Let’s go back to the cavalry group composed of the Sui Army and the Chahar Independent Regiment.
After a whole night of rapid marching, both the horses and the people were extremely exhausted.
Wei Jingyun was riding astride the horse and felt a burning pain in his inner thighs. Without looking at it, he was sure that the skin on his inner thighs must have been worn out just by the pain. There was no way that such a long and high-intensity forced march would not only affect
War horses are a test, and cavalry is an even greater test.
I took out my pocket watch and looked at the time. The hour hand pointed to six in the morning.
Wei Jingyun couldn't help but feel a wave of irritation in his heart. It would be dawn in half an hour at most, but there was still at least twenty miles away from Guisui City. He didn't know if he could make it in the last half hour.
After running these twenty miles, what worries Wei Jingyun even more is that he doesn’t know what the situation is like in Guisui City at this moment.
Did the Langya Brigade suffer any losses in the confrontation with the Guisui Japanese garrison?
And have the Japanese reinforcements from Zhangjiakou and Datong arrived?
However, no matter whether Wei Jingyun was anxious or not, the hour hand kept moving forward.
Half an hour later, a hint of fish belly white finally appeared in the eastern sky, and the long night finally passed.
When the first ray of dawn fell on the grassland, Wei Jingyun finally saw the dark outline of Guisui City from the horizon ahead. Almost at the same time, the Sui Army and the Chahar Independent Regiment clustered behind Wei Jingyun.
The officers and soldiers also saw the walls of Guisui City, and in an instant, cheers broke out in the ranks that shook the sky and the earth.
For a moment, the cheers of the soldiers even suppressed the sound of the horses' hooves.
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At this time, in Guisui City, the Japs and the Langya Brigade were still in a stalemate on the street.
"Captain, listen!" Zhuanshan Leopard suddenly turned to Leng Tiefeng and said, "The sound of horse hooves!"
Leng Tiefeng said suddenly: "I don't need you to remind me, I heard it as early as five minutes ago."
"The main force of our regiment must have arrived." Zhuanshan Bao immediately became excited and geared up his fists and said, "Captain, can we fight back now? Damn, I'm already thirsty for my big gun."
Speaking of which, after confronting the Japanese for so long, Zhuanshan Bao had already become impatient.
To be honest, if the Langya Brigade is serious, it will take at most two hours to wipe out all the Japanese on the opposite side. Of course, there will definitely be casualties in the Langya Brigade, but from the perspective of Zhuanshan Leopard, this is nothing, and there is no point in fighting.
Are there immortals? Unfortunately, Leng Tiefeng didn't think so, so Zuanshan Bao and the team members below could only hold it in.
"There's no rush." Leng Tiefeng said calmly, "We'll wait until the little devil gets into trouble first."
There is really no need to worry. You have been waiting all day and night. Why do you still care about waiting for more than ten minutes?
"Still waiting?" Zhuan Shanbao immediately became unhappy, but there was nothing he could do about it. Who made Leng Tiefeng the captain?
Fortunately, the Leopards did not wait too long this time. The Japanese who were circling near the south gate of Guisui soon discovered the arrival of the Sui Army and the Chahar Independent Regiment. They discovered that the arrival was the Chinese army, and the old man Noda Takeshi
The Japanese's heart suddenly sank. However, the old Japanese did not give up resistance and was still willing to take chances.
Noda Takeshi immediately detached half of his troops and guarded the city wall of Guisui South Gate in preparation for blocking the attack.
Noda Takeshi originally thought that the problem was not big, because although the Chinese army that pressed over from outside the city consisted of several thousand people, after all, they had just experienced a long-distance march of more than 300 miles, and the people and horses were exhausted. Therefore, without a period of time,
It is difficult to organize an effective attack without rest and recuperation, and if you attack tenaciously, the threat will definitely be limited.
For this reason, Noda Takeshi sent an infantry squad and a company of puppet Mongolian troops to guard the area.
But once they met, Noda Takeshi knew that he was wrong, and he was terribly wrong!
Although the Chinese troops pressing over from outside the city were dusty and exhausted, as soon as they stepped onto the battlefield, each one of them immediately became energetic and vigorous. There was a Japanese infantry team sent to the south gate wall to block the attack, and a company of puppet Mongolian troops.
, it was beaten to pieces in the blink of an eye, just like ice and snow poured by boiling water, disintegrating in an instant.
In fact, Noda Takeshi's judgment is basically reliable. The Guisui attack group formed by more than a thousand Sui troops and the main force of the Chahar Independent Regiment was indeed exhausted after more than 300 miles of forced march.
Yes, but the old devil ignored an important factor, which is mental state!
After winning the Battle of Wuyuan and taking advantage of the victory to pursue Baotou, the momentum of the Sui Army and the officers and soldiers of the Chahar Independent Regiment had reached an unprecedented height. To put it more bluntly, the more than two thousand officers and soldiers were already excited.
To the extreme, at least until this excitement subsides, they will not feel tired.
Therefore, even after a forced march of more than 300 miles, once they entered the battle, the officers and soldiers of the Sui Army and the Chahar Independent Regiment were still very active. In addition, whether it was military strength, firepower or fighting will, the Chinese army was relatively weak.
Compared with the Japanese and the puppet Mongolian army on the opposite side, they have an overwhelming advantage, so the final result can be imagined.
In less than half an hour, the Chinese army broke through the south gate city wall and entered Guisui City.
This was far beyond Noda's expectation. The Japs entrenched in Nanmen Street were immediately put into a desperate situation where they were attacked from both sides. Then, riots inevitably broke out. The Puppet-Mongolian Army was the first to get into chaos.
At that time, the Japanese tried to stop or even suppress them, but soon they were also overwhelmed.
This was what Leng Tiefeng was waiting for, and he immediately ordered an assault.
At this time, the Japanese and the puppet Mongolian army were completely in chaos.
After only ten minutes, the fighting in Guisui City was basically over. Only a few Japanese soldiers were left running into the streets and alleys. The Sui Army and the Chahar Independent Regiment immediately sent out a small group of cavalry. According to the information provided by the people of Guisui,
They went deep into the streets and alleys to hunt down these escaped little devils, but Wei Jingyun or Leng Tiefeng no longer needed to care about these.
After confirming that there were no organized Japs in Guisui City and that Guisui had fallen under the control of the Sui Army, Wei Jingyun, who was the commander-in-chief of the Sui Army's attack group, first looked up to the sky and laughed, because before the expedition, he really didn't think about it
However, they were able to unite and return to Suicheng so smoothly. Originally, there was a fierce battle.
Before he even laughed twice, Wei Jingyun suddenly felt his eyes go dark and fell down from his horse.
Fortunately, Leng Tiefeng was standing next to Wei Jingyun at that time and quickly stretched out his hand to catch it, otherwise it would have been quite a choke.
Leng Tiefeng helped Wei Jingyun lie down on the ground and said with concern: "Deputy Guard, are you okay?"
"It's okay, I'm okay. I'm just a little tired and sleepy." Before Wei Jingyun could finish his words, he had fallen asleep leaning against the wall, snoring like thunder between his breaths. Leng Tiefeng
When he turned around to look again, he found that most of the officers and soldiers of the Sui Army and the Chahar Independent Regiment had fallen to the ground and slept to death.
There was a soldier from the Chahar Independent Regiment who fell asleep directly on his horse. While snoring, the sound dripped from the corner of his mouth onto the horse's neck.
In the blink of an eye, the battlefield fell silent.
The members of the Zuanshan Leopard and Langya brigade looked at each other in confusion at first. Weren't they all so lively just now? How could they be so tired in the blink of an eye? Then they looked disdainful. Didn't they run more than three hundred miles to be so tired?
If we were to march according to the intensity of our Wolf Fang Brigade, wouldn’t we die of exhaustion on the spot?
At that moment, Zhuanshan Leopard curled his lips and asked Leng Tiefeng: "Captain, would you like to wake them up?"
"It's okay, let them sleep." Leng Tiefeng shook his head and said, "Now that Guisui has been lost, it would be meaningless for the Japanese reinforcements from Zhangjiakou and Datong to come to Guisui again. If there is no accident, Anan is the only one who can do this."
The Japs will probably move the Japs from the two places back to their original positions, so the battle is over."
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Almost at the same time, the North China Front Army Headquarters in Peiping.
Anami Yuki was discussing the latest battle situation in Suiyuan with Chief of Staff Yukio Tatehara when he suddenly heard footsteps outside the door. When he looked back, he saw the section chief of the Operations Section, Kanemitsu Eijiro, walking in hurriedly. He saw Kanemitsu Eijiro's serious expression.
Seeing this, the two old devils suddenly felt their hearts sinking, something bad has happened!
Sure enough, Kanemitsu Keijiro paused and said: "Your Excellency, Commander, Your Excellency, Chief of Staff, you just received the farewell telegram from Captain Noda from Guisui. Just a quarter of an hour ago, the Imperial Army stationed in Guisui had been collectively shattered. Captain Noda
He has committed seppuku and died for the empire, and Guisui City has been lost."
Hearing this, Anan Weiji's face immediately darkened.
Tachihara Yukio sighed and said sadly: "Once Guisui is lost, the entire Suiyuan will inevitably be unable to be saved, and once Suiyuan Province is completely lost." After a pause, he continued, "Your Excellency, Commander, since Guisui has been lost, we will not be able to save it anymore."
It is meaningless to reinforce Guisui. Should we order the troops in Datong and Zhangjiakou to withdraw to their original positions?"
Anan Weiji also sighed, nodded and said, "Then withdraw it."
"Hai!" Yukio Tatehara paused and said to Keijiro Kanemitsu, "Kanemitsu-kun, please call Datong immediately and Zhangjiakou to reinforce the troops returning to Sui. After receiving the order, immediately withdraw to the original position."
"Hai." Kaneko Keijiro paused and left.
Watching Kanemitsu Keijiro's figure go away, Tachihara Yukio said again: "Your Excellency, Commander, I have a premonition that after the complete loss of Suiyuan Province, it is absolutely impossible for Fu Zuoyi and Xu Rui to give up, and they will definitely bring evil clutches to them later.
Extending to Chahar Province in the east, we need to prepare in advance."
"I'm not worried about Fu Zuoyi. Even if Suiyuan is lost, his 35th Army will not be able to do anything." Anan Weiji paused for a moment before continuing, "What I am most worried about is Xu Rui.
There is also his Wolf Fang Brigade. If this personal problem cannot be solved, Northern China will enter a troubled period from now on."
