But facing the current Thirty-seventh Division, which has nearly half the strength of the usual establishment, as well as mountain artillery and heavy artillery, it has an absolute advantage in firepower. The two armies in hand mainly use Jin-made firearms, and they only have
With more than a dozen Jin-made Type 13 mountain cannons and six old-fashioned Shanghai-made Ke-type 75mm mountain cannons, he had a very difficult time fighting on the battlefield.
Since the fall of Taiyuan, the department has been stuck in the Houtao area without any industry. Although it has fought many times against the Suiyuan Japanese and puppet troops and won victories, it has been on the front line for a long time, and its weapons and equipment have been seriously damaged. Although it has also suffered from puppet troops and
The Japanese army captured a lot of weapons and ammunition, but it was not enough to replenish losses and expand the army from one to three.
Although its main force, the Thirty-fifth Army, has long been the main force of the Shanxi-Sui Army, relying on the Taiyuan Arsenal, the equipment is relatively complete. However, no matter how complete the equipment is, it cannot withstand years of consumption and the need to expand the organization. Even in order to win over these
He is a general of a mixed army who has always been able to fight tough battles, coupled with some not-so-good ideas, although Chongqing has also given some supplements.
However, as the inventory is limited and the back cover direction is not a strategic focus, the amount of equipment that can be supplemented is limited. Before this unit was transferred from the back cover to the Henan battlefield, the equipment of the two armies was not as good as that of the 90s.
An army like the army.
The 35th Army of the two armies is mainly equipped with Jin-made 65th rifles and is equipped with partially captured Japanese-made Type 38 rifles. The temporary third army is based on the Liao 13th rifles captured by the puppet Mongolian army.
Mainly, and supplemented by some Hanyang-made rifles distributed by Chongqing. The two cavalry brigades are all Hanyang-made rifles, and even some old sleeve rifles.
Although there are many light and heavy machine guns, most of them are based on poor quality Jin-made machine guns and captured Northeast-made machine guns. The two armies combined have only eleven Japanese-made 13mm anti-aircraft machine guns, five of which were produced as early as the 7th
Before the July Incident, Chongqing distributed Sulotong 20mm anti-aircraft guns. Nine Taisho 11th-year-old Type 37 flat-fire cannons and five 94-Type 37 rapid-fire guns were seized from Fengtian.
Although the Shanxi king did not know what his motives were when he was going south to the war zone this time. On the way through Shaanxi, he supplemented the former subordinate with 500 Jin-made six-guns from the arsenal set up in Gucheng, Shaanxi.
Five rifles, thirty Czech-style light machine guns, and 200,000 rounds of 65-mm bullets. However, the army's equipment level is still second-rate in Chongqing.
Even though there was an Italian-made 105mm field artillery battalion in Luoyang City behind him, the frightened theater commander held it tightly in his hands and refused to hand it over to him at all.
Not only that, but the 15th Army, which will once serve as the defense of Luoyang City, will also be kept by his side to protect him.
The war zone commander's only support was to tell the war zone depot department to replenish him with 20 heavy machine guns and 500,000 rounds of ammunition. However, the 35th Army, the main force among his two armies, was still based on the Jin-made Sixth Army.
Mainly five rifles and captured Type 38 rifles. Among the various caliber bullets in the warehouses in the First War Zone, there is no such Jin-made rifle ammunition.
During the battle, this main force can only use the ammunition it brought when it was transferred from Suixi, as well as the 200,000 rounds of 65 bullets allocated by the King of Shanxi. But for an army, with such a small number of bullets,
It is far from sufficient for high-intensity use.
In terms of firepower, the main reason is that the difference in artillery firepower is too great, and the ammunition is also slightly insufficient. The theater commander behind, who is wise in protecting himself, can only barely cope with his own troops. The firepower is insufficient, but he holds a fully equipped elite army, and
A field artillery battalion was a disguised constraint to protect him. Even the military morale caused by this man's busy transfer of property and the relocation of his commander's headquarters made the battle extremely difficult for this tiger general.
But he still has a strong overall view of the overall situation. He knows that after he retreats to Luoyang to make way for the passage, what the entire Henan battlefield will look like has nothing to do with him who has just arrived in the first battlefield, but he has a great influence on the entire battle situation. Relying on these years of
The trust of his old subordinates in him calmed the morale of the army in the shortest possible time, and he persisted tenaciously.
He judged based on his many years of experience fighting the Japanese army in Houtao. He knew that if he followed the requirements of the theater commander and insisted on defending Luoyang, he would only be passively beaten. He insisted on fighting the Japanese army because he wanted to use his presence in the Houtao area to fight with the Japanese army.
The Japanese and Mongolian troops had years of experience and took advantage of their own troops' superiority in mobile warfare.
To hold back the Thirty-seventh Division in the field, which has no backup, no flank support, and no supplies. At present, it can only continue to fight by seizing the supplies stored in Xin'an and Shengchi in the First Theater. Force them to use the captured
After all the supplies were consumed, he could no longer support himself and retreated north across the Yellow River.
If the city is defended, the Japanese army is allowed to attack around Luoyang. In Yanshi and Yichuan areas around Luoyang City, more than a million bags of flour alone were stockpiled, and a large number of war-prepared warehouses containing a large amount of ordnance, ammunition and other materials fell into the hands of the Japanese army.
, this battle will probably be even more difficult to fight.
The most important thing is that based on the overall battlefield situation, he found that the target of the Thirty-seventh Division may not be the well-fortified Luoyang City. Without flank support and a lone force breaking in, it would be quite dangerous to rush into the fortified city.
Although the Japanese are often hot-headed, their senior generals have always been proud of conquering famous Chinese cities.
But this does not mean that the senior generals of the Japanese army are all a bunch of idiots. The advantages and disadvantages of capturing Luoyang City at this time are obviously obvious. Therefore, he concluded that the Japanese army's sole purpose of going deep into the hinterland of the First War Zone was definitely not to capture Luoyang City.
Its real target should be the Zhengzhou front line.
That is to say, its real target is behind the various armies of the First Theater in the fierce fighting in eastern Henan. Once the division crosses the Songshan line and advances to the Zhengzhou and Xinxiang lines, it will soon face an encirclement from three sides. The First Theater is located between the New Yellow River and
The troops participating in the war in the East are really in danger.
Therefore, he insisted that we must not passively defend Luoyang at this time. That would be equivalent to handing over the initiative to the Japanese troops in front of them, allowing them to attack wherever they want in the hinterland of the first theater. No matter whether the theater commander is willing or not,
The best way at the moment is to use offense instead of defense, and tightly entangle this Japanese army under Luoyang City.
Even if the Thirty-seventh Division cannot be eaten, its supplies must be consumed and forced to retreat northward. Only in this way can the flanks of the East Henan combat troops and the safety of the rear be guaranteed. If we stick to Luoyang, we will be able to reach Nagano in the center.
Yuichiro's intentions are as good as his own.
What's more, he knew very well that with the character of the war zone commander, as long as he retreated to Luoyang City, he, the newly appointed deputy commander of the war zone, would take the blame for him. As a war zone commander, he would definitely smear his feet and run away. Now he
Just busy transferring property has caused panic in Luoyang City and caused the military morale to fluctuate.
Once this guy really escapes, the morale of the entire battlefield army will definitely fall into a complete collapse. No matter how strong his control over these two armies is, he may have to repeat the mistake of sticking to Taiyuan. Once the whole army is separated from Germany, this
There is no way to fight the battle. It is not a pity for this guy to die, but the outcome of the entire battlefield is unpredictable.
This judgment of the deputy commander-in-chief who was newly transferred to the First Theater was quite accurate. He gave up sticking to Luoyang, and instead used the terrain west of Luoyang to adopt confrontational tactics with the 37th Division, entangling the three soldiers to death.
The troops of the 17th Division had no time to attack the large number of combat readiness warehouses around Luoyang City, and they were unable to cross the Luoyang line.
The combat effectiveness of his direct troops was indeed strong, with no more than the strength of two armies and crude weapons. They tightly entangled the 37th Division from both sides of the Longhai Road, and Nagano Yuichiro tried to get rid of it many times, but was unable to do anything.
The two cavalry brigades under his command also circled behind the Japanese army many times and raided their artillery positions and supply points.
As he expected, after several days of fierce fighting, the casualties of his troops were indeed heavy. However, after several days of fierce fighting, the supplies captured from Xin'an and Rope Pond had basically been consumed, especially the Thirty Thirty-year-old who had difficulty replenishing artillery shells.
In the Seventh Division, I couldn't hold on any longer.
At the same time, this man's offensive tactics also bought a lot of time for the war zone commander and even Chongqing to mobilize reinforcements. On the seventh day when he started to attack instead of defend, under the repeated urging of the war zone commander, the first war zone
The Thirty-Sixth Group Army sent to southwestern Shanxi finally crossed the Yellow River west of Hengqu to return reinforcements. Although it was delayed, some of them finally came.
There is a reason why the group army was slow to move. There were only two armies in the group army organization. However, after the fighting on the Yuncheng battlefield subsided, the 14th Army to which it belonged was stripped of the group army organization on the spot and was left behind by Chongqing.
Defend Yuncheng. Now of the entire group army, only one 47th Army with two divisions is left.
The Forty-seventh Army was originally a small system within the Sichuan Army, a miscellaneous unit in the Sichuan Army. Although it was better than the system of the Twenty-seventh Army, which was driven out of Sichuan and had no territory. But the Twenty-seventh Army was directly related to the Sichuan king during his lifetime.
Compared with the First Army, the Twenty-third Army, and the Forty-fourth Army, there is still a huge gap between them.
When the entire army came out of Sichuan to fight, there was not a single artillery piece and only a few mortars. The light and heavy machine guns combined were less than the number of one regiment of the Central Army. It has been several years since it left Sichuan. The weapons that were already inferior after years of bloody battles are now in use.
In the case of insufficient replenishment, it will become worse after years of wear and tear.
As a motley crew without a strong backing, that is to say, no one above them can talk, when it comes to supplements, they have always been low or high. They will definitely not give them anything if they can, and they will never give an extra bullet if they can give less. This
Among the armies under the jurisdiction of the entire First Theater of War, the equipment of the Army is only slightly better than that of the New Eighth Army and the Temporary Fifteenth Army, a motley crew of ragtag brands.
Although the entire army currently has more than 20,000 men, it looks like a lot of people. But the total number of rifles is only more than 3,000, there are more than 200 light machine guns, and only 60 heavy machine guns. Although the number of mortars is too many
There are some, but they are no more than forty 60-gun guns, thirteen 8-2 mortars, and there are still no mountain guns.
Before this battle, the First Theater Command had supplied this army with 500 Italian-made rifles, 60 Czech-made light machine guns that had been replaced by the Central Army, 14 heavy machine guns, two 82 mortars, and ten
60 artillery pieces, plus a batch of grenade launchers and more than a hundred submachine guns that had been eliminated by the Central Army.
Although before departure, we received the largest batch of weapons replenishment since the war of resistance against Sichuan. However, in the previous Yuncheng battle, even in the entire Yuncheng battle, the army was the worst equipped, but it was always used as the main force.
Army, suffered one-third casualties during the battle. After the Fourteenth Army, a member of the central military system, was transferred away, this group army was left with the Forty-seventh Army, which was poorly equipped and suffered heavy losses.
This situation undoubtedly made the commander-in-chief of the group army have great concerns about returning to the first theater to fight immediately. Isn't this forcing someone to jump into a well? At this juncture, the 14th Army, which is much better equipped than himself, was transferred away.
He is left with an incomplete army that has not yet been replenished. Going south to fight alone is almost like a sheep entering the tiger's mouth. This is the only army left of his direct line of troops.