Chapter 386: Nanning Crisis (Page 1/1)

Eighty kilometers outside the outskirts of Hengshan, the long marching column has been converted into a camp.

After several days of hurrying, the troops of the Fifth Army finally approached Hengshan, and Commander Du sympathized with the soldiers, and gave the order to continue to rest and recuperate, considering that they would arrive immediately.

However, this stop did not start again, and on the 20th the headquarters of the Fifth Army received a telegram from the Military Commission, which shocked the senior commanders of the entire Fifth Army.

On 15 July, under the cover of naval warships, the Japanese landed in Qinzhou Bay, including a large number of heavy equipment, and attacked all the way.

The Japanese landed extremely quickly, the national army had almost no time to react, and could only be beaten passively at the beginning, and the main force of the troops was concentrated on other battlefields, and the Japanese army's surprise attack caught the Military Commission off guard.

One reason why the Military Commission ordered the Fifth Army to suspend its march and stand by on the spot was that the critical moment in the Ninth Theater had passed, the peak of the Japanese offensive in northern Hunan had passed, and the Ninth Theater's request for reinforcements was no longer so urgent.

The main reason is that the telegram mentioned that the Japanese army landed in Qinzhou Bay and attacked the area of Guangxi and Guangdong, and the rear was in danger.

The order to the Fifth Army was to rest in place and stand by.

Zhang Wei collapsed in the makeshift dormitory where the raincoat and curtain were erected, his legs were thrown outside, and the other brothers in the brigade were almost all of them, their weapons stacked together, and they fell asleep on the ground.

However, the guard posts are still strictly arranged.

These days' marching is really too tiring, and it takes a lot of energy and physical strength, and the carts of the baggage platoon are broken twice, repaired, repaired, repaired, and repaired all the way.

Four or five mules and horses of the heavy fire squadron ran to death, which made the squadron leader Li Shaoyan feel distressed, but the mules were precious transportation, and they ran to death in such a day and night march.

The troops' weapons, ammunition, food and livestock were well preserved and were not damp.

It had been several days since the whole division stopped marching, and there was no order from above, so the soldiers rested, in short, seized all the time to regain their strength.

More than 50,000 troops, stagnant in Hunan, awaiting further orders.

While the Fifth Army was resting and waiting for duty, the war in Guangxi took a sharp turn for the worse, and new movements appeared every day and every hour.

While the Military Commission responded, it stared at the changing situation.

In Nanning, the Japanese army captured Qinzhou, and after defending the city, they continued to attack, and won consecutive battles along the road. Gradually leaned towards Nanning, a hub city.

Nanning, the capital of Guangxi Province, is located at the end of the Guiyue Highway in China, and guards the Yunnan-Vietnam Railway and the Yunnan-Burma Highway in Yunnan in the west, which are the two most important foreign communication routes in China.

Most of the weapons and equipment purchased from abroad and all kinds of strategic resources are brought in by road, and if the area around Nanning is lost, the replenishment and transportation of strategic materials will be greatly affected.

On the outskirts of Nanning, the outskirts of the Nationalist army had just been bombarded by a round of artillery bombardment, and the land had been fenced by shells.

Breaking away from the initial panic, the Nationalist army began organized resistance, and the troops in Guangxi, including the two armies of the Gui system, were also the regular troops with strong combat effectiveness in Guangxi.

On the position of the 135th Division of the Gui Army, the soldiers were nested in the trenches, and the round of artillery bombardment just now made them suffer a lot of hardship and suffered heavy casualties.

Needless to say, the Gui army was brave, but the battle could not be completed by relying on bravery, and the lack of reasonable training and tactics was the shortcoming of the Gui army, and the problem was more serious than that of the Central Army, and the officers' operational thinking was more outdated, and the courage was overused.

The Gui army will show excellent tactical performance in mountain warfare and small group operations.

In large-scale offensive and defensive operations, the Gui army did very badly.

In terms of armament, they also lacked firepower, infantry equipment was sufficient, and artillery was almost non-existent.

"Get up, get up, get ready to fuck up." After the shelling, the Gui officers took whips, shouted and cursed, urging the soldiers to prepare for defense.

The Gui soldiers crawled out of the hideout, picked up their rifles, and prepared to defend themselves against the Japanese attack.

It was the field artillery wing of the 5th Division that bombarded them, and the 38th field artillery fired two rounds, and when the bombardment ended, it was naturally an infantry charge.

The Japanese had previously made a feint to test the Gui army's defenses.

They were engaged by two regiments of the 135th Division of the Gui Army, and the defensive arrangements of these two regiments were undoubtedly exposed in the tentative attack of the Japanese army.

They lined up the two regiments in a straight line, forming a line of defense, lacking flank defenses and reserves, which was typical of the old style of play.

Moreover, there is a lack of depth configuration, and once this kind of defensive position is fully breached, it will basically collapse.

The Gui infantry, which had endured heavy shelling, had just gotten up and was ready to take over.

"Kill, give!"

The infantry of the 5th Division attacked, and this time it was not a feint, but a real one.

They formed a sparse skirmish attack formation and launched an assault, followed closely behind the infantry, the 92nd infantry guns and the 94th Type 37 rapid-fire guns closely followed.

"Da Da Da"

Before the Japanese infantry could rush to within 200 meters, someone opened fire on the position of the 135th Division, and firing at this distance was no different from blindness.

"Don't fight!" The soldiers of the Gui Army who opened fire were angrily scolded by the squad leaders and veterans in the position, and the bullets fired were just a sound.

The Japanese infantry in front rushed to about 150 meters, and the Gui army opened fire on the position, and the dense bullets finally caused casualties to the Japanese army.

Japanese soldiers were constantly hit, and the light and heavy machine guns of the 135th Division all opened fire, forming a fire network in front of the position and blocking the advancing Japanese troops.

There was still no shortage of light and heavy machine guns in the Gui army, and after the full fire, the fire in front of the position was very fierce.

The Fifth Division's attacking troops did not have the sights of the frontal position, and to deal with the front-line defensive position, the Japanese army resorted to its usual means and sent flank troops to attack in a roundabout way.

Bombardment - Frontal infantry guns and rapid-fire guns carried by the Japanese began to bombard the machine guns on the positions of the 135th Division, knocking out many Gui machine guns, and shrapnel also caused damage to the soldiers in the trenches.

The Gui army fought fiercely, and the front was stubbornly holding on, although the machine gun fire suffered heavy losses, but the remaining infantry still stubbornly resisted.

Seeing that there was little progress on the front, the Japanese flank troops quickly began to move, and the Gui army's position was a first-line type and lacked defensive depth, so it was simple to go around to the flank.

Taking advantage of the unpreparedness of the Gui army, these troops who had gone around the flank launched a surprise attack, and after playing cover for a while, they launched a white-knuckle assault and rushed into the weak point of the flank of the Gui army's position.

The energy of the 135th Division was concentrated on the frontal line, and the flanks were hit, and it was simply impossible to quickly change the center of gravity of defense.

The Japanese army instantly rushed into the position of the 135th Division and launched a white-knuckle battle, and the bravery of the Gui soldiers was best demonstrated at this time, and they fought the Japanese army in the trenches.

However, bravery could not turn the tide of the battle, and the attacking troops of the 5th Division immediately increased their troops when they saw the success of the flank outflanking, and launched a full-scale attack, and in the wave of offensive and artillery bombardment, the defensive position of the 135th Division completely collapsed.

The Fifth Division crushed a regular army, occupied the periphery of Nanning, and advanced to Guining.

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