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Chapter 1,386: Restoring Suiyuan (1)

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    After observing the terrain from the train station to the south gate and both sides, Colonel Nao Kurahashi, commander of the 60th Regiment, who attacked the south gate, decided that Major Naoken Kawagoe's 2nd Battalion would attack the south gate from the bungalows around the station as a starting point.  .

    At the same time, the strengthened heavy machine gun troops used the bungalow area at the starting point of the attack as a position to cover the assault troops. The infantry artillery, mountain artillery, and heavy artillery positions were located south of the railway to suppress the firepower of the heavy machine guns and artillery on the front line of the defenders.  Support the attack of Kawagoe 2nd Battalion.

    The 34th Regiment that attacked the North Gate, its 1st and 2nd Brigades stayed in Yingshan, with only one brigade strength.

    After observing the terrain, the commander of the regiment, Colonel Makoto Nase, felt that the North Gate was very close to the Qujiang River. The terrain was narrow and there were many small rivers that swelled after the rain. The movement and deployment of most troops would be affected. Therefore, the captain of the 3rd Battalion, Kunii  Lieutenant Colonel Masao led his 11th and 12th Squadrons and the Machine Gun Squadron to attack the north gate, covered by the artillery of the wing.

    After Kawagoe Naonen accepted the task of attacking the South Gate, he organized the battalion into the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Assault Squadrons of Lieutenant Yamada Tadayagi's 7th Squadron, Lieutenant Yukimura Ryozo's 5th Squadron, and Lieutenant Lieutenant Anji Ito's 6th Squadron.  The team, together with the engineers, carried explosives, and under the cover of heavy machine gun and artillery firepower, blew open the city wall, opened a breakthrough, and opened the way for the subsequent attacking troops.

    This brigade has been fighting continuously for 20 days, and the force has been greatly reduced. Each infantry squadron has only about 80 people, and the heavy machine gun squadron has only about 50 people. Ammunition is also short, and the infantry gun of the brigade only has 8 rounds of shells.

    Kawagoe¡¯s 2nd Battalion made no progress during its one-day offensive on June 6 and suffered heavy casualties.  The first wave of 11 people from the 1st Commando Team carried explosives and advanced in various leap forwards in the rain and under fire at noon. When these 11 enemy soldiers arrived near the moat, they were all killed by the troops of the 67th Division.

    Then the 2nd Commando Team, accepting the lesson of the 1st Commando Team that stopped advancing under fire, adopted a rapid leap forward. One of them actually reached the south wall. Then they put down their explosives and prepared to detonate, but because the matches were all soaked,  None of the explosives exploded.

    This wave of personnel of the 2nd Commando had no place to move forward and could not retreat, so they had to use the terrain to hide under the city wall.

    It was getting late at this time, and the troops of the Koye Brigade at the North Gate and East Gate and the 15th Division at the South Gate launched an attack on Quzhou.

    By June 7, the enemy's 32nd Division on the North Road had arrived in the area between Quzhou and Changshan, and one section had arrived in Fangcun; the 22nd Division had arrived near the railway from southwest Quzhou to Jiangshan.

    Mo Yushuo, commander of the 86th Army, decided to evacuate the battlefield on the night of June 6th based on the situation that the rear was about to be cut off and contact with the 74th Army, 49th Army to the south, and the 25th Army to the north had been lost. On June 7th, Quzhou  It was occupied by the enemy's 15th Division and Kono Mixed Brigade.

    The 86th Army defending the city decided to retreat on its own without following a unified battle plan. Afterwards, the commander of the army, Mo Yushuo, was held accountable and sentenced.

    After the Japanese army occupied Quzhou, they left Shunjiro Takeuchi's 116th Division and Kono Brigade to guard the area and destroy Quzhou Airport

    Dividing line

    In order to cooperate with the 13th Army in the second phase of the Zhejiang-Ganxi Railway operation, two divisions of the 11th Army of Ananweiji stationed in Wuhan crossed the Fuhe River in the southeast of Nanchang on May 31 and headed east along the Zhejiang-Jiangxi Railway.  attack.

    The first part of the 34th Division crossed the Fuhe River at Xiebu Street, about 15 kilometers southeast of Nanchang, and reached Liangjiadu and Wenjiazhen on the railway line from the west of Qinglan Lake. It then attacked Jinxian to the east and prepared to join the 13th Army.

    The main force and the 3rd Division entered the Baituwei, Baimazhai, Xiucaibu, and Taosha areas west of Fuhe River to contain the eastward advancing troops of the 9th Theater Division.

    The 3rd Division crossed the river from Wanshe and Xiangtang south of Nanchang, crossed the river from Shatanpu, and went southeast through Sanjiangkou, Xinshe, Lijiadu, Tangfang, and Yunshanwei to attack Linchuan, Huwan Town, and Nancheng, and occupied Fu  Areas on both sides of the river were blocked to prevent the 9th War Zone from sending reinforcements along the Zhejiang-Jiangxi Road.

    The commander of the 11th Army, Anami Weiji, had a different view on this battle. He believed that such a large-scale battle in this area would not cause much damage to the Chinese army, but would instead lose the limited strength of the Japanese army.

    He advocated the implementation of the "Operation No. 5" plan, which was to concentrate large corps along both sides of the Yangtze River and across the Yellow River through Xi'an and Baoji, with one unit crossing the Qinling Mountains to capture Shaanxi and Sichuan, and fundamentally eliminate our country's anti-war forces.

    When the 11th Army launched the attack on May 31, in order to achieve a concealed assault, it crossed the Fuhe River, which was about 600 meters wide, at night. When crossing the river, an iron-hulled boat capsized and the second largest soldier of the 218th Regiment of the 34th Division  Captain Tanaka Gong and 21 other people were drowned.

    After crossing Shabutan and Fuhe River, the 11th Army discovered the heavy troops of the 9th Theater on both sides of Fuhe River. It felt that only the 3rd Division along the Fuhe River to attack Nancheng was too weak, so on June 3, Ohgamo was defeated.  The main force of the 34th Division was transferred to the direction of Fuhe, while heading east along the railway was from theThe infantry commander of the regiment, Major General Yan Yongwang, led three infantry brigades to attack Yingtan and Guixi.

    The 3rd Division, which attacked along the Fu River, occupied Linchuan on the morning of June 5 after a day and night of fierce fighting with the 98th Division of the 79th Army. After that, it continued to advance southward, while the troops of the 79th Army continued to resist.  .

    Afterwards, the 3rd Division captured Nancheng, while the 34th Division held down the 4th Army and 58th Army of the 9th Theater in the Xiushi, Taosha, Zhanping, and Tongyuan areas north of Chongren and west of Linchuan.  .

    When the 11th Army launched the offensive, Shunroku Hata went to the Nanchang area to inspect the battlefield and flew back to Nanjing on June 3.

    Yanagawang, who attacked eastward from the railway, led 3 infantry brigades and 1 artillery squadron. After capturing Yujiang, because of its relatively weak strength and the 3rd Division attacking along the Fuhe River at this time, it was close to Nancheng. Accordingly,  Anan Weiji decided to transfer his troops to the Zhejiang-Jiangxi line.

    That is to say, the 34th Division set out from Linchuan and was still responsible for the frontal attack on the Zhejiang and Jiangxi lines to support the 13th Army's operations; the troops led by Iwanaga Wang returned to their original organizational structure.

    And Major General Saburo Takehara, commander of the 6th Infantry Brigade, led 4 infantry and 3 artillery squadrons to secure Nancheng.  The 3rd Division assembled in Jinxi to prepare for the battle against Yingtan.

    But just as the Japanese army was advancing vigorously, an emergency suddenly came from the northern front, and the Chinese army in the Suiyuan area suddenly launched a large-scale counterattack.

    That¡¯s right, the Nationalist troops on the northern front took action on the night of June 7th, the same day as the Japanese army occupied Quzhou!

    The first to take action was the 35th Army, the main force of the Eighth Theater. That night, two regiments of the army suddenly launched a surprise attack on Wuyuan County!

    Although Wuyuan is only a small county with a small city and a small population, the Japanese army attaches great importance to it.

    The reason is also very simple, because the geographical location here is very important. If you hold Wuyuan and retreat, you can protect Baotou, and if you advance, you can get a glimpse of Gansu and Ningxia. It is a strategically important place for invading the northwest.  Therefore, after the Battle of Suixi, although the Japanese army voluntarily withdrew from the Hetao Plain, they refused to occupy the Five Principles. They transferred key Japanese military personnel, Lieutenant General Ifo Shuikawa, and more than 100 civilian and technical personnel from the Northeast.  , as well as thousands of people from the gendarmerie, secret service, and garrison teams.

    At this time, the Japanese garrison in the entire Hetao Plain was advertised as an infantry regiment, but in fact there was only an infantry brigade that was not full of personnel, and there were also three thousand people from the Suixi Allied Forces of Wang Ying's Puppetry Department.

    In addition, the Japanese and puppet troops also established a Suixi garrison in the Hetao Plain.

    This garrison is mainly composed of bandits and puppet policemen, with a total strength of about 800 people. Therefore, the total number of Japanese and puppet troops in the entire Hetao Plain is about 5,000.

    Of the five thousand people, only the regular Japanese field brigade stationed in Linhe had strong combat effectiveness, and most of the rest were used to make up the numbers.

    Despite this, the Japanese and puppet troops still had strong control over the Hetao Plain. Not only did they occupy the vast area east of Linhe, Wuyuan City and Fengji Canal, they recruited traitors politically, established a puppet regime, and economically tried to organize the Japanese  The Zhonglianying Cooperative dumped Japanese goods and plundered Chinese resources. Militarily, in addition to building core fortifications in Wuyuan County and guarding fortresses in the suburbs, it also ordered puppet troops to build strongholds on the periphery to prepare for the long-term occupation of Wuyuan.

    After investigation, the 35th Army learned that the Japanese military headquarters guarding Wuyuan City was located in the Reclamation Office and the Fur Factory, and the garrison commander was Colonel Shimizu.

    The Japanese army occupied strongholds such as the Reclamation Cooperative, the Implementation Primary School, the Catholic Church, the Jesus Church, and the Pingshi Official Money Bureau, and connected all the points to form a core position, with barbed wire fences and bunkers all over the outside.

    More than a thousand people from Wang Ying's department of the puppet army were stationed in Xiguan, the old city and suburban villages. They built defensive positions and earthen forts to form peripheral positions.

    The Suixi Garrison Division is stationed at Xingongzhong, Haojin Bridge, Mankesu, Nanniuhu, Meilin Temple, etc. to the west of Wuyuan. Heavy troops are stationed at Guangshengxi in the northwest of the city, and there are bridges over the Wuga River and Wulahao.  In many places, enemy and puppet troops were also sent to guard the rear communication lines.

    Before the war, Commander-in-Chief Fu personally inspected the Wuyuan area of ????Linhe and conducted detailed reconnaissance of the Japanese army's troop deployment, defense, and rear transportation. Later, at the 35th Army Headquarters, he worked out a recovery plan with Army Commander Dong Qiwu  Wuyuan's battle plan.

    According to Commander-in-Chief Fu's arrangement, troops were first sent deep into the enemy's rear, destroying communication lines and all bridges, so as to facilitate an insidious attack on the enemy reinforcements and isolate Wuyuan to defend the enemy.

    At the same time, company commander Wang Buyun and others were sent to reconnoitre the enemy's terrain along the route, and disguised as the enemy's "Xuanfu Team" to sneak into Wuyuan City to conduct detailed reconnaissance of the enemy's situation in the city. Officers and soldiers were also sent to disguise themselves as ordinary people and sneak into the city to cut grass, feed horses, and carry water for the enemy.  , thinking internal response.

    The local people were mobilized as guides, and people's stretcher teams and food and ammunition transport teams were organized to support the operations. At the same time, the water of the Yellow River was flowed into the main and branch canals, and farmers were asked to release the water to the fields in advance, making the Hetao area a flooded area, making it difficult for the Japanese troops to move, especially by car.  , tanks, artillery, cavalry, etc., are more difficult to move.

    According to the plan, Dong Qiwu of the 101st Division was ordered to push to the mouth of Fengji Canal, and Yuan Qingrong's Department of the New 32nd Division was stationed north of Haojin Bridge and built a bridge over the canal.

    The cavalrymen's Bingyue Division was transferred to Linhe Nantaizi and Dehequan areas to prepare for the attack on Wuyuan. The 35th Division of Ma Tengjiao Division took over the defense of Tianji Taiqiao. All the guerrilla troops of Li Zuodong sneaked into the Nanmao'an area to hide in advance. Anhuating's brigade sneaked in  At Anbei, Xishanzui, Maqi Ferry and other places, block the enemy's reinforcements and intercept the fleeing enemy.

    Finally, it was decided to set the siege time as the night of June 7.  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com)nbsp; According to the plan, Dong Qiwu of the 101st Division was ordered to push to the mouth of Fengji Canal, and Yuan Qingrong's Department of the New 32nd Division was stationed north of Haojin Bridge and built a bridge over the canal.

    The cavalrymen's Bingyue Division was transferred to Linhe Nantaizi and Dehequan areas to prepare for the attack on Wuyuan. The 35th Division of Ma Tengjiao Division took over the defense of Tianji Taiqiao. All the guerrilla troops of Li Zuodong sneaked into the Nanmao'an area to hide in advance. Anhuating's brigade sneaked in  At Anbei, Xishanzui, Maqi Ferry and other places, block the enemy's reinforcements and intercept the fleeing enemy.

    Finally, it was decided to set the siege time as the night of June 7.  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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