The Chinese are gone.

Not only Chinese soldiers, but all Chinese.

Even not only did people disappear, but all the livestock disappeared.

If it weren't for the empty stone houses that could not be moved away, there was still the atmosphere of life, as if the two divisions of the 108th Division passed by, it would be the legendary no man's land.

The 108th Division spent a lot of effort to penetrate into the deep mountains, as if it was a demolition team of 20,000 people. The only capable work was to burn houses, but also to burn houses.

He punched hard, but he smashed into the pile of cotton, feeling uncomfortable no matter how he thought.

Xiong Yuan and the 20,000 Japanese troops may have never dreamed that half a month ago, at the meeting of the Southeast Jin regional staff held by the CEO of the Eighty Group Army, the general who served as the chief of staff put forward a strategic concept of genius and received unanimous approval from all the generals present.

‘Offside harassment, shrink and fight to the death, and the people are firm in their walls and clear the country!’ are the three major policies of this strategic concept.

Putting aside the military's combat methods, all the people in the anti-Japanese base area carry all the daily necessities they can take away and hide in the uninhabited mountains. They would rather live a hard life. Even if they dig wild vegetables and eat tree bark, it would be better than dying from Japanese bullets and bayonets.

Among them, the 921st Division was carried out thoroughly.

In the past six months, the 921st Division has gotten along well with the local people. At least 20,000 new recruits are from the young and strong garrisons in the garrison. They have also trained a large number of militiamen in the village, which is like one.

After the military order, the people around the garrison refused to leave their homes and firmly implemented the military orders, from eighty old women to cradle children, including chickens, ducks, dogs, sheep, pigs, and donkeys at home, all retreated to the uninhabited mountains with the help of militia.

There was no grain of rice left at home. The entire retreat took more than ten days. If the Japanese army who had broken into the hinterland could see a human hair, they would have seen a ghost.

Of course, there are more than one Japanese general who is the same depressed mentality as Xia Xiong Yuan.

Major General Yamashita's mentality as the second mixed brigade group at that time was almost exploded.

As a young general who has received a lot of praise within the Japanese Army base camp, his ambitions are much greater than his current military position. He urgently hopes to try his best to show his talents in this war. The Lieutenant General of the Army is just a transition, and the general or even the marshal is what he really wants.

In fact, in the past time and space, Yamashita's ambitions were realized in the war.

Due to outstanding performance in the North China war, after Okamoto Saburo was transferred, Yamashita Fumi was promoted from major general to lieutenant general and served as chief of staff of the North China Front Army. Later, because of suppressing the anti-Japanese armed forces in eastern Hebei and central Hebei, the chief of staff of the Japanese North China Front Army massacred tens of thousands of anti-Japanese soldiers and civilians in extremely brutal ways, causing countless tragedies.

The famous "Wang Xinzhuang Massacre" killed more than 200 people with poison gas at one time, which was due to his instruction.

With the cruel means, although the anti-Japanese armed forces in the two places are still active, their destructive power is no longer as good as before. Yamashita's name became even more famous within the Japanese Army Base Camp and was cited as a late-stage general.

When the Pacific War broke out in 1941, Yamashita Fumiya, who was 56 years old at the time, was transferred to the commander of the 25th Army of Japan, responsible for the war in Southeast Asia. It took only 70 days to sweep 650 miles across the Malay Peninsula. The guard of the Empire of the Sun-Don't Settling Empire led 130,000 defenders to surrender to the commander of the army, thus creating the largest land victory in the history of the Japanese army.

On the Chinese battlefield, there were no less than ten battles between the two sides with more than 600,000 troops, but the Japanese army had never had such a brilliant victory.

Yamashita, who won such a victory, was thus awarded the reputation of "Tiger of Malays" and was promoted to Army General in July of that year. At this time, it was only three years since he was promoted to Lieutenant General, which was also Yamashita's highest moment of glory.

The difficulties encountered by the Second Mixed Brigade were different from those of the 108th Division. The three major Japanese divisions and a mixed brigade were divided into ten directions. The 108th Division divided into two routes and punched the air from south to north. The 16th Division divided into four routes from east to west. However, the 109th Division divided into three routes from west to east. The last direction was from north to south. Of course, the second Mixed Brigade, Yamashita Wen Department, which was combined into one route.

To put it bluntly, the Second Mixed Brigade is the weakest branch in the four major attack directions of the Japanese army, but it is also the strongest general force, because they are the only ones who do not divide the troops.

The 16th Division and the 109th Division had hit the iron plate, and they encountered the main force of the 80th Army and the part of the Shanxi-Sui Army respectively.

For example, the 16th Division encountered the main blockade of the Eighty Army. The defense line was said to be three infantry brigades, but in fact it had nearly 40,000 troops, and its strength was comparable to that of an infantry army.

The 16th Division fought extremely fiercely, and the 109th Division in the other direction was not easy. The unit originally planned to attack the 16th Division in front and back to defeat the main force of the 80th Army that was blocking the 16th Division. Who knew that this was not all the strength of the 80th Army.

The Eighty Army actually had more than 10,000 troops scattered in the mountains, and had a large number of mortars and a small number of mountain cannons. The Jinsui Army, which had a force of nearly 10,000, also had more than 12 mountain cannons and 20 mortars.

Although the Chinese army, which has more than 20,000 troops, had no advantage in its strength, it relied on these heavy firearms to hold the 109th Division in the mountains, and every step forward had to pay a sufficient price.

In two days, the three armies of the 109th Division only advanced less than 6 kilometers, but the combat losses exceeded 1,000 people.

The Japanese army from the east and west sides were completely in a tough battle.

Logically speaking, the Chinese army, which has at least half of its troops, will not cause too much obstacle to the Second Mixed Brigade, especially the 108th Division has entered the 921st Division of the 80th Army. It has burned no less than 30 villages by burning houses, and there are not many Chinese troops harassing them.

But beyond the expectation of Shanxiawen, the Chinese seemed to have used all their troops to deal with him, and there were nearly 30,000 Chinese infantry divisions fighting him on the defense line.

Yamashita was really drunk when he was desperate for that scene.

The Chinese used hills to build positions and then formed crisscrossing defense lines. There was basically an infantry company stationed on each hill. It seemed that there were not many soldiers, but if the Japanese army wanted to pass through its range, they had to conquer the hill.

This led to the Second Mixed Brigade not being able to remove these hill positions like pulling nails.

However, the combat effectiveness of the 100-person position is really limited, but they are also fully armed soldiers. Especially after two consecutive ammunition replenishment, the average number of ammunition carried by each soldier on China is close to 100 rounds, and the ammunition is no longer scarce, at least before they died in battle.

But there was also a situation where the battle was too fierce, and the Chinese soldiers on the mountain surrounded by an infantry squadron and fired desperately for 6 hours before the ammunition was exhausted.

What shocked the Japanese army was that the Chinese soldiers in this unit were still fighting back with everything they could, including primitive weapons such as stone, just before the position was lost.

And this cannot be regarded as their last life-threatening blow.

They also have cannons.

Yes, China does not only have pure infantry. Under the cover of the densely populated mountain positions, there are still unknown mortars and mountain cannons hidden in the mountains. Whenever the mountain positions fire red signal flares, artillery fire will cover the mountain positions.

The Japanese army may not have died in capturing the hills, but this kind of tactic of dying with its own signal and then covering artillery fire has caused a lot of trouble to the Second Mixed Brigade.

It took two days to remove nearly ten highlands and kill more than a thousand Chinese soldiers, but the second mixed brigade suffered more than a thousand casualties.

"Damn it, what kind of tactic is this?" The Second Mixed Brigade, from the brigade commander Yamashita to the captain-level infantry squadron leader, was shocked by this completely exchange-style fighting style.

If they could live more than ten years and see the battlefield called "Iron Yuan Blocking Battle" on the northern ice field, they would know the name of the tactics they are currently facing.

Star-fall tactics!

A very nice name, but it is extremely cruel to both the enemy and us.

Under the guidance of such tactical ideas, all defenders are like thrown stars, where they fall, and there is the position.

There is no such thing as evacuation. Whether you want to or not, you must live and perish with the position, because the enemy will surround you and will not give you any escape route.

The only thing the defenders can do is to empty all their bullets and drop all grenades before their lives end, just to make it less loss to die.

The attacking side was also worried that they had to fight one position at a time. Without conquering these small but large-scale but large-scale positions, they would never reach the position they wanted to reach.

On that ice field, a heroic Chinese infantry army, 24,000 people were covered with a 25-kilometer defense line, and they were attacked by 47,000 coalition forces headed by the beautiful country.

In the end, the defenders wiped out 21,000 enemies at the cost of nearly 20,000 war losses, and completed the command's military order for half a month to defend.

How traumatized the trauma of the infantry army was? It can be seen from an infantry regiment with a total of 2,760 men before the war, including kids, cooks, and communication soldiers, which had only 266 remaining.

But they defended the defense line and won a strategic victory.

Now, in the mountains surrounding the passable major roads, the Chinese army has put up this decisive death tactic in advance.

Just like the words General Zhao Shoushan of the 17th Division stood in front of his 8,000 soldiers who had regrouped before the swearing battle: "This battlefield is dangerous this time, no less than that of the Wadouling. If you want to survive, you want more Chinese people to survive, and you don't need the Japanese to kill us. We will put our lives under the knife first.

I can't guarantee how many brothers can survive in this battle, but I can guarantee that in this battle, the Japanese will kill me many brothers, and we will return it once again."

The white-headed general said this, but he was not talking nonsense, he also had some confidence.

The 24 mountain cannons on the Tang Dao munition list were divided into six divisions just to him, and there were 3,000 shells, each cannon with 500 shells. Even if one gun only killed one Japanese devil, it could kill 3,000 Japanese devils.

In addition, the 17th Division has 25 mortars, basically three infantry regiments can be equipped with 6 mortars, and can also ensure that the division's direct artillery battalion will be added to 7 yards.

In this case, the artillery battalion of the 17th Division, which he had just repaired, would have 12 mountain cannons, 15 mortars, and 18 mortars filled with three infantry regiments. The 17th Division had a total of 45 artillery pieces, and its combat power was even greater than before the Battle of Niangzi Pass.

As a friendly army, the 104th Division of the 22nd Army also divided into 6 17-year-old mountain cannons and 25 mortars.

In this mountainous area where 20,000 troops were spread out, the two divisions deployed more than 80 artillery large and small caliber artillery.

If the Japanese commander could know the number of guns in advance and could he fight for his life as soon as he came up like this, it would be really an unknown number.

Anyway, after two days of fighting, the two infantry divisions that did not exert all their strength used most of the mortars and nearly half of the mountain cannons, which had already beaten the Second Mixed Brigade to a full head.

The reason why all the strength was not exposed was that the big pie thrown by Tang Dao was too tempting.

"The Japanese army must have been in units of ten thousand people, and the last time was seven or eight thousand. Even if the Japanese gathered heavy troops to surround them, the Japanese had planes and they would have to cover their evacuation with all their might. Tens of thousands of people were desperate. Our troops were insufficient and we could not stop them. But a force that was gradually consumed, and a unit whose ammunition and food were severely consumed, and several commanders, how sure are we to eat them?" When Tang Dao threw this bait, no one could stop this temptation.

In the Battle of Xuzhou, the fifth war zone, which had been deployed for nearly two months, used this move to siege two Japanese detachments. I heard that the medals of the participating troops were all carried on boxes, and they were all Chinese troops. If others could do it, why couldn't they do it?

But the plan is far from changing quickly. Originally, the two divisions, one brigade and one regiment had a total force of more than 40,000 people, which could completely block the enemy from one direction and severely damage it. However, at the military meeting of the General Staff of the War Zone, the 683rd Brigade was entrusted with an important task by the commander and would use the main force to resist the Japanese army to enter the enemy from the most forces.

Then it can only be the two divisions and one regiment responsible for doing this work, otherwise, Tang Dao would not have been forced to use the "star-fall tactic" of Chinese soldiers fighting to the death on the northern ice field.

The two infantry divisions must take out the courage of "barefoot people are not afraid of those wearing shoes, and those who play wild are afraid of those who are afraid of being dead" to block and consume at least five days of the Japanese army.

Now, two days have passed, and there are still three days left before the mission is completed successfully.

At the end of the day's battle, looking at the vast mountains in the twilight, Major General Wen, who was over the age of knowing his destiny, only felt that the veins on his temples were bulging, as if blood would thrust out of it in the next moment.

If he continues to fight like this, let alone attacking the Chinese hinterland and joining the 109th Division successfully, his 7,000 infantry soldiers would be completely wiped out for another five days. If he comes to the new force of the Chinese army, his second mixed brigade will probably be wiped out in this mountain.

But can he retreat? Major General Yamashita remembered the encouragement from Commander Sanshanmoto before leaving: "Okamoto was originally an elite of the Kanto Army, and he also intends to return to the original army to serve. If nothing unexpected happens, in two or three months, the position of Chief of Staff of the North China Front Army will be vacant."

Although Yamashita Fumiya knew that this was most likely a cake drawn by this boss for him, it was very attractive to him. He had been serving as major general for three years. If he was not promoted to lieutenant general, he would probably not be able to be promoted to the title of general by the end of the war. He had to seize this opportunity.

If you want to seize this opportunity, you must obtain enough military achievements in this battle. Yamashita is very clear. Don’t look at what Shanshan Yuan said to him, I’m afraid this old fox has said the same thing to several people.

The lieutenant general division commanders may not be interested in this transitional position, but they also have major general brigade commanders, and no one does not want their hard-core subordinates to go further.

The situation at this time is that it is difficult to move forward and it is impossible to retreat.

"Baga! Damn Chinese, I want to kill you all." Yamashita pulled out his saber in anger and slashed hard at a small tree as thick as a human arm beside him.

These actions fully demonstrate that Yamashita had not completely lost his mind at this time. He at least knew to choose a finer one and cut down a big tree as thick as a man's waist. The tree was fine, but his small knife would be broken.

Because Yamashita Fumi was actually very clear in his heart that he had made a decision.

For the future, he must advance. No matter how many soldiers are injured or killed, the Second Mixed Brigade must continue to fight.

As for the final result, he could only hope that God Amaterasu would bless him and that the other three armies would successfully complete the pre-war arrangements, especially the nearly 20,000 people of the 108th Division, which had not been blocked so far. If they could find a way in the mountains and circumnavigation behind the enemy, they could also solve his current difficulties.

But I can only say that he was thinking too much.
Chapter completed!