinese soldiers will go into the city to collect the corpses.

Not only the commander of the Japanese army who retreated peacefully did not understand, but also the entire North China Expeditionary Force did not understand why the commander concentrated all the main assault forces in this barren land in the Taihang Mountains and allowed the troops of the Chinese devil Tang Qiuli to do so.

, hundreds of thousands of imperial troops were fighting in Shijiazhuang, and there was a vague tendency to threaten Peiping and Tianjin.

The senior generals of the Japanese army have some complaints in their hearts. The Taihang Mountains fascinate the commander, while the smaller Huangyadong area makes the commander crazy. In a place as big as a palm, more than 200,000 troops have been gathered, just for one thing.

Insignificant cave, this newcomer

Commander Ren's tactics of using troops are really puzzling. What on earth does he want to do if Shijiazhuang and Heshun are not rescued? To say that Commander Ren is unpredictable is to say that he is paranoid. For the sake of Huangya Cave, he went so far as to risk everything.

The interests of the Japanese Empire in North China were ignored.

All senior Japanese commanders did not understand Okamura Neiji's good intentions. Huangya Cave must be captured. This is absolutely unchangeable. It would be unavoidable to use so many troops just for a small Huangya Cave.

He underestimated Okamura Neiji too much. The 240,000 troops actually used to attack Huangyadong were only 60,000. The rest of the troops, Okamura Neiji had already arranged for all the troops entering the Huangyadong area.

On the inevitable road, a large net was cast, waiting for Tang Qiuli's reinforcements to arrive.

Okamura Neiji didn't believe it. Tang Qiuli saw that his supply base was surrounded by heavy troops and did not worry about taking action. The fate of tens of thousands of soldiers was enough to make the China devil Tang Qiuli turn all his attention to

Come here. In China's military books, there is a saying about encircling a point for reinforcements. Huangya Cave is the bait, and the ambushing troops are the hooks for fishing. If Tang Qiuli's troops come, they will be wiped out.

Okamura Neiji delayed taking action just to observe Tang Qiuli's reaction and give him time to deploy his troops. Also, from the failure of the Ryuichi brigade near the mountain, Okamura Neiji understood a truth.

The cliff cave relies on the dangerous terrain and solid defenses.

No matter how many troops there are in his own army, it is impossible to break through the defense system of the army. He is waiting for a secret weapon. With him, no matter how hard the defenses are, it will be difficult to escape the fate of being destroyed. This is his delay.

Another main reason for not taking action.

Now, the secret weapons have finally been transported to the front line of Huangyadong. After installation, they are just waiting to drink the blood of the Chinese soldiers. Today is a good weather, and we can attack. There is no wind in the morning, and the bright sun rises in the eastern sky.

The breeze brings the breath of early spring. The willow trees on the sunny slopes have bulging spores on their dark red branches. Among the dead grass, a few pieces of new green quietly poke their heads out. The Taihang Mountains in mid-April have already dimmed.

You can see the attractive spring scenery.

It was an ordinary good weather, but the soldiers who had experienced the first day of the Huangyadong defense battle recalled the scene many years later and said with lingering fear, "The sky is falling and the earth is falling." With this sentence, a muffled sound,

The earth trembled, and in the distant sky, there was a scream of an object cutting through the air. The soldiers almost thought it was spring thunder, but the spring thunder was not so dull.

There was an explosion. A huge cloud of gunpowder smoke, mixed with countless pieces of soil and rock, flew into the air. The entire core area of ​​​​Huangya Cave trembled violently in the explosion. Before the soldiers could react, the explosion

There were sounds one after another, rocks flew away, trees fell, mountain peaks trembled, and the earth shook.

Chang Feng slept very late last night. It felt like he had just closed his eyes when he was woken up by the violent shaking of the camp bed. A ball of soil fell on the wall of the cave above his head. Chang Feng jumped up and his first reaction was,

The Japanese army began to attack. He grabbed the phone and asked about the situation at the front. There was only the rustle of electricity in the earphones, and there was no echo.

He grabbed the submachine gun and rushed out, and bumped head-on into a staff officer. The staff member was covered in mud and dust, as if he had just climbed out of the trench, "Report to the commander-in-chief, the Japanese army arrived at 6:30 this morning.

A large-scale shelling of our Huangyadong peripheral defense positions has been carried out, and all wired communications to the front have been interrupted. Radio communications are now being initiated, and the details are being verified." Although the voice of the report was clear, there was a hint of panic.

Chang Feng looked at his watch. It was 6:45. The Japanese army had been shelling for fifteen minutes, and it was on the outer position. This staff officer had been at the headquarters and had not been on the frontline mission. How could he have fought a fierce battle?

As if, Chang Feng couldn't help but feel doubtful.

(To be continued)