The Japanese army successfully entered the Xiyang River Valley, but wouldn’t it be like a lamb waiting to be slaughtered into a slaughterhouse? Because there is a line of horseshoe nests in the south of the Xiyang River Valley blocking the retreat route, and Zhongtiao Mountain in the north is called the danger of Puzhang Water coming out of the kiln.

At this time, the defense was deployed on the west side of the Xiyang River Valley, and the 14th Army was guarding the Tiger Mountain Fortress, and the 17th Division and 81st Division of the Western Route Army were guarding Shaoyuan on the east side, trapping the enemies entering the ambush circle in the narrow and long Xiyang River Valley.

As long as the enemy is trapped and ammunition and food are exhausted, the urgent military supplies in the army will be interrupted, and the result will be to stand firm and wait for assistance.

After careful deployment, the highest commander of the Nakajoyama War Zone finally completed the siege of the Suzuki Division and ordered all participating troops to be sure to be divided into five routes to launch a general attack on the trapped enemy at dawn the next day.

The 17th and 81st Divisions deployed in Shaoyuan and the 14th Army on the Tiger Head Defense Line received orders from the Supreme Commander of the War Zone to immediately mobilize the troops before the war.

Although the Japanese Suzuki Division commander had realized that he might enter the ambush circle carefully deployed by the Zhongtiaoshan War Zone, and his battlefield was located on the front line of the Xiyang River Valley, this arrogant guy believed that the Japanese Imperial Army would never be able to defeat it. As long as he continued to march westward, he would definitely break through the defense line of the Chinese troops and occupy Yongji and Fenglingdu.

Colonel Yu Hechai of the 33rd Regiment and Colonel Guanshan Feizhong of the 77th Regiment had many bloody battles in Wangjiazhuang, Gumoling, Dongyuan Defense Line and the 54th Regiment and the 46th Brigade Host Division, led by Leiyunfeng, and the troops suffered heavy casualties.

The two corps captains were invincible in other battlefields and did not meet opponents, but they suffered many consecutive defeats on the Zhongtiao Shanxi Line, which was sincerely uneasy for the Western Route Army that was active on the Zhongtiao Shanxi Line.

"Yuhejun, Guanshanjun, why don't you two speak? Are you really scared by the Chinese troops?"

"His division commander, our corps launched more than a dozen attacks with the 46th China Brigade on the Dongyuan Front. After a six-day life-and-death battle, it never broke through the Dongyuan Defense Line. Finally, it was suddenly counterattacked by the Chinese troops, causing heavy casualties to the troops and had to withdraw from the battle and move closer to our army to Yaowangtai."

"Guanshanjun, what exactly are you going to say? Why do you say that?"

"Report to the division commander, what I want to say is that the enemy our division faces is a powerful enemy on the western front of the Zhongtiaoshan War Zone in China. At this time, our division is in a dangerous area in the Xiyang River Valley. According to the map, once the Chinese troops tighten their pockets from the east and west imports and exits, concentrate their superior forces and powerful weapons, our army may..."

"Bastard, are you exaggerating and disturbing the morale of the army? Do you understand?"

"Secretary Commander, I think the questions raised by Colonel Guanshan Feizhong just now should be taken seriously. Our division alone went deep into the Xiyang River Valley. It seemed that it was 20 miles long from north to south and 8 miles from east to west. It was a big battlefield, but..."

"Colonel Yuhechai, don't say anything more. As the division commander, I have experienced so many big and small battles. The small Xiyang River Valley wants to trap my Suzuki Division here. I'm afraid the Chinese troops do not have such a big appetite."

Although Commander Suzuki Division said this, he had already known the current situation. At this time, he hated that he was commanding his troops to go deep into the Xiyang River Valley and made serious mistakes of being alone and blindly optimistic.

Now he has been besieged in the Xiyang Valley by the Chinese troops. If you want to break through the ambush position where the Chinese troops have pocketed, you must seize the weakest area of ​​the ambush position and launch the most fierce attack.

As long as the defensive position of the Chinese troops and quickly expand the results of the battle, the Japanese Imperial Army trapped in the Xiyang Valley will fly out of the pocket formation, occupy the favorable terrain to launch a counterattack, and eliminate the Chinese troops that set up the pocket formation.

The other generals of the Suzuki Division swore that in their eyes, the Great Japanese Imperial Army would never be defeated.

The Xiyang River Valley, which was hazy in the night, was already midnight. During the day, bloody battles were fought, and the shouts of killing were constantly shouting, and the explosion of shells and the locust-like bullets were deafening. Now everything was quiet.

If it weren't for the unextinguished smoke of gunpowder on the battlefield, no one would have thought that this was a slaughterhouse where life was competing for.

The narrow Xiyang River Valley slowly fell asleep. The farmer who was not yet mature in the farmland, which was about to be harvested, made a "rattle" sound under the night wind.

If you get close to the edge of the enemy and us, you can hear the unscrupulous snoring of soldiers who have just experienced a battle of life and death during the day.

This snoring sound that can fall asleep when you fall down is extremely tired. I don’t know how long it will last, because as soon as the sky is dawn, a more intense fight will begin again.

The east finally brightened, and the sun did not change by human will, breaking through the darkness before dawn, and resolutely rose from the east.

The Xiyang Valley is very humid. Although the sun rises, the entire Xiyang Valley is still covered with morning mist and the visibility is not high.

As the organizer of this war, the head of the Nakajoyama War Zone, ordered the troops participating in the battle to use the Japanese army's unfamiliarity with the terrain and the cover of morning fog to concentrate superior forces to launch an attack on the Japanese army with the most fierce firepower.

In the Xiyang River Valley, which had been quiet for less than four hours, at dawn when the morning mist had not yet dissipated, a terrifying huge guns and cannons suddenly erupted again.

When the commander of the Suzuki Division heard the guns and cannons of the Chinese troops launching an attack, he sarcastically ordered the brigades and corpses to concentrate the large troops and all heavy firepower, and launched a fierce attack on the 85th Division, which was standing on the Tiger Head Defense Line of the 14th Army.

The commander of the 85th Division discovered that the main Japanese troops launched a crazy attack on the Tiger Head Defense Line and ordered the troops to hold their positions and block the Japanese troops surrounded by the Xiyang Valley outside the Tiger Head's position.

After more than five hours of bloody battle, the enemy and us finally evacuated the Japanese army that broke through the tiger's position.

The Japanese army launched a counterattack from Xiama Village to Kangjiashan and Nanyang Gate. After a fierce battle, they were repelled by the 83rd Division of the defender.

The counterattack of Suzuki Division, which broke out in two groups, not only failed to break through the China position and successfully escaped from the Xiyang Valley blockade, but was severely injured. The troops suffered heavy casualties and were once again besieged in the narrow area of ​​the Xiyang Valley.

In order to leave the Valley of Death as soon as possible, the Japanese army launched counterattacks on the defensive positions of the Chinese troops many times, but in the end they were defeated and retreated, and were forced to shrink quickly.

Although the troops of the National Revolutionary Army who participated in the annihilation of the Xiyang Valley fought bravely, because their weapons and equipment were at a disadvantage, the soldiers fought fiercely with the Japanese army without any water and rice. In addition, the logistics supply could not keep up, all the troops did not achieve the goal of completely annihilated the Japanese army, which only caused heavy damage to the enemy.

In order to eliminate the enemy's live power, the troops carried out artillery fire on the Japanese camps and clusters of Japanese soldiers during the day, and used green gauze tents as cover to attack the Japanese soldiers at night. The Japanese soldiers who were in a state of tension for 24 hours were almost collapsed and crazy.
Chapter completed!