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Chapter 704: The Japanese Army¡¯s Fierce Reaction (Part 1)

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    Although the Nanchang counterattack failed, it had a huge impact on the Japanese army, especially in terms of ideology.

    When the news came, both the commander of the 11th Army, Okamura Neiji, and the chief of staff, Major General Numata Takazo, realized that the situation had changed. After two years of fighting, the Chinese army had slowly adapted to this war. They had  A local counterattack began.

    Coupled with the establishment of the Sulu Theater and Li Guoyao's counterattack in the Xiong'er Mountains in southwest Shandong, a Japanese cavalry regiment and an infantry regiment were completely wiped out, and another infantry regiment and a mixed brigade were severely damaged.  , and most importantly, they also lost a major general and two colonels, which was an extremely heavy loss.

    When these situations were sent to the base camp one after another, this aroused great concern among the top brass of the Japanese army!

    From the beginning of the war to the present, the two countries have been at each other's throats for two years. Hundreds and thousands of battles, large and small, have been fought. Large-scale battles have involved tens of millions of people, and there have also been disputes between dozens of people.  Small battles, but no matter how these battles end, most of them are attacks initiated by the Imperial Japanese Army, and the National Army rarely takes the initiative.

    Secondly, the Chinese military has always paid more attention to defense and is relatively passive.

    However, in recent times, the initiative of the regular army has increased significantly. From the siege of Yinan in the Sulu Theater to the siege of Zaozhuang by Li Guoyao's troops, coupled with the counterattack of Nanchang in the Ninth Theater, various signs indicate that the Chinese army has begun to counterattack.  , they are turning passivity into initiative.

    This discovery shocked and panicked the Japanese army. They all believed that the Chinese people's fighting spirit had been destroyed by them, especially in the previous Battle of Nanchang, where the Japanese army defeated 200,000 national army organizations in just a few days.  The defense line easily captured Nanchang City.

    Post-war statistics show that the Chinese army lost more than 40,000 people, while the Imperial Japanese Army suffered minimal losses.

    But no one expected that the Chinese army would launch a strategic counterattack after a major defeat. Although the plan to counterattack Nanchang failed in the end, the Chiang government¡¯s amazing decision to take the initiative to counterattack reflected China¡¯s confidence and determination to not be afraid of powerful enemies.

    And after the war, the General Staff Headquarters analyzed the battle and concluded that if the frontline troops were all deployed according to Chiang Kai-shek, and if the road network construction near Nanchang was not so developed, it would be difficult to say the outcome of the Nanchang Battle.

    The changes in the situation on the two major battlefields in Central China and North China also forced the Japanese military leaders to give up their plans to continue to advance westward. Afterwards, the base camp severely rebuked the North China Front Army and the Central China Front Army Headquarters, and ordered them to proceed with the existing occupied areas.  Carry out security sweeps.

    Therefore, a new round of public security operations is about to begin!

    After receiving the order from the base camp, the North China Front Army immediately made adjustments to the garrison in Shandong. First, it mobilized some supplementary troops from Tianjin and other places to go south, reorganized the independent mixed sixth brigade, and appointed Tetsujiro Yamada as the new brigade.  Head of the group.

    At the same time, the North China Front Army Headquarters ordered the 32nd Division to go south and take over the Zaozhuang garrison. The division commander Kimura Hy¨­taro became the Zaozhuang garrison commander, with full authority to take over the garrison tasks of Zaozhuang and its surrounding counties.

    The most important thing is that General Sugiyama Genda gave the 32nd Division a deadline to eliminate the Shandong Guerrilla Corps and capture or kill Li Guoyao alive!

    The commander of the Central China Front, Yamada Otsuzo, planned to clean up the main force of the national army west of Wuhan. In fact, as early as when the commander of the 11th Army, Okamura Neiji, was commanding the Nanchang Campaign, the commander of the Central China Front, Yamada Otsuzo, and the staff  Nagayoshimoto sent a piece of information.

    The general idea of ??this information is that in order to contain and consume the Japanese troops in the Wuhan area, the Chiang government has ordered the troops of the 1st theater to attack Xinyang and the troops of the 5th theater to prepare for the Yingshan area;  Tang Enbo's 31st Group Army in Zhangshu has been deployed to the south of Zaoyang and Suixian County in the north of the Yangtze River to set up defenses. It confronts the 3rd and 13th Divisions in the area between Dahongshan and Pinghan Road in an attempt to annihilate the area from Xinyang to Guangshui.  The main force of the 3rd Division and controls this section of the railway.

    Therefore, after capturing Nanchang, Okamura Neiji, his chief of staff, Major General Numata Takazo, and his staff determined that in order to reduce losses and take the initiative, before launching an attack in the 5th theater, they would take a preemptive strike to the north of Zaoyang.  Attack and expel the Tang Enbo Group to consolidate its occupation of the areas around Wuhan.

    At this time, Okamura's 11th Army occupied an area around Wuhan: Macheng, Xishui, Qichun, Jiujiang, Hukou, Yongxiu and Nanchang in the east, Tongshan, Chongyang, Tongcheng and Yueyang in the south, and Tongshan, Chongyang, Tongcheng and Yueyang in the west.  The Hanshui River traces back to Yuekou, Jiukou and Zhongxiang, and reaches Jingshan, Yingshan and Xinyang in the north.

    In this prominent occupied area, its troops mobilized and suppliedTransportation, communication with the Central China Dispatch Army in Nanjing, etc. are all maintained by the waterway of the Yangtze River.

    Therefore, along the Yangtze River east of Jiujiang to Wuhu, the Japanese army specially dispatched Lieutenant General Shimizu Yoshige's 116th Division to provide security, which shows its importance.

    The Japanese troops in Wuhan are different from the Japanese troops in North and East China. Their mission is to control the north-south land transportation of the Ping-Han and Guangdong-Han railways in the central plains of my country and the east-west water transportation of the Yangtze River, and to contain and attract the main force of our field corps. This place consolidates its base for launching attacks on our country's rear.

    From the autumn of 1937 to the end of 1938, the Japanese army successively occupied Baotou in the west to Suiyuan, the east bank of the Yellow River in Shanxi in North China; Xuzhou, Kaifeng, Bengbu, Hefei, Wuhu to Hangzhou in East China and the area north of Hangzhou Bay; and Guangzhou in South China.  Periphery: In the Wuhan area in central China, the Japanese army has been restricted from increasing its troop strength and expanding its occupied area.

    Because of the resolute will of all Chinese people to resist the war, the main force of the field army did not suffer heavy losses. The second-line corps completed its training mission after being formed, which put great pressure on the Japanese army.

    Secondly, after the Soviet Union¡¯s military aid to China and the ¡°Zhang Gufeng Incident¡± in 1938, this attracted even more attention and alert from the Japanese base camp.

    At the same time, Britain, the United States, France and other countries accused Japan of aggression and had many head-on frictions with Japan over matters within the concession in China, and relations gradually deteriorated.

    More importantly, Japan is experiencing unrest due to famine and wartime material control. Various signs indicate that Japan is gradually losing the initiative in the war.

    Especially the international condemnation and suppression of Japan has made Japan even more isolated internationally.

    ¡°However, the Japanese Army General Staff Headquarters and the Naval Command Headquarters are now deviating from the traditional practice of using troops exclusively against one country during war.  On September 5, 1938, the Japanese army proposed the "Imperial Army Operation Plan for the Thirteenth Year of Showa" and the "Imperial Navy Operation Plan for the Thirteenth Year of Showa". The Army proposed in Articles 1, 2, 3, and 4 of the plan,  In the war against China, if the Soviet Union, the United States, and the United Kingdom participated in the war alone or jointly, the Japanese army's troop deployment plan.

    The plan was approved by Emperor Hirohito the next day. Since Japan adopted the policy of preparing for war with many countries, it decided to maintain a considerable number of mobile troops on the Chinese battlefield without using its strength to the limit.

    Therefore, on the frontal battlefield, tactical attacks were often carried out, and the combat policy of "attack but not capture" was adopted with the purpose of annihilating the main force of the anti-Japanese troops.

    In the areas of North China and Central China within its occupied areas, it promotes strengthening public security and stepping up support for traitors and puppet troops, and conducts counterfeiting activities to use China to control China, in order to achieve the purpose of long-term occupation.

    And this war has completely entered the stage of strategic stalemate. The two sides have shifted from fighting for consumption to fighting for willpower!  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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