Chapter 251: The Qiannan Incident

The Allies were victorious one after another, but the Japanese army was tightly held in the Chinese battlefield, and the Pacific theater was powerless to fight back.

In order to get rid of its increasingly passive and unfavorable predicament, the Japanese army vainly tried to open up the communication lines of Chinese mainland and made a desperate bet.

From April 1944, 500,000 troops were assembled to launch the Battle of Central Henan, the Battle of Changheng and the Battle of Guiliu (i.e., the Battle of Henan-Xiang-Gui, known to the Japanese as the "No. 1 Battle" or "Mainland Opening Operation"), and the Battle of Guiliu was the third stage of this campaign.

The 11th Army (codenamed Asahi Army) of Isamu Yokoyama of the Sixth Front Army of the Japanese Dispatch Army and the 23rd Army of Kuichi Tanaka, with a total of 8 divisions and 2 brigades, totaled 180,000 troops, and launched attacks on Guilin, Liuzhou, and Nanning in Guangxi from Hunan and Guangdong in early September.

Part of the troops marched along the Guizhou-Guizhou Railway in an attempt to directly attack Chongqing.

After Fang Xianjue led the "Taishan Army" to surrender after running out of ammunition, the Japanese army withdrew its forces and stepped up its offensive against Xiangxi and Guizhou.

Attempted to conquer Guizhou from south to north, and then push directly to Chongqing.

After the Japanese occupied Yishan, Okamura Ninji telegraphed the 11th Army of the Sixth Front Army to stop the pursuit, asking them to "withdraw from the Guizhou-Guizhou Railway and set up a defensive line on the line between Liuzhou and Yishan."

However, the Eleventh Army telegraphed back and said: The order was too late, and they had already pursued into Guizhou.

Originally, the final goal of the Japanese army's "No. 1 Operational Outline" was to seize the southern section of the Guangdong-Hanzhou Railway, and it did not require operations across the Guizhou-Guizhou border.

At this time, China's main railway lines had been completely occupied by the Japanese army, and the remaining small section of the railway branch line from the Guangxi border to Duyun in Guizhou had no practical value for both China and Japan. The Japanese army did not have to venture deep into Guizhou.

However, the morale of the 11th Army was high at this time, and they found that a large number of the main forces of the Nationalist army were moving south, so they thought that they should continue to attack.

In doing so, on the one hand, it could force the Chinese army to stay away from Guangxi and ensure the security of the main line of defense from Liuzhou to Yishan; On the other hand, it is also possible to create the illusion of "attacking Guiyang and Chongqing", which may reduce the pressure on the Japanese army in the direction of Yunnan and Burma.

As a result, the Japanese 11th Army issued an order to "pursue Dushan and Bazhai", and divided its troops into three routes to invade Qiannan, Guizhou.

The main attacking force on the left was the 104th Infantry Wing of the 11th Army (Division Commander Akaka) of the 104th Infantry Wing (Captain Kaifuku Sanchio), the 116th Wing (Captain Otsubo Shin), the 3 squadrons of the 13th Engineer Wing (Captain Ishikawa) and the 3 squadrons of the 19th Mountain Artillery Wing (Captain Ishihama), with a total of 3 or 4,000 infantry, 3-400 cavalry, and six guns.

Zhang Ziwen arrived at Baoshan Airport at 3 a.m. on 21 July, and the two squadrons of the teaching team arrived late.

During this period, Zhang Ziwen first contacted Wu Fatzi and asked him to find a way to get a military vehicle in Zunyi.

This is Zhang Ziwen's first time doing an airplane, and there are fifty people crowded in the small cabin of the plane, and Zhang Ziwen is sitting at the end with a gun in his hand.

Because of the scheduling of the planes, only two could be flown first, and the remaining 100 people needed to wait until noon to set off.

The feeling of the plane climbing made the brothers vomit, and Zhang Ziwen himself felt stuffy in his chest.

When Zhang Ziwen arrived in Zunyi, he was already uncomfortable, and he vomited as soon as he got out of the cabin.

Raising his hand, he shouted: "All out of the airport, board the car immediately, the old folks at home are still waiting for us to rescue."

Wu Fatzi had already arranged the car, leaving a few people to look at the remaining four cars, and jumped into the car and galloped away.

As early as the afternoon of November 18, 1944, Nandan entered Dushan after the loss. In the evening of that day, the Japanese army, with the 104th Wing as the forward and the 116th Wing as the rearguard, pursued north day and night.

And there is another team galloping south with Zhang Ziwen, that is, the 91st Division of the 29th Army.

The division was originally being trained in Sichuan, but it was only after the 97th Army was defeated by the Japanese army at Yiguan that Lao Chiang realized the emptiness of Guizhou's troops.

Urgently mobilize troops from various departments to defend Guiyang, the southwestern center, and ensure that the back road of the Yunnan-Burma Highway is not lost.

The 91st Division set out from Sichuan on the 13th and did not arrive at the Duyun line until the 27th.

Zhang Ziwen made a detour from Zunyi to Guiyang, and then rushed back to Duyun from Guiyang, which was already the 28th.

When they arrived in Duyun, the people in the city had fled to Guiyang along the way.

"Commander, you're finally back."

Zhang Ziwen looked at the tearful guards and knew that maybe the Japanese army had already begun to attack.

"Zhang Li, you take the teaching team to rest and replenish supplies immediately, and today we will go forward to stop the enemy."

Walking into the headquarters of Dongshan, the artillery academy was already empty.

When Ma Xiaobao heard that Zhang Ziwen was back, he immediately put down the phone in his hand.

"Brother Wen, last night a battalion of the 91st Division of the 29th Army has moved forward to block the enemy, and the 1st Division of the 97th Army that has retreated has been supplied by the Libo Security Regiment and is stationed at Liming Pass."

Zhang Ziwen paused slightly, looking at the five hundred people on the map without moving.

"Why don't you bring people to support Dushan?"

Ma Xiaobao immediately stopped talking, Zhang Ziwen knew that Ma Xiaobao couldn't do this, only an old guy would do this.

"Is the old pole arming and conscription?"

Ma Xiaobao still didn't answer, and Zhang Ziwen didn't bother to care.

Lao Gongzi and Ma Xiaobao have already transferred the people of the county security regiments to the passes of each county, as long as it is not an invasion by the Japanese army above the squadron, there will be no major problem.

"Go and call the old pole over, and then all the combatants of a few Duyun will be handed over to Wan Laohushou, and I have already pulled him back from Guiyang."

"Give it to Wan Hu?"

Zhang Ziwen nodded, the 91st Division has a large number of people, and the marching speed must be slow, and now the Japanese army has advanced to the Mawei line.

Libo, Sandu, and Dushan were all on the attack, and if they wanted to stop the Japanese army, they could only reinforce Dushan first.

Blocked the Japanese army south of Dushan County, and cooperated with the American troops in the airport to bomb the Japanese army.

In this way, the air superiority could be neutralized, and the 200 men of the teaching team could be used as the backbone to cooperate with a battalion of the 91st Division.

In this way, we can wait for the main force of the 91st Division to arrive, and the 300 guards of the Huangping Tobacco Factory can also arrive.

Against the Japanese army, it is not impossible to fight.

"Who is the staff officer?"

Zhang Ziwen has constantly transferred Duyun's people, and he is no longer familiar with today's manpower.

"Commander, I am Wu Zhenxing, the acting chief of staff, and I can do something I can do."

"Inform all towns, mainly villages, to take out all the people for me, and after driving the Japanese army out of Dushan, distribute the ocean according to the amount of force, ten yuan per person. Let them assemble in the area of Mawan, and go out to Mawan in front of the headquarters. ”

Because there are many ethnic minorities in Qiannan, all ethnic groups live in villages, and every house has a self-defense force since Tusi.

There are not a few equipped with machine guns, and the recruitment of them is not large, and there are enough manpower.

With them, not to mention frontal combat, the most important thing is to organize the Japanese army to wander and slaughter the villages.