In order to cooperate with Chen Hanzhang's plan, Yang Zhen tried every means to mobilize all the resources that could be mobilized. He tried to find ways to reduce the pressure that Chen Hanzhang's troops were about to bear, and to increase the number of troops. The troops in the pass, under the coordination of the central government, wanted to
Try your best to cooperate with his battle.
But the real solution to the problem on the Jining battlefield depends on whether the frontal assault troops on the Western Front can arrive in Jining in the shortest time to join the battle, and cooperate with Yi Liangpin's troops who are already fighting fiercely in Jining to completely encircle and annihilate the 69th Division.
Team. This is the most critical step in this game of chess.
If the Sixty-ninth Division, which is about to be on the battlefield in Suinan and Northern Shanxi, does not seize the time, the entire Suinan and Northern Shanxi battlefields, as well as the Suidong and Chazhong battlefields will not be able to be connected in a straight line. Except for Chanan and
Apart from the Chazhong battlefield, the participating departments on the Suinan battlefield are still fighting on their own.
At present, the troops deployed from the Cha'nan battlefield have to coordinate Chen Hanzhang's detour to Datong. The main burden of solving the Jining battlefield falls on the frontal assault troops on the western front. Only Liu Changshun, who replaced Chen Hanzhang,
Can you bear this burden?
Yang Zhen's worries were not unreasonable. When Chen Hanzhang changed the direction of his attack, Yang Zhen was busy dispatching troops and generals at the headquarters and contacting all parties to support Chen Hanzhang's roundabout operation. At this moment, Liu Changshun, who had also received orders from the headquarters, was facing
He frowned deeply at Yang Zhen's order to forcibly penetrate Jining's front line with no less than one division of troops.
At this moment, Liu Changshun has put all the effective forces in his hands on the front line. Except for the two divisions and the 1st Armored Brigade, which are encircling and annihilating the 26th Division, the rest of the troops, together with a division newly transferred from the headquarters, are in Hara, Dole.
Ma and Su Zhi were engaged in fierce battles with the Japanese 110th Division and the newly-entered independent mixed ninth brigade on the battlefield.
Yang Zhen strengthened a division on the Western Front at the beginning of Chen Hanzhang's roundabout campaign. As soon as it arrived on the battlefield, he was thrown into Liu Changshun's reinforcement to Huade's two-wing offensive. Now it is mixed with Independence to form the main force of the 9th Brigade, as well as the 110th Brigade.
One part of the division is tightly entangled with each other, unable to free itself at all.
As for the division newly allocated by the headquarters, at least for now, it is still far away in Linxi, and it will be difficult to reach it for a while. Before this division reaches him, where can he mobilize troops at this time, Conghuade, and protect the country?
Kangjian breaks through the Japanese blockade and crosses in the direction of Jining?
Looking at the closely intertwined troops on the map with the two Japanese divisions and an independent mixed brigade, Liu Changshun never let go of his brows after receiving the order. Ever since he took over the frontal battlefield command, he
No adjustments were made to Chen Hanzhang's original deployment. However, the development of the battle did not go as smoothly as planned.
The 110th Division of the Japanese Army was dispatched in full force in an attempt to rescue the 26th Division. Against the Xianghuang Banner, the White Temple front line counterattack became more and more intense, especially since the Baimiao position was now easily changing hands. The rapid detachment that roundabouted the Xianghuang Banner,
They were also entangled in the southeast of Xianghuang Banner by part of the Japanese 110th Division. After several hard battles, there was no progress.
The remnants of the Japanese 26th Division, which were surrounded by Zhengxiangbaiqi and Sunit, relied on the large number of fortifications built before the war, the ammunition and supplies hoarded, and a large number of anti-tank artillery. Although they had been cut off from the Japanese troops in depth,
The 10th Division was still in contact, but they were still resisting desperately.
Although in previous battles, the 26th Division suffered heavy casualties. Its three infantry regiments and the reinforced 219th Regiment of the 35th Division, plus three reserve infantry brigades, have suffered more than half of their casualties.
The 219th Regiment deployed in the far north, together with the two reserve infantry brigades, have been completely annihilated. The remaining troops have also been separated.
However, the overall encirclement and annihilation battle is still progressing very slowly. The entire Japanese position is almost like a fire hedgehog under the painstaking management. Each participating unit can only peel off the cocoon, braving the deep Japanese artillery fire, layer by layer.
Hard attack. Under this situation, the efficiency of the attack is quite slow.
The two field heavy artillery regiments deployed by the Japanese army in depth are constantly using field heavy artillery to suppress the attacking troops. Especially their extremely long-range ** type 150 mm cannon and the Taisho 4th type 105
mm cannon can never be completely suppressed.
The minimum range of these is 15,000 meters, which basically exceeds the various large-caliber artillery used by the Anti-Japanese Alliance. Using the semi-permanent underground fortifications built before the war, it poses a considerable threat to the offensive forces of the Anti-Japanese Alliance. Especially the Sixth Army
The Meng-type 150mm cannon, with a range of 18,000 meters, has almost become the biggest obstacle to the Anti-Alliance encirclement and annihilation of the 26th Division.
These Japanese artillery, with their accurate and dense fire, caused huge casualties to the impact troops. The 122 rocket launchers with the longest range invested on the Western Front were unable to penetrate these semi-permanent artillery fortifications of the Japanese army.
The 155 howitzers were powerful enough but lacked the range, so they could never completely suppress these heavy artillery.
The aviation force dispatched fighter planes many times to find and destroy these artillery pieces. In the end, because the Japanese artillery positions were too strong and the locations were chosen very cleverly, they were unable to achieve their goals. The firepower threat of the Japanese long-range artillery has never been reduced.
The Japanese army went crazy and even fired the relatively lightweight Type 92 105 cannon to withstand the impact of the anti-alliance tank troops. In the Battle of Xianghuangqi, the Japanese army used this kind of artillery to fire within a thousand meters of range.
Six Matilda II tanks were destroyed with direct aim and level fire.
This suppressed Liu Changshun's idea of mobilizing armored troops to destroy these artillery positions from the ground. This was also the only weapon in the entire Western Front that could destroy Matilda II, the Iron Lady, at a distance of 500 meters.
While setting the record for destroying a tank of the Anti-Japanese Alliance for the first time, this battle also made Liu Changshun more constrained in his investment in armor strength, like an old lady with little feet.
For Liu Changshun, the current attack progress is slow. And he originally had three divisions on hand. Even if he added the one division transferred from the headquarters, it was only four divisions. Now he is surrounded by a Japanese division and sandwiched between them.
A Japanese division and a Japanese mixed brigade.
Now that our own troops have been used to the extreme, we can't leave the 26th Division alone wherever we deploy troops to implement the headquarters' requirements. Although the remaining troops of the 26th Division are not many, they still have to stay behind.
A rather big trouble. If we don't deal with them completely first, what will we do with our own rear?
The most critical thing is that the independent mixed ninth brigade is blocking the direction required by the headquarters. If this independent mixed ninth brigade is not resolved, even if you mobilize troops, it will be difficult to open a breakthrough in the direction required by the headquarters.
Even if it is opened, the troops attacking Jining are still at risk of being intercepted by the Japanese army.
Liu Changshun believes that there is already too much to eat in the entire frontal battlefield on the Western Front. If you still have to swallow hard, it will be easy to be overstretched. And if you spread your troops too thin, you will only make yourself passive on the entire battlefield.
The situation is not conducive to speeding up the entire battle process.
After hesitating for a long time, Liu Changshun decided to concentrate his forces to deal with the 26th Division first. As for the headquarters's request, it was better to wait until a new division arrived and then depend on the development of the battle situation. The headquarters' order must be implemented, but he himself
There are really no troops to send now.
Seeing that Liu Changshun was unwilling to carry out the order from the headquarters, Wang Minggui and Yang Jicai looked at each other and shook their heads in unison. After a slight hesitation, Wang Minggui pointed to the map and said: "Commander, judging from the current situation
, we still have the strength to implement this request from the headquarters."
"The current remaining strength of the 26th Division is less than half that before the war. Unless it receives a large number of reinforcements in a short period of time, it is just delaying time. And this situation is basically impossible now.
Although the 110th Division has increased its troop input starting from this morning."
"But all its rescue forces have been tightly entangled by our army. With the combat effectiveness of our army, even if the forces are equal, it will be difficult for the Japanese army to completely defeat our blocking force. And from the 26th
Judging from the battle situation in the direction of the division, we continue to maintain two divisions and one armored brigade in this direction, which is somewhat surplus. With so many troops placed there, it is somewhat difficult to deploy them."
"I think we can completely mobilize two infantry regiments and a tank battalion from the battlefield where we encircled and annihilated the 26th Division. At the same time, we can mobilize two divisions from the fierce battle with the 110th Division and the 9th Independent Mixed Brigade.
Among them, an infantry regiment and an independent tank battalion were dispatched."
"Four regiments plus three tank battalions are enough to encircle and destroy the three infantry regiments of the Japanese army that have only half of their strength. On the battlefield with yellow flags and Huade, five infantry regiments plus two
An independent tank battalion is enough to deal with the 110th Division."
"Now we can completely contain the 110th Division first, and wait until a reinforced division from the headquarters arrives. We do not have to completely annihilate the 110th Division now. And the independent mixed ninth brigade is not the main force of the Japanese army.
We will focus on the key defense directions and allocate some troops to cooperate with the 110th Division in operations."
"Now in the area south of Huade, it is difficult for the strength of only three infantry brigades to stop our all-out roundabout operations. Although doing so will weaken our front-line troops to a certain extent, as long as we persist, the headquarters will
The transferred division will arrive. The most important thing is that the orders from the headquarters are orders, and we must execute them to the letter."
Liu Changshun was very dissatisfied with Wang Minggui's suggestion to allocate some troops from the front-line troops. He frowned and said: "I also know that the orders from the headquarters must be implemented, but I only have four divisions on hand now, facing the
The Japanese army consists of two divisions, plus an independent mixed brigade. No matter which aspect of the force is deployed, it will weaken the strength of the combat troops facing the front and delay the progress of the battle."
"The two Japanese divisions in front of us, as well as the independent ninth brigade, with the combat effectiveness of the Japanese army, are a threat to us. If they are not completely defeated, where can I deploy troops to execute the headquarters?
Plan. Should we just ignore the enemy forces in front of us? We have to eat in small bites. If we eat too much at once, we can only stretch ourselves until it lasts."
"In this way, you will deploy a reinforcement regiment, a 76mm cannon battalion, and a 107 rocket launcher company from the forces that encircled and annihilated the 26th Division, and immediately transport them by truck to the south of Huade to attack those facing you.
The Japanese army formed an independent ninth brigade to attack. As for when to mobilize the troops, it will depend on their progress there."
"Also, you immediately go to the 17th Division to take charge personally, assist the political commissar in commanding, and speed up the battle process as much as possible. Strive to end the battle in the shortest time and free up troops to turn to the 110th Division. This matter,
It’s settled like this, don’t discuss it any more. We’ll discuss all other issues after the reinforcements arrive.”