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At the end of July 1937, after successively occupying the important towns of Beiping and Tianjin in north China, the Japanese army pointed the spearhead directly at Shanxi, in a vain attempt to occupy the entire territory of Shanxi in a relatively short period of time by virtue of its strong firepower superiority and the excellent combat quality of the troops, and to achieve the goal of "destroying China in three months" put forward by the Japanese army base camp.
[Lieutenant General Zhang Xuezhong]
Relying on this arrogant battle plan, the Japanese North China Dispatch Army ordered the elite 5th Division to quickly move south, march along the Pingsui Railway through the south pass, and open the first strategic passage to attack Shanxi.
Nankou, located 45 kilometers northwest of Beiping City, is the gateway of Beiping to the hinterland of North China, as well as the Great Northwest, this area has complex terrain, many dangerous passes, easy to defend and difficult to attack, known as "one husband when the pass is not opened" can be seen in its terrain is prominent.
For the Chinese army, holding the South Pass is crucial to the defense of Shanxi, as well as the provinces of Chahar and Suiyuan, which are adjacent to Shanxi. In less than a month since the outbreak of the "Lugou Bridge Incident," the Chinese army has moved extremely quickly because of the huge gap between the Chinese army and the quality of individual soldiers, and because it was fighting in the plains.
In the face of the Japanese attack, the Chinese troops who were firmly in the Pingjin area could not resist the fierce offensive of the Japanese army after a deadly battle, and had to withdraw from the Pingjin area, so they adopted the method of resistance one after another, and used their flesh and blood to slow down the pace of the Japanese army's attack.
At this time, the elite 13th Army was ordered to hold the south pass, hoping to occupy favorable terrain and equipment stronger than other units, as well as high morale, and to block the Japanese attack on the front line of the south mouth and buy more time for the Shanxi War of Resistance.
Zhang Xuezhong, then chief of staff of the 13th Army, was stationed at Nankou with his troops, and after Zhang Xuezhong and his troops entered the position, as the think tank of the 13th Army, he carefully inspected the entire Nankou position, and did not sit back and relax because of the dangerous terrain of Nankou.
Zhang Xuezhong already knew the mode of Japanese combat, not only with aircraft heavy artillery to help the battle. In particular, since 1933, when the Japanese army launched the invasion of the Gubeikou and Xifengkou of the Great Wall, it has put into the mode of tanks and troops charging. He also knew from the war reports at the time that this new weapon of the Japanese army was quite powerful, and during the Great Wall War of Resistance, many officers and soldiers were sacrificed under the artillery fire and machine guns of Japanese tanks. To this end, he asked the front-line troops to dig more trenches to block the attack of Japanese tanks and reduce the casualties of the troops and the Japanese army.
[Officers and men holding the position at the south mouth]
At the beginning of August, the Japanese 5th Division began to move south, and the arrogant Japanese 5th Division felt that they had fought too smoothly in the Pingjin area and did not feel that they would encounter effective resistance from the Chinese army here.
When the forward troops sent by the Japanese 5th Division advanced all the way, getting closer and closer to the positions of the 13th Army that were tightly defending the area of the south entrance, they did not expect to be confronted by the 13th Army. After this fierce attack, although the Japanese army immediately returned fire, it could not understand why it encountered such a strong opponent here.
Zhang Xuezhong received a battle report from the front line and learned that the troops had engaged the Japanese army fiercely, and while setting out for the front line, he ordered the troops to hold the position to the death, and must not let the Japanese army rush through the road in front of the position.
Under the stubborn resistance of the officers and men of the 13th Army, the Japanese army has never been able to break through the position, and the Japanese 5th Division received a battle report from the front line, and immediately sent aircraft, as well as Japanese agents and traitors to conduct reconnaissance, and it was learned from the reconnaissance that the elite 13th Army of the Chinese army stationed on the front line of the South Exit was the Elite 13th Army of the Chinese Army.
The Japanese army quickly changed tactics, because in their hearts, it was necessary to destroy the elite of the Chinese army in order to achieve their goal of destroying China as soon as possible. Therefore, in order to crush the 13th Army in the shortest possible time, in addition to the original 5th Division regiment to undertake the main force of attacking Nankou, the Japanese North China Dispatch Army also immediately dispatched the Chahar Dispatch Corps of the Kwantung Army and the independent mixed 11th Brigade to detour to the south mouth in the form of a separate attack and combined attack, with the purpose of annihilating the 13th Army on the nankou front.
The brutal Battle of Nankou was officially launched on August 9. The Japanese 5th Division concentrated its firepower to launch a fierce attack on the most prominent position of the 13th Army, Longhutai.
After Zhang Xuezhong heard the battle situation reported by his subordinates, he took the initiative to ask Tang Enbo, commander of the 13th Army, for battle, and asked to take the initiative to rush to the Longhutai position to command. Tang Enbo immediately gave approval and demanded that even if there was only one person in the battle, he should defend the Dragon and Tiger Terrace, and the position must not be lost.
Zhang Xuezhong immediately braved the artillery fire of the Japanese army to rush to the front line position, and he saw on the position that before the Japanese army attacked, it was necessary to carry out artillery preparations for our army's position, and the officers and men could only hide in the trenches and silently withstand the bombardment of artillery shells, causing unnecessary sacrifices.
Zhang Xuezhong saw that although the Shells of the Japanese Army landed very accurately in the trenches and behind the position, if the soldiers climbed out of the position to the front of the position, wouldn't they be able to effectively avoid the bombardment of the Japanese artillery fire? He quickly issued orders, requiring officers and men to leave their positions when the Japanese bombarded the positions, crawl to the front of the positions, use all the places that could be hidden to protect themselves, and when the Japanese artillery stopped, they immediately rushed back to the positions and entered the combat state.
[Shooting at the Japanese with the battlements]
Because, after many years of combat experience, Zhang Xuezhong realized that under the artillery fire, the Japanese army would not charge, and the Japanese army saw from the telescope that the surface position of the Chinese army had been destroyed by artillery fire, and how the stormtrooper came out again, and never understood what was going on.
The well-behaved Japanese army felt that the shelling effect was not great, and even dispatched more than 20 sorties of aircraft every day to indiscriminately bomb Longhutai and nearby positions. The officers and men of the 13th Army were not afraid, and under the command of Zhang Xuezhong, as long as the Japanese army blew up the position, they would repair it again, blow it up again, and repair it again, so that they could not be destroyed or defeated, and they really ensured that people were in the position and swore to coexist and die in the position.
The Japanese army, which had been unable to conquer for a long time, saw that it was bombing indiscriminately every day, and still could not take the position of the Chinese army, and once again changed the method of attack. After aircraft and artillery bombardment, tanks were used to attack the Chinese troops holding the above positions. Many soldiers had never seen such a monster since they joined the army, driving like a living bunker, shooting non-stop, and many officers and soldiers who insisted on their positions were hit by this monster and sacrificed on the positions.
Zhang Xuezhong quickly ordered that at all costs, the Japanese tanks should be destroyed, and the soldiers who had already killed the red-eyed warriors used various methods to approach the tanks, sacrificing one and then going up to fight the steel monsters. Under the attack of the officers and men who went forward and followed and regarded death as a homecoming, as well as constantly summing up experience, many Japanese tanks were eliminated.
In particular, the officers and men did not hesitate to raise their guns and pick up large knives in the face of the Japanese troops who rushed to the front of the position behind the tanks and engaged in brutal hand-to-hand combat with the Japanese army. Although the officers and men of the 13th Army who held their positions suffered heavy casualties, they always suppressed the crazy attacking Japanese army.
The Battle of Nankou occurred sporadically from the end of July in the Japanese 5th Division until August 9, the 13th Army has always fought with the Japanese 5th Division, the Chahar Dispatch Corps of the Kwantung Army, and the independent mixed 11th Brigade for nearly a month, in nearly a month, the 13th Army has made heavy sacrifices and had to withdraw from the position on August 26, although the 13th Army finally withdrew from the Nankou position, but it effectively stopped the speed of the Japanese army's attack, so that the ambition of the Japanese base camp to die in China for three months became a failure. If you have any comments, welcome to leave a message below to discuss! (Please support a variety of original articles and physical books of the Yi Pin Wen team, independent professionals have a kind of material)