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Chapter 1,346: Battle of Sumu Mountain (1)

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    On December 30, two days before the New Year of 1942, Okamura Neiji issued an order to attack Li Guoyao¡¯s troops in Beiping City!

    Following Okamura Neiji's order, the four Japanese troops who had been well prepared were dispatched from the predetermined direction and encircled the Sumushan area.

    At the same time, Li Guoyao, who received the news, also issued action orders to various troops, and multiple troops took the initiative to attack the Japanese army!

    Regarding the four-pronged army that the Japanese invaded, Li Guoyao was most at ease in the direction of Datong, which Zhang Shaolin was responsible for. Although the Japanese army had an absolute advantage in terms of strength, weapons and equipment, the several regiments commanded by Zhang Shaolin were not vegetarians.

    The most important thing is that most of the road from Datong to Fengzhen is a winding mountain road. In many places, one man is in control and ten thousand people are not allowed to pass. When the mechanized troops of the Japs enter the mountainous areas, they are trapped in the shallows, and they really cannot play a big role.  .

    Li Guoyao was also reassured about the Japanese and puppet troops in Guisui. Although Wu Yunqiqige only led one regiment, it was an elite unit of the cavalry group. Together with the two cavalry divisions of the puppet Mongolian army, they could jointly deal with a Japanese army.  The probability of a cavalry unit missing is extremely slim.

    Li Guoyao already has a plan to deal with the Japanese troops coming from the direction of Zhangjiakou, so he is not too worried. The only thing that worries him right now is the Japanese troops coming from the direction of Baoding.

    Although he asked several regiments of the Independent Brigade to go to the Yu County area to block the 27th Division, the troops of the Independent Brigade were not very familiar with the local terrain, and they did not have as many troops as the Japanese army. This battle was not easy to fight.

    More importantly, according to the Japanese army's previous large-scale bombing campaign, it was a posture of never giving up until the goal was achieved. The current Jiujiu Army is no longer the previous Jiujiu Army. It was alone before, and it was most likely to die.  , no worries.

    But now dozens of villages around Sumushan have basically recognized the Jiujiu Army. Although the population is not large, with a total population of about 10,000, these are the soil for the Jiujiu Army's future survival.

    ¡°Once any of the Japs¡¯ troops are allowed to reach the hinterland of Sumu Mountain, the consequences will be an unpredictable disaster.

    As for the Japanese army, the 26th Division on the Datong side and the independent mixed second brigade on the Zhangjiakou side were the main forces. Their task was to break the turtle shell of the defenders, while the cavalry and Baoding troops on the Guisui side were  The troops on the front are mainly used to block the mouth.

    Especially the cavalry group, Okamura Neiji valued their mobility, so he placed them on the periphery. Once Li Guoyao's troops wanted to break out, this unit would pounce on them like hungry wolves.

    Datong. 26th Division Regiment Headquarters.

    In fact, Adachi Twenty-three disagreed with Okamura Neji's approach of using nearly 40,000 elite troops to encircle and suppress the Jiujiu Army. It was not that he looked down upon the combat effectiveness of the Jiujiu Army, but because Adachi Twenty-san was the chief of staff of the front army.  , he knew very well that judging from the current amount of various materials hoarded by the North China Front, it was really not enough to launch a war of such a scale.

    Forty thousand troops operating at the same time consume at least 60,000 kilograms of food every day. If the battle is fierce, the daily ammunition consumption may be millions of rounds.

    However, before the siege of the Eighth Route Army¡¯s Jinsuicha Military Region, the front army¡¯s stockpile of ammunition was only 85 million rounds and 300,000 artillery shells. As a result, after a major battle, the army¡¯s ammunition consumption was directly lost by 80%.

    In order to encircle and suppress Sumushan this time, the Front Army Headquarters directly transferred almost all the inventory of ammunition from the First Army Headquarters to the Datong Front. Once the First War Zone, the Second World War Zone and Tubal Road launched an attack on the First Army, the consequences would be disastrous.

    All in all, it¡¯s really not worth taking such a big risk for a temporary ninth army.

    What's more, Adachi Twenty-three has always agreed with Okamura Neji's words, that is, before the full strength of the Jiujiu Army has been thoroughly investigated, there should really not be any level of force confrontation with this force.

    The reason is that you can¡¯t annihilate them all. Instead, you will alert them, and it will be difficult to attack them again in the future.

    But it is a pity that he is only the chief of staff, and Okamura Neiji is the commander of the front army.  He only has the right to make suggestions, not decisions!

    After Okamura Neiji had made up his mind to attack Sumu Mountain, the only thing Adachi 23 could do was to personally command the troops to go north. He wanted to become the first Japanese general to set foot in Li Guoyao's headquarters.

    At 11:00 noon on December 29, more than 10,000 troops of the 26th Division set out from Datong City, aiming directly at Sumu Mountain.

    However, as soon as the troops left the city, the Japanese army ran into trouble!

    Anda 23 originally planned to have the troops take the train north, then get off at Fengzhen, and drive to Suzhou from there.?Mountain.

    If all goes well, the troops will be able to reach the outskirts of Sumu Mountain tonight. When Anda Twenty-three mobilized his soldiers before the war, he said that the battle is expected to last three days, of which the traveling time will be one day, and the remaining time will be one day.  The next combat time is one day, and the mopping-up time is one day.

    However, when the train just left Datong City and passed the Gudian Town Bridge, explosions suddenly came from the bridge deck. In the panicked eyes of the Japanese and puppet troops, the railway bridge was actually blown up.

    ¡°The high-speed train had no time to brake, and then it fell into a valley more than ten meters deep.

    Although the train derailment did not cause too many casualties, because most of the train's carriages did not fall into the valley, but held the front of the train, only more than 200 people died and more than 200 were injured.  However, it disrupted Lieutenant General Anda 23's plan to move north quickly, forcing him to adjust his plan and order all troops to go north either by car or on foot.

    Due to the revised itinerary, the Japanese troops in Datong did not come out of Datong City until 4 p.m., and the main force did not really leave the scope of Datong and enter Suidong territory after 6 p.m.

    What made Anda 23 almost explode on the spot was that as soon as they passed through the flat area outside Datong City, the nightmare began.

    I don¡¯t know when, the Z/N man actually laid a dense array of mines on the mountain road from Datong to Fengzhen. The dense mines preyed on people.

    Because they were unprepared at the beginning, many Japanese and puppet troops stepped on landmines and were blown up.

    However, there is only one road from here to Fengzhen. If you want to change the road, you can only go north from Shahukou in Zuoyunyouyu, and then enter Jining area through Liangcheng. Not only does the distance triple, but the road is not very long either.  Good to go.

    In desperation, Anda 23 could only order the engineers to go forward to clear the mines. As soon as the engineers came on stage, they were taken care of by the national army snipers in the dark. After several hours of tossing, not many mines were cleared, and the Japanese engineers lost their lives.  Hundreds of people.

    In addition, the sky was completely dark at this time. In desperation, Anda 23 had no choice but to suspend the march and set up camp on the spot while summoning the Japanese commanders and group captains on the front line to ask for countermeasures.

    But no one expected that that night, a main regiment of the Chinese army actually crossed the dense minefield and appeared in the valley where the Japanese army was temporarily stationed, and launched a fierce attack on the Japanese barracks.

    Although Anda 23 finally withstood the attack of the national army with its strong troops, strong horses, and strong firepower, the statistics of the losses after dawn were dumbfounding.

    Last night¡¯s attack on the camp directly caused the 26th Division to lose more than 2,000 people, of which the Japanese army lost more than 800 people, and the puppet army suffered a total of 1,500 casualties.

    In addition, at least one third of the barracks was burned down, and some of the supplies brought were also destroyed!

    Not only did Anda 23 lose its face, but the morale of the entire army also dropped to a freezing point.

    At this moment, the troops heading north from Datong had only been out for one day, and they were taught how to behave by the Jiujiu Army. It also made them realize that Li Guoyao's prestigious reputation was not just blown, and it was indeed difficult to deal with.

    Realizing that such a march was not feasible, Anda 23 immediately sent a report to the North China Front Army Headquarters, requesting the aviation force to immediately go north for support. This mountain road and the National Army troops operating during it must be closely monitored at all times.

    The North China Front Army Headquarters was also very straightforward and directly ordered five reconnaissance planes from Yuncheng Wangcun Airport to take off immediately and go north to reinforce the troops on the Datong Front.

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