Chapter 924: The First Division of the New Formation

After receiving the telegram from the Japanese army base camp, Terauchi Shouichi immediately sent a telegram to the front-line combat troops on Wutai Mountain, asking the troops of all divisions and regiments to quickly return to their original stations, while the troops of the Japanese First Division and regiment seconded from the Kwantung Army quickly returned to Shijiazhuang and temporarily assumed the garrison of Shijiazhuang to prevent the headquarters of the Japanese First Army from being knocked out. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

At the foot of Wutai Mountain, the regimental headquarters of the 1st Division of the Japanese Army.

After Okabe Naosaburo received the telegram from Shouichi Terauchi, he couldn't help but be stunned, he looked at the content of the telegram, and his brows furrowed tightly.

Although he knew that victory was in sight, in the face of the telegram sent by the North China Front Headquarters, Naosaburo Okabe knew that he could not disobey it.

He knew better how serious the consequences would be once the headquarters of the First Army was defeated by Chinese troops.

"Convey the order of the North China Front Command, all divisions and regiments immediately abandon the attack and assemble, and order the artillery units to shoot all the shells!"

Naosaburo Okabe immediately began to give orders, and then he looked at Ishihara Waner, and there was a pleading look in his eyes.

The Japanese troops are now about to capture Wutai Mountain, and the Chinese resistance forces are getting fewer and fewer, as long as the Japanese troops are storming for a while, then all the Chinese troops on Wutai Mountain will be annihilated, but the North China Front Army obviously can't give Okabe Naosaburo this time.

"Commander of the Okabe Division, there is no way left, if all the four divisions and regiments stay, they will definitely be able to completely annihilate the Wutai Mountain China Army, but if we disobey the orders of the North China Front, then the headquarters of the First Army is very likely to be terminated, if the headquarters of the First Army is terminated, I am afraid the consequences will be very serious, His Excellency Commander Terauchi Shouichi has been transferred, which obviously shows that the base camp is very dissatisfied with this operation."

Ishihara Waner shook his head helplessly, and at this time, Ishihara Waner also had no choice.

The Japanese troops began to withdraw from Wutai Mountain, and the troops of the various divisions and regiments immediately began to assemble, and they quickly began to march towards their original positions.

Perhaps unwilling to give up like this, Naosaburo Okabe deliberately left behind a reinforced brigade to continue the attack.

At 3:50 a.m. on 27 September, the remnants of the 2nd Honorary Division were transferred from various regiments to cooperate with the main force of the 2nd Army Division of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region to reluctantly defeat the reinforced brigade left by the Japanese army.

The Japanese troops began to withdraw, and as the Japanese troops took the initiative to evacuate Wutai County, the Japanese army assembled heavy troops to attack the troops of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region and completely failed.

At 12 o'clock at noon on 27 September, the Japanese North China Front held a press conference, at which the North China Front Headquarters declared that the operation had achieved its strategic goal and thus ended the operation; at this press conference, the Japanese army claimed that it had suffered more than 20,000 casualties, and that the result was that more than 50,000 people of the Eighth Route Army had been wounded.

In fact, the Japanese army lost the 2nd Brigade and the 3rd Brigade, the 4th Brigade, the independent garrison, and the cavalry and armored troops of each division, and the Japanese army lost four major generals in this operation, counting the losses of the troops of each division, the Japanese suffered more than 60,000 casualties, of which more than 30,000 were killed.

The Eighth Route Army's Honorary Second Division, the 120th Division, the troops of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region and local troops suffered more than 40,000 casualties, of which 18,000 were killed.

Sun Weiguo's Honorary Second Division suffered 12,000 casualties in this battle, but their achievements were astonishing, and most of the Japanese troops who were completely annihilated were the Honorary Second Division, and the four major generals who were killed were all killed by the troops of the Honorary Second Division.

On September 28, 1938, Major General Daniel of the German Army secretly came to North China, and he brought weapons and ammunition promised by the highest echelons of the German Army.

However, this batch of weapons and ammunition was lost due to the coastal areas such as Guangdong, and the Germans planned to enter Yunnan through Burma through a third party and then transport it to Sun Weiguo's Honorary Second Division.

However, there are a large number of these weapons, and once they enter the territory of the warlords in Yunnan and other places, they will inevitably seize them, that is to say, this matter cannot be concealed from the chairman.

Even if Sun Weiguo wants to get this batch of weapons and ammunition in its entirety, then he must get the assistance of the chairman of the committee.

In the eyes of the chairman of the committee, the troops of the Eighth Route Army did not have any favorability, and it was not a simple matter to ask the chairman to help the troops of the Eighth Route Army obtain these weapons.

Because Sun Weiguo is currently recuperating from his injuries, this matter is in charge of political commissar Shen Wei.

On 30 September, following the decision of the head of the Eighth Route Army General Headquarters, the Eighth Route Army will dispatch a coordination group headed by Sun Weiguo to Wuhan in person to meet with Sun Weiguo and others in Wuhan and Vice Minister Zhou, who is currently serving as Lieutenant General and Deputy Director of the Political Department of the Military Commission.

However, because Sun Weiguo is still injured, all this work needs to wait until Sun Weiguo recovers from his injury.

On October 1, 1938, the commander of the North China Front, Terauchi Toshiichi, was transferred to the military staff, and the general Sugiyama Motoshi took over as the second commander of the North China Front.

That is, on the day when Sugiyama Yuan took over as the commander of the general, the Military Commission issued a telegram that in view of the fact that Sun Weiguo of the Honorary Second Division had disobeyed the military order, the Military Commission cancelled the number of the Honorary Second Division, and the new number of the headquarters was the First Division of the Army, Sun Weiguo was appointed as the commander of the major general, and the New First Division had three new regiments under its jurisdiction, and all these three new regiments were infantry regiments, which was equivalent to the Military Commission indirectly canceling the establishment of armored troops.

This was the punishment given to Sun Weiguo by the chairman, because when he was fighting in Wutai County, Sun Weiguo directly refused the chairman's order.

Shortly after the Central Military Commission issued the telegram, the chairman of the committee issued a strange telegram, which demanded that Sun Weiguo go to Wuhan and that the chairman of the committee should meet Sun Weiguo in person.

Obviously, whether or not Sun Weiguo's troops can maintain their original establishment will depend on Sun Weiguo's meeting with the chairman of the NPC National Committee.

On October 5, Sun Weiguo, who was still recuperating from his wounds, came to Wutai Mountain, which became extremely desolate as the battle ended.

But here, there are countless officers and soldiers who have sacrificed their lives here, and they have defended the dignity of the Chinese troops with their own flesh and blood, and they have fulfilled their mission.

"Division commander, the body of Deputy Division Commander Zhong Jian has been buried in Pingding County, and the division headquarters has just received news that the Military Commission posthumously awarded Deputy Division Commander Zhong Jian as a lieutenant general."

Wang Youhua, the leader of the guard squad, came to Sun Weiguo's side, and he said softly.

Sun Weiguo nodded silently, his eyes looked around, and a sad expression appeared on his calm face.

There are too many brothers in Sun Weiguo's robes here, and this is a memory that Sun Weiguo will never forget.