Chapter 21 Chapter 21 From Often Winning to Often Losing

Occupying Pingjin first, and then capturing Chahar, since the dispatch of troops, it can be said that there is no battle that cannot be won, and that no battle can be defeated. This "brilliant record" made the Japanese High Command forget about it. Once a person's addiction comes up, it can't be stopped. "garrisoning troops" in North China is no longer fun, and it's too slow. You have to add more food and materials to upgrade. The upgraded name is called the North China Front Army, and its scale has expanded to eight divisions and one brigade. Before the "July 7th Incident", Japan had only 17 standing divisions, but almost every division had a corresponding reserve force. The regiment also has an arsenal specially built for them.

When there is no war, the "village soldiers" work locally as farmers and merchants, and when it is their turn to fight, they will mobilize urgently and distribute guns and ammunition. Through this method, one can be transformed into two in a short period of time, and the formation of Form a new division. For example, the 108th Division is a new division, which is composed of reservists from the 8th Division. The North China Front Army was divided into the 1st Army and the 2nd Army. The 1st Army was commanded by Commander Xiangyue and marched towards Baoding along the Ping-Han Railway.

On September 14, the Battle of Baoding broke out, also known as the Battle of Zhuobao (Zhuozhou-Baoding).This was the first large-scale battle in North China since the fall of Pingjin, and the Chinese commander was Liu Zhi. Feng Yuxiang's old Northwest Army had "Five Tiger Generals", as did Chiang Kai-shek's Central Army. The general selection criteria were: senior instructors in Huangpu, who had made great achievements in the Eastern Expedition and Northern Expedition.Since the "five tiger generals" did not come from official documents, but purely after dinner, there are many differences in their personnel and ranking, but no matter how they are arranged, Liu Zhi is an indispensable and important role. Some people even call him the central government. The chief good general in the army.

Liu Zhi, a native of Ji'an, Jiangxi Province, graduated from the second phase of Baoding Military Academy. In private, Liu Zhi is not only honest and honest in appearance, but also clumsy and inarticulate, and rarely argues with others.Back then, there were two most talkative "grandmothers" in the Central Military System. One was He Yingqin and Granny He, and the other was this Granny Liu Zhiliu. Banquets must be acceptable to others, and they must be given a way to survive, especially not to use public power to avenge private interests. Granny Liu can't speak, but she is talented and has a deep foundation in Chinese. She has compiled anthologies for Ouyang Xiu, Wen Tianxiang and others, especially on old chido, that is, ancient letters.After liberation, he fell into poverty in Nanyang. When he was struggling, he accidentally gave a lecture to the students. Even the principal of the school was taken aback by this, and immediately hired him as a regular teacher.

The two mothers-in-law are both clean and self-sacrificing, and Liu Zhi himself has nothing to do with tobacco, alcohol, and gambling in his life.He succeeded He Yingqin as the commander of the 1st Army, and he was a model in the management of the army. He could memorize an infantry drill by heart, and it was common for him to wear a cloth uniform in the grassroots company. Different from the easy-going in life, Liu Zhi on the battlefield gives the impression that he has hidden intrigues, a stubborn personality, and will not waver once a decision is made. During the Eastern Expedition to the Northern Expedition and even the Great War in the Central Plains, Liu Zhi was almost certain to win every battle and conquer every attack. Chiang Kai-shek's new and old opponents would not be afraid to see this man. Since then, Liu Zhi has had a victorious general He Fu will be named.

When the civil war turned into a foreign war, the ever-victorious general had a chance to continue his reputation of ever-victorious. On the plain, there is no danger to defend, and it is most conducive to taking advantage of the special forces. Xiangyue not only dispatched a large number of heavy artillery and tanks on the ground, but also dominated the air force in the sky-China has almost no air force in the north to assist in the battle. The infantry he used was also pretty much the strongest: the 6th Kumamoto Division and the 14th Utsunomiya Division. Needless to say, the Kumamoto Division is the famous Beast Division.When the Utsunomiya division headed Matsuki, it was the first to pursue Ma Zhanshan near Harbin. At this time, the division head was the second famous general from "China Hands" after Itagaki-Doihara Kenji Middle School General, after he took charge of the Utsunomiya Division, the division was also known as the Doihara Division, a mechanized division with many tanks and cannons.

Xiangyue thinks that his hammer is heavy enough and strong enough, but it still can't smash through the frontal defense line arranged by Liu Zhi. It's not to say how strong Liu Zhi's troops are. In fact, he only used Sun Lianzhong's 26th Route Army and Wan Fulin's 53rd Army for the first-line defense of Zhuo County. Sun Lianzhong is okay, after all, he is a side branch of the old Northwest Army, while Wan Fulin belongs to the Northeast Army, and he is one of the worst fighters in the Northeast Army. Many of his officers can't even read maps, and senior commanders above the division only rely on the phone after the battle With the remote control, the situation in front of them was blinded, and they didn't understand at all. The so-called commanding was mostly blind commanding.

Liu Zhi mainly relied on fortifications. Changsheng is not accidental, luck will not come to you automatically if you don't ask for it.Long before the "July 7th Incident", Liu Zhi not only achieved "flat roads, no flies, and no wild dogs" in the Henan Province he governed, but also took precautions, actively prepared for war, and supervised the construction of a large number of defense fortifications in the northern plains. During the Great Wall Anti-Japanese War, Xu Tingyao did not have a deep understanding of the Japanese special forces, especially the tank units, so the temporary fortifications were eventually flawed, preventing the cannons but not the tanks.With the lessons of the Great Wall Anti-Japanese War, Liu Zhi improved the fortifications and specially added anti-tank trenches.

You have armored horses, I have pits for tripping horses, and the anti-tank trenches all over the Jizhong Plain make Xiangyue helpless. There are so many tanks in Doiyuan, but most of the time they can only be seen. If it is difficult to break through, it is necessary to find the weak point, and the weak point is often at the junction of the opponent's two lines of defense, the so-called "two-way area". At this time, the Chinese defenders, Liu Zhi defended the Ping-Han line, and Song Zheyuan guarded the Jinpu line. In the middle of the Ping-Han and Jinpu lines, it is most difficult to distinguish responsibility. Liu Zhi can be said to be Song Zheyuan's defense zone, and Song Zheyuan can also be said to be Liu Zhi. defense zone.

Kazuki ordered Doihara to attack here. In Japan, Xiangyue is famous for studying infantry tactics, but his opponent is also a tactical expert, and the latter is also very clear about where he is weakest, so Doihara soon discovered after the attack that Liu Zhi had already prepared for it. Someone is waiting for him! There are not only people, but there is also a Yongding River in front of Doiyuan. It is too difficult to rush across the river. This result seemed a bit discouraging, but after the reconnaissance, Doihara was overjoyed-he heard the sound of defenders' vehicles driving away.

The opponent is not trying to hold on, but retreating! It was Wan Fulin who retreated, and Liu Zhi sent him here to plug the loophole, but he just wanted to put on a show, and when he saw Doihara killed, he slipped away ahead of time. Doihara immediately launched a forced crossing, and after crossing the river, he posed a fatal threat to Liu Zhi's first-line defense from the side. On September 18, Zhuo County fell. As soon as Zhuo County was lost, Baoding lost its barrier, but Liu Zhi still reserved backup forces in Baoding. He arranged not only Guanlinzheng's 52nd Army, but also other "miscellaneous troops" on the second line of defense. Xiangyue's life will be difficult if the retreating troops on the first line of defense work together. But the problem lies precisely in the "no-name" body.Withdrew from the front line, only Sun Lianzhong was willing to help defend Baoding, but he also retreated after two days.Others who have come up, and those who have not yet come up, all claim to have lost contact with Liu Zhi, and ran away scrambling to disappear. Liu Zhi looked at it again, and there was only Guan Linzheng's 52nd Army that could fight. It only included two divisions, but it had to defend a 40-mile-long front. Not to mention the inferior firepower, people alone were not enough . Liu Zhi was so anxious that he kept begging Chiang Kai-shek to send more reinforcements quickly. However, at this time, the Songhu Battle had already started and was gradually expanding, so there was no way to transfer troops northward. Thinking about the Great Wall War, Xu Tingyao once had three divisions in his hands, and was overwhelmed by one division of the Japanese army. Now if he wants to use two to support the other three, the outcome can be imagined. Even so, it did not form an absolute one-sided situation.In order to capture Baoding, Xiangyue, led by special forces, dispatched 140 tanks, 260 artillery pieces, and 60 light and heavy bombers in the air to attack in turn, followed by three standing divisions. After advancing for 20 miles, it took 10 days to occupy Baoding when Guan Linzheng withdrew. After the war, after the war, the Chinese army suffered 20,000 casualties, but the basic organizational system of the main force was preserved.At the same time, the Japanese army killed and injured 5,177 people, and all of them were veterans of the Kumamoto and Doihara divisions.Obviously, Xiangyue couldn't be completely satisfied with such a result. There is also great dissatisfaction with the public opinion in China's rear.During the civil war, Liu Zhi had never lost a single battle. When it was his turn to fight a foreign war, the people of the country naturally had high expectations for him.Especially at the beginning of the Anti-Japanese War, the Chinese people still had strong self-confidence. "After eight years of the Anti-Japanese War, there are very few generals who have not suffered a defeat." This was slowly realized later. It's not that Chiang Kai-shek doesn't understand military affairs, he also thinks that Liu Zhi didn't make any obvious mistakes in commanding the Battle of Baoding, it's just that the public opinion attacked him fiercely, so he had to choose to let Liu Zhi back away. Liu Zhi, who was defeated for the first time in his life, just fell down from the sky. Not only did he lose the right to command, but he was also ridiculed by others as a "long-legged general". Liu Zhi's aides felt wronged by their chief, and wanted to announce the whole process of the battle, but Liu Zhi stopped him: This is a military secret, how can I tell others easily, I just have to be patient! It took many years to get people's attention again. He said that the situation at that time, even people who did not understand the military could see that it was not good. He was sent to the command position again like "jumping into a fire pit". Of course, it was another defeat, and it was a big defeat. It completely announced the end of Liu Zhi's military career. Life is so weird, you have fought countless victories in your life, but in the end it ended in a defeat. For many people, losing once means losing everything! Liu Zhi tried his best to pretend that he didn't care about these things, but when he was in his 70s, he also sighed that "life is like a dream". Age does not make saints, only old people. ——Liu Zhi "My Memories" Liu Zhi, who endured for a lifetime, finally uttered a very philosophical truth. Before Xiangyue attacked Baoding along Pinghan Road, Lieutenant General Tojo Hideki, who occupied Chanan, was already planning a new offensive. Hideki Tojo, graduated from the 27th term of the Chinese University of China, one of the initiators of the famous "Baden-Baden Secret Treaty", was then the chief of staff of the Kwantung Army and the commander of the Mongolian Xinjiang Corps. Tojo was born in a samurai family. His father, Tojo Hideyoshi, became famous in the Sino-Japanese War. He was hailed as the "genius" and "smart general" of the Japanese army. His military books were regarded as Japan's "army treasure". . With such an old samurai as a role model, Tojo aspired to be a "little samurai" since he was a child.When he first went to school, he didn't like reading. He only wanted to fight fiercely with others, and he never gave up. But once, he gave in—several people beat him up, and he was beaten so badly that his nose was bruised and his face was swollen. This won't work, two fists can't beat four hands, it seems that I have to learn how to fight ten thousand enemies. Since then, Tojo has worked hard, otherwise he would not have been admitted to the mainland. The old Tojo relied on the blood of the Chinese to pave the way for himself to advance, and the little Tojo did the same.During his stay in the Northeast, he spared no effort to suppress the Northeast Anti-Japanese Alliance, which can be described as "bloody" and "cruel", so he was called "Razor Tojo". Zhao Yiman died at this stage. "Shaving" guerrillas like the Northeast Anti-Japanese Alliance is still a piece of cake for Tojo. His ultimate dream is to go to the pass to "shave" the regular Chinese army like the old Tojo. The Mengjiang Corps (Dongtiao Corps) he commanded was actually a mixed brigade that was improvised from the Kwantung Army. It had only a few thousand soldiers, but it defeated Liu Ruming, who had 30,000 defenders, and easily occupied the whole of Chahar. environment, which made Tojo forget about it, and soon turned his finger on Shanxi. On September 5, the Dongtiao Corps entered the territory of Jin Province, and its soldiers pointed directly at Datong. Yan Xishan, the native emperor of Shanxi, should be in a hurry. Yan Xishan, commonly known as "Yan Laoxi" in the folk, with the style name Baichuan, was born in Wutai, Shanxi Province, and graduated from the sixth phase of the Japanese Army Non-commissioned Officer Academy. During the period of the Republic of China, there were many local vassals and border officials, but none of them could match Lao Xi'er.He has been in power in Shanxi for 38 years, and he has truly governed Shanxi into a country within a country. Not only has the economy done well, he has the reputation of the "Model Province of Economic Construction" in the country, but he himself has become a political tumbler. Competing with Chiang Kai-shek for the world, after the Great War in the Central Plains, Lao Jiang had nothing to do with him. When Yan Xishan’s classmate Lu Shi recalled, he couldn’t think of any outstanding deeds of this big guy in his student days. They all said that his performance was mediocre and his grades were extremely average, so Yan Xishan’s secret of success became A controversial topic. If you look at the photos of Lao Yan in his early years, he is short and fat, with a big head and a body like a meat wheel, just like the standard model of a big boss or accountant. During the civil war, Yan Xishan relished talking about cartoons in a Shanghai tabloid.There are three people in the painting. Chiang Kai-shek is holding a pistol in one hand and a cash bag in the other; Others think that this cartoon is uglified, but Lao Yan doesn't mind. He is very proud of it, thinking that the drawing is vivid and shows that he is better than Jiang and Feng. I can sum it up with only one word, which is called calculation, and two words, which is called knowing how to calculate! It is good to calculate, because there are wealth, army, and political power in the abacus, those who can calculate win, and those who can't calculate lose. Lao Yan's calculations are extraordinary, and it really hurts his bones.When others count years, he counts months; when others count months, he counts days; when others count days, he counts hours; Those who have to calculate desperately, until the calculation is dark and dark, and I collapse on the ground with cramps in my legs. Lao Yan counts economically, militaryly, and politically. It can be said that everything is counted.People from Shanxi describe him as saying that as long as Old Xier sleeps and rolls over, he can come up with many new ideas. As early as after the fall of Pingjin, he began to calculate what to do if the Japanese army also attacked the border of Shanxi. Veteran Zhao Daiwen spoke, but he was talking about the "September 18th" in the early years. Back then, Zhang Xueliang made a wrong move, Shenyang "the city is not too high, the pond is not too deep", and the Northeast Army "soldiers are not too strong", but this old man hesitated and delayed. I was reluctant to use the main force to go out and fight the Japanese, and finally wiped out all the family fortunes. Everyone has seen it, not to mention the Northeast Army with no branches to live in, but the Northeast students who have been exiled in the pass, how pitiful! Zhao Daiwen's words have a sound behind the strings, Shanxi city is also high, the pond is also deep, and it has its own arsenal, so you can't make a mistake. Yan Xishan nodded frequently when he heard that, Shanxi must rise up and fight against the war, and there is no longer any hesitation. According to the analysis of Mr. Li Dongfang, a historian of the Republic of China, the concept of family and country is not only a shortcoming but also an advantage of the Chinese people. It only depends on how to play it. We have known for a long time that filial piety comes first, first there is filial piety to the family, and then there is loyalty to the country in the future, but since ancient times and now, this eastern country is too big, and many people have no complete concept of the country. To the end of his life, what he knew and cared about was only his own one-acre three-point land. In the Republic of China, the so-called national unity was at best only a formal unity, and it was still divided in reality. This problem became even more serious. Wang Jingwei said that China actually does not have "national defense" in the strict sense, only "provincial defense" or "joint defense of several provinces".But then again, whether it is "provincial defense" or "multi-provincial joint defense", as long as you are really willing to "defense", sometimes the defensive power that erupts is amazing. Therefore, Jiang Baili believes that the local resistance war is also an important barrier to stop the Japanese invasion. When the battle of Songhu broke out, Chiang Kai-shek stationed troops in Shanghai, and heavy troops could not come to the north. Yan Xishan was appointed as the commander-in-chief of the second war zone, and Shanxi really became a bridgehead for the local war of resistance. For Yan Xishan, the top priority in the Shanxi War of Resistance was to defend Datong, so he was preparing to organize the Datong Battle. Take out the abacus, and you have to calculate again. The result is a pocket array.The specific idea is to make a big bag here in Datong, and Li Fuying will act as the "bait". After introducing the Mengjiang Corps into the bag, Fu Zuoyi will tie the bag from the outside. Crack, it's guaranteed to smash Tojo's bones into pieces. If the Datong Campaign is successfully organized, not only can Shanxi be preserved, but Yan Xishan himself will surely become a hero in people's minds after Fu Zuoyi, who fought in the Suiyuan War of Resistance. However, even if you turn all the battles after the "July 7th Incident" upside down, you still can't find where the "Battle of Datong" is. It's not surprising, because the legendary battle couldn't be held at all, and the bottom of the bag burst before it was tied. "Bag Bottom" was in Tianzhen, northeast of Datong, and was guarded by Li Fuying, but after only six days, he did not withdraw his troops. People at the time commented that among the generals of the Jin army, Li Fuying was good at "diplomacy", liked to build relationships, and made connections, but was "short than military". In the 61st Army, most of the officers and soldiers below the intermediate level do not know each other. Compared with Tang Enbo and Hu Zongnan of the Central Army, this is almost a world of difference. Regardless of the previous battle of Nankou, as far as the battle of Tianzhen is concerned, Li Fuying did not even hold a military meeting before the battle. He neither studied the enemy's situation nor had a proper strategy. , I have never been to the front line to learn about the actual battle, let alone boost morale. The chief doesn't use his brain, and only Bai sacrifices as a soldier.Against Tianzhen, Tojo didn't even launch a frontal charge of the infantry, and with the bombardment of machine guns, most of a regiment was gone. How to fight this battle. The front-line officers and soldiers were extremely anxious, and 18 emergency battle reports were sent to the headquarters. However, Li Fuying still couldn't come up with any good strategy. He just hid the plane in the air-raid shelter with a group of staff all day long. In the end, he simply gave orders in panic and confusion. withdraw troops. As soon as the order was withdrawn, all the red-eyed soldiers on the front line stamped their feet and beat their chests, and even cried bitterly. They were reluctant to be ordered to withdraw, because even the soldiers at the lowest level knew that this meant that all the previous sacrifices were in vain. Li Fuying withdrew his troops recklessly, and also implicated others. Tang Enbo's 13th Army suffered heavy losses in the Battle of Nankou, and was ordered to retreat to the Ping-Han Line to rest, but Yan Xishan felt that Tang Enbo was better at fighting, so he was forced to intercept him personally and invited him to participate in the command of the "Battle of Datong". Tang Enbo didn't want to stay, but he was too embarrassed to refuse. After all, when Nankou was at its most critical, Lao Yan sent Chen Changjie to help out generously, and he always had to pay back the favor he owed. Then stay. However, before he got into the mood, Li Fuying withdrew, and the Dongtiao Corps came over with a bang, and the Japanese troops coming out from the direction of Tianzhen were all over the place. Nankou fell, but at any rate they were beaten to the point where they could no longer fight. Tang Enbo really couldn't bear this miserable situation. When he saw Yan Xishan, he cried and said that I was sorry for my officers and soldiers. Say goodbye and leave. Due to the fall of Tianzhen, the "Battle of Datong" ended in a catastrophe. On September 13, Datong fell, and within a few days, the entire northern Shanxi was completely lost.Hearing this news, public opinion across the country was not in an uproar, but in an uproar. The incompetence of Li Fuying and the Jin army gave Tojo a big advantage. On October 14, he took advantage of Fu Zuoyi's participation in the Battle of Taiyuan, Suiyuan's defenses were empty, and he occupied Guisui (Hohhot) and Baotou in one fell swoop, thus controlling the entire Inner Mongolia.Because of this series of military exploits, he was commended by the General Staff Headquarters and awarded a second-class medal, which became an important capital for him to be promoted to Prime Minister Lu and form a cabinet himself. When Liu Zhi was defeated, Chiang Kai-shek could let him dismiss from get out of class, but he couldn't with Yan Xishan. Shanxi is not under the direct jurisdiction of the Nanjing government, it is other people's territory, Chiang Kai-shek is worried after deliberation, and decides to find someone who can speak well to play the side drum for Yan Laoxi. The person I found was Huang Shaohong, who was then the director of the Military Commission's Operations Department. On September 20, Huang Shaohong arrived in Taiyuan. Only then did he know that Yan Xishan was not in Taiyuan, but had already gone to the front line. Those who are on the front line, Yanmen Pass is also. Yanmenguan is less than 300 miles away from Datong occupied by the Japanese army, which is considered the forefront position, which shows the urgency of the military situation. Huang Shaohong hurried to Yanmen Pass again, and met Yan Xishan. Yan Xishan knew very well that if Datong was not lost, Huang Shaohong would not rush to the Shanxi front line in such a hurry as the "Minister of Operations". Sure enough, Minister Huang came to convey Lao Jiang's will. "Generalissimo Jiang" said that Shanxi has many mountains, no more than the North China Plain. Lao Yan listened carefully with his ears pricked up. Shanxi can be defended, and the Jin army is good at defending it. Don’t I know if I can defend it or not? After hearing the decree, Lao Yan, in front of the advisers around him, said without changing his face and heartbeat: The withdrawal of Datong is not to repel the Japanese army, it is a strategic need, and I voluntarily give up! Huang Shaohong had already expected this statement, but Lao Yan's statement below was somewhat beyond his expectation. Lao Yan said that he would kill Ma Di with tears and shoot Li Fuying. This is called "the meritorious service cannot be rewarded without a big reward, and the guilty cannot be punished without a big punishment." Listening to the sound of gongs and drums, listening to the sound of speaking, Huang Shaohong has always been very capable in this area. Yan Xishan's ability to behead his confidant general in public also made him sure that Shanxi's determination to resist the war is very strong! Determination is determination, and reality is reality.Shanxi originally had a northern Shanxi as a barrier, but now it can only retreat into the Inner Great Wall, relying on it to organize defenses. In addition to Tojo, Yan Xishan met a more dangerous opponent at this time - Seishiro Itagaki. According to the deployment of the North China Front Army, the Banyuan Division is a unit directly under the Front Army, and its mission is only to guard the south entrance. Moreover, because of the organization of the Baoding Battle, the North China Front Army has concentrated its forces. Banyuan has already had a brigade drawn to North China, so he is now on hand. The force that can be controlled here is actually only half a division. But Itagaki is not willing to sit quietly on the bench, he is going to attack Shanxi. Tojo was able to win northern Shanxi, and the Japanese were already talking about it, saying Itagaki had to rely on half of the division to continue going south, and the place he was going to was the most dangerous hinterland of Shanxi. Not only the North China Front Army, but even the base camp thought it was too risky. Almost equivalent to idiotic dream. If the superiors disagreed, Itagaki had to think of another way. As early as "September 18th", he and Ishihara Waner became good buddies, and now the latter is a high-ranking official in the court, why not take this path? Itagaki sent a private telegram to Ishihara, and the head of the war department promoted him in the staff headquarters. The final result is: OK! In fact, Itagaki was well prepared to attack Taiyuan, and his magic weapon was still the same as in the Nankou Battle, that is, he was very familiar with the local geography. People in the world only know the danger of Shanxi, but they don't know how to overcome it, but a certain one knows it. Many years ago, Itagaki took the opportunity of going to Wutai Mountain to pay pilgrimage, and surveyed the attack route, but now he just followed that route again. This route is famous for a Great Wall pass called Pingxing Pass. On September 21, the Banyuan Division suddenly attacked Pingxingguan, posing a great threat to the Jinsui Army. Yan Xishan supervised the formation at Yanmen Pass, defending against the Dongtiao Corps in the front. Unexpectedly, a poisonous snake that could bite people appeared next to him, and he couldn't help but panic. Still have to count. Although the "Battle of Great Harmony" failed, Lao Yan did not agree with the saying that he could only calculate military scores. Among the four giants Jiang, Feng, Yan, and Li, if you only compare books, this one is definitely the brightest——Lu Shi No. 6! Long before the Great War in the Central Plains, I led the Jinsui Army to fight countless battles. Otherwise, how could I have the status in the world today? It is nonsense to say that Shanxi people can't fight. Of course, Lao Yan also knows that what people are talking about is not the past, but the present. The Jin army has not fought any good battles in the past few years. If there were any, they were all led by Fu Zuoyi who had actually separated. Suijun did it. All that's really left is memories. Lao Yan rested his cheeks alone, staring at the map on the table in front of him, recalling those "beautiful battles" he had fought in the past. When I saw Pingxingguan, I suddenly thought of it. Ten years ago, the first Northern Expedition. At that time, when the Northern Expedition was in the limelight, Wu Peifu, the "ever victorious general" of Beiyang, collapsed, and Sun Chuanfang also suffered bad luck. When Zhang Zuolin in Peking saw that he had voted for the Kuomintang, he immediately sent the Feng army into Shanxi to "crusade", and the striker approached Pingxingguan.What a good old Yan, he didn't dodge or dodge, he simply opened the Pingxing pass, let the Feng army in, and then gave him a heavy blow inside the pass.Feng Jun can come in, but can't get out, that's a mess. It's a pity that the Northern Expeditionary Army retreated in Xuzhou at that time and failed to go north to assist the Jinsui Army. Otherwise, perhaps the second Northern Expedition would not be needed, and Zhang Zuolin could be driven out of the pass the first time. Thinking of this, Lao Yan was happy. They are all in the same place, why can't history repeat itself. Originally in Datong, I was going to make pocket formations, but Li Fuying was ruined by this useless thing. But this does not mean that there is a problem with my overall pocket play. I might as well change the location and tie another pocket here at Pingxingguan. The battle of Pingxingguan planned by Yan Xishan was initially to "lure" the Banyuan division into Pingxingguan, put it in his pocket, cut off the Pingxingguan, and press it inside to fight hard. According to Yan Xishan's personal deployment, all the people who came to participate in the battle were busy. Those who made bait made bait, and those who saved the bottom. It should be said that Lao Yan's idea is not bad, and it shows Lu Shi's skills. If Itagaki really got into this pocket, he would naturally be unable to eat and walk around, but no one expected that at the critical moment, Lao Yan changed his mind again. Of course, Yan Xishan's wavering determination was not without reason, because a counselor named Sun Chu came to offer advice. Sun Chu, nicknamed "Sun Nervous", graduated from the first phase of Baoding Military Academy. Although he is a high-achieving student in the first phase of Baoding, Sun Chu is not much better than Li Fuying, and he is also the type of good boy around Lao Yan.He can serve as a counselor, but his mouth is particularly eloquent. Why is it called "Sun Nervous" because he likes to show off when commanding battles, pretending to know what he doesn't know, and when he makes moves, he is refurbished and flashy, so he often behaves in a trance and feels insane. Yan Xishan said that he wanted to put Banyuan in and close the door to beat the dogs, but Sun Junshi made a gesture of falling down and screaming, saying that something bad happened. why? Yanmen Pass is also the main battlefield, and Pingxing Pass is just a secondary battlefield. Now that Banyuan is put in the pass, wouldn't it hit the opponent's strategy of splitting up and attacking together. If it was during the Northern Expedition, Lao Yan was fighting in the heat of battle, and he might have insisted on his own opinion, but he had not held a gun for many years, and his hands would have been born long ago, and correspondingly he had become less and less confident. Listen to Sun Chuyi, Can't help but hesitate. So what do you think? Sun Chu straightened his chest: In my opinion, the Jin army has assembled no less than sixteen or seven regiments at Pingxing Pass, which is enough to resist Banyuan. Thinking that the pocket formation in Datong not only failed, but also lost the whole of northern Shanxi, Lao Yan, who wanted to be more ruthless, finally adopted Sun Chu's plan of "sticking to Pingxingguan". To be honest, it is not a bad strategy to stick to the leveling pass, the key still depends on whether you can hold it. On the Pingxingguan line, Gao Guizi's 17th Army was the first to engage Itagaki. Gao Guizi was not the Jinsui Army, but a guest army who came to assist Shanxi. After three days of hard fighting with the vanguard of the Banyuan Division, he finally blocked it outside the Pingxing Pass. Due to the great sacrifice of his troops, Gao Guizi sent out telegrams asking for help. At this time, Yan Xishan received another report: The 115th Division of Lin Biao of the Eighth Route Army had crossed Mount Wutai, sneaked out from the east side of the Pingxing Pass, and would secretly deploy on both sides of the road behind the Japanese army. After contacting the two sources, Lao Yan suddenly had a new calculation. It would be too risky to close the door and beat the dog, and sticking to Pingxingguan seems to be conservative, so why not fight a decisive battle outside Pingxingguan-wouldn't it be wonderful to attack from the front of Pingxingguan and let the Eighth Route Army outflank the rear. Lao Yan got excited and decided to mobilize the six regiments serving as the reserve team to attack, not only to reinforce Gao Guizi, but also to attack with the trend. Attack time: 6:00 pm on September 23.