Strictly speaking, Maeda's 35th Division can only be regarded as a fourth-rate unit in the Japanese army. Its equipment and number of troops are not even comparable to the special division, let alone the first to sixth ones of the Japanese army.
Six permanent divisions and the 14th divisions of the 7th to 20th were competed. However, after this period of battlefield training, the new recruits of the 35th Division also became veterans and fought.
With experience and intensive training, and with the fact that there are no illiterate people in the Japanese army, the soldiers have a high level of education, and their understanding and grasp of weapon performance are relatively accurate, so their combat effectiveness can easily improve. There is also the most important one, like the third
The soldiers of the security divisions like the 15th Division are all young people in their twenties, most susceptible to militarism and are very fanatical. After the last battle in Anjiazhuang, the tails of these young soldiers were almost upset.
When I went to the sky, I felt that they were not inferior to the permanent division, and their sense of seeking war was very strong. In this way, the combat effectiveness of the 35th Division exceeded that of the soldiers, who were all in their thirties, were a bit twilight.
A division was set up and promoted to a third-rate Japanese army.
This is also in line with the actual situation during the War of Resistance in history. Historically, after the battlefield training, the Japanese military's security division and public security division had surpassed the special division and became a third-rate unit of the Japanese army. After the outbreak of the Pacific War, due to the
The elite permanent divisions of the Japanese army were transferred to the Pacific battlefield one after another, and these third-rate security divisions became the main divisions on the Chinese battlefield and committed numerous crimes.
Morita Masafan's *** mixed 13th Brigade was originally based on the Kanto Army, with extremely strong combat power, not the same level as the 35th Division. However, in the battle of Beijipo, his main force was
After falling into the fire net of the Eighth Route Army's instructor, the five elite infantry brigades did not even have the chance to resist and disappeared. Later, the North China Front Army organized the remaining infantry regiment of the 21st Division into **
*The 13th Brigade mixed together, these new recruits have improved their combat effectiveness after a year of battlefield training.
Some time ago, the Eighth Route Army launched special guerrilla warfare. The 35th Division and the 13th Brigade of the *** mixed-incarnation were beaten into a turtle by the Eighth Route Army snipers, and they were determined to find an opportunity to take advantage of the power of the plane and cannon.
Revenge the Eighth Route Army!
According to the combat plan of the 12th Japanese Army, the 35th Division and the 13th Brigade were required to attack and advance along the Jinpu Road and Jinan, Tai'an and Yanzhou roads, and first seize Dawenkou and let the aviation troops
The Dawenkou Airport can be used to support the southern front operations nearby, and the Eighth Route Army blocking troops can be firmly attracted around Tai'an. The 14th Division leverages its firepower and maneuverability advantages, and in the 35th Division, it will be the 13th Division.
When the brigade and the Eighth Route Army were fighting fiercely in Tai'an, they quickly detoured north along the highway between Yanzhou, Ningyang, Feicheng and Jinan, and directly attacked Jinan, disrupting the deployment of the Eighth Route Army and giving the Eighth Route Army a black tiger to steal the heart.
In other words, the 35th Division is required to form the 13th Brigade to chew bones and let the 14th Division pick peaches.
In order to realize this plan, the Japanese army went all out to mobilize troops on the road from Zaozhuang to Yanzhou every day in the form of a replacing troops, and quietly concentrated all the main forces of the 14th Division in Teng County, and strictly informed them.
Two brigades were drawn from the Manchu Defense Forces defending Longhai Road, put on Japanese uniforms, disguised the 14th Division troops, and stationed between Xuzhou and Yixian, Zaozhuang and Teng counties to protect the logistics supply lines.
This combat plan was boycotted by Maedajima from the beginning because if you go north along the Jinpu Road, you have to pass through a series of important military cities in the porcelain kiln, Dawenkou, Beijipo, Tai'an, and Jieshou, especially Tai'an, which is famous.
Zhihe Morita Masafan judged that although Liu Yi was far away from Shandong, the Eighth Route Army that was fighting the blocking will definitely focus on Tai'an City. The solid city walls will make up for the lack of firepower of the blocking troops and fight several consecutive battles.
I'm afraid that Jinan City cannot be seen, and the 35th Division and the 13th Brigade have to rest and replenish.
Now that it is determined that the main force of the Eighth Route Army is not in Jinan, Jinan is equivalent to an empty city. The military achievements of regaining Jinan are so attractive. Maeda Maeda has the intention to compete for merit. He is determined to make the *** a part of the 13th Brigade commander.
A regiment after the reduction of the Manchurian Defense Forces attacked along the Jinpu Road, Tai'an to Yanzhou Highway, and led the 35th Division to quickly head north along the highway between Yanzhou, Ningyang, Feicheng and Jinan, with the purpose of avoiding the real and the virtual.
Bypassing the highway between Jinpu Road, which the Eighth Route Army may have been heavily deployed, and heading directly to Jinan, giving the Eighth Route Army a black tiger to the heart.
In order to complete this plan, Maeda sent a telegram to the commander of the 12th Army Sadagu Iida and commander of the North China Front Army Shanyuan, asking to organize a large-scale aviation force to open the way for the 35th Division,
The division went straight to Jinan. As a result, the commander of the 12th Army, Tadaru Iida, called back in a contemptuous tone: "When the 35th Division ran to the city of Jinan with two legs, Liu Yizun of the Eighth Route Army
Maybe he has returned from Shandong. Those who are waiting for the 35th Division are not as simple as being defeated on the Hebei-Shandong side last time. I am afraid your situation will be very bad."
Maeda, who was ashamed, knew that Sada Iida looked down on his 35th Division, but he didn't expect that he would look down on him so much, and scolded Baga so much that he was so angry!
After cursing, Maedaji also realized after calming down. He was facing the Eighth Route Army teacher, not Chiang Kai-shek's army. How careful you have to fight with the teacher? It is good to have a surprise attack, but it is not possible to have a surprise attack into the Eighth Route Army trap.
Okay. Let’s follow the 12th Army’s combat plan!
In fact, Maeda Hara didn't know that the reason why Iida Sadaru disagreed with the 35th Division and the 13th Brigade of the 35th Division and the *** mixed together was mainly for the attack of the north along the highway between Yanzhou, Ningyang, Feicheng and Jinan.
Suddenly. Because the 35th Division and the 13th Brigade of the ***-Central have been stationed in southern Shandong and in the western Taishui area for a long time. The scouts of the Eighth Route Army must have stared at them, probably even their corps captain and the name of the captain.
, everyone knows their hometown clearly. As long as they go out, no matter how well they do confidential work, they will be discovered by the Eighth Route Army in advance. The 14th Division only went to Shandong when they swept the Shandong heavy army group last time
This time, the Eighth Route Army was urgently transferred to southern Shandong. The Eighth Route Army was relatively unfamiliar with them, and they should also be unfamiliar with their combat characteristics, and it is easy to receive sudden strikes. In this way, Maeda's 35th
If the division and the *** mixed into the 13th Brigade will inevitably become the Japanese army's restraining force, and the 14th Division is the killer weapon for the Japanese army to attack and occupy Jinan.
This combat plan was approved by Shinto Iida, who had just arrived in Shandong and Shinto Association who had just arrived in North China. Because Shinto and Shinto Iida had no personal experience of the rapid blow to the main force of the Eighth Route Army's instructor, they thought Ningyang
, Feicheng Highway is only 25 kilometers away from Jinpu Road in a straight line. There is almost no gap after the attacking troops are deployed. This area is a plain and shallow hilly area. The 14th Division and the 35th Division can support each other, even if they are the main force of the Eighth Route Army.
In Jinan, it is impossible to be divided and surrounded by the 14th Division or the 35th Division. You should know that the 14th Division is a permanent division with strong combat power, which is to launch the troops' active offensive operations.
Maybe he was caught off guard by the Eighth Route Army. Two divisions and one *** mixed brigade, Shanshanyuan and Iida Sadao did not believe how the Eighth Route Army could take their southern line troops.
Of course, Shanshanyuan and Iida Sadao also have a trump card, that is, the base camp has officially transferred the 27th Division of Honma Masaharu, which is assigned to the 11th Army, to the North China Front Army. Now the 27th Division is in the car.
After completing the assembly in Zhengzhou, you can advance eastward to Xuzhou at any time to support the battle in southern Shandong.
If Sakaichi Deanuchi was still in North China, he would never have approved such a combat plan. Because he was already scared by the Eighth Route Army and was afraid of advancing alone at heart. At least he would add another division to the offensive operations of the South Front Group.
With the current force, he will let the 14th Division and the 35th Division be united, fight steadily, and restrain the Eighth Route Army. After the main force of the Northern Line crosses the Yellow River, he will let the Southern Line Group launch an attack to cooperate with the Northern Line and the East Line.
Hit Jinan by wire.
Tetsuyuki Tani had already brought his Miss Masako back to Tokyo early in the morning, and the fate of the Japanese army on the southern front was unchanged.
The commander-in-chief of the Southern Blocking Group of the Battle of Western Thailand, the Eighth Route Army instructor and the commander of the 8th Brigade of the Eighth Brigade, Zhao Shan, was the former battalion commander of the Fifth Battalion of the Red 18th Regiment. Since joining the Red 18th Regiment by the Xiangjiang River, Zhao Shan has been under Liu Yimin's command.
The backbone generals participated in all major battles from the 18th Red Regiment to the Eighth Route Army Shandong Military Region. In Liu Yimin's understanding, Zhao Shan's characteristic is that he is steady and has a sharp edge, and is good at attacking and defending, especially good at defending. In every battle, as long as he is involved in blocking attacks.
The first thing Liu Yimin thought of was him in the battle. In addition, the Eighth Brigade needed further tempering, so the task of blocking the 14th Division, the 35th Division and the *** to form the 13th Brigade naturally fell into
On his shoulders.
This time, the defense arranged by Zhao Shan is very distinctive, and it is not too much to call it Mianli Hidden Needle. The guiding ideology is a word "deception", which makes the Japanese believe that the main force of the Eighth Route Army is not in Jinan, and the blocking force of the Eighth Route Army's southern line is just a disguised as the main force.
Although the group was subject to a strict order to block the enemy, they had no strength to catch them, so they had to fight and retreat. The Japanese had a proud and underestimated the enemy and attacked north with great strides.
According to this guiding ideology, Zhao Shan set up three main defense lines in the Yanzhou-Feizhongshan and Tai'an line. Each main defense line is equipped with several auxiliary defense lines, and small troops are arranged to use mine formations to block the hysteresis. The main force is deployed on
Feizhongshan District north of the Dongping to Tai'an Highway. The roads and trenches transformed by fellow villagers are connected between the defense lines, and the plains can also be connected to the tunnels. The blocking troops can withdraw into the tunnels at any time to facilitate the battle with the Japanese army through the tunnels during later combat.
Villages and towns.
Zhao Shan’s idea was: the front-line blocking troops resolutely defeat the Japanese search troops, and after the Japanese army attacked in full, they concentrated their firepower and beat them hard, and then fought and retreated in the company, so that the Japanese could see it and could not catch up.
The riverside carried out a resolute blockade, and the 14th Division, the 35th Division and the *** mixed together into the 13th Brigade. When the Japanese army attacked the front line of Feizhong Mountain, the three Japanese troops were required to be allowed to
The hedgehogs integrate into a group to create conditions for the main force to finally annihilate the enemy.
As for whether the 14th Japanese Division would go north along the canal or through Dongping, Zhao Shan was not worried because there was a Western group in the Battle of Taixi under Liu Jian commanded by Liu, and the Japanese could not escape.
The reason why Liu Yimin arranged the battlefield so wide at the beginning was mainly because the Japanese army attacked during the day and the Eighth Route Army wanted to annihilate the enemy at night. The 14th Division had been mechanized again, with many tanks, many armored vehicles, and many cars, and the movement speed was very fast.
To prevent the Japanese from finding out that they are wrong to escape. Another point is that in addition to their own artillery corps, the 14th Division is equipped with a heavy artillery brigade of the First Army. This heavy artillery brigade should be equipped with 105 howitzers or 105 cannons.
In this era, it is absolutely heavy artillery, with great power and long range. If the preset battlefield is too narrow, a heavy artillery brigade can cover the entire battlefield. When the troops launch an attack, they will be severely damaged by the Japanese heavy artillery brigade.
The Eighth Route Army has laid a net of heaven and earth here. Now it depends on whether the shield that blocks the group can block the mechanized iron spear of the 14th Division of the Japanese.
In terms of the tactical command level of this era, the Japanese army is indeed much higher than the ordinary Chinese team.
The first one to launch the attack was naturally the 13th brigade of the Japanese army and a regiment that was reduced to the Manchurian Defense Forces.
After the training of the *** people, the Puppet Manchukuo Defense Forces has indeed become a well-equipped and well-trained regular army. If they are mixed into the Japanese army, put on Japanese uniforms, and attack under the cover of aircraft and cannons, it is really impossible.
The Qing Dynasty was a Japanese army or a puppet army. Fortunately, they were not wearing Japanese uniforms and could still recognize them as puppet army.
Masaki Morita is an officer trained by the *** military education system. His combat deployment is naturally straightforward. He sent multiple search teams in front, back and left and right, and also allowed some local traitors familiar with the terrain in southern Shandong to lead the way. At the beginning of the attack, Masaki Morita again
With the support of the Japanese aviation force, this guy looked even more murderous.
The first target that the Japanese army wanted to capture was Ciyao Town.
Since the 35th Division and the 13th Brigade of the *** mixed retreated quickly from Taixi, the Japanese army used Yanzhou as the defense center and built the *** line from the junction of Yanzhou, Qufu, Sishui and Ningyang.
To resist the attack of the Eighth Route Army, now this line of *** has become the starting position for the Japanese army to attack.
When the attack began, Masafan Morita was quite satisfied. Under the cover of the plane and tank, he only attacked three times, leaving hundreds of corpses, and the Eighth Route Army's defense line loosened. Masafan Morita was overjoyed and immediately turned to
Maedaji, who remained in Yanzhou, reported the situation and required all the main forces of the 35th Division to be put into battle, expand the attack surface, break through the Eighth Route Army defense line in one fell swoop, move forward quickly, and capture the porcelain kiln.
After receiving the report, Maeda Yuki didn't bother to wait to meet Lieutenant General Kazumasa Katsui, the commander of the 14th Division, and ordered the main force of the 35th Division to attack and launch an attack. He also got on a black car and led the division.
The regiment headquarters rushed to the front line. He wanted to command the troops to attack personally, thinking that he could receive another medal so that his wife could have an excuse to plead with Queen Liangzi and transfer him back to the local area.
Unexpectedly, the subsequent attack was not smooth at all. The Eighth Route Army retreated from the first line of defense, but no wounded, bodies, weapons and ammunition were left behind, but many thunders and explosives were left behind, and the Japanese rushing into the Eighth Route Army's trenches
The puppet army had no time to cheer and even take photos to commemorate them. They were blown away by thunder and explosives, so they cried and called their parents, and the casualties were heavy.
The greater suffering is still waiting for the Japanese. Let's go on the main road, but I don't know that the Eighth Route Army has brought so many inexplicable anti-tanks and electric explosives from there. It may allow Japanese tanks, armored vehicles and soldiers to sit on the ground anytime and anywhere.
Plane. Go into the fields. There are countless mines made of black explosives. Although they are not as powerful as those anti-tanks and explosive packs, they can make the Japanese break their legs and arms.
The village cannot enter, not only is there no one invisible, but it is also full of murderous intent. The Japanese dare to raise their legs and kick the door, and a grenade or mine will fall from the door, and the Japanese who kicked the door will directly blow back to the East China Sea.
. The Japanese dared to walk in the village, and maybe a brick on the wall would suddenly be moved away, and a bright bayonet or a black muzzle could be extended from it, and they would be killed. They would not be afraid of death.
Just come!
What is most annoying is that the Eighth Route Army left leaflets everywhere, all in Japanese, which said rewards to encourage Japanese soldiers to kill officers and subordinate officers to kill superior officers. Some leaflets contain examples of Japanese officers deducting soldiers' pay, while others print them on them.
*** written by Japanese soldiers after they were captured.
There is a leaflet that says: "My name is Fujii, and my family runs a winemaking workshop in Asahikawa. After joining the army, I was incorporated into the 35th Division to search for the 35th Regiment. My squad leader often beats and scolds me.
I also blackmailed me and asked me to ask my family for money to squander him. Once, I went to receive comfort and found out that the person who received me was my own sister. After hugging my head and crying, my sister told me that due to the war, my family's mother was in the house.
The winemaking workshop has gone bankrupt, and my father sold all the house to pay off his debts. The army deceived my sister and said that being a female soldier on the battlefield can not only make achievements for the emperor, but also make a lot of money. In order to help the family pay the debt, my sister joined the army.
Who knew that after arriving in North China, my sister did not treat it as a female soldier. Instead, she was sent to a comfort station and became a prostitute who had to receive dozens of soldiers every day. In the end, my sister committed suicide in front of me. Only then did I understand
All the propaganda of the military headquarters is deception, and the purpose is to ask us lower-class people to give their officials to their lives. My family was forced to go bankrupt by this damn war! Later, I saw a leaflet of the Eighth Route Army, which read it
I could win a prize when I shot the officer to kill him. I thought that the captain had never done a good thing and should have died long ago. So, in a battle, I hid, aimed at the back of the captain and shot him with a shot.
The head blossomed. As a result, the Eighth Route Army captured me, sent me a bonus, and sent the money to my parents through the Red Cross. My father wrote to him that if he could kill another assistant, he could pay off my debts.