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Chapter 1,274: The Breakthrough Battle of the Ninth Army (3)

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    After receiving the frantic request for help from the frontline troops, neither the First Army stationed in Shanxi nor its commander Lieutenant General Iwamatsu Yoshio or Okamura Neiji in Beiping City could sit still.

    There are various signs that it was the difficult Tuba Road army that attacked the strongholds along the Zhengtai Railway. They took advantage of the main force of the imperial army to attack the Nangong front line and suddenly launched a surprise attack. They once again staged the attack battle in August last year.

    What makes Okamura Neiji even more angry is that neither his front army headquarters nor Iwamatsu's 1st Army headquarters knew anything about this large-scale attack on the Tubal Road in advance.

    You must know that after taking office, Okamura Neiji made large-scale adjustments to the secret service under his command, and also merged the intelligence agencies affiliated with the royal family into the Special High-Tech Section, in order to fully control the anti-Japanese war in North China.  troop movements.

    At that time, Hattori Saburo also patted his chest and assured him that he would closely monitor the movements of enemies from all walks of life. He did not expect that such a big mistake would appear in such a short time.

    After being shocked, Okamura Neiji personally called the First Army Headquarters, asking them to reinforce the operations along the Shota Railway at all costs, and they must ensure the smooth flow of this transportation artery.

    Especially to ensure the production of Jingxing Coal Mine, you must know that the coal produced there is mainly used to supply the steel produced by Showa Steel Works in Anshan, Northeast China, which is directly related to Japan's military production.

    After receiving the telegram from Okamura Neiji, the commander of the First Army, Lieutenant General Iwamatsu Yoshio, immediately sent the chief of staff, Major General Minamiyama Hideyoshi, to the front line to supervise the battle and command the battles on the Yangquan and Shouyang lines. At the same time, he strictly ordered the troops stationed in Shimen to urgently reinforce Jingxing.  .

    Major General Kusuyama Hideyoshi brought out a brigade of troops from Taiyuan City, and then rushed to Yangquan by train. After the train arrived in Yangquan, it quickly merged with the troops of the Ninth Brigade, and then rushed to the nearest battlefield at Niangziguan.

    However, as soon as the train left Yangquan City, it was angrily discovered that most of the train tracks along the way had been blown up. Also destroyed were the bridges and stations along the way, as well as the garrison strongholds, roadblocks, and lookout posts.  Of course, there are only ruins and debris left.

    In desperation, the troops could only rush to the front line on foot!

    But when about four brigades of Japanese troops appeared on the road, the nightmare began!

    I saw that many places on the highway leading to Niangziguan had been destroyed, and the areas that had not been destroyed were full of mines and booby traps, not only on the main roads, but also on small side roads.

    And in addition to these along the way, you can see the Eighth Route Army's blocking defense lines every time you reach dangerous places. These defense lines have the same character, and they are all built at mountain entrances or on slopes where you can shoot from a high position.

    Often the opponent only needs a company or even a platoon of troops, plus two or three light and heavy machine guns, to stop the Japanese army for a period of time.

    If the Japanese army makes a forceful attack, they will lose a lot of troops in any position, and they may not be able to defeat it.

    The most frightening thing is that the opponent may know that they are eager for reinforcements and do not carry heavy equipment, so they fight very tenaciously, even a little unscrupulously.

    The distance from Yangquan to Niangziguan is only a few dozen kilometers. If you had postponed the previous trip, it would take at most an hour to get there by train.

    But now the Japanese army has been delayed on the road for more than half a day, and has not even completed one-third of the journey. According to Major General Kusuyama Hideyoshi's estimate, it will take at least three or four days for them to reach the Niangziguan battlefield.

    By that time, the corpses of the imperial army at Niangziguan might have stunk!

    But the current situation is like this. They can only strengthen their offensive efforts and mobilize a large number of aviation forces to coordinate operations.

    "However, when fighting in mountainous areas, the power of aviation is greatly reduced. In addition, the scale of Tubal Road is too small. Sometimes it is difficult for the imperial army's aviation to find the opponent's blocking position.

    All in all, this battle was very difficult for the troops in the direction of Yangquan!

    Kusuyama Hideyoshi¡¯s side was having a hard time, and the Iinuma garrison was not having an easy time either!

    Although they had given up on Pingshan County and allowed the main force of the Eighth Route Army to capture this not very important county, 400 imperial elites and 700 to 800 Imperial Army soldiers became abandoned.

    But they still failed to save Jingxing County. When they spent a full day and a half to arrive at Jingxing County, they found that it had been captured by the Eighth Route Army as early as yesterday.

    Tubal Road not only wiped out all the defenders in the county, but also blew up the most important railway station of the imperial army on the Zhengtai Railway line into ruins. Even the tens of thousands of tons of ready-to-go coal piled at Jingxing Station were all destroyed.  ignite.

    It is conceivable??The scene of tens of thousands of tons of coal burning at the same time is really astonishing, just like the end of the world.

    After receiving the news, Iinuma Mamoru collapsed on his chair!

    He knew that this batch of coal was going to Fengtian in the northeast. The arsenal there was in urgent need of coal. This matter was also an important task assigned directly by the base camp to the North China Front Army Headquarters, which in turn handed over the matter to their 110th Division.  group.

    Originally, the production capacity of Jingxing Coal Mine was limited, and it was impossible to produce so much coal in a short period of time. For this reason, Fang Zishan directly sent troops to purchase all the more than a dozen Chinese companies in the Jingxing Mining Area at low prices to ensure the output of the coal mine.

    After more than a month of frantic production, which even exhausted a large number of Chinese miners to death, more than 10,000 tons of coal were finally collected.

    But just as they were preparing the train skin, this happened!

    The current destruction of coal will inevitably affect the production of the Kwantung Army's military industry department. With the urinary behavior of those arrogant guys, they will definitely complain to the base camp. Not only will he be punished, but also Commander Okamura will also be punished.  Bad luck will follow.

    "And if Commander Okamura is in trouble, how can he, the person directly responsible, be in trouble?"

    Mamoru Iinuma immediately sent a report to the troops on the front line, asking if it was possible to extinguish the fire and save some coal?

    But the news was too late. The coal was not stored together, but was divided into more than a dozen coal mountains and stored in several nearby coal fields. Now all these coal mountains have been ignited.

    ?According to the local people in the city, the fire has been burning all day. Not only was it ignited on the surface, but everything inside was also on fire, and it could not be extinguished.

    The most important thing is that they don¡¯t have enough manpower. Faced with such a fire, it will take at least thousands of people to put out the fire without professional tools.

    But now they only have a few troops in Jingxing County, so they have no chance at all!

    In desperation, Iinuma Mamoru could only order the frontline troops to ignore the fire in the city for the time being and capture the Jingxing mining area first.

    In Mamoru Iinuma¡¯s view, as long as there are coal mines, as long as the equipment and miners are there, 10,000 tons of coal can still be replenished, it just takes a little more time.

    But what he couldn't accept was that when their people rushed to the Jingxing mining area with great difficulty, they were first blocked by the Eighth Route Army. The troops responsible for the attack suffered heavy losses. Even Lieutenant Colonel Tanaka, who was in charge of the frontline operations, was killed.  .

    After finally conquering the mining area, they found that all 27 coal mines in the Jingxing Coal Mine had been blown up. Imperial soldiers and imperial merchants were massacred, and their bodies were hung in the open space outside the mine. The mine collapsed, and all the machinery, equipment, and miners disappeared.  .

    According to the news sent back by the troops at the front, the entire Jingxing Coal Mine was completely destroyed!

    If you want to resume production, you can¡¯t even think about it without three or two months of reconstruction!

    After receiving the news, Iinuma Mamoru felt as if he had fallen into an ice cave, and his whole body was freezing!

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