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Chapter 579: The mall is lost!

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    On November 5, Okada Zi's brigade of the 10th Division of the Japanese Army attacked westward through Zhaihe, Sunpu, Zhuganpu and other places. During this period, they fought many times with Chen Dingxin's 45th Army and suffered heavy casualties before occupying  To Luoshan.

    But the Japanese army soon discovered a problem, that is, the more they attacked westward, the stronger the resistance they encountered.

    ??And they have been fighting bloody battles with the Chinese army at the northern foot of the Dabie Mountains for more than two months since the war started at the end of August. The casualties of each unit have been extremely heavy, and the troops are in urgent need of rest and replenishment.

    In addition, a large amount of ammunition was looted in Lu'an City, so the situation of the frontline troops is not optimistic.

    Therefore, after the 10th Division captured Luoshan, the Japanese 2nd Army Headquarters immediately ordered the Fujita 3rd Division assembled in Hefei to join the battle in the Luoshan area. Together with the 10th Division, they attacked the Ping-Han Railway in Xinyang.  area.

    At the same time, Fujie Keisuke's 16th Division, which had captured the Fujisan area on the west bank of the Shihe River, began to advance westward and attacked the mall after a brief reorganization and new combat preparations. The 10th Division's Se  Gu Qi's 33rd Brigade provided support in the north.

    On November 7, the main force of the Japanese 13th Division plus the 16th Division, totaling more than 20,000 people, led by an armored vehicle squadron, concentrated the use of two divisions and their associated artillery, and were stationed at the Hefei Airport Temple.  In direct coordination with Major General Kuramasazo's 1st Flying Regiment, they launched an attack on the mall where the 3rd Corps Headquarters was located.

    On the Chinese side, Sun Lianzhong immediately mobilized the main force to fight. He first placed Tian Zhennan's 30th Army in the direction of Duanji and Fangji, and then moved Feng Anbang's 42nd Army to his side to defend the front line of Fengji and Shangcheng.

    The Japanese army first fought a fierce battle with Zhang Jinzhao's 30th Division. Both sides suffered heavy casualties. The forward positions changed hands repeatedly, and corpses were littered in front and behind the positions.

    After two days and nights of fierce fighting, the 30th Division could not bear the heavy casualties, and finally the defenders withdrew from Fangjiaji on the evening of November 9.

    After that, the Japanese army still used tanks as the guide and was directly covered by aviation. The two divisions attacked the mall in parallel and in multiple ways.

    In addition, part of the 16th Division detoured to Hefengqiao, Balitan, Shuangmenlou, and Shilitou areas north of the mall, and launched a large-scale battle with the 30th Army south of Tianzhen.

    According to battlefield dynamics and scheduled plans, Commander-in-Chief Sun Lianzhong immediately ordered the 30th Army to evacuate the mall and go to Baiqueyuan, Shawo, Xiaojieling, and Lianglu intersection to the west and southwest, and join Song Xilian's 71st Army on this stretch across the Dabie Mountains leading to Wuhan.  The main road was fortified on both sides and relied on the favorable terrain to resolutely prevent the Japanese troops from passing through Macheng from the area to Wuhan.

    When evacuating the mall, Sun Lianzhong cried. He knew that the mall would be captured by the Japs, and he no longer knew how many cities had been captured by the Japs in his hands. As a soldier, he felt deeply guilty.  .

    Sun Lianzhong was born in the Northwest Army. He joined the army at the age of 19 and started as a soldier. It has been 26 years now, which can be regarded as a half-life of ups and downs in the army.

    During the "July 7th Incident", Sun Lianzhong served as the commander-in-chief of the 26th Route Army. He was a miscellaneous army among the miscellaneous armies. However, he still accepted the order from the Nationalist Government and led his troops to participate in the war.

    Sun Lianzhong's troops first confronted the enemy's 20th Division in Fangshan and Liangxiang, near southwest of Peiping, and then blocked the enemy's 20th Division from attacking Taiyuan at Niangziguan, west of Shijiazhuang. They fought fiercely for many days and were later reorganized into the 2nd Division.  Army group.

    When the situation in southern Shandong was tense, Sun Lianzhong's troops moved from Luoyang and Zhengzhou to the Taierzhuang area in the northeast of Xuzhou. After many fierce battles, they repelled the 10th Division Major General Kei Setani, who was assigned two artillery regiments and two armored vehicle squadrons.  , the 33rd Brigade of the 1 Heavy Machine Gun Brigade and the reinforced version of Major General Shun's 21st Brigade of the 5th Division achieved a brilliant victory in the battle to defend the Taierzhuang area.

    In that battle, the performance of the 31st Division of the 30th Army was particularly outstanding. The division commander, General Chi Fengcheng, had been commanding the troops to fight the enemy in Taierzhuang, and finally annihilated most of the enemies in the village, forcing those who could not escape to set fire to themselves.

    During the battle in Xuzhou, the 2nd Army was still in southern Shandong, focusing on attacking the enemy's 5th Division to prevent it from going south into the plains of northern Jiangsu and northern Anhui.  A total of 4,390 people from the 9th Brigade of the Japanese 5th Division participated in the battle. In the 20 days from April 26 to May 15, the brigade was killed and injured 1,401 people by Sun Lianzhong's troops, which temporarily  Unable to go south.

    Later, when the Nationalist Government decided to withdraw from Xuzhou, Sun Lianzhong's troops covered the withdrawal of the 5th Theater Troops to the west through Woyang and Mengcheng.

    Finally, Sun Lianzhong's troops jumped out of the enemy encirclement and retreated to the southeast of Xuzhou. They crossed the Huaihe River from the Wuhe area via Lingbi and Sixian, bypassed Bengbu and reached the Dabie Mountains west of Lu'an.

    After more than a year of fighting between the north and the south, Sun Lianzhong went all out in every battle. He fought where others did not dare to fight, and fought where others did not dare. Sun Lianzhong thought that he had done his best., but still couldn't stop the little devil's attack.

    The battle against Peiping resulted in the loss of Peiping, the battle against Shijiazhuang resulted in the fall of Shijiazhuang, and finally the loss of Xuzhou, and now the mall was also lost. Sun Lianzhong felt quite unhappy.

    ¡° But he also knows that this is not a warlord war, but a battle between countries for their national destiny. The battle is about who can have the last laugh.  No matter how uncomfortable he felt, he could only retreat.

    After the Third Army Corps evacuated the mall, Sun Lianzhong ordered Feng Anbang's 42nd Army to continue fighting near the mall. The main force set up defenses along the mountainous passage south of the mall to prevent the enemy from going south from the mall through the liquidambar trees, boat shops, and  Changzhuyuan crosses the Dabie Mountains and reaches the Macheng area in the northeast of Wuhan.

    At the same time, Tian Zhennan¡¯s 30th Army and Song Xilian¡¯s 71st Army were ordered to withdraw to Liquidambar, Xiaojieling, and Xinxian to guard these three main channels from the Dabie Mountains to Macheng.

    In order to boost morale, Sun Lianzhong even set up the headquarters of his Third Corps in Baiguo Town, south of Macheng, to direct operations in the outer areas of the Dabie Mountains.

    On November 11, the Japanese army occupied the mall after a fierce battle with the first section of Feng Anbang¡¯s 42nd Army.

    Then, Fujie HP's 16th Division Shinohara Brigade took advantage of the courage to capture the mall and launched a fierce attack on the two divisions Zhong Bin and Zhong Song who were defending the highlands on the east and west sides of Shawo.

    In the Battle of Fujin Mountain, Chen Ruihe¡¯s 36th Division became famous in the first battle, but the troops suffered heavy casualties and lost their combat effectiveness.  However, the 71st Army is a strengthened army with four divisions. Except for the 36th Division, Zhong Bin and Zhong Song's two divisions are still strong.

    Because of this, the 71st Army did not withdraw from the battlefield to rest after the Battle of Fujinshan. Instead, it continued to fight on the front line and was transferred by Sun Lianzhong to block the 16th Division.

    Although the 71st Army suffered extremely heavy losses during this period, the morale of the troops was boosted. Stimulated by the huge results of the Battle of Fujin Mountain, the entire 71st Army worked together as one, and its combat effectiveness increased instead of falling.

    No matter how hard the Japanese army attacked, even with tanks, aircraft and a large number of large-caliber artillery, they still failed to defeat the 71st Army. The Shinohara Brigade and Song Xilian's troops fought fiercely for a week without making any progress.

    Then, in order to reinforce the Second Division of the Zhong Family, Song Xilian sent the reserve team Shen Fazao into the battlefield.  Division Shen boldly took a detour to the side of the sand nest, cutting off the retreat of Shinohara's brigade, and seemed to be encircling and annihilating Shinohara's brigade, which made the Japanese army extremely nervous.

    When Lieutenant General Fujie, the commander of the 16th Division, saw that Shinohara's troops were under siege, he quickly led the main force of the division south to attack Master Shen Fazao.

    The two sides launched an all-round bloody battle in the area south of the mall. They fought to the death for three days. The two sides fought until the sky was low and the clouds were dark. Dead bodies were everywhere, and the sand nest became the sad and mournful cemetery of the 16th Division.

    At the same time, the Japanese 10th Division and the 13th Division were also fighting fiercely with various defenders in Huangchuan, Xindian and other places.

    The battle lines are sometimes stalemate and sometimes fierce.  Every time the Japanese army took a step forward, it had to pay a heavy price. The Japanese army divisions participating in the war were under unprecedented pressure since they entered the Chinese battlefield.

    The high mountains and dangerous valleys of the Dabie Mountains hindered the progress of the Japanese army and limited the power of the Japanese army's mechanization and heavy firearms. The Chinese army, on the other hand, was united as one and worked hard. With inferior weapons and equipment and backward tactics, it was able to defeat more than a dozen Japanese troops.  Thousands of elite troops were pinned down in the Dabie Mountains, leaving them looking at Wuhan in the distance but unable to move south.  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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