Chapter 568: Return to the Second War Zone (6)
After more than ten minutes, the commander of the 8th Wing of the devil, Nakajima Sandwich, received an order from the division commander.
As soon as he received the order, Nakajima Sandwich did not hesitate and hurriedly issued orders to the headquarters of each brigade to transfer and evacuate.
The officers and soldiers of the devil knew the power of the security regiment, and when they heard the shouts of the soldiers of the security regiment, the enemy was even more frightened.
"Hurry up, evacuate the position with the wounded and weapons and equipment, and move into the !!"
"Imperial soldiers, abandon your position and move into !!"
More than 1,000 people were killed in the battle of the 8th Devil Wing, and the remaining Devil soldiers voluntarily abandoned their defensive positions and evacuated to the safety zone.
The enemy did not retreat in defeat, but in an orderly tactical retreat.
The devil soldiers took the wounded, picked up weapons and ammunition, and alternately covered the evacuation positions.
"Brothers, the little devil has withdrawn, kill it, !!"
Li Hong led the infantry battalion, the armored battalion, and the cavalry battalion to frantically kill the enemy on the devil's position.
The position of the 8th Wing of the Devils was scorched, and more than half of the position fell into the hands of the security regiment.
"Da !!"
"Tom !!"
"Ahhh......h
Bullets and shells pursued behind the devil, and the evacuated devil soldiers left a lot of corpses along the way.
The little devil didn't dare to fight, and used the surrounding bunkers to fight and retreat.
After leaving two or three hundred corpses, the evacuated little devils completely disappeared from the sight of the officers and soldiers of the security regiment.
Li Hong was not happy when he saw that the devil took the initiative to abandon his position and evacuate, his face stained with the blood of the enemy was very sad.
The 4th Devil's Division has always been cunning, and it is difficult to say whether the enemy will really evacuate.
Besides, even if the Osaka Division runs away, there are other devil troops who will frantically chase and intercept the troops of the 5th Theater.
Therefore, the top priority is to quickly march and transfer the large troops, otherwise, it will be too late to evacuate as soon as the devil pursues the troops.
"The cavalry battalion conducted reconnaissance, and the tank group continued to advance !!"
"Signal troops, immediately send a telegram to the theater command, the blocking force of the 4th Division of the Japanese army has been defeated by our regiment, and all the troops in the 5th theater can be transferred as soon as possible!"
Li Hong successively gave instructions and orders to his subordinates.
"Yes, Tuanza!"
The communications corps hurriedly ran away and reported to the war zone.
The combat units of the security regiment did not even have time to clean up the battlefield, and the armored battalion and infantry immediately opened the way to the front to clear all obstacles for the large army.
When the theater command received the news that the security regiment had broken through the enemy's defensive positions, all the officers and generals were shocked.
They didn't expect that the security regiment, whose combat effectiveness had been sharply reduced, could still exert such terrifying combat effectiveness.
Li Zongyao, commander of the theater, did not hesitate and issued the transfer and evacuation orders to the various group armies on the spot.
Ten minutes later, the units of the 5th Theater of Operations were drawn one after another.
The soldiers of the various units marched at a faster pace.
Before the enemy pursuers arrived, they had to move out of the mountain road as soon as possible.
……
Two days later, the Japanese army fully occupied the Xuzhou area.
The main forces of the 5th theater of operations,
The large Japanese army spent a lot of manpower and material resources, as well as the cost of casualties and battle damage.
Although the Japanese army won Xuzhou and won a temporary victory, the Japanese army actually did not annihilate the main force of Xuzhou, nor did it achieve the real strategic goal.
On the surface, the Japanese army was victorious, but in fact, many divisions and regiments of the Japanese army suffered too many casualties, which affected the subsequent operations of the Japanese army.
After several days of marching, the troops of the 5th Theater successfully jumped out of the encirclement of the Japanese army and completely smashed the enemy's strategy of encirclement and annihilation......
After the fall of Xuzhou, the time came to mid-June.
Due to the loss of Xuzhou, the Japanese army regrouped several divisions and adjusted the battle sequence in an attempt to attack Wuhan.
The Military Council of the Nationalist Army saw the strategic intentions of the Japanese army and began to formulate an operational plan for the defense of Wuhan.
As for the troops of the Nationalist Army, all the troops of the 5th and 9th Theaters, as well as one navy and one air force, were urgently mobilized to organize defenses along the Dabie Mountains, Poyang Lake, and both sides of the Yangtze River and prepare for a protracted battle.
At this point, the battle of Wuhan between China and Japan is about to begin......
After the 5th Theater withdrew from the Xuzhou area, it received an order from the Supreme Military Council to assemble all the main forces in the theater to assemble and deploy to the area on the north bank of the Yangtze River.
Thirty kilometers away from the north bank of the Yangtze River, Jiangbei Town, where the security regiment is stationed.
The troops of the 5th Theater withdrew all the way from the Xuzhou area, and they did not even have time to rest and replenish their troops, and began to devote themselves to the next battle.
The security regiment is an elite unit, and it should have given priority to replenishing its strength to ensure the integrity of its operational establishment.
However, the speed of the attack of the Japanese army was too fast, the fighting on both sides of the Yangtze River was tight, and the 5th Theater was reorganizing the combat troops, and it was simply impossible to draw excess troops to supplement the security regiment.
Now let alone veterans, recruits can't be replenished.
After the battle of Xuzhou, the security regiment fought too badly, except for the wounded, there were only more than 1,500 officers and soldiers who could fight.
Even under such difficult conditions, the theater of operations replenished the security regiment with 1000 soldiers.
These 1,000 soldiers are just new recruits, and they can't even do normal infantry drills, let alone guns and battlefield experience.
If you really want to exchange fire with the little devils, these 1,000 recruits may not be as effective as a company of the previous security regiment.
Although he is a recruit and has no combat experience, Li Hong is already very pleased that the war zone can give priority to replenishing the security regiment.
Of course, it takes a lot of time and effort to train a group of recruits to come out and be able to fight.
Li Hong ordered the instructors with new recruits to teach them only how to shoot guns and use various weapons, what discipline they had, formation and drills, etc., and that they would learn these things other than fighting later.
There is no way to train recruits in this way, the Japanese army is menacing, and they are pressing forward step by step, and there is simply not enough time to train recruits.
Early in the morning, Li Hong and his subordinates began to inspect the training of recruits.
Suddenly, Hu Vulture hurriedly ran to the recruit training ground with a telegram of 100,000 fires.
"Tuanza, Tuanza, emergency !!"
Hu Bald was anxious and rushed, his cheeks were covered with sweat, and he was a little out of order.
"Bald, what are you doing in a hurry, the little devil didn't hit again, you are in a hurry?"
Hu Bald Egg gasped for breath and said eagerly: "Tuanza, your daughter-in-law was kidnapped by the little devil......"
"Damn, what nonsense, your daughter-in-law was kidnapped by devils!"
Li Hong looked inexplicable, raised his hand and slapped the bald man with a brain scraper.
"Tuanza, really, our sister-in-law was really kidnapped by the Japanese devils!" Hu Bald said seriously, and then handed the telegram in his hand to Li Hong.
Li Honggang picked up the telegram and glanced at it, and suddenly, his face became gloomy.
This telegram was sent from the base of the Security Corps in the Second World War Zone.