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After forming an outer siege, the Japanese army divided their troops from Yuanqu and turned back, advancing eastward to Shaoyuan, and met with Rujun, who was attacking Fengmen from Jiyuan west; advancing westward, advancing southward with the Japanese army who captured Zhangdian from Xia County.
Meeting. Since then, the Japanese army has formed two inner and outer encirclements against the Zhongtiao Mountain defenders.
Wei Lihuang, who flew back to Luoyang in a hurry to take over the military command of the Zhongtiaoshan Battle, saw that the Ninth Army retreating from the Fengmen might be surrounded and annihilated by the Japanese army. The 14th Army on the northern line had been trapped in the Japanese encirclement, and in May
On the 10th, he decisively ordered the main force of the Ninth Army to cross the river and strengthen the defense of the south bank; ordered the 14th Army to divert to the north of Qinyi Highway, and use the spiral drilling method to attack the enemy's side.
After Liu Yimin made a speech, when Chiang Kai-shek summoned He Yingqin, Bai Chongxi and others to study, He Yingqin once proposed to evacuate the defenders of Zhongtiao Mountain and defend the south bank of the Yellow River. At that time, Chiang Kai-shek considered that Zhongtiao Mountain was the last position of the National Civil Affairs Department in North China.
, defending Zhongtiao Mountain is equivalent to defending the Yellow River, and it can also prove to the people that the National Civil Affairs still defends North China. Whether from a political or military perspective, Zhongtiao Mountain must be held. Therefore, Chiang Kai-shek sent He Yingqin to Luoyang to deploy defense
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If Chiang Kai-shek could come to the Zhongtiao Mountain defense line in person, he might have made up his mind to retreat early.
Wei Lihuang ordered the main force of the Ninth Army to retreat across the Yellow River very decisively, but unfortunately it was too late. The third division of the Ninth Army crossed the river from Guanyang Ferry as ordered, and one hundred Japanese planes rushed to bombard him and blocked Guanyang.
ferry.
The bomb was exploding, the Japanese aircraft's on-board machine guns were sweeping wildly, and the Yellow River was floating with blood, and the bodies of Chinese soldiers were constantly flowing.
With so many troops facing Japanese bombing, no one organized air shooting. On the contrary, groups of defeated soldiers ran around to grab the clothes of the people who had moved with the troops. Some clothes were stripped of their bodies on the river bank.
, ordinary people were naked.
A ** regiment commander went crazy, left his troops, rode his horse to the Yellow River, and read through the Yellow River with the tail of the war horse.
Only the 54th Division of the Ninth Army crossed to Henan after suffering major casualties, and the remaining divisions retreated to the mountains north of Fengmenkou to Shaoyuan.
During the breakout battle of the 14th Army on the 10th, only the remnants of the 98th Army of Mu Shimin successfully broke through, and met with the Taiyue Military Region troops of the Eighth Route Army who were rushing to meet and enter the Taiyue Mountains.
The Japanese army, which had established two encirclements inside and outside, began to turn around and flip north on the 11th, and began to comb and repeat the troops of the Zhongtiao Mountain defenders in the encirclement.
At this time, something happened that stunned everyone, that was that the Zhongtiao Mountain defenders had no food.
The defenders of Zhongtiaoshan were busy doing business, reselling grain, reselling ammunition, and reselling opium. They flew around and exchanged grain and ammunition for money and opium. As a result, the war only started for three days and the defenders were exhausted.
The 180,000 Zhongtiao Mountain defenders had only three days of reserve grain!
Without food, the Zhongtiao Mountain defenders, who were already surrounded by the Japanese army, were even more chaotic.
The situation was extremely critical, and Chiang Kai-shek had to directly order Wei Lihuang to order the Zhongtiaoshan defenders to break through in sections.
At this time, in order to rescue the Zhongtiaoshan defenders, Chongqing National Civil Affairs and various organizations sent newspapers to the Central Committee of the ** and the Eighth Route Army Headquarters, requiring the Eighth Route Army to act quickly and rescue friendly troops. Some democratic figures, such as Huang Yanpei, were in the newspapers,
A speech was made on the radio, urging ** to quickly launch an attack on the Japanese army in the spirit of unity to rescue the defenders of Zhongtiaoshan.
Historically, after the Zhongtiao Mountain defenders fell into a desperate situation, the Kuomintang army on the south bank of the Yellow River did not send a rescue; Hu Zongnan, who had hundreds of thousands of troops, was busy blocking the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region with his eyes open, and he didn't care about rescuing Zhongtiao Mountain.
The defenders; Yan Xishan, the Jinsui Army in southwest Shanxi, not only did not provide effective rescue, but also disarmed the small troops of Zhongtiaoshan defenders who broke through to southwest Shanxi; the Eighth Route Army cooperated to fight, but because of the anti-sweeping operation in the late stage of the Hundred Regiments War
Zhong had too much loss and did not have the full rescue efforts like launching a Hundred Regiments Battle. It was like the forces of all parties watching the Zhongtiaoshan defenders defeated.
The current situation is incomparable to history. Without Chiang Kai-shek's instruction of various agencies, various associations urged the Eighth Route Army to fight and guard Tongguan. The Eighth Route Army Shaanxi River Defense Forces at Yumendu had already exchanged fire with the Japanese army that rushed to Fenglingdu after capturing Yongji. Jin
The Eighth Route Army Division in the Central Base Area and the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army in the Taihang Mountains in southeastern Shanxi received orders from the central and headquarters to launch a fierce attack on the Japanese supply line and rescue the Zhongtiao Mountain defenders.
Liu Yimin, who was far away in Shandong, heard the radio broadcast of the contraction of the Zhongtiao Mountain defenders from the radio station. He sighed in his heart. The desperate faces of the Zhongtiao Mountain defenders seemed to appear in front of him. He immediately ordered that they gather in southwestern Shandong.
Liu Jianshe's second column, Zhang Hongtao's sixth column, and Chen Shiqu's tenth column, took a bold and decisive attitude and immediately launched a strong attack on the enemy of Longhai Road. It is necessary to cut off the traffic lines between Longhai Road and Xuzhou to southwestern Shandong and northern Henan, and force the Japanese army.
Draw troops back to the rescue and use ambush tactics to annihilate one of the enemy; order the Eighth Column of Zhaoshan and the Tenth Column of Xu Shiyou in Jiaodong to launch an attack on the 28th Division of the Japanese Army and the various units of the puppet army entrenched in Yantai and Weihai areas; order Qinghe
The third column of Li Qing in the area and the seventh column of Chen Dayong in Jiaolai launched an attack on Jiaoji Road.
On the evening of May 11, Liu Jianshe Group in southwestern Shandong concentrated the firepower of two artillery regiments, 27 infantry regiments of three columns, totaling 100,000 troops, and launched a rapid attack on the enemy on Longhai Road. overnight, cut off
The Longhai Road between Shangqiu and Dangshan was defeated by the Japanese army's 7th Brigade, which was the Shangqiu to Dangshan section of Longhai Road, and the defeated general retreated to Shangqiu, and the Japanese garrison stationed in Shangqiu and the
The 39th Division's troops stationed in Shangqiu were united, defending and waiting for assistance.
Liu Jian immediately made a speech in Yangji in the name of Liu Yimin, calling on the ** and the New Fourth Army in the Henan-Anhui border area to fight together, attack Shangqiu, and then capture Kaifeng westward, cooperate with the troops of the First War Zone to wipe out the Japanese army in eastern Henan.
This fight also caused an unexpected surprise!
It was exactly the same as Liu Yimin's judgment, Tada Jun did indeed land in the area of Shijiu Suo this time. The landing troops were the Fifth Division, which had just ended the southeast coastal blockade and was urgently transferred to Shandong. The Fifth Division also landed along with the
The newly established 58th Division, 59th Division and 60th Division of the Japanese army. The task of the Fifth Division is to command the three newly formed divisions from Shijiusuo to attack and advance along the Taishi Highway, and divide the central and southern Shandong areas into two
Half, cooperated with the three-sided besiege troops to divide and surround the main forces of the Eighth Route Army in central and southern Shandong and eliminate them one by one.
Liu Jian, Li Qing, Chen Dayong, Zhao Shan and others were stunned by this fight. He could not have imagined that the Eighth Route Army in southwestern Shandong was so strong that it had to adjust its deployment and ordered it to attack southeastern Shandong in the eastern section of Longhai Road.
The Second Division, the Second Armored Division, quickly ended its offensive and advanced rapidly westward, forming a reinforcement group with the 114th Division attacking southern Shandong in Xuzhou, reinforced Shangqiu, and encircled and annihilated the Eighth Route Army in Southwest Shandong. Ordered to stop at sea and wait for the plane.
, The joint fleet troops, which were preparing to launch landing operations on the morning of the 12th, were divided into two groups, and quickly went south to Lianyungang, allowing the Fifth Division, the 58th Division and the 59th Division to land in Lianyungang, and replace the Second Division and the combat vehicle.
The 2nd Division, the defense of the 114th Division; the other way to Yantai north, escorting the 60th Division to reinforce the 29th Division; ordering the 11th Division and the 12th Division that were attacking Central Shandong
The 32nd Division and the 7th Division immediately mobilized their troops to defeat the Eighth Route Army that broke through Jiaoji Road and attacked Jiaoji Road.
After receiving the information that the Japanese from the four divisions of the Xuzhou Underground Intelligence Station landed in Lianyungang, Luo Ronghuan, Xiang Ying, Ye Ting and Cai Zhong all took a breath. They admired Liu Yimin for his prediction of the enemy's accuracy, and at the same time, they were afraid after a while.
.If the Japanese from the four divisions really landed from Shijiu under the cover of the joint fleet carrier-based aircraft and guns, they would soon occupy Rizhao and then advance westward to divide our army, our army would soon be north-south by the Japanese army.
The siege troops on the west three sides surrounded and divided, and that would make the situation difficult.
No matter how well the Eighth Route Army fought, it could only reduce the losses of the Nakajoyama defenders. It was impossible to rescue them all. Tada Jun’s plan was so thorough this time, the battle was so smooth, and the troops on hand were so huge.
How could he be willing to do it if Zhongtiaoshan is unfair?
Tang Huaiyuan, the commander of the Third Army of the Fifth Army of the National Revolutionary Army, and Zhu Lao, were classmates from Class C of the Yunnan Military Academy. After 30 years of joining the army, he was promoted from platoon leader to commander.
On May 10, when Tang Huaiyuan received the order from Chiang Kai-shek and Wei Lihuang to break through, the units of the Third Army had already fallen into the Japanese encirclement, and the contact between the troops was interrupted. He could not contact Zeng Wanzhong, the commander-in-chief of the Army, nor could he control the troops. The mountains were everywhere,
They were all the corpses of soldiers who followed him north to fight against Japan from Yunnan, and their blood had soaked the soil of Zhongtiao Mountain.
At the critical moment, Tang Huaiyuan called out the three commanders and explained: "The situation is dangerous. We should make the greatest determination for our duties and personal ways of doing things. When things are possible, we must do our best to do our best to achieve the goal.
Restore the situation, otherwise the country and nation should protect the personality of the country and the world should preserve the righteousness of heaven and earth." "There are only military commanders who have been killed in battle and no captured military commanders. Never let the third army start the journey."
That's the meaning, it's best to break through. If you can't break through, you'd rather commit suicide than fall into the hands of the Japanese army as a prisoner!
After the instructions, Tang Huaiyuan ordered a regiment to break through in dispersed ways. Tang Huaiyuan personally led a unit of the 12th Division to fight and walk towards the county and mountain. When he encountered Japanese troops' pursuit and intercepting, he had to turn west.
"A wind blows in the mountains, the year is over and the year is over; four or two soils are in the mouth a day, and the day is not enough to make up at night."
This is a folk song from Zhongtiao Mountain, which says that Zhongtiao Mountain is windy and dusty.
On the 12th, Tang Huaiyuan, who had been hungry for two days, retreated to a dirt house on the top of Jianshan Mountain in Fanjiagou with a few communication soldiers and radio operators.
No one knows whether Tang Huaiyuan’s thoughts were regretting that he was not prepared for defense, or was sad that the troops were killed or injured, or felt that he had lost his trust. In short, no one knows that Tang Huaiyuan, a veteran of the Yunnan Army, was now
True mentality.
In this small earthen house, Tang Huaiyuan, the commander of the Third Army of the National Revolutionary Army, calmly wrote his last words in his notebook: "I have received the favor of the country and have entrusted the heavy responsibility of the three armies. Today, the soldiers are injured and the environment is dangerous, and the two departments of the General Army have lost contact.
After Yu died, I hope that the commander-in-chief and chief of staff would clean up the mess of our army and continue to fight against the war. I will die with peace of mind!"
After writing his last words, Tang Huaiyuan spit out the yellow earth foam in his mouth with complex gazes intertwined with regret, regret, grief and anger, and nostalgia. Finally, he glanced at the vast Zhongtiao Mountain, pulled out his beloved pistol, and committed suicide to his country!
When he learned that the commander of the army died, the commander of the 12th Division, Cun Xingqi was inexplicably sad and angry, and he mustered up his bloody courage and personally organized the remaining enemies to fight. He was shot in the chest in a fierce battle. On the 13th, Cun Xingqi led dozens of remnants.
The man assaulted to Maojiawan and was intercepted by the Japanese army again. His left leg was blown off during the battle. Seeing that he could not rush out, Cun Xingqi ordered the regiment commander Huang Xiangu to lead everyone to break through, draw out his short sword, and commit suicide to his country.
Huangxian Valley, who witnessed his commander's death, burst into tears and guarded the body of Cun Xingqi with dozens of brothers. He was no longer willing to break through alive. He all fell under the Japanese machine guns and died heroically.
After the 9th Army commander Hao Mengling and Liu Jiaqi, commander of the 54th Division, died in the country, the commander of the Third Army, Tang Huaiyuan and the commander of the 12th Division, wrote another tragic epic of the army in the army, and the commander of the division commander of the country at the same time.
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After the Battle of Zhongtiaoshan, the old father, Cun Dajin, learned that his beloved son had died in his country and hated that he was 88 years old and was unable to serve the country. So he went on a hunger strike and died after his death.
Before the Battle of Zhongtiaoshan, the defenders were extremely lazy and allowed Japanese and puppet spies to run around in the defense zone without searching. At the beginning of the battle, under the harassment of small Japanese troops and heavy attacks, the defenders were defeated when they encountered the enemy;
After being surrounded by the Japanese army, the defenders lacked the tenacious fighting will and fled blindly, resulting in the disruption of the army's system and the entire army fell into chaos. If an army could fight to the death and stick to it stubbornly. With the terrain of Zhongtiao Mountain,
It can completely block the Japanese army, rectify other troops, and make time for the siege. Unfortunately, **'s style is the style of bandits. When they encounter defeat, they are afraid that they will run away slowly and die, and they are afraid that they will defend their positions to cover other troops and suffer losses.
Leave it. This is simply a shame for the Zhongzhao team! However, Tang Huaiyuan, Cun Xingqi and others would rather commit suicide than be captured. They demonstrated their national integrity and personal personality. They are a rare shining point in the entire Zhongtiaoshan Battle!
Later, with the support of the Eighth Route Army, the main force of the Zhongtiaoshan defender suffered heavy casualties and broke through one after another. Among them, with the support of the Eighth Route Army River Defense Force, the remnants of the 3rd Army and the remnants of the 15th Army crossed the Yellow River in Fengling and transferred to Luoyang.
The Xin'an area was rectified; the main force of the 93rd Army crossed the Yellow River from Yumenkou to enter the territory of Hancheng, Shaanxi; the 98th Army, led by Mu Shimin, entered the Taiyue Mountain area; the 43rd Army headed to Fushan, Yicheng
The main force of the 9th Army crossed south from Xiaodukou and Guanyang Ferry after several days of guerrilla warfare in the western section of Daoqing Road and Jiyuan Mountain.
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