Age of Conquest Reborn

Chapter 670: Big Gambling

When Neji Okamura walked out of the tent with the plan he had figured out after a night of hard thinking, the worried looks of his subordinates outside made him feel something in his heart. He was not so moved, but he felt deeply that he had a heavy responsibility on his shoulders. The Japanese army

There is an unwritten rule,

If the top commander of an army is killed in battle, but the other senior generals are safe and sound, even if they return alive, there will be no good harvest. The subordinates who cannot even protect their commanders are not incompetent, but have committed a grave sin. (

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After Okamura Neiji slightly apologized, just when the senior generals did not have to worry about their own unlucky consequences, His Excellency the Commander said with a serious face and a hoarse voice: "Order, Pingjin Zhixian County, Suning first-line troops, immediately

Leaving the battlefield, regardless of the entanglement of the ** Division troops, they immediately retreated to the Cangzhou area, and together with the Cangzhou garrison, they used the favorable fortifications to stand firm and wait for reinforcements. After the Kwantung Army troops moved south, they jointly recovered Tianjin."

After Okamura Neiji finished speaking, the Japanese generals were surprised, but they also understood what the commander did. If the Xianxian and Suning troops did not get closer to the Cangzhou troops, they would be in danger of being eaten by the Chinese troops.

The troops were combined into one place, and their strength reached more than 360,000. No matter how powerful Tang Qiuli was,

With his appetite, it is impossible to swallow so many imperial troops in one go. This is the safest plan, but it is a little too late. Whether the troops can successfully escape from the battlefield, the result is unpredictable. If it were three days ago, the effect would

It's much better. Tang Qiuli's main force is still preparing to attack Tianjin.

Next, it was time to withdraw the order from Peking and Tianjin. The Japanese generals all felt relieved to have escaped from the sea of ​​suffering. They wandered around in these rolling mountains for a month. In addition to marching every day, they dealt with the ubiquitous small groups of Chinese troops.

In a sneak attack, there were a large number of elite soldiers, but no opponent could be found. There was nowhere to use their strength, and the opponent was right beside them, which was enough to drive these senior Japanese officers crazy.

Especially in the recent period, your Excellency, Commander, I don’t know where I took the wrong road. More than 200,000 troops competed with a broken cave. They attacked every day, were repelled, attacked again, and were repelled again. It was a boring road.

However, except for the rising number of casualties and the consumption of ammunition, nothing was gained. Several generals once made suggestions to evacuate Huangyadong, but they were all severely reprimanded by the Commander.

Now, the Commander has finally woken up. In addition to being happy, these senior Japanese officers probably have no other thoughts in their hearts at this time. "Order to sweep the troops in the Taihang Mountains, immediately move towards Wuxiang, and attack Taiyuan."

, the troops in the Heshun direction broke away from the entanglement with the Chinese army, immediately passed through Mafang to Jinzhong, and attacked Taiyuan. All orders were immediately issued to all troops for execution."

The senior Japanese generals who stood at attention did not react for a moment. Your Excellency the Commander went crazy and instead of attacking Huangya Cave, he attacked Taiyuan instead. The hundreds of thousands of troops at Yamaguchi met Yan Xishan just below Wuxiang City.

The Jin army's tenacious resistance,

Unable to move forward, we were stranded in the Taihang Mountains for more than twenty days, and finally ended up with everyone shattered. The shadow of failure has not been completely eliminated in our hearts, but your Excellency, Commander, wants to make the same mistake again? He also chose the direction of Wuxiang as the point of attack.

crazy

When Okamura Neiji saw that the generals did not respond, his face immediately turned ugly, and he asked in a cold voice: "Why, did you not hear my order clearly?" He heard it clearly, word for word, and he did not return to Pingjin to attack Taiyuan.

, then facing the Jin army whose strength is even greater than that of the imperial army, and the more than 80,000 ** division troops fighting the imperial army in Heshun, what are the chances of winning? From Changzhi to Taiyuan, the logistics supply line extends several times more.

Commander, have you considered this?

Seeing Nei Okamura's attitude of wanting to eat people, and his attitude of drawing a knife to kill someone when he hears the word "no", the Japanese generals did not dare to talk more, they all shouted with all their strength: "Hai"

"They couldn't figure it out and were unwilling to do it at a trot."

The order was given. It’s no wonder that the Japanese generals were stunned. Only a lunatic could do Okamura Neji’s plan. Perhaps, on the Chinese battlefield in World War II, they were not as famous as Okamura Neji. What they lacked was this ruthlessness and fierceness.

Gambler character.

As for Huangya Cave, they had to temporarily abandon the key siege. This was not the result of a few days. Okamura Neiji was full of regrets that he could not completely destroy Tang Qiuli's logistics supply base. He considered it a major failure in his military career.

However, we cannot let go of this abominable cave that has swallowed the lives of more than 20,000 imperial soldiers so easily.

Okamura Neiji ordered all the artillery units to bomb wildly and pour the artillery shells on all the land around Huangyadong, leaving a division of troops to continue the siege of Huangyadong. He believed that after more than ten days,

Continuous bombardment and attack, defending

The price paid by the Chinese army guarding Huangyadong should be more than that of the imperial army. The strength of one division is enough. They will slowly consume their strength and morale. After they capture Taiyuan and occupy Shanxi, they can then go back and deal with this abomination.

place.

Okamura Neiji made a fatal mistake. He only noticed the guard strength inside Huangya Cave, but ignored the Japanese troops attacking the Japanese army with small groups of troops outside Huangya Cave and in every corner of the Taihang Mountains.

Sun Zhenbang's regiment had more than 50,000 troops, and the three divisions of the Eighth Route Army had more than 30,000 troops. The division he left behind immediately became a lonely army after the main force of the Japanese army withdrew, and its collapse was inevitable.

Tang Qiuli was busy eating fat in Pingjin, Okamura Neji was planning a huge gamble in the Taihang Mountains, and the commanders of China and Japan in North China were all busy dispatching troops and generals according to their own ideas and fighting styles.

Happy

, Yan Xishan, who is dominating Taiyuan, sitting on the mountain and watching the tigers fight, is naturally not idle either. Maybe it is profitable, or he thinks he has a finger on the pulse of the situation, so Commander Yan's abacus begins to pick up the pieces again.

Tang Qiuli's series of victories around Pingjin made Commander Yan dazzled and salivated. He didn't expect that this young man would succeed so smoothly. He successively captured Shijiazhuang, Baoding, and Tianjin. They were all oily pieces of meat.

Ah, there was so much oil and water, it all fell into the hands of that kid, and it made my eyes hot just looking at it.

Unexpectedly, the Japanese couldn't help but fight. Okamura Neiji's army of hundreds of thousands was wandering around the Taihang Mountains again. For a while, he couldn't think of moving north. The Huangya Cave was enough for him to take advantage of for half a year. He couldn't leave all the bargains behind.

In the hands of the young man named Tang, Yan

The officer paced and weighed carefully. His eyes were fixed on Zhangjiakou. It was time to take advantage. There were only about 60,000 Japanese in Zhangjiakou. Where could there be Tang Qiuli's two infantry brigades and one cavalry?

brigade troops.

The Japanese in Zhangjiakou had already frightened Tang Qiuli's troops. Sixty thousand people did not dare to go out. They sent troops to capture Zhangjiakou. The entire northwestern Hebei region fell under their own sphere of influence and was connected with northeastern Shanxi.

It was a rich product in the Bashang area, and it was a huge windfall. The more Yan Xishan calculated, the more he felt that it was worth sending troops to attack Zhangjiakou, and he would make a lot of profits.

Commander Yan began to mobilize troops intensively. The troops originally on the front line of Datong were transferred to most of Wuxiang and immediately returned to their original places. Not to mention, for the sake of safety, he increased the number of troops attacking Zhangjiakou to 28

With tens of thousands of people, he doesn't have the courage of Tang Qiuli to dare to challenge the Japanese in a one-on-one fight, four against one, to maximize the chance of winning. The old man doesn't do anything he's not sure of.

As a result, there were only about 80,000 Jin troops left on the Wuxiang defense line. When they raised their troops, they did not notify Tang Qiuli. The old man slyly thought that Tang Qiuli would definitely stop him, and Zhangjiakou was his next target.

, raw rice is cooked, when the time comes, the young man named Tang will not snatch it from his hand, right?

Tang Qiuli was kept in the dark about all of Yan Xishan's military operations. He commanded the troops to encircle hundreds of thousands of Japanese troops soon. He seemed to have smelled the scent of meat, but he received reports that the Japanese troops on the front lines of Xianxian and Suning

, suddenly took the initiative to withdraw from the battlefield and retreated to the direction of Cangzhou. The Japanese troops who were fighting Liu Tiehan's East Command troops in the direction of Cangzhou, regardless of the oppression they faced, detached some of their troops and headed west out of Botou, seemingly intending to meet the retreating Japanese troops.

Our frontline troops are chasing after them. Due to their limited strength, they cannot completely delay the Japanese army's retreat to Cangzhou. The division commander asked for instructions on specific combat strategies. After Tang Qiuli received the telegram, he was so regretful that he slapped himself on the head. It was only half a day away.

, less than six hours away, the mouth of the pocket was tightened, and 180,000 troops surrounded the 120,000 Japanese army. Even if they couldn't swallow it in one bite, they could tear off a big piece of meat and bones. What does it mean to fall short of the target?

that is.

With no other option, Tang Qiuli immediately issued an order, heading south from Tianjin and approaching Xianxian County. Suning's vanguard troops immediately targeted Botou and tried to intercept the Japanese troops retreating to Cangzhou in the Botou area. The remaining troops immediately launched

Pursue in parallel, settle for the next best thing, and eat as many as you can catch.

Tang Qiuli felt very sorry for losing the most favorable opportunity to annihilate the enemy. It was a perfect plan, but these hundreds of thousands of Japanese troops were already meat in the pot. How could it be expected that the cooked duck would fly away?

Well, what went wrong? Was it the troops heading south from Tianjin who exposed their intentions prematurely? The Japanese army was afraid of being encircled, so they took countermeasures?

He immediately overturned his own conclusion. The troops moving south moved quickly and took action on the same day they occupied Tianjin. It was impossible for the Japanese army to detect it so early. Furthermore, attacking Peiping was much more convenient and easier than going south.

Tang Qiuli vaguely felt that the situation was a bit complicated, but he had not yet figured out where the complexity lay.

Just after handling the matter of chasing and retreating the Japanese troops in Cangzhou, Feng Jiwu on the Heshun front line sent an urgent telegram. Today, the Japanese reinforcements on the Heshun front line have arrived at the outskirts of Heshun. According to the deployment of the division headquarters, our unit did not conduct an all-out interception, and its leading troops

, successfully entered Heshun City. After the Japanese troops joined together, their strength was more than 80,000, which was equal to the strength of our troops.

The Japanese army did not continue to advance north to attack Guanshan, but turned westward toward Mafang and marched west toward Jinzhong. According to my preliminary judgment, this Japanese army has the intention to attack Taiyuan. Our army is entangled with the Japanese army along the route from Mafang to Jinzhong.

Please fight, division commander, please clarify the next course of action for our department.

(To be continued)