After passing through the Sinvsi River unimpeded, although it had been a forced march for nearly a day, Du Kaishan ordered the troops to continue southward without any rest, striving to cross the Majia River in the shortest possible time. Although the Sinvsi River was
Siltation has turned into a flat land, but there is still water in the Majia River.
Compared with the Sinvsi River, which discharges floods from the Grand Canal, the Majia River, which is an artificial river that diverts floods from the Yellow River, is undoubtedly lucky. The smooth operation of the Jinpu Railway directly led to the decline of the canal and river transportation. At present, the canal north of Texas is unmanned all year round.
Maintenance has almost dried up.
The Sinvsi River, an artificial river channel for canal flood discharge, also declined with the decline of the canal. However, the Majia River, as a flood diversion channel in the lower reaches of the Yellow River, has been well maintained. Even before the July 7th Incident, the Majia River
It also received a large-scale dredging of manpower organized by local governments.
Although there has been some siltation due to lack of management since the July 7th Incident. The width of the river bed is only four meters and the water depth is only 1.5 meters. Although the amount of water at this time is not large, it is still the Majia River with water. It passes through so many rivers.
Tanks, cars and heavy artillery cannot be built without a boat bridge.
For Du Kaishan, erecting a boat bridge is undoubtedly a time-consuming task. Although he has three sets of full-scale American boat bridges and one set of Japanese-made hundred-style boat bridges. Moreover, the Majia River has only four meters of surface.
It doesn't take too much time. But for Du Kaishan, crossing the river is still a waste of time and quite unsafe.
Du Kaishan knew that the simultaneous dispatch of his two armored divisions, plus more than two divisions of the Bohai Navy Region, hundreds of tanks, thousands of trucks, half-track armored vehicles, and a large number of various artillery tractors would be earth-shattering.
Not to mention that when a large number of vehicles pass through poor soil roads, the dust raised in the sky can be seen clearly from more than ten kilometers away.
Even when the troops were passing by, there were crowds of civilians on both sides of the road watching. In addition, in order to seize fighter planes, this operation could not be like the pre-war mobilization, where night operations and batch operations were chosen to keep confidentiality as much as possible.
At the same time, a variety of confusing methods are adopted to ensure that the mobilized troops can hide their whereabouts as much as possible.
In order to seize the opportunity, it can only be carried out with great fanfare during the day. The extremely fast reconnaissance planes of the Japanese army can easily discover the whereabouts of the troops. The Japanese spies and agents hidden among the common people will also pass on all the intelligence.
, and refer them back to their superiors as soon as possible.
For Du Kaishan, all strategic actions of his troops from the beginning of this large-scale penetration operation are unsecured. By this time, his strategic posture has been exposed. And the troops are most vulnerable when crossing the river.
Yes, the long-range artillery fire and aviation of the Japanese army will cause great losses to the troops.
Therefore, he repeatedly urged the troops to speed up their march and cross the Majia River before the Japanese army mobilized their troops. He was worried that the Japanese army's usual quick response would cause him to cross the river even though it was only four meters wide.
The probability of such a situation happening in the Majia River is very low. But Du Kaishan, who cannot tolerate any delay, must try his best to avoid even the slightest threat.
In fact, Du Kaishan's speed of action was already quite fast. Although he was discovered by a Japanese navy reconnaissance plane as soon as he passed the line from Salt Mountain to Gaowan. But when this fatal piece of information finally reached the hands of Eitaro Uchiyama,
Du Kaishan's troops have arrived at the front line of the Majia River.
On its left wing, an echelon composed of the main force of the Second Armored Division, which was missing one battalion, and two infantry regiments, had already entered Camp Li on the north bank of the Majia River under the cover of the First Resistance Unit in Qingyun. Its right wing
The 1st Armored Division and an attached infantry division have begun to cross the river at Chezhen in Wudi County.
However, Du Kaishan really admired the nature of his compatriots who loved to watch the excitement. After the troops left the clear and solid confines of the Qikou battlefield, they set off from Xinhai to Wudi. The entire march was watched by ordinary people along the way.
Both sides of the road were filled with ordinary people who came spontaneously.
The deafening sound of guns and artillery in the direction of Qikou in the north for several days, coupled with the crowds cleared out of the war zone, told these people that a big war was going on over there. And after these days of fighting, the Japanese have never appeared in Qikou.
In other places, these ordinary people who were frightened by the war, while calming down, also became curious about what the troops fighting the Japanese army were like.
Due to the need for confidentiality before the war, all places where the anti-alliance troops were stationed were kept strictly confidential. The internal and external entrances and exits were strictly blocked. All troop movements were carried out in the middle of the night. The troops never entered any place.
The villages are all stationed in the wild. Therefore, many people do not know what kind of army the Anti-Japanese Alliance is. This time Du Kaishan went south, it fully satisfied the curiosity of these people.
Maybe it was the first time I saw such a well-equipped Chinese army, maybe it was the first time I saw so many tanks and artillery. When we were marching quickly from Dukaishan to Wudi, the people living on both sides of the road did not need to be mobilized by the local government.
They were so crowded on both sides of the highway. It was even exaggerated to the point that in Xinhai and Yanshan counties along the way, people who could walk in the entire county ran out of the city to watch the marching sequence of the Anti-Japanese Alliance.
If the local Bohai District Party Committee and Administrative Office staff were not very capable, I am afraid that Du Kaishan’s movement speed would have dropped by at least two-thirds due to the congestion on the highway. However, when the people on both sides of the highway saw the tanks and cars in front of them, they
and cannons of various calibers, cheers rang from Qikou to Wudi.
Without mobilization from the local government, baskets of eggs, steamed buns, and cooked meat were thrown onto the cars. Du Kaishan, who was a little overwhelmed by the enthusiastic people in front of him, could only express his gratitude to the political commissar of the Bohai Sea Region who cooperated with him in this interspersed operation.
Shaking his head and smiling bitterly, he ordered the troops to take out some cans and their winter clothes and hand them over to several prefectural committees along the way.
As soon as he left Qikou, he noticed that he was being watched. Du Kaishan immediately asked Yang Zhen for instructions. Did he ask the Bohai District Party Committee and Administrative Office to send cadres and local armed forces to carry out security along the highway? After all, so many people were being watched.
Watching onlookers is not only detrimental to troop operations, but also detrimental to confidentiality.
But Yang Zhen's reply to him and forwarded to the Bohai Sea District, Bohai District Party Committee, and Bohai Administrative Office only said one sentence: As long as it does not affect the marching speed, there should be no prohibitions or interceptions on the onlookers of the people along the way. It should be done with great fanfare.
Action is to build people's confidence.
Let all the people in the North China base know that the previous situation where the enemy was strong and we were weak is gone forever. Let them live a peaceful life without having to worry about the large-scale raids carried out by the Japanese and puppet troops from time to time.
The Japanese army burned, killed and looted. Sometimes it was advertised 10,000 times, so it would be better to let the people see it with their own eyes.
Yang Zhen not only did not agree to Du Kaishan's request, but instead encouraged him to take action with great fanfare. Although he could not figure out what No. 1 was thinking, since No. 1 had given the order, he did not do anything to stop him. As long as he did not
It will delay his march, so feel free to watch it if you like.
And just as Du Kaishan's troops arrived in Qingyun and Wudi with great fanfare and with the people watching and sending them off along the way, they began to cross the Majia River and prepared to penetrate the enemy's back on the Dezhou battlefield. At the same time, Le Le
Ling, the anti-alliance forces facing the Japanese army in Ningjin also launched a comprehensive counterattack, clinging to the Japanese army facing them, making it impossible to mobilize to other fronts, let alone withdraw to the south of the Majia River to cope with Du Kaishan.
Ministry’s actions.
Du Kaishan's headquarters suddenly appeared on the north bank of the Majia River, disrupting Lieutenant General Uchiyama Eitaro's entire retreat plan. After receiving intelligence from the naval aviation that a large number of enemy armored groups were moving south quickly, Uchiyama Eitaro repeated his old
Classmates, their expressions and actions after learning that the remnants of the Ninth Division were surrounded and the Forty-fourth Division were completely wiped out.
Eitaro Uchiyama, who is familiar with the entire battle situation, does not need to look at the route and speed of Du Kaishan's advance marked on the map. With his eyes closed, he can clearly know that once the enemy crosses the line of the Majia River, he will be completely defeated in Hebei and Lu.
What consequences and ending will the several divisions fighting on the border battlefield bring?
And this outcome will undoubtedly be devastating for the entire Texas battlefield. Unless I can summon more than two divisions of troops out of thin air and put them on the front line of the Majia River in the shortest possible time,
Otherwise, he currently has no power to stop the enemy's tank battle.
The 120th Division he deployed on the front line of Leling and Qingyun was almost in a situation of being attacked from both sides and was unable to deploy troops to stop Du Kaishan's troops. And once Du Kaishan's troops were allowed to complete the forcible crossing of Majia,
With He's deployment, all the troops he invested in the entire battlefield east of Texas will be directly surrounded.
Faced with the tank interspersed operations launched by the Anti-Japanese Alliance on the Eastern Front, Uchiyama Eitaro did not care whether his blockade could be completed. He directly revoked the order he had given to the 48th Division in order to deal with Yoshio Kamizuki. Instead, he ordered
After receiving his order, all the 48th Division that was gathering immediately sent reinforcements to the north on the spot.
At all costs, cross the Yellow River in the shortest time and rush to Huimin to set up a defense line. In order to make Lieutenant General Kitagawa Kazuo, the commander of the 48th Division, realize the importance of the problem, Uchiyama Eitaro emphasized three times in the telegram that it was
The entire division was mobilized as an organic unit, rather than as one unit as before.
At the same time, in order to speed up the action of the 48th Division, Uchiyama Eitaro transferred all the trucks in his hands to the 48th Division. As for the blockade area set up by General Okamura Neiji, let him go to hell. If the entire Hebei-Shandong border battlefield had three
divisions, to be exact, plus the sixty-fifth division, it should be said that four divisions were covered in dumplings.
Even if the communist army in the Jiaodong Peninsula can be blocked, so what? There are threats on both sides, and we can only choose the bigger one to deal with. Otherwise, the roots may be dug up, and only some branches and leaves will be left.
Use? When the time comes, that bullshit blockade area with no available troops will also be completely destroyed?
Now that the fire has burned your butt, why do you care whether your feet are injured? If these three divisions cannot be saved, as well as the 65th Division on the battlefield west of Dezhou, there will be no more troops available in the entire Shandong territory. The enemy's tanks
Cluster, you can go south along Jinpu Road and go straight to northern Jiangsu and northern Anhui.
Once the entire Shandong Province is lost and the barrier to the north is lost, even the entire Jianghuai Plain may not be able to be defended. The entire Chinese dispatched army will have no choice but to retreat to the Yangtze River. General Okamura, the commander of the North China Front, may be
He has a position but no territory.
For Lieutenant General Eitaro Uchiyama, he believes that the current situation of this battle can be said that the Imperial Army has lost from the overall situation. The most critical issue at the moment is no longer whether it can complete the combat objectives before the base camp, but
How to preserve some vitality for the North China Front Army.