The third part of the Bloody War of Resistance, Chapter 9, Rushing, and Section 5 Assault

"Fortunately, the 18th Division and the 11th Brigade of the Independent Mixed Brigade have already gone north, and the commander ordered Yingsen to arrive at Bengbu within two days, and he has been delaying for too long. \\。 Qb(5).cOM\\" Seishiro Itagaki was both comforting and anxious.

Two days ago, Takashi Takashi, commander of the 18th Division, led the 18th Division and the 11th Mixed Brigade to the north to reinforce Bengbu, but not long after they crossed the river, a large number of Zhina planes arrived and launched indiscriminate bombardment of the Jinpu line.

In addition to the China Air Force, the China Special Forces have been interspersed with the Jinpu Road, the railway patrol encountered an attack north of Zhanggongling, an ironclad train was destroyed, more than 50 imperial soldiers were killed, 700 meters of railroad tracks and sleepers were burned, and Takamori had to lead his troops to Bengbu on foot.

He telegraphed Okamura Ninji that his judgment of General China's actions was correct, and that the 19th and 46th Divisions would be deployed in accordance with his proposal, and that at least three divisions would be immediately transferred from the north bank of the Yellow River to reinforce Xuzhou. In addition, at least one division and one mixed brigade were to be drawn from the First Army, and two divisions and regiments were drawn from the Mongolian Army, and they were immediately transported to Jinan."

Nanjing is one of the three major furnaces in China, and the weather in August is the hottest time, but Seishiro Itagaki feels cold in his vest, and the First Army of the Shanxi Garrison has four divisions under its jurisdiction.

But Shanxi is also an area with a large number of troops in the Chinese army, the Jin Sui Army, the Eighth Route Army, and the Central Army, with a total strength of nearly 400,000. Different from the previous life, the scope of the first army at this moment not only includes Shanxi, but also includes Suiyuan, in the previous life Suiyuan belonged to the garrison of the Mongolian army, and now because the garrison army advanced to Mongolia, Suiyuan was assigned to the first army of Shanxi.

The strength of the First Army seems to be quite large, but the defensive range is wide, far exceeding that of the Eleventh Army, and the squadrons facing the ** squadron include the Second Theater of Operations, the Eighth Theater of Operations and the GC Army.

The transfer of a division and a mixed brigade from Shanxi did not seem to be much, but in fact the impact on the First Army was fatal, and the mobile forces of the First Army were completely withdrawn, and they could no longer take the initiative to attack.

"Commander," Seishiro Itagaki, Nishio Shouzo shook his head and didn't let him continue, he glanced at Seishiro Itagaki, Itagaki closed his mouth, and Nishio Shouzo then ordered: "Order Matsui Shigen, in the shortest possible time, to concentrate the Jiaodong Imperial Army in Jinan, and the North China Dispatch Army immediately conscripted the soldiers in the township, informed the commander of the Kwantung Army, and telegraphed to the base camp, the situation in East China has changed dramatically, the China Army attacked Xuzhou with 600,000 troops, Xuzhou is likely to be lost, in order to subdue the attack of the China Army on Shandong, Ten more divisions had to be sent to China to subdue the resistance of the Chinese army. ”

Itagaki gasped, he immediately understood the reason behind Nishio Shouzo's series of orders, Nishio Shouzo had already seen the possibility of Xuzhou being lost. , General Zhina mobilized such a huge force, and he would never just stay in Xuzhou. This transfer was not to defend Xuzhou, but to defend Jinan after the fall of Xuzhou. In order to achieve this goal, Matsui Shigen had to mobilize all the forces of Shandong, and the North China Dispatch Army had to reinforce Shandong as much as possible.

Jiaodong has been evacuated, Shanxi has been weakened, the Sumeng battlefield has also been weakened, and Nishio Shouzao has been desperate. Itagaki Seishiro realized how stupid they were at the beginning, and how prescient his old friend Ishihara was.

Abandoning Jiangnan, the whole army withdrew to North China, abandoned Shanxi, and retreated to the northwest of Suiyuan and Chahar, using the mountains here to block the trailing Chinese army. This series of active retreats will increase the strength of the imperial army, weaken the quantitative superiority of the Chinese army to the greatest extent, increase the qualitative superiority of the imperial army, and break the quantity of the Chinese army with quality.

Now all the purposes of the China Army have been revealed, and after the China General began to launch an offensive to Xuzhou, the offensive of the China Army in the Jiangnan Theater was significantly weakened. In order to conquer Xuzhou, the Chinese army mobilized a million-strong army in the south and north of the Yangtze River to cover and block.

The war has turned, Japan can no longer take the initiative, and Nishio Shouzo Itagaki Seishiro can no longer deny it now.

"Telegraph to Major General Tetsushiro Taga in Bengbu, he must defend Bengbu to the death, and he must fight to the last soldier" Nishio Shouzo's tone was very stern. Major General Tetsushiro Taga, commander of the Seventh Independent Mixed Brigade Guarding Bengbu, generally has only more than 5,000 troops in this independent mixed brigade, but the Seventh Brigade is different, his jurisdiction is too large, and the total strength reaches 7,000 people.

However, now Bengbu has only 4,000 men, and there are 140,000 troops surrounding Bengbu, and the reinforcements from Bengbu have only passed Chuzhou, and there is still an army in Mingguang that is attacking, and Itagaki is almost certain that Bengbu will be lost in two or three days.

Nishio Shouzo did his best, and the rest could only rely on Okamura Ninji, relying on the bravery of the Imperial soldiers. The sky in Nanjing is steaming, but there is tension in the air. The officials of Wang's puppet government, dressed in suits and leather shoes, robes and coats, disappeared from public places, and the attitude of the police puppet army on the street became much kinder again, and the sensitive citizens of Nanjing soon discovered the mystery, and the news from the shortwave radio was quietly transmitted on the street.

The news of Nishio Shouzo's disappointment came back, first of all, the Tokyo base camp severely reprimanded, just provided reinforcements to the dispatch army of twelve divisions, restored the four divisions of the jade shatter, and rebuilt the three divisions that were disabled, the base camp was equivalent to providing 260,000 people to the dispatch army of China from the nervous soldiers, and now the battle has just begun to ask for help, "..., does the commander have the intention of fearing the enemy and cowardly the war, and the imperial samurai should not be afraid of any difficulties in any situation.... The tone was harsh and unprecedented.

Nishio Shouzo was not intimidated by this harsh rhetoric, on the contrary, he was worried about the subtext of the telegram, the subtext of which was simple, without reinforcements, you must win. Nishio has never hated the bureaucrats and self-righteous guys in Tokyo so much.

This blow has not passed, the second blow has arrived, Huainan Akiyama Toshio called to ask for tactical guidance, and before Nishio Shouzo could react, the telegram from Taga in Bengbu also arrived, the telegram was very short, "The post has been fought to the point of a soldier, the military flag has been destroyed, long live His Majesty the Emperor of the Great Japanese Empire."

"Order Toshio Akiyama to abandon Huainan and go south to Hefei, order Fujita to advance, meet Toshio Akiyama, and then retreat to Wuhu with the whole army"

Nishio Shouzo crumpled Taga's telegram in the palm of his hand.

"Report, Chief of the General Staff, Senior General Ishihara, has a private telegram to the commander and chief of staff."

Nishio Shouzo was a little surprised, and Itagaki hurriedly took it and read: "The Jiangnan Theater is a feint, you can boldly transfer troops to the north, don't worry about the safety of Jiangnan"

Itagaki read more and more in his voice, the two looked at each other, and they both understood what Ishihara Waner meant, Ishihara Waner was suggesting that they give up Jiangnan and withdraw their troops to North China step by step, although the Tokyo base camp did not agree to give up Jiangnan, but it was nothing if they were beaten out.

But when Ishihara sent this telegram, he did not know that Bengbu had been lost, the road to the north had been cut off, and the troops could no longer go north unless by sea.

Can you go by sea? Will the navy dispatch so many warships to transport more than 200,000 troops from Jiangnan to North China without the consent of the base camp? Nishio Shouzo and Seishiro Itagaki knew on their toes that it was impossible.

Thinking that more than 300,000 troops in Jiangnan would be isolated from the main battlefield in the future, Nishio Shouzao felt a tingling in his heart, and the war lasted for six years, and a reincarnation was completed in six years. Six years ago, more than 300,000 warriors of the imperial army pursued the Chinese army all the way from Shanghai to conquer the capital Nanjing; Five years ago, more than 300,000 warriors of the imperial army could advance from north to south, sweep through East China, and defeat the Chinese army to lose their armor. But six years have passed, and the 300,000 imperial troops can only barely hold Jiangnan.

Seishiro Itagaki already sensed Nishio Shouzo's pessimism, but, to be honest, he couldn't be optimistic either. As the chief of staff of the Chinese Dispatch Army, he was very aware of the strength of the imperial army in the Xuzhou area, two divisions and one independent mixed brigade, with a total strength of no more than 50,000 troops, and the absolute superiority of the Chinese army, as well as air force and firepower superiority, and more importantly, whether it was the 17th Division or the 60th Division, not to mention the 10th Brigade and Regiment of the Independent Mixed Brigade, their combat effectiveness could not be compared with the elite divisions lost in northern Hubei.

The facts also quickly proved that the judgment of Nishio Shouzo and Itagaki Seishiro, soon, the news of the loss of Suxian came, Guzhen and the peace of the ** Anyway, the 47th Army that advanced west conquered Si County, and then captured Lingbi without blood, and joined the First Army, and the ** squadron quickly swept away the enemy army north of the Huai River.

Subsequently, Lan Yundong took the newly formed Third Army and the 47th Army as the right flank and attacked Suining, while the 59th Army and the 55th Army went north through Suxian and Lingbi, and detoured to Xuzhou from the southwest.

The Huaibei attacked by the 50th Group Army encountered a little trouble, the Japanese army in Huaibei contracted rapidly, and after getting the news that the squadron was dispatched, Okabe Nakasa of the Huaibei garrison immediately abandoned Suixi and all the strongholds outside the city, and concentrated his forces in Huaibei.

Okabe is a middle-aged officer with a lot of combat experience, if he hadn't been wounded in the leg in the second Battle of Jinpu Road, he would not have been transferred to the local garrison, this limping Zhongzuo is very strategically set, after the squadron occupied Henan, he immediately built construction in Huaibei, dividing the entire Huaibei defense into two parts, Xiangshan and the city in the north of the city.

The defense of the city was divided into two parts, the ramparts and the core area; The troop configuration is, there are 600 people on Xiangshan, and the person responsible for defending the city wall is a large Japanese army and 2,000 national salvation army, Okabe knows that these puppet troops cannot be trusted, but he has no other way, he can only detain the commander of the puppet army in the command headquarters, all the puppet troops are assigned to the Japanese army, and the Japanese commander is responsible for commanding.

This configuration forced the puppet army to the front line of the battle, temporarily making up for the dilemma of insufficient troops, but all this was not enough to bring difficulties to Zhang Lihui, what really caused trouble to Zhang Lihui was the six hundred people in Xiangshan.

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