Chapter 533: The Bloody Battle in Jiangdu (2)

Changing the battle plan required the mobilization of a lot of manpower and material resources, and the original strategic goal of the decisive battle in Yangzhou was forced to change due to the 12-day battle of the Japanese army in Taixian. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info Regarding the battle of Taixian, there is no problem in itself, the plan of the military headquarters is to consume the Japanese army's supplies and ammunition in Taixian and Jiangdu, resist one by one, and even when the city of Yangzhou is exhausted, the Japanese army can be completely annihilated. However, what everyone didn't expect was that before the Japanese army arrived in Yangzhou, they were already tired in Taixian County.

The reason why the Japanese army was forced to change its strategy and the Jiangbei Army to change the location of the decisive battle was that the Japanese army suffered a heavy loss in Taixian, and although only 3,000 Japanese troops were killed and 8,000 were wounded, the total strength of the Japanese army was only 30,000, and almost one-third of the soldiers lost their combat effectiveness.

Uehara Yusaku had a lot of headaches, he wanted Yamamoto Gonbei to support him, and boasted to Yamamoto Gonbei about Haikou, but now he suffered a big loss in Tai County, if he attacked Jiangdu County with this combat intensity, and finally attacked Yangzhou...... Yusaku Uehara felt that he should find a way to ask for help, and now the only person who could help him was the governor of North Korea, Terauchi Masatsu.

Terauchi Masatsuki is a disciple of Yama Prefecture Aritomo, and has a close relationship with Prince Zaihito, and he has a very good relationship with Katsura Taro and Saionji Gongwang, when Katsura Taro and Saionji Gongwang are fighting for power, Terauchi Masashi wisely chooses not to help each other and do his job well. Therefore, it can be said that Terauchi Masashi is not only an evergreen tree in the Japanese political arena, but also an old fox in the Japanese military and politics.

The old fox Terauchi Masatsuki has his own unique ideas, especially diplomatic relations with China, he does not support Katsura Taro's hard-liner approach, he thinks that China's cake, once Japan's appearance is too ugly, it is inevitable that it will be strangled by the joint efforts of various countries, and when the three countries intervened in the past, Terauchi Masashi was just promoted to major general of the army, director of the first bureau of the General Staff Headquarters, and has a clear understanding of foreign countries. He even agreed that the punitive action of this dialogue was a trap set by Britain and France for Japan, and with Katsura Taro's impulsive and tough style, as long as Britain and France made ambiguous glances in the back, Japan would get into this trap.

Therefore, when Uehara Yusaku's distress telegram was sent to Terauchi Masaku, Terauchi Masaku's reply to Uehara Yusaku was very interesting, and he proposed to fight recklessly against the Jiangbei Army, and would not fight for anything for Japan, Jiangbei is China's heartland, between the north and the south, even if the Chinese are not united, they will never give Jiangbei to any foreign power at this moment. Instead of trying to rack your brains and be thankless in Jiangbei, it is better to focus on the northeast.

Terauchi Masatsui politely refused, which made Yusaku Uehara very depressed, and he had no choice but to ask Yamamoto Gonbei for guidance from the army. The so-called request for guidance, that is, a request for more troops, Yamamoto Gonbei said where do I have the money to give you, so the attitude towards the change of strategy proposed by Uehara Yusaku to occupy Jiangdu is ambiguous, and it is not known whether it can be done, Uehara Yusaku has an even more headache, and there is a feeling of lifting a stone to hit his own feet.

As depressed as Uehara Yusaku was the Jiangbei side, everyone gathered heavy troops under the city of Yangzhou, but the Japanese showed fatigue in Taixian, and with the current situation of the Japanese army, it was impossible to continue to attack Yangzhou. The General Staff criticized Fang Xianwu for a while, and Wang Yongan also said: "You kid, let you set a trap, why did you almost strangle little Japan to death?" ”

Fang Xianwu smiled bitterly and explained to the generals of the military department, summing up the reasons why the Japanese army suffered a big loss in Tai County:

First, the Japanese army's assessment of the Chinese army was insufficient, although they had suffered a defeat at Langshan Port before, they did not recognize the Chinese Wing and the Taiwan Wing, and because the Chinese army consciously retreated to consume the Japanese army's supplies, the Japanese army seemed to be "victorious in successive battles", which made the Japanese army full of arrogance when attacking Taixian.

Second, because of the victory in the battle of Langshan Port in the early stage, the soldiers of the Jiangbei Army did not think that the Japanese army was invincible, and then everyone had the confidence to fight the Japanese army to the end, and the conscious retreat of the Chinese army made many soldiers hold their breath in their hearts, and they had a tenacious battle under the city of Taixian.

Third, the support of the people of Tai County, in the central region of the Soviet Union, the people of Tai County can be said to be the most tough, the people of Tai County are still martial and aggressive, their temper is generally more anxious, and they speak loudly, and even when they speak, they are often mistaken by outsiders for quarrels. In this sniper battle in Taixian County, the people of Taixian County, from the elderly to children, from men to women, and even the wild dogs of Taixian County bravely resisted the Japanese, and their tenacity and fierceness infected the fighting will of the soldiers of the Jiangbei Army. Therefore, there is often a planned evacuation, but it is found that many ordinary people in Tai County are squatting in the trenches with kitchen knives on the battlefield to fight devils with the soldiers, and the soldiers are ready to withdraw the army, but the people refuse to leave, so the soldiers have to stay and continue to fight. According to preliminary statistics, the Japanese army believed that more than 10,000 Chinese soldiers had been killed, but in fact, at least one-third of them were ordinary people in Taixian County.

Fourth, the Japanese army's fighting methods were gradually familiar to the Jiangbei Army, and through twelve days of fighting, the Jiangbei Army gradually adapted to the Japanese tactical characteristics. However, Chinese soldiers often fought hand-to-hand combat with the Japanese army with knives after the battlefield was broken through, and the casualties of the Japanese army in conquering a position were extremely high.

Fifth, due to the long length of the battle line, it became particularly difficult to replenish, and even the official road from Taizhou to Nantong was full of potholes, and the Japanese army had to spend a lot of manpower and material resources to transport weapons, ammunition, materials and equipment. In particular, the constant harassment of the Chinese troops in the rear made it difficult for the Japanese crusading force to leave Nikkei.

Wang Yongan joked: "The battle of Jiangdu, if you can't win, you can come to see you." ”

Fang Xianwu promised: "This battle concentrates all the elites of our Jiangbei Army, and with Li Shirui's blessing of my strength, I will defeat the Japanese army!" "At this time, the Jiangbei Army concentrated ten army divisions, twenty supplementary regiments and eighteen garrison regiments, with a total strength of 220,000 troops, not only concentrated Jiangbei's manpower, material and financial resources, and even concentrated the country's best officers and soldiers, especially the famous left marshal Fang Xianwu and the right marshal Li Shirui's double marshal merged, and the two cooperated to fight the Japanese army, which demonstrated the determination of the Jiangbei Army to fight to the end.

The Japanese army had no chance of winning, but Yusaku Uehara was obsessed, and after reorganizing his troops, he launched an attack on Jiangdu City with a brigade of 21,000 troops from the 16th and 17th Divisions.