The protracted ambush organized by the Zhongtiaoshan War Zone in Xiyang River was no longer able to launch an attack on the Japanese army due to the inability to replenish important military supplies such as weapons, ammunition, food and medicine in a timely manner, and the troops suffered heavy casualties and were no longer able to launch an attack on the Japanese army.

According to the current situation of the troops, the theater commander ordered the troops to continue to surround the Japanese army to prevent the Japanese army from breaking through.

He was ordered to advance westward through the Xiyang River Valley, intending to capture Yongji and Fenglingdo Ferry. He was ambushed by the Zhongtiaoshan War Zone and besieged in the Xiyang River Valley.

After repeated counterattacks, he intends to break through and continue to advance westward, but his army launched many attacks, and his ammunition and food were exhausted. At this time, he was besieged in the Xiyang River Valley and was unable to break out.

The Suzuki Division and the Japanese troops who cooperated to fight, in the dilemma of exhausting ammunition and food, the soldiers lay on the ground and looked up at the sky, waiting for the Japanese transport planes to be released in time.

Those Japanese who were slightly injured in the battle did not receive timely treatment without medicine. The wounds began to ulcerate, suppurate, and inflamed. They were painfully scratched their hearts and lungs and cried in tears.

The enemy and our side in Xiyang Valley are no longer able to start fierce battles, but small-scale battles still occur continuously.

Just as the Japanese army and our army were in stalemate, the highest commander of the Zhongtiaoshan War Zone suddenly received a telegram from the special forces sent out for reconnaissance.

The telegram said that the Japanese army gathered more than 5,000 Japanese troops from Jiang County, broke through the defense line of our position at Hengling Pass, and attacked east along Yuanqu to support the battle of the Suzuki Division besieged in the Xiyang Valley.

At the same time, we received information from the return of the special forces near Qinshui reconnaissance. The Japanese army once again occupied Qinshui and advanced westward, trying to encircle and annihilate all the troops of the seven divisions that besieged the Suzuki Division in our theater.

Based on the current military strength of the enemy and us, as well as the supply status of important military supplies such as weapons and ammunition, food and medicine, the commander of the Zhongtiaoshan War Zone was unable to launch a large-scale battle with the Japanese army in the Xiyang Valley.

In order to preserve its strength, the theater command ordered seven heroic troops who participated in the battle to cross-cover and gradually withdrew from the Xiyang River Valley battlefield, and had to leave with hatred.

The troops participating in the Xiyang River Valley Campaign moved to the southwest mountain area of ​​Yuanqu to deploy defense, and the theater headquarters moved to Taizhai Village in Pinglu.

In order to preserve the combat strength of the troops, the theater command ordered the troops to move again to Mengjiayu, Huangbeijiao, Henghe Town, and Wangjiabao areas, and build fortifications to continue to carry out a strong counterattack against the Japanese army.

The Battle of Xiyanghe was called the "Nanyang Gang Battle" by Japanese textbooks. It was the most difficult and glorious major battle of the National Revolutionary Army during the anti-Japanese war in Zhongtiaoshan.

The Battle of Xiyang River ended, and thousands of officers and soldiers of our front-line troops were sacrificed in this narrow valley. The Japanese Suzuki Division and the troops that cooperated to fight were also severely injured and suffered heavy casualties.

After the war, the people living in some villages in Xiyang River Valley walked out of their homes and took the grenade handles they picked up on the battlefield and cooked as firewood. According to the people's self-report, it was enough for them to burn for three months.

Some young, strong and half-aged men would find bullet shells by grabbing a handful of soil from various battlefields in Xiyang River Valley. For a moment, children nearby often picked up bullet shells nearby, and some were packed with a large stone altar when they packed them home.

Li Shuanzhu, a half-grown child from Shuangmiao Village, took a few friends to find many bullet holes in a tree, some of which were embedded in it, and found sharp shrapnel to pick out the bullet holes inside. Finally, he counted it. Looking at the trunk from the ground, the bullet holes in this big tree reached more than 30.

The Battle of Xiyang River was a major battle in which our army launched an attack on the Japanese Suzuki Division and besieged it in the Xiyang Valley. Although it failed to wipe out all of it, it caused a heavy blow to the Suzuki Division.

This battle of Xiyang River, which took place in the southern Shanxi of Zhongtiao Mountain, exerted the majesty of our army and created the most beautiful annihilation battle in the early stage of the War of Resistance.

The Zhongtiaoshan War Zone Command, which had always insisted on commanding the Xiyanghe Battle in Xinzhuang Village, Yanqu County, left Xinzhuang and moved to Taizhai Village in Pinglu County. With the end of the Xiyanghe Battle, the combat missions and troops were also adjusted.

Xiyang River belongs to Yanqu County, which is located at the northeast end of Zhongtiao Mountain.

After the end of this battle, the theater command fully affirmed the encirclement and annihilation battle in the Xiyang River Valley, which made the enemy grit their teeth and used it to tighten the pocket of Shaoyuan and block Suzuki Division and other troops into the Xiyang River Valley. The 17th Division of the Western Route Army made the greatest contribution and paid the greatest price.

When commenting on this battle, the commander of the theater commander clearly pointed out that if nearly 10,000 officers and soldiers of the 17th Division were not determined to block the Japanese army's advance westward in Shaoyuan, it would be impossible to win the 14th Army's successful arrival at the designated location to carry out defense, and it would be impossible to achieve such proud results in this congratulatory encirclement and annihilation battle.

Just as the commander of the theater commander came to the front line to command more than seven divisions of the National Revolutionary Army and launched a life-and-death annihilation battle against the Japanese army besieged in the Xiyang River Valley, the troops directly under the command led by Commander Wei, the Northwest Army who had just crossed the Yellow River, and the small troops below each regiment, including the 17th Division that participated in the battle at the Xiyang River Battle, and the 177th Division that fought in other theaters, had launched many positions battles with the enemy in Yongji.

At this time, Yongji was a strategic location that both the enemy and us must fight for, because Yongji and Tongguan were separated by the Yellow River. Standing on the wall of Yongji, you can clearly see the rolling downward Yellow River flowing southward.

Yongji is very close to the Yellow River Ferry. You can quickly walk to the surging bank of the Yellow River after leaving the city.

Before the Northwest Army crossed the Yellow River, it was stationed on the Yongji front by the Zhongtiaoshan War Zone Command as the Western Front West Army. Its main task was to defend Yongji City and defend Fenglingdu Ferry from being occupied by the Japanese army.

The 108th Japanese Division received an order, ordering Takeda Ichiji Brigade to launch an attack on Yongji at full speed, and must destroy the Western Route Army's position defense line within two days and occupy Yongji City and Fenglingdu.

The Western Army led by Commander Wei held on Yongji, a deadly place with no room for maneuver. If all the officers and soldiers were united and put to death, it would be difficult to judge whether they could defend Yongji City.

Throughout history, there are only a handful of powerful soldiers and powerful generals who gallop on the battlefield who can win this dead land.

Only Xiang Yu was truly put to death and died, Han Xin fought back and finally won the victory when the troops caused huge casualties.

Like Zhao Kuo's retreat was cut off by the Qin army, shouting "Put to death and live." As a result, the entire army was wiped out and no one survived.

Ma Su was forced to go to Gao Gang, and when facing the surrounding enemy, he shouted "Put to death and live." As a result, he was knocked down from his horse and his head were different from his head in repeated rushes and clashes.

There are many big figures who think they are decisive in killing and planning. In addition to Han Xin and Xiang Yu, how many people can survive when they are trapped in a dead place and lead the troops to achieve the final victory?
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