Three hundred and sixtieth chapters Jianghuai campaign two
A breakthrough was opened within a short period of time when the eastern front was occupied, and the entire first line of defense collapsed immediately, which was quite unexpected by the Japanese army. However, the Japanese army in Huainan also responded very quickly, immediately mobilized the deep second-line reserve team, concentrated two divisions and merged two
An independent mixed brigade and 70% of the artillery launched a full-line counterattack towards the breach.
In order to concentrate their forces, the Japanese army even transferred a division from the western front where the war was stalemate to the battlefield east of Hongze Lake. The Chinese dispatched troops spent a lot of money to re-block the opened breach in the shortest possible time.
Mobilized all the vital forces at hand.
Faced with the rapid counterattack of the Japanese army, General Lin led the front line to cross the river on April 22 and personally commanded the troops to fight fiercely with the Japanese army. He also continued to increase the intensity of the attack, hoping to seize the Baoying and Gaoyou front lines in the shortest time and cut them off.
The connection between the Japanese army in central Jiangsu and the Japanese army in eastern Anhui.
The war ended on April 25. Under the rapid impact of the large number of armored troops continuously invested by Mr. Lin, the Japanese defense line east of Huaiyin completely collapsed. The Japanese counterattack could not withstand the successive attacks of the tank clusters and retreated with heavy casualties all the way to
The Yancheng and Baoying front lines are trying to build a second line of defense based on the water network area.
The counterattack failed completely, and a large number of troops were surrounded on the Suzhong battlefield north of Yancheng. The retreating Japanese troops were pursued by ground tanks and under continuous firepower from the air. All the organizations were disrupted. An attempt was made to establish a second road in Yancheng and Baoying.
The Japanese troops on the defensive line finally retreated all the way to Xinghua, Dongtai, and Gaoyou. Only with the support of three divisions sent emergency reinforcements by the dispatched army, they could barely stand their ground.
However, when the Japanese troops retreated all the way to the front lines of Xinghua, Dongtai, and Gaoyou on April 27, the number of troops participating in the battle was reduced to three or four, including wounded, baggage, and heavy weapons. Many troops even withdrew to
When Xinghua and Dongtai were on the front line, they were already empty-handed.
Compared to the Eastern Front, which was engulfed in fierce fighting, the war on the Western Front seemed somewhat calm. Of course, the terrain on this front was far more complex than that on the Eastern Front. Not only was it close to the yellow flood zone, but most importantly, it had crisscrossing rivers and dense water networks.
It is also located between the Wandong Mountains and Hongze Lake, so the room for maneuver is relatively narrow.
Although because the Yellow River carries too much sediment, after several years of siltation, the Yellow River has now mainly flowed into the Huaihe River along the Yinghe River, and the Guohe River Basin is no longer the main channel for the Yellow River to enter the Huaihe River. The original hardest-hit areas were Mengcheng in eastern Anhui and Huaiyuan.
The situation is much better, but there is still serious water accumulation in some areas.
The difficulty of the offensive in this direction far exceeds that of the Eastern Front. In addition to political factors, although the Western Front offensive and the Eastern Front were launched at the same time, neither the number of troops invested nor the intensity of the battle was far inferior to that of the Eastern Front.
Line. Although on April 22, a breakthrough was opened in the direction of Shuanggou and Wuhe.
However, compared with the vigorous fighting on the Eastern Front, the follow-up attacks on the Western Front progressed quite slowly, and were never able to break through the defense line built by the Japanese army along Hongze Lake, Huayuan Lake, and Nushan Lake. The poor progress on the Western Front made
After the gap was opened on the Eastern Front, the Japanese army, eager to re-block the gap on the Eastern Front, even transferred the deep second-echelon reserves on the Western Front.
But on the day when the Eastern Front Cluster captured Baoying, Chen Hanzhang, who had not shown up since being transferred to Guannei, commanded each division originally deployed on the Eastern Front to strengthen an independent tank regiment of the 2nd and 3rd Armored Divisions, directly under the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region.
The Tank Brigade is a tank regiment in the Shanxi-Hebei-Luyu Military Region, attached to the Second Mechanized Infantry Division and four fully motorized infantry divisions.
With the cooperation of two pontoon regiments and the 1st Engineer Regiment directly under the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Autonomous Region, they forcibly maneuvered hundreds of kilometers over two days and nights, from Suqian on the east line to Huaiyuan on the west line, to Linhuaiguan. On April 25
Taking advantage of the Japanese troops in front of Huaiyuan, they were either transferred to the Nvshan Lake front line for support, or were transferred to the eastern front for reinforcements. The entire front line from Huaiyuan to Linhuaiguan was empty of troops. With the support of the western front group of river-crossing troops,
They separated from Huaiyuan and crossed the Huaihe River at Linhuaiguan.
After completing the forced crossing, the armored group concentrated its main force and quickly crossed southward along the Shuibeng Railway and Jinpu Railway. It continuously broke through the three loose defense lines of the Japanese army on the western front, and successively recovered Huaixian, Hefei, Dingyuan, and Jiashan, and
The first-line expressway runs through Quanjiao and Chuxian to Liuhe and Pukou.
Mr. Lin's attack in the east and west was quite brilliant. It can be said to be a stroke of genius. Even Yang Zhen, the first person in China to use large-scale armored group assaults, thought that Mr. Lin fought this battle quite brilliantly. At this point in the battle, Yang Zhen
Zhen believed that as long as Mr. Lin didn't make any big mistakes in his follow-up attacks, this battle would basically be won.
And with Mr. Lin's personality and ability, the chance of making such a low-level mistake is almost slim. Especially when Mr. Lin has more troops at his disposal than he had back then. When this battle has reached this level,
As long as one aspect does not intervene, it can be said that there is no suspense.
Although Yang Zhen was a little distressed by the loss of an independent tank regiment a day during the armored troops' offensive operations on the eastern front. But he also knew that in that kind of water network area, the engineering troops might not be able to keep up in time.
Under such circumstances, this loss can almost be said to be inevitable.
Coupled with the large number of anti-tank guns deployed by the Japanese army, if you want to maintain a rapid assault speed, you must be mentally prepared to suffer huge losses. And from Yang Zhen's perspective, as long as the Jianghuai zone can be encircled and annihilated, occupying the entire Chinese dispatched army,
With half of the Japanese heavily armed group, this loss is still bearable.
As for how Mr. Lin fought so brilliantly in the Battle of Jianghuai, what Chongqing thought, Yang Zhen neither had the energy to care about nor wanted to care about. The number of tanks Mr. Lin invested in the Western Front, even what Chongqing thought about the two theaters in western Anhui
If you want to intervene, I'm afraid I don't have the courage. As for any actions in Jiangnan, it is actually a good thing for this Jianghuai battle.
In fact, Chongqing did not want to take this opportunity to regain the lost territory in the east. However, Mr. Lin suddenly invested a large number of armored troops on the western front, causing its tentacles to extend to the eastern Anhui area to quickly retract. Chongqing is in the Dabie Mountains
The Fifth War Zone obviously doesn’t want to touch this hard nut.
Especially when the troops of the Fifth Theater Command were dominated by the Guangxi clan. Xiao Zhuge, who was afraid that his direct clan would suffer too much if they touched such an armored cluster, strictly ordered the Fifth Theater Command not to send a single soldier to the Wandong battlefield.
He just ordered the 33rd Army, the last remaining force of the Northwest Army, to dispatch an army to recover Lu'an and Huoshan to deal with the errands.
The deterrence displayed by the armored assault group commanded by Chen Hanzhang was not only feared by the Japanese. Chongqing retracted its outstretched tentacles in Jiangbei, but in Jiangnan it mobilized several newly formed national weapons specifically for
The counterattacking front army launched an attack on the line from Nanchang to Jiujiang. At the same time, the six and nine theaters to which it belongs also made frequent moves in Hubei. The troops were directed towards the outskirts of Wuhan and along the Pinghan-Hankou Railway in Hubei.
From the beginning of the Battle of Jianghuai to Chongqing's attack on the Zhejiang-Jiangxi line, the entire north and south of the Yangtze River have been in chaos. The Chinese dispatched troops, whose direct contact with the mainland has been cut off, are in a state of distress. Especially the battle situation in Jiangbei has caused the Chinese dispatched troops to suffer losses.
Even though I tried my best, I still couldn't close the two huge gaps.
The Eastern Front was like a huge flesh-devouring machine, swallowing up the Chinese Expeditionary Forces in their entirety. The tank clusters on the Western Front were like sharp knives, inserted into the rear of the Chinese Expeditionary Forces' defense line in the Yangtze River and Huaihe River.
On the waist. Where is Pukou, Liuhe? It is only separated from Nanjing, where the headquarters of the China Expeditionary Force is, by the Yangtze River.
If Pukou is lost, the enemy's artillery shells can directly hit the city of Nanjing. The Jianghuai War situation has deteriorated so quickly that the Chinese dispatched troops can only continue to draw troops from Jiangnan to fill in. But in the case of a two-front battle, the Chinese dispatched troops
Jun still felt that it was difficult to support him.
The Chinese dispatched troops, whose land, sea and air connections with the mainland have been completely cut off at this time, can only pin their hopes on the Southern Army's troops stationed in Vietnam, in addition to constantly asking for help from the base camp. However, although the Southern Army has occupied the Sino-Vietnamese border in Guangxi,
The connection between the Southern Army and the main force of the Expeditionary Force has never been established, and there is no other means of communication except sea routes.
As for large-scale transportation by sea, neither the Southern Army nor the Chinese dispatched troops can gather enough ships. Moreover, at this time, the Chinese coast, which was once like its own sea area for the Japanese navy and army, has become extremely dangerous. The United States
Human submarines, aircraft, and Chinese aircraft have basically turned this once calm sea area into a death zone.
The offensive launched by the Allied forces in the Dutch East Indies also made it difficult for the Southern Army to mobilize troops to reinforce the Chinese dispatched troops at this time. There are a lot of troops in the South Pacific, and only the Southern Army on Rabaul Island belongs to the 3rd Army.
The Eighth Front Army has more than 100,000 troops distributed in the Solomon Islands.
But these Japanese troops are trapped on the island and have to rely on themselves even to eat. How can they still reinforce the Chinese dispatched troops? The former commander of the 17th Army who was mentally ill cannot be sent back to the mainland to recuperate. Where else can he
Withdrawing so many troops at once? If these troops could be withdrawn, the base camp would have withdrawn them long ago and deployed them in other directions.
Facing the embarrassing situation of the China Dispatch Bureau, the helpless base camp could not provide any support at all except constant encouragement. Fortunately, after seven years of accumulation, plus setting up its own factory to produce and manufacture, the entire China Dispatch Army ammunition
The quantity is quite sufficient, at least the ammunition for small arms is barely enough.
But facing a two-front battle, although the number of troops seems to be large, the Chinese dispatched troops, which have now lost any contact with the mainland except radio, have been eliminated one by one. According to the original plan of the Chinese dispatched troops,
, concentrate forces to deal with threats from the north. Give up some control areas on the western front in exchange for not attacking Chongqing on the western front.
But to China's surprise, under the pressure of strong public opinion, especially the pressure from the Americans, Chongqing finally launched a limited-scale military dispatch to China, no matter what their intentions.
The offensive was carried out, and several of the most elite American military troops who were transferred back from Myanmar were dispatched.
Once Jiujiang is lost, the Chinese dispatched troops along the Yangtze River will be cut into two sections. The loss of Wuhan means that the Chinese dispatched troops will lose control of the richest areas in central China, and the front will be fully reduced to the east, or even limited to
The Yangtze River Delta. And this is a situation that China absolutely does not want to see when it dispatches troops.
The current China Expeditionary Force is like a thief with two ends. It is worried about being beaten to death, but does not want to give up what it has already obtained. This has caused the entire Chinese battlefield to be in a state of imminent avalanche.
Not only the Chinese dispatched troops but also the Japanese base camp had the same idea.
Even before the launch of the campaign, the China Dispatch Force planned to transfer the Japanese 23rd Army troops in the Guangdong and Guangxi regions back to Central and East China, abandoning the South China Control Area that has now become useless. However, the base camp firmly disagreed and demanded that guarantees be ensured.