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Chapter 64: Mountain Gate (4)

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    After only a short rest, the 11th Division bid farewell to Zhang Xian's 169th Regiment and quickly headed along the rushing Huangni River towards Shijiang Town, fifty miles southeast.  The time they spent together was so short, which made Zhang Xian, Gao Wei and Xiong Sanwa feel a little disappointed.

    Zhang Xian did not see Zhang Muli, Xu Haibo or his younger brother Zhang Yi. After the 11th Division captured Shanmen Town, the 33rd Regiment had already taken a step forward and headed towards Shijiang, earlier than the other two regiments of the 11th Division.  After a long time, this made Zhang Xian feel a little regretful.  However, the old friends of the 32nd Regiment and Zhang Xian¡¯s former subordinates all came to see him. It was really a happy moment. When everyone was reminiscing about the past, they saw Xiong Sanwa and Chen Daxing on the hillside.  When they fell down, Zhang Xian and Huang Xinyuan were very angry and ran to the hillside to stop them. The two guys let go and laughed. It turned out that these two people were competing for their skills. They had not been together for two years.  Let¡¯s meet and see who can beat whom.  At this time, Chen Daxing was already a company deputy, while Xiong Sanwa was still just a platoon leader. This is why Xiong Sanwa, a stupid young man, was very unconvinced.

    Happy time is always so short, and we only got together for less than half a day. The 32nd Regiment also left Shanmen Town, and the 11th Division all left. The only person who made Zhang Xian unhappy was his classmate Wang Jiang.  Wang Jiang was the guard battalion commander of the 11th Division at this time, and he was right next to Commander Yang Tao. Logically speaking, when meeting classmates, they should be very affectionate, but under Zhang Xian's warm greeting, only Wang Jiang was welcomed.  Jiang nodded lukewarmly, then turned and left, leaving Zhang Xian's joy at a sudden loss of embarrassment.

    After the 11th Division left, Zhang Xian immediately began to deploy defenses in Shanmen Town.  After inspection, he found that this mountain town is surrounded by mountains and rivers. It is an east-west mountain pass at the eastern foot of Xuefeng Mountain. There are some densely wooded mountains in the north and south. A Huangni River winds out from the Tongshan Mountain area in the north.  This town has become a crossroads. To the east, you can reach Liuduzhai, an important transportation town on the Chenshui River, a tributary of the Zijiang River. To the south, you can follow the Huangni River to Shijiang Town, the gateway to the east of Dongkou City, and to the west, you can reach the town.  Passing through the passes of Xuefeng Mountain are the villages and towns of Jiangkou, Yuexi, and Zhaping, and heading north past Ma Jinggu is Xupu, where the 11th Division came from.  After several inspections and planning, Zhang Xian, after discussing with Lei Lei, Yu Changle, Deputy Commander Xiao and others, believed that the terrain here was very suitable for blocking the enemy. As long as the passes in the east-west direction were guarded, the enemy would definitely not be able to pass.  .

    At the moment, Zhang Xian arranged his troops and placed a battalion on the high ground to the north of Shanmen Town as a flank of the main position, commanding the entrance and exit of the pass.  At the same time, the main position was placed on the mountain ridge to the west, and two battalions were arranged to form a straight angle with the flanking positions. The formation was ready and the entire east-west passage was completely blocked.

    The enemy came very quickly. In the evening, its leading troops had already rushed over from the direction of Hengxi.

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    The captain of the 133rd Regiment, Kagawa Katsunaga, is also a veteran who has been on the battlefield for a long time. However, in the 116th Division, his status is always lower than that of Matsushita Yasujiro. Since this Zhijiang battle, he was originally  I want to take advantage of the opportunity of the new division commander to be stationed with the 133rd Regiment to perform well in order to improve my status in the 116th Division.  The new division commander Hishida Genshiro is very dissatisfied with the commander of the 120th Regiment, Matsushita Seijiro. This is an excellent opportunity for him, but things always fail to go as expected.  The 33rd Regiment has been surrounded by the national army. Although it has won several battles and captured Shanmen Town, its light is still far less dazzling than the 120th Regiment in the south. Matsushita Yajiro was attracted  It took all the strength of the 57th Division of the elite 74th Army of the national army to enable the 133th Regiment to reach Zhaping near the river mouth with few obstacles.  Although the 120th Regiment faced a strong enemy, they still fought flexibly and shuttled freely among the siege of the national army. According to the plan, they captured Dongkou City, marched to Yuexi, and marched straight to the front of Jiangkou Town.  Although both regiments had been defeated at this time, Matsushita Yasujiro's tactical level, military insights, and judgment ability were obviously higher than those of Kagawa, which was revealed in Hishida privately.  At that time, Kagawa viewed the conflict between Matsushita Seijiro and Hishida Division Commander with a sense of schadenfreude. Who knew that the result would be exactly as Matsushita Seijiro expected, so even though he knew he was wrong, Hishida Division Commander did not report it to him.  Matsushita admitted his mistake, but his combat arrangements at this time were obviously being implemented in accordance with Colonel Matsushita's advice.

    This time, Matsushita Yasujiro led his remaining 120th Regiment to deal with the National Army's 74th Army, which was several times larger at the entrance of the cave. However, his Kagawa 133rd Regiment was almost unscathed, and Hishida Division  The regiment leader ordered him to lead a team to rescue Shanmen Town, but he was fettered by the 13th Division of the National Army along the way. He had only advanced thirty miles in two days.What kind of method is needed to see blood?  "

    Zhang Xian smiled and said: "The enemy must think that the high ground to the north of us is our main position, so they are using all their strength to capture that position. You have also seen it. Don't think about it later, they are stopping  After the bombardment, we will definitely concentrate all our efforts on attacking the northern positions. This is the time for us to take action."

    Hearing Zhang Xian¡¯s explanation, everyone suddenly became cheerful.

    As Zhang Xian expected, after the shelling, Jia Chuan ordered a brigade to attack the high ground north of the mountain gate, which he considered to be the main position of the national army. At the same time, he ordered another brigade to bypass the mountain forest from the west.  Prepare to attack the flank of what he thinks is the main position of the national army.

    Zhang Xian stood in the woods on the top of the mountain, using his binoculars to watch the enemy troops coming out in two groups. He couldn't help but laugh and said to Lei Lei: "Haha, brother Lei, you said these devils are really funny and incredibly smart.  Just like Matsushita Seijiro; but even stupid people are surprisingly stupid, just like the Japanese commander in front of us. Until now, he has not figured out where our main position is and started attacking blindly!"

    Lei Lei also laughed, and Yu Changle gloated on the side: "This is great, it saves us from having to use our brains with him, and let them come back without any return!"

    "Yeah!" Zhang Xian nodded, and at the same time passed the order to his artillery to fire.

    For a time, the national army's artillery fire also started violently, roaring like a storm, and in the blink of an eye it had exploded among the enemy crowd.  These Japanese troops who were still charging forward never expected that the opponent's artillery fire would be so powerful, and not only powerful, but also accurate.  With the roar of the cannons, the moment the cannonballs fell, flesh and blood flew and intertwined. Under the flying dust, blood mist formed in the sky and spread. In addition to the smell of burning smoke in the air,  It's this disgusting smell.

    Colonel Kagawa watched his soldiers fall one by one during the charge, and couldn't help but feel anxious. After his indiscriminate bombardment just now, the national army's position fell silent. He thought that the enemy here had been destroyed by his own.  The firepower was completely destroyed. Unexpectedly, he had just charged here and immediately fell into the opponent's artillery fire. He didn't even have time to take precautions.  At this moment, an artillery shell fell right next to him. A staff officer next to him threw himself down and knocked him down. The huge shock wave threw him up. When he got up from the ground, he found that there was only one person left around him.  He was alone, and some of the others fell beside him, some were buried in the upturned soil, and some rolled to unknown places.  He drank loudly to make himself full of strength, trying to hide the weakness and helplessness at this moment.  He shouted loudly and ordered his artillery to fire towards the high ground to the north again.

    Under the attack of the national army's artillery fire, the enemy's momentum was greatly reduced. They covered their bodies one after another, or hid in the craters, or crouched behind rocks and trees, not daring to charge forward even half a step.  The Japanese soldiers who had rushed to the high ground to the north were immediately caught in the volleys of gunfire from both sides of the national army, and fell to the ground one after another.  The men of the company on the high ground in the north had already withdrawn. It was actually just an empty position, but at this time it had become a testing range for the Chinese and Japanese troops.

    The enemy army that was attacking from behind finally rushed to the high ground, but all they could see was ruins.  At the same time, the artillery fire of the Chinese army and the artillery fire of the Japanese army poured down at the same time, stunning the Japanese brigade that had just captured the high ground.  There was no place to hide on the mountain at this time, and the Japanese who rushed up the mountain retreated one after another.

    The hills to the south have become the flanks of the main national army position. When Katsunaga Kagawa reacted, his two brigades of Japanese troops had already retreated.  All around, the national army's charge horn sounded miserably again, and the Chinese soldiers seemed to have emerged from the ground, suddenly appearing all over the mountains and plains, scrambling to catch up with the retreating Japanese soldiers.  The Japanese army was in disarray and retreated backwards, no longer paying attention to Captain Kagawa's shouting at the top of his lungs.

    Kagawa Katsunaga was still thinking about organizing a defense to defend his position, and then launch a new round of offensive. At this moment, fierce sound of gunfire came from behind him, and a scout soldier panicked.  The ground reported to him that the pursuers of the 13th Division of the National Army had arrived.  Colonel Kagawa knew that at this time, it was impossible to retake Shanmen Town. If he did not evacuate here immediately, his 133th Regiment would be attacked from two sides by the national army.  In desperation, he could only issue an evacuation order to his troops and retreat in defeat to the north of the mountain gate.  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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