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Chapter 921: Decisive Battle at Kunlun

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    And at the same time that Li Guoyao's troops captured Jining City and eliminated the main force of Jining's defenders, the Chinese army on the southern battlefield also ushered in a turning point.

    On the Kunlun Pass battlefield, after the Japanese 21st Regiment arrived in Jiutang, the Chinese army responded quickly. In addition to the Honorable First Division, the 5th Army attacked Kunlun Pass from three aspects.

    In addition, other troops recovered the highway from Liutang to Qitang and destroyed and burned all bridges.

    At this point, the enemy's 21st Regiment has been completely surrounded. Since this Japanese army has been fighting continuously for more than a week, it is extremely short of food and ammunition and is in a very difficult situation.

    The most important thing is that the Chinese army they are facing is extraordinary!

    Surrounding the 21st Regiment is Du Ming's Fifth Army. This force is extraordinary. It is the only mechanized force of the Chinese government so far, and it can be called the benchmark of the Chinese army.

    Speaking of the Fifth Army, it is famous in the history of the Chinese army. It is known as China's first armored force and has the reputation of "Iron Horse Army". It is one of the few that can compete with the Japanese army on the anti-Japanese battlefield.  The existence of armored forces is a head-to-head encounter.

    However, it is worth mentioning that many people think that the first commander of the Fifth Army was Du Yuming, but in fact this is not the case. The earliest founder of the Fifth Army was named Xu Tingyao.

    Among the generals of the national army, Xu Tingyao can be said to be unknown. He is even less famous than some of his subordinates, such as Du Yuming, Liao Yaoxiang, Qiu Qingquan, Huang Jie, etc. These famous anti-Japanese generals were all former subordinates of Xu Tingyao.  Soldier, this is enough to prove how good Xu Tingyao is.

    Xu Tingyao was born in Wuwei, Anhui Province in 1892. Because he was born into a prominent family, his family conditions were not bad.  When he was young, the current situation was becoming chaotic, and Xu Tingyao suddenly sensed the opportunities, so he decided to join the army and was admitted to the third phase of Baoding Military Academy, starting his military career.  At that time, students in his class included Bai Chongxi, Zhang Zhizhong, Cai Tingkai, Huang Shaohong and others. It can be said that there are many talents.

    After graduating from Baoding Military Academy, Xu Tingyao served in the army of Anhui warlord Ni Sichong. However, because these warlords ignored the people's suffering, Xu Tingyao returned to his hometown in anger and became a teacher.

    Two years later, at the invitation of a friend, Xu Tingyao went south to Guangzhou and joined the army of the Cantonese army Xu Chongzhi.  Here, he was appreciated by his senior brother Jiang and began his own journey of leading troops.

    When Xu Tingyao served as the commander of the Fourth Division, Du Yuming was still the regimental commander under him, and Dai Anlan, Zheng Dongguo and others were also battalion commanders.

    When he first took office, the discipline of the army was very poor. Basically, a regiment of Du Yuming followed his orders. Therefore, Xu Tingyao promoted Du Yuming more.  In 1933, Xu Tingyao was ordered to rush to the aid of the Kuomintang defenders at the Great Wall to resist the Japanese army.

    Subsequently, he ordered Du Yuming to lead the 25th Army to fight against the Japanese army. Du Yuming's troops fought bloody battles with the Japanese army for three days, with both sides suffering heavy losses. This was also the most tragic Battle of Gubeikou in the Great Wall War of Resistance.

    Realizing the shortcomings of this army, he suggested to Chiang to form a Chinese mechanized force. Chiang agreed and after the Great Wall Anti-Japanese War ended, he began to travel to Europe and the United States to inspect the construction of armored forces.

    After returning to China, Xu Tingyao first began to form an armored regiment and a tank battalion, and also established a mechanized school unit to begin cultivating reserve talents.

    After the outbreak of the all-out Anti-Japanese War, with the help of the Soviet Union, Xu Tingyao presided over the formation of China's first mechanized army-the new Eleventh Army, which later became the Fifth Army.  Xu Tingyao was later promoted to commander-in-chief of the 38th Group Army, and the commander of the Fifth Army became Du Yuming.

    In June 1939, after Du was promoted to commander of the 5th Army, he transferred Dai Anlan, deputy commander of the 89th Division, to succeed the division as commander.

    The 5th Army is well-equipped, mainly equipped with more than 80 Soviet-made T-26 tanks, 100 German-made "Haosu" armored vehicles, more than 400 American-made Ford trucks, and more than 40 motorcycles.  The military heavy artillery regiment has 24 150mm howitzers, and each division is equipped with a large number of mountain guns and field guns.  This kind of equipment was second to none in the Chinese army until the middle of the Anti-Japanese War.

    Kunlun Pass is an important pass on the southwest international transportation line that controls the Yong-Bin Highway. The terrain is dangerous, like the throat of the esophagus. It is an ancient battlefield where "one man can guard the pass and ten thousand men are invincible". It is also a battleground for military strategists to conquer Nanning.  , Kunlun Pass must be conquered first.

    After the Japanese 5th Division captured Nanning, the capital of Guangxi, it took advantage of the situation to capture the strategically important Kunlun Pass and defended it with heavy troops.

    The main garrison stationed at Kunlun Pass is the 21st Brigade of the 5th Division, which is directly under the jurisdiction of the 21st and 42nd Regiments.

    After the Fifth Army surrounded the 21st Regiment, Du Laoming immediately used more than 10 aircraft from the Second Air Force and heavy artillery to cover the tank troops to launch a fierce attack on the Japanese army, driving the Japanese army away.?Compress inward.

    At this time, the commander of the enemy's 5th Division, Imamura Jun, also noticed that something was wrong. Based on this emergency situation, he ordered the commander of the 21st Brigade, Masao Nakamura, and the two brigades of the 42nd Regiment of Colonel Gen Sakata to immediately go for reinforcements.

    But when the Japanese reinforcements arrived at Liutang, they were blocked by the newly formed 22nd Division and 92nd Division and were unable to advance even an inch.

    After being blocked, Nakamura and Sakata tried to use a force from the mountainous area north of the road to the rear of the newly formed 22nd Division to break the siege of the 5th Cavalry Regiment and the 21st Infantry Regiment, but they were unsuccessful.

    At this moment, all the troops of the enemy's 21st Brigade have been deployed in the Kunlun Pass area.

    At this time, the troops of the 5th Division were two infantry regiments of the 21st Brigade at Kunlun Pass; an infantry regiment of the 9th Brigade had not yet returned in Longzhou, and only the 41st Infantry Regiment of Colonel Toshiro Naomi was in Nanning.  The two brigades of the brigade (belonging to the 9th Brigade), therefore no more troops went to Kunlun Pass for reinforcements.

    Major General Yan Tian Dingqi, the commander of the Taiwan brigade in Qinzhou who was responsible for guarding the rear supply line, based on the predicament of the 5th Division in Nanning and in the spirit of "Bushido", took the initiative to use the First Infantry Regiment of Taiwan to reinforce the 3rd Infantry Regiment at Kunlun Pass.  21 Brigade.

    Imamura was grateful for this bushido action in Yantian and agreed that Colonel Lin Yixiu's 1st Taiwan Infantry Regiment would be sent to the Wutang area and placed under the command of the 21st Brigade Commander.

    But when Masao Nakamura was commanding the battle about two kilometers northwest of Qitang, he was wounded by troops from Qiu Qingquan's newly formed 22nd Division.  After several fierce battles, Lin Yixiu's Taiwan First Regiment finally opened the encirclement of the Kuomintang army from the outside and joined the 42nd Regiment and the 21st Regiment that were surrounded in Jiutang.

    At this time, the 200th Division of the 5th Army had attacked Kunlun Pass from the north. The surrounded enemy 21st Regiment suffered heavy casualties after being violently attacked by the Kuomintang artillery, tank troops, and infantry.  This caused Miki Yoshinosuke's 21st Regiment to gradually retreat from the positions at Kunlun Pass and Jiutang.

    After several days of fighting after being surrounded, they were short of food and ammunition.  Since all the mortar shells they carried had been fired, the mortar squadron buried the guns in the soil.  Many of the Japanese soldiers, who had been starving for days without food, devoured berries, leaves and weeds.

    When the Kuomintang troops stepped up their attack, Yoshinosuke Miki saw the seriousness of the situation and ordered the army flags to be burned to prevent them from being captured by the Kuomintang troops.  It was not until the arrival of reinforcements led by Masao Nakamura that the situation temporarily eased.

    ?Then the 5th Army continued to besiege the Japanese troops at Jiutang and Kunlun Pass, causing the enemy to suffer heavy casualties one after another. At this time, the enemy in the encirclement circle had 3 infantry regiments and 1 cavalry regiment.

    When Masao Nakamura was commanding the battle, he was shot in the abdomen by troops of the Honorable First Division of the 5th Army and was seriously injured. The entire 21st Brigade battle was commanded by the 42nd Regiment Captain Moto Sakata.

    The 5th Army continued its efforts and did not give the Japanese a chance to breathe. It used various artillery to conduct fierce shelling on the enemies surrounded by Jiutang and Kunlun Pass.

    At this time, the military doctor of the 21st Brigade was performing major abdominal surgery on Masao Nakamura in a nearby private house.  A shell hit the roof of Nakamura's operating room, followed by large and small mud chunks falling down, and the room was filled with smoke and dust. The operation was delayed for more than five hours before it was completed.  But because he missed the best time for treatment, Nakamura died in Jiutang a few hours later.

    At this time, General Du Yuming was commanding the heroic 5th Army, stepping up the attack, determined to eliminate the Japanese troops besieged in the Kunlun Pass area.  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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