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Chapter 1401: Restoration of Suiyuan (End)

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    Although such an own incident was very angry, it did not affect the army's operations. Lishui was eventually captured. Major General Xiao Xiujiang did not hold the commander of the army accountable.

    After leaving this unit in Lishui to recuperate, he personally commanded the main force of 5,000 mixed brigade to set off from Lishui along the Oujiang River on land and water. One unit attacked Wenzhou from Haixi, a mountainous area to the north of the main force. Along the way, they were only attacked on the outskirts of Wenzhou.  There was resistance from the first unit of the newly formed 33rd Division of the garrison, but Qingtian was quickly occupied, and with the cooperation of the navy, Wenzhou was quickly occupied.

    In order to support its naval ship operations in Feiyunjiang, the Xiaoxiangjiang Brigade dispatched the 3rd Battalion of Major Yoshio Terashima of the 226th Infantry Regiment, headed south from Wenzhou to Ruian, and captured the place. At this point, the Japanese army was  The offensive on the Zhejiang-Jiangxi battlefield has temporarily come to an end.

    During the Battle of Zhejiang and Jiangxi, the intention of the Japanese base camp was to completely destroy the airport group in this area to prevent the Allies from using it to bomb the Japanese mainland.

    As soon as the offensive operation ended, the 13th Japanese Army assigned its divisions the task of destroying the airport, that is, the 32nd Division destroyed Yushan Airport, the 116th Division destroyed Quzhou Airport, and the Xiaoxiujiang Brigade destroyed Lishui Airport.

    When the 32nd Division destroyed Yushan Airport, it deployed 734 engineers, 4,205 infantrymen, and 1,132 local migrant workers.  The destruction work lasted for 35 days and ended in August.

    As a result, the airport runway was dug into numerous large vertical and horizontal ditches and 114 deep pits were blasted.

    A total of 127,333 trees and bamboo forests were cut down, 727 houses of residents were demolished, and 13 bridges were blown up or demolished.

    Lishui Airport is relatively small and was destroyed by the Xiaoxiujiang Brigade and the 70th Division. A ditch was planned to be 4,265 meters long; 274 engineers and 377 infantrymen were mobilized; and 3,492 local migrant workers were arrested.

    All trees and bamboo forests within a radius of 3 miles were cut down, and all residential houses were demolished.

    Quzhou Airport and its surroundings suffered the most severe damage. The Japanese army spent about two months, employing 4,723 engineers, 34,461 infantrymen, 17,072 local migrant workers, and 39,993 captured personnel.

    The method of destruction is to first dig a large trench of the same length as the runway on the center line of the runway, and then dig horizontal trenches equidistant and perpendicular to the large trench to make the runway look like a grate.

    In addition, a sluice was built on a tributary of the Wuxi River about 8 kilometers away from the airport to raise the water level. Through a river channel, the river water was introduced into the airport area and flowed into these excavated deep vertical and horizontal ditches, causing the airport to be flooded.  Mines were also laid near sluices and embankments to prevent future drainage.

    As for the original roads, bridges, barracks, hangars, ammunition depots, oil depots, repair shops, and equipment depots of Quzhou Airport, they were completely destroyed, and all nearby residential buildings were demolished.

    Because Quzhou Airport was designated as the focus of damage, Japanese 116th Division Commander Shunjiro Takeuchi, Chief of Staff Yamada Taku, 13th Army Commander Sawada Shigeru, and Chief of Staff Yasuo Tangchuan visited the airport many times to inspect the damage.

    During the inspection, Sawada Shigeru believed that the Quzhou Airport built with the help of the United States had many references for the Japanese army in terms of layout, drainage, and support equipment.

    Although the Yushan and Quzhou airports have been destroyed, if China needs to resume construction, it will take several months. Sooner or later, the airports in this area will be restored to use for bombing of Nanjing, Shanghai and other places. Therefore, the Japanese air defense in the Shanghai and Nanjing areas  , should be strengthened as soon as possible.

    During this battle, the Japanese army also seized and robbed a large amount of materials, including weapons, ammunition, explosives, wires, gasoline, food, clothing, steel, machinery, tung oil, wood, etc. After transporting these materials away, the troops of the 13th Army  To the east of Yushan, the demolition of the Zhejiang-Ganxi Railway began, and all the dismantled rails, sleepers, spikes, plywood, driving facilities, etc. were loaded and transported eastward.

    It was first demolished to the east of Jiangshan County, then to Quzhou, and then to a place nine kilometers west of Jinhua.

    These dismantled rails and sleepers were transported day and night by train and five vehicle teams.  According to the order, all the rails were transported to Shenyang and other arsenals in the northeast to manufacture weapons.

    In addition, in this battle between Zhejiang and Jiangxi, the Japanese army originally planned to withdraw the troops to their original positions after destroying the airport cluster in the area. However, after launching the attack, the Japanese army's staff headquarters proposed to obtain railway equipment and fluorite along the way.  Minerals are used for military purposes.

    Fluorite, also known as fluorspar, is a flux in metallurgy and one of the important materials in military production.

    The 70th Division and the Xiaoxiujiang Brigade, which were on guard duty in the Jinhua area, were collecting intelligence in the area and learned that Jinhua, Yiwu, Zhuji, Shengxian, and Wuyi contained approximately 3.5 million tons of fluorite ore.  Wuyi alone occupies nine-tenths of it, with a grade of over 80%. It is a rare high-quality fluorspar mine in the Far East.

      In order to occupy the fluorite mining area, the Japanese base camp immediately called the frontline troops: "When retreating along the Zhejiang and Jiangxi lines, retreat to the Jinhua and Wuyi areas. The garrison in this area will be dispatched from the organic units of the 13th Army."

    Subsequently, the Japanese troops on the southern front began to cover each other and retreat.

    During this period, the commander of the 11th Army, Anami Weiji, was transferred to Qiqihar as the commander of the Second Front Army. The commander of the 11th Army was succeeded by Lieutenant General Tsukada, Chief of General Staff of the Southern Army.

    While the Japanese troops on the battlefields of Zhejiang and Jiangxi were advancing triumphantly, Neji Okamura on the battlefields of North China encountered a difficult time.

    Originally, he planned to launch a full-scale attack on Li Guoyao's defense area after Baotou's troops withdrew to Peiping, and regain Datong and the area east of Jining in one fell swoop.

    As a result, before his combat order was issued, he received an emergency from the direction of southern Hebei. The national army in southern Hebei actually took the initiative to launch attacks in the direction of Xingtai and Nangong. All units of the Eighth Route Army also acted quickly.

    Since the 110th Division stationed in Shijiazhuang was transferred to the Xinkou front line, the garrison strength on the southern front was seriously insufficient, which directly led to the chaos in southern Hebei.

    At the same time, King De from far away in Xilinhot also sent an urgent telegram. Their people discovered a large number of national army cavalry in Zhenglan Banner, Xianghuang Banner and Taipusi Banner in the south of Xilinhot.

    "The number of these cavalrymen is no less than five or six thousand, and they come and go like the wind. They have beaten the Japanese and puppet troops in various counties and towns to abandon their helmets and armor. Now they basically dare not even leave the county towns."

    In addition, news came from Jidong, Rehe and other places, and the Eighth Route Army units were also ready to move. The entire anti-Japanese forces in North China suddenly moved, which made Okamura Neji feel the danger.

    In addition, the front army still has many troops operating in cooperation with the dispatched army headquarters on the southern front, resulting in a serious shortage of troops.

    In view of this, Okamura Neiji finally decided to suspend the counterattack plan and ordered the troops on the front line to immediately cover each other and retreat, returning to their original positions.

    With the withdrawal of the Japanese troops, the war that lasted more than half a month was finally over.

    In this battle, the Ninth Army and the 35th Army of the Eighth Theater cooperated with each other to regain Suiyuan in a very short period of time, creating a miracle in the history of war.

    At the same time, during the special period when the Japanese invaders were on a killing spree in Southeast Asia and the American and British armies were retreating steadily, this great victory of the Chinese army was even more valuable and greatly enhanced the international status of the Nationalist Government.

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