, Chapter 1095 Misjudgment

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The night of 16 September was an extremely torturous night for the new commander of the 12th Army, Lieutenant General Ichi Tsuchihashi, and the chief of staff, Major General Tsunejiro Kono. The Eighth Route Army launched an all-out attack on the eastern section of the Longhai Road, Lunan and Tai'an to Zhangqiu, Jiaodong, and Anqiu and Gaomi in Ludong, and the telegram flew like snowflakes to the headquarters of the 12th Army and to the headquarters of the North China Front Army.

It is common knowledge for troops to be attacked and counterattacked, not to mention lieutenant generals and major generals who have graduated from army universities and army noncommissioned officer schools, even students in army junior schools know this common sense. There is no way, there are too many lieutenant generals, major generals, large generals, middle sagas, and young generals who died in Shandong, and there are even more dead soldiers that can make Mt. Fuji tremble. As soon as the Shandong troops of the Eighth Route Army made a move, they often took the Japanese army's divisions and regiments to sacrifice their swords, as if the wings and brigades could no longer satisfy Liu Yimin's appetite. Which division of the Japanese army dares to move blindly! If you accidentally fall into the trap of the Eighth Route Army, and you die in battle, and your Majesty the Emperor with her wise and martial arts will be embarrassed, then it will be an unforgivable crime!

The commanders of the Japanese divisions unanimously ordered the troops not to attack rashly, and then kicked the ball to the headquarters of the 12th Army and the headquarters of the North China Front.

Lieutenant General Tsuchihashi was originally the division commander of the 22nd Division of the Japanese Army, and was stationed on Pinghan Road for a long time after arriving in North China. This is relatively lucky, and it has not directly fought with the main force of the Eighth Route Army in Shandong. The main force of the 21st Division, which was organized and transferred to North China at the same time as the 22nd Division, has long been wiped out by the Eighth Route Army, and the 33rd Division and the 34th Division, which were formed some time later than the 22nd Division, have long been wiped out. Still swaggering on the Chinese battlefield.

Although Lieutenant General Tuqiao did not directly fight with the main force of the Eighth Route Army in Shandong, three commanders of the Twelfth Army died at the hands of the Eighth Route Army, which made his scalp tingle when he thought about it. Therefore, after receiving the reports from the troops, he reported to the commander of the North China Front, Lieutenant General Tada Jun, and asked for guidance, while ordering the troops to hold their positions and wait for further orders.

To the surprise of Lieutenant General Tsuchihashi Ichi, the commander of the North China Front, Tada Jun, had the same method as he did with it, and he also strictly ordered all divisions and regiments to rely on the defensive line to hold on, not to leave the existing positions to counterattack, and to wait until dawn to talk about everything. At the same time, Tada Jun ordered Lieutenant General Tsuchihashi to make sure to determine the operational intentions and main attack direction of the Eighth Route Army, so as to provide a basis for the decision-making of the Front Army Headquarters.

The tactics of the Eighth Route Army are blooming on all sides, how can Lieutenant General Tsuchihashi once determine where the main direction of attack of the Eighth Route Army is? How can we determine the operational intentions of the Eighth Route Army? The only thing he could think of was that the Eighth Route Army was going to seize the opportunity of the imperial army to reinforce the Shanxi battlefield and start a big fight, and he didn't know which division was going to be unlucky again!

After dawn, Tsuchihashi's courage grew once, and Tada's courage also increased. Because after a night of fierce fighting, the Eighth Route Army was not able to eliminate troops above the size of the wing in addition to eliminating the troops of the imperial army brigade and squadron, and compared with the previous battles, the losses of the imperial army were not very large. Moreover, there was no discovery of Liu Yimin's troops dispatching a large-scale artillery group to participate in the operation. What does this mean? It shows that the Eighth Route Army is to fight in the direction of Shanxi and wants to drag the main force of the imperial army back.

There is also a problem that made Tada Jun and Tsuchihashi misjudge once, thinking that the Eighth Route Army's attack was a limited attack, and it was a defense instead of attack, that is, although the Eighth Route Army's attack was very ferocious, it did not reach the side of the railway. This is very different from the tactics of Liu Yimin's troops in the past. In the past, the Eighth Route Army attacked the lines of communication, and it also blossomed in all directions to cover the true intentions of its main force, but in the direction of the main attack, it always used artillery groups to open the way, armored assaults, and tore openings in the railway defense line, like a sharp knife peeling a cattle, looking for gaps and cracking at the weak links of the imperial army's defense line. This time was different, the Eighth Route Army did not even see the blockade ditch of the railway, let alone encircled and annihilated the main force of the imperial army on the railway defense line.

According to Tadajun's analysis, the reason why the Eighth Route Army did not attack the railway was that with the gradual improvement of the fortifications, the ability of the imperial army units to resist attacks was improved, and the other was that the strategy adopted by itself to deploy the first and second lines of defense in front of the imperial army was successful. If the Eighth Route Army wanted to fight the Imperial Army, it had to pass through the defense line of the Imperial Allied Army first. Of course, the Chaigou defense line in the southwest of Gaomi was breached, and the 32nd Division's Inoue Brigade was shattered, and it must have been caused by Liu Yimin's elite attack again, which was a conspiracy and trickery, and it could only be an exception.

The bold Tada Jun and Tsuchihashi even wondered if Liu Yimin's artillery shells had run out, because under the high-intensity reconnaissance and deterrence of the Imperial Army Air Force, it was impossible for Liu Yimin to make artillery shells, and he could not get raw materials, and it was difficult to support such a huge artillery group just by relying on capture. It is estimated that he spends a considerable amount of time accumulating ammunition for each battle.

He really had a good understanding of the situation, and called the chiefs of staff at the same time in Beiping and Jinan to ask for a study and analysis of the interval between each major battle of Liu Yimin's troops. In this study, the Japanese army found that the interval between each major battle of Liu Yimin's division was very long, and several major battles were caused by large-scale attacks by the imperial army. It took less than two months from the destruction of the 29th Division to the launch of this attack, and it is very likely that Liu Yimin's troops did not have enough artillery shells to stockpile, so it was unprecedented that Liu Yimin suddenly launched an attack without taking advantage of the night cover to expand the results of the battle.

Tada Jun, who thought that he had grasped Liu Yimin's weakness, immediately ordered the commander of the 12th Army, Lieutenant General Tsuchihashi Ichi, to command the Japanese troops around Lu Zhongnan to launch a counterattack, and must recapture the positions occupied by the Eighth Route Army, drive the Eighth Route Army back to the starting position, and trap them.

Tada Jun did this with strength as the backing. The number of troops he now has around Lu Zhongnan is more than the strength of the 11th Army of the Japanese Strategic Mobile Force in Central China. Just like last time, the Japanese Second Division and the Seventh Division commanded three armored divisions to advance in unison, opened the Taiwei-Taiwei Highway in a very short period of time, and cooperated with other troops to occupy central and southern Shandong. The problem was that it was impossible for these main forces of the Japanese army to stop at central and southern Lu all the time, and the Eighth Route Army was constantly mobilizing them, moving back and forth, and sending the 29th Division back to its hometown. If it weren't for this reason, Tada Jun would have given an order, and it would not have been difficult for the Japanese army to occupy central and southern Lu again. It's just that he didn't dare.

In the view of Tada Jun and Tsuchihashi on one occasion, the three tank divisions of the Japanese army were placed on the three defense lines of Jiaoji Road, Jinpu Road, and Longhai Road, which could be attacked, retreated, and defended, and if the Eighth Route Army dared to concentrate its forces to repeat the story of encircling and annihilating a certain division of the Imperial Army in the past, the chariot divisions alone could smash the attack arrows of the Eighth Route Army and retract the Eighth Route Army at once. Liu Yimin didn't dare to do that.

Tadajun's wishful thinking was to use the daytime counterattack operation to give out the numbers of the attacking units of the Eighth Route Army, to show the operational intentions of the Eighth Route Army, and to determine whether the Eighth Route Army had the intention of further expanding the scale of the operation and the possible direction of attack. As long as this is clearly determined, Tada Jun will have the time and ability to mobilize troops to deal with it, at least to stifle the offensive of Liu Yimin's troops and ensure that the Shanxi operation will not be affected.

Tada Jun was not a weak man, and he noticed that the Eighth Route Army in the western direction of Lu did not participate in the attack last night. He knew that the Luxi Eighth Route Army was one of the main forces of Liu Yimin's standard, and the imperial army repeatedly swept in Luxi, but did not catch the main force of this army, which showed that they were very cunning. This time, they will definitely not be without action, just to see if they will attack in that direction. However, after such a long period of repeated fighting, Tada Jun had a good idea of the strength of the Eighth Route Army's troops in Luxi, Hebei, Lubian, and Southwest Luxi, and knew that Luxi troops alone would not be able to eat the 40th Division and the two North China Public Security Army groups stationed on the front line in Dezhou. The Eighth Route Army in Southwest Lu also did not have the strength to eat up the Seventh Brigade and a group of the North China Public Security Army under the command of the independent mixed brigade. The Eighth Route Army on the Jilu border did not have the strength to eat the three independent mixed brigades deployed in the Jilu border and northwest Shandong alone. Therefore, he strictly ordered the troops in the above-mentioned areas to be on standby, strengthen reconnaissance and search, and strictly guard against a sudden attack by the Eighth Route Army.

At the order of Tada Jun and Tsuchihashi once, all the Japanese troops around Lu Zhongnan moved into action, and under the cover of aircraft, launched a counterattack against the Eighth Route Army.

Fortunately, Tada Jun suffered the hardships of the Eighth Route Army, fearing that he would be beaten up, and ordered all troops to counterattack only to recover the defensive lines and positions occupied by the Eighth Route Army, otherwise, it would be impossible to stop the Japanese Second Division and the Second Chariot Division in the southeast of Lu by relying only on the twelfth column of Wang Nanhu and Tang Liang.

To tell the truth, the Japanese generals were all tactical experts, and the marching formation was tricky and ruthless. In the past, the reason why the Eighth Route Army was able to destroy one or even two divisions of the Japanese army in a war was that it introduced devils into the preset battlefield, disabled the main Japanese army with artillery fire, and then used armored groups and cavalry groups to carry out assaults. By opening up a position to fight an offensive and defensive battle as it is now, the Japanese army's combat effectiveness will be revealed.

Historically, Hideki Tojo had three traitors and four fools around him, among them, the three traitors were Major General Shikata Ryoji, commander of the Tokyo Military Police, Lieutenant General Suzuki Sadachi, an expert in economic warfare, information warfare, and propaganda warfare of the Japanese army, and Lieutenant General Kato Hajiro, commander of the North China Military Police; The four fools are Hyotaro Kimura, Kenri Sato, Suiichiro Sanada, and Sadao Akamatsu.

At this time, the commander of the 32nd Division of the Japanese Army, Kimura Hyotaro, who was the head of the four fools of Tojo Hideki and was known as the butcher, had already received an order to be promoted to chief of staff of the Kwantung Army and returned to Japan to meet the emperor. He was succeeded by Lieutenant General Iide Tetsuzo, the Japanese Army's Heavy Duty Inspector.

Lieutenant General Iide Tetsuzo had just arrived in Ludong, and before his ass was hot, he encountered an attack by the Eighth Route Army, which made him lose one and a half infantry brigades in one night, plus the loss of the puppet army of Li Wenli's department, which was equivalent to being wiped out by the Eighth Route Army more than 4,000 people.

Ide Tetsuzo remembered His Majesty's ardent expectations when he met His Majesty the Emperor before leaving the country, and he felt that blood was surging upward, and after receiving orders from the North China Front and the Twelfth Army, Iide Tetsuzo ordered his troops to launch a counterattack and be sure to destroy the Dohachi Road, which had launched an attack at night.

The 32nd Division is under the jurisdiction of the 32nd Infantry Regiment, including the 210th, 211th, and 212th Infantry Wings, the 32nd Search Wing, the 32nd Field Artillery Wing, the 32nd Engineer Wing, the 32nd Baggage Wing, the Signal Team, the Ordnance Service Team, the Health Team, the 1st and 2nd Field Hospitals, the Sick Horse Factory, and other units, as well as the supplementary teams of the three brigades.

When Kimura Hyotaro was the commander of the division, half of the troops of the baggage wing were reorganized into squadrons, which were assigned to each infantry brigade, and the three infantry wings and nine infantry brigades of the division were equipped with a baggage squadron of 110 people. This is the characteristic of the 32nd Division.

After the 32nd Division suffered a heavy blow last time, in order to make up for the gap in the defensive line, the North China Front transferred three infantry brigades from the 37th Division and the 40th Division to strengthen the Jiaoji Road defense line and cover the 32nd Division to rest and replenish. Later, after the 32nd Division completed the replenishment, the three infantry brigades did not return to the establishment, but re-replenished the 37th Division and the 40th Division, and the three brigades remained along the Jiaoji Road, under the command of the three infantry wings of the 32nd Division, and the Inoue Brigade was one of the three infantry brigades. In this way, the 32nd Division actually became a reinforced division.

In the west, there are the 36th Division and the powerful 12th Division as a support, and in the east is the 1st Chariot Division, the 18th Independent Mixed Division and the 7th Division in Qingdao, and there is a servant army Li Wenli Department can take the lead to block bullets for the imperial army, and the commander of the 32nd Division, Lieutenant General Iide Tiezang, did not hesitate at all, and directly ordered the main force of the 213th Wing stationed east of the Weihe River to Gaomi, and the 211th Wing stationed in Zhangqiu, Fangzi, and Weicheng to take the initiative to command the puppet Ludong and Pingjian ** units to counterattack the Eighth Route Army, stationed in Changle, The 212th Wing of Changyi strengthened its defense to the north and prepared to reinforce the main force.

Since the 23 rd Division was engaged in a sweeping operation some time ago and has recently been ordered to defend and hold firmly, the 32 nd Field Artillery Wing, the 32 nd Search Wing, and the 32 nd Engineer Wing have all been assigned to each wing to cooperate in the operation, and all the wings of the 32 nd Division are now equipped with sound artillery, engineering, and cavalry field combat structures, and their firepower is not weak.

Lieutenant General Iide Tetsuzo knew how valuable the tank unit was, especially after the Americans did not sell oil to Japan, and the consumption of gasoline and diesel fuel for the Japanese army and navy all depended on past reserves and imports from other countries. Therefore, Lieutenant General Iide Tetsuzo did not ask for the 1st Chariot Division to fight at first, and he was confident and sure that he would be able to repel the attack of the Eighth Route Army by relying on his 32nd Division. Besides, the 1st Tank Division belongs to the command of the 7th Division, and if he wants the 1st Tank Division to be dispatched, he has to report to the 7th Division. As a former Japanese superintendent, Lieutenant General Iide Tetsuzo was reluctant to report to the commander of the 7th Division, who was also a lieutenant general, for reinforcements.

Lieutenant General Iide Tiezang was divided into two routes, the 213 Wing on the East Road pounced in the direction of Chaigou, and the 211 Wing on the West Road pounced on the Guanzhuang and Jingzhi lines.

A fierce battle began.

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