Chapter 532: Pre-war mobilization order, four-pronged Japanese siege
September 10, 1941.
On the second day of the Tainan Military Region's combat meeting, the participating regiments, which had been mobilized before the war a few days ago, distributed ammunition supplies and rushed towards the predetermined area.
At the same time, the Tainan Military Region and the regional government jointly issued a pre-war mobilization order. Local armed forces in each county and well-trained militiamen from each village were mobilized to assemble at the county committee offices. In just half a day, 12,000 people were gathered.
The rest.
After that, under the organization of local government comrades and other militiamen, all the people within twenty miles of the north and south sides of the Handan-Changchun Highway moved towards the deeper hinterland.
Although the Tainan Military Region was established relatively recently, it has a solid mass base in Tainan counties. Once the mobilization order was issued, every villager involved responded and abandoned their homes and businesses.
Fortunately, when the tunnel was first opened, the first choice location was a village close to the Little Devil Highway. In line with the principle of not leaving a grain of food for the Little Devil, every household took away all the food they could take away, and whatever they could not take away.
Then they all stay in the opened tunnel.
In the end, only a small number of militiamen were stationed in the tunnels in the villages near the highway.
Two days passed quickly, and it was early morning on September 12th.
In the camp outside Handan City, a large number of the Kwantung Army began to gather. Together with the heavy artillery regiment and the baggage troops equipped by the Japanese army in Handan, there were a total of more than 16,000 Japanese troops.
Yukio Imada held his command sword and looked at the scene in front of him with satisfaction.
Before leaving, Imada Yukio did not forget to ridicule Terauchi Isamu: "Terauchi Isamu, next you go to Handan to see how brave and skilled the warriors of the Kwantung Army who came from the bitter cold land outside the customs are, and how powerful China's armed forces are.
He will be vulnerable to the attack of the Empire's warriors, and in just one week, Changzhi will be back under the rule of the Empire!"
Seeing Yukio Imada being so arrogant and domineering when he came to share the cake, Yukio Terauchi smiled and congratulated Yukio Imada, but in his heart he secretly cursed Yukio Imada for being killed by a stray bullet on the battlefield.
Okamura Ningji asked the Kwantung Army to use Handan as its advance base to send troops. In addition to Handan's geographical location, it was also because Terauchi Isamu ran an arsenal in Handan.
Therefore, Imada Yukio was responsible for leading his troops to attack the city at the front, Isamu Terauchi was responsible for providing logistical supplies, and the Japanese troops of the 104th Brigade were responsible for transporting ammunition supplies to the front combat troops in a timely manner.
Yukio Imada was able to take the position of head of the infantry regiment within the Kwantung Army mainly because of his outstanding military exploits. Due to his poor family background, he had never looked up to Japanese aristocratic bullets like Isamu Terauchi, although Isamu Terauchi was only a member of the Terauchi family.
It is a side branch, but the discerning people within the Japanese army understood what was going on as soon as they heard the name of Isamu Terauchi.
This time Yukio Imada led the Kwantung Army to enter the customs, which was a turning point in his official career.
In order to reassure Imada Yukio, when Okamura Neiji met with Imada Yukio alone in Peiping, he made a big deal early. Once Changzhi is captured, the North China Expeditionary Army will reorganize the 41st Division.
The position of commander of the 41st Division naturally belongs to Yukio Imada. There is a big obstacle between the commander of the infantry regiment and the commander of the division.
The surrounding areas of Changzhi and the Tainan area will all be under the jurisdiction of the 41st Division. Yukio Imada has been promoted to an official position, and he has surpassed Isamu Terauchi, a noble boy. Thinking of the great future that is within reach, how can Yukio Imada not
Satisfied with ambition.
Seeing Yukio Imada get into the truck, Isamu Terauchi glanced in the direction of Yukio Imada fiercely: "Bah, you bitch, you don't even take pictures of yourself, how are you qualified?"
"You still want to get ammunition supplies from me? In the next life?"
On that day, in addition to the Japanese troops from Handan, the Japanese Thirty-sixth Division stationed around Linfen dispatched about 3,000 Japanese troops, and more than 5,000 puppet troops were recruited from various places and underwent intensive training for a period of time.
Fight collaboratively.
A total of more than 8,000 Japanese and puppet troops gathered from the camp outside Linfen City and marched eastward along the Lintun Highway.
The first unit of the Japanese independent ninth mixed brigade stationed in Taiyuan and the first unit of the Japanese independent fourth mixed brigade stationed in Yangquan, a total of more than 2,000 Japanese troops, gathered in Dongguan Town, Qi County, Jinzhong, and took a train along the
The Baijin Railway is approaching towards Lucheng.
The 220th Regiment of the 35th Division of the Japanese Army stationed east of Lanfeng lacked an infantry brigade. Together with more than 3,000 puppet troops from two regiments of the puppet army Zhang Lanfeng, they arrived in Xinxiang and headed north from Xinxiang via Hui.
County, flanking Lingchuan, Gaopingdi, threatening the rear of Changzhi area.
At this point, there were more than 25,000 Japanese troops in this battle. Since the outbreak of the all-out war of resistance and the entire territory of North China was engulfed, the Japanese army had rarely launched a heavy attack.
The main purpose of the Japanese army launching such a large-scale war was to capture Changzhi in one fell swoop. The main force was the Kwantung Army led by Yukio Imada, and the remaining three Japanese armies. On the one hand, Okamura Ningji was afraid that the Eighth Route Army troops would harass the rear, so they used it to attract the Eighth Route Army's partial divisions.
, On the other hand, if the Changzhi war falls into a stalemate, the arrival of any partial force will become a straw that breaks the balance of the battlefield.
To the north of the Handan-Changchang Highway, all the villagers in Xilianghe Village in Wu'an have been relocated. This place is less than 20 miles away from the highway line. Zhou Weihan specially set up his headquarters here.
The yard of a large family in the village was borrowed to serve as a temporary headquarters. The 29th Regiment accompanied the headquarters, and the first and third regiments were deployed less than five miles in front of the headquarters.
Inside the headquarters, Zhou, Zhao and Xing were all present.
Zhou Weihan hung up the phone and said immediately: "Terauchi Isamu has received a letter. The Japanese army has been dispatched to Handan and will arrive at the Dongxiaozhuang stronghold in Wu'an in three hours at most!"
"The headquarters also forwarded a telegram just now. Japanese troops are dispatched in Linfen, Taiyuan, and Xinxiang!" Xing Zhiguo continued.
"Damn it, why am I still a little nervous when I come here? I wasn't like this before?" Zhou Weihan said and wiped the sweat from his hands on his trouser legs.
"After all, it is a strange enemy. When you are not familiar with the enemy, it is normal to attach great importance to the enemy. Let me go to the fifth regiment's position to keep an eye on it. If there is any emergency, I can respond in time!" Xing Zhiguo also said
It was obvious that Zhou Weihan was worried about something going wrong with Li Da's first step, so he volunteered to go to the front line.
"Okay, Lao Xing, you have to be careful and pay attention to your safety!" Zhou Weihan warned.
When Xing Zhiguo left, he only took two personal guards with him, and no other troops accompanied him.
"You are the commander, you must stay awake at all times. The main force we dispatched this time is 23,000 people, and there are 12,000 local armed forces and militiamen around each regiment. We already have an advantage in terms of numbers!
"Zhao Gang repeated his old words and comforted him again.
