Although Yang Zhen drained all his last armored reserves in order to reinforce the frontal battlefield in northwest Shandong, this reinforcement was what Yang Zhen had to give. Whether Chen Hanzhang could achieve his strategic goals on the battlefield west of Dezhou was related to this battle.
The most critical factor in success or failure.
As long as one hundred divisions can be eliminated and part of the Japanese army's follow-up troops can be severely damaged, the initiative of the entire battle will be firmly in their own hands. Even if the Japanese army concentrates a large number of troops to land on the Qikou front line, even if the Japanese army breaks through Shanxi in the southeast battlefield of Shanxi,
The interception by the Hebei-Shandong-Henan Military Region was interspersed along the Zhengtai Railway, but it was no longer able to change the situation of the war.
Yang Zhen's actions were quite fast, giving Chen Hanzhang the maximum reinforcements he could in the shortest time. On the Japanese side, his actions were equally fast. As soon as Chen Hanzhang completed the encirclement of the 100th Division, he ignored the resistance and
The Allied bombers bombed violently and adopted the method of simultaneous transportation by multiple routes. The Sixty-fifth Division, which had traveled day and night, had arrived in En County.
A reinforced detachment at the front and an intersecting force on the right wing have already started a fierce battle from the waist to the county seat of En County. However, although the offensive of the 65th Division was quite fierce, it may be that two consecutive divisions have eaten up the large flanks that were broken through.
Unfortunately, when the Sixty-fifth Division attacked, it retained a large number of troops on both wings.
The outcome of the previous friendly forces made Lieutenant General Ota Yoshio, commander of the 65th Division, very wary of his flanks. He would rather reduce the attacking force on the front than maintain sufficient forces on the flanks. Especially the line from Wangzhuang to Qingping on the left wing.
, one or two infantry brigades were deployed.
At the same time, a large number of field fortifications were built between En County and the plains. Although it did not have as much anti-tank equipment as the 100th Division, the 65th Division also tried its best to ensure trapezoidal equipment on the flank battlefield.
It was obvious that Lieutenant General Ota Yoshio was not confident about handing over his right wing to the 22nd Division.
To be honest, Chen Hanzhang moved so fast. Regardless of the fact that the 72nd Division had not yet been completely surrounded and annihilated, he launched an interspersed encirclement against the 100th Division, and completed the merging of the 100th Division before the 65th Division arrived.
The Fourth Independent Tank Brigade was divided and encircled. The fierceness and speed of its movements were quite unexpected by the Japanese army.
It was originally expected that the 100th Division could cooperate with the 72nd Division to hold off the Anti-Japanese Alliance from En County to Wucheng. Together with the 65th Division that arrived later, they would use internal and external pincer tactics to defeat the battlefield in northwest Shandong in one fell swoop.
The Japanese army, the main force of the Anti-Japanese Alliance, was somewhat caught off guard.
Especially for the right-wing position of the 100th Division, Uchiyama Eitaro was very confident that even if the Anti-Japanese Alliance invested a tank division, it would be enough to delay their offensive for five to seven days. As a result, he did not expect that although it would bring inconvenience to the Anti-Japanese Alliance,
It was a small loss, but the right-wing position of the 100th Division was still breached within twenty-four hours.
After the 100th Division was also encircled, not only the 72nd Division, which was used as fishing bait, had been swallowed up, but even the 100th Division, which was trying to eat the fishermen, was also trapped in the embarrassing situation of being encircled and divided.
Lieutenant General Eitaro Uchiyama, who commanded the Shandong battlefield, was constantly urging the 65th Division to make an all-out effort to relieve the siege.
Order the 22nd Division on the Dezhou battlefield to immediately mobilize no less than one regiment of troops at all costs, and immediately launch an attack in the direction of Xisi Sinu Temple and the old city. At the same time, secretly order all divisions on the Lubei battlefield
, each division dispatched at least four infantry squadrons and concentrated them on the Shanghe line.
Since the start of the second phase of the battle, Uchiyama Eitaro has been very dissatisfied with the 22nd Division on the Dezhou battlefield and its division commander Lieutenant General Isoda Saburo. The current 22nd Division escaped from the Cangzhou battlefield before General
After gathering the remnants of the various divisions that came out, they were reorganized with additions from the base camp.
The strength of the entire division was the strongest among the divisions participating in the battle on the Eastern Front. Its entire troop configuration was equivalent to one and a half of other divisions. It was also equivalent to being invested in various battlefields east of Texas.
The strength of the two divisions of the Baizihao Division that was formed.
Before the battle started, the army also reinforced the firepower of a regiment of tanks, two independent field artillery squadrons, a mountain artillery squadron and a howitzer brigade, plus an independent mortar brigade. Its firepower far exceeded that of the Texas two-wing battlefield.
, especially the divisions east of the Texas battlefield.
However, the progress of the 22nd Division in the entire Texas battlefield is quite slow. Not only has it been unable to open the defense line facing the Anti-Japanese Alliance, it is also entangled by the enemy. If the division is in the 72nd Division,
When the regiment entered the Zaonan battlefield and broke through the enemy's defense line in the north of Dezhou, at least the entire battle situation would not be as corrupt as it is now.
The poor progress of the 22nd Division almost became the biggest failure of the entire battle plan of the front army in this battle. Under such circumstances, the division actually placed a considerable part of its troops on
Behind, in order to protect their own buttocks. This approach of the 22nd Division undoubtedly made Eitaro Uchiyama extremely dissatisfied.
The chief of staff of the 22nd Division, Colonel Yoshiaki Horida, had been reprimanded many times by Eitaro Uchiyama for the unfavorable operations, and pointed out that the division's combat plan was too conservative. It only focused on frontal assaults, but did not dare to conduct any roundabout operations on the flanks.
The tactics and tactics adopted were very contrary to the traditions of the Imperial Army.
When the current situation did not develop according to the original plan of the front army, but actually developed in a deteriorating direction, Uchiyama Eitaro did not care what Lieutenant General Isoda Saburo thought. With an unusually tough attitude, he ordered the 22nd Division to stay
From Dezhou to the end of the Yellow River, protect a regiment behind you and immediately attack on the spot via the Siniu Temple towards the ancient city.
In order to supervise the execution of orders by the 22nd Division, Eitaro Uchiyama, who was already extremely dissatisfied with the 22nd Division, not only demanded that the chief of staff of the 22nd Division immediately execute his orders, but also sent a senior military operations staff officer.
Colonel Orita Masao personally rushed to Texas to urge the 22nd Division to carry out his orders.
After issuing an extremely tough order to the 22nd Division, he still felt that the troops at hand were somewhat insufficient. Uchiyama Eitaro, who was looking for reinforcements everywhere, could not take into account Neji Okamura's blockade plan. The order was concentrated on the 48th Division in Linzi.
The regiment's 1st Taiwan Infantry Regiment immediately marched eastward from Linzi to Jinan.
The combat mission of blocking the Jiaoji Road originally planned by this regiment was transferred to the 2nd Taiwan Infantry Regiment of the 48th Division, and was undertaken by the 2nd Infantry Brigade of the 47th Regiment. The 1st Taiwan Infantry Regiment
After the team arrived, it was assigned to the command of the 65th Division on the spot and launched an attack on the road from En County to Xiajin.
Under the current situation where reinforcements are urgently needed on the battlefield in northwest Shandong, Uchiyama Eitaro really cannot leave an entire division to carry out tasks leisurely and leisurely in the northeastern Shandong region. Although the Shandong Military Region troops of the Communist Army have no control over the north of the Jiaoji Line
A multi-pronged attack tactic was implemented, which prevented the main force of the 48th Division from being transferred to the west.
But now that the 48th Division has strengthened a field supplementary team, it is still possible to mobilize the strength of a regiment. In the view of Eitaro Uchiyama, the entire Shandong battlefield is now one. If the northwest Shandong battlefield collapses, then the entire northern Shandong battlefield will inevitably
To rot.
Once the Lubei battlefield is defeated, the entire Lubei area from the old Yellow River route north to the Bohai Bay will be completely unable to hold. Not to mention blocking the entire Jiaodong Peninsula, even the entire Shandong may not be able to hold it. Once Shandong is lost, the entire north
The Chinese battlefield will also be completely corrupted.
In any case, the entire northwest Shandong battlefield is the top priority at the moment. Compared with the current northwest Shandong battlefield, all other directions are clouds. If you can defend the northwest Shandong battlefield, everything is easy to say, but if you cannot defend the northwest Shandong battlefield, everything will be lost.
Nonsense. If there is a problem at a key position, what other direction can we take care of?
The development of the situation forced Lieutenant General Uchiyama Eitaro, who knew in his heart that if this battle was lost, all the commanders of the two armies of the North China Front, including himself, including General Okamura, the commander of the North China Front, would face severe punishment from the base camp, had arrived in the capital.
To the point where my eyes are red.
Because the entire combat plan this time did not follow the requirements of the base camp at all. It was hatched privately by General Okamura Neiji, Lieutenant General Yoshimoto Teiichi, and the two army chiefs of staff. In other words, this time
The entire combat plan was drawn up by the North China Front Army itself and was not approved by the base camp at all.
This battle has been won, and it is easy to say that any violation of orders has been committed. But once the counterattack is defeated, no one, including myself, the commander of the First Army, can escape from the involvement. I am afraid that the removal of several of myself will be the least serious matter.
Punishment. The Prime Minister and Prime Minister who is not broad-minded will definitely not spare a few of his people lightly when the time comes, and may even implicate the commander of the dispatched army, General Hata Shunroku.
Lieutenant General Eitaro Uchiyama, who was beaten and in a hurry, had already made up his mind to sell the pot. But Chen Hanzhang encircled and divided the 100th Division, triggering a chain reaction that was not limited to one battlefield in northwest Shandong. In Yang Zhen's battle against the Pinghan Road enemy
, under the circumstances of launching a full-line counterattack, the northwest Shandong battlefield has actually become a whole with the Pinghan-Han line battlefield.
In order to find out the real trump card of the Japanese army, Yang Zhen also mobilized all his troops on the Western Front. He firmly pinned the two divisions on the Pinghan Line to the two wings of the Pinghan Line. At the same time, he concentrated on superior troops and firepower to complete the task.
Divide and encircle the battlefield west of the Ping-Han Line, and tightly entangle the 50th Division on the battlefield east of the Ping-Han Line.
With the Pinghan Road Anti-Japanese Counterattack Operation in full swing, the battlefield in northwest Shandong has become a situation where you are among us, and you are among us. At least on the surface, all the anti-Japanese forces on the battlefield in Hebei can be said to have been
They all came out in force. Although the exact location of the two armored divisions of the Anti-Japanese Alliance on the battlefield in Hebei was never found, and in which direction were the two armored divisions deployed?
However, the development of the entire war situation has made the Japanese army unable to take care of these two armored divisions that never appeared. As Chen Hanzhang divided and encircled the 100th Division, the 65th Division and subsequent mobilized forces gradually appeared in northwest Shandong
On the battlefield, the entire eastern front of the Hebei battlefield was already in a mess.
The battle has reached this point. According to the analysis and judgment of the Japanese intelligence system, the designations of most of the Anti-Japanese Alliance divisions on the Hebei battlefield have appeared. At this time, Okamura Neiji, after comprehensively considering all aspects of the battle situation, believed that it was now time to fight all the divisions.
It’s the trump card stage.
What's more, although the two armored divisions of the Anti-Japanese Alliance have not yet appeared on the battlefield, Okamura Neji is not unprepared at all. His second independent tank brigade and two tank regiments
The team, plus six anti-tank gun squadrons, are still firmly under control. Even if the two armored divisions of the Anti-Japanese Alliance appear on the battlefields of Lubei and Pinghan lines, he will not be without some countermeasures.
General Okamura Neiji, who had made up his mind to play all his trump cards, issued orders one after another. The battle situation in northwest and northern Shandong, where both sides' forces had been stretched to their limits, did not change much. But in southeastern Shanxi
The war situation with the northern Henan region has undergone earth-shaking changes. And the changes in the entire war situation caused by this can be said to be a sudden upheaval.