Although Chen Hanzhang responded immediately as soon as he received the report from the troops below. He immediately ordered the troops from Dezhou to, regardless of the casualties and fatigue caused by the continuous battles, immediately march to Yao Station, Liguantun, and North Station in Xi'en County to the west of Jinpu Road.
Launch an attack on the front line of the town. Strive to seize Gaotang and Liguantun in the shortest possible time and cut off Jinpu Road from the northwest.
He also called Du Kaishan one after another to speed up his march, striving to reach the line from Wangfenglou to Yucheng in the shortest possible time. He formed a pincer offensive on the Zhangzhuang line, and advanced with one force to the south in a show of seizing the Yellow River in Jinan.
The situation of the iron bridge forced the rear of the enemy on the Texas battlefield and the right wing of the 65th Division.
Chen Hanzhang accelerated the attack speed on the east and west sides of Jinpu Road, trying to encircle Wei and rescue Zhao, so that the two Japanese divisions on Jinpu Road and Dezhou gave up their plan to capture the Chinese in order to cope with the war situation. As for the two Japanese divisions, they suddenly
What is the real goal of the general trend in arresting Chinese people? Chen Hanzhang can think of it with his toes.
It is nothing more than using these Chinese people as shields when the rear route is cut off. Either to cover their own retreat, or as human shields to slow down the advancement of the Anti-Japanese Alliance. Once these two divisions are allowed to complete this plan, even if
It was Du Kaishan who arrived. I am afraid that in the face of so many Chinese people, it would be like a tiger eating the sky and having nowhere to eat.
However, Chen Hanzhang's rescue operation suffered continuous setbacks. The troops attacking from northwest Shandong, regardless of casualties and fatigue, launched an offensive operation. They also concentrated some tanks and mechanized infantry in an attempt to avoid the Japanese frontal defense line and implement a deep penetration.
Combat.
However, under the stubborn resistance of the 71st Brigade of the 65th Division of the Japanese Army and the First Division of the 22nd Division, the progress was extremely slow, and there was no way to deal with the actions taken by the two Japanese divisions in its depth.
The Japanese army also moved very quickly, not leaving him much time at all.
Although Du Kaishan's advancement was quite fast, his location was further away from the designated location. Although Du Kaishan pushed the malfunctioning tank directly to the side of the road in order to speed up, no matter how fast he moved, he could still
This road still needs to be walked step by step.
The tanks and half-tracks in his cluster, as well as a large number of trucks, all require a certain amount of time to refuel. The two armored divisions of the Anti-Japanese Alliance in the North China battlefield are all German-made tanks and all use gasoline engines.
.In terms of fuel consumption, it can be said that they are all oil tigers. The fuel consumption of two armored divisions is much greater than that of three or four armored brigades equipped with T-34 tanks.
After the No. 4 tank is filled with fuel at one time, it can only travel 200 kilometers even if it travels on the road. However, along the route of Du Kaishan, the poor road conditions of the dirt roads mean that his tank cluster can only travel a distance of 200 kilometers with one full tank of fuel.
Far less than 200 kilometers.
When the fuel tanks of most tanks are full, the maximum traveling distance is generally one hundred thirty or forty kilometers. The operating distance of the Panzer III tank is even shorter, and the maximum traveling distance after filling the fuel tank is only one hundred and ten kilometers. As for the half-track vehicle
, the distance traveled is not that much better either.
It is true that German tanks have far better maneuverability and sighting equipment than Soviet tanks, but their short legs also limit their mobility. In long-distance operations, they need to refuel far more often than Soviet tanks.
It is not as good as the American M-4 medium tank. Not to mention the gasoline engine that is like a gas tiger, and consumes far more gasoline than a diesel engine.
Even the Soviet-made diesel engine consumes quite a lot of fuel, and it is also a group of oil tigers. However, in terms of the maximum operating distance of the tank, it is much better than the gasoline engine of the German tank. Moreover, the gasoline standard of the German tank engine is also slightly higher.
Only use high grade gasoline.
The tank has no oil and is, to put it bluntly, just a pile of scrap metal. In addition, the engine continues to rotate at high speed and needs time to cool down. No matter how anxious Du Kaishan is after receiving Chen Hanzhang's telegram, when it comes time to stop, he still has to stop.
They have to stop. At least they have to feed these steel war horses before they can continue running. Moreover, during the continuous march, the tank crew also needs to take some rest.
Although there were only three very short periods of rest and recuperation along the way, to refuel the tanks and half-tracks and to sharpen the troops, the delay was almost negligible. But by the time Du Kaishan's troops arrived in Linyi,
The Japanese army, which acted quickly, had already completed the mopping up operation.
Facing the hundreds of thousands of Chinese people who fell into the hands of the Japanese army and were used as human shields, Chen Hanzhang had no choice but to order his troops to stop the offensive across the entire west of Dezhou. However, on the eastern front, he constantly urged Du Kaishan's troops to speed up the attack.
The speed of action must be to reach the front line of Tianjiakou and Cuiwei Village on the outskirts of Yucheng before the Japanese army makes the next move, and prepare for rescue operations.
But for Chen Hanzhang's order, Du Kaishan is simply unable to execute it at the moment. The Japanese army's actions in the entire Dezhou battlefield were not only along Jinpu Road, but also adopted the same method on Du Kaishan's advancing route. Even in this direction
, the Japanese army's actions were earlier than those of the two divisions on Jinpu Road.
Just as Du Kaishan accelerated his action, the Japanese army in Linyi also captured more than 10,000 Chinese, blocking his route eastward. Behind these people were dozens of Japanese light and heavy machine guns.
.In other words, if Du Kaishan continues to advance, he will either crush these people. Or these people, who are used as human shields by the Japanese army, will fall under the gunfire of both sides.
If there are puppet troops in front of him, Du Kaishan can command without hesitation, and the tank group will directly crush them. But he does not care about the life and death of those who are used as dogs by the Japanese, but he can face more than 10,000 people who are used as human shields by the Japanese.
Among ordinary people, Du Kaishan would not dare to do this no matter what.
He knew that if he acted recklessly at this time and really launched an attack, he would be killed before the end of the battle. Those were the lives of more than 10,000 innocent flesh and blood compatriots, not more than 10,000 Japanese and puppet troops. Since
Since joining the Anti-Japanese Alliance, Du Kaishan has never been afraid of facing large numbers of enemy troops.
But today, facing more than 10,000 unarmed people, Du Kaishan was timid. His tank group could only stop on the Linyi front line. Du Kaishan stopped, perhaps facing a huge mass of hundreds of tanks.
Due to the pressure, the Japanese troops on the front line of Linyi did not take the opportunity to launch a counterattack. With more than 10,000 Chinese people separated, they faced off with Du Kaishan on the line from Linyi to Xiakou.
The forward route was blocked and he could no longer take any maneuvers. He could only send a report to Chen Hanzhang and inform Chen Hanzhang of the situation he was facing. He told his old comrade that the situation he faced was no better than
The situation he faced on the battlefield west of Texas was much worse. It could even be said that the situation was even more difficult because all of his forward routes were tightly blocked.
After receiving Du Kaishan's telegram, Chen Hanzhang's face turned pale with anger. What does the Japanese army mean by doing this? Haven't they always regarded themselves as dignified warriors? Have they always been proud of their bravery and fearlessness? Could it be that their bushido spirit is what China has given them?
Human shield to block your own attack?
Using such despicable tactics on the battlefield, threatening the lives of hundreds of thousands of Chinese people to protect their own safety. What is the difference between this and those gangsters and scoundrels who fight in the streets all day long? What the hell is that?
Fighting is simply an open kidnapping.
Although I really want to go all out and completely eliminate these ungrateful beasts on the Jinpu railway line. Now that Du Kaishan's troops have arrived in Linyi, even if he is only given one day,
He could complete the encirclement of the entire Jinpu Road and Dezhou enemy. But the lives of hundreds of thousands of his fellow citizens made Chen Hanzhang quite reluctant to surrender.
Just when Chen Hanzhang and Du Kaishan were facing the current situation and were almost helpless and helpless. The two Japanese divisions on the Texas battlefield dispatched the chief of staff of the 22nd Division, Colonel Yoshiaki Horida, and the 65th Division.
The regiment's chief of staff, Sadashigesa Orita, went to the front line of the Anti-Japanese Alliance and requested face-to-face negotiations with the top military commander of the Anti-Japanese Alliance in the Texas battlefield.
After receiving the following report, Chen Hanzhang hesitated. After urgent discussions with the deputy political commissar of the Central Hebei Military Region, who was coordinating the North China troops to cooperate with the anti-union operations at his headquarters, and the deputy political commissar and deputy commander of the Hebei, Shandong and Yu Military Region.
And in the end, the director of the Political Department of the Eastern Front Cluster and the deputy political commissar of the Jizhong Military Region were sent as representatives to come forward to find out what the Japanese army meant.
In fact, Chen Hanzhang already had a rough idea of what the Japanese army's intentions were. It was nothing more than using the Chinese people in his hands as bargaining chips to force him to give way to the Jinpu Railway and allowing them to withdraw to the south of the Yellow River. Or he used these people as human shields to force himself to withdraw.
Out of the entire Texas battlefield.
In addition to these two points, the Japanese army does not know how to play any tricks. Although the Japanese army likes to hide their lies, they are the kind of army that insists on saving face and suffering. However, it is not unfamiliar to them to engage in some dirty tricks. On the battlefield, they have
If they can't get it, they will get it even through deception.
At this time, the Japanese army did such a despicable thing. Apart from these two points, there are almost no other possibilities. But for Chen Hanzhang, if the Japanese army's intentions really follow his own judgment, then what should he do next?
He didn't know much about it. Even if Chen Hanzhang met again, it was the first time for him to face such a shameless move by his opponent.
Although Chen Hanzhang at this stall did not want to talk to the Japanese army at all, but at the moment he had no way to deal with the two Japanese divisions that had become his favorites without hurting innocent people, so he could only endure it.
Be patient and see what tricks they will come up with.
Facts have proved that Chen Hanzhang's prediction was quite accurate. Colonel Yoshiaki Horita, who was the chief representative during the negotiations, directly told the Anti-Union negotiators that as long as the Anti-Union forces along the entire Dezhou and Jinpu railways, they ordered the battlefields to the west of Dezhou and to the north
The anti-alliance forces retreated fifteen kilometers and made way for the Jinpu Railway to allow the 22nd Division and the 65th Division to safely withdraw to the south of the Yellow River.
They guarantee the safety of the more than 100,000 Chinese people currently in their hands. Moreover, as the chiefs of staff of two Japanese divisions participating in the war, they guarantee that these Chinese residents will not suffer any killings, rapes, and their
Security and supplies while following the Japanese retreat.
These two men said that as long as the anti-resistance forces to the west and north of the Texas battlefield completed their retreat, as a goodwill move, they would first release the elderly, children and some women among the Chinese. As long as the two divisions safely withdraw to the Yellow River,
Nan, he released all these Chinese safely and promised not to do anything.
If the Anti-Japanese Alliance does not agree to the conditions of the two divisions, then when the entire army is destroyed, they will drag these hundreds of thousands of Chinese people to be buried together. It doesn't matter if they die by then. As imperial warriors, they should naturally be loyal to the empire. But
The hundreds of thousands of Chinese people lost their lives, and the Anti-Japanese Alliance will be fully responsible for the lack of humanity.