Stimulated by Liu Yimin's talk and electrification, the war in North China became more and more intense.
Needless to say, the Japanese army had 700,000 troops, not to mention Japanese armed to the teeth, but 700,000 wolves. If they wreaked havoc in North China together, it would be very terrifying.
As for our army, the Eighth Route Army in Shanxi kept attacking the Japanese. The 115th Division, the 120th Division, and the Independent Division seized the opportunity of the Japanese to attack Shandong and began to attack across the board to compress the Japanese and try to restore their original base areas. The 129th Division continued to attack the Japanese.
The Japanese suppressed the enemy in the direction of Pinghan Road, eradicated the Japanese strongholds, and tried their best to expand the base area west of the road.
The National Army on both sides of the Yangtze River has been resting for some time. Due to the brilliant battle to defend Nanjing, the National Army is still strong and has not suffered heavy losses from the Japanese army as it did in history. After the Japanese army transferred troops to North China, the National Army on both sides of the Yangtze River began to actively attack
But they were all small force operations. Now the headquarters has issued a counterattack order. Although the scale of the attack is limited, all you need to do is make a show and make the attack louder. However, the generals and soldiers of the participating troops did not think so. The Eighth Route Army fought
After so many victories, the Chairman of the Standing Committee has twice rewarded the instructors of the Eighth Route Army. It was something that was mentioned in newspapers, heard on the radio, and had a lot of silver dollars. Who wouldn’t envy it? In this mentality
, the participating troops fought very proactively and bravely, which shocked the commander of the Central China Front Army, Shunroku Hata. He could not have imagined that the Chinese army, which had even lost its capital, would be so desperate in fighting. He anxiously started sending several telegrams a day, asking for
Juichi Terauchi ended the war as soon as possible and allowed the main division of the Central China Front to return to reorganization as soon as possible.
In eastern Henan, Chiang Kai-shek was determined. Cheng Qian, the commander of the First War Zone, naturally took action. They were all leading troops in the war. Who wants to be driven around by the Japs every day? Now that he had the opportunity to fight back against the Japs, Cheng Qian was naturally the one to take action.
He must hold on tightly. However, Chiang Kai-shek's order to him was very clear. The momentum must be loud, but the main force cannot be used. Seize the time to complete the position, replenish the troops, and prepare for the next Japanese attack. Kaifeng is now a dangerous city, and in the future
When the Japanese army counterattacks, they will definitely not be able to defend it. They must seize the time to retreat and transfer supplies and personnel from Kaifeng. But Zhengzhou must be defended. Heavy troops must be stationed in the western Henan area to act as a strong backing for the Zhongtiao Mountain defense line.
Although Cheng Qian complained about this order, strategically speaking, Chiang Kai-shek's order did make sense. Therefore, Cheng Qian strictly implemented Chiang Kai-shek's order and organized troops to cooperate with the troops commanded by Li Zongren to counterattack across the board.
Of course, Cheng Qian also learned well this time, because the last time Liu Jian established the command troops to cross Longhai Road, the scene of Xu Detachment and Chen Detachment attacking the Japanese army between the Japanese army and the national army defense line was reported to the frontline troops at all levels. Cheng Qian
Naturally, he immediately thought that the Eighth Route Army was fighting. However, Cheng Qian did not expect that it was a large force of the Eighth Route Army crossing Longhai Road. What he thought was that Liu Yimin was cornered by the Japanese army and ignored his opinions on the national army sitting back and watching the war in North China and sent a small force to attack the Japanese army.
, the purpose was to provoke the Japanese army and the Nationalist army to fight in eastern Henan, so as to reduce the pressure on the Eighth Route Army.
At first, Cheng Qian felt that Liu Yimin's method was not very bright, but after thinking about it, he realized that they were all fighting the Japanese. When the situation of the national army on the battlefield was critical, the Eighth Route Army did not hesitate, especially Liu Yimin's instructor, who hit every punch.
The enemy is at the critical point. Now Liu Yimin's troops are fighting with the Japanese. The national army has got a chance to breathe, but it is a bit like sitting on a mountain and watching the tiger fight. This may chill the Eighth Route Army. Liu Yimin did this out of necessity.
.This incident also shows that the Japanese army's siege of the Eighth Route Army was very cruel. Liu Yimin was so brave and good at fighting that he resorted to such a method, which shows that he realized that he was facing a life and death test.
Cheng Qian was very experienced. He was admitted to the Hunan Military Academy with first place, and later studied in Japan. He became friends with Huang Xing, Song Jiaoren, and Li Liejun. He later met with Sun Yat-sen and was committed to revolution. He was an important figure during the Republic of China.
Cheng Qianqian studied artillery in Japan and knew the Japanese tactics very well. He knew that the reason why the Doihara 14th Division was not wiped out in the last battle of Lanfeng was mainly because the Japanese army had strong firepower and the national army suffered too many casualties in a frontal attack.
Although the Japanese army has now been replaced by a garrison division, their artillery fire is still powerful, and a frontal counterattack may cause heavy casualties.
Thinking of Liu Yimin's small unit being able to bravely fight between the Japanese army and the first theater troops' defense line, Cheng Qian's mind came alive. He recalled his past secret attack on Nanchang during the Northern Expedition, and a smile appeared on his unsmiling face.
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Therefore, the counterattack organized by the First War Zone changed the previous tactics of the national army. It no longer focused on counties such as Lanfeng and Shangqiu, which were heavily fortified by the Japanese army. Instead, the counterattack was directed at the small strongholds of the Japanese army. In this way
At first glance, the results may not be great individually, but when calculated carefully, the results are not small. Although the number of people who eliminated the Japanese was not large, the momentum was so great that the 27th Division in eastern Henan was frightened three times a day and became a frightened bird.
Thinking that the troops that had attacked Shangqiu last time were back, they kept sending telegrams to the North China Front Army for help.
Unlike Cheng Qian, the troops in the fifth theater commanded by Li Zongren originally had the Guangxi Army as the main force. Now that the Japanese army in eastern Henan has become a soft persimmon, Li Zongren directly released the Steel Seventh Army from Liao Lei's 21st Group Army and began to actively counterattack.
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Since the Seventh Steel Army went north to fight against Japan, it has participated in several fierce battles with outstanding results. This time, when ordered to attack, Army Commander Zhou Zuhuang was very clear about Li Zongren's combat intention, which was to compress the Japanese to the front line of Shangqiu and expand the defense of Wuhan.
strategic space.
Before the expedition, the Seventh Army of Steel conducted combat mobilization. Li Zongren personally went to the Seventh Army to mobilize and took the lead in singing the Seventh Army's battle hymn:
The man is extremely brave and joins the death squad!
Fighting for your head in a bloody battle on the battlefield, you feel like dying!
It is better to break the jade than to destroy it! Revolutionary soldiers are fearless!
Annihilate enemy invaders, establish meritorious deeds, and watch our invincible steel army death squads!
The Seventh Army of Steel fought their way to the battlefield in eastern Henan amidst the fearless singing.
The various departments of the Shanxi-Sui Army also woke up this time. The Japanese army in Shanxi was on the defensive. Wouldn't it be a coward to not fight the Japanese at this time?
Yan Xishan, as the commander of the second theater, got in the car, took Wu Xian'er, and ran to see Wei Lihuang in person. The two discussed it over and over again, and felt that what Liu Yimin said made sense. If all battlefields support each other,
, no matter how tough the little devil is, he will probably be exhausted from running around.
This time, Yan Xishan came to see Wei Lihuang and had made up his mind. Before coming, he received a representative of the new commander of the Japanese First Army, Umezu Yoshijiro. The guy brought a letter from Umezu Yoshijiro.
It is said that Mr. Yan Baichuan studied in Japan in his early years and should make more contributions to the Sino-Japanese friendship. If Mr. Yan Baichuan can cooperate with the Empire of Japan, the imperial army will help Mr. Yan drive out the Communist Eighth Route Army and the Central Military Guard Lihuang Department from Shanxi, and completely
Restore public security in Shanxi. It can also help Mr. Yan Baichuan form the North China Autonomous Government to manage the entire North China region.
Umezu Yoshijiro's letter was very long, describing Japanese customs and talking about the support and help Japan could provide to Yan Xishan. Unfortunately, Umezu Yoshijiro was too clever to be clever. He misjudged China's anti-war situation and also misjudged China's anti-Japanese war situation.
Come to Yan Xishan.
Yan Xishan is an old man and has never seen any battles. Although he studied in Japan and knew that the gap in strength between China and Japan is too big, he has understood one thing since he joined forces with the Eighth Route Army to fight against Japan. This little bitch Japan wants to
To fully occupy China, if nothing else, I'm afraid it won't be able to pass the test between the Communist Party and the Eighth Route Army. If nothing else, the fact that the commander-in-chief and deputy commander-in-chief of the Eighth Route Army have no private property made Yan Xishan know that there are really a group of selfless people in the world.
People. There are also those little soldiers of the Eighth Route Army. When the bugle sounded, they didn't even care about their lives. They rushed up in the rain of bullets. With such a commander and such soldiers, I am afraid that the dream of little Japan will be shattered.
Therefore, after reading Umezu Yoshijiro's letter, Yan Xishan sneered. Not only did this little brat take over Taiyuan, but he also wanted to make the old man a traitor. You can't even kill him for being a traitor in public! That would be shameless for your ancestors.
Little Japan is too insidious!
Of course, Yan Xishan is not Liu Yimin, nor is he Wei Lihuang, Xue Yue, or Zhang Zizhong. If he were these people, he would probably kill the representative of Umezu Yoshijiro directly. Yan Xishan always dances on three eggs when doing things. Therefore,
It was impossible for him to kill the Japanese army representative. He just politely refused and sent gifts out of the country. The representative of the Little Japanese Army thought that as long as he came a few more times and the conditions were more favorable, Yan Laoxi could still cooperate with the imperial army.
On the way up Zhongtiao Mountain, Yan Xishan was in danger twice. Once he was targeted by a Japanese aircraft, which blew up two vehicles and killed more than 20 guardsmen. After checking, he found that there was a Japanese spy beside him, Yan Xishan.
In anger, he drew his gun and personally shot and killed this Wutai fellow who he trusted very much.
One wave after another, they unexpectedly encountered a Japanese infiltration reconnaissance force with only a dozen people on the road. This little devil was so tough that they attacked Yan Xishan's convoy. Needless to say, what did Yan Xishan do?
If the Jaap can succeed, his guards will be equipped with so many submachine guns in vain, not to mention the troops sent by Wei Lihuang to support him!
Yan Xishan finally figured it out. The Japanese sent people to contact and negotiate, conducted intensive reconnaissance by planes, and used small units to infiltrate and harass. It turned out that they wanted to scare me, but if they failed, they might even want to get rid of me!
This stupid little devil still does this!
After Wei Lihuang retreated from Taiyuan, Liu Yimin led his instructors to join the battlefield, wiped out the main force of the Fifth Division, and completely annihilated the Chahar dispatched regiment. As a result, the Japanese army did not pursue the southern Shanxi as historically. He stood firm in Zhongtiao Mountain.
In order to stabilize the Zhongtiao Mountain defense line, Chiang Kai-shek sent him a large number of reinforcements, including Yang Hucheng's headquarters in Ankang. Governor Wei Lihuang led the troops to build fortifications and train soldiers, and he has been at Zhongtiao Mountain.
Been busy for such a long time.
After Liu Yimin's telegraph conversation was released, Wei Lihuang was on pins and needles. He knew that Liu Yimin asked him by name to send troops to attack Handan, which was to stimulate him. It is likely that many people thought that he was passively avoiding war by training troops in Zhongtiao Mountain.
Is Li Huang that kind of person? Liu Yimin, a brat, actually underestimates me, Wei Junru!
Therefore, when Yan Xishan came to see him, the two hit it off immediately and sent a telegram to Mr. Zhu, determined to help the Eighth Route Army, otherwise he would not be able to meet Zhu Peng in the future.
At this time, the Eighth Route Army, the Central Army, and the Shanxi-Sui Army on the Shanxi battlefield began to join forces to fight again. The commander of the First Army, Umezu Yoshijiro, immediately felt the pressure and repeatedly ordered the troops to defend to the death. However, if the city could hold on, those on the communication lines
Can the garrison point be defended? Umezu Yoshijiro had to send telegrams to Terauchi Yoshijiro, saying that the Doka Line and the Shota Line were too large to find the Chinese army to attack, asking for reinforcements. As a result, Terauchi Yoshijiro sent a telegram back, scolding Umezu Yoshijiro, saying that he
With three divisions and two independent mixed brigades, they couldn't hold the line of communication. They might as well go fishing in Hokkaido.
Umezu Yoshijiro, who was humiliated by Juichi Terauchi, directed all his anger at the Chinese army and ordered the 109th Division, the 25th Division and the independent 8th and 9th Brigades to be combined into the inner line guard mission, and ordered the main division
The 20th Division of the regiment serves as a reserve force, ready to assist in several aspects of operations.
This Umezu Yoshijiro is the chief graduate of the 23rd class of Army University, that is, the first. This old devil is a scholarly soldier. He considers problems calmly and carefully. He looks courteous and courteous on the outside, but in fact he is a man with a beastly heart.
Now he has limited troops on hand and is in a passive situation of being beaten. However, Umezu Yoshijiro is not a person who takes it easy. He has already begun to study how to allocate troops to carry out the Shanxi Suzheng Operation.
Faced with the urgent situation everywhere, Terauchi Juichi remained unmoved and strictly ordered Tada Shun, Higashijiur Palace Prince Nikihiko and Okabe Naosaburo to lead the troops to speed up the offensive pace. They must eliminate the main force of Liu Yimin's instructor in one battle and completely solve the Shandong problem.
However, Temple Touichi never expected that the Eighth Route Army instructor's tactics would change.
When the Japanese raids began, wherever the Japanese troops went, the Eighth Route Army basically resolutely avoided the enemy's edge, moved quickly, broke out of encirclements, and entered tunnels. The Japanese army basically could not catch the shadow of the Eighth Route Army's main force. That is where the Eighth Route Army had been operating for a relatively long time in Jilu.
It was also difficult for the Japanese army to find traces of the Eighth Route Army in the border areas of Luxi, southern Hebei, and central Hebei. The Eighth Route Army destroyed the 10th Division on the Hebei-Shandong border and achieved such a great result, but when the Japanese army pressed heavily on the Hebei-Shandong border
, the main force of the Eighth Route Army was not found, and Liu Yimin took her troops to escape again.
But things are different now. Heavy Japanese troops are attacking southern Shandong and central Shandong. Behind the Taiyi Mountains, the Eighth Route Army in central Hebei, southern Hebei, western Shandong and Hebei and Shandong have begun to move again. They will seize the opportunity to fight, and the targets are all
That's right, it's the puppet army.
The Shandong Eighth Route Army was now fighting on two fronts: the north and the south. It began to rely on tunnels and mountainous areas to fight resolutely. Every time the Japanese army captured a town, it had to pay a huge price to succeed. Although the Japanese army was fierce, the Eighth Route Army was not afraid and started a desperate struggle with the Japanese.