Chapter 1170: The 125th Division rushes to the rescue!
There is insufficient ammunition, and there is no place to replenish it during the Dragon Boat Festival, so the cavalry can only use some Type 38 rifles.
The Type 38 rifle is too long and is not suitable for cavalry combat. However, it also has an advantage, that is, it has small recoil and is suitable for the body shape of Easterners.
Of course, the most important thing is that there is no other gun nowadays. Even if it is not easy to use, you still have to use it.
Duanwu asked Shangguan Zhibiao to find seven or eight machine guns to supplement the firepower of the cavalry battalion. Then Duanwu mounted his horse and led the cavalry battalion back to Bengbu again.
It's more than fifty kilometers. If you walk, it could take five hours, six hours, or even ten hours.
Because when the troops march, it is not only as easy as walking on two legs, but there are also baggage troops and even artillery following them.
Therefore, if the troops are not marching in a hurry and are lightly armed and simple, their speed will generally not be very fast.
But the cavalry is different. The cavalry has horses to travel. Although it cannot be exaggerated to travel eight hundred miles a thousand days and nights, it only takes about two hours for the Dragon Boat Festival to return to Bengbu, and after three hours, he can arrive
A raid was launched against the Japanese troops near Liutaizi Village.
Of course, Dragon Boat Festival will not confront the Japanese. As long as he saves people, he will retreat immediately.
Before leaving, Duanwu asked Shangguan Zhibiao to send a message to the Fifth Theater Command. The first was to tell Li Zhongren that the Japanese 10th Regiment had been completely wiped out. The Japanese right wing in the Huainan area had been almost crippled.
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But these people still have a patriotic heart. They yearn for the battlefield and to be able to kill more Japanese with their own hands.
But even so, Han Fuju sent three rescue telegrams a day. Therefore, Li Zhongren was really worried that Duanwu had predicted that Han Fuju would withdraw his troops from Jinan without authorization.
Of course, the news of Lu Jian's battle had already been sent back.
Lu Jian also told his division commander Chen Dingxun that this little devil’s Type 38 rifle was easy to use.
And if it weren't for the Dragon Boat Festival holding an artillery regiment to hang him up, I'm afraid he would have withdrawn from Jinan long ago.
Moreover, there are trucks in the supply camp, so even soldiers with leg disabilities can follow the troops in combat with ease.
Of course, the most important thing is that Tang Jiujiu was in Liutaizi Village and did not leave for unknown reasons, otherwise Dragon Boat Festival would not have sent a second telegram.
Li Zhongren originally thought that Dragon Boat Festival would suffer a big loss this time. He was planning to inform Dragon Boat Festival of the incident, but he did not expect that Dragon Boat Festival would go from Bengbu to Laoye Ridge overnight and completely annihilate the Japanese Tenth Regiment.
After that, the size of the shelter continued to expand, and finally reached the strength of nearly a regiment. So the prototype of the 136th Brigade was formed, and then such a supernumerary battle order was drawn from the main force.
Duanwu didn't say much about this matter, because Li Zhongren was not a fool, and smart people didn't need to explain so much. He guessed that Li Zhongren should know what he should do.
But his reply was only to order Lao Abacus to organize troops and escort Tang Jiujiu to evacuate immediately.
And one arm of the enemy on the Eastern Front was cut off, which meant that the turning point of this battle had occurred.
Once Jinan fell, he had to mobilize troops in the Zaozhuang and Taierzhuang areas to block the Japs. Otherwise, the Japs would march straight in and take Xuzhou directly. Then the battle of Xuzhou, which he had prepared for three months, would be
will cease to exist.
They were unwilling to leave the army, and Duanwu had no reason to abandon them.
He got the information from the intelligence department. In addition to the strength of a regiment of the Japanese Army taking a detour from the direction of the 31st Army, the 10th Regiment of the Japanese 10th Division was most likely to cross eastward and then meet with the Japanese 26th Brigade.
The regiments gathered together to prepare for the outflanking of the Dragon Boat Festival Division in Bengbu.
However, at this moment, a call came from Dragon Boat Festival. Of course, before that, he had received a message from Liu Taizi Village and knew that Tang Jiujiu was in Liu Taizi Village.
And Li Zhongren is also preparing to reinforce it, because once the 31st Army retreats across the board, the 51st Army will really become a lonely army.
Others are old, weak, sick, old, young, or have some diseases.
Lu Jian has been in contact with the division headquarters and informed the division headquarters that the special commissioner Duan Wu was just as rumored, not only generous but also approachable. As soon as the 136th Brigade arrived at Liutaizi Village, they distributed a company of pure German equipment.
And after several battles, although the troops suffered casualties, almost the entire brigade was replaced with Japanese equipment.
In fact, most of them were people who were withdrawn from the combat troops during the Dragon Boat Festival. Some of them were wounded soldiers. Although they recovered from their injuries, they were left with disabilities and could no longer join the front-line troops. And they were unwilling to retire, so they were incorporated into the supply camp.
Without the 10th Regiment, the Japanese 26th Brigade would be useless. After all, the Japanese 26th Brigade had already suffered heavy losses before the Battle of Huainan began.
But at this time, another telegram was sent from Dragon Boat Festival, which forced him to think about it carefully.
The commander of the 31st Army planned to shrink the defense line to the Shouxian County and Changfeng area of Huainan and concentrate its troops on the defensive.
The 125th Division of the 22nd Group Army, the division commander is called Chen Dingxun, has jurisdiction over the 373rd Brigade, the 375th Brigade, and a 136th mixed brigade.
Li Zhongren ordered the 125th Division of the 22nd Army to fully support Liutaizi Village and rescue Miss Tang Jiujiu.
Duanwu was reminding him that if Tang Jiujiu were to suffer any casualties, even you, Li Zhongren, would have to bear the Chairman's thunderous wrath.
The second thing is that Tang Jiujiu is in Liutaizi Village.
The 125th Division was dispatched across the board, but at this time, the battle situation in Liu Taizi Village was not optimistic.
Whenever Chen Bingxun saw the telegram sent by Lu Jian, he would smile from ear to ear. Because when had the Sichuan Army been treated so badly?
The Japanese 10th Regiment was completely wiped out, which would be a turning point in the Huainan Campaign.
The commander of the 136th Brigade was Lu Jian. At this time, he was doing the final work with the Independent Regiment in Laoye Ridge to completely annihilate the Japanese Tenth Regiment.
Little did he know at the Dragon Boat Festival, the 31st Army had already declined under the fierce attack of the Japanese 9th Division and the 114th Division, and its defense line had shrunk by more than one-third.
Li Zhongren thought for a while and felt that there was no need to offend the chairman of the committee on such a matter. What's more, the war situation on the southern front had changed, and it was time for him to use troops.
So at this time, when receiving the telegram from Li Zhongren, Chen Bingxun immediately ordered the entire division to maneuver towards Liutaizi Village in Bengbu.
The predecessor of this mixed brigade was actually a shelter. When the Sichuan Army came out to fight the war in Sichuan, many troops were dispersed. Many Sichuan troops had nowhere to go, and no troops were willing to take them in. So the commander of the 125th Division, Chen Dingxun, was ordered to form such a brigade.
Asylum.
The reconnaissance force went first, with a regiment of troops carrying only light weapons. They went to support and must rescue the wife of the Dragon Boat Festival Commissioner - Miss Tang Jiujiu.
Because at this time, troops were being deployed everywhere, and there were already two armies in the direction of Bengbu. If more troops were sent up, Xuzhou would be empty of troops. How could it deal with the battle on the northern front? The Japanese Second Group Army was coming menacingly, and Han Fuju was acting against the will.
Because just as Duanwu expected, although the baggage troops were brave, their overall combat effectiveness was average.
It just so happened that the Japanese came and the main force was not there, so it was time for them to go into battle to kill the enemy.
But the little devils were not weak. Although there was only one small team, it only took ten minutes to break through the position of more than 30 people blocking the team outside Liu Taizi Village.
The soldiers sacrificed themselves heroically. The moment the Japs broke through the defense line, they detonated the explosives tied to their bodies and died together with the little Japs who jumped into the position.
The explosion was so violent that more than a dozen Japanese soldiers were instantly swallowed up by the explosion, and no one survived. More than 20 Japanese soldiers who were charging behind were also blown away. The smoke and mud rising from the position once reached 20 people.
A few meters high.
At this time, smoke and dust were everywhere, and among the falling soil and stones, the little Japs were wailing all over the field. No one knew how many Japs would be taken away by this explosion!