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Chapter 652: The Sorrow of Zhongtiao Mountain (25) Preparing to Annihilate the Yoshitani Division

They are too fierce. The people from their guerrilla division's supplementary brigade are really fierce in fighting.

We have just destroyed two Japanese regiments here, and now we are thinking about annihilating an entire Japanese division.

Even though the Yoshitani Division lost two regiments, the Japanese still had more than 15,000 soldiers.

(They were unaware that the Yoshitani Division had secretly expanded to 33,000 men.

The current Yoshitani Division still has more than 24,000 soldiers.)

At this time, General Deng came back and came to see Song Wenwan happily.

"Commander Song, good news, Commander Song, the Japanese division that was confronting us has begun to retreat.

The direction they retreated should be towards the southern road of Zhongtiao Mountain.

According to our analysis, the Japanese took great advantage of the Central Army on the southern line of Zhongtiao Mountain.

However, they only had two divisions on the southern front and were unable to expand their victory.

Many national troops were retreating to the territory of the Shanxi-Suiyuan Army through Guishepo.

The Japanese troops have been unable to break through the siege for a long time. If they continue to fight in Guishepo and Dayu Valley, they will be entangled.

Then the final victory of the Japanese will seem insignificant."

Song Wenwan: "General Deng, what do you mean?"

Deng Beihou: "Commander Song, we have several strong troops coming to support us.

There's no way these little Japanese devils would just withdraw like that without caring about anything.

They will definitely leave some troops behind to prevent us from following them."

Song Wenwan: "How many people do you think they will leave behind?"

Deng Beihou: "If there were no guerrilla divisions and the Shanxi-Suiyuan Army joined, they would have left at most one brigade to fight and block the enemy.

It’s different now. The guerrilla division and the Shanxi-Suiyuan Army have arrived to reinforce.

The total number of national army troops on this front alone is as many as 130,000.

Together with the main force of the 3rd Guerrilla Division, we will arrive tomorrow night.

The Japanese don't have the strength of a division, so they can't stop our pursuit at all."

Song Wenwan: "Then we will release them first, and the division in front of you will retreat.

In this case, the best time for the Yoshitani Division to retreat is the late night of tomorrow.

Because if they retreat too early, we will chase them and hold on to them.

If they retreated too late, once the main force of the 3rd Guerrilla Division arrived, his Ji Gu Division would not be able to escape.

Hehe, we can't just sit there and do nothing even if the Japanese retreat.

Commander Xie, you should immediately integrate your First Brigade and the New Second Brigade (the defeated soldiers).

After the Japanese on the opposite side had completely withdrawn, they immediately rushed to the former 80th Army position to reinforce the supplementary brigade that Fang Zhizhi had just arrived.

Tonight, you have to play the empty city tactic to the Japanese.

At ten o'clock tonight, your camouflaged replacement brigade will defend there.

Your unit will not be allowed to execute new orders until reinforcements arrive tomorrow morning.

The Fang Zhixiao Brigade will infiltrate the route that the Yoshitani Division must take tonight and resolutely block the enemy from advancing southward.

After seven o'clock tonight, General Deng will personally lead the troops of two Sichuan Army divisions.

Together with the artillery marine brigade I brought with me, we will encircle and annihilate the Yoshitani Division. We must not let the old Japanese devil Yoshitani go.

Commander Chu led three newly formed divisions of the Shanxi-Suiyuan Army and one Sichuan Army division to defend the Guishepo line.

This line of defense is the lifeline of the national army brothers in Zhongtiao Mountain.

You just need to hold out until tomorrow morning, when the reinforcements from the Third Guerrilla Division arrive, and you will have accomplished a great feat."

At three o'clock in the afternoon, the 207th Division, after a brief training, returned to the original position of the 80th Army.

They were originally a group of useless defeated soldiers, but now they seem to have turned into an invincible lion.

Can it be the same as before?

It turns out that their equipment, their superiors, and themselves are not good enough.

It’s different now. They have all the tough stuff the Japanese have.

When coupled with a superior who is able to fight and dares to fight, they all want to shout: Who else?

Chu Yunfei looked at this group of howling soldiers and didn't know what to say.

What was in front of him? Was it a group of soldiers whose temperament had been changed by steamed buns and mutton soup?

He also ate the steamed buns and meat soup today. Apart from feeling that they were delicious, there was nothing special about them.

Chu Yunfei no longer has the energy to think about the inexplicable philosophy of life.

Commander Song put all the more than 60,000 troops that remained under his command, which showed great trust in him.

He must arrange these troops and help Commander Song guard the Guishepo line of defense.

I don't want to tell him the reason why Chu Yunfei was made the chief officer.

The reason why Chu Yunfei was appointed as the military commander is because he is good at defense.

Song Wenwan knew that Chu Yunfei was a defensive genius.

He was the master who guarded from Cangyun Ridge to the Big and Small Jinmen...

Well, this is Chu Yunfei’s dark history, and Song Wenwan will never tell him.

The Matsushima Division withdrew from its positions across the board at one o'clock in the afternoon.

Since he took over as the commander of the Ji Gu division, he has been stationed on the Guishepo Dayu Valley line.

We attacked Guishe Slope many times, but the effects were not great.

The 207th Division of the National Army opposite him was really a tough nut to crack.

According to Matsushima's estimation, an infantry brigade must have been wiped out, but they did not retreat a single step.

Not only did they refuse to retreat, but the three Sichuan Army divisions and the First Brigade of the 207th Division also gritted their teeth and refused to send reinforcements.

The plan to ambush two brigades in Matsushima was all in vain.

This morning, Commander Tomohisa Hayata sent him a telegram.

A great victory was won on the southern front of Zhongtiao Mountain. Their two divisions were chasing the Nationalist troops all over the mountains.

The most serious problem we are facing now is that the southern line of Zhongtiao Mountain is too large.

Their troops were already slightly insufficient, and now they urgently needed their two divisions to rush over to help.

Since the positions of the Sichuan Army and the 207th Division seem unbreakable.

The original positions of the 80th Army were obviously replaced by the guerrilla division's troops.

(Don’t ask the Japanese how they knew this. The 80th Army’s position has now been replaced by the guerrilla division’s troops.

Those two big explosions were clearly a common tactic used by guerrilla fighters. Anyone who has been bombed knows.)

At eleven o'clock, the Matsushima Division launched a final attack, but there was no effect at all.

Seeing that the entire division was deflated, Division Commander Matsushima simply gave the order.

Pack up and withdraw to the southern line of Zhongtiao Mountain. There are plenty of opportunities to achieve success there. Why bother to persevere here and waste time?

After finally making a detour to reach Yoshitani's division headquarters, he discovered that the situation of Yoshitani's division was even worse than his own.

In these three days, he had only lost a regiment of soldiers.

And this Yoshitani Division had been destroyed, with two entire regiments of soldiers being killed.

"Yoshitani-kun, what's going on? Why did we suffer such a huge loss?"

"Matsushima-kun, the troops we are facing are no longer the 80th Army of the National Army.

They should be a unit belonging to the guerrilla division. They are very powerful and really difficult to deal with."

“Yoshitani-kun, our division has also been pulled up now.

Now our two divisions combined have more than 50,000 men. I don't believe we can't defeat the enemy.

By the way, Yoshitani-kun, what kind of guerrilla division is this? How many people are there, and how many heavy weapons do they have? "

Division Commander Yoshitani: “…Don’t be afraid of being laughed at by Matsushima-kun, we fought two battles with them in the morning, and lost a regiment in each battle.

The enemy's number is unknown, and their number is estimated to be less than 15,000.