Volume 1: Inner Mongolia Fengyun] Chapter 535: Zhan Dezhou's Zai Zhangang Village——

Chapter 535: Battle Dezhou's Re-Zhangang Village

According to Han Yunhua's plan, the 115th Division went to the front line immediately after the assembly, but the 115th Division was not bound for the Texas front, but was secretly sent by Han Yunhua to the southwest of Lu, and the target was Heze, an important military town in southwest Lu.

Because the southern Hebei region does not border Heze, and there is a Henan province in the middle, and now Henan Province is the territory of the national government, and some time ago Pang Bingxun's department stationed in northern Henan was still fighting with Han Yunhua's department, at this time, it was obviously impossible to propose that the Eighth Route Army should take advantage of the road to go south, so Han Yunhua asked the 115th Division, 5 infantry brigades, and 10 infantry regiments to be divided into zero, day and night, and rushed to Taiqian County, the border area between Henan and Shandong, to assemble and stand by. In addition, the 9 infantry regiments of the 115th Division directly detoured to Quzhou and Wei counties and lurked in the Daimyo area to wait for an opportunity.

Han Yunhua's overall strategy was to let the 3rd Route Army, which was attacking Linqing, suddenly move south to attack Liaocheng, and force the Japanese North China Front to transfer reinforcements from several other cities. Since Liaocheng had never been the city that Han Yunhua's subordinates focused on before, the Inner Mongolia Military Region rarely had the idea of Liaocheng, so relatively speaking, Liaocheng's defense was much more lax. In addition to the provincial capital city of Jinan, the only Japanese 59th Division stationed in Heze and the 63rd Division of the Japanese Army stationed in Jining can be reinforced, of course, the Tai'an defenders located directly east of Liaocheng may also send troops to reinforce Liaocheng, but Tai'an is a satellite city of Jinan, once Jinan has an incident, Tai'an will become the only city to rescue Jinan, and Jinan is very close to Linqing and Dezhou, so Han Yunhua judged that Okamura Ningji would not and did not dare to transfer the defenders of Jinan and Tai'an to Liaocheng, Therefore, the only way for the little devil to relieve the siege of Liaocheng was to transfer the Japanese troops in Heze and Jining to the north.

The problem is that the current Heze troops are not large, according to intelligence, the Japanese 59th Division has no more than 5,000 people left, and the division commander of the division, Lieutenant General Hosokawa Yasuka, is not in China now. It is the best time to clean up this 59th Division, and no matter whether the 59th Division can be cleaned up or not, it is simply wishful thinking to rule the entire Liaocheng region with these five or six thousand people alone, even if Jiang someone is happy with him, Han Yunhua will be angry.

This one doesn't need to achieve much success, it only needs to turn the entire Luxi, Luxinan, and Luxi upside down. Only in this way can the 115th Division gain a firm foothold in Shandong, and Han Yunhua will have the time and energy to concentrate his forces on the behemoth in the north.

Under Han Yunhua's deployment, Yang Chengwu immediately went to the forward position to command the troops to fight. On 8 November, under Han Yunhua's order, more than a dozen divisions of the Inner Mongolia Military Region all gave up their existing military objectives and began to desperately attack the strategic depth of Shandong, especially the troops attacking Linqing actually directly gave up the siege of the Linqing defending enemy, but turned around and attacked the weaker Qingping, Liangshui and other towns, and the troops went straight to Liaocheng.

Garrisoned in Liaocheng is the Japanese army's independent mixed Fifth Brigade, which can be regarded as an old enemy of the Inner Mongolia Military Region, and since the establishment of the Inner Mongolia Military Region, this independent mixed Fifth Brigade has not been less troublesome to the Inner Mongolia Military Region. At the time of the great counteroffensive of the Inner Mongolia Military Region, this independent mixed Fifth Brigade Regiment escaped the catastrophe because it was not on the front line, and after being supplemented by the Japanese army's base camp, it is now brazenly assuming the style of the main field force of the North China Front.

Originally, the brigade commander of the Fifth Brigade of the Independent Mixed Brigade attached great importance to the strength of the Inner Mongolia Military Region, fearing that they would directly wipe out him and his troops from the north. Speaking of this Uchida Ginnosuke is really not a fuel-efficient lamp, although this person is a little arrogant and arrogant, but the vigilance is still very high. Seeing that his colleagues and many officers with higher ranks and positions than his own entered the prisoner of war camps of the Inner Mongolia Military Region one by one, and some of them were even killed directly on the battlefield, and their deaths were very undignified, Major General Uchida Ginnosuke did not dare to underestimate any unit of the Inner Mongolia Military Region, including the guerrillas who were controlled by the Inner Mongolia Military Region.

Originally, when the 3 infantry divisions of the 7th, 8th, and 50th infantry divisions of the Inner Mongolia Military Region besieged Linqing, Major General Uchida Ginnosuke was very nervous, and even the order of the commander Okamura Ninji to transfer an infantry wing of the Fifth Brigade to Qingdao was not resolutely implemented.

Although Okamura Ninji had objections to the fact that Uchida Ginnosuke, a small army major general, dared to issue an order issued by the headquarters, considering that what Major General Uchida Ginnosuke said was quite reasonable, he agreed with his statement and promised to only mobilize an infantry brigade of the Fifth Brigade and Regiment, and even transferred an infantry brigade of the Imperial Association Army from Ludong to supplement the defense system of Liaocheng.

When receiving an attack on Liangshui Town by unknown troops, Major General Uchida Ginnosuke's first thought was that Han Yunhua's department was really here, and he knew that if it was really the main force of the Inner Mongolia Military Region going south, his dissatisfied infantry brigade might not be able to support it for even a week, according to reliable intelligence, the squadron is now a bird gun to change artillery, not only has an organized artillery unit, but even has its own mechanized tank unit and air force, Two days ago, the two sides also engaged in a small-scale air battle over Jinan, and one of the Empire's Zero fighters was wounded and escaped by two fighters of the downed team.

And now the troops in their hands are much more humble, although they are still nominally an infantry brigade, but in fact there are only 4 infantry brigades, a cavalry brigade and an artillery brigade, which is only a slightly larger reinforced wing, plus the infantry brigade of the imperial alliance army and the infantry regiment that originally belonged to the local puppet army in Liaocheng, all the defense troops in Liaocheng and its surrounding counties and districts are only more than 8,000 people.

The difference in the strength of the enemy and us is not only a huge disparity, but fortunately, there is no indication that this is the main force of Han Yunhua's department, you must know that in the battle last night, although the captain of the defending squadron in Liangshui Town ran fast when he saw the opportunity, but in the end, the defender squadron still managed to escape more than half, so it can be seen from the side that it should not be the main force of Han Yunhua's department, otherwise the infantry squadron would not have a chance to escape and live.

However, while Uchida Ginnosuke was watching, at this time, in the front-line command post of the 3rd Route Army of the Inner Mongolia Military Region, Wang Zhaoxiang, the commander of the 50th Division, was furious. Originally, he knew that the strength of this independent mixed Fifth Brigade was not good, so Wang Zhen and Wang Zhaoxiang discussed and decided that the battle to besiege Liaocheng would be completed by the 50th Division, the weakest in the battle. But I never expected that when attacking Liangshui Town, more than 200 Japanese soldiers of the Liangshui garrison squadron actually left a puppet infantry company and fled in less than 3 minutes after firing, and by the time the 50th Division reacted, they had already fled away, although in the end the cavalry battalion took advantage of the victory to chase and kill a lot, but more than half of the devils fled back.

One division beat one squadron and let half of the family escape, this is a naked slap in the face of the entire 50th Division, no wonder Wang Zhaoxiang is angry.

"Li Biao, how the fuck did you lead the soldiers, a brigade fought a few small towns to come up with such a record, it's really a fucking shame, and it's not the Inner Mongolia Military Region's troops, or it's not the person trained by Commander Han Yunhua, how the hell can you let Lao Tzu explain this record to the commander, press me and the leaders of the headquarters to say, our 50th Division fights an infantry squadron in one division and makes people ... [This chapter is not finished, please click on the next page to continue reading!] ］