The most pressure was Su Kun's troops. After Su Kun's 2nd Education Brigade retreated to Benxi, nearly 20,000 people from the 14th Division, led by the division commander Naoliang Matsuki, suddenly came over!

There are 20,000 troops, even if they are not considered auxiliary troops, the combat troops have more than 15,000, which is three times that of the Second Cult Brigade. Even if they are assigned to He Shili and an artillery regiment, the total strength is only more than 6,000!

At the beginning of the battle, Lei Dong commanded the 2nd Brigade to voluntarily abandon the area west of Benxi and shrink the troops to the Pingdingshan area of ​​Benxi County to set up defenses.

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Pingding Mountain is a barrier to protect Benxi and even Shenyang. The mountain is majestic and flat, with an area of ​​more than 250 acres, so it is called "Pingding Mountain".

Standing on the cliff at the north end, the huge mountain city is unobstructed.

In addition, Lei Dong also sent a battalion of troops to station in Nantianmen, which is the only dangerous road from Benxi to Dandong. The peak rocks are steep, like cutting a knife and cutting an axe. There is a large Yakou among the rocks on the top of the mountain. A huge rock stands upright on the left of Yakou and a ridge on the right.

Yakou flattened the stone, and from a distance, it looked like a door. From the door, you can see the southern sky, so it was named Nantian Gate.

The road circles up, passes the dangerous pass, and exits the Tianmen, which makes people feel relieved. On the right side of the Tianmen is a cliff with a hundred feet of cliff, and under the cliff is a thin river, and the railway bridge passes through the valley.

Such a dangerous situation naturally requires heavy troops to guard it. Once the Japanese army breaks through the South Heaven Gate, the consequences will be unimaginable.

The commander of the 27th Brigade of the Japanese Army, Hiramatsu, personally led part of the 59th Regiment to attack Nantianmen. A battalion guarding Nantianmen fought fiercely with the Japanese army for two days, and suffered half of the damage. The main reason was that the firepower was not as fierce as the Japanese army. Hiramatsu actually pulled a field artillery squadron and bombed Nantianmen. This was the huge reason for the casualties.

If it weren't for the difficulty in replenishing artillery shells in the Japanese army, it would have been possible that the battalion guarding the Nantianmen would have been killed in one day!

After receiving the emergency telegram from the Third Battalion of the 221st Regiment, Lei Dong quickly drew a company of troops from the newly reorganized puppet army to replenish the past.

The Third Battalion of the 221st Regiment, which was supplemented, stabilized its position and firmly held the Nantianmen in its own hands!

The defense battle of Benxi was very hard. The 14th Brigade of the No. 10th Japanese Army launched a large-scale attack on Benxi. After three days, the second Brigade's combat personnel were reduced by more than one-third. In other words, more than two thousand people were injured or killed within three days, compared with the Japanese army, no more than one thousand people!

Such a war loss ratio is actually very great for the China ** team. Even if the "Falcon" plan is over-completed, nearly 3,000 casualties will be killed or killed in the East League. If it weren't for the arrest of the puppet army and the policy of making up for the fight, I'm afraid the combat effectiveness of the Liaonan Military Sub-district would have been reduced by one third!

However, even if the policy of fighting and replenishment was adopted, the combat effectiveness of the 2nd Brigade, the Fifth Brigade and the Seventh Brigade, the three Brigades had greatly declined. If it weren't for the replenishment of a large number of weapons and equipment, it would probably not be the current situation.

The Japanese army did not give the East Column time. If the 14th Division attacked again in a month, the situation would be very different.

"The Japanese elite armored field division is different. Tens of thousands of people are escorting over here. I feel a little weak in my legs!" In the command center, Lei Dong couldn't help but sigh a little secretly.

"Commander-in-chief, lie down!"

"Buzz..." A familiar sound came from the sky, it was the Japanese bomber, Type 97.

The door on the belly was opened and bombs were thrown down. Explosions were heard one after another. After the explosion, the area was filled with a sea of ​​fire!

"*** The Japanese actually threw a firebomb!" Lei Dong pushed away the legs of the table that was lying on his body, slapped the dust on his body, and cursed.

"Mr. Lei, Mr. Lei..."

"What's the name? I'm not dead yet!"

"Oh, Mr. Lei, you scared me Lao Yan to death. If something happened to you, Boss Lu would have to peel off my skin!" Yan Yi rushed over and kept shouting.

"Your broken mouth will be torn sooner or later by the Wolf King!" Lei Dong said angrily, "When you hear you are fine, you specially nicknamed us, Mr. Lu also asked you to give me a nickname called Lu Bapi?"

"No, absolutely not, Mr. Lei, you are accusing!" Yan Yi was shocked and quickly denied.

"Okay, count the losses quickly and report them!" Lei Dong waved his hand.

"Mr. Lei, the Japanese seem to lay eggs a little less than the previous time?" Yan Yi suddenly said.

"Are you sure?" Lei Dong's face changed slightly when he heard this.

"There are six aircraft, two fighter jets and four bombers, just like the last time, but the bombs dropped were only two-thirds of the last time!" Yan Yi recalled carefully.

"Two-thirds, is the Japanese no bombs?" Lei Dong closed his eyes and thought.

"Mr. Lei, are the Japanese laid out no eggs?"

"It is possible that although we do not have the arsenal of the mid-air arsenal, we moved away all the moving ones and exploded them. Even if the Japanese have other arsenals, they are definitely not as many arsenals as the arsenal!" Lei Dong said, "Now the arsenal is gone. In addition to the ammunition stored before, their ammunition supplies are only transported locally. Aerial bombs are not bullets, but they are not easy to build. Each one is worth a lot of money!"

"That's not, the iron cock can't lay eggs?"

"Don't be too happy too early. As long as the Japanese are willing, they can transport ammunition from the local area at any time. We cannot compare with this!" Lei Dong said.

In fact, not only was the Japanese aircraft insufficient ammunition, but the Second Division's ammunition supply was difficult. It was not that there was no, but that it could not keep up with the consumption. Originally, a rifle in Liaoyang could be built to support at least one Japanese brigade to fight for a month, but now the Dongzong has been robbed.

So now the East Zong does not lack ammunition, bullets are fired without money, and grenades are thrown without life. It is precisely because of its strong foundation that it blocked the attacking Japanese army!

Lieutenant General Matsuki Naoki has been in charge of the Kwantung Army Command more than once to ask for ammunition and supplies.

But at this time, the nearby material warehouse was looted by Dongzong and railway transportation was also destroyed.

The supply speed was slow and could not keep up with the consumption of the Japanese 14th Division. Lieutenant General Matsuki Naoki ordered the attack to slow down!

Feeling that the Japanese attack was not as sharp as before, Lei Dong commanded the 2nd Brigade of the 2nd Brigade and Sun Mingchen, who had rushed over to reinforce, fought several counterattacks with the cooperation of the new force, miraculously stabilized the front line!

However, at this moment, a bad news came and the Japanese 9th Division came.

The combat effectiveness of the Ninth Division is still above the 14th Division, with nearly 25,000 elite Japanese troops joining in, and the pressure on the newly formed Southern Group is unprecedentedly huge.

On July 15th, the 9th Division landed in Manchuria and headed north on the 16th!

Lu Shan frowned into the character Sichuan when he received this news. He didn't think the Japanese were moving quickly, but felt that they were in the face of the Japanese soldiers. It made people feel breathless and uncomfortable!

Lu Shan has deployed Li Chunrun's first brigade in Qingyuan, the 1st brigade in Xinbin, and Bao Jinghua's third brigade in Huanren. The three brigades form the second line of defense, and Guo Jingshan's troops of the Fourth Brigade also urgently reinforced Fushun.

Zhou Baosheng's 100th Cavalry Brigade was also sent to Huang Yuzhou in Jiuliancheng as a mobile force.

That is, the first line of defense was concentrated, Su Kun's 2nd Brigade, Sun Mingchen's 2nd Brigade, Guo Jingshan's 4th Brigade, Huang Yuzhou's 5th Brigade, Deng Tiemei's 7th Brigade, and He Shili's 100th Artillery Brigade!

The total strength of the seven brigades was 40,000, and then there were some public security forces and militia teams. These troops were temporarily organized into the Southern Group for unified command. In this way, the total strength of the Southern Group was about 45,000!

Forty-five thousand people are not enough to resist nearly 50,000 Japanese troops. Even if the number of people is over, Lu Shan has no confidence to block the Japanese troops from the territory occupied by the East Column.

What should I do? He will not fight such positional defense wars.

They can't afford to fight with the Japanese. They can only fight mobile warfare and guerrilla warfare!

The Japanese army could not concentrate on attacking, and they did not occupy a single place, so they must divide their troops to defend, so they must divide some of their troops. So although the first line of defense concentrated nearly 40,000 troops, Lu Shan still decided to put the Japanese in and attack!

It is not easy to fight when put in. If the commander fails, he will easily be killed by the enemy and he will be defeated!

In order to avoid such a situation, Lu Shan decided to resist head-on first and understand the enemy's true strength.

The casualties were summarized at the headquarters, and Lu Shan was shocking after seeing it!

In just three days, I finally formed a team of 45,000 people, and nearly 10,000 casualties were killed and killed!

The Japanese casualties were less than 3,000!

The huge casualties of three to one prompted Lu Shan to adjust his combat thinking immediately!

As early as a month ago, Lu Shan had already prepared for the arrival of this war. The first thing was to encourage the people to move inward. Of course, this effect was not very good. People's hometowns were hard to leave. Who would believe that you would not let your own home go with you in a word?

The second is to hoard materials and food, hide them in deep mountains and forests, imitate the secret camps organized by the Anti-Japanese United Nations in later generations, and establish many secret bases in the vast mountainous areas to prepare for the next guerrilla warfare!

The third is to form a militia team, distribute weapons, train and cultivate some guerrilla warfare talents!

The policy has begun to show results in the past three days. Hundreds of secret camps were built in the war zone prepared by Lushan for the Japanese army, and many guerrilla warfare talents were also trained. They were usually militias and guerrillas during wartime. There were almost every village with such a team, with varying numbers, with more than a dozen people and hundreds of people!

In addition to supporting some weapons, some were purchased privately, and more than half of them were big swords and spears!

However, this time Lu Shan gained a lot from Fengtian Arsenal. It can be said that a batch of weapons eliminated by the Dongzong are being distributed!

In fact, Lu Shan, who returned from Lu Shan, gave instructions and ordered the brigades to gather the eliminated old weapons and replenish them to nearby militia organizations nearby. Then, when the weapons from the arsenal arrived, they would immediately change their clothes!

Especially in Fengcheng, Benxi, Kuandian and Fushun, in just one week, spears and big swords were all over the age of hot weapons!

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Volume 1 of the Iron Blood Military Soul of the Anti-Japanese War: Fighting in the White Mountains and Black Waters Chapter 479: Guerrillas and Secret Camps!
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