While Yue Weihan was busy building the fortress, the Japanese army on the front battlefield was already defeated, and it was more tragic and more defeated than in history!
On July 25, the 27th year of the Republic of China, Wuhan fell.
On July 28, the 27th year of the Republic of China, Jiujiang fell.
On August 5, 27th year of the Republic of China, Jingzhou fell.
On August 15, the 27th year of the Republic of China, Yueyang fell.
On August 20, the 27th year of the Republic of China, Changde fell.
On September 10, the 27th year of the Republic of China, Changsha and Yiyang fell.
On September 25, the 27th year of the Republic of China, the 21st Infantry Brigade of the Japanese 5th Division advanced to the vicinity of Hengyang. Du Yuming was ordered to lead the New Fifth Army to defend Hengyang as a final resistance.
Hengyang, New Fifth Army Headquarters.
Du Yuming is convening a meeting with the main officers of the New Fifth Army.
The predecessor of the New Fifth Army was the Tank Regiment directly under the Central Military Commission, with Du Yuming as its first commander. Since then, the tank regiment has gradually expanded, and Du Yuming has been gradually promoted from commander to lieutenant general. During the Battle of Songhu and the Battle of Nanjing, Du Yuming requested it several times.
He went to the front line to fight to the death with the Japanese invaders, but was repeatedly rejected by Chairman Chiang Kai-shek.
After the fall of Nanjing, Du Yuming was ordered to lead the New Fifth Army to retreat to Hengyang to rest and recuperate.
The New Fifth Army was the first mechanized force in the Kuomintang's battle sequence. However, it never officially went on the battlefield after it was formed. Therefore, it has always been jokingly called the Kuomintang's honor guard. Everyone thought that the New Fifth Army was just an insignificant force.
A show force with no combat effectiveness, even Chairman Chiang thought so in his mind.
However, Du Yuming didn’t think so!
All the officers and soldiers of the New Fifth Army did not think so either.
"Everyone." Du Yuming suddenly stood up, put his general's hat heavily on his head, and his sharp eyes passed over the faces of the three division commanders Zheng Dongguo, Qiu Qingquan and Dai Anlan one by one, and said, "As the saying goes, raising an army for a thousand days, deploying it for a while, now the country is in crisis.
Now, it is time for our New Fifth Army to gallop on the battlefield to serve the country and the nation!"
"Military seat!" Zheng Dongguo said solemnly, "Brothers have been looking forward to this day for a long time!"
Zheng Dongguo is the commander of the Honorable 1st Division. The officers and soldiers of the Honorable 1st Division are all veterans who have returned from injury. These veterans have a strong will to fight. They believe that they have died once and are no longer afraid of life and death.
, what I want in my heart is to go back to the battlefield, kill a few more Japanese, and avenge my dead brothers!
Dai Anlan also said: "After today, everyone will know that the New Fifth Army... is not a guard of honor!"
Qiu Qingquan curled his lips and said with great disdain: "If you ask me, the Japanese Fifth Division is nothing. My new 22nd Division can fight them back to Dongyang Island without the military commander personally taking action!"
"Everyone can tell lies!" Du Yuming glanced at Qiu Qingquan coldly and said, "Crazy Qiu, let me tell you, if you don't win this battle well, I, Du Yuming, will not be able to do well, and you, Crazy Qiu, will not be able to do well either!"
"Military seat!" Qiu Qingquan stood at attention and said solemnly, "The new 22nd Division will never embarrass you!"
After saying that, Qiu Qingquan and the other three teachers saluted Du Yuming at the same time, then turned around and walked away.
Fifty miles north of Hengyang, Sister Ridge.
The 21st Infantry Brigade of the Japanese 5th Division was marching forward along the Changheng Highway. The brigade commander, Major General Masao Nakamura, was hesitantly inspecting his troops through the window of the armored vehicle.
Today, the 5th Division has once again proved its bravery.
Since participating in the Battle of Wuhan, the 5th Division has repeatedly shouldered heavy responsibilities. The Battle of Ruyang even pushed the elite Xue Yue Corps of the Japanese into a desperate situation. Since then, as the Japanese vanguard, it has repeatedly conquered Wuhan, Changde and Changsha. Masao Nakamura firmly believes that at most
In two hours, he would be able to stand on the streets of Hengyang and report his victory to the division commander, Lieutenant General Shinozuka Yoshio.
The communication vehicle in front suddenly stopped, and Nakamura Masao's command vehicle also stopped.
Immediately, a major officer ran to the command vehicle, suddenly put his feet back and stood at attention and said: "General, Kameda Squadron reported that they encountered a Chinese army ten miles ahead, with at least two regiments of troops, artillery, tanks, and rapid firepower!"
"Artillery, tanks?" Masao Nakamura said, "Is it the honor guard of the Chinese Army?"
After saying this, Masao Nakamura coldly ordered: "Order, the 41st and 42nd Infantry Regiments and the 3rd Army Field Artillery Battalion will launch immediately and defeat the Chinese Army on the opposite side within half an hour!"
"Hai." The major staff officer suddenly lowered his head and took the order.
At that moment, Nakamura Masao, accompanied by the brigade chief of staff, got out of the armored command vehicle. At this time, the 4th Army Corps of Engineers Brigade was already busy setting up the brigade headquarters. For the upcoming encounter, Nakamura Masao did not even think about it.
Without the slightest worry, in his opinion, the victory of the imperial army was unquestionable.
Masao Nakamura was not entirely careless. Although the New Fifth Army was well-equipped and even equipped with more than two hundred tanks and dozens of artillery pieces, they had never actually been on the battlefield after all, and the 21st Japanese Infantry Brigade
It can be said that they have experienced hundreds of battles, and they are also well-equipped. They are not inferior to the Chinese *** team opposite.
The results of such a field battle between two armies are self-evident.
However, the progress of the war proved that Nakamura Masao was too optimistic!
In less than ten minutes of fighting, the artillery of the Nakamura Brigade was completely suppressed by the artillery of the Chinese ***. The artillery of the Chinese *** was larger in caliber and had a longer range, and the artillery of the Chinese *** was completely incompetent.
Like new recruits who have never been on the battlefield, they behave with sophistication, and their shooting accuracy is not even inferior to that of the Japanese artillery!
The ensuing infantry battle was beyond Masao Nakamura's expectations.
The performance of the Chinese *** team was completely unlike an honor guard that had never been on the battlefield. On the contrary, they not only fought bravely, but were also extremely skilled in technical and tactical movements. During the infantry assault, the Chinese and Japanese armies fought hand-to-hand with equal strength.
Sting, the Chinese *** team actually achieved an overwhelming advantage. This is simply unimaginable!
However, for the Nakamura Brigade, the disaster has just begun!
After two hours of fierce fighting, dozens of tanks suddenly rushed out of the jungle at the foot of Sister Ridge and rushed into the Japanese position with unstoppable force. The Japanese battle line was immediately disrupted! This tank group
It is the tank battalion directly under the new 22nd Division. They are led by Qiu Qingquan, Qiu Qingquan, who highly advocates the German blitzkrieg tactics.
By the time the Japanese air force arrived, the Chinese and Japanese armies were completely in a mess!
By the time dusk fell and the Japanese air force was forced to return, the Japanese Nakamura Brigade had been basically wiped out.
The Nakamura brigade had a total of more than 7,000 people, of which more than 4,000 were killed and more than 500 were captured. The brigade leader, Major General Masao Nakamura, was also killed in the chaos. All the heavy equipment of the Nakamura brigade, including more than 100 trucks and more than 20
A tank, an armored car and a dozen field guns all became the trophies of the enemy.
When the news spread, the whole country was immediately shaken, and the New Fifth Army became famous in one battle.
The Japanese army suffered such heavy losses, lost all their energy, and their momentum to move south was curbed.
At this time, the Japanese army was fighting fiercely with the Japanese on a thousands-kilometer-long front from Shanxi in the north to Hunan and Jiangxi in the south.
Continuous wars resulted in a shortage of supplies in Japan and skyrocketing prices. The Japanese base camp was forced to order the suspension of frontal attacks.
At this point, the Battle of Wuhan came to an end, and the Anti-Japanese War officially entered a stalemate stage.
Jingxing County, the headquarters of the Thirty-ninth Group Army.
The two lakes battlefields are turbulent, and the North China battlefield is also turbulent.
The Jingxing Cement Plant has already been completed and put into operation, and has provided thousands of tons of cement to the Tumen Fortress Project!
The main project of Tumen Fortress has been basically completed. The eighteen bunker groups with Conch Mountain and Baodu Mountain as the core have been completed. The underground of the entire fortress has been almost completely hollowed out. On this basis, power supply and water supply have been built.
, ventilation, storage and other complete living and combat facilities, shaped like a large ant nest hidden underground.
After the main project of Tumen Fortress was basically completed, the construction of Niangziguan Fortress also officially started.
Relatively speaking, Tumen Fortress tightly straddles the southern Hebei Plain, which is more conducive to the maneuverability of Japanese mechanized troops and heavy equipment, so it has higher military value and is more difficult to guard. Niangziguan originally had a complete Guancheng, and the terrain was extremely
It is steep and easy to defend but difficult to attack, so the construction of Niangziguan Fortress is ranked behind Tumen Fortress.
In addition, although the Japanese army recaptured all the counties in southern Hebei after a large-scale mopping up operation, the vast countryside was still firmly controlled by the Thirty-ninth Group Army.
Several battalions have been expanded into more than thirty regiments, and the total strength of the Thirty-ninth Group Army now exceeds 100,000 people!
Furthermore, the Japanese North China Front also officially sent people to try to win over Yue Weihan.
In order to buy time to build Tumen Fortress and Niangziguan Fortress, Yue Weihan did not directly refuse the Japanese army's pull, but adopted the strategy of pretending to be a snake.
The Japanese army was not in a hurry. Yue Weihan was stalling for time, so why weren't the Japanese army stalling for time too?
From the standpoint of the Japanese army, if Yue Weihan is willing to surrender, that would be the best. If he is not willing, that's okay. As long as he can stabilize this tiger and prevent him from escaping to the southern Hebei plain to cause trouble, that is victory. Wait until he participates in the Battle of Wuhan
More than a dozen field divisions returned to North China and could destroy the Thirty-ninth Group Army with a flip of their hands.
However, in recent days, the Japanese military seems to have smelled something.
The Huolu County garrison has solved more than a dozen infiltration cases in a row and arrested dozens of Japanese and puppet spies. These Japanese and puppet spies seem to be heading for Tumen Fortress. Obviously, the Japanese army has been aware of it!
In addition, the Japanese Army's mixed 4th and 8th brigades have also been reorganized.
The special operations brigade reported that the Japanese troops in southern Hebei were making frequent mobilizations, and there seemed to be major operations.
Finally, on the day when the New Fifth Army won the victory at Hengyang, Yue Weihan welcomed an important guest!
This guest is none other than Mr. Zhu, the founder of the Workers’ and Peasants’ Red Army and the commander-in-chief of the 18th Group Army!