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Chapter 1014: New Year¡¯s Drama (2)

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    According to the combat preparations of General Nishio Hisao, the Japanese base camp issued an order to the Chinese dispatched troops on April 10 to attack Yichang with the 11th Army.

    Subsequently, the 11th Army ordered its troops to concentrate on the 12th and conduct specific combat preparations in accordance with its previously determined "Battle Guidance Strategy" and the 11th Army's "Operation Plan Outline" formulated on April 7.

    In order to alleviate the contradiction between the insufficient offensive and defensive forces of the 11th Army in this battle, the China Dispatch Army Headquarters drew 4 infantry brigades from the 15th Division of the 13th Army stationed in Nanjing and 3 infantry brigades from the 22nd Division stationed in Hangzhou.  An infantry brigade and an artillery brigade were transported to Wuhan and placed under the command of the 11th Army.

    Secondly, the 3rd Flying Group of the Army and Air Force Major General Kuwana Takuo was also transferred to Wuhan, and in coordination with the Chinese fleet of Lieutenant General Oikawa Furushiro, a part of the 1st China Fleet of Major General Mataro Tanimoto was sent up the river to participate in this event.  Second battle.

    Coinciding with the high-level exchange of the 11th Army at this time, its former commander, Lieutenant General Okamura Neiji, was transferred out on March 9, and Lieutenant General Sonobe Kazuichiro, commander of the 7th Division of the Kwantung Army stationed in Qiqihar, succeeded the 11th Army.  Army Commander.

    Lieutenant General Sonobe Kazuichiro was eager to make achievements after taking office, and he quickly took action according to the orders of the China Expeditionary Forces Headquarters!

    The 11th Army divided this operation into two stages. In the first stage, it first attacked the main force of Li Zongren's 5th theater in Zaoyang area east of Han River, west of Pinghan Road, Xinye and south of Tang River;  Xiangyang and Yicheng to the west of Yang and Shayang Town to the west of Tianmen crossed the Han River and captured Nanzhang, Yuan'an, Jingmen, Dangyang, Shashi, Jiangling and Yichang.

    Soon the 11th Army Headquarters issued combat instructions to the divisions on the front line, ordering the divisions on the front line to keep secrets and make various preparations. Starting from early May, they would attack with great speed and maneuver to annihilate the 5th Army.  The main force in the theater is located in the area north of the Suixian and Xiangyang lines; later, the Chinese troops west of the Han River will be compressed towards the Yichang area and annihilated.

    In order to achieve the purpose of encircling the two wings, breaking through in the middle, and annihilating the main force of the fifth theater, the 11th Army Headquarters ordered the 3rd Division and its attached troops to assemble in the north and northwest of Xinyang. After the attack began, all the way from the north of Xinyang  Passing Ming Port and heading west from Maoji and Huanggang, they attacked Biyang and Tanghe in Henan.

    The other route is from Youhe, Xiaolindian, Tongbai and Pingshi in the northwest of Xinyang, attacking Tanghe.  Then turn left to attack the Baihe area south of Xinye and near Fancheng, and join the 13th Division to cut off the retreat route of the main force of the 5th Theater to the north.

    The 13th Division and its affiliated units are still on guard against the front of the Han River.  The main force marched north from the east bank of the Han River west of Taihong Mountain, encircled the main force of the 5th Theater Army in the Fancheng area, and cooperated with the 3rd Division.

    The 39th Division and its accompanying troops deployed in front of Suixian County.  When the two wing divisions formed an encirclement of the Chinese army, they attacked Suixian in the center towards the Zaoyang area to the north, and coordinated with the 3rd and 13th Divisions to annihilate the 11th Group Army in the 5th Theater in the encirclement.

    The 11th and 59th Fighter Squadrons of the 3rd Flight Regiment, the 44th and 75th Light Bomber Squadrons, and the 17th Independent Reconnaissance Squadron are stationed at Xinyang, Yingshan, Zhongxiang, Wuchang, and Hankou airports respectively.

    Its combat missions are to attack and bomb Chinese air force bases such as Xiangyang, Laohekou, and Nanyang; to seize air supremacy on the battlefield to facilitate the movement and attack of ground troops; to conduct reconnaissance and direct support, and to cooperate with ground troops in operations.

    In addition, part of the Navy's 1st China Expedition Fleet feinted westward on the Yangtze River to confuse the Chinese army; the 2nd Combined Air Force cooperated with land forces in operations.

    Three infantry brigades and one mountain artillery brigade were transferred from the 40th Division of Xianning, led by Major General Sadao Ishimoto, commander of the 40th Infantry Regiment; two infantry brigades transferred from the 34th Division of Nanchang were led by the division  The 216th Regiment is led by Colonel Ogawa Gonnosuke and is attached to the 3rd Division located in the direction of Xinyang.

    Three infantry brigades and one mountain artillery brigade were transferred from the Puqi 6th Division. They were led by Major General Naozo Ikeda, commander of the 11th Brigade, and were attached to the 39th Division located in the direction of Suixian County.

    The four infantry brigades transferred from the 15th Nanjing Division were led by Colonel Cangqiao Shang, the commander of the 60th Regiment of the division; the three infantry brigades and one artillery battalion transferred from the 22nd Division in Hangzhou were unified by the 22nd  The infantry regiment commander was commanded by Major General Matsui Kanichi and was attached to the 13th Division located in the direction of Yingshan.

    The troops commanded by Major General Matsuyama Yuzo, commander of the 27th Infantry Brigade transferred from the Tianjin area, formed a temporary mixed 101st Brigade to serve as security near Hankou.

    In order to conceal this combat plan, the Japanese army conducted a feint in Jiangnan as planned.

    On April 23, the independent mixed 14th Brigade in Jiujiang raided the area west of Jiujiang; enemy naval vessels feinted towards Dongting Lake and Poyang Lake on April 20; its 3rd Flying Group began on April 23, that is, to attack the  The 9th theater bombed the Changsha area.

    With the Japanese attack, the national army was alsoAfter being mobilized, the two sides were at war with each other in central China, and a war was imminent.

    In North China, in order to completely occupy North China and expel the anti-Japanese troops in the area, the North China Front Army decided to conduct a long-term, large-scale law and order operation against the Chinese army in the area, with the purpose of quickly restoring railways, highways, and water transportation.  , in an attempt to eliminate the anti-Japanese forces in North China and solve the North China issue.

    Tada Shun¡¯s solution is mainly divided into three aspects. On the military side, the Japanese army decided to launch an attack on the National Army¡¯s Second Theater in southern Shanxi and the National Army in Zhongtiao Mountain to completely defeat these two major military groups.

    In terms of politics, it is to expand the scale and power of the puppet regime in North China, recruit capitulationists through the puppet regime, and influence those who are not determined to resist Japan, in order to achieve the purpose of ruling North China.

    In terms of economy, North China is being developed, mainly to enhance transportation, communications, develop electric power, develop minerals, develop salt and chemical industries, etc., so that North China and Northeast China will gradually become a powerful military base for continued invasion of China and anti-Soviet resistance.

    The attack began on April 11. The Japanese Air Corps dispatched troops to conduct continuous bombings on the Yellow River Iron Bridge on Pinghan Road, Zhengzhou Station, Zhengzhou Airport, and Zhongtiao Mountain.

    The Japanese army attacking southern Shanxi began to attack at the scheduled time. However, due to resistance from the defenders along the way, it was not until April 18 that the 36th Division captured the end of the railway in southern Shanxi.

    The 37th Division launched an attack from near Taigu on April 16. When it reached the area near Zhongtiao Mountain, it was attacked by the defenders from the east of the railway.

    ??The national army also refused to give in. The Second War Zone and the First War Zone, plus the Eighth Route Army units, all launched counterattacks, and the situation in southern Shanxi suddenly changed.

    During this period, after the Japanese army suffered a major defeat in western Shandong, it launched an attack on the national army in southwestern Shandong, which caused the Sulu Theater Headquarters to respond and all troops quickly assembled.

    Soon, nearly a million troops from China and Japan gathered in the entire Chinese battlefield from south to north, from the Loess Plateau to the hills of Shandong and then to the water towns of the south of the Yangtze River. They launched large-scale battles in three battlefields in Shanxi, Shandong and Yichang.  A hint of the main force's decisive battle.

    And as one of the centers of the storm, the Shandong Guerrilla Corps is under great pressure at this time!

    On April 25, more than 5,000 people from the Japanese Eighth Brigade arrived at Mengshan in the east of Juye County. They were immediately blocked by more than 3,000 people from the main force of the defenders. The Battle of Southwest Shandong officially started!

    In view of Li Guoyao¡¯s usual tactics of defending in danger and killing a large number of Japanese troops, Lieutenant General Sasaki, after discussing with Iida Sadagu, decided to use the powerful firepower advantage to offset the terrain advantage of the defenders.

    Therefore, after the battle started on the 25th, the Japanese army concentrated more than 80 tanks, more than 60 fighter planes, and more than 100 artillery pieces, and launched indiscriminate bombardments against the defending positions.

    Although the defenders had made corresponding psychological preparations, and Li Guoyao had even moved the main force of the air defense forces to the front line, they were still stunned by the powerful firepower configuration of the Japanese army.

    The Battle of Mengshan started at three o'clock in the afternoon on the 25th and lasted until the night of the 26th. In the end, because the defenders could not bear the huge casualties, and the position was shattered under the indiscriminate bombing of the Japanese army, they had to withdraw to the Leishan defense line.  Continue to block the Japanese army.  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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