Three hundred and fiftieth IX full line into the defense
But just when Li Mingfeng had just completed the organizational adjustment of his opponent's troops and was preparing to move south, an order from the Tongliao headquarters to stop the attack and shrink his troops and transfer to defense made him unwilling to give up his original plan.
Regardless of the planned plan, all the troops that have entered western Liaoning can only withdraw.
Although he was unwilling, Li Mingfeng did not dare to disobey the order. And he also knew that he was able to win the battle before, mainly because the main force of the Kwantung Army was attracted to the Siping battlefield. Now the fighting in the Siping direction has stopped, and he can rely solely on
The troops in his own hands cannot compete with the main force of the Kwantung Army that has been freed up.
Therefore, after receiving the order, he honestly followed the order and retracted the troops that had already attacked the Chaoyang and Beipiao sections of the Jincheng Railway. He did not dare to play any double-handedness. He also handed over the task of re-defense to supervise him.
Chai Shirong, who contracted and came to replace him, returned to the headquarters to report according to the orders of his superiors.
At this time, not only the Jianping battlefield, the participating troops of the Anti-Japanese Alliance stopped military operations and turned to defense. At the same time that Li Mingfeng began to shrink the defense, all participating troops of the Anti-Japanese Alliance on the entire front basically transferred to on-site defense and defense.
A state of rest.
As early as the same time when the Jianping battlefield entered its most critical moment, on the northern Shanxi battlefield hundreds of kilometers away from Jianping, Chen Hanzhang, with the strong support of the aviation force, had completed the complete elimination of two Japanese divisions.
After a carpet bombing by the aviation force and a rapid assault by tanks and cavalry, the 21st Division, which was trapped on the Sanggan River plain in front of Hongtao Mountain, completely collapsed its last resistance.
Without the support of the 21st Division, the 32nd Division, which was already unable to support itself on the Yingxian battlefield, was under the impact of the tanks and cavalry groups that turned around immediately after Chen Hanzhang completed the encirclement and annihilation of the 21st Division.
They were completely beaten and disabled. The troops that were finally withdrawn to the north entrance of the building were less than an infantry brigade.
Without the support of these two divisions, Du Kaishan trapped the two brigade-level detachments and one division-level detachment of the Japanese army in northeastern Shanxi. In fact, they had become a lone force. They were worried that they would be completely surrounded.
Under the orders of Lieutenant General Yoshimoto Teiichi, in addition to adhering to the enemy at Laiyuan, the remaining Takeuchi and Yamamura detachments, regardless of General Okamura Neiji's repeated orders, forced a breakout from their current stations and prepared to withdraw to Hebei.
Tang County, Wutai rest.
Du Kaishan, who was responsible for fighting against the Japanese troops in northeastern Shanxi, had to move out of the way when his troops were too limited to launch a three-way attack at the same time. He did not provide any block to the Japanese troops who broke out. Instead, he adopted the method of encircling the Japanese troops on their way to retreat.
Jue Yi's tactics set up an ambush circle for the Japanese troops.
But when it comes to target selection, he did not take the Takeuchi detachment with the largest number of troops as a combat target. This actual force is equivalent to the Takeuchi detachment of a division, and its strength is the strongest among the Japanese iron triangle in northeastern Shanxi. Du Kaishan, who has limited troops,
, knowing that now I don’t have such a good appetite to eat it in one bite.
After several considerations, he placed his main combat target on the Yamamura detachment, which had only five infantry brigades and suffered the heaviest losses in previous battles. After the Japanese retreat began, he pretended to attack the Takeuchi detachment, but actually failed
Secretly mobilized troops and generals and set up an ambush circle for the mountain village detachment in the Hengshan Mountains.
With the cooperation of the remaining troops in the Beiyue District of Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Province, we concentrated our forces in the Hengshan Mountains and fought a clean mountain ambush. With air support, we adopted the tactics of siege on all sides and division and encirclement. After a day and night,
The fierce battle completely surrounded and annihilated the mountain village detachment in the Hengshan Mountains.
The only regret is that although the main force of the detachment was surrounded and annihilated in the Hengshan Mountains, the detachment leader, Major General Haruo Yamamura, and the three officers of the detachment at the rank of colonel were cooperating with the detachment and were familiar with the terrain and people's conditions in Beiyue District.
Under the cover of the Japanese North China Front Task Force, he slipped out of the encirclement.
When the fierce fighting in northern Shanxi was getting intense, Okamura Neiji was unwilling to put the reorganized 15th Division into the battlefield in northern Shanxi again. Instead, he deployed it along the Shotai Railway and Tongpu Railway.
, ensuring the rear of the Japanese troops in southern Shanxi, and dealing with the World War II zone trapped in southwestern Shanxi.
Except for the 36th Division of Yuncheng in southern Shanxi, he has only one complete division left in the entire Shanxi battlefield. In the entire North China battlefield, except for the two divisions of the Twelfth Army in Shandong, the rest
Each division has either been completely wiped out on the battlefield, or has suffered heavy losses.
His North China Front currently consists of one complete division, the 15th Division. Once the 15th Division encounters any mishap, he won't even be able to find a single rescue force. After several hesitations, Okamura Neiji finally
They still chose to keep the 15th Division to defend the rear.
Before the battlefield in northern Shanxi came to an end, the commander-in-chief of the Fourth Front Army, who acted as commander of the 129th Division and commander of the Taihang Military Region, had already commanded the troops of the Taihang, Hebei, Luyu, Taiyue, and Southern Hebei Military Regions, and the artillery and tanks under the command of Su Yingqi.
In cooperation with the cavalry, they used large-scale mountain mobile warfare to defeat the two puppet military divisions that entered the Taihang base area early.
However, the unit's second ambush ring in southeastern Shanxi did not wait for the subsequent puppet troops. The former deputy commander-in-chief of the Chongqing Front Group Army, who had just been reorganized into the Puppet Second Front Army, was surrounded and annihilated by the two main divisions.
Staying in Jincheng, Changzhi front line, refusing to take a step forward for life or death.
In the words of a puppet division commander who escaped from the ambush, Tubal Road's artillery fire during this battle was extremely fierce, even higher than that of the Japanese army. One of his divisions could not even get out of formation and was surrounded by the Eighth Route Army.
He was defeated by the artillery fire. If Tubal Road hadn't focused its main attention on the passing Japanese troops, he would have had no chance to escape.
This division commander's description of the battle situation seemed to Wang Puppet's Second Front Army and a former Northwest Army general. Although he had the intention of liberating himself, the Japanese infantry brigade accompanying him did not return a few people.
Next. Let this frightened man who was beaten by the Eighth Route Army in Shandong never take another step towards the Taihang Mountains regardless of the Japanese army's threats or inducements.
After several useless threats, considering that once this guy is dealt with, it will be detrimental to other Chongqing troops who are willing to surrender to the Nanjing government. Killing chickens to scare monkeys is not a good choice at this time. Especially now that the Japanese army is attacking from multiple directions,
As a result, the front line was too long and the troops were increasingly unable to meet the needs. When dealing with the anti-Japanese armed forces behind enemy lines, the country became increasingly dependent on the puppet troops.
After several considerations, Okamura Neiji finally transferred this armed force of more than 10,000 people to Kaifeng to use it to deal with the communist army in southern Hebei and Hebei, Shandong and Henan regions. Moreover, considering that after losing two divisions, only the remaining
Half of the troops. He was even allowed to recruit troops on the spot in the Japanese-occupied areas of Henan to replenish the two divisions that were defeated in the Taihang District.
However, the Wang Puppet Second Front Army refused to enter the Taihang Mountains, which also caused Okamura Neji's plan to raid the Taihang Military Region to come to an end. Without the cooperation of the puppet army, the First Army had already suffered heavy losses.
The Japanese army alone could not complete the sweep of the Taihang Mountains.
In this battle, the Taihang Base Area cooperated with the Taiyue Base Area, not only defeating the two puppet military divisions who were leading the way, but also severely damaging the two Japanese infantry brigades supervising the battle. They also used the main force of the Japanese army to be attracted by the battle situation in northern Shanxi, and Shanxi local
Most of the local puppet troops had weak combat effectiveness, so they launched continuous tactical counterattacks and restored the base areas to the situation before the Japanese army's sweep last year.
Although on the battlefield in the southeast of Shanxi, the Taihang Base Area eliminated the two puppet military divisions that served as the vanguard of the Japanese sweep. However, in the battlefield in the northwest of Shanxi, although the Shanxi-Sui Military Region concentrated all its main forces and mobilized most of the local armed forces to participate in the battle,
In the end, they failed to completely encircle and annihilate the Zuojian detachment.
Although the Japanese army suffered heavy losses, in the end, with the support of the First Division of the 15th Division, they broke through the encirclement of the main force of the Shanxi-Sui Military Region. However, although the left detachment broke through the encirclement, after the breakout, the detachment had already lost three soldiers.
2/2. At the same time, several secret bases left by the Japanese army in northwestern Shanxi were all exposed during this battle.
In this battle, the main force of the Jinsui Military Region not only ate up most of the Zuojian detachment, but also discovered a large number of secret warehouses of the Japanese army at the southern foot of Luya Mountain and Yunzhong Mountain. A large amount of ammunition and grain were seized, of which only
The food supply is enough for the main force of the Shanxi-Suiyuan Military Region for one year.
As the Zuojian detachment withdrew from Jiexiu and the Pingyao front line rested, Du Kaishan completely eliminated the Japanese mountain village detachment in Hengshan, and the Takeuchi detachment withdrew from northeastern Shanxi. With the Japanese army no longer able to launch large-scale attacks, the entire Shanxi battlefield had
Tends to be relaxed and calm.
The entire Shanxi battlefield has been severely weakened. The Japanese army, which is currently out of strength even to defend the Inner Great Wall, has all retreated to the Tongpu Railway within the Inner Great Wall, as well as along the Zhengtai and Baijin Railways. In order to shrink its troops, the First Army was stationed in Shanxi.
All strongholds in the Wutai Mountains and Hengshan Mountains under the jurisdiction of the Chaji Military Region and the Luliang Mountains where the Shanxi-Sui Military Region is located were abandoned.
For the first time, the entire northwest of Shanxi was completely controlled by the Shanxi-Sui Military Region. In the northeast of Shanxi, the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region also completely controlled the Beiyue Mountains and Wutai Mountains. Its strength has also recovered to a certain extent. Last year's
The embarrassment phenomenon has also been completely alleviated.
In the Chanan battlefield, although the advancing army failed to completely defeat the 48th Division, it captured Zhangjiakou, an important town outside the Great Wall in North China. After capturing Zhangjiakou, it suffered casualties and high fatigue caused by continuous battles, and was unable to continue fighting.
Next, gradually began to switch to defense.
Faced with the changes in the overall battle situation, when the Jianping battlefield was still raging, Yang Zhen and Guo Bingxun conducted research and believed that the goal of launching the battle had been basically achieved. Moreover, the entire army was in urgent need of supplements due to excessive casualties in continuous battles, and continuous battles
There was no rest for the battle, and the troops were exhausted.
The stocks of oil and ammunition have been basically exhausted, especially aerial bombs and fuel. There are also very few stocks of artillery shells with a caliber above 100 mm, and there are not many rocket shells left. The entire army's offensive has been exhausted and is in urgent need of rest.
, the war continued to be delayed, and the troops were already unable to bear the situation. After reporting to the central government for approval, the entire front began to shift to defense.
After the Jianping battlefield came to an end, Yang Zhen issued an order to the front-line combat troops to stop attacking and all switch to defense.
Therefore, after the Jianping battlefield came to an end, Yang Zhen not only gave Li Mingfeng, who was bent on capturing Lingyuan and Chaoyang, an order to stop the attack, retract the entire army back to the Jianping front line, and use the Nuruerhu Mountain District as the main defensive barrier.
As the troops were exhausted and in urgent need of rest, Yang Zhen obviously did not want to be distracted by unauthorized actions on any battlefield. In order to put a halter on this lawless guy, after issuing the order, Yang Zhen specially arranged a deputy
Chief of Staff Chai Shirong rushed to Jianping to supervise his retreat and take over his duties.