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Considering this, Xia Yang made this decision.
The elite armored troops of the Kagel Combat Division will be dispatched to the vicinity of Peiping to assist the main force in combat.
As for the Japanese North China Expeditionary Force, they are at the end of their game and unable to launch a large-scale attack. Just building a line of defense and blocking them in the Shijiazhuang area would be enough to delay them.
When the Japanese troops in the Pingjin area were almost eliminated by them, they dispatched armored divisions to kill the North China Expeditionary Force.
Before the real decisive battle between the two sides began, the intensity of the battle outside Shanhaiguan in the north was not inferior to that in the Pingjin area.
As the top commander here, Luo Xinghe commands more than 50,000 people under his command, and has been entangled with more than 100,000 Japanese troops for more than half a month.
The Japanese army sent several elite troops in this direction, including their armored divisions and three heavy artillery regiments.
But even so, the main force of the Japanese army has not even advanced to the bottom of the Shanhaiguan city wall.
After Luo Xinghe regained Shanhaiguan, he had already realized that if he just defended Shanhaiguan and waited for the Japanese army to attack, he would not be able to sustain it for too long.
In order to delay the Japanese attack and buy enough time for the battle in the Pingjin area, he ordered his troops to advance northeast. His leading troops even attacked Suizhong County and directly threatened Jinzhou.
However, the Japanese army arrived and pushed back their leading troops. Even Huludao and Suizhong County fell into the hands of the enemy after a week of continuous fierce attacks by the Japanese army.
Those Japanese troops originally thought that after capturing Suizhong County, they could push them all the way to Shanhaiguan.
However, they still underestimated Luo Xinghe and the determination of the defenders in Shanhaiguan to defend their territory and resist.
Luo Xinghe referred to the suggestions of the Eighth Route Army guerrillas and divided his elite troops into parts.
However, they were not used as a frontal defensive force, but from the mountains to the north, over the mountains and ridges, and detoured back to the Japanese army's flanks and rear.
The mission of these troops is very simple, which is to destroy the Japanese roads and railways, blow up their warehouses, ambush small groups of Japanese troops, and even sneak attack the Japanese headquarters.
In short, what they have to do after going deep behind enemy lines is to disgust the Japanese troops by any means necessary, so that they will be disturbed and unable to focus all their energy on frontal attacks.
At first, the Japanese commanders did not take them seriously.
In their view, these guys, just like those in the Anti-Japanese Alliance, are just making small fuss, as annoying as flies, and do not pose any fatal threat to them.
Until one of their special trains transporting armored vehicles and tanks was blown up by the soldiers of the Fourth Army using remote control when it was traveling to the Jinzhou section.
The soldiers on board were also ambushed and killed. More than 20 tanks and armored vehicles were all blown up and could not be repaired before they were transported to the battlefield.
These insidious guys even left bombs on the armored vehicles and tanks that the Japanese army rolled over on both sides of the railway.
As a result, many Japanese soldiers who went to the scene later were killed and injured.
This incident made the headquarters of the Japanese Kwantung Army furious. Its commander-in-chief, Yoshijiro Umezu, sent three telegrams in a row, ordering the Japanese troops at the front to immediately organize troops to eliminate these rat-like guerrillas.
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However, in just three days, more than a thousand members of this regiment were killed. It was no longer possible to continue fighting and could only retreat to the rear to rest.
¡°As a result, these Fourth Army troops seemed to intend to teach the soldiers of this regiment a long lesson.
This Japanese army unit planned to retreat to Shenyang for a temporary rest while replenishing its troops. The two special trains they were traveling on were blown over, causing no casualties.
This time, Umezu Yoshijiro was completely annoyed. He actually dispatched a division of troops to encircle and suppress these troops.
Of course, after a week of encirclement and suppression, they found that the effect was not very good.
Those guys are like mice, as if they have burrows everywhere. As long as they get into the mountains and woods, the Japanese army will be helpless against them.
The soldiers of the Fourth Army fought side by side with the Eighth Route Army guerrillas on the battlefield behind enemy lines.At that time, their frontal troops experienced more intense battles.
The three Japanese brigades took turns to attack the garrison composed of the Fourth Army and the Eighth Route Army on the front of the battlefield, which was only fifty kilometers wide.
They used armored vehicles, heavy artillery, tanks, and cavalry to form a huge offensive square, trying to push them all the way.
When their first round of offense started, everything seemed to be going according to their plans.
Wherever their troops went, the garrison troops of the Fourth Army and the Eighth Route Army abandoned their positions and fled.
This made the Japanese commander conclude that it would only take three days at most for their main force to hit the artillery shells on the city wall of Shanhaiguan that had experienced a century of weathering.
However, when night fell on the first day, they realized how naive and stupid this idea was.
That night, the joint forces of the Fourth Army and the Eighth Route Army launched a fierce counterattack late at night.
At the same time, tens of thousands of troops even circled back to the rear of the Japanese army, almost cutting off their retreat and surrounding them in this narrow area.
The Japanese soldiers, in the middle of the night, were first subjected to fierce bombardment by the artillery fire of the Fourth Army and the air force fire, and then were repeatedly attacked by large groups of infantry and cavalry that appeared from nowhere.
After barely resisting for several hours, the Japanese troops began a large-scale rout and retreated to the vicinity of Suizhong County before the soldiers of the Fourth Army stopped pursuing them.
The Japanese army left a large number of weapons and baggage on their lost positions and were captured by the Eighth Route Army and the Fourth Army.
And when the Japanese army launched another attack during the day the next day, on the opposite position, the roar of the Type 92 heavy machine gun and the crooked machine gun almost tore their eardrums.
This tug of war lasted for more than a week.
The Japanese army lost more than 10,000 people in vain, but they only advanced more than ten kilometers, and the area they could actually control was even less.
This made the division commanders of the Japanese army realize that the loss of Shanxi, the loss of Hebei, and even the loss of northern Henan and Pingjin were not due to the incompetence of the North China Expeditionary Force. (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com - Didn't finish reading? Add this book to your favoritesI'm a member and bookmarked this chapterCopy the address of this book and recommend it to your friends for pointsChapter error? Click here to report
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