The battle to recover Deping, in Xiao Siming's military career, belongs to the kind of battle that can be ignored. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

In the Japanese puppet stronghold in Deping City, there were only two devil soldiers and a company of the Imperial Army. The Eighth Route Army attacked the city in a big way, and the two little devils were anxiously holding the telephone and screaming, begging for help everywhere. It's a pity that the phone line has been cut off, and no matter how much the little devil shouts "Moxi" and "Moxi", he can't get through. The two little devils were in a hurry, so they could only force the Imperial Association Army to reinforce the East Gate and the West Gate, and go up to the city wall of the North Gate to prevent the Eighth Route Army from attacking. It's a pity that not only the three battalions of the Deping Independent Regiment of the Eighth Route Army outside the city fought fiercely, but there were also main cavalry battalions and guard battalions in the city.

When Xiao Siming, Liu Zhaoming, and Chen Desheng led a cavalry company and a guard battalion to rush to the north gate, the soldiers of the Imperial Association guarding the north gate were either on the city gate tower, or in the turret, or in the bunker, pouting and shooting outside the city!

The light and heavy machine guns, rifle bullets, grenadiers, and grenades of the Eighth Route Army were fired at the devil's back at this time!

Not only did the Imperial Alliance Army on the city gate tower shoot backwards and outwards, but the doors of the turrets and pillboxes were also open inside the city walls. After the first company of the cavalry battalion, the guard battalion, and the reconnaissance platoon of the Deping Independent Regiment attacked, the Japanese puppet army, which was caught off guard, had no time to turn its guns, and the Eighth Route Army had already broken in. The grenades are exploding, and the shell guns and machine guns are sweeping. Only then did the Japanese puppet army discover that the pillboxes and turrets were coffins and scoops, and after the Eighth Route Army broke in, they couldn't even run away, there was only a dead end!

After the two devil soldiers were killed by the Eighth Route Army that rushed into the turret, the will to fight of the Imperial Association Army in Deping City collapsed at once, not to mention the dead, and those who were lucky enough to survive were left to raise their hands and surrender.

The Eighth Route Army originally planned to use explosives packs to blast up the turrets and pillboxes of the Japanese puppet strongholds in Deping City, but the explosives packs were also saved. After dawn, the bricks and timbers of the Japanese puppet army's artillery towers and pillboxes were dismantled and transported back to use by the common people of Deping.

Although the battle to capture Deping was small, it was of great strategic significance, because it opened the passage for the Eighth Route Army to move south to the Lubei Plain. Dexian, Lingxian, Linyi, Shanghe, and Huimin were all exposed in front of the Eighth Route Army!

However, Xiao Siming and Wang Lushui did not take advantage of the situation to go south to recover Lingxian, Linyi, and Shanghe, but ordered the Deping Independent Regiment to be stationed on the spot, reorganized, and guarded to the south, and then returned to Leling with the cavalry battalion and guard battalion.

There is no way, the main force is training in Leling, Xiao Siming and Wang Lu do not have much capital in their hands, so they can only go back to complete the main force training first.

The original task of the cavalry battalion was to meet Liu Jingliang's troops, and took advantage of the situation to capture Yangxin City. Later, he received an order to transfer the task with the Wudi Independent Regiment that killed Deping and Lingxian, and the Wudi Independent Regiment withdrew to Yangxin, divided its troops to mobilize the masses, garrisoned Wudi and Yangxin, and covered the formation of local political power and local armed forces, while the cavalry battalion was transferred to Lingxian guerrilla, so it participated in the battle to recover Deping County.

Xiao Siming, who hurried back to Leling, plunged into the main force training again.

During the war years, mastering an absolutely reliable elite army was a matter of life and death. This is not only clear to Xiao Siming, but also Wang Lushui, who has experienced a hundred battles, is also as clear as a mirror. Therefore, Wang Lushui took the initiative to take on the task of leading the party and government building in the Hebei and Shandong borders, and asked Xiao Siming and Huang Hua to calm down and focus on the main force for training.

Just when Xiao Siming threw himself down to grasp the main force for training, the later operations of the Battle of Xuzhou had reached a white-hot level.

In order to carry out the attempt to encircle and annihilate the **** main force in the Xuzhou area, the Japanese base camp actually ignored the fiasco of besieging the southeast of Jin, mobilized the army, secretly moved, and attempted to encircle the main force of the fifth theater in the Xuzhou area.

This time, the appetite of the Japanese base camp was very large, and the troops of the two strategic groups of the North China Front Army and the Central China Dispatch Army were mobilized to participate in the Battle of Xuzhou. Among them, the participating units of the North China Front Army were the 5th Division, the 10th Division, the 14th Division, the 16th Division, and the 114th Division, which were independently mixed into the 3rd, 4th, and 5th brigades. The Central China Dispatch Army dispatched five divisions and regiments, including the 3rd Division, the 6th Division, the 9th Division, the 13th Division, and the 1st 01st Division, to participate in the battle.

With such a large number of troops, the Japanese base camp was still insufficient, so the troops of the 2nd Division were transferred from the Kwantung Army to form the "mixed 3rd Brigade", and the brigade commander Tamura Haraichi; The troops of the 17th Division were also transferred to form the "13th Brigade of Mixed Formation", and the brigade commander Morita Fanzheng entered the Guannai to participate in the Battle of Xuzhou.

In order to confuse the Chinese army, the Japanese army did not immediately launch an attack on the Chinese troops in Taierzhuang and Linyi at the beginning, and deliberately made the Fifth Theater and the General Headquarters misjudge the situation, believing that the Fifth Division in Linyi and the Tenth Division in Taierzhuang had suffered heavy losses and suffered heavy losses, and they were unable to fight again, and they needed to supplement and reorganize, so they kept increasing troops to Xuzhou and fought a decisive battle with the Japanese army in Xuzhou.

On the surface, the Japanese conspiracy seemed to have succeeded. At this time, Chairman Chiang and Commander Li of the Fifth Theater seemed to have really misjudged the situation, and they were still intoxicated with the joy of Taierzhuang's victory; while making movies and making news, they kept transferring troops to Xuzhou, and the number of troops transferred to Xuzhou reached 63 divisions, one cavalry division and one brigade, five artillery regiments, and 59 aircraft, which were more than the troops in the Battle of Songhu, and they put on a posture of a decisive battle with the Japanese army in Xuzhou!

As a matter of fact, the reason why the Battle of Taierzhuang won a great victory in annihilating more than 10,000 enemies was that at the beginning of the war, the Chinese side formulated a correct method of operation, that is, with movement warfare as the center, coordinated with positional warfare, supplemented by guerrilla warfare. In addition to the troops of the Fifth Theater, the First Theater and the Third Theater all sent troops to participate in the battle, and the Central Army, the Eighth Route Army, and the Jinsui Army of the Second Theater firmly attracted the five elite divisions of the Japanese First Army, so that they could not send a single soldier to reinforce the Japanese army in Taierzhuang. It is equivalent to the concerted efforts of several war zones, which won the victory of Taierzhuang.

The Military Commission and the Fifth Theater of Operations increased their troops to Xuzhou on a large scale at this time, preparing to fight the Japanese army, and there was no way to do it.

The focus of the Military Commission is not on Xuzhou, but on the Battle of Xuzhou to win time and space to defend Wuhan. Moreover, the Military Commission also analyzed the possibility that the Japanese army might attack Xuzhou from the north and south of the Jinpu Road, and predicted that the Japanese army might transfer about 10 divisions, and was worried that Xuzhou would not be able to hold it, so it deployed troops in a ratio of four to one. At the same time, in order to ensure that the Battle of Xuzhou would achieve the desired goal, the Military Commission planned to strictly order all theaters to actively attack the enemy in front of them, and the armed forces behind the enemy would intensify their attacks on the Pinghan Road and Jinpu Road, so as not to allow the Japanese army to increase troops on the Xuzhou front.

In other words, for the Chinese side, the Battle of Xuzhou was a battle that had to be fought in order to gain time and space for the defense of Wuhan.

It is a pity that although the Chinese side has the correct strategic guiding ideology, it has made mistakes in tactical guidance.

The Military Commission and the Fifth Theater did not have a thorough understanding of the Japanese army's large-scale strategic detours and tactics, and they did not have enough troops to deploy troops on the west side of Xuzhou, so they did not think at all that the 16th Division of the Japanese Army might cross the Yellow River from the Luxi area and flank our army, let alone that the 14th Division of the Japanese Army would dare to advance alone and rush thousands of miles to capture the Lanfeng area on the Longhai Road and cut off the connection between the Fifth Theater and the First Theater!

As for the Japanese army, it hoped to eliminate the main force of the Fifth Theater through the Battle of Xuzhou, and then advance westward along the Longhai Road, seize Kaifeng and Zhengzhou, and then move south along the Pinghan Road to capture Wuhan, and force the Chiang Kai-shek government to surrender in the first battle.

The Japanese army planned to concentrate the main forces of the Fifth Division and the Tenth Division to attack the Chinese army from Linyi, Zaozhuang, and Yixian respectively, forcing the troops of the Fifth Theater to strengthen their defenses, so as to firmly absorb the main force of the Fifth Theater in the Xuzhou area, and then launch a centripetal attack on Xuzhou by separate routes after the movement of the troops to be transferred was in place, so as to concentrate and annihilate the main forces of the Fifth Theater gathered in the Xuzhou area.

The strategic decisive battle brewing between China and Japan in the Xuzhou area is treacherous, how can idlers peek through the mystery?

What no one in the minds of China and Japan could have imagined was that there was one person who was as ambitious as a mirror for the Japanese army!

This person is Xiao Siming, who is immersed in the training of troops on the Jilu side!

In early May, the Fifth Theater concentrated heavy troops and fought with the Japanese Fifth and Tenth Divisions that took the initiative to attack in the area north of Taierzhuang, basically stabilizing the front. However, Xiao Siming knew that the situation in Xuzhou was about to undergo major changes, and once the 16th Division of the Japanese Army crossed the canal from Jining and broke through the defense line of Sun Tongxuan's Third Army, as it had done in history, the pressure on the Fifth Theater would increase sharply, and the situation of the war would immediately change in favor of the Japanese army.

Although we knew that the Japanese army's plot to encircle and annihilate the main force of the Fifth Theater would not succeed, if we could have let the Military Commission and the Fifth Theater know of the Japanese army's attempt earlier, the losses would definitely be reduced a lot!

Xiao Siming knew that if no accident happened, the Japanese army would definitely be like in history, after the 16th Division crossed the canal from Jining on May 12, and then the 14th Division would cross the Yellow River from Puxian, seize Kaocheng and Lanfeng, cut off the connection between the First Theater and the Fifth Theater, and then completely block the channel for the main force of the Fifth Theater to retreat westward, and come to close the door and fight the dogs. The war situation was developing, that is, the main force of the Fifth Theater withdrew from Xuzhou, and the Japanese army and the Chinese army broke out in the Battle of Lanfeng, and finally the First Theater had to blow up the Yellow River embankment at Huayuankou and divert the Yellow River water to block the pace of the Japanese attack.

The main force of the Fifth War Zone will definitely be able to transfer smoothly, which Xiao Siming is not worried about. What he was most worried about was that he would fight back and forth, and he would not have to blow up the entrance of the garden later, so that so many ordinary people would die and millions of people would be displaced!

If that's the case, Xiao Siming will cross over with a white soul, and he won't forgive himself!

Xiao Siming very much wanted to send a telegram to the division headquarters to the headquarters and the Military Commission, directly stating the interests and disadvantages. It is a pity that others are soft-spoken, and sending such a telegram may not necessarily make a difference.

After thinking about it, Xiao Siming sent a telegram to the division headquarters and the Military Commission in the form of a report on the enemy's situation.

In the telegram, Xiao Siming reported that the reconnaissance company of the advance detachment had been active in the vicinity of Jinpu Road since late April. According to a report by the reconnaissance company, although the Ziyahe Railway Bridge was bombed and the transportation of vehicles from Tianjin to Dexian on the Jinpu Road was interrupted, the Japanese troops still transported troops by road and canal. Up to now, the troops transported by the Japanese army to the south include the independent mixed 5th Brigade and regiment originally stationed in the section from Dexian to Qingxian, the 114th Division reorganized in Beiping, and the new Japanese army was found to be "mixed into the 3rd Brigade" and "Mixed into the 13th Brigade" heading south. At present, the Japanese army stationed in the northern section of Jinpu Road is the Third Wing of the Railway, and the Japanese army stationed in Dexian County is an independent railway garrison brigade.

Xiao Siming also reported that after further investigation and verification, it was found that the "mixed 3rd brigade" was a unit drawn from the 2nd Division of the Japanese Kwantung Army, and the brigade commander was called Tamura Haraichi; The "Mixed 13th Brigade" is a unit drawn from the 17th Division of the Japanese Kwantung Army, and the brigade commander Morita Fan Masa.

Xiao Siming suggested that the division headquarters report to the General Headquarters and report to the Military Commission and the Fifth Theater of Operations, and that it must find out whether there are any movements of the 16th and 14th Divisions of the North China Front and where they are at present!

This is Xiao Siming's telegram to the division headquarters on May 9!

This telegram was later hailed as life-saving information! (To be continued.) )