Of course, Officer Li and Officer Bai know that there is actually another reason, that is, the Southern Route Army was held back by Liu Yang. Not only that, the Japanese army also lost more than 15,000 people, plus the Japanese army lost in the area north of Wuhan. The strength of the troops made it impossible for the Japanese South Route Army to support the North Route Army. On the contrary, they still needed reinforcements from the North Route Army.
Without the cooperation of the South Route Army, and the fact that the North China Front Army in Shanxi was blocked in the Luliang Mountain area, this situation would have resulted in the current situation. Terauchi Shouichi led more than 80,000 Japanese troops, and was blocked in Hefei and could not advance an inch.
In fact, there is another reason that the Japanese army is unwilling to admit, that is, the tiger camps operating in Wuwei County and He County. The Japanese army did not concentrate on annihilating the tiger camps. They attacked the transport troops in a timely manner, so that the Japanese army's supplies could not keep up.
?The latest sneak attack caused the Japanese army to lose three vehicles of ammunition, including a lot of shells, which made the Japanese army's offensive weak. It seems that it is even more distant to conquer Hefei.
The Tiger Battalion inherited the cunning of the Secret Service Battalion, which annoyed the Japanese army and caused large forces to encircle and suppress them. They broke up into pieces and operated in the Xiliang Mountain or Chaohu area. They used the mountain and Chaohu as cover to prevent the Japanese army from being able to use it. , Just like the Japanese army in Baiqiao Town.
A regiment of more than 3,000 Japanese troops in Baiqiao Town was a little helpless in the face of the Tiger Camp. The attack on Xiliang Mountain was blocked by solid fortifications. The subordinates of the battalion are still active, and people from the Tiger Camp continue to sneak attacks down the mountain.
? If the large troops could not capture the Tiger Camp, small groups of troops would be surrounded and wiped out by the Tiger Camp. From the beginning to the end, the two sides seemed to be two lines that they did not want to cross, and the Japanese army in Baiqiao Town had nothing to do.
In this kind of battle, the Japanese army lost as many as seven or eight hundred people, while the Tiger Camp lost thousands of people. But the Tiger Camp has a lot of people. In addition to its own more than 5,000 people, there are also local militias and militias, as well as the Xiliang Mountains. The militiamen and recruit battalions of the Japanese army not only did not beat down the number of people, but more and more, while the Japanese army died one by one.
Without a superior force to blockade the entire area, the Japanese army could only watch the Tiger Camp keep loitering, attacking a stronghold this time, and killing some puppet troops the next. In the end, except for the Japanese army in Baiqiao Town and He County, even Wuwei County was lost. , but the Japanese army did not have enough troops, but they did not dare to fight the Tiger Camp.
The Tiger Battalion is definitely a direct descendant of the Secret Service Battalion. They run away if they can't beat them. They only bully small troops, and they bully small troops with several times or even ten times the strength. However, the firepower of the Tiger Battalion is not weak. Being led by the tiger camp for a long walk, he finally couldn't run anymore, and returned to Baiqiao Town by himself, and so on.
After losing Wuwei County, the Japanese army in Baiqiao Town held on to Baiqiao Town even more desperately, looking for opportunities to wipe out a few small groups of troops from the Tiger Camp, only two or three hundred people, but it proved that their strategy was right. of.
But in this way, the safety of the transportation line cannot be guaranteed. The strongholds and bunker fortifications along the way are constantly being pulled out by the Tiger Camp, and the continuous attacks on the transportation team have caused heavy losses to the transportation team. It almost made Terauchi Shouyi crazy. It is precisely because of this that after sending two regiments to reinforce the southern front, there was no more reinforcements. Instead, they had to return to eliminate the Tiger Camp, at least to ensure the safety of the transport team.
Only with the withdrawal of Yanagawa Hirasuke's troops to Tongcheng, the battle in the entire Zongyang County changed. First of all, the Japanese army in Tietong Township could not bear it. Without the support of the Matsushima United Army, the Japanese army on the island became The lone army, and with the bombing of the warship, was seriously short of various supplies, and was unable to take the initiative to launch an attack. Instead, it was attacked several times by the reorganized New 188th Regiment.
Following the news that Yanagi Chuanhesuke retreated to Tongcheng, the remaining thousands of Japanese soldiers in Tietong Township finally crossed the river secretly and retreated in one night. They paid the price of three or four hundred people and finally succeeded in crossing the river.
Once Tietong Township was gone, the pressure from the 1024th Regiment also disappeared, and the Japanese troops blocking the Dawang Temple also retreated.
The entire eastern front was calm, and at this time the western front was also calm. Coupled with the failure of the northern front, the Japanese army's strategic goal of besieging Zongyang County was a complete failure. More than 13,000 troops had to retreat, and finally the Japanese army collapsed across the board.
Without the threat of the Japanese army, Liu Yang entered Lujiang County directly from Yijin Town. Following the strong arrival of the spy battalion, the Japanese troops in Baiqiao Town, Leqiao Town, and Luohe Town were terrified and voluntarily withdrew to Tongcheng. The county returned to the hands of the spy camp, which also greatly reduced the pressure on the Leopard Camp in Lujiang County.
Naturally, the Leopard Battalion, which was originally staying in Zongyang County, was also ordered to rush back to Lujiang County, and began to guard against the Japanese army in Tongcheng and the Japanese army on the northern front.
?The crisis in Zongyang County was lifted, temporarily restoring calm in Zongyang County, and the 31st BrigadeIt formed a line with the 127th Regiment and the Leopard Battalion, and they could form horns with each other. They could attack the Japanese army's flanks at any time and put pressure on the Japanese army in Tongcheng.
If this just put a little pressure on the Japanese army, then the high-profile return of the secret service battalion made Terauchi Shouyi feel tired, because after Liu Yang arrived in Lujiang, the first thing he did was not to declare war on Yanagi Chuan in Tongcheng, but directly sent a message. The telegram stated that the Secret Service Battalion immediately entered Wuwei County, together with the Tiger Battalion, wiped out the Japanese army in Baiqiao Town, and attacked Hexian County, wiped out the Japanese army in Hexian, and completely cut off the transportation line of Shou Yiyi in the temple.
Shouyi in the temple certainly wouldn't take it seriously when others said that, but Liu Yang said that, but he didn't dare to be defensive, because Liu Yang seemed to be very sure when he spoke, and it was clear that there was some conspiracy. God knows what Liu Yang planned to do.
What angered the Japanese army the most was that after Liu Yang appeared in Wuwei County, the puppet troops of the two brigades in Dougou Town immediately surrendered anyway. The strong combat effectiveness wiped out a squadron of Japanese troops in Yuncao Town in one fell swoop. Of course, this was due to the fact that a brigade of puppet troops in Yuncao Town also surrendered directly.
The Japanese army has never been able to understand why these puppet troops surrendered directly, but this secret service battalion has a lot to do with it. It was later learned that the secret service bureau instigated these puppet troops. After all, these puppet troops were recruited from Jiangsu and Zhejiang. Some of them were from the Jiangsu and Zhejiang areas, many of them were related to the spy battalion, some of them were bought, and then the commanders of the puppet army and some pro-Japanese officers were killed, resulting in a direct rebellion.
And as these puppet troops rebelled, the Tiger Camp also began to show its power, and directly captured Tongzha Town, and then joined forces with the rebellious puppet troops to attack Baiqiao Town, but they also surrounded but did not attack, claiming that when their camp arrived, they would be able to fight against each other. The drum went down to Baiqiao Town, so that the Japanese soldiers in Baiqiao Town died without a place to bury them.
This kind of rhetoric is getting more and more evil, saying that Liu Yang already had a way to directly kill more than 2,000 Japanese soldiers in Baiqiao Town, and he did not waste his efforts. Some rumors used poison gas bombs, and some rumors that there were descendants left by Liu Yang in Baiqiao Town. Hands, it is said to be a lot of explosives, once detonated, Baiqiao Town can explode into the sky.
All kinds of legends filled the Japanese soldiers in Baiqiao Town, because they entered Wuwei County from the spy camp, and some people sang Japanese songs outside the town all day long, and they sang very sadly. Wherever they went, the feeling of raising troops to welcome the king's division made the Japanese army feel the meaning of destroying the dead.
As one town after another was captured, the Japanese army in Baiqiao Town became even more panicked, because from the appearance of Liu Yang, no matter it was Wuwei County, He County, or even the guerrillas in Hanshan County and Chaohu area, they all fought chicken blood. Everyone was excited, everyone believed that Liu Yang could wipe out the Japanese army in Baiqiao Town with one sentence, believed that they could capture Hexian County, and even Hanshan County, and then attack Shouyi's North Route Army in the temple¡ª¡ª
All kinds of legends converged on Shouyi in the temple. Facing the fierce spy battalion, Shouyi in the temple had to increase his troops to Hanshan County and He County. To He County and Hanshan County, to avoid the transportation line being cut off,
?The Northern Front Army, which was already tense, suddenly mobilized more than 12,000 people, making the already stretched Japanese army even more difficult to arrange, and the pressure on Hefei was immediately reduced.
At the same time, the almost silent guerrillas, no matter the guerrillas over there, after receiving the news of Liu Yang's strong arrival, everyone became excited and began to constantly harass the Japanese army and sneak attack on the Japanese army's supplies. The transportation line was cut off for several days in a row.
This is all from Liu Yang. The impact of the Wangfeng uprising of the puppet army, coupled with the Tiger Camp, nearly ten thousand troops suddenly marched into Baiqiao Town, threatening He County and Hanshan County. Is it really impossible to wipe out the Japanese troops in He County, Hanshan County and Baiqiao Town?
The key point is that when the Japanese army was originally short of troops, whether it was Baiqiao Town, He County or Hanshan County, they had to drive the puppet troops out of the city, because they could not trust the puppet troops, even if they were really loyal.
And this greatly hurt the loyalty of the puppet army. From officers to ordinary soldiers, the puppet army began to resist the Japanese army. The bigger problem was that the Japanese army began to cut off the supply of the puppet army because they were worried about the puppet army and avoided The puppet army bites them in turn, this must be done.
It can't be said that the Japanese army did something wrong. After all, the puppet army is just doing nothing. Except for a few officers who are desperate, those soldiers and many low-level officers have no so-called loyalty at all, and they cannot be expected to work hard for the Japanese army. Rebellion is possible at any time.
But the more the Japanese army was like this, the more they pushed the puppet army out. At the beginning of August, when Liu Yang arrived in Shenxiang Town, Baiqiao Town was assigned to the puppet army in Chenqiaozhou, and immediately killed most of the puppet army. The captain then declared an uprising, surrendered to the secret service battalion, turned over and prepared to attack Baiqiao Town, and with the mutiny of Chen Qiaozhou's puppet army, Qiu Lu's puppet army also followed suit¡ª(Remember this website URL : www.hlnovel.com)?To get ready to attack Baiqiao Town, and with Chen Qiaozhou¡¯s puppet army rebelling, Qiu Lu¡¯s puppet army also rebelled¡ª(Remember this site¡¯s website: www.hlnovel.com