In these eight months, China's domestic war situation has undergone a fundamental reversal. Due to the Battle of Hengyang, the Japanese army not only failed to realize their desire to open up the mainland's communication line, but even failed to secure Tanzhou that they had captured.
Led by the commander surnamed Xue, the 9th War Zone, with the remaining power of victory in the Hengyang Defense Battle, assembled 5 group armies and 4 infantry corps with a total of about 260,000 troops to counterattack Tanzhou in early December. The army had lost most of its combat power.
Although the Japanese 11th Army was supplemented by two divisions from the Japanese North China Front, its combat strength was less than 150,000. In addition, it had completely lost its air superiority, so it had no choice but to abandon Tanzhou and retreat.
Most of Hunan Province returns to Chinese control!
In February 1945, although it was freezing cold in northern China, under the careful planning of the Second Theater Command, the Fourth and Fifth Army Groups located on the Zhongtiao Mountain Defense Line, with a total of about 100,000 people, joined the 80th Army Group.
With the cooperation of 5 infantry regiments, they marched from southern Shanxi to central Shanxi, broke through three lines of defense of the Japanese North China Front Army, recovered 18 county towns, and directed their troops towards the original city.
The 683rd Infantry Brigade and the Southern Hebei Guard Brigade, the main force of the Eightyth Group Army located in Hebei Province, once again showed their sharp fangs, gathering more than 50,000 troops. They launched an offensive from Southern Hebei and defeated Handan and Xingtai, the two core cities in Southern Hebei.
City.
The 4th Division of the Japanese North China Front Army stationed in southern Hebei was almost defeated in one blow. In just three days, southern Hebei was completely defeated. The entire southern Hebei was completely controlled by the Chinese and completely separated from the Taihang Mountains.
Connected together.
However, Lieutenant General Konosuke Ohkuma, who had just been promoted to the commander of the 4th Division, miraculously did not receive any harsh criticism despite this defeat.
Although this man is a smart man, he works closely with many senior officials of the Front Army Headquarters, and he has the support of the North China Front Army Headquarters. The most important reason may be that the Japanese North China Front Army also believes that this is not a war.
sin!
As early as December 1944, with the return of the Si Xing Regiment, the Eightyth Army, which occupied huge base areas in Hebei, Shandong and Henan provinces, no longer concealed its strength and showed off its muscles from time to time.
It was not until then that the Japanese North China Front Army was shocked to discover what a behemoth the "Tuba" they had always looked down upon had grown into in the past few years.
It was a military group with hundreds of thousands of troops, and they were an army equipped with 150-caliber heavy artillery, highly capable direct-aimed artillery, and a large number of equipped mortars of various calibers. This was by no means what they imagined.
The only army in the country is a country bumpkin army armed with rifles and machine guns.
After several years of humble development, the Taihang Military Factory finally ushered in its most glorious moment in this era.
Although it was impossible to announce its production capacity at this time due to confidentiality, declassified files 15 years later clearly recorded that before 1945, the Taihang Military Factory already had 4,800 employees.
In terms of production capacity, the monthly production capacity is 1.8 million rounds of bullets of various types; 10,000 firearms of various types; 600 60-caliber mortars and 30,000 shells; 200 120-caliber mortars and 10,000 shells; 30 75-caliber mountain guns and 6,000 shells
;More than 50,000 mines, grenades, explosive packets and other explosives...
Powerful military manufacturing has given the Eightyth Army the greatest confidence. Now that they have chosen to flex their muscles before the Japanese giant ship is about to sink, I am afraid that it will not be seen more by the Japanese who are fighting between the two groups, but by other groups.
People see it.
After all, even the American five-star general, the Commander-in-Chief of the Far East, couldn't help but open his eyes wide after seeing the strength shown in the newspaper by Chinese allies from another part of China in North China.
"Niang Xipi!" someone yelled in his small living room.
"Baga!" Shimomura Sadaya, the newly appointed commander of Japan's North China Front, had cold sweat on his forehead.
Not counting the more than 200,000 people on the Taihang Mountain side of Zhongtiao Mountain, the Eighty Group Army alone, which was spread around the city where the Imperial Army was stationed, could swamp it with its huge force.
Abandoning southern Shanxi and eastern Shanxi and shrinking its troops to stick to the original city is the strategic deployment made by the Japanese North China Front Army Headquarters in response to China's actions in Shanxi Province.
The 13th Division and 4 mixed brigades in the city fought to the death with 50,000 Japanese troops.
However, in Ji Province, facing the brutal attack launched by the 80th Group Army and the Jinan Guard Brigade, the Japanese North China Front could only watch helplessly as the 4th Division retreated rapidly.
Although the Japanese troops stationed in eastern Hebei and northern Hebei continued to receive requests for help from friendly forces in southern Hebei, they did not dare to step out of the city gates.
There was no need for reconnaissance. Even a fool would know that the main force of the Eightyth Army might be waiting for them on the side of the road, and then they would eat them all in one bite without spitting out their bones.
It has long been known that an infantry brigade can fight against a Chinese infantry division. After the battle of Zishan, there was a clear comparison between the strength of the Japanese North China Front and the enemy and ours.
Leaving aside the top ace infantry regiments like the Si Xing Regiment, let’s talk about the main infantry brigade in the Eighty Group Army. They must at least use a division level of equivalent strength to fight against it. If they fight against its three main infantry divisions,
That is a battle at the level of a field army.
Even if it is an inferior local armed force, at least one infantry squadron must be mobilized because the opponent is equipped with a sufficient number of light machine guns and rifles starting from at least 38 rifles.
To put it bluntly, in the countless contact battles in the past few years, the Japanese army did not dare to step out of the city gate unless they dispatched an infantry brigade and a security barracks at once to provide support.
The approaching Japanese army did not dare to support them, and the entire Japanese army divisions hundreds of miles away were still lining up to set off. The 4th Division was defeated like a mountain. It ran 300 miles in three days and completely lost southern Hebei Province.
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This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! It is not appropriate for the Chinese side to chase down the remaining bandits and kill them all. The regular army quickly entered the city, calmed the citizens, and liquidated those who surrendered to the enemy in the city. It is no longer like this
In the past, even if the county town was conquered, the Japanese troops would simply move away all their supplies and leave. This was obviously a permanent stay.
What that person is thinking is no longer important. What is important is that the Eightyth Army has shown its muscles to the entire Chinese people. After dormant for several years, they can single-handedly push back the North China Plain and rescue the people in the enemy-occupied areas.
In water and fire.
Because of the recovery of southern Hebei, the U.S. Ambassador to China sent a congratulatory message to the senior officials of the Eightyth Army to congratulate them on their outstanding contributions to the war to eliminate fascism.
This is a real congratulation, but also a warning to some people's thoughts.
As the Allied forces landed in Normandy, the Bear Country entered the border of the Germanic Empire from the east. The Germanic Empire was already declining and was not far from defeat. Now the only main opponent of the Allied forces was Japan. In order to end the war as soon as possible and reduce losses, senior American officials
It doesn't matter if someone is angry or crazy, the enemy of the enemy is an ally. Over the years, the Eightyth Army has also received a lot of arms support from the Americans.
That person was naturally a smart man. He knew that if the Eightyth Army dared to show off its muscles at this juncture, it would naturally capture the minds of the top leaders of the United States. Those blue eyes would not consider the future of the Chinese people, but only themselves.
The 80th Army's deliberately exposed biceps made the Mao Xiong people, who had been strongly supporting China to reduce the pressure on their north, quietly change their minds.
The Japanese Army base camp was greatly shaken, but at this time they could no longer care about the Chinese theater. The Allied forces had fully occupied Guam, and in February 1945, they were about to launch the battle for Iwo Jima, with their troops directed at the area closest to the Japanese mainland.
Okinawa.
The Japanese may not know that the upcoming extremely bloody Battle of Iwo Jima finally made the top leaders of the United States determined to use Fat Man bombs to resolve Japan's will to resist.
Tragic Japan will become the first nation on the planet to enjoy the Fat Man Bomb!
However, in this garrison brigade battle, the independent regiment, which is its top trump card, has remained on hold.
The independent regiment, which was adapted from the Si Xing Regiment, did not rush to replenish its establishment in the past few months when it returned to Dakouzidong Town for rest. Instead, it trained new recruits in battalions and companies, with no intention of fighting externally.
Perhaps only the senior leaders of the Jinan Security Brigade know that the independent regiment can transform into a powerful army with more than 9,000 personnel at any time.
Because the recruits who are being trained were 5,000 selected from tens of thousands of young people who voluntarily signed up to join the army in base areas such as Hebei Province, Shanxi Province, and Shandong Province in mid-1943. They have been training for more than a year. Among them,
Most of them have even participated in small battles. It is not so much training as it is general training, in order to quickly integrate with the independent group in these few months.
Tang Dao's injuries improved greatly a month after returning to Dakouzidong Town, and he was able to move freely. However, he may have suffered a head injury, but he was still recovering from his injuries.
Tang Dao even resigned from the military position of the leader of the independent regiment and was replaced by Leng Feng. Even the director of the Jinan Administrative Office was still held by the prince who had resigned and was transferred back to the mountain city. He stayed in Dakouzidong Town every day, doing nothing.
When he was not having a drink with his old comrades, he would be running around the mountains and rivers in Tangshan River with his hammer and Guaiguai on his back, and he rarely participated in military and political matters.
This is actually what some people want to see. Now that the 80th Army has become more powerful, if Tang Dao appears on the battlefield with the independent regiment again, it may be like the last straw that breaks the camel's back, leading to a certain situation.
People have some stress reactions, which is not what Tang Dao wants to see.
Tang Dao also completely relaxed himself in these few months. He knew very well that it was only half a year before the end of the war, and the independent regiment happened to use this time to train veterans and recruits and adapt to various new equipment.
The infantry equipment is basically the same as the old three, an assault rifle imitating the 56 submachine gun, the squad machine gun uses a 'lawn mower', the company and platoon level heavy machine gun uses a 12.7 mm heavy machine gun, the anti-armor weapons are mainly anti-tank rifles, and the squad forced machine gun is used.
Artillery fire is still 60%;
However, the artillery has been updated, completely abandoning the black and bulky 150-caliber mortar, and replacing it with a 120-mm mortar imitating the Type 64.
The range of this mortar is almost as high as that of a 75mm mountain gun, with an effective range of more than 5,000 meters, which generally meets actual combat needs; the shells are very suitable for killing personnel. For enemy troops standing without protection, the killing radius of 120mm shells is as high as 35 meters; the fastest artillery
The rate of fire is 15 rounds per minute, which can effectively form fire coverage, carry out tactical bombardment, and also cover group targets.
At the same time, the gun has a certain ability to attack difficult problems, because the shell charge is more than 1 kilogram, which can effectively destroy the enemy's field defenses.
In addition, the weight of this complete gun is reduced to 174 kilograms. After being disassembled into three parts, each part weighs less than 60 kilograms on average, which greatly reduces the artillery load.
Calculated based on the fact that the artillery battalion has basically been transformed into mules and horses, an artillery squad of 15 people can completely carry 90 artillery shells independently, and a heavy forced company of 12 artillery squads can completely complete two rounds of fire coverage against the enemy without any logistics.
, this efficiency is at least twice that of the previous 150 mortars.
The mountain artillery battery was also completely eliminated and replaced by two 'Storm' rocket launcher batteries, each equipped with nine nine-round rocket launchers.
The nine rocket launchers have proven how ferocious their firepower is in actual combat during the Hengyang Defense Battle. If two rocket launcher companies and 18 rocket launchers concentrated fire, almost no infantry would survive without the protection of perfect fortifications.
Everyone could only see the Si Xing Tuan, a ferocious beast that the Japanese feared, retreating into its lair to lick its wounds after the battle, but little did they know that this ferocious beast that had returned from recovery would become even more terrifying.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! For many years to come, that person regretted letting the Four Lines Regiment return to North China, causing the Taihang Independent Detachment that appeared on the battlefield one year after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War to be invincible.
Even the famous 74th Division changed their expressions upon hearing this!
Of course, the most unlucky person was not the one. During the Battle of the Icefields, when the two battalions of the 8th Cavalry Regiment of the 1st Cavalry Division were completely wiped out, it was the Major General of the 1st Cavalry Division who had served as Patton’s chief of staff who knew their opponent.
That's it.
It was an infantry division formed based on the 3rd Regiment of the Etaihang Independent Detachment and the 3rd Battalion of the original Sihang Regiment. When it first arrived at Yunshan, it directly broke the wrist of the 1st Cavalry Division, the leader of the five ace divisions of the US Army.
When Li Jijin, the top commander of the battle, heard about his opponent's name on the battlefield, he said: "He is the ace, and I am the king of kings, the ace that can defeat the sun!"
In this battle, the two sides fought one division against another. China's top light infantry division took advantage of the mountainous terrain to fight against the American heavy armored division. It annihilated 2,300 enemies at the cost of 1,500 casualties, directly silencing the American five-star general.
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The Chinese not only appeared on the ice sheet, but as soon as they arrived, they were the ace troops.
In the past, when the Japanese kept getting injured in front of the Chinese ace unit, he thought it was the Japanese who pulled the strings. But now he found that it was not the Japanese who pulled the trigger, but that the ace unit was too strong.
But in response to the call of the Patriots to go to the ice fields, is this ace unit not the only one? The Chinese army, which has carved its way into the world after 20 years of war, may not be ranked among the best in the world in terms of equipment, but in terms of combat experience, it is still
If you can really be ranked in the top three, the so-called aces can't be counted with both hands and feet.
Midsummer in August!
On a summer night, the stars were shining brightly in the sky. Tang Dao looked up at the sky with a smile on his face!
"Abba, why are you laughing?" Tang Shanhe gently shook his father's finger.
"Shanhe, because I saw your uncles, aunts and uncles who died on the battlefield smiling at me." Tang Dao leaned down and picked up Tang Shanhe, pointing to the twinkling stars in the sky.
"You have to promise me that no matter how old you are, no matter how far you go in the future, you will never forget those uncles and aunts who died in this war!"
"Tang Shanhe, in the name of the ancestors of the Tang family, promises to my parents that when I grow up, get married and have sons, I will bring them here to report to them." Tang Shanhe formally raised his hands in his father's arms.
ensure.
"Okay!" Tang Dao kissed his son's little face hard.
"By the way, Dad, yesterday I heard from Aunt Erya that Aunt Laura was coming here. The younger brothers and sisters in the kindergarten haven't eaten the chocolates that Aunt Laura often sends me. Can you ask Aunt Laura to bring more?
"?" Tang Shanhe saw his father rarely being so happy, so he made his request with some embarrassment.
Tang Dao's face froze slightly, and the corner of his eye glanced at Tantai Mingyue, who was sitting and resting with a big belly.
In the corner of his eye, he saw his wife looking like a smile but not a smile.
"Laura came here specifically to see off the old man and grandma! I heard that you were pregnant again, and grandma said that she must come to take care of you, otherwise she would feel very guilty. You know, without Laura's help
, Shanhe’s grandparents can’t leave Sichuan Province.” Tang Da Tuanzuo, who was stabbed in the back by his precious son, quickly explained.
Who told him that this 'severely injured number' would be injured for more than half a year? Since he chose to lie dormant, he would be idle. With the joint efforts of the couple, wouldn't this cause another baby? He will give birth in a month.
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This time it must be a girl. Someone from Tang has even decided on a name, Tang Jibei.
"I didn't say anything, why are you so excited? Just continue to stay here and watch the stars and the moon!" Tantai Mingyue rolled her eyes at her husband who felt guilty for no apparent reason, stretched out her hand and stood up with the help of Tang Dao.
He smiled and looked at Tang Shanhe, who was still thinking about the delicious chocolate: "Shanhe, grandma is tired and has gone home. Your grandparents will be here in a few days. They must have brought you a lot of food."
"Yeah!" Tangshan River water flowed involuntarily from the corner of his mouth.
It wasn't until far away that I remembered that my father hadn't caught up with me, so I turned around and shouted: "Abba, come and help my mother and sister!"
"Hey, it's coming, it's coming! Wife, be careful, be careful!" Tang Daona shouted as he ran as fast as he could, carefully holding his wife's arm.
Hammer and Guaiguai, who were following behind, quickly waggled their tails!
I don’t know if the boss means this, but it’s very similar. Let’s help him wag his tail to show off!
The whole drama ends!
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PS: I finally finished the book. I wrote it for a long time today and was a little reluctant to let it go, but I finally typed the three words ‘the end of the play’.
There are many parts of this book that Feng Yue thinks are wonderfully written, but at the same time there are also many regrets. Perhaps the story is like life, not so perfect. Thank you to all the book friends for your support over the past three and a half years. Without your genuine subscription and
As a reward, Feng Yue cannot complete this nearly 6 million-word story. Feng Yue strives to become better in the next book and correct some of the shortcomings that everyone has criticized.
In short, it’s time to say goodbye to this book. In the next 10 days, Fengyue will update a few extra chapters and write some short stories about the characters in the book.
The new book is expected to be written after the National Day, and it is basically determined to be a military war type. It will contain some famous military scenes such as the Anti-Japanese War and the Icefield War. As for how to write it, I will let Fengyue explain it. This can be regarded as another part of Fengyue’s view of the military.
This is a breakthrough. Ideally, it will be launched on Qidian in mid-to-late November. I hope book friends will like and support it!
