readx; On 17 December, Du Yuming, commander of the Fifth Army, convened a meeting of officers at and above the regimental commander level in Tanlian Village to announce the combat mission and plan. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Among them, Zheng Dongguo's first division was responsible for attacking the front of Kunlun Pass; Dai Anlan's 299th Division was the general reserve; Qiu Qingquan's 22nd Division made a detour behind the enemy, inserted between Kunlun Pass and Nanning, attacked the enemy at Liutang, cut off the communication between Nanning and Kunlun Pass, and cut off the enemy's retreat at Kunlun Pass.

The meeting was ongoing, and the two generals, Chen Cheng and Bai Chongxi, went to the front line to inspect the preparations of various troops, and specially went to the assembly area of the Fifth Army to inspect and inspect this ace army. After the two came to the venue, Chen Cheng put on a straight face and demanded that the Fifth Army must take Kunlun Pass as scheduled, otherwise, military law will be engaged!

Du Yuming stood upright in front of Chen Cheng, and replied loudly with a stern expression: "Yes!" ”

The officers present suddenly looked solemn and determined to fight to the death against the army.

Due to the excellent secrecy work, the more than 100,000 troops who participated in the Kunlun Pass counteroffensive successfully passed through places that Imamura Masao thought were completely impossible, and assembled at places where Imamura Masao thought it was impossible to assemble. Du Yuming's Fifth Army's mechanized heavy artillery brigade drove into the dense forest in the hilly area near Kunlun Pass, and quickly set up a position only two or three kilometers away from the enemy's forward position. Dozens of tanks of Qiu Qingquan's 22nd Division had already crossed the heavy mountains from Silong, north of Kunlun Pass, and passed through Taiping Village to the Wutang area south of Kunlun Pass.

At the same time, the commander of the Fifth Division, Lieutenant General Imamura Masao, was still immersed in self-absorption, constantly rejoicing in his clever and correct judgment that there was no fighting north of Nanning, so he confidently and boldly ordered the main forces of the division and the Sichuan detachment to attack Longzhou and Zhennanguan to seize two strategic points on the Sino-Vietnamese border and cut off the material transportation route between China and French India*.

At eight o'clock in the evening of the same day, the squadron in the mountains north of Kunlun Pass, under the guidance and cover of tanks, launched a full-line counteroffensive against Kunlun Pass with lightning speed!

Hundreds of artillery pieces of the heavy artillery brigade began to roar at the same time, and the dense shells illuminated the sky as bright as day, and in the explosion of shaking the ground and shaking the mountains, there were gaps in the wall of Kunlun Pass in many places, and the [***] team rushed to the enemy position like a tidal wave under the cover of light and heavy machine guns. The army relied on the strong fortifications built in advance, and resisted stubbornly, waiting for reinforcements to arrive.

At the same time, the tank column led by Qiu Qingquan suddenly appeared in front of the enemy behind the Kunlun Pass with a beautiful intersperse, captured the Wutang and Liutang areas in one fell swoop, and cut off the retreat of the enemy defending Kunlun Pass.

Nakamura Masao, who had not woken up from a dream, once again misjudged the situation, and actually regarded the fierce attack in front of Kunlun Pass as the disturbance of a small number of troops, and immediately ordered the 21st Wing to advance at full speed from Nanning to Kunlun Pass, striving to encircle and annihilate all the [***] teams that dared to challenge the imperial army under the fortified city.

The 21st Wing had just arrived in Jiutang, and was immediately cut off by Qiu Qingquan's tank troops ambushed on both sides of the road, and the entire Wing was divided and surrounded by the superior [***] team, and fell into a situation of complete isolation and annihilation, not only could not reinforce the Kunlun Pass defenders, but even could not protect itself! In the end, under the command of Qiu Qingquan, the tank column launched a general attack on the Yue army in the encirclement, and the tank convoy rushed out of the woods and rammed and strafed the enemy along the road.

After receiving the news of the defeat of the 21st Wing, Imamura Masao ordered the Nakamura detachment to set out from Nanning to reinforce Kunlun Pass, but the detachment had just reached the Wutang area and was surrounded by Qiu Qingquan and other troops in a 25-kilometer-long narrow ravine, and fell into a desperate situation.

Masao Imamura felt that the situation was not good, and urgently ordered the main force of the Wachuan detachment, which was advancing towards Longzhou and Zhennan Pass, to return to Kunlun Pass.

On December 21, in the early morning, the Ito Brigade of the Hechuan Detachment, divided into 105 large trucks, rushed back to Kunlun Pass, but when the mighty convoy drove to the vicinity of Nanning, it was suddenly ambushed by the superior [***] team, and the convoy fell into the heavy encirclement of the army, and broke through many times, all of which failed.

At the same time that the army was severely attacking Yuekou, the Chinese Air Force also went against the norm and frequently dispatched fighter-bombers to carry out fierce bombing against the enemy defending Kunlun Pass and the enemy besieged in the Liutang to Jiutang area.

Because the Yue army in the encirclement had fallen into a situation of running out of ammunition and food, the Yue army had to dispatch a large number of transport planes under the cover of fighter planes to drop ammunition and food to the Yue army in the encirclement, but most of these airdropped materials fell on the positions of the [***] team, and even if they landed in the center of the position, the Yue army, which was already hungry and weak, had no strength to snatch it, and the transport planes of the Yue army became the transport brigade of the Chinese troops.

Seeing that the support was not continuous, the main force of the Nakamura detachment of the army desperately advanced towards Kunlun Pass from Qitang, and as a result, when Major General Nakamura was supervising the battle west of Jiutang, he was strafed by Qiu Qingquan's troops at close range with machine guns, and was killed instantly, and the Nakamura detachment was completely annihilated.

At this time, the army defending Kunlun Pass ran out of ammunition and food, so they had to dig wild vegetables to satisfy their hunger, one by one unkempt, with yellow faces and thin muscles, and they were dying in hunger and cold.

When their shells ran out, they smashed or buried their guns, burned the military flags, and sharpened them into bamboo guns and knives to fight with the [***] team.

On December 31, on the last day of 1939, the Chinese [***] team completely annihilated the enemy defending Kunlun Pass and recaptured Kunlun Pass at a heavy cost.

In order to avenge the annihilation of the 'Steel Army', the commander of the 21st Army, Ando Toshikichi, decided to make an unexpected surprise attack on the [***] squadron stranded in Kunlun Pass in order to recapture Kunlun Pass, in view of the pressure of the 21st Army and the 12th Army, unable to transfer more troops for the Kunlun Pass operation, Ando Toshiyoshi requested the Tokyo Command to temporarily stop the attack on Taiwan and concentrate forces on the Kunlun Pass counterattack operation.

After comprehensive consideration, the headquarters believed that Ando Toshikichi's plan was to prepare to avenge the 21st Wing by means of a long-distance attack, and that the operation was characterized by being short and rapid, and the duration would not be very long, and that after achieving the goal of the [***] team in the lesson, it would be possible to put this part of the mobile forces into Taiwan again, so as to defeat the Taiwan Corps of the 19th Route Army in one fell swoop, so it immediately approved the operational plan of the 21st Army, and at the same time transferred an infantry brigade from Taiwan, two flying squadrons were transferred from the Kwantung Army.

In mid-January 1949, Toshiyoshi Ando personally led the 18th Division, the Guards Mixed Brigade and the Taiwan Infantry Brigade to Guangxi, and began a retaliatory operation against the Central [***] team.

The intelligence personnel of the Fourth Theater have always maintained a high degree of vigilance against the 21st Army and, with the cooperation of the army, closely monitored the enemy's every move, so when Toshiyoshi Ando led the 18th Division and other units had just left Guangzhou less than five hours ago, the headquarters of the 19th Route Army in Fuzhou received a report, and immediately afterward, radio waves quietly crossed the Taiwan Strait and transmitted the news to the Taiwan Army in the hinterland of Alishan.

Since the blockade line was broken, the Taiwan Dispatch Army began to shrink the defensive line, focused its defense on the plains in the west, deployed heavy troops in the coastal areas and hub cities along the communication lines, and then concentrated two tank squadrons in Taichung City, ready to respond to the whole island at any time; at the same time, reconnaissance planes were dispatched around the clock to closely monitor the squadron in the central mountain range, and after discovering an abnormality, bombers were immediately dispatched to attack the ground, relying on superior air power to make up for the disadvantage caused by the lack of troops.

Ding Changjian was originally surprised by the unusual troop movements of the Chinese army, but after receiving a report from the general headquarters, he learned that a brigade and regiment of the Chinese army on the island had already been transferred to Guangxi, so he also adjusted his tactics and sent a large number of small detachments to infiltrate the areas controlled by the Chinese army to propagate to the people of Taiwan the truth of resisting and saving the country, to purchase grain and strategic materials, and to attack the policemen and staff stationed in the countryside everywhere, causing them to panic.

If the move taken by the General Command to transfer Taiwan troops is completely correct from a purely military point of view, it is a very serious mistake from a political point of view!

The first thing the people of Taiwan saw was that the Chinese [***] team crossed the sea, easily defeated the so-called invincible imperial army, and occupied most of the place, and then, the Kwantung Army, which was known as the elite of the imperial army, was helpless in the face of the Chinese [***] team, but was broken through the blockade line by the other side, and finally, the imperial army suddenly gave up the siege of the Alishan area and buried itself in building fortifications around several major cities, and it was obvious that it could not defeat the opponent. As a result, the number of volunteers recruited in Taiwan has dropped sharply, and even the soldiers who have already enlisted in the army have used various excuses to evade and delay; in sharp contrast, the activities of the Taiwan legions in the areas controlled by the Taiwan army have become easier and easier, and the attitude of the people has changed from the initial wait-and-see to a slight support.

After perceiving this subtle change, Ding Changjian immediately reported to the headquarters: Taiwan is ours!

It was not until this time that the stone hanging in Gao Fei's heart fell, and then he ordered Yu Hanmou of the 12th Group Army to attend a military meeting in Fuzhou to discuss how to deal with the [***] of the Guangxi battlefield, and the division commanders of several main divisions of the 19th Group Army assembled in Fujian and Xiao Hanliang also participated in the meeting.

After everyone took their seats, Gao Fei smiled and said: "Before the meeting begins, I would like to report to you a good news: the Taiwan Legion has gained a firm foothold on the island, not only controlling 69% of the island, but also gaining widespread support from the people!" Taiwan is ours! ”

The conference room burst into warm applause and cheers, and the officers hugged each other excitedly to celebrate this rare victory!

From the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War to the present, only this time has successfully recovered the country, and it is the land that has been occupied by Yuben for nearly half a century, how can it not be exciting!

Looking at the smile on Gao Fei's face and the cheerful expressions of the commanders, Yu Hanmou's old face also showed a smile of relief, and after everyone's emotions calmed down a little, he asked urgently: "Senior Sir, is this meeting ready to discuss the matter of recovering Guangzhou?" ”

As a sinner who lost Guangzhou through the ages, Yu Hanmou is always thinking about recovering the land abandoned in his hands to wash away the shame on his body.

Gao Fei nodded and comforted: "Commander Yu doesn't need to worry, this issue will definitely be discussed today!" ”

Then he said loudly to the commanders: "In the past year, the Yue army has successively captured Nanchang, Yueyang, Nanning and other strategic places, and sent a large number of planes to bomb the rear area, causing great losses to the lives and property of the military and civilians in the rear. Although on the surface, the offensive of the Yue army is very fierce, but I think that in fact, it is already the end of the strong crossbow, and the exhaustion is exposed! ”

Hearing such an arbitrary conclusion from him, the commanders couldn't help but look at each other, and discussed one after another, Yu Wenzheng bluntly raised his own questions: "Commander, the army killed and wounded a large number of our troops in the Battle of Nanchang, and then attacked Changsha, and later captured Nanning with the tactics of long-distance running, and the combat effectiveness is still very strong, how can it be said that they are exhausted?" ”

Gao Fei glanced at the commanders attending the meeting, saw that they were all looking at him, and knew that this issue had a wide range of representative surnames, so he analyzed it in detail: "Through careful study of the military operations of the Yue Army in the past year, I have accumulated a large amount of information, and then conducted a detailed analysis and summary, and found that the current Yue Jun still has four major advantages and characteristics: The first is fast. The so-called fast, that is, with its mechanized equipment, it can act quickly, and can effectively achieve the effect of surprise and surprise attack, and the sneak attack on Nanning is a very convincing example; The second is hard, the so-called hard, that is, the officers and soldiers carry forward the spirit of bushido, and the battle is particularly tenacious and brave, which is manifested in the defensive battle, that is, stick to a point, die and do not give up, no matter how you impact, you will desperately resist, never waver, the Nanchang Battle was finally successful, which can be a good illustration of this; The third is sharp, which is manifested in the fact that when the army attacks, there is a sharp spirit, like a steel cone, desperately rushing forward, moving forward bravely, and often a large group of troops can break through the [***] defense line and achieve the basic tactical purpose. The fourth is secret. It is to keep secrets, and when it comes to military operations, great attention is paid to keeping secrets, and it is difficult to obtain relatively accurate information before the operation. Due to the strict attention to secrecy and the excellent equipment, the troops were assembled very quickly, and the goal of a rapid offensive was often achieved. ”

Yu Wenzheng hurriedly asked, "Commander, what do you think is the weakness of the Yue Army?" ”

Goofy asked rhetorically, "What do you think of yourself?" ”

Yu Wenzheng replied without thinking: "Arrogant, empty-sighted, and extremely vindictive. ”

Gao Fei said with a smile: "These are tactical weaknesses, if you rise to the strategic level to analyze, I think the invasion of China has exposed the weaknesses in the following aspects as a whole: First, the scale is small. Since entering the stage of stalemate, the army has to defend most of China's occupied areas, and the distribution of troops is naturally sparse, so each operation, it can only relatively concentrate its forces in the form of cutting flesh and mending sores, therefore, it is impossible for a large corps to attack, and in the previous surprise attack on Nanning, the army only used the strength of two divisions, and if the Guangxi troops were not too paralyzed, the enemy would not have been able to achieve such great results at all. The second is the short time. In view of the first weakness, the army reluctantly gathered forces and carried out some local offensive operations, which could only be a short-term act and a quick victory, and it was impossible to drag on the operation for a long time. For example, the army attacked Nanchang, quietly transferred troops from the Wuhan area, and waited until [***] to counterattack in an all-round way, Nanchang was at a critical juncture, but it did not dare to draw Wuhan troops, so it had to transfer marines from distant Shanghai; When the army attacked Changsha, it also quietly transferred about 200,000 troops from Wuhan to the city of Changsha. It is said that the army launched the war against Guangxi this time, and it was again drawn from Guangdong and Taiwan, all for the same reason; The third is the short attack range. Due to the limitation of troops, the army can only make some short-term surprise attacks and short-distance attacks, and large-depth and large-scale maneuvers are rarely carried out. The fourth is the emptiness in the rear. Not only was there a shortage of troops in the occupied areas, but the army was also depleted of troops, and only a few guards divisions were installing a façade on its own territory, thus giving the guerrilla units in the rear of the army an opportunity to develop and grow. Although on the front line of confrontation with our army, the army had to put heavy troops, in fact, it seemed to be powerful, but in fact it was a bluff. ”

Listening to Gao Fei's words, everyone suddenly felt that their mouths suddenly opened, and they applauded continuously.

Yu Hanmou asked with concern: "Senior Sir, since you have insight into the reality of the army, how should our army deal with it?" ”

Gao Fei said: "In fact, with the combat effectiveness of our army's main division, even in face-to-face battles, it will not be weaker than the army, but the casualties will be very large, so I don't advocate this kind of hard-hitting style, not to mention that other troops in the theater of operations, and even most of the troops in [***] have not yet reached this level." Therefore, it is necessary to take a clever approach to deal with the enemy, and at the same time reduce your own casualties while destroying the army! Seeing that the commanders all showed thoughtful expressions, he nodded with great satisfaction, and then said: "I think that in the recent Battle of Changsha, the tactics of the Ninth War Zone are very worthy of reference, I don't know what you think?" ”

After Gao Fei threw bricks and stones, the commanders immediately recalled the troop deployment and strategic and tactical essentials of the Ninth Theater in the Battle of Changsha, and looked for what they wanted.

Yu Wenzheng stood up first and said the results of his thinking: "The guiding ideology adopted by the Ninth Theater is to occupy the two wings, retreat to the decisive battle, and exhaust the Yue army through continuous resistance, and wait for the other side to become weak from the strong and sharp at the beginning, and then concentrate the superior forces to counterattack on all fronts, so that the Yue army can not give full play to its own advantages, and finally be beaten back to Wuhan by [***] and regain the lost ground." ”

Gao Fei nodded approvingly and said, "What you said is very good, you have completely grasped the elements of the retreat decisive battle invented by General Xue Yue!" ”

(To be continued)