Liu Yimin spent a whole day teaching the 13th Regiment in one camp.
It was the first time for the soldiers of the 1st Battalion of the 13th Regiment to be so close to their division commander. Seeing the division commander personally instructing them on tactical movements, they were all as excited as if they were celebrating the New Year, and they all looked forward to having the division commander give them personal guidance.
Liu Yimin originally planned to come and check on the training situation before leaving, but he did not expect that Qi Fengnian knew that it was not easy for the division commander to come here, and he was a key cadre whom the division commander particularly trusted. He thought that the soldiers of the old first battalion had received personal guidance from the division commander, and personally corrected their studies.
The honor of reading the textbook is to allow the division commander to stay in the army for a longer period of time, guide the soldiers' tactical movements, and correct the soldiers' study textbooks. The purpose is to build up the self-confidence and pride of the cadres and soldiers of the 13th Regiment's 1st Battalion.
Liu Yimin knew that the 1st Battalion of the 13th Regiment was the Sharp Knife Battalion of the 5th Brigade and had accumulated many military exploits. He also knew the role of a sharp knife force in the entire army. He single-handedly led the first battalion, the second battalion, the third battalion and so on.
Has he ever been disappointed? Therefore, he readily agreed to Qi Fengnian's request and immediately concentrated the troops. Starting from individual soldier tactical movements and infantry squad offensive and defensive combat training, he went through it one squad at a time. Especially the 38-meter rifle.
Liu Yimin taught a key point in the use of the ruler, that is, as long as there is someone in the ruler frame, a hit will be hit. After the soldiers tried it, they suddenly realized that it was like this!
At night, Liu Yimin stayed in the 1st Battalion of the 13th Teaching Regiment, correcting study books for cadres and soldiers.
Qi Fengnian wrote a short article in his study book, which attracted Liu Yimin. Qi Fengnian wrote this: "Since crossing the river to Shanxi to join the war, I have participated in the elimination of the main force of the Fifth Division, the capture of Taiyuan, and the elimination of Chahar.
We dispatched corps to seize Tianjin, defend Linqing, and other battles. During the battle, I found that the Japanese were very good at shooting, and they could basically shoot. This was unprecedented when we fought against the national army. These days I have been
I'm thinking, if we meet the elite Japanese army, and neither side is prepared, it should be said that the Japanese army and us are evenly matched. It just depends on who seizes the favorable terrain first. We have seen the shooting that the Japanese army is good at, and the fighting skills they are good at.
I haven’t had a chance to see the bayonet yet. Because the division commander has always emphasized using bullets to talk to the Japanese, it is basically forbidden to fight with the Japanese army. I think the division commander’s original intention is to reduce the casualty rate of our army. But as our battalion is the sharp knife battalion of the entire brigade,
I must not lose to the Japanese army in terms of momentum. If I have the opportunity, I will lead the soldiers to compete with the Japanese army, directly bayonet and see red, and completely destroy the Japanese army's will to fight."
Liu Yimin thought for a long time and felt that winning battles all the time made cadres and soldiers arrogant. Troops that can fight must have arrogance, but it would be dangerous for a master of guerrilla warfare like Qi Fengnian to want to fight the Japanese with bayonets, so he directly studied under Qi Fengnian.
The commander instructs: "The troops who dare to see the red with the bayonet are the strongest troops. The reason why I emphasize using bullets to speak to the enemy is to require commanders at all levels to establish the idea of fighting skillfully and not to waste money with the enemy."
When is the time for our army to fight the enemy with bayonets? That is the last choice for our troops to engage in a desperate struggle with the enemy when they have run out of ammunition and reinforcements. Commanders at all levels of our army are prohibited from organizing at will during the battle.
Fighting with the enemy is discipline."
After finishing writing, I called Qifengnian and asked him to read his comments carefully and review the essence of our army's flexible strategies and tactics. We must never underestimate the enemy.
Qi Fengnian knew that the commander was afraid that he would fight the Japanese to the death. He was not that stupid. He was just unconvinced by the Japanese army's stabbing skills and wanted to find a chance to compete with the Japanese. This was not what his commander always emphasized as a teacher.
The principles of combat were forgotten. Seeing the division commander's serious corrections and explanation in person, Qi Fengnian said: "Please rest assured, division commander, I know that the strength of our army is not to compete with the Japanese army with bayonets, but also to ambush. The attack results are great and the casualties are small."
However, if we fight hand to hand, it is what the division commander said when we meet in a narrow road, the brave will win, even if we fight with bayonets, we have to fight a bloody road."
Liu Yimin nodded, discussed the Japanese tactics with Qi Fengnian for a while, and then continued to correct the soldiers' study books. This correction lasted all night, and it was not until dawn that Liu Yimin stood up, stretched his waist, kicked his legs, and exercised a little.
He took the guards back to the division headquarters.
While the instructors were resting and dividing their troops in the Culai Mountain area, the Japanese army concentrated its efforts on repairing the Jinpu Railway, and the defense battles of Teng County and Linyi on the southern line of Jinpu Road began.
Lieutenant General Rensuke Isotani, commander of the 10th Division, was a very complicated figure. He was born in Hyogo Prefecture, Japan, and graduated from the 16th class of the Army Military Academy together with Seishiro Itagaki and Kenji Doihara in 1915.
At Army University, he was one of the four major Chinese experts in the Japanese army.
However, unlike Itagaki Seishiro and Doihara Kenji, firstly, Isotani Rensuke did not want to go to Army University at that time, but wanted to come to China. This was because his father-in-law was the first-generation China expert in the Japanese army and the originator of Japanese military intelligence on China, Nobujun Aoki.
He once told him that his life's career should be in China. Secondly, although Rensuke Isotani was also one of the four major China experts of the Japanese army, he belonged to the South China faction of the Japanese army's China experts, and his main research was on the development of Sun Yat-sen's faction.
Itagaki Seishiro and Doihara Kenji both belonged to the Northern China faction of the Japanese Army's China General Committee, focusing on Northeast China and North China. Third, Isotani Rensuke met Sun Yat-sen when he was serving as the deputy military attaché at the Japanese Embassy in China.
He respects and loves Dr. Sun Yat-sen very much, but has never been interested in Chiang Kai-shek. However, Seishiro Itagaki and Kenji Doihara and other northern branch China experts all think that it is very appropriate for Cantonese people to call Sun Yat-sen Sun Dapao.
Before the Marco Polo Bridge Incident, Isotani Rensuke was one of those people in the Japanese army who did not advocate expanding the scope of the incident. However, once the war began, Isotani Rensuke went into battle and played the role of a vanguard. He went south from Pingjin to conquer the city.
Jining. This time, Isotani Rensuke suddenly felt that the Chinese army was not good enough. He knew that the Chinese army had poor equipment and low combat effectiveness, but he did not expect that it was so poor and so low.
It wasn't until the last time we sent reinforcements to Tianjin that the leading troops of the 10th Division were severely damaged by the cavalry battalion of the Fourth Teaching Brigade in Cangxian County. Only then did Isotani Rensuke suddenly understand that the teaching divisions of the Eighth Route Army were different from ordinary Chinese troops. They had strong infantry firepower and were good at
Using landmines and explosive packs, they have a weapon specially designed to deal with the tanks and armored vehicles of the imperial army. One shot can turn the tanks into a pile of scrap metal. In front of this force, the imperial army has no advantage at all. In desperation,
Isotani Rensuke transported the destroyed tank directly back to Japan and asked military personnel to study it to see if they could find out what weapon it was destroyed by.
The Battle of Cangxian made Isotani Rensuke wary. After the troops returned to Shandong, when fighting the southern section of Jinpu Road, Isotani Rensuke was a little cautious and kept hoarding ammunition and supplies.
The county investigation took half a month. Therefore, the instructor's destruction of Jinpu Road had little impact on the 10th Division for the time being. Now, Isotani Rensuke has figured out the number and deployment situation of the Chinese troops defending face to face, and knows
The 22nd Army of the Sichuan Army, the worst equipped in the Chinese army, defended the line from the border river to Teng County, and the Pang Bingxun Army of the Northwest Army defended Linyi. The last trace of worry in Isotani Rensuke's heart completely dissipated, and he immediately became heroic. This old man
The devil is about to take action.
According to the battle plan of the Second Army, Major General Lai Wuping of the 8th Brigade of the 10th Division commanded the replenished 39th Regiment with part of the cavalry, engineers, and artillery to attack Linyi. The new commander of the 33rd Brigade, Major General Kei Setani, led the 39th Regiment.
The 10th Regiment and the 63rd Regiment, together with some cavalry, artillery, and tank troops, formed the Setani Detachment to attack Tengxian County. Isotani Rensuke led the 40th Regiment and the cavalry regiment and field artillery directly under the division.
The Regiment, the Engineer Regiment, and the Baggage Regiment serve as reserve teams, among which the Baggage Regiment ensures the safety of arms supply transportation.
After repeatedly studying the battle plan of the Second Army, Isotani Rensuke formulated a battle plan of containment on the eastern front and frontal outflanking. Major General Lai Wuhei commanded the 39th Regiment to command the reinforcements of Liu Guitang, commander-in-chief of the Imperial Association Army's advance, in the direction of Linyi.
The independent mixed sixth brigade, which had suffered a setback in the attack, captured Linyi, attracted the Chinese army's reinforcements, and reduced the pressure on the front battlefield in Teng County. Then they concentrated the Segu detachment to storm the front line of the Jiehe River, creating a decisive battle at the Jiehe River, and took advantage of the Chinese army's attention to focus on the Jiehe River.
At that time, some troops were left to monitor the defenders of Jiehe. The main force of the Setani detachment crossed over and captured Tengxian County with the main force of the 10th Regiment. The 63rd Regiment directly detoured south to seize Lincheng, disrupting the defensive deployment of the Chinese army and leaving Jiehe.
The Chinese defenders on the front line collapsed without a fight. After that, the Setani detachment went south with all its strength and captured Xuzhou.
Isotani Rensuke made up his mind to capture Xuzhou with one division of the 10th Division and add another glimmer of glory to the battle flag of the 10th Division. Therefore, he met with his brigade commander at the combat meeting and jointly
The captains said, let the Fifth Division and the Sixteenth Division contain the Chinese army. The Tenth Division is enough!
At dawn on March 18, four days later than the historical defense battle of Teng County, the Japanese Tenth Division took action in Teng County.
Defending Teng County was the 22nd Army of the National Revolutionary Army, which was adapted from Deng Xihou's Department, Tian Songyao's Department, and Li Jiayu's Department, known as monkeys in the Sichuan Army. After the Sichuan Army Commander-in-Chief Liu Xiang died of illness, Deng Xihou returned to Sichuan on the order of the National Government.
In power, Sun Zhen was promoted to commander-in-chief of the 22nd Army. When the army was reorganized, it had jurisdiction over three armies: the 41st, 45th and 47th armies, each with two divisions, each division with two brigades, and each brigade with two
Regiment, a total of 24 regiments. After marching to the Shanxi battlefield, at the Niangziguan battlefield, due to the unknown situation, they rushed into battle and were defeated by the Japanese army one by one, losing nearly half. Sun Zhen ordered the reorganization, and the two regiments per brigade were reduced to one regiment per brigade.
Li Jiayu's troops of the Forty-seventh Army later stayed on the battlefield in southeast Shanxi. At this time, the actual strength of the Forty-seventh Army and the Forty-fifth Army in Teng County was 8 regiments and about 20,000 people.
Since leaving Sichuan to resist Japan, the 22nd Army participated in the Battle of Niangziguan in Shanxi. Yan Xishan believed that the unit's equipment was too poor and its combat effectiveness was too low to be of any use in staying in Shanxi, so he refused to supply it. Chiang Kai-shek had no choice but to transfer it to the Third Army that was willing to accept it.
Commanded by Li Zongren, commander of the fifth theater area.
After reporting to the Fifth Theater, the 22nd Army received part of the supplies from the Fifth Theater. In addition to replenishing light and heavy machine guns and grenades, Li Zongren also found ways to purchase a portion of the smoke and sent it to the 22nd Army. The 22nd Army was immediately
Transferred to Teng County for defense, the general headquarters is located in Lincheng. The 45th Army is the first-line force, commanded by Chen Li, commander of the 127th Division; the 41st Army is the second-line force. The 45th Army uses Teng County as its stronghold.
Build fortifications at Jiehe, Xiangcheng, Jiushan, Wangfuzhuang, Zhangzhuang, Houqi, and Jinshan to block the enemy's invasion. The 372nd Brigade of the 124th Division of the 41st Army stationed in Teng County and was responsible for city defense;
The 370th Brigade of the division was stationed in Shenzhen in the northwest of Tengxian County to cover the left side of the frontline position of the 45th Army. The 122nd Division was the general reserve of the group army and was located on the front lines of Taierzhuang and Hanzhuang. By March 10, the Japanese army
Aircraft reconnaissance was conducted every day, and the infiltration of small units was already obvious. The 22nd Army judged that a war was imminent, and readjusted its deployment in order to defend Tengxian County. The 122nd Division Headquarters and the 364th Brigade Headquarters moved to Tengxian City.
At the same time, the 124th Division headquarters was stationed in Tengxian City from Li Guoyi. Sun Zhen appointed Wang Mingzhang, commander of the 122nd Division, as the front commander of the 41st Army; Zhang Xuanwu Regiment was stationed in Beishahe from Nanshahe and deployed the second line
Defense line: Wang Wenzhen Regiment was stationed in Pingyi from Hanzhuang in front of the city to cover the right back of the 45th Army's first-line position and prevent the Japanese from Linyi.
At this point, the 22nd Army had completed its deployment and was in full position, waiting for the Japanese attack.
The Japanese attack began. It was only a small-scale exploratory attack at first. By 8 o'clock, the Japanese attack starting position was completed and the squadron-scale attack began.
There were Japanese bombers in the sky and Japanese tanks on the ground. The Setani detachment concentrated more than 20 cannons to bombard continuously. The defending troops of the 45th Army of the Sichuan Army were not afraid, and they opened fire with light and heavy machine guns and rifles, tenaciously blocking the enemy.
Sun Zhen, commander-in-chief of the 22nd Army, learned that the Japanese army was launching a massive attack and immediately rushed to the front line to inspect and held a combat meeting in Beishahe to further deploy defensive operations.
Sun Zhen graduated from the first phase of the infantry department of the Baoding Army Officer School. He is 46 years old and has been in the army for half his life. This man is the uncle of the later famous Sun Yuanliang, who is the father of the famous Taiwanese film actor Qin Han. It can be said that he saw Qin Han.
In terms of screen image, you know what Sun Zhen looks like.
The situation in front of him made Sun Zhen worried. He knew the combat effectiveness of the Sichuan army very well, and he also saw the momentum of the Japanese offensive. However, he was a little confused. Although the Japanese offensive was fierce, it was mainly a fire attack, and the scale of the infantry involved in the attack was not large.
Under such circumstances, the Forty-fifth Army could still hold on to its position. If the Japanese army concentrated its forces on a large-scale assault, the position would probably be in jeopardy.
Knowing that it would be very difficult to block the Japanese army north of the boundary river, Sun Zhen did not take any chances. At the combat meeting, he led the generals to recite Liu Xiang's last words in unison: "The war of resistance will be unswerving to the end, that is, the enemy will not withdraw for a day."
At the national border, the Sichuan Army swears not to return home for a day!" After reciting, Sun Zhen ordered each division to set up a supervising team to kill soldiers who abandoned their positions privately and fled the battlefield.
In the afternoon, the Japanese army intensified their attack and began to attack in large groups. A tragic scene emerged. Sichuan soldiers holding Sichuan-made rifles fought to the death with the Japanese soldiers who rushed forward. Behind them, the supervisory team
Under the black muzzle of the gun, every soldier could only die on the battlefield.
The Sichuan army, which refused to retreat, blocked the Japanese with their flesh and blood. After a day of fighting, the Japanese army only captured Kanbu, Baishan, Huangshan and other forward positions. The main positions along the boundary river were still in the hands of our army.
In the evening, Wang Mingzhang, commander of the 122nd Division, who was in front of the enemy command of the 41st Army in Teng County, met his nephew Wang Pengju.
When he was in Liaocheng, Wang Pengju, chief of the Publicity Section of the Political Department of the instructor, reported to Liu Yimin that he wanted to take leave to visit his uncle Wang Mingzhang. When Liu Yimin heard this, he was overjoyed. Someone sent him a pillow just as he was dozing off. He immediately called Zhu Zhexiao, deputy director of the General Staff Department, and picked up a pen.
I drew a topographic map of Xuzhou on paper, and then explained in detail to Zhu and Wang the future development of the Xuzhou battlefield, and then told Zhu Zhexiao that Wang Pengju’s uncle Wang Mingzhang was now near Taierzhuang and Hanzhuang. Once the Japanese army
To attack south, Wang Mingzhang's troops will inevitably transfer Teng County to the north to support the 45th Army's operations and stick to the county seat of Teng County. If no measures are taken, Teng County will inevitably end up with everyone destroying the city. Sacrifice for the Anti-Japanese War is the highest honor for soldiers.
What. The key is that even if you sacrifice yourself, you may not be able to stop the Japanese. The key to the defense of Teng County is not to defend the county seat, but to actively harass the enemy, use one force to contain the enemy who is attacking from the front, and concentrate superior forces to ambush the enemy in an attempt to attack Teng County in a roundabout way.
The Japanese army in the county and Lincheng must also organize small units to continuously attack the Japanese army at night to delay and tire the enemy so that it cannot move south quickly. If this is not possible, the defense depth should be increased and more defense lines should be deployed.
Fight at all levels to neutralize the sharp Japanese attack. Special attention should be paid to the fact that once the enemy encircles Teng County or Lincheng, the troops on the front line of the border river must be controlled by key generals. The troops must not be allowed to collapse. They must quickly move back and support other troops.
direction of combat.
Zhu Zhexiao had already understood what Liu Yimin said. Liu Yimin told the two of them to rush to Teng County to meet Wang Mingzhang. Zhu Zhexiao would assist the Sichuan army in formulating a battle plan, but they must not reveal the location and combat intentions of our army.
After leaving the army, the two detoured to southwest Shandong and finally arrived in Teng County on the first night of the war.
Du Fu said that the war raged for three months, and letters from home were worth ten thousand yuan. Now that he had seen his beloved nephew with his own eyes, Wang Mingzhang was beyond words. He immediately arranged for the two of them to have a meal. While eating, they chatted with each other and asked Wang Pengju what he had been doing in the past few years.
Okay, why don't you just run around with such a good business in Chengdu? How can you still be a baby at such an old age?
Wang Pengju had something on his mind. He knew that the Japanese army might go south in a roundabout way tomorrow, so he did not answer Wang Mingzhang's words. After finishing the meal, Wang Mingzhang sent the staff guards away and began to introduce the identities of himself and Zhu Zhexiao to Wang Mingzhang.