Beginning on October 6, as Zhu Shaoliang had feared at the previous high-level combat meeting, the Japanese army launched an attack from the north bank of Yunzaobang to the Hei Da Huang Mansion in front of the 8th Division and the West Liufang position in front of the 8th Army. Under the fierce attack of the main force of the Japanese army, the 8th Division suffered extremely heavy casualties in the continuous hard fighting.

On the evening of the 6th, the position of the Jiang Mansion near the Hei Da Huang Mansion on the left flank of the 8th Division was first broken through by the enemy, and the enemy troops then crossed Yunzaobang and launched an attack on the position of the wall head gate on the south bank. At the same time, the enemy launched a lateral attack on the Epiphany Temple east of Chenjiahang. The purpose is to expand the battlefield area and create conditions for a general offensive.

The defending 16th Division engaged in repeated battles with the invading enemy. The 9th Division suffered heavy casualties as many as 10 consecutive counterattacks overnight, forcing the Japanese to maintain the offensive posture several times with reinforcements. This made them reluctantly capture the position of the 16th Division Epiphany Temple on the 7th.

The distance of the Japanese army crossing the river was lengthened again, and the 1st Division of the 9th Division quickly crossed south to Yunzaobang and attacked the left flank of the 8th Division. After a round of bloody battles, the 8th Division was forced to retreat to Yaojia Lane and Wangjia Lane to continue fighting. The battle lasted until October 10, when the 36th Division and the Tax Police Regiment each went to reinforce them, and although they killed and wounded more than 1,000 Japanese soldiers, they still did not stop the Japanese army's fierce offensive in turn. In desperation, the 8th Division was ordered to withdraw from the line of fire and move to the rear for rest. After this battle, the division went from more than 8,000 soldiers at the time of the war, and finally only more than 700 remained.

The battle at the front was frequently urgent, and the telephone of the Central Army headquarters was almost blown up, and telegrams flew like snowflakes.

"Report! The 61st Division's Xitang Bridge position is urgent, request for support! ”

"Report! The two positions of Zhaojiajiao of the Taxation Corps were broken by the Japanese army, and the position of Qiao Tingzhai was in an emergency! ”

“……”

Zhu Shaoliang was so anxious by these emergency messages, especially the tax police corps with many troops and well-equipped troops, he didn't expect it to be so vulnerable.

Zhu Shaoliang slapped the case indignantly: "A group of sons, what kind of battle will they fight!?" What about graduating from West Point, it's all wine bags and rice bags! ”

At this time, Hu Zongnan's First Army had just been replenished. Zhu Shaoliang ordered the First Army to immediately launch a counterattack when the fighting between the two sides was scorching, and the Japanese army was caught off guard. The First Army did not disappoint Zhu Shaoliang, and after a round of counterattacks, it repelled the Japanese attack and temporarily stabilized the defensive lines everywhere. The 16th Division also regained the Epiphany Temple position on the night of the 7th, and then fought hard with the Japanese 9th Division until the 21st, killing and wounding a large number of Japanese soldiers.

War is the process of destruction, and the destruction of the other side also destroys oneself. In the bloody battles for several days, the casualties of the various units were huge, and the corpses on both sides of the Wenzaobang were strewn all over the field and the blood flowed like rivers.

The 1st Division and the 78th Division of the First Army, which had just been replenished, lost their combat effectiveness in less than two days, and Major General Yang Jie, deputy commander of the 1st Brigade of the 1st Division, and Colonel Shen Shangda, director of the Political Department of the Division, were killed in the fierce battle. Take Li Tiejun's 1st Division as an example, there was no problem with tactics, and the problem was still with the recruits. The difference between a recruit and a civilian is that he just has one more gun.

The first line of Yunzaohama is in an emergency again!?

On October 8, the Japanese army began a general offensive, and one of them forced its way across Yunzaobang from Tangqiao Station to attack the left position of the 61st Division. The 61st Division fought back desperately and suffered heavy losses, and the 108th Brigade of the 36th Division came to reinforce and held the enemy on the east side of the Black Yellow House. The Tax Police Corps was stationed on the line of Yujia, Gejiaqiao, and Zhangjialou, and was also attacked by the Japanese army.

At this point, after several days of bloody fighting, the Japanese army finally laid a bridgehead position about 2 kilometers wide on the line from Heida Huangzhai to the east and west Zhaojiajiao, posing a serious threat to the national army. The various units of our defenders have suffered too many sacrifices in the fighting for days and days, and they are no longer able to fight back.

The form of the battlefield is extremely unfavorable to the situation and to the national army. The Japanese army was already unstoppable at this time, and it was only a matter of time before the main force crossed Onzaohama. On the evening of 8 October, the Third Theater again convened an emergency operational meeting to discuss the tactics of the combatants in the next stage.

At the high-level operational meeting, the analysis of officers of all ranks again appeared. Some officers proposed a counteroffensive, taking advantage of the fact that the Japanese army was not firmly established, and used superior forces to drive the Japanese troops in the two-kilometer bridgehead position back to the north bank of Onzaohama; Part advocated continuing the defense, using positions to deplete the enemy's living forces.

At the combat meeting, the two sides engaged in an argument between offense and defense.

"How to attack, how to attack!? When the attack is over, our soldiers are dead, how can we defend it! ”

Hu Zongnan has always maintained a very strong attitude, and he was the first general to advocate defense. The First Army had just been replenished, and Zhu Shaoliang ordered it to counterattack, but in less than two days, the First Army was almost exhausted again. Although the war situation was stable at that time, the First Army wiped its ass for the 61st Division and the Tax Police Corps.

Chen Cheng said: "We have been fighting hard for nearly two months, and almost every unit has been replenished. The recruits who can be replenished are all new recruits with no combat experience, so a counterattack is unrealistic. ”

Sun Yuanliang, commander of the 72nd Army, followed and said: "The tax police corps is full of elite soldiers, and it is not the same as being vulnerable. The last time the Jinghe reinforcement failed, I thought that the general regiment had the best equipment and was good at defending but not attacking, but it turned out that they were just as vulnerable in positional warfare. ”

Up to now, Sun Yuanliang is still hostile to the Tax Police Corps, and the 88th Division has fought hard so far, replenishing troops 4 times, but the war supplies promised by Song Ziwen still have not replenished the 88th Division. It's the same rhetoric every time, the main battlefield is in the north, and the front-line troops need it even more.

"Commander Sun, what do you mean? We also had no choice but to withdraw from our positions after heavy losses. ”

Huang Jie was dissatisfied, although the tax police corps did not fight well, but it also suffered heavy losses in holding the position, and it was withdrawn at the last moment.

Sun Yuanliang said: "Withdrawing from the position is to retreat from the battle, and those regiment commanders should be sent to the military court." With a force of 40,000 people, a regiment can catch up with a division of others, and the equipment exceeds that of the Japanese army, but what is the result? As a result of the current passive situation, the tax police corps bears most of the responsibility! ”

Huang Jie has nothing to say, he is now angry at both ends, and the troops are not commanded by themselves at all, but remotely controlled by the chairman.

Zhu Shaoliang glanced at Sun Yuanliang and told him not to continue, it was easy to offend the powerful. The Nanjing Military Commission had already issued a punishment order to the detriment of the tax police corps, and Sun Yuanliang did not know it at this time.

Chen Cheng, who was sitting opposite, said: "Commander Sun, your 88th Division's record in the Songhu battlefield is obvious to all, and it is the best unit among all the troops, but don't be aggressive." Nanjing has already issued an order to dispose of it, don't you know? ”

Sun Yuanliang said: "I don't know. ”

Zhu Shaoliang said: "The Nanjing Military Commission has just issued an order to dispose of the Tax Police Corps. The commanders of the two detachments, He Shaozhou and Wang Gongliang, were both dismissed from their posts due to lack of command, and Zhong Baosheng, the commander of the 6th Regiment of the 2nd detachment, was removed from his post due to ineffective combat. Several other regiment commanders were also punished accordingly for ineffective operations, and only Sun Liren, the commander of the 4th regiment, was exceptionally promoted to the commander of the second detachment of major generals. ”

Sun Yuanliang had nothing to say after hearing this, because he felt disgraced because of what happened just now, Zhu Shaoliang should have told himself in advance.

The two detachments of the tax police corps were withdrawn, and the six regiment commanders punished five, which highlighted Sun Liren's uniqueness and saved the last face for the corps. It was clear whether it was a mule or a horse as soon as it entered the battlefield, and Sun Liren's military talent was well reflected, and it also opened the prelude to his anti-Japanese legend.

With a "slap~", Gu Zhutong, the deputy commander of the Third Theater who presided over the meeting, slapped the table and said slightly angrily: "Is enough to say!?" I didn't call you here to blame each other, but it is better to think about retreating from the enemy with this experience. ”

On both sides of the conference table, the row on the left is the senior officers of the Central Army, and on the right are the senior officers of the Left Route Army. Zhu Shaoliang and Chen Cheng each sat in a seat facing each other. The two looked at each other for a moment, as if they had reached a consensus.

Xue Yue, who was beside Chen Cheng, said: "The counteroffensive is unrealistic, the Japanese army has a good firepower configuration, and it has the air force and warships as cover, and our casualties will be very heavy." Now what we can do is how to defend. The purpose of the Japanese army is Dachang, but there is another purpose to Nanxiang, where there are our heavy troops. Once the general attack of the Japanese army is unfavorable, the distance from the troops on the flank will be widened, and a large gap will appear in the middle. And so our fighters appeared. ”

In the end, the two sides reached a consensus, and the two route armies cooperated to draw up a new set of battle plans, allowing the Japanese army to attack Xue Yue's 19th Army, which was heavily defended in the southwest, and then cut it from the middle, turning the battle situation from passive to active. Take a hundred plating and read the latest chapter of "Anti-Japanese God-level Soldier King Claw Book House" for free for the first time.

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