War of Resistance: Glory of the Beasts

Chapter 583 Why does it look so exciting!
How many people are usually in a mixed brigade?

About four thousand people.

How many people are there in a brigade of the Shanxi-Suiyuan Army?

There are about 3,000 people under its command three regiments.

How many people are there in the Shanxi-Suiyuan Army?
The total force was about 15, claiming to have 30 troops under its command, and was dedicated to protecting Shanxi.

But in reality, this is not the case.

In 1927, Yan Laoxizi took control of Suiyuan, and his subordinates called themselves the Shanxi-Suiyuan Army. After the Northern Expedition and the Fengtian clique retreated to the Northeast, Yan Laoxizi, the King of Shanxi, once controlled the situation in North China. At that time, the total force actually reached 25, and there were more than a dozen army numbers alone.

Then the Central Plains War broke out, and the three parties lost a total of 25 troops. In other words, the Shanxi-Suiyuan Army, with troops, was the peak of Yan Laoxizi's power, and it has never recovered since then.

In the later period, the Shanxi-Suiyuan Army was incorporated into the National Government Army, and its organization was compressed like the 29th Army and the 32th Group Army. Jinling only gave Yan Laoxizi the numbers of the 33nd Army, 34rd Army, 35th Army, and th Army, and stipulated that each army had two divisions under its jurisdiction.

But Old Xizi Yan was too suspicious and forced Shang Zhen of the 32nd Army to leave, resulting in a sharp decline in its strength. If the national situation had not been turbulent and Nanjing had not urgently needed this force to fight against the Japanese and prevent the Japanese invaders from bypassing Shanxi, she would not have awarded the numbers of the 19th and 61st Armies. So far, the Shanxi-Suiyuan Army had a total of six armies, uh, just numbers.

With the end of many major battles such as the Pingxingguan Battle, the Xinkou Battle, and the Defense of Taiyuan, Yan Laoxizi, who lost Taiyuan in history, actually had only 20,000 troops left after the Shanxi war. Later, it was expanded to 50,000 troops through emergency expansion. It was also at this time that Fu Zuo's troops were completely out of Yan Laoxizi's control and began to do whatever they wanted.

How much did the Japanese lose during the entire Battle of Shanxi?

Twenty thousand people!
But things didn't develop as history had done... The Shanxi-Suiyuan Army did not suffer huge losses at Pingxingguan, nor did they encounter a massacre in Gang County. Everything was different from before.

As the chief general under Yan Laoxizi and the commander-in-chief of the 6th Army, Yang Aiyuan had to shoulder all the expectations of the entire Shanxi-Suiyuan Army. Now Fu Zuoyi's 35th Army was in Xin County, and Yang Aiyuan led Wang Jingguo's 19th Army to tie down the devil's troops at the foot of the hills. In history, Wang Jingguo should have suffered huge losses after failing to defend Gang County and retreating to Xinkou, but all this did not happen due to Xu Chaoyang's arrival.

At this moment, Guo Zongfen led the 33rd Army to temporarily stay outside Xinkou to observe the enemy situation and prevent the Fifth Division from reinforcing.

The Northeastern Army's Second Cavalry Army led by He Zhuguo and the First Cavalry Army led by Zhao Chengshi were waiting in the mountains. Yang Aiyuan's battle plan was also very simple. That was to let Dong Qiwu take over the Xinkou defense line, which would inevitably affect the Japanese. The troops he was holding back were the closest to Xinkou, so they had to retake the Xinkou defense line...

I'm sorry, the 19th Army will follow closely behind you, even if their teeth are not sharp enough, they will tear off a piece of flesh from your trouser legs; if the devils are not interested in fighting, it will be even better, the faster Cavalry st Army and Cavalry nd Army have been waiting here for a long time, the faster you run, the closer the Cavalry st Army and Cavalry nd Army will chase you, you are tired, but the Cavalry st Army and Cavalry nd Army are tired of horses, by the time you reach Xinkou, you will be exhausted and almost vomit blood, and we are ready to attack from both sides, this is Yang Aiyuan's idea. But before that, he still followed Xu Chaoyang's method...

Isn't the Yangmingbao Airport occupied by you little devils useless? Hasn't the whole army been informed? Aren't there no more bombing and reconnaissance aircraft?

Then let’s see how many heads your cannons have and whether they can move their heads back and forth to take care of all the troops!
"Give me the order!"

Inside the military tent, Yang Aiyuan stood up and shouted loudly: "Hold on to the Japanese troops we have pinned down and never allow them to relax. If the enemy retreats one step, we will advance two steps; if the enemy advances one step, we will retreat half a step. We must always maintain a state of engagement with them!"

Yang Aiyuan is determined to fight the Japs to the death. If this battle cannot be resolved overnight, then just keep fighting, starting from the smallest details. Even if he can only kill one enemy per day, Yang Aiyuan will fight you bastards for ten full years, until there is not a single one left of your four thousand men left!
The battlefield at the foot of the hills...

"attack!"

"attack!"

The Japanese machine gun group started moving. When they began to move towards the forest with mobile machine gun tactics, the entire hilly mountain range completely lost the sound of gunfire. The endless mountain range fell into a dead silence, as if the troops that were just fighting had completely disappeared. "Stop the attack!"

"The brigade commander ordered us not to enter the mountainous area. The terrain there is too complicated and prone to ambushes."

"retreat!"

"withdraw!"

The Japanese could only retreat when looking at the hills in front of them. However, on a hill nearly a hundred meters to the south of the endless mountain range, a battalion of soldiers suddenly appeared and pulled the trigger at the Japanese invaders who had been transferred with the machine gun group - da da da da!

Countless bullets were fired from the top of the mountain, and groups of Japanese soldiers were immediately killed. The Japanese soldiers were so angry that they kept screaming. When the machine gun crew rushed in this direction with their machine guns, soldiers appeared again on a hill to the north of where the Shanxi-Suiyuan Army had just disappeared. This group of soldiers started to fire at the Japanese soldiers desperately with their imitation Type 38 rifles - Bang! Bang! Bang!

The devils are already angry. This army in front of them is too irritating. You fight them head-on. They won't fight you. They will retreat into the mountains and never show up again. If you dare to go to the mountains to explore, they will definitely ambush you. If you don't go and prepare to retreat, these guys will fight back on the top of the mountain!
The Japanese brigade commander was so angry that he had no idea what to do. As he was extremely worried about Xinkou, he even called in artillery support, hoping to use the artillery fire to cover his retreat... But then a cavalry unit in the mountains came out with Thompsons and fired at the rear of the team. They would neither fight with you nor let you go. After a few days, this mixed brigade lost nearly a hundred people.

Yes, for a mixed brigade, what are a hundred or so people?
But this thing is like a toad on your foot. It doesn't bite you, it just annoys you.

The brigade commander had not had a good sleep in the past few days. Once, the enemy launched a massive surprise attack outside the camp, which frightened the brigade commander. He mobilized a regiment and spent half a night to wipe out the enemy. Only then did he find that the enemy only had one company, just one company!

This company hid in the dark and circled the Japanese camp, firing artillery without any conscience. He didn't care whether he hit the target or not, and his guns exploded with a crack.

Who can bear it?

You don’t want to beat me, you don’t want me to leave, and you don’t want me to sleep. What on earth do you want to do?
And what Yang Aiyuan is using now is the 'guerrilla tactics of breaking up a large force into small units' that Xu Chaoyang told him on the phone. Later, the whole world knew how to use this guerrilla tactic and could study it clearly, but... there was no fucking trick, not even a single trick.

After using this tactic, Yang Aiyuan finally understood why Xu Chaoyang could always defeat the Japanese. He watched the Japanese in Xinzhou jumping around in anger, but they could do nothing about the people in the mountains. They looked so angry and frustrated, and when they got angry, they would shoot machine guns at the uninhabited mountaintops like crazy. This... why did it look so exciting?

It was not until this moment that Yang Aiyuan reacted!

After he was no longer constrained by Gang County, Xinkou, Xin County, and Taiyuan, he was completely free. He no longer had to bear the expectations of the people in the city and the pressure of public opinion. He was completely free to fight however he wanted...

Once the idea of ​​'defending the city and attacking from the city gate' that has always existed in the traditional military thinking is abandoned, the troops will be like having wings. If they can win, they will fight. If they can't win, they will retreat and fight again later. How can it be so comfortable?

This Xu Chaoyang is really talented!

He actually dared to abandon the obsession of a traditional soldier and seek a tactical breakthrough. Just to be able to do this, he is no ordinary person.

The problem is, how could Yang Aiyuan know that all this actually had nothing to do with Xu Chaoyang...

　I have learned how to add pictures, hehe.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)