One hundred and fifty first chapters sudden changes in the situation II
As the troops from the north of Taiyuan struggled to get rid of the siege of the surrounding 18th Army, the protruding Japanese troops began to withdraw to Taiyuan. Yoshimoto Sadai did not wait for all the troops to shrink to Taiyuan before taking action. Instead, Taiyuan started
After the troops from the north arrived at 67/10, they concentrated their forces with Yuci and Qingyuan as the starting points for the attack, and launched a full-scale counterattack to the south towards Taiyuan.
In Yuci and Qingyuan respectively, a regiment from the Taihang Military Region, which was responsible for guarding and outflanking, and a detachment from the local armed forces of the Shanxi-Sui Military Region. were caught off guard by the sudden action of the Japanese army and suffered heavy losses. In order to
Delaying the breakout operation of the main force of the Japanese army in Taiyuan, buying time for the main force and the neighboring troops, they still relied on the terrain to desperately block the attack.
However, due to the huge disparity in strength and equipment, even though they paid a heavy price, they were unable to delay the Japanese army's actions. They opened two large holes in the southeast and southwest of Taiyuan, opening up
The southern section of the Tongpu Railway from Taiyuan to Qixian County.
After defeating the interception of the 18th Group Army troops south of Taiyuan, Yoshimoto Sadatari grabbed the main forces of the Jinsui and Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei military regions behind him and pursued them for a short period of time. He commanded Taiyuan and the Japanese troops who retreated to Taiyuan, blowing up all the helpless Japanese troops.
Carrying equipment and supplies, the entire army immediately retreated south.
However, although he opened up the Nantongpu Railway north of Qixian County, his counterattack on the Nantongpu Railway south of Yuci was just a false shot. After defeating the Yuci frontal interception force, he did not
From Yuci, they retreated south along the Nan-Tong-Pu Railway, but uncharacteristically turned most of their troops to the southeast.
It avoids the combat areas of the three main columns of the Taiyue Military Region's main force along the Nantong-Pu Railway south of Qi County and the Taihang Military Region's main force along the Shanxi-Hebei-Luyu Military Region along the Baijin Railway. All the way to Yushe, Wuxiang, and Licheng
They retreated quickly and plunged into the hinterland of the Taihang Military Region in the Taihang Mountains.
Ignoring the stubborn resistance of the local troops in the Taihang Military Region, there will be no entanglements along the way, and no troops will be stationed in any villages or counties. Deploy a force on each wing to block the possible encirclement of the 18th Army troops, and cover the main force in the center and all the expatriates.
, and ran like crazy all the way to the north of Henan.
As the main component of the Shanxi-Hebei-Luyu Military Region, the troops in the Shanxi-Hebei-Luyu Military Region have to stay in southern Hebei to cooperate with the anti-alliance operations and cannot be deployed on the battlefield in Shanxi. The troops of the Taihang Military Region have almost shouldered the responsibility of Shanxi-Hebei-Luyu Military Region.
The main combat tasks of the military region in Shanxi battlefield.
It can be said that the nine brigades of the Taihang Military Region that were organized before the war were all deployed. At the same time, in order to strengthen the strength, fifteen regiments of local armed forces were upgraded and reorganized into four brigades. Within the entire Taihang Military Region, only five were left.
The local armed forces of two regiments and two detachments were left behind. The remaining ones were some basic militiamen and the remaining armed forces at the county brigade level.
With such a small number of troops and local armed forces with poor equipment and training, how could they stop the retreat of a large group of Japanese troops? In addition, when the Japanese troops were retreating, they were unable to resist the obstruction of local armed forces.
and entanglement. Either leave a small number of troops to entangle the blocking troops, or come up and attack with all their strength under the cover of artillery fire to open a breakthrough as soon as possible. Therefore, the speed of the Japanese army's actions can be said to be quite fast.
While the Japanese troops were breaking through in Taiyuan, the Thirty-sixth Division along the Baijin Railway, although with very few troops left, continued to launch counterattacks and became entangled with the Taihang Military Region troops in front of them. Although they also received
By the time Taiyuan came, the Japanese troops had penetrated deep into their base area, but the Taihang Military Region was still unable to get rid of the entanglement of the Thirty-sixth Division facing them.
By the time the first section of the Taihang Military Region, which was fighting along the Baijin Railway and around Changzhi, finally got rid of the entanglement of the Japanese troops in front of them and rushed back to the Taihang base area for reinforcements. This Japanese army, personally commanded by Yoshimoto Teiichi, took advantage of the Japanese army's excellent mountain marching capabilities.
They ran all the way out of Dongyang Pass, wandered around southern Hebei, and then retreated to Anyang. The five brigades of the Taihang Military Region that returned to the base area only captured some Japanese troops who had been cut off from the rear, as well as stragglers.
As for the retreat to Qingyuan, this direction is used by the area under the jurisdiction of the World War II zone, the Taiyue Military Region troops and the two cooperating brigades of the Taihang Military Region, which are mainly concentrated at various points on the South Tongpu Railway. There are no ten areas west of the entire South Tongpu Railway.
Opportunities for the Eighth Army Combat Forces.
Cooperating with the Japanese troops of most of the regiment that protruded from the Nantong-Pu Railway, they passed through Xiaoyi, Fenxi, and Jishan and went straight to the direction of Yuncheng. They successively defeated the 13th Group Army and the 61st Army belonging to the World War II zone in that direction.
The interception and blocking caught several armies that were besieging the 8th Theater of the 37th Division of Yuncheng by surprise.
The newly formed Second Army of the Eighth Theater, which was responsible for fighting in the northeast of Yuncheng, was immediately defeated by the Japanese army from inside and outside. The 42nd Army suffered two-thirds casualties and lost its combat effectiveness. After being deployed in the northeast of Yuncheng, these two armies were
After the defeat, the door to the northeast of Yuncheng was wide open. The Japanese army on this road successfully merged with the 37th Division, which was entrenched in Yuncheng and had suffered nearly one-third of its casualties under the siege of the surrounding Chinese troops.
After the Japanese army withdrew into Yuncheng, they faced the Yuncheng Japanese army that had greatly increased in strength. The former enemy commander-in-chief of the Eighth Theater District who was responsible for the siege of Yuncheng knew that he had lost the most advantageous fighter opportunity. Now he wanted to eat the Yuncheng Japanese army in one bite.
There is almost no possibility anymore.
Before the next specific movement of the Japanese army is yet clear, we can only set up defenses outside Yuncheng to cut off the connection between Yuncheng and the Japanese army in Changzhi, and prevent the Japanese army from forcibly crossing the Yellow River south or west to ensure the safety of Shaanxi and western Henan.
, coordinate with the elites of the First Theater Zone who are making all-out efforts to counterattack in eastern Henan.
The two armies of a group army in the First Theater Command were deployed along the Yellow River south of Yuncheng to prevent the Japanese troops from crossing the river and going south. The first army and the 90th Army of their direct line were deployed in the northwest of Yuncheng, with the 38th Army
The army is attached to a division of the 91st Army and is deployed in Jie County, southwest of Yuncheng. The Shanxi-Sui Army Group Army and two armies are deployed on the line from Xia County to Zhangdian.
The deputy commander-in-chief of the Eighth Theater in charge of the Yuncheng war, as the former enemy commander-in-chief of the Yuncheng war, responded promptly to the sudden great changes. However, he did not expect that the Japanese troops who broke out from Taiyuan were fighting against Yuncheng.
After the thirty-seventh division reunited.
Neither retreated to the south nor to the east, but instead gathered all its forces and suddenly launched an all-out counterattack against the 8th War Zone, No. 1 and 92 Armies deployed on the Yishi and Qingtou Town lines west of Yuncheng. At the same time, they launched an all-out counterattack.
One force launched a local counterattack toward the Sixth Army positions in the Second Theater Zone from Xia County to Zhangdian. The focus of the attack was to deploy the 19th Army with Zhangdian as the core.
After receiving reinforcements from the retreating troops from Taiyuan, Yuncheng was originally beaten miserably. The 37th Division, which had lost as much as one-third of its troops, not only quickly recovered its strength in a very short period of time, but even used it in its hands.
The size of the troops has also increased by two-thirds. This gives Lieutenant General Nagano Yuichiro considerable confidence to launch a counterattack.
After receiving Lieutenant General Yoshimoto Teiichi's order to withdraw to northern Henan via the north bank of the Yellow River, he concentrated his forces instead of retreating and launched a large-scale counterattack against the surrounding Chinese troops. Lieutenant General Nagano Yuichiro believed that,
For the 37th Division, which is currently trapped alone in southwest Shanxi, retreat is not an easy task.
If you want to have Chinese troops everywhere around you and you are already under encirclement, you must execute the army commander's order and not defeat part of the surrounding Chinese troops and make them lose most of their pursuit capabilities. His thirty-seven
It is simply impossible for the division and all the troops that have evacuated to Yuncheng to retreat safely.
In order to ensure the safety during the retreat, Lieutenant General Nagano Yuichiro decided to use a false shot before retreating and at least severely damage the enemy's effective forces, making them lose the ability to pursue. At the same time, he opened up the retreat route for the entire army to the east, thinking that
Prepare for a general retreat of the entire army.
Nagano Yuichiro, who was determined to fight the battle before leaving, not only invested most of his troops and all his firepower in this tactical counterattack. In order to achieve his tactical purpose, he will also fight for the victory after the battle begins.
To defend the bridgehead of Yuncheng, the only two 280mm heavy howitzers on the battlefield inside the pass were secretly withdrawn from Fenglingdu.
In addition, the Type 92 105 cannon that protected the two heavy howitzers, as well as the four Taisho 14-year-type 150mm cannons belonging to the 37th Division Artillery Regiment, were also put into the battlefield. It can be said that
Lieutenant General Nagano Yuichiro spent a lot of money on this counterattack.
You must know that those two 280mm heavy howitzers were never used in the previous battle, even though the Chinese army that surrounded him fought so hard. Just to wait until the most critical moment, these two super howitzers were
Big guy, use it as a trump card.
For the current Lieutenant General Nagano Yuichiro, anyway, these two howitzers weighing 26 tons, plus the thousands of rounds of artillery shells weighing more than 200 kilograms currently in stock, cannot be taken away during the retreat. Instead of this,
When the time comes to blow it up, it's better to use the remaining heat. Without the railway line, the few trucks in his hand can't take these two huge guys away at all.
As a typical Japanese soldier, Nagano Yuichiro is the kind of person who either doesn't do something or does it cleanly and thoroughly. In order to achieve his tactical goals as quickly as possible, Lieutenant General Nagano Yuichiro spent a lot of money to mobilize these two
A 280mm super howitzer, with the cooperation of the mountain artillery and howitzers of the artillery wing of the division.
They bombarded the positions of the First Army and the 90th Army west of Yuncheng, supporting the infantry to directly attack. The remaining six cannons took advantage of their long range to suppress the long-range artillery of the Chinese army participating in the war, covering the two two cannons.
180mm howitzers opened fire at the Central Army in the northwest of Yuncheng. As for the Chinese army in the southeast of Yuncheng, he only used one force to suppress it.
Lieutenant General Nagano Yuichiro knew very well that although Taihara's reinforcements had defeated the two armies of the China Army around him, the remaining Chinese armies that participated in the war suffered heavy losses in the previous fierce battles. The reinforcements were also used
After a long battle, its combat effectiveness had declined significantly, and it was only in a short period of time that it broke through the encirclement of the Chinese army outside Yuncheng and merged with itself.
However, among the entire Chinese army around Yuncheng, the most elite First Army and Ninetieth Army had not suffered much losses before. Moreover, these two armies on the line from Yishi to Qingtou Town were not only the most elite of the Chinese government forces.
One of the elite troops, it also concentrated most of the long-range artillery fire of the Chinese government forces around it. It was the backbone of the Chinese army in the entire battlefield around Yuncheng.
Without defeating these two armies first, it would be difficult for the Japanese army to carry out follow-up actions. Therefore, the Japanese army in the western battlefield of Yuncheng used the most violent artillery fire to cover most of the troops and launched a fierce attack on the Yishi and Qingtou Town lines. For Xia
Although the Jinsui Army around the county chose the 19th Army as the main target of attack, they only invested a detachment based on two infantry brigades.