What kind of person can endure hunger in a barren land for more than 30 days?
In the past, the Australians in time and space trapped the Japanese army in the tropical rainforest and refused to accept surrender. However, there were still fruits and animals in the tropical rainforest, and the Japanese army could even plant them. But just like that, 200,000 Japanese soldiers also died of starvation and illness.
Hundreds of thousands of people.
In the hills of northern China, all field mice were caught on the first day of food shortage, and wild vegetables and tree bark were eaten away by 2,000 Japanese troops like locusts on the fifth day.
This also meant that for the remaining month, the 2,000 Japanese troops relied on several tons of supplies dropped from the air.
If it is one person or ten people, more than 2 tons of food and medicine can definitely be called a blessing. It is the ceiling of wilderness survival. Masters like Mr. Bei and Mr. De can only drool with envy.
It's a pity that there are more than 1,900 people. If the supplies are distributed to each person according to an average amount, it is a miracle that it lasts for 10 days, let alone a month.
But the Japanese did it!
Even the officers and soldiers of the Fourth Army Regiment somewhat admired the ability of these Japanese to starve, but this did not prevent them from tying the 'fence' tighter to prevent rats from digging holes in the ground and escaping.
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In fact, Saburo Okabe began to enter the failure mode on the 15th day of the siege. The ground troops attacking the Chinese defense line on the front line had already been reduced from 4 infantry regiments to 3 infantry regiments, and they could not even launch ground troops.
Attacks are all decided independently by the frontline generals.
The top commanders are like this. Major General Konosuke Ohma, who spoke generously before the war, can no longer even pretend. He urges the soldiers to fight hard every day.
However, it was not a desperate attack, but a desperate digging of trenches and fortifications, and the construction of fortifications in an area more than 1,000 meters away from the Chinese defense line.
Major General Da Xiong has a very flexible mind. When he saw that the top commander had quietly given up the rescue, he had no choice but to save face and could not evacuate voluntarily, leaving his infantry brigade on the front line. There were more than 2 people on the opposite side.
With an army of tens of thousands of Chinese people, what if the Chinese people's appetite increases and they turn from defense to attack and want to eat them?
The attack by more than 20,000 Japanese infantry was not very good, but the defense was extremely hard. The trenches were 7,000 meters wide and nearly 1,000 meters deep. They were equipped with barbed wire, anti-cannon holes, etc.
Looking at it, people who don’t know better think that the Japanese side is defending and the Chinese side is attacking!
However, Okuma Konosuke really guessed it right. After the two sides entered a stalemate, Brigadier Cheng had already called together six infantry commanders for a meeting. The theme of the discussion was to see if they could take advantage of this rare opportunity.
Counterattack, capture another 3,000 to 5,000 Japanese troops, and completely inflict pain on the Japanese troops in southern Hebei.
But after several days of reconnaissance, Wang Xiaoqiang, as powerful as Wang Xiaoqiang, had no choice but to give up this tempting idea. The Japanese army's strength was slightly less than theirs, but to break through the position in front of them, without the assistance of flying thunder cannons and large amounts of explosives, they
At least 8,000 casualties will be incurred.
If breaking the formation can achieve the strategic goal of annihilating all the enemy invaders, half of the battle loss rate is not unacceptable, but after all, this battle is just a casualty, and no one would do this kind of loss-making business.
Therefore, the more than 30,000 Chinese and Japanese armies facing each other almost lived in peace for the next 20 days. You dug your trenches and I defended mine. Occasionally, the enemy and we would throw more than a dozen artillery shells at each other to show the presence of both sides.
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The Japanese are not stupid either. Ever since they discovered that the Chinese have no less artillery than they do, and the Chinese will fire back immediately as soon as they fire, they no longer rely on their superiority in heavy firepower to bully others. The role of artillery is more of a symbol.
While we are still fighting, instead of having a picnic face to face.
After all, the two sides were thousands of meters apart and couldn't see each other clearly, and the rifles and machine guns were just decorations.
The so-called air support stopped early, not because the Japanese North China Front Army Aviation Corps did not work hard, but because the Chinese ground air defense firepower was too fierce.
The 48 40mm anti-aircraft anti-aircraft guns of the Fourth Line Regiment Air Defense Battalion were simply a bug for the Japanese Army Aviation at this period. In addition, the Four Lines Regiment and the 683 Brigade combined had dozens of 20mm anti-aircraft guns and dozens of 7mm anti-aircraft guns.
Heavy machine guns defended medium and low altitudes, and even the unreliable bomb-dropping altitude of 3,500 meters became a flight restricted area. Several times, the bombs dropped by the aviation soldiers in a hurry fell on their own positions.
Okuma Konosuke was not a good person. He sent a telegram directly to the aviation corps headquarters. He even told Major General Kaoru Kataoka that he had given birth to a son without skin, which almost made Kaoru Kataoka angry to death.
However, Kaoru Kataoka couldn't retaliate. After all, it was his men who killed the friendly troops. It's unreasonable to not be allowed to curse someone after he died!
After the war, this kind of gossip that was originally kept strictly confidential was exposed. A reporter interviewed Major General Daxiong, who had become the president of the Osaka Chamber of Commerce, and asked him about it. Major General Daxiong thought for a moment and gave a very philosophical answer: curse words,
The heart will be clear, and if you hold back dirty words in the heart, the heart will become dirty.
Major General Ohma, who had never become a celebrity in the eyes of the big guys during the war, became a well-known celebrity in Japan after the war. Under his leadership, the Osaka Chamber of Commerce became one of the largest chambers of commerce in Japan.
It can only be said that Major General Daxiong also understands traffic.
The front line was like this, and Duo Tianjun's side was even more numb. Just as Tang Dao expected, the six special trains were just changing defenses and resting. The Japanese troops on the Zhongtiao Mountain front line did not withdraw a single soldier at all, and still maintained a strength of nearly 13
With a strength of 10,000, the two armies that were waiting for the enemy were busy in vain.
Perhaps the only people who were injured in this unsuccessful tactical deception were the stingy old man and a certain big boss. After receiving the intelligence that the Japanese army had made no move at Zhongtiao Mountain, a certain big boss really blushed and cursed angrily.
'Niang Xipi'!
The Japanese on the periphery were like this, and there was only one result - Colonel Shigenobu Yoshigu and the 2000 Japanese troops in the encirclement were completely abandoned.
Shigenobu Yoshigu's field radio has been permanently shut down since the last day of March. It's not that the poor Japanese Army Colonel is finished or doesn't want to ask for help anymore, but that the battery is completely dead.
Except for the Japanese army themselves and the surrounding four-pronged regiment who kept observation posts on them 24 hours a day, no one knew how the poor army colonel and his more than 1,900 men spent the remaining 20 days without food supplies.
Originally, the Japanese North China Front Army had been tightly covering up the fact that the 2,000 officers and soldiers of the 1st Division were besieged by the Chinese army, but as long as it was a mine, it would explode one day.
It was the Chinese newspaper that set off the bomb.
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April 4th is the day before the traditional Chinese festival Qingming Festival!
In the past two years, due to the war, more than 30 million Chinese were displaced, and more than 100 million people fell into the Japanese-occupied areas. Not to mention Qingming Festival, even New Year's Eve, not many families could reunite and sit together. With the Japanese offensive southward
With the situation slowing down, many Chinese families who have been dragging their families to flee south have finally settled down.
In the past three years since the war began, countless families have lost their loved ones due to the war. It is against this background that festivals such as Qingming Festival to worship ancestors and pay homage to relatives have naturally been put on the agenda of the Chinese people.
In the hearts of simple Chinese people, even if their pockets are empty and tomorrow’s dinner has not yet arrived after eating this meal tonight, they can’t let their relatives and ancestors go hungry under any circumstances, right?
In a small town in Hu County, Shaanxi Province, many people went to the market to buy paper money and yellow paper for tomorrow's memorial ceremony. Then, a newsboy broke into the bustling crowd and shouted: "Great victory in North China, our Second War Zone 80
The first group army united with the Sixth Regiment directly under the theater to repel the attack of the Japanese 1st Division in the Handan area of southern Hebei, and surrounded the 2,000 Japanese invaders in the mountainous area for more than half a month. The Japanese invaders had no power to rescue them!"
The market, which was still bustling with people buying commemorative supplies, suddenly fell silent, and then exploded like a stone thrown into a pond!
The little newsboy who just ran from the county seat to the market town was surrounded by people coming from all directions. You know, you know that you are buying newspapers, but you don’t know, you thought there was a lone Japanese man coming to the market. Everyone, this is
I want to tear him apart and eat his flesh!
"It's true or false, you doll, you don't want to lie to others!"
"Yes! If the news is false, your baby will not be able to eat it and carry it around!"
"How can you lie to people? This is the name of the Tantai Mingyue Press Office. See for yourselves!" The newsboy's face turned red. He took out a newspaper and pointed at Tantai Mingyue's name and defended loudly, regardless of himself.
Are these fellow villagers illiterate?
The little newsboy only knew that the boss above him brought these newspapers from the provincial capital and returned to his home county, and told these younger brothers that these newspapers that had been published in the provincial capital for two days must make a lot of money.
Sure enough, the Tantai Mingyue signboard was really useful, especially when an old man who looked like a teacher in a robe and glasses took out two copper coins and bought a newspaper and shouted loudly: "Yes, this is Tantai
The reporter’s signed articles will not be fake. If you want to buy it, buy it first, and I’ll read this battle report to everyone later!”
The common people have no doubts. Even if the price of 2 copper yuan for a newspaper is already extremely expensive for them, and even if 95% of them cannot read a single Chinese character, it cannot stop their enthusiasm for buying newspapers.
The newspaper bag carried by the newsboy contained about a hundred newspapers, and it was sold out in only six or seven minutes.
"On March 9, the 29th year of the Republic of China, the Japanese invaders, with the 1st Division as the main force, invaded our purple mountain base area in southern Hebei with an army of 40,000 people. All officers and soldiers of the Fourth Line Regiment directly under our Second Theater Command joined the 921st Division of the 80th Group Army to fight with the enemy.
After eight days and nights of fierce fighting, more than 10,000 Japanese invaders were annihilated, and on the night of March 18th, more than 2,000 Japanese invaders who could not escape were completely surrounded.
After half a month of fierce fighting, our Chinese army has successively repelled the Japanese aggressors in the air and more than ten reinforcements on the ground. Now the battle has been initially decided, and the Japanese aggressors have been doomed since they have lost supplies since the day of the siege. What will be the outcome? The bright moon is here. The front line of the Japanese encirclement will bring the latest information in subsequent reports!"
"Mr. Shen, what does this mean? Are these 2,000 little Japs dead or not?" A middle-aged man holding a newspaper in his palms had doubts in his eyes.
Although Tantai Mingyue did not try to be literate and tried to publish this news report in vernacular, it is still a bit difficult for rural farmers to understand.
"What the Tantai reporter means is that all the support from the little Japs has been repulsed. These 2,000 little Japs will definitely not be able to get out of the encirclement. Moreover, the little Japs have no food or drink. Let’s see how long they can last. Anyway, our The army surrounded it to death." The teacher explained with a smile.
"Okay! Well done to the Fourth Army and the Eightyth Army!"
"That's what you should do, you son of a bitch starve to death!"
The people shouted "Hello" one after another.
"This money has not been wasted, tomorrow I will burn this newspaper to the family dog Sheng'er!" A middle-aged man shouted excitedly, but he couldn't help but shed tears in his eyes.
"My father, 2,000 Japanese! You are a soldier fighting Japanese. Will you be very happy when you see this news tomorrow?" A ragged woman carefully put the newspaper into her arms and kept lifting it. Wipe the corners of your eyes with your clothes.
However, no matter how she wiped it, the moisture on her face could not be wiped away.
There was silence on the scene, and the teacher, who had been extremely excited by the news just now, couldn't help but wet his eyes.
His eldest son died in battle two and a half years ago. His younger son, who just turned 18 last year, also joined the army, and he went to the 17th Division. He said he wanted to avenge his brother. For this reason, he could not stop him, even if he only had the family's only son. An old wife keeps company with an old donkey.
The world only knows that the 17th Division of the Northwest Army won the world for its bravery in the two battles at Niangziguan, but it does not know that every household in our county is plain, with white silk hangings on every household, and nine out of ten households have no sons.
Hu County, with a population of only 100,000, lost 8,000 soldiers in the first battle of Niangziguan in October 1937 alone.
The reason why the market is bustling today is because parents miss their son and his wife longs for him to return, although they also know that this is impossible.
Fortunately, the newsboy brought them the best paper money to commemorate their relatives.
Seeing the screams at the scene, the little newspaper boy who was originally from Hu County lost the excitement of having just earned 20 copper yuan: "Uncles and aunts, newspapers will be delivered in two days, and we won't let everyone buy them then. , let’s read it to everyone!”
"Yes! The reporter from Tantai said in the newspaper that she will report to us the battle situation at any time. Little brother, don't read it to us. We should just buy it. The elder is still underground waiting for the little devil to starve to death. Isn’t that the news?” The teacher shouted with all his strength.
"If you buy it, you can buy as many issues of this newspaper as you want to watch 2,000 little devils starve to death." A middle-aged man also said fiercely.
Even though his empty belly was making a growling sound at this time, the hen that was the only egg-laying hen in the house could be sold for 6 copper dollars, so he didn't believe that the little devil could stay hungry for another half month.
The people of Huxian County were very excited because they applied for this newspaper issued by the branch in Chang'an and unexpectedly got the best "paper money" to commemorate their relatives. People in several big cities in South China, Southwest, and Northwest China were also excitedly looking forward to the next issue.
The emergence of newspapers.
But this is like a thunderbolt in the blue sky for the Japanese, especially the Japanese on the island.
Although the Japanese government has implemented strict news control, for more than two years since the war began, all the Japanese on the island have seen is the Imperial Army's rapid advance. Even the defeats in battlefields such as Taierzhuang and Wanjialing have been ignored by the news media.
Defeat' brought through.
But this defeat in the Battle of Zishan was not only publicized by China's domestic media, but also the Western media got involved because of China's pioneering newspaper 'live broadcast'. Besides, Japan is not a monolithic country. Not only are there many factions that are at odds with each other.
, there are also those who are unwilling to start a war.
Therefore, the fire could not be contained in the paper, and finally on April 10, the news that 2,000 Imperial infantrymen of the 1st Division were besieged appeared in the newspapers.
Japan almost didn't explode. No one expected that the Imperial Army, which had been making great progress on the battlefield, would be in such a situation. It was surrounded by the Chinese for almost a month. The North China Front Army with 300,000 troops was unable to rescue it. This
How incompetent does Baga have to be?
"Taten Shun, Okabe Saburo and other incompetent generals must have a disembowelment to apologize!"
The raging shouts and curses of the domestic people could tear off the roof of the palace. Duo Tianjun, who was already in ruins, could only publish an apology in the newspaper and announce that he had taken the blame and resigned to calm the anger of the people.
This may appease the people, but it will not have the slightest effect on the situation of the 2,000 Japanese troops in the encirclement.
Seeing that the matter had gotten out of hand, the Japanese Army Base Camp had no choice but to cut the mess quickly. On April 11, it urged Lieutenant General Okamura Koji, the commander of the 11th Army who was still on the South China Front, to rush to North China to take over as the Commander of the North China Front Army.
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Then, the most exciting scene of this battle appeared.
Okamura Koji, a smart little guy, knows that even if he takes office, he will not be able to save the 2,000 imperial infantrymen. Going to take over Duo Tianjun's mess now will only add stains to his military career, although it is very tempting to be promoted to lieutenant general.
People, but if you go a few days later, your promotion will not be delayed.
This guy just fell off his horse and got a bruise on his face, and then he couldn't get on the plane because he was injured.
Since then, the North China Front Army has been without a commander for half a month.
In the middle, the Japanese side also tried to take a high-level route, hoping that through some kind of exchange, the 2,000 Japanese infantry could leave the encirclement with dignity, even if they agreed to surrender all weapons and other conditions.
The Chinese high-level officials have also been shaken, but unfortunately there is a regimental commander on the front line who is not generous. Even the commander of the second theater was so angry that his head was filled with smoke. The commander of the tenth theater also asked through personal relations, and Tang Tuanzuo's answer
It's simple: the Japanese invaders either kneel down and beg for surrender or starve to death. There is no third way! If anyone has other opinions, it is that those who are complicit in Wang Ni's deeds will be despised by the real Chinese, whether now or in the future.
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As soon as these words were said, the senior officials of the mountain city actually kept silent regarding this war.
China and Japan watched the 2,000 Japanese troops in the encirclement lose weight little by little through newspaper live broadcasts from Tantai Mingyue's exclusively authorized declaration.
No one knows what happened in the encirclement, but everyone knows that no one can be hungry for a month, even to the point of eating dirt.
And Tantai Mingyue's newspaper live broadcast was broadcast for five issues in one go, and another 20 days had passed.
When the officers and soldiers of the Fourth Army Regiment finally set foot on the Japanese positions and occupied them all, less than 500 rounds of ammunition were used!
There were more than 200 Japanese troops on the position, but they were all sallow and thin, with a stench that could stun anyone from a distance of more than ten meters, and their eyes were blood red, like ghosts.
Except for a few hard-line elements who still fired back, the vast majority of the Japanese infantry, when they saw the Chinese soldiers coming, slumped in the trenches and on the field with their eyes closed and waited to die.
It seems that they have been looking forward to this day for a long time.
The reporting newspaper only said a very brief sentence about the outcome of this battle: 1,760 Japanese invaders, including Colonel Zizhong Nobu Yoshigu, were killed and 187 were captured!
In fact, even the Chinese soldiers who were accustomed to seeing the cruelty of the battlefield could not help but be moved by the miserable situation of the Japanese troops in the encirclement.
Thigh bone sticks with flesh and blood still attached to them can be seen everywhere. The skin and flesh on them must have been cut off by knives.
