If Anda Twenty-three was decisive enough at this time, and continued to attack the Zhongtiaoshan defense line without even caring about it, the Chinese side, which had already suffered huge casualties, might not be able to hold on for long.

Even if Yuncheng is captured, the Battle of Zhongtiaoshan will definitely end with the victory of the Japanese North China Front Army.

But at this critical moment, Anda Twenty-three hesitated.

The hesitation of the top commander of the Japanese front line is not unreasonable. Once Yuncheng is captured by China, it means that the 180,000 troops on the front line will be completely out of food in a week, and it will be difficult to replenish the rapidly consumed ammunition immediately.

If all the war cannot be completed within a week, the main force of the 180,000 Japanese army will be in an extremely dangerous situation. Not only will there be no food or drink, but the guns and cannons without ammunition will also become useless decorations.

Not to mention that there are more than 100,000 Chinese people in Zhongtiao Mountain, as long as the more than 10,000 Chinese who have captured Yuncheng come here, the 180,000 army will have to hibernate and hide and seek with them.

If Okamura Koji, who is more ruthless, is here, he will definitely attack China at all costs. Even if he pays twice as much casualties than expected, it will be worth it to take down Nakato Mountain.

Unfortunately, Anda No. 23 is not Okamura Koji. After several telegram exchanges with Okamura Koji, Anda No. 23 finally made a more secure decision.

The Zhongtiaoshan front line suspended the offensive, focusing on maintaining the current defense line. In addition, the 35th Infantry Division directly under the North China Front Command was transferred to the 35th Infantry Division and urgently returned to Yuncheng.

The 35th Division is not a permanent division. It was established on February 7, 1939. It is a three-unit division special for security. It is under the jurisdiction of the field artillery gang, the engineering gang, the logistics gang, the division communication team, the weapon service team, the health team and other logistics units. The entire division has a total of about 18,000 people.

To put it bluntly, this kind of security division is a kind of organization between the mixed brigade and the A-type division, and their targets are often an ordinary infantry army of the Chinese Army.

Perhaps a security division is not enough to eliminate more than 10,000 Chinese troops, but Anda Twenty-three's purpose is very simple. As long as it can solve the danger in Yuncheng, this important logistics base can be lost.

This may be the humility that this Japanese lieutenant general in the Battle of Nakajoyama had never seen before. For the first time, he did not ask his subordinates to annihilate the enemy in front of him, but just defended the city.

But even when the humbleness is so great, the Chinese people don’t even give face.

The 35th Division marched towards Yuncheng from the front line 60 kilometers away. According to the original marching plan, they will arrive at Yuncheng at around 12 o'clock that night.

A marching 60 kilometers in 11 hours was definitely a promise that non-elite troops dared not make. For this reason, Lieutenant General Harada Kumayoshi, the then commander of the 35th Division, wrote an order to Anda 23: "The subordinates must arrive in Yuncheng before 12:00 today to relieve the danger of Yuncheng. Otherwise, they are willing to lead the generals of the division and the generals to apologize to His Majesty the Emperor!"

This military order is a bit ruthless. If you disagree, you will commit suicide by tying up, and you will not ask the other people in the division and regiment headquarters for their opinions.

However, this is not Harada Kumaki wanted to show that he wanted to show in front of Anda 23. Both of them were lieutenant generals. Although the position of chief of staff of the Front Army was higher, in terms of real power, Harada Kumaki was the real commander of the division and could be regarded as the number one figure in the Japanese army. There was no need to use a knife to flatter Anda 23's flattery. It was almost the same if Okamura Koji.

But the grudge between the 35th Division and the 80th Army was too deep.

Last year, two generals died in battle of the 35th Division.

The former division commander Lieutenant General Maedada was killed in the head when he was shot in the battle of Jincheng in May 1940. The army that killed a Japanese lieutenant general was in Nakajo Mountain at this time, so the 35th Division had a particularly strong desire to participate in the battle of Nakajo Mountain.

Maeda's death may be attributed to the fact that the 19th period of the Army Non-Commissioner School was too unlucky. His best classmate was named Abe Hikki, who died half a year earlier than him.

This is just what the Japanese know now. Of course, they don’t know how poisonous this 19th period is. In just one year, Tsukada Oshi, who had originally run to take over as commander of the 11th Army, was shot down before he could reach the place, and died in China. Naoji Sakai, the commander of the 15th Division of the Japanese army, would also step on the landmines buried under Fan Haer in the same year in the "Zhejiang-Jiangxi Battle" and died.

Another important general of the 35th Division, Major General Iida Taijiro, who was the commander of the 35th Infantry Regiment at the time, commanded three infantry regiments of the 35th Division, and was definitely the second-person of the 35th Division. Especially after Maeda's death, he was the person who carried the tripod of the 35th Division at that time.

However, this unlucky major general may have admired his former division commander too much. In a small force attack organized by the Eighty Army, his command was ambushed by a unit of the Eighty Army, which was only of infantry platoon level.

After only paying the price of more than a dozen casualties, the 80th Army Group Army shot Hijiro Iida, the unlucky child. The unlucky major general of the Japanese army who did not have penicillin died of a wound infection a few days later.

You said, did the 35th Division turn red when she hears the name of the Eighty Army?

In order to win over the generals of the division, Harata Kumayoshi, who had been in office for half a year, gritted his back teeth and even Anda Twenty-three's eyes twitched.

Japanese people have a characteristic that they rarely pretend to be empty-handed, and they have to do it as soon as they say it, even if they are a bit forced to lock men.

In order to be able to march 60 kilometers in 11 hours, the 35th Division abandoned all supplies, including clothing, food, etc. except weapons and equipment, including excavation equipment carried by the engineer corps.

Because these heavy things are mainly used for digging soil, the 35th Division went to settle accounts with the Chinese, and did not confront them with digging trenches.

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content later! Besides, the division officers and soldiers still carry single-soldier shovels!

They didn't even bring rice balls, and they ran with guns and cannons. How could the 35th Division run fast? If nothing unexpected happens, they even arrived in Yuncheng half an hour earlier than the prescribed time.

Then, something unexpected happened.

Something happened on the only way back to Yuncheng by the 35th Division!

The vanguards running in the front first plunged into the minefield. In the boundless darkness, the rumbling explosions and flashes that kept tearing through the night completely swallowed up a vanguard team.

Then, scarlet whips flashed in the wilderness on both sides, sweeping over to the powerful soldiers of the 35th Division who were caught off guard and were still marching in a hurry.

The roar of severe pain made the 35th Division, which was running wildly, suddenly became extremely clear, besieging the city to attack reinforcements, and was extremely familiar with the tactics.

The main force of the Chinese is not around Yuncheng, it is actually here!

That's right, the only thing surrounding Yuncheng was the Garrison Brigade and the logistics and supplies troops of the 772nd Regiment. In order to scare an infantry gang in Yuncheng, the Garrison Brigade and the 772nd Regiment even left 16 150 heavy force and 10 mountain cannons. The fierce artillery fire that the Japanese army had never seen in the city made them sure that the main force of the Chinese was outside the city.

The main army of the Guard Brigade, the 772nd Regiment, and the 771st Regiment, a total of 13,000 people were set up in Changle Village 10 kilometers away from Yuncheng.

The terrain of Changle Village is a hilly area, and the cultivated land is mostly sloped. It is not a common mountainous land around Yuncheng. The terrain is neither dangerous nor difficult to hide troops, and it is actually not suitable for ambushing.

But after learning that nearly 20,000 Japanese troops were marching towards Yuncheng, Brigade Commander Cheng decisively chose the ambush location here. His reason is very simple: "The so-called ambush is to be in a position that the enemy cannot imagine. If the enemy can guess and be vigilant, the most important suddenness of the ambush will lose its meaning.

What's the point of being unstable? The attack was caught off guard by the Japanese. We didn't plan to fight any offensive and defensive battles with the Japanese army. After the firepower was covered, we had to rush in and break it up and break it up as soon as possible.

It is difficult to hide troops in the hilly areas. This time we are not hiding in the ravine and grass in the blue sky and the sun. The best hiddenness at night is the best!"

It can only be said that Captain Cheng, who had been dealing with the Japanese for many years, had already figured out the Japanese army's psychology.

Before the 35th Division set out, in order to prevent the Chinese from playing siege and attacking aid again, Anda 23 arranged for reconnaissance planes to fly at least four times back and forth on the road that the 35th Division had to pass to ensure that there were no large number of Chinese people.

A small number of Chinese may not be able to see the reconnaissance pilots, but as long as there are thousands of people, it is unless the reconnaissance pilots are blind.

Therefore, the main forces of the two infantry brigades arrived did not march towards the ambush site until around 6 pm. Their arrival time was only about an hour earlier than that of the Japanese army.

Harada Kumaki also sent a vanguard team and a cavalry squadron 2,000 meters ahead of the main force to search and advance the mountains along the way, especially mountain jungles. The search depth on both sides of the road even reached 200 meters. It is really a place that cannot be reconnaissed, so use firepower to reconnaissance.

The first 50 kilometers of mountains came over, but I didn’t expect that the Chinese appeared in the most unlikely hilly areas.

The Japanese army in a hurry could only defend on the spot, but tragically, in order to march quickly, the engineer corps basically became transport troops transporting ammunition, and the engineer shovels became their only tool for excavating fortifications.

If the Chinese army could give them enough time and rely on the Japanese army's strong civil engineering capabilities, they would be enough to dig out enough individual bunkers to hide in individual soldiers.

Unfortunately, the Chinese did not give them much time. I don’t know how many mortars made their hair stand up and make them sound dull.

I don’t know how many flames and black smoke broke out on the 18,000 Japanese army’s marching line that lasted 6 kilometers.

In order to gain vision to attack the enemy, the Japanese army had to shoot flares!

The light of the flares illuminated the wilderness a hundred meters away, and also placed the figure of the Japanese army that was originally vaguely visible in the artillery fire clearly in the sight of the Chinese soldiers.

"Fight!" With the roar of the grassroots infantry company commanders on the front line, various light and heavy machine guns, rifles and submachine guns swept towards the Japanese army like raindrops.

Not counting artillery, only the firepower of light weapons, the firepower output efficiency of the security brigade and the 683rd Brigade at this time should be more than three times that of the Japanese army.

In addition, the Japanese army's move of "the enemy is dark and we are bright" was the opposite way. It was strange that the two veterans of the infantry brigade who grew up in the war and brought new recruits to the 35th Division and did not kill the 35th Division to death.

Brigade Commander Cheng issued an order before the war, and he completed his merits and killed more than 10,000 Japanese troops. Even if the main force of our two infantry brigades wins completely, it doesn’t matter whether they can attack Yuncheng or not. There is no need to save any ammunition, and the bullets are knocked out to me as much as I have.

The two infantry brigade officers and soldiers who did not save this again made the trigger feel so comfortable.

According to post-war statistics, the two brigades fired 800,000 bullets in the ambush battle alone.

What is the consumption speed? Take the cage policy that once was put into use in time and space to break Okamura Koji, a large-scale counterattack launched by the Eighty Army on the Thousand Mile Defense Line as an example.

At that time, there were 36 infantry regiments participating in the war in the Jin-Cha-Hebei Military Region, consuming a total of 260,000 bullets of various types; the 129th Division that participated in the war was already considered to be strong in the Eighty Group Army, with more than 80,000 troops participating in the war, and only 750,000 bullets were consumed.

And that was a battle that lasted nearly 5 months!

But on that night, only 11,000 Chinese infantry fired 800,000 bullets, even if an average of 200 bullets could kill and injure a Japanese army. Under such dense rain of bullets, the Japanese army suffered about 4,000 casualties.

And what really gave the heavyest blow to the Japanese army was not the dense rain of bullets that could be shot into a hornet's nest when you looked up.

This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! The earth cannon, which was called "conscienceless cannon" by brigade commander Cheng, has made a debut again. This type of "shock wave"-type blind-base artillery that was originally used to clear ground fortifications and clear obstacles, was used to kill infantry that had basically no fortifications to hide, could be called a "human life harvester".

Although the Independent Mixed 2nd Infantry Brigade, which had a range of only more than 200 meters, was completely lost and collapsed under the artillery under the range of only 200 meters, they still had a trench and an anti-aircraft hole to carry for a while.

What is the 35th Division?

What else is there besides using a head hard?

Don't say it, it's really true.

In order to ensure that the explosive pack can be pushed 200 meters away by the thrust of the gunpowder and cannot be accidentally exploded, there is a thick wooden board as a partition under each explosive pack, which adds up to 8 kilograms.

Because the length of the lead is inevitably different, some explosive packs have not been completely burned when they are smashed. Without explosion, this 8 kilogram thing actually has the same effect as a stone.

So, the Japanese army was caught off guard and were hit hard on the head by wooden boards and explosives.

The Japanese army's equipment is actually not bad, at least every Japanese army has a steel helmet.

As we all know, the steel helmet is okay to block grenade fragments, and block bullets are basically a decoration.

If you block an 8 kg object falling from the sky...

Not even the decorations.

Because, even the helmet and head would be smashed into the ground.

But if the Japanese army encountered this, they should be lucky. At that moment, they all entered a state of fainting. At least they didn't have to watch the huge explosive packs with rays of fire, and then with a "boom", they sent everyone within a radius of 10 meters to heaven.

This is how Lieutenant General Harada Kumayoshi died in battle.

A large explosive bag landed less than 3 meters away from the Japanese Army Lieutenant General. Even though he had more than 20 guards around him, there was even a sandbag fortification 80 cm high and half a meter thick in front of him.

But in front of this 5-kilogram explosive pack that hit the fortification and exploded after 0.5 seconds, everything was false.

Neither the Chinese nor the Japanese found any traces of this lieutenant general commander. Some people even suspected that Harada Kumayoshi had no face to face the local elders because of his defeat in the war. He simply absconded with the local elders. At this moment, he didn't know how to make a living by eating corn and eating potatoes in the corner of China!

The Japanese North China Front Command eventually only included it on the list of missing persons, but did not place it on the list of those who died in battle.

Half an hour after losing unified command, the remaining soldiers of various units of the 35th Division finally decided not to defend the enemy.
To be continued...