Volume 1: Inner Mongolia Fengyun] Chapter 4336: The Fall of the Thirty-third Division (3)——

Chapter 4336: The Fall of the 33rd Division (3)

The county seat of Wei County, the headquarters of the 33rd Division.

Lieutenant General Gampa Shigetaro, commander of the 13th Division, was in a very good mood, although the 33rd Division had lost a lot of troops in the previous battle, after all, the most casualties were still those Imperial Allied troops that were used as cannon fodder, and the absolute losses of the Imperial Japanese Army were less than 3,000 men. The loss of 3,000 people in exchange for control of Ul County was a good deal in the eyes of Gampa Jutaro.

Of course, whether it is worth it or not depends on who it is snatched from, and if it were to use 3,000 Imperial Army soldiers to snatch a Chinese county town from the miscellaneous army of the National Government, then Gampa Shigetaro would definitely not think that he would have a reason to be happy. But taking Wei County from Han Yunhua's department is different, what is the concept of Han Yunhua's department in the Inner M-Ng Ancient Military Region, since 1937, how many imperial troops were sharply folded in the hands of Han Yunhua, I am afraid that those bigwigs in the base camp may not all be clear, no matter how many troops the Imperial Japanese Army dispatches, as long as it is in the face of that general of Zhina, the ending must be tragic.

The 33rd Division defeated Han Yunhua's more than 20,000 jīng rui head-on with 3,000 recruits who had just joined the army for less than half a year, and this record alone was enough to make Gampa Jutaro raise his head in front of those old guys in the base camp. Therefore, soon after taking the county seat of Weixian, the North China Front Army Headquarters issued a commendation notice to the entire 33rd Division, and at the same time, Tada Jun also promised to add a field artillery brigade to the 33rd Division.

According to Gampa Shigetaro's meaning, since the squadron has shown a tendency to retreat, and the news from all sides during this period has conveyed a relatively clear message to the Imperial Japanese Army, that is, Han Yunhua's department suffered a lot of losses in the previous war, judging by the generally low military production capacity of the Eighth Route Army and the training level of the troops, it is impossible for Han Yunhua's department to fully recover in just two months. At present, with the cooperation of the Imperial Japanese Army, more than 300,000 troops have gathered in Saibei, and although the Chinese troops have shown good combat effectiveness, in terms of the current situation, the defeat of Han Yunhua's troops has become an irreversible foregone conclusion, and although the time is not ripe for the imperial army to completely solve Han Yunhua's troops, there should be no problem in recovering northwest Hebei, northern Hebei, eastern Hebei, Rehe and other places.

However, an order from the North China Front Army made the entire 33rd Division and the 3rd Division and the 4th Division of the North China Public Security Army, which were closely behind the 33rd Division, only stop in Wei County, and even Yangyuan, which was close at hand, did not dare to get too close. This order made all the senior officers of the Japanese army, including Lieutenant General Gampa Shigetaro, very dissatisfied, but the soldiers are a disciplined collective, and it is the duty of the soldiers to obey orders, so although Gampa Shigetaro was not satisfied, he could only order the troops to strengthen their vigilance and not to deliberately provoke the Shina troops.

The Provisional Headquarters Riganpa Shigetaro was conducting a sand table exercise with several operational staff officers, and their operational plan was to deduce a vast area centered on Ul County and Yangyuan Tianzhen County. Although the quality of the Japanese army's combat staff officers was far inferior to that of the staff officers who graduated from the German Academy of Virtue in the same period, the quality of the staff officers who graduated from the Japanese Army University in Asia was quite good, and many famous generals of the Anti-Japanese War in China graduated from the Japanese Army University or the Japanese Army Non-commissioned Officer School, including Cai Yi, the most famous military strategist in modern China. Jiang Baili and others, and now most of the famous old warlords in China have received systematic Japanese military education, including Yan Xishan, the current commander of the Second World War Zone.

Therefore, although Japan's military is average in the world, it is very powerful in the whole of Asia, including China, so under the order of Gampa Shigetaro, the staff of the 33rd Division quickly formulated two more detailed battle plans. According to the first battle plan designated by the General Staff of the 33rd Division, the 33rd Division attacked Yangyuan in the same way as the way of taking Wei County, the main force of the Imperial Army, with the cooperation of the Imperial Army, gradually encroached on the living space of Han Yunhua's department, and gradually advanced the battlefield to Yangyuan.

The second plan was more complicated, the 33rd Division would first march east to Guangling, then detour back to the west of Yangyuan, and then flank the defenders of Yangyuan with the 40th Division. At that time, under the attack of the two master regiments of the imperial army, the Chinese army will need at least 40,000 troops if they want to hold Yangyuan. Compared with the first set of operational plans, the second set of operational plans is somewhat troublesome and takes a longer time, and at the same time, it is also necessary to enter the defense zone of the First Army, and coordination is also very troublesome. However, it can reduce the casualties of the troops, because there is a long mountainous area along the way from Yangyuan to Wei County, although the mountains of the Taihang Mountains are generally not too high, but as long as they reach the mountainous areas, they are the world of the Chinese troops. As far as the major resistance forces in North China at this time are concerned, in addition to the powerful Yan Xishan Group and Han Yunhua's subordinates, which occupy part of the plains, the Sun Lianzhong Group in southern Xianglu, the Yu Xuezhong group in northern Jiangsu, the Nie Rongzhen group in the Taihang Mountains, and the Wei Lihuang Group in the Zhongtiao Mountains are not based on the mountains, and the hundreds of thousands of troops of the imperial army have no way to defend these small mountainous areas.

The most troublesome thing is that the fifth division of Li Dayong, a confidant of Han Yunhua of the Inner M-ng Ancient Military Region, is stationed in Yangyuan, which is the descendant of Han Yunhua's lineage, according to the information obtained by the special high-tech department, Li Dayong's fifth division is all the standard equipment of the empire, and the whole division is equipped with more than 18,000 rifles, more than 220 tǐng light machine guns and more than 80 tǐng heavy machine guns, in addition, this fifth division also has its own special M-N independent artillery unit, the size is about a regiment, and the fifth division also has engineers, cavalry, Special forces and other powerful arms of the armed forces assist in operations, and their comprehensive combat capability is very strong. If Li Dayong's troops had built strong fortifications in the area of Huajialing and defended the danger, then even if the 33rd Division had the assistance of the Aviation Corps, it would not be able to take Yangyuan in a short time, and even if Yangyuan was finally taken, it would have paid heavy casualties.

So when these two battle plans were placed in front of Gampa Shigetaro, Gampa Shigetaro himself was a little hesitant and didn't know which one to choose. But fortunately, this is just a tactical deduction, and it doesn't require Gampa Shigetaro to really make a decision.

After watching the tactical deduction of the General Staff, Gampa Shigetaro was in a very complicated mood, according to the tactical deduction just now, even if the 33rd Division captured Yangyuan, it would no longer have the ability to move forward, which made Lieutenant General Gampa Shigetaro, who wanted to show his ability in the North China battlefield, very dissatisfied.

"Fuyuan-kun, you have also seen the results of the tactical deduction just now by the General Staff, our 33rd Division really can't attack Yangyuan now, unless we occupy a few strategic points in that mountainous area in advance, all our plans can't be implemented," Gampa Shigetaro said to Fukugen Hayashi, chief of staff of the 33rd Division.

Fu Yuanlin, who graduated from the Staff Department of the Army University, is also a very experienced commander, he served in the field army before being transferred to the chief of staff of the 33rd Division, and his rank is the captain of the Dazuo Wing, so Fu Yuanlin is very rich in both actual combat experience and theory, and after hearing Gampa Shigetaro's question, he immediately replied: "Hai, I agree with the judgment of His Excellency the Division Commander, the combat effectiveness of the Chinese army, especially the combat effectiveness of Han Yunhua's division, has improved too quickly, and a large part of the imperial army is now new recruits... [This chapter is not finished, please click on the next page to continue reading!] ］